(From Business Worker 2007)

1．All of the following events take place before noon EXCEPT        .

    A．proofreading all investment proposals and review loan applications

    B．a client meeting with Asian Bank SEA

C．a meeting with Am Trust Insurance, Inc.

    D．a presentation for Catch National Bank

2．Who will be at the lunch meeting according to the schedule?

A．The managing director.        

B．Two VPs.

C．The clients from Asian Bank SFA.

D．The president of Catch National Bank.

3．The final item that this person must do before going home is          .

A．to make a presentation for Catch National Bank.

B．to have a board meeting

    C．to eat dinner with the managing director

    D．to conduct research, proposal review, and planning

4．This person most probably works　　　　　 .   

    A．in a trading company                         B．in a grocery store

    C．at a bank                                  D．at a computer manufacturing facility

假设你是李华，是信阳市某中学的高三学生。你的英国网友Jim发来 电子邮件，告诉你他将于今年寒假来中国旅游，并决定来信阳和你呆一周。但他有些情况不清楚。请你给他回一封电子邮件。

       注意：

       1．词数：100左右；

       2．文中应包括所有的提示内容要点，可以适当发挥。

       3．参考词汇：南湾糊（Nanwan Lake）  鸡公山（Jigong Mount）  小吃（snacks）

Dear Jim,

       I’m so excited that you will come to China.

Yours,

Li Hua

Some suggestions about learning English!

       We may all have heard about the old saying that interest leads one towards success. According to this saying, we’d better develop our interest in English at the very beginning of our study. To develop interest in your English study is not very hard. We may have the feeling of satisfaction and achievement from our English study when we find that we are able to say something not very complicated in English, or talk with foreigners in English.

       We will be amazed that the foreigners can understand our English and say “you speak good English”…

    Plans are always very essential, so we must make some elaborate and workable (feasible) plans before we study. For example, you can plan to learn 20 new words every day. Once the plans are made, we should carry out these plans to the letter. Remember: Plans are essential, but those unattainable(不能实现的) plans will make you feel frustrated!

       Taking notes is one important technique in studying. Good memory can not replace the function of notes. Notes should be taken whenever we study. As we know, notes are the summarization, the core content, or our understanding of the books that we read. It would be easier for us to remember the content by referring to our notes, which may be thinner than our books. Sometimes it would be useful to draw some tables, diagrams or illustrations that are very impressive, visual and concise. All these can help us in memorizing the content that we learn.

Watching English movies, English TV programs, listening to English songs and learn English on some special occasions are also excellent ways in learning English, as we may relate English to certain scenes so as to deepen our memory.

Once again for the learning of vocabulary: never just memorize single English words. If you only remember certain words, you still don't quite understand their proper usage. Therefore, it is imperative that you learn by heart the whole sentences and the phrases that contain the new words so that we can know how to use the words in a proper way. 

1．At the beginning of English study, we should               .

       A．learn English grammar.                         B．develop our good habit of learning

       C．develop our interest in learning English   D．remember many English words

2．The underlined phrase “to the letter”in the second paragraph might mean        .

       A．strictly                B．loosely                C．partly                  D．narrowly

3．Which statement of the following on notes in true according to the passage?

       A．Good memory can take the place of the function of notes.

       B．Notes may be thicker than the book we read.

       C．Taking notes is a waste of time in studying.

       D．Notes can help us in memorizing the content that we learn.

4．Which is the best way in learning English words?

       A．Remember the single English words.

       B．Understand the meaning of the whole sentences and phrases in which there are new words and recite them.

       C．Memorize the new words’ meaning in the dictionary.

       D．Write the new words three times.

As nanny(保姆), cook, cleaner, shopper, driver, and gardener, she has one of the most demanding jobs in Britain today. And paying someone else to do the chores(家务活) which take the average housewife 71 hours a week would cost ￡349.

At over￡18,000 a year that’s more than the earnings of 70 percent of the population, including train drivers, firemen, prison officers, and social workers. Looking after a baby less than a year old takes a housewife into an even higher pay league. According to a study, she earns ￡457 a week-at nearly ￡24,000 a year, the same as teachers , engineers, and chemists.

       Researchers put a price on each chore, then tried to find out how long the average person takes doing them. They found housewives spend an average 70.7 hours a week on housework-with looking after the children(17.9 hours) and cooking and cleaning (12.3 hours each) the most time-consuming(费时).

       A wife with a part time job still works an average of 59 hours a week at home. Those in full-time employment put in longer hours at home than in the workplace. The good news is that these hours drop sharply as children get older. While the average mother with a child under one puts in 90 hours weekly, the figure drops to 80 hours from one to four and to 66 hours from five to ten.

       Mother-of-four Karen Williams from London said, “Paying the housewives may not be practical, but the government should recognize the value of housework, perhaps through the tax. Running a house takes a lot of time and most husbands don’t understand this. For example, my husband only puts a shelf up now and again. He never cleans the kitchen—that’s the real test.”

1．Who earns most according to the text?

       A．A social worker.                           B．A fireman.

       C．A gardener.                           D．A teacher.

2．We learn from the text that looking after children    .

       A．takes more time than doing any other housework

       B．means more duties than being a teacher

       C．requires the mother to be well-educated

       D．prevents the mother from working outside

3．According to the text, a housewife with a baby less than one year old may work      .

       A．66 hours a week                            B．71 hours a week

       C．80 hours a week                      D．90 hours a week

4．By mentioning her husband, Karen Williams wants to show that      .

       A．housework is no easy job

       B．her husband has no time to clean the kitchen

       C．a housewife needs to be paid for cleaning

       D．the kitchen is hard to clean

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：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：

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

       该行缺一个词：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。

       该行错一个词：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。

       John Brown is a London taxi driver who love going to the            1．             

theatre .Last week his mother gave him two tickets for a play.    2．             

The tickets were on Sunday evening. Then John read some         3．             

reviews of the play, which all said it was a terribly one! He        4．              

wouldn’t go to see a play that no one liked it. So two hours       5．             

before the play started, he left the ticket on the back seat of      6．             

his taxi, Perhaps someone who wanted see the play would take    7．             

them. However, while John went back home, the tickets were      8．             

still there. In the fact ,there were four tickets on the seat.         9．             

Someone has placed another pair of tickets on top of them!                 10．             

With      thorough      of its culture and custom in a foreign country, you could easily get along with others.

A．a; knowledge                                        B．/; understanding

C．a; comprehension                        D．/; concept

The workers could hardly       the boss’s bad temper but under his supervision they had to

      themselves to working harder.

A．tolerate; contribute                             B．bear; dedicate

C．stand; resign                          D．put up with; invest

Deeply      his unhappy childhood, the boy’s       seemed quite odd and strange.

A．relating to ; characters                                 B．associated with; personality

C．linked by; virtues                            D．connecting to; morality

A warm thought suddenly came to me         I might substitute her son to buy some flowers for her 50th birthday.

A．if           B．when           C．that           D．which

The boy began to pick up after a treatment of surgery, radiation and drugs.

Which can replace the underlined word?

a. look up       b. recover                c. mend                  d. turn up

A．all are correct                                            B．none are correct

C．all are correct except d                    D．none are correct but c