Your brain uses information from both your nose and your tongue to ________ what something tastes like.

A. point out  B. give out  C. figure out  D. pick out

 According to the newly passed Road Traffic Safety Law, there are now tougher ________ for drunken drivers.

A. principles  B. penalties  C. proposals  D. prejudices

________ the reason, it is for sure that yawning can be passed from person to person.

A. Whatever  B. Wherever  C. Whichever  D. However

It's important to learn how the whole system works. Sometimes, ________， it's the details that interest us the most.

A. therefore  B. meanwhile  C. furthermore  D. though

For many people, paper is ________ better material, because ________ process for recycling paper seems much easier.

A. the; a  B. a; the  C. /; a  D. the; /

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

The First Lesson of the New Term, a TV program about how to protect oneself in times of emergency, is meant to provide school students with the knowledge on self-protection. It will help students in case of natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires, snowstorms or floods. Many examples show that enough knowledge about self-protection along with enough courage and willpower can help many survive.

The most recent example is from the earthquake in Sichuan Province in May of 2008. While thousands of school kids were killed by collapsed school buildings, all students from a middle school survived even without a single one being hurt. That’s because of their timely and orderly evacuations (撤离), which they had been drilled in every term.

It’s good to see this program is the most important activity of a national campaign to make students be aware of personal safety. Chinese Education Ministry has called on all schools nationwide to give lessons on self-protection knowledge in times of emergency every term.

【写作内容】

某中学生英文报就“学生安全教育”为主题举行英语征文活动。你阅读了上述文章后，准备给该报投稿，稿件内容要点包括：

1．以约30个词概括以上短文内容。

2．然后以约120个词谈谈你的观点，并包括以下要点：

(1) 安全教育的重要性；

(2) 举例说明中学生在日常安全方面应该注意的事项；

(3) 呼吁中学生提高安全意识。

【写作要求】

1．在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2．文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

【评分标准】

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

_______________________________________________________________________          _____

假如你是某英语报社的编辑李平，一位名叫 Joe的学生写信向你询问好的读书方法，请按照以下写作内容和要求以英语书信形式给予答复。

[写作内容]

1. 所读书籍难度适中；

2. 如果发现一本书太难读，不妨先搁置一段时间，换一本容易的读

3. 要读自己感兴趣的书，但更要读对自己有一的书

4. 有的书匆匆浏览便可，有的则需细读；

5. 读书要随时记笔记，勤查字典，多问问题。

[写作要求]

1. 只能用5个句子表达全部的内容，信的开头和结尾已给出，但不计入句数。

2.将5个句子组织成连贯的短文。

Dear Joe ,

I’m glad to receive your letter. It is true that to read successfully requires correct ways of reading. Here are some suggestions.                              

I wish you will succeed in reading.

Yours truly,

Li Ping

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请阅读下面的学习者信息，然后匹配符合他们要求的学习课程:

1.John, a fourteen-year-old young boy, is poor at math and physics and has to improve them in order to pass the final exam at school.

2.Mr. Black Smith, a labor worker on dock who would like to change to some technological job since he is already 43 and a bit too old for hard labor work. He has to work from Monday to Saturday but is free after 5:00 in the afternoon.

3.Chen Hua, a Chinese middle school student who has just moved to the USA. She will have to finish the course all in English at school there but her English is not good enough.

4.Tim, a graduated college student who wanted to quit his job and go on his study for M. A. He planned to take the MBA courses and would have to improve his math because he majored in Art at college.

5.Mrs. Tumer, a working mother with two young kids. She thinks education is a race and it's better to prepare kids more and earlier. Her neighbors, several other families share the same opinion and they are all thinking about sending their young kids to some pre-school education program.

When I was small and my grandmother died, I couldn't understand why I had no tears. But that night when my dad tried to cheer me up, my laughs turned into crying.

So it came as no surprise to learn that researchers believe crying and laughing are controlled by the same part of the brain. Just as laughing has many health advantages, scientists are discovering that so does crying.

Whatever helps us to reduce pressure is important to our emotional health, and crying seems to work well. One study found that 85 percent of women and 73 percent of men report feeling better after crying.

Besides, tears attract help from other people. Researchers agree that when we cry, people around us become kinder and friendlier and they are more ready to provide support and comfort. Tears also enable us to understand our emotions better; sometimes we don't even know we're very sad until we cry. We learn about our emotions through crying, and then we can deal with them.

Just as crying can be healthy, not crying---holding back tears of anger, pain or suffering---can be bad for physical health. Studies have shown that too much control of emotions can 1ead to high blood pressure, heart problems and some other illness. If you have a health problem, doctors will certainly not ask you to cry. But when you feel like crying, don't fight it. It's a natural, healthy and emotional response.

1.Why didn't the author cry when her grandmother died?

2.It can be inferred from the text that _______________________.

3.According to the author, which of the following statements is true?

4.What might be the most suitable title for the text?

5.What is the author's attitude to "crying"?

LONDON (Reuters)—New faces given to a Chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a French­Caribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work and are not medical oddities (怪异)，researchers said.

The findings give hope to some people with severe facial disfigurement and suggest the transplants could prove long­lasting without major problems.Despite the tissue rejection in the first year after their transplants，neither men had psychological problems accepting their new faces and have been able to rejoin society，they reported.

Only three people have received face transplants.The world’s first was carried out on French woman Isabelle Dinoire in November 2005 after she was disfigured in an attack by her dog.In 2007，her doctors reported that she had recovered slowly and steadily，overcoming two periods of rejection.

In 2006，Chinese doctors performed a face transplant on a 30­year­old hit by a bear.While there were some complications with tissue rejection following the operation，two years later the man was doing well，his doctors said.“This case suggests that facial transplantation might be an option for restoring a severely disfigured face，and could enable patients to bring themselves back into society，” Shuzhong Guo and colleagues at Xijing Hospital in China wrote.

A French team described their work on a 29­year­old man who suffered from Von Recklinghausen disease，an illness that changes the shape of his face.“The man，who was not named，was given a new nose，mouth and chin in a 2007 operation.He began to work 13 months after the transplant has more function in his face and has not rejected the new tissue，” his doctors said.

“Our case confirms that face transplantation is practical and effective for the correction of specific disfigurement，” Dr.Laurent Lantieri and colleagues at the Henri­Mondor hospital outside Paris wrote.

1.What’s the main idea of this passage?

2.What happened to the Chinese patient mentioned in the passage?

3.From the passage we can learn that ________.

4.The underlined word “restoring” in Paragraph 4 means “________”．

5.What problem resulted from the facial operations?