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2.Jane has said little so far, responding only briefly when _____.

3.根据以下资料，回答9-12题。The year 2000 will bring big changes in communication．Cell phones will be small enough to carry in your pocket．Videophones will let you see the person you are talking to on the phone．Tiny hand size computers will know your favorite subjects．The Internet and email will be everywhere． 　　Technologists believe 2000 will be the year of video messaging．You will be able to see whom you're talking to. 　　Also in the near future small wireless boxes will pick up information from satellites．In 5 years, computers won't need to be connected through wires. 　　All of this will be good for rural areas and countries that don't have cable or telephone now． 　　In 20 years you may only need to think about something and the computer will do it. 　　Constance Hale is the author of Sin and Syntax, "I believe that email has been an incredible boon to communication．People are writing today where they would have been telephoning yesterday．So people are engaging with words more than they have for the last couple generations." If people use email and the Internet more, it could make people better readers and writers．Some people think the most important part of communication is to make people understand each other better．Will technology make that easier? 　　The translator also comes in handy in medical emergencies．Tam Dinh says, "Where people are injured it's always important to get as much information as quickly as possible." 　　Bob Parks is an Associate Editor of Wired Magazine, "Bob's morning begins at about 6:45 am．and Bob is kind of mad, because Bob usually gets up at around 7:15 and likes to cut it close with his morning commute, but I look at my radio and it says that there's a traffic jam on 101 South and I'm gonna need an extra 1/2 hour．And so my radio has got a net connection, wireless net connection as well as a good old power cord to the wall and it has received notice that there's a traffic jam and it has calculated an extra 1/2 hour commute time." 　　Some day everything may be connected to the Internet．Your refrigerator will add milk to your Internet grocery list when the date on the carton has passed．Light bulbs will be ordered before they burn out. 　　It's fun to try to guess the future．Usually the predictions are wrong．The one thing we know for sure is that we can't imagine how technology will change.12 Why did Bob Parks radio wake him up 1/2 hour earlier than usual?

4.I can hardly imagine___sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in five days.

5.III. Cloze ( 30 points)根据以下内容，回答下列下题。The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare's time is estimated to have been about five million. Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak it as a(an) 21 language, mainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found in these areas, 22 are a great many regional and social varieties of the language as well as 23 levels of usage that are employed both in its spoken and written forms.In fact, it is 24 to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an adequate working knowledge of English in addition to their own languages. The 25 for English learning and the situations in which such learning takes place are so varied that it is 26 to explain and still more difficult to judge 27 forms an adequate working knowledge for each situation.The main reason for the widespread 28 for English is its present day importance as a world language. Besides 29 the indefinite needs of its native speakers, English is a language in which some of important works in science, technology, and other 30 are being produced, and not always by native speakers. It is widely used for 31 purposes as meteorological(气象的) and airport communications, international conferences, and the 32 of information over the radio and television networks of many 33 It is a language of wider communication for a number of developing countries, specially former British colonies. Many of these countries have multi-lingual 34 and need a language for internal communication in such matters as government, commerce, industry, law and 35 as well as for international communication and for entrance to the scientific and technological developments in the West.23 （）A.various B.similar C.familiar D.same

6.The boys spent the whole morning____possible answers to the question.

7.Is this the factory __ you visited the other day?

8.Mr.Green wouldn't say___at the meeting.

9.The basketball team was___（luck)to lose in the final minute of the game.

10.The factory had to________500 workers after the fire.

11.I talk to strangers for a living and love the challenge of getting their stories published innewspapers.I've been married for years，but until six months ago，I could be a typical absent—minded husband.Often l was just nodding when l was supposed to.When my wife asked，“Did you even hear what I just said?”1 would defensively say，“of course I did!”In January，I began to lose my voice.Doctors told me I needed surgery，or my throat would be permanently damaged.Total silence would be required for the first few weeks of my recovery.Two hours after the surgery，my eyes filled with tears as my two-year-old son looked puzzled because l wouldn’t answer his questions.I wanted to talk but couldn’t.Luckily，I'd recorded myselfreading some of his favorite books.That would come in handy the next couple of weeks.It had never left.I'd just stopped noticing.I found myself understanding her better on topics I'd previously dismissed as “things I just don’t get as a guy”.I also realized my son wasn’t just talking nonstop but that he often had thoughtful things to say.Even while walking my dog in the woods near our home，I began hearing pleasant patterns in birdsongs.Before my surgery，I'd have spent those walks on my phone.After several weeks，I was fully recovered. Conversation in our house is better now，not because I'm talking more.I’m just listening better and becoming less and less surprised that I like what I hear.What does the wife mean by asking “Did you even hear what I just said? ”inParagraph 1 ?

12.I’d like to find someone ____________________ I can discuss such a problem.

13.Laura was married for 6 months. Her husband was using drugs. She didn’t want her son or her unborn baby to live that way, but she was afraid to ask her husband to leave. She left him a note instead. After reading the note,Laura’s husband waited for her to come home and then beat her and her son.Laura had little education and she never had a good paying job. She was ashamed to ask for help from the police, courts or women’s shelters. Sometimes her husband was very nice to her. She decided to try harder so her children could have a home and a father. Laura joined a church and told a priest about her problem.But her husband kept using drugs and hurting the family. Finally, she told her husband she loved him,but they should live apart for a while.He beat her again.The priest came over to talk to her.He asked the husband to go out for a while. Laura packed up her things and left home with her son.The next day she lost the baby. Her husband went to jail.Laura got a lot of help from groups that help women who have been beaten.Now she is in college,has her own apartment and works on special projects at a women’s shelter.“We got out, and it changed life for me and my child. You can do it. You can break the cycle,”Laura said.Laura felt her children shouldn’t live the old way when she was__________.

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Please be advised that Nairobi like any other large city has a security andcrimeproblem.However,if you observe the following simple guidelines you will have a trouble-free,stay here.1.Do not wear a money belt.This makes you an instant target.2.Cameras of all kinds are a favourite with snatchers.Feel free to use them within the Starehe Campus and the hotel grounds but not in the streets.3.Ladies'handbags are also a regular snatch.Avoid carrying one,and if you must,bealert and hold on to it tightly.4.Jewellery and even glasses with valuable frames are also often targeted.Bear this in mind.5 Whenin a vehicle keep the doors always locked,and the windows only slightly Open-especially at traffic lights,junctions and in slow moving traffic.6.Beware of street children,their begging often quickly transforms into something more unpleasant.7.Stay with the main party all the time,and avoid wandering off on your own.8.Finally,the best defence is to be alert at all times and conscious of your environment.Should you have any problem or need help at any hour of the day or night,call any of the following and they will do their best for you:*Office fixed,home fixed and mobile phones *Kenndy Hongo 763856 761221 763182 761294 *Fred Okogo 761221 764988 604490 *Edwin Otieno 761221 761642 763011 7012792.After reading this notice,visitors to Nairobe might gain an impression that（）

15.Passage ThreeThe small number of newborn babies, which has been caused by high price and the changing social situation of women, is one of the most serious problems in Asia. When people talk about it, you can hear a word invented in Japan, "DINKS", which means Double Income No Kids.In many major Asian cities like Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo, the cost of a house is extremely high. A young couple who want to buy their own house may have to pay about $ 300,000 (though prices have fallen). For a fiat with one bedroom, one dining-room, a kitchen,and a bathroom, the couple will pay about $ 900 a month. What's more, if they want to have a child, the child's education is very expensive. For example, most kindergarten charges are at a child, the child's education is very expensive~ For example, most kindergarten charges are at least $ 5,000 a year. In such a situation, it's difficult to afford children.The number of married women who want to continue working increases rapidly because they enjoy their jobs. However, if they want to have children, they immediately have serious problems. Though most companies allow women to leave their job for a short time to have a baby, they expect women with babies to gave up their jobs. In short, if they want to bring up children properly, both parents have to work, but it is hard for mothers to work. Indeed,women who want to continue working have to choose between having children or keeping their jobs.In a word, Asian governments must take steps to improve the present situation as soon as possibleWhat is the main problem being discussed in the passage?

16. 你是刘玲(Liu Ling)，写一封给晓东(Xiao Dong)的道歉信，讲明道歉的原因、解决问题的办法，以弥补因晓东来拜访而自己不在家给他带来的沮丧。

17.Mr.Verder never thought that he would become a member of the board of directors because of his_____ origin.

18.People joke that no one in Los Angeles reads;everyone watches TV, rents videos，or goes to the movies.The most popular reading material is comic books，movie magazines，and TV guide s.City libraries have only 10 percent of the traffic that car washes have.But how do you explain this? An annual book festival in west Los Angeles is flourishing year after year.People wait half an hour for a parking space to become available.This outdoor festival，sponsored by a newspaper，occurs every April for one weekend. This year’s attendance was estimated at 70，000 on Saturday and 75，000 on Sunday.The festival consisted of 280 exhibitors.There were about 90 talks given by authors，with an audience question-and-answer period foilowing each talk.Autograph(亲笔签名)seekers sought out more than 150authors.A food court sold all kinds of popular food and diverse foreign foods，from Americanhamburgers to Hawaiian shave ice drinks.Except for a $7 parking fee，the festival was free.Evenso，some people avoided the food court prices by staying away and having their own sandwiches and drinks.People came from all over CaliforniA.One couple drove down from San Francisco.“This is our sixth year here now.We love it，”said the husbanD.“It’s just fantastic to be in the great outdoors，to be mnong so many books and authors，and to get some very good deals，too.”The idea for the festival occurred years ago，but nobody knew if it would succeeD.Although book festivals were already popular in other US cities，would Los Angeles residentswelcome one?“The citizens of the city are very unpredictable，”said one of the festival founders.The outdoor book festival attracts____.

19.根据以下资料，回答17-20题。 　　California families are facing a rapidly mounting uphill battle to make enough money to provide basic household essentials, according to a new study conducted by the California Budget Project. 　　The research compiled by the Sacramento-based non-profit organization concluded an average two-parent family with one employed adult in California needs to make $51,177 a year, or $24.60 cents an hour, to pay for housing, transportation, food, utilities, child care, health coverage, taxes and other basic expenses. 　　The number grows significantly higher in the Bay Area, the state's most expensive region．A Bay Area family of four with two working adults living in rental housing needs a combined income of $79,946 to cover essential needs．That number is more than four times greater than the $19,157 income level recognized by the federal government as impoverished. 　　The study is the fourth semi-annual survey conducted by the California Budget Project since 1999． California Budget Project executive director Jean Ross said helping state officials and residents understand the numbers found in the report is crucial to moving families toward self-sufficiency. "How should we be targeting some of our programs and policies? How much do young people need to earn and what kind of a job should they be looking to train for if they want to have that salary that can support a family?" 　　CBP said the project was based on actual costs or generally accepted fair standard prices based on weighted averages found in ten California regions.20 What has this study made people think about?

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Different things usually stand for different feelings.Red,for example,is the coloroffire,heat,blood and life,People say red is an exciting and active color.Theyassociate(体发生联系）red with a strong feeling like1 .Red is used for signs of 2 .suchSTOP signs and fire engines.Orange is the bright.warm color of3 in autumn.Peoplesay orange is a 4 color.They associate orange withhappiness.Yellow is the color of 5.People say it is a cheerful color.They associate yellow too,with happiness.Greenis the cool color of grass in6 .People say it is a refreshing color.In general,people7 two groups of colors:warm colors and cool colors.The warm colors are red,orangeand 8.Where there are warm color and a lot of light.people usually want to be 9.Those who like to be with10 like red.The cool colors are11 and blue.Where there are these colors,people are usually worried.Some scientists say that timeseems to12 more slowly in a room with warm colors.They suggest that a warm coloris a good12 for a living room or a14 .People who are having a rest or are eatingdo not want time to pass quickly.15

colors are better for some offices if the peopleworking there want time to pass quickly.6.