we our foot on the land of Africa答案解析

阅读理解

　　The real problem with pollution is people -- the way people think about their environment. We're all unwilling to accept the fact that our natural resources are fixed,in fact,since the earth was created．We want to go on using virgin (原始的) materials. We aren't educated to reusing resources,or even placing a value on “waste” products. We're a crisis (危机) society. Now,we are fearful of losing the use of our water and air by pollution. From one point,it's probably a good thing that we care about them because now we'll begin to adjust (调整) our thinking on the values of natural resources and reuse. We once thought of water and air as free. They're not,not any more free than the land is ,people haven't wanted to be educated on the part they must play in settling our environmental problems.

(1)From the very beginning of the earth,our natural resources are ________.

[　　]

(2)The environmental crisis can be turned around and settled if people ________.

[　　]

　　A．insist on using virgin materials

　　B．change their basic ideas

　　C．are educated well

　　D．clean up their rivers and lakes

(3)One of the important points in this passage is that________.

[　　]

　　A．people should get some education about recycling

　　B．governments ought to pay more money for education

　　C．we should control the usage of virgin materials

　　D．people might have known how to use the limited resources

(4)It can be concluded from the sentence “We're a crisis society” that ________.

[　　]

　　A．there is pollution in our country

　　B．we must take action as soon as possible

　　C．we have difficulty in finding ways to settle environmental problems

　　D．we are sad because of our crisis society

(5)The solution to the environmental problems lies in the fact that________.

[　　]

　　A．people are educated on the part they must play

　　B．people know what recycling means

　　C．we stop people from wasting

　　D．people know the values of natural resources

My earliest bee experience took place at a summer camp. One day our teacher told us to head up the hill nearby. We all began to ▲ our destination. The girls took the concrete stairs, but the boys ran ▲up the grassy hill, at the top of which sat a long wooden fence(围栏). Without  ▲ the boys ahead of me vaulted（跃过） over the fence bravely.

   What should I do? Take the stairs and ▲ a girl, or jump over the fence and look ▲? Then I took my chance with the fence. I placed both ▲ on the top and jumped, feeling uneasy. I didn’t ▲ it. As I tried, my foot  ▲ on the top of the fence. Down I went! I landed on my backside. I tried to ▲ off the accident, but then I felt something moving  ▲ me. Just then I saw ▲seemed like hundreds of bees flying toward me. I had landed on a beehive（蜂窝）!  I ▲up and rushed as fast as I could. But the bees flew faster. What a/an ▲ situation I was in!

   My clothes were covered with  ▲. I parked myself in the camp and I was at a loss.  ▲this, my teacher quickly took off all my clothes but underwear. Bees flew out of my clothes and ▲ out of my mouth!

   I had gained the  ▲ of all the campers, but I didn’t feel cool. I had been ▲almost 40 bees stings(蛰) all over my body. I learned a most  ▲ lesson that day. When we are led by the ▲  to show off（炫耀）, we might find ourselves sitting on a beehive.

1. A. race               B. walk           C. set             D. get

2. A. already             B . happily         C. fast        D. straight

3. A. fun           B. fear            C. help            D. luck

4. A. feel like    B. care about    C. look like        D. wait for

5. A. cool     B. worried      C .strong          D. excited

6. A. feet          B. hands                C. arms           D. legs

7. A. do                B. climb          C. succeed        D. make

8. A. arrived    B. got                C. stepped         D. caught

9. A. fall                B. put              C. laugh            D. look

10. A. inside    B. under  C. up      B. beside

11. A. that               B. which                C. what           D. if

12. A. jumped                B. stood         C. picked        D. sat

13. A. embarrassing(尴尬) B. hopeless           C. difficult     D. pleasing

14. A. tears              B. grass         C. dust                 D. bees

15. A. For              B. At              C. In             D. With

16. A. almost            B. again         C. still             D. even

17. A. experienceB. attention     C. knowledge    D. respect

18. A. got               B. found           C. given          D. put

19. A. valuable  B. deepest       C. difficult             D. successful

20. A. courage    B. leader            C. desire(欲望)     D. teacher

阅读理解

　　The real problem with pollution is people -- the way people think about their environment. We're all unwilling to accept the fact that our natural resources are fixed,in fact,since the earth was created．We want to go on using virgin (原始的) materials. We aren't educated to reusing resources,or even placing a value on “waste” products. We're a crisis (危机) society. Now,we are fearful of losing the use of our water and air by pollution. From one point,it's probably a good thing that we care about them because now we'll begin to adjust (调整) our thinking on the values of natural resources and reuse. We once thought of water and air as free. They're not,not any more free than the land is ,people haven't wanted to be educated on the part they must play in settling our environmental problems.

(1)From the very beginning of the earth,our natural resources are ________.

[　　]

(2)The environmental crisis can be turned around and settled if people ________.

[　　]

　　A．insist on using virgin materials

　　B．change their basic ideas

　　C．are educated well

　　D．clean up their rivers and lakes

(3)One of the important points in this passage is that________.

[　　]

　　A．people should get some education about recycling

　　B．governments ought to pay more money for education

　　C．we should control the usage of virgin materials

　　D．people might have known how to use the limited resources

(4)It can be concluded from the sentence “We're a crisis society” that ________.

[　　]

　　A．there is pollution in our country

　　B．we must take action as soon as possible

　　C．we have difficulty in finding ways to settle environmental problems

　　D．we are sad because of our crisis society

(5)The solution to the environmental problems lies in the fact that________.

[　　]

　　A．people are educated on the part they must play

　　B．people know what recycling means

　　C．we stop people from wasting

　　D．people know the values of natural resources

The young Mother set her foot on the path of life. “Is this a long way?” she asked. And her guide said, “Yes, and the ways are hard. And you will be old before you reach the end of it. But the end will be better than the beginning.”

The young Mother had her golden days. She played with her children and gathered flowers for them along the way and bathed them in the clear streams, and the sun shone on them.

Then the night came and the storm. The children shook with fear and cold, the Mother drew them close and covered them with blankets. The children said, “Mother, we are not afraid, for you are with us.”

When the morning came, there was a hill ahead. The children climbed and grew tired. Now and then the Mother said to the children, “A little patience and we are there.” So the children climbed. When they reached the top they said, “Mother, we would not have done it without you.” Lying down at night, the Mother looked up at the stars and said, “This is a better day than the last, for my children have learned how to face hardship. Yesterday I gave them courage. Today I have given them strength.”

The next day came strange clouds which darkened the earth－clouds of war, hate and evil, and the children got frightened and shook all over. The Mother said, “Look up. Lift your eyes to the light.” The children looked and saw above the clouds an everlasting glory, which guided them beyond the darkness. That night the Mother said, “This is the best day of all, for I have shown my children hope.”

The days went on and the Mother grew old. She was little and bent while her children were tall and strong. When the way was rough, they lifted her, for she was as light as a feather and at last they came to a hill, and beyond it they could see a shining road and a golden gate open wide.

The Mother said, “I have reached the end of my journey, now I know the end is better than the beginning, for my children can walk alone.” The children stood and watched her as she went on alone, and the gate closed after her. They said, “We cannot see her, but she is with us still. She is a living presence.”

Mother is always with you. She’s the whisper of the leaves as you walk down the street, she is the smell of bleach in your freshly laundered socks and she is the cool hand on your forehead when you’re not well. Your Mother lives inside your laughter and your tear drops. She is your first home and she is the map you follow. Nothing on earth can separate you.

1．What three things does the Mother show her children?

       A．Flowers, clouds and hills                      B．Courage, strength and hope

       C．Tear drops, maps and leaves.                D．Storm, hardship and glory.

2．The underlined word “golden gate” suggests _______.

       A．a gate which is made of shining gold

       B．a gate which separate effort and hope

       C．a gate which lies between life and death

       D．a gate which stops wind and storm

3．What does the writer intend to express in the last paragraph?

       A．We can compare a mother to map in our life journey.

       B．Mother is like a good instructor in our life.

       C．Mother is always the support in our life.

       D．Mother is devoted to working as a servant in a family.

4．What feeling does the author intend to pass on you?

       A．Sadness           B．Pity          C．Sorrow            D．Beauty

What’ s the fastest way to learn a language?

At the onset of a northern winter, many dream of warmer climates.In 1934 the Canadian-born composer Colin Mcphee did more than dream. He set out for the island of Bali.

In his book A House in Bali,Colin Mcphee described how he first gained insight into the essence of Balinese music.For about a month he had been working on transcribing a complete score to a Balinese play he had seen. It seemed impossible that so much beauty could be achieved with a scale(音阶)of only five tones.

But the distinctive embellishments(修饰音)of the music eluded him.Fortunately a young household helper and his friend decided to assist. One morning they set two objects next to Mcphee’s piano.They were gangas--metal keyed instruments.The two boys played them in what struck Mcphee as”a fast duet(二重奏） in Morse code”.

At last the composer had found the key to Balinese music.“Wait!” Mcphee would call out from the piano as the boys flew along,“Stop!Please!That bit once more!”

Patiently the boys would stop and began again.But soon they were flying again,faster than ever, amazing Mcphee with their memory and precision. Sometimes the patterns repeated.Sometimes they opened up into something new. Then, suddenly the whole duet would fly apart and the boys would burst out laughing,breaking the spell.

Although Colin Mcphee left the island in 1939,he remained spellbound by Balinese music.And its rich,distinctive sound would colour many of the compositions he would write for the next quarter century.

1.From the passage we can learn that_______________________.

A．Colin Mcphee set foot on the island of Bali in late winter

B．The book A House in Bali detailed how Colin Mcphee understood the life of the island

C．Colin Mcphee actually acquired much beauty of Balinese music

D．For a month Colin Mcphee had been watching a Balinese play he had seen before

2.The word “eluded” in the third paragraph can be replaced by________________.

A．attracted          B．shocked           C．disappointed       D．puzzled

3.Colin Mcphee was astonished because________________________.

A．the two locals played part of Balinese music once more unwillingly

B．Colin Mcphee eventually found the key to Balinese music

C．The two boys played their instruments so precisely and skillfully

D．The Balinese music displayed something new for Colin Mcphee

4.The passage is mainly about_______________________.

A．a book introducing the island of Bali

B．two Balinese boys playing gangas

C．a composer named Colin Mcphee

D．Balinese music touching Colin Mcphee

Imagine a world in which there was suddenly no emotion--a world in which human beings could feel no love or happiness, no terror or hate. Try to imagine the consequences of such a transformation. People might not be able to stay alive: knowing neither joy nor pleasure, anxiety nor fear, they would be as likely to repeat acts that hurt them as acts that were beneficial. They could not learn: they could not benefit from experience because this emotionless world would lack rewards and punishments. Society would soon disappear: people would be as likely to harm one another as to provide help and support. Human relationships would not exist: in a world without friends or enemies, there could be no marriage, affection among companions, or bonds (关系) among members of groups. Society's economic underpinnings (支柱) would be destroyed: since earning $10 million would be no more pleasant than earning $10, there would be no incentive to work. In fact, there would be no incentives of any kind, for as we will see, incentives imply a capacity to enjoy them.

In such a world, the chances that the human species would survive are next to zero, because emotions are the basic instrument of our survival and adaptation. Emotions structure the world for us in important ways. As individuals, we categorize objects on the basis of our emotions. True, we consider the length, shape, size, or texture, but an object's physical aspects are less important than what it has done or can do to us--hurt us, surprise us, anger us or make us joyful. We also use categorizations colored by emotions in our families, communities, and overall society. Out of our emotional experiences with objects and events comes a social feeling of agreement that certain things and actions are "good" and others are "bad”, and we apply these categories to every aspect of our social life--from what foods we eat and what clothes we wear to how we keep promises and which people our group will accept. In fact, society uses our emotional reactions and attitudes, such as loyalty morality, pride shame, guilt, fear and greed, in order to maintain itself. It gives high rewards to individuals who perform important tasks such as surgery, makes heroes out of individuals for unusual or dangerous achievements such as flying fighter planes in a war, and uses the legal penal (刑法的) system to make people afraid to engage in antisocial acts.

I sometimes wonder if old Finchley has the right personality to be a research scientist. He keeps asking when he’ll be coming back. After all, it was his own fault. Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley. Well, he must have pumped about a thousand cubic centimeters into himself before I noticed he was clearly becoming smaller.

  It was funny watching him, because his clothes remained the same in size. They simply piled up around him so that he looked like a small boy in his father’s clothes. But he kept getting smaller and smaller. As my colleague Dawson and I watched him, he disappeared! All we could see was Finchley’s clothes on the floor. They looked so strange, because the lab coat was on top, shirt and trousers inside and, I suppose, underclothes inside again. It gave me a strange feeling, and I think Dawson was a bit shaken, too.

  Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he’d been using to examine a family of mites(螨虫). He looked through the scope kind of absently again, and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end.

  It seems as if Finchley had taken a free ride on a dust mite and landed on the land of the mite family. Of course, we didn’t know till Finchley told us later. But anyhow, as I said, Dawson nearly passed out. He jumped off his chair and pointed at the microscope, too shocked to speak.

1. Finchley disappeared because ________.

 A. he took something poisonous      

B. he was changed into a dust mite

   C. his father’s clothes totally covered him up

 D. what he and his colleagues invented resulted in his disappearance

2. It frightened Dawson to see Finchley _______.

 A. got into his scope by accident   B. was waving through his telescope

   C. suddenly got lost in his clothes      D. gradually disappeared in the lab

3. It can be inferred that Finchley, Dawson and the writer have possibly invented _____.

 A. some kind of medicine             B. a new powerful microscope

   C. a machine to make people small    D. a new way to make a culture of mite

4.It can probably be concluded that Finchley ________.

   A. passed out there and then         B. is not fit to be a scientist

   C. is a devoted scientist            D. will remain tiny all the time

1.I had a very happy day today because we had no school though it is Tuesday today. I played football with my friends on the playground in our school. Then we had a big dinner with a lot of our friends.

2.Today was a special day. After the bell rang for the lesson, we all sat up straight, waiting for our maths teacher. Today in former years we would place something on the top of the door so that when someone entered, it would fall onto that person. But this year, we put nothing on the top of the door. But as our maths teacher was entering, we all shouted “Take care”. The teacher got a surprise and raised his head but saw nothing. We all laughed and said “April fool”.

3.Early this morning I got up and woke up my sister Jane. Together we went from door to door to call on my friends. It was a day for us to play. We gathered on the square of the town with our New Year’s gift. We exchanged our gifts and played all kinds of games on the square. How happy we were!

4.This evening we had a Halloween party in the open. We were all dressed in witch’s outfit and wore masks. We sang and danced happily. We couldn’t figure out who was who though we were all such close friends or neighbors.

5.Today I gave a kiss to the girl I love most in front of all my classmates. I didn’t say anything before. But today I was brave enough to kiss her on the face with my classmates and my history teacher near at hand.

A．Near Year’s Day

It falls on the first day of the year. The year should begin happily, they say, so that it will end happily. And on the first morning of the New Year, children in Scotland, Wales and the English border countries rise early so that they may make the round of their friends and neighbors. “On January 1^st,” writes a 13-year-old Scottish girl, “I always go New Year’s Gifting with my sister and friends, about four of us. I get up about 7 o’clock and call for my friends and go round the houses and farms.”

B．Shrove Tuesday

For centuries Shrove Tuesday has been a day of high festival for apprentices (学徒) and schoolchildren. It has been a day of feasting, and cock fighting, a day for football , and rowdiness (吵闹). And it is pleasing to find that it is still a special day for children in some parts of England, where “Pancake Day (薄煎饼日),” as they call it, is kept as a school holiday.

C．Kissing Friday

A teacher writing to the Yorkshire Post tells how after Ash Wednesday, comes Kissing Friday. A few days ago, when she arrived at a country school and was taking a mixed class of 13-year-old children in country dancing, she saw the leading boy suddenly lean across and kiss his partner, who showed no sign of embarrassment. When, as teacher, she expressed her surprise, the boy said, “It’s all right, Miss. You see, it’s Kissing Friday”. And he explained that on Friday following Shrove Tuesday any boy had the right to kiss any girl without being resisted.

D．April Fool’s Day

The first day of April ranks amongst the most joyous days in the juvenile (青少年) calendar. It is a day when you hoax (愚弄) friends of yours with jokes like sending them to the shop for some pigeon’s milk, or telling them to dig a hole because the dog has died; when they come back and ask where the dead dog is, you say “April fool” and laugh at them.

E. May Day

On the first of May, in country districts, young maidens (少女) rise early and go out into the dawn, as they have done for centuries, to wash their faces in the May dew (露水). In Somerset children call this “kissing the dew”. In most places, the girls do so to ensure that they shall have a beautiful complexion (肤色) for the rest of the year.

F. Halloween

It falls on October 31. Many children attend Halloween parties. “The best thing about the party is that you should go in fancy dress, ” says a girl. The most popular dress is a Witch’s outfit, or something to do with lucky charms. It is said that one of the luckiest things at a Halloween party is for a person to come in with a lump (块) of coal.

I sometimes wonder if old Finchley has the right personality to be a research scientist. He keeps asking when he’ll be coming back. After all, it was his own fault. Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley. Well, he must have pumped about a thousand cc into himself before I noticed he was clearly becoming smaller.

It was funny watching him, because his clothes remained the same in size. They simply piled up around him so that he looked like a small boy in his father’s clothes. But he kept getting smaller and smaller. As my colleague Dawson and I watched him, he disappeared! All we could see was Finchley’s clothes on the floor. They looked so strange, because the lab coat was on top, shirt and trousers inside and, I suppose, underclothes inside again. It gave me a strange feeling, and I think Dawson was a bit shaken, too.

Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he’d been using to examine a family of mites(螨). He looked through the scope kind of absently again, and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end.

It seems as if Finchley had taken a free ride on a dust mite and landed on the land of the mite family. Of course, we didn’t know till Finchley told us later. But anyhow, as I said, Dawson nearly passed out. He jumped off his chair and pointed at the microscope, too shocked to speak.

1.It can be inferred that Finchley, Dawson and the writer have possible invented      .

A．a machine to make people small            B．a new way to study the family of mites

C．a new powerful microscope               D．some kind of medicine

2.Finchley disappeared because      .

A．he tried out what has just invented on himself

B．his father’s clothes totally covered him up

C．he took something poisonous

D．he was changed into a dust mite

3.It can probably be concluded that Finchley       .

A．will remain tiny all the time                B．is a devoted scientist

C．is not fit to be a scientist                  D．passed out there and then

4.It frightened Dawson to see Fincley         .

A．got out of his scope by accident            B．was waving through his scope

C．suddenly got lost in his clothes             D．gradually disappeared in the lad

Section D

Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.

Imagine a world in which there was suddenly no emotion—a world in which human beings could feel no love or happiness, no terror or hate. Try to imagine the consequences of such a transformation. People might not be able to stay alive: knowing neither joy nor pleasure, neither anxiety nor fear, they would be as likely to repeat acts that hurt them as acts that were beneficial. They could not learn: they could not benefit from experience because this emotionless world would lack rewards and punishments. Society would soon disappear: people would be as likely to harm one another as to provide help and support. Human relationships would not exist: in a world without friends or enemies, there could be no marriage, affection among companions, or bonds among members of groups. Society’s economic functions would be destroyed: since earning $10 million would be no more pleasant than earning $10, there would be no motivation to work. In fact, there would be no motivation of any kind. For as we will see, motivation implies a capacity to enjoy certain activties.

In such a world, the chances that the human species would survive are next to zero, because emotions are the basic instrument of our survival and adaptation. Emotions structure the world for us in important ways. As individuals, we categorize objects on the basis of our emotions. True we consider the length, shape, size, or texture, but an object’s physical aspects are less important than what it has done or can do to us—hurt us, surprise us, anger us or make us joyful. We also use categorizations colored by emotions in our families, communities, and overall society. Out of our emotional experiences with objects and events comes a social feeling of agreement that certain things and actions are “good” and others are “bad”, and we apply these categories to every aspect of our social life—from what foods we eat and what clothes we wear to how we keep promises and which people our group will accept. In fact, society exploits our emotional reactions and attitudes, such as loyalty, morality, pride, shame, guilt, fear and greed, in order to maintain itself. It gives high rewards to individuals when performing important tasks.

81. According to the passage, the concept of right or wrong comes from ____________.

___________________________________________________________________________________

82. Emotions are significant for man’s survival because ____________.

___________________________________________________________________________________

83. What would an emotionless world lack?

___________________________________________________________________________________

84. What is the result of the absence of emotion?

___________________________________________________________________________________

September 21, 2050----At a press conference today it was announced that the first tourist heading for Mars will be the 38-year-old US businessman Patrick Clifford. He will leave the earth in the  launching window of June 2052 and set his foot on the surface of Mars in November, together with the other 6 astronauts assigned for the mission to further explore the planet.
Patrick has now two years of training ahead of him to get ready for the trip. Not only will he spend five months in getting to Mars, but another 600 days there before he can go back home.  Patrick was of course very excited, “ This has been my dream since I was four, and seeing the first man on Mars 20 years ago made me realize that it was possible.”
To be able to pay the $ 1. 3 billion for his ticket for the trip Patrick sold his majority stake (股份) in the company his father had built. “I know that my father would have been proud of me if he had still been alive today, he knew what this means to me”, says Patrick. There is no risk though that you will find Patrick begging in your street corner when he comes back, but it is said that he was paid twice as much for his part of the company.
So, how is he going to spend his 600 days on the red planet? “Well, since I don’t have a job when I get back after selling the company, I have plenty of time to come up with a new business idea”, he says and laughs. If he brings a shovel（铁锹）he can start building the first hotel there, but maybe he shouldn’t expect too many guests until someone can offer a cheaper ticket.
【小题1】How long will Patrick Clifford be away before he comes back?

I sometimes wonder if old Finchley has the right personality to be a research scientist. He keeps asking when he’ll be coming back. After all, it was his own fault. Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley. Well, he must have pumped about a thousand c. c. s into himself before I noticed he was clearly becoming smaller.

  It was funny watching him, because his clothes remained the same in size. They simply piled up around him so that he looked like a small boy in his father’s clothes. But he kept getting smaller and smaller. As my colleague Dawson and I watched him, he disappeared! All we could see was Finchley’s clothes on the floor. They looked so strange, because the lab coat was on top, shirt and trousers inside and, I suppose, underclothes inside again. It gave me a strange feeling, and I think Dawson was a bit shaken, too.

  Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he’d been using to examine a family of mites(螨虫). He looked through the scope kind of absently again, and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end.

  It seems as if Finchley had taken a free ride on a dust mite and landed on the land of the mite family. Of course, we didn’t know till Finchley told us later. But anyhow, as I said, Dawson nearly passed out. He jumped off his chair and pointed at the microscope, to shocked to speak.

1.Finchley disappeared because ________.

 A. he took something poisonous

 B. he was changed into a dust mite

 C. his father’s clothes totally covered him up

 D. what he and his colleagues invented resulted in his disappearace

2. It frightened Dawson to see Finchley _______.

 A. got into his scope by accident          B. was waving through his telescope

 C. suddenly got lost in his clothes        D. gradually disappeared in the lab

3. It can be inferred that Finchley, Dawson and the writer have possibly invented _____.

 A. some kind of medicine               B. a new powerful microscope

 C. a machine to make people small          D. a new way to make a culture of mite

4. It can probably be concluded that Finchley ________.

 A. passed out there and then               B. is not fit to be a scientist

 C. is a devoted scientist                  D. will remain tiny all the time

Health food is a general term applied to all kinds of food that is considered more healthy than the types of food sold in supermarkets.For example，whole grains，dried beans，and corn oil are health foods.A narrower classification of health food is natural food.This term is used to distinguish between types of the same food.Raw honey is a natural sweetener，while refined(提炼的)sugar is not.The most exact term of all and the narrowest classification within health food is organic food，used to describe food that has been grown on a particular kind of farm.Fruits and vegetables that are grown in gardens，that are treated only with organic fertilizers，that are not sprayed with poisonous insecticides(杀虫剂)，and that are not refined after harvest，are organic food.

In choosing the type of food you eat，then you have basically two choices：inorganic，processed(加工)food or organic，unprocessed food.A wise decision should include study of the reason why processed food contains chemicals，some of which are proved to be poisonous and that vitamin content is greatly reduced in processed food.

Bread is typically used by health food supporters as an example of a processed food. First, the seeds from which the grain is grown are treated with a chemical which is extremely harmful. Later, the grain is sprayed with a number of very deadly insecticides. After the grain has been made into flour, it is made white with another chemical which is also poisonous. Next, a dough conditioner is added along with a softener. The conditioner and softener are poisons，and in fact, the softener has sickened and killed experimental animals.

A very poisonous antifungal compound is added to keep the bread from getting moldy(发霉的)．

Other food from the supermarket would show a similar pattern of processing and preserving. You see, we buy our food on the basis of smell, color, and texture, instead of vitamin content, and manufacturers give us what we want, even if it is poisonous. The alternative? Eat health foods，preferably the organic variety.

1．What is the passage mainly about?

A．Health food. 　　　　　　　 B．The processing of bread.

C．Processed food. 　　　　　　D．Poisons.

2．What do all of the additives in bread have in common?

A．They are all used to keep the bread from getting moldy.

B．They are all poisonous.

C．They are all organic.

D．They have all killed laboratory animals.

3．What happens to food when it is processed?

A．The basic content remains the same.

B．Vitamin is not available after processing.

C．The vitamin content increases a bit.

D．The vitamin content is greatly reduced.

4．We normally buy food on the basis of________.

A. organic variety 　　　　　　　B. beauty

C. refined contents 　　　　　　　D. smell, color and texture

What’ s the fastest way to learn a language?

Learning a new language seems hard and frightening as

we look back on the years of grammar and translations in

school．Yet babies communicate t eighteen months and speak

the language fluently before they go to school.

Firstly and most importantly, a child’ s natural language-learning ability exits only in a speech environment free of translations and explanations of translations and explanations of grammar．Secondly, a child’ s language learning speeds up by constant feedback（反馈）from family and friends．Thirdly, children learn through play.

At Rosetta Stone, you know adults can recover the native language-learning ability they once had as children．At every step and in every skill, you receive immediate and actionable feedback, including speech recognition（识别）, advice and attention.

Every act is an act of play for children and there’ s no reason why it should be different for learners of any age．With Rosetta Stone programs, you rediscover the joy of learning languages．Clever, puzzle-like activities produce sudden “aha!” moments and astonishing language discoveries, we see it all the time．A slow of recognition, as though the brain suddenly realizes what is like to learn a language as a child.

Visit our website and find out how you can make your own language-learning ability active with Rosetta Stone．It’ s the fastest way to learn a language.

Which of the following as is TRUE about Rosetta Stone?

       A．You can learn only a few languages.

       B．You will get some advice in time during learning.

       C．You may take part in the language school today.

       D．You can get your money back after seven months.

The main purpose of the text is to         ．

    A．tell adults how to 1earn a language well

    B．present readers to buy CDs of Rosetta Stone

    C．present some problems of learning languages

    D．compare adults and children 1earning 1anguages

If there’ s a$499 program，you order it today and pay        .

    A．$479    B．$459    C．$449        D．$439

The passage is most 1ikely to be a（ n）           ．

    A．education paper                  B．review on 1anguage

C．science report         D．advertisement for a product

What’ s the fastest way to learn a language?

Learning a new language seems hard and frightening as

we look back on the years of grammar and translations in

school．Yet babies communicate t eighteen months and speak

the language fluently before they go to school.

Firstly and most importantly, a child’ s natural language-learning ability exits only in a speech environment free of translations and explanations of translations and explanations of grammar．Secondly, a child’ s language learning speeds up by constant feedback（反馈）from family and friends．Thirdly, children learn through play.

At Rosetta Stone, you know adults can recover the native language-learning ability they once had as children．At every step and in every skill, you receive immediate and actionable feedback, including speech recognition（识别）, advice and attention.

Every act is an act of play for children and there’ s no reason why it should be different for learners of any age．With Rosetta Stone programs, you rediscover the joy of learning languages．Clever, puzzle-like activities produce sudden “aha!” moments and astonishing language discoveries, we see it all the time．A slow of recognition, as though the brain suddenly realizes what is like to learn a language as a child.

Visit our website and find out how you can make your own language-learning ability active with Rosetta Stone．It’ s the fastest way to learn a language.

1.Which of the following as is TRUE about Rosetta Stone?

      A．You can learn only a few languages.

      B．You will get some advice in time during learning.

      C．You may take part in the language school today.

      D．You can get your money back after seven months.

2.The main purpose of the text is to         ．

    A．tell adults how to 1earn a language well

    B．present readers to buy CDs of Rosetta Stone

    C．present some problems of learning languages

    D．compare adults and children 1earning 1anguages

3.If there’ s a$499 program，you order it today and pay        .

    A．$479                B．$459              C．$449                    D．$439

4.The passage is most 1ikely to be a（ n）           ．

    A．education paper                               B．review on 1anguage

C．science report                                    D．advertisement for a product

根据句中所提供的信息，在空格内填入适当词的正确形式。（共10分）

1.We ____________(祝贺) her on the birth of her daughter.

2.Our manager has the ______(权力)to decide how many cars we need to buy next year.

3.After years of travel, we decided to ____________(定居)in London.

4.Reading is one of the best ways of enriching your ______________(词汇).

5.It’s an __________(荣幸) for me to be invited to speak here.

6.Your parents weren’t disappointed at your work. ___________（实际上）they felt happy that you had been making progress.

7.Finally Linda ______________ (痊愈)from her illness, which made her family happy.

8.A d______ person always tries his best to finish the task given to him, however hard it is.

9.His a___________ toward me has greatly changed.

10.Go s____________ down the street and then turn left at the second crossing.

I sometimes wonder if old Finchley has the right personality to be a research scientist. He keeps asking when he’ll be coming back. After all, it was his own fault. Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley. Well, he must have pumped about a thousand cubic centimeters into himself before I noticed he was clearly becoming smaller.

  It was funny watching him, because his clothes remained the same in size. They simply piled up around him so that he looked like a small boy in his father’s clothes. But he kept getting smaller and smaller. As my colleague Dawson and I watched him, he disappeared! All we could see was Finchley’s clothes on the floor. They looked so strange, because the lab coat was on top, shirt and trousers inside and, I suppose, underclothes inside again. It gave me a strange feeling, and I think Dawson was a bit shaken, too.

  Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he’d been using to examine a family of mites(螨虫). He looked through the scope kind of absently again, and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end.

  It seems as if Finchley had taken a free ride on a dust mite and landed on the land of the mite family. Of course, we didn’t know till Finchley told us later. But anyhow, as I said, Dawson nearly passed out. He jumped off his chair and pointed at the microscope, too shocked to speak.

Finchley disappeared because ________.

 A. he took something poisonous      

B. he was changed into a dust mite

   C. his father’s clothes totally covered him up

 D. what he and his colleagues invented resulted in his disappearance

It frightened Dawson to see Finchley _______.

 A. got into his scope by accident      B. was waving through his telescope

   C. suddenly got lost in his clothes      D. gradually disappeared in the lab

It can be inferred that Finchley, Dawson and the writer have possibly invented _____.

 A. some kind of medicine               B. a new powerful microscope

   C. a machine to make people small    D. a new way to make a culture of mite

It can probably be concluded that Finchley ________.

   A. passed out there and then         B. is not fit to be a scientist

   C. is a devoted scientist            D. will remain tiny all the time

【小题1】I had a very happy day today because we had no school though it is Tuesday today. I played football with my friends on the playground in our school. Then we had a big dinner with a lot of our friends.
【小题2】Today was a special day. After the bell rang for the lesson, we all sat up straight, waiting for our maths teacher. Today in former years we would place something on the top of the door so that when someone entered, it would fall onto that person. But this year, we put nothing on the top of the door. But as our maths teacher was entering, we all shouted “Take care”. The teacher got a surprise and raised his head but saw nothing. We all laughed and said “April fool”.
【小题3】Early this morning I got up and woke up my sister Jane. Together we went from door to door to call on my friends. It was a day for us to play. We gathered on the square of the town with our New Year’s gift. We exchanged our gifts and played all kinds of games on the square. How happy we were!
【小题4】This evening we had a Halloween party in the open. We were all dressed in witch’s outfit and wore masks. We sang and danced happily. We couldn’t figure out who was who though we were all such close friends or neighbors.
【小题5】Today I gave a kiss to the girl I love most in front of all my classmates. I didn’t say anything before. But today I was brave enough to kiss her on the face with my classmates and my history teacher near at hand.