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(2010江苏省无锡市）In the early 1990s, the word “Internet”was strange to most people. But today, Internet has become a useful tool for people all over the world. Maybe Internet has been the greatest invention in the field of communication in the history of mankind（人类）Communicating with others on the Internet is much faster. We can chat with a person who is sitting in the other part of the world. We can e-mail our friends and they can read the e-mails within a minute.Giving all kinds of information is probably the biggest advantage of the Internet. We can use search engines to find the information we need. Just type in a keyword or keywords and the search engine will give us a list of suitable websites to look at.We can enjoy a lot on the Internet by downloading games, visiting chat rooms or surfing （浏览）websites. There are some games for free. We can meet new and interesting people in the chat now. We can also listen to music and see films.Now, there is a lot of service on the Internet such as online banking, job finding and ticket buying. We can also do shopping and find nearly all kinds of goods. Sometimes we can find something that is quite good but very cheap.26. How many main advantages of the Internet are talked about in the passage?A. Three.B. Four.C. Five.D. Six.27. What fact doesn’t the passage provide?A. We can find almost anything we want to know on the Internet.B. Some games on the Internet are free.C. We can buy most things we need on the Internet.D. Goods on the Internet are more expensive than those in real shops.28. Which title best gives the main idea of the passage?A. Online ShoppingB. Exchanging Information on the InternetC. The Advantages of the InternetD. Surfing the Websites on the Internet（2010江苏省南京市）People often say that the Englishman’s home is his castle. They mean that the home is very important and personal to him. Most people in Britain live in houses rather than flats, and many people own their homes. This means that they can make them individual（个体的）;they can paint them, and change them in any way they like. Most house have a garden, even if it is a very small one, and the garden is usually loved. The house and the garden are the private（私人的）space of the individual.People usually like to mark their space. Are you sitting now in your home or on a train? have you marked the space around yourself as your? If you are on the train you may put your coat or small bag on the seat beside you. If you share a flat you may have one corner or chair which is your own. Once I was travelling on a train to London. I was in a section for four people and there was a table between us .The man on the space on my side of the table at all. I was angry. Maybe he thought that he owned the whole table. I had read a book about non-verbal communication, so I took various papers out of my bag and put them on his briefcase! When I did this he stiffened and his eyes nearly popped(瞪出)out of his head. I had invaded(侵犯)his space! A few minutes later I tookmy papers off his case in order to read them. He immediately moved his case to his side of the table. Of course, it is possible that he just wanted to be helpful to me!If you are visiting another country you may feel that you don’t have any private space. Hotel rooms look much the same in every country in the world. All day long, you share public spaces with other people. You see the local people in their private spaces and you feel lonely and “outside”. Local people can create their private spaces by talking about things you don’t know about .And you even feel that they like you to be outside them so that they will enjoy being inside even more! This is one of the difficulties of being a traveler! But if you understand it then it helps you .Haven’t you enjoyed being part of a group and “owning” a bit of space?41. The writer was angry as he was travelling on a train to London because______.A. he had no place to sitB. someone had invaded his “space”C. too many people shared a section with himD. some other people talked about things he didn’t know about42. “…you feel lonely and ‘outside” in paragraph 4 means that_______.A. you are alone outside the houseB. you feel lonely because you travel on your ownC. you are alone and therefore you go outside to have some funD. you feel lonely and you don’t belong to that place or that group of people43.In Paragraph 4 ,the pronoun “them” refers to（所指）“___________”.A. public spacesB. private spacesC. local peopleD. other countries44. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. British people dislike marking their space.B. You always feel at home in another country.C. Most British people prefer living in houses to flats.D. You can’t mark your private space in a foreign country.45. Tha main purpose of the passage is to tell readers to _______.A. own private spaces by living in housesB. have one corner of their own in public placesC. realize the importance of “space”in communicationD. create their private spaces by talking with local people(2010江苏省宿迁市）There are over 800 boarding (寄宿) schools in the UK with students from home and foreign countries. Boarding schools started hundreds of years ago in the country. But the earliest boarding schools were set up for white, rich boys only. Now both boys and girls can go to boarding schools from the age of 7 to 18.What to doIn the UK, boarding schools have three terms in a school year, with about 13 weeks in each term. Students study and live together. They can’t go outside if they are not allowed to. In some schools, each student has his or her subject plan. Besides the usual classrooms and laboratories, the boarding schools have lots of other facilities for their students, including music rooms, boats, swimming pools, cinemas and theatres. Most boarding schools have a “light out” time. So when it’s time to go to bed, all the lights in the bedrooms are turned off. There are house-masters to takecare of students all the time, especially after school hours.What to wearNearly all students at boarding schools wear a school uniform. Boys usually wear a shirt and a tie, and girls wear a white blouse, sometimes also a tie and a skirt. As students get older, the rules become less strict._______________In the UK, boarding schools provide students with delicious food. They can choose to have a full English breakfast or simply bread. They can also choose between a meal with no meat and another meal at lunch and dinner. And there is always self-service for salad (沙拉), other side dishes and a dessert. Students can also make themselves something to eat at any time in a kitchen, or drink tea or have a snack between meals.36. Which of the following is TRUE according to (根据) the passage?A. Only white children were allowed to attend the earliest boarding schools.B. Students in a boarding school are looked after only after school hours.C. As students get older, the rules about wearing school uniforms become stricter.D. Students can have different activities in a boarding school.37. Which is the best title for the last paragraph?A. What to eatB. When to eatC. Where to eatD. How to eat38. The underlined word ‘facilities’ means _____________.A. 教师B. 设施C. 活动D. 课程（2010江苏省扬州市）America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don’t feel hurt. If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship .This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand .Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending（延伸）deeply into both families.There is another difficult point for us to understand .Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China, we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take day off from our work to act as guides to our friends: It is opposite in America ,Americans can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.For Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foeigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. So accept their hospitality（好客）at home and enjoy your visit in America!38. The underlined phrase “pick up”in Paragraph 1may mean “_______”.A. keep outB. give upC. pay no attention toD. continue39.Which of the following is the typical（典型的）way of American hospitality?A. Treating friends at home.B. Taking days off to be with friends.C. Meeting friends at the airport at midnight.D. Sharing everything they have.40. Which of the following statements in True according to the passage?A. Americans are always generous with their time.B. Americans don’t feel hurt if their friendships disappear soon.C. Chinese friendships develop more slowly but will never disappear.D. Chinese friendships are more sincere than American friendships.41. This passage is most probably written for _______.A. American studentsB. Chinese studentsC. Chinese visitors to AmericaD. American visitors to China（2010•江苏省连云港市）What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Someboy mentions hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck.If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically(按字母表的顺序)and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…, you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98, meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96, while love: 12+15+22+5=54, and luck: 12+21+3+11=47, a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money or prayer(祈祷)? They can’t, either.Then what else? Don’t be worried. You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude(态度).Yes, attitude is the word. See for yourself: attitude:1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100，a full mark.Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible that one will have a change for the better after one has changed one’s attitude.When you change your manner and became friendly towards others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive(积极地)attitude towards failure(失败),you’ll find it’s also rewarding though it has caused you losses.31.In the writer’s opinion , what is the most important things in a person’s life?A.Hard-work.B.Knowledge.C.Money.D.Attitude.32.According to the passage, if you meet with problems, the best way out is to ___________.A. ask for helpf from othersB. say your prayers to GodC. change your attitudeD. try maths-solving methods33.From the passage we can learn that ______________.A. diffrent attitudes come from different courses of life.B. mathematics can solve every problem easily in our daily lifeC. failure sometimes can bring you good if you take a positive attitudeD. none of the English words except “attitude” equals to 100 or more（2010•江苏省镇江市）Reader’s Digest is a monthly magazine. Before the 1980s, it belonged to a privately held company, which was started in 1922 by Lila Bell Wallace and Dewitt Wallace. This magazine is small and easy to carry, just half the size of most American magazines, which caused a phrase in 2005, “America in your pocket.” It is the best selling magazine in the USA. At present, its circulation(发行量） in the USA has reached 10 million copies and the number of the readers there is 38 million. Its global circulation outside the USA has reached 40 million people throughout more than 70 countries in 21 languages.This magazine’s focus(焦点） is not news but more of cultural views because the editors think people now can get timely news from somewhere else. They hope this magazine can give readers something that is about special personal experiences, something the readers can share with their families. In different countries, this magazine provides a window to the world for the local readers. Some parts of the magazine are about the local customs and interests of the local readers. The other parts give the local readers information from all over the world.This magazine actually used to be a family business until the Wallaces died in the 1980s. Because they had no children, there was no one to take over the company. Sixteen years ago, this company went public and became a public company.( ) 29. How often does Reader’s Digest come out in the USA?A. Once a year.B. Once a month.C. Once a week.D. Once a day.( ) 30. What’s the number of the readers of this magazine all over the world?A. 38 million.B. 40 million.C. 78 million.D. 108 million.( ) 31. This magazine’s focus includes the following topics except .A. something about the timely newsB. some special personal experiencesC. some information from all over the worldD. the local customs and interests of the local readers（2010•江苏省镇江市）1 The family planning policy （“计划生育”政策）was introduced in 1979 to solve the population problems. Most couples could have only one child except some special families and those in some special areas.2 Usually, all around good student, which was called “thrice good”, was given to the students who were virtuous(品德高尚的）, talented and good at PE. It was firstly used in to 1950s by Mao to encourage young people to keep fit, study well and work hard.3 During the early 1990s, state owned company reforms(国有企业改革）were getting tough. The workers were more than the jobs in most of the cities. Many workers were losing their jobs. “Jobless” was a hot topic at that time, so the leaders hoped the laid off workers could find new jobs or start up their own business.4 One of Deng’s clever ideas, “one country, two systems”, was first performed in 1997. It described Hong Kong and Macao’s situation after they returned to China. This policy would also be suitable for Taiwan. There would be one China, but Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan could have their own economies and political systems.5 Lei Feng was a soldier who was happy to help others. He died in an accident in 1962. On March 5th, 1963, Mao wrote a piece, “Learn from comrade Lei Feng”, to say the Chinese should help others when necessary. After that, March 5th became a V olunteer Day.6 The phrase “harmonious society”appeared in 2004, referring to a peaceful society where all people would work together to make the life better. This idea has become the main goal of the Chinese Communist Party now.( ) 32. The first paragraph is mainly talking a bout.A. the population of ChinaB. the only child in ChinaC. the one child familyD. the family planning policy( ) 33. The underlined word “all around” (Line 1, Para.2) is closest in Chinese to “”.A. 与……相匹配的B. 到处的C. 向各个方向的D. 有多方面才能的( ) 34. Do you know who mentioned “on country, two systems” according to the passage?A. Deng Xiaoping.B. Hu Jintao.C. Mao Zedong.D. Jiang Zemin.( ) 35. Please rearrange the events above in the correct order according to the time.A. 2→1→4→3→5→6B. 2→5→4→3→1→6C. 2→5→1→3→4→6D. 2→1→5→3→6→4（2010•江苏省连云港市）Many years before the United States was founded(建立), Americans had already invented barbecues. But the first barbecues, in fact ,were the invention of the Taino Indians of Haiti, who dried their meat on raised frames(架子)of sticks over fires. Spanish explorers spelled the Taino word as barbacoa, and as time passed, English settlers along the Atlantic coat had their own barbecues.One summer day in 1773, Benjamin Lynde, a citizen of Massachusetts, wrote in his diary, “Fair and hot ; Browne;hack overset.” That is , on a bright and hot day he went to the Brownes to attedn a barbecue, and his carriage(马车)fell over. It shows that the barbecue had its social occasion by that time. Large animals would be roasted whole on frames over hot fires, and neighbours would be invited to dinner.In later centuries, as settlers moved to the west, the barbecue went along with it, reaching an especially large size in Texas, where a pit (坑)for fuels(燃料) such as tree branches might be over ten feet deep. Today , the barbecue grills(烧烤架)which are fueled by charcoal(木炭) or electricity are likely to be small and easy to move , and can cook only parts of an animal at a time, but people still have barbecues out of doors and always invite their neighbours or friends over.34. Who invented the barbecues first in history?A. American people.B. Taino Indians.C. Spanish explorers.D. English settlers.35. The second paragraph mainly tells us that the barbecue_______________.A. is only held on a hot sunny dayB. welcomes people who keep diariesC. is held both indoors and outdoorsD. has its social occasion for over 200 years36. The underlined expression “ social occasion” can be best translated into______.A.社交功能B.社会福利C.社会地位D.社会背景37. The following are all the barbecue ways EXCEPT __________________.A. drying meat on raised frames of sticks over firesB. roasting a whole animal over a pit full of burning tree branchesC.cooking parts of animals over fires on grills fueled by charcoalD.heating meat in the bright and hot daylight。