One day last September, as Britney Spears was about to board a flight to Los Angeles from London, a blue bottle fell out of her purse．She quickly put it back in, but not before the camera recorded the event．Neither Spears nor her spokesman was willing to comment on the contents of the bottle, but the next morning London’s Daily Express published a page of pictures under the headline “EXCLUSIVE: POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS.” Spears was apparently carrying Zantrex-3, one of the most popular weight-loss pills now sold in the United States．The pill, which is sold at about fifty dollars for a month’s supply, contains a huge amount of caffeine, some green tea, and three common South American herbs that also act as stimulants （兴奋剂）．It hit the U.S．market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overstate．Millions of bottles have been sold, and during the Christmas season it was displayed in the windows of the nation’s largest chain of vitamin shops, G.N.C．（It is so highly sought after that many of the stores keep it in locked counters.） Zantrex-3 is also sold at CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, and other chains, and over the telephone and on the Internet．If you type “Zantrex” into Google, more than a hundred thousand pieces of information about it will appear．At any moment, there are scores of people sell it on eBay．

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the success story of Zantrex-3, however, is that it is far from unique．There are hundreds of similar products on the market today, and they are bought by millions of Americans．And though Zantrex’s producer makes some exciting statements （“the most advanced weight control compound （化合物）period”）, so do the people who sell Stacker 2 and Anorex along with those who sell Carb Eliminator and Fat Eliminator．Almost all of these compounds suggest that they can help people lose weight and regain lost energy, and often without diet, exercise, or any other effort．

1．Britney Spears is a / an______.

   A．dancer          B．singer               C．athlete              D．chemist

2．The underlined part of the sentence in the first paragraph is most likely similar in meaning to ______.

       A．it is difficult to say how successful Zantrex-3 is

     B．you can’t overstate the success of Zantrex-3

     C．you can’t think too highly of the success of Zantrex-3

     D．Zantrex-3 is not very successful

3．From the second paragraph we know that ______ .

     A．Zantrex-3 is one of the successful weight-loss pills on the US market

     B．Zantrex-3 is the most successful weight-loss pills on the US market

       C．Zantrex-3 is the only weight-loss pill on the US market

       D．there are five kinds of weight-loss pills on the US market

4．The text mainly tells us ______.

     A．when Britney Spears was found taking weight-loss pills with her

     B．how Zantrex-3 became successful in the USA

     C．Zantrex-3 is forbidden to be sold on the US market

     D．weight-loss pills are very popular in the USA

Nowadays, a cellphone service is available to everyone, everywhere．Probably thousands of people have already been using it, but I just discovered it, so I’m going to claim it and also name it: Fake Foning.

　　The technology has been working well for me at the office, but there are infinite applications．In fact in any public space．

　　Say you work at a big university with lots of talky faculty members buzzing about．Now, say you need to use the restroom．The trip down the hall will take approximately one hour, because a person can’t walk into those talky people without getting pulled aside for a question, a bit of gossip, a new read on a certain line of Paradise Lost.

　　So, a cellphone．Any cellphone．Just pick it up．Don’t dial．Just hold that phone to your face and start talking．Walk confidently down the hall engaged in fake conversation, making sure to tailor both the topic and content to the person standing before you whom you are trying to evade.

　　For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake business:

　　 "Yes, I’m glad you called, because we really need to think about the details．What’s that? Yes, I read Page 12, but if you look at the bottom of 4, I think you can see the problem begins right there."

　　Be animated．Be engaged in your fake fone conversation．Make eye contact with the people passing, nod to them, gesture keen interest in talking to them at a later time, point to your phone, shrug and move on.

　　Shoppers should consider fake foning anytime they spot a talky neighbor in the produce department pinching （用手捏） unripe peaches．Without your phone at your face, you’d be in for a 20-minute speech on how terrible the world is.

　　One important caution about fake foning．The other day I was fake foning my way past a colleague, and he was actually following me to get my attention．I knew he wanted to ask about a project I had not yet finished．I was trying to buy myself some time, so I continued fake foning with my doctor．"So I don’t need the operation? Oh, doctor, that is the best news."

　　And then: Brrrrrrng! Brrrrrmg! Brrrrrmg! My phone started ringing, right there while it was planted on my face．My colleague looked at me, and I at him, and naturally I gasped．"What is the matter with this thing?" I said, pulling the phone away to look at it, and then putting it back to my ear.

　　"Hello? Are you still there?"

　　Oops.

1．What is fake foning?

       A．A strategy to avoid people.　　             B．A device newly produced.

　　C．A service provided everywhere.　　      D．A skill of communication.

2．In the author’s opinion, in order to make fake foning look real one has to________

       A．talk about interesting matters.

　　B．behave politely to people passing by.

　　C．hold the phone while walking.

　　D．appear absorbed in conversation.

3．What does the last example show?

　　A．One effective way is to fake fone one’s doctor.

　　B．One has to be careful while fake foning.

　　C．Fake foning may not deceive people.

　　D．Fake foning is always quite successful.

4．After his phone suddenly began ringing, the author________

　　A．immediately started talking to the caller.

　　B．immediately started talking to his colleague.

　　C．put the phone away and stopped talking.

　　D．continued with his fake conversation.

此题要求改正所有短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^）,在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

There are advantage for students to work while                                 1．__________________

studying at school．One of them was that                                         2．__________________

they can earn money．For the most part,                                           3．__________________

students working to earn money for their own                                    4．__________________

use．Earning their own money allow them                                          5．__________________

to spend on anything as if they please．                                             6．__________________

They would have to ask their parents for                                            7．__________________

money or for permission to do things by                                             8．__________________

the money．Some students may also to save                                       9．__________________

up for our college or future use．                                                      10．__________________

最近，你校同学正在参加某英文报社正在组织的一场讨论。讨论主题是：公园要不要收门票？请你根据下表所提供的信息，给报社写一封信，客观地介绍讨论情况并表明你自己的观点。

60% 的同学认为：                                                                 40% 的同学认为：

1．不应收门票                                                                        1．应收门票

2．公园是公众休闲的地方                                                      2．支付园林工人工资

3．如收门票，需建大门、围墙，会影响城市形象                   3．购买新花木

注意：1．信的开头已为你写好。不计入词数。2．词数：120左右。

Dear editor,

   I’m writing to tell you about the discussion we’ve had about whether an entrance fee should be charged for parks._____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________                                                                                                   

                                                           Yours truly,

                                                              Li Hua

What _______ wonderful world it would be if all countries in the world could live in ______

peace with each other.

A．a; the            B．the; a            C．a; 不填         D． the；不填

______, a man who expresses himself effectively is sure to succeed more rapidly than a man whose command of English is poor.

A．Other things being equal                     B．Other things be equal

C．To be equal to other things                   D．Other things to be equal

The flight attendant welcomed us __________ the plane.

A．abroad        B．aboard        C．board         D．broad

Since no one had any more matches, there was nothing with which to ________ the fireworks.

A．set out        B．set about        C．set off        D．set up

_________ annoys me that Kim never returns the books she borrows.

A．It          B．What           C．This          D．That

The Medical Research Council said it couldn’t__________ the use of the new drug without further tests.

A．infect          B．approve       C．presume        D．assist