Exploit your parking space
An unused parking space or garage can make money. If you live near a city center or an airport, you could make anything up to £200 or £300 a week. Put an advertisement（广告）for free on Letpark or Atmyhousepark.
Rent（出租）a room
Spare room? Not only will a lodger（房客）earn you an income, but also, thanks to the government-backed “rent a room” program, you won’t have to pay any tax on the first £4500 you make per year. Try advertising your room on Roomspare or Roommateeasy.
Make money during special events
Don’t want a full-time lodger? Then rent on a short-term basis. If you live in the capital, renting a room out during the Olympics or other big events could bring in money. Grashpadder can advertise your space.
Live on set
Renting your home out as a “film set” could earn you hundreds of pounds a day, depending on the film production company and how long your home is needed. A quick search on the Internet will bring up dozens of online companies that allow you to register your home for free—but you will be charged if your home gets picked.
Use your roof
You need the right kind of roof, but some energy companies pay the cost of fixing solar equipment(around￡14,000), and let you use the energy produced for nothing. In return, they get paid for unused energy fed back into the National Grid. However, you have to sign a 25-year agreement with the supplier, which could prevent you from changing the roof.
1.If you earn ￡5000 from renting a room in one year, the tax you need to pay will be based on ______.
A. ￡800 B. ￡500
C. ￡4500 D. 5000
2.Where can you put an advertisement to rent out a room during a big event?
A. On Letpark. B. On Roomspare.
C. On Grashpadder. D. On Roommateeasy.
3.For whom the text most probably written?
A. House owners. B. Advertisers.
C. Lodgers. D. Online companies
现在很多学校严禁学生上学带手机，但是仍有许多学生把手机带到学校。请你结合此现象谈谈你的看法，并给校报英语专栏投稿。内容要点如下：
1．简述该现象；
2．谈谈带手机上学的弊端；
3．阐述你的观点。
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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处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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(\)画掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
This morning, when I was walking on the streets, I saw that two travelers were reading a map, looked puzzled. It seemed that they were lost. I went up and asked what I could help them. They told me they are looking for the Temple of Heaven. I led them to nearest bus stop and advised them to take Bus No. 20, who could take them there directly. They were appreciated my help greatly. Short after that, the bus came and we waved goodbye each other.
Seeing them on the bus, we felt a kind of satisfaction.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
There is much discussion about the necessity of daily homework for students. Some say homework is necessary since only practice 1. (make) perfect, while others disagree. In my opinion, daily homework is necessary for students. However, this might be misleading that one may believe all forms of homework 2.(be) necessary. Actually, only proper amount of homework in proper form is 3. (accept); some homework may not only fail to help the students, but on 4. contrary bore them so much 5. they may lose their interest in studying. “Proper” homework, in my opinion, should vary in its forms, 6. might be some extensive reading, a paper, or even just a game, as well as other ordinary exercise. And it should leave enough 7. (free) to the students so that they could do things they really like to do with selfmotivation, rather than unwillingness. We should always remember that homework is something for us to guide the students, rather than 8. (drive) them. Only if a teacher 9. (keep) this 10. his/her mind, the homework could be of the most help to the students.
Antarctica is the continent which is the most southern area of land on the Earth and is mostly ______ with ice. This is one of the driest and ______ places in the world. But people from all over the world come to ______ there.Near the South Pole, three thousand people live together in a place ______ AmundsenScott Station.
The Station ______ libraries, cinemas, shops, sports rooms, canteens and laboratories. There is electricity, and they have telephone — the system ______ they use to have a conversation with someone in ______ place.And they have ______ — electronic machines that store information and use programs to help them find, organize, or change the information.
But the people here ______ travel by car, or train or bus, because there aren’t any roads or railways near the Station.They ______ by ship, helicopter, plane, or snow tractor, or ______ dogs.
There aren’t ______ trees or flowers there, but there are hundreds of different birds and other ______.
Most of the people here are ______.They study plant and animal life and how ice ______.The ice can ______ us about changes in climate. Ray Kingman is an expert at AmundsenScott Station, telling us ______ the phone, “This is my second year here. It’s a very interesting and beautiful place, but life is very ______ in winter. In summer we can go ______ in hot pools of water. We welcome newcomers here for further ______ of the continent！”
1.A. filled B. full C. discovered D. covered
2.A. warm B. coldest C. cool D. hottest
3.A. travel B. settle C. work D. live
4.A. called B. builds C. known D. lived
5.A. exists B. built C. has D. lies
6.A. where B. that C. who D. how
7.A. other B. another C. the another D. the other
8.A. printers B. icons C. mice D. computers
9.A. don’t B. mustn’t C. shouldn’t D. needn’t
10.A. go B. walk C. travel D. run
11.A. with B. instead of C. on D. in front of
12.A. some B. any C. many D. much
13.A. plants B. life C. animals D. things
14.A. teachers B. scientists C. doctors D. workers
15.A. flows B. melts C. freezes D. moves
16.A. show B. tell C. suggest D. say
17.A. in B. with C. by D. on
18.A. pleasant B. easy C. hard D. comfortable
19.A. boating B. swimming C. fishing D. washing
20.A. study B. life C. visit D. climate
“I’ve never met a human worth cloning，” says cloning expert Mark Westhusin from the cramped confines of his lab at Texas A&M University. “It’s a stupid endeavor.” That’s an interesting choice of adjective, coming from a man who has spent millions of dollars trying to clone a 13yearold dog named Missy. So far, he and his team have not succeeded, though they have cloned two calves and expect to clone a cat soon. They just might succeed in cloning Missy later this year — or perhaps not for another five years. It seems the reproductive system of man’s best friend is one of the mysteries of modern science.
Westhusin’s experience with cloning animals leaves him vexed by all this talk of human cloning. In three years of work on the Missyplicity project, using hundreds upon hundreds of canine eggs, the A&M team has produced only a dozen or so embryos carrying Missy’s DNA. None have survived the transfer to a surrogate mother. The wastage of eggs and the many spontaneously aborted fetuses may be acceptable when you’re dealing with cats or bulls, he argues, but not with humans. “Cloning is incredibly inefficient, and also dangerous，” he says.
Even so, dog cloning is a commercial opportunity, with a nice research payoff. Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997, Westhusin’s phone at A&M College of Veterinary Medicine has been ringing busily. Cost is no obstacle for customers like Missy’s mysterious owner, who wishes to remain unknown to protect his privacy. He’s plopped down $3.7 million so far to fund the research because he wants a twin to carry on Missy’s fine qualities after she dies. But he knows her clone may not have her temperament. In a statement of purpose, Missy’s owner and the A&M team say they are “both looking forward to studying the ways that her clone differs from Missy.”
The fate of the dog samples will depend on Westhusin’s work. He knows that even if he gets a dog viably pregnant, the offspring, should they survive, will face the problems shown at birth by other cloned animals: abnormalities like immature lungs and heart and weight problems. “Why would you ever want to clone humans，” Westhusin asks, “when we’re not even close to getting it worked out in animals yet？”
1.Which of the following is TRUE about animal cloning?
A. Few private cloning companies could afford it.
B. Few people have realized its significance.
C. An exact copy of a cat or bull can be made.
D. It is becoming a prosperous industry.
2.From the passage we can infer that ________.
A. Mr. Westhusin is going to clone a dog soon
B. scientists are pessimistic about human cloning
C. human reproductive system has not been understood
D. rich people are only interested in cloning animals
3.Mr. Westhusin seems to believe that cloning ________.
A. is stupid and should be abandoned
B. has been close to success
C. should be taken cautiously
D. is now in a dilemma
