9、----Canada is ____ colder than China.

----Are you joking ? It’s ____ colder.

A. a little ;more         B. little ;more            C. a little; much          D. little; much   

8、请根据下表提供的信息写一篇文章向外宾介绍国家体育馆“鸟巢”。

字数：100字左右

提示词汇：标志性建筑 symbol、鸟巢 Bird’s Nest

二、选择题

（每空？ 分，共？ 分）

7、I often quarrel about my mother over whether I can watch TV after

school. She holds view that senior three students have to make fully use of

 every minute to work hard at their lessons. It seems to me that once I am

 allowed to do that, I’ll unable to control myself and forget all about my

study. She also thinks it is bad for my eye. But I really can’t accept her ideas.

 In my opinion, watch TV can set my mind at rest after a day’s hard works.

Besides, it is important for us to know what had happened at home and at

abroad. Thus, we shouldn’t be forbidden to watch TV.

6、根据短文内容， 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

A major source of teen stress is school exams, and test anxiety is not uncommon. When you recognize your teen is under stress, how can parents help your teen stay calm before an exam?

Be involved. Parents need to be involved in their teen's work. 71 . What they look for is your presence - to talk, to cry, or simply to sit with them quietly. Communicate openly with your teen. Encourage your teen to express his worries and fears, but don't let them focus on those fears.

Help them get organized. 72  . Together, you and your teen can work out a time-table in which she can study for what she knows will be on the test.

Provide a calm setting. Help your teen set up a quiet place to study and protect his privacy. Give them a nutritious diet. It's important for your teen to eat a healthy, balanced diet during exam times to focus and do her best. 73   If this happens, encourage your teen to eat light meals or sandwiches. A healthy diet, rather than junk food, is best for reducing stress.

74  Persuade your teenager to get some sleep and/or do something active when she needs a real break from studying. Making time for relaxation, fun, and exercise are all important in reducing stress. Help your teen balance her time so that she will feel comfortable taking time out from studying to spend time with friends or rest.

Show a positive attitude. 75 .Your panic, anxiety and blame contribute to your teen’s pressure. Make your teen feel accepted and valued for her efforts. Most importantly, reassure your teen that things will be all right, no matter what the results are.

A. A parent's attitude will dictate their teen's emotions.

B. Exam stress can make some teens lose their appetite.

C. They will only make the situation worse.

D. Encourage your teen to relax.

E. The best thing is simply to listen.

F. Help your teen think about what she has to study and plan accordingly.

G. Your teen may also make negative comments about themselves.

5、   Farmers could grow more rice and shaky Internet communications could work better someday, thanks to prize-winning discoveries by teenage scientists showed at a national science fair on Monday.

   High school scientists from across the United States showed off work in genetics, molecular(分子的) biology, mathematics and other fields that judges said rose to the professional level.

   “It just blows me away. They’re all just unimaginable,” said Joel Spencer, a New York University professor who served as judge at the Sidemen’s Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology.

   Research done by finalists in the nationwide competition could lead to faster Internet speeds, more effective antibacterial drugs and better energy conservation. One team researched black holes in outer space, while another examined more than 700 fossils to better understand why dinosaurs died out.

   Juliet Girard and Roshan Prabhu won $ 100,000 scholarship for their work proving genes that help some kinds of wild rice flower earlier than others.

   Drawing on a database that described the genetic makeup of rice, the two students, from Jersey City, New Jersey, identified two genetic sections that directed wild rice to blossom an average of 10 days earlier than the ordinary short-grain rice that feeds much of the world.

Their discovery could allow genetic engineers to develop a new strain that would take less time to reach maturity, allowing farmers to produce more and extending the growing region into colder climates.

Steven Byrnes of Lexington, Massachusetts, took the top individual prize for his theory describing outcomes in a two-player game called Chomp.

67. ______ competed at the national science fair.

   A. Some university scientists

   B. A lot of high school students

   C. Some farmers and computer designers.

   D. School science teachers from across the USA

68. Which of the following statements is NOT true?  

   A. The students’ research reached many fields.

   B. Some students researched black holes

   C. The database described the genetic makeup of wheat.

   D. The research can help to increase the production of agriculture.

69. What Juliet Girard and Roshan Prabhu discovered may lead to _______. 

   A. an important development in agriculture

   B. faster Internet speeds.

   C. their top individual prizes

   D. better energy conservation

70. What does the writer mainly want to tell us?

   A. Farmers can grow more rice and shaky Internet communications can work better

   B. How far advanced science and technology has gone

   C. High school students can make great contributions to the world in many fields.

   D. How some of the discoveries get regularly published   

4、In many societies, there is often greater acceptance of light skin than dark skin. Light skin may be seen as a mark of beauty, intelligence and success. These beliefs can lead to social pressures even within the same racial or ethnic group, if some members are darker skinned than others.

The result is that skin lightening has become a common activity across Africa, Asia and other areas of the world. More and more people with dark skin are using skin-lightening products, even if it means they may face health risks.

They believe that having whiter skin will improve their lives. Many people think they will have a better chance of getting a job or marrying into a better family. Or they want to look like what their society generally considers beautiful.

Some beauty care products and soaps contain chemicals that make skin lighter. This process is also called bleaching. But some of the chemicals are extremely dangerous. One of the most dangerous is hydroquinone.

Hydroquinone has been banned in several countries. This chemical has been linked to kidney damage and some kinds of cancer. It also causes low birth weight in babies when mothers use it during pregnancy.

At first, bleaching products make the skin color lighter. But after long-term use they can cause problems. They could even make some skin darker.

The chemicals in the products block and break down the natural process that gives color to skin. The skin loses its natural barrier to protect against sunlight. Then the skin can become thick and discolored. Usually the person will use more of the product in an effort to correct the problem, but this only makes it worse.

And these are not the only risks. Experts say some people who change their skin color suffer emotional damage. They feel regret and sadness. They feel that instead of risking their health, they should have learned to love and accept their skin color as it was.

63.Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?

The Dark Side of Skin Lightening      B. The Advantage of Skin Lightening

The Standard of Beauty                    D. Introduction to Beauty Care Products

64.People try to make skin color lighter by using beauty care products mainly because in some societies ______.

A. people with dark skin are not considered as clever as those with light skin  

B. light skin may be more accepted and seen as a mark of beauty, intelligence and success

having whiter skin will make them get a better job easily

having dark skin makes them looked down upon

65.The underlined word “bleaching” in Paragraph 4 means ______.

A. Making something white by using chemicals

B. Making something beautiful by using chemicals

Making beauty care products by using chemicals    

Changing something by using chemicals

66.It can be concluded from the passage that ______.

A. Dark-skinned people are healthier. 

B. Light skin does some harm to your health.

Dark skin does some good to your heath.    

Using skin lightening products has some risks.

3、Beldon and Canfield are two seashore towns, not far apart. Both towns have many hotels, and in summer the hotels are full of holiday-makers and other tourists.

Last August there was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel in Beldon. The next day, this news appeared on Page Two of the town’s newspaper. The Beldon Post:

FIRE AT SEABREEZE

Late last night firemen hurried to the Seabreeze Hotel and quickly put out a small fire in a bedroom. The hotel manager said that a cigarette started the fire. We say again to all our visitors： “Please don’t smoke cigarettes in bed.” This was Beldon’s first hotel fire for five years.

    The Canfield Times gave the news in these words on Page One：

ANOTHER BELDON HOTEL CATCHES FIRE

Last night Beldon firemen arrived just too late to save clothing, bedclothes and some furniture at the Seabreeze Hotel. An angry holiday-maker said, “An electric lamp probably started the fire. The bedroom lamps are very old at some of these hotels. When I put my bedside light on, I heard a funny noise from the lamp.” We are glad to tell our readers that this sort of adventure does not happen in Canfield.

What are the facts, then? It is never easy to find out the exact truth about an accident. There was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel last August: that is one fact. Do we know anything else? Yes, we know that firemen went to the hotel.

    Now what do you think of the rest of the “news” ?

60. Which of the following best gives the main idea of this text?

A. Beldon and Canfield are both good places for tourists in summer.

B. A fire broke out at night in Seabreeze Hotel last summer.

C. It was not easy to find out exact truth from newspapers.

D. Two newspapers gave reports on the same matter.

61. Which of the following are probably facts? 

a. The fire broke out in a bedroom at the hotel.   b. A cigarette started the fire.

c. An old lamp started the fire.                          d. The fire broke out at night.

e. There has never been a fire in Canfield.

A. b and c                 B. a and d                     C. c and e                     D. a and c

62. The Canfield Times used the headline “ANOTHER BELDON HOTEL CATCHES FIRE” in order to make its readers think _______. 

A. hotels in Beldon often catch fire

B. hotels in Beldon don’t often catch fire

C. this was the second fire at the Seabreeze Hotel

D. Beldon was a good place except that hotels there are not quite safe

2、        Some American schools pay teachers more if their students improve on tests. Now, there is a growing movement to pay the students -- in some cases, even just for coming to class.

Students at one school in New Mexico can earn up to three hundred dollars a year for good attendance. A program in New York City pays up to five hundred dollars for good attendance and high test scores.

In Baltimore, Maryland, high scores on state graduation tests can be worth more than one hundred dollars. And a New Jersey school system plans to pay students fifty dollars a week to attend after-school tutoring programs. Schools that pay students can be found in more than one-fourth of the fifty states. Other schools pay students with food or other rewards.

    Robert Schaefer is public education director for the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, an activist group. He says paying may improve performance in the short term, but students develop false expectations for the future. He sees a lack of long-term planning in these programs because of pressure on schools to raise test scores.

Public schools need to show improvement under the education reform law signed by President Bush six years ago. Low-performing schools may lose their federal money; teachers and administrators may lose their jobs. Often these schools are in poor neighborhoods where getting students to go to school can be a continual problem.

Critics say paying students sends a message that money is the only valuable reward. But some students say it makes school more exciting. And some teachers have reported getting more requests for extra help.

56 What is the passage mainly about?

Some American schools pay teachers more for improving students’ scores.

Some American schools pay students for good attendance and high test scores.

Public schools need to improve their teaching management.

Some American schools pay teachers for after- school tutoring programs.

57.In ______ of the fifty states, schools pay the students.  

A. only one-fourth      B. less than one-fourth 

C. over one-fourth      D. more than one half

58.We can learn from the text that ______.

A  all the .people are against the movement to pay the students.

B  not all the people think the movement to pay the students is good

C  in New York City students can get food for high test scores.

D  teachers can’ t lose their jobs in some schools in American poor neighborhoods

59  The text is probably taken from_____.

A. education report   B. health report    C. agriculture report   D. science news  

1、Time is the easiest thing in the world to waste―the most difficult to control. When you look ahead, it may appear you have  36  you need. Yet it has a way of slipping  37  your fingers like quicksand.  You may suddenly find that there is no way to stretch the little time you have  38   to cover all your obligations. For example,   39   a beginning student looking ahead to a full term you may feel that you have an oversupply of time on your hands.

40  toward the end of the term you may be   41   because you are running out of time. How can you do? ―Control!

Time is   42   . If you don't control it, it will control you. If you don't make it work for you, it will   43   you. You must become the master of time, not the servant. “Study hard and play hard” is an old saying, but it still   44  . You have plenty of time for classes, study, work, and play if you use your time   45  . It is not how much time you allocate (分配)for study that counts  46  how much you learn when you do study.

     Too much wasted time is   47   medicine. The more time you waste, the easier it is to continue wasting time. Soon, doing nothing becomes a habit you can't   48  . You will be __49  to wasting time. When this happens, you  50  your feeling of accomplishment and you fall by the wayside. A full schedule is a good schedule. Some students   51   to hear the time message. They refuse to   52   the fact that college life demands some  53   of time control. There is no escape. So what's the next step? If you seriously want to get the time message, the next passage will give it to you.  54   ― it will not only improve your grades but also free you to   55  college life more.

23、You have to sign in at reception         . Nobody is allowed to do it instead of you.

       A．in detail               B．in vain                 C．in person             D．in charge