One cold night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco．There I was walking home around one o’clock in the morning after a1 practice at the theatre. With the opening night only a week away, I was still learning my lines by heart. I was having 2 handling my part-time job at the bank in the daytime and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about3 both acting and San Francisco. I had4 too much of city life.
As I walked down the5 streets under the tall buildings, I felt very small and cold, so I began6 both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were still out except a few homeless people under blankets.
About a block from my7 , I heard a sound behind me. I 8 quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me9 ，so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I 10 what the noise had been. It had been my wallet11 to the sidewalk.
Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk 12 for 15 minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.
Just as I was about to quit the13 , I heard the garbage truck stop to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice came from the inside, “Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened and out jumped a small blonde man with an14 look in his eyes. “Is this what you’re looking for?” He asked, holding up a wallet.
It was already 3 a.m. by the time I got into bed. I couldn’t get much sleep, but I had got my wallet back. I also had got back some15 of city life. I realized the city couldn’t be a bad place as long as people were willing to help each other.
1．A．comfortable B．serious C．tiresome D．fortunate
2．A．comfort B．desire C．pain D．trouble
3．A．setting up B．giving up C．holding up D．picking up
4．A．expected B．changed C．controlled D．possessed
5．A．deserted B．crowded C．busy D．wild
6．A．running B．jumping C．moving D．marching
7．A．bank B．theatre C．apartment D．office
8．A．stood B．walked C．turned D．left
9．A．satisfied B．confused C．frightened D．annoyed
10. A．turn out B．figure out C．give out D．pull out
11. A．belonging B．adding C．sticking D．falling
12. A．aimlessly B．anxiously C．skillfully D．delightedly
13. A．discovery B．research C．hunt D．finding
14. A．amused B．unpleasant C．uneasy D．embarrassed
15. A．production B．judgment C．friendship D．appreciation
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It is pretty much a one-way street. While it may be common for university researchers to try their luck in the commercial world, there is very little traffic in the opposite direction. Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job. For some industrial scientists, however, the attractions of academia (学术界) outweigh any financial considerations.
Helen Lee took a 70% cut in salary when she moved from a senior post in Abbott Laboratories to a medical department at the University of Cambridge. Her main reason for returning to academia mid-career was to take advantage of the greater freedom to choose research questions. Some areas of inquiry have few prospects of a commercial return, and Lee’s is one of them.
The impact of a salary cut is probably less severe for a scientist in the early stages of a career. Guy Grant, now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, spent two years working for a pharmaceutical (制药的) company before returning to university as a post-doctoral researcher. He took a 30% salary cut but felt it worthwhile for the greater intellectual opportunities.
Higher up the ladder, where a pay cut is usually more significant, the demand for scientists with a wealth of experience in industry is forcing universities to make the transition (转换) to academia more attractive, according to Lee. Industrial scientists tend to receive training that academics do not, such as how to build a multidisciplinary team, manage budgets and negotiate contracts. They are also well placed to bring something extra to the teaching side of an academic role that will help students get a job when they graduate, says Lee, perhaps experience in manufacturing practice or product development. “Only a small number of undergraduates will continue in an academic career. So someone leaving university who already has the skills needed to work in an industrial lab has far more potential in the job market than someone who has spent all their time on a narrow research project.”
1.By “a one-way street” in Paragraph One, the author means ________.
A. university researchers know little about the commercial world
B. there is little exchange between industry and academia
C. few industrial scientists would quit to work in a university
D. few university professors are willing to do industrial research
2.The underlined word “deterrent” most probably refers to something that ________.
A. keeps someone from taking action B. helps to move the traffic
C. attracts people’s attention D. brings someone a financial burden
3.What was Helen Lee’s major consideration when she changed her job in the middle of her career?
A. Flexible work hours.
B. Her research interests.
C. Her preference for the lifestyle on campus.
D. Prospects of academic accomplishments.
4. Guy Grant chose to work as a researcher at Cambridge in order to ________.
A. do financially more rewarding work
B. raise his status in the academic world
C. enrich his experience in medical research
D. exploit better intellectual opportunities
5.What contribution can industrial scientists make when they come to teach in a university?
A. Increase its graduates’ competitiveness in the job market.
B. Develop its students’ potential in research.
C. Help it to obtain financial support from industry.
D. Gear its research towards practical applications.
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It is obvious that doctors recognize obesity as a health problem. So why is it so hard for them to talk to their patients about it?
The results of two surveys, one of primary care physicians and the other of patients, found that while most doctors want to help patients lose weight and think it is their responsibility to do so, they often don’t know what to say.
“So while doctors may tell patients they are overweight, the conversation often ends there,” said Christine C. Ferguson, director of the Stop Obesity Alliance. “Patients are not told about the possibility of diabetes (糖尿病),” she said. “And doctors don’t feel they have good information to give. They felt that they didn’t have adequate tools to address this problem.
The lack of dialogue hurts patients, too. The patient survey, of over 1,000 adults, found that most overweight patients don’t even know that they’re too heavy. Only 39 percent of overweight people surveyed had ever been told by a health care provider that they were overweight.
Of those who were told they were obese, 90 percent were also told by their doctors to lose weight, the survey found. In fact most have tried to lose weight and may have been successful in the past—and many are still trying, the survey found. And many understand that losing even a small amount of weight can have a positive impact on their health and reduce their risk of obesityrelated diseases like hypertension and diabetes.
Dr. William Bestermann Jr., medical director of Holston Medical Group, in Kingsport, Tenn. , which ranks the 10th in obesity among metropolitan areas in the United States, said the dialogue had to be an ongoing one and could not be dropped after just one mention of the problem. “If you’re to be successful with helping your patients lose weight, you have to talk to them at actually every visit about their progress, and find something to encourage them and coach them,” he said.
He acknowledged that many doctors tend to be not optimistic.
“Part of this is that there's this common belief, and doctors are burdened by it, too, that overweight people are weak-willed and just don’t have any willpower and are selfindulgent and all that business,” he said. “If you think that way, you’re not going to spend time having a productive conversation.”
1.What is the Stop Obesity Alliance most probably in Paragraph 3?
A. An organization of doctors suffering from obesity.
B. An organization of patients suffering from obesity.
C. A research group that conducts special surveys about overweight people.
D. A research group dealing with doctor-patient relationship.
2.How many of the patients surveyed have been advised by their doctors to lose weight?
A. About 350. B. About 390.
C. About 900. D. About 1,000.
3.What can be inferred about obesity patients in Paragraph 5?
A. They are not as hopeless as doctors think they are.
B. Most of them have tried hard to lose weight, but in vain.
C. Without their doctors’ constant coaching, there is little chance of their succeeding in losing weight.
D. Most of them have just given up their hope of becoming less heavy.
4.According to the passage, which factor contributes to the lack of dialogue between doctors and patients?
A. Most doctors never think of warning their patients about their weight problem.
B. Many doctors find it difficult to persuade overweight people to lose weight.
C. Most patients are too weak-willed to do anything about their weight.
D. Many patients tend not to trust their doctors about their weight problem.
5.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Obesity in the U. S.
B. Trouble of overweight Americans.
C. Talk more, help better.
D. Doctors or patients---who to bear more blame?[
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The government-run command post in Tunis is staffed around the clock by military personnel, meteorologists and civilians. On the wall are maps, crisscrossed with brightly colors arrows that painstakingly track the fearsome path of the enemy.
What kind of invader gives rise to such high-level monitoring? Not man, not beast, but the lowly desert locust(蝗虫). In recent months, billions of the 3-inch-long winged warriors have descended on Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, blackening the sky and eating up crops and vegetation. The insect invasion, the worst in 30 years, is already creating great destruction in the Middle East and is now treating southern Europe. The current crisis began in late 1985 near the Red Sea. Unusually rainy weather moistened the sands of the Sudan, making them ideal seedbed for the locust, which lays its eggs in the earth. The insect onslaught threatens to create yet another African famine. Each locust can eat its weight (not quite a tenth of an ounce) in vegetation every 24 hours. A good-size swarm of 50 billion insects eats up 100,000 tons of grass, trees and crops in a single night.
All ﹩150 million may be needed this year. The U.S. has provided two spraying planes and about 50,000 gal. of pesticide. The European Community has donated ﹩3.8 million in aid and the Soviet Union, Canada, Japan and China have provided chemical-spraying aircraft to help wipe out the pests. But relief efforts are hampered by the relative mildness of approved pesticides, which quickly lose their deadly punch and require frequent replications. The most effective locust killer dieldrin has been linked to cancer and is banned by many Western countries and some of the affected African nations. More than 5 million acres have been dusted with locust-killing chemicals; another 5 million will be treated by the end of June.
On May 30, representatives of Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Mauritania will meet in Algiers to discuss tactics to wipe out the ravenous swarms. The move is an important step, but whatever plan is devised, the locust plague promised to get worse before the insects can be brought under control.
1.The main idea of the first sentence in the passage is that ______.
A. the command post is stationed with people all the time.
B. the command post is crowded with people all the time.
C. there are clocks around the command post.
D. the clock in the command post is taken care of by the staff.
2.The favorable breeding ground for the locust is ______.
A. rich soil. B. wet land
C. paces covered crops and vegetation D. the Red Sea
3.People are alert at the threat of the locust because ______.
A. the insects are likely to create another African famine.
B. the insects may blacken the sky.
C. the number of the insects increases drastically.
D. the insects are gathering and moving in great speed.
4.Which of the following is true?
A. Once the pesticides are used, locust will die immediately.
B. Relief efforts are proved most fruitful due to the effectiveness of certain pesticides.
C. Dieldrin, the most effective locust killer, has been widely accepted in many countries.
D. Over 10 million acres of affected area will have been treated with locust-killing chemicals by the end of June.
5. The purpose for affected nations to meet in Algiers on May 30 is ______.
A. to devise anti-locust plans.
B. to wipe out the swarms in two years.
C. to call out for additional financial aid from other nations.
D. to bring the insects under control before the plague gets worse.
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There are various ways in which individual economic units can interact with one another. Three basic ways may be described as the market system, the administered system, and the traditional system.
In a market system individual economic units are free to interact among each other in the marketplace. It is possible to buy commodities from other economic units or sell commodities to them. In a market, transactions may take place via barter or money exchange. In a barter economy, real goods such as automobiles, shoes, and pizzas are traded against each other. Obviously, finding somebody who wants to trade my old car in exchange for a sailboat may not always be an easy task. Hence, the introduction of money as a medium of exchange eases transactions considerably. In the modern market economy, goods and services are bought or sold for money.
An alternative to the market system is administrative control by some agency over all transactions. This agency will issue commands as to how much of each good and service should be produced, exchanged, and consumed by each economic unit. Central planning may be one way of administering such an economy. The central plan, drawn up by the government, shows the amounts of each commodity produced by the various firms and allocated to different households for consumption. This is an example of complete planning of production, consumption, and exchange for the whole economy.
In a traditional society, production and consumption patterns are governed by tradition; every person’s place within the economic system is fixed by parentage, religion, and custom. Transactions take place on the basis of tradition, too. People belonging to a certain group or caste（阶级） may have an obligation to care for other persons, provide them with food and shelter, care for their health, and provide for their education. Clearly, in a system where every decision is made on the basis of tradition alone, progress may be difficult to achieve. An inactive society may result.
1.What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To outline contrasting types of economic systems.
B. To explain the science of economics.
C. To argue for the superiority of one economic system.
D. To compare barter and money-exchange markets.
2.In the second paragraph, the underlined word “real” could best be replaced by _______.
A. valuable B. concrete C. absolute D. reliable
3.According to the passage, a barter economy can generate ______.
A. rapid speed of transactions B. misunderstandings
C. inflation D. difficulties for the traders
4.According to the passage, who has the greatest degree of control in the administered system?
A. Individual households. B. Small businesses.
C. Major corporations. D. The government.
5.Which of the following is not mentioned by the author as a criterion（标准）for determining a person’s position in a traditional society?
A. Family background B. Age
C. Religious beliefs. D. Custom
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上周四，你班在某一社区组织了主题为“大家齐动手，共建文明城”的环保活动，分三组,每组十五人, 开展活动,活动内容如下：
| 活动内容 | 具体做法 | |
| 一组 | 回收废旧电池 | 挨家挨户回收 |
| 二组 | 清除墙上的广告纸和地面垃圾 | 不怕脏，不怕累，认真清理 |
| 三组 | 派发环保资料,宣传环保活动 | 邀请居民一起参与环保活动 |
| 居民看法 | 支持、赞扬你班的环保行为 |
【写作内容】
1. 活动的时间、地点、主题、参与人员；
2. 各组活动内容、具体做法；
3. 居民看法。
【参考词汇】
“Joining Together to Build a Civilized City” “大家齐动手，共建文明城”
【写作要求】
1. 请使用5个句子表达全部所给的内容。
2. 将5个句子组织成一篇连贯的短文。
【评分标准】
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
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阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
In one way of thinking, failure is a part of life. In another way, failure may be a way towards success. The “spider story’’ often told, Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13 th century, was hiding in a cave from the English. He watched a spider spinning a web. The spider tried to reach across a rough place in the rock. He tried six times without success. On the seventh time he made it and went to spin his web. Bruce is said to have taken heart and to have gone on to defeat the English. Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one. Abraham Lincoln, the famous American president, lost elections more times than he won them! He never gave up in the face of failure but kept trying and was eventually elected to Congress and then the presidency.
So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were conditions right? Were you in top from yourself? What can you change so things will go right next time?
Second, is the goal you’re trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goals may be. Think about this question. “If I do succeed this time, where will it get me?’’ This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn’t be doing anyway.
The third thing to bear in mind about failure is that it’s part of life. Learn to “live with yourself” even though you may have failed. Remember, “You can’t win them all.”
【写作内容】
1、概括短文的内容要点，该部分字数大约30词左右；
2、以“Is Failure a Bad Thing”为题写一篇文章，包含以下内容要点，该部分的字数大约120词左右。
⑴失败是生活中的常事
⑵人们对失败所持的不同态度
⑶你对失败的认识
【写作要求】
1、可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的观点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不要抄袭阅读材料中的句子
2、作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
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语法填空 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡括号为16—25的相应位置上。
BEIJING---World-renowned Oxford and Cambridge have come to China 16 (attract) top-rank postgraduate students in cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.
Oxford made its first 17 (appear) at the China Scholarship Council's annual International Graduate Scholarship Fair, 18 opened on Saturday in Beijing. The school wants to encourage excellent Chinese students to consider 19 Oxford can offer for 20 academic and professional careers.
"The students came well-prepared with specific questions and were serious about the chance," said Sherwood, director of graduate admissions and funding at Oxford, who will make 21 two stops for the fair in Wuhan and Shanghai.
The University of Cambridge 22 (attend) the fair since its first session in 2009, and stresses that it would continue to invest to train students to be problem-solvers.
23 Cambridge and Oxford present at the fair in competition for 24 best and brightest, Osterfield and Sherwood agree that the two universities usually have more interest in cooperation 25 competition, except in their traditional annual boat race.
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信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
下面是各位专家的有关信息，请阅读六位不同的人的需求（A---F）,并按照需求匹配信息。选项中有一项是多余选项。
1.Doctor Allen
Doctor Allen is a dentist．The dentist is a doctor who is specially trained to care for teeth．When you visit your dentist for a checkup, he or she will look at your teeth and gums to check for any problem．The dentist also wants to make sure your teeth are developing properly as you grow．It’s important to visit your dentist every 6 months to make sure you’re taking good care of your teeth and that your teeth and gums are healthy．
2.Doctor Philips
Doctor Philips is a pediatrician．Basically, pediatricians focus on the physical, emotional, and social health of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults from birth to 21 years．Their patient-care lens is focused on prevention, detection, and management of physical, behavioral, developmental, and social problems that affect children．Even more basically, pediatricians take care of children．This might involve treating an ear infection, talking to parents about school or behavioral problems, or seeing them for well child checkups and giving them their shots．
3.Doctor Smith
Doctor Smith is a surgeon, who is a physician specializing in surgery．General Surgeons perform comprehensive general surgery examinations, consultation, diagnosis, and treatment planning, which includes: trauma, wounds, and conditions of soft tissue, including aspiration,
biopsy, and repair, etc．
4.Doctor Steward
Doctor Steward is a clinical psychologist, who is trained and educated to perform psychological research, testing, and therapy．Clinical psychologists may simply, but importantly, provide an opportunity to talk and think about things that are confusing and worrying．They would also discuss with you different ways of understanding or interpreting your problems or situations．Clinical psychologists are trained to use a range of different approaches aimed to help you become more expert about yourself, and more able to overcome or cope with life problems．
5.Doctor Lisa
Doctor Lisa is an excellent school consultant．Educational consultants counsel students and their families in the selection of programs, schools and treatment centers, based on the student’s individual needs．When students graduate from high school, some of them want to continue their study; they may be not sure which university is more appropriate for them, or what subject they will choose．In that case, most of them will turn to their educational consultants．
请阅读以下相关信息，然后匹配他/她拟要咨询的相关专家或医生。
A．Tom’s mother is worried because Tom’s wounded this morning when he jumped off the speeding bicycle．The soft tissue of his right leg was broken．
B．Alex is going to take a course of computer．But he is not sure whether this course will be useful when he goes to the university．
C．Mummy is unhappy because she feels painful when she bites into something cold or hot．Her teeth are really a trouble to her．
D．Mary’s younger brother Tim, who is 8 years old, felt uncomfortable, because he had eaten too much ice-cream．
E． Lily wants to visit some places of interests during the long holiday．But she doesn’t know where to go and how to have a good tour and not waste money．
F． Lee is really frustrated nowadays．He doesn’t know why other students don’t want to speak to him．What’s wrong? It seems that he can never get out of it ．He gets angry easily recently．He wants to talk to someone to get out of it．
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