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(   ) 5. The recent airplane crash       my belief that stronger safety regulations are needed.

A. combines    B. conducts C. conforms    D. confirms

5. D考查动词词义辨析。combine结合;conduct 引导，指挥；conform遵守，符合；confirm确认。句意：最近的飞机失事事件让我更加相信，要采取更加严格的安全措施了。

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(   ) 2. With international        and education exchanges increasing every year，the number

of Chinese students studying abroad has increased rapidly.

A. cooperation    B. competition C. construction    D. conflict

Next Halloween，a small vegetable that looks like a pumpkin may appear in a garden near you. The vegetable is a type of pepper that is called "Lil，Pumpkin" .It's very special because it has orange， pumpkin-like fruit.

You might think that all vegetables are grown to provide food to eat. But some vegetables are grown mainly for the lively color and holiday spirit that they bring to gardens. These are called "ornaments(观赏性植物)”.Just like lights decorate a Christmas tree,they decorate a garden.

The peppers were developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists John Stommel and Robert Griesbach. Another pepper the scientists developed is called "Pepper Jack". Because Pepper Jack has orange and black cone-shaped fruit,it might remind you of the popular Halloween treat "candy corn".

Stommel says that vegetable crops such as peppers were first widely grown in Europe in the 15th century. At that time,people liked these crops more because they looked pretty than because they provided food. 

Back then,when a gardener grew plants for decoration and plants for food,the garden was called a "potager". An example of this is the large gardens on the lawns of castles and very large homes where kings and queens lived. One of those large royal homes was the French king's palace at Versailles during the 1600s. The palace is still there today，and people from all over the world still go there to visit and see the gardens.

Today, Stommel says using vegetables as decorations in gardens has become popular again. So you might be wondering, if these peppers are for decoration, can people eat them? Yes,but the fruit from both of these peppers has a sharp taste (kind of like onions).

These peppers are scheduled to become available in mid-2011. These pretty peppers can be grown in containers and also in garden beds. They grow best with plenty of light and warm temperatures， Stommel says.

(   ) 1. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Different kinds of peppers. B. The history of peppers.

C. Peppers with the Halloween spirit. D. Food for the Halloween festival. 

(   ) 2. What do we know about "Lil，Pumpkin" and "Pepper Jack"？

A. Their fruits are the same color. B. They are used to decorate Christmas trees.

C. Their fruits have different shapes. D. They are grown mainly to provide food to eat.

(   ) 3. According to the passage，a potager was-

A.  the place where kings？nd queens lived

B.  the garden in the French king, s palace

C.  a place providing vegetables for the royal homes

D.  a garden with plants for decoration and for food

5.                dangerous animals such as tigers and wolves while travelling in this forest. (watch)

在这片森林里旅游的时候，小心危险的动物，如老虎和狼。

As a young girl growing up in the 1930s ，I always wanted to fly a plane，but back then it was almost unheard of for a woman to do that. I got a taste of that 1   in 2001，when my husband

arranged for me to 2    in a hot air balloon for my birthday. But the experience turned out to be very 3    . Around that time, 1 told my husband that I wanted to 4   . So when our retirement community announced that they were having a ( an) 5    competition and the topic was an experience of a lifetime that you wanted to have, I decided to write about my dream.

In the essay，I wrote about my desire to skydive, 6    George Brush Sr. did it at age 80. Why

not 7   ？I was just 84 and in pretty good health. A year went by and I heard  8   . But then at

a community party in late April 2009, they announced that I was one of the winners. I just couldn't 9   it. Inspired by this,I decided to realize my dream even though some of my family members and my doctor were 10    it.

On June 11    ， 2009，nearly 40 of my family and friends 11    in the area close to where I would land while I headed up in the airplane. My instructor,Jay，guided me through the experience. The plane was the 12    one I had ever been in，but I wasn' t frightened―I was really just looking forward to the experience. When we reached 13 ，000 feet,Jay instructed me to 13   myself out of the plane. When we first hit the 14    ，the wind was so strong that I could hardly breathe. For a second I thought, "What have I gotten myself into? " 15    then everything got calmer. We were in a free fall for about a minute before Jay opened the parachute (降落伞)，then we just floated 16    for about five minutes. Being up in the clouds and looking at the view below was unlike anything I have ever felt―-much better than the hot air balloon. I was just 17    it.

Skydiving was really one of the greatest experiences of my life. I hope other people will look
at me and realize that you don't stop 18   just because you are 84 years old. If there's something
you want to 19   ，look into it. If it's something that is possible,make it 20    .
(   ) 1. A. promise    B. dream C. advice    D. schedule

(   ) 2. A. ride    B. drive C. take    D. fly

(   ) 3. A. dull    B. interesting C. thrilling    D. scary

(   ) 4. A. skateboard    B. ski C. skydive    D. ride

(   ) 5. A. speech    B. dance C. sing    D. essay

(   ) 6. A. stating    B. declaring C. suggesting    D. arguing

(   ) 7. A. him    B. me C. it    D. that

(   ) 8. A. everything    B. all C. nothing    D. anything

(   ) 9. A. believe    B. stand C. imagine    D. express

(   ) 10. A. against    B. for C. on    D. back

(   ) 11. A. collected    B. surrounded C. gathered    D. applauded

(   ) 12. A. prettiest    B. noisiest C. dearest    D. fastest

(   ) 13. A. throw    B. jump C. stand    D..pull

(   ) 14. A. land    B. cloud C. sky    D. air

(   ) 15. A. But    B. Although C. Unless    D. If

(   ) 16. A. upward    B. downward C. forward    D. backward

(   ) 17. A. enjoying    B. thinking C. hating    D. regretting

(   ) 18. A. practicing    B. studying C. planning    D. living

(   ) 19. A. realize    B. choose C. experience    D. rely

(   ) 20. A. agree    B. happen C. work    D. try

(   ) 10. ― What do you think of the talk given by Professor Smith last night?
―I think I' d call it a lecture        a talk.

A. other than    B. as well as C. less than    D. rather than

7. The fact          the English Channel excited everyone who  came to watch the event. (manage)

他设法横渡了英吉利海峡的事实令前来观看赛事的每个人都很兴奋。

11. My cousin，as well as his parents，                   at their home for another five days. ( suggest)

我的堂兄和他的父母建议我在他们家再待五天。

The later part of the 20th century saw its share of strange financial bubbles (泡沫).There was the real-estate bubble,the stock market bubble, and the .com bubble,just to name a few. In each instance people paid huge amounts for things that shouldn, t have been worth anything like the going price. And each time people stood around afterwards and said "What were we thinking?"

Actually the same thought occurred to the Dutch in the 17th century. As much as the tulip(郁金香)is associated with Holland,it is not native there. Actually it was introduced in 1593 by a botanist named Carolus Clusius,who brought it from Turkey. He planted a small garden,intending to research the plant for medicinal purposes. Had Clusius' s neighbors been morally upright,the tulip might still be a rare foreign plant in the gardening world. Instead they broke into his garden and stole some of his tulips in order to make some quick money，and in the process started the Dutch tulip trade.

Over the next several decades tulips became a craze among the rich of Holland,and prices began to rise. Soon even ordinary bulbs were selling for extraordinary prices, and the actually rare bulbs were extremely large. Here is an example of how many useful items it cost to buy one single tulip bulb: four tons of wheat, eight tons of rye, one bed, four oxen, eight pigs, twelve sheep, one suit of clothes, two casks of wine,four tons of beer,two tons of butter, 1 ，000 pounds of cheese and one silver drinking cup.

The height of the bubble was reached in the winter of 1636―1637. Tulip traders were making fortunes regularly. A good trader could earn up to 60 ，000 florins in a month ―approximately $61 ，710 in current U.S. dollars. With profits like those to be had，nothing local governments could do stopped the passion of trading. Then one day in Haarlem a buyer failed to show up and pay for his bulb purchase. The coming panic spread across Holland,and within days tulip bulbs were worth only a hundredth of their former prices. The tulip bubble had burst.

Looking back through time it's easy to laugh at the foolish Dutch, paying such prices for simple tulip bulbs, but an economic bubble was nothing new even then. We're still doing the same sorts of things today.

(   ) 4. The author wrote the passage        .

A.  to share the information about tulips

B.  to analyze the cause of the tulip bubble

C.  to warn us to reflect on economic bubbles

D.  to present his study of the 17th-century Holland

(   ) 5. It can be inferred from the second paragraph that        .

A.   Carolus Clusius planted tulips for medical purposes

B.   Clusius's neighbors were morally not honest

C.   the tulip is much associated with Holland

D.   the tulip is a common flower in the garden

(   ) 6. In which of the following period did tulip traders find it easiest to make money?

A. From Nov. 12 to Nov. 25. B. From Nov. 25 to Dec. 1.

C. From Dec. 1 to Dec. 12. D. From Dec. 12 to Feb. 3.
(   ) 7. The writer listed all the items for which a tulip bulb was exchanged        .

A. to attract the readers    B. to arouse the readers' curiosity

C. to show its huge potential    D. to show people' s craze of trading

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