阅读下列各小题， 根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号内。
1.So rapidly that no book can ever be fully up to date. (advance)
计算机技术发展如此之快以致于书都不能全面及时更新。
2.Without the flood in the village ten years ago, the group of youths ______________ with their parents during their childhood. (lead)
村子里要是没有十年前的那场洪水，这群年轻人在他们的童年时期本可以和他们的父母一起过着快乐的日子。
3. Hearing the joke, everyone in the room couldn’t help _______________. (burst)
听到这个笑话，屋子里的人都忍不住爆笑起来。
4.Mr. Smith doesn’t know this city very well because it was only two months ago, in
March, _____________ working here. (start)
史密斯先生对这个城市并不太熟，因为他在两个月前，也就是三月份，才开始
这里工作。
5. His younger sister teaches in a secondary school, in front of __________________.
(flow)
他妹妹在一所中学教书，学校门前流淌着一条小河。
6.The old temple ________________ several times, now it looks brand-new. (restore)
这个古庙经历了数次重建，如今看着一派簇新。
7.We’re said _______________________ in the Information Age, a time for new discoveries and great changes. (live)
据说我们正生活在信息时代，一个有着新发现和伟大变革的时代。
8. I ________________________ if you would turn the music down. (appreciate)
如果你把音乐关小一些，我将不胜感激。
9. We all believe that with the help of science and technology, it will not take too long _________________________ the Mars. (settle)
我们都相信在科技的帮助下，不久人类将定居火星。
10.________________ teenagers taste, the song is increasing popular with middle school students. (base)
基于青少年的品味，这首歌在中学生中日趋流行。
In Canada and the United States, there is a new group of children called “satellite kids”, who live in one place but whose parents live in another place．
Asians are immigrating to Canada and the United States in larger numbers than ever before．Most Asians immigrate because they believe that they can give their children a better education in the West．In Asia, especially in China, Japan, and Korea, it is difficult to go to university．Students must first pass the strict national examination．However, in Canada and the United States, it is easy to go to university, and anyone who wants to go can go．As a result, Asian parents decide to leave their countries so that their children can go to university．
The problem is that when Asians arrive, they discover that finding a job and making money are more difficult in the West than in the East．Also, they find that they are very lonely, and that they miss their homes．Because of these two reasons, most Asian parents decide to go back to work while their children study in the West．Therefore, these children become “satellite kids”, and most of their parents do not know how sad it is to be a “satellite kid”．
Only until now are Canadians and Americans discovering the “satellite kid” problem．Because these children do not speak English and because their parents are not there to take care of them, they are often absent from school．To be a “satellite kid” means to grow up in a country where you know you are different and where you cannot make friends because you do not speak English well．Also, it means to grow up lonely, because your parents are elsewhere．What these “satellite kids” will probably say to their parents is that it’s better to have parents around than to have a university education．
1.Some Asian parents send their kids abroad because ________．
A. they hope their children may easily find a job there
B. the kids may not be accepted by universities in their own countries
C. all foreign universities are better than the ones in their own countries
D. the kids want to improve their English and make foreign friends
2. “Satellite kids” refer to Asian kids ________．
A. without patents
B. living abroad alone
C. with university education
D. speaking no English
3.Some Asian immigrant children become “satellite kids” because their parents ______．
A. want to leave their own country
B. want them to go to university
C. return to their countries to work
D. want them to be independent
4. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Parents want better education for their kids．
B. Parents feel lonely and miss their families．
C. Canadians and Americans begin to notice the “satellite kids” problem．
D. Kids in foreign countries alone are badly in need of care from family．
Imagine a mass of floating waste is two times the size of the state of Texas. Texas has a land area of more than 678 000 square kilometers. So it might be difficult to imagine anything twice as big.
All together, this mass of waste flowing in the North Pacific Ocean is known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch. It weighs about 3 500 000 tons. The waste includes bags，bottles and containers—plastic products of all kinds.
The eastern part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is about l 600 kilometers west of California. The western part is west of the Hawaiian Islands and east of Japan. The area has been described as a kind of oceanic desert，with light winds and slow moving water currents. The water moves so slow that garbage from all over the world collects there.
In recent years，there have been growing concerns about the floating garbage and its effect on sea creatures and human health. Scientists say thousands of animals get trapped in the floating waste，resulting in death or injury. Even more die from a lack of food or water after swallowing pieces of plastic. The trash can also make animals feel full，lessening their desire to eat or drink.
The floating garbage also can have harmful effects on people. There is an increased threat of infection of disease from polluted waste，and from eating fish that swallowed waste. Divers can also get trapped in the plastic.
Its existence first gained public attention in l997. That was when racing boat captain and oceanographer Charles Moore and his crew sailed into the garbage while returning from a racing event. Five years earlier，another oceanographer learned of the trash after a shipment of rubber duckies got lost at sea. Many of those toys are now part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.
In August，2009，a team from the University of California，San Diego became the latest group to travel to it. They were shocked by the amount of waste they saw. They gathered hundreds of sea creatures and water samples to measure the garbage patch’s effect on ocean environment.
1. How did the writer introduce the topic of the passage?
A. By giving an example.
B. By listing the facts.
C. By telling a story.
D. By giving a comparison.
2.What do we know about the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?
A. It is made up of various kinds of plastic products.
B. It is a solid mass of floating waste materials.
C. It lies l60 000 kilometers east of California.
D. It is described as a kind of oceanic desert.
3.Why do people pay attention to the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?
A. Because it may prevent the flow of ocean water.
B. Because the polluted plastic articles will move up the food chain.
C. Because it may be from an island in the pacific.
D. Because ships may be trapped in the floating waste.
4. The purpose of writing this passage is to____________.
A. warn people of the danger to travel in the pacific
B. analyze what caused the waste patch in the pacific
C. give advice on how to recycle waste in the ocean
D. introduce the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch
John Davis doesn’t use his GPS system in his car. Instead of guiding the direction, the Delaware farmer uses it to determine where and how much fertilizer to use on the crops on his 4,000-acre family-owned farm. Technological advances like that last year helped Davis and other Ohio farmers set a record for corn product. Ohio's corn crop in 2009 totaled 546 million bushels(蒲式耳), despite a cooler and wetter than normal spring, a dry summer and a delayed, wet harvest. Davis said. “I knew it would be a good crop, but it was much better than we expected.”
A farmer can map his fields on GPS, spotting where soil turned out to be least fertile（肥沃的） and using more fertilizer the next year in those areas where corn didn’t grow as well.
Although Ohio farmers produced more corn, it was grown on less land than in the past years. Total area used for corn in Ohio was 3.35 million acres, about the same as in 2008 but down from 3.85 million acres in 2007, said Dwayne Siekman, director of the Ohio Corn Growers Association. “When you look at the total number of acres in Ohio used for corn, it’s clear that farmers are able to do more with less,” he said. “American farmers can grow five times more corn on 20 percent less land than they did in the 1930s, saying that modern farming techniques are necessary for a growing demand in the world today.” That technology includes using improved seeds that can withstand(忍受) greater temperature extremes and pests, Siekman said.
Farmers aren't the only ones who benefit. Consumers(消费者) do, too, as food costs reduce in the face of “enough supplies of corn,” said Fred Yoder, who runs a 1,500-acre corn, soybean and wheat farm in Plain City. “This is the best, highest-producing corn crop that I've raised in 30 years,” he said.
1.Most people usually use the GPS system for ______.
A. driving their cars
B. telling the position
C. mending the car
D. supplying the sunshine
2.The farmers in Ohio use GPS to ______.
A. check if the soil is fertile in some areas
B. control the rain of the place
C. water the crops if the weather is dry
D. draw the map of all the crops
3.Why did Ohio farmers produce more corn?
A. Because they expanded more land to grow corn
B. Because they turned to technological advances
C. Because they used more and more fertilizer.
D. Because they supplies themselves with more money.
4. From the passage, we can know _____.[
A. John Davis hadn’t expected a good harvest.
B. farmers grew less land than in the 1930s
C. improved seeds cost much more money
D. the output of corn in the same field is increased.
Shakespeare, more perhaps than any other writer, made full use of the greatest resources of the English Language．Most of us use about five thousand words in our normal employment of English; Shakespeare in his works used about twenty-five thousand! There is probably no better way for a foreigner to appreciate the richness and variety of the English language than by studying the various ways in which Shakespeare uses it．Such a study is well worth the effort, even though some aspects of English usage, and the meaning of many words, have changed since Shakespeare’s day．
However, it is surprising that we should know comparatively little about the life of the greatest English author．We know that Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon, and that he died there in 1616．He almost certainly attended the Grammar School in the town, but of this we cannot be sure．We know he was married there in 1582 to Anne Hathaway and that he had three children．We know that he spent much of his life in London writing his masterpieces．But this is almost all that we do know．
However, what is important about Shakespeare’s life is not its incidental details but its products, the plays and the poems．For many years scholars have been trying to add a few facts about Shakespeare’s life to the small number we already possess and for an equally long time critics have been theorizing about the plays．Sometimes, indeed, it seems that the poetry of Shakespeare will disappear under the great mass of comment that has been written upon it．
Fortunately this is not likely to happen．Shakespeare’s people have long delighted not just the English but lovers of literature everywhere, and will continue to do so after the scholars and critics and all their works have been forgotten．
1.This passage is about ．
A. the great length of each chapter
B. the great varieties in writing styles
C. the richness of the content in Shakespeare’s works
D. the rich English language used by Shakespeare in his works
2. According to the writer, which of the following remains uncertain about Shakespeare?
A. His date of birth
B. His marriage
C. His life in the Grammar School
D. His date of death
3.It can be inferred from Para 3 that
A. not all the comments on Shakespeare’s works have produced good effects
B. scholars have successfully collected facts about Shakespeare’s life
C. critics are more interested in Shakespeare’s play than his poetry
D. the details of Shakespeare’s life are more important than his literary works
4. What does the last sentence in Para 3 mean ?
A. People don’t think the poetry of Shakespeare good any more．
B. People pay more attention to the comment than the poetry of Shakespeare．
C. People can’t see the poetry of Shakespeare any more．
D. The comment is printed on the poetry of Shakespeare．
你校正在开展“和谐宿舍生活”的主题周活动，请按下列要求写一篇100-120词的英语短文向英语社投稿：
1. 阐明和谐宿舍生活的必要性；
2. 提出建议。
注意：短文的开头已给出（不计词数）。
参考词汇：harmonious和谐的； harmony和谐
Dormitory life is regarded as an important part of school life. _______________________
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