When her five daughters were young, Helen An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结). To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.
Helen An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helen and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn’t have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny’s mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helen and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helen did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.
Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elizabeth explains, “Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.”
Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ans working together. Now the Ans’ corporation makes more than $ 20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.
1.Helen tied several chopsticks together to show ________.
A. the strength of family unity B. the difficulty of growing up
C. the advantage of chopsticks D. the best way of giving a lesson
2.We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An family ________.
A. started a business in 1975
B. left Vietnam without much money
C. bought a restaurant in San Francisco
D. opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles
3.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. How to Run a Corporation B. Strength Comes from Peace
C. How to Achieve a Big Dream D. Family Unity Builds Success
More companies and recyclers are taking steps to ensure that old electronic devices such as TVs and computers aren’t sent to poor countries.
The Basel Action Network, a Seattle-based non-profit that largely exposed the overseas discarding (丢弃) of US electronic waste, on Thursday launched a programme to use third-party employees to certify (证实) recyclers who don’t export dangerous electronic waste.
The so-called e-Steward recyclers will also agree not to discard the waste in US landfills and agree to meet other criteria. The certification is intended to provide companies and consumers with some assurance that the waste, which can include toxins (毒素) such as lead and mercury, is disposed of safely.
The Government Accountability Office, in a 2008 report, declared that US electronic waste was often disposed of unsafely in such countries as India. There, workers recycle gold, silver and copper from the waste, often in open-air acid baths.
The Basel Network also says it won assurances from 13 organizations, including Samsung, Bank of America, Wells Far-go, that they’ll use e-Steward recyclers whenever possible. Wells Fargo had already been using recyclers who declared not to export. So far, Basel has certified three recyclers and seven sites.
Before e-stewards, even, companies that wanted to avoid export of electronic waste had to “hope for the best”, when, they handed their waste to recyclers, says Robert Houghton, president of Ohio-based recycler Redemtech. It is an e-Steward that counts major companies among its customers. “Now, they can get some proof,” Houghton says.
Basel’s standards compete with another set launched in January. It was made by industry and backed by the Environmental Protection Agency.
That standard, called R-2, doesn’t ban the export of dangerous electronic waste but requires that it be handled safely. Instead of a ban, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries says, efforts should be made to help poor countries develop safe recycling.
1.How were most electronic wastes dealt with before?
A. They were thrown into US landfills.
B. They were buried in the desert m die US.
C. They were exported to poor countries.
D. They were reused by families in poor countries.
2.E-Steward recyclers, main job is probably to ________.
A. prevent old devices from open-air acid baths
B. dispose of electronic waste safely
C. collect more electronic waste for profits
D. assure America’s leading rule in the electronic market
3.People in India import electronic waste to ________.
A. get rid of toxins B. learn how to make devices
C. recycle valuable metals D. make cheaper products
4.The passage is mainly about ________.
A. how to deal with old electronic products
B. the development of recycling in the world
C. how to fight against electronic pollution
D. safer treatment of electronic waste
Aunt Karen always had a special place in my heart. When I was growing up, I knew I could count on her to have room for me on her lap and words of love and encouragement when I needed to hear them. When she died five years ago, I was devastated. The whole family was still in shock when her husband, Uncle Ronnie, died a week later. I longed to have a small item of Aunt Karen’s to remember her by, but seeing her children and grandchildren overcome by the grief of this double loss made me shy away from asking.
A few months after Aunt Karen’s death, I was on my way to work when I saw Rescued Treasures, a local second-hand store. I only had a couple of dollars on me and didn’t really intend to buy anything, but I stopped anyway just to look inside. I had been shopping around for a few minutes when a small, black handbag caught my eye. It wasn’t fancy or special. I didn’t really need a handbag and continued to look around the store, but something kept drawing me back to that handbag. Finally, I checked the price tag (标签). It was just one dollar.
The handbag stayed in the back of my car for weeks until I came upon it during a car clean-up. I opened it up. I couldn’t believe it. They hadn’t even cleaned it out. It was still full of junk, old candy wrappers, old receipts (收据) and used paper. Usually the store emptied things inside, so there wouldn’t be any surprises for a new owner.
I threw away some wastes, and sorted through the receipts, when I found one item in the small inside pocket. It was an insurance card with the name “Karen Stair” written on it. I began to cry. My beloved Aunt Karen. This was her handbag.
1.What do we know from the passage?
A. Karen’s husband survived her by five years.
B. Karen’s children refused to give any item to the author.
C. The author was very shy when she was young.
D. Karen had been very kind to the author.
2.The underlined word “devastated” in Paragraph 1 probably means “________”.
A. very worried B. a little lonely
C. extremely sad D. slightly disappointed
3.The author made up her mind to buy the handbag because ________.
A. she just needed to buy a handbag
B. the bag looked strange and was worth the price
C. it happened that she could afford it
D. someone else persuaded her to buy it
4.As soon as the author opened the handbag, she felt very ________.
A. surprised B. excited
C. sick D. nervous
假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Peter来信向你咨询夏令营（summer camp）的情况，请你根据下列要点写封回信。
要点：1.活动时间：7月10日—7月25日；
2.活动：学唱中英文歌曲，朗诵中英文诗歌，参观北京，了解传统文化，交朋友。
注意：1.词数120左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.注意答题卡上的书信格式。
Dear Peter,
I’m glad to hear from you.
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Yours
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文，文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
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：把多余的词用斜线（\）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。
When people use words and expressions different with the “standard language”, it is called an dialect. American English has many dialects. Even some parts of the USA, two people from neighboring towns speak a little different. American English has so much dialects because people have come from all over the world. Geography also plays a part in make dialects. Some people which live in the mountains of the eastern USA speak with an older kind of English dialects. When Americans move from one place to another, they took their dialects with them. Although many Americans move a lot of, they still recognize and understand each other’s dialects.
Five months ago. I 1.(happen) to be upstairs at dusk when the window was open. I didn’t go downstairs until the window had to 2.(shut). The dark, rainy evening, the wind and the thundering clouds held me 3.(entire) in their power.
It was the first time in one and a half 4.(year) since we found shelter here that I’d seen the night face to face. Sadly I am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains 5.(hang) before very dusty windows.6.is no pleasure looking through them because nature is one thing 7.really must be experienced. One evening when it was so warm. I stayed 8.(wake) on purpose until half past eleven in order to have 9.good look at the moon by myself. But as the moon gave far too much light, I 10.(not dare) to open the window.
