【题目】阅读理解
At the beginning of the century there was a big farm called Hollywood Ranch. It was near Los Angeles in California. A few years later Hollywood was one of the famous places of the world. From 1910s to the 1950s Hollywood was the film center of the world. Every family knew the names of its film stars Charlie Chaplin, Grete Garbo, Bergman and hundreds more.
The reason why people went to Hollywood to make films was the sun. At first people made films in New York on the east coast of the United States. But then they heard about Los Angeles where there are 350 days of sun every year. As they made all the films by sunlight, the west coast was a much better place to work.
Also near Hollywood you can find mountains and sea and desert. They did not have to travel far to make any kind of film.
When TV became popular in the 1960s, Hollywood started making films for television. Then in 1970s they discovered people still went to cinema to see big expensive films. After twenty years they are still making films in Hollywood and people watch them all over the world.
(1)Hollywood used to be a.
A.cinema
B.big farm
C.parks
D.market
(2)People went to Hollywood to make films because.
A.it was a beautiful place
B.you could find many film stars
C.there was a lot of sunlight there
D.it was a famous place
(3)Which statement is true?
A.The west coast was a better place to make films
B.There are no mountains near Hollywood
C.People no longer went to cinema after television became popular
D.Hollywood began to make films for television before the First World War

【题目】Frauds(诈骗犯)play complex psychological tricks to fool others,says Colin Barras.and that means anyone can be cheated unless they know what to look for.

None of us likes to be cheated,and David Modic has done some researches on it.It’s the personal passion that has convinced Modic to study the psychology of cheating.He s not alone:the field is thriving,and the information that researchers are uncovering is valuable to us all-from those single in search of love to the technology wizards(人才) in charge of the world’s online security.

Modic is particularly interested in what makes people easy to fraud.It’s common to imagine that only the foolish or poorly educated might fall victim-but even hard evidence suggests this is not the ease.Take Paul Frampton,an Oxbridge educated academic professor of physics for example.In 2012 Frampton was given almost 5 years in prison for drug smuggling in Argentina,after falling victim to an online dating frauds.And then there’s John Worley.As a psychotherapist,Worley knows more than most of us about controlling life’s right ways.But in 2005 he was put on trial for bank fraud after becoming a victim of a fraud.This fraud sees people contacted by someone claiming to be a Nigerian government official appealing for help moving large sums of money out of the country — who just requires a little money upfront (预付的)to release the fortune.Worley was found guilty and sentenced to two years in prison.

Intelligent and experience offer no protection against cheaters,says Modic.“If it did,then better educated people and older people would be less likely to fall for scams.And that is not supported by my research.”

To look for answers to that question,Modic and Frank Stajano have quizzed thousands of people,asking them first whether they think various frauds are reasonable—and whether they have fallen victim to them— before asking them to perform a personality test.The research has identified a number of characteristics that people who are victims of frauds seem to in common.Some of these traits—like a lack of self-control— we would probably recognize as dangerous.But others—a trust in authority,a desire to act in the same way as our friends,or a tendency to act in a consistent way—we might think of as good characteristics.

1According to the passage,the frauds may ________.

A. threaten the world’s online security

B. play their tricks in a consistent way

C. receive much education of psychology

D. have high intelligence to help cheating

2Paragraph 3 mainly tells us that ________.

A. who and what makes people easy to fraud

B. all walks of life would be likely to fall for scams

C. the poorly educated may be easier to be cheated

D. government officials should be responsible for frauds

3Modic and Frank Stajano’s researches find out that the victims ________.

A. often follow friends’ actions

B. also share good characteristics

C. are considered to be dangerous

D. shouldn’t have a trust in authority

【题目】完形填空
Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact1she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished2a driving offence(犯规).
Then one day she nearly3her record. A police car4her, and the policemen in it saw her5a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed6that she would be punished.
7Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was8old to drive a car, and that the9why she had not stopped at the red10was most probably that her eyes had become weak11old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
When the judge had finished what he was12, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was13and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she14a needle(针) with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt. When she had15done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed16the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, "Now it is your17. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight." The judge took the18and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case(案例) against Mrs. Jones was19, and her record20unbroken.
(1)A.which B.when C.that D.this
(2)A.about B.on C.to D.for
(3)A.kept B.won C.missed D.lost
(4)A.watched B.after C.followed D.ran after
(5)A.pass B.go C.past D.rush
(6)A.sure B.indeed C.certain D.perhaps
(7)A.Before B.While C.Until D.When
(8)A.so B.very C.too D.quite
(9)A.cause B.reason C.matter D.trouble
(10)A.light B.lamp C.sign D.one
(11)A.with B.because C.for D.of
(12)A.speaking B.saying C.talking D.telling
(13)A.seeing B.getting C.carrying D.bringing
(14)A.took B.brought C.picked D.chose
(15)A.almost B.hardly C.successfully D.successful
(16)A.both B.all C.neither D.either
(17)A.time B.turn C.chance D.job
(18)A.thread B.glasses C.needles D.needle
(19)A.dismissed B.passed C.settled D.studied
(20)A.was B.kept C.seemed D.remained

【题目】任务型阅读
Although many Chinese students say that their knowledge of English grammar is good, most would admit that their spoken English is poor. Whenever I speak to a Chinese student, they always say, “My spoken English is poor.”
I would like to suggest that there may be some reasons for their problems with spoken English.
First, they fail to find suitable words to express themselves due to a limited vocabulary.
However, you can speak with a limited vocabulary, if you choose a positive attitude. Others will follow you as long as you use the words that you know.

Sometimes they make mistakes when they are speaking because they are shy and nervous. Yet students should remember that their goal should be FLUENCY NOT ACCURACY. Your aim in writing is to be accurate following the rules for grammar and using the right words and spelling them correctly. However, in speaking your aim is fluency. You want to get your message across, to talk to someone in English, as quickly and as well as you can, even though sometimes you may use a wrong word or tense , but it doesn't matter.
The third reason is that not enough attention is paid to listening . You have one mouth but two ears !All that hearing is necessary for you to start speaking .
Fourth, most Chinese students are reactive rather than proactive language learners. Instead of actively seeking out opportunities to improve their spoken English they passively wait for speaking opportunities to come to them and wonder why their English always remains poor.
A. The person you are speaking to will understand you and make allowances for nay mistakes he hears.
B. They may try to avoid making similar mistakes next time.
C. Obviously the better answer is to expand their vocabulary.
D. If you have this proactive outlook, then you will see English opportunities wherever you go.
E. However, their spoken English does not have to remain “poor”!
F. Second , they are afraid of making mistakes.
G. The second reason lies in the reluctance of using what has just been learned.

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