【题目】B

For several years now, the dollar has fallen lower and lower against other major currencies. Lately, though, the dollar has risen, especially against the Japanese yen and the euro. Some traders think the dollar will continue to rise, but that is not clear.

The dollar moved up this week after comments by American officials in support of a strong dollar policy.

On Monday, before he left for his last trip as president to Europe, George Bush said: "A strong dollar is in our nation's interests. It is in the interests of the global economy." Also Monday, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on CNBC television that he would consider intervention to keep the dollar from sliding further.

The United States has not intervened in currency markets since two thousand. That year the administration of president Bill Clinton bought euros to support the European currency.

But on Tuesday, President Bush said in Slovenia that the "relative value of economies will end up setting the proper valuation of the dollar."

A weaker dollar helps American exporters. But it means Americans have to pay more for imports and for travel to other countries.

Some experts say dollar weakness is the main reason why oil prices have risen so high. Oil is priced in dollars on the world market.

But Treasury Secretary Paulson dismissed any link. He noted that since two thousand two, the dollar has fallen about twenty-four percent. But the price of oil has gone up well over five hundred percent.

Adding to pressure on the dollar, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet suggested that the E.C.B will raise interest rates next month. European officials are increasingly concerned with inflation. But investors can already get higher rates of return on investments in euros than in dollars.

High prices for oil, food and other products have raised inflation concerns worldwide. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the latest increases in energy prices have added to inflation risks.

His comments in recent days have suggested that the central bank could stop cutting rates as it has since September. Its rate for overnight loans between banks is currently at two percent. Some market watchers think the Fed could raise rates as early as this month.

Finance ministers from nations in the Group of Eight will discuss the dollar and other issues at their meeting this weekend in Osaka, Japan.

【1】The passage is mainly concerned about ___

A. the history of American currency

B. the inflation in America

C. the political cases in America

D. the price of the oil in the world

【2】Why did the dollar move up a little this week according to the passage?

A. Because of George Bush’s visit to the Europe

B. Because of the official’s support of the policy.

C. Because of the increasing of the oil price.

D. Because of the meeting of the Group of Eight.

【3】Which of the following statements is true?

A. The dollar will continuously rise, especially against the Japanese yen and the euro.

B. Some government officials’ comments made the dollars rising a lot..

C. Many measures have taken to stop dollars from falling further..

D. Few countries in the world are all concerned about the inflation

【4】We can infer from the passage that____

A. the dollar is sure to continue to rise

B. the dollar is sure to slide further

C. investors will get more benefit from dollars

D. there is a chance of inflation in the world

【题目】---Pity you missed the lecture on nuclear pollution.

---I ______ it, but I was busy preparing for a job interview.

A. attended B. had attended

C. would attend D. would have attended

【题目】Rabindranath Tagore(泰戈尔) was an Indian writer and poet, who was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Composed of 326 short verses, Stray Birds(飞鸟集) is a collection of short verses translated from Bengali into English by the poet himself, where Tagore spiritualizes nature into the experiences of human existence while demonstrating his love for nature and simplicity through poetic words.

Now read the following verses taken from Stray Birds(1916) and try to answer the questions.

·Man does not reveal himself in his history, he struggles up through it. (verse 52)

·The cloud stood humbly(谦逊的) in a corner of the sky.

The Morning crowned it with splendour(光辉). (verse 100)

·Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal. (verse 248)

·Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave.

The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. (verse 127)

·The stream of truth flows through its channels of mistakes. (verse 243)

·Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose. (verse 230)

·Set bird’s wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky. (verse 231)

·Men are cruel, but Man is kind. (verse 219)

·Let me not put myself wrongly to my world and set it against me. (verse 206)

·Wrong cannot afford defeat but right can. (verse 68)

·“I give my whole water in joy,” sings the waterfall. “though little of it is enough for the thirsty.” (verse 69)

·The woodcutter’s axe(斧头) begged for its handle from the tree.

The tree gave it. (verse 71)

·Thank the flame for its light, but do not forget the lampholder standing in the shade with constancy of patience. (verse 64)

【1】Which of the verses sing praise for those who are ready to sacrifice(奉献) themselves without asking anything in return?

A. verse 248 &69 B. verse 71 & 100

C. verse 69 & 71 D. verse 100& 52

【2】Which of the verse makes strong comparison and contrast between two opposite types of persons?

A. verse 68 B. verse 248

C. verse 127 D. verse 243

【3】Which of the verses has similar meaning to the saying “All is not gold that glitters(闪光); but gold will glitter forever.”?

A. verse 100 B. verse 69

C. verse 230 D. verse 206

【4】Which of the verses might be most suitable said to parents, telling them not to spoil their children with wealth?

A. verse 231 B. verse 71

C. verse 127 D. verse 100

【题目】— I’ve moved into the new house last weekend.

— _____!

A．Definitely B．Congratulations

C．Cool D．Absolutely

【题目】Martin was sick with a strange fever; _______, he could neither eat nor sleep.

A．as a result B．after all

C．in a way D．above all

【题目】

I been there then, I would have helped you.

A. Having

B. Has

C．Have

D. Had

【题目】I saw him _____ but not very often.

A．frequently B．momently

C．every now and then D．in a short space of time

【题目】Tom used to spend a lot of time computer games, which makes him very regretful.

A. in

B. with

C. to

D. on

【题目】D

May 28 (Reuters Life!) - A Japanese university is giving away Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) trendy iPhone to students for free, but with a catch: the device will be used to check their attendance.

The project, which is being tested ahead of its formal launch in June, involves 550 first and second year students and some staff of a department at Aoyama Gakuin University, which is located just outside Tokyo in Sagamihara city.

The school's iPhones are meant to create a mobile information network between students and professors, but they are also a convenient way for the teachers to take attendance in class. As students enter the room, instead of writing their name on a sheet, they simply type in their ID number and a specific class number into an iPhone application. To prevent students from logging in from home or outside class, the application uses GPS location data and checks which router the students have logged in to.

"We don't want to use this to simply take attendance. Our hope is to use this to develop a classroom where students and teachers can discuss various topics," professor Yasuhiro Iijima told Reuters as he demonstrated the application.

University officials insist the project is not intended to infringe on students' privacy or track them down.

"With Japanese cellphones it's possible that the location data is automatically sent. However, with the iPhone, you must always confirm before the GPS data can be sent," Iijima said.

Many of the students testing the system said they were happy with it.

"Up until now, we've been using little slips of paper to take attendance. But with a cell phone, you don't have to spend time collecting all of those and so I think it's quite nice," 20-year-old student Yuki Maruya.

When the system goes fully online next month, the university also hopes to provide video podcasts of lectures to help students who missed classes, or just can't remember their lessons.

【1】The news report mainly tells us that ______

A. Iphone has got well developed in Japan

B. Iphone is to take attendance at Japanese universities

C. Iphone has been accepted by many students

D. Iphone is free of charge at Japanese universities

【2】The iphone being tested at Aoyama Gakuin University is mainly to _____

A. help students to study hard

B. check students’ attendance

C. help learn the information network

D. develop a special classroom

【3】Teachers at Aoyama Gakuin University can finish taking attendance by asking students to_____

A. write their names on the paper

B. Type in their ID and class numbers into iphone

C. log in from home or outside class ahead

D. put in right GPS location data and their router

【4】what about the future of Apple Inc’s iphone

A. It still has many disadvantages

B. It goes against many students’ interest

C. It will receive some other uses.

D. It will avoid students’ being late for class

【题目】In opposing President Barack Obama's opening to Cuba, Florida's Republican senator, Marco Rubio, explained, "This entire policy shift announced today is based on an illusion, on a lie, the lie and the illusion that more commerce and access to money and goods will translate to political freedom for the Cuban people." Rubio has correctly touched on the hottest issue. But theory, logic and history suggest that he's wrong in his conclusions.

I would recommend to Rubio one of the classics of conservative(保守的) thought, Milton Friedman's "Capitalism and Freedom." He doesn't have to spend too much time on it. The first chapter outlines the "relation between economic freedom and political freedom." The point Friedman makes in the book is one that America's founding fathers well understood. Drawing on the political philosopher John Locke, they believed that the freedom to buy, sell, own and trade were primary elements of human freedom and individual autonomy(自治). As they expand, liberty expands.

This is not just theory, of course. Over the last two centuries, the countries that embraced "more commerce and access to money and goods" in Rubio's phrase -- Britain, America, then Western Europe and East Asia -- have moved toward greater prosperity, but also political freedom. If you exclude oil-rich countries, where money is not earned but dug from the ground, on the whole there has been a strong connection between economic freedom and political freedom.

In Latin America today, democracy(民主政治) and markets have acted to strengthen each other, transforming the continent, which 30 years ago was almost entirely ruled by dictatorships(独裁) to one that is today almost entirely ruled by democracies. After opening up its economy in the 1970s, Chile began to grow, but that growth then produced a stronger civil society that over time contributed to the end of the dictatorship within the country. Yet Cuba is an outlier, one of the last regimes in Latin America that has embraced neither markets nor ballots. The Obama administration is acting on the theory that more commerce, capitalism, contact, travel and trade will empower the people of Cuba and thus gives them a greater voice in their political future. And so the first point to make is that it will help Cubans economically -- it will raise their incomes, their standard of living, and boost access to technology. These are all good things in and of themselves.

But easing the embargo(贸易禁止) will also help Americans, who will benefit from being able to trade with a neighbor. This is the reason that conservatives have long understood that free trade is not a gift bestowed on someone. It helps both countries and in particular, helps the United States. That's why the Wall Street Journal's editorial page -- bastion of conservative thought -- has been an advocate on lifting the trade embargo against Cuba, which is a far larger step than Obama's normalization.

【1】 What message does the writer try to deliver through this passage?

A. President Obama is making a wrong move opening to Cuba.

B. Marco Rubio is making a mistake criticizing Obama’s normalization policy.

C. Obama’s policy will benefit both Cubans and Americans economically and politically.

D. Obama’s decision agrees with the fact that economic freedom grows with political freedom.

【2】 How does the writer prove his point in paragraph 3 and 4?

A. by analyzing cause and effect

B. by giving examples

C. by making comparison and contrast

D. by raising questions

【3】What does the underlined phrase “translate to” most probably mean?

A. connect with B. adapt to

C. get down to D. lead to

【4】It is implied in the passage that_____________

A. The Obama administration wants to help people in Cuba, so President Obama decided to open to Cuba.

B. Chile is different from other countries in Latin America in that it has both economic and political freedom.

C. America’s founding fathers based their ideology on the theory of Milton Friedman.

D. The conservatives and the Wall Street Journal are on the same page on free trade.

【5】Who doesn’t believe that democracy and markets strengthen each other?

A. the writer B. President Obama

C. Milton Friedman D. Marco Rubio