Call it proof of how carefully students court (讨好)college admissions offices these days: thank-you notes have become the new trend .

Tank the one that came with M &Ms (一种巧克力)to match Lehigh University’s school colors of brown and white ,and with the applicant’s name inscribed (刻上)on the candy .She thanked officials for her interview adding, ”Keep me on the tip of your tongue when reviewing applications.”

Leon Washington ,the dean of admissions and financial aid at Lehigh ,said that Lehigh received 50or 60 thank-you notes in just one day last week ,The notes are directed not just to admission officers ,but also to college tour guide and alumni(校友)who are often the ones conducting college interviews these days .

Parents also get in on the act, such as the couple that thanked Mr. O’Cain of Furman for a “most positive” campus visit .Then they put in a plug (随附一句) for their son, saying that he had always been “ a high achiever and a hard worker ”and that they knew Furman would be just the place to “help him reach his potential ”

At other campuses, like Williams College and Princeton, the motes go into applicants’ files “Is it necessary to write a thank–you note?” said Janet Rapelye, dean of admissions at Princeton “No, in and of itself .it’s not going to change a decision, But I’m still in favor of them, Expressing gratitude (感恩)is a lovely quality ”

Sometimes they are lovely .Carolyn Lawrence in California, who advises students and their parents on college admissions, recalls a note she received from a student admitted early to her first-choice college, It came on a postcard of the Eiffel Tower, It said :

“I spent my spring break -----on last –minute college visits in a month-long anxiety attack waiting to her back from colleges vacationing in Paris with my family and being forever grateful to Carolyn Lawrence for her help The answer is C．Thank you ”

1．The text is written mainly _____________

A．to analyze how fierce the competition is to get in a good college

B．to teach you how to court college admissions office

C．to report on a recent trend in college admissions in the US

D．to give information about different top American colleges

2．From the first and last examples of thank-you notes ,we can see that _________

A．they are addressed only to the admissions officers

B．students took care writing and designing them

C．thank-you notes are often sent together with little gifts

D．e-mail tank-you notes are not so impressive as hand –written ones

3．Who are the thank-you notes directed to ?

       A．student advisors                        

       B．admissions officer

       C．applicants’ parents        

       D．those who interview college applicants these days

       A．ab                    B．bd                C．bcd                      D．abd

4．The underlined phrase “ get in on ”in Paragraph 4 means ___________

       A．benefit from                                     B．take part in    

       C．become friendly with                     D．back up

5．What can be inferred from the text?

       A．You will be admitted early into a top college if you are good at writing thank-you notes.

       B．The writer doesn’t think writing a note will help anyone get admitted into a good college.

       C．Even if the thank—you notes may not be a determining factor in getting into a good college they put you in good light.

       D．There is no need to spend your spring break on last- minute college visits.

Soaring divorce rates around the globe are taking a toll for the environment, American researchers suggested in a study released Monday .

Michigan State University researcher Jianguo “Jack ”Liu and his assistant Eunice Yu said the increasing  number of divorces leads to more households with fewer people and greater consumption of water and energy .They said housing units require space ,construction materials and fuel to heat and cool ,regardless of the number of inhabitants .

For example, in the United States in 2005, divorced households consumed an extra 73 billion kilowatt hours of electricity and 627 billion gallons of water, An additional 38 million extra rooms required heating and lighting that same year due to divorced households .

“A married household actually uses resources more efficiently than a divorced household ”, Liu said ,He said that in cohabitating households ,people will watch the same television ,share the air conditioning and heat and use the same refrigerator ,all things that use energy at a regularly stable rate regardless of the number of uses .

Liu said he was not condemning divorce ,” Some people really need to get divorces ”He said cohabitation ---- whether by a family ,friends or even in a commune ------ was simply a more environmentally friendly option ,Additionally ,the researchers noted that trends other than divorce are also changing family living structures ,such as the end of multiple generations of a family sharing a home and people remaining single longer .

“People’s first reaction to this research is surprise, and then it seems simple”: Liu said in a release “But a lot of things become simple after research is done .Our challenges were to connect the dots and quantify their relationships People have been talking about how to protect the environment and combat climate change, but divorce is an overlooked factor that needs to be considered.”

He said the increasing energy demands caused by divorce should be considered by governments when they are creating environmental policies.

1.This passage is mainly meant to __________

       A．inform the reader of the increasing divorce in America

       B．emphasize the importance of protecting the environment

       C．appeal to married people to keep their households

       D．tell people the impact divorce has on the environment

2．According to the passage, what’s the attitude of Mr. Liu towards divorce?

       A．Critical             B．Indifferent       C．Objective          D．Unclear

3．It can be inferred from the passage that ___________

       A．divorced households will stimulate the sales of products

       B．married households are more willing to protect the environment

       C．divorced households contribute more to the society’s development

       D．divorce is not taken into account when people are protecting the environment

4．The underlined phrase “take a toll for” in the first paragraph roughly means ________

       A．promote            B．influence         C．strike                  D．decrease

5．From this passage we can find ______

       A．divorce rates are quickly rising globally these years

       B．cohabiting households will increase consumption of water and energy

       C．to divorce is a wise option accordingly

       D．the end of multi –generations of a family will save energy

Don’t you find that it is getting increasingly darker every day when you wake up for school? As winter comes, days become shorter while the nights become longer, in the past people slept more in winter, but in modern times we just use more electric light instead of sunlight to continue our normal routines.

But scientific research is finding that manhandling of electric light is making us sick.

Electric light is fooling the body’s biological clock into releasing awaking hormones ( 荷尔蒙)at the wrong times ,scientists say .This might be leading to seasonal fatigue (疲乏)and depression .

Much more than mental health is at stake, recent scientific studies have found that women, who work at night, have higher chances of getting breast-cancer.

“Electric lights are wonderful ,but as with a lot of other things ,we really mess ,things up ”said David Avery ,a psychiatrist (精神病专家).” Our ancestors evolved in a very regular light –dark cycle ,and our bodies just work better that way .”

Researchers have known for a long time that all living things have a biological clock that is linked to light ,Being of the natural day-night cycle can cause fatigue ,mood change and depression ,This is known as seasonal affective disorder ,or SAD.

Scientists disagree on the cause of SAD, Some say it is caused by winter’s late sunrises, others blame the early sunsets.

However, they all agree the perfect solution to SAD is to give up artificial light; it will quickly bring someone into a cycle of long, restful nights and easy awakenings at dawn.

But realistically most people need to use electric light in their everyday life. Ironically the next best solution is to use more bright lights to reset the body’s biological clock.

By getting bright light first thing in the morning it simulates (模拟)an earlier dawn and shifts the body clock forward ,according to Alfred Lewy ,a psychiatrist at Oregon Health & Science University .

A 2005 study done by the American Psychiatric Association showed that daily exposure to bright light was about as effective as medicine used to treat several forms of depression .

1． According to the text, electric light is bad for health mainly because __________

       A．is shortens people’s sleeping time

       B．it makes people upset and unable to concentrate

       C．it releases radiation and increases people’s chances of getting sick

       D．it stimulates the body to release awaking hormones at the wrong time

2． A person suffering from SAD may experience all of the following symptoms EXCEPT ___________

       A．weight loss        B．depression         C．fatigue                D．mood change

3．It can be inferred from the text that ___________

       A．women are more likely to suffer SAD than men

       B．SAD is a reaction to the lack of sunlight in winter

       C．scientists are still unclear about the cause of SAD

       D．all living things have a biological clock related to electric light

4．What is the best solution to treat people with SAD?

A．Using bright lights to reset the body’s clock

       B．Getting bright light in the morning to shift the body clock forward

       C．Daily exposure to bright light .

       D．Giving up artificial light

5．From the passage , we can find ________

A．people will sleep less and less as time goes on

B．hormones are important to your body

C．even though your biological clock is out of order ,you still feel OK

D．daily exposure to the bright light is as effective as medicine

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   Chhinanews Lhasa ,Dec ,12-A science forum that focused on the environmental change and its impacts on the Qinghai –Tibet Plateau as well as the regional development strategies was recently held at the Fragrant Hill in Beijing ,Staring From Monday ,. Chinese meteorological departments kicked off an atmospheric scientific experiment on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, The experiment will last for a year .

  Recently ,the atmospheric science data gathered on the Qinghai-Tibet ,Plateau has aroused great interest among international science circles and media around the world ,It is said that over the past two decades ,Chinese scientists had carried out two atmospheric experiments on Qinghai----Tibet Plateau and obtained high –resolution data through these experiments ,This time ,the experiment will be carried out in two monitoring stations set in the eastern part of the plateau ,in these stations ,scientists will make some intensive observations of the atmospheres in the east to  the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River ,With these ,scientists will try to upgrade their data forecasting mode and improve their forecasting capability .

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covers a vast area of land and the geological feature there is rather complicated Since there are not many monitoring stations set up there , scientists; information about the plateau is rather limited ,___________ they cannot make accurate forecast about the precipitation on the plateau and on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River ,It is said that there are rich hydropower resources in the eastern part of the plateau ,China plans to establish some hydropower stations in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River ,When the construction is completed ,these hydropower plants are able to generate electricity twice that produced by the Three Gorges Dam .

1．What is the main idea of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words)

2．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

The sources obtained through experiments carried out on the plateau have appealed to the attention of the science field at home and abroad .

3．Please fill in the blank in the third paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence (Please answer within 5 words)

4．Why is it difficult to carry out the experiment on the plateau?(Please answer within 30 words )

5．Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese

孟详斌，解放军某部军官，山东齐河人，2007年11月30日在浙江金华为救跳水轻生女子不幸牺牲，献出了年仅28岁的生命，他的事迹感动了全社会。 请以“Heroism in economic society ”为题用英语写一篇字数为120-150的短文，发表自己的看法。

Heroism in economic society

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In this park, birds often fly down from trees to eat from visitors’ hands. They are used to _____ in this way.

A．be fed       B．fend  C．being fed  D．having fed

I promise I won’t tell them __________ you say I can.

A．if             B．when        C．unless       D．as

－How did she become successful?

－As far as I know, her career __________ after her TV appearance.

A．took away        B．took off    C．took on     D．took in

－It was careless of you to have left your coat outside all night.

－My God! ___________.

A．So did I    B．So I did    C．So did you       D．So was I

He is very pleased with the job that __________ ten to twelve pounds a week.

A．brings to him                                             B．brings him out

C．bring him in                                               D．brings down to him