Believe it or not,_________ you have, I’m always on your side.

A) what great difficulty               B)how great difficulty

C) no matter what great difficulty       D) however great difficulty

     When the population of the town began to ____(1) from poisoning, the police came to find the cause of the poison. They thought someone was ____(2) the people on purpose but no one knew how it was possible. Some people suspected that the ____(3)   was poisoned. It was a popular food everyone ate and it could have possibly made everyone sick. Anyone who had taken _____(4) of pork would throw it out. Even the poorest of the poor wouldn’t eat it. Signs were _____(5) on poles and letters were sent to everyone to ____(6) people of the park. Shortly afterwards, even policemen in high positions were also getting _____(7).

     Soon it became political and popular._____(8) rushed to the town to talk about politics and promised how they would find the solution if they were _____(9).Everyone was so _____(10) that they didn’t care about politics. They went to the post office to mail posts out asking for _____(11).The poor town didn’t know how to deal with the _____(12).One day, a well-known man from New York came to the town with a huge box _____(13) many instruments and his possessions. He went to ____(14) and the port made measurements. He was quiet and polite. Then one day he made a speech at a newspaper meeting room to _____(15) his findings.

     “I am sorry to _____(16)your water supply is so heavily polluted; it is poisoned. I know who has been poisoning you for such a long time._____(17) is you who have been poisoning yourselves with pollution. A great deal of_____(18) has been thrown into the water day by day. No one here has taken good care of the environment. It is no _____(19) that you have been sick.”______(20) at the news, the people present were lost in thought.

1) A) struggle            B) suffer           C) experience          D) benefit

2) A) saving                    B) killing           C) poisoning           D) robbing

3) A) port                      B) porridge        C) pork               D) potato

4) A) possession         B) care            C) notice              D) hold

5) A) delivered           B) posted          C) put up             D) shown

6) A) inform             B) remind          C) warn               D) tell

7) A) worried                   B) angry           C) upset              D) sick

8) A) Architects                 B) Physicians       C) Politicians          D) Environmentalists

9) A) elected            B) saved           C) helped             D) rescued

10) A) sick             B) fine            C) happy              D) disappointed

11) A) advice           B) help           C) cure               D) medicine

12) A) action            B) situation        C) solution             D) suggestion

13) A) including          B) accepting       C) containing          D) equipped with

14) A) parks             B) schools         C) hospitals            D) pools

15) A) display           B) discuss         C) declare             D) announce

16) A) talk              B) speak          C) say                D) tell

17) A) That             B) It              C) This               D) One

18) A) rubbish           B) fish          C) pork               D) dust

19) A) question          B) reason        C) wonder            D) longer

20) A) Shocked          B) Excited       C) Tired              D) Frightened

      MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT

      BOYLE St. CHEETHAM,MANCHESTER

      Tel. 0161 205 2122

      Enjoy a trip to the Museum of Transport, a walking museum display the development of road public transport in Manchester. There are over 80 buses from 1890 to 1980. Over 100 exhibits, from hours-bus to metro link.

       The museum has small exhibit displays reflecting the history of bus, coach and tram travel. If you are interested in it, welcome to click here and you can see some pictures of them on the screen and get more information about them.

       OPENING HOURS and ADMISSION PRICES

       Wednesdays , Saturdays ,Sundays , and public holidays

        10:00a.m.---4:00p.m. (Nov.---Feb.)

        10:00a.m.---5:00p.m. (Mar---Oct.)

        Adults ￡3.00 , Cone(折扣價(jià)) ￡1.75 ,Under 5 free.

        Family ticket (up to two adults and up to three children ) ￡9.00

        Adult season ticket (unlimited visits for six months)￡6.00

        Family season ticket ￡20.00

        PRICES FOR PARTIES BY ARRANGEMENT

        GUIDED TOURS AVAILABLE BY APPOINTMENT

        Tea rooms , souvenirs and model shop also open

        E-mail: www. Gmts. Co.uk

1) The main purpose of writing this advertisement is ___________________.

   A) to describe the transport condition in Manchester

   B) to explain the development of public transportation in Manchester

   C) to introduce  a  museum in Manchester

   D) to persuade people to visit Manchester

2) If you would like to visit the Museum of Transport , when will it be possible?

   A) At 9:00a.m. on December 26^th    B) At 2:00p.m. on May 15^th

   C) At 4:30p.m. on January 8^th       D) At 6:00p.m. on September 10^th

3) If you are to visit the museum with your parents and one classmate , the most possible price is ________.

A)￡6       B)￡8      C) ￡9         D) ￡20

4) This advertisement probably appears in _________________.

   A) a radio program     B) a newspaper   C) a TV program    D) a website

NEW DELHI, India(AP)___ India is fast becoming a top destination for tourists thanks to a forceful campaign to push the country’s Himalayan spas(礦泉名勝) and beaches，officials say.

Tourism officials have been crisscrossing the globe as part of the government’ s “Incredible India” campaign launched in 2003.And the results are beginning to show. Tourists traveling to India have jumped by nearly 26 percent from last year and the number is expected to cross 3 million this year, said Amitabh Kant, chairman of the India Tourism Development Corp “Foreign exchange earnings, too, have shown a nearly 40 percent rise this year.” Kant told the Associated Press.

India’s earnings from tourism were 4.3 billion dollars between January and November 2004,conpared to 3.1 billion dollars for the same period of 2003.

“Tourist figures are looking up, especially after the way the travel magazines are praising India,” Renuka Choudhury, India’s tourism minister, told reporters just before leaving for Spain and Italy to push the “Incredible India” campaign.

Conde Nast Traveler ranked India sixth among the world’s top 10 destinations in its annual readers’ traveler awards. India won top points for its cultural diversity, hospitality and good value for money.

Lonely Planet Online, the Website of the guidebook series, described India as among the top five international holiday destinations along with Tailand, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.

The “Incredible India” campaign focuses on the country’s scores of small, largely unexplored tourist spots, as well as India’s traditional healing arts. However, Choudhury noted at least 22 airports are being upgraded, with better signs, modern toilets lounges and duty free shops. A tourist police force has been set up at airports, railway and bus terminals.

1) Tourism officials have been crisscrossing the globe to ______________.

A) learn from resorts           B) strengthen communication

C) draw tourists to India        D) enjoy the scenery

2) It can be learned that ____________________________.

A) Kant is satisfied with the trend of tourism

B) Kant worries about the future of India’s tourism

C) Choudhury doesn’t the situations of tourism will improve

D) Choudhury thinks India should make full preparations for the crisis of tourists

3) Which of the following may NOT belong to the advantages of India?

A) Hospitality                     B) Cultural diversity

C) Good value for money            D) Natural scenery

4) The last paragraph mainly tells us ______________________.

A) there are five international holiday destinations worthy of a visit

B) India is worthy of a visit but has some shortcomings

C) why people want to travel in India

D) the “Incredible India” campaign came into effect

5) The passage is mainly about _______________________.

A) tourism in India        B) India’s technique

C) the future of India      D) India’s position in people’s mind

Late research shows that yawning helps in keeping the brain cool, contradicting the popular belief that yawning promotes sleep and is a sign tiredness.

     Yawning involves opening the mouth involuntarily while taking a long, deep breath of air. It is commonly believed that people yawn as a result of sleepiness or tiredness because they need oxygen.

     However, researchers at the university of Albany in New York said their experiments on 44 students showed that drawing in air helps cool the brain and helps

it work more effectively.

     They said that their experiments showed that raising or lowering oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the blood did not produce that reaction. Study participants were shown videos of people laughing, being neutral(正常狀態(tài))and yawning， and researchers counted how many times the volunteers responded to their own ‘contagious yawns’，reported the online edition of BBC News.

      The researchers found that those who breathed through the nose rather than the mouth were less likely to yawn when watching a video of other people yawning. This was because vessels（血管）in the nasal cavity(鼻腔)sent cool blood to the brain.

      The same effect was found among those who held a cool pack to their forehead,

Whereas those who held a warm or room---temperature pack yawned while watching the video.

      ‘Since yawning occurs when brain temperature rises, sending cool blood to the brain serves to maintain optional levels of mental efficiency.’ the authors wrote in the journal Evolutionary Psychology.

1) From the text, we know that ___________________________.

  A) yawning happens to you when your brain temperature rises

  B) Evolutionary Psychology probably is a name of a novel

  C) raising or lowering oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the blood cause people to yawn

D) people breathing through the mouth rather than the nose are less likely to yawn when watching a video of other people yawning

2) Which of the following is not the one that people usually believe according to the text?

A) Yawning promotes sleep          B) Yawning is a sign of tiredness

C) Sleep-ness or tiredness leads to yawning

D) Yawning helps the brain work more effectively

3) What is the text mainly about?

  A) Cool your brain with a yawn      B) Yawning is natural to you

  C) Yawning is harmful to your brain  D) Yawning is necessary for everyone

       Large companies need a way to reach the saving of the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller scale, faces practically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we know, and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally unwilling to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So companies turn to the public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future profits. This they do by issuing stocks and shares in the business through The Stock Exchange. By doing so, they can put into circulation the savings of individuals and institutions, both at home and overseas.

     When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. Instead , he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money.

     Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the Government or by local authorities. Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones , railways, this country could not function. All these require continuous spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries therefore frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come to The Stock Exchange.

     There is hardly a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not depend on the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another this new money must come from the savings of the country. The Stock Exchange exists to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who need finance.

1) Almost all companies involved in new production and development must _____________.

  A) rely on their own financial resources

  B) persuade the banks to provide long-term finance

  C) borrow large sums of money from friends and people they know

  D) depend on the population as a whole for finance

2) The money which enables these companies to go ahead with their projects is _________.

  A) repaid to its original owners as soon as possible

  B) raised by the selling of shares in the companies

  C) exchanged for part ownership in The Stock Exchange

  D) invested in different companies on The Stock Exchange

3) When the savings want their money back they ________________________.

  A) ask another company to obtain their money for them

  B) look for other people to borrow money from

  C) put their shares in the company back on the market

  D) transfer their money to more successful company

4) All the essential services on which we depend are _____________________.

  A) run by the Government or our local authorities

  B) in constant need of financial support

  C) financed wholly by rates and taxes

  D) unable to provide for the needs of the population

5) The Stock Exchange makes it possible for the Government local authorities and nationalized industries __________________________.

A) to borrow as much money as they wish

B) to make certain everybody save money

C) to raise money to finance new developments

D) to make certain everybody lend money to them

   We all know that DNA has the ability to identify individuals, but because it is inherited, there are also regions of the DNA strand which can relate an individual to his or her family(immediate and extended);tribal group and even an entire population. Molecular Genealogy(宗譜學(xué))can use this unique identification provided by the genetic markers to link people together into family trees。Pedigrees（家譜）based on such genetic markers can mean a breakthrough for family trees where information is incomplete or missing due to adoption，illegitimacy（違法）or lack of record. There are many communities and populations which have lost precious records due to tragic events such as the fire in the Irish courts during Civil war in 1921 or American slaves for whom many records were never kept in the first place.

   The main objective of the Molecular Genealogy Research Group is to build a database containing over 100,000 DNA samples from individuals all over the world. These individuals will have provided a pedigree chart of at least four generations and a small blood sample. Once the database has enough samples to represent the world genetic make-up, it will eventually help in solving many issues，regarding genealogies that could not be done by relying only on traditional written records. Theoretically, any individual will someday be able to trace his or her family origins through this database.

   In the meantime, as the database is being created, molecular genealogy can already

Verify（鑒定）possible or suspected relationships between individuals�！癋or example，if two men sharing the same last name believe that they are related，but no written record proves this relationship，we can verify this possibility by collecting a sample of DNA from both and looking for common markers（in these case we can look primarily at the Y chromosome（染色體），”explain Ugo A. Perego, a member of the BYU Molecular Genealogy research team.

1) The possible research of family trees is based on the fact that _____________.

  A) genetics has achieved a breakthrough

  B) genetic information contained in DNA can be revealed now

  C) each individual carries a unique record of who he is and how he or related to others

  D) we can use DNA to prove how distant an individual is to a family, a group or a population

2) If two men suspected for some reason they have a common ancestor,__________.

  A) we can decide according to their family tree

  B) we can find the truth from their genetic markers

  C) we can compare the differences in their Y chromosome

  D) we can look for written records to prove their relationship

3) Which of the following CAN NOT be inferred from the passage?

  A) we are a walking, living, breathing record of our ancestors

  B) Many American slaves did not know who their ancestors were

  C) An adopted child generally lacks enough information to prove his identify

  D) Molecular genealogy can be used to prove a relationship between individual

1）  如此行無(wú)錯(cuò)誤，在該行右邊橫線上畫一個(gè)勾（√）

2）  如有錯(cuò)誤（每行只有一個(gè)錯(cuò)誤），則按下列要求改正：

此行多一詞，則把多余的詞用斜線（﹨）劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，且也用斜線劃掉。

此行缺一詞，則在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（∧），在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞。

此行錯(cuò)一詞，則在錯(cuò)詞下劃一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正的詞。

注意：原行沒有錯(cuò)的不要改。

China was the first in the world to discover rockets, and          1)__________

the first “astronaut” was also Chinese. In the lately 14 ^th              2)__________

century a man named Wan Hu had himself tying to a special          3)__________

chair, the back of that was fitted with 47 original rockets,            4)__________

while he grasped huge kites on either hand. He hoped that the         5)__________

rockets will advance him,and the kites would lift him into            6)__________

the sky. He failed, and died. Therefore , his brave attempt has         7)__________

been acknowledged today. The international community has          8)__________

been named a crater on the moon by him. Up to now                9)__________

China had launched two man spaceships and has achieved           10)_________

the ancient dream of man flying through space.

      作為中學(xué)生，你一定經(jīng)歷過(guò)多次考試，體驗(yàn)過(guò)成功，也遭遇過(guò)失敗。中學(xué)生中普遍存在著對(duì)考試失敗的兩種態(tài)度：一種是消極態(tài)度，當(dāng)考試結(jié)果不盡人意時(shí)，情緒低落，喪失信心，不再繼續(xù)努力；另一種是積極態(tài)度，當(dāng)考試失敗時(shí)，主動(dòng)分析考試失敗的原因，并鼓勵(lì)自己。簡(jiǎn)要概述這兩種態(tài)度，并結(jié)合自身實(shí)際，說(shuō)明你的觀點(diǎn)。

       注意：1）詞數(shù)110左右。

             2）題目已經(jīng)給出。

In China,            car is becoming           popular means of transportation.

A．the; the     B．a(chǎn); /    C．the ;a       D．a(chǎn); the