Where does this conversation take place?
A. At a hospital. B. At a department store. C. At a restaurant.
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How much is the food and drink?
A. .$2.65. B. $2.75. C. $2.95.
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What's the man doing?
A. Watching TV. B. Turning down the TV. C. Answering the phone.
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According to the man, what does he like to do if possible?
A. To visit museums.
B. To make a good plan.
C. To visit the Modern Museum.
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What news did the woman get from the man?
A. Sam will leave New York very soon.
B. Sam's sister will leave for Los Angeles very soon.
C. Sam' s sister will leave for New York very soon.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.Who could the man be?
A. A manager. B. A policeman. C. The woman's husband.
2.Where was the wallet found?
A. In the restroom. B. Under the table. C. On the table.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What are the speakers talking about?
A. Buying a car. B. Choosing a gift. C. Using a computer.
2.What' s the relationship between the two" speakers?
A. Husband and wife.
B. Professor and student.
C. Salesman and customer.
3.What do we know about the person mentioned by the speakers?
A. Maybe he likes something expensive.
B. He is surely over sixty years old.
C. He must be fond of learning.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.Why does the girl borrow money from her father?
A. To see a film. B. To watch a play. C. To go to a concert.
2.How much money does the girl need?
A. Eighteen dollars. B. Thirty-six dollars. C. Fifty-four dollars.
3.How many children want to go to the concert?
A. Three. B. Only one. C. Two.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What are the two speakers' nationalities?
A. British and Chinese. B. Chinese and French.
C. Chinese and American.
2. What problem was a newspaper article about?
A. The problem of rapid growth of cars in cities in America.
B. The problem of rapid growth of cities in America.
C. The problem of rapid growth of skyscrapers.
3. Do Americans carry out a birth control policy?
A. Yes, they do. B. No, they don't. C. We can't know.
4. What attitudes do most Americans take towards having children?
A. Most Americans decide not to have any children.
B. Most Americans decide to have as many children as they can.
C. Most Americans decide to have only one or two children.
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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1.Why does the speaker give the lecture?
A. To give some advice on the cycling tour.
B. To explain the advantages of the cycling tour.
C. To tell the listeners what to take for the cycling tour.
2.What should the cyclists not do during the cycling tour?
A. Ride as far and quickly as possible.
B. Take water in summer.
C. Enjoy the riding itself.
3.In cold weather what should cyclists do first when they stop riding?
A. Enjoy nature. B. Put on warm clothes. C. Drink plenty of water.
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Six-month-old babies are strictly limited in what they can remember about the objects they see in the world. If you hide several objects from babies, they will only remember one of those objects. But a new study, which was published in an issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that when babies “forget” about an object, not all is lost. Researchers used to think that babies less than two years old did not understand that an object continues to exist when it is not in the baby’s view. But in mid-1980s, new ways of doing experiments with babies found that they do, in fact, know that objects don’t disappear when they do not look at them -- a concept known as object permanence. But it was still unknown what babies needed to remember about objects in order to remember their existence.
Now Melissa Kibbe, of John Hopkins University, and Alan Leslie, of Rutgers University, are working to figure out exactly what it is that babies remember about objects. For the new study, they showed six-month-old babies two objects, a disk and a triangle. Then they hid the objects behind small screens, first one shape, then the other. Earlier research has shown that young babies can remember what was hidden most recently, but have more trouble remembering the first object that was hidden. Once the shapes were hidden, they lifted the screen in front of the first object. Sometimes they showed babies the shape that was hidden there originally, but sometimes it was the other shape, and sometimes the object had vanished completely.
Psychologists (心理学家) measure how long babies look at something to see how surprised they are. In Kibbe and Leslie’s study, babies weren’t particularly surprised to see that screen had changed, for example, from a triangle to a disk. But if the object was gone altogether, the babies looked significantly longer, indicating surprise at an unexpected result: “This shows that even though babies don’t remember the shape of the object, they know that it should continue to exist,” Kibbe says. “They remember the object without remembering the features that identify（鉴别） that object.”
This helps explain how the young brain processes information about objects, Leslie say. He thinks the brain has a structure that acts like a kind of pointer, a mental finger that points at an object.
1.Before the study, which of the following was unclear?
A. Whether babies know objects are gone.
B. What made babies remember objects’ existence.
C. Whether babies can remember what was hidden first.
D. Why babies were interested in what was hidden.
2.In the second paragraph, the underlined word “vanished” probably means “_____________ ”.
A. forgotten B. disappeared
C. discovered D. hidden
3.The study helps us better understand _____________.
A. how the young brain deals with information about objects
B. whether babies can remember features of hidden objects
C. whether babies were surprised when they found the objects disappeared
D. why babies less than two years did not understand a hidden object still existed
4.Which would be the best title for the passage?
A. A new concept — object permanence B. All remembered isn’t lost
C. What babies remember about objects D. A new study on psychology
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Low-Cost Gifts for Mother’s Day
Gift No. 1
Offer to be your mother’s health friend. Promise to be there for any and all doctor’s visits whether a disease or a regular medical check-up. Most mothers always say “no need”, but another set of eyes and ears is always a good idea at a doctor’s visit. The best part? This one is free.
Gift No. 2
Help your mother organize all of her medical records, which include the test results and medical information. Put them all in one place. Be sure to make a list of all of her medicines and what times she takes them. “Having all this information in one place could end up saving your mother’s life,” Dr. Marie Savard said.
Gift No.3
Enough sleep is connected to general health conditions. “Buy your mother cotton sheets and comfortable pillows to encourage better sleep,” Savard said. “We know that good sleep is very important to our health.”
Gift No.4
Some gift companies such as Presents for Purpose allow you to pay it forward this Mother’s Day by picking gifts in which 10 percent of the price you pay goes to a charity(慈善机构). Gift givers can choose from a wide variety of useful but inexpensive things — many of which are “green” —and then choose a meaningful charity from a list. When your mother gets the gift, she will be told that she has helped the chosen charity.
1.What are you advised to do for your mother at doctor’s visits?
A. Be with her B. Buy medicine
C. Give her gifts D. Take notes
2.Where can you find a gift idea to improve your mother’s sleep?
A. In Gift No.1 B. In Gift No.2
C. In Gift No.3` D. In Gift No.4
3.Buying gifts from Presents for Purpose allows mothers to .
A. be well-organized B. get extra support
C. give others help D. enjoy good sleep
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Shree Bose is one of the most impressive kids graduating from Fort Worth Country Day High School this year. Bose has a large circle of friends, and there’s one who you may have heard of: President Obama. He has twice publicly recognized her achievements in cancer research and spoken with her in the Oval Office.
If that isn’t enough, Bose recently gave a TED Talk about her work with the cancer drug Cisplatin, which also won her first prize at the Google Science Fair and recognition as one of Glamour magazine’s Young Amazing Women of the Year.
After watching her grandfather struggle with liver cancer, Bose was determined to help out in any way she could. As a high school student though, her scientific choices were limited. She reached out to various hospitals and research centers, but doctors turned down her requests because they felt she was too inexperienced medically.
Only the North Texas Science Health Center respected her determination and chose to guide her. The results were amazing.
Bose chose to study a protein (蛋白质) and its reaction with the cancer drug Cisplatin. She noticed that when she prevented this protein from growing, Cisplatin was allowed to begin destroying cancer cells once again.
“My project not only contributes to the understanding of the relationship between the protein and Cisplatin, but also suggests a newer, more effective treatment for patients who resist Cisplatin,” Bose said.
Bose’s achievements aren’t limited to the lab, though. She was also captain of her swim team and editor-in-chief of her school paper.
Bose is currently getting practical experience at the National Institute of Health and she’ll be attending Harvard in the fall. She plans to study molecular biology and go to medical school. Eventually, she would like to be a doctor.
1.President Obama has spoken with Bose because she ________.
A. gave a TED Talk recently
B. is captain of her swim team
C. has a large circle of friends
D. contributed to the cancer research
2.According to Bose’s research, _________ helps make Cisplatin work better.
A. stopping the protein from growing
B. destroying cancer cells timely
C. using the drug more frequently
D. making the protein react with the drug
3.From the passage, we know that ________.
A. Bose’s research was supported from the start
B. Bose plans to become a doctor in the future
C. Bose will study in the National Institute of Health
D. Bose’s grandfather asked her to do cancer research
4.The passage is mainly about ________.
A. a research on cancer drugs
B. a new effective cancer treatment
C. a doctor who has a promising future
D. a girl who did research on cancer treatment
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In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an international festival of music, dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.
It quickly attracted famous names such as Alec Guinness, Richard Burton, Dame Margot Fonteyn and Marlene Dietrich as well as the big symphony orchestras(交响乐团). It became a fixed event every August and now attracts 400,000 people yearly.
At the same time, the “Fringe” appeared as a challenge to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.
Soon, groups of students firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.
Today the “Fringe”, once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yet as early as 1959, with only 19 theatre groups performing, some said it was getting too big.
A paid administrator(管理人员) was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1.25 million tickets were sold.
1.What was the purpose of Edinburgh Festival at the beginning?
A. To honor heroes of World War II.
B. To introduce young theatre groups.
C. To attract great artists from Europe.
D. To bring Europe together again.
2.Why did some uninvited theatre groups come to Edinburgh in 1947?
A. They came to take up a challenge.
B. They thought they were also famous.
C. They wanted to take part in the festival.
D. They owned a public house there.
3.Who joined the “Fringe” after it appeared?
A. University students
B. Artists from around the world
C. Performers of music and dance
D. Popular writers
4.We may learn from the text that Edinburgh Festival .
A. has gone beyond an art festival
B. gives shows all year round
C. keeps growing rapidly
D. has become a non-official event
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A security camera recorded a young boy riding his bicycle up to the home of Hollie Mallet in Louisiana.The boy____in the driveway（私人汽车道）next to her house.Then he____the driveway into the garage,where he gave her dog a quick hug.
In late May,Mallet posted a video from the____on her Facebook page with this message:"Attention neighbors! Does anyone know who this____little boy is?"Mallet____that she had seen the boy a number of times running into her garage to play ball with her dog Dutchess or to____Dutchess.Mallet said,"I'd like to tell him he's____to stay and play;she loves the attention!"
Within two hours of her____,the neighbors helped____her mysterious visitor.The boy turned out to be 9-year- old Josh Breaux.He lives nearby and____dogs.
Mallet____Josh Breaux's mother Ginger by phone to____a play date between the boy and Dutchess the dog. When Josh's mother learned that her son had been going into someone's house____to play with a dog,she was not ____happy.But she was glad her son had found a____.
The Breaux had a dog for most of Josh's life,but family dog had recently died.The Breaux family did not get a new dog____they were too busy to take care of a young dog. Ginger Breaux wrote about her son's____on Facebook just the other day.She wrote:"When we are____and decide it's time to get a new dog,we will definitely keep everyone____!I am still beyond amazed at the positive____the video and story has gotten from all over the world."
1.A. fell B. continued C. stopped D. started
2.A. avoided B. noticed C. covered D. followed
3.A. notebook B. phone C. website D. camera
4.A. noisy B. confident C. sweet D. proud
5.A. suggested B. explained C. argued D. shouted.
6.A. help B. hold C. comfort D. scare
7.A. welcome B. unable C. willing D. anxious
8.A. joke B. post C. report D. warning
9.A. invite B. remember C. identify D. catch .
10.A. loves B. keeps C. walks D. protects
11.A. reached B. knew C. blamed D. praised
12.A. take in B. setup C. breakout D. write down
13.A. slowly B. carelessly C. eagerly D. secretly
14.A. strangely B. immediately C. extremely D. exactly
15.A. friend B. gift C. chance D. result
16.A. because B. so C. if D. though
17.A. problem B. schedule C. experience D. mistake
18.A. calm B. ready C. correct D. normal
19.A. surprised B. honored C. informed D. pleased
20.A. suggestions B. steps C. thinking D. response
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Passage 1:
My daughter, Jane, never dreamed of receiving a letter from a girl of her own age in Holland. Last year, we were travelling across the 1. and Jane put a piece of paper with her name and address on it into a bottle . She 2. the bottle into the sea. She never thought of it again, but ten minutes later, she received a letter from a girl in Holland. Both girls write to each other 3. now. However, they have decided to use the post office. Letters will cost a little more, but they will certainly travel faster.
Passage 2:
I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter , she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a 4. . We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun 5. my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks6. to some people. It 7. be the only modern house in the district.
Passage 3:
I enter the hotel manager’s office and sat down. I had just lost £50 and I felt very upset.‘I left the money in my room,’I said, ‘and it’s not there now.’The manager was
8. , but he could do nothing. ‘Everyone’s losing money these days,’he said. He started to complain about this wicked world but was 9. by a knock at the door. A girl came in and put an envelop on his desk. It contained £50 . ‘I found this10. this gentleman’s room,’she said. ‘Well,’I said to the manager, ‘there is still some honesty in this world! ’
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下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
We may have different opinion in organizing class activities. We may have various ways to dealing with such a situation. When I have a better idea, I would choose to stick to them. By doing so, I can not only share good ideas with others and also learn to express myself clear.
Once we were discussing why to go for an outing. Most of my classmates wanted to go to a park while I had an idea of going to a nice place. I manage to persuade my classmates into accepting my idea. We did have a good time on that day. Good opinions are worth sticking because they can benefit us all.
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假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Jack正在学习汉语，看了电视节目“中国诗词大会”（Chinese Poetry Conference）之后，非常喜欢中国诗词，因而询问你最喜欢的中国诗人及原因。请就此给他回一封电子邮件。
要点如下：1. 你喜欢的诗人； 2. 喜欢他的原因； 3. 欢迎Jack来访。
注意：1).词数100左右；
2).可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3). 开头和结语已为你写好。
Dear Jack,
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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