decade
A．mineral B．confidence C．generation D．reduce
struggle
A．super B．production C．humour D．circulate
leather
A．ease B．react C．misread D．breakfast
书面表达（共25分）（原创）
你朋友Joe写信告诉你他找工作又失败了，他向你询问一些方法，请按照以下写作内容和要求，以英语书信形式给予答复（信的开头和结尾已给出）。
1、正确面对目前形势（全球金融危机、冲击、竞争对手多而且强）；
2、传播你在找工作的信息；
3、精心准备好自己的工作简历；
4、确信自己具备你求职工作所要求的能力；
5、准备好每一次面试，留下好印象，展现自己的能力。
注意：信的开头和结尾已有，可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：1、全球金融危机the global financial crisis
2、个人简历resume
Dear Joe,
I’m very sorry to hear you failed again in finding a job.
Good luck!
Yours truly
Hanghang
单词拼写（每空1分，共10分）（原创）
1.Luckily, our government has paid special attention to the problem of (污染).
2.The survival of civilization depends on many (环境) factors.
3.Our local weather station (预报) there would be a thunderstorm the next day.
4.You need to spend more time on your English study, as far as I’m (就……而言).
5.He made very positive (贡献) to the success of the project.
6.The report (强调) that students should improve math skills.
7.Her mother is a quiet woman with (优雅的) manners.
8.The (经济) of our country has been developing steadily.
9.Do you have any (以前的) experience of this type of work?
10.I don’t have the (力气) to do it again.
Several years ago, a student working on a research project in my laboratory approached me with concern.“I’m doing something wrong,”she exclaimed. I had seen her research results and knew she was making good progress, so I was surprised to hear that she was having a problem. Over the next several days we went through her experiment; yet I could not find a problem. Finally, I asked her,“Why do you think you’re doing something wrong?” “Because I’m not getting what you said I should get,”she replied with some confusion.
Her response shocked me. I had not told her what she“should get”, but we had discussed some published hypotheses(假说) several weeks earlier. On seeing the research data that did not fit these predictions, I recognized that she had a new finding and came to change my hypotheses. But she was interpreting her results as a mistake. With almost four years of a college science major behind her, this student still had the common misunderstanding that science is a boring exercise in proving something we already know to be true.
But how can this happen? Throughout school, science is often described in textbooks as a series of“known”facts and figures; for example, DNA is a double helix; earthquakes occur at plate boundaries, etc. Unfortunately, the process by which these discoveries were made and how they fit into scientific progress are often ignored in the classroom. These details help show the nature of scientific discoveries and the tails help show the nature of scientific discoveries and the skepticism(质疑) that goes with new discoveries before they are accepted.
Understanding science is more than memorizing that DNA is a double helix. It is to have the ability to take in new information on diet, exercise, or disease and apply it to our own lives. Understanding the process of science and scientific problem-solving can help us make better decisions every day.
1.The student thought her research project had gone wrong because .
A．she was not making progress
B．her teacher told her so
C．she couldn’t get enough data
D．she had some unexpected findings
2.How did the writer feel when he found out the reason for the student’s confusion?
A．Confused. B．Surprised. C．Excited. D．Pleased.
3.What is to blame for the student’s misunderstanding about science?
A．Her own carelessness.
B．Her teacher’s lack of experience.
C．The method of science education.
D．The publication of some wrong hypotheses.
4.What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A．The meaning of understanding science.
B．How to use known facts.
C．The best way to make scientific discoveries.
D．How to use scientific knowledge in daily life.
