1.Train companies in Tokyo are taking action to reduce the number of people jumping in front of trains．They are fitting blue lights on station platforms to try and create a more calming atmosphere．The East Japan Railway Company has invested almost $170,000 to install the lights in all of the 29 stations on the capital's busy Yamanote Line．There has been an alarming rise in the number of people committing suicide at train stations．A total of 68 people threw themselves under trains in the year up to March．This compares with 42 suicides in the same period a year earlier．In 2008, Japan had nearly 2,000 suicides by jumping in front of a train; around six percent of all suicides nationwide．Suicides have risen sharply in the past decade due to poor economic conditions. 　　No one knows if the blue lights will work．There is no evidence to show that blue light reduces suicidal feelings． Keihan Railway spokesman Osamu Okawa stated: "We thought we had to do something to save lives．We know there is no scientific proof that blue lights deter suicides, but if blue has a soothing effect on the mind, we want to try it to save lives." The Associated Press news agency reports on a Japanese therapist called Mizuki 　　　Takahashi．She explained her reasons why the blue lights might be a good idea: "We associate the color with the sky and the sea．It has a calming effect on agitated people, or people obsessed with one particular thing, which in this case is committing suicide," she said．Other companies are watching this experiment with interest.[单选题] What is the writer's attitude toward the experiment? He is __.

2.请根据下面选项回答题：A.Thank youB.It’s my pleasureC.By the wayD.No, of course notE.Here you areF.Never mind.G.I’m sorryH.No mayMary:I’m going shopping.Oliver:Do you mind if I come with youMary:__________.You can carry my bag for me.

3.In our online life, we need to use passwords frequently. We use passwords 21 e-mail,gaming sites, social networking sites，and other shopping sites. 22 ， the passwords most people use are not very 23 and can easily be“"broken" by others. In fact, the most comonly used passwords are so simple that it requires very 24 effort to figure them out. Can you guess 25 the most commonly used passwords are? They are: Names of baseball teams, bith dates of a farmily 26 ，the year of a special sports event，the random numbers like 156468, 27 the name of a friend, pet, favorite TV star, or band.There are prograrms 28 to break into people' s online accounts. These programs are_ 29 of trying every word in the English dictionary and the dictionaries 30 many foreign languages, in their effort to break into an account._ 31 can even search words backward. Some will try_ 32 words or words that are followed by numbers, 33 school222. These programs can test millions of passwords in a few minutes. So, you are advised to be careful about_ 34 passwords so that they will be hard to break. You are also advised not to make them35 hard to remember. Meanwhile, you need to change them once in a while.22.（）

4.It was___yesterday than today.

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Passage Two

In the modern technological world the sea offers many resources to help mankind survive. (82)Resources on land are beginning to grow less. The sea, however, still offers hope to supply many of man’s needs.

The riches of the sea yet to be developed by man’s technology are impressive. Oil and gas explorations have existed for nearly thirty years. Valuable amounts of minerals such as iron, nickel and copper and so on exist on the ocean floor, ready to be mined.

Fish farming promises to be a good way to produce large quantities of food.The culture of fish and shellfish is an ancient skill practiced in the past mainly by Oriental peoples.

Besides oil and gas, the sea may offer new sources of energy. Experts believe that the warm temperature of the ocean can be used in a way similar to the steam in a steamship. Ocean currents and waves offer possible use as a source of energy such as hydroelectric power.

Technology is enabling man to explore ever deeper under the sea.The new undersea technology is providing divers with diving suits and undersea chambers that are kept at sea level pressure. The development of strong,new materials has made this possible. The technology to harvest the sea continues to improve. By the year 2000, experts believe that the problems to exploit the food, minerals, and energy sources of the sea will be largely solved.It can be inferred from the passage that_______.

6. Here's a man who just breaks into a bank and helps himself__________so much money.

7.There is no easy __________to the problem.

8.根据以下资料，回答1-4题。 　　Key James, Secretary of Health and Human Resources in the Virginia State government, loves to turn the tables on those who don't think it's possible to be middle-class, conservative, educated and still be truly black．Once, during an abortion debate, a woman in the audience angrily told James she was so middle-class she didn't have a clue about real African American life．"If you understood what these women go through," the woman said, "you would realize that abortion is their only choice." 　　James then asked the woman to consider a poor black mother on welfare．She already has four children and an alcoholic husband who has all but abandoned the family．Now she discovers another child is on the way．"How would you counsel that woman?" asked James. 　　"Have an abortion," the woman responded．"That child would have a very poor quality of life." 　　"I have a vested interest in your answer," James said．"The woman I described was my mother．I was the fifth of six children born into poverty．And, in case you're interested, the quality of my life is just fine!"1"To mm the tables"means __.

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The Red Cross is 61 organization which cares for people who are in 62 of help. A man in a Paris hospital who needs blood, a woman in Mexico who was injured 63 an earthquake, and a family in India 64 lost their home in a storm may all 65 by the Red Cross.

The Red Cross exists in almost every country 66 the world . The World Red Cross Organizations are sometimes are sometimes called the Red Crescent( 新月 ) the Red Mogen David, the Sun , and the Red Lion . All of these agencies 67 a common goal of trying 68 people in neeD、

The idea of forming an organization to help the sick and 69 during a war started 70 Jean Henry Dunant. In 1859, he observed 71 suffering 72 a battlefield in Italy. He wanted to help all the wounded people 73 of which side they were 74 .The most important result of his work was an international treaty 75 the Geneva Convention( 日内瓦公约 ). It 76 prisoners of war, the sick and wounded, and 77 citizens during a war.

The American Red Cross 78 by Clara Barton in 1881. Today the Red Cross in the United States provides a number of 79

for the publiC、Such as helping people in need, teaching first aid, 80 water safety and artificial respiration, and providing blood.71.

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Charlie came from a poor village.His parents had 1money to send him to schoolwhen he was young.The boy was very sad.Mr,King lived next to him.He found the boy2and had pity on him and lent some money to him.So the boy could go to school.Hestudied hard and3 all his lessons.When he finished middle school.the man introduced him to his friend in the town.And he began to work.

Once Mr.King was seriously hurt in an accident.Dying,he asked Charlie to take careof his daughter,Sharon.The young man 4and several years later he married the girl.He loved her very much and tried his best to make her happy.He often bought beautifulclothes and delicious food for her.He was good at cooking and he cooked5 for her.Soshe became very fat and she felt it difficult to walk.And one day she found there wassomething wrong with her heart.Her husband wasn't at home and she had to go to6 at once.The doctors looked her over and told her 7 eat meat,sugar,chocolate andthings like these.She was afraid8the doctor's words and wrote all the names of thefood on the paper.When she got

home,she put the list on the table and9 .When shreturned home that afternoon,she found many kinds of food:meat,sugar and chocolate

the kitchen.Charlie was busy10 there.As soon as he saw her.he said happily."“1'vebought all the food you like,dear!”2[ 单选 ]

11.The problem of environment protection has been studied _____

12.People joke that no one in Los Angeles reads;everyone watches TV, rents videos，or goes to the movies.The most popular reading material is comic books，movie magazines，and TV guide s.City libraries have only 10 percent of the traffic that car washes have.But how do you explain this? An annual book festival in west Los Angeles is flourishing year after year.People wait half an hour for a parking space to become available.This outdoor festival，sponsored by a newspaper，occurs every April for one weekend. This year’s attendance was estimated at 70，000 on Saturday and 75，000 on Sunday.The festival consisted of 280 exhibitors.There were about 90 talks given by authors，with an audience question-and-answer period foilowing each talk.Autograph(亲笔签名)seekers sought out more than 150authors.A food court sold all kinds of popular food and diverse foreign foods，from Americanhamburgers to Hawaiian shave ice drinks.Except for a $7 parking fee，the festival was free.Evenso，some people avoided the food court prices by staying away and having their own sandwiches and drinks.People came from all over CaliforniA.One couple drove down from San Francisco.“This is our sixth year here now.We love it，”said the husbanD.“It’s just fantastic to be in the great outdoors，to be mnong so many books and authors，and to get some very good deals，too.”The idea for the festival occurred years ago，but nobody knew if it would succee D.Although book festivals were already popular in other US cities，would Los Angeles residents welcome one?“The citizens of the city are very unpredictable，”said one of the festival founders.The success of Los Angeles book festival shows that____.

13.Canada is the second largest country in the world in area, although its【1】is only some 25 million, most【2】in a 200-mile strip【3】the southern border. Over 25 per cent of the【4】number live in the three main cities. The northern areas of the country are almost uninhabited【5】for isolated settlements.

Canada is【6】a rich country, and its national【7】per capita is the fifth highest in the world, but its economy in recent years has been rather【8】, because of the varied nature of what it does.

Over the last three years, the Canadian economy has been hard【9】by falling oil prices and by rising US interest【10】. This has【11】to a steep fall in industrial production--by as much as a fifth since 1981. Some【12】now think Canada is on the【13】to recovery, though more cautious spirits say that no【14】can be expected until there is a【15】to lower interest rates in the USA.2 （）A.residing,B.1iving,C.stay,D.inhabit

14.The Johnsons have not got anything ready for a ________across the Atlantic

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Charlie came from a poor village.His parents had 1money to send him to schoolwhen he was young.The boy was very sad.Mr,King lived next to him.He found the boy2and had pity on him and lent some money to him.So the boy could go to school.Hestudied hard and3 all his lessons.When he finished middle school.the man introduced him to his friend in the town.And he began to work.

Once Mr.King was seriously hurt in an accident.Dying,he asked Charlie to take careof his daughter,Sharon.The young man 4and several years later he married the girl.He loved her very much and tried his best to make her happy.He often bought beautifulclothes and delicious food for her.He was good at cooking and he cooked5 for her.Soshe became very fat and she felt it difficult to walk.And one day she found there wassomething wrong with her heart.Her husband wasn't at home and she had to go to6 at once.The doctors looked her over and told her 7 eat meat,sugar,chocolate andthings like these.She was afraid8the doctor's words and wrote all the names of thefood on the paper.When she got

home,she put the list on the table and9 .When shreturned home that afternoon,she found many kinds of food:meat,sugar and chocolate

the kitchen.Charlie was busy10 there.As soon as he saw her.he said happily."“1'vebought all the food you like,dear!”3[ 单选 ]

16.It is___（important)to keep quiet when you watch the birds and insects.

17.III. Cloze ( 30 points)In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally 21 them and the job they do-although there are certain people who do not believe that the police 22 have the power that they do.What does a policeman actually do? It is not 23 job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in one. A policeman often has to control traffic,either 24 foot in the center of a town, or in a police car on the roads, indeed, in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend all, or a lot of, hit time 25 up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop 26 motorists and help when there is an accident.A policeman has to help keep the 27 , too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we 28 the police to come and restore order. And they often have to deal with situation at great risk to their own 29 .We expect the police to solve crimes, of course, so an ordinary policeman, even if he is not a detective, will often have to help 30 and arrest criminals.And 31 do we call when there is an emergency--an air crash, a fire, a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police. 32 a policeman has to be prepared to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the 33 world.The police do an absolutely necessary job, they do it 34 well and I support them, but I do not envy policeman. I do not think that I could 35 do the job of a policeman. （）A.peace B.silence C.situation D.condition

18.That was so serious a matter that I had no choice but_____ the police.（）

19.Passage TwoThere are many commonly held beliefs about eyeglasses and eyesight that are not proven facts. For instance, some people believe that wearing glasses too soon weakens the eyes. But there is no evidence to show that the structure of eyes is changed by wearing glasses at a young age. Wearing the wrong glasses, however, can prove harmful. Studies show that for adults there is no danger, but children can develop loss of vision if they have the wrong glasses.We have all heard some of the common myths about how eyesight get bad. Most people believe that reading in dim light causes poor eyesight, but that is unique. Too little light makes the eyes work harder, so they do get tired and strained. Eyestrain also results from reading a lot, reading in bet, and watching too much television. But although eyestrain may cause somepain or headaches, it does not permanently damage eyesight.Another myth about eyes is that they can be replaced, or transferred from on person to another. There are close to on million verve fibers that connect the eyeball to brain, and as if yet it is impossible to attach them all in a new person, Only certain parts of the eye--the cornea and the "retina--can be replaced. But if we keep clearing up the myths and learning more about the eyes, someday a full transplant may be possible! From this passage one can conclude that__________.

20.The small children don't know___