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.

D. R. Gaul Middle School is in Union, Maine, a blueberry-farming town where the summer fair finds kids competing in pig scrambles and pie-eating contests.
Gaul, with about 170 seventh- and eighth-graders, has its own history of lower level academic achievement. One likely reason: Education beyond the basic requirements hasn't always been a top priority for families who've worked the same land for generations. Here, few adults have college degrees, and outsiders (teachers included) are often kept at a respectful distance.
Since 2002, Gaul's students have been divided into four classes, each of them taught almost every subject by two teachers. The goal: To find common threads across disciplines to help students create a big picture that gives fresh meaning and context to their classwork -- and sparks motivation for learning.
Working within state guidelines, each team makes its individual schedules and lesson plans, incorporating non-textbook literature, hands-on lab work and field trips. If students are covering the Civil War in social studies, they're reading The Red Badge of Courage or some other period literature in English class. In science, they study the viruses and bacteria that caused many deaths in the war.
Team teaching isn't unusual. About 77 percent of middle schools now employ some form of it, says John Lounsbury, consulting editor for the National Middle School Association. But most schools use four- or five-person teams, which Gaul tried before considering two-person teams more effective. Gaul supports the team concept by "looping" classes (跟班) so that the same two teachers stick with the same teens through seventh and eighth grades. Combining teams and looping creates an extremely strong bond between teacher and student. It also, says teacher Beth Ahlholm, "allows us to build an excellent relationship with parents."
Ahlholm and teammate Madelon Kelly are fully aware how many glazed looks they see in the classroom, but they know 72 percent of their eighth-graders met Maine's reading standard last year -- double the statewide average. Only 31 percent met the math standard, still better than the state average (21 percent). Their students also beat the state average in writing and science. And in2006, Gaul was one of 47 schools in the state to see testing gains of at least 20 percent in four of the previous five years, coinciding roughly with team teaching's arrival.

Spelling  5%
【小题1】She hadn’t read the letter and so was unaware of its c______.
【小题2】U______, my computer system broke down again.
【小题3】He e______ us for hours with his stories and jokes.
【小题4】 You’ll need to c______ them of your enthusiasm for the job.
【小题5】Traffic is bad, p______ in the city centre.
【小题6】The competition attracted over 5,000 athletes r______ 18 countries.
【小题7】 The school has decided to adopt a different a______ to discipline (纪律).
【小题8】There must be some m______ --- I thought I ordered the smaller model.
【小题9】Despite the power cuts, the hospital continued to f______ normally.
【小题10】Well, really and t______, things weren’t quite how she described them.

Spelling  5%

1.She hadn’t read the letter and so was unaware of its c______.

2.U______, my computer system broke down again.

3.He e______ us for hours with his stories and jokes.

4. You’ll need to c______ them of your enthusiasm for the job.

5.Traffic is bad, p______ in the city centre.

6.The competition attracted over 5,000 athletes r______ 18 countries.

7. The school has decided to adopt a different a______ to discipline (纪律).

8.There must be some m______ --- I thought I ordered the smaller model.

9.Despite the power cuts, the hospital continued to f______ normally.

10.Well, really and t______, things weren’t quite how she described them.

根据所给首字母或中文意思写出单词的适当形式，每空一个。

1.The college, founded centuries ago, was completely d___________ in the terrible earthquake.

2.You are required to pay for your p___________ before you leave the supermarket.

3.G__________, the whole city was covered by sandstorm from AD200 to AD400.

4.Last night I went to the bookshop and the shopkeeper r_______________ a new book to me.

5.Our school made it a rule that the students should attend the flag-raising

c        with their school uniform （校服）every Monday morning.

6.The newly-built park will be              （有利的） to the people living there.

7.Mr. Fat is an              （有智力的）man because he always can solve the problems when in difficulty.

8.He was back in the office,              （更新）the work schedule on the computer.

9.She had difficulty in               （决定/确定）where to hang the picture in her new flat.

10.Stratford police refuse to make              （评论）on whether anyone has been arrested.