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Sport is very popular in England,In other words lots of English people like the idea of sport.A lot watch sport on TV.But the number who take part in sport is quite small.On the whole English people prefer to be fat rather than thin.

The most popular sport in England is football.Football is played on Saturday afternoon in most towns and the supporters of a certain team will travel from one end of the Country to the other to see their team play.There are four divisions(级别）of the footballleague.Not surprisingly the best teams are in the first division.But the best supportersare often in the fourth division.You have to be a good supporter to watch the fourth division football!

Many other sports are also played in England,such as golf,in which you try to knocka ball into a hole;basketball,in which you try to get a ball through a net;tennis,in whichyou try to hit a ball so that your opponent(对手）can not hit it."As you see,if the ball had not been invented,there would have been no sport.

Actually,that is not quite true.s Athletics(田径）isn't played with a ball;nor horseracing.Perhaps that is why they are not as popular as football!1.is the most popular sport in England."（）

2.This is the case___he's had all his money stolen.

3.Where did you have your supper?___

4.Eating an apple a day doesn' t keep the doctor away, but it does reduce the amount of trips youmake to the drug store per year. That ' s according to a new study that investigates whether there's any truth in the old saying.A team of researchers led by Dr Matthew Davis, of the University of Michigan School ofNursing,asked 8,399 participants to answer survey questions about diet and health. A total of 753were apple eaters, consuming at least 149g of raw apple per day. The remaining 7,646 were classedas non-apple eaters. When both groups answered questions on trips to the doctor and trips to thedrug store per year,the apple eaters were found to be 27% less likely to visit the druggist for drugs.Trips to the doctor were not significantly affected by apple consumption, though. "Evidence doesnot support that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. However, the small number of US adultswho eat an apple a day does appear to use fewer prescription medications," the study concludes.Apple eaters were also found to be less likely to smoke and be more likely to have a highereducational attainment than non-apple eaters. While apples do not compete with oranges, theydocontain some immune (免疫的) system-increasing vitamin C, which may be why apple-eaters visit the druggist less. With over 8mg of vitamin C per medium-sized fruit, an apple can provide roughly 14% your daily recommended intake.Previous studies have also linked apple consumption to a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes (二型糖尿病) ,improved lung function and a lower risk of colon (结肠) cancer.What is the conclusion of the study?

5.There is nothing more possible than a new hip or knee that can put the spring back inyour step.Patients receiving joint implants(移植）often are able to resume many of thephysical activities they love,even those as vigorous as tennis and hiking.No wonder.then,that joint replacement is growing in popularity.In the United States in 2007,surgeons performed about 806,000 hip and knee implants(the joints most commonly replaced),double the number performed a decade earlier.Though these procedures have become routine,they are not failure free.implants must sometimes be replaced,said Dr.Henrik Malchau,an orthopedic surgeon(矫形外科医生）at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.A study published in2007 found that 7 percent of hips implanted in Medicare patients had to be replaced withinseven and a half years.The percentage may sound low,but the finding suggests that thousands of hip patients eventually require a second operation,said Dr.Malchau.Those patients must endure additional recoveries,often painful,and increased medical expenses.Thefailure rate should be lower,many experts agree.Sweden,for instance,has a failure rate estimated to be a third of that in the United States.Sweden also has a national jointreplacement registry,a database of information from which surgeons can learnhow andwhy certain procedures go wrongA registry also helps surgeons learn quickly whetheraspecifictype of implant is particularly problematic,"Every country that has developedaregistry has been able to reduce failure rates."“Significantly,"said Dr.Daniel Berry,chief of orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinicin Rochester,Minn.A newly formed American Joint Replacement Registry will begin gathering data fromhospitals in the next 12 to 18 months.It's good news for those who are considering replacing a knee or hip.People who need a new kneeor hip would possiblyfeelabout data gathering inthe U.S.（）

6.Hurry up!There is____time left.

7.选出下列选项中划线部分读音不同的选项（）

8.The strange close understanding between twins is a familiar enough phenomenon. Often they seem to understand each other and share each other’s emotions to such an extent that one suspects some kind of thought communication.　　What is not so widely known is that this special relationship often acts as brake on twins’ intellectual development. As they are partly isolated in their own private world, twins communicate less with adults than do other children. The verbal ability of a four-year old twin is typically six months behind that of a non-twin. The problem can be particularly severe in an underprivileged family, a one parent family for example, where there is little stimulation for children anyway.　　Such children, while capable of mutual comprehension in a private language, often remain incomprehensible to outsiders and thus at a severe educational disadvantage. The only solution to the problem, cruel though it may seem, is to separate the twins thus forcing them to acquire ordinary speech helped and guided by sympathetic parents and teachers.What’s the reason for twins to be at a disadvantage in their intellectual development?

9.――Oh，well，I'll speak a little slower．

10.Nobody can do two things well___

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Passage FiveSocrates is often referred to as one of the founders of Westerm philosophy，and yet he wrote nothing,estabished no school, and held no particular theories of his own. What he did do, however,was frequently ask the questions that interested him, and in doing so developed a new way of thinking. This method proceeds (展开) as a dialogue between opposing views, and it earmed him many enemies in Athens, where he lived.As a young man, Socrates is believed to have studied natural philosophy, looking at the various explanations of the nature of the universe, but then became involved in the politics of the city-state and concerned with more down-to-earth moral issues, such as the nature of justice.However, he was not interested in winning arguments, or arguing for the sake of making money. Nor was he seeking answers or explanations. He was simply examining the basis of the concepts we apply to ourselves (such as“good"，“bad”, and “just" )，for he believed that understanding what we are is the first task of philosophy.He was sentenced to death on charges of corrupting the young with bad ideas. But he also had many followers, and among them was Plato, who recorded Socrates’ ideas in the written works, called dialogues, in which Socrates sets about examining various ideas.Socrates’ central concerm, then, was the examination of life, and it was his cruel questioning of people' s most valued beliefs ( largely about themselves) that earned him his enemies- but he remained committed to his task until the very end. According to the account of his defense at his trial, Socrates chose death rather than face a life of ignorance:“The life which is unexamined is not worth living”.What is the most important task of philosophy according to Socrates?

12.Which is___LiLei's box or Han Meimei's box?

13.Henry ’ s job was to examine cars crossing the frontier to make sure that they were not smuggling( 走私 ) anything into the country. Every morning, except weekends, he 61 see a factory worker coming up the hill toward the frontier, 62 a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it. When the bicycle 63 the frontier, Henry used to stop the man and 64 him take the straw off and 65 it. Then he would examine the straw very carefully to see 66 he would find anything, after which he would look in all the man 67 he let him tie the straw up ’ s pockets again. The man would then pull it on his bicycle and go off down the hill with it. Although Henry was always 68 to find gold or jewelry or other valuable things 69 in the straw, he never found 70 , even though he examined it very carefully. He was sure that the man was 71 something, but he was not 72 to imagine what it could be. Then one morning, after he had looked 73 the straw and emptied the factory worker ’ s pockets 74 usual, he 75 to him, ― Listen, I know that you are smuggling things 76 this frontier. Won ’ t you tell me what it is that you are bringing into the country so successfully? I ’ m an old man, and today is my last day on the77 .Tomorrow I ’ m going to 78 .I promise that I shall not tell 79 if you tell me what you ’ ve been smuggling. ― The factory worker did not say anything for 80 . Then he smiled, turned to Henry and quietly, ― Bicycles.67.

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Nasredain was a poor man,so he tried to grow1he could in his own garden,sothat he would not have to buy so many in the market.

One evening he heard a noise in his garden and looked out of the window.A white oxhad got into the garden and2his vegetables.Nasreddin at once took his stick,ran outand chased the ox,but heas too old to catch it.When he got back to his garden,hefound that the ox had ruined most of his precious vegetables.

3,while he4in the street near his house,he saw a cart with two white oxenwhich looked very much like the one that5his vegetables.He was carrying his stickwith him,6he at once began to beat the two oxen with it.As neither of them lookedmore like the ox that had eaten his vegetables than the other,he beat both of them equallyhard.

The owner of the ox and cart was drinking coffee in a7coffee house.When hesaw8Nasreddin was doing9his animals,he ran out and shouted,"What are youdoing?What have those poor animals done to you for you to beat them like that?"＂You keep out this!"Nasreddin shouted back."This is a matter between me and oneof these two oxen.He knows very well10,I am beating him!”10.

15.When you finish reading the book,ou will have___better understanding of___life

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Henry ’ s job was to examine cars crossing the frontier to make sure that they were not smuggling( 走私 ) anything into the country. Every morning, except weekends, he 61 see a factory worker coming up the hill toward the frontier, 62 a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it. When the bicycle 63 the frontier, Henry used to stop the man and 64 him take the straw off and 65 it. Then he would examine the straw very carefully to see 66 he would find anything, after which he would look in all the man 67 he let him tie the straw up ’ s pockets again. The man would then pull it on his bicycle and go off down the hill with it. Although Henry was always 68 to find gold or jewelry or other valuable things 69 in the straw, he never found 70 , even though he examined it very carefully. He was sure that the man was 71 something, but he was not 72 to imagine what it could be. Then one morning, after he had looked 73 the straw and emptied the factory worker ’ s pockets 74 usual, he 75 to him, ― Listen, I know that you are smuggling things 76 this frontier. Won ’ t you tell me what it is that you are bringing into the country so successfully? I ’ m an old man, and today is my last day on the77 .Tomorrow I ’ m going to 78 .I promise that I shall not tell 79 if you tell me what you ’ ve been smuggling. ― The factory worker did not say anything for 80 . Then he smiled, turned to Henry and quietly, ― Bicycles.61.

17.That was so serious a matter that I had no choice but_____the police.

18.Passage FiveTable top magic requires no secret formula. Even the simplest meal will be received with enthusiasm if the table accessories are creative and colorful. No matter what type of dinnerware you own, you can enhance its beauty with a variety of attractive table linens.When selecting a supply of tablecloths, place mats and napkins, choose easy-care or permanentpress fabrics because these fabrics will reduce your workload when washday rolls around. Another consideration is the suitability of your linens for your dining style or the types of entertaining you do. The shape of your table will also dictate the kind of tablecloth you purchase. Circular or rounded tables look best covered with round or oval tablecloths. Square-cornered tables require squares or rectangles.Finally, your table linens should complement your dinnerware. An elegant table setting requires But sure to take all the necessary measurements before you start shopping for fabric of your choice. It could be embarrassing if your tablecloths are not long enough to cover the tables. It is equally distressing if your tablecloth is so long that your guests have to watch where they walk. The author suggests that you purchase table linens made of__________.

19.Couples are restricting the size of their families in the UK because of cash worries brought on bvthe financial crisis and the subsequent decline.We’re now up to nearly 3.7 million families whelthere is an only child，a rise from about 3.3 million in 2005.That means nearlv half of all parentshave only one child. .Financial WOITies aren’t the only driver.The trend towards later motherhood has beenmentionedas a cause，as have soaring costs of raising a child，which have been calculated as￡222.500 frombirth t021 years of age.This is an increase of nearly 40%in lo years.The increasing availability of IVF(试管婴儿)is also a factor and an interesting one.Coupleswhomight have remained childless in the past now invest in IVF and get pregnant.And because ofthe cost they stop after one child.It may not be a bad thin9;there are outstanding examples of talented only children.Some arguethat being an only child promoted their success.These include actors Natalie Portman and Al Paci.n0， golfer Tiger Woods and even Queen Victoria.A study from the Institute for Social and EconomicResearch at the University of Essex also showed that the fewer brothers and sisters a child has.thehappier they are.It seems fighting for parental attention and affection--which sometimes descendsinto physical fights—is more stressful than any adult had previously thought.And it's not compensa—ted(弥补)by having a playmate.The smaller size of UK families is mainlv related to __________ .

20.In which arts _____ works and then display or publish them.Musical composers need musicians to interpret and perform their works.填入____处的最佳答案是()。