The longest bridge linking Hongkong to Chinese mainland at Zhuhai and Macao in a giant Y- shape, is due to be completed by 2015 and        to be in use for 120 years.

A. will be expected   B. is expecting   C. is expected  D. was expected

During my review for the medical boards, I gained 101 pounds in four months and promised to exercise when all of this was over. I successfully passed the medical boards and now I have to face the music.
One morning, I woke up and decided to go to a park to start working out. I got out of bed, washed my face, brushed my teeth and put on my sports shoes. Then I headed for the park. While going there, I decided to set a goal for myself, that, I had to finish 10 rounds before I went home.
Upon reaching the park, I joined the people in walking around the park. I was enjoying every step, breathing in fresh air, appreciating the green grass and looking at the dried leaves falling from the trees while listening to my iPod.
On my 5th round, I felt tired, hungry and thirsty. I thought of giving it up, going home and sleeping again. As the idea battled in my mind, I was reminded about the goal I had set just a while ago. I kept on walking and as I looked around, I saw myself in the midst of men and women much older than me who continued to move on. Some even suffered from a stroke(中风) that had difficulty walking, some took on small steps with a cane on hand and some took on pauses before they continued their walk but still they kept on walking.
Suddenly I realized that each of us has set our own goals in our lives, such as reaching a dream, building up a career, correcting a past mistake or starting a business. The process won’t be easy. We may encounter(遇到) a lot of difficulties and obstacles that may push us to just give up.
Amazed by the men and women whom I walked with that morning, I finished my goal in the end.
Let us be inspired with the people around us who experience the same or even a greater amount of difficulty but still don’t give up and continue until they reach their goals and now are savoring(享受) their success.
【小题1】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean?

第二节：课文背诵（20×0.5=10分）

Unit 3

By the way, did you know that this is because you become addicted in three different ways?

First, you can become (101)______ ______ ______ nicotine, which is one of the hundreds of chemicals in cigarettes. …… Secondly, you become addicted (102)______ ______. As you know, if you do the same thing over and over again, you begin to (103)______ ______ ________. Lastly, you can become mentally addicted.

Unit 4

However, the attitudes of scientists towards this rise are completely different. On the one hand, Dr Foster thinks that the trend which increases the temperature by 5 degrees would be (104) ______ ______. …….. (105)_____ _____ _____ _____,  there are those, like George Hambley, who (106)_______ _______ _______ this view and believe that we should not worry. They predict that any warming will be mild with few bad (107)________ ________.

Unit 5

I have the greatest job in the world. I travel to unusual places and (108)________ ________ ________from all over the world. Sometimes ……, sometimes using (109)________ ________ and sometimes meeting local people and tourists, I am never bored.

Today, I am just as enthusiastic about my job as the day I first started. Having studied volcanoes now for many years, I am still amazed at their beauty as well as their (110)_______ _______ _______ great damage.

Speeding has been cited（引证） as the cause for a car accident that left one pedestrian dead May 7 in eastern China's Zhejiang Province. The speed of the cause car has been 1    to have been between 84.1 kilometers to 101.2 km per hour when the accident happened. According to the report, the cause car was refitted（更换零部件） to attain 2    speeds. The engine, exhaust system and tires had been modified.

The report was made by a group of motor vehicle 3    and mechanics from Jilin, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other parts of China. They were 4    by Blue Arrow, a forensic（法庭的）analysis group in Hangzhou, according to local police. A 5    of the municipal public security bureau said that the bureau received the forensic analysis report on Wednesday and immediately sent 6    of the report to both parties concerned.

Either of the two parties, the family of the 7    and the driver responsible for the accident, can challenge against the analysis results in three days. The case has not yet entered 8    procedures. Whether it will be a civil or criminal case remains 9   .

On the evening of May 7, Tang Zhuo, 25, was 10    on a pedestrian walkway in Hangzhou. The 11   is a 20-year-old university student. Tang flew five meters into the air before he hit the ground and died. The public was 12    because he was racing with two friends on a downtown highway, without thinking about the 13    of pedestrians. The driver faces a one-month detention or up to three years in jail if convicted. The level of punishment 14    how fast he was driving.

After the accident, Wang Guoping, Hangzhou's party chief, demanded traffic police take every possible 15    to fight against drag-racing and illegal auto modifications.

（ ）1. A. estimated  B. reduced                 C. increased             D. imagined

（ ）2. A. lower           B. taller                    C. higher                  D. shorter

（ ）3. A. workers       B. students               C. experts                D. assistants

（ ）4. A. criticized  B. invited                    C. given                    D. sent

（ ）5. A. gentleman  B. soldier                 C. driver                   D. spokesman

（ ）6. A. details          B. copies                  C. objects                D. writers

（ ）7. A. victim     B. passenger             C. audience              D. salesman

（ ）8. A. medical        B. technological        C. economical          D. judicial

（ ）9. A. invisible   B. unknown                C. untouched            D. impossible

（ ）10. A. driven         B. stolen                  C. hit                        D. robbed

（ ）11. A. driver    B. victim                   C. pedestrian            D. visitor

（ ）12. A. angered   B. excited                C. interrupted           D. tired

（ ）13. A. health         B. education             C. safety                   D. profit

（ ）14. A. takes on  B. depends on           C. looks on              D. carries on.

（ ）15. A. money        B. force                    C. energy                 D. measure

A study led by Professor Mark Weiser of Tel Aviv University and the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer Hospital has determined that young men who smoke are likely to have lower IQs than their non-smoking peers (同龄人). Tracking 18-to 21-year-old men enlisted in the Israeli army in the largest ever study of its kind, he has been able to demonstrate an important connection between the number of cigarettes young males smoke and their IQ.
The average IQ for a non-smoker was about 101, while the smokers’ average was more than seven IQ points lower, at about 94, the study determined. The IQs of young men who smoked more than a pack a day were lower still, at about 90. An IQ score in a healthy population of such young men, with no mental disorders(心理疾病), falls within the range of 84 to 116.
An addiction that doesn’t discriminate(歧视)
“In the health profession, we’ve generally thought that smokers are most likely the kind of people who have grown up in difficult neighborhoods, or who’ve been given less education at good schools,” says Weiser, whose study was reported in a recent version of the journal, Addiction, “But because our study included subjects with various socio-economic backgrounds, we’ve been able to rule out socio-economics as a major factor. The government might want to rethink how it arranges its educational resources on smoking.
Making the results more significant, the study also measured effects in twin brothers. In the case where one twin smoked, the non-smoking twin registered a higher IQ on average.
Although a lower IQ may suggest a greater risk for smoking addiction, the representing data on IQ and smoking found that most of the smokers investigated in the study had IQs within the average range, nevertheless.
In the study, researchers took data from more than 20,000 men before, during and after their time in the military. All men in the study were considered in good health, since pre-screening(筛选的)measures for suitability in the army had already been taken. The researchers found that around 28 percent of their samples smoked one or more cigarettes a day, 3 percent considered themselves ex-smokers, and 68 percent said they never smoked.
“People on the lower end of the average IQ tend to display poorer overall decision-making skills when it comes to their health,” says Weiser. He adds that his finding can help address serious concern among heath counsellors at grade and high schools.
【小题1】The study led by Professor Mark Weiser shows that            .