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My son ,Izzy, was a nine-year-old boy and had been begging me to please let him find his way home by subway, by himself. After all, we live in New York City, and getting around by public transportation is a basic part of life. It is also the first step toward feeling grown-up. So on that sunny Sunday，I gave him a subway map, a transportation card,$20 for emergencies, and a couple of coins so that he could call me if necessary. I didn’t give him a cell phone because nine-year-olds lose things. A few days later, I wrote about his adventure，or non-adventure for a newspaper. Little did I realize the idea that a kid could tour the city on his own, and that a mom would let him, was big news.

It turned out that many TV shows called me and asked for an interview. Bloggers were going crazy, so I started a blog, too, and letters came pouring in. Finally I found out why this was such a big story: we have become fearful for our children. Fear is hardly a new thing for parents, of course. But the fear of letting our children out of sight for even a second-that’s new. How did this happen? How did it become too scary to let kids be kids? I asked the question when the reporter Trevor Butterworth interviewed me.

“News reports,” he answered. “News reports scare the pants off you. What is scarier than a kidnapped(绑架) kid no matter how far away？Because there are so many such stories, it starts to feel as if kidnappings are happening all the time. That’s why the kid-on-the-subway story surprises the whole world.”

Izzy probably did a good job. He simply proved that kids could leave home alone and return home safely! But he didn’t think it was a big deal. “It was fun,” he said. “But I missed some classes because of the interviews.” Sometimes it really pays to be brave.

1.Why did the author let her son take the subway alone?

A. Because she always let her son do whatever he wanted.

B. Because she believed that her son had memorized the subway map.

C. Because she thought it would be big news around the whole world.

D. Because she felt traveling by subway in New York was a basic life skill.

2.The author gave her son all the following when he traveled alone EXCEPT_______.

A. a map. B. a cell phone.

C. a transportation card D. some money.

3.The author didn’t expect that after she wrote her son’s story for a newspaper, __________.

A. a blog would be started in her name

B. her son would receive so many letters

C. many TV shows would want to interview her

D. many TV stations would want to film her son’s story

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---Students should devote most of their time to studying rather than playing computer games.

---________. No pains, no gains.

A. Extremely B. Actually C. Obviously D. Exactly

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Times were tough in our household. My husband was out of work and there was no sign of anything for him. In addition to going to nursing school full-time, I was working three part-time jobs to put food on the table for our family of five.

After a rather meal one night, I answered the ringing phone. With no , a voice asked, “Do you need food? Come to my place and I can help you.” Directions followed and he hung up the phone. No in-depth conversation or queries as to our situation. It was up to us to decide whether we a voice on the telephone.

I was desperate. With food in the cabinet and no prospect of a job for my husband, I had to take a , swallow my pride, and accept the strange offer. Was there a ? When I uneasily got to a ranch home as ,I found there was no car in the garage. , lined up in orderly rows were tables filled with varieties of food. A craggy（轮廓分明有皱纹的）gentleman me, not much different than our phone conversation! “Look around. If you see what you want, yourself.” He handed me paper bags and turned to another new arrival, passing along the same .This couldn’t be real!

I guiltily filled the paper sacks with what needed and gratefully thanked the elderly man. “Be here next week. You’ll of the food by then” was his reply.

Then I learned the thing. Widowed and retired, he wanted to do something in his golden years to fill his time. Daily, he drove his pickup truck and begged for items and canned goods from local grocery stores and folks like us who had fallen on hard times.

I never knew what our weekly menus would be I had “shopped” in the garage, but I knew, with our bellies full, we could focus on paying necessary bills.

1.A. worrying B. promising C. confusing D. boring

2.A. ever B. even C. just D. also

3.A. simple B. necessary C. delicious D. ordinary

4.A. information B. communication C. instruction D. introduction

5.A. physical B. social C. educational D. financial

6.A. satisfied B. trusted C. recognized D. accepted

7.A. actually B. barely C. certainly D. originally

8.A. step B. chance C. measure D. decision

9.A. trap B. future C. possibility D. kindness

10.A. ordered B. requested C. commanded D. directed

11.A. Instead B. Therefore C. Besides D. However

12.A. discovered B. reminded C. greeted D. examined

13.A. behave B. enjoy C. help D. seat

14.A. welcome B. message C. supply D. assistance

15.A. mostly B. eventually C. accidentally D. absolutely

16.A. run out B. drop out C. leave out D. get out

17.A. interesting B. mysterious C. worthwhile D. astonishing

18.A. acceptable B. additional C. usable D. valuable

19.A. recalled B. inspected C. identified D. sought

20.A. until B. since C. before D. although

The United States government wants to know what the public thinks about its finding on the safety of cloned animals.

The Food and Drug Administration says meat and milk from clones of adult animals are safe to eat. They called them “as safe to eat as the food we eat every day.” And when those clones reproduce sexually(有性繁殖), the agency says, their offspring(后代)are safe to eat as well.

The United States this year could become the first country to allow the sale of foods from cloned animals. First，however，the public will have ninety days to comment on three proposed documents. On December 28th the F.D.A. released a long report, called a draft risk assessment, along with two policy documents. The agency says it must receive comments by April 2nd. The F.D.A. seemed ready to act several years ago，but an advisory committee called for more research.

For now，the government will continue to ask producers to honor a request that they do not sell foods from cloned animals.

Clones are still rare. They cost a lot and are difficult to produce. The F.D.A. says most food from cloning is expected to come not from clones themselves, but from their sexually reproduced offspring. It says clones are expected to be used mostly as breeding animals to spread good qualities.

Public opinion studies show most Americans do not like the idea of food from cloned animals. But this research also shows the public know little about cloning. Cloning differs from genetic engineering. A cell taken from a so­called donor animal is grown into an embryo(胚胎)in the laboratory. Next, the embryo is placed into the uterus(子宫)of a female animal. If the process is successful, the pregnancy reaches its full term and a genetic copy of the donor animal is born.

1. From the passage, we know ________.

A. the US government is very cautious about the safety of cloned foods

B. foods from cloned animals are popular in America

C. cloned animals will be easy to produce

D. most foods from cloning are expected to come from clones themselves

2.Who believes that foods from cloning are safe to eat?

A. Most Americans. B. An advisory committee.

C. Critics. D. The F.D.A. .

3. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______.

A. cloning has much in common with genetic engineering

B. not every cell taken from a donor animal can grow into a genetic copy

C. the donor animal should be a female one

D. cloned animals grow faster than normal ones

4. Whether the sale of cloned foods is allowed in the US depends on ________.

A. cloning technology

B. the advisory committee’s research

C. public comments

D. the documents of the F.D.A.

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随着网络的普及，越来越多的中学生上网交友。某英语报社就“Should students make friends online?”这个主题进行了征文大赛。 请你给该报社投稿。

内容要点：1.网上交友优点：（轻松交友，畅所欲言，帮助学外语）

2.网上交友弊端：（浪费时间，分散精力，有时会上当受骗）

3.你自己的看法。

要求：1.词数120 字左右；（开头已给，不计入总词数）

2.内容充实， 结构完整，语句连贯。

Should Students Make Friends Online?

Whatever your age is , the Internet is a great place to hang out, where you can not only have fun but also make friends.

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Tayka Hotel De Sal

Where: Tahua, Bolivia

How much: About $95 a night

Why it’s cool: You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That’s something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt—including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses (床垫) and blankets).The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.

Green Magic Nature Resort

Where: Vythiri, India

How much: About $240 a night

Why it’s cool: Ridding a pulley(滑轮)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window—there is no glass!—you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy. Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You don’t even have to come down for breakfast—the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator”.

Dog Bark Park Inn B&B

Where: Cottonwood, Idaho

How much: $92 a night

Why it’s cool: This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side. You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps of the loft in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant outside.

Gamirasu Cave Hotel

Where: Ayvali, Turkey

How much: Between $130 and $475 a night.

Why it’s cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65℉in summer.(Don’t worry—there is heat in winter.)

1.What is the similarity of the four hotels?

A. Being expensive. B. Being beautiful.

C. Being natural. D. Being unique.

2.What does the underlined part “Sweet Willy” refer to?

A. The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.

B. The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.

C. The name of the hotel.

D. The name of the hotel owner.

3.Which of the hotel makes you have a feeling of living in the far past?

A. Tayka Hotel De Sal

B. Green Magic Nature Resort

C. Dog Bark Park Inn B&B

D. Gamirasu Cave Hotel

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In the United States there was an unusual tale telling of the daughter of a mechanic (技工). One day while walking along the bank of a lake, the girl ________ to see 20 eggs laid by a wild goose. After some time the girl ________ the mother would not return to her eggs and she ________ to take them home. There she carefully ________ the eggs in the heat of a lamp. Several days ________ the eggs broke and the baby geese came into the ________ .

Geese are known to take the first living thing they see as their mother. ________ , to these young geese, the girl was their mother.

As they ________ , the girl was able to ________ her birds to run across the grass, but she could not teach them to________ . The girl became increasingly worried about this, both when ________ and in her dreams. Later, she had an ________ : She would fly a plane to guide them in ________ . She asked her father for a plane and he assembled (组装) a small aircraft for her.

Caring about ________ safety, the father decided to fly the plane himself. However, the birds did not ________ or follow him, and ________ slept in the grass.

One day, the girl ________into the plane, started it and soon left the ________ . Seeing their mother take to the air, the birds ________ flapped (拍打) their wings and ________ . She flew the plane freely in the sky, her young birds following.

1.A. managed B. tried C. happened D. supposed

2.A. realized B. expected C. imagined D. admitted

3.A. helped B. decided C. afforded D. meant

4.A. placed B. protected C. treated D. examined

5.A. ago B. out C. later D. long

6.A. family B. lake C. home D. world

7.A. But B. Also C. Therefore D. Still

8.A. increased B. improved C. rose D. grew

9.A. ask B. lead C. want D. allow

10.A. fly B. race C. swim D. sing

11.A. asleep B. away C. around D. awake

12.A. idea B. opinion C. explanation D. excuse

13.A. sky B. heaven C. flight D. plane

14.A. his B. her C. their D. its

15.A. respect B. remember C. recognize D. receive

16.A. so B. instead C. hardly D. too

17.A. climbed B. looked C. reached D. fell

18.A. house B. floor C. water D. ground

19.A. secretly B. sadly C. patiently D. eagerly

20.A. looked away B. set off C. went out D. turned back

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Eyesight plays avery important role in our daily life. Every waking moment, the eyes are working to see the world around us. Over forty percent of Americans worry about losing eyesight, but it's easy to include steps into our daily life to ensure healthy eyes. Here are five suggestions for a lifetime of healthy eyesight：

•Schedule yearly exams.__ 1.___Experts advise parents to bring babies 6 to 12 months of age to the doctor for a careful check. The good news is that millions of children now can have yearly eye exams and following treatment, including eyeglasses.

•Protect against UV rays(紫外线)．Long?term stay in the sun creates risk to your eyes. No matter what the season is, it's extremely important to wear sunglasses.__ 2.__

•Give your eyes a break. Two?thirds of Americans spend up to seven hours a day using computers or other digital products.__ 3.__ Experts recommend that people practice the 20/20/20 rule: every 20 minutes, take a 20?second break and look at something 20 feet away.

•___4.__ As part of a healthy diet, eat more fruits and vegetables each day. Vitamins(维生素) C and E help protect eyesight and promote eye health.

•Practice safe wear and care of contact lenses(隐形眼镜)．Many Americans use contact lenses to improve their eyesight. While some follow the medical guidance for wearing contact lenses, many are breaking the rules and putting their eyesight at risk.__ 5.___ Otherwise, you may have problems such as red eyes, pain in the eyes, or a more serious condition.

A．Eat your greens.

B．Eye care should begin early in life.

C．They can properly protect your eyes.

D．Stay in good shape by taking more Vitamins.

E．Parents usually don't care about their own eyesight.

F．Always follow the doctor's advice for appropriate wear.

G．This frequent eye activity increases the risk for eye tiredness.

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Friends in your life are like pillars on your porch．Sometimes they hold you up and sometimes they lean on you．Sometimes it's just enough to know they're standing by．Friendship doubles your joy and divides your grief．A friendship is priceless and should be cultivated．

●Remembering the golden rule

Without a doubt, the greatest human relations principle is to treat other people like you want to be treated．When you show respect for your friends and gratitude for their friendship, you'll be blessed in untold ways．

You can't know what has gone on in the rude person's life that day, but you can assume that his or her day hasn't gone well．Maybe a loved one lost his job, her boss reprimanded her unjustly, he's coming down with the flu, or she just found out that her teenager is taking drugs．

Whatever the cause of the rudeness, you don't have to accentuate(突出) the problem．A kind word or a gentle, understanding smile may help the person more than returned rudeness would．

● Considering foes as friends

A friend looks after your own good．On the other hand, a foe is someone who isn't interested in your well-being．

Yet some students view their teachers as enemies．However, a student's success in school partly depends on the teacher's effectiveness in the classroom．Instead of being an enemy, a teacher who corrects you and helps you to achieve can be the best friend you ever had．

This kind of thinking, along with a little attitude adjustment, helps you to convert foes to friends, and both of you are better off．

● Making friends by being an optimist

Do you enjoy being around a pessimist, someone who is generally described as being able to brighten up a room just by leaving it? The answer is obvious．Most people prefer to be around people who believe that tomorrow is going to be better than today, rather than people who believe that today is even worse than yesterday．

● Capturing the pleasing personality

How do you develop a pleasing personality? Here are some steps you can take:

Smile when you see someone．You don't have to give a wide grin — just a pleasant, friendly smile．

Speak in a pleasant, upbeat tone of voice．Talk to people as if they are good friends, even if they don't really fall into that category yet．

Take a course in public speaking．The ability to express yourself attracts favorable attention from many sources．

Develop a sense of humor．Pick up a couple of joke books．This makes you a little more outgoing and friendly．

● Don't criticize unjustly

Instead of being eager to dish out criticism all the time, take the humane and sensible approach．Look for the good in others．Encourage them．Build them up．

Most people seldom think through each situation completely and consider the other person's point of view．If you take the time and effort to do this, you'll end up befriending more people．

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