Your mobile phone rings,and instead of usual electronic signals,it’s playing your favorite music.A friend sends your favorite song to cheer you up.One day,a record company might forward new records and music videos to your phone

The mobile business is getting into the music business.For the moment,the interest is in pleasant ring tones,but some companies are hoping to take full advantage of the next generation of mobile phones-all-purpose gadgets that blend phone,personal stereo,video player and Internet browser into one.

Finally,record companies might send new records and videos to fans who register their cell phone numbers.

The fans could pass music or songs along to friends—a kind of musical trading card.Unlike Internet tracks,mobile downloads would be easy for record companies to control,said former record industry official Ralph Simon,who is now chairman of your mobile,based in Santa Monic,California.

“If you pass a song along to other phones through a network,each phone can be charged,” said Simon.“It’s like going through a toll gate（收费站）.There’s more possibility for copyright control than there is on the Internet.”

Massachusetts-based Converse is offering a service in Portugal and the Netherlands that lets people record tunes on their voice mail or send music as presents to friends.Finally,people might be able to sing karaoke and pass them along.The company is sure that people will want to use music to reach out and touch someone.

“A mobile phone is not a listening machine,and you’ll be disappointed if you think you can change it to a radio,”said Ohad Ouziel,a creative manager for Converse in Israel.“But if someone sends you a song while you’re on vacation,you appreciate the feeling.”

1.The underlined word “blend”in the second paragraph probably means _____.

A.send

B.become

C.mix

D.compare

解析：从上下文以及该词的搭配可知，blend...into...“把……融为一体”。?

答案：C

2.“Massachusetts-based Converse”in the sixth paragraph probably refers to _____.

A.a person

B.a city in Israel

C.a state in the USA

D.a company

3.Record companies _____ the idea of passing songs and music along mobile phones.

A.are worried about

B.are interested in

C.try hard to stop

D.a company

4.According to Ralph Simon it would be easier to _____ through mobile phone network than through the Internet.

A.protect copyright of music works

B.send personal messages

C.pass along songs and music　

D.send voice mail

从电视上看到甲型H1N1流感(A/H1N1 flu)仍然在墨西哥流行，你为你正在墨西哥上学的笔友Anderson的健康与安全担心。请你给他写一封信询问他的情况，并给他提出防护建议。

要点：

一、询问

他的健康状况；

他们学校有无甲型H1N1流感病例(A/H1N1 flu cases)；

他们是否对这一大面积流行的疾病感到恐惧。

二、建议

1．尽量待在家里，少去人多的地方；

2．勤洗手、讲卫生；

3．多开窗，保持空气新鲜；

4．多吃水果、蔬菜。

注意：

1．词数：100左右；

2．首尾已给出，不记入总词数。

Dear Anderson ,

From TV I know there are still many A/H1N1 flu cases reported recently in Mexico and many schools are closed as a result．I’m so worried about you.___________________________　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

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_____________________________________________________________________

Yours，

Li Hua

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One day a few years ago we had an uninvited guest—a sparrow.  36  the little bird had flown into our open garage. Then I  37  the bird before I saw it.

“What’s that?”I asked when I first heard the sound.

“It’s coming from the  38  .”my wife, Anita, said. “Maybe it’s one of the little  39  .”

I looked into the garage. No children at all. But there was that sound again, coming from right up there. And that’s  40   I saw the sparrow. It was flying  41  just inches below the ceiling. It was clearly  42  to get out, but couldn’t see the way out was not up, but  43  and and out through the garage door. So the bird continued flapping its wings and bumping its little head 44  the ceiling.

I tried to terrify it out, but only succeeded in driving it into the  45  open space between the door and the ceiling. Then I tried to show the bird how to fly down a few feet  46   it could get outside, but that only seemed to  47  it more.

“Why don’t we just leave for a few minutes,” Anita  48  .“I’m sure he’ll figure it out eventually.”

We went back into the house, where we  49  to hear the ongoing struggle between the sparrow and the ceiling. Then suddenly, it was  50  and our uninvited guest was gone.

I’ve  51  that little sparrow through the years, and I’ve decided that birds are not different much from people. We think we were  52  to fly ever upward, and we don’t even consider the  53  that something good might happen if we just fly down a little bit. Once we figure out that we can make  54  without banging（碰）our heads against ceilings, we can usually save ourselves much  55  .

36.A. Still              B. Somehow          C. Instead              D. Perhaps

【答案】B

【解析】不知怎么的，这只小鸟飞进了我们开着的车库。B.不知怎么的。

37.A. heard            B. caught               C. searched           D. observed

【答案】A

【解析】根据下文when I first heard the sound， 可知本句的意思是“未见其鸟，先闻其鸣”。

38.A. house           B. backyard           C. garage               D. basement

【答案】C

【解析】根据36题所在的句子可知， 小鸟进入了garage,所以声音应该从garage传来。

39.A. birds            B. guests               C. cats                  D. kids

【答案】D

【解析】根据下文no children at all.可知, 作者的妻子认为是期中一个孩子

40.A. when            B. how                  C. why                  D. whether

【答案】A

【解析】when引导表语从句。“就在那时我看到了那只麻雀。”

41.A. quickly         B. anxiously           C. cautiously          D. slowly

【答案】B

【解析】anxiously不安的，焦虑的。因为被困，所以很焦虑。

42. A. deciding       B. hesitating           C. trying                D. choosing

【答案】C

【解析】try to get out努力要出去。

43. A. up               B. backward          C. forward            D. down

【答案】D

【解析】但是它看不到出去的路不在上方，而在下方。

44. A. against         B. off                    C. along                D. into

【答案】A

【解析】bump its little head against the ceiling 小脑袋撞击天花板

45. A. free             B. small                 C. wide                 D. dark

【答案】B

【解析】门和天花板之间的空间很小。

46. A. in case         B. even if               C. as though          D. so that

【答案】D

【解析】so that 引导目的状语从句。

47. A. puzzle          B. confuse             C. frighten             D. disturb

【答案】C

【解析】但是这样似乎使它更害怕。Frighten sb使某人害怕， 吓唬某人

48. A. suggested     B. explained           C. insisted             D. demanded

【答案】A

【解析】why don’t sb do 是表示建议的用语。 所以选择A。

49. A. attempted     B. continued          C. refused             D. failed

【答案】B

【解析】continue to do sth继续干某事

50. A. fierce           B. empty               C. safe                  D. silent

【答案】D

【解析】根据下文our uninvited guest was gone， 所以没有声音了，很安静

51.A. looked after   B. worried about    C. thought about    D. brought up

【答案】C

【解析】Ａ．照看　Ｂ．担心 Ｃ．思考  Ｄ． 提出。下文题到“鸟和人没有什么不同”，所以作者是在思考。

52. A. forced         B. determined         C. born                 D. urged

【答案】C

【解析】be born to do 天生就是干某事的。 “我们认为我们天生就是往上飞的”

53. A. idea             B. possibility          C. challenge           D. problem

【答案】B

【解析】我们甚至没有考虑这种可能性，如果我们飞的低一些，好事也可能会发生。

54. A. progress      B. peace                C. decisions           D. efforts

【答案】A

【解析】make progress取得进步

55. A. panic           B. pressure            C. loss                  D. trouble

【答案】D

【解析】save some trouble 省去很多麻烦。

阅读下列短文, 从所给的四个选项中, 选出最佳答案。

　　 　　　　    It is difficult for nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible for (对…负责) homework, but with one of the following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.

　　     If you give your children the impression that they can never do　　 anything quite right, then they will regard themselves as unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent (独立的).　　

    My daughter Carla's fifth-grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students received less than a perfect test score, she would point out what they had mastered and declared (宣布) firmly they could learn what they had missed.

    You can use the same technique when you evaluate (评价) your child's work at home. Don't always scold but give a lot of praise instead. Talk about what he has done right, not about what he has not done. If your child completes a difficult task, reward him witha Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad.

    Learning is a process (过程) of trying and failing and trying and　　 succeeding. If you teach your children not to fear a mistake or a　　 failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last.

1. The whole passage deals with ________.

[    ]

　　 　　A. social education   B. school education

　　 　　C. family education   D. physical education

　　 　　2. The writer thinks that ________.

　　 　　[    ]

　　 　　A. there is no way to get children to help at home

　　 　　B. it is very difficult to get children responsible for homework

　　 　　C. the more encouragement and praise they get, the more responsible 　　 and helpful children will become

　　D. children can be forced to help with housework

　　3. A good suggestion the article gives us about how to evaluate your　　 child's work at home is to ________.

　　[    ]

　　A. praise his success　　  B. reward him with a trip

　　C. give him a punishment   D. get rid of all the tests

　　4. The writer advises readers to ________.

　　[    ]

　　A. learn from himself, for he has a good way of teaching

　　B. do as what Carla's teacher did in educating children

　　C. take pride in Carla's fifth-grade teacher

　　D. follow Carla's example because she never fails in the test

　　5. From the last paragraph, we can conclude that ________.

　　[    ]

　　A. pride goes before a fall  B. practice makes perfect

　　C. no pains, no gains　　    D. failure is the mother of success