Complete the following sentences as required（根据所给要求完成句子）
【小题1】People set up a lot of new schools after the flood.（改为否定句）
People didn’t ________ up _________ new schools after the flood.
【小题2】Mary didn’t go back in a hurry. I didn’t go back in a hurry.（合并句子）
_______ Mary ________ I went back in a hurry..
【小题3】They managed to bring up four children even though they were very poor.（改为同义句）
They ________ ________ to bring up four children even though they were very poor.
【小题4】The task is so difficult that I can’t deal with it.（保持句意基本不变）
The task is _______ difficult for me to ________ ________.
【小题5】Did they write a column in the newspaper last night?（改为被动语态）
________ a column ________ in the newspaper last night?
【小题6】I happened to be having a meeting when you called.（改为同义句）
____________ ______________ that I was having a meeting when you called.
【小题7】people, more, to, about, health, they, worry, used, than, their（连词成句）
____________________________________________________________________________
【小题8】我有的时候在路上给我们负责销售的职员打电话。
I sometimes __________________________________________________________________
【小题9】我酷爱物理，我的志向是成为一名建筑师。
I am ________________________________________________________________________
【小题10】这三个小偷匆忙上了船，两个德国女游客跟着他。
The three ____________________________________________________________________
【小题11】然而，人们不得不先给电脑用指令编程，这要花费好几个小时。
____________________________________________________________________________
【小题12】一霎那间，电脑可以做一道你一生都不能做得计算题。
__________, a computer can ___________________________________________________

A. shoot B. convince C. entertain D. inform E. accomplish

To be a successful speaker is no easy thing. It is essential for you to know why you are speaking and what you wish to 【小题1】 by your speech. The four most common purposes of speech are to inform, to convince, to move to action, and to entertain. Do you, like a teacher or an expert in a field, wish to illustrate your ideas in detail to people unfamiliar with your subject so that they can understand your ideas clearly and thoroughly? Or, like a debater, with to 【小题2】 the judges or the audience? Or, like a fund collector for a naturalist foundation, wish to get money? Or, like a comedian or after-dinner speaker, wish to 【小题3】? The language and tone you use must be proper for your purpose, for your audience, and for the occasion. A speech to the graduating class will have quite different language, tone and manner from information delivered to a group of your friends.

Furthermore, however talented the speaker is, a talk without enough preparation is usually a failure. To speak without preparing is to 【小题4】 without taking aim. Decide what your aim or objective is; then state it in a complete topic sentence. Make sure that your subject is definite and not too broad.

A. obviously B. responsible    C. increasing    D. experiencing   E. particularly

Camping wild is a wonderful way to experience the natural world and, at its best, it makes little environmental influence. But with 【小题1】 numbers of people wanting to escape into the wilderness, it is becoming more and more important to camp unobtrusively and leave no mark.

Wild camping is not permitted in many places, 【小题2】 in crowded lowland Britain. Wherever you are, find out about organizations 【小题3】 for managing wild spaces, and contact them to find out their policy on camping and shelter building. For example, it is fine to camp wild in remote parts of Scotland, but in England you must ask the landowner’s permission, except in national parks.

Camping is about having relaxation, sleeping outdoors, 【小题4】 bad weather, and making food without modern conveniences. A busy, fully-equipped campsite seems to go against this, so seek out smaller, more remote places with easy access to open spaces and perhaps beaches. Better still, find a campsite with no road access: walking in makes a real adventure.

Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案）

Videodisc holds great promise of helping to meet the needs of American schoolchildren who have problems seeing, hearing, speaking, or socializing. Almost eleven percent of the students aged 3～21 in this country have an impairment that affects their ability to benefit from a regular education program. Handicapped students require special education because they are often markedly  different from most children in one or more of the following ways: mentally retarded (发展迟缓的), learning-disabled, emotionally disturbed, deaf, visually handicapped, physically handicapped, or other health impairments. The education of these handicapped children is rewarding but challenging.

A special education student usually needs a longer period of time to acquire information. Repetitive teaching techniques are often beneficial, and indefatigable(孜孜不倦的) consistency on the part of the teacher is frequently necessary. Interactive videodisc courseware has characteristics that can be capitalized upon to meet the challenges that special education poses. A videodisc program is infinitely patient. Repetition of any videodisc lesson can continue endlessly, and designers can assure absolute consistency within a program. Most important, according to special educator William Healey of the University of Arizona, is that videodisc “adds an extra dimension of realism for children who need graphic representations”.

Healey explained that deaf and mentally retarded children especially have difficulty grasping figurative (比喻的) language and higher-order language concepts. He believes that for special education, the power of videodisc lies in the ability of the technology to visually represent language concepts normally taken for granted by non-handicapped persons. Complex figurative language forms such as idioms and metaphors come most readily to mind as being difficult for handicapped learners.

【小题1】The word“impairment”（Line 3, Para. 1）probably means _______.

A．habit

B．disability

C．misconception

D．belief

【小题2】Which of the following teaching techniques is beneficial to the handicapped students?

A．Task-based method	B．Inquiry-Based Learning
C．Cooperative Learning	D．Repetitive teaching technique

【小题3】The special education mentioned in the passage is mainly concerned with _______.

A．genius students from day-care centers to colleges

B．students who are fond of computer video games

C．students who are either mentally or physically disabled

D．teachers of language in the University of Arizona

【小题4】A videodisc courseware is beneficial to those who have study difficulties because ______.

A．its fancy design is very attractive	B．it allows the user to go back to where he wants to restudy
C．the content of it is healthy and promising	D．it is developed by university professors

【小题5】According to Professor Healey, we may infer that mentally retarded children perhaps _____.

A．need graphic representations in order to understand higher-order language concepts

B．are good at studying English idioms but often fail to grasp higher order language concepts

C．are not very patient with videodisc which helps them to understand the world concepts

D．tend to be deal as well and have difficulty learning the simple concept“before and after”

【小题6】The best phrase that summarize the main idea of the passage is ___.

A．handicapped students and their problems	B．videodisc and special education
C．computer assisted teaching programs	D．normal children and handicapped kids

Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文）

The continuous presentation of frightening stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it ________ our kids.

Al Gore famously described how a sea-level rise of 20 feet would almost completely flood

Florida, New York, Holland, and Shanghai, even though the United Nations says that such a thing will not even happen, estimating that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that.

When faced with these exaggerations (夸大), some of us say that they are for a good cause, and surely there is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tacking climate change.

This argument is astonishingly wrong. Such exaggerations do plenty of harm. Worrying excessively about global warming means that we worry less about other things, where we could do so much more good. We focus, ________, on global warming’s impact on malaria (疟疾)—which will put slightly more people at ________ in 100 years—instead of tacking the half a billion people suffering from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that are much cheaper and dramatically more effective than carbon reduction would be.

Exaggeration also wears out the public’s ________ to cope with global warming. If the planet is certain to be destroyed owing to global warming, people wonder, why do anything? A record 54% of American voters now believe the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. A majority of people now believe –incorrectly – that global warming is not even caused by humans.

But the ________ cost of exaggeration, I believe, is the unnecessary alarm that it causes – particularly among children. An article in The Washington Post cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibility of mass animal extinction from global warming.

The newspaper also reported that parents are taking over effective outlets for their 8-year-olds’ concern with dying polar bears. They might be better off educating them and letting them know that,

related to common belief, the global polar bear population has doubled over the past half-century, to about 22,000. ________ the possible disappearing of summer Arctic ice, polar bears will not become extinct.

【小题1】

A．exhausts B．depresses C．terrifies D．exploits

【小题2】

A．for example B．in addition C．by contrast D．in short

【小题3】

A．peace B．leisure C．case D．risk

【小题4】

A．ability B．endurance C．willingness D．preference

【小题5】

A．smallest B．worst C．fewest D．least

【小题6】

A．Despite B．Besides C．Without D．Except

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）

I’m usually fairly skeptical（怀疑的）about any research that concludes that people are either happier or unhappier or more or less certain of themselves than they were 50 years ago. While any of these statements might be true, they are practically impossible to prove scientifically. Still, I was struck by a report which concluded that today’s children are significantly more a【小题1】 than children in the 1950s. In fact, the analysis showed, normal children aged 9 to 17 exhibit a higher level of anxiety today than children who were treated for mental illness 50 years ago.

Why are America’s kids so stressed? The report cites two main c【小题2】: increasing physical isolation brought on by high divorce rates and less involvement in community, among other things--and a growing perception that the world is a more dangerous place.

Considering that we_can’t_turn_the clock_back, adults can still do plenty to help the next generation.

At the top of the list is nurturing(培育) a better appreciation of the limits of individualism. No child is an island. S【小题3】 social ties helps build communities and protect individuals against stress.

To help kids build stronger connections with others, you can p【小题4】 the plug on TVs and computers. Your family will thank you later. They will have more time for face-to-face relationships, and they will get more sleep.

L【小题5】 the amount of virtual(虚拟的) violence your children are exposed to. It’s not just video games and movies; children see a lot of murder and crime on the local news.

Keep your e【小题6】 for your children reasonable. Many highly successful people never attended Harvard or Yale.

Make exercise part of your daily routine. It will help you cope with your own anxieties and p【小题7】 a good model for your kids. Sometimes anxiety is unavoidable. But it doesn’t have to ruin your life.

Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）

With 26 British prime ministers, 58 Nobel prize winners, over 150 Olympic medals list that reads like a historical hall of fame, the institutions of Oxford and Cambridge – collectively known as Oxbridge –are seen, by many people, as the dream alma mater（母校）.

However, as admission season dawns, and the October 15 deadline for Oxbridge inches ever closer, many students may wonder what makes the UK’s top two institutions so special. Why does Oxbridge symbolize the academic dream for so many? Do the universities deserve the reputation they hold in the minds of so many teenagers, parents and academics?

There is no doubt that both Oxford and Cambridge have a long standing history of academia. Yet, what is often overlooked is the strong reputation of countless other universities in the UK.

A simple click on Google can tell students that the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, for example, has over 18 Nobel Prize winners and 50 world leaders. University College London attracts students from 150 countries and has exchange and research links with nearly 300 overseas universities. Manchester University has the largest student union of all UK universities.

I suddenly realized the Oxbridge effect when I was out in London with friends. I met some new people and was surprised by their reaction when I told them I was going to study at Cambridge. One person even got down on one knee and kissed my hand.

From then on, I told people I was going on a gap year. Although I knew that Oxbridge provides a good education, I had never expected to get such extreme reactions. It was this that made me start to feel uncomfortable about the way that Oxbridge is viewed.

The Cambridge Tab, the university’s student newspaper, has argued that what makes Cambridge special is the fact that the students are told that they are unique and a cut above the rest, so they believe it.

For students applying now, yes, you will receive a world class education at Oxbridge, but you will find the same at numerous other universities throughout the country. Every time you hear about the brilliance of Oxbridge, consider that just because many believe, it does not have to be so.

【小题1】When was the deadline if you apply for the admission to the institutions of Oxford and Cambridge？
_______________________________________________________________________________
【小题2】Both Oxford and Cambridge have a long standing history of academia, don’t they?
_______________________________________________________________________________
【小题3】Name another two universities in the UK which have a strong reputation.
_______________________________________________________________________________
【小题4】How did the writer avoid over-reaction from people to her admission into Cambridge?
_______________________________________________________________________________
【小题5】What is the writer’s suggestion to students applying to universities?
_______________________________________________________________________________
【小题6】What do you think of the writer’s suggestion? Why?
_______________________________________________________________________________

Do not wait for good things to ______ you. You need walk towards happiness.

A．happen on

B．happen to

C．take place on

D．take place to

I thought there was some coffee in the cupboard, but there’s _____ and ___ of us want to buy.

A．none, none

B．nothing, none

C．none, no one

D．nothing, on one

The lady ______ the supermarket because she was ______ her wallet.

A．robbed food of, stolen	B．robbed of, stolen of
C．stole food in, robbed by	D．stole food from, robbed of

Wechat attracts ____ the people, they spend 80-90 _____ their spare time on it.

A．a large percent of, percent of	B．a high percent of, percentage of
C．a high percentage of, percent of	D．a large percentage of, percents of

I’m feeling a little depressed at the moment, but I’m sure good times are just ______.

A．on the corner

B．in the corner

C．at the corner

D．around the corner

The happiest are not those who _____ all the best things, but those who can appreciate the beauty of life ______.

A．owns, on their own	B．own, with their own hearts
C．own, of their own	D．own, by their own hearts

He is keen on scientific research but indifferent to promotion. Which of the following can’t be used to replace the underlined part?

A．is interested in

B．is fond of

C．is in favor of

D．goes in for

Products produced by Apple Co. are quite popular ____ young people.

A．with

B．about

C．in

D．of

The basic design of the house is very _____ that of earlier models, but ___ than it.

A．same as, twice bigger	B．same as, bigger twice
C．similar to, twice bigger	D．similar to, bigger twice

He is unwilling to admit ____ the assignment.

A．having trouble understanding	B．having trouble with understanding
C．to have trouble understanding	D．to have trouble with understanding

I’m not prepared to _____ some private matter _____.

A．discuss about, by telephone	B．discuss, over the telephone
C．talk, on the telephone	D．talk about, by the telephone

If the fire _____, anybody should ______ 119 at once and the firemen would come in no time.

A．broke out, ring	B．was broken out, phone
C．broke out, dial	D．was broken out, talk

Writing（作文）

Write at least 60 words on the topic“A/An _____ day”.（以“.…..的一天”为题写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格。）

（注意：短文中不得出现任何人名、校名及其它相关信息，否则不予评分。）