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       America’s No.1 health problem？A report published by the American Institute of Stress claims the biggest threat to health today is neither cancer nor AIDS．The report says：“it has been estimated that 75-90 percent of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress-related problems．’’

       It is no exaggeration（夸张）to say that people today are being attacked by stress．According to the National Consumers League，“Work is the top source of stress for adults who have problems and stress in their lives（39％）．Other sources include health（10％），concern about the economy（9％）and concern about international conflict and terrorism（4％）”

       However, stress is hardly unique to the United States A British survey in 2005 estimated that ‘‘over half a million individuals in Britain believed in 2004 that they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill”．As a result of“work-related stress,depression or anxiety”, there are“an estimated thirteen and a half million reported lost working days per year in Britain”

       The picture is no less bleak in mainland Europe. According to the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work．“work-related stress has been shown to affect millions of European workers across all types of employment sectors’’ One survey revealed that there are “about 41 million workers affected by work-related stress each year．”

       What about Asia？A report issued by a conference held in Tokyo concluded，“Job stress is a common concern among many countries in the world，both developing and industrialized countries”．The report observed that“several countries in East Asia，including China and Korea, have rapidly industrialized and economically grown”．These countries now have a lot of concerns on job stress and its harmful effects on workers’ health.

Which of the followings is NOT true？

       A．Cancer and AIDS are not so threatening as health problems caused by stress．

       B．Stress is always from working and living pressure.

       C．More than one third of adults suffer from stress problems in America．

       D．Stress has become a world-wide problem.

What does the sentence“The picture is no less bleak in mainland Europe’’ probably mean？

       A．There is no hope for mainland Europe.

       B．There is no working stress in mainland Europe．

       C．The picture in mainland Europe is very beautiful.

       D．The stress situation in mainland Europe is serious too．

We can infer from the last paragraph that       ．

       A．Asian people lead a better life

       B．industry and economy have grown rapidly in China

       C．some Asians have health problems from employment stress

       D．the rapid economical development is the main reason for stress

What would be the best title for the text？

      A．Attacked by Stress       B．Attention to Health

      C．Effects of Stress            D．Health Report

The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare’s time is estimated(估计) to have been about five million. Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak it as a native language, mainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found in these areas, there are a great many regional and social varieties of the language as well as various levels of usage that are employed both in its spoken and written forms.

In fact, it is impossible to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an adequate(足够的) working knowledge of English in addition to their own languages. The purpose for English learning and the situations in which such learning takes place are so varied that it is difficult to explain and still more difficult to judge what forms an adequate working knowledge for each situation.

The main reason for the widespread demand for English is its present-day importance as a world language. Besides serving the indefinite needs of its native speakers, English is a language in which some of important works in science, technology, and other fields are being produced, and not always by native speakers. It is widely used for such purposes as meteorological and airport communications, international conferences, and the spread of information over the radio and television networks of many nations. It is a language of wider communication for a number of developing countries, especially former British colonies. Many of these countries have multilingual populations and need a language for internal communication in such matters as government, commerce, industry, law and education as well as for international communication and for entrance to the scientific and technological developments in the West.

1.What would be the best title for this passage?

2.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

3.According to the passage, what is the main reason for the widespread use of English?

4.What forms an adequate working knowledge of English?

5.What type of developing countries would be most likely to use English?

6.C。细节题。根据文章最后一段倒数第2句可推知此题

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?Long time ago, if a child had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his   21  . Now, a child with the same problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog（博客. In many ways, a diary and a blog are very   22  .So, what makes blogging different from writing in a   23  diary?

The biggest difference is that blogging is much more   24  than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats her diary like a book full of   25    that she does not want to   26  .

It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog  27  a diary will probably write nearly the same information.

I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her blog. She   28  about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test.  29  I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but   30  in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was   31  that my sister might read it!

The biggest  32  with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I were angry with a friend during high school and wrote something   33  about her in my diary, she would never know.  34  , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend   35  read her blog and get angry.

There are also   36  to blogging, of course. If I were feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me,”  37  would know about it. However if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would   38  respond（回应）and tell her how much they like her. Blogs help people   39  in contact with their friends and to hear what the people   40  them are doing.

A．notebook    B．diary    C．blog D．book

A．familiar    B．same C．similar  D．different

A．old B．real C．daily    D．traditional

A．convenient  B．secret   C．public   D．cheap

A．secrets B．mysteries    C．questions    D．puzzles

A．publish B．share    C．solve    D．answer

A．instead B．as well as   C．in favor of  D．instead of

A．wonders B．learns   C．writes   D．worries