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Up to now nobody able to do this better than Charlie Chaplin.

A.
is
B.
has been
C.
was
D.
will be

B
解析：
考查时态。Up to now，到现在为止，是现在完成时的标志，所以选B。

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“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. And you’ll realize that it wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous disappointment.”

Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932, I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to a sports announcer. I hitchhiked to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station—and got turned down every time. In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn’t risk hiring an inexperienced person. “Go out in the sticks and find a small station that’ll give you a chance,” she said. I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois.

While there were no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I applied. The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn’t hired. My disappointment must have shown. “Everything happens for the best.” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to hunt a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur told me they had already hired an announcer.

As I left his office, my frustration (挫折) boiled over. I asked aloud, “How can a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?” I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, “What was you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an imaginary game. The preceding (在前的) autumn, my team had won a game in the last 20 seconds with a 65-yard run. I did a 15-minute build-up to that play, and Peter told me I would be broadcasting Saturday’s game! On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother’s words: “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous disappointment.”

I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I’d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

The writer shows his _____ by saying “… if I’d not gotten the job at Montgomery Ward”.

A. regret B. happiness C. gratefulness D. disappointment

The underlined phrase “out in the sticks” probably means _____?

A. in radio stations B. in the country

C. in big cities D. in Dixon, Illinois

Why did the writer mention his mother’s words over and again? Because _____.

A. it was his mother’s words that encouraged him

B. his mother was a person who talked a lot

C. nothing good has happened to him up to now

D. he got turned down every time he tried

Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. There was a small radio station in Dixon, Illinois.

B. Peter MacArthur was a program director in Scotland.

C. WOC Radio in Davenport broadcast imaginary games.

D. Montgomery Ward had a store with a sports department.

When did the writer decide to take a radio-announcing job?

A. When he hitchhiked to Chicago. B. After he graduated from college.

C. Before he graduated from college. D. As soon as he was turned down.

Making lists is relaxing. It dictates the shape of the immediate future; it calms you down (it’s OK, it’s on a list somewhere) and it makes you feel good when you cross something off List-making is standard practice in therapy for depression). It might even help you to get things done too. The more you have to do, the more you need a list and few people with high-powered jobs get by without them. Women always think they’re better at lists than men. Men tend to have tasks which they assemble ’into Action Plans whereas women just have lists of Things To Do.

James Oliver, psychologist, has created his own “time management matrix (模式)”. He writes a list of things to do and then organizes them into categories: things that have to be done straight away, other things that it would be good to do today, things that are important but haven’t got to be done immediately and things that are less urgent but that he doesn’t want to forget. “Using categories to order the world is the way the human mind works,” he says. “After that, you should divide things into levels of importance.” But he also warns, “If people get too absorbed in making lists, it doesn’t work. They have too many categories and lose their ability to decide which is the most important.”

It’s all a question of what works best for you, whether it’s a tidy notebook, a packet of Post-it notes or the back of your hand. Having tried all these, student Kate Rollins relies on a computerized list, which is printed out each morning. “My electronic organizer has changed my life,” she says. “Up to now, I’ve always relied on my good memory, but now that I’m working and studying, I find I’ve got too much to keep in my head.”

So what are you waiting for? No, you’re not too busy to make today the first day of your upgraded time-managed life. In fact, there’s no better time than the present to begin to take increased control of your work and life. So, get out your pencil and pen and make a list.

The main purpose of making lists is to .

A. help map out one’s future B. divide things into levels of importance

C. treat certain diseases such as depression D. organize one’s work and life reasonably

We can learn from the passage that .

A. good memory helps in list making B. too much listing might be misleading

C. women usually make a lot more lists than men D. people with high-powered jobs make lists most

In this passage the author intends to .

A. suggest a way of raising one’s living standard B. introduce some ways of business management

C. urge people to develop the habit of listing D. warn people not to rely on their memory

Parties held by the wealthy seldom welcome poor guests.But last week China made it through the doors into a gathering of the world’s richest countries.
Jin Renqing ,Chian’s finance minister,and Zhou Xiaochuan,governor of the People’s Bank of China,joined a meeting of the Group of Seven(G7)on October1,2004.It is the fist time that China has had direct talks with the club.It was a good chance to share the world powers’thoughts about critical economic issues and promote understanding.
China’a participation is a natural part of its increasingly important role in the global economy.China is the world ‘s factory and the biggest market.
America and China made up almost half of global economic growth last year.“If Anerican consumers and Chinese producers were to reduce their activities at the same time,global growth would drop greatly,”said the Economist,a leading British economics magazine.
Up to now chinese economic stability(稳定)has been closely related to world development.“The increasingly connected global economy means that China should be a part of the meeting.”said Stephen Roach,a world famous economist.
During the meeting,China represented (代表)developing countries.It callde on the world’s developed nations to increase their spending on aid to poorer countries.Jin said that overall official help from developed countries is only 0.23 per cent of their Gross Domestic Product(国内生产值),much lower than the 0.7per cent UN targert.And this should be changed.
【小题1】According to the passage,China particpates in the meeting of G7 because______.

A．China has become one of the richest countries of the world

B．China is playing a more important part in the world economy

C．China has more factories than any other countries in the world

D．developing countries want China to speak for them

【小题2】Which of the following is true?

A．China’s participation in the meeting of G7 is the first time that China has talks with the developed countries.
B．The stable economy of China has done a great deal to the development of the world.	C．The developed nations are trying their best to help the poorer countries at present
D．America has as large a market as China has.

【小题3】From the passage we can infer that ________.

A．Chinese producers as well as American consumers contribute a lot to the growth of the world economy

B．the author doesn’t think it necessary for China to participate in the meeting

C．China produces a lot but consumes a little

D．the economist thinks that American consumers and Chinese producers will reduce their activitres at the same time

【小题4】The underlined wrold “promote”in the second paragraph means_______.

Up to now, the little boy is still unable to _______ to us what he meant just now.

A. get out B. get across C. get along D. get about

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。

In the atmosphere, carbon dioxide acts rather like a one-way mirror —— the glass in the roof of a greenhouse which allows the sun’s rays to enter but prevents the heat from escaping.

According to a weather expert’s prediction, the atmosphere will be 3℃ warmer in the year 2050 than it is today, if man continues to burn fuels at the present rate. If this warming up took place, the ice caps in the poles would begin to melt, thus raising sea level several metres and severely flooding coastal cities. Also, the increase in atmospheric temperature would lead to great changes in the climate of the northern hemisphere, possibly resulting in an alteration of earth's chief food-growing zones.

In the past, concern about a man-made warming of the earth has concentrated on the Arctic because the Antarctic is much colder and has a much thicker ice sheet. But the weather experts are now paying more attention to West Antarctic, which may be affected by only a few degrees of warming, in other words, by a warming on the scale that will possibly take place in the next fifty years from the burning of fuels.

Satellite pictures show that large areas of Antarctic ice are already disappearing. The evidence available suggests that a warming has taken place. This fits the theory that carbon dioxide warms the earth.

However, most of the fuel is burnt in the northern hemisphere, where temperatures seem to be falling. Scientists conclude, therefore, that up to now natural influences on the weather have exceeded those caused by man. The question is: Which natural cause has most effect on the weather?

【写作内容】

1.以约30个词概括短文的要点；

2. 然后以约120个词就“Solutions of slowing climate change”为主题写一篇短文，包括如下要点：

(1) 你认为地球会不会持续变暖；

(2) 其原因是什么以及人类在其中的作用；

(3) 谈谈你的建议。

【写作要求】

(1) 你可以使用实例或者其他论述方法支持你的观点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用阅读材料中的句子。

(2) 字迹清楚，书写工整。

【评分标准】概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

Up to now nobody able to do this better than Charlie Chaplin.

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