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The local government has again _______ its words not to swallow the arable land for town building and the farmers can do nothing but swallow it. Which of the following is NOT OK?
When you are _______ about which button to press on the complicated machine, you can either read the user’s guide for guidance or fax us for specific instruction. Don’t ______ the trial-and-error method.
They are representatives of farm workers and the frustrating conditions they are in are______ the true state of the majority of them.
No sooner had I began to sing the English song than it was_______ by a 13-year-old girl. She sang the song so beautifully that I couldn’t help asking her when she had ______ the study of English.
Reviewing the video monitor afterwards, they noticed two armed men with their faces covered by masks step out of a carriage and ______the bank through the backdoor.
New ways have to be found to _______of waste materials and poisonous gases so that we can have cleaner surroundings
Some adjustments have to be made to the timetable so that it can _______everybody that is concerned.
The machine is designed to _______ people recycle wastes to a great degree but the result still remains to be seen.
“ The plane _______ in a minute. Please fasten your safety belts and remain on your seats until it has landed,” the stewardess announced in a sweet voice.
No teacher except him can ______ to be laughed at in front of so many students without losing temper.
You can _______ and start a new life; a small step at a time and happiness will follow.
What had previously been regarded as ______ property was made collective in the Land Reform Movement.
______ the red switch on the left and the flying machine will swiftly go up into the air and _____ its journey. A. Pressing; begins B. Press; begin C. Pressed; begins D. To press; to begin My wife’s ______ complaints about the bathroom being too small really gives me a big headache but I can’t do anything but _____ to accept it as it is.
In order to get the film shooting finished in time, we have to ______our work but it doesn’t mean some parts will be ______.
The sight of the ruined temple ______ him of the time when he was trapped but_____ to escape from it through a narrow opening in the quake.
I am quite ______ that the new cosmetics, whether it appears in the form of tablet, capsule, powder or injection, will _______ through the country among young ladies.
The manager of the travel agency was trying hard to figure out how he would attract more customers _____ an extraordinary idea _____ his mind and he immediately knew what to do.
It will be some years before some foreign doctors change the impression they have _____Chinese medicine, _____, in their opinion, is nothing but raw herbs and not effective at all in treating diseases.
It was very difficult to rescue the drowning boy in the sea. One moment the rescue workers _______him but the next moment they _____.
________confidence and the necessary equipmnt, they failed to rescue the 42 miners trapped in the coal mine.
第二节 读写任务(共1小题，满分25分) 阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。 Some people think studying under pressure keeps us motivated. Maybe a little pressure does good to us, but too much pressure is not favorable to students. Scientific studies show people studying under too much pressure generally don’t perform as well as they do when they are not under extreme pressure. Psychologically, too much pressure can lead to mental problems or disorders. In recent years, there has been an increase in stress related diseases among college and high-school students. A newspaper article says many students admit that they have cheated in exams because of excessive pressure coming from their parents and teachers who demand high marks in their examination. 著名英国心理学专家最近应邀赴你校做中学生心理健康辅导，你准备参加一个讨论会，你的英语老师提供以上英文材料给你们作为参考话题，你参加其中的“压力对学生有害”讨论，你准备写一份发言稿，内容要点包括： 1． 以约30个词概括短文要点： 2． 以约120个词，就“压力对学生有害”这个主题发表你的看法，至少包括以下要点： （1）陈述你自己学习、生活的压力事例并说明其影响； （2）对你的学习成绩好坏，你父母持什么态度； （3）你对“压力对学生有害”的观点和看法。 1．在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子； 2．作文中不能出现自己的真实姓名和学校名称。 3. 题目自拟。 1
三．写作(共两节，满分40分) 基础写作(15分)
根据以上表格，以 “The death of Kim Jong-il”为题写一篇通讯稿。 只能使用五个句子表述。 句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。 The death of Kim Jong-il
A. Accounting of finance: Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. At least two years’ experience in an accounting role. Dedicated team player. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong problem solving and multitasking abilities. Ability to interact with employees at various levels within the organization. B. Marketing analyst: to provide marketing input in support of brand development, produce promotion, web function and industry awareness. Through contact with case histories to represent project success, for both print and web use. C. HR manager: we have been looking for a little while and yet we haven’t got the proper person. Keys are a degree with manufacturing experience. This position is a generalist in nature and you should have worked in a labor plant. This is a plant that is growing. Located in the Harrisburg / Lewisburg area. Please include a daytime phone with response. D. Personal fitness instructor: as a personal fitness instructor, your job will be to teach the next generation of personal trainers. Our instructors work locally at various fitness centers. You will also be in charge of instructing our personal trainer exams. Personal fitness instructors have flexible schedules and may choose the hours they wish to work. E. Manager of real estate purchasing: bachelor’s degree from 4-year college or university. More than seven years’ experience in construction or architecture field and buying or fixture design experience. In-depth knowledge of store construction materials, store fixtures. Ability to comprehend and draft reports and documents with significant legal consequence. Ability to negotiate and draft contacts on behalf of the company. F. Architectural designer: architectural degree and / or related experience. Five years’ minimum experience in design-related positions. Retail experience preferred. Project management experience. Project scheduling experience as asset. 以下是五位求职者的个人情况。请把求职者与适合他们的职位匹配起来. 1. Applicant A --- With 10 years’ experience in human resource management, I have always been in charge of recruiting and training new employees in a state-owned plant. In 2008 I successfully got the HR Rep certificate. 2.Applicant B --- Thanks to my 2 years’ hard work in FATTE accounting agency, I have gained much experience in accounting. Besides, I am in charge of providing finance assistance to operation and headquarter staff with monthly financial reports and various analyses. 3.Applicant C --- Graduating from Chicago University with commerce bachelor’s degree, I have been working as an interior (内部的) designer for 10 years. At the same time, I also took the negotiation course in AMT Commercial College and got Negotiator’s Certificate of Business. 4.Applicant D --- Having worked in a world-famous company whose major field is in marketing analysis, I have accumulated enough experience in establishing brand and graphic design, especially good at website marketing development. 5.Applicant E --- With at least 8 years’ working experience in architecture designing and 5 years’ working experience as a project manager, I am sure I am qualified to meet any challenge in the coming job.
Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their first efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed. For the parents of such kids, whose own ambition is often tied to their children’s success, it can be a painful experience. Figuring out why the fire went out is the first step. Assuming that a kid doesn’t suffer from a learning disability, or isn’t involved in some family crisis at home, many educators attribute a sudden lack of motivation to a fear of failure or classmate pressure. “Everything is within the kids’ control; their intelligence is changeable,” says Lisa Blackwell, a research scientist at Columbia University. “More than any teacher or workshop,” Blackwell says, “parents can play a key role in conveying this message to their children by praising their effort, and progress rather than emphasizing their ‘smartness’ or praising high performance alone. Most importantly, parents should let their kids know that mistakes are a part of learning.” Some experts say our education system, with its strong emphasis on testing and separation of students into different levels of ability, also bears blame for the disappearance of drive in some kids. “These programs shut down the motivation of all kids who aren’t considered gifted and talented. They destroy their confidence,” says Jeff Howard, a social psychologist. Howard and other educators say it’s important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other extracurriculum activities. “The problem of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions,” says Michael Nakkual, a Harvard education professor. The key to getting kids to aim higher at school is to free them of the idea that class work is irrelevant, to show them how doing well at school can actually help them fulfill their dreams beyond it. They need to understand that you have to learn to walk before you can run. 1.According to the passage, the parents of kids with no ambition . A. don’t do a very good job teaching them to walk B. are to blame if the kids do poorly in school C. feel pain because ambitions are connected to their success D. should take part in extra-curriculum activities with kids 2.The underlined part “the fire went out” probably means . A. the motivation was suddenly lost B. the fear of failure was suddenly gone C. the learning disability was suddenly lost D. the fire was suddenly gone 3.All the following can contribute to a sudden lack of ambition EXCEPT . A. learning disability B. classmate pressure C. emphasis on testing D. extracurricular activities 4. What is the most important thing for parents in motivating their kids? A. By punishing kids who don’t display ambition. B. By emphasizing smartness and high performance. C. By telling kids that mistakes are a part of learning. D. By praising the effort and progress they have made. 5. We can infer from the passage that . A. children who have lost their ambition will never succeed in life B. school performance has much to do with students’ later success C. both the parents and the school are to blame for the lost ambition D. younger kids learning to walk are more ambitious than older ones
Many people seem to think that science fiction is typified by the Bug-eyed Monster, embodying every feature that most people find unpleasant. This is unfortunate because it degrades a worthwhile literary endeavor. Instead, the basic interest of science fiction lies in the relation between man and his technology and between man and the universe. Science fiction is a literature of change and a literature of the future, and the aspects of human life that it considers make it well worth reading and studying for no other literary form does quite the same things. What is science fiction? To begin, the following definition should be helpful: science fiction is a literary subgenre which postulates(以…为前提) a change (for human beings) from conditions as we know them and follows the implications of these changes to a conclusion. The first point that science fiction is a literary subgenre is a very important one, but one which is often overlooked. Specifically, science fiction is either a short story or a novel. There are only a few dramas which could be called science fiction; the body of poetry that might be labeled science fiction is only slightly larger. To say that science fiction is a subgenre of prose fiction(小说) is to say that it has all the basic characteristics and serves the same basic functions in much the same way as prose fiction in general, that is, it shares a great deal with all other novels and short stories. Everything that can be said about prose fiction, in general, applies to science fiction. Every piece of science fiction, whether short story or novel, must have a narrator, a story, a plot, characters, setting, and language. The themes of science fiction are concerned with interpreting man’s nature and experience around him. Themes in science fiction are constructed and presented in exactly the same ways that themes are dealt with in any other kind of fiction. They are the result to a particular combination of a narrator, story, plot, character, setting, and language. In short, the reasons for reading and enjoying science fiction, and the ways of studying and analyzing it, are basically the same as they would be for any other story or novel. 1. From the first paragraph, we can infer that science fiction has been most popular in modern society because ____. A. with the growth of literacy, the size of the reading public has increased B. competition from television has created a demand for more exciting fiction C. science fiction is easier to understand than other kinds of fiction D. the increased importance of technology has given science fiction an increased relevance 2. According to the definition in the passage, a fictional work that places human beings in a prehistoric world inhabited by dinosaurs____. A. cannot be called science fiction because it does not deal with the future B. cannot be called science fiction because it doesn’t deal with technology C. can be called science fiction because it deals with man’s relation with the world D. can be called science fiction because it places people in an environment different from the one we know 3. Science fiction is called a literary subgenre because____. A. it is not important enough to be a literary genre B. it cannot be made into a dramatic presentation C. it shares characteristics with other types of prose fiction D. it has a great number of readers keen on reading 4. One implication of the final sentence in the passage is that____. A. the reader should turn next to commentaries on general fiction B. there is no reason for any reader not to like science fiction C. the reader should compare other novels and stories to science fiction D. those who can appreciate prose fiction can appreciate science fiction 5.An appropriate title for this passage would be____. A. Man and the Universe B. Toward a Definition of Science Fiction C. A Type of Prose Fiction D. The Bug-Eyed Monster
Uncertainty spreads through our lives so thoroughly that it dominates our language. Our everyday speech is made up in large part of words like probably, many, soon, great, little. What do these words mean?Such verbal expression is not necessarily to be criticized. Indeed, it has a value just because it allows us to express judgments when a precise quantitative statement is out of the question. We have been trying to pin down by experiments what people mean by these expressions in specific contexts, and how the meanings change with age. For instance, a subject is told “There are many trees in the park” and is asked to say what number the word many mean to him. Or a child is invited to take “some” sweets from a bowl and we then count how many he has taken. We compare the number he takes when he is alone with the number when one or more other children are present and are to take some sweets after him, or with the number he takes when told to give “some” sweets to another child. First, we find that the number depends, of course, on the items involved. To most people some friends means about five, while some trees means about twenty. However, unrelated areas sometimes show parallel values. For instance, the language of probability seems to mean about the same thing in predictions about the weather and about politics: the expression “is certain to” (rain, or be elected) signifies to the average person about a 70 percent chance; “is likely to”, about a 60 percent chance; “probably will” about 55 percent. Secondly, the size of the population of items influences the value assigned to an expression. Thus, if we tell a subject to take “a few” or “ a lot of” glass balls from a box, he will take more if the box contains a large number of glass balls than if it has a small number. But not proportionately more: if we increase the number of glass balls eight times, the subject takes only half as large a percentage of the total. Thirdly, there is a marked change with age. Among children between six and fourteen years old, the older the child, the fewer glass balls he will take. But the difference between a lot and a few widens with age. This age effect is so consistent that it might be used as a test of intelligence. 1. What’s the right attitude towards the words like probably, many, soon? A. They are inaccurate and we should avoid them. B. They are necessary since we cannot be always precise. C. They should be criticized because there are too many of them. D. Their value is not yet clear since we don’t know their meaning. 2. Why do we do experiments with the words “many” and “some”? A. To prove people are insensitive to these words. B. To prove the words dominate our everyday speech. C. To find out how the meanings vary with age and contexts. D. To find out whether the words can mean a precise quantity. 3. Which of the expressions means a larger chance in weather broadcast? A. Possible B. Probable C. Be likely to D. Be certain to 4. Which of the following will least definitely influence the number of items a kid takes out of a box when he is invited to take “some”? A. Whether the quantity of items is large or small. B. Whether the items are candies or toys. C. Whether the kid is a toddler or a youngster. D. Whether the kid is alone or accompanied by other children. 5. What will tell us about the intelligence of a child? A. The consistency of picking up a certain glass ball. B. How many glass balls he will take when he’s asked to. C. The difference between a lot and a few when he takes glass balls. D. Whether there are marked changes in his first pick and second one.
I am a mother of three children and have recently completed my college degree. The last class I had to take was social study. The last project of the term was called “Smile”. The last class was asked to go out and smile at three people and document their reactions. Soon after we were given the project, my husband, my youngest son, and I went out to McDonald’s one cold March morning. It was just our way of sharing special playtime with our son. We were standing in line, waiting to be served, when all of a sudden everyone around us began to back way. I turned around and found there standing behind me were two poor homeless men with a horrible “dirty body” smell. The short gentleman, close to me, was “smiling”. His beautiful sky blue eyes were full of light as he searched for acceptance. The second man played with his hands uneasily as he stood behind his friend. I realized the second man was mentally challenged and the blue-eyed gentleman was his salvation (救赎). The short man just asked for a coffee because that was all they could afford. I smiled and asked the young lady behind the counter to give me two more breakfast meals on a separate tray. I then walked around the corner to the men’s table. I put the tray on the table and laid my hand on the blue-eyed gentleman’s cold hand. He looked up at me with tears in his eyes and said “Thank you”. I started to cry as I walked away to join my husband and son. When I sat down my husband smiled at me and said, “That’s why God gave you to me, Honey. To give me hope.” On the last evening of class, I turned in “my project” and the instructor read it. Then she looked up at me and said, “Can I share this?” I slowly nodded as she got the attention of the class. She began to read and we all knew that we need to heal people and to be healed. I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn: UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE. “LOVE PEOPLE AND USE THINGS---NOT LOVE THINGS AND USE PEOPLE.” 1. Why did the people around the author back away? A. Because both men were poorly dressed and mentally ill. B. Because the short gentleman was smiling to everyone around. C. Because two homeless men were also waiting in line, with a bad smell. D. Because the second man stood playing with his hands. 2.After the author handed the meals to the homeless men, she _________. A. talked with them for a while. B. went back to her husband and son C. turned in her project D. regretted and cried 3. What kind of woman do you think the author is? A. Over-curious B. Caring C. Mature D. Lovely 4. What does the author try to tell us with the last sentence? A. Giving is a gesture of love, which people will understand and appreciate. B. If you need help from others, you’d better present them with gifts. C. If you want to get something from somebody, you should please him with gifts. D. Don’t be greedy with money or ask people to do things for you. 5. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? A. The author’s husband was very proud of her. B. What the author did to the men touched many people. C. Poor as the homeless men were, they had their dignity. D. The author felt we should know how to heal people.
A rich landowner decided to leave possessions to one of his two sons. As he lay on the deathbed, he called the two young men to him 1 the break of dawn and even before the cock could crow (鸣叫). He then said, “I will leave all my wealth to the one 2 can best fill this room. It was in this room 3 I made plans on how to build up my fortune. Not an inch must 4 (leave) uncovered. As I am getting 5 (weak) by the hour you both must come back by midnight.” He handed them a small piece of silver and an empty bag to put their purchases in. They both went out and 6 (hurry) came back with their purchases. 7 (bring) the straw, the elder began to spread it about the floor, 8 far from filling the room. It did not even cover half the space. “This is no use, son,” said the father, “and let me see how 9 brother fills the room.” The younger son took 10 his bag a large candle, set it on the table in the centre of the room and lit it. A brilliant bright light filled up the whole room. The father was delighted and exclaimed, “Son, I am sure you will use the wealth well.”
Carmen’s mother Maria had just survived a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant her life was in constant 1 . Both the mother and daughter knew that the chances were very small: finding a donor heart that 2 Maria’s blood type could take years. However, Carmen was determined to save her mother. She kept 3 hospitals all over the country. Days stretched out. By Christmas, Maria had trouble 4 from one end of the room to the other. Carmen lost all hope. She fell into a 5 of the hospital, crying. “Are you okay?” a man asked. Carmen sobbed as she told the stranger her story. This middle-aged man was named Frank, whose wife, Cheryl, a tender and devoted mother of four lovely children, had been in hospital with a brain disease and wouldn’t 6 it through the night. Suddenly, an idea came to Frank’s mind. He knew Cheryl had always wanted to 7 something from herself. Could her 8 go to Carmen’s mother? After reviewing the data, doctors 9 Frank that his wife’s heart was by some miracle a perfect fit for Carmen’s mother. They were able to 10 the transplant. That cold night, when Cheryl was 11 dead, Frank came to knock at Maria’s door. She was 12 for Frank’s family as she had been doing every day recently. Though Maria had never met Frank before, they both felt a strange bond as they hugged and cried. On New Year’s Eve, Carmen attended Cheryl’s 13 with Frank’s family, who were singing their favorite song “My heart will go on.” One day later, on New Year’s Day, Maria 14 with Cheryl’s heart. Yes, Cheryl’s loving heart would go on, for it was 15 in another loving mother’s chest. 1. A. change B. danger C. disorder D. pain 2. A. matched B. replaced C. controlled D. cooperated 3. A. finding B. phoning C. hoping D. interrupting 4. A. leaving B. taking C. walking D. Carrying 5. A. corner B. bed C. man D. nurse 6. A. put B. support C. pass D. make 7. A. save B. recycle C. donate D. separate 8. A. heart B. mind C. organ D. spirit 9. A. informed B. introduced C. congratulated D. reminded 10.A. give up B. carry out C. search after D. put off 11.A. noticed B. predicted C. found D. declared 12.A. praying B. begging C. thinking D. expecting 13. A. funeral B. operation C. conference D. anniversary 14.A. passed away B. woke up C. left behind D. went on 15. A. active B. alive C. conveyed D. Transformed
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