1.According to the message board, Orion Books ____________ .

A. opposes the reading of original classics        B. is embarrassed for cutting down classics

C. thinks cut-down classics have a bright future   D. is cautious in its decision to cut down classics

2.In Mr. Edwards’ opinion, Orion Group is shortening classics to ____________.

A. make them easier to read                    B. meet a large demand in the market

C. increase the sales of literary books                 D. compete with their original versions

3.By describing the shortened classics as “a breath of fresh air”, Ms. Weir____________.

A. speaks highly of the cut-down classics          B. shows her love for original classics

C. feels guilty of not reading the classics           D. disapprove of shortening the classics

4.Mr. Crockatt seems to imply that ____________.

A. reading the classic works is a confusing attempt

B. shortening the classics does harm to the original

C. publishing the cut-down classics is a difficult job

D. editing the classic works satisfies children’s needs

5.How many classics are involved in the massage board?

A. Two.     B. Three.           C. Four.        D. Five.

It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean’s largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an endangered species. Attaching radio devices to it is difficult, and visual sightings are too unreliable to give real insight into its behavior.

So biologists were delighted early this year when, with the help of the Navy, they were able to track a particular blue whale for 43 days, monitoring its sounds. This was possible because of the Navy’s formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices spanning the oceans.

Tracking whales is but one example of an exciting new world just opening to civilian scientists after the cold war as the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to track the ships of potential enemies.

Earth scientists announced at a news conference recently that they had used the system for closely monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption （爆发） for the first time and that they plan similar studies.

Other scientists have proposed to use the network for tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in ocean and global temperatures.

The speed of sound in water is roughly one mile a second—slower than through land but faster than through air. What is most important, different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds, focusing them in the same way a stethoscope （听诊器） does when it carries faint noises from a patient’s chest to a doctor’s ear. This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean, especially low-frequency ones, can often travel thousands of miles.

1.The passage is chiefly about ____ .

A. an effort to protect an endangered marine species

B. the civilian use of a military detection system

C. the exposure of a U.S. Navy top-secret weapon

D. a new way to look into the behavior of blue whales

2.The underwater listening system was originally designed ____ .

A. to trace and locate enemy vessels

B. to monitor deep-sea volcanic eruptions

C. to study the movement of ocean currents

D. to replace the global radio communications network

3.The deep-sea listening system makes use of ____ .

A. the sophisticated technology of focusing sounds under water

B. the capability of sound to travel at high speed

C. the unique property of layers of ocean water in transmitting sound

D. low-frequency sounds travelling across different layers of water____

4.It can be inferred from the passage that____.

A. new radio devices should be developed for tracking the endangered blue whales

B. blue whales are no longer endangered with the use of the new listening system

C. opinions differ as to whether civilian scientists should be allowed to use military technology

D. military technology has great potential in civilian use

5.Which of the following is true about the U.S. Navy underwater listening network?

A. It is now partly accessible to civilian scientists.

B. It has been replaced by a more advanced system.

C. It became useless to the military after the cold war.

D. It is indispensable in protecting endangered species.

1.就我而言, 我渴望得到这个出国深造的机会。

________  __________  _________  __________  __________, I ________  _______ ________  have such a chance to _________  __________for further study.

2.他意识到自己无法适应城市的生活，决定搬回农村。

He ________  ________  ________he couldn’t _______  ________  ________the city life and decided to move back to the countryside.

3.只有老板的私人秘书才能接触到这份文件。

Only the private secretary of the boss _________  __________  _________this document.

4.他被宣布为这次比赛的冠军。人们都过来祝贺他的胜利。

He was _________  __________  __________the champion of this competition and everyone came to __________him on his victory.

5.他日夜沉溺于酒吧，以至于他的妻子和他离婚。

He _______  ________  _________pub day and night _______  ________ his wife ________ him.

6.人们都很同情他的不幸遭遇，并纷纷捐款帮他度过难关。

People ________  __________  _________his unfortuante experience and ________money to help him out.

7.学校正在考虑如何提高学生的住宿。

The school ________  _________  __________how to improve students’ ___________.

8.他推荐我读一本关于国家安全的书。

He ___________  __________me a book about national __________.

为丰富学生校园生活，我校每年举办了一次艺术周活动，活动内容如下：

 [写作内容] 假设你是校报记者，写一篇简讯报道这次活动。你的报道需包括以下五方面的内容:

1.本次活动的概况(名称、时间、目的);

2.介绍台上和操场上的活动;

3.介绍环保活动;

4.介绍创新活动;

5.收获和感想。

[写作要求] 必须使用5个句子表达全部内容。

 Whom does the money the government spends_____, the farmers, the workers or the businessmen?

A. encourage     B. discuss     C. benefit    D. treat

 Practising Chinese kung fu can not only  _____   one’s strength, but also develop one’s character.

     A. bring up   B. take up    C. build up    D. pull up

 The physics teacher told the students to observe carefully what would happen when a (n) _____ acted on the object.

A. force         B. energy        C. power         D. strength

 If you put too many oranges in that paper-bag it will _____.

　　A. spread     B. explode    C. crash     D. burst

 If your knowledge can be in some way ______ with my experience， we are sure to succeed.

A．joined  B. connected  C. united D. combined

 The students entered the classroom, smiling and _______, and _____ down to have their lessons.

A. talked , sat   B. talking, sitting  C. talking , sat  D. talked; sitting