Many football fans attached great importance to the two matches, because China needed to beat Iran to ensure ______for the Asian Cup semi-finals.
A. outcome B. qualification C. conservation D. commitment
Although English may not lead directly to a great career, it will certainly give you _______ to a wider range of opportunity.
A. ambition B. achievement C. account D. access
请根据以下提示，结合你生活中的一个事例，用英语写一篇短文。
We meet a lot of difficulities in our daily life.when problems arise ,do you give up or take a positive attitude towards them? Talk about your opinions.
注意：①无须写标题； ②除诗歌外，文体不限；
③内容必须结合你生活中的一个事例；
④文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称;
⑤词数为120左右，如引用提示语则不计入总字数。
(提示:请将写作答案写在答题卡上的相应位置，写在此处无效。）
完成句子(共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分)
1.This is the new car ___________ next month. (test)
这是一台下个月将被测试的新车。
2.You are required to write a paper ,________________ what you have learned from this experience. (reflect)
要求你写一篇文章，思考你从这次经历中学到的东西。
3.It was the first time that she______________ her motherland. (leave)
这是她第一次离开自己的祖国。
4.She is proud ________________ competitions and to have broken a record. (take)
她很自豪参加过很多比赛而且还打破了记录。
5.Not only _______________ my going abroad, he also promised to support me financially. (approve )
我父亲不仅同意我出国，还保证在经济上支持我。
6.Many urban expressways have already been built in Wuhan, ______________more convenient for us to travel from one place to another. (make)
很多城市快速路己经在武汉建设好了, 这使得我们的出行更加便利。
7.________________ my teaching work all the time, I have no time for housework and social activities. (occupy)
由于一直忙于我的教学工作, 我没有时间做家务和社交活动。
8.My teacher recommended that I ____________________ Tom for my unfriendly behaviour, and I accepted. (apology).
老师建议我为自己不友好的行为向汤姆道歉，我接受了。
9.He went on a bus tour with a group of people ,__________________had never travelled before. (most)
他和一群人坐公共汽车旅行，他们中的大多数人以前从来没有旅行过。
10.Thank you for your help! Otherwise we ________________ the project on time.（complete）
非常感谢你的帮助！否则我们不会按时完成这项工程。
A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth．
Until now，it has been widely assumed that the kind of mental ability that allows us to solve new problems without having any relevant previous experience—what psychologists call fluid intelligence—is innate and cannot be taught（though people can raise their grades on tests of it by practicing）．
But in the new study，researchers describe a method
for improving this skill，along with experiments to prove it works．
The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory—the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it．This type of memory is closely related to fluid intelligence，so the researchers reasoned that improving it might lead to improvements in fluid intelligence．
First they measured fluid intelligence of volunteers using standard tests．Then th
ey trained each in a complicated memory task—the child’s card game，in which they had to recall a card they saw and heard．During the course, they needed to ignore irrelevant items, monitor ongoing performance，manage two tasks at the sa
me time and connect related items to one another in space and time．
The four groups experienced a half-hour of training daily for 8, 12, 17 and 19 days, respectively．To make sure they were not just improving their test-taking skills，the researchers compared them with control groups that took the tests without the training．
The results, published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences，were striking．Improvement in the trained groups was a lot greater．Moreover，the longer they trained, the higher their scores were．All performers，from the weakest to the strongest，showed significant improvement．
“Our results show you can increase your intelligence with proper training．” said Dr Jaeggi, a co-author of the paper．“No one knows how long the gains will last after training stops,” he added, “and the experiment’s design did not allow the researchers to determine whether more training would continue to produce further gains．
1.By writing the article，the writer intends to ______________．
A. inform the readers of a new study
B. call on people to be trained to increase intelligence
C. prove one’s born brainpower can be improved
D. tell people the improved intelligence will last forever
2.The researchers thought the key to improving the intelligence was ______________．
A. memorizing telephone numbers
B .improving working memory
C. training in concentration
D. recalling a card
3.The following aspects of the training help increase intelligence EXCEPT___________．
A. ignoring irrelevant items
B.monitoring ongoing performance
C.managing two tasks at the same time
D.using previous experience
4.When the experiment was conducted, the researchers______________．
A.trained the four groups for the same period of time
B.only made comparisons between the four groups
C.compared the four groups with control groups
D.trained the four groups together
The increase in tuition fees(学费) has led to a “clear drop” in the number of English students applying for university places this autumn. There are 15,000 “missing” applicants this academic year, according to the Independent Commission on Fees. Chairman Will Hutton said: “We’re asking our young men and women to have more debt than any other country in the world — it’s higher than the average debt in the US. It’s not clear whether those lost students this year will return next year, or if it’s a storm warming of a worrying trend.”
But the commission’s report says there does not seem to be an impact on poorer communities. The commission found there was no significant change in the application rate to the key universities, such as Oxford or Cambridge. The decline （下降）in England has not been mirrored in other parts of the UK where fees have not been raised, and the drop can only partly be explained by falling numbers of young people in the population. Students from Scotland attending Scottish universities do not pay fees, while the Welsh Assembly says it will pay fees above ￡3,465 for Welsh students attending UK institutions.
The average tuition fee at English universities this year is ￡ 8,385, rising to ￡ 8,507 next year. UK and EU students have access to govemment-backed loans to pay the fees. And the survey of 1,000 pupils aged 15-18, carried out this April, found that the majority expected to go on to higher education as people continue to understand that university remains a good long term investment in their future.
A spokeswoman at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills which is responsible for universities, said:“Students shouldn’t be forced to put off going to university for financial reasons. Most students will not have to pay in advance, and no one will have to start paying back their student loan until they start to earn at least ￡ 2l,000 per year.”
1.From the first paragraph, we know that __________________ .
A. it’s a trend that English students are dropping out of school
B. the rising tuition fees have a great effect on English students
C. the lost English students will find their way back
D. many English students are missing the final examinations
2.Why is there still a drop of applicants though fees have not been raised?
A. Because the students live in poor communities.
B. Because Welsh students will pay fees above￡3,465.
C. Because education is free for Scottish students.
D. Because there are less young students in the area.
3.What’s the students’ attitude to universities in the survey?
A. Most of them are willing to go to university.
B. They feel universities takes up too much time.
C. They will stop applying for university places this autumn.
D. They are anxious to go to a key university.
4.The spokeswoman in the last paragraph advises students to ______________
A. put off going to university
B. reduce the anxiety about the rising fees
C. pay for the fees in advance
D. pay back their loan soon after graduation
