Mr. Bean constantly get into awkward and absurd situations, which greatly amuses audiences _____ their nationalities and culture.
A. in favor of B. in terms of C. according to D. regardless of
作为一名中学生，平时你是否愿意和自己的老师交流？你认为良好的师生关系应该是什么样的？如何才能建立这种关系？请写一篇短文，就这一话题谈谈自己的看法。
注意：
1．可以使用一些具体的事例支持你的论点；
2．词数在120～150之间。
Students are becoming unwilling to confess to（承认，坦白）their teachers because
1.有多种因素导致了出生率下降。
There are various factors _______________ _______the lowered birthrates.
许多专家坚信这种全球变暖主要归咎于人类活动。
2.Many experts insist that the _____________ for this global warming can mostly be _______ _______ human activities.
3.在他们永远消失之前我们要代表他们大声疾呼。
We need to speak out ______ _______ _______ before they disappear _______ _______.
4.你们说只要我预先付款就会有优惠。
You say that there is a discount ________ _________ I pay _______ _________.
5.我们取得很多医学进步,包括从显微镜下发现疾病的起因到用捐赠器官替代病变器官这样的外科手术过程。
We have made medical advances, __________ ________ discovering the causes of diseases under microscopes_________ surgical procedures replacing diseased organs with donated ones.
单词拼写
1.The man stood there with his hands __________.(交叉)
2.We should make effort to prevent the ____________ (冲突) between employers and employees.
3.Man differs from beasts in that the former is able to laugh, while the ________ aren’t.
4.The value of this ring was a___________ at one thousand dollars.
5.The manager put up a notice to keep the staff _________ (通知) of what to do this week．
6.Employees are encouraged to ___________ (购买) shares in the firm.
7.Great changes have taken place in China in the past few d____________.
8.Mary r_______________ her mother in appearance; they look so alike.
9.Having ________ (没收) 100 kilos of cocaine(可卡因), the customs officials were celebrating their success.
10.While __________(绑/系) your seat belts, please follow the correct procedure.
We are naturally drawn to friends and colleagues with familiar voices, scientists have found．People prefer those who have a similar accent，intonation and tone of voice to themselves , they discovered．
Previous research has focused on how masculine or feminine a voice sounds．Men with deeper voices and women with slightly higher voices were thought to sound more attractive，because they suggest a bigger or a smaller body．
But the new study，published by a linguistics(语言学)expert in Canada，suggests there is a
more complex mechanism(机制)at play．Dr Molly Babel, from the University of British Columbia in Canada, said，“The voice is an amazingly flexible(灵活的)tool that we use to construct our identity．Very few things in our voices are changeless，so we felt that our preferences had to be about more than a person’s shape and size．’’
She recorded 30 volunteers’ voices and asked each to rate the others’ attractiveness on a scale of one to nine．Each participant was from western America，with similar accents．The people we assessed were all in the same dialect group，but they showed that dialect to different degrees．
“We seem to like people who sound like we sound，we like people who fit within what we know，”Dr Babel said．She also found that breathy voices in women－typified by the famous American actress Marilyn Monroe－were seen as more attractive．
The breathy tone，caused by younger and thinner vocal cords(声带)，implied youthfulness
and health A creaky voice，suggesting a person has a cold，is tired or smokes，was seen as unattractive．The participants preferred men who spoke with a shorter average word length and deeper voices．
The linguist，whose work is published in the journal PLOS One，said，“Once you’re outside of a certain range of familiarity，novel and exotic sounding voices might become more attractive．We also have to keep in mind we find some accents more preferable than others because of social fixed ideas．”
1.In terms of voice preferences，the new findings highlight_______.
A．body size and shape B．shorter word length
C．thicker vocal cords D．the same social groups
2.Dr. Molly Babel mentions Marilyn Monroe in order to________.
A．evaluate a creaky voice
B．explain her new findings
C．challenge previous research
D．promote the actress’s reputation
3.According to the passage，who would most probably have a creaky voice?
A．An old lady with a silvery voice．
B．A young lady with a thin voice．
C．A deep-voiced man with a dry throat．
D．A little man with a quiet and gentle voice．
4.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A．People favor familiar accents when in a new place．
B．People might have a preference for different accents．
C．Voice preferences have no link to long-held belief．
D．Voice preferences are influenced by sex differences．
5.The main purpose of the passage is to________.
A．encourage men to use shorter words and talk less
B．inform readers of the findings of voices
C．argue against women’s breathy way of speaking
D．compare male voices with female voices
BERLIN (Reuters)—Germany’s postal service has announced plans to explore improved service and help protect the environment by getting “fetch friends”—ordinary people traveling across cities—to deliver parcels on their way.
It is hoped that the move, which will be tested in the coming months, might lessen traffic in inner cities and reduce CO2 emissions(排放). This should help DHL, a division of the German postal service, reach its target of improving the company’s carbon efficiency by 30 percent before 2020.
“As the world’s biggest logistics(物流) provider, we recognize a special responsibility to reduce the impact on the environment as much as possible,” said Frank Appel, Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Post DHL, in a statement referring to a variety of measures being considered.
The “fetch friends” find out online about parcels that need delivering to people who live or work along the way that they are planning to travel through the city. They then select the ones that they want to take.
Codes(编码) sent to their mobile phones tell the volunteers where to pick the packages up. Parcels can be taken part of the way or passed on to another volunteer but all volunteers need to have the right code on their mobile phone so the track and trace system can be updated.
Logistics companies will be responsible for looking after the operation to make sure that the privacy of post is respected.
It’s hoped that this could be done using mobile phones but DHL says it recognizes that some security issues remain to be worked out.
1.According to the passage, the “fetch friend” program ________.
A. has been tested for months
B. aims to reduce the cost of the service
C. employs environmentalists to help with deliveries
D. encourages ordinary people to help cut the carbon footprint
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE of DHL?
A. It belongs to the Germany’s postal service.
B. It has the most up-to-date tracking system in Germany.
C. It has succeeded in improving its carbon efficiency by 30%.
D. It has designed many measures to improve its service speed.
3.What may be a problem with the new service according to the article?
A. Volunteers’ not allowing to select parcels.
B. The wrong codes in the mobile phones.
C. The possibility that parcels could be opened on the way.
D. Parcels’ being taken to the destination by a single volunteer.
4.What might be the best Title for the best passage?
A. New Challenges for the Postal Service
B. A Greener Way to Deliver Parcels
C. Solutions for Global Warming
D. Statements from DHL
