阅读理解

English is fast becoming the language of science around the world, but what is its future among everyday speakers? One expert points out that the percentage(比率) of native English speakers is declining(降低) while the languages of other rapidly growing regions are being spoken by increasing numbers of people. But English will continue to remain widespread and important.

However, British language scholar David Graddol says English will probably drop in dominance(主导) by the middle of this century to rank after Chinese, about equally with Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu. “The number of people speaking English as a first language continues to rise, but it isn’t rising nearly as fast as the numbers of many other languages around the world, simply because the main population group has been largely in the less developed countries where languages other than English have been spoken,” he says.

In a recent article in the journal Science, Mr. Graddol noted that three languages that are not near the top of the list of the most widely spoken now might be there soon. These are Bengali, Tamil, and Malay, spoken in south and southeast Asia.

David Crystal, the author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, says about 1.5 billion of the world’s six billion people speak it as a second language compared to the 400 million native speakers. But another expert on the English language says Mr. Graddol underestimates (低估) the future of its dominance. “All the evidence suggests that the English language snowball is rolling down a hill and is getting faster, but nobody quite knows what’s going to happen because no language has been in this position before.” he said.

1.In David Graddol’ s opinion, English will _______.

A．remain widespread and important

B．be more important than any other language

C．lose its dominant position

D．die away in the near future

2.The underlined sentence in the last paragraph implies that ______.

A．more and more language users will choose English

B．the English language snowball is rolling down faster than any time in the past

C．English language will soon drop in dominance

D．snowballs will roll down faster than language balls

3.How many experts does the passage mention who express their ideas about the future of English?

A．2. B．3. C．4. D．5.

4.What should be the best title for the passage?

A．English Remaining in the Dominant Position

B．The Future of English? Who Knows?

C．Opinions from Different Experts

D．The English Language Snowball Rolling Down

阅读理解

International students are allowed to work for the university they study at or for a business at the school. But the business must directly provide a service for students. You could work at the bookstore, for example, but not for a company that is building something at the school. Also, a foreign student cannot take the place of an American in a job.

International students can work 20 hours a week while having classes; more during school breaks. You can work until you finish your studies.

International students normally cannot take a job that has nothing to do with their school. But the government may give permission if students are suddenly faced with difficulties. Examples include large medical bills, the shortage of financial (财政上的) aid or an unexpected change in the financial support.

Students must also meet other conditions (条件). They must have studied at their American school for at least one year. Students must ask for permission again after a year if they want to continue an off-campus (校外的) job.

International students who will be studying at graduate school can apply (申请) for some jobs before they come to the United States. A good example is a university job like a teaching or research assistant.

Some schools pay their assistants. Others provide free education in return. Many do both. Graduate assistants might teach, give tests, grade work, help with research and clean the offices. Many universities now provide language training for foreign teaching assistants to help them improve their English. Some schools ask foreign students to pass an English speaking test before they are allowed to teach.

International student offices at schools have to provide information on students each term for the Department of Homeland Security. Students who violate visa (签证) rules — for example, by working off-campus without permission — could be sent home.

1.What can we learn according to the passage?

A. All the international students can work for large companies.

B. International students are able to work whenever they like.

C. International students may be allowed to work outside the school when having financial trouble.

D. International students must have studied at their American school for less than a year to get a job.

2.We may infer from the passage that ____.

A. international students could apply for some jobs before coming to the US

B. all the schools pay their assistants and provide free education for them

C. international students cannot take their jobs before having language training

D. international students normally are not completely free to choose their jobs

3.The underlined word “violate” in the last paragraph probably means ____.

A. ask for B. go against C. forget D. obey

4.What is the passage mainly about?

A. The rules about getting a job while studying in the US for international students.

B. The reason why international students like studying in the United States.

C. What international students should do while working in the United States.

D. How international students could find jobs while studying in the US.

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。

Memory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. 1. But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you.

2. One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before.

3. Once in a while you remember not doing something, and then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barber（理发师）shop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barber shop across the street from my office.

We always seem to find something funny and amusing（有趣的）in incidents caused by people’s forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. 4. Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. 5.

A. Stories about absent-minded professors have been told for years, and we never got tired of hearing new ones.

B. Memory “trick” work the other way as well.

C. If you have the wish and really made a conscious（自觉的）effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things.

D. Generally forgetting things is serious and dangerous.

E. It is necessary to remember the way to protect yourself from memory “tricks”.

F. There are times when “trick” of our memory can cause us great trouble.

G. Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen.

完形填空

Every person needs water and a diet of healthy foods. These foods should some fat, some fiber, a little salt and so on.

People need energy . They eat different kinds of food which change into energy. The energy is_ in calories. Even when you , you are using energy - about 65 calories an hour. you are at school, or walking home, your body is burning up 100 calories an hour. When playing football or basketball, you _ be using 400 calories an hour. _ Sports Day, during the relay race, you will use most of all, as much as 650 calories an hour.

The Chinese diet is considered to be the healthiest in the world. It contains a lot of fruit and green vegetables. It is in fiber and low in sugar and fat. The Chinese eat sugar than many other countries in the world. That is lots of people in China have healthy white teeth.

People in the Western world do not eat such healthy foods. They eat fat and sugar and don’t take enough . Because of this, they weight very easily. Their diet contains a lot of fat in the of potato crisps, potato chips, butter, cream and chocolate. They eat a lot of sugar exists in cakes, soft drinks, and so on.

The result is that many of them become fat. some have bad teeth. In some parts of Britain, one person in ten, the age of thirty, has had no teeth .

1.A. include B. contain C. keep D. gain

2.A. for life B. to live C. to live in D. for a living

3.A. measuring B. taken C. measured D. measure

4.A. are asleep B. fall asleep C. go to sleep D. go to bed

5.A. While B. During C. Although D. If

6.A. must B. can’t C. need D. might

7.A. At B. On C. In D. With

8.A. surely B. usually C. perhaps D. hardly

9.A. rich B. poor C. good D. bad

10.A. more B. larger C. less D. smaller

11.A. how B. why C. what D. that

12.A. much too B. many too C. too many D. too much

13.A. exercises B. food C. work D. exercise

14.A. put on B. gain on C. get on D. put up

15.A. type B. form C. kind D. sort

16.A. what B. which C. as D. whose

17.A. sweets B. sweet C. candy bar D. sweet thing

18.A. But B. Or C. And D. So

19.A. at B. for C. with D. by

20.A. left B. leave C. leaving D. to leave

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

They lost their way in the forest and __1.____ made matters worse was ____2._______ night began to fall.

3. ____________we will go there tomorrow by train hasn't been decided yet.

4.____________ of you comes in first will be given a prize.

5.I don’t think it’s my ____________ that the TV blew up. I just turned it on. That’s all.

6.___________ days went by, he didn’t succeed in anything he had planned.

7. On my __________(arrive) at the airport, my friend gave me a big hug.

8. Using all their ___________(strong), the driver and the passers-by pushed the car out of the mud in the end.

9.The storm left, ____________ (cause) a lot of damage to this area.

10. How ____________ (believe) beautiful the scenery beyond the mountain is!

单句改错

下面十个句子，每句中有一处错误。错误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（∧），并在其下面写出改加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

1. --I’ll tell Mary about her new job tomorrow. –You must have told her last week.

2. Students are not permitted ride their bikes on the campus.

3. By the time they reached the top of the mountain, they were exhausting.

4. In order to keep fit, one has to be on a balance diet.

5. When asked that they needed, the kids said they wanted to feel important and loved.

6.When the fire broke up, I broke into the house to find my daughter; finally we successfully broke away from the burning building.

7. It is said that it takes patient and imagination to do the work well.

8. She didn’t think she would ever be able to forgive him keeping that information from her．

9.It’s important for you to know your own strengths and weakness.

10. Some notes will remember you how to present your ideas when you are giving a speech．

根据所给汉语部分，补全英文句子。每条横线上填一个单词。

1. It ___________ ___________ ___________ she has known the news. 她好像知道这个消息了。

2. All America ___________ ___________ ___________ ____________ see who would win the election.

全美国屏息而待，看谁会在这场选举中获胜。

3. He’s not dumb at all; ___________ ____________ ___________(与此相反), I think he’s rather

cute.

4. Levy was born in a single parent family and was ____________ ___________ （抚养大）by his mother.

5. I think you should __________ ___________ __________ （当心）that man -- don’t be cheated by him.

阅读理解

“Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy – they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.” –– Jeff Bezos. I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most start-ups don’t, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor. I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.

I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately (最后), I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.

After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.

1.What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?

A. His dream of being an inventor.

B. The support of his wife.

C. The greatly increasing usage of the Internet.

D. Millions of exciting titles.

2.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?.

A. The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him.

B. He would be very excited if he tried it out.

C. He would be always having a doubt if he didn’t try.

D. The decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him.

3.We can know from the passage that _______.

A. the boss thought the idea was suitable for the author

B. the author wanted someone else to try the idea

C. the author might not regret if he failed the idea

D. the author might go back to his boss if he failed

4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Cleverness and Kindness B. The Starting of Amazon

C. Following My Passion D. We Are What We Choose

阅读理解

Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table, reading his book. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to copy him in every way he could. One day the grandson asked, “Grandpa, I try to read the book just like you, but I don’t understand it, and I forget what I understand as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the book do?”

The grandpa quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, “Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water.” The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The grandpa laughed and said, “You’ll have to move a little faster next time,” and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again.

This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned. Out of breath, he told his grandpa that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, so he went to get a bucket instead. The grandpa said, “I don’t want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You’re just not trying hard enough.”

The boy again dipped the basket into the river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandpa the basket was empty again. Out of breath, he said, “Grandpa, it’s useless !” “So, you think it is useless?” the grandpa said, “Look at the basket.”

The boy looked at the basket and for the first time he realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean. “Grandson, that’s what happens when you read the book. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you’ll be changed, inside and out.”

1. What puzzled the grandson most was ________.

A. whether it was useful to read books

B. why he forgot what he read soon

C. what kind of book he could understand

D. how he could read books like his grandpa

2.Why did Grandpa ask his grandson to fetch a basket of water?

A. To train him to run faster.

B. To clean the dirty basket in the river.

C. To punish him for not reading carefully.

D. To get him to realize the use of reading books.

3.What lesson can we learn from the story?

A. The old are always wiser than the young.

B. It is foolish to carry water with a basket.

C. Reading books can change a person gradually.

D. You can’t expect to remember whatever you read.

4.What can be the best title for the text?]

A. Grandpa and grandson

B. Carrying water in a basket

C. Reading for total changing

D. Baskets and books

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When I first told people I was going to work in Cameroon, the most common reaction was: “Why?” The second was: “It’s in Africa; you’ll die!” The third: “Where is that?” So let me give some answers. I was offered a job that looked interesting in a part of the world I’d never been to before. I’d also long had an interest in Africa, so I decided it was time to find out the reality.

A small amount of research showed that in more than 40 years since gaining independence, Cameroon has been a peaceful country with no wars. Not only are there no wars, but Cameroon is a food exporter to the region.

Now, after three years, I can say that these have been the healthiest years of my life! No malaria or any of the other frightening diseases you read about when Africa is mentioned. The worst thing that ever happened to me was a bout of food poisoning — once.

So what is it like to teach here? Well surprisingly not so different from teaching anywhere else.

Most students come to us with a bit of English in their heads. Cameroon is a bilingual country with French and English as official languages, while there are also close to 200 local ethnic languages in a country of 16 million people. French is the dominant language, spoken by about 80% of the population.

The local school system is very traditional and somewhat strict. Perhaps not surprisingly when there can be up to 150 students in the classroom (of which maybe 30 have the books, and there are probably seats for 70).

Like anywhere else, students appreciate it if you know a bit about their country, and not just Roger Milla (the top scorer of the 1990 World Cup, in case you’re wondering). It helps if you know the names of the ten provinces, know who the first president was, or can say a word in a local language.

So in conclusion: Cameroon isn’t just football. Not is it war, poverty and disease. It’s just life and people, like anywhere else.

1.On hearing the writer’s decision, most people _____.

A. didn’t understand him

B. considered it as a joke

C. admired him

D. laughed at him

2.According to the passage, Cameroon is _____.

A. a country full of diseases

B. peaceful after liberation

C. a poor country, especially lack of food

D. quite different from others in education

3.What can we infer from the passage?

A. Food export may lead to many frightening diseases

B. Most students in Cameroon do not need books

C. Cameroon is not as bad as people commonly believed

D. There must be a lot of people suffering from food poisoning.

4.What does the underlined word in the sixth paragraph mean?

A. leading B. easy C. only D. wonderful