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 Allan’s new MP4 is only about 10cm________ 8cm_______125 grams.

   A. between; weighing          B. by; weighing  

   C. of ; weighs                 D. with ; weighs

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He has three brothers, ______ is a doctor.

       A. all of them              B. all of whom                     C. both of them             D. none of whom

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__________from the operation, the patient was advised to stay in hospital for another two weeks.

       A．Having not fully recovered                          B．Being not fully recovered

       C．Not having fully recovered                          D．Not fully recovering

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       Robert Owen was born in Wales in 1771. At the age of ten he went to work. His employer had a large private library so Owen was able to educate himself.  He read a lot in his spare time and at nineteen he was given the job of superintendent(监工) at a Manchester cotton mill.  He was so successful there that he persuaded his employer to buy the New Lanark mill in Scotland.

       When he arrived at New Lanark it was a dirty little town with a population of 2,000 people.  Nobody paid any attention to the worker’s houses or their children’s education.  The conditions in the factories were very bad.  There was a lot of crime and the men spent most of their wages on alcoholic drinks.

       Owen improved the houses.  He encouraged people to be clean and save money.  He opened a shop and sold the workers cheap, well-made goods to help them.  He limited the sale of alcoholic drinks.  Above all, he fixed his mind on the children’s education.  In 1816 he opened the first free primary school in Britain.

       People came from all over the country to visit Owen’s factory.  They saw that the workers were healthier and more efficient than in other towns.  Their children were better fed and better educated.  Owen tried the same experiment in the United States.  He bought some land there in 1825,  but the community was too far away.  He could not keep it under control and lost most of his money.

       Owen never stopped fighting for his ideas.  Above all he believed that people are not born good or bad.  He was a practical man and his ideas were practical.  “If you give people good working conditions,” he thought, “they will work well and, the most important thing of all, if you give them the chance to learn, they will be better people.”

45．For Owen, his greatest achievement in New Lanark was __________.

       A．improving worker’s houses

B．helping people to save money

C．preventing men from getting drunk

D．providing the children with a good education

46．From the passage we may infer that Owen was born __________

       A．into a rich family          B．into a noble family

       C．into a poor family                D．into a middle class family

47．Owen’s Experiment in the United States failed because          .

       A．he lost all his money

       B．he did not buy enough land

       C．people who visited it were not impressed

       D．it was too far away for him to organize it properly

48．We may infer form the passage that no children in Britain could enjoy free education until    .

       A．1771 B．1816 C．1825 D．1860

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第四部分：任务型阅读 

 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。

Speaking in public is most people's least favorite thing. The reason is that we are all afraid of making fools of ourselves. The more important the speech is, the more frightened we become. In fact, public speaking is not a "gift" like musical talent. Anybody who can talk can speak in public. Here are some of the lessons I have learned:

Try to make your idea clear and brief. If you can't express what you intend to get across in a sentence or two, and then your speech is not focused well enough. If you don't have a clear idea of what you want to say, your audience will make no sense. After all, what you can impress your audience in your speech is one or two of your main ideas. One or two. Not ten or twenty.

No matter how long or short your speech is, you've got to organize it well-how you are going to open, what major points you want to make and how you're going to close. A strong close is critical: the last thing you say is what your audience will most likely remember. When I do a radio or TV piece, I often write the last sentence first. When you know where you' re headed, you can choose any route to get there.

Finally, you'd better limit the time of your speech as properly as you can to hold the audience's curiosity. Take a vaudeville act (杂耍) for example. The standard length of one is usually 12 minutes. Just imagine how you are feeling if you have been watching all the performers singing and dancing their hearts out for more than the standard time

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—How about going out for a picnic on Sunday morning?

       —Hmm．___．The weather is very good these days．

       A．Yes, why not   B．Well, no way    C．Oh, never mind       D．Sure, no matter

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Something _______ wrong with the machine, and it _______ not work.

A. being; could    B. going; should     C. were; might    D. went; would

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I wonder __________ that made him so upset yesterday.

   A.it was what    B.what is it    C.what it was   D.it what is

Greatly frightened by the terrible scene, _______.

A. tears came to my eyes          B. my heart was full of fright

C. my body trembled             D. I couldn’t help crying out

Fatimah Bamun dropped out of Balizenda Primary School in the first grade, when her father refused to buy her pencils and paper. Only after her teachers said to him that his daughter showed unusual promise(有希望) did he change his mind. Today, Fatimah, 14, tall and slender, studies math in a dirt-floored fourth-grade classroom.

    Whether she will reach the fifth grade is another matter. Fatimah is facing the realities of a school with no toilet, no water, no hope of privacy (隐私) other than the shadow of a bush, and no girlfriends with whom to share feelings. Fatimah is the only girl of the 23 students in her class. In fact, in a school of 178 students, she is one of the only three girls who have made it past the third grade.

    “I have no friend in the class,” she said. “Most of my friends have dropped out to get married. So during the break, I just sit in the classroom and read.”

    Her father, however, now says he is fully behind her. “The people from the government are all the time telling us to send our daughters to school, and I am listening to these people,” he said.

    But in many cases, parents don’t listen. Parents think that if the girls stay home, they can help with the harvesting, fetch the water and collect the firewood. So they take them out of school.

    In a region where poverty, tradition and ignorance make about 24 million girls not even have an elementary school education. There are many other barriers (障碍) that prevent girls going to school, such as the lack of school toilets and water.

    The issue is not only equality. The World Bank thinks that if women in sub-Saharan Africa had equal education, land and other wealth, the region’s economy could improve greatly. There is a connection between growth in Africa and sex equality. It is of great importance but still ignored by so many people.

The author’s purpose in writing the passage is to _______.

A. find the cause of Africa’s poverty

B. describe the poor education conditions of African girls

C. prove the inequality in African society

D. reform the present schooling systems in Africa

Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Fatimah is a girl who shows signs of success for the future.

B. Fatimah’s father is now giving a lot of support to her.

C. Fatimah is the only girl who has made it past the fifth grade in her school.

D. Fatimah has no friends at school because they most of them have dropped out to get married.

It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

A. most African girls are treated equally in society

B. African governments don’t care whether girls go to school or not

C. most African girls would rather get married than go to school

D. African girls can’t enjoy equal chances for education