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Who has deprived the children's happiness of learning???

Children are born with a natural desire of learning. They are curios and concerned about   36   around them. They are   37   to learn anything that amazes them. They have so many   38   that they keep on asking. They can bore the   39   all day long with many   40   questions which they will never feel bored with. Why? This is because learning is their   41    , perhaps an instinct of human beings. They just can't help. But   42    , they feel bored with learning, especially when learning becomes a boring   43    for them, especially after school has become a    44   of their life, especially when they have to   45    teachers who tell them again and again to   46    to recite and memorize things they don't want to learn, and especially   47    they realize school is not what they once    48    to be but something that, according to their parents, they must rely on in order to   49   a good fame or a good job or a good future. That is to say, learning has become a   50   , which they are forced or   51   to face. So it is the teachers and parents who have thrown the heavy   52   on the children. And meanwhile, the competitive society is also to blame. The children have been   53   of their pleasure and happiness that they could have enjoyed from the natural learning.

Therefore, my   54   to the students’ learning is that they   55   enjoy learning, enjoy the pleasure that they could feel from learning itself. Find back the long lost desire and curiosity of learning in their childhood.

36．A．nothing                  B．anything                 C．everything              D．something

37．A．curious                  B．proud                    C．nervous                  D．eager

38．A．questions                   B．reactions                 C．problems                D．troubles

39．A．students              B．adults                    C．parents                   D．teachers

40．A．funny                     B．boring                   C．bored                     D．practical

41．A．ability                    B．excuse                    C．characteristic           D．nature

42．A．gradually                   B．eventually               C．however                 D．therefore

43．A．duty                          B．exercise                 C．task                      D．remark

44．A．pleasure                  B．part                      C．occasion                 D．success

45．A．face                   B．follow                    C．escape                    D．imitate

46．A．repeat                    B．copy                       C．report                     D．reply

47．A．before                    B．since                      C．after                       D．when

48．A．forbidden            B．attracted                 C．intended                 D．expected

49．A．require                  B．achieve                  C．earn                      D．indicate

50．A．promise                 B．service                   C．must                      D．choice

51．A．pleased                  B．recommended        C．obliged                  D．experienced

52．A．burden                   B．confidence              C．difficulty                D．challenge

53．A．informed                   B．deprived               C．accused                  D．approved

54．A．encouragement     B．persuation              C．suggestion              D．decision

55．A．must                   B．should                   C．might                     D．could

Modern man has cleared the forests for farmland and for wood,and has also carelessly burned them. More than that,though,he has also interfered （干涉） with the invisible bonds between the living things in the forests. There are many examples of this kind of destruction. The harmfulness of man’s interference can be seen in what happened many years ago in the forest of the Kaibab plateau （凯亚巴布高原） of northern Arizona. Man tried to improve on the natural web of forest life and destroyed it instead.

The Kaibab had a storybook forest of largesized pine,Douglas fir,white fir,blue and Engelmann spruce. In 1882 a visitor noted,"We,who ... have wandered through its forests and parks,have come to regard it as the most enchanting region it has ever been our privilege （特权） to visit."This was also the living place of the Rocky Mountain mule deer. Indians hunted there every autumn to gather meat and skins. The forest also had mountain lions,timber wolves and bobcats that kept the deer from multiplying too rapidly.

Then,in 1906,President Theodore Roosevelt made the Kaibab a national game preserve. Deer hunting was forbidden. Government hunters started killing off the deer’s enemies. In 25 years’ time,6,250 mountain lions,wolves and bobcats were killed. Before the program,there were about 4,000 deer in the Kaibab,by 1924,there were about 100,000.

The deer ate every leaf and twig they could reach. But there was not nearly enough food. Hunting of deer was permitted again. This caused a slight decrease in the deer herd （鹿群），but a far greater loss resulted from starvation （饥饿） and disease. Some 60 percent of the deer herd died in two winters. By 1930 the herd had dropped to 20,000 animals. By 1942 it was down to 8,000.

The destruction of the environment of the Kaibab resulted from .

A.turning the forest into cultivated land

B.interfering with natural cycle of forest life

C.forest fires caused by man’s carelessness

D.cutting the trees for building materials

"Engelmann spruce"（Para. 2） is most likely the name of .

A.a tree    B.an animal    C.a mountain    D.a game

The number of the deer in the Kaibab had increased enormously in  years’ time.

A.25      B.6           C.18           D.12

Years later,large numbers of deer in the Kaibab died mainly because of .

A.the cold             B.the organized kill

C.the shortage of food   D.the poor management

Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.

A. Reasons for the use of Podcasting

B. Definition and origin of Podcast

C. Importance of Podcasting at school

D. Advantage of Podcasts over other audio media

E. Podcasts—a further step from voice recordings

F. Devices needed for Podcasting

_______

Recently a group of second-graders visited our school library to work on a “holidays around the world” project. The children created pictures showing holiday customs and then created voice recordings explaining what they drew. The incident showed very clearly the effectiveness of student-created voice recordings. Now imagine taking things one step further and creating Podcasts in a classroom setting.

________

The term Podcast refers to an audio recording, linked to the Web, that can be downloaded to a personal MP3 player. The word is created from broadcast and from iPod ---the wildly popular MP3 player from Apple.

________

Using audio with students isn’t new, of course. Teachers have used audiobooks at listening centers and recorded student voice on tape or CD for many years. Voice and music are the original media for teaching. Podcasts, however, can reach a much wider audience in a time frame outside the school days. Booktalking, an old way of getting kids excited about books, gets a tech assistance with Podcasting. Students can do some booktalking themselves; book review Podcasts seem to be another natural way for students to share what they know, providing an alternative to the book report.

________

    There are a number of excellent reasons for using Podcasting. Teachers made audio Podcasts, including visuals or video clips for any content area instruction and review. Some teachers have begun to record themselves teaching important concepts; this creates an account of information online for kids to access when they’re stuck on a homework assignment. Audio and video files can also function as assessment tools. Imagine being a classroom teacher in September who can actually hear how his or her students were reading in June the school year before.

________

You don’t need an iPod to make a Podcast. If you have a computer, a microphone, and some free software, you can make a Podcast. While an MP3 player is a popular and useful gadget, your audience doesn’t need MP3 players to listen, either: your students and their families can use the computer to play back what you’ve recorded.

C

The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children．On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given presents, treated to dinner or otherwise made to feel special．

However, the idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington．A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father’s Day while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon（布道）in 1909．Having been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her．It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a selfless and loving man．Sonora’s father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910．

In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge declared the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day．Roses are the Father’s Day flowers: red to be worn for a living father and white if the father has died．

When children can’t visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card．Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards that are not too sentimental（感伤的）．Most greeting cards are too special so fathers laugh when they open them．Some give heartfelt thanks for being there whenever the child needed Dad．

64．The United States is special in Father’s Day because ______．

      A．many people celebrate the day           B．only America celebrates the day

      C．America makes it an official day  D．all men are honored in America

65．At first, Father’s Day was fixed on June 19th because ______．

      A．Sonora honored her father on her father’s birthday

      B．Sonora’s birthday was June 19

      C．it was decided by the president at that time

      D．her mother died on June 19

66．How many years had passed before Father’s Day became an official day since the father’s day was celebrated?

      A．4          B．10      C．14        D．24

67．According to the passage, on Father’s Day,  ______．

      A．people will wear the same flowers to honor their fathers

      B．only daughters wear red flowers to honor their fathers

      C．children must go home to honor their fathers

      D．fathers are often honored in different ways

68．According to the passage, we can infer that Henry Jackson Smart ______．

      A．was very kind to anyone       B．did a lot for his daughter

      C．was the first father honored in 1924     D．always help others by giving money

单词拼写(每题1分,满分10分)。

76. She had difficulty ___(发表) a speech before a large audience.

77. Tony got praise from his teacher  today， for he usually                 （表现） himself at school.

78.They are all a________ workers who will be awarded for their hard work.

79.Free medical treatment kept him alive t      another year.

80.So far,since our research has not produced any answer to this problem,we need to

use a different a      to it.

81.Only when Jim made a call to say they'd already arrived safely did I feel at      (放松).

82.The earthquake left thousands of people h____.

83.The jacket was r ____ from 100 dollars to 75 dollars.

84.We must not rely on imports but on ___（出口产品）.

85.V ____  goods are on show at Christmas in western countries.