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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

There was once a farmer who had a fine olive orchard（橄榄园）. He was very hardworking, and the ________ always prospered（繁荣）under his care. But he knew that his three ________ looked down upon the farm work, and were eager to make wealth.

When the farmer was ________ and felt that he would die, he ________ the three sons to him and said, “My sons, there is a pot of gold ________ in the olive orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it.”

The sons tried to ________ him to tell them in what part of the orchard the ________was hidden, but he would tell them nothing more.

After the farmer was ________, the sons went to work to find the pot of gold; since they did not ________where the hiding-place was, they agreed to begin in a line, at one ________ of the orchard, and to dig until one of them should find the money.

The________ until they had turned up the________ from one end of the orchard to the other, ________ the tree-roots and between them. ________ no pot of gold was to be found. It seemed as if someone must have stolen it, or as if the farmer had been wandering in his wits. The three sons were bitterly ________ to have all their work for nothing.

The next olive ________, the olive trees in the orchard bore（结果实）more fruit than they had ________ given; when it was________ , it gave the sons a whole pot of gold.

And when they saw how much money had ________ the orchard, they suddenly understood what the wise father had ________ when he said, “There is gold hidden in the orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it.”

1.A．garden B．farm C．factory D．hospital

2.A．friends B．relatives C．sons D．children

3.A．healthy B．unlucky C．old D．sad

4.A．showed B．led C．visited D．called

5.A．sent B．put C．locked D．hidden

6.A．get B．wait C．cause D．make

7.A．gold B．goods C．jewel D．clothes

8.A．weak B．lost C．sick D．dead

9.A．think B．wonder C．know D．realise

10.A．top B．end C．surface D．bottom

11.A．searched B．dug C．discovered D．expected

12.A．sand B．ground C．soil D．floor

13.A．over B．among C．across D．round

14.A．Since B．And C．But D．Before

15.A．surprised B．disappointed C．worried D．sad

16.A．distance B．part C．season D．degree

17.A．already B．even C． still D．ever

18.A．sold B．made C．shipped D．saved

19.A．come on B．come about C．come from D．come up

20.A．thought B．mean C．planned D．guessed

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For the rest of March, a disease will sweep across the US. It will keep kids home from school. _1.__ Employees will suddenly lose their ability to concentrate.

The disease, known as “March Madness”, refers to the yearly 65-team US men’s college basketball tournament(锦标赛). _2.__ Teams compete against each other in a single-elimination(单局淘汰) tournament that eventually crowns a national champion.

_3.__ The fun comes partly from guessing the winners for every game. Friends compete against friends. Husbands against wives. Colleagues against bosses.

Big-name schools are usually favored to advance into the tournament. But each year there are dark horses from little-known universities. This adds to the madness. Watching a team from a school with 3,000 students beat a team from a school with 30,000, for many Americans, is an exciting experience. Two years ago, the little-known George Mason University was one of the final teams. __4.__

College basketball players are not paid, so the game is more about making a name for their university and themselves. _5._ About $4 billion will be spent gambling on the event. According to Media Life magazine, the event will bring in $500 million in advertising income this year, topping the post-season income of every US professional league, including that of the NBA.

A. Nearly 20 million Americans will find themselves prisoners of basketball festival Madness.

B. The players will go all out for the games.

C. But that doesn’t mean money isn’t involved.

D. College students will ignore piles of homework.

E. People are willing to spend more money on watching it.

F. It begins on March 15 and lasts through the beginning of April.

G. Many people had never even heard of the university before the tournament.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Why is pink or purple a color for girls and blue or brown for boys?

The answer depends largely 1. cultural values as well as personal experiences. To the Egyptians, green was a color 2. represented the hope and joy of spring, while for Muslims, it means heaven. Red is a symbol of good luck in many cultures. During the Spring Festival in China, children 3. (give) money in a red envelope to bring good fortune in the New Year. For many nations, blue is a symbol of protection and religious beliefs. Greek people often wear a blue necklace hoping to protect 4. against evils（灾祸）.

People’s 5. (choose) of colors is also influenced by their bodies’ reactions toward them. Green is said to be6. most restful color of all. It has the ability to reduce pain and relax people both mentally 7. physically. People 8. (work) in green environment have been found to have fewer stomach aches.

Red can cause a person’s blood pressure to rise and increase people’s appetites（食欲）. Many decorators will include different shades of red in the restaurant. And many commercial websites will have a red “Buy Now” button because red is a color that 9. (easy) catches a person’s eye.

Blue is another calming color. Unlike red, blue is believed to cause people to lose appetite. So10. you want to eat less, some suggest that eating from blue plates can help.

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假如你是中学生李华，你收到正在学习汉语的美国笔友Peter的电子邮件，说他在汉语学习中遇到了困难，感到非常着急。请根据以下要点给他回信并提出建议，帮他来解决这方面的困难。

1.不要担忧，要有信心。

2.给自己更多练习汉语的机会。

3.让自己浸泡在汉语的环境当中。

要求：1.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 2.词数：100词左右。

3. 邮件的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Peter,

I have received your letter.

Yours,

Li Hua

Windows 8, apart from Windows 95, is the biggest surprise and the only version of Microsoft’s operating system that has been changed from the core（核心）when compared to its former one. However, a recent study has shown that under 20% of business owners would be willing to upgrade to the new version of Windows. The reason for this remains to be discussed and debated, and we will try to throw light on this research by providing you with some of the most common advantages and disadvantages of Windows 8.

Generally speaking, there are a great number of plus sides related to upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8.

Speed—This is the biggest advantage to mention. Boot time has been reported to be up to nine times shorter than that with Windows 7.

New passwords—Instead of typing your passwords, Windows 8 will let you use gestures on your favorite photos to enter your password. This is not only practical but also extremely cool!

Windows 8 experience—Apart from computers, Windows 8 will be used on all devices, including smart phones, tablet PC’s and so on. Also, owing to the fact that it has been specifically designed with touch screen users in mind, Windows 8, besides using keyboard and mouse, will offer a whole new user experience.

However, there are still some disadvantages.

The first one that has to be mentioned is that there is no Start Menu from Windows. Yes, there is no Start button in the lower left corner, and this might be a real puzzle of many Windows users. Also, many users have had a problem to get used to the new interface（界面）introduced by Windows 8. The biggest problem that is worth noticing is that Windows 8 was originally designed for touch screen users, and this may have a bad effect on desktop users who have gotten used to doing everything with the help of their keyboard and mouse.

1.What does “plus sides” in Paragraph 2 probably refer to?

A. Math symbols. B. New rules.

C. Strengths. D. Messages.

2.According to the text the greatest advantage of Windows 8 is its ______.

A. high speed B. complex passwords

C. unique experience D. new interface

3.From the text we can learn that Windows 8 ______.

A. no longer requires a password

B. can be used on more than computers

C. will be popular with desktop users

D. was upgraded from windows 95

4.Many Windows 8 users face the problem that ______.

A. Start Menu is hidden in the lower left corner

B. they don’t get accustomed to the new interface

C. keyboard and mouse can’t be used any longer

D. they have to use fingerprints instead of button

If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice: There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.

Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come_across,_but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.

As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practise listening.

For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programmes every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.

If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.

1.To improve your reading, when you read you should ________.

A．think about what you are reading actively

B．look up all the new words in the dictionary

C．spend more time studying grammars

D．copy as many words and sentences as possible

2.The underlined phrase“come across” in the second paragraph can probably be replaced by“________”．

A．find on purpose B．Discover

C．meet by accident D．look for

3.The author seems to agree with the view that ________.

A．everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programmes every day

B．you needn't practise listening if you keep on reading every day

C．you should take notes of whatever you are hearing

D．being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening

4.The passage is mainly about how to ________.

A．become fluent in speaking and writing English

B．choose suitable listening materials

C．deal with new words in reading

D．improve your English as quickly as possible

The behaviour of a building's users may be at least as important as its design when it comes to energy use, according to new research from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). The UK promises to reduce its carbon emissions (排放)by 80 percent by 2050, part of which will be achieved by all new homes being zero carbon by 2016. But this report shows that sustainable building design on its own—though extremely important—is not enough to achieve such reductions: the behaviour of the people using the building has to change too.

The study suggests that the ways that people use and live in their homes have been largely ignored by existing efforts to improve energy efficiency (效率)，which instead focus on architectural and technological developments.

“Technology is going to assist but it is not going to do everything，”explains Katy Janda, a UKERC senior researcher，“consumption patterns of building users can defeat the most careful design.” In other words，old habits die hard, even in the best designed eco home.

Another part of the problem is information. Households and bill payers don't have the knowledge they need to change their energy use habits. Without specific information，it's hard to estimate the costs and benefits of making different choices. Feedback (反馈) facilities, like smart meters and energy monitors，could help bridge this information gap by helping people see how changing their behaviour directly affects their energy use; some studies have shown that households can achieve up to 15 percent energy savings using smart meters.

Social science research has added a further dimension (方面)，suggesting that individuals' behaviour in the home can be personal and cannot be predicted—whether people throw open their windows rather than turn down the thermostat (恒温器) , for example.

Janda argues that education is the key. She calls for a focused programme to teach people about buildings and their own behaviour in them.

1.As to energy use, the new research from UKERC stresses the importance of ________.

A. zero carbon homes

B. the behaviour of building users

C. sustainable building design

D. the reduction of carbon emissions

2.The underlined word “which” in Paragraph 2 refers to“________”．

A. the ways B. their homes

C. developments D. existing efforts

3.What are Katy Janda's words mainly about?

A. The importance of changing building users' habits.

B. The necessity of making a careful building design.

C. The variety of consumption patterns of building users.

D. The role of technology in improving energy efficiency.

4.The information gap in energy use________.

A. can be bridged by feedback facilities

B. affects the study on energy monitors

C. brings about problems for smart meters

D. will be caused by building users' old habits

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Classes for foreign students at all levels

3 months, 6 months, 9 months and one year course

Open all year

Small class (maximum 12 students)

Library, language laboratory and listening center

Accommodation(膳食供应) with selected families

25 minutes from London

Course fees for English for one year are ￡1, 380 with reduction 减少for shorter periods

of study.

1.Lincoln College of English _______.

A. is at the centre of London

B. lies far away from London

C. takes in foreign students, from beginners to the advanced

D. accepts students only at the beginning of the year

2.While you stay there, _______ will take care of you.

A. the school where you study

B. the family you have chosen

C. your classmates

D. your own parents

3.If you go there for a one-term course, you will pay _______ for it.

A.￡1, 380 B. over ￡1, 380

C. much less than ￡1, 380 D. nothing

You can’t imagine how my sister finished the relay race ________ her left foot wounded so much.

A. that B. for C. with D. while

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