Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. major

B. determined

C. promotion

D. prosperous

E. stressed

F. surprisingly

G. impressed

H. questions

I. cooperation

J. increasingly

Barack Obama has been a hit in China. Apart from holding talks with Chinese leaders, the president ___41___ the Chinese with a lively question-and-answer session with college students. In fact, he is the first U.S. president to visit China inside his first year in office.

“The United States insists we do not seek to contain China’s rise,” he told Chinese students in Shanghai. “On the contrary, we welcome China as a strong and ___42___ and successful member of the community of nations.”

The U.S.-China relationship has opened the door to partnerships on ___43 ___ global concerns including economic recovery, clean energy, climate change, and the ___44___ of peace and beyond, he added.

Indeed, given these pressing issues, China and the United States have ___45___ found their future linked together. They discovered that the largest developing nation and the most powerful industrialized country have to work in concert.

Obama’s visit to China on November 15-18 highlighted the complexity of arguably the most important bilateral (双边) relationship in the world. Moreover, for all their differences and disagreements, Beijing and Washington are ___46___ to manage their relations in a way that will contribute to world peace and development.

Obama kicked off his first state visit to China in the country’s financial and economic centre, Shanghai, where he held a “town hall” meeting with more than 500 Chinese students. The one-hour discussion, during which Obama took ___47___ ranging from antiterrorism to recipes for success with his signature charisma (领袖魅力), was broadcast live on the websites.

He ___48___ that young people could help build bridges in U.S.-China ___49___ — a process that he said must grow beyond the two countries’ governments to take root in the people.

Most British parents give their teenagers pocket money.Teenagers get between£7 and£20 a week.They spend it on fast food,designed clothes,the cinema,concert,magazines and mobile phones.
1)Lazy parents?
37%of parents pay teenagers to clean the living room,66%of parents pay teenagers to take the rubbish out.
2)Lazy teens?
51%of teenagers don’t make their beds before they leave home.
Only 1 3%of teenagers wash the car for money.
Some parents even pay their teenagers to do their homework.
3)Equality?Not Yet!
Boys get more money than girls for most odd jobs.
For washing the dishes,boys get about£4 and girls get about£1.
4)And if you need some more money?
Teens get an extra£250 a year out of their parents on top of pocket money!
About 50%of teens get gifts or money from their grandparents.
Go to Mum if you need extra money! She gives more than Dad.
5)Where you live makes a difference!
Parents in Scotland and the North of England give more pocket money.
6)Spending
51%of teenagers spend their money on clothes.
39%of teenagers buy cosmetics(装饰品),jewellery and toiletries(洗漱用品).
Less than 30%of teenagers save any money.
7)Earnings
Here are some children who tell us about their pocket money:
Emma:I get£30 a month.I have to take the rubbish out and tidy my room.
James:I get£10 a week.But I have to clean the car,hoover(用真空洗尘器清洗)the house and load and unload the dishwasher.I usually save the money.
Lain:I get£7.50 a week.I have to be“good”but I don’t have to do any jobs for the money.
Richard;I get£5 a week.But our neighbors go away a lot and they give me£25 a week for looking after their cats.
【小题1】This passage is mainly about        

A.teenagers everywhere get pocket money
B.how to spend pocket money
C.some bits about pocket money in Britain
D.how to get pocket money
【小题2】According to the passage,which statement is true?
A.Parents are lazy so they let children do housework.
B.Teens are too lazy to do housework unless they are given pocket money.
C.The pocket money boys and girls get is not equal.
D.It is not right for children to ask for pocket money.
【小题3】We can infer from the passage that      
A.boys earn more money at home than girls
B.girls earn more money at home than boys
C.only rich parents give children pocket money
D.most children spend their pocket money
【小题4】Who most probably gets the most money for a whole year according to the passage?
A.EmmaB.J amesC.LainD.Richard

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. contact    B. include   C. announced    D. public     E. especially

F. growing  G. leader   H. range      I. available  J. separately

 

Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but __1.___ number of colleges and universities.

About 160 schools around the world now put free course materials on the web to the ___2.___. Recent additions in the United States ___3.___ projects at Yale,  Johns Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley said it would offer videos of lectures on YouTube. Free videos from other schools are ___4.___ at the Apple iTunes store.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) became an early ___5.___with its Open Course Ware project, first ___6.___ in 2001. Free lecture notes, exams and other resources are published at ocw.mit.edu. Many exams even include the answers.

Today, Open Course Ware offers materials from 1,800 undergraduate and graduate courses. These  ___7.___ from physics to political science.

Visitors can learn the same things that M.I.T. students learn. But as the site points out, Open Course Ware is not a M.I.T. education. Visitors receive no credit toward a degree. Some materials from a course may not be available, and the site does not provide ___8.___ with teachers.

Still, M.I.T. says that the site has had forty million visits by thirty-one million visitors from almost every country. Sixty percent of the visitors are from outside the United States and Canada.

Students and educators use the site, including students at M.I.T. But the largest number of visitors, about half, are self-learners.

Some professors have become well-known around the world as a result of appearing online. Walter Lewin, a physics professor at M.I.T., is ___9.___ popular. Fans enjoy his entertaining lectures.

M.I.T. Open Course Ware now includes materials for high school. The aim is to improve education in science, technology, maths and engineering.

 

Part B: Vocabulary 9%

A.claim

B.second

C.opposite

D.count E. best

F. negative       G. failures         H. defined          I. mark          J. reliable  

We might be surprised at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It is really extraordinary that after all years, educationists have still failed to devise something more 41 than examinations. For all the 42 that examinations test what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact 43. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability.

As anxiety-makers, examinations are 44 to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the 45 of success or failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn’t matter that you weren’t feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don’t 46: the exam goes on. No one can bring out the 47 in him when he is in terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of fierce competition where success and failure are clearly 48 and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of “dropouts”: young people who are written off as 49 before they have started a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students?

 

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