“Without the fog, London wouldn’t be a beautiful city, the French painter Claude Monet wrote to his wife, Alice, during one of his long visits to England from France. Few Londoners would have agreed 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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“Without the fog, London wouldn’t be a beautiful city,” the French painter Claude Monet wrote to his wife, Alice, during one of his long visits to England from France. Few Londoners would have agreed with his statement at the time, when the city was choked by the smog of the Industrial Revolution, but no one argues with the beauty of the colorful skies he began painting there between 1899 and 1901. Pollution has never looked quite as attractive as when seen through Monet’s eyes．

Now there is evidence that Monet’s images of London were not only Impressionist creations, but a result of highly accurate observation．According to a paper published by two environmental scientists, the paintings may “provide useful information in the analysis of the London fogs and air quality during this period”―a period before pollution levels were routinely recorded．

In their study, Jacob Baker and John E. Thomas of the University of Birmingham analyzed the position of the sun in 9 of the 19 paintings in Monet’s “House of Parliament” series．There was “a perfect correlation(吻合)”, Thomas says, between the solar positions in the images, the actual solar positions from astronomical records and the dates on which Monet began the works. “We believe,” Thomas says, “that we can basically work out how much smoke would have to be in the air to create that visibility and those colors in, say, February 1900 through the images.”

Some art historians doubt the London paintings hold this much documentary evidence, pointing out the Monet continued to work on many of the images after he returned to his studio in Giverny, France．They also argue that there’s no question that Monet was astonishingly realistic to what lay in front of him, but at the same time, for example, he had a penchant for pinks．He always was trying to put pinks into pictures throughout his career．

Thomas admits that “it’s still just a hypothesis (假设)” but maintains that “we’re fairly optimistic that we’ll get something out of it”

72．The underlined word “penchant” in the fourth paragraph may mean ．

A．unnatural hatred(恨) B．strong liking

C．deep understanding D．wide use

73．We may infer from the passage that ．

A．modern people have known what caused the fog in London through early record

B．most painters were attracted and inspired by the fog of London

C．many citizens were once proud of their mysterious and beautiful foggy air

D．London used to suffer a lot from the Industrial Revolution

74．About Monet’s paintings, which of the following statements is true?

A．They are not so popular and attractive today because too many still exist．

B．They are full of the painters’ imagination rather than realistic drawings．

C．Many of the paintings by Monet are colored pink．

D．They have recorded the London fogs and air quality by the painter routinely．

75．According to the passage, the study of Jacob Baker and John E．Thomas has ．

A．been questioned by some art historians

B．found the answer to what contributed to the foggy air in London

C．provided enough evidence to carry out more research

D．attracted great attention from many scientists

BDCA

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Offering cigarettes to guests is a traditional Chinese way of showing respect to them. A cup of tea and cigarettes are perhaps the most common way of welcoming a guest in China, especially during festive occasions such as the Lunar New Year.

No wonder, 40 percent of the people surveyed recently said they would smoke at least twice the usual number of cigarettes during the Spring Festival holiday because of all those gatherings and parties. Only 20 percent of the respondents said they would refuse a cigarette when offered one. Why can't the others do the same? Because they could be seen as being rude, said more than half of the respondents. Fifteen percent feared they could be taken as "someone who cannot get along well with others".

The Think-tank Research Center for Health Development and Sohu.com survey shows 61 percent Chinese think offering a cigarette is useful for socializing, and 52 percent have offered cigarettes to others. The study polled 3,800 people, 64 percent of them men.

One-third of those polled were smokers, out of which 57 percent said they couldn't give up smoking because of the offering-and-accepting culture. "People have accepted offering cigarettes as an effective way of making friends." research center director Wu Yiqun says.

China has more than 350 million smokers, catering to the tobacco market that is worth 500 billion yuan. "The survey shows we still have a lot of work to do," she says. "Since Beijing is trying to make the Olympic Games smoke-free, it is time to let people know that offering a cigarette is a bad habit and it should be given up immediately."

1．The passage is written with the purpose of .

A．telling us a custom about the Chinese Spring Festival

B．introducing a way to make friends with Chinese

C．stopping smoking during the Beijing Olympics

D．telling us that offering cigarettes is a bad habit

2．The third paragraph mainly tells us .

A．the fact that smokers are greatly increasing during the festival

B．the reason why refusing cigarettes is acceptable

C．the fact that many people have to smoke more cigarettes during the festival

D．it is rude to attend parties without smoking cigarettes

3．Which of the following may not be the reason that makes many people fail to refuse the offered cigarette?

A．It’s impolite to refuse. B．Smoking is harmful to non-smokers.

C．They want to be friendly. D．It’s a kind of social habit.

4．The writer mentions the 500 billion yuan tobacco market because .

A．the tobacco market is not developing smoothly

B．the writer thinks that smoking wasters a lot of money.

C．smoking is helpful to the tobacco market

D．the tobacco market attracts too many smokers

5．We can infer from the passage that .

A．people will be free to smoke during the Beijing Olympic Games.

B．only a few smokers still have the habit of offering cigarettes

C．offering cigarettes is the most effective way for socializing

D．some non-smokers will even accept the offered cigarettes

单词和词组（共10小题；每题1分，满分10分）

61. At that time people would ________ (挨饿) if food was difficult to find, especially during the cold winter months.

62. Today's festivals have many origins, some ________ (宗教上的), some seasonal, and some for special people or events.

63. The p________ “Mark Twain” means that the water is two fathoms deep.

64. The p________ is the ability to wait for a long time or to accept trouble without getting angry.

65. He sat there in silence, ________ (怒视) at the nobleman.

66.The shells on the sand were placed ________ (以某种形式) the letters PKU.

67. Some festivals are held ________ (纪念) the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm.

68. I ______ (开始学) the violin when I was seven, but I haven’t played recently, so I forgot a lot.

69. It is too early to tell whether ________ (削减) the cost of production will benefit the company workers or not.

70. We ________ (打赌) the outcome of the next horse race, and as a result, I failed.

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。

Dear Ms Jordan,

I am sorry for misbehaving in class .I won't do it again.

Tyler Vincent Turner

This is a letter of apology that my six-year-old son Tyler wrote to his teacher .It was simple enough and took less than five minutes to write, but I hoped the message I was sending to Tyler was one that would have a lasting effect.

When I made the decision, I hoped it was the right thing to do .It turned out that Ms Jordan was thrilled when she received the note . She told me that in her 25 years as a teacher no student had ever written her a letter of apology for misbehavior . She literally looked like she was going to cry.

I want him to realize that he is responsible for his behavior, good or otherwise .That’s why I decided to make him write the letter of apology .I didn’t tell him what to write--- the words were his own. And he did so without any reluctance and gave it to his teacher this morning with a verbal apology. If it happens again, he’ll have to write another letter. Taking responsibility for your own actions should start as young as possible and a six-year-old boy is certainly old enough.

[写作内容]

1．以约30词概括短文的要点。

2．然后以120词就“道歉信”这一主题发表看法，并包括如下要点：

1）你曾经写过道歉信给老师吗？

2）假如你在课堂违反了纪律，你会给老师写道歉信吗？为什么？

[写作要求]

1. 可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点，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. 文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3. 标题自定。

[评分标准]

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

单词拼写

1.Usually we can read some a（逸事）_____of famous people in the magazines.

2.He was the only w________（目击者）to that accident.

3.Because of the war, his family had to f_______（逃离） to another country.

4.The river looks very deep. Do you know the d___________ of it.

5.The company will have its a______________ celebration this Saturday.

6.Without t_______（舌头）, we can’t speak, nor can we taste.

7.He was a_______（抛弃） by his cruel parents when born because of his disability

8.The mountains are r____（反射，倒影）in the clear water, forming a pleasant picture.

9.Whenever I go to the West Lake, I’m always stricken by its b__________.

10.A baby is too young to be a________（意识到） of the dangers around it.

Now often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups and old people wishing they were young again．Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without, t wasting his time in useless regrets．

Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult．If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever be may do．It is impossible that he will ever, again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return．What's more, life is always giving new things to the child--things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well known, but a child has his pains : he is not so free to do what he wishes to do ; he is repeatedly being told not to do something, or being punished for what he has wrongly done．

When a young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortable．If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry．And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison．

If, however, he works hard, keeps out troubled and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up for himself his oven position in society．

1．In the second paragraph, the writer tries to tell us that_____________．

A．life for a child is fairly easy

B．a child is always loved whatever he does

C．if much is given to a child, he must do something in return

D．only children are interested in life

2．Which of the following is TRUE about children according to the text?

A．Children often break laws when they are young．

B．There are a few responsibilities for childhood their-make life difficult．

C．Children have pleasures and pains as well．

D．If a child has good parents, he can do whatever he likes．

3．the main idea of the text is that ___________．

A．life is not enjoyable since each age has some pains

B．young men can have the greatest happiness if they work hard

C．childhood is the most enjoyable time in one's life

D．one is the happiest if he 'can make good use of each age in his life

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