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Water as well as other resources ______ all over the world every day.

  A. is wasted    B. are wasted     C. waste      D. wastes

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Parents and kids today dress alike, listen to the same music, and are friends. Is this a good thing? Sometimes, when Mr. Ballmer and his 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, listen to rock music together and talk about interests both enjoy, such as pop culture, he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager.

“I would never have said to my mom, ‘Hey, the new Weezer album is really great. How do you like it?’ ” says Ballmer. “There was just a complete gap in taste.”

Music was not the only gulf. From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations, earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to move in separate orbits.

Today, the generation gap has not disappeared, but it is getting narrow in many families. Conversations on subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago. Now they are comfortable and common. And parent-child activities, from shopping to sports, involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can continue into adulthood.

No wonder greeting cards today carry the message, “To my mother, my best friend.”

But family experts warn that the new equality can also result in less respect for parents. “There’s still a lot of strictness and authority on the part of parents out there, but there is a change happening,” says Kerrie, a psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College. “In the middle of that change, there is a lot of confusion among parents.”

Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these evolving roles and attitudes. They see the 1960s as a turning point. Great cultural changes led to more open communication and a more democratic process that encourages everyone to have a say.

“My parents were on the ‘before’ side of that change, but today’s parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the ‘after’ side,” explains Mr. Ballmer. “It’s not something easily accomplished by parents these days, because life is more difficult to understand or deal with, but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now.”

46. Which of the following shows that the generation gap is disappearing?

A. Parents help their children develop interests in more activities.

B. Parents put more trust in their children’s abilities.

C. Parents and children talk more about sex and drugs.

D. Parents share more interests with their children.

47. The change in today’s parent-child relationship is _________.

A. more confusion among parents

B. new equality between parents and children

C.1ess respect for parents from children

D. more strictness and authority on the part of parents

48. By saying “today’s parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the ‘after’ side.” the author means that today’s parents _________.

A. follow the trend of the change     B. can set a limit to the change

C. fail to take the change seriously    D. have little difficulty adjusting to the change

49. The purpose of the passage is to _________.

A. describe the difficulties today’s parents have met with

B. discuss the development of the parent—child relationship

C. suggest the ways to handle the parent—child relationship

D. compare today’s parent—child relationship with that in the past

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第二節(jié)    短文改錯(共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分)

此題要求改正所給短文中的錯誤。對標有題號的每一行作出判斷：如無錯誤，在該行右邊邊橫線上畫一個勾(√)；如有錯誤(每行只有一個錯誤)，則按下列情況改正：

    此行多一個詞：把多余的詞用斜線(＼)劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。  

此行缺一個詞：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號(∧)，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。此行錯一個詞：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。注意：原行沒有錯的不要改。

In this textbook, you often have to work in pair and groups.                         86. __________

This gives you an excellent opportunity to practice speak English.                  87. __________

When you work with others, be sure to say English all the time.                            88. __________

Change partners wherever you can so that you can practise                             89.__________

your English with as many classmates as possibly. Become                             90. __________

more aware to the number of times you speak in a group and                          91. __________

how much you say. Through discussions with partners and        members               92. __________

of groups, you not only improve your English but also developed                   93. __________

your communication skills, learn ways to work well in team                          94. __________

and benefit from other people knowledge and experience.                               95. __________

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 The chief________of the year 2010 for Shanghai will be the Expo.

A. incident                          B. event                C. affair                       D. accident

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________ his outgoing sister, Jack is quiet, and does not easily make friends.

     A. Like             B. Unlike                     C. Together with         D. As for

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A fire ______ in the shoe factory last night but ____ soon.

 A. broke out; put out              B. was broken out; was put out

 C. broke out; was put out         D. was broken out; put out

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. All the neighbors admire this family ________ parents are treating their child like a friend.

A. why          B. where          C. which              D. that

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Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life.

In some modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all — one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough; we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degree; they refuse to do what they think “l(fā)ow” work; and, in fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor; we can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our towns.

In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that is very bad to be ashamed of one’s work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.

60. The writer of the passage thinks that _______.

A. education can settle most of the world’s problems

B. free education for all probably leads to a perfect world

C. free education won’t help to solve problems

D. all the social problems can’t be solved by education

61. The writer wants to prove that _______.

A. our society needs all kinds of jobs

B. our society needs free education for all

C. a farmer is more important than a professor

D. work with hands is the most important

62. The purpose of education is _______.

A. to choose officials for the country

B. to prepare children mainly for their future work

C. to let everyone receive education fit for him

D. to build a perfect world

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第五部分: 單詞拼寫(共10小題,滿分5分)

81. This v________ became active last year with a series of eruption.

82. Motorists are warned to slow down and take extra care in f _______ conditions.

83. How can a responsible father d ______his wife and two children and be here alone?

84. To live in a world without you is more painful than any punishment. And no one can r_____ you in my heart.

85. His writings have been_________ (影響) by his mother.

86. Your v______ is too small; you need to learn more words.

87. Why do I always become the t_____ of the thief?

88. The performance of the host, i_______ to please the audience and draw their attention, was greeted with cold silence, however.

89. I didn’t dare to speak aloud or even w________ to her what was in my mind.

90. Even the best doctor in the country can not c_____ him of his disease .

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 I have repaired much of the equipment. Would you please help me with _______within this week?

A.the other    B. the others  C. the rest  D. the remaining