I know that you’ve given me a rise in my pay, but I still think it’s        enough for what I’ve done for your company.

The value of life lies not in        many days we live, but in ____ use we make of them.

It was when searching for the lost book whose cover was missing ______ a secret letter addressed to his mother.

The young man is very clever; he may be     Edison.

If you ________ carry with you the belief that whatever you do is right, it’s none of my business.

Steve Jobs,        former CEO of Apple Inc., died on Oct 5^th, 2011, after_____ year-long battle with _____ cancer.

—Did you enjoy your journey to the town?

— _______. We had driven more than 3 hours before we found the right way.

假设你是李明， 在上网时，看了网友整理的“2011年感动中国小人物”榜单，收集的人和事令你非常感动。其中“周口阿婆”的事情让你深有感触。请根据下表提示用英语写一篇短文，讲讲“周口阿婆”的故事和你的感想。

注意：

1. 对所给要点逐一陈述，可适当发挥，不要简单翻译；

2. 词数150左右。

When surfing the Internet, I came across                                       

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。

注意：1. 每空格1个单词。2.所有答案写在答题纸指定位置，否则不计分。

Searching for the truth

Collecting and writing news is like researching in history: the best information comes from those who were there at the time. So if' we want to study the history of China in the sixth century AD, we look at the writings of the people who lived then. They are called the primary sources because they tell us what it was like to live then. People at a much later date who write about the same events are called the secondary sources. For example, when we read the original writings of Jia Sixie on agriculture, we are reading a primary source; when we read about Jia Sixie in our textbook we are reading secondary source because the passage was written about him and his ideas many years after he died.

When we make news, we use primary and secondary sources. We can see this most clearly in TV programmes. As we watch the news on TV, the person presenting the programme in the studio is the secondary source( because he tells us about the news) and the reporter in Iraq or Washington is the primary source (because he is telling us about what is actually happening there). Without these reporters acting as primary sources, you would never find out what really happened in a war, earthquake, sports meeting, concert or festival. These reporters explain what is happening, so we have a clearer idea of what is going on there. They often take photographers with them who act as primary source by giving pictures of events.

In a newspaper, the position is different because these two roles are often combined. This means a reporter who investigates a story may be the same person who writes it. If this happens, the reporter is both the primary and the secondary source. But the photographer who works with him/her is still a primary source.

One of the reasons that it is important to separate primary and secondary sources is that they help us to decide what is a fact and what is an opinion. A fact is something that everybody agrees has happened. An opinion is somebody's idea of what happened. So facts and opinions are often mixed in any report, whether in a newspaper or on TV.

What have you learnt from the above passage?

Kuss Middle School serves students in Fall River, Mass. , a former mill town that has struggled economically for decades. Students at Kuss have struggled, too, usually falling short of making the academic progress required under the No Child Left Behind law.

Then, last year, the school experimented with extending the school day. Teachers got paid at a higher hourly rate.

Students weren't thrilled at first with leaving school at 4:15 p.m. instead of at 2:20 p.m. But the added hours gave them more time for physical education and let them select special interest classes. By the end of the year, student scores had risen by enough to enable Kuss to make the progress required under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

The only surprise is that more districts haven't lengthened school schedules set decades ago to accommodate (��Ӧ) a farm economy rather the information economy of today.

New research suggests the time is ready for a change:

Matched against 39 other developed countries, the United States is near the bottom in the rankings of average weekly instructional time in school.  Measured over 12 years, students in the top-scoring countries spend the equivalent of a full extra year in school.

US students perform poorly on math and science tests compared to their international peers, according to a US Education Department comparison released earlier this month. In math, American 15-year-old scored near the bottom among the study's 30 developed countries.

Most countries that boost the number of minutes spent on math instruction find pay offs in improved math scores, according to a study released this month by the Brookings Institution. Small increases in the school day are more effective than a longer school year, the report concluded.

The most encouraging news about the benefits of extending the school day comes from Massachusetts, where an experiment with 10 schools, including Kuss, appears to be working. Those 10 schools lengthened their instructional days by 25% and boosted their state scores in math, English and science at all grades.

Perhaps the concept won't work everywhere. Certainly, it won't instantly be popular. But it's obvious that a problem exists or that adding class time seems to help.

1.What is the main idea of the above passage?

A. Experiments with extended school hours produce academic gains.

B. Kuss Middle School sets a good example for US education.

C. Academic progress has achieved under the No Child Left Behind law.

D. Information age calls for more instructional lime at all schools.

2.A longer school day is suggested for the following reasons except that _________.

A. students from many developed countries spend more time at school

B. American students do a bad job at science subjects

C. teachers are paid at a higher rate with time added

D. a longer school day works better than a longer school year

3.Which statement is true of Kuss Middle School?

A. Kuss Middle School lies in where a farm economy is changing to an information one.

B. Kuss Middle school has joined the federal "No Child Left Behind" progrann

C. Neither teachers nor students are happy with the longer school day.

D. Adding class time functions at Kuss Middle School.

4.The writer has expressed ____________.

A. a positive attitude towards adding school time

B. a negative attitude towards adding school time

C. a changing attitude towards adding school time

D. a right attitude towards adding school time