阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　A new study warns that about thirty percent of the world's people may not have enough water by the year 2025.

　　A private American organization called Population Action International did the new study. It says more than three hundred and thirty five million people lack enough water now. The people live in twenty eight countries. Most of the countries are in Africa or the Middle East.

　　PAI researcher Robert Engelman says by the year 2025, about three thousand million people lack water. At least 18 more countries are expected to have serious water problems. The demand for water keeps increasing. Yet the amount of water on Earth stays the same.

　　Mr Engelman says the population in countries that lack water is growing faster than in other parts of the world. He says population growth in these countries will continue to increase.

　　The report says lack of water in the future may result in several problems. It may increase health problems. Lack of water often means drinking water is not safe. Mr Engelman says there are problems all over the world because of diseases such as cholera that are carried in water.

　　Lack of water also may result in more international conflict (冲突). Countries may have to fight for water in the future. Some countries now get sixty percent of their fresh water from other countries. This is true of Egypt, the Netherlands, Cambodia, Syria, Sudan and Iraq. And the report says lack of water would affect the ability to improve their economies. This is because new industries often need a large amount of water when they are beginning.

　　The Population Action International study gives several solutions (解决方法) to the water problem. One way, it says, is to find ways to use water for more than one purpose. Another way is to teach people to be careful not to waste water. A third way is to use less water for agriculture.

　　The report also says long term solutions to the water problem must include controls on population growth.

1．According to the report, how many countries will lack water by the year 2025 ?

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2．How many people will lack water by the year 2025?

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3．Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

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A．The amount of the water on Earth will always stay the same.

B．The report gives three solutions to the water problem.

C．Most of the countries that lack water belong to the developing ones.

D．There's only one long term solution to solve the water problem. That is controls on population growth.

4．What is the main idea of this article?

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A．Water shortage is quite serious in the world nowadays.

B．PAI did a lot of study about water shortage.

C．Water shortage will be a serious problem facing us in the near future.

D．Controlling population is the best way to solve the problem of water shortage.

C

Tokyo is one of those places that you can love and hate at the same time.

　　In Tokyo there are always too many people in the places where I want to be. Of course there are too many cars. The Japanese drive very fast, but in Tokyo they often spend a long time in traffic jams(拥挤).Tokyo is not different from London, Paris and New York in that. It is different when one wants to walk.

　　At certain times of the day there are a lot of people on foot in London’s Oxford Street. But the streets near the Ginza in Tokyo always have a lot of people on foot, and sometimes it is really difficult to walk. People are very polite; there are just too many of them.

　　The worst time to be in the street is at 11:30 at night. That is when the night-clubs are closing and everybody wants to go home. There are 35 000 night-clubs in Tokyo, and you do not often see one that is empty.

　　During the day, most people travel to and from work by train. Tokyo people buy six million train tickets every day. At most stations, trains arrive every two or three minutes but at certain hours there do not seem to be enough trains. Although they are usually crowded, Japanese trains are very good. They always leave and arrive on time. On a London train you would see everybody reading a newspaper. In Tokyo trains everybody in a seat seems to be asleep, whether his journey is long or short.

　　In Tokyo, I stood outside the station for five minutes. Three fire-engines(消防车) race past on the way to one of the many fires that Tokyo has every day .Tokyo has so many surprises that none of them can really surprise me now.

48.Tokyo is different from London in that___________.

A. it has a larger population                 

B. there are more traffic jams

C. it is more difficult to go somewhere on foot 　

D. night clubs are sometimes empty

49.Japanese trains _____________.

A. often leave and arrive on time         

B. are often crowded

C. are the main means(手段，方法) people use to travel to and from work  

D. all of the above

50.Where can you find everybody reading a newspaper? _____________.

A. At most London train stations               B. At most Tokyo train stations

C. On a Tokyo train                                          D. On a London train

51.Fires break out _______ in Tokyo according to the writer.

A. quite frequently (频繁)                       B. only several times a day　

C. not very often　                                          D. very seldom

52.Which of the following is NOT true about Tokyo? ___________.

A. The streets become more crowded at 11:30 at night 

B. There are more trains than cars

C. Fire-engines are very busy in the city             

D. Tokyo people are polite

任务型写作

   请根据以下的任务说明和写作要求，写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

　　[任务说明]

　　你要参加一场英语辩论赛，主题是“学生的学习错误该不该改正”。在参赛之前，你要查阅相关资料，并准备你的辩论发言。请认真阅读下面的短文，然后完成以下的任务。

1）概括短文的内容要点，该部分的字数大约60；

2）就“学生的学习错误该不该改正”这个主题发表你的看法，至少包含以下的内容要点，该部分的字数大约90；

a)　以英语学习为例，简述你学习过程中经常出现的语言错误；

b)　你是如何看待自己的语言错误；

c)　你的老师如何对待你的语言错误；

d)　你对老师的做法持什么看法？为什么？

　　[写作要求]

　　你可以使用实例或其它论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不要抄袭阅读材料中的句子。

　　[评分标准]

　　概括的准确性、语言的规范性、内容的合适性以及篇章的连贯性。

　　[阅读材料]

　　Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time; if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between his language and others’ language. Bit by bit, he makes the right changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learn to do all the other things. They learn to talk, run, climb, ride a bicycle by comparing their own behaviors with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school teachers never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, even fewer chances for him to correct himself. They do it all for him. Teachers act as if the student would never notice a mistake if they did not point out it to him. They act as if the student would never correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let the student do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word means and what the answer is to that problem.

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案.

　　Looking ahead to 2010, it appears financially（资金上）impossible to accommodate 85,000 new students in classrooms at public four-year universities. Fortunately, such an approach（方法）is not necessary. Indeed, it's not even appropriate（合适的）.

　　Several forces are riding to the rescue. The two most important are distance learning and community and technical colleges. These will not eliminate the traditional setting where bachelor'（学士）and graduate degrees are earned. But they will be able to handle much of the growth in enrollments and the demand for higher education.

　　“When faced with a problem created by technology, apply more technology,” a late journalist once asserted. Higher education seems to be an example. New learning technology is a crucial tool in teaching new technical skills.

　　William Richardson, president of Johns Hopkins University, praised “Western Governors' University”--a virtual institution（虚拟大学）that uses the Internet and other information technology to overcome the vast distances of the West and reach people with education. “Just as the extremely controlled high school of old was perfect training for an assembly-line work force, so today's college is equally appropriate as a setting for a society whose members must acquire and manage knowledge from a wide variety of sources,” he notes.

　　Eastern Washington has long been a leader in this movement. For the past decade, Spokane's Education Service District 101 has brought the best teachers in the region to rural classrooms via satellite uplink. Washington State University（WSU） president Sam Smith reports that, during the same period, WSU managed a one-third increase in students with only 2 percent more faculty.

　　It's been done by holding growth at the main campus almost flat, setting up three branch campuses, locating learning at community colleges, and offering an extended degree program where students learn at home. In each case, technology is used to extend the “reach” of faculty.

　　The other cost-effective strategy is reliance on community and technical colleges. Here, Washington State has an edge. Its public two-year colleges provide the most extensive coverage in the nation. Jean Floten, president of Bellevue Community College, notes the system served 425,000 adult enrollees last year-a tenth all the state's adult population. Almost half were there for job training versus 40 percent for academic preparation.

（1）According to the author, to enroll more students, universities do not have to ________.

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A. enlarge their campuses

B. gain additional technical support

C. retain the traditional academic setting

D. accommodate more faculty members

（2）When the author says “Higher education seems to be an example” Paragraph 3, he means problems with higher education can be solved by all EXCEPT ________.

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A. applying new learning technology

B. using Internet and other information technology

C. teaching new technical skills

D. setting up more technical colleges

（3）It is implied in Paragraph 4 that to cope with the new problem, we should ________.

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A. set up new campuses

B. train more assembly-line workforce

C. provide knowledge through diverse means

D. reinforce high schools of old

（4）What has made possible “a one-third increase in students with only 2 percent more faculties”? _______.

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A. Technical and community college

B. New advances in science and technology

C. More learning centers

D. New school curricula

（5）Which aspect of education is mainly discussed in the text? ________.

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A. Traditional approaches

B. Top-ranked universities

C. Cost-effective strategies

D. Technology-based business