27、 ____ 56 ___. When we are asked whether boys and girls can associate with each other, most of us will say, “Yes, of course. Why not?”

____ 57 ____, here are some “dos and don’ts” for you to follow. Keep a normal and healthy state of mind. Our schools and classes are made up of boys and girls. It is very natural for boys and girls to contact each other and build up the friendship with the students of the other sex. Generally speaking, ____ 58 ____. We should make as many friends as possible. We should have more friends of the other sex instead of one or two. We should contact the students in public instead of in secret.

Contact students of the other sex warmly, generously and sincerely. Don’t be too nervous or too shy in contact with a person of the other sex. In that case it is very difficult for you to make a lot of friends, as ____ 59_____. If you are too shy a person, you can also find a way out. First of all, you can contact the students with the same interest and hobby with you. As both of you have much in common, you may have much to talk about. If you keep doing like that, little by little, you will gladly find you are also as free to express yourself as others.

_____60 ____. The boys and girls at adolescence are rich in feeling and full of imagination. They are easy to regard the friendship as a sign of love and fall in love with each other at an early age. In my opinion, boys and girls at middle school are too young and too tender to shoulder the heavy duty of love. Early love is a green apple that can’t be eaten. An apple won’t taste sweet until it is fully ripe (成熟). Do keep out of early love.

    A. No one would like the guy who is too shy to say even a word.

    B. If we want to make sure the association between boys and girls properly

C. We will make it easier for you to understand and remember it.

    D. we should broaden the circle of the association

    E. Don’t fall into the ditch（泥潭）of early love.

    F. Gone are the days when men and women couldn’t associate (交往) with each other.

六、书面表达

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26、When we learn English, we always find we have difficulties in remembering the names of the months. Therefore, if we know something about the history of the months, possibly it won’t be very harder for us to remember them. The following is one of example. January named after God Janus. He was a strange god because he has two faces. He could look in two directions. He could look forward or backward at the same time. He was the god of endings and beginnings. January is the month on which one looks forward to the New Year and it’s also a period of time how people think about the past year.

Now can you share with us the stories about rest of the months?

五、信息匹配

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25、Now let us look at how we read. When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a page in short, jerky movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when they fixate. Each time they fixate, we see a group of words. This is known as the recognition span or the visual span. The length of time of which the eyes stop ---the duration of the fixation ----varies considerably from person to person. It also varies within any one person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. Furthermore, it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.

Unfortunately, in the past, many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a second. One of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point, taking in the words on either side. Such word patterns are often constructed in the shape of rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive fixation. All these exercises are very clever, but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently. Reading requires the ability to understand the relationship between words. Consequently, for these reasons, many experts have now begun to question the usefulness of eye training, especially since any approach which trains a person to read isolated words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.

52. The time of the recognition span can be affected by the following facts except ________.

A. one’s familiarity with the text.   B. one’s purpose in reading

C. the length of a group of words    D. lighting and tiredness

53. The author may believe that reading ______.

A. requires a reader to take in more words at each fixation

B. requires a reader to see words more quickly

C. demands an deeply-participating mind

D. demands more mind than eyes

54. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. The visual span is a word or a group of words we see each time.

B. Many experts began to question the efficiency of eye training.

C. The emphasis on the purely visual aspects is misleading.

D. The eye training will help readers in reading a continuous text.

55. The tune of the author in writing this article is ________

A critical　　　B neutral　　　　C pessimistic　　　　D optimistic

四、短文改错

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24、Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable question from A-F for each answer. There is one extra question which you do not need.

80.

A yearly list of the best and worst places to be a mother and child rates the United States 11th, behind Britain. Scandinavian countries are at the top. Sweden is number one. Denmark is second. Finland is third. Save the Children, an American-based humanitarian organization, compared conditions in 110 countries. The report came out last week.

81.

At the bottom of the list, Mali and Burkina Faso share last place. Just above them are Ethiopia, Chad, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mauritania. Gambia and Eritrea are also in the bottom ten, along with two Asian countries: Nepal and Cambodia. Cambodia is tied with Eritrea in 100th place.

82.

Save the Children based its report on six conditions related to the health and security of women. These include the risk of early death, and the rate of use of modern birth-control methods. Another measure was the percentage of births with the aid of trained medical workers. Still another was the percentage of pregnant women with a shortage of iron in the blood. The study also examined reading levels among women and the involvement of women in national government. There are some conditions related to the education of both women and children.

83.

Save the Children has published a report on the "State of the World's Mothers" for six years now. This year the group included a progress report on education for girls. Researchers examined progress made over the past ten years in 71 developing countries. The report says Bolivia, Kenya, Cameroon and Bangladesh have made the most progress in girls' education. Listed at the bottom are Rwanda, Iraq, Malawi and Eritrea. Worldwide, the report says, 58 million girls are out of school.

84.

Charles MacCormack is head of Save the Children. He says many children in the world are lucky just to survive the first five years of life. But Mr MacCormack calls the situation far from hopeless. He notes that world leaders have agreed on eight goals to reduce poverty, save lives and increase security by 2015.

23、Direction: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A new transportation device called the Segway was reported to have been in use for quite a while. Its inventor called it the world’s first self-balancing ___41___ transport vehicle for short distance travel.

The Segway looks like a large ___42___ with two wheels. The wheels are connected to a platform. The stick has handles for a person to hold. The person stands on the platform and holds the handles. The transporter moves forward or backward when the person moves his or her body in that direction. The driver turns the handles to go left or right.

Computers and ___43___ devices on the Segway make the vehicle move and balance. It is ___44___ by batteries that are recharged with electricity. It can travel at a speed of 19 km an hour.

Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway says it was ___45___ to reduce pollution and solve other environment problems in cities.

A Segway costs about five thousand dollars. People who have bought Segways say they are extremely useful though quite ___46___. But they can use the Segways instead of their cars for short trips, and it is a great way to save money on gasoline. The Segway also makes it convenient for people who have trouble walking because of ___47___ problems.

Segways are being used in more than twelve American airports. Security officers say they are able to move quickly on the devices in ___48___ situation.

People on vacation are also learning to use Segways. Segway tours are popular in several American cities including Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, D. C. Tour company officials say it takes from ten to thirty minutes to teach people how to ___49___ a Segway. Then the group uses them to move around the city.

22、Section D

Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions and complete the statements in the fewest possible words.

 “Teach a parrot to say ‘demand and supply’ and you’ll have an economist”. While this is an obvious exaggeration, it does contain a little of truth. It is the interaction of the economic forces of supply and demand that determines the price paid for a given product or service. In turn, the price determines how that product or service will be distributed and used in a free enterprise economy.

Demand is more than just the desire for some product or service. It also involves the ability to buy. True demand exists when people not only desire goods or services, but also have the buying power to purchase them and are willing to part with some of that buying in order to purchase them.

Common sense tells us that if the price of a product, such as a sports car, were $5000, more people would be willing to buy it than if the price were $25000. This is the law of demand: as price goes up, the quantity demanded goes down. The reverse is also true: if price goes down, the quantity demanded goes up.

Supply results from the desire and effort of producers to satisfy consumer demands. Just as consumers’ desires and willingness to spend affect demand, so producers’ and suppliers’ willingness and ability to provide goods and services affect supply. The law of supply says: as price goes up, the quantity supplied goes up, and as price goes down, the quantity supplied goes down. Obviously, as the price of a product goes down, producers become less willing to supply the product and the quantity supplied decreases.

85. ______ is an important factor that determines the distribution and use of a product in a free

enterprise economy. 

86. According to the passage, if prices go up, people would ____________.

87. What are the two factors that affect supply?

88. What is the author’s implication of the beginning sentence?

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I. Translation:

六、信息匹配

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20、Welcome to JobServe Aus    

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1. Display your grades. Grades are still important to potential employers.

2. Communicate well with others. No matter what career path you choose to follow—from nurse to computer programmer—you should have solid written and oral communication skills to get a job.

3. Have enough computer knowledge. It is the information age; you need to be able to show solid computer knowledge that is related to your field.

4. Put your best resume forward. A resume should be a short and clear, error-free, reader-friendly, one-page document that can be easily looked through.

5. Research. Take the time to learn about the company you are targeting by visiting its website or researching the company at the library.

6. Use examples. Using detailed examples from school and internships(实习) to answer questions about your experiences and to paint a clearer picture of your strengths and skills for the employer.

7. Smile! It is hard to smile when you are on the hot seat —but a smile during an interview shows enthusiasm for the position and the company. Potential employers might think of a non-smiling face as a lack of interest.

8. Show your thanks. A thank-you note following a phone or a face-to-face interview reinforces(增强) your interest in the position and the company.

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73. You can give the potential employers a good impression if you         .

       A．write a face-to-face note                      B．show enthusiasm    

C．prepare a long and free resume              D．paint your own picture

74．What does the underlined words “you are on the hot seat” probably mean ?

       A．The seat is very hot.                                   B．Everybody else is laughing at you.

       C．Nobody else is helping you.                  D．You are in a difficult situation.

75．We can infer from the passage that _____         .

A．It is unnecessary to visit the website of the company you are interested in.

B．You have to be an expert on computer to get a job.

C．It is hard to find a job if you can not write well and communicate well.

D．A resume can be a several-page document if you have a lot to show to the company.

19、Lead deposits, which accumulated in soil and snow during the 1960’s and 70’s, were primarily the result of leaded gasoline emissions originating in the United States. In the twenty years that the Clean Air Act has mandated unleaded gas use in the United States, the lead accumulation worldwide has decreased significantly.

A study published recently in the journal Nature shows that air-borne leaded gas emissions from the United States were the leading contributor to the high concentration of lead in the snow in Greenland. The new study is a result of the continued research led by Dr. Charles Boutron, an expert on the impact of heavy metals on the environment at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. A study by Dr. Boutron published in 1991 showed that lead levels in arctic (北极的) snow were declining.

In his new study, Dr. Boutron found the ratios of the different forms of lead in the leaded gasoline used in the United States were different from the ratios of European, Asian and Canadian gasolines and thus enabled scientists to differentiate (区分) the lead sources. The dominant lead ratio found in Greenland snow matched that found in gasoline from the United States.

In a study published in the journal Ambio, scientists found that lead levels in soil in the Northeastern United States had decreased markedly since the introduction of unleaded gasoline.

Many scientists had believed that the lead would stay in soil and snow for a longer period.

The authors of the Ambio study examined samples of the upper layers of soil taken from the same sites of 30 forest floors in New England, New York and Pennsylvania in 1980 and in 1990. The forest environment processed and redistributed the lead faster than the scientists had expected.

Scientists say both studies demonstrate that certain parts of the ecosystem (生态系统) respond rapidly to reductions in atmospheric pollution, but that these findings should not be used as a license to pollute.

69.   The study published in the journal Nature indicates that ________.

A.    the Clean Air Act has not produced the desired results

B.    lead deposits in arctic snow are on the increase

C.    lead will stay in soil and snow longer than expected

D.    the US is the major source of lead pollution in arctic snow

70.   Lead accumulation worldwide decreased significantly after the use of unleaded gas in the US   _____ .

　A.    was discouraged                  B.    was enforced by law

C.    was prohibited by law           D.    was introduced

71.   How did scientists discover the source of lead pollution in Greenland?

A.    By analyzing the data published in journals like Nature and Ambio.

B.    By observing the lead accumulations in different parts of the arctic area..

C.    By studying the chemical elements of soil and snow in Northeastern America.

D.    By comparing the chemical compositions of leaded gasoline used in various          countries.

72.   The authors of the Ambio study have found that ________.

A.    forests get rid of lead pollution faster than expected

B.    lead accumulations in forests are more difficult to deal with

C.    lead deposits are widely distributed in the forests of the US

D.    the upper layers of soil in forests are easily polluted by lead emissions