------ It seems that you have worked here for a long time.
------ No. It was just a year ago ______ I started working here.
A. that B. how C. when D. before
------ She might complain about you to your manager.
------ _______? I know I am in the right.
A. What for B. Why not C. What’s up D. So what
大多数人都希望受到别人欢迎，但并非都能做到。请根据下表问卷调查结果，写一篇题为How to be popular的英文短文。
45%的人认为 | 1、改善外表，穿着得体，精神状态好 2、经常微笑，待人友善 |
55%的人认为 | 1、培养对他人的体贴 2、当个好听众 |
自己的观点 | (至少两点) |
注意：1、短文须包括所有要点，可适度发挥。
2、开头已为你写好，但不计人总词数。
3、词数：100-120
How to be popular
Many people desire to be popular with others, but not everyone can achieve this goal．What is the secret to popularity?
下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜钱（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意： 1. 每句不超过两个错误；
2．每处错误及其修改仅限一词；
3．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Yesterday morning I went to city library to do some reading. I had just got off the bus when I saw two foreign student reading a map at the street corner, with a puzzling expression on their faces. Obvious, they had trouble finding their destination, so I went over and asked that I could do for them. They told me that they wanted to visit the Haiminghu Lake Resort, so didn’t know how to get here. Hearing this, I showed them to the nearest bus stop and tell them which bus to take. When I saw them get on the bus, I felt very proud of me because of I was able to help foreigners with my poor English.
When Steve Jobs was born on Febuary24,1955, in San Francisco , California, his unmarried mother decided to put him for adoption（收养）because she wanted a girl. So in the middle of the night, his mother called a lawyer named Paul Jobs and said, “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” But his mother told his future parents to promise that they would send Jobs to college. After Steve Jobs graduated from high school, he went to college but only after six months did he decide to drop out because it was so expensive that he had to sleep on the floor in his friends’ rooms.
Jobs and a friend(Steve Wozniak) started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. He named their company ----Apple in memory of a happy summer he had spent as a fruit garden in Oregon.
After 10 years of hard time and failures, starting from two kids working in a garage, Apple computer eventually grew into a big company with over 4000 employees.
At 30, Jobs , however, was fired from the company he co-founded. But after he had to leave the company, Apple was under heavy pressure from competitor Microsoft and suffered heavy losses. Apple needed Steve Jobs and he was appointed as Apple’ CEO in1997. Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability（盈利） and introduced new products such as the IPod, the IPhone and the IPad.
Steve Jobs once said, “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t be discouraged. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find your interest. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.”
1.Why did Jobs’ mother abandon him? ( within 6 words)
2.What did Jobs do half a year later in college? ( within 5 words)
3.When was Jobs removed from Apple? ( within 2 words)
4.What happened to Apple after Jobs left it？ ( within 10 words)
5. What do you think is the most important thing to lead Jobs to success? (1 word )
Half of the world’s population is affected by Asian monsoons（季风）, but monsoons are difficult to predict. American researchers have put together a 700-year record of the rainy seasons, which is expected to provide guidance for experts making weather predictions.
Every year, moist （潮湿的）air masses，known as monsoon，produce large amounts of rainfall in India, East Asia, Northern Australia and East Africa. All this wet air is pulled in by a high pressure area over the Indian Ocean and a low pressure area to the south.
According to Edward Cook , a weather expert at Columbia University in New York., the complex nature of the climate systems across Asia makes monsoons hard to predict. In addition, climate records for the area are too recent and not detailed enough to be of much use. Therefore, he and a team of researchers spent more than fifteen years traveling across Asia, looking for trees old enough to provide long-term records. They measured the rings, or circles, inside thousands of ancient trees in more than 300 places.
Rainfall has a direct link to the growth and width of rings on some kinds of trees. The researchers developed a document they are calling a Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas. It shows the effect of monsoons over seven centuries, beginning in the 1300s.
Professor Cook says the tree-ring records show periods of wet and dry weather. “If the monsoon basically fails or is a very weak one, the trees affected by monsoons at that location might put on a very narrow ring. But if the monsoon is very strong, the trees affected by that monsoon might put on a wide ring for that year. So, the wide and narrow ring widths of the chronology that we developed in Asia provide us with a measure of monsoon variability.” With all this information, researchers say they can begin to improve computer climate models for predicting the behavior of monsoons.
“There has been widespread famine and starvation and human dying in the past in large droughts. And on the other hand, if the monsoon is particularly heavy, it can cause extensive flooding.” said Eugene Wahl, a scientist with America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “So, to get a sense of what the regional moisture patterns have been, dryness and wetness over such a long period of time in great detail, I would call it a kind of victory for climate science.”
1.What’sthe passage mainly about？
A. The effects of Asian monsoons.
B. A breakthrough in monsoon prediction.
C. The achievements of Edward cook.
D. The necessity of weather forecast.
2. It is difficult for experts to predict Asian monsoons because_________
A. it is hard to keep long-term climate records.
B. they are formed under complex climate systems.
C. they influence many nations.
D. there is heavy rainfall in Asia.
3.What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Long and details climate records can offer useful information for monsoon research.
B. The Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas has a monsoon record for about 1,300 years.
C. The trees affected by monsoon grow fast if the monsoon is weak.
D. The rainfall might be low although the monsoon is strong in monsoon-affected areas.
4.What do we know about the research according to Eugene Wahl?
A. It will help people prevent droughts and floods.
B. It should include information about human life in the past.
C. It has analyzed moisture models world wide,
D. It is a great achievement in climate science.
5.Which of the following best describes the tone of this passage?
A. Humorous B. Pessimistic
C. Matter-of –fact D. Friendly.
