1.In g             , he is a good guy.

2.For v____________ reasons, many students were late for school this morning..

3.He e_____   _      us for hours with his stories and jokes.

4.There must be some m______            （误解）--- I thought I ordered the smaller model.

5.The old man is c______________ with his present country life.

6.The local doctor couldn't tell what was wrong, so he went to see a s_________  _(专家) in Shanghai.

7.What made her succeed later on was the kindness and c___________ she showed to all her patients.

8.Dr Yuan is now c___________ his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed countries to increase their rice harvests.

9.The teacher told us to u_______ _       (划线) the difficult words and look them up.

10.Venice is one of the greatest tourist a____________   of the world.

When parents celebrate an anniversary, it’s not just a celebration for the parents but for the entire family. There are many types of wedding anniversary gifts. These gifts reflect a lot of thought and effort. Choosing a gift for parents that involves the whole family makes the event more special for them.

Budget

1.  Parents usually know the financial conditions of their children. Overspending can make parents uncomfortable and worried.

Considerations

An anniversary gift for parents should have two characteristics: customized (订制的), and something they can use together. 2.  The gift is celebrating their time spent together, so it has to be something they both will enjoy.

Family celebration

One of the biggest achievements of parents is raising children. So some children decide to buy an anniversary gift that involves the entire family such as a special family vacation.  3.

A party as a gift

4. If it is a milestone anniversary such as a 25^th or 50^th wedding anniversary, some children choose to hold a party. The guest list includes all family members who have been close to them over the years.

Family-themed gifts

One choice is a family photo taken by a professional or even a painting created by a professional artist using a family photo as the image to be painted.  5.  If the parents don’t have a DVD player, the player can be included as part of the gift.

A.  Sometimes gifts don’t have to be objects bought with money.

B.  Brothers and sisters can share the cost of the party.

C.  It is not a good idea to choose a gift that only looks good.

D.  So the gift should be one selected specially for parents.

E.  Children shouldn’t spend too much money on the gift.

F.  This way, the family can be together to celebrate the anniversary.

G.  Another nice gift is making a DVD with old videotapes of family events.

The English language is changing fast, thanks to the rapid progress of technology. We all have a rapid choice: we can either bury our heads in the sand and spend the rest of our lives wishing Shakespeare were alive and well. Or we can embrace (拥抱) the new English, enter into the spirit of the Internet age called Weblish.

       “You can’t avoid it, for the simple reason that whenever a new variety of language comes along, it inevitably (不可避免的) impacts（冲击）on the language as a whole.” says Dr. David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics（语言学）at the University of Wales in Bangor, whose book Language and the Internet has just been published.

       The trouble with keeping up with the new English is not so much that there are so many new words but that the old words no longer mean what we thought they did. In the past, if someone said they did not have Windows, you would have to suppose they lived in a cave. These days, it is probably because they use a Mac (which is a computer, not a rain coat). Spam is as disliked as it ever was ,but it once meant an unappetizing（引不起食欲的）canned meat. It now stands for unwanted “junk” email. Spellings are changing, too. Not only is text-messaging playing “hvc wth vrbs” (havoc（混乱）with verbs), but the conventions of email communication place little emphasis on “perfect speaking”.

       Weblish loves to see nouns happily become verbs (“please bookmark this site”), and verbs become nouns (“Send me the download”). Verbs and prepositions are regularly thrown together to become new nouns or adjectives (e.g. dial-up, logon, print-on-demand, pull-down, upload), while others are created from simply pairing nouns: cyberspace, Etl, hyperlink, netspeak.

1.The best title of this passage would be ______.

A. Keep Up with the Latest Weblish      B. Keep Up with the Latest Development      

C. Newly Invented English Words        D. Technology and English

2.We can infer（推断）from the first paragraph that ______.

A. Some people wish Shakespeare were still alive

B. people may have different attitudes towards Weblish

C. all people welcome Weblish

D. Weblish is not popular among people

3.The author thinks the main difficulty for people in keeping up with Weblish is that ______.

A. old words have new meanings

B. there are so many new words

C. the technology is changing too fast

D. Weblish words are full of spelling mistakes

4.Dr. David Crystal would probably agree that ______.

A. people should not accept Weblish

B. Weblish can cause misunderstandings among people

C. Weblish will destroy the English language

D. people should know something about Weblish

 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选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

－Mary, do you want to see the pictures of my holiday in Italy?

－61  

－Ah, it was great! The food was great! The wine was great! But the traffic was terrible!

－62  

－Those Italians are crazy drivers! I don’t want to think about it!

—  63

－Yes, so here’s a picture of the Tower of Pisa.

－How nice!

－It was raining that day, but it was still wonderful. We climbed to the top!

－64  

－That’s a photo of the Arno River. That’s the “Ponte Vecchio”, the old bridge.

－65  

－It was very interesting. There were beautiful old buildings in the city, and lots of wonderful museums.

－That’s nice.

A.And what’s this?

B.Why was it so bad?

C.Yes, it was wonderful.

D.   What was Florence like?

E.Let’s return to the good parts.

F.Sure, what was your holiday like?

G.   Well, did you like your hotel there?

 Complete the passage by choosing the proper words in the box.

Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

F. literary     G. alive          H. significance    I. enterprises    J. figures

It is impossible to imagine Paris without its cafés. The city has some 12,000 cafés varying in size, grandeur, and  41  . The cafés are like an extension of the French living room, a place to start and end the day, to  __42_   and debate.

When did the cafés in France start? The oldest café in Paris is Le Procope. It was opened in 1686 by Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, the man who turned France into a coffee-drinking society. Le Procope attracted Paris’s political and  43  elite, and in this way played an important part among the upper class. By the end of the 18th century, all of Paris was intoxicated with （沉醉在）coffee and the city   44    some 700 cafés. These were like all-male clubs, with many functioning as centers of  45   life and discussion. By the 1840s the number of cafés had grown to 3,000. The men who gathered in these cafés and  46   the theme of the times included journalists, playwrights and writers. Around the turn of the 20th century, the sidewalk cafés became the meeting halls for artists and literary   47  .

Nowadays in Paris cafés still play the role of picture windows for observing   48 life. The artists gathered at the café may not be as great as those of the past, but faces worth watching are just the same. Linger a bit and you will see that the Parisian stereotypes are still_49    and well. You’ll see the old men in navy berets; ultra-thin, bronzed women with hair dyed bright orange; and schoolchildren sharing an afternoon chocolate with their mothers. The café in Paris has always been a place for seeing and being seen.