The tea gardens in Sri Lanka are actually large estates(种植园). The best tea usually comes from plants grown on high grounds, the cool hilltops with rows and rows of tea plants. The plants are about one metre apart. The plant is often pruned so that it remains only 60 to 90 centimetres high. Pruning is important because it encourages the growth of tender shoots, or young leaves. It is from these shoots that the best tea is got.

Practically all the tea pickers are women. The estates prefer to employ women pickers because they are more careful. Their thin fingers can easily remove the twin leaves and new shoots from the plant, which are the parts used for processing(加工) tea. The pickers carry large baskets into which they throw their pickings. A skilled worker can harvest between 9 to 14 kilogrammes of tea leaves a day. Usually new shoots can be picked from the plants about every ten or fifteen days.

    Processing tea shoots into the familiar dry tea leaves requires great care and skill. There are various methods of processing depending on the type of tea required .For black tea ,the young green leaves are first spread out shelves to dry. This process removes much of its water and the leaves become soft. After this ,the leaves are passed through heavy rollers .This operation will press the leaves for juices which give the tea both its colour and taste .Then the leaves are spread out on floors and left to ferment （发酵）under wet conditions. Fermentation develops the rich taste of black tea .The fermented leaves are then dried with a hot-air blower until they become rolled-up black leaves .The final step is to sort and grade them before the black tea is ready for sale to countries all over the world.

1.In the first paragraph ,the word “pruning” means       .

    A．regular cutting of the plants

    B．frequent watering

    C．regular use of chemicals

    D．growing the plants high in the mountain

2.One of the reasons why women are employed to do the picking is that        .

    A．they work harder than men do in the picking

    B．they can throw their pickings more easily into the baskets

    C．their fingers fit them better for the job.

    D．they can more easily find the twin leaves.

3.How many processing steps are mentioned in the last paragraph?

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

4.What is the writer’s purpose in writing the passage?

    A．To introduce various methods of tea processing.

    B．To persuade readers to buy tea from Sri Lanka.

    C．To tell a story that had happened in the tea gardens.

    D．To inform readers of tea growing, picking and processing.

    Do you have any strong opinion on co-educational or single-sex schools?

    A supporter of co-educational schools would probably say that schools should be like the societies they belong to .In Hong Kong , men and women mix socially on a day-to-day basis .In many fields men are even likely to have female bosses .It is ,therefore, desirable that boys and girls grow up together ,go to school together ,and prepare themselves for a society that does not value sexual separation.

    Some would go on to argue further that growing up with members of the opposite sex is important for personal development .Regular contact （接触）can remove the strange ideas about the opposite-sex and lead to more natural relationships .Single-sex conditions are seen as leading to more extreme opinions, and possibly even as encouraging homosexuality（同性恋）,though there is no proof that this is the case.

    Those who are against coeducation often also fix their attention on the sexual side. Some parents fear that close contact with members of the opposite sex is dangerous for teenagers. They want their children to be attentive to their studies. Such parents feel uncomfortable with modern ways and the free mixing of the sexes.

    A stronger argument comes from research into school results .Girls grow up earlier than boys ,tend to be more orderly and are likely to be better at languages .In a mixed class ,boys who might do well in a single-sex class become discouraged and take on the rule of troublemaker .Certainly in the UK this situation has greatly alarmed （惊动）the government for it to be encouraging co-educational schools to have some single-sex classes.　In the UK the best schools are all single-sex, strongly suggesting that co-education is not the best answer. This may, however, not be as simple as it looks .It may simply be that the famous old schools that attract the best students happen to be single-sex ,　rather than that being single-sex makes them better schools.

1.In the third paragraph ,by saying “though there is no proof that this is the case” ,the writer means that         .

    A．students in single-sex schools will certainly become homosexual

    B．students in co-educational schools cannot have extreme opinions

    C．students in co-educational schools are likely to be homosexual

    D．single-sex school conditions may or may not have effects on the students.

2.All the following arguments can be found in the passage EXCEPT that       .

    A．co-education can produce a society-like situation

    B．co-educational schools may lead to love affairs between boys and girls

    C．co-education will help develop a better understanding about the opposite sex

    D．co-education can make boys perform well in mixed classes

3.Alarmed by the situation ,the UK government encourages        .

    A．co-education

    B．single-sex education

    C．single-sex classes in co-educational schools

    D．co-educational classes in single-sex schools

4.At the end of the passage the writer suggests that        .

    A．single-sex schools are the best schools in the UK

    B．being single-sex does not necessarily make a school better

    C．co-educational schools are better for both sexes in personal development

    D．because boys cannot compete with girls in study ,they go to single-sex schools

My car just wouldn’t move any further .It was complete             1._______

dead, and I was a few miles far away from anywhere on a cold,   2.______

wet night .I decided walk around a little before accepting I’d         3.______

have to spend the night in the car .Maybe I can find a              4._______

telephone .Actually ,I didn’t have to walk far before I            5._______

found a small house standing on a field with a light                6._______

shone from the sitting room .I knocked at the door and              7._______

was delighting when a pleasant old man opened the               8._______

door but listened to my story carefully .He said he had             9._______

no telephone, and it wasn’t one within walking distance,           10._______

but offered to come and look at my car. 

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          *2．词数为100左右。

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 Nowadays, a large number of women, especially those from the countryside, _________ in the clothing industry.

   A. is working      B. works          C. work           D. worked

 All these gifts must be mailed immediately _______ in time for Christmas.

   A. in order to have received             B. in order to receive

   C. so as to be received                  D. so as to be receiving

 Susan decided not to work on the program at home because she didn’t want her parents to know what she __________.

   A. has done        B. had done       C. was doing      D. is doing

 —We’d like you to start work tomorrow if possible.

   —I’m sorry, but I can’t possibly start until Monday. _________?

   A. Do you agree with me              B. Is that a good idea

   C. Do you think I’m right           D. Will that be all right

 Could you please tell me where you bought the shoes you ________ yesterday?

   A. tried on        B. put on         C. had on         D. pulled on

 This cake is very sweet. You __________ a lot of sugar in it.

   A. should put      B. could have put C. might put      D. must have put