The majority of astronauts（宇航员）from America have been men．At the start of the space programme there was strong resistance from some people against having women in space．However, some women were very keen to become astronauts and in the end they were successful．In 1978, NASA began the first training programme for women astronauts．
Judy Resnick and Christa McAuliffe were both astronauts and they were both women, but in many other ways they were very different．Both of them were on Flight STS-5L-L．Judy Resnick was born in 1949 and studied engineering at university and went on to obtain a PhD in 1977．She was a member of the first group of women selected for astronaut training in 1978, and in 1984, she became the second woman in space．During that flight, she helped to launch three new satellites and she carried out a programme of research．She was, in many ways, a professional astronaut whose whole life was devoted to space travel．
Christa McAuliffe was born in 1948 and she was an astronaut almost by accident．In 1984, NASA decided to find a teacher who could accompany astronauts into space．They hoped that she would be able to communicate with students from space and encourage every one of them to be interested in space travel．Christa was a secondary teacher in history and social studies．She was a gifted teacher and she was selected from over 11,000 applicants to go on flight STS-51-L．She was also a very good communicator and she immediately established a very good relationship with the news media(radio, television and newspapers）．It was partly because of this that there was a great deal of interest and excitement about the flight．Thousands of students in schools and universities all around the country were looking forward to communicating with Christa in space．Millions of people were watching her flight with great interest．It is partly because of the excitement over McAuliffe's place in the flight that the disaster in 1986 had such an effect on people．
1.We can learn from the first two paragraphs that ___________．
A．Judy was against the idea of having women in space at first
B．Judy was the first woman selected for astronaut training
C．Judy helped to launch three new satellites at the age of 35
D．Judy carried out a programme during her second space travel
2.Christa McAuliffe was chosen for training because _______．
A．she was popular with the news media
B．she expected to give history lessons in space
C．she was an excellent teacher and communicator
D．she made the students in space very excited
3.The reason why there was great interest in Flight STS-51-L is that ________．
A．both Christa and Judy got PhD degrees in the same year
B．a young secondary school teacher was on the flight
C．students were going to learn more about space travel
D．it was the first time for women to travel in space
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A．Two Astronauts B．Flight STS-51-L
C．Travelling in Space D．The Training Programme
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What's on
Oscar Film Themes Symphony Concert
Film highlights accompanied by live performances of movie theme music by the China Opera and Dance Drama Theatre Symphony Orchestra, which has recorded the music for many films．Familiar tunes will come from such flicks as Titanic, Jurassic Park and Waterloo Bridge．
Where: Nationality Cultural Palace Theatre When: March 8, 7：30 pm Admission：80-380 yuan Tel：6528 7674 ext 508
Fantastic View All the Way
The mountains in this area are not very high, but the vistas are excellent．This walk is gentle and very interesting, going through valleys, over passes, along a ridge and through a few little tranquil villages that are located in amazing places．Many sites along the walk offer panoramic view of the surrounding mountains．
Where: Pinggu, northeast of Beijing When: March 9, meet 8：30 am outside Starbucks at Lido Hotel, or 9 am at Capital Paradise front gate, return 5 pm Admission: adults 150 yuan, children 100 yuan Tel: 13701003694 Email: fjhikers @ yahoo．co．uk
Spring Greetings
Paintings in bold colors in a traditional Chinese style by young artist Tian Xifeng are displayed to welcome the spring．Tian is a student of famous bird-and-flower painting artist Wang Qing．He has won several prizes at various national painting exhibitions and developed a style emphasizing vivid close-ups of natural scenes．
Where: Melodic Gallery, 14 Jianwai Dajie, opposite Friendship Store When：till March 31, 9 am- 5 pm Admission: free Tel: 65188123
Cala, My Dog
Directed by Lu Xuechang, starring Ge You．The story is about a middle- aged working man, known as Lao Er, whose chief source of stability and comfort in life is his dog, Cala ．One day, when his wife is out walking Cala, a policeman confiscates the unregistered canine．As Lao Er endeavors to recover his dog , the difficult circumstances of his life are revealed．Chinese with English subtitle(字幕）．
Where: Dongchuang Theatre, 3 Xinzhongjie, Dongzhimenwai When: March 13 and 20, 8: 30 pm Admission: 20 yuan Tel: 64169253
1.If you are a music lover you can go to ________ on Women's Day．
A．Capital Paradise
B．Dongchuang Theatre
C．Capital Gymnasium
D．Nationality Cultural Palace Theatre
2.The exhibition held in Melodic Gallery ________．
A．is open to the public from 7:30 am - 5pm till April lst．
B．presents the works by Tian Xifeng and his teacher
C．is to display some bird-and-flower paintings
D．costs the art lovers much money to visit
3.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A．Both adults and children can take part in the walk in Pinggu．
B．Even you don't know English you can enjoy Cala, My Dog．
C．You'll have to dial 65188123 to book a ticket for the film．
D．You'll have a choice of two meeting places on March 9th.
4.All the advertisements in this passage are about ________．
A．music B．movies C．exhibitions D．entertainments
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Most episodes（情况）of absent- mindedness- forgetting where you left something or wondering why you just entered a room-are caused by a simple lack of attention, says Schacter．"You're supposed to remember something, but you haven't encoded （译成密码）it deeply."
Encoding, Schacter explains, is a special way of paying attention to an event that has a major impact（影响）on recalling it later．Failure to encode properly can create annoying situations．If you put your mobile phone in a pocket, for example, and don't pay attention to what you did because you're involved in a conversation, you'll probably forget that the phone is in the jacket now hanging in your wardrobe（衣柜）．"Your memory itself isn't failing you,"says Schacter."Rather, you didn't give your memory system the information it needed."
Lack of interest can also lead to absent-mindedness."A man who can recite sports statistics from 30 years ago,"says Zelinski,"may not remember to drop a letter in the mailbox."Women have slightly better memories than men, possibly because they pay more attention to their environment, and memory depends on just that．
"Visual cues can help prevent absent -mindedness",says Schacter."But be sure the cue is clear and available,"he cautions．If you want to remember to take a medication（药物）with lunch, put the pill bottle on the kitchen table-don't leave it in the medicine chest and write yourself a note that you keep in a pocket．
Another common episode of absent-mindedness: walking into a room and wondering why you're there．Most likely, you were thinking about something else．"Everyone does this from time to time,"says Zelinski．The best thing to do is to return to where you were before entering the room, and you'll likely remember．
1.We can learn from the passage that encoding ________．
A．slows down the process of losing our memories
B．helps us understand our memory system better
C．gets us to recall something from our memories
D．helps us to find out the mobile phone in the pocket
2.Why do women have better memories than men?
A．They seldom use their mobile phones．
B．They are more nervous about the environment．
C．They are more interested in what's happening around them．
D．They usually take some special medicine to improve memories．
3.The sentence underlined in Paragraph 4 means that ___________．
A．a note in the pocket will easily get lost
B．putting something in sight can be a good reminder
C．taking medicine can get rid of absent-mindedness
D．people of absent-mindedness must take medicine with them
4.What is the passage mainly about?
A．The causes of absent-mindedness．
B．The environment and memory．
C．A way of encoding and recalling．
D．The process of gradual memory loss．
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We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, others, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it．
Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity（机会）and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils．The standards may be changed - no examination is perfect - but to have no external( 外部的 )tests or examinations would mean the end of equality and of standards．There are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in external examinations or in any controls in schools or on teachers．This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency（实力）,the ideal and the purpose of each teacher．
Without external examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them - a form of favoritism will replace equality．At the moment, the bright child from an ill - respected school can show certificates（证书）to prove he or she is suitable for a job, while the lack of a certificate shows the unsuitability of a dull child attending a well - respected school．This defence of excellence and opportunity would disappear if external examinations were taken away, and the bright child from a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school's fame（名誉）,unable to compete for employment with the child from the favoured school．
The opponents（对手）of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because they show differences between pupils．According to these people, there must be no special, different, academic class．They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection．The selection would be made by people who themselves are probably selected by some computer．
These people are not just against school organisation, but are at war with the whole idea of modem competitive society and they are using children in schools for their destructive（破坏性的）purposes．There is no reason why we should allow such people to determine the way our schools are organised when it is to the obvious disadvantage of the pupils, of the schools and of our society as a whole．
1.According to the passage, the writer thinks that ________．
A．changing the standards could mean the end of equality
B．standards must keep changing in order to achieve equality
C．there would be no standards without external examinations
D．we cannot have standards because examinations are not perfect
2.In the writer's opinion, what would happen if external examinations were taken away?
A．There would be no more opportunities and no more excellence．
B．Children from poor families would not be able to change schools．
C．Going to a favoured school should be the only way to get a good job．
D．Schools for bright children would lose their fame．
3.The situation at the moment is that ________．
A．many children who are suitable for a job have no proof of their suitability
B．a school's fame is not important, as long as a child has a certificate．
C．children attending well - respected schools need not get certificates．
D．a bright child doesn't need a certificate a t all to get a good job．
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1. Scientists and experts have proved the uniqueness of finger-prints and discovered that no exactly similar pattern is passed on from parents to children, though nobody knows why this is the case.
The ridge （隆起） structure on a person's fingers does not change with growth and is not affected by surface injuries．Burns, cuts and other damage to the outer part of the skin will be replaced in time by new one, which bears a reproduction of the original pattern．2. Some criminals make use of this fact to remove their own finger-prints but this is a dangerous and rare step to take.
Finger-prints can be made very easily with printer's ink．They can by recorded easily．3. Because of the simplicity and economy of this system, finger-prints have often been used as a method of solving criminal case．A suspected man may deny a charge but this may be in vain．4.
When a suspect leaves finger-prints behind at the scene of a crime, they are difficult to detect with the naked eye.
5. Some of the marks found are incomplete but identification is possible if a print of a quarter of an inch square can be obtained.
A．Special techniques are used to "develop" them.
B．A fingerprint is an impression of the friction ridges of all part of the finger.
C．It is only when the inner skin is injured that the arrangement will be destroyed.
D．With special methods, identification can be achieved successfully within a short time.
E．A latent print is the chance reproduction of the friction ridges deposited on the surface of an item.
F．His finger-prints can prove who he is even if his appearance has been changed by age or accident.
G．Every human being has a unique arrangement of the skin on his fingers and this arrangement is unchangeable.
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Today we had a chemistry test．
1.I found the test difficulty,
2.but I tried hardly to do it．
3.Suddenly Mary, my best friend,
4.asking me to let her to copy my answers．
5.After think for some time, I let her copy my answers．
6.But after the test, all of us were called to the teacher’s office．
7.The teacher was angry
8.because we had same answers in the tests．
9.We were warned not to cheat again so she would need to see our parents．I was very upset．I didn’t cheat．I was just helping a friend．
10.Why does she punish me?
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从26－45各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I spent two months with an American family last year when I studied in America．
It is said， “The best house is in the U．S．A．， the best wife is in Japan， and the bestfood is in China．”So I took and pleasure to “the best food” for my American family．Each day，regardless of my poor skill of cooking，I performed（表演）my play in way：changing the dishes’ colour，the meat’s type or the soup’s style（风味）．Thus，my American friends could discover the of eating Chinese food．Because of my“ ” job，I was often rewarded（奖励）by their of appreciation （感激） such as “very tasty”，“excellent”, etc．
But the joke was here： yesterday， I cooked Sichuan－style for dinner．I was at my achievement（成就）．
When all the family members arrived at the table，they first looked atthe fish，then looked at me．“Why do all the fish have their ？” they asked，“It’s horrible！” Horrible or beautiful？ I don’t know．But I know that fish heads are delicious．The is the best part of fish； in only the respectable（受敬重的）guest can have the special of enjoying it．
Another thing is：the American friends often said to me“ ”as they fruits or otherthings．According to Chinese tradition（传统），I would simply smile in answer to their kindness actually helping myself to any of the food． ，I said “help yourself” to themwhenever I brought home fruits．Dear me，no matter how much or how often I brought home food，as long as it was nice to their taste，they hesitated（犹豫） to use their hands to “help themselves” until all was finished．
1.A．worry B．attention C．delight D．pride(自豪)
2.A．buy B．fetch C．cook D．leave
3.A．their B．a new C．the same D．a simple
4.A．way B．joy C．trouble D．importance
5.A．hard B．daily C．good D．new
6.A．expressions B．sentence C．doing D．smile
7.A．meat B．fish C．soup D．egg
8.A．praised B．pleased C．bad D．surprise
9.A．pleasedly B．excitedly C．surprisedly D．worriedly
10.A．bones B．flesh(肉) C．tails D．heads
11.A．do B．will C．want to D．should
12.A．tail B．head C．soup D．flesh
13.A．fact B．China C．USA D．the West
14.A．honour B．seat C．table D．plate
15.A．real B．exciting C．interesting D．easy
16.A．please help us B．excuse me C．help yourself D．eat them please
17.A．brought home B．wanted C．were buying D．were eating
18.A．not B．but not C．without D．nor
19.A．At last B．Above all C．After all D．In return
20.A．usual B．often C．never D．had
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The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar．For thousands of years, the festival 1.___________ (mark) by eating zong zi and racing dragon boats in honour of Qu Yuan, who is said to have committed suicide(自杀) by drowning himself.
Qu was a minister of the State of Chu 2.________ (situate) in present-day Hunan and Hubei provinces, during the Warring States Period（战国时期）．He was upright, loyal and highly respected．3._______, he was dismissed from office．4._______ (realize) that the country was in the hands of evil officials, Qu leapt into River Miluo on the fifth day of the fifth month．Nearby fishermen rushed over to save him but were 5._______ (able) to recover his body．
The people of Chu 6._______ mourned Qu’s death threw rice into the river to feed his ghost 7._______ year on the day of his death．But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a huge reptile（爬行动物）in the river had stolen the rice．The spirit then advised 8.________ to wrap the rice and bind it 9._______ throwing it into the river．
During the Duanwu Festival, zong zi is eaten to symbolize（象征，表示） the rice offerings to Qu．And the dragon-boat races symbolize10. ________ many attempts to rescue and recover Qu's body.
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假设你是Linda ，你现在正感到生活不快乐，不健康，有压力，可又不知道如何改变自己的生活方式，于是写信给你的一个好朋友，请求他/她提些建议。
下面是你的朋友提的几点建议，请你按照以下内容给Linda回一封信（约100词左右）
1．要有足够的睡眠，至少8小时，这样才能精力充沛（energetic adj.）、学习积极（active）。
2．多锻炼是非常重要的。
3．多吃水果和蔬菜，不要吃垃圾食品(junk food)。
4．学习之余听听音乐可以减轻压力。
5．尽可能地微笑，它会帮助你快乐、忘记烦恼。
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