再过一个月我们就要参加高考了。(before)

  我们，南中高三的学生今非昔比。(what)

A．Visit to Some Scenic Spots Outside Hangzhou

B．The Winners of Miss Tourism Queen International

C．An Introduction to Miss Tourism Queen International

D．Miss Tourism Queen International Held in Hangzhou

E．An Introduction to Contestants

F．Colorful Activities Arranged for Contestants

80._________

Miss Tourism Queen International began in the 1940s and has become one of the most authoritative and influential beauty pageants in the world．The contest mainly aims to promote world-wide tourism through the display of costumes and customs of different nationalities.

81._________

In June 2004, the city of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, hosted the finals for this year’s Miss Tourism Queen International．The pageant gathered contestants from 54 nations and regions.

82._________

After three hours of competition, ten finalists Austria, China, Canada, Germany, India, Poland, Argentina, Slovakia, Thailand and Vietnam emerged．Zabina Abdul Rashid Khan of India was crowned Miss Tourism Queen International 2004, followed by runners-up Jonalena Kwasow of Germany and Chao Junnan of China．

83._________

At the finals, colorful activities were arranged for contestants．On June16, contestants were organized to experience the work of reporters．On June 18 the “Living in China” activity were organized, where 56 contestants were each arranged to live with family for a day to experience Chinese daily life．The “Same Beauty” activity was set up to get contestants together with disabled children and show their love.

84._________

Contestants visited some scenic spots outside Hangzhou, such as Qiandao Lake and Xitang, a waterside town typical in regions south of the Yangtze River．At the Central-South China Botanical Garden in Anji, they joined Local women in picking tea and learned more about China’s profound tea culture．At the botanical garden, they competed in national costumes．The representatives of China, Denmark, Mexico, Greece and Ukraine won the first five places.

Global warming and changing climatic conditions are triggering disease epidemics in wildlife around the world, reports a famous team of ecologists and epidemiologists in the Friday June 21st issue of Science.

"What is most surprising is the fact that climate sensitive outbreaks are happening with so many different types of pathogens (病原体) ----viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites----as well as in such a wide range of hosts (寄主) including corals, oysters, terrestrial plants, birds, and humans, " says lead author Drew Harvell of Cornell University.

"This isn't just a question of coral bleaching for a few marine ecologists, nor just a question of malaria for a few health officials---the number of similar increases in disease incidence is astonishing," says coauthor Richard Ostfeld from the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook New York. "We don't want to be alarmists, but we are alarmed."

The team documented examples of viruses, bacteria, and fungi associated with diseases that develop more rapidly with slight rises in temperature. Many vectors of disease such as mosquitoes, flies, and rodents, as well as the viral, fungal, and bacterial pathogens are highly temperature and moisture sensitive. As temperature increases, these carriers are likely to spread into new areas and may have potentially devastating effects on wildlife populations that have not been previously exposed. Reproduction, growth, and biting rates of insects all go up with increases of temperature. Winter is the limiting time for many pathogens, killing back populations each year. With milder winters, this population bottleneck may be removed for many species. Warmer, longer summers also mean that the period of time of disease transmission is longer. Warmer summers may increase host susceptibility to disease due to thermal stress, particularly in the oceans. Marine bacteria and fungal growth rates are positively correlated with increasing temperature.

76．Where can we probably find this passage? In a __________.

A．Book                      B．magazine             C．textbook              D．dictionary

77．According to the passage, the report was written by ________.

A．Drew Harvell                                          B．Richard Ostfeld

C．Drew Harvell and Richard Ostfeld             D．A team of ecologists and epidemiologists

78．What do the underlined words “these carriers” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．Mosquitoes and flies

B．Rodents

C．The viral, fungal, and bacterial pathogens

D．All of the above

79．According to this passage, the outbreaks of disease epidemics tend to occur in ______.

A．winter                   B．spring                 C．summer              D．autumn

Rupert Hoogewerf, whose name sounds Dutch, is actually an Englishman. The 34-year-old man is very famous in China--though many Chinese merchant princes have complicated feeling towards him. Every day people, meanwhile, take delight in talking about his work. All of the fuss is over the annual report that Hoogewerf puts out ranking Chinese millionaires.

On the wall of Hoogewerf's office in Shanghai, there is a massive Chinese map, and on almost every province is glued a small strip of paper. On each strip is written how many millionaires are registered on Hoogewerf's list. Hoogewerf, wearing jeans and sandals, speaks fluent Chinese to introduce the initial motivation for compiling the list.

When Hoogewerf went into university to study Chinese in 1997, he says, he was affiliated with the renowned accounting firm Arthur Andersen, and was assigned to work in Shanghai. Working in Shanghai, he could see first-hand China's fast economic development.

"But my fellows and I don't understand the process of how this could happen," he says, "let alone to explain this phenomenon in the concept of economics."

Then he had an idea to compile a ranked list to introduce Chinese tycoons abroad, knowing that foreigners preferred reading people's stories to data.

With the help of two colleagues in 1999, Hoogewerf complied the first ranking of Chinese millionaires. The most difficult task was to select candidates, and Hoogewerf and his colleagues spent two months reading Chinese and English magazines and newspapers. From a list of more than 1,000 people, they chose 300 people to survey and contact further. Finally, a list with the hundred richest businessmen in China appeared. The listing astounded the populace; the Chinese have a tradition where people are afraid to exhibit their wealth. The achievement of a hundred millionaires became the main topic in everyone's conversation. Hoogewerf instantly became famous across China.

Hoogewerf also brings forward some advice to Chinese companies. In his opinion, compared to foreign companies, Chinese companies are still in the beginning phase. Their finance management and public relations need most work. So the service in accountant, auditing, public relations, consultation and so on is still required.

"If I don't compile ranks one day," Hoogewerf says,"I hope to do my Chinese career in these fields."

72．Which of the following sentences is true according to the passage?

A．Rupert Hoogewerf is from Holland.

B．Many Chinese merchants like Rupert Hoogewerf very much.

C．Ordinary people take delight in talking with the Englishman.

D．Rupert Hoogewerf speaks fluent Chinese.

73．What do the underlined words "these fields" in the last paragraph refer to?

A．Newspapers.

B．Accountant, auditing, public relations, consultation and so on.

C．Magazines.

D．Chinese companies.

74．Which of the following sentences might Hoogewerf agree with?

A．Chinese companies are satisfying and need no improvement.

B．Chinese companies should extend their business relationship with foreign companies.

C．Chinese companies should invest more money in poor areas.

D．Chinese companies need to work hard to improve their finance management and public relations.

75．What can be implied from the passage?

  A．As Chinese companies are still in the beginning phase, Hoogewerf doesn't feel happy to work in China.

  B．If Hoogewerf doesn't compile ranks one day, he will choose to work in China.

  C．Hoogewerf puts out the report ranking Chinese millionaires every other year.

  D．Hoogewerf doesn't have a good relationship with Chinese millionaires.

Watching a child struggle to breathe during as asthma (哮喘) attack is frightening for any parent. So it is only natural that most moms and dads will try just about anything, including spending a lot of money to keep an attack at bay. Trouble is, more than half of parents are trying strategies that simply do not work and wasting hundreds of dollars in the process.

According to Dr. Machael Cabana, a pediatrician at the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, who led the study, one of the most common mistakes was to buy mattress cover to protect against dust mites for a child whose asthma instead was made by plant pollen (花粉). Many of those parents then neglected to do what would have helped a lot more; shut the windows to keep pollen out. Another was using a humidifier for a child who was allergic to dust mites; a humidifier tends to be a place where dust mites like to breed. With those allergies, a dehumidifier works better.

Worst of all was the number of smokers with asthmatic children who didn’t even try to quit or at least limit themselves to smoking outdoors rather than just moving to another room or the garage. Many smoking parents purchased expensive air filters that have what Cabana called “ questionable utility. ”

Part of the problem, Dr. Caban and his colleagues believe, is that parents are bombarded by television ads that encourage them to buy products such as air and carpet fresheners, ionizers and other remedies that are often expensive but medically unnecessary. And doctors may not always take the time, or have the time, to explain to parents what will and won’t work in their child’s particular case. For example, allergies are usually a problem for older children with asthma, while kids 5 and younger more frequently have trouble with viral repiratory infections. So make sure you understand what the cause of your child’s asthma really is.

68．What can help the children who are asthmatic according to the passage?

A．Using a humildifier in the room instead of a dehumidfier.

B．Using air and carpet fresheners.

C．Buying a mattress cover to protect against dust mites.

D．Closing the windows to keep pollen out of the house.

69．Which sentence best explains why TV ads products bombard parents?

A．TV ads are obliged to make sure parents understand all terms of their introductory offers.

B．TV ads want to be sure that parents understand the benefits of very effective medical aids.

C．TV ads want parents to understand clearly the terms of their introductory offers.

D．TV ads want parents to be attracted to the benefits of introductory offers for their kid’s asthma.

70．The intended readers of the passage are ________.

A．teenagers              B．businessmen              C．parents            D．pediatricians

71．What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Therefore, please consult the doctors as soon as possible.

B．The best solutions are not always the most expensive ones.

C．It is never too late to cure the children’s asthma.

Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV, according to results of a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Published Thursday.

The survey, of citizens of five Chinese cities, found that 79 percent of interviewees use the Internet for information and 55.1 percent to read news on the Internet. About 63 percent of interviewees use e-mail. The average time spent surfing the new and watching TV were 2.73 hours and 1.29 hours, respectively.

Only 10.4 percent reported use the Internet primarily to send and receive e-mail;65.9 percent read on-line news; 62.2 quite often play games on-line. More and more people have taken an inerest in the entertainment opportunities on-line. Up to 56.5 percent of interviewees quite often download music, and 53.5 percent get entertainment messages forom the Internet.

Yet the survery found that television is still the dominant mass medium.Seventy nine percent of interviewees choose to watch TV to get information, and another 75 percent take newspapers as importand as TV.

Five major web sites in the Chinese language, namely Sina, Sohu, Netease, Baidu and Yahoo are still ranked top ones by web users, and those that voted for Sina as the best among them were 30.9 percent.

Authorized statistics showed that web users in China have already exceeded 100 million, second to that of the United States.

65．Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Chineses people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV.

B．There are more Chinese people using the Internet for information compared with those reading news on the Internet.

C．There are more people using e-mail compared with those searching information on the Internet.

D．There are more people using e-mail compared with those reading news on the Internet.

66．The survey shows that_______.

A．only 10.4 % reported use the Internet to send and receive e-mail

B．less than half of the people use the Internet for entertainment

C．all of the people reported like to play games on-line

D．most of the people reported read on-line news

67．The underlined word exceeded means ___________.

A．increased to more than                           B．raised

C．risen                                                    D．decreased

When I took the first exam, I was shocked to find a 77, C-plus, on my test paper,  51    English was my best subject. I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained   52 .

I decided to try harder, although I didn’t know what that   53   because school had always been easy for me. I read the books more carefully, but got another 77. Again, I  54    with Professor Jayne. Again, he listened patiently but wouldn’t change his  55   .

One more test before the final exam. One more chance to improve my grade. So I redoubled my efforts and, for the first time,    56   the meaning of the word “thorough”. But my   57   did no good and everything   58    as before.

The last hurdle (障碍) was the final. No matter what   59    I got, it wouldn’t cancel three C-pluses. I might as well kiss the   60    goodbye.

I stopped working hard. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the final, I even   61    myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once I’d have fun with a test.

A week later, I was surprised to find I got an A. I hurried into Professor Jayne’s office. He   62    to be expecting me. “If I gave you the As you expected, you wouldn’t continue to work as hard.”

I stared at him,   63   that his analysis and strategy were correct. I was speechless when my course grade arrived: A-plus. It was the only A-plus given. The next year I received my scholarship. I’ve always remembered Professor Jayne’s lesson: you     64    must set your own standard of excellence.

A MAN planted a rose and watered it   41   . One day as he examined it, he saw a bud that would soon blossom, but he also    42     thorns (刺) on the stem . He thought, "How can a beautiful flower come from a plant with so many sharp thorns?" Saddened by this thought, he     43     to water the rose, and just before it was ready to bloom, it died.

So it is with many people. Within every soul there is a rose. The good    44  planted in us at birth grow amid the thorns of our faults. Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns, the defects. We become    45    , thinking that nothing good can possibly come from us. We neglect to water the good within us, and    46   it dies. We never realize our   47    .

Some people do not see the rose within themselves; someone else must show it to them. One of the greatest gifts a person can     48     is to be able to reach past the thorns and find the rose within others.

This is the characteristic of love ― to look at a person, know his faults, recognize the goodness in his soul, and help him realize that he can    49     his faults. If we show him the "rose" within himself, he will conquer the thorns. Only then will they blossom many times over.

_____tomorrow’s lessons, I have no time to chat with you.

A．Not preparing                                             B．Not prepared

C．Not having prepared                                    D．Having not prepared