83. What negative effects does the Nook have to Barnes and Noble?(not more than15 words)

Perhaps the Nook’s a money-loser, or at least a job loser for their employees. 84. List at least two new features of the Nook.(24 words)

Lending an e-book to your friend and returning after two weeks; Color touch screen; Reading them free by Wi-Fi in their stores.

Section C

Directions: Write an English composition according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

下面是Min写给编辑的信。

Dear editor,

I’m a student in senior three, not good at math. I sometimes get help from my seatmate in class. However, every time he helps me , he is a little impatient and even calls me a fool .Sometimes I turn to the students doing well in math, but they pretend not to be able to help or respond unwillingly. When these happened a few days ago, I could not help crying when I got home. I think if I did well in my studies, they wouldn’t treat me like that. What can I do ?

你读完他的信后请你写一封信给Min， 信的要求如下：

82. Why were E- book users denied the pleasure of lending a favorite read to a friend?(not more than16 words)

Because they couldn’t lend their favorite E- book to your friend to read as they can now

81. What favorite read did a booklover lend to his friend in the past?(not more than2 words)

　 Physical books.

79. plentiful cookery programs 　80. Setting international standards

Section B (10分)

　 Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

BOOKLOVERS, most of them, will tell you what a pleasure it is to lend a favorite read to a friend – the novel you stayed up all night to get to the end of the travel book that made you feel as if you yourself were on a train ride through India, For a while it seemed that e-book users were to be denied this pleasure of lending to friends. You could buy a book or magazine for your reading device, but you couldn’t lend it out.

But now, with the Nook, the US book chain Barnes and Noble’s response to Amazon’s Kindle, electronic readers will be able to press their latest literary enthusiasm on their friends, just as readers of physical books booklovers used to lend to his friend can. Y simply email the book from your Nook and your friend can read t for two weeks, using any device with the Barnes ＆ Noble e-book reader software. It’s a big improvement from previous e-book readers.

The Nook offers other features too. You read in black and white on the main screen, just like with Kindle. The difference is that on the lower part of the device there’s a color touch screen. It allows you to flip through a book or magazine, but goes black when you’re not using it so that you save power.

Another exciting thing about the Nook is that it offers Wi-Fi, arguably a big advance on previous e-book readers. Customers in the United States can use the Internet connection to read whole e-books at Barnes and Noble’s hundreds of bookstores for free. None of Barnes and Noble’s competitors can come close to this.

But the Nook, ironically, might just turn out to be a money-loser for Barnes and Noble, or at least a job loser for Barnes and Noble’s employees. According to Marian Maneker at The Big Money Website, if the Nook is successful it might take sales from the company’s bookstores, eventually forcing their closure and the loss of thousands of jobs.

77. Better/ Improved international reputation　　　　　 78. The addition

74. The Sunday roast 75. fewer / limited ingredients　　 76. The tendency of

72. Regional traditional foods　　 73. Common dishes

▼Time/ Period: in the last decades or so

▼Reasons:

⑴　　 78　　 　　of new ingredients, flavors, fusion and techniques to British cuisine

⑵The warmer climate change

⑶More education about food through 　　79　　　 on TV

Ⅳ Results of changes

▼　　　 80　　　　 for restaurant cuisine

▼　 Bringing on an obesity (肥胖) problem

71. (Diverse)British Cultures/Cultural diversity/ Varieties of culture