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The president has told his friends that he is sick but will not admit it _____.

   A. in private   B. in secret   C. in public   D. in detail

C

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假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Jill将于今年9月来广东读大学。他写信向你了解外国人如何在中国考小汽车驾驶执照。

[写作内容]   请根据以下中文提纲，用英文给 Jill 写回信:

1．报名条件：16－17周岁；身高不低于150厘米。

2．流程：报名→到指定医院体检→交通法规笔试→两个月左右的驾驶培训→驾驶考试。

3．费用：约4,000元人民币。

4．如果已有国外驾照，只需参加笔试，费用约300元人民币。

III. 阅读理解

William Shakespeare is the most famous playwright (剧作家). Although he died in 1616, people still go to see his plays. Among the most popular are Ｒｏｍｅｏ ａｎｄ Ｊｕｌｉｅｔ, Ａ Ｍｉｄｓｕｍｍｅｒ Ｎｉｇｈｔ’ｓ Ｄｒｅａｍ and Ｈａｍｌｅｔ — the story of a prince who struggles to respond to the crimes around him.

    Shakespeare, who was born in 1564, was an actor as well as a writer. Most of his ideas for plays were taken from history, people’s conversation, ancient stories, and also from other writers. He wrote not only about kings and queens and princes, but also about friends and ordinary people. He wrote about the cruelty of war and the bravery of heroes, as well as about jealousy, joy, hate, ambition and love. His stories live on. The tragedy Ｒｏｍｅｏ ａｎｄ Ｊｕｌｉｅｔ was reborn as the musical Ｗｅｓｔ Ｓｉｄｅ Ｓｔｏｒｙ and more recently as the movie Ｒｏｍｅｏ ａｎｄ Ｊｕｌｉｅｔ with the wonderful performance of Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.

     He invented a number of great characters: powerful magicians, thrilling witches, smart women and both wise and wicked men. He also invented some great phrases. If you’ve ever said, “Oh, for goodness sake!” you can thank Shakespeare for that. Other examples of common phrases adapted from Shakespeare: “as luck would have it”, “your own flesh and blood”, “too much of a good thing”, “good riddance”, “in one fell swoop”, and “in the twinkling of an eye”. “To be, or not to be: that is the question,” Hamlet says. “Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it is morrow,” says Juliet to her Romeo.

    Don’t be surprised if you don’t understand everything when reading Shakespeare or watching one of his plays because the meanings of many words have changed over the years. And Shakespeare’s characters speak in poetry, so their speeches can be complicated.

    It does help to find out a little bit about the story before reading a Shakespeare play. It’s worth the effort. As Shakespeare wrote, “All the world is a stage.” And in his plays you’ll find that an entire world is waiting for you.

1. Shakespeare created the following characters EXCEPT ________.

A. Juliet         B. Hamlet     C. Claire Danes    D. Romeo

2. From Paragraph 3 we can learn that ________.

A. most of the characters created by Shakespeare were negative ones

B. most of the phrases used today were invented by Shakespeare

C. “Oh, for goodness sake!” is what Juliet says to Romeo

D. Shakespeare contributed greatly to the development of English

3. Which of the following is a reason why it’s difficult to understand some of Shakespeare’s plays?

A. There are many new words in his plays.

B. He wrote his plays using uncommon words.

C. The characters in his plays speak in poetry.

D. Most of the words in his plays are outdated.

4. We can infer from the passage that ______.

A. most of Shakespeare’s plays have been made into films

B. language changes with the development of society

C. Shakespeare made lots of money from his works

D. it is more useful to read Shakespeare’s works than to watch them

Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California．That could take several months.  

So, in eighteen fifty-seven, D.C．Lawmakers in Congress（国会） in Washington wanted to make it possible to send mail all the way across the United States by land．Congress offered to help any company that would try to deliver mail overland to the West Coast. A man named John Butterfield accepted this offer. He developed plans for a company that would carry the mail—and passengers, too.

Congress gave John Butterfield six hundred thousand dollars to start his company. In return, he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, in twenty-five days or less.

It was not possible to travel straight through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter. So the stagecoach（马车） would travel south from Saint Louis to El Paso, Texas, then over to southern California, then north to San Francisco. The distance was about four thousand five hundred kilometers.

Two hundred of these stations were built, each about thirty-two kilometers apart. The workers were to quickly change the horses or mules whenever a stagecoach reached the station. There could be no delay. Each stagecoach was to travel nearly two hundred kilometers a day.

One hundred stagecoaches were built and painted red or dark green. They were the most modern coaches that money could buy. They were designed to hold as many as nine passengers and twelve thousand pieces of mail. The seats inside could be folded down to make beds. Passengers either slept on them or on the bags of mail.

The cost would be one hundred fifty dollars to travel from Saint Louis to San Francisco. If a passenger was not going all the way, the cost was about ten cents a kilometer. The passengers had to buy their own food at the stations. The stagecoach would stop for forty minutes, two times a day.

The company warned passengers about the possible dangers. A poster said: “You will be traveling through Indian country and the safety of your person cannot by granted by anyone but God.”

1．What is the passage mainly about?

       A．Different ways of sending mail in the United States.

       B．The difficulty in sending mails across the USA by land.

       C．The first stagecoaches that carried both passengers and mail.

       D．The history of the first stagecoaches carrying mail to the American West.

2．The reason why Lawmakers wanted to send mail by land was that ________.

       A．mail was usually carried west on ships  

B．it was safer to travel to send mail by land

       C．it would take less time to send mail by land

D．stagecoaches could carry passengers and mail

3．As is described in the passage, the stagecoach ________.

       A．could only stop once a day            

B．was modern with seats ,beds and cooking equipment

       C．was a closed wagon operated only by skillful drivers.

       D．had different horses or mules pulled all the way

4．What can we learn from the passage?

       A．John Buttterfield got thousands of dollars for delivering mail in stagecoaches.

       B．John Buttterfield kept his promise to deliver mail straight to the West Coast.

       C．Passengers might be robbed by Indians when traveling through the West.

       D．Passengers needed to pay one hundred dollars for their journey. 

 The two dogs started to fight, so we tried to _____ them.

A. split    B. separate    C. tear    D. divide

 

. Dr. Frank failed many times but he finally _______ to find a successful way to solve the problem.

       A. broke off   B. broke out   C. broke down       D. broke through

 The president wanted to _______ him about filling the post of the sales department.

  A. accept      B. cooperate      C. approach     D. demand

No one but Rose and Kate _______ a fine red coat.

A. put on   B. is wearing  C. dresses  D. have on

_____ concern about food safety seems to be ______  subject that is being discussed all over the world.

A．The; a　         B．A; ／      C．The; the        D．／; the

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