1．Parents who want to help their children with mathematics may buy __________________.

A．Virtua Striker 4 ver. 2006           B．Racing Car Kiddy Ride

C．Happy Doctor Monkey             D．Happy Zoo DX

2．Which of the following is true according to the ads above?

A．Kiddy Ride is a new machine worth EURO$1150.

B．Virtua Striker 4 ver. 2006 is a latest version of software.

C．Virtua Striker 4 ver. 2006 may be popular among basketball fans.

D．Happy Zoo DX will help children in their study of music and art.

3．If you use Virtua Striker 4 ver. 2006, you can __________________.

A．greatly improve your football skill

B．watch the World Cup 2006 alive

C．feel the matching atmosphere more tense

D．change players’ data at any time

4．It is obvious that people can read the ads above __________.

A．on a board       B．on TV        C．in a newspaper       D．on the Internet

Blogging has become something of a big thing in the last few years. Just like the Internet was 10 years ago, blogging is popular with an underground culture that is doing it for love and passion.

Blogging is a way of collecting links to webpages and sharing thoughts and ideas with people online. Blogs are basically online journals or diaries which are created for sharing information and ideas.

Dominic, a fifth-grade student, writes: “The blogs give us a chance to communicate between ourselves and inspire us to write more. When we publish on our blog, people across the entire world can respond by using the ‘comments’ link. In this way, they can ask questions or simply tell us what they like. We can then know if people like what we write and this indicates to us where we can improve. By reading these comments, we can discover our weaknesses and our strengths. Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our points of view with the rest of the world rather than just people in our immediate environment.”

Blogging is sweeping the Internet. A recent report noted that at least three million Americans have created blogs, with similar numbers being seen worldwide.

Two years ago, Andrew Sullivan decided to set up a Web page himself and used “Blogger. com” to publish some daily musings（冥想）to a readership（读者人数）of a few hundred. He worked hard at the blog for months for no financial reward. But the result is that he is now reaching almost a quarter of a million readers a month and making a profit.

Think about it for a minute: Why not build an online presence with your daily musings and then tell your first book through print-on-demand（POD）technology direct from your Web site? Why should writers go to newspapers and magazines to get an essay published when they can simply write it themselves, change it into a PDF file, and charge a few bucks per download?

This, at least, is the idea: a publishing revolution more profound than anything since the printing press. “Blogger. com” could be to words what Napster was to music --- except this time, it’ll really work.

1. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. Blogs are mainly online chatting with others.

B. Blogging is important in the past few years.

C. Dominic wants to get a chance to be a writer.

D. Blogging makes us exchange our view only with friends

2. According to the passage, about _______ people worldwide have created blogs except Americans.

A. 250,000                     B. 750,000                C. 3 million         D. 6 million

3. From the passage we can see that “Napster” in the last paragraph is probably related to ___________.

A. newspapers          B. readers                C. words           D. music

4. What would be the best title of this passage?

A. What is Blogging                             B. Blog is Your Favorite

C. Blogging Goes Mainstream                     D. A Publishing Revolution

目前，家长开车接送孩子上下学已成为一个普遍现象，人们对此做法褒贬不一。下面是就此现象所做的问卷调查结果。

请根据下列图表提示，描述被访者的看法，并就此现象发表自己的观点。

注意：1.词数150左右，文章的开头已经给出，不计入词数。

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Nowadays it’s a common phenomenon that parents drive their children to school and back home, which causes a heated discussion, A survey has just been conducted about it , and the findings are as follows.

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受某英文报的委托，你最近对高中生的英语阅读兴趣作了一次调查。请根据以下信息，用英语为该报写一篇100词左右的短文。短文的标题及首句已为你写好。

调查内容：在新闻、故事、科普、学习方法四种英文文章中，学生最喜欢哪一种。

调查范围：湖北省的10所中学

调查对象：高中生

调查方式：访谈

调查结果：（见下图）

           选择各类英文文章的百分比

 Reading interests of Senior Middle School Students

Recently a survey has been done to find out the reading interests of senior middle school students.__________________________________________________                 

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LONDON—The tiny, distant and frozen planet Pluto, for 30 years believed to have just one moon, has suddenly been found to have two more satellites.

            Only discovered in 1930 because of its vast distance from Earth, Pluto has remained a largely mysterious object ever since.

            Some three billion miles from the Sun, Pluto, a dwarf planet, remains to be visited by a spacecraft.

            Its first known satellite is called Charon. With a diameter of 1,200 km, it is half that of Pluto—unusually large for a moon in relation to its primary.

            But now, using images from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists from Johns Hopkins University, Southwest Research Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have found two more tiny orbiting satellites, P1 and P2.

            Both are traveling outside the orbit of Charon and are tiny by comparison, the scientists wrote in the journal Nature.

            P1, the more distant of the two from Pluto, has a diameter of between 60 and 165 km while P2 is 20 percent smaller.

            "Although definitive orbits cannot be obtained, both new satellites appear to be moving in circular orbits in the same orbital plane as Charon with orbital periods of about 38 days for P1 and 25 days for P2," they wrote.

             The discovery of the two new members of Pluto's family makes it the only object in the Kuiper belt—a vast region of rock and ice beyond Neptune which contains debris from the formation of the solar system—known to have multiple satellites, the scientists said.

        1. It is implied in the passage that______.

           A. Charon was not discovered until the late 1960s

           B. Charon is the largest satellite in the solar system

           C. all the inner planets are better observed than Pluto

           D. Pluto may have some more moons to be discovered

2. The underlined word "primary" in Paragraph 4 refers to______.

           A. size          B. shape        C. planet          D. Earth

3. Which of the following show the possible orbits and positions of Pluto's satellites?

A             B                 C                 D

4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

   A. Pluto: furthest in the solar system.

   B. Pluto: two additional moons found.

   C. Pluto: tiny, distant and frozen planet.

           D. Pluto: two satellites formed in 30 years.

假设你是李华，在英国参加夏令营时成为下图中的交通事故的唯一目击者，警察要求你用英语填写下面表格。请根据图中信息加上合理想象陈述事故发生的时间、地点、原因、过程和结果。词数控制在120—150之间。（直接写在表格中）

       During the recent milk crisis in China, different related parts of the society have been put under the microscope, including stars.

       An online survey asked if celebrity spokespersons should bear responsibility for endorsing (代言) tainted milk products. Thirty-four percent answered “yes”. They said that the celebrities had betrayed the trust of the people and should be more morally responsible.

       They are right. But what’s more important is that we should train ourselves to be wise enough not to blindly accept what is being sold, even by our favorite stars.

       No doubt television advertisements, together with other media products, inform and entertain us. But, too often, there are hidden messages in the information we receive. The songs we hear, the images we see, and the articles we read, are carefully selected to convey political, cultural, economic and moral messages. The mass media delivers us these messages in an attempt to persuade us into believing or buying whatever is being pushed.

       The question is: should we always believe what the advertisement or mass media says? The answer is that we should use our minds to dig out the hidden meaning and rely on our own judgment to make a choice.

       In some countries, students take a course called “media literacy”. They learn to analyze the mass media. They are encouraged to challenge everything they see or hear and to do research into missing views. They learn to ask questions and to be critical (批判性的) thinkers.

1．What does the underlined word “tainted” in the second paragraph probably mean?

    A．Popular.             B．Healthy.              C．Tasteless.           D．Harmful.

2．The writer mentioned celebrity spokespersons to         .

       A．point out the shortcomings of advertisements

       C．warn us not to blindly copy popular stars

       D．stress that they are to blame for misleading

3．What can we conclude from Paragraph 4?

       A．The media products are created with a purpose.

       B．We should take media products as entertainment.

       C．Messages in products do no good to customers.

       D．We seldom take some information for granted.

4．To think critically, we need to do the following except         .

       A．making judgment about what we see and hear

       B．analyzing the intention of messages presented

       C．making a decision after asking for others’ opinion

       D．digging out the missing views behind the information

       An Australian company, Smart Car Technologies, has developed a system that lets drivers know when they’re speeding. When the technology becomes commercially available, it could help lead-footed drivers avoid tickets and also save lives. The company that developed the product hopes to convince Australian government agencies to put the technology into use in their automobile fleets.

       The product, called Speed Alert, links real-time location data and speed obtained with the help of GPS to a database of posted speed limits stored in a driver’s PDA or programmable mobile phone. The setup of the product does not need to be hooked up to a car’s speedometer. In fact, it is entirely portable. It will also work with newer phones and PDAs that have built-in GPS receivers. If a driver exceeds the speed limit, the speed is shown and an alert sounds.

       Michael Paine, an Australian vehicle design engineer and traffic safety consultant, was hired to analyze the product. He told Live Science  that his colleagues in the road safety field are “very enthusiastic” about what they’re now calling “intelligent speed alert.” Other research, according to Paine, shows that 40 percent of all traffic deaths involve speeding. There is also a potentially controversial future use: “Since the system is so portable, it would be easy to make it a requirement for teenage drivers to always use a speed alert device when driving,” Paine said. “The system even has the capability to record speeding violations, so parents can monitor their teenage drivers.”

       The product will soon go on sale in Sydney.

1．What’s the purpose of the new product?

       A．To inform us of the new car system.

       B．To introduce some improvement in cars.

       C．To limit certain drivers to safe driving.

       D．To popularize the built-in car system.

2．Lead-footed drivers refer to the ones        .

       A．who drive too carelessly                       B．that drive extremely fast

       C．who are partly disabled                         D．that drive too slowly

3．The second paragraph mainly talks about        .

       A．the project of the built-in product

       B．why the system becomes popular

       C．the functions of GPS in cars

       D．how the product is programmed

4．Which of the following is true of Speed Alert according to Michael Paine?

       A．Most of the traffic deaths can be avoided.

       B．Speeding violations can be easily found out.

       C．The system will excite some teenage drivers.

       D．The product will not be available for adults.

5．What can be the best title of the passage?

       A．Speed Alert and Its Future Use

       B．Progress in Car-making Science

       C．Warning for Adventurous Drivers

       D．New In-Car Device Against Speeding

This January will be very precious for us by which time we______ reviewing Senior Book I.

A．will finish                                 B．will have finished

C．have finished                      D．will be finished

It is reported that some wild animals were found_______ in a big cave in the mountain.    

A．to hide dead           B．hidden dead         C．hiding dead        D．hidden death