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In most of the western countries, English is spoken ________ the first language．

A.
as
B.
like
C.
with
D.
for

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Travel in most of Europe is easy. An agreement between the 15 European Union countries in 1995 means that citizens from most European countries can travel across borders without needing a visa.
Each of the 12 countries that has   36   its own currency (货币) to accept the euro has its own   37 . So how have these countries been able to   38 ? And how has each country prepared for the birth of this new currency? Firstly, many people in Europe, 39 in west Europe, speak English. The European Convention on Human Rights says that all people have a 40 to learn and use their traditional language.
But at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, the official language for all business is   41 . And every European country requires students to study English for many years at   42 . Other languages may be offered, too. But English is a   43   .
"If I meet someone, I try Spanish. Then I try   44 . And if it's not   45   , I say "Hello". That' s the signal, and we communicate no matter what country we come from." Said Maria Ortega, a ski instructor in the Pyrenees,   46   French and Spanish are mainly used.
Each country has its own   47   culture. Though the French may be famous for their 1,000 types of cheese and the Greeks are known to 48   olive oil on everything, most people in Europe like 49 strong coffee on their breakfast table. Another drink is held 50 throughout the continent. Europe's vineyards(葡萄园) may be famous, but the real drink of Europe is   51 . Europeans consume tons of it.
Football, of course, also helps to    52    all of Europe. Many fans are obsessed (着迷) with   53   and with international stars. David Beckham, of England' s Manchester United, is a hero to Europeans in the same   54   that Michael Jordan is to   55   .
36. A. given up                    B. ended up          C. agreed with                   D. started with
37. A. money                B. right                             C. border                          D. culture
38. A. meet                          B. unite                            C. travel                            D. accept
39. A. specially         B. generally             C. particularly                  D. normally
40. A. chance                 B. right                             C. wish                              D. place
41. A. French                  B. German                 C. English                     D. Spanish
42. A. school                  B. work                             C. home                            D. table
43. A. subject                 B. tool                         C. need                          D. must
44. A. English                 B. French                    C. German                  D. Greek
45. A. listening                    B. spoken                   C. working                   D. heard
46. A. as                          B. where                     C. since                             D. whose
47. A. food                           B. art                          C. drink                              D. life
48. A. add                             B. spread                    C. spend                            D. put
49. A. a kind of          B. a lot of                  C. a cup of                D. a taste of
50. A. in common       B. in general                C. in need                     D. in special
51. A. beer                           B. wine                             C. coffee                           D. soup
52. A. attract            B. tie                                C. play                          D. watch
53. A. opera                         B. bread                           C. music                            D. football
54. A. direction                   B. level                             C. way                          D. game
55. A. basketballers           B. British              C. athletes   D. Americans

“Birds are not as loyal to their partners as you might think, with divorce, child abandonment and remarriage a common part of birds’ life,” a new book has shown. Author and biology professor Bridge Stutchbury, dispels the love-bird belief that birds pair up for life. “In terms of the top 10 beliefs about birds, the lasting pair bonds that we think about, do occur in some birds, but in most of the little songbirds that we studied, no,” the professor from York University in Toronto said. The divorce rate among greater flamingos is 99 percent.
Stutchbury’s book, The Private Lives of Birds, based on 20 years of research from radio filming and DNA testing shows male Acadian flycatchers fertilize(使受孕) females far away from their home nests, “ The main discovery is that so many birds do divorce for what humans would describe as selfish reasons,” Professor Stutchbury said. She noted that females may seek out males that are more colorful and better singers, or look to “step up in the world” and move to areas that are safer and have more food. “Females are looking for the highest quality male so that their children will be of high quality,” she added.
Professor Stutchbury said shorter summers may drive females to leave their nests before their young are fully grown up so they can quickly find new mates（配偶） and lay more eggs, leaving the males to feed the hungry chicks on their own.
Males can double their success in producing children by fertilizing neighboring females, but only “mates” care for the young, and some are none the wiser. “ They can’t tell when the egg comes out and whether it’s theirs or not,” She said. “They have no way to know.”
Divorce is surprisingly common among birds, and most live with one partner for only a few months or years. Divorce rates range from 99 percent in the greater flamingo to zero in the wandering albatross(信天翁).
【小题1】What does the underline word “dispels” mean?

【小题2】The book The Private Lives of Birds_____.

A．shows the kind of male birds females seek out.

B．indicates the wandering albatross is the most faithful.

C．is based on Professor Stutchbury’s 20 years’ research.

D．suggests that female birds select males near their home.

【小题3】According to the passage, we can infer that________.

A．young birds’ quality depends on their feather.

B．some male birds care for others’ young as their own.

C．female birds go to find males as soon as autumn comes.

D．female birds are responsible for feeding the hungry babies.

【小题4】 What is the passage mainly about?

A．A book about love-birds.

B．Birds’ living habits and love life

C．The fact that birds don’t love their mates forever.

D．The factors that influence birds to look for another mate.

For as early as I could remember, my mother had been a bright, cheerful woman deeply interested and involved in the world around her. However, in the last fifteen years of her life, she had to live with senile dementia (老年痴呆). I would go to my home to pay her a visit in California and she would curiously look at me and then ask, “Who are you?” I would answer, “I’m your own son, of course.” “Where do you live?” She would ask. “In Virginia”, I would tell her. “Isn’t that interesting,” she would say, “I have a son in Virginia.”

Mother seemed only forgetful as well as confused at the beginning of that disease, but sometime later she would go through different time of intense anxiety. She would keep walk ing through the house she used to live in most of her life crying uneasily that she would like to go home. Or sometimes she left home and wandered away if she were unattended for a short time.

Hoping to make her happy and put her mind at ease I would take her in my car, visiting sites where she used to live when she was a child. In the yard of the hillside house in Shipman I sat in the car and admired the view of the old oaks and long green lawn(草坪). I pictured my mother there was a little girl playing with the pet lamb she had been so fond of. I looked to her for some response. She shook her head and said, “I want to go home.”

Over the years I have decided that what my mother was calling home was not a place, but a time. I think it was a time when she was much younger, when her children were still underfoot, when her husband was still energetic and attentive.

Watching my mother’s suffering set me wondering where I would have in mind if someday I couldn’t find home and wanted to go there. In this family we tend to be long-lived and we grow fuzzy (糊涂的) minded as the years go by. At eighty I have already noticed some alarming symptoms. My doctor says the forgetfulness is only natural and that it comes with age. Still the fear of senile dementia is haunting there. Someday if and when I become even more cloudy minded than I am now, unable to drive and unable to tell you where "home" is, my dear son, I expect I will ask you to take me home, I know you will do your best to find the place I need to be. I leave these notes for your guidance.

1.What’s the main idea of the first and second paragraphs?

A. The mother of the author could not find her home.

B. The mother of the author could not remember who’s his son.

C. The author’s mother suffered with serious senile dementia.

D. The author didn’t know how to cure his mother.

2.Which of the following is NOT the symptom of the mother of the author?

A. forgetful B. confused C. cheerful D. uneasy

3.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “picture”?

A. photograph B. describe C. appear D. paint

4.What can you infer from the third paragraph?

A. The author cared much about his mother.

B. The mother of the author liked pet lambs very much.

C. The author found a very little girl who was playing with a pet lamb.

D. The mother of the author did not like her usual home.

5.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Where Is Home? B. A story about a son and a mother.

C. Everyone will suffer with senile dementia. D. Take Mother Home.

It’s easy to see how to help some people, but what about those whose needs are not so clear? This story may have happened not long ago--- but it was a lesson which has stayed with me and helped me ever since.

It was Thanksgiving and I was volunteering with my parents at a shelter for the needy. We served hot food to whoever came in. Most of our dinners looked like they had been having hard times; their clothes were worn out and dirty. Then, a man came in, who looked anything but needy. He was well dressed. I wondered what he was doing there and my jaw (下巴) dropped in amazement when he joined the line for food. The closer he came to my service station , the more I muttered (小声抱怨). What was this man doing? Surely he wasn’t going to take food which was meant for those who were really in need!

Then my mother quietly took me to one side. She said, “You have thought that the needs of the people who come here must be purely physical, hunger, etc. And this gentleman doesn’t seem to have any of those problems. But what if his needs are emotional（情感的）? What if he needs comfort, friends, or just to be among other human beings? Her words hit me like a ton of bricks! I felt like I should apologize to the man--- but I didn’t.

About a week later the shelter received a large donation from an anonymous source. I can’t help but wonder if it came from that man.

Now, whenever I meet someone I remember my mother’s lesson and try to send kindness their way, no matter how they look. Needs aren’t always seen. But kindness always makes a difference.

1.How did the author feel as the well-dressed man joined the line for food?

A．Surprised

B．Excited

C．Nervous

D．Hopeless

2.The author’s mother mainly wanted to tell the author that we ______.

A．shouldn’t judge a man by his appearance.

B．shouldn’t complain about others

C．should give others what they want.

D．should accept everything we meet

3.What does the underlined word “anonymous” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Important

B．Unknown

C．Independent

D．Excellent

4.From the last paragraph, we learn that ______.

A．seeing is believing

B．it’s difficult to be kind to others

C．some rich people pretend to be poor.

D．we should help people in the way they need.

5.What would be the best title for the text?

A．My mother’s influence on my growth

B．The importance of volunteering

C．One of my most shameful experiences

D．My mother’s simple lesson in kindness

As the world prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8, a new report details the progress and challenges girls face in getting an education.

The report – from the Education for All Fast Track Initiative – highlights the importance of girls’ education for economic(经济的) and social development. It follows progress in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Mauritania, Mozambique and Niger.

Prema Clarke, author of Fast-tracking Girls’ Education, says, “Progress for girls’ education is that they can leave their homes, leave their families and come to a place to study and to learn. And that’s a big achievement because otherwise these girls have to stay at home, looking after their brothers and sisters, doing the cooking or doing the cleaning.”

She says progress toward the Millennium Development Goals and those of Education for All “is allowing and enabling girls and forcing countries to look at this issue(问题) and to ensure that interventions (干预) help girls attend school.”

Benefits

Improving education for girls brings many benefits, says Clarke. “It means that girls can then enter the workforce. They can look after their own families much more effectively. They can prevent child death rate. They can educate their own girl children when they begin to expand their own families.” Studies show that having an educated female population helps to improve a country’s health and economic well-being.

Warnings

The report says, “In developing countries, too many girls are not in school, and many girls face continuing health risks and danger just walking to class.”

“Especially in the fragile and post-conflict countries and in many of the African countries, this is a real issue,” she says. Till now, the interventions have been so focused on providing schooling and providing teachers, etc. And now I think there is much more expanded focus on looking at specific（特定的）communities of girls within at-risk groups that now need much more specific attention and much more creative solutions(解决方法) to help them attend school.”

1.The underlined word “highlights” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.

A. shows B. stresses C. remarks D. improves

2. According to Clarke, improving education can provide girls with all the opportunities EXCEPT _______.

A. to educate their own girl children B. to prevent child death rate

C. to enter the workforce D. to study abroad

3.This passage is intended to _____.

A. promote the progress in girls’ education

B. talk about the benefits of improving girls’ education

C. give some information about the education girls are facing

D. sing high praise for the girls’ education

4.It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

A. the girls’ educational situation in developing countries is still serious

B. girls were free to go wherever they wanted to in the past

C. there are enough teachers in most of the African countries

D. International Women’s Day was first celebrated on March 8 in 1900

In most of the western countries, English is spoken ________ the first language．

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