For many in the United States,Arab-Americans are an invisible part of the population．Though Arab-Americans as a community have made great contributions to American society in fields from literature to politics to medicine,many Americans know very little about Americans of Arab backgrounds．

       Arab history in the United States goes back to the late 1800’s when large numbers of Arab immigrants first began making their journey to a land known simply as“Amreeka”．

       Historians generally describe Arab immigration to America in two waves．The first wave took place between 1860 and 1924．The first wave consisted of Lebanese and Syrian,and some Egyptian immigrants．These new immigrants,who were mostly Christian,came to America in search of better opportunities．Even the doomed Titanic,which set sail for America in 1912,had close to a hundred Arab passengers aboard．The majority of Arab-Americans today are descendents of the first wave of immigrants;they are the third or more generation Americans．

       The second wave of immigrants followed after World War Ⅱ,caused by political unrest in the Middle East．This second wave of immigrants consists of mainly Arab Muslims（穆斯林）and continues to this day．

       Arab-Americans make up 3 million of the population in the United States,according to demographers．And quite different from popular belief,64 percent of them are American-born．Eighty-two percent of Arab-Americans are US citizens．

       Arab-Americans are beyond the national average in both education and income．Education is important among Arab-Americans;82 percent have high school diplomas,36 percent have bachelor’s degrees or higher,and 15 percent have graduate degrees．The-median（中位数的） average income among Arab-Americans is $39 580,which is higher than the US average．

What would be the best title for the text?

       A．Arabs in America．                               B．The Two Arab Immigration Waves to America．

       C．Arab-Americans,Contributions to America．

       D．Arab-Americans,Education and Income．

The first wave of immigrants took place because______．

       A．all Arabs were Christian at that time                   

       B．Arabs wanted to hunt for a better development

       C．the Second World War broke out                        

       D．Arabs wanted to gain higher income

The writer of this passage mentioned Titanic______．

       A．to tell us that taking ship at that time was dangerous

       B．because Titanic became a well-known disaster

       C．to show us there were many Arabs flocking into America at that time

       D．to inform us that Arabs are brave enough

From the last paragraph we can infer that______．

       A．Arab-Americans are much more clever than native Americans

       B．Arab-Americans are hard-working people

       C．the higher education you receive,the higher income you will get in America

       D．Arab-Americans play the most important role in the American average in both education and income

As society advances and basic needs are most often being met, things that were not considered important in the past have taken priority(优先). In the past, people could easily get a job and progress pretty well, as long as they were hard-working; education was important but not as crucial(关系重大) as it is today.

Nowadays, just as clothes are important to first impressions, degree is important to a person’s first job interview or even a job with a good salary. Although experience is important to survive in any trade or profession, the first thing that companies look for is that piece of paper before looking at one’s experience.

A passport into the world of any profession is what having a degree means today, especially for professions that have need of certification and pay well, such as architects, doctors, lawyers, and teachers.

That piece of paper, the degree, is also a passport to jobs in top or middle management in any company, especially so for multi-national corporations(跨国公司). Having a degree opens up opportunities that one would not have had if one did not have any kind of degree. A degree simply proves that one has gone through the necessary training and understanding of how to carry out a job.

Although there are many that may say having a degree may not necessarily equal to success, it would most definitely help any person achieve success in shorter and easier steps. Success cannot simply be a result of hard work and/or depending on one’s experience or degree alone; it is the art and knowledge of how to work that determines one’s success. Therefore, it should not be for the sake to get a degree, but the quality of the degree and experiences that one can learn from that matter as well.

What would be the best title for this passage?

A. People used to be hard-working

B. How important is the degree?　　

C. How can we enter the top management?

D. Degree surely leads to success

Why does the author mention clothes in the second paragraph?

A. To prove the importance of the first impression.

B. To stress the importance of job interviews.　　

C. To show the importance of clothes.

D. To explain the importance of degree.

What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. Having a degree

B. Success

C. Necessary training

D. Having an opportunity

假设你是某中学学生英文报的小记者，对中学生课外上网的利弊进行调查采访。以下是学生们对上网的看法。请你根据他们的观点写一篇简要的调查报告，并呼吁正确使用互联网。

As soon as I got on the bus I realized that I________ my papers in the house.

     A. left      B. was leaving       C. had left       D. have left

More than one student in our class _________ to Shanghai Expo.

      A．has been   B．have been C．is      D．are

I ______ see Sarah ______ her mother . They two look so much alike .

  A. will ; thinking about     B. never ; without thinking of   

 C. always ; and remind     D. hardly ; and remember

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该题涂黑。

There are a few memories from our childhood that will stay with us forever. A few that seemed so    36    at the time may cause us to smile years later.

     One such memory is a phone call I    37    when I was about three or four years old. My mother had entered a contest on a local    38    show. Entrants（参加者）were to tell an interesting story about their    39   . Winners would receive a phone call from Mrs. Santa Claus（女圣诞老人）! Mrs. Claus would award（奖励） the lucky child free    40    of a local store.

     Well, the call came. My mother talked to Mrs. Claus and then    41    the phone to me. I didn’t    42    the fact that many people were listening to our conversation. However, the fact that this lady had a    43    connection to Santa, that was important.

     I didn’t know it yet, but my mother had    44    the attention of the contest judges by telling about the time I had    45    a wall with crayons（蜡笔）. Even I knew that this was not the kind of    46    that Santa would approve.

     Suddenly, in a very pleasant tone（语气）of    47   , Mrs. Santa Claus asked me about my art work. I    48    that this lady was the real Mrs. Claus, not a radio station actress standing in for her.

     I    49    down the phone and ran crying from the room. My crime（罪行）had not    50    unpunished. Santa would    51    know that I’d been bad!

     It turned out that I did get a    52    present from the radio station and its sponsor（赞助商）. And I guess Santa didn’t find out about the wall. Maybe he did and was in a    53    mood. In any case, my Christmas presents did not    54    a piece of coal（煤）.

     I wonder what Santa has in    55    for this year. Hopefully my wife hasn’t written Mrs. Claus any letters.

A. nice               B. important                 C. impossible                D. terrible

A. received         B. made                       C. gave                        D. showed

A. TV                 B. literature                  C. radio                        D. gift

A. parents           B. child                       C. husbands                  D. teacher

A. gifts               B. money                            C. books                       D. pens

A. offered           B. brought                    C. showed                    D. handed

A. doubt             B. guess                       C. know                       D. believe

A. false               B. direct                       C. weak                        D. wrong

A. put                 B. paid                         C. caught                      D. taken

A. decorated      B. made                       C. draw                        D. painted

A. idea              B. action                      C. behaviour                 D. plan

A. sound           B. noise                        C. laugh                       D. voice

A. wondered      B. believed                   C. reported                   D. supposed

A. put               B. took                         C. knocked                   D. threw

A. met                     B. gone                        C. changed                   D. got

A. surely           B. possibly                   C. impossibly                D. happily

A. nice              B. bad                          C. terrible                     D. cheap

A. satisfying      B. surprising                 C. forgiving                  D. frightening

A. invent           B. leave                        C. include                     D. exist

A. thought         B. mind                        C. fact                          D. public

Hummingbirds have got their name from the distinct “hum” sound made by their rapidly flapping (拍打) wings. The size of the bird decides the number of flaps it can do. The average lifetime of a hummingbird is 3 or 4 years, but some of them have lived beyond 12 years also. They are unique in many ways. Besides the number of rapid flaps they can do per second, they can also fly backwards.

Hummingbirds have an amazing sense of assessing the amount of sugar in the nectar (花蜜) they eat. They feed on the nectar of flowers. Hummingbirds do not feed on flowers whose nectar contains less than 10% sugar. Talk about a sweet tooth! As they cannot sustain themselves on nectar alone because of its poor nutritional value, they also feed on insects and spiders, and hummingbird food mixture that one can make at home.

Attracting hummingbirds to your garden will require a little planning. Plant butterfly bush, mimosa, coral bells, foxglove, morning glory, etc. These flowers attract the hummingbirds due to their high visibility (可见性) and nectar production. Avoid using pesticides (杀虫剂), as it will not only kill the insects around the flowers, but hurt the hummingbirds as well.

A common food for these birds is the sweettasting sugar syrup (糖浆). Hummingbird food ingredients are just two: sugar and water. Take a large clean bowl, pour in it four cups of hot water, and dissolve one cup of table sugar in it. Stir slowly until all sugar has dissolved.

Hummingbirds, tiny as they are, collect a lot of nutrition. Providing them with hummingbird food mixture made of sugar water is a sure way to get all these beauties humming in your garden.

Hummingbirds will have some little animals for their meal when      .

A. they can't find any green plants

B. they can't take in enough nutrition

C. they are bored with eating nectar

D. they are too old to fly

In order to attract hummingbirds, you should      .

A. plan high trees

B. grow plants with small flowers

C. grow plants whose flowers are bright in color

D. grow plants coming into flower in the morning

The main idea of the fourth paragraph is      .

A. how to prepare food for hummingbirds

B. where hummingbirds can find delicious food

C. hummingbirds can't live for long without sugar

D. hummingbirds like manmade food better than nectar

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61—70的相应位置上。

In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear   61   spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves correctly with confidence and without hesitation.   62  , we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.

There is no easy way to success   63   language learning.   64   good memory is a great help, but it is not enough only   65  (memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long lists of words and   66   meanings, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language.   67   we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of   68  (advise) for those   69   are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practise speaking and   70  (write) the language whenever we can.

There are many films and plays on show during the Shanghai Expo. Is it the UK Pavilion ______ you are going to watch the play Hamlet?

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