1.The ukulele is a_________instrument，which resembles a guitar.

2.He bought a new house this year, which is ______his former one.

3.Well ,it could not have got better for young Kavya Shivashankar , a 13-years-old student from Olathe , Kansas as she came out very successfully at the Scripps National Spelling Bee 2009(2009全美拼字大赛). On Thursday night she defeated the other 11finalists to win the 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee,taking home more than $40,000 cash money along with other prizes.Kavya Shivashankar, whose parents migrated to the United States from India, and who aims tobecome a doctor, enjoys playing the violin, bieyeling, swimming and learning Indian classical dance .Thing came a bit late in Kavya’s life since she could win the championship with her fourthappearance in the competition . The last three times when she had taken part in the samecompetition she had finished Tench. Eighth and fourth.However ,this time Kavya proved her courage and determination by winning the title she had been competing for so long . Her last challenge was to spell out“laodicean”. The word “laodicean” means one who is indifferent, mostly in religious matters. She spelled it correctly and a big smile appeared on her face. Kavya wrote the word on her palm each time and spelled every word correctly.After winning Kavya exclaimed, “I can’t believe it happened ……It feels kind of unreal.” Her family was there to support her through the competition . Her father , Mirle Shivashankar said, “The competitiveness is in her….but she doesn’t show that .She still has that smile. That’s her quality .”He went on to say that this was “the moment”they had been waiting for so long. It was like “a dream come true” for them.The father’s words show that ___________.

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Passage Three

Thousands of years ago, ten of our very distant ancestors were hungry. They went out and picked berries or dug up roots to eat. Four of them chose poisonous food and died. The remaining six noticed that their food was safe to eat. They told their children, who, in turn, passed the message on to their descendants. In this way, habit became a vital factor in the survival of mankind: if you ate the right plant, you lived; if you wanted to make your own experiments, you would probably die.

The importance of habit on the survival of the human species is an interesting matter. Even today, most of us hesitate when we are invited to eat a new type of food or drink something we have not tasted before. Even if the food or drink is offered by a friend, we are usually not at all anxious to experiment and accept the offer.

When you get up tomorrow morning, notice which shoe or sock you put on first. Then notice which one you put on first on other days. You may discover that (a) you tend to put on one shoe or sock first every day, and (b) if you are right-handed, you usually deal with your left shoe or sock first. If you try to change this habit, you may find it uncomfortable or annoying, and you will soon return to your old habit. When it comes to other matters, we often follow a fixed pattern. We sleep in one or two favorite ways. We often follow familiar routes even when they are not the shortest or best. We often wear a watch on the same wrist even when there is no real reason for doing so. (83) In hundreds of other ways, we show that we are creatures of habit, following fixed patterns of behavior. This characteristic can help us to survive but it can be a barrier to progress too. We must be alert and not let a beneficial factor become a harmful one.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to Paragraph 2?

5.Even if he ______here, he would not be able to help us.

6.suggestion

7.__________the government agrees to give extra money, the theatre will have to be closed next month.

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Passage TwoThe great advance in rocker theory 40 years ago shows that liquid-fuel rockets were far superior in every respect to the skyrocket with its weak solid fuel. However, during the decade, large solid-fuel rockets with solid fuels about as powerful as liquid fuels have made their appearance, and it is a favorite layman ’s question to 19 inquire which one is ―better‖. The question is meaningless. One might as well ask whether a gasoline or a diesel engine is ―better‖. It all depends on the purpose, a liquid-fuel rocket is complicated, but has the advantage that it can be controlled beautifully. The burning of the rocket engine can be stopped completely: it can be reignited when desired. In addition, the thrust can be made to vary by adjusting the speed of the fuel pumps. A solid-fuel rocket, on the other hand, is rather simple in construction, though hard to build when a really at very short notice. A liquid-fuel rocket has to be fueled first and cannot be held in readiness for very long after it has been fueled. (82)However, once a solid-fuel rocket has been ignited, it will keep burning. It cannot be stopped and reignited whenever desired and its thrust cannot be varied. Because a solid-fuel rocket can be kept ready for a long time,most military employ solid fuels, but manned space-flight needs the fine adjustments that can only be provided by liquid fuels. It may be added that a liquid-fuel rocket is an expensive device; a large solid-fuel rocket is, by comparison, cheap. But the solid fuel, pound per pound, costs about 10 times as much as the liquid fuel. So you have, on the one hand, an expensive rocket with a cheap fuel and on the other hand a comparatively cheap rocket with an expensive fuel.The author tells us that_______.

9.Like any teenagers, the face of One Teen Story is changing fast. Just a year old, themonthlymagazine of short fiction for young people is getting a new editor-in-chief: Patrick Ryan ,47,the asso-ciate editor of Granta from 2009 to 2013. He left the London-based literary journal last month.Editing One Teen Story--the younger sibling(姐妹篇)of One Story magazine--will offer Ryanachance to reach a whole new audience. "It's really the only magazine for young adult shortfiction,"he says from his office in New York. "It's tremendously exciting that there are youngerpeople outthere who have subscriptions and look forward to getting these stories once a month.That form is usu-ally only presented when it's forced upon them in schools. "Designed for readers 14 and up, One Teen Story publishes nine issues a year. Like itssiblingmagazine, it doesn't carry photographs or advertising. It's just exactly what it says:one story per issue.Ryan says young people are "looking for engaging reads about people whom they can identifywith. It's not about having a message or positive spin (说教). It always starts on a character level,and it has to have an interesting story. If you look at the ' Twilight' characters and the ' HarryPotter' characters,they feel very contemporary. "Ryan also sees the magazine as a way to encourage talented authors. "I would love to make OneTeen Story the first publication for writers who then go on and keep at this business. I just really lovethe idea that this magazine would be the starting point for somebody--would be the push to make a talented writer feel that it was woah keeping at this.”Who is Patrick Ryan?

10.It's natural that she __ do so.

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Different things usually stand for different feelings.Red,for example,is the coloroffire,heat,blood and life,People say red is an exciting and active color.Theyassociate(使发生联系）red with a strong feeling like1 .Red is used for signs of 2 .suchSTOP signs and fire engines.Orange is the bright.warm color of3 in autumn.Peoplesay orange is a 4 color.They associate orange withhappiness.Yellow is the color of 5.People say it is a cheerful color.They associate yellow too,with happiness.Greenis the cool color of grass in6 .People say it is a refreshing color.In general,people7 two groups of colors:warm colors and cool colors.The warm colors are red,orangeand 8.Where there are warm color and a lot of light.people usually want to be 9.Those who like to be with10 like red.The cool colors are11 and blue.Where there are these colors,people are usually worried.Some scientists say that timeseems to12 more slowly in a room with warm colors.They suggest that a warm coloris a good13for a living room or a14 .People who are having a rest or are eatingdo not want time to pass quickly.15 colors are better for some offices if the peopleworking there want time to pass quickly.3.

12.You look___than before,why?

13.I． Phonetics (5 points )Directions: In each of the following groups of words, there, are four underlined letters or lettercombinations marked A, B, C and D． Compare the underlined parts and identify the one thatis different from the others in pronunciation． Mark your answer by blackening the corres-ponding letter on the Answer Sheet．选出下列选项中划线部分读音不同的选项（ ）。

14.Many people use wood stoves and fireplaces to heat their homes．Scientists have become worried about the smoke that they give off．Harmful chemicals are in the smoke．The smoke is causing air pollution．The pieces of pollution, called soot, are floating in the air．They are too tiny to see．Scientists must use a microscope to see them. 　　Small amounts of soot are safe, but large amounts can be dangerous．The govenment wants to limit this kind of pollution．It may stop people from using their fireplaces. 　　The air is tested every day．When soot levels are high, more than 65 micrograms of soot per cubic meter, factories must stop making smoke．The government thinks that limit should be much lower. Factories produce the most smoke and soot．But the government thinks that all types of burning should be limited．The soot levels from factories and homes could be limited．Home owners may have to install new wood stoves that they comply with the new law．Or, they may not be able to bum on days when the air quality is bad. 　　Residents of some towns are fined if they violate the burning ban．Scientists hope these new regulations will make the air cleaner and less harmful to breathe.[单选题] What could home owners do to comply with the new regulation?

15.Generations of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is essential to one's life. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have been told,and told again, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car before starting a trip. But for many people, the thought of food as the first thing in the morning is never a pleasure So despiteall the efforts,they still take no breakfast.Between 1977 and 1983, the latest year for which figures could be obtained, the number of people who didn't have breakfast increased by 33%from 8.8 million to 11.7 million--according to the Chicago-based Market Research Corporation of America. For those who dislike eating breakfast,however, there is some good news.Several studies in the last few years have shownthat,for adults especially, there may be nothing wrong with omitting breakfast. "Going withoutbreakfast does not affect work,"said Arnold E.Bender, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, "nor does giving people breakfast improve work. " Scientific evidence linking breakfast tobetter health or better work is surprisingly inadequate(不充分) ,and most of the recent work involves children, not adults. "The literature," says one researcher, Dr. Earnest Polite at the University of Texas, "is poor."Which of these is mentioned in the second paragraph?

16.－-Are you goingborrow a dictionaryor magazine?--___

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Why do I want to go to college?No one has ever asked me1a question.But manytimes I have asked myself.I have2 a whole variety of reasons.3important reasonthat I want to be a better man.

Many things make human beings different4or better than or even superior to animals

One of the most important things is5 .1f 1 fail to receive higher education.myeducation 6.As I want to be a fully7 man.I must getawell-rounded educationwhich good colleges and universities are supposed to8 I know one can get educatemany ways.but colleges and universities are9 the best places to teach me how to educate mysell.Only when I am well-educated.will I be a better human being and10 fitinto society.7

18.The girl was___afraid___she threw her bag away.

19.They took _____ measures to prevent poisonous gases from escaping.

20. Among the first to suggest that clocks be moved ahead to extend(延长) daylight hoursduring the spring and summer was Benjamin Franklin. However, it was not until March31，1918, more than a century after Franklin's death, that Congress adopted the practice--during World War I，in order to save electricity. During World War1 daylight saving wasalsoadopted(采取inEngland,Germany,France,and many other countries. Whendidtheyputthisintopractice?（）