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From Monday to Friday, most people are busy working or studying, but in the evenings and on weekends they are free to relax and enjoy 1. (they). Some watch TV2. go to the cinema. Others take part in sports. There are many different ways3. (spend) their spare time.

Almost everyone has some kind of hobbies. It may be anything from collecting stamps to 4. (make) model airplanes. Some hobbies are expensive, 5. others don’t cost anything at all. Some 6. (collect)are worth a lot of money. Others are valuable only to the owners.

I know7. man who has a coin collection worth $250. He was very happy about his purchase and 8. (think) the price was reasonable. On the other hand, my youngest brother collects matchboxes. He has almost 600 of them but I doubt if they are worth any money. However, to my brother they are 9. (extreme) valuable. Nothing makes him 10. (happy) than to find a new matchbox for his collection.

This is what a hobby means, I guess. It is something we like to do in our spare time simply for fun. The value in dollars is not important. We do it for the pleasure it gives.

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1.Nowadays, there are a large number of students without jobs to go to after ___________(graduate）.

2.He is trying to___________(保护；提供庇护) his boss from criticism.

3.She ________(掩埋) her face in her hands and wept.

4.Earthquakes are ________(extreme)difficult to predict.

5.I can't __________（表达）to you how grateful I am for your help.

6.Bananas was what I __________ (prefer) when I was a child.

7.Offers of help _________(涌入，流动) into the office when we were facing trouble.

8.According to the weather ________(预告，预测) it will be sunny tomorrow.

9.The earthquake did great ___________(损毁，损失) to the village.

10.The Smiths were __________(trap) in a big fire; luckily they were rescued by brave firefighters.

There was a boy that dreamt of becoming the world’s best violinist. To achieve his life goal, he travelled to a faraway land where the famous and best violinist of all time _______.

The apartment he was directed to was in an old, lonely place. There was no evidence of life at all. The young man was________and turned to leave._________he heard someone coughing from within.

The famous violinist was very old and _______. He refused to teach the young boy, who also refused to_________. The boy played his violin in the yard, and this he did for three nights__________ the old man could not bear it any more. He came out on the fourth night and began to __________the boy. Under his instruction, the________student’s musical skills rapidly improved.

Years passed by. Now the old man asked the boy to ________an important competition. It was the best violin competition in the world. The young man was among hundreds of_________from all over the world. The _________ lasted for days. On the day he played, everyone was deeply ___________. First, the boy was so young, but no violin player could have played _________Second, the boy was focused on one _______ and never looked elsewhere till he finished. Third, tears came down his focused eyes but his _______was not drawn away from the music. He was ___________the winner.

Only the boy knew the________for his success in the competition. _______learning from the best violinist the world ever knew, his teacher had come in person that day to _______him. The old man stood in the dark where he wasn’t _______to anyone around. The old violinist died few days later.

1.A. performed    B. lived    C. toured    D. lay

2.A. bored    B. disappointed    C. excited    D. satisfied

3.A. Still    B. Also    C. Thus    D. Then

4.A. weak    B. polite    C. kind    D. strict

5.A. leave    B. talk    C. learn    D. play

6.A. so    B. unless    C. if    D. till

7.A. punish    B. persuade    C. beg    D. coach

8.A. slow    B. gifted    C. kind    D. quiet

9.A. take part in    B. look forward to    C. stay away from    D. come up with

10.A. judges    B. students    C. competitors    D. fans

11.A. program    B. event    C. concert    D. lecture

12.A. annoyed    B. moved    C. hurt    D. concerned

13.A. better    B. quicker    C. harder    D. louder

14.A. book    B. model    C. direction    D. question

15.A. hand    B. eye    C. interest    D. attention

16.A. announced    B. known    C. shown    D. predicted

17.A. prize    B. wish    C. way    D. reason

18.A. Without    B. Besides    C. Through    D. By

19.A. find    B. comfort    C. support    D. visit

20.A. dangerous    B. unfair    C. noticeable    D. particular

Saving money while traveling

There are a lot of matters to think on before going out on a trip. If you fail to plan the trip properly, then money will simply let itself loose from your pocket. Moreover, if you haven't planned a road map of your tour, then confusion is quite inevitable (必然的). 1.

Package tours. Tours and travel agencies have attractive offers for tourists wanting to spend a couple of days on trips. 2. Once you have accepted the package tour, all your expenses during the travel will be greatly reduced. You can save a lot in lodging(住宿) and traveling.

Inexpensive lodging.  Never choose expensive lodging if your tour is a low-budget one. People tend to spend a lot booking luxury hotels (豪华旅馆), and save little to enjoy other activities during the trip. This idea is absolutely not wise when spending limited money on the trip is your main aim. Moreover, the expenses increase quickly when your kids are with you.  3.You can use the money saved on good food and amusement.

4.The peak season is the time when rates are sky high due to the increase of millions of tourists who can afford to spend a lot of money. You, not being amongst this crowd that can spend generously, must book your holidays during the off season.

A guide map. Make a guide map about the places to visit, expenses of travel and the activities to try. While planning you should also estimate (估计) your total expenses. Calculate the maximum amount and try to spend less than that. 5. Refer to the guide map while traveling and follow the money-saving travel tips as much as possible.

A. Reduce shopping.

B. Off season travel.

C. You must keep yourself updated with such offers.

D. This will help you to keep actual expenses below the estimated.

E. You can save lots of dollars when you don't have a credit card.

F. Therefore, book a fairly low-price lodge to save a few dollars.

G. So knowing some money-saving travel tips becomes necessary for you.

A quarter of today’s UK children are living in families which cause more than one risk to their educational development, a study says.

Institute of Education researchers analyzed 10 risk factors affecting more than 18,000 families. Risks included financial stress, teenage parenthood, depression, low skills and alcohol abuse. Previous research suggests families with multiple risk factors are the most damaging. According to the research, just over four in ten people experienced no risk factors in their early childhood, while a third faced only one. It would mean 192.000 UK children born 10 years ago have been growing up in families with multiple risks to their development.

The paper's authors found that those who had grown up with two or more risk factors had poorer behavioral development scores at ages three and five. They also did worse in standard vocabulary tests at these ages. The report, published by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, said. “Children living in families with both multiple risks and low income faced the worst across most developmental outcomes.”

“These children achieved the lowest change in vocabulary test scores between ages three and five.” Professor Dex added. “The most reassuring thing is that if you come into contact with just one of these risk factors, there is a fairly modest effect on children. She suggested that health visitors could be aware of families where there were two or more of these indicators, and offer help. ”

The government has pledged to turn around the lives of England's 120.000 most troubled families by 2015. To qualify for help, the families need to meet five out of seven criteria including truanting (旷课的）children, parents with addiction and anti -social behavior.

1.According to the research, what families are the most damaging to children's educational development?

A. Families with no risk factors.

B. Families with two or more children.

C. Families with two or more risk factors.

D. Families with the only financial stress.

2.What can we learn about the children growing up with multiple risk factors?

A. They didn't care about developmental outcomes.

B. They had poorer behavioral development in high school.

C. They tended to behave better in dealing with different risks.

D. They tended to perform worse in vocabulary tests in their early childhood.

3.The underlined word “pledged” in the last paragraph can be replaced by__________ .

A. promised    B. refused

C. hesitated    D. failed

Do you know what Fear and Faith have in common? Fear believes in a negative future. Faith believes in a positive future. Both believe in something that has not yet happened. So I ask you, if neither the positive nor negative future has happened yet then why not choose to believe in the positive future?

I believe during these challenging times we have a choice between two roads: the positive road and the negative road. And our bus can’t be on two roads at the same time. So we have to make a choice and this choice determines our belief about the future and the attitude and actions we bring to the present.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t have any fear. There are times when fear is a gift. A healthy dose(剂量) of fear causes us to examine our situation and plan for the future. It moves us to smell the cheese and expect change. When used wisely it allows us to manage risk and make better decisions. Some fear is good.

However, what I have observed lately is a supersized, huge dose of fear that is spreading the hearts and minds of far too many people. This oversized fear is causing leaders and their organizations to either act unreasonably or to not act at all. They are either hurrying in a million different directions because of fear. In both cases, fear is leading them to take the negative road to failure.

The answer is the positive road paved (铺满) with faith and a belief that your best days are not behind you but ahead of you. With this belief you make the right choices and actions today that will create your positive future tomorrow. You stay calm, focused and committed to your purpose. You look for ways to save money and cut costs without making unreasonable fear-based decisions that sacrifice your future success. You identify opportunities in the midst of the challenges and you focus on solutions instead of problems.

Your faith and belief in a positive future leads to powerful actions today. The future has not happened yet and you have a say in what it looks like by the way you think and act. Fear or Faith. The choice is yours.

1.According to the passage, we can know that ________.

A. Fear and Faith have nothing in common

B. both Fear and Faith trust something in the future

C. neither negative nor positive future will happen

D. people usually choose to believe in the positive future

2.What does the writer mean by saying “our bus can’t be on two roads”?

A. We usually choose the negative road

B. We should choose the positive road

C. We must choose either a positive or negative road

D. Our belief about the future depends on our choice

3.Which of the following about “Fear” is true?

A. We should have fear because it is a gift.    B. Reasonable fear helps to plan for future.

C. Fear can bring cheese and risk to people.    D. Leaders usually have oversized fear.

4.If we have faith in future, we will ________.

A. have the best days ahead of us    B. be committed to saving money

C. stay away from any challenges    D. take powerful actions today

5.What does the writer intend to tell us in the passage?

A. Fear is closely related to faith.

B. Life is full of fear and faith.

C. We should have faith in a positive future.

D. Wrong decisions sacrifice our future success.

American actress Marisa Tomei won an Academy Award for her work in the 1992 movie My Cousin Vinny. People laughed when they saw her film character telling a boyfriend that they need to get married. Why marriage? Because her biological clock is ticking and she wants a baby.

“Well I hate to bring it up because I know you got enough pressure on you already. But…we agreed to get married as soon as you won your first case(law case). Meanwhile, ten years later…my niece…the daughter of my sister is getting married. My biological clock is ticking like this (stomp, stomp, stomp). And the way this case is going…I ain’t never getting married.”

“Lisa, I don’t need this. I swear to God I don’t need this right now.”

Using it this way, a biological clock means the time in a woman’s life when she is able to bear children. In the not-so-distant past, most people thought that when a woman reached her 40s it was too late for her to have children. The time on her biological clock had run out.

Well, that has changed. These days some women are resetting their biological clocks. They are giving themselves more time to have children.

Make no mistake. Being a “Single Mother by Choice” is very different from younger women who find themselves pregnant, perhaps not by choice.

Generally speaking, single mothers by choice are older and well educated. They are usually financially secure and successful in their careers. So, they have the money. What they may not have is a partner.

This is the place in life where writer Kerry Reichs found herself several years ago. She says she did not plan to become a single mother. She says she just did not find the right partner.

“Well, I think I had a set of standards for the partner I was looking for and I didn’t meet anyone that fit those standards. And, at 39 I found myself single, without children and I wanted them very much. So, I made the difficult decision that I could do this on my own.

1.According to the passage, what is a biological clock?

A. It’s a clock made of biological matters.

B. It refers to a women’s certain life period.

C. It records when women need to bear children.

D. It refers to a woman in her 40s.

2.According to the passage, in the past, when a woman reached her 40s, ________.

A. she can’t get married.    B. she might not be able to have children.

C. her biological clock will need to be reset.    D. her status of being a single mother is difficult.

3.What does “Single Mother by Choice” mean?

A. It means single mothers have a choice.

B. It means single mothers are pregnant by chance.

C. It means single women in their late 30s or early 40s decided to have children.

D. It means women want to make a choice.

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Choosing to be a single mother.    B. A woman’s biological clock.

C. Getting married by force.    D. Single women wanting marriage.

In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity. Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.

I have taught many children who held the belief that their self­worth relied on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life­and­death affairs. In their single­minded pursuit of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.

However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “I may have lost, but it doesn't matter because I really didn't try.” What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one's self­respect relies on how well one performs in comparison with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve can we discover a new meaning in competition.

1.What does this passage mainly talk about?

A. Competition helps to set up self­respect.

B. Opinions about competition are different among people.

C. Competition is harmful to personal quality development.

D. Failures are necessary experiences in competition.

2.The underlined phrase “the most vocal” in Paragraph 3 means ________.

A. those who try their best to win

B. those who value competition most highly

C. those who are against competition most strongly

D. those who rely on others most for success

3.What is the similar belief of the true competitors and those with a “desire to fail”？

A. One's worth lies in his performance compared with others'.

B. One's success in competition needs great efforts.

C. One's achievement is determined by his particular skills.

D. One's success is based on how hard he has tried.

4.Which point of view may the author agree to?

A. Every effort should be paid back.

B. Competition should be encouraged.

C. Winning should be a life­and­death matter.

D. Fear of failure should be removed in competition.

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1.The best title of the 3rd advertisement would be             .

A. Training at Home    B. Learning at Home

C. Recording Work    D. Working at Home

2.According to the information above, if your child has hearing problems, you can turn to________.

A. At-Home Profession Corp.    B. Globe Insurance Company

C. Bradford Publications    D. American Inventors Corp.

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A. Globe Insurance Company has a history of 51 years

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C. Bradford Publications offers a treatment to hearing impaired parents

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假设你是李华，你的美国朋友James由于不爱运动、吃垃圾食品上瘾等原因陷入了肥胖的困扰中，非常苦恼，请你通过电子邮件给他提一些建议和意见，帮助他减肥。

注意:1.词数:100左右（开头和结尾已给出但不计入总词数）

2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

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