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As settlers moved to California 1．________ the mid-nineteenth century, they became concerned about the lack of rapid 2．________(communicate)with the eastern United States．Because of the dangers and hardships of 3．________(cross)the West, mail often did not arrive．Therefore the most important mails 4．________(send)via Panama, 5．________ took a month or more．In 1860 a stagecoach company decided to meet the problem by beginning the Pony Express．The company hired 6．________ bravest riders and bought the fastest horses 7．________(use)as relay(替换)teams between Missouri and California, and the company promised 8．________ mails would be sent in ten days．The company established two hundred stations along the route at which riders could rest and change horses．In less than two years, 9．________, telegraph lines were completed and the Pony Express was 10．________ longer needed．

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At 3∶42 am on July 28, 1976, the greatest ________ of the 20th century happened in Tangshan, Hebei Province, China．In fifteen terrible seconds, a large city lay in ________．The number of people who were killed or injured ________ more than 400 000．Nearly everything was ________, including hospitals, factories, buildings, ________, railway tracks, etc．Water, food and electricity were hard to get．People wondered how long the ________ would last．________ all hope was lost．The army sent 150 000 soldiers to Tangshan to help the rescue workers．Slowly the city began to ________ again．From then on, every year on July 28, we would ________ those who died in the terrible disaster and those who helped the ________．

请阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。

A．A collection of articles

This is a collection of articles about different online learning applications in schools and provides a good overview of what teachers and students are doing in real situation．

B．Reliable introduction to distance learning

This is a very reliable introduction to distance learning which focuses on the use of television．The principles and ideas discussed really apply to any form of distance education．

C．A good introductory book for teachers

A good introductory book for teachers that explains what distance learning is and how to put it into practice．

D．A useful discussion

A useful discussion of the issues associated with distance training and how to avoid the shortcomings of online teaching and how to deal with the problems caused by online teaching．

E．An excellent summary

An excellent summary of past research and current practice in online learning written by a group of pioneers in the field．They have written a number of important books about their work before．

F．A scholarly textbook

A scholarly textbook about distance education that presents the history and theory of the field．It also covers the basic principles and issues of distance education．

请阅读以下远程教育学习者的个人信息，然后匹配他/她的项目：

Jack is writing an article about distance teaching．He doesn’t care when the book was written but he hopes the book covers all the topics about it．

Mrs Hill is a teacher．She doesn’t know how to make her online teaching better and how to deal with some unexpected problems during online teaching．

Mr Lincoln is an old teacher．He knows nothing about distance learning．He hopes to find a book that can teach him all the things－from basic knowledge to advanced knowledge．

Cathy is a new teacher．She wants to learn to use TV in her teaching．She is not good at technology．

George is a new teacher and he wants to know how other teachers are carrying out online learning．

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　　Venus and Serena Williams are sisters．They are also both tennis champions 　　1　　 often have to play each other! Venus is now eleventh in the world, and her younger sister Serena has 　　2　　(move)up to third．

　　The two sisters were born in a poor and dangerous area of California．It was 　　3　　 of drugs and violence．In a recent interview, Venus spoke 　　4　　 the time 　　5　　 she and Serena were practising tennis and they had to run and hide as bullets started 　　6　　(fly)through the air．Finally, in 1991, the sisters and their family moved to a safer area and 　　7　　 then they have never looked back．

　　The sisters’ father, Richard, has been very strict with his daughters, 　　8　　(train)them hard to compete 　　9　　 each other．Today, both sisters are studying design at college．They have already expressed a keen 　　10　　 in working in design after their tennis careers come to an end．

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Wang Kun and Wang Wei took a great trip after they ________ from college．Their idea was to ________ along Mekong River from where it begins to where it ________．Before their trip, Wang Kun and Wang Wei went to the library to find a large ________ with good maps．With the help of the maps, they knew something ________ about the Mekong River．They found the ________ of the river and began their journey there．Though their journey would begin at an ________ of more than 5000 metres, they were ________ about it and it would be an interesting ________．

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[1]Millions of people all over the world spend their holidays travelling．They travel to see other countries and continents, modern cities and the ruins of ancient towns; they travel to enjoy picturesque(独特的)places, or just for a change of scene．It’s always interesting to discover new things, different ways of life, to meet different people, to try different food and to listen to different musical rhythms(节奏)．

[2] Those who live in the country like to go to a big city and spend their time visiting museums and art galleries, looking at shopwindows and dining at exotic(异国情调的)restaurants．City-dwellers usually like a quiet holiday by the sea or in the mountains, with nothing to do but walk, bathe and laze in the sun．

[3] Most travellers and holiday-makers take cameras with them and take pictures of everything that interests them－the sights of a city, old churches and castles, the views of mountains, lakes, valleys, plains, waterfalls, forests, different kinds of trees, flowers and plants, animals and birds．Later, perhaps years later, they will be reminded by the photos of the happy time they have had．

[4] People travel by train, by plane, by boat and by car．All means of travel have their advantages and disadvantages．And people choose one according to their plans and destinations．

[5] If we are fond of travelling, we see and learn a lot of things that we can never see or learn at home, though we may read about them in books and newspapers, and see the pictures of them on TV．The best way to study geography is to travel, and the best way to get to know and understand people is to meet them in their own homes．

Match the left column with the right column according to the main idea of every paragraph：

Para 1

A．Taking pictures can make you remember the happy time you have had．

Para 2

B．The travels for various people

Para 3

C．The means of traveling

Para 4

D．The reasons of traveling

Para 5

E．The value of traveling

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　　People in different countries and different areas of the world eat different kinds of things．Scientists say that none of these 　　1　　(different)are really important．It doesn’t matter whether food 　　2　　(eat)raw or cooked, canned or frozen．It doesn’t matter if 　　3　　 person eats dinner at four o’clock in the afternoon 　　4　　 at eleven o’clock at night．The important thing, they say, is that every day a person should eat 　　5　　 from each of these kinds of 　　6　　(food)．

　　　　7　　 are two problems, then, in feeding the ever-increasing number of people 　　8　　 earth, the first is to find some way to feed the world population 　　9　　 that no one is hungry．The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them 　　10　　(grow)to be strong and healthy．

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　　Recently, many states of America have approved a program that will link increases in teacher’s pay to improvements in students’ test scores．The program will take effect next school year．It will increase a teacher’s pay if his or her students increase their scores on the Comprehensive Assessment Test, which measures reading and mathematics knowledge．It is now used to decide if students will pass to the next grade level．The state gives extra money to schools whose scores are good or have increased than the year before．Normally, the money is divided among the school workers．

　　Those teachers who teach reading and mathematics will be judged on the test scores only．That is, how much their students have improved since the year before．But those who teach other subjects like geography, art and music will have to be judged differently．

　　Teacher groups around the country generally oppose such a program．They say it is not fair to judge teachers by how well students score on a test．They say many things affect a student’s test scores, such as learning problems or lack of sleep．They point out that there are other ways to judge strengths and weaknesses of students．In addition, some teachers say the quality of teaching will decrease if teachers are forced to compete with each other for money and praise．They fear that teachers will refuse to work in schools where many children have learning problems or do not speak English well．

　　However, those who ________ say teachers must be judged by the way that other professionals are－by the results of their work．Using students’ test scores is a true measure of a teacher’s performance．

1．What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words．)

________________

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

The test scores will be the only thing to judge the performance of the teachers who teach reading and mathematics．

________________

3．Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases．(Please answer within 10 words．)

________________

4．Do you agree on the new program?

Why?(Please answer within 30 words．)

________________

5．Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 into Chinese．

________________

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　　English, which was only spoken by the people living in England in the ________ century, began to be spoken by many other countries from the next century with the English colonists ________ to other countries around the world．As a result, there are a lot of countries who speak English as their ________ language, such as the U．S．, Canada, Australia, etc．There are also other countries speaking English as a foreign or ________ language, such as some south-Asian countries and African countries, which was once ________ by Britain in history．

　　Though there are different Englishes in the world, the ________ speakers can have almost no difficulty in communicating with each other ________ they don’t use ________ kind of English．However, sometimes they do have some trouble in understanding each other’s words, spelling, pronunciation and dialects．

　　English is an all-the-time ________ language; for example, the English of AD 450 to 1150, which was based more on ________ was quite ________ the English spoken from 1150 to 1500, which was based more on ________．Thanks to Shakespeare’s efforts, English had a big change in ________．American English got its own ________ with the help of Noah Webster．

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Anne was a little girl _________ in Netherlands with her family．Because they were Jews so they had to _________ everywhere, _________ they would be caught by the German Nazis．_________ that time she had to regard the diary _________ her only friend, because she thought the diary was a friend _________ she could tell everything to, like her deepest _________ and thoughts．And she needn’t be afraid that it would _________ her, or just couldn’t understand what she was _________．In one of her diaries, she described how she felt after _________ in the hiding place for over a year：I haven’t been able to be _________ for so long that I’ve grown so _________ about everything _________ with the nature…the sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers…