Nearly half a million people are believed ___...

Nearly half a million people are believed _________ their homes in the past months as a result of the disaster.

A. to leave        B. to have left      C. to be leaving    D. to be left

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There are over one million superstitions(迷信), and most people believe at least one or two of　them.

Many people are superstitious about numbers. They think that there are lucky numbers and unlucky numbers.

The number 13 is often considered unlucky. In some parts of the world, buildings have no 13th floor and streets have no houses with the number 13. In Japan, "4" is considered unlucky because in Japanese the word "four" is pronounced the same as the word "death" .

Japanese never give gifts of four knives, four napkins, or four of anything.

What are the lucky numbers? Seven is a lucky number in many places, and "8" is considered a lucky number in Japan and China. In China, businesses often open on August 8, and many couples register to get married at eight past eight on August 8.

Superstitions about numbers are so widespread that some people--called numerologist--make a living by giving advice about numbers.

In 1937, when the Toyoda family of Japan wanted to form a car company, they asked a numerologist if "Toyoda" would be a good name for the company. The numerologist said it would not be. He explained that "Toyota" would be a better name for the company. The family took his advice. As a result, millions of people drive "Toyota" and not "Toyoda" .

There are many other kinds of superstitions. There are superstitions about eating, sleeping, sneezing and itching(抓痒). There are superstitions about animals and holidays and horseshoes.

There are even superstitions about superstitions. Those superstitions will tell people how to reverse bad luck.

When the Japanese bump heads, they immediately bump heads again. According to a Japanese superstition, the first-bump means their parents will die, but the second bump "erases" the first bump

To reverse bad luck in general, people turn around three times, turn their pockets inside out, or put their hats on backwards.

In the United States, baseball players sometimes wear their caps backwards when their team is losing. It looks silly, but the baseball players do not mind if it helps them win the game.

1.It can be inferred that superstitions about numbers are________.

2.The underlined word "reverse" means________.

3.If a Japanese purposely bumps his head again after an accidental bump, we can be sure that ________.

4.The writer wrote this passage with the purpose of________.

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Chopsticks

Right now, millions of people are digging into their food with two sticks that have school the test of time as a utensil(烹调用具)for humans. But what’s so special about them? 1.Personally, I think they teach us the importance of:

2.

If you’re ever tried using them, you know that you can’t get what you want by just randomly stabbing at the plate. To be able to get what you want, you have to aim for it. There’s no way you can pick up everything in one go. Know what you want, and just do it. 3.

Practice

Using chopsticks doesn’t come naturally. You can’t learn to use them by just reading about them. 4.It is the same with the real life. You can read as much as you like about all the things you want to do, but it will just amount to dreams and theory if you don’t try actually doing it.

Slowing Down

5.Why? Because it allows your stomach to tell your brain you’re full before you overeat. Eating with chopsticks is a slower process, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes we need to slow down and take things one step at a time, so that we have time to think and realize that we don’t have to keep charging full speed through life.

A. Aim

B. Motivation

C. What can we learn from them?

D. You have to practice using them

E. Those who eat too fast were less successful at losing weight

F. Sometimes, a little bit of focus makes the difference between failure and success

G. A common health tip is to try to eat with chopsticks when you can

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Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members, especially their parents, don’t know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for advice. It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or many friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone. This communication is very important in children’s growing up, because friends can discuss something difficult to say to their family members.

However, parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends. The question of “choice” is an interesting one. Have you ever thought of the following questions?

Who choose your friends?

Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?

Have you got a good friend your parents don’t like?

1. Many teenagers think their _______ know them better than their parents do.

2.When teenagers stay alone, the usual way of communication is to _________.

3. Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

4. The main idea of this passage is that ___________.

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What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answers lie in the way Americans live today. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, canned and other convenience foods freed the family cook from full-time duty at the kitchen range. Then, in the 1940s, work in the wartime defense plants took more women out of the home than ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother. Today about half of the country’s married women are employed outside the home. But, unless family members pitch in with food preparation, women are not fully liberated from that housework. Instead, many have become, in a sense, prisoners of the completely cooked convenience meals. It’s easier to pick up a bucket of fried chicken on the way home from work or take the family out for pizzas or burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after a long , hard day. Also, the rising divorce rate means that there are more single working parents with children to feed. And many young adults and elderly people, as well as unmarried and divorced mature people, live alone rather than as part of a family unit and don’t want to bother cooking for one.

Fast food is appealing because it is fast, it doesn’t require any dressing up, it offers a “fun” break in the daily outline, and the outlay of money seems small. It can be eaten in the car--- sometimes picked up at a drive-in window without even getting out---or on the run. Even if it is brought home to eat, there will never be any dirty dishes to wash because of the handy disposable (一次性的) wrappings. Children, especially, love fast food because it’s finger food, no struggling with knives and forks, no annoying instructions from adults about table manner.

1.Americans enjoy fast food mainly because __________.

A. it can be eaten in the car

B. it is much more tasty than home-made food

C. one only uses his fingers while eating it

D. it is time-saving and convenient

2.It can be inferred that children __________.

A. want to have more freedom at table

B. never wash dishes after each meal

C. are good at using forks and knives while eating

D. take eating time as a fun break

3. Many Americans are eating out and not cooking at home partially because __________.

A. they want to make a change after eating the same food for years at home

B. the food made outside home tastes better than food cooked at home

C. many of them live alone and don’t like taking trouble to cook

D. American women refuse to cook at home due to women’s liberation movement

4.According to the text, a drive-in window is a __________.

A. car window from which you can see the driver

B. window in the restaurant from which you get your takeout in the car

C. place where you check the mechanic condition of your car

D. place where you return the used plates after eating

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Nearly 90 percent of the young people in our country use the Internet, but about half of them use them every day. They visit chat rooms and sending e-mails. More and more scientists has begun to wonder: Is the Internet good or bad for kid? Some of them think what it is impossible to answer that question because the Internet has so much things. What’s more, recently studies show the online world can be helpful at some ways and dangerous as well. It can be both an educational resource and hiding place for bad people.

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阅读下面材料，在空白处填写1个适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式。

Nearly 790 million people around the world do not get enough to eat, most of 1. live in developing countries.

A group of researchers in California may have found a way 2.(help) feed the hungry people. Stephen Mayfield, a professor at the University of California, studies on algae(藻类). He says, “The world, in fact, is not short of calories. 3. it is short of is proteins(蛋白质) and essential fatty acids(脂肪酸). Algae are 4.(natural) very high in proteins and fatty acids and those are sort of the two things that the world really needs.”

Mayfield and his team have made algae 5. different kinds of food. Not only is the algae food rich in protein and fatty acids, but it also 6.(taste) pretty good.

And growing algae uses 7.(little) land than other kinds of protein. Mayfield’s big idea is that algae farms could one day replace the huge amounts of land 8.(use) by farmers to produce protein from cattle or soybeans.

Mayfield’s team just successfully finished a test in which they grew algae in an outdoor environment. “Algae food 9.(product) are not yet available for sale. But in the future algae may help feed people threatened by 10.(starve),” says Mayfield.

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Facebook is now used by 30 million people in the UK, about half the population.

Joanna Shields, vice president of Facebook Europe, made the announcement this morning at a media conference in London.

She said: "We can announce today that we have reached 30 million in the UK, which we are really excited about."

Globally, Facebook has more than 500 million registered users, a milestone it hit last summer. Last July, it also revealed that it had 26 million registered UK users. In the last eight months, it has attracted four million extra UK users, bringing the UK total to 30 million, while in January 2009, Facebook had only 150 million registered users.

Last year, Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, said it was "almost a guarantee" that the site would hit one billion users. He explained: "If we succeed in innovating, there is a good chance of bringing this to a billion people...it will be interesting to see how it comes true."

One third of women aged 18 to 34 check Facebook when they first wake up, before even going to the toilet, according to research. Twenty-one per cent of women aged between 18 to 34 check Facebook in the middle of the night, while 42 per cent of the same group think it is fine to post drunken photos of themselves onto the social network, a study by Oxygen Media found.

Shields was speaking this morning at the Financial Times Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference about the power Facebook's referrals can bring to media sites, such as newspapers and TV services.

She explained that the average Facebook user has 130 friends who they share links to media sites with on a regular basis. "Media companies which take advantage of that are really seeing the benefits", Shields said.

Shields refused to say whether Facebook would develop its own mobile phone operating system and also said it was "silly" that Google had recently disabled the feature (特点) which allowed Google users to sync their contacts with Facebook friends.

1.What is Joanna Shields content with?

A. the announcement                          B. media conference

C. fast growing registered users             D. the benefits of Facebook

2.How many registered users all over the world now?

A. 26 million                                B. 30 million

C. 150 million                               D. more than 500 million

3.Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, take a more ________ view about the future of Facebook.

A. negative             B. optimistic        C. cold            D. pessimistic

4.What kind of people are more interested in Facebook according to the passage?

A. teenagers                                 B. middle-aged people

C. old people                                D. young people

5.From the passage we know that ________.

A. Facebook would develop its own mobile phone operating system

B. Google didn't allow its users to sync their contacts with Facebook friends

C. Shields refused to admit the power Facebook's referrals could bring

D. Google was always silly

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AIDS-related illnesses have killed more than 30 million people since 1981. That's half as many deaths as in World War II. And it's not over. An estimated 1.1 million Americans are among the 33 million people worldwide who are now living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Between 1884 and 1924, somewhere near modern-day Kinshasa in West Central Africa, a hunter kills a chimpanzee. Some of the animal's blood enters the hunter's body, possibly through an open wound. The blood carries a virus harmless to the chimp but deadly to humans: HIV.

In June, 1981, the CDC publishes a report from Los Angeles of five young homosexual men with fatal or life-threatening PCP pneumonia. First cases recognized. In 1985, Rock Hudson dies of AIDS. Larry Kramer's AIDS play, "The Normal Heart." shocks New York audiences.

In 1986, for the first time, President Reagan publicly utters the word "AIDS." In 1987, Princess Diana is photographed hugging people with AIDS. Reagan makes his first speech on AIDS. Liberace dies of AIDS. Three years later, Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe dies of AIDS.

In 1988, the first World AIDS DAY is held on Dec. 1. During 1991-1992, the red ribbon is introduced as a symbol of AIDS solidarity(团结一致). But AIDS becomes the leading cause of death in U.S. men aged 25-44 and ten years later, AIDS becomes the leading cause of death worldwide for people aged 15 to 59.

In 2008, for the first time, global AIDS deaths decline. UNAIDS calculates that the global spread of AIDS peaked in 1996 at 3.5 million new infections. Deaths peaked in 2004, at 2.2 million. Yet AIDS Day 2009 brings surprising figures: 2.7 million new HIV infections and 2 million AIDS deaths in the previous year.

Researchers have discovered more than a dozen antibodies that target the HIV virus. They hope that these discoveries will lead to a vaccine that offers long-term protection against AIDS. One antibody in particular, PGT 128, is considered among the most potent and promising—preventing about 70% of viruses from infecting cells in laboratory tests.

1.What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A. HIV: from monkeys to humans.　　 B. A hunter's killing caused HIV.

C. HIV is harmless to the chimpanzee.　　 D. HIV is deadly to humans.

2.How many famous people died of AIDS mentioned in the passage between 1985 and 1991?

A. 2.　　 B. 3.　　 C. 4.　　 D. 5.

3.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. The red ribbon and the World AIDS Day are both the symbols of AIDS solidarity.

B. In 2008, AIDS caused most deaths since 1981 and the death began to go down.

C. In 1986, President Reagan used the word "AIDS" and made a speech on it.

D. During 2001-2002, AIDS is the leading cause of death in the world aged 15 to 59.

4.What attitude does the author have towards the treatment to AIDS in the future?

A. Pessimistic.　　 B. Optimistic.　　 C. Objective.　　 D. Uncertain.

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Facebook is now used by 30 million people in the UK，about half the population．

Joanna Shields，vice president of Facebook Europe，made the announcement this morning at a media conference in London．

She said: "We can announce today that we have reached 30 million in the UK，which we are really excited about．"

Globally，Facebook has more than 500 million registered users，a milestone it hit last summer．Last July，it also revealed that it had 26 million registered UK users．In the last eight months，it has attracted four million extra UK users，bringing the UK total to 30 million，while in January 2009，Facebook had only 150 million registered users．

Last year，Zuckerberg，Facebook's founder，said it was "almost a guarantee" that the site would hit one billion users．He explained: "If we succeed in innovating，there is a good chance of bringing this to a billion people．．．it will be interesting to see how it comes true．"

One third of women aged 18 to 34 check Facebook when they first wake up，before even going to the toilet，according to research．Twenty-one per cent of women aged between 18 to 34 check Facebook in the middle of the night，while 42 per cent of the same group think it is fine to post drunken photos of themselves onto the social network，a study by Oxygen Media found．

Shields was speaking this morning at the Financial Times Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference about the power Facebook's referrals can bring to media sites，such as newspapers and TV services．

She explained that the average Facebook user has 130 friends who they share links to media sites with on a regular basis．"Media companies which take advantage of that are really seeing the benefits"，Shields said．

Shields refused to say whether Facebook would develop its own mobile phone operating system and also said it was "silly" that Google had recently disabled the feature（特点）which allowed Google users to sync their contacts with Facebook friends．

1.What is Joanna Shields content with?

A．the announcement

B．media conference

C．fast growing registered users

D．the benefits of Facebook

2.Zuckerberg，Facebook's founder，take a more 　　　　　 view about the future of Facebook．

A．negative　 　 B．optimistic

C．cold　 　　 D．pessimistic

3.What kind of people are more interested in Facebook according to the passage?

A．teenagers 　 B．middle-aged people

C．old people 　 D．young people

4.From the passage we know that 　　　　　 ．

A．Facebook would develop its own mobile phone operating system

B．Google didn't allow its users to sync their contacts with Facebook friends

C．Shields refused to admit the power Facebook's referrals could bring

D．Google was always silly

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