When I asked my daughter which item she would keep; the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said “the phone”．Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual, because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology．

Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic．My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day．If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?

Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone．“The mobile saved my life,” says Crystal Johnstone．She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton．Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance（救护车）to her rescue．

Point 3 The mobile removes our secret．It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are, where they are going, and how their last meeting went．

Point 4 The telephone separates us．Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window．It was easy to get his number．We were so near—but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!”

Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives．Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously（同时地）on chat lines（at least my daughter does．I wouldn’t know what to talk about）．We can talk across the world．We can even talk to astronauts（if you know any）while they’re space-walking．And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access the Internet, the biggest library on Earth．

How do you understand ‘Point 1 —The telephone creates the need to communicate,…’？

       A．People don’t communicate without telephone．

       B．People communicate because of the creating of the telephone．

       C．People communicate more since telephone has been created．

       D．People communicate more because of more traffic．

Which points do you think support the idea that phones improve people’s life?

       a．Point 1．         b．Point2．          c．Point3．   d．Point 4．  e．Point 5．

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

It is possible to talk to several complete strangers simultaneously through        ．

       A．the TV screen      

       B．a fax machine

       C．the phone line hooked up to the computer       

       D．a microphone

The best heading for the passage is ．

       A．Phone Power              B．Kinds of Phone

       C．How to Use Phones      D．Advantage of Phones

We'll never forget the day which my classmates and I paid a visit to a

chemistry factory last week. It was a larger one with nearly 2,000 workers. It

looked a garden and we could see colorful flowers, grass and trees anywhere. We

also visited some workshops and saw workers worked very hard. We talked with

them and learned a lot of. We understood them further. On the way home we felt

tiring. We all thought that we had a very good day. We real hoped that we could

get more chances of leave the school and learn social experience.

Nowadays no one can ignore the power of____, because they can expose the truth to the public so as to solve the problems.

A.   press     B. a press   C .presses   D. the press

—Oh, my God! It’s just a sea of cars. How can you ______ your car?

     —That’s easy. Mine is colored differently from any other one.

   A. give out              B. pick out            C. take out             D. figure out

We all hope that our head teacher is both strict ______us and friendly _____ us.

  A.in, to      B. in, for         C. with, to      D. with, for

最近的一份调查表明中国青少年的体质明显下降，青少年的健康问题日益受到社会的关注。请根据下列提示，以“The health of Chinese youngsters—a big concern”为题，写一篇100词左右的英语短文。

    1．现状：青少年体质明显下降，有许多诸如肥胖、近视等健康问题；

    2．原因：作业负担过重，睡眠不足，缺乏锻炼；

    3．建议：改革现行教育制度，减轻学生负担，使学生有更多睡眠和锻炼的时间。

参考词汇：肥胖 obesity  近视short-sightedness  改革 reform

The health of Chinese youngsters—a big concern

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The boss went into the house, _____ the five boys _____ in the rain．

      A．left; standing               B．leaving; standing   

       C．left; stand                 D．leaving; stand

      in the rules that you should not tell others the password of your account.

A, What is required     B, What requires     C, It is required     D, It requires

Lack of money _____ her not continuing her studies．

       A．explains to          B．cares for     C．approves of         D．accounts for

My uncle’s house in the downtown area is much smaller than ours, but it is twice ____ expensive．

       A．as             B．so        C．too       D．very