题目内容
Traffic in many cities is heavier as many people are a__________ to their cars.
Not long ago, people could only buy organic food in small shops. Today it is common in most major supermarkets. The reason for the increase is that more and more people are demanding food grown without chemicals. Since the 1990s, organic farm production has gone up 20 percent every year. This pattern is expected to continue around the globe.
Australia leads the world in land used for organic agriculture. It has four times as much land devoted to organic farming as all of Asia. However, most of the land is not very fertile, and it only produces a modest amount of food. Argentina is a distant second, followed by Brazil, the United States and China. In Africa, only a very small amount of land is registered for organic farming. That does not mean Africa relies on chemicals. In fact, many farmers do not use chemicals because they cannot afford them. Yet there are no programs for these farmers to prove they do not use chemicals. Without these programs their food can never be approved organic.
India has had the most dramatic recent increase in organic farming. Like many other countries, India sees continual growth in organic food sales around the world. This, of course, leads to growth in profits. Sales of organic food were more than doubled from 2000 to 2005. Like India, many countries are trying to increase commercial organic farming to get a share of the sales. This has led to criticism. Some people believe that organic farming should not just be about making money. They think the goal is to help the environment. Others say organic farming will not continue if it is not profitable. They say that people should be able to make money while providing food that is healthy to mankind.
1.What is the passage mainly about?
A. Countries all want to make money from organic farming.
B. Organic food has become much more common.
C. People do not want to eat food with chemicals in it.
D. Farming organically is growing around the world.
2.Why do people want to increase organic farming?
A. Organic food is good for the Earth and the human beings.
B. More and more people demand chemicals to grow food.
C. Profits from organic farming help make approval programs.
D. There are fewer chemicals available to the human beings.
3.From the passage, it can be said that __________.
A. China and India have the same amount of organic farmland
B. India uses the least land to farm organically
C. the US is the fourth largest organic farming country
D. Brazil uses less land to farm organically than China
4.It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. there will be fewer organic farms if demand for organic food goes down
B. people who eat food with chemicals have shorter lifespan
C. India will soon become the largest grower of organic food
D. more countries will farm organically as the environment gets worse
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
For generations, people have dreamed of traveling to Mars to explore Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. The American Space Agency, NASA, and other space agencies have announced plans to send people to the Red Planet.1..
In the United States, some volunteers are learning how people will react to months of separation from other humans on a Mars base.2. But actually, they are living in Hawaii. The project is called HI-SEAS. NASA has provided financial support for the work.
Six people are living on a make-believe Mars Base. They are isolated high on top of Mauna Loa, a volcanic mountain on the Big Island of Hawaii, whose environment is as close to Mars as we can find on Earth. 3. When measured from its base, deep in the ocean, Mauna Loa is the second largest mountain in our solar system. Because it is so high, the land is not warm or rich with plants, like the rest of Hawaii. Visually, it is very similar to what you see on Mars. They can walk across red lava rock from the volcano and see the wonderful volcanic material. There is really no visible plant life or animal life.
The six member HI-SEAS crew is mostly self-sufficient. They take care of themselves.4.
But the individuals bringing those supplies cannot communicate with volunteers inside the base. The current crew has been living in the base since October, and will stay until June. Crew members communicate with the outside world through e-mail and blogs. They also produce videos on the YouTube website.5.
Food and supplies are brought to them.
A. But such a manned mission is years away.
B. Mars has the largest volcanic mountain in the solar system.
C. They are spending eight months in an area that looks much like the surface of Mars.
D. Mauna Loa is 2,500 meters above sea level.
E. Conditions on the surface of Mars are closer to the conditions on Earth.
F. For now, on a mountaintop in Hawaii, volunteers are getting a taste of life on a future Mars base.
G. Food and supplies are brought to them.
How to Improve Speed Reading Skills
Speed reading is one of many skills that can improve your reading comprehension and shorten your study time. 1..
Look at groups of words, not single words.
2.. However, if you can get into the habit of reading groups or chunks of words at one time, then you can read much faster. Start by trying to look at a group of three or four words at once, then work up to looking at an entire line of words. Focus on words that give the sentence meaning, such as the nouns and verbs and pay less attention to the filler words, such as “A, the, and, etc.”
Scan for keywords.
Scanning is a highly effective way of extracting answers from a text without really reading it. If you know exactly what you are looking for—a name, a date, a statistic, or a specific word—you can find it quickly by skipping over large chunks of the text. To scan, first visualize the word, number, or phrase you would like to find. 3.. The information you are looking for should pop out at you.
4..
You can train yourself to read faster by timing yourself as you go. Start by getting your base time. Set a timer for fifteen minutes, and speed read as you normally do. 5.. Do not count the words, just the pages or paragraphs. Record your figures: for instance, you might write “15min/6.5 pages.”
A. Then, run your eyes rapidly over the text
B. Race the clock
C. Check your comprehension
D. If you read a text one word at a time, then this will slow your reading speed way down
E. Here are some Speed Reading Techniques
F. One of the reasons you read slowly is that you have to pause sometimes to understand what a passage is saying
G. When the timer goes off, check to see how far you have got
He surprised his fans by giving a concert c__________ classical music with Chinese folk music.
I witnessed too many _______ in the battle four years ago.(die)
Thanks to the magic of the Internet, booking your yearly trip is just a few clicks away. 1. Here are some o f the most common travel mistakes that waste your money and what you can do to fix them．
Not having travel insurance
2. But if Something bad does happen while you’re traveling and you aren’t covered（给……保险）, you’ll be left paying thousands of dollars.
What you should do: Get travel insurance! It only costs a few dollars a day and it offered through many of the credit card companies．
Mismanaging your money
Whether it’s by using traveler’s checks, or getting cash before you go，you don’t look for the best rates.
What you should do： 3. Check if your bank has a partner ATM network in the country you’re visiting and it may cost you nothing to take out local cash.
Booking too early
People get excited about their trip and, to make it real，book their flight right away. 4. Both area mistake．
What you should do：Book your flight about two to three months in advance to secure the lowest fares.
Asking where to eat the wrong way
Even if you’re doing the smart thing and asking locals，“Where should I eat？”you’re asking the question in a wrong way. 5.
What you should do：It seems simple but asking，“Where do you eat？”means a world of differ ence. Instead of guessing what you might like, a local can direct you to a place he likes to visit
A．But you will make a mistake in finding a wrong place or booking a wrong hotel.
B．Use the ATM for cash and a credit card for all your shopping．
C．But you may throw money away when you travel.
D．A lot of people think“I’m just going away for a short time．I’ll be fine.”
E．Go to a bank and exchange for local cash you need in the country you will visit at the best rate before you set off.
F．You will be sent to restaurants that loca1s think tourists would want to visit.
G．Or they forget and wait until the last minute.
Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in her life, she might go home and write in her _____ . Now, a teenager with the same problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog（博客）. In many ways, a diary and a blog are very ____ .So, what makes blogging different from writing in a _____ diary?
The biggest difference is that blogging is much more ____ than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats her diary like a book full of _____ that she does not want to _______.
It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog _____ a diary will probably write nearly the same information.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her blog. She ______ about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. ____ I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but _____ in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was _______ that my sister might read it!
The biggest _____ with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I were angry with a friend during high school and wrote something _____ about her in my diary, she would never know. ____ , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend ____ read her blog and get angry.
There are also ____ to blogging, of course. If I were feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me,” ______ w ould know about it. However if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would ______ respond and tell her how much they like her. Blogs help people ____ in contact with their friends and to hear what the people _______ them are doing.
1.A. notebook B. diary C. blog D. book
2.A. familiar B. same C. similar D. different
3.A. old B. real C. daily D. traditional
4.A. convenient B. secret C. public D. cheap
5.A. secrets B. mysteries C. questions D. puzzles
6.A. publish B. share C. solve D. answer
7.A. instead B. as well as C. in favor of D. instead of
8.A. wonders B. learns C. writes D. worries
9.A. Although B. When C. Because D. Since
10.A. only B. never C. also D. still
11.A. surprised B. glad C. interested D. worried
12.A. difficulty B. reason C. problem D. mistake
13.A. good B. mean C. funny D. interesting
14.A. However B. Also C. Then D. Besides
15.A. will B. should C. must D. might
16.A. problems B. goods C. advantages D. mistakes
17.A. everyone B. no one C. someone D. anyone
18.A. happily B. hardly C. seldom D. quickly
19.A. stay B. put C. lose D. find
20.A. besides B. over C. around D. in front of
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线( \ )划掉。
修改：在错词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Getting rid of the bad habit of procrastination (拖延症) is now my goal in life. My first step was to set small targets what can be reached realistically. For example, I plan to set a timetable for my study. So after school, I will put finishing homework in the last place. Additionally, I will make a list of my important task including their due dates but follow my schedule strictly. I will avoid find excuses for putting them off. At same time, I will ask for my friends and parents to help me. By achieving this small targets, I have confident that I will overcome procrastination.
