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They earn a great deal, but they can’t balance their _______ because the wife is often ill.

A. plan B. budget C. project D. prediction

Not until they left school how much their teachers loved them and helped them.

A．they realized B．did they realized

C．the would realized D．had they realized

Oh, it’s so cold in here. Somebody ____ the window, please.

A. closes B. close C. shall close D. will close

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 workers’ 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 idea. 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.”

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 children with good education

Owen’s experiment in the United States failed because ______.

A. he lost all his money as he expected B. he did not buy enough land for his future plan

C. people who visited it were not impressed D. it was too far away for him to organize it properly

Owen did the following things EXPECT _______.

A. educate himself in his spare time B. buy the New Lanark mill in Scotland

C. encourage people to save money D. improve people’s working condition

It was at the entrance ______ we stood chatting ______ the accident happened.

A. where; that B. which; that C. that; where D. where; which

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书面表达

假定你叫李明，在度过一周的假期后刚刚返校。现在给你的朋友刘东写封100词左右的感谢信。

感谢刘东为你安排一周愉快的假期。

简单回忆假期中的愉快的生活，感谢刘东请假带你游玩了许多地方。

认为刘东的母亲是一位非常出色的厨师，美味可口的饭菜使你体重增加了近10磅。

再次感谢，并希望保持联系。欢迎他有机会来你校游玩。

参考词汇：款待 hospitality.

Dear Liu Dong,

_______________________________________________________________________

Love,

Li Ming

Tom possesses a remarkable talent_____ music; that is, he is a musician _____great talent.

A. for; for B. of; of C. for; of D. of; for

. It was not until she got home ___ Jennifer realized she had lost her keys.

A .when B. that C. where D. before

Our brains work in complex and strange ways. There are some people who can calculate the day of the week for any given date in 40,000 years, but who cannot add two plus two. Others can perform complex classical piano pieces after hearing them once, but they cannot read or write.

Dr．J．Langdon Down first described this condition in 1887．He called these people idiot savants. An idiot savant is a person who has significant mental impairment （损伤） , such as in autism or retardation. At the same time, the person also exhibits some extraordinary skills, which are unusual for most people．The skills of the savant may vary from being exceptionally gifted in music or in mathematics, or having a photographic memory.

One of the first descriptions of a human who could calculate quickly was written in 1789 by Dr．Benjamin Rush, an American doctor．His patient, Thomas Fuller, was brought to Virginia as a slave in 1724. It took Thomas only 90 seconds to work out that a man who has lived 70 years, 17 days, and 12 hours has lived 2,210,500,800 seconds．Despite this ability, he died in 1790 without ever learning to read or write．

Another idiot savant slave became famous as a pianist in the 1860s. Blind Tom had a vocabulary of only 100 words, but he played 5 ,000 musical pieces beautifully．

In the excellent movie Rain Man, made in 1988 and available on video cassette, Dustin Hoffman plays an idiot savant who amazes his brother played by Tom Cruise, with his ability to perform complex calculations very rapidly.

Today we more clearly recognize that the idiot savant is special because of brain impairment．Yet not all brain impairment leads to savant skills．Some studies have shown that people who have purposeful interruption of the left side of the brain can develop idiot savant skills. However,few people wish to participate in such experiments. There are many excellent reasons for not undergoing unnecessary experimentation on one's brain. The term idiot savant is outdated and inappropriate. Virtually all savants have a high degree of intelligence and are thus not idiots.

48．What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．Idiot savants have areas of outstanding abilities．

B．Human Beings have complicated thinking process．

C．The brains of the idiot savants are partly impaired．

D．The reasons why people have wonderful skills vary．

49．Which of the following can be done by Rain Man?

A．He can play wonderful pieces of classical music．

B．He can guess out exactly the length of a man's life．

C．He can memorize the contents of the pictures fast．

D．He can count matches dropped on the floor quickly．

50．What can you infer from the passage?

A．Idiot savants have real talents for art and math．

B．Dr．Down is the first person who found idiot savants．

C．Few people wish to risk becoming savants by brain operations．

D．Intentional left brain impairments will surely lead to idiot savants．

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假设你是李华，你的美国老师Miss Morgan要求你们明天下午去听一个美国历史的讲座。你因故不能参加。请你根据以下要点，写一封短信向Miss Morgan请假。

内容要点：

* 表示歉意

* 理由：去机场接从法国回来的舅舅

* 询问：是否有录音，以便补听讲座

注意：

1．词数：100左右

2．可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

Dear Miss Morgan,

_____________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

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