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Visit the Edinburgh Festival

Every year, thousands of people come to Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, to be part of the Edinburgh Festival．For three weeks every August and September the city is filled with actors and artists from 1. over the world．They come to Edinburgh  2. the biggest arts festival in Britain．During this time the streets of the city are alive with music and dance from  3.  morning till late at night．You can even see artists painting pictures on the streets．One of the best parts of the Festival is the "Fringe", 4.  students do comedy shows in small halls and cafés．

5.   of thousands of tourists come to the Festival to see new films and plays and hear music performed by famous musicians．This year, you can see over five hundred performances  6.   actors from more than forty countries．

The tickets for these performances are quite cheap and it is usually easier to see your favorite stars in Edinburgh 7.  it is in London．Come to Edinburgh next summer, but remember it can be difficult to find a room, 8. why not book your hotel now?

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What is happiness? ________1.________ people have different ideas. Some people are rich; they think they are happy. ________2.________ people have many friends, so they feel ________3.________. Still others are happy because their lives are meaningful. Happiness attracts everyone. For children, happiness often suggests eating something good or ________4.________ with toys. ________5.________ a stamp collector, stamps bring more delight than meals. And for a scientist, a discovery or an invention rather than ________6.  else gives him greatest satisfaction. As everything exists only because of its opposite, happiness exists only when ________7.________ exists. Just as a person who does not know failure never knows success, a person, who has not experienced suffering or sadness never knows ________8.________ happiness means. Cheer up and be happy. Happiness is not far from you. It’s just around you. Try to grasp it and enjoy it.

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Because neither she nor her husband smoked, Mrs. Trench was surprised to see cigarette ash on her doorstep as she entered the house. When she opened the living-room door, she was astonished to see a strange man fast 48 in an armchair! Taking care not to disturb him, Mrs. Trench left the house at once. She called a taxi and went 49 to the police station. When she got there, she lost no time to explain ________  ________    _____50had happened and added that the man 51 have got into the house 52 an open window. Mrs. Trench returned home 53 a police car together with two policemen. But it was too late: the man had disappeared. Hurrying upstairs, she went to her dressing-table. She smiled 54 relief when she saw the only thing that man had taken was an imitation diamond necklace that was almost55 !

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Dear boys and girls,

It’s a great honor to speak here .I’m really sorry that it will be only ten days 1.________ you graduate from our school .I have always been feeling honored to have been your English teacher in the2.________three years, during 3. I have been greatly impressed by your 4.________qualities such as honesty ,diligence, cleverness, unselfishness ,co-operation and so on.  5.________in my teaching career have I met such wonderful students as you .

The possibility of enhancing one’s knowledge is limitless .Graduation6.________ marks a stage of one’s education .Unceasing asking 7.________knowledge will unceasingly escalate us to ever higher and higher attainments.

I do believe that your efforts will eventually pay off . I, as well as your other teachers ,am praying that every one of you will be admitted to 8. ideal college.

Love from

Your English teacher

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EBL Coaching

Dr. Emily Levy, Director

Phone: (212)249-0147

ielevy@eblcoaching.com

www.eblcoaching.com

EBL Coaching specializes in providing individualized one-on-one home tutoring for students in grades preK-12. All students are __1.__ assessed to determine their strengths and weaknesses and __2.__ levels, and are then matched with a specialist who is __3.__ trained in the types of methods that are most __4.__ for that student. EBL Coaching uses research-based, multi-sensory __5.__, including the Orton Gillingham methodology, to __6.__ tutorial support at their Upper East Side location and at students’ homes. They also offer specific programs for students with learning __7.__ and ADHD, and specialize in helping students develop skills in reading comprehension, writing, math and study skills. EBL Coaching specialists also teach strategies（策略） for note-taking, test-taking, organization, active text-book reading and writing. They use research-based techniques that are __8.__ according to each student’s needs. All programs follow a structured, multi-sensory __9.__.

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Forests in the northern half of the globe could be growing faster now than they were 200 years ago as a result of climate change, according to a study of trees in eastern America. The trees appear to have faster growth rates due to longer growing seasons and higher concentrations (浓度) of carbon dioxide in the ___1.___.

Geoffrey Parker, a scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre in Edgewater. Maryland, said that the increase ha the rate of growth was unexpected and might be ___2.___ to the higher temperatures and longer growing seasons documented in the region. The growth may also be influenced by the significant ___3.___ in atmospheric CO₂, he said.

"We made a list of reasons these forests could be growing faster and then excluded half of them," Dr. Parker said. Their study suggests that northern forests may become increasingly important in ___4.___ the influence of man-made CO₂ on the climate.

Dr. Parker and his colleagues have ___5.___ out a detailed record of the trees on a(n) ___6.___ basis since 1987. They calculated that due to the global warming the forest is producing___________7.___ tons of wood each year.

The scientists ___8.___ the land with trees at different stages of growth and found that both young and old trees were showing increased growth rate. More than 90 per cent of the tree groups had grown by between two and four times faster than the scientists had ___9.___ from estimates of the long-term rates of growth.

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Directions; Complete the following passage by using the words in the box．Each word can only be used once Note that there is one word more than you need．

A．actually    B．suddenly    C．impact     D．fitness    E．memories

F．imaging    G．responsible     H．implications   I．boost     J．encouraging

If you want to 1._ your child's results at school, you could do a lot worse than ensuring that they do plenty of exercise．Scientists have already shown that physical activity can make you cleverer．A team in America has used scans to show that an important part of the brain _2._ grows in children who are fit．These youngsters tend to be more intelligent and have better _3._ than those who are inactive．

Scientists also found that one of the most important parts of their brains was 12 per cent larger than those of unfit youngsters．They believe that _4._ children to take exercise from a very young age could help them do better at school later．Researchers from the University of Illinois, in the U．S．, studied the brains of 49 children aged nine and ten using a magnetic resonance _5._ scan, a technique which provides very detailed pictures of organs and tissues in the body．

They also tested the _6._ levels of the children by making them run on a treadmill．The scientists found that the hippocampus（海马体）, a part of the brain _7._ for memory and learning, was around 12 per cent larger in the fitter youngsters．

Professor Art Kramer, who led the study published in the journal Brain Research, said the findings had important _8._ for encouraging individuals to take part in sport from a young age．"We knew that experience and environmental factors and socioeconomic status all _9._ brain development," he said．"If you get some lousy（坏的） genes from your parents, you can't really fix that, and it's not easy to do something about your economic status．But here's something that we can do something about．

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Filmgoers should be told how many calories there are in the popcorn, ice cream and soft drinks that they buy in cinemas, according to the Food Standard Agency.

Smaller popcorn buckets and drink cups should also be made　 1. , the nutrition inspector said.

Tim Smith, chief executive of the agency, told The Times that cinemas should help to deal with the country's overweight 　　 2.　 .

"There is a misbelief that popcorn is calorie-free, but that is not the case. It is a 　　 3.　　 to us," he said. "Portion sizes are also a big issue, and there seems to be increasingly big packs on sale."

He spoke as a number of food chains such as Pret A Manger, Wimpey and The Real Greek 　 4.　 to put calorie counts on all their menus.

A trial scheme（试行方案） with 21 food companies took place last summer, and 　 5.　 are that consumers altered their buying habits when they realised the number of calories in a product.

A consultation(征询意见) on the trial ends next month but Mr Smith is already planning the second drive for American-style calorie counts and is 　 6.　 to win support from cinemas and other entertainment places, from football grounds to concert halls.

Government　 7. suggest that two thirds of adults and a third of children are overweight. If trends are not 　 8.　 , this could rise to almost nine in ten adults and two thirds of children by 2050, putting them at 　 9.　 risk of heart disease, cancer and other diseases.

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Since early times, people have been ___41___with the idea of life existing somewhere else besides earth. Until recently, scientists believe that life on other planets was just a hopeful dream. But now they are beginning to___42____places where life could form. In 1997, they saw ____43____of planets near other stars like the sun. But scientists now think that life could be even nearer in our own solar system. One place scientists are studying very closely is Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Space probes(探测器) have provided evidence that Europa has a large ocean under its surface. The probes have also made scientists think that under its surface Europa has a rocky core（核心） giving off____44____heat. Water and heat from volcanic activity are two basic conditions needed for life to form. A third is certain basic____45____such as carbon, oxygen and nitrogen. Scientists believe there might be such chemicals lying at the bottom of Europa’s ocean. They may have already____46____life or may be about to. You may wonder if light is also needed for life to form. Until____47____, scientists thought that light was essential. But now, places have been found on earth that are in total blackness such as caves several miles beneath the surface. And bacteria,___48____ forms of life, have been seen there. So the lack of light in Europa’s sub-surface ocean doesn’t automatically rule out life____49____.

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A．survey      B．off          C．better      D．care     E．conducted

F．differed．   G．personal     H．prepared    I．contrast    J．differences,

GAN Xiaolin, 18, only gets half a day __1.__ school every week since the Hubei student started senior high school．Every day, he takes core （核心的） courses from 7:10 am to 10:30 pm．

Sometimes, Gan feels extremely stressed from the heavy workload．But he hopes that his three

years of hard work toward the college entrance examination will change his life for the _2._．

Gan is a typical Chinese student, as shown m a recently released survey．The new survey, which was __3.__ by the China Youth and Children Research Center and other foreign institutions, polled（调整） about 4,000 high school and vocational school students in China, Japan, the United States and South Korea．

The five biggest frustrations listed by all the young people were: an over-busy school life, an empty_4.__ life, dissatisfaction with their appearance, a lack of time for exercise and friends, and no spare money．

Although some of the teenage problems were y-niversai, there were big _ _5._ between the students when it came to the time they spent on sehoolwork．

For example, Chinese students spent the most time at school and on homework．Nearly 80 percent of them spent at least eight hours a week in school, and 56．7 percent spent two or more hours on their homework．By_6., only about 25 percent of US students, 20,5 percent of Japanese students, and 15 percent of Korean students had more than two hours of homework each night．

The responses from the Chinese students also _7._ significantly from their peers （同龄人）

in the other three countries when asked about their life goals．

Only 16．7 percent of Chinese students said that they didn't __8._ much about their future, while the figure for that category was 72．4 percent for US students, 59．1 percent for the Japanese and 58．2 percent for the South Koreans．The _9. found that Chinese students were more motivated than the other students to work hard for a better life．

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