Mary worked here as a______secretary and I ended up getting a full-job with the company.

   A. pessimistic   B. temporary       C. previous         D. cautious

 The “Chinese Dream” is ______ dream to improve people’s well-being and  ______dream of harmony, peace and development.

   A. the; a                B. a;a                         C. a;the                       D. the;the

 —Hey, can I ask you a favor?

   —Sure, ______

   A. here you are.                                          B. just as I thought.   

   C. how is it going?                                          D. what can I do for you？

假如你是李华，你的英国笔友Bill来信询问你家乡是否有雾霾（smog）天气，情况如何。请按下面提示写一封电子邮件：

1、感谢他的关心；

2、简要介绍本地雾霾情况及给人们生活带来的危害；

3、人们已认识到雾霾天气的危害，正采取各种举措减少其发生。

注意：1、字数150左中；2、开头结尾已经给出，不计入文字总数。

Dear Bill,

I’m glad to receive your letter ,Thank you for your caring for the weather and my health,              

 [1]Do you have a sweet tooth? According to a recent report by the research organization NPD Group , Americans are cutting back on sugary foods and drinks , Today, on average ,kids are eating and drinking sugary sweets 126 times less than they did in1998

[2]”This change is about the farnily”NPD Group has been surveying households across the United States about        , The study includes,5,000 people from 2,000 households, Families taking part in the survey keep a journal of their daily diets for two weeks.

[3]Since March lst, 1980,the NPD Group has been surveying households across the United States about        , The study includes,5,000 people from 2,000 households, Families taking part in the survey keep a journal of their daily diets for two weeks.

[4]The study shows that a large percentage of Americans still satisfy their sweet geeth, but in smaller amounts, It also shows that nearly 98% of the adults and chidren surveyed still have at least one sweet ,but only every two weeks ,Kids today ate dating cookies 8 times less than they less than they did in 1998, and drinking fruit juice 16 times less.

[5]According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the percentage of lbese kids aged 6 to 19 tripled in the USA between 1980 and 2000, About 9 million children were much too overweight , Today, obesity rates are not falling , but they aren’t growing ,either, “There’s the movement upward, the leveling off ,and the drop Right now we’re at the leveling off point”

[6]Schools nationwide are doing their part to put childhood obesity on a downward trend, Fried food has disappeared from many cafeteria menus, Whole-wheat bread has replaced white bread , Water and low-fat milk have replaced sugary drinks such as fruit punch, sports drinks and soda, Many schools have also banned junk food and now require healthier snack options in their vending machines, These efforts, both at home and in school, are slowly putting kids on the right track for healthy eating habits.

66、What is Paragraph 6 mainly about?(no more than 15 words)

67、Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper words to complete the sentence(no more than 5 words)

68、Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph4.

69、According to the study, how often do almost 98% of the adults and children surveyed have a sweet?(no more than 10 words)

70、What do we know about today’s obesity rates in America?(no more than 8 words)

71、What does the underlined word“alter”mean in paragraph2?(no more than I word)

72、List three things that people do in order to put kids on the right track for healthy eating habits.

a、                                                                                   

b、                                                                                    

c、                                                                                   

The British aren’t having as many children as they used to , One reason is that people are having children much older than before, meaning they have fewer year in which they can have them,  After years at university ,they need a few years of work experience before they can get the job they want, They might then get married, but it’s incredibly expensive to buy a house in the UK.

The above explains why young British people now don’t move out of their parents’ home until they are around 30 years old on average, It’s only after this age that many young people start thinking about having a child , However , it is quite expensive to bring up a child in the UK, Both parents need to work just to pay for their child during the day, Paying for this childcare is always expensive, What’s more ,financial crisis and unemployment are making things even harder for families, With so much pressure on families, is it any surprise that the divorce rate is so high?

So what is Britain doing to try and save the British family ? The government is trying to make it cheaper to have children , For example ,there are increasing government subsidies for nursery schools, so that parents do not need to bay so much for child care.

The government is also trying to reduce the number of hours British parents have to work to earn enough money to pay their bills, If parents didn’t have to work so many hours, they’d have moue time to spend with their children and wouldn’t need to spend so much on childcare, On average, a Briton works 49 hours a week ,which is the most in Europe, The state is now considering introducing laws to encourage companies to improve their employees’ work –life balance, Let’s hope they’re not too late to save the British family , Otherwise, the British will always be too tired ,and won’t have enough time and money, to have children.

61、Young British people live in their parents’ home until around 30 because        

A、They are allowed to get married at 30

B、they can’t allowed to get married at 30

C、they can’t afford  a house of their own until then

D、they enjoy family life with their parents

62、The British are now having fewer children than before for all the following reasons EXCEPT that        

A、they have fewer years to have children

B、they live much shorter lives than before

C、it is more expensive to bring up a child

D、people are losing their jobs because of the recent financial crisis

63、The underlined word “subsidies” in Paragraph 5 means        

A、food paid by the government

B、school buildings for poor students

C、free transportation

D、money from the government to benefit the public

64、It can be inferred from the text that        

A、with long work hours, it is hard for British parents to balance life and work

B、more and more families in Britain are breaking up because they are having fewer children

C、among Europeans, British people work hardest and earn the least

D、childcare takes up too much energy and time for the British

65、To make it cheaper to have children , the British government is         

A、bringing down prices

B、raising the salaries of parents

C、reducing family income tax

D、increasing subsidies for families and nursery schools

Many parents have learned the hard way that what sounds like open communication is otfen the very thing that closes a youngster’s ears and mouth, One common mistake is the Lecture, the long monologue that often starts with “When I was your age……”Eighteen –year –old Kelly calls lectures “Long , one-side discussions in which I don’t say much.”

Kids reflexively（条件反射地）shout down in the face of a lecture , Their eyes glaze over（呆滞）,and they don’t register any incoming information , Listen to 13-year –old Sarah describe her least favorite times with her mom and dad, “First, they scream, Then comes the“We’re so disappointed’ speech , Then the ‘I never did that to my parents’ lecture begins , After that, even if they realize how ridiculous they sound, they never take it back’”.

Lines like “When you have children of your own, you’ll understand” have been seriously said by parents since time immemorial, But many of our expert parents, like Bobby , a registered nurse and mother of three, feel that by falling back on cliches（陈词滥调）to justify our actions, we weaken our position.

Since kids are creatures of here and now, the far-off future has no relevance to them, Therefore ,good communicators like Bobby suggest, “Give specific reasons for your actions in present language:‘I’m not letting you go to the party because I don’t think there will be enough adult supervisions（监护）”。

Betty, who lives in Missouri ,uses and indirect approach, “I find that warnings are accepted more readily if I discuss a news article on a subject I am concerned about, My husband and I talk about it while our children absorb the information, Then they never think I’m preaching（布道）”.

This really helped when Betty’s kids began driving , Instead of constantly repeating “Don’t drink; don’t speed”, She would talk about articles in the paper and express sympathy for the victims of a car crash, Betty made no special effort to draw her kids into the conversation, She depended on a teenager’s strong desire to put in his opinions—especially if he thinks he isn’t being asked for them.

56、The purpose of the passage is to        

A、compare two ways of parents’ communicating with their kids

B、give parents advice on how to communicate with their kids

C、explain why kids won’t listen to their parents

D、introduce kids’ reaction to the communication between them and their parents

57、Which of the following statements is NOT right?

A、Kids won’t listen to their parents because they think what their parents say is boring

B、Many kids think they have no right to express their own opinions

C、Some kids think their parents should apologize when they are wrong

D、Kids don’t like any discussion at all.

58、What does the underlined word in the first paragraph mean?

A、独白               B、对话               C、插话               D、讨论

59、Which of the following topic may appeal to kids?

A、Parents own experience

B、Kids possible life in the future

C、Something related to kids’ present life

D、What parents have done to their own parents

60、In order to make kids follow their advice, parents should        

A、tell their kids to listen carefully          B、set out their warnings directly

C、list out as many examples as possible     D、arouse kids’ desire to express themselves

The name sounds funny but the idea is no joke: it’s a personal toilet called the pee-pool, Anders Wilhelmson, a Swedish architect, is the inventor of the pee-pool.

He became interested in the idea of sanitation(卫生设施) after taking part in a research project on the social and political development of cities, One of the most common problems he found in developing countries was the lack of toilets, He wanted to do something to help, So working with others, he started the project in 2005, and the next year started a company called Peepoolple.

The toilet is a single—use bag made of environmentally friendly plastics, The inside is treated with urea （尿素）, a chemical commonly used as fertilizer, The hotter the weather, the more quickly the waste turns into what is needed by plants The sanitation process can be as soon as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks ,You can just bury it in a pot and grow whatever you like.

The company expects to start selling the bags in August in Kenya and Bangladesh, But it is just beginning production and sales in Nairobi now , Full production could reach about half a million bags a day and people may be able to buy the pee-pool in countries Vietnam, Bangladesh, etc.

The United Nations says more than two and a half billion people around the world do not have good sanitation ,Many have no choice but to use the outdoors, which is not only bad for the environment ,but also harmful to people’s health, Each year, poor sanitation leads to three fifths of those people getting an infectious disease which on average causes one out of 1,000 patients to die.

Jack Smith ,the founder of the World Toilet Organization ,says “This is quite an unacceptable situation given the fact that we are living in the modem world , And strangely, many of them own televisions ,phones but have no toilet.”

51、What was the original purpose of Anders Wilhelmson in starting the company?

A、To protect the local environment

B、To earn a lot of money from the project

C、To do research on the social development

D、To help solve the problem of lack of toilets in developing countries

52、What can be learned about the pee-pool from the passage?

A、It can be used over  again

B、Its sanitation process doesn’t last long

C、It works better in summer than in winter

D、It should be buried in a pot after being used

53、In which place can people buy the Pee-pool now?

A、Nairobi                  B、Vietnam                 C、Sweden                 D、Bangladesh

54、The fifth paragraph is written mainly to tell us that        

A、poor sanitation may cause many problems

B、many people don’t care for the environment

C、many people get ill from using the outdoors

D、quite a number of people died from poor sanitation

55、The underlined word“This ”in the last paragraph probably refers to         

A、the outdoors being damaged

B、many places being shout of toilets

C、many people having TVs and phones

D、many people getting an infection disease

It was the beginning of the school year a few years ago and I had a little boy in my class who came from a non – English speaking home, He was very quiet and shy, I wasn’t sure how much he understood during the school day and I was especially concerned that he just stood by himself at break time and did not play, If I tried to talk to him , he would turn away and tightly shut his eyes to hide from me.

After a day or two of this, I decided to seek the help from one of my outgoing and friendly little girls, I called her over and she ran to me , ready to help.

I immediately began a long speech about what I needed from her, I asked her if she would try to get him to play, and I started talking quickly about all these suggestions on how she could start communication with him , I explained she could do that , she could try this idea, she could try that idea, “Don’t worry, I speak kid” And she ran off.

I stood there all alone, silently watching her, It took less than a minute for the two new friends to urn off, hand in hand , happily joining a game of tag （捉人游戏）taking place all over the gym.

I often think of that small moment, about what I learned and how important it is for all teachers to speak kid --- big kid, little kid and middle kid , I know my focus must be on teaching students how to think , how to approach problems ,and how to figure out solutions and teaching them never to let the opportunity away , We must be ready to learn from our students because those “teachable moments ”during the school days are for us , the teachers, as well as our kids.

46、Why did the author worry about the boy?

A、He didn’t dare to look at the author in the eyes

B、He couldn’t speak English as well as other students

C、He failed to understand what the author taught

D、He was unwilling to communicate with others

47、After the girl agreed to help, the author        

A、taught her what to do in detail

B、thanked her for her willingness to help

C、thanked her for her willingness to help

D、reminded her of what she should be careful about

48、By saying “I speak kid ”,the girl meant that she could        

A、speak the language that kids understand                     B、speak the boy’s native language

C、know what kids want to day                             D、speak well like a little kid

49、The underlined words“the opportunity”refer to the chance to        

A、play at break time        B、learn from students             C、solve problems            D、speak kid

50、What can we learn from the passage?

A、Gold will shine everywhere

B、Children are more friendly than adults

C、Teachers’ thoughts are different form students’

D、You learn something every day if you pay attention

Future history books might record that we were robbed of the use of our eyes ,In our hurry to get from one place to another, we fail to see anything on the way, Air travel gives you a bird’s –eye view of the world ---or even less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way, When you travel by car or train , you are moving so quickly that you do not see the countryside clearly , Car drivers are forever thinking about going on and on; they never want to stop, Is it the great motorways ,that attract them, or what? And as for sea travel ,it hardly deserves mention ,It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song：’I joined the navy to see the world ,and what did I see? I saw the sea’. You mention the place names in the world like EI Dorado, Kabul and someone is sure to say‘I’ve been there’meaning ,‘I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else.’

When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing :you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place, But actual arrival ,when it is achieved , is meaningless , You want to move on again . By traveling like this, you suspend （中止）all experience; the present stops being a reality：you might just as well be dead.

The traveler on foot, on the other hand , lives constantly in the present, For him traveling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes, He experiences, the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body, At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical tiredness, Satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travelers.

41、The underlined words “get in your way”in Paragraph I can be replaced, by         .

A、block your sights                                                    B、expend your range of  vision

C、prevent you from going out of the plane halfway          D、make your travel continue

42、What does the author think of the travelers mentioned in Paragraph 1?

A、They get a good view of the landscape

B、They make full use of their eyes

C、They fail to see the scenery with their heart

D、They are eager to see everything on the way.

43、Why does “the present”mean “nothing ”when we travel at high speeds?

A、Because we change our aims all the time

B、Because we are eager to go to another place

C、Because we are looking forward to the future life

D、Because we cannot enjoy the experience we have had

44、What will the author most probably advise us to do?

A、To go hiking in the mountain                    B、To travel at a high speed

C、To travel by car or train                           D、To go around the world

45、What would be the best title for the passage?

A、Different travelers                      B、The use of eyes

C、Ways of traveling                              D、True traveling