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The UK is a (an) ________ small country, but the climate varies a lot in different places.

A. fairly                B. such                  C. highly                 D. so

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    Parenting has never been an easy job，but mothers and fathers today face challenges in raising their children that their own parents may never have had to deal with

    While children have always been particular eaters，for example，parents today are trying to supply healthful food in a world full ofchicken nuggets，processed snacks and soft drinks．Bike riding and hopscotch have given way to video games and text messaging．And working parents have to cope with all things around day care，jobs and family．

    At the same time，a large amount of health information on the Intemet and elsewhere has introduced a higher level of stress for parents．Web sites provide supplemants(补品)that increase a child’s brain health while news organizations report on the latest scare from baby bottles or too much television．

    All of this makes raising a healthy child overwhelming．But it doesn’t have to be．

    This Well guide offers small steps and simple ways to improve a child’s well-being in four

areas—nutrition，development，playtime and safety Inside，there’s advice from experts on how to raise a healthy，active youngster；tips on diet and behavior，help for problems like insomnia，and the latest thinking on day care，discipline and other topics．It’s all designed to help kids stay well every day．

45．According to the author,what is most likely to be found in today’s homes?

     A．Hopscotch     B．Healthful food．   C．Bike riding．  D Brain supplements

46．What does“Well guide'’in the last paragraph probably refer to?

  A．A programon how to deal with daily affairs

  B  A game on how to make kids clever．

  C．A book on how to raise a child．

  D A site on how to reduce work stress

47．From the 1st paragraphinthe passage,we can infer that_______

  A．today’s parents are too busy to raise their own children

  B  today’s parents should seek advice from their own parents

  C  it was much easier to raise children in the past

  D．parents have more concems in raising children today

48．The underlined word in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by           ．

  A．relaxing       B．delighting      C．stressful     D puzzling

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His wife is constantly finding________with him，which makes him very angry．

    A．fault            B．error          C．shortcoming       D．mistake

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It’s usually warm in my hometown in March, but it _____ be rather cold sometimes.

A. must               B. can                         C. should            D. would

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Along with the letter was his promise ______ he would visit me this coming Christmas.

   A. which   B. that   C. what    D. whether

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.—Do you think it wise for Chinese parents to try to do everything for their children?

       —No, that’s___________they are mistaken.

   A．where B．when C．what  D．how

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Dear Sir ,

I recently found your website of Chinese a very Culture a very good source .I am a professor teaching at Soochow University in Taipei Taiwan , and I would plan to quite often use some articles on your website for my coures of Introduction to Chinese Culture. Therefore, I’d like to inform you of educational purposes and hopefully to have your permission. Meanwhile, I do wish I could have more materials from your service. Much grateful to you.

                                                         Yours  sincerely,

                                                              Byron Gong

Dear Mr. Byron Gong,

It is pleasue to know that our websit has been of help for you to introduce Chinese culture in your class. Sharing the same mission in  promoting culture ,we are glad to grant you the permission in using the sourses of our website for your educational purposes, under the condition that all the sources are credited .However ,if the pictures or articles are to be used for publication, you can mail us and further discuss on that.

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Thank you again for attention to our website .Any suggestion is welcome ,and we would appreciate your help if you could tell us what contents in our website are of most interest and significate to you and what parts shoud be given more attention.

                                                    Sincerely yours

                                                     Chinaculture .org

60. What is Mr. Byron Gong doing?

   A. He is working for Soochow University in Taipei Taiwan as a cleaner.

   B. He is nothing to do with Soochow University.

   C. He is a professor teaching at  Soochow University.

   D. He is searching for some scholars.

61. Why does  Mr. Byron Gong write the letter ?

   A. He intends to introduce to his students if Chinese Culture is worth learing .

   B. He asks for the permission from the website to use the material in his teaching.

   C. He expects to be allowed to work in the group in the website.

   D,He would like to inforn the website that he hopes to help then introduce Chinese culture.

62.What was the response of the website after they received the letter ?

   A The wehsite responed to his letter coldly.

   B. The wehsite responed to his letter in a polite and anxious way.

   C. The website answered him enthusiasticaly,reasonably and suggestibly.

   D. The website answered him eagerly.

63. What can we learn from the response of the website ?

   A. They would be grateful to informed what contents are interesting and significant.

   B. They wish to learn more about Mr. Byon Gong’s hobbies.

   C. They expect to know more about their mistakes in the material.

   D. They hope for his appreciation in return for the use of their material.

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Saving the Planet with Earth-Friendly Bamboo Products

Jackie Heinricher’s love with bamboo started in her backyard. “As a child, I remember playing among the golden bamboo my dad had planted, and when there was a slight wind, the bamboos sounded really musical.”

A fishing biologist, Heinricher, 47, planned to work in the industry in Seattle, where she lived with her husband, Guy Thornburgh, but she found it too competitive. Then her garden gave her the idea for a business: She’d planted 20 bamboo forests on their seven-acre farm. 

Heinricher started Boo-Shoot Gardens in 1998. She realized early on what is just now beginning to be known to the rest of the world. It can be used to make fishing poles, skateboards, buildings, furniture, floors, and even clothing. An added bonus: Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a group of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen.

First she had to find a way to mass-produce the plants—a tough task, since bamboo flowers create seed only once every 50 to 100 years. And dividing a bamboo plant frequently kills it.

Heinricher appealed to Randy Burr, a tissue culture expert, to help her. “People kept telling us we’d never figure it out,” says Heinricher. “Others had worked on it for 27 years! I believed in what we were doing, though, so I just kept going.”

She was right to feel a sense of urgency. Bamboo forests are being rapidly used up, and a United Nations report showed that even though bamboo is highly renewable, as many as half of the world’s species are threatened with dying out. Heinricher knew that bamboo could make a significant impact on carbon emissions (排放) and world economies, but only if huge numbers could be produced. And that’s just what she and Burr figured out after nine years of experiments—a way to grow millions of plants. By placing cuttings in test tubes with salts, vitamins, plant hormones, and seaweed gel, they got the plants to grow and then raised them in soil in greenhouses.

Not long after it, Burr’s lab hit financial difficulties. Heinricher had no experience running a tissue culture operation, but she wasn’t prepared to quit. So she bought the lab.

Today Heinricher heads up a profitable multimillion-dollar company, working on species from all over the world and selling them to wholesalers. “If you want to farm bamboo, it’s hard to do without the young plants, and that’s what we have,” she says proudly.

72. What was the main problem with planting bamboo widely?

A. They didn’t have enough young bamboo.

B. They were short of money and experience.

C. They didn’t have a big enough farm to do it.

D. They were not understood by other people.

73. What does Heinricher think of bamboo?

A. Renewable and acceptable                             B. Productive and flexible.

C. Useful and earth-friendly.                                  D. Strong and profitable.

74. The underlined word “renewable” in Paragraph 6 probably means “________”.

A. able to be replaced naturally                B. able to be raised difficultly

C. able to be shaped easily                    D. able to be recycled conveniently

75. What do you learn from the passage?

A. Heinricher’s love for bamboo led to her experiments in the lab.

B. Heinricher’s determination helped her to succeed in her work.

C. Heinricher struggled to prevent bamboo from disappearing.

D. Heinricher finally succeeded in realizing her childhood dream.

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-- Better get down to your work, Jack.

  --- _____________.

  A. It’s my pleasure            B. Not to mention it

  C. Mind your own business       D. You’re welcome

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第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31～40的相应位置上。

It is interesting to visit another country, but there are sometimes problems    31    we don’t know the language very well. It may be difficult to talk with the people there. We may not know    32    to use the telephone in the country we    33   (visit). We may not know how to buy the things we need.

In a strange country we might not know where to eat    34    what to order in a restaurant. It is not easy to decide how much to tip waiters or taxi drivers. When we need help, we might not know how to ask for help. It is not    35    (please) to have an experience like that.

Mr. Day was a teacher at a school in a big city    36    the north of England. He usually went to France or Germany for a few weeks during his summer holidays, and he spoke French and German quite well.

   37    one year Mr. Day said to one of his friends, “I’m going to have    38    holiday in Athens. But I don’t speak Greek, so I’ll go to evening classes and have Greek lessons for a month before I go.”

He studied very hard for a month, and then his holidays began and he went to Greece.

When he came back a few weeks later, his friend said to him, “Did you have    39    trouble with your Greek when you were in Athens, Dick?”

“No, I didn’t have any trouble with    40   ,” answered Mr. Day. “But the Greeks did!”