Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only

be used once.  Note that there is one word more than you need.

F.  sales    G. amazing     H. similar    I. included   J. contest

Do you have a problem with the messy homework? Good news! You may soon be able to solve that, thanks to Keagan Bolibol and her Problem Pad.

Keagan is the winner of the Staples Invention Quest for kids, a (41)________ that encourages people to invent helpful office products. This is the first year that the Invention Quest has （42）________ a category for kids. “ I’m very excited,” Keagan told Scholastic News Online. “ I really can’t believe I actually did it. From the moment I entered it, it’s really (43)________that I should make it this far.”

Keagan was one of the five (44) _______ in the kids’ category. She is a fourth-grader in Woodinville, Washington.  Keagan’s Problem Pad is (45)________ to a dry-erase board except that it can fit into a notebook. It also has a pen (46)_______ to the bottom, along with helpful tools like a multiplication table (乘法表). Kids can use the Problem Pad to do their homework and other projects. They can make mistakes and then erase them. When they finally get them right, they can copy their work on a clean sheet of paper.

Keagan received a $25,000 prize for her invention, (47) ________ thousands of other kids. If her product is produced and sold in Staples stores, she can also receive royalties（版税），part of the money made from (48)________ of a product. “ I’m (49) ________ going to donate some to charities. Then the rest is for college,” said Keagan.

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Each year around 800 people – most of them children – need treatment in hospital for injuries caused by fireworks. A third of the accidents take place at back garden firework parties and about a third of the   41   are to children under the age of 13. The cost of medical treatment after firework accidents can be as much as ￡20 million a year.

Martin Pearcey, 11, is one of the lucky ones: he could have been   42  in one eye.

Like hundreds of others on November 5（Guy Fawkes’s Night）, Martin went to his   43  park to see the fireworks display. He was with his brothers, John and Dave.

“A gang of kids had taken the   44  material out of several fireworks and had put it in a pile on the ground,” remembers John.

“When they lit it, it went off and   45  Martin in his eye.”

John   46  Martin to their grandmother’s house nearby, where the eye was immediately bathed in cold water. He was then taken to hospital, where a sterilized（消毒的） patch was put over it.

“At first he couldn’t see a thing because the eye was so swollen(肿胀的),” says Martin’s elder sister, Pat. “It was weeks before it would open   47  again.”

His dad agrees. “He was lucky not to lose the sight of that eye.”

“Little kids shouldn’t be able to get hold of fireworks,” adds Pat. “I think organized   48  are much safer.”

And young Martin now says, “I don’t mind fireworks when grown – ups are   49 , but I don’t like it when little kids have them. I think fireworks are a bit stupid, really.”

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Barack Obama has been a hit in China. Apart from holding talks with Chinese leaders, the president ___41___ the Chinese with a lively question-and-answer session with college students. In fact, he is the first U.S. president to visit China inside his first year in office.

“The United States insists we do not seek to contain China’s rise,” he told Chinese students in Shanghai. “On the contrary, we welcome China as a strong and ___42___ and successful member of the community of nations.”

The U.S.-China relationship has opened the door to partnerships on ___43 ___ global concerns including economic recovery, clean energy, climate change, and the ___44___ of peace and beyond, he added.

Indeed, given these pressing issues, China and the United States have ___45___ found their future linked together. They discovered that the largest developing nation and the most powerful industrialized country have to work in concert.

Obama’s visit to China on November 15-18 highlighted the complexity of arguably the most important bilateral (双边) relationship in the world. Moreover, for all their differences and disagreements, Beijing and Washington are ___46___ to manage their relations in a way that will contribute to world peace and development.

Obama kicked off his first state visit to China in the country’s financial and economic centre, Shanghai, where he held a “town hall” meeting with more than 500 Chinese students. The one-hour discussion, during which Obama took ___47___ ranging from antiterrorism to recipes for success with his signature charisma (领袖魅力), was broadcast live on the websites.

He ___48___ that young people could help build bridges in U.S.-China ___49___ — a process that he said must grow beyond the two countries’ governments to take root in the people.

Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box.  Each word can be used only once.  Note that there is one word more than you need.

F. publicly     G. combined    H. produced   I. rebel       J. especially

Ludwig Van Beethoven was one of the greatest musicians in the 19th century.  Living in a period of change, he expressed the ___41___ of his time in his music. 

At that time, people were trying to break out of the feudalism(封建主义)， and they were trying to pursue ___42___, equality and universal love.  Such social change, ___43___ the French revolution, greatly inspired Beethoven.  He, together with many contemporary artists, ___44___ many vigorous works, which praised heroism and ___45___ the love for nature.  To some extent, Beethoven was a social ___46___.  He refused to bow to social traditions and power.  When Napoleon was in power, who ___47___ to be a believer of the republic, Beethoven admired him so much that he devoted his Symphony No.5(第五交响曲) to him.  But then Napoleon put crown on his own head and became an emperor.  Beethoven got very angry and he ___48___ criticized Napoleon, regardless of possible life threat. 

Except for all his social and political wishes, he also led to great progress in the history of music.  It was he who clearly defined the form of symphony and ___49___ developed it.  And his achievements, according to some, marked the end of the classical period and the beginning of the romantic period in the music history.

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You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start, they only __41__ with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead! Of course he isn’t __42__ dead. With any luck he isn’t even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from __43__ moving trains, who crash cars of even __44__ fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called __45__. That is to say, they perform tricks. There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not __46__ on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with mattress(床垫). Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar! But although their work depends on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and __47__. Often a stuntman’s success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is “blown up” in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.

Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get __48__ injured and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high. His parachute(降落伞) failed to open, and he was killed. In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a __49 __ for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are stuntgirls, too.