D

You can deposit money in a building society and obtain yearly interest at a certain rate．You can also borrow money from a building society．What, then, is difference between a bank and a building society? In fact, a building society does not seem to be very different from a savings bank．Many people regularly save money by depositing small amounts monthly in a building society, just as other people regularly save money by depositing small amounts monthly in a savings bank．Some people deposit large amounts in a building society as an investment．They receive higher interest than they would receive from a savings bank; their money can be invested either in building society shares or in loans to the society．

These societies are controlled by law, but they are not government organizations．They were originally started to enable people to buy houses．One of their main purposes is to provide loans for buying or building houses．Many people prefer buying a house to paying rent, but some of them cannot afford to buy a house．To cover the cost they borrow the money from a building society．The loan plus the interest is paid back in monthly amounts over an agreed number of years．Probably the payments made in this way are no more than the rent of a rented house．But at the end of the stated period, when the debt is paid, the borrower becomes the owner of the house．To protect the building society from “bad debts” he must sign a statement to say that the house belongs to the society until the debt is paid．

A building society invests the savings of its shareholders in houses and property．Unlike a bank, it does not serve as a general clearing house （清算所） for every kind of exchange or business operation．Its activities are limited compared with those of a bank．

68．A building society is different from a bank in that ____．

       A．the former is limited in its activities

       B．the latter is limited in function compared with the former

       C．a bank doesn’t serve as a general clearing house

       D．a building society can protect itself from “bad debt”

69．Some people put large amounts of money in the building society because _______．

       A．they can get more profit than they do in a bank．

       B．they may choose between the form of building society shares and that of loans for their investment

       C．they may enjoy shares and loans at the same time

       D．they like the society

70．If you borrow money from the society to buy a house, ____．

       A．you have to return the money to the building society the moment it is needed．

       B．you have to sign an agreement to repay the loan after a number of years

       C．what you pay back monthly for the loan would be less than the rent

       D．the house doesn’t belong to you unless you have repaid all the debt

第二节 书面表达

       在寄宿制高中，大部分学生住校，但仍有一部分学生选择走读。你校就此开展了一次问卷调查，主题为：“学生是否应该住校？”下表是本次调查的结果，请你就此结果写一篇调查报告，并适当阐述自己的观点。

23．Well，that’s just the deal．_____price will be out of my reach．

       A．The higher              B．A higher                 C．The highest             D．A highest

26. The news that scientists so far haven’t found out the cause of bird flu discouraged some WHO officials,________?   

   A. didn’t they           B. did it          C. didn’t it        D. did they

16. Now many people_____higher degrees probably finish up nowhere when they try to get a highly-paid job.

A. with             B. in              C. for         D. At

假如你是李华，针对目前有些中学生购买彩票的现象，给21st Century 报社编辑写信，并谈谈自己的看法，其中包括以下要点：

1．弊远大于利；

2．中学生没有经济来源，容易诱发一些不良行为；

3．从当前说，会影响学习；

4．从长远看，会养成事事走捷径的侥幸心理，其危害将影响其一生。

注意（1）信的开头和结尾已经给出；

    （2）必须包括以上要点，可适当发挥，但不要逐句翻译；

    （3）字数100左右，不包括开头、结尾。

Dear editor .

At present , many high school students are addicted to buying lottery tickets and they seem to have good reasons . However , I’d like to talk about my views on the phenomenon .

Therefore , I think it is necessary for them to keep away from lottery stations and concentrate on their studies for now .

Yours ,

Li Hua

Complete the passage by choosing the proper words in the box.

Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. political   B. supported       C. gossip        D. set          E. contemporary    

F. literary     G. alive          H. significance    I. enterprises    J. figures

     It is impossible to imagine Paris without its cafés. The city has some 12,000 cafés varying in size, grandeur, and   41   . The cafés are like an extension of the French living room, a place to start and end the day, to  __42_   and debate.

When did the cafés in France start? The oldest café in Paris is Le Procope. It was opened in 1686 by Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, the man who turned France into a coffee-drinking society. Le Procope attracted Paris’s political and   43   elite, and in this way played an important part among the upper class. By the end of the 18th century, all of Paris was intoxicated with （沉醉在）coffee and the city    44     some 700 cafés. These were like all-male clubs, with many functioning as centers of   45   life and discussion. By the 1840s the number of cafés had grown to 3,000. The men who gathered in these cafés and  46   the theme of the times included journalists, playwrights and writers. Around the turn of the 20th century, the sidewalk cafés became the meeting halls for artists and literary   47  .

Nowadays in Paris cafés still play the role of picture windows for observing   48  life. The artists gathered at the café may not be as great as those of the past, but faces worth watching are just the same. Linger a bit and you will see that the Parisian stereotypes are still_49    and well. You’ll see the old men in navy berets; ultra-thin, bronzed women with hair dyed bright orange; and schoolchildren sharing an afternoon chocolate with their mothers. The café in Paris has always been a place for seeing and being seen.

Thousands of jobs come into our Job Centre every week, but they get snapped up (抢购) quickly. So although we shall do all we can to help you, it’s important for you to do all you can to help yourself. This passage tells you how.

Registered for work

Once you have registered for work we will match you with available vacancies. If you want to claim unemployment benefit (失业津贴), you also have to get registered at our Job Centre. But you actually apply for and claim it at the local Unemployment Office.

Getting a job through self-service

Jobs that come in are put on self-service show as soon as possible. Half the people who find jobs through our Job Centre find them through self-service. You can call in at any time to look at the jobs shown.

Come to our Employment Advisers

If you want more help or advice, don’t forget that’s what we’re here for. Our Employment Advisers can help you with things like:

★thinking about the different sorts of jobs you could do and which are best for you.

★jobs available locally or elsewhere.

★whether you are suitable for a TOPS training course.

★funds to help you look for, and move to, work in other parts.

Even though you have a clear idea of the sort of job and pay you want, you may find that something different will suit you quite well. Keep this in mind when you are talking with Employment Advisers.

If you don’t find a job on your first visit

Go into self-service as often as you can to look at the jobs on show there. Good vacancies are coming in all the time just because you’ve been registered for work.

64.The purpose of the passage is to         .

        A. tell people how to become an Employment Adviser

         B. teach the unemployed people how to get registered for work

         C. give information about services available for the unemployed

         D. introduce the TOPS training course for the unemployed

65.The unemployed people can claim unemployment benefit from          .

        A. the Job Centre                    B. all the Unemployment Offices

         C. the Employment Advisers     D. the local Unemployment Office

66.Employment Advisers can           .

        A. help you find out what kind of jobs suits you best

         B. help you register for work and use self - service

         C. help you claim as much unemployment benefit as possible

         D. help you find a job suitable for you on your first visit

67.The underlined word “vacancies” in the passage means           .

        A. jobs        B. benefits      C .suggestions        D. services

任务型阅读 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

Waste to Energy—JUST BURN IT!

WHY BURN WASTE?

    Waste-to-energy plants generate (产生) enough electricity to supply 2.4 million households in the US. But, providing electricity is not the major advantage of waste-to-energy plants. In fact, it costs more to generate electricity at a waste-to-energy plant than it does at a coal, nuclear, or hydropower plant. 

The major advantage of burning waste is that it considerably reduces the amount of trash going to landfills. The average American produces more than 1,600 pounds of waste a year. If all this waste were landfilled, it would take more than two cubic yards of landfill space. That’s the volume of a box three feet long, three feet wide, and six feet high. If that waste were burned, the ashes would fit into a box three feet long, three feet wide, but only nine inches high!

Some communities in the Northeast may be running out of land for new landfills. And, since most people don’t want landfills in their backyards, it has become more difficult to obtain permits to build new landfills. Taking the country as a whole, the United States has plenty of open space, of course, but it is expensive to transport garbage a long distance to put it into a landfill.

TO BURN OR NOT TO BURN?

 Some people are concerned that burning garbage may harm the environment. Like coal plants, waste-to-energy plants produce air pollution when the fuel is burned to produce steam or electricity. Burning garbage releases the chemicals and substances found in the waste. Some chemicals can be a threat to people, the environment, or both, if they are not properly controlled.

Some critics of waste-to-energy plants are afraid that burning waste will hamper (妨碍，阻碍) recycling programs. If everyone sends their trash to a waste-to-energy plant, they say, there will be little motive to recycle. Several states have considered or are considering banning waste-to-energy plants unless recycling programs are in place. Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York City have delayed new waste-to-energy plants, hoping to increase the level of recycling first.

So, what’s the real story? Can recycling and burning waste coexist? At first glance, recycling and waste-to-energy seem to be at odds (不一致), but they can actually complement (弥补) each other. That’s because it makes good sense to recycle some materials, and better sense to burn others.

Let’s look at aluminum, for example. Aluminum mineral is so expensive to mine that recycling aluminum more than pays for itself. Burning it produces no energy. So clearly, aluminum is valuable to recycle and not useful to burn.   

Paper, on the other hand, can either be burned or recycled—it all depends on the price the used paper will bring.

Plastics are another matter. Because plastics are made from petroleum and natural gas, they are excellent sources of energy for waste-to-energy plants. This is especially true since plastics are not as easy to recycle as steel, aluminum, or paper. Plastics almost always have to be hand sorted and making a product from recycled plastics may cost more than making it from new materials. 

To burn or not to burn is not really the question. We should use both recycling and waste-to-energy as alternatives to landfilling.

Waste to Energy—JUST BURN IT!