1.Throughout the80s, more and more people began taking up the sport, even thoughsnowboards were not allowed on most ski hills. ____ its earlier problems, snowboarding is nowthe world’s fastest growing winter sport and most resorts(度假地)welcome snowboards.填入____处的最佳答案是()。

2.Iearn 10 dollars___hour as___supermarket cashier on Saturday.

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A. What about the car?

B I checked my watch

C. Didn’t you see the car?

D. Now, how fast was the truck moving?

E. Was the car going beyond the speed limit?

F. I suppose the truck driver knew the lights were going to change.

G. The driver stopped his car when he saw the truck crossing the street2. （对话）根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。（本题5分）Policeman:Now ,Jimmy,did you get a good view (看清）of the accident?Jimmy:Oh yes,I was standing outside the bank building and i saw it quite clearlyPoliceman：do you know whe time it was?Jimmy: Yes __1__it was 2:45 exactlyPoliceman:Good __2__Jimmy:Well,quite slowly about 10 miles an hour,it was coming up York Road__3__. but they were still red when he over them,Policeman:I see__4__was it also driving slowly?Jimmy：It was coming along Union Street about 30miles per hour,It was a blue Toyota__5__

Policeman: Did you see what color his traffic（交通）light was

Jimmy: Yes, it changed to yellow just before he crossed it

4.根据以下材料，回答48-51题 “When one of the doctors criticizes(批评)me，I get defensive：I feel like a child again，being scolded．and l want to explain that l’m not wrong．”says Viola，a nurse．This is a common reaction(反应)to criticism，but not a good one．There are better ways of dealing with criticism． (1)Try to be objective(客观)．When Sol was criticized by his new employer for not havingmade a sale，Sol’s reaction Was to feel sorry for himself．“I had put everything I had into makingthat sale，”Sol says，“and I felt that I had failed as a person．I had to learn through experience not to react like that to each failure．” (2)Take time to cool down．Rather than reacting immediately to criticism，take some time tothink over what was said．Your first question should be whether the criticism is fair from the otherperson’s position．The problem may be a simple misunderstanding of what you did or your reasons for doing it． (3)Take positive(积极的)action．After you cool down，consider what you can do about thesituation．The best answer may be“nothing”．“I finally realized that my boss was having personalproblems and taking them out on me because l was there，”says Sheila．“His criticisms didn’t reallyhave anytlling to do with my work，so nothing I said or did was going to change them．”In Sheila’s case，the best way to deal with it was to leave her job．However，that’s an extreme reaction．Youmay simply explain your opinion without expecting an in—depth discussion．You may even decide．thatthe battle isn’t worth fighting this time．The key，in any case，is to have a reasonable plan．When Sol was criticized by his employer，he．

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Once upon a time,a rich man wanted to make a trip(旅行）to another town.He triednot only to take things to sell but also to take money to1things with.He2take ten servants with him.They would3the things to sell and the food to40ntheir trip.Before they started,a little boy ran up to5and asked to6with them

The rich man said to the little boy,"Well,7may go with us.8you are the

smallest,the thinnest and the weakest of all my9,you can't carry a10load(担

子）。You must11the lightest one to carry."The boy thanked his master and choosethe biggest load to carry.That was bread.

＂You are12,"said his master."That is the biggest and the heaviest one."

boy said13and lifted the load gladly.

On the trip they walked for days and at last they got to the town.All the servantswere tired14the little servant.Do you know15? Most of the bread was eaten during the trip and a little was left when they arrived at the town5、（单选题）

6.None of the students watched it___

7. 根据以下材料，回答21-35题 We were late as usual. My husband had 21 watering the flowers in the garden by himselt, and when he discovered that he couldn't manage, he asked me for 22 at the last moment. So now we had only one hour to get to the airport. Luckily, there were not many cars _ 23 buses on the road and we were 24 to get there just in time. We checked in and went straight to a big hall to wait for our flight to be called. We waited and waited 25 no announcement was made. We asked for 26 and the girl there told us the plane hadn't even arried yet. In the end, there came an announcement telling us that those _ 27 _ for flight No. 108 could get a free meal voucher and that the plane hadn’t left Spain 28 technical problems．We thought that meant 29 itwasn’t safe forthe plane t0 30 ．We waited again for a long time until late evening when wewere asked to report again．This time we were 31 free vouchers to spend the night in a nearbyhotel． The next morning after a 32 night because of all the planes taking off and landing，we werereported back to the airport．Guess 33 had happened while we were asleep．Our plane hadarrived and taken off again．All the other 34 had been waken up in the night to catch theplane，but for some reasons or other we had been 35 ．You can imagine how we felt !查看材料35

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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 ]

9.Passage FourEvery morning, kids from a local high school are working hard. They are making and selling special coffee at a coffee cafe. They are also making a lot of money.These students can make up to twelve hundred dollars a day. They are selling their special coffee to airplane passengers. After the students get paid, the rest of the money goes to helping a local youth project.These high school students use a space in the Oakland airport. It is usually very crowded.Many people who fly on the planes like to drink the special coffee.One customer thinks that the coffee costs a lot but it is good and worth it. Most customers are pleasant but some are unhappy. They do not like it if the cafe is not open for business.The students earn $ 6.10 an hour plus tips. They also get school credit whiel they learn how to run a business. Many of the students enjoy the work although it took some time to learn how to do it.They have to learn how to steam milk, load the pots, and add flavor. It takes some skill and sometimes mistakes are made. The most common mistake is forgetting to add the coffee.Many of the students__________the work although it took some time to learn how to do it.

10.California families are facing a rapidly mounting uphill battle to make enough money to provide basic household essentials, according to a new study conducted by the California Budget Project. 　　The research compiled by the Sacramento-based non-profit organization concluded an average two-parent family with one employed adult in California needs to make $51,177 a year, or $24.60 cents an hour, to pay for housing, transportation, food, utilities, child care, health coverage, taxes and other basic expenses. 　　The number grows significantly higher in the Bay Area, the state's most expensive region．A Bay Area family of four with two working adults living in rental housing needs a combined income of $79,946 to cover essential needs．That number is more than four times greater than the $19,157 income level recognized by the federal government as impoverished. 　　The study is the fourth semi-annual survey conducted by the California Budget Project since 1999． California Budget Project executive director Jean Ross said helping state officials and residents understand the numbers found in the report is crucial to moving families toward self-sufficiency. "How should we be targeting some of our programs and policies? How much do young people need to earn and what kind of a job should they be looking to train for if they want to have that salary that can support a family?" 　　CBP said the project was based on actual costs or generally accepted fair standard prices based on weighted averages found in ten California regions.What are some basic expenses for Bay Area families?

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Different countries and different races have different manners.Before entering a housein some Asian countries,it is good manners to take off your shoes.In European countries,even though shoes sometimes become very muddy,this is not done,A guest in a Chinesehouse sometimes does not finish a drink.He leaves a little,to show that he has hadenough.In a Malay house,too,a guest always leaves a little food.In England,a guest always finishes a drink to show that he enjoys it.

We should like to find out the customs of other races,so that they will not think us ill-mannered.But people all over the world agree that being well-mannered really means beingkind and helping others,especially those older or weaker than ourselves.If you rememberthis,you will not go very far wrong.

Here are some examples of the things that a well-mannered person does or does notdoHe never laughs at people when they are in trouble.He is always kind either to peopleor to animals.When people are waiting for a bus,or in a post office.he lines up to wait histurn.In the bus,he gives his seat to an older person or a lady who is standing.If he accidentally bumps into(碰撞）someone,or gets in their way,he saysExcuse meorI'msorry”。

He saysPlease”when making a request,andThank youwhen he receives something.He stands up when speaking to a lady or an older person,and he does not sit downuntil the other person is seated.He does not talk too much about himself.When eating,hedoes not speak with his mouth full of food.5.As different countries have different manners（）

12.I knew ___John Lennon,but not___famous one.

13.I have to ______my visit as I ’ll be very busy next week.

14. He is working very hard to__________the lost time in the past 10 years.

15.Memory is the ability to keep track of things that have happened in the past. Memory really isleaning. One needs memory to ride a bicycle. A dog needs to remember if it is to come when called.Memory is said to be stored in the brain as a “memory trace (记忆痕) .” What makes up this traceis not known. Some scientists believe that certain chemical substances may carry certain memories.For example, one substance, when given to rats, causes them to dear the dark.Other research into memory has to do with how the brain works. Psychologists use three meansto find out how a person remembers. For example, give a person a grocery list. Let the personmemorize the list, then put it away. The most natural way to find out how much a personremembers of the grocery list is to ask what he or she remembers. This is called the method ofrecall. Another method is called recognition. Gibe the person another grocery list. Ask him or her to choose items on the first list from the items that are on only the second list. Often a person will be able to recognize thins that he or she cannot recall. A third method of finding how much a person remembers is called relearning. Here the person is asked to read over the first list. The person will probably learn the list the second time faster than he did the first time. The difference in the time it takes to relearn the list is thought of as a measure of how much a person has remembered.One way of remembering something is to repeat it many times. Interest is very important. Boring lists of facts are much more difficult to remember than something that we understand and are interested in. Motivation, or wanting to do something, is also important. Motivation is linked with reward. For example, a hungry animal quickly learn how to do something if that action gets the animal food. In humans, wanting to learn is often motivation. The praise of a teacher or the knowledge that an answer is correct is rewarding.What is considered as a measure of how much one has remembered?

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I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability.

It is like this. 61 you are going to have a baby, it ’s like preparing a vacation trip to Italy. You 62 a bunch of guidebooks and make wonderful 63 . You may learn some useful phrases 64 Italian. It ’s all very exciting. 65 several months of eager expectation, the day finally 66 . You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours 67 , the plane lands in Holland. ―Why Holland? ‖ you say, ―I sign up 68 Italy! All my life I ’ve dreamed 69 going to Italy. ‖ But you have landed in Holland and 70 you must stay.

The importance thing is to remember that they haven ’t taken you 71 a horrible, disgusting, filthy place. It ’s just a 72 place. So you go out and new guidebooks 73 you must learn a whole new language. Holland may be slower-paced 74 Italy. But you have been there for a while, you 75 that Holland has windmills and tulips( 郁金 香). Everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they all boasting about 76 a wonderful time they had there. And for the 77 of your life you will say, ―Yes, that’s where I was 78 to go ‖. But if you spend your life 79 the fact that you didn ’t get to Italy, you may never be free to 80 the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.74、

17.No sooner had he sat down to lunch __________there was a knock at the door.

18.根据以下资料，回答95-98题。 　　Of all Barry H．Landau's anecdotes about his friendships with presidential dogs, perhaps the best is the one about the time the Clinton White House called to postpone his play-date with Buddy． 　　Yes, Landau is both human and an adult, a 60-year-old author, presidential historian, former White House protocol officer and memorabilia collector．But so enamored is he of dogs, and so well connected to a succession of presidents, that he had an appointment for a South Lawn romp one day with Buddy, Bill Clinton's Labrador retriever (拉布拉多犬) . 　　Logistics got in the way, though, and hence Clinton secretary Betty Currie's apologetic voice mail left at the Smithsonian Institution, where Landau was doing research: "I'm sorry, but we'll have to reschedule Mr．Landau's play-date with Buddy." 　　Not surprisingly, this is a happy week for Landau, with the new Obama family dog, Bo, joining a White House tradition that dates to George Washington．It's one that Landau feels is invaluable to a presidency. 　　"Having a dog just humanizes a president," he says．"It completes the picture．It's something people can relate to." And Landau has related to the best of them．He's known about 25 White House dogs since the Eisenhower administration．Among the presidential-pooch memorabilia in his Manhattan apartment are matching orange inaugural dog coats worn by LBJ's twin beagles (小猎犬) , Him and Her, and a photo of Landau kissing Clipper, JFK's German shepherd.95 Who's "Buddy"?

19.Don't smoke in the meeting room,______?

20.John___come to see us tonight,but he isn't very sure yet.