完成句子（每小题2分，满分10分）
1.因为下雨，我们推迟了校运会。（because of…）
2.据要求所有人都要准时参加会议。（ It is requested that…）
3.是他们的旅行日志使他们深受青少年的喜爱。( It + be + 强调部分 + that ---)
4.布莱克一家正在吃晚饭这时有人敲门。（be doing --- when ---）
5.2008年5月12日下午2点28分四川省发生强烈地震。
用所给动词的适当形式填空（每空一分，满分10分）
1.After a big snowfall, the town ________ (lie) clean and quiet.
2.Our manager would like to have you _______ (give) a speech at the meeting.
3.We are told _________(not throw) waste paper everywhere.
4.We have been good friends ever since we _______ (meet) on the first day of school this term.
5._________ (judge) from what he said, he must be an honest man.
6.Finally they got their child _________ (interest) in study.
7.Can you wait for me for another second? I __________ (finish) my work.
8.After the floods, some survivors __________( trap) at the top of the houses.
9.It was the second time that the artist _______________ (come) to this mountain village.
10.We should love and respect our parents who ______ always _________ (concern) about us and have done so much for us.
单词拼写（每小题1分，满分10分）
1.When asked whether he would give up, he gave us a d___________ look, which meant he would not change his mind.
2.One third of the people in the building were killed or i_________ (受伤) during the big fire.
3.After the flood, nearly everything was d_______(摧毁)) and the villagers sank into sadness.
4.The film Red Sorghum（红高粱） is b________ on the novel written by Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for literature (文学) this year.
5.Do keep c___________ when facing something emergent (危急情况).
6.My father is a heavy smoker. I ever tried to p_________ him to give up smoking but I failed.
7.After g__________ from college, Wang Kun and Wang Wei finally got the chance to cycle along the Mekong River from where it begins to where it ends.
8.Playing games on the Internet _____________(频繁地) does harm to your health.
9.Compared with Tom, I think Lily is much more _______________( 可信赖的)
10.__________________(祝贺) to you on passing the exam and getting the first prize.
Brazil has become one of the developing world’s great successes at reducing population growth, but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard.
Brazil’s population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.
Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas (通俗电视连续剧) and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil’s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.
“Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values-not many children, different attitudes towards life, women working,” says Martine. “They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people aware of other patterns of behavior and other values, which were put into a very attractive package.”
1.According to the passage, Brazil has cut back its population growth _____.
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A．by educating its citizens |
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B．by careful family planning |
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C．by developing TV programmes |
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D．by chance |
2.What can you infer from the passage about many Third World countries ?
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A．They haven’t attached much importance to birth control. |
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B．They would soon join Brazil in controlling their birth rate. |
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C．They haven’t yet found an effective measure to control their population. |
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D．They neglected the role of TV plays in family planning |
3.Soap operas have helped in lowering Brazil’s birth rate because ______.
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A．they keep people sitting long hours watching TV |
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B．they have gradually changed people’s way of life |
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C．people are drawn to their attractive package |
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D．they popularize birth control measures |
Will it matter if you don't take your breakfast? Recently a test was given in the United States. Those tested included people of different ages, from 12 to 83. During the experiment, these people were given all kinds of breakfasts, and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Special tests were set up to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast. The results show that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect than if he or she has no breakfast. This fact appears to be especially true if a person works with his brains. If a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with more attention to class.
Opposite to what many people believe, if you don't eat breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch, and end up gaining weight instead of losing. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.
1.During the test, those who were tested were given ________.
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A．no breakfast at all |
B．very rich breakfast |
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C．little food for breakfast |
D．different breakfasts or none |
2.The results of the test show that ________.
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A．breakfast has great effect (影响) on work and studies |
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B．breakfast has little to do with a person’s work |
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C．a person will work better if he has a simple breakfast |
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D．those working with brains should have much for breakfast |
3.The passage mentions that many people believe that if you don't eat breakfast, you will ____.
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A．lose weight |
B．not lose weight |
C．be healthier |
D．gain a lot of weight |
4.Which of the following is not true according to the passage?
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A．Poor breakfast affects those who work with brains. |
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B．Morning diet may cause one to get fatter. |
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C．Reducing lunch and supper is of less value in weight losing. |
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D．Eating less in lunch and supper may help to lose weight. |
John keeps a record of new words and expressions in English. He usually writes them in a note-book. Then, later in the day, he asks his teacher about them. “Mrs. Thomas, these expressions are new to me. ‘She’s blue today.’， ‘You’re yellow’, ‘A little white lie’, ‘She has green fingers’.” After looking at the note-book, Mrs. Thomas says, “In everyday English, John，‘blue’ sometimes means sad. ‘Yellow’ means afraid. A person with ‘green fingers’ grows plants successfully. And ‘a white lie’ is not a bad lie.” “I don’t understand. Please give me an example.” “ For example, I offer you some cake. The truth is that you don’t like my cake. You don’t say that. Instead, you say, ‘No, thanks, I'm not hungry.’ That’s a white lie.” John says, “I see , thanks for the explanation!”
1.“Blue” sometimes means in spoken English “_____”.
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A．angry |
B．lucky |
C．glad |
D．unhappy |
2.A person with “green fingers” is one who _____ planting.
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A．is a new hand in |
B．is good at |
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C．works hard at |
D．is interested in |
3.“You’re yellow to fight.” means “_____.”
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A．You dare not fight |
B．You dare to fight |
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C．You're afraid to see a fight |
D．You’re able to fight |
4.If you say “It’s a white lie.”, it means that someone _____.
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A．says something unreal and harmful |
B．is unfriendly to talk to others |
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C．refuses to tell the truth in a polite way |
D．is telling a big lie |
