单词拼写（每题1分，共8分）
1.It is healthier to keep a b_______ diet every day.
2. The little boy e________ his living by selling newspapers.
3. I’ll come tomorrow,  if the weather p___________
4. Finally, they were able to s_______ shelter from the rain.
5. The first s________ of the play was moving.
6. It’s r_______ to interrupt, so you had better wait.
7. To succeed, we must c___________ talent with hard work.
8. The flower is i________ beautiful, but it produces no fruit.

单词拼写（每题1分，共8分）

1.It is healthier to keep a b_______ diet every day.

2. The little boy e________ his living by selling newspapers.

3. I’ll come tomorrow,  if the weather p___________

4. Finally, they were able to s_______ shelter from the rain.

5. The first s________ of the play was moving.

6. It’s r_______ to interrupt, so you had better wait.

7. To succeed, we must c___________ talent with hard work.

8. The flower is i________ beautiful, but it produces no fruit.

Across the United States, there are several places where two independent towns grew together to become one city ---- but kept both their names.
Winston-Salem is one of them. It’s a mid-sized city in what’s called the plateau（high land）, between the Atlantic Coast and the inland mountains in the state of North Carolina. The Winston part is a relatively new place, founded early this century. It’s home to the nation’s biggest open-air tobacco market.?
The giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company’s headquarters is in Winston-Salem, and Winston is the name of one of Reynolds’ best-known cigarette brands. Fast-growing Winston soon surrounded the much older town of Salem, so in 1913, people in the area voted to combine them into a single place.?
From a historical and tourist point of view, Salem, or Old Salem, as it’s called today, is the interesting and unusual part of town.?
Salem was founded in the 1700s by the Moravians. They spoke German, and their community was religiously based, with single men and single women living apart in separate dormitories. The Moravians greatly valued women’s work and brainpower. In fact, one of the nation’s oldest boarding schools for young women— the Moravians’ Salem Academy founded in 1772 — is still in operation. ?
Over the years, Salem lost its Moravian character. That all changed, though, when a nonprofit group began to rehabilitate the historic area. These days Old Salem is what’s called a living history museum, with exhibits, music, and tours of 18th-century houses, taverns and Moravian dormitory buildings just seven blocks from the tallest skyscraper in Winston-Salem.?
The historic community is booming again. Just as R. J. Reynolds is taking in millions of dollars making cigarettes across town, Old Salem is generating about $ 115 million a year in tourism revenue and donations.?
46. From the passage we can know that____________.?
A. Winston-Salem is the name of a city?  
B. Salem is home to the tobacco market?
C. the city Winston-Salem has two names   
D. Old Salem is the name of a tobacco brand
47. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that__________.?
A. the two cities benefited each other?       
B. Salem developed faster than Winston?
C. R.J. Reynolds Company has moved into Salem?
D. the combination meets the wishes of the people
48. The city Salem is special for its__________.?
A. boarding school                            B. lifestyle and tradition?
C. respect for brainpower                D. religious belief
49. The underlined word “rehabilitate” in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to “_______”.?
A. reconstruct          B. evaluate            C. enlarge         D. decorate?
50. What will probably be talked about in the following part? ?
A. Some other attractions in Winston-Salem. ?
B. How Winston makes profits from tourism. ?
C. Other examples of cities combined by two parts.?
D. Something about the boarding school for women.

Can you understand the beginning of this essay?
“My smmr hols wr CWOTT. B4, we usd 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & 3 kds FTF.”
The Scottish teacher who received it in class had no idea what the girl who wrote it meant. The essay was written in a form of English used in cell phone text messages. Text messages (also called SMS2) through cell phones became very popular in the late 1990s. At first, mobile phone companies thought that text messaging would be a good way to send messages to customers, but customers quickly began to use the text messaging service to send messages to each other. Teenagers in particular enjoyed using text messaging, and they began to create a new language for messages called texting.
A text message is limited to 160 characters, including letters, spaces, and numbers, so messages must be kept short. In addition, typing on the small keypad of a cell phone is difficult, so it’s common to make words shorter. In texting, a single letter or number can represent a word, like “r” for “are,”“u” for “you,” and “2” for “to.” Several letters can also represent a phrase, like “lol” for “laughing out loud.” Another characteristic of texting is the leaving out of letters in a word, like spelling “please” as “pls.”
Some parents and teachers worry that texting will make children bad spellers and bad writers. The student who wrote the essay at the top of this page said writing that way was more comfortable for her. (The essay said, “My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend, and their three kids face to face.”)
Not everyone agrees that texting is a bad thing. Some experts say languages always evolve, and this is just another way for English to change. Other people believe texting will disappear soon. New technology for voice messages may soon make text messages a thing of the past.
【小题1】What is the writer’s opinion of text messaging?