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2010年北京外国语大学英语专业（基础英语）真题试卷(总分：60.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、阅读理解(总题数：2，分数：24.00)Americans are living in an argument culture. There is a pervasive warlike atmosphere that makes us approach public dialogue, and just about anything we need to accomplish, as if it were a fight. Thinking of human interactions as battles is a metaphorical frame through which we learn to regard the world and the people in it. All language uses metaphors to express ideas; some metaphoric words and expressions are novel, made up for the occasion, but more are calcified in the language. They are simply the way we think it is natural to express ideas. We don"t think of them as metaphors. When someone says, "Don"t pussyfoot around; get to the point" , there is no explicit comparison to a cat, but the comparison is there nonetheless, implied in the word "pussyfoot". I doubt that individuals using the word "pussyfoot"think consciously of cats. More often than not, we use expressions without thinking about their metaphoric implications. But that doesn"t mean those implications are not influencing us. Americans talk about almost everything as if it were a war.A book about the history of linguistics is called The Linguistics Wars. A magazine article about claims that science is not completely objective is titled The Science Wars. One about competition among caterers is" Party Wars"—and on and on in a potentially endless list. Politics, of course, is a prime candidate . One of the innumerable possible examples, the headline of a story reporting that the Democratic National Convention nominated Bill Clinton to run for a second term declares, " DEMOCRATS SEND CLINTON INTO BATTLE FOR A 2D TERM. "But medicine is as frequent a candidate, as we talk about battling and conquering disease. Why does it matter that our public discourse is filled with military metaphors? Aren"t they just words? Why not talk about something that matters—like actions? Because words matter. When we think we are using language, language is using us. As linguist Dwight Bolinger put it(employing a military metaphor), language is like a loaded gun;It can be fired intentionally, but it can wound or kill just as surely when fired accidentally. The terms in which we talk about something shape the way we think about it—and even what we see. The power of words to shape perception has been proven by researchers in controlled experiments. Psychologists Elizabeth Loftus and John Palmer, for example, found that the terms in which people are asked to recall something affect what they recall. The researchers showed subjects a film of two cars colliding, then asked how fast the cars were going; one week later, they asked whether there had been any broken glass. Some subjects were asked, " About how fast were the cars going when they bumped into each other?"Others were asked, "About how fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?"Those who read the question with the verb "smashed "estimated that the cars were going faster. They were also more likely to"remember"having seen broken glass.(There wasn"t any.) This is how language works. It invisibly molds our way of thinking about people, actions, and the world around us. Military metaphors train us to think about—and see—everything in terms of fighting, conflict, and war. This perspective then limits our imaginations when we consider what we can do about situations we would like to understand or change. In the argument culture, war metaphors pervade our talk and shape our thinking. Nearly everything is framed as a battle or game in which winning or losing is the main concern. These all have their uses and place, but they are not the only way—and often not the best way—to understand and approach our world. Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition over-weighted.（分数：12.00）(1).We know from Paragraph 2 that______.（分数：2.00）A.the word "pussyfoot" has no relation with catsB.metaphoric words are usually created for special occasionsC.pussyfootis a newly-coined wordD.metaphoric implications can be found in all languages(2).The underlined words "a prime candidate" in Paragraph 3 probably means______.（分数：2.00）A.an important person for electionB.the first person considered for a jobC.something most suitable for a particular purposeD.something more important than words(3).By saying "language is using us"(Paragraph 5), the writer means______.（分数：2.00）A.the terms we use shape our perception of the worlditary metaphors help linguists to express ideas more clearlynguage can hurt people unintentionallynguage empowers us to fight with each other(4).The experiment conducted by the two psychologists shows______.（分数：2.00）A.the choice of words can affect the way people see thingsB.it is of utmost importance to ask good questionsC.there is difference between "smash" and "bump into"D.the memory of an accident can only last for one week(5).We can learn from the text that, in the writer"s opinion, ______.（分数：2.00）A.the argument culture is good for American societyB.Americans place too much importance on conflict and oppositionC.war metaphors have a positive impact on people"s thinkingD.more research should be done on the argument culture(6).The best title for this passage is probably______.（分数：2.00）A.Metaphors in an Argument CultureB.We Are What We Speak; Living in an Argument CultureC.Words Do Matter; Metaphors in American Culturenguage and Culture DebateI recently became one of the last people in America to acquire a portable radio/headphone set. This delay was out of character—normally I ride the crest of every trend. But in this case I sensed a certain dangerous potential. So I put off the purchase for ages, feeling wary of such an inviting distraction. Too much headphone time, I worried, could easily impair my business performance, if not ruin my way of life completely. As it turns out, my concerns were right on target. The problem isn"t the expense, or the constant exposure to musical drivel, or even the endangerment of my hearing—and I do like to keep the volume set on "blast". No, the problem is more subtle and insidious. It"s simply that, once I was fully plugged in, things stopped occurring to me. I get excited about good ideas. Especially my own. I used to have lists of them in all my regular haunts . My office desk, kitchen, car and even my gym bag were littered with bits of paper. Ideas ranging from a terrific brochure headline or a pitch to a new client for my public-relations agency to finding a new route to avoid the morning rush—each notion began as an unsummoned thought, mulled over and jotted down. The old story has it that Isaac Newton identified the concept and presence of gravity while sitting under an apple tree. One fruit fell and science gained new dimension. While there may be some historic license in that tale, it"s easy to see that if Newton had been wearing his Walkman, he probably would have overlooked the real impact of the apple"s fall. This is the problematic side of technological evolution. As tools become more compact, portable and inescapable, they begin to take away something they cannot replace. The car phone, battery-powered TV, portable fax and notepad-size computer do everything for accessibility. They make it easy to be in touch, to be productive, to avoid the tragedy of a wasted second. But there are worse things than empty time. A calendar packed to the max makes it easy to overlook what"s missing. A dearth of good ideas isn"t something that strikes like alightning bolt. It"s a far more gradual dawning, like the slow unwelcome recognition that one"s memory has become less sharp. If that dawning is slow, it"s because our minds are fully occupied. It now takes an unprecedented depth of knowledge to stay on top of basic matters, from choosing sensible investments to purchasing the healthiest food. There is literally no end to the information that has become essential. When there is a chance to relax, we don"t stop the input; we change channels. With earphones on our heads or televisions in our faces, we lock in to a steady barrage of news, views and videos that eliminate likelihood of any spontaneous thought. Still, we are not totally oblivious. We work hard to counter the mind-numbing impact of the river of information we are forced to absorb. There is a deliberate emphasis on the importance of creative thought as a daily factor. From seminars to smart drinks, from computer programs to yoga postures, there"s no end to the strategies and products that claim to enhance creativity. It would be unfair to say that all of these methods are without value. But beyond a certain point they are, at best, superfluous. Trying too hard to reach for high-quality insight can thwart the process in the worst way. The best ideas occur to me when my mind is otherwise unchallenged and there is no pressure to create. I have mentally composed whole articles while jogging, flashed upon the solution to a software dilemma while sitting in the steam room, come up with just the right opening line for a client"s speech while pushing a vacuum. These were not problems I had set out to address at those particular times. Inventiveness came to my uncluttered mind in a random, unfocused moment. Certainly not every idea that pops up during a quiet time is a winner. But a surprising number do set me on the path to fresh solutions. And I have found that a free flow of ideas builds its own momentum, leapfrogging me along to answer that work. The simple fact is that time spent lost in thought isn"t really lost at all. That"s why" unplugged time "is vital. It"s when new directions, different approaches and exciting solutions emerge from a place that can"t be tapped at will. It is unwise to take this resource for granted. Better to recognize it, understand something about where it resides and thereby ensure it is not lost. Clearly, this is far easier said than done. Technology is seductive. It chases us down, grabs hold and will not let us go. Nor do we want it to. The challenge is to keep it in its place and to remember that time spent unplugged brings unique rewards. This doesn"t mean I will abandon my new radio headset toy. But I will take the precaution of leaving it in my dresser drawer on a regular basis. Otherwise, unlike wise old Newton,I may see the fall but never grasp its meaning.（分数：12.00）(1).We may infer from the text that the writer______.（分数：2.00）A.did not like to follow the trendB.prefers to listen to soft musicC.works at a public relations firmD.was not a creative person(2).The writer uses the example of Isaac Newton to show that______.（分数：2.00）A.scientists should stay close to nature to grasp the meaning of natural lawB.a creative scientist can change the course of historyC.a good idea is something that strikes like a lightning boltD.innovative ideas usually originate in times when the mind ranges freely(3).One of the problems that come with technological development is that______.（分数：2.00）A.our minds are too occupied to have any creative ideasB.tools become too complicated to operateC.our memory becomes less sharpD.people have too many gadgets to carry(4).The underlined word" haunts" in Paragraph 4 probably refers to______ .（分数：2.00）A.placesB.peopleC.activitiesD.ghosts(5).In the last few paragraphs, the writer suggests that people should______.（分数：2.00）A.get rid of radio headsetsB.enjoy unplugged time regularlyC.face the challenge of technologyD.learn from Isaac Newton(6).The best title for this text probably is______.（分数：2.00）A.The Latest Trend in HeadsetsB.Impacts of Scientific DevelopmentC.We Are Too Busy for IdeasD.The Best of the Gadgets二、判断题(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Read the following passage carefully and then decide whether the statements which follow are true(T)or false(F). Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures Questions of race, ethnicity, and religion have been a perennial source of conflict in American education. The schools have often attracted the zealous attention of those who wish to influence the future, as well as those who wish to change the way we view the past. In our history, the schools have been not only an institution to teach young people skills and knowledge, but an arena where interest groups fight to preserve their values, or to revise the judgments of history, or to bring about fundamental social change. Given the diversity of American society, it has been impossible to insulate the schools from pressures that result from differences and tensions among groups. When people differ about basic values, sooner or later those disagreements turn up in battles about how schools are organized or what the schools should teach. Sometimes these battles remove a terrible injustice, like racial segregation. Sometimes, however, interest groups politicize the curriculum and attempt to impose their views on teachers, school officials, and textbook publishers. When groups cross the line into extremism, advancing their own agendas without regard to reason or to others, they threaten public education itself, making it difficult to teach any issues honestly and making the entire curriculum vulnerable to political campaigns. For many years, the public schools attempted to neutralize controversies over race, religion, and ethnicity by ignoring them. The textbooks minimized problems among groups and taught a sanitized version of history. Race, religion, and ethnicity were presented as minor elements in the American saga; slavery was treated as an episode, immigration as a sidebar, and women were largely absent. The textbooks concentrated on presidents, wars, national politics, and issues of state. An occasional "great black" or "great woman" received mention, but the main narrative paid little attention to minority groups and women. With the ethnic revival of the 1960s, this approach to the teaching of history came under fire, because the history of national leaders—virtually all of whom were white, Anglo-Saxon, and male — ignored the place in American history of those who were none of the above. The traditional history of elites had been complemented by an assimilationist view of American society, which presumed that everyone in the American melting pot would eventually lose or abandon those ethnic characteristics that distinguished each from mainstream Americans. The ethnic revival demonstrated that many groups did not want to be assimilated or melted. Ethnic studies programs popped up on campuses to teach not only that" black is beautiful" , but also that every other variety of ethnicity is " beautiful" as well; eveiyone who had "roots" began to look for them so that they, too, could recover that ancestral part of themselves that had not been homogenized. As ethnicity became an accepted subject for study in the late 1960s, textbooks were assailed for their failure to portray blacks accurately; within a few years, the textbooks in wide use were carefully screened to eliminate bias against minority groups and women. At the same time, new scholarship about the history of women, blacks, and various ethnic minorities found its way into the textbooks. Today"s history textbooks routinely incorporate the experiences of women, blacks,American Indians, and various immigrant groups. As a result of the political and social changes of recent decades, cultural pluralism is now generally recognized as an organizing principle of this society. In contrast to the idea of the melting pot, which promised to erase ethnic and group differences, children now learn that variety is the spice of life. They learn that America has provided a haven for many different groups and has allowed them to maintain their cultural heritage or to assimilate, or—as is often the case—to do both; the choice is theirs, not the state"s. They learn that cultural pluralism is one of the norms of a free society; that differences among groups are a national resource rather than a problem to be solved. Indeed, the unique feature of the United States is that its common culture has been formed by the interaction of its subsidiary cultures. It is a culture that has been influenced over time by immigrants, American Indians, Africans(slave and free)and by their descendants. American music, art, literature, language, food, clothing, sports, holidays, and customs all show the effects of the commingling of diverse cultures in one nation. Paradoxical though it may seem, the United States has a common culture that is multicultural.（分数：10.00）(1).For a long time in history, American schools have been an arena for different interest groups to fight to preserve their values.（分数：2.00）A.TRUEB.FALSE(2).Public schools are biased against minority groups and women, so textbooks chose to ignore the related issues.（分数：2.00）A.TRUEB.FALSE(3).Ethnic studies programs became popular in schools as a result of the ethnic revival in the 1960s.（分数：2.00）A.TRUEB.FALSE(4).Today"s history textbooks advocate the idea of melting pot by incorporating the experiences of women, blacks, American Indians and various immigrant groups.（分数：2.00）A.TRUEB.FALSE(5).It is generally acknowledged now that multiculturalism is a reality as well as a unique feature of American society.（分数：2.00）A.TRUEB.FALSE三、选词填空(总题数：1，分数：14.00)Please choose the best sentence from the list after the passage to fill in each of the gaps in the text. There are more sentences than gaps. The Myth of Asian Superiority Asian Americans have increasingly come to be viewed as a "model minority". But are they as successful as claimed? And for whom are they supposed to be a model? 1 Asian American shopkeepers have been congratulated, as well as criticized, for their ubiquity and entrepreneurial effectiveness. If Asian Americans can make it, many politicians and pundits ask, why can"t African Americans? 2The victims are blamed for their plight, rather than racism and an economy that has made many young African American workers superfluous. The celebration of Asian Americans has obscured reality. 3 Most Asian Americans live in California, Hawaii, and New York—states with higher incomes and higher costs of living than the national average. 4 While Japanese American men in California earned an average income comparable to Caucasian men in 1980, they did so only by acquiring more education and working more hours. 5Some Asian American groups do have higher family incomes than Caucasians. But they have more workers per family. The " model minority" image homogenizes Asian Americans and hides their differences. For example, while thousands of Vietnamese American young people attenduniversities, others are on the streets. They live in motels and hang out in pool halls in places like East Los Angeles; some join gangs. Hmong and Mien refugees from Laos have unemployment rates that reach as high as 80 percent. A recent California study showed that three out of ten Southeast Asian refugee families had been on welfare for four to ten years. Although college-education Asian Americans are entering the professions and earning good salaries, many hit the "glass ceiling"—the barrier through which high management positions can be seen but not reached. 6 Finally, the triumph of Korean immigrants has been exaggerated. In 1988 , Koreans in the New York metropolitan area earned only 68 percent of the median income of non-Asians. More thanthree-quarters of Korean greengrocers came to America with a college education. 7For many of them, the greengrocery represents dashed dreams, a step downward in status. Most Asian Americans know their "success"is largely a myth. They also see how the celebration of Asian Americans as a " model minority" perpetuates their inequality and exacerbates relations between them and African Americans. A. Even Japanese Americans, often touted for their upward mobility, have not reached equality. B. A survey showed that only 8 percent of Asian Americans were " officials" and " managers " , compared with 12 percent for all groups. C. Such comparisons pit minorities against each other and generate African American resentment toward Asian Americans. D. Engineers, teachers, or administrators while in Korea, they became shopkeepers after their arrival. E. Asian Americans have been described in the media as" excessively, even provocatively" successful in gaining admission to universities. F. For example, figures on the high earnings of Asian Americans relative to Caucasians are misleading. G. For all their hard work and long hours, most Korean shopkeepers do not actually earn very much. H. Comparing family incomes is even more deceptive.（分数：14.00）填空项1:__________________填空项1:__________________填空项1:__________________填空项1:__________________填空项1:__________________填空项1:__________________填空项1:__________________四、英译汉(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Please read the following passage and translate the underlined parts into Chinese.(40 points, 8 points each) How to Manage Time 【F1】The belief that time is a resource that must be monitored closely and managed carefully is one of the basic laws of our time-pressed world, as is the urge to do more and do it quicker. Is it any wonder our culture favors the young and energetic? Who else can accomplish the hundreds of tasks each of us must master in a typical day, as well as process the thousand bits of information rushing at us every hour? In my workshops at Omega and around the country on time-shifting—learning how to toggle between hyperproductivity and an awareness of the world around you—the first question I pose is" Do you feel that you have enough time in your daily lives?"Invariably, more than 90 percent declare an overwhelming sense of "time-poverty"—part of an epidemic of anxiety and pressure in our society. 【F2】 Ironically, in response, methods to improve our management of time have gained in popularity, along with new, speedier technology that helps us develop greater efficiency. Yet while these initially seem to help, they ultimately serve only to increase the speed of our lives. We learn to go faster and get more done—only to take on more work and responsibility. As a result, the future arrives that much quicker, and it begins to predominate. The "now" becomes a prelude to the "next". We do this so we can get to that. We work for the weekend, rush through lunch to get back to our desks, worry about next month"s deadline before this month is completed. We divide our attention and awareness between the task at hand that we"re rushing to complete and the next item on our day-planner. So, what is needed is to come into the present moment. Instead of rushing, take your time, let your rhythm slow down. You can rush late if you need to, but for now, simply perform the taskthat is in front of you, whether it"s washing the dishes or commuting to work. We spend our lives waiting for the important events to take place, rushing through these" in-between" moments. Yet the reality is that these in-betweens actually make up a significant portion of our lives. Allowing ourselves to be present in them and experience them fully is what makes us alive— and helps to keep us young. This involves developing a sense of mindfulness, a way of being that puts you fully in the moment without pressure or anxiety about staying on schedule. 【F3】It is a quality that each of us needs to learn how to cultivate more in our lives, awakening all of our senses and being comfortable in the present—to feel rooted, with no need to rush. Some will read this and wonder why they should slow down. Isn"t it okay to keep moving along with the progress of modern times? Isn"t it, in fact, necessary to do so? There really is no right or wrong answer;rather it is a question of how we feel about our lives. My experience has taught me that there is too much stress caused by the frantic pace at which most of us exist. The result is a disconnection from the world around us and our sense of being alive in it. 【F4】People report feeling trapped, powerless to effect any meaningful change, coping as best as they can yet knowing they don"t feel the way they would like to feel. The key is to step back from the edge, learn to get involved in the process rather than constantly longing for the end result. 【F5】This does not mean giving up our goal-oriented lives—simply modifying them, finding a balance between our productive and our emotional selves. This enables us to live as whole beings, fully alive. In response to the pace of our modern world, learning how to successfully shift time can be one of the keys to achieving both health and longevity as we continue to age.（分数：10.00）(1).【F1】（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).【F2】（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).【F3】（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (4).【F4】（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (5).【F5】（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 写作2.With the information given in the following graph, explain what is the greenhouse effect, what causes the greenhouse effect, and what we can do to reduce the greenhouse effect.(no less than150 words)methane: 2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
百佳英语2010-2011学年考外校(06)
百佳英语2010-2010学年度综合能力测试6 I.Vocabulary（A）1.The girl is t___________ but the boy is t___________.2.The bear is b___________ but the elephant is b___________3.The paper is l___________ and the pumpkin is h___________4.This sign s___________ " D___________!"5.You must stay away. It's very h___________ s___________ andvery c___________ in___________in Nanjing.6.This man is good a___________ PE so he's very s__________.(B)1.Sally ____________ (like) making model (plane)_____________.2.It ____________ (have) two legs.3.She has a pair of____________ (sunglass) in her bag.4.Let me____________ (show) you how (make)____________ it．5.Pick (they)____________ up for (I)____________ ．6.I think the juice is____________ (she)7.I ____________ (be)in the garden yesterday.8.Stop ____________ (read) and listen to (he)____________ ．9.She (not want) ____________ to be late.10My cousin Jack always (ask) ____________ a lot of ( question)____________ .(C)写出感官动词Hearing The rooster crow outside of my room early in the morning.___________1.After playing in the snow, our fingers and toes were freezing. ___________2.I could hear sirens (笛声) in the distance.___________3.I think this tree is taller than that one.___________4.The salad filled with fresh, juicy fruits was delicious.___________5.The odor of the bread baking in the oven was wonderful.II.Brain work(A)1.What is the magnitude (震级) of the Wenchuan earthquake?A. 7.6B. 7.8C. 8.0D. 8.22.Who was chosen as the Secretary-General (秘书长) of the UN in 2007?A. Lin Yifu.B. Dr Margaret Chan.C. Kofi Annan.D. Ban Ki-moon.3.When was the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge completed (建成)?A. In 1968.B. In 1963.C. In 1958.D. In 1953.4.Who is the present premier (息理) in Russia?A. Putin.B. Medvedev.C. Jefferson.D. Lincoln5.Who was the chief commander (总指挥) of the Wenchuan earthquake reliefA. Wen Jiabao.B. Hu Jintao.C. Li Keqiang.D. Hui Liangyu.6.Beijing University has been established(成立) for ______ till May 4thA. 100 yearsB. 110 yearsC. 120 yearsD. 130 years7. Who won the first gold (金牌) medal for China at the 29th Olympics Games?A. Chen Xiexia.B. Chen Yanqing.C. Chen Ruolin.D. Zhang Yining.8.Who lighted the Olympic flame (圣火) in the opening ceremony of the 29th Olympic Games?A.Li NingB. Xu Haifeng.C. Liu Xiang.D. Yao Ming.(B)1.Two fathers and two sons went hunting. They shot three rabbits. Yet each took home one rabbit. How was that possible?2.You're the pilot (飞行员) of an airplane that flies from New York to Chicago a distance of 740 miles. The plane goes 200 miles an hour. It makes one stop for 30 minutes. What's the pilot's name?3. How can a girl have been eleven on her last birthday, and be thirteennext birthday?4. How can a hat talk?5.Mr. and Mrs. Smith have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are there in the family?6. Two planes leave Chicago and New York at the same time. Assume a 1000 -mile distance. The east bound plane travels 240 miles per hour but due to headwinds the west bound plane can only make 80 miles per hour. When they meet, which is nearer to Chicago?7.Why is the library the highest building?8. As I was walking my dog to the market, I met an elderly couple going in the opposite (相反的) direction with their 3 sons and 3 daughters. Each son had 2 dogs of his own and each dog had 3 fleas(跳蚤). Each daughter had 2 cats and each cat had 2 fleas.total. How many persons, animals and insects were going to the market?mon sense1.When your clothes are on fire, the best way to put the fire out is toA. run at onceB. wallow (打滚) on the groundC. pat the fire with your hands, and take off your clothes as fast as you canD. ask for help2.The telephone number of the fire alarm in China's mainland is _A. 999B. 119C. 911D. 1103.When you are using a computer, the ring finger of the left hand is used to tapA. E, D, CB. U, J, MC. W, S, XD. Q, A, Z4.Two keys that can help you transfer (转换) between different IMEs(输入法) areA. Ctrl + FlB. Shift + SpaceC. Ctrl + ShiftD. Ctrl + Esc5.Before doing physical exercise, we should _____________A. have plenty of foodB. make warm-up preparationsC. drink enough waterD. All the aboveIII.Grammar(A)1.He is ____________ honest boy, so we all like him.A. aB. anC. the2.The ____________ man on the left is Beckham, a famous football player.A. twoB. secondC. three3.The 30th Olympic Games____________in London in 2012.A. was heldB. will holdC. will be held4.I didn't finish my homework, ____________ my teacher was angry with me.A. soB.不填C. or5. -What did you do on May Day?-I went shopping with my family. There ___________ so many people in street.A. was 'B. areC. Were6. Look at the man over there. ___________he is!A. How tallB. How highC. What a tall7. -Is this your dictionary?-No, ___________ is in my bag.A. hersB. mineC. yours8. -Excuse me, do you know ___________?- I'm sorry. I am new here.A. where is the nearest bus stationB. where the nearest bus station isC. where the nearest bus station was9. -___________ will you stay in America?-For about two months.A. How manyB. How oftenC. How long10 -Have you ever seen Tom and Jerry?-Sure. It is one of___________ cartoons I have ever seen.A. wonderfulB. the most wonderfulC. more wonderful11. -Hi, John. Shall we go to Australia for the long holiday?-Sorry. I ___________ there twice.A. have goneB. wasC. have been12. -Shall we invite Tom to play football now?-Oh, no. He ______ his clothes.A. is washingB. washesC. has washed13. I'm very hungry. Would you give me some ___________ ?A.waterB.juiceC. cake14, Look out! The cup is ___________hot water.A. full ofB. fill withC. full15. My father goes to work ___________his car.A. byB. inC. on(B)1.It's too cold to go for a walk.It isn't__________ __________to go for a walk.2.. Judy is really good at swimming.Judy____________really well.3.The cafe has better food than any other cafe in the area.That cafe has_______ ____________food m the area.4.The dark makes me afraid.I'm__________ ____________the darkness.5.Can I help you?________can I __________for you?IV.Dialogue1.--________________--In winter.A. Where can we go ice skating?B. When can we go ice skating?C. Howcan we go ice skating?2.--What was her hair like yesterday'r--________A. She is messy.B. She was messy.C. It was messy.3. --What's the matter?--________________A. I've lost my key.B. It's a book.C. It's difficult.4.--________________-Tom's brother.A. Who cleaned the blackboard?B.What're they doing?C. Whose book is this?5.-Because we all got full marks in the math test.A. Why are you excited?B. Why are you upset?C. Why are you angry?1.--________________-She is a nurse.A. What is your mother?B. Is your mother a nurse?C. What's herjob? D. What is she?2. -Where are you from?--________________A. I am from London.B. You are Chinese.C. I come from Beijing.D. Sorry, I don't know.3. -Thanks for helping me.--________________A. You are welcome.B. Not at all.C. That is all right.D. Don't say thanks.4. -May I have an apple?--________________A. OK. Here you are.B. No? Thanks.C. Never mind.D. Sure.5.-How is your mother?--________________A. Not bad, thanks.B. She's very xvell, thank you.C. How is your mother?D. He's OK.VI.Maths1 Sue is both the 50th.best and 50th worst student in studies at her school. How many students are there at her school?2. Two girls caught 25 frogs. Lisa caught four times as many as Jenny did. How many frogs did Jenny catch?3.Look at the pictures. How many pictures can you draw at one stroke only?4.The difference（差）of two continuous odd number（连续奇数）divided by（被……除）the sum（和）of them is 6.What is the sum of them?ing l-6 to make tw0 3-digit numbers (三位数 ), what is the smallest difference between them? .6.If 5x(2+△x△)-2=2008, what is△?7. If A minus (Bx3) is 51: A Dlus (Bx2) is 111. So what is A? What is B?8. If an astronaut has a weight of 72 kg on the earth, he has a weight of 12 kg on the moon. If another astronaut has a weight of 10.5 kg on the moon, what is the astronaut's weight on the earth?9.There are two different squares, A and B. Make one side of A as the short side, one side of B as the long side to make up a rectangle. If the area (面积) of this rectangle is1.5 times as large as A. What's the area ratio (比率) of B against A?10. There were two kinds of balls in a bag, red and white. Their total number was 480. .After 30% of the red balls and 40% of the white balls were taken out, 308 balls were left in the bag. How many red balls were there in the bagformerly (原先)? What about the white balls?11. There are 19 red balls, 20 yellow balls, 15 green balls and 24 blue balls ina bag. How many balls must be taken out at least to make sure each color is picked?VII.ClozePeter is a bank clerk (职员 ). He counts a lot of _ 1 every day, 2 it's not his (他的). His sister, Gina, is a 3 . She helps doctors and patients (病人). Some people call her "Angel in White (白衣天使)". Peter's 4 is a police officer.5 are afraid of him. Peter's aunt is a teacher. She _6 __ in a middle school. She likes her _7 . She thinks it's an8 job.1. A. money B. moneys C.lrionies D. people2, A. and B. or C. so D. but3. A. doctor B. patient C. nurse D. teacher4. A. uncle B. aunt C. sister D. mother5. A. Thief B.A thief C. Thiefs D. Thieves6. A. studies B . reads C. learns D. works7. A. tea B . students C. parents D. home town8, A. dangerous B. interesting C. boring D. difficultVIII.Reading(A)Dick was a waiter m a small restaurant. One day a man came in and sat down at oneof the tables. Dick greeted him and wanted to find out xvhat he wanted to eat. The man said he would like some chicken with potatoes and other vegetables."Roast chicken," he added as Dick was leaving."OK, sir." Dick answered and disappeared into the kitchen.But the man called him back, saying, "Just a moment, waiter. Please try to have itcooked just right not too little and not too much. and with a lirtle fat as possible.""Yes, sir," answered Dick. "I'll tell the cook."Once more he began to go towards the kitchen, but again the man stopped him withthe words, "Oh, and I forgot to explain that I7m fond of the leg." "Well, sir," answered Dick, "do you prefer the left leg, or the right?"( )1. Why did Dick ask the man what he wanted to eat?A. Because the man said he would like some chicken.B. Because Dick was a waiter.Way to protect against (防止) the spread of illness 1.________________C. Because he was hungry.D. Because he enjoyed doing so. ( )2. Did the man like chicken when it was rather raw (生的)?A. Yes, he did.B. No, he didn't.C. Yes, he often ate some with potatoes.D. He liked it a little.( )3. Did the man like fat or thin chicken?A. He liked thin chicken.B. He liked neither fat nor thin chicken.C. He liked fat chicken very much.D. He liked a little fat chicken.( )4.How many times did the man call Dick back?A.3B.4C. 5D.2( )5.What part of the chicken did the man like?A. Legs.B. Right leg.C. Head.D. Neck.(B)According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (疾病预防中病心), if you don't often wash your hands, you can pick up viruses ( 病毒 ) from many places and make yourself ill. You're at risk every time you touch your eyes, nose ormouth. In fact, one of the most common ways people catch colds is by rubbing their noses or their eyes when there are cold viruses on their hands. If you don'tt often wash your hands, especially when you're sick, you may spread the viruses directly to others.You should wash your hands in the following situations:a. After using the bathroom (卫生间 ).b. After blowing your nose or coughing.c. Before eating, serving or preparing food.d. After touching pets or other animals.e. After visiting anyone who is sick.f. When your hands are dirty.g. There's right way to wash your hands. Follow these simple steps to keep your hands clean.* Use warm water (not cold or hot).*Wash for 15 seconds.*Rinse (冲洗) well under warm running water and dry them with a clean towel.Information CardCorrect way to wash your hands Use running water which isSome situations in which you must wash your hands After using the Before havingAfter visiting people．Time needed to wash your hands15 seconds．。
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理科综合测试生物模拟测试题外语学校1．下图表示某儿童先后两次接种脊髓灰质炎病毒疫苗血清中相应抗体浓度变化情况，下列叙述正确的是（ ）A ．B 点对应时刻是第一次接种时问，第二次接 种时问在D 点之后B ．BC 段相应的效应B 细胞中内质网膜不断转化 成高尔基体膜C ．CD 段体内开始产生相应的记忆细胞 D ．DE 段浓度上升的原因是记忆细胞数目的增多2. 下列对各图所示生物学意义的描述中，不正确的是（ ） A ．甲图中a 点不抗药个体比抗药个体多，c 点害虫抗药基因的基因频率最高B ．乙图中若在f 点施加一强刺激，则在图中的c 、d 、e 、g 点可测到膜内外电位变化C ．丙图中表示植物净光合作用的最适温度是20℃D ．由丁图可看出，b 点时种群增长率最大，种内斗争也最激烈3．下列因果关系的搭配，正确的是（ ）A ．①③⑤B ．②④⑥C ．③④⑤D ．⑤⑥4.右图是某二倍体雄性动物细胞分裂模式图。
据图判断下列说法正确的是（ ） ①该细胞的子细胞名称是精细胞或第二极体②1与2，3与4为同源染色体③该动物体细胞的细胞核中DNA数目最多为8个④若3和 4为常染色体，则1和 2是Y染色体⑤该动物体细胞中染色体组数目最多时有四组⑥若1上有一个A基因，则在2的相同位置可能是A基因或a基因A.只有二种说法正确B.只有三种说法正确C.只有四种说法正确D.都正确5．在某种鼠中，黄鼠基因R对灰鼠基因r是显性，短尾基因T对长尾基因t是显性，而且黄鼠基因R或短尾基因T在纯合时能使胚胎致死。
这两对等位基因是独立遗传的。
两只双杂的黄色短尾鼠交配，则子代表现型之比为（）A．9：3：3：1 B．3：1：3：1 C．4：2：2：1 D．1：1：1：131．生物兴趣小组设计了如图所示的实验装置进行相关实验，研究下列有关问题。
I．如果用上述实验装置来探究酵母菌的呼吸类型，A、B两瓶中分别放等量的酵母菌及15％的葡萄糖培养液。
请预测与结论相符合的实验现象并分析(2)的原因：(1)如果实验现象是A装置中液滴，B装置中液滴，说明酵母菌只进行有氧呼吸。
广外2010年英语水平考试试题
广外2010年英语水平考试试题广东外语外贸大学2010年全国硕士研究生入学考试专业课试题册专业：考试科目：英语水平考试考生须知1．本试卷共24 页。
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3．答题时一律使用蓝、黑色墨水笔或圆珠笔作答，用其它笔答题不给分。
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广东外语外贸大学2010年研究生入学考试英语水平考试试题I. Cloze (30 points, 1 point for each)Read the following passage and choose a proper word from the Word List to fill in each of the blanks in the passage. Each word can be used only once. Write the word you choose for each blank on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way: ExampleI. Cloze1. paper2. continuously3. …Now, do the Cloze.WORD LISTbasically lack being gaining one breadth against vision while upon respond likely requirements better acknowledge also instead of formation who consistentof unresolved acquired as well as oneself cornerstone completely at times nonjudgmental towardScientists have found that the personalities of teachers have a powerful effect on how they relate to children and adults and how they behave in the classroom. In general, personalities grow out of complex interaction of temperament and past experiences. Early experiences are very important in the 1 of the ways that people feel about themselves and others and their ways of responding tosituations. The ability to 2 in positive and healthy ways appears to be related to a person learning to trust others in their early years and to see the world as a 3 good and nurturing place.Adults who have had their basic needs met in childhood and 4 have developed trust in themselves and in the world are 5 to have the ability to support the growth and development of others. People who 6 this basic trust may not have had their needs met in 7 ways in their early lives, and this may lead to 8 problems and the need for a great deal of support and reassurance in adulthood. They may have a difficult time 9 nurturing and supportive 10 others.Sensitivity to others and a positive sense of self are essential 11 for becoming a person, especially a teacher, who can support the development of children. Skills in 12 trust and developing relationships are 13 as you come to know yourself 14 , accept yourself, and then learn more about children and how to work successfully with them.In order to become an authentic person, 15 who possesses awareness and empathy and who is willing to relate to others in nurturing ways, it is necessary to know and accept yourself, 16 to realistically appraise areas in which change may be needed, and to see yourself in a lifelong process of growth and change. It is important to be open to new experiences, to 17 and deal withfeelings, and to experience relationships in ever-increasing depth and18 . This self-knowledge is, to a great extent, dependent on developing the ability to observe 19 in the same honest and 20 way that one learns to observe children. It also involves learning to accept criticism from others as valuable feedback that can provide a source of growth, instead of as something to defend 21 or to use to berate or belittle oneself. The capacity for self-knowledge and acceptance is the 22 for the quality of compassion that is so important in a teacher.We realize that no one of us is 23 self-aware, mature, wise, compassionate, and insightful all of the time. All of us have tendencies to be defensive. It is important to develop the capacity for self-awareness and some 24 of the kind of behavior and relationships 25 which we aspire. It is 26 important to understand that 27 everyone experiences strong and unpleasant emotions like anger and fear 28 , it is possible to learn to observe and choose how to respond to these feelings 29 acting 30 them in ways that may be destructive.II. Proofreading and Error Correction (30 points, 2 points for each)The following passage contains fifteen errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. Correct the errors and write the answers on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way:For a wrong word, write the correct word on Your Answer Sheet.For a missing word, write the missin g word with a “∧” sign before it on Your Answer Sheet.For an unnecessary word, write the unnecessary word with adeleting line on it on Your AnswerSheet.ExampleWhen ∧art museum wants a new exhibit, it 31. _____ never buys things in finished form and hangs 32. _____ them on the wall. When a natural history museumwants an exhibition, it must often build it. 33. _____Write on your Answer Sheet:II. Proofreading and Error Correction31. ∧an 32. never 33. ExhibitNow, do the Proofreading and Error Correction.As with nations, governance matters profoundly the success of individual commercial enterprises. An examination of businesses that have sustained success over long periods reveal boards that have governed the affairs of the business effectively. Likewise, with businesses that have performed poor, it is rather commonplace to track the problems to boards that have not been addressed the issues confronting their businesses effectively. The popular press reveals examples of the latter with regular, whereas the business press less frequently highlights boards with (31) _______(32) _______(33) _______(34) _______(35)________strong performance.The management of a corporation is usuallyaccomplished under leadership of a chief executive officer (CEO), who reports the board of directors. While boards play a variety of roles, effective organizations acknowledge the board?srole in selecting the CEO, advising and consenting to the selection of businesses and strategies, overseeing results.An important distinct between publicly owned businesses and privately owned businesses is that privately owned businesses tend to owner-managed. Because of the owners of private businesses are directly involved in their enterprises, they are better informed about the affairs of the business and can reasonably represent their own interests. They have not delegated control on a representative board of directors. Thus the potential conflicts of interest that exist between investors and who have been hired to run the business are not as relevant. Even, many of the governance principles that apply to publicly owned businesses are also applicable to privately owned businesses. (36) ______ _(37) _____(38) _____(39) _____(40) _____(41) _____(42) _____(43) _____(44) _____(45) _____III. Gap-filling (30points, 2 points for each)Fill in the following banks with the correct words and the correctforms of the words given according the meanings of the sentences. Write the answers on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way: Example46. prolong, refuse, delay, postpone, lengthenI hope the __________ of the appointment will not cause you muchinconvenience.Write on your Answer Sheet:III. Gap-filling46. postponement 47. … 48. …Now, do the Gap-filling.46. abase, abate, abduct, abhorSuch a savage punishment is to a civilized society.47. benediction, beneficiary, benevolent, blessingA man is if his fame does not outshine his truth.48. communicate, commute, compare, compensateTired of wasting time , Mrs. Jones changes her job to be closer to her kids so that she can spend more time with them.49. distinguish, distinction, distort, distractThe animal is quite by the black stripes above its eyes.50. eligible, elliptical, eloquent, elusiveThis metaphor always the students; they feel it quite incomprehensible.51. fall, falsify, familiarize, fantasizeHe has a scheme that he could make a million dollars betting on horse races even though he is now penniless.52. withdraw, wither, withhold, withstandThe party is calling for the phased of troops from the island.53. vaccinate, validate, vanish, vanquishResearchers are trying to develop a against the disease H1N1.54. tumour, tumult, tuna, tunnelThe Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution that followed caused a transformation in Europe.55. snap, sneak, sneeze, sniggerWe are honest people and we will do anything above board and will never act .56. reveal, revere, reverie, reverseDon?t panic！The decline in this industry is completely and it won?t be as pathetic as now.57. permeate, perpetrate, perpetuate, persevereA contented mind is a feast.58. opponent, opposition, orderly, orthodoxThis writer is courageous enough to challenge many of the established .59.monopoly, monotone, monster, monumentLeonardo da Vinci spent years on his painting, which covered the whole roof of the church..60. loss, louse, lubricant, lullabyCredit is vital in trade. As a matter of fact, the availability of credit__________ the channels of trade.IV. Reading Comprehension （60 points, 2 points for each）In this section, there are six reading passages followed by a total of thirty multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then write your answers on YOUR ANSWER SHEET. ExampleWrite on your Answer Sheet:IV. Reading Comprehension61. A 62. B 63. …Now, do the Reading Comprehension.Text AThe American Cancer Society, which has long been a staunch defender of most cancer screening, is now saying that the benefits of detecting many cancers, especially breast and prostate, have been overstated. It is quietly working on amessage, to put on its Web site early next year, to emphasize that screening for breast and prostate cancers and certain other cancers can come with a real risk of overtreating many small cancers while missing cancers that are deadly.The cancer society?s decision to reconsider its message about the risks as well as potential benefits of screening was spurred in part by an analysis published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the cancer society, said.In it, researchers report a 40 percent increase in breast cancer diagnoses and a near doubling of early stage cancers, but just a 10 percent decline in cancers that have spread beyond the breast to the lymph nodes or elsewhere in the body. With prostate cancer, the situation is similar, the researchers report.If breast and prostate cancer screening really fulfilled their promise, the researchers note, cancers that once were found late, when they were often incurable, would now be found early, when they could be cured. A large increase in early cancers would be balanced by a corresponding decline in late-stage cancers. That is what happened with screening for colon and cervical cancers. But not with breast and prostate cancers.Still, the researchers and others say, they do not think all screening will —or should —go away. Instead, they say that when people make a decision about being screened, they should understand what is known about the risks and benefits. For now, those risks are not emphasized in the cancer society?s mammogram message which states that a mammogram is “one of the best things a woman can do to protect her health.”The new analysis finds that prostate cancer screening and breast cancer screening are not so different. Both have a problemthat runs counter to everything people have been told about cancer: They are finding cancers that do not need to be found because they would never spread and kill or even be noticed if left alone. That has led to a huge increase in cancer diagnoses because, without screening, those innocuous cancers would go undetected.At the same time, both screening tests are not making much of a dent in the number of cancers that are deadly. That may be because many lethal breast cancers grow so fast they spring up between mammograms. And the deadly prostate ones have already spread at the time of cancer screening. The dilemma for breast and prostate screening is that it is not usually clear which tumors need aggressive treatment and which can be left alone.“The issue here is, as we look at cancer medicine over the last 35 or 40 years, we have always worked to treat cancer or to find cancer early,” Dr. Brawley said. “And we never sat back and actu ally thought, …Are we treating the cancers that need to be treated??”61. The first two paragraphs of the passage show the AmericanCancer Society ________.A. in shift concerning cancer screeningB. in strong opposition to cancer screeningC. focusing on the benefits of cancer screeningD. overtreating the risks that come with cancer screening62. The author turns to the statistics and follow-up reasoning, thepurpose of which is to tell the reader ________.A. how much American cancer medicine has done to prevent breastand prostate cancer deathsB. how hard it is for American cancer medicine to do to preventbreast and prostate cancer deathsC. cancer screening has failed to reduce late-stage breast and prostatecancers as has been promisedD. cancer screening has failed even to find early-stage breast andprostate cancers as has been promised63. As suggested in Paragraphs 6 and 7, the difference betweenbenign and deadly tumors lies in the fact that ________.A. benign tumors have not been noticedB. deadly tumors have been left alone in the early stageC. deadly tumors, when screened, are already in the late stageD. benign tumors, when they are found, are already in the late stage64. When hearing Dr. Brawley saying “The issue here is…And wenever s at back and actually thought, …Are we…?”, one may be left with an impression that American cancer medicine begins to ________.A. see that 40 years is not enough to find and treat cancers earlyB. doubt if it is the right thing to do to find and treat all cancersC. protest doctors have not felt relaxed when fighting cancersD. realize doctors have been asked to offer fruitless labor65. When finishing reading the passage, one may conclude that in thepast decades American cancer medicine has been ________.A. working so hard that the breast and prostate cancer rates havedropped to some extent after allB. using cancer screening to protect the health of people, especiallyof the victims to breast and prostate cancersC. trying to cure people of late-stage cancers, especially late-stagebreast and prostate cancers, although their efforts don?t pay much D. labeling and treating benign tumors as though they could be lethalwhen in fact they are not dangerous, but a change is in sight nowText BThe Obama administration and the Federal Reserve launched a two-pronged campaign to crack down on pay practices across the financial system Thursday, marking an unprecedented foray into the private sector by the federal government on a matter that traditionally has been left to veiled board room discussions.President Obama's pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, announced drastic cuts in pay for 175 top executives at seven companies that received hundreds of billions of dollars worth of federal bailout money during the financial crisis. At a news conference at the Treasury Department, Feinberg said he hoped the new pay structures -- which tie compensation at the firms to their long-term performance and reduces the cash salary some executivesreceive by 90 percent -- would serve as a model for Wall Street and corporate America.Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve issued new guidelines that will restrict pay practices at all banks to prevent them from paying employees in ways that could endanger the firms' long-term financial health. Unlike Feinberg's plan, the Fed's guidance would cover all banks, even those that never received a bailout as well as U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies. "Compensation practices at some banking organizations have led to misaligned incentives and excessive risk-taking, contributing to bank losses and financial instability," Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said. "The Federal Reserve is working to ensure that compensation packages appropriately tie rewards to long-term performance."The two moves represent Washington's most dramatic push to reform executive compensation on Wall Street. The issue has long been controversial, but blew up into a firestorm in March when it was revealed American International Group, the recipient of a $180 billion bailout package, was paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to a trading division that nearly brought the company and the financial system to its knees.Unlike Feinberg's plan, however, the guidelines do not cap the amount of compensation that banks can give their employees, nor do they prohibit any particular pay practices. Rather, the effort requires that banks ensure that their pay practices do not encourage executives,traders, or other employees to take irresponsible risks, such as by offering huge bonuses for making bets without regard to the risks that such bets could lose money in the long term. "Incentive compensation practices in the financial industry were one of many factors contributing to the financial crisis," theproposed guidance said. "Banking organizations too often rewarded employees for increasing the firm's revenue or short-term profit without adequate recognition of the risks the employees' activities posed to the firm."The Fed, at this stage, did not propose one-size-fits-all guidelines for compensation, such as requiring that some fixed percentage of bonus pay to senior executives be deferred or come in the form of stock, rather than cash. Rather, the guidelines call for pay packages that balance risks and rewards, that judge performance over longer time horizons and that de-emphasize short-term performance.The pay issue has been particularly thorny for the Obama administration. Feinberg said he had to find a way to protect taxpayer interests and get the money paid back while not stripping the companies' ability to retain talented workers.Feinberg said his review of pay at the firms showed the amount of guaranteed cash paid to the top 25 employees was way too high, so he shifted significant amounts to stock that can only be sold in one-third installments beginning in 2011.66. In the campaign to crack down on pay practices across thefinancial system, one thing both the Administration and the Fed did, among others, was that they ________.A. announced cuts in executive payB. restricted pay practices at all banksC. reduced the cash salary executives receivedD. required the firms tie compensation to the long-term performance67. The causes behind the two-pronged campaign were perhaps many,but the immediate one was that ________.A. part of the bailout money went as bonuses to an AIG unit whoseperformance nearly brought the company to financial ruinB. incentive compensation practices in the financial industry becameone of many factors contributing to the financial crisisC. some companies were found paying employees in ways that couldendanger the firms' long-term financial healthD. compensation practices at some banking organizations led tomisaligned incentives and other things68. The Obama administration and the Federal Reserve took theirmoves separately. The following were some of the moves taken except ________.A. reducing the pay for 175 top executives at seven companiesB. asking for pay packages that could balance risks and rewardsC. suggesting the companies serve as a model for Wall Street andcorporate AmericaD. setting no limit to the amount of compensation banks could givetheir employees69. The moves the Obama administration took boiled down to________.A. cutting down on the pay for executives at companies receivingfederal bailouts and turning a lot of their cash salary into stock B. discouraging executives, traders, or other employees from takingrisks, such as by offering huge bonuses for making betsC. judging the business performance over longer time horizons andde-emphasizing short-term performance at the firmsD. asking the seven companies to submit detailed plans for how theywould plan to comply with the guidance70. The Fed?s effort was separate from the Obama administration todramatically reduce compensation for top executives at the companies that had received government bailouts. Compared with the administration?s actions, ________.A. it was a more hands-on thingB. it had a broader scopeC. it was a more stringent policyD. it showed a truer sceneText CThe nation's preeminent seniors group, the American Association of Retired Persons, has put the weight of its 40 million members behind health-care reform, saying many of the proposals will lower costs and increase the quality of care for older Americans.But not advertised in this lobbying campaign have been the group's substantial earnings from insurance royalties and the potential benefits that could come its way from many of thereform proposals.The group and its subsidiaries collected more than $650 million in royalties and other fees last year from the sale of insurance policies, credit cards and other products that carry the AARP name, accounting for the majority of its $1.14 billion in revenue, according to federal tax records. It does not directly sell insurance policies but lends its name to plans in exchange for a tax-exempt cut of the premiums.The organization also heavily markets the policies on its Web site, in mailings to its members and through ubiquitous advertising targeted at seniors.GOP lawmakers point to AARP's thriving business in marketing branded Medigap policies, which provide supplemental coverage for standard Medicare plans available to the elderly. Democratic proposals to slash reimbursements for another program, called Medicare Advantage, are widely expected to drive up demand for private Medigap policies like the ones offered by AARP, according to health-care experts, legislative aides and documents."We are witnessing a disturbing trend of handouts to special interests like AARP," said House Republican spokesman Matt Lloyd, referring to Democratic negotiations over health reform. "In return, AARP is lobbying for a government-run health-care bill that will pad their own executives' pockets at the expense of its own members and other vulnerable seniors."AARP officials strongly dispute such allegations, arguing that the group's heavy reliance on brand royalties allows it to offer members a wide range of benefits -- from lobbying for seniors in Washington to discount travel packages and financial advice.Dean A. Zerbe, a former Grassley senior counsel who is nownational managing director at the corporate tax firm Alliant Group, argues that AARP's involvement in the sale of insurance plans "really hurts their credibility." "Either you're a voice for the elderly or you're an insurance company; choose one," Zerbe said.Republicans renewed their attacks on AARP this year after the group emerged as a vigorous defender of many of the reforms under consideration by the Democrat-controlled Congress. Nancy LeaMond, an AARP executive vice president, appeared at a press conference Friday alongside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to announce a new proposal for plugging gaps in coverage of Medicare prescription benefits.71. AARP has made its money primarily through ________.A. marketing its royalties on its Web siteB. granting use of its name to insurance plansC. selling policies, credit cards and other productsD. asking the ubiquitous advertisers to sell their policies72. GOP lawmakers lash out at the organization?s practices, showingthat AARP?s thriving business will have something to do with ________.A. democrats meaning to have it sell private Medigap policiesB. its marketing its branded Medigap policies alongside MedicareC. its supplanting standard Medicare with branded Medigap policiesD. democrats proposing to cut the payments for Medicare Advantage73. House Republican spokesman says “We are witnessing adisturbing trend of handouts to special interests like AARP”, inwhich “interests” may help describe AARP as _________.A. having certain rights for the handoutsB. showing interest in various insurance plansC. enjoying interest that accrues by holding the handoutsD. being a group of people working in the same business74. Republicans renew their attacks on the organization this yearbecause AARP ________.A. has turned into a division of the Democratic PartyB. cheers the passing in Congress of a democrat-drafted billC. lends its strong support to the reforms launched by democratsD. has one of its top executives appearing alongside Nancy Pelosi75. When finishing reading the passage, one may draw the conclusionthat the American Association of Retired Persons is anorganization ________.A. having monopoly on insurance businessB. owned by retired persons and their executivesC. working as a reform advocate and insurance salesmanD. looked on as handling its business in lobbyist activitiesText DWhen we say a person or an experience is “packaged,”we are complaining of a sense of excessive calculation and a lack of authenticity. Such a fear of unreality is at least a century old; it arose along with industrialization and rapid communication. Now that the world is more competitive, and we all believe we haveless time to consider things, the craft of being instantaneously appealing has taken on more and more importance. We might say, cynically, that the person who appears “packaged” simply doesn?t have good packaging.Still, the sense of uneasiness about encountering packaged people in a packaged world is real, and it shouldn?t be dismissed. Indeed, it is a theme of contemporary life, equally evident in politics, entertainment, and the supermarket. Moreover, public uneasiness about the phenomenon of packaging is compounded by confusion over a loss of iconic packages and personalities.Producers of packaged products have probably never been as nervous as they became during the first half of the 1990s. Many of the world?s most famous brands were involved in the merger mania of the 1980s, which produced debt-ridden companies that couldn?t afford to wait for results either from their managers or their marketing strategies. At the same time, the feeling was that it was fartoo risky to produce something really new. The characteristic response was the line extension—“dry”beer, “lite”mayonnaise, “ultra” detergent. New packages have been appearing at a rapid pace, only to be changed whenever a manager gets nervous or a retailer loses patience.The same skittishness is evident in the projection of public personalities as the clear, if synthetic, images of a few decades ago have lost their sharpness and broken into a spectrum of weaker, reflected apparitions. Marilyn Monroe, for example, had an image that was, Jayne Mansfield notwithstanding, unique and well defined. She was luscious as a Hershey?s bar, shapely as a Coke bottle. But in a world where Coke can be sugar free, caffeine free, and cherry flavored, just one image isn?t enough for asuperstar. Madonna is available as Marilyn or as a brunette, a Catholic schoolgirl, or a bondage devotee. Who knows what brand extension will come next?76. In Paragraph 1 is “the craft of being instantaneouslyappealing…importance”, by which the author means to tell the reader that people lay increasingly great emphasis on the art of__________.A. making the packaging look so good as to pertain to a particularpoint of timeB. adding to the charm of the packaging in no timeC. polishing the packaging quickly to hold much attractionD. showing the beauty of the packaging at the earliest opportunity77. In Paragraph 2 is “Indeed, it is a theme of contemporary life,equally evident in politics, entertainment, and the supermarket.”The sentence tells the reader that__________.A. writers become uneasy about the unreal and in their workscovering life in politics, entertainment, and the supermarket that they turn their uneasiness into a theme running through them all B. musicians become uneasy about the unreal and in their workscovering life in politics, entertainment, and the supermarket that they turn their uneasiness into a theme running through them all C. uneasiness looms so that people making a living, say, in politics,entertainment, and the supermarket can?t but talk about itD. uneasiness looms so that people making a living, say, in。
武汉外校历年资格考英语真题语法部分辅导(2007-2010)
外校历年资格考英语真题语法部分辅导（2007-2010）2010年外校资格考英语真题（语法部分辅导）第二部分单项选择（15分）21. ---Have you sent the manager’s letter?---No, not yet. I must have it _____first.A. signB. be signedC. signedD. to sign22. ---Is your CD player anything like your siste r’s?---Yes, they’re exactly_____.A. alikeB. likeC. likelyD. same23. The spring festival is _____special holiday when ___whole family are supposed to get together.A. the; theB. a; aC. the; aD. a; the24. Mary is very late for work, she _____.A. may miss her trainB. must miss her trainC. may have missed her trainD. could miss her train25. The price of the houses in the city center is much higher than ____of those in the surburbs.A. itB. allC. oneD. that26. ______the meeting himself gave them a great deal of encouragement.A. The mayor will attendB. The mayor to attendC. The mayor attendingD. The mayor’s attending27. I wish it to be understood____what he did has nothing to do with me.A. ifB. whichC. whenD. that28. When you’ve finished reading the book, don’t forget to put it back on my desk,_____?A. do youB. will youC. don’t youD. haven’t you29. Thieves broke ____the shop ____night twice ____one month.A. into; in; forB. at; in; inC. in; at; atD. into; at; in30. ---Why couldn’t they catch the 6:30 train?----Because they were delayed by _____.A. some heavy trafficsB. any heavy trafficsC. heavy trafficD. a heavy traffic31. After driving for twenty miles, he suudenly realized that he ____in the wrong direction.A. has been drivingB. was drivingC. had been drivingD. drove32. The bookstore will be open only in the morning until ____notice.A. furtherB. fartherC. moreD. latest33. They’ve raised 2 billion yuan for people of Yushu, ___I think unbelievable.A. thatB. whatC. whichD. this34. There are ____chairs in the living room.A. dark three very comfortable blueB. three blue very comfortable darkC. three very comfortable dark blueD. very comfortable three dark blue35. Against the wall on the opposite side ____.A. there stand two cupboardsB. two cupboards stand thereC. there two cupboards standD. stand two cupboards2010年外校资格考英语真题（语法部分辅导解释）第二部分单项选择（15分）21. ---Have you sent the manager’s letter?---No, not yet. I must have it _____first.A. signB. be signedC. signedD. to sign答案： C have sth. done 请人做如： have my hair cut ; have my picture taken; have the tree cut down 等22. ---Is your CD player anything like your sister’s?---Yes, they’re exactly_____.A. alikeB. likeC. likelyD. same答案： A be alike =look alike 彼此相似如： You and your brother are (look) very much alike.23. The spring festival is _____special holiday when ___whole family are supposed to get together.A. the; theB. a; aC. the; aD. a; the答案 D a special holiday 泛指； the whole family 特指24. Mary is very late for work, she _____.A. may miss her trainB. must miss her trainC. may have missed her trainD. could miss her train答案：C may have done;或 must have done 对过去发生的事表示猜测如： The ground is wet. It must have rained last night.25. The price of the houses in the city center is much higher than ____of those in the surburbs.A. itB. allC. oneD. that答案： D that 代前面的 the price 2011年的28题也是一样的题. The price of buying a house in central Wuhan is much higher than____in any other area of the city.A. itB. oneC. thatD. which26. ______the meeting himself gave them a great deal of encouragement.A. The mayor will attendB. The mayor to attendC. The mayor attendingD. The mayor’s attending答案： D 动名词做主语，加上某人的。
武汉外小2010年笔试面试题
幼升小面试题之名校入学面试题一、2010年笔试面试题武汉外国语实验小学1、才艺展示根据学生的特长把考生分类。
以半命题的形式让学生在有特长的基础上自由发挥。
2、体能测试：地面上放置四个三角形柱子，每个大约10厘米，直线排开，相邻的距离为30厘米。
要求每个孩子两腿夹住一个长方形大约100克的沙包，并腿从排好的柱子间成S型蹦着穿越柱子，从一端蹦到另一端后，放下腿间沙包，拿起脚下的儿童用篮球，要求双手交替拍球5下，拍完后放稳篮球后捡起地面的一个毽子（地面上每堆毽子数目为5个），仍旧两腿夹沙包，按原方法从三角柱成S型蹦回另一端，放下毽子。
循环往复，看在规定的1分钟时间内谁拿的毽子最多。
3、即兴记忆测试进入另一个教室，桌子上有一块桌布，老师掀开并拿走那块桌布，桌子上便显现出8张有不同用品、动物和食品图案的卡片。
老师要求小朋友在20秒内记住卡片中的图案，20秒后老师拿走了其中4张卡片，问小朋友拿走的是什么图案的卡片。
4、动手拼图形拼方格，老师先给一张纸，纸上有两个正方形，一大一小，每个正方形都是由不同的小正方形拼成的，有的小正方形由蓝白相间的两种颜色组成。
同时提供与图形上的小正方形大小、形状以及颜色相同的实物让小朋友从中选择，照着纸上图案拼出和图案组成一模一样的图形来。
5、笔试题A4大小的试卷，正反两面都有题目。
题目主要有：连线配对题、判断对错题、统计题等。
6、英语测试英语跟读，四个较长单词，老师念，学生大声跟读。
7、运球测试在起点有四张椅子，四个椅子下总共放了8个球，其中有2个稍大些的球和6个小球，要求将提供的一块折叠好的50厘米X60厘米的布完全展开。
游戏规则是四个小朋友一组，要协作分工一同把8个球全部放到布上，然后用布将球运到指定的终点，又一起运回起点，将球放进四张椅子下并将布折叠好。
8、生活常识测试放一段录音，就是轰隆隆的雷雨声，要从雷雨声中辨别出是哪个季节，雷雨声过后录音中有老师说"开始"，然后在播放一段音乐的时间内从指定的物品中拿出合适的防雨器具或衣服。
山东省济南市外国语学校2010届高三上学期开学检测(数学)
山东省济南市外国语学校2010届高三上学期开学检测数学试题时间：120分钟 满分：120分第Ⅰ卷（共48分）一.选择题 (共12小题，每小题4分，共48分)1.已知全集{}{}{}()=⋃===N M C ，N M U U 则3,2,2,1,0,4,3,2,1,0 A. {}2 B. {}3 C. {}432，，D. {}4321,0，，， 2．若集合M={y|y=2x }, P={x|y=1x -}, M ∩P= A.[)+∞,1 B. [)+∞,0 C. ()+∞,0 D. ()+∞,13．命题“存在x ∈Z 使x 2+2x +m ≤0”的否定是A ．存在x ∈Z 使x 2+2x +m>0B ．不存在x ∈Z 使x 2+2x +m>0C ．对任意x ∈Z 使x 2+2x +m ≤0D ．对任意x ∈Z 使x 2+2x +m>0 4．设命题甲为：05x <<,命题乙为23x -<,则甲是乙的 A ．充分不必要条件 B ．必要不充分条件 C ．充要条件 D ．既不充分又不必要条件 5.若函数()y f x =的定义域是[0,2]，则函数(2)()1f xg x x =-的定义域是 A ．[0,1] B ．[0,1) C ． [0,1)(1,4] D ．(0,1)6．在同一坐标系内，函数aax y a x y a1)0(-=≠=和的图象可能是7．若函数)2,2()(21)(-++=在为常数，a x ax x f 内为增函数，则实数a 的取值范围A ．]21,(-∞B ．),21[+∞C ．)21,(-∞D ． ),21(+∞8. 方程lg 30x x +-=的根所在的区间是A.（1，2）B. （2，3）C. （3，4）D.（0，1） 9．已知2sin cos αα=，则2cos2sin 21cos ααα++的值是 .A. 3B. 6C. 12D. 3210.设a R ∈，若函数xy e ax =+，x R ∈，有大于零的极值点，则A ．1a <- B.1a >- C.1a e <- D.1a e>- 11.函数()f x 满足()()213f x f x ⋅+=，若()12f =，则()99f =A. 13B. 2C.132 D. 21312．已知方程abx x x x b a x a x 则且的两根为2121210,,01)2(<<<=+++++的取值范围 A ．)32,2(-- B ．)21,2(-- C ．]32,2(-- D ．]21,2(--第Ⅱ卷（共72分）二．填空题 (共4小题，每小题4分，共16分)13．设()ln f x x x =，若0'()2f x =，则0x = 14. 已知απβπαββαsin ),0,2(),2,0(,135sin ,53)cos(则且-∈∈-==-= 15.若将函数)0)(4tan(>+=ωπωx y 的图像向右平移6π个单位长度后，与函数)6tan(πω+=x y 的图像重合，则ω的最小值为16．设()f x 是定义在R 上的以3为周期的奇函数，若23(1)1,(2)1a f f a ->=+，则a 的取值范围是三.解答题（共6个大题，共56分，写出必要的文字说明） 17．（本小题8分）已知集合a B A x x x B a x x A 求实数若,},045|{},|2||{2Φ=≥+-=≤-= 的取值范围。
吉林省长春外国语学校2010届高三上学期第一次月考数学
吉林省长春外国语学校2010届高三上学期第一次月考数学试题一、选择题：（本大题共12题，每小题5分，在每小题给出的四个选项中 ，只有一项是符合题目要求的．．．．．．．．．．．．。
） 1．函数(32)0.5log x y -= （ ）A [)1,+∞B 2,3⎛⎫+∞⎪⎝⎭ C 2,13⎡⎤⎢⎥⎣⎦ D 2,13⎛⎤⎥⎝⎦ 2. 已知b x x f bx ,42(3)(≤≤=-为常数）的图象经过点)1,2(，则)(x f 的值域（ ）A.[9，81]B. [3，9]C. [1，9]D. ),1[+∞3．已知集合{}72≤≤-=x x A ，{}121-<<+=m x m x B ，且Φ≠B ，若A B A =⋃， 则（ ）A ．43≤≤-mB ．43<<-mC ．42<<mD ．42≤<m4．复数432i i i i z +++=的值是 （ ） A.-1 B.0 C.1 D.i5. 直线20ax y a -+=与圆29x y +=的位置关系是 ( ) A ．相离 B ．相交 C ．相切 D ．不确定6．已知()f x 奇函数，若0x >时，()(1)f x x x =-,则0x <时，()f x = ( ) A ． (1)x x -+ B. (1)x x + C. (1)x x -- D.(1)x x - 7．f (sin x )＝3－cos2x ，则f (cos x )＝（ ）A ．3－cos2xB ．3＋cos2xC ．3－sin2xD ．3＋sin2x 8．当()0,x ∈+∞时，幂函数253(1)m y m m x--=--为减函数，则实数m 的值为 （ ）A m=2B m=-1C m=-1或m=2D 152m ±≠9. 方程lg 30x x +-=的根所在的区间是A. （0，1）B. （1，2）C. （2，3）D. （3，4）10．若函数f (x)满足周期为，且(1,1]时,(),x f x x ∈-=则函数y=f(x)的图象与函数 3log y x =的图象的交点的个数为（ ）A ． 3B ． 4C ． 6D ． 811．函数)(x f y =的图象在点5x =处的切线方程是)5()5(,8f f x y '++-=则等于A ．1B ．2C ．0D ．21 12.若111a b<<，则下列结论不正确的是 A.log log a b b a > B.()2211log log 2a b a b ⎛⎫+++> ⎪⎝⎭ C.log log 2a b b a +> D.log log log log a b a b b a b a +>+第II 卷本卷包括必考题和选考题两部分，第13题－第21题为必考题，每个试题考生都必须做答，第22、223题为选考题，考生根据要求做答．二、填空题：13．设2231(0)2(1)(),()(0)2(1)x x x x f x g x xx x ⎧+≥⎧-≤⎪==⎨⎨<>⎪⎩⎩,则))1((-f g = 。
厦门外国语学校2010届高三高考模拟考试英语测试卷
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本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。共150分。考试时间120分钟。 第一卷（三部分，共115分）
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5 小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What was the weather probably like last week? A. Nice and warm. B. Pleasant. C. Rainy and cold. 2. What does the woman ask the man to do? A. Phone her later. B. Bring her a black sweater. C. Order a green sweater for her. 3. What does the woman mean? A. She has already been to the concert. B. Betty is asking her to the concert. C. The man could go with Betty. 4. Where is the man going to spend his vacation? A. In a stamp collection company. B. In a seaside city. C. At home. 5. Why can’t David run as fast as before? A. He plays too much computer games. B. He spends too much time studying. C. He hasn’t enough nutrition. 第二节（共15 小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话或独白前后，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。 6. When will the meeting be ended? A. At 6:30 B. At 7:40 C. At 8:00 7. What will the man do after the meeting? A. Go to the repairing shop. B. Go home. C. Go to see a film 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8. What’s the trouble of the boy? A. He couldn’t find a place in the computer lab. B. He couldn’t go on with his computer studies. C. He failed the computer test. 9. What does the woman advise the boy to do then? A. Read more books about computers. B. Use computers more often. C. Ask his teacher for help. 10. What is the woman going to do for the boy? A. Buy him a computer. B. Buy him some computer books. C. Give him some money. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11. What’s Mary’s problem? A. She isn’t feeling well. B. There’s something wrong with her radio. C. She can’t play tennis. 12. Who finally solved the problem? A. John. B. Mary. C. A worker. 外语下载中心http://down.tingroom.com 2 13. What is the most probable result of the conversation? A. They played tennis together. B. They went to town. C. They stayed at home. 听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。 14. What does the package the man choose include? A. Five nights’ accommodation and a five-minute walk. B. A sightseeing tour on boat and accommodation. C. The stay and transportation. 15. What can we learn from the conversation? A. The man has just got married. B. They will take boat to the destination. C. The maid of the Mist is the most beautiful scenery. 16. How much will the man pay for the trip? A. $ 339 B. $678 C. $ 1,356 17. What does the man think of the package? A. Interesting. B. Satisfactory. C. Adventurous. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18. How high is the mountain? A. 7,170 meters. B. 7,117 meters. C. 7,171 meters. 19. How many mountaineers of the association reached the top of the mountain? A. 4. B. 15. C. 19. 20. What can we learn from the passage? A. Some mountaineers had ever reached the peak in 2008. B. The eldest mountaineer of the association is 30 years old. C. Some mountaineers of the association reached the top of the mountain in a week. 第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分） 第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 21. ----Did Susanna visit you again ______ next year? ----No, it was almost ten years before she came to see me ______ second time. A. the; a B. the; / C. /; the D. /; a 22. It is still unclear ______ the little boy got the CD player to work. A. where B. what C. that D. how 23. ----I can’t find my favorite magazine. ----I saw Jack going away with ______, but I’m not sure whether it’s yours. A. it B. that C. one D. some 24. ________ the two designs, and you will find what problem there is with yours. A. Comparing B. Compared C. To compare D. Compare 25. I need to call my friend David _____ coat I walked off by mistake yesterday. A. in whose B. in that C. with which D. with her 26. The news that Xiamen Xiang’an Tunnel, China’s first undersea tunnel has been put into traffic excites us greatly, ______? A. doesn’t it B. does it C. do they D. don’t they 27. I wonder why Ann didn’t get ______ the job. She is the right person for it. A. to be offered B. to offer C. offering D. offered 28. She wasn’t a much older tennis player but he had the great ______ of experience about games.
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绝对精华：广东外语外贸大学2010年MTI完整真题本帖最后由孟菲斯托于2011-7-14 12:40 编辑首先，对坛子里那么多人宁肯看残缺不全回忆版，也不肯花几块买官方真题表示不解！其次，对有那么多的学校捂着自己的陈年卷子不发，留在地下室里让虫子咬表示不解！广东外贸2010年MTI硕士入学考试第1卷：基础英语Part 1: Grammar and V ocabulary. （30 P）01. Although she gives badly ____ titles to her musical compositions, they ____ unusual combinations of materials including classical music patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.A. conventional / incorporateB. eccentric / deployC. traditional / excludeD. imaginative / disguise02. Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of them were so decidedly French in style that later anthologies of French folktales have never ____ them.A. excludedB. admiredC. collectedD. comprehended03. In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been ____.A. exaggeratedB. ignoredC. scrutinizedD. derided04. There seems to be no ____ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ____ recently because of a spate of popular television documentaries.A. quenching / moderatedB. whetting / mushroomedC. slaking / increasedD. ignoring / transformed05. Despite a tendency to be overtly ____, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.A. divertingB. emotionalC. didacticD. romantic06. One of the first ____ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insect that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.A. reformersB. discoveriesC. casualtiesD. beneficiaries07. The research committee urged the archaeologist to ____ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on ____.A. disseminate / suppositionB. withdraw / evidenceC. undercut / capriceD. document / conjecture08. Although Heron is well known for the broad comedy in the movies she has directed previously, her new film is less inclined to ____: the gags are fewer and subtler.A. understatementB. preciosityC. symbolismD. melodrama09. Bebop’s legacy is ____ one: bebop may have won jazz the right to be taken seriously as an art form, but it ____ jazz’s mass audience, which turned to other forms of music such as rock and pop.A. a mixed / alienatedB. a troubled / seducedC. an ambiguous / aggrandizedD. a valuable / refined10. The exhibition’s importance lies in its ____: curators have gathered a diverse array of significant works from many different museums.A. homogeneityB. sophistryC. scopeD. farsightedness11. Despite the fact that the commission’s report treats a vitally important topic, the report will be ____ read because its prose is so ____ that understanding it requires an enormous effort.A. seldom / transparentB. carefully / pellucidC. little / turgidD. eagerly / digressive12. Carleton would still rank among the great ____ of nineteenth century American art even if the circumstance of her life and career were less ____ than they are.A. celebrities / obscureB. failures / illustriousC. charlatans / impeccableD. enigmas / mysterious13. Although based on an actual event, the film lacks ____: the director shuffles events, simplifies the tangle of relationships, and ____ documentary truth for dramatic power.A. conviction / embracesB. expressiveness / exaggeratesC. verisimilitude / sacrificesD. realism / substitutes14. When Adolph Ochs became the publisher of The New York Times, he endowed the paper witha uniquely ____ tone, avoiding the ____ editorials that characterized other major papers of the time.A. abstruse / scholarlyB. dispassionate / shrillC. argumentative / tendentiousD. cosmopolitan / timely15. There are as good fish in the sea ____ ever came out of it.A. thanC. asD. so16. All the Pre sident’s Men ____ one of the important books for historians who study the Watergate Scandal.A. remainB. remainsC. remainedD. is remaining17. “You ____ borrow my notes provided you take care of them”, I told my friend.A. couldB. shouldC. mustD. can18. If only the patient ____ a different treatment instead of using the antibiotics, he might still be alive now.A. had receivedB. receivedC. should receiveD. were receiving19. Linda was ____ the experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute.A. to startB. to have startedC. to be startingD. to have been starting20. She ____ fifty or so when I first met her at the conference.A. must beB. had beenC. could beD. must have been21. It is not ____ much the language as the background that makes the book difficult to understand.B. asC. soD. very22. The committee has anticipated the problems that ____ in the road construction project.A. ariseB. will ariseC. aroseD. have arisen23. The student said there were a few points in the essay he ____ impossible to comprehend.A. had foundB. findsC. has foundD. would find24. He would have finished his college education, but he ____ to quit and find a job to support his family.A. had hadB. hasC. hadD. would have25. The research requires more money than ____.A. have been put inB. has been put inC. being put inD. to be put in26. Overpopulation poses a terrible threat to the human race. Yet it is probably ____ a threat to the human race than environmental destruction.A. no moreB. not moreC. even moreD. much more27. It is not uncommon for there ____ problems of communication between the old and the young.B. would beC. beD. to be28. ____ at in his way, the situation does not seem so desperate.A. LookingB. LookedC. Being lookedD. To look29. It is absolutely essential that William ____ his study in spite of some learning difficulties.A. will continueB. continuedC. continueD. continues30. The painting he bought at the street market the other day was a _____ forgery.A. man-madeB. naturalC. crudeD. realPart 2: Reading Comprehension. （40 P）Passage AOn New Year’s Day, 50,000 inmates in Kenyan jails went without lunch. This was not some mass hunger strike to highlight poor living conditions. It was an extraordinary humanitarian gesture: the money that would have been spent on their lunches went to the charity Food Aid to help feed an estimated 3. 5 million Kenyans who, because of a severe drought, are threatened with starvation. The drought is big news in Africa, affecting huge areas of east Africa and the Horn. If you are reading this in the west, however, you may not be aware of it—the media is not interested in old stories. Even if you do know about the drought, you may not be aware that it is devastating one group of people disproportionately: the pastoralists. There are 20 million nomadic or semi-nomadic herders in this region, and they are fast becoming some of the poorest people in the continent. Their plight encapsulates Africa’s perennial problem with drought and famine.How so? It comes down to the reluctance of governments, aid agencies and foreign lenders to support the herders’ traditional way of life. Instead they have tended to try to turn them into commercial ranchers or agriculturalists, even though it has been demonstrated time and again that pastoralists are well adapted to their harsh environments, and that moving livestock according tothe seasons or climatic changes makes their methods far more viable than agriculture in sub-Saharan drylands.Furthermore, African pastoralist systems are often more productive, in terms of protein and cash per hectare, than Australian, American and other African ranches in similar climatic conditions. They make a substantial contribution to their countries’ national economies. In Kenya, for example, the turnover of the pastoralist sector is worth $800 million per year. In countries such as Burkina Faso, Eritrea and Ethiopia, hides from pastoralists’ herds make up over 10 per cent of export earnings. Despite this productivity, pastoralists still starve and their animals perish when drought hits. One reason is that only a trickle of the profits goes to the herders themselves; the lion’s share is pocketed by traders. This is partly because the herders only sell much of their stock during times of drought and famine, when they need the cash to buy food, and the terms of trade in this situation never work in their favour. Another reason is the lack of investment in herding areas.Funding bodies such as the World Bank and-USAID tried to address some of the problems in the 1960s, investing mill ions of dollars in commercial beef and dairy production. It didn’t work. Firstly, no one bothered to consult the pastoralists about what they wanted. Secondly, rearing livestock took precedence over human progress. The policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors. They were based on two false assumptions: that pastoralism is primitive and inefficient, which led to numerous failed schemes aimed at converting herders to modern ranching models; and that Africa’s drylands can support commercial ranching. They cannot. Most of Africa’s herders live in areas with unpredictable weather systems that are totally unsuited to commercial ranching.What the pastoralists need is support for their traditional lifestyle. Over the past few years, funders and policy-makers have been starting to get the message. One example is intervention by governments to ensure that pastoralists get fair prices for their cattle when they sell them in times of drought, so that they can afford to buy fodder for their remaining livestock and cereals to keep themselves and their families alive（the problem in African famines is not so much a lack of food as a lack of money to buy it）. Another example is a drought early-warning system run by the Kenyan government and the World Bank that has helped avert livestock deaths.This is all promising, but more needs to be done. Some African governments still favour forcing pastoralists to settle. They should heed the latest scientific research demonstrating the productivity of traditional cattle-herding. Ultimately, sustainable rural development in pastoralist areas will depend on increasing trade, so one thing going for them is the growing demand for livestock products: there will likely be an additional 2 billion consumers worldwide by 2020, the vast majority in developing countries. To ensure that pastoralists benefit, it will be crucial to give them a greater say in local policies. Other key tasks include giving a greater say to women, who play critical roles in livestock production. The rich world should pay proper attention to the plight of the pastoralists. Leaving them dependent on foreign food aid is unsustainable and will lead to more resentment, conflict, environmental degradation and malnutrition. It is in the rich world’s interests to help out.01. Which of the following CANNOT be concluded from the passage?A. Forcing Africa’s nomadic herders to become ranchers will save them from drought.B. The difference between pastoralist and agriculturalist is vital to the African people.C. The rich world should give more support to the African people to overcome drought.D. Environmental degradation should be the major concern in developing Africa’s pastoralism.02. The word “encapsulates”in the sentence “Their plight encapsulates Africa’s perennial problem with drought and famine.”（para. l）can be replaced by ____.A. concludes.B. involves.C. represents.D. aggravates.03. What is the author’s attitude toward African drought and traditional lifestyle of pastoralism?A. Neutral and indifferent.B. Sympathetic and understanding.C. Critical and vehement.D. Subjective and fatalistic.04. When the author writes “the policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors.”（para. 4）, he implies all the following EXCEPT that the aid agencies did not ____.A. have an objective view of the situation in AfricaB. understand the unpredictable weather systems thereC. feel themselves superior in decision makingD. care about the development of the local people05. The author’s main purpose in writing this article is ____.A. to evaluate the living conditions of Kenyan pastoralistsB. to give suggestions on the support of the traditional pastoralism in AfricaC. to illustrate the difference between commercial ranching and pastoralismD. to criticize the colonial thinking of western aid agenciesPassage BCivil-Liberties advocates reeling from the recent revelations on surveillance had something else to worry about last week: the privacy of the billions of search queries made on sites like Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft. As part of a long-running court case, the government has asked those companies to turn over information on its users’search behavior. All but Google have handed over data, and now the Department of Justice（DOJ）has moved to compel the search giant to turn over the goods.What makes this case different is that the intended use of the information is not related to national security, but the government’s continuing attempt to police Internet pornography. In 1998, Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act（COPA）, but courts have blocked its implementation due to First Amendment concerns. In its appeal, the DOJ wants to prove how easy it is to inadvertently stumble upon pore. In order to conduct a controlled experiment—to be performed by a UC Berkeley professor of statistics—the DOJ wants to use a large sample of actual search terms from the different search engines. It would then use those terms to do its ownsearches, employing the different kinds of filters each search engine offers, in an attempt to quantify how often “material that is harmful to minors” might appear. Google contends that since it is not a party to the case, the government has not right to demand its proprietary information to perform its test. “We intend to resist their motion vigorously,” said Google attorney Nicole Wong. DOJ spokesperson Charles Miller says that the government is requesting only the actual search terms, and not anything that would link the queries to those who made them. （The DOJ is also demanding a list of a million Web sites that Google indexes to determine the degree to which objectionable sites are searched. ）Originally, the government asked for a treasure trove of all searches made in June and July 2005; the request has been scaled back to one week’s worth of search queries.One oddity about the DOJ’s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case. If the built-in filters that each search engine provides are effective in blocking porn sites, the government will have wound up proving what the opposition has said all along—you don’t need to suppress speech to protect minors on the Net. “We think that our filtering technology does a good job protecting minors from inadvertently seeing adult content,”says Ramez Naam, group program manager of MSN Search.Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test, it’s possible that the information could lead to further investigations and, perhaps, subpoenas to find out who was doing the searching. “What if certain search terms indicated that people were contemplating terrorist actions or other criminal activities?” Says the DOJ’s Miller, “I’m assuming that if something raised alarms, we would hand it over to the proper autho rities.” Privacy advocates fear that if the government request is upheld, it will open the door to further government examination of search behavior. One solution would be for Google to stop storing the information, but the company hopes to eventually use the personal information of consenting customers to improve search performance. “Search is a window into people’s personalities,” says Kurt Opsahl, an Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney. “They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without w orrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.”01. When the American government asked Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft to turn over information on its users’ search behavior, the major intention is ____.A. to protect national securityB. to help protect personal freedomC. to monitor Internet pornographyD. to implement the Child Online Protection Act02. Google refused to turn over “its proprietary information”（para. 2）required by DOJ as it believes that ____.A. it is not involved in the court caseB. users’ privacy is most importantC. the government has violated the First AmendmentD. search terms is the company’s business secret03. The phrase “scaled back to”in the sentence “the request has been scaled back to one week’s worth of search queries”（para. 3）can be replaced by ____.A. maximized toB. minimized toC. returned toD. reduced to04. In the sentence “One oddity about the DOJ’s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case.”（para. 4）, the expression “sink its own case”most probably means that ____.A. counterattack the oppositionB. lead to blocking of porn sitesC. provide evidence to disprove the caseD. give full ground to support the case05. When Kurt Opsahl says that “They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.”（para. 5）, the expression “Big Brother”is used to refer to ____.A. a friend or relative showing much concernB. a colleague who is much more experiencedC. a dominating and all-powerful ruling powerD. a benevolent and democratic organizationPart 3: Answering Questions. （20 P）Passage AMillions of elderly Germans received a notice from the Health & Social Security Ministry earlier this month that struck a damaging blow to the welfare state. The statement informed them that their pensions were being cut. The reductions come as a stop-gap measure to control Germany’s ballooning pension crisis. Not surprisingly, it was an unwelcome change for senior citizens such as Sabine Wetzel, a 67-year-old retired bank teller, who was told her state pension would be cut by $12. 30, or 1% to $1,156. 20 a month. “It was a real shock,” she says. “My pension had always gone up in the past.”There’s more bad news on the way. On Mar. 11, Germany’s lower house of Parliament passed a bill gradually cutting state pensions—which have been rising steadily since World War II—from 53% of average wages now to 46% by 2020. And Germany is not alone. Governments across Western Europe are racing to curb pension benefits. In Italy, the government plans to raise the minimum retirement age from 57 to 60, while France will require that civil servants put in 40 years rather than 37. 5 to qualify for a full pension. The reforms are coming despite tough opposition from unions, leftist politicians, and pensioners’ groups.The explanation is simple: Europeans are living longer and having fewer children. By 2030 there will only be two workers per pensioner, compared with four in 2000. With fewer young workers paying into the system, cuts are being made to cover a growing shortfall. The gap between money coming in and payments going out could top $10 billion this year in Ger many alone. “In the future, a state pension alone will no longer be enough to maintain the living standards employees had before they retired,” says German Health & Social Security Minister Ulla Schmidt. Says ItalianFinance Minister Giulio Tremonti: “The welfare state is producing too few cradles and too few graves.”Of course, those population trends have been forecast for years. Some countries, such as Britain and the Netherlands, have responded by making individuals and their employers assume more of the responsibility for pensions. But many Continental governments dragged their feet. Now, the rapid runup in costs is finally forcing them to act. State-funded pension payments make up around 12% of gross domestic product in Germany and France and 15% in Italy—two percentage points more than 20 years ago. Pensions account for an average 21% of government spending across the European Union. The U. S. Social Security system, by contrast, consumes just 4.8% of GDP. The rising cost is having serious repercussio ns on key European nations’ commitments to fiscal restraint. “Governments have no choice but to make pension reform a priority,” says Antonio Cabral, deputy director of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic & Financial Affairs.Just as worrisome is the toll being exacted on the private sector, corporate contributions to state pension systems—which make up 19. 5% of total gross pay in Germany—add to Europe’s already bloated labor costs. That, in turn, blunts manufacturers’ competitivene ss and keeps unemployment rates high. According to the Institute of German Economics in Cologne, benefit costs reached a record 41. 7% of gross wages in Germany last year, compared with 37.4% a decade before. French cement manufacturer Lafarge says pension cost of $121 million contributed to a 9% fall in operating profits last year.To cope, Germany and most of its EU partners are using tax breaks to encourage employees to put money into private pension schemes. But even if private pensions become more popular, European governments will have to increase minimum retirement ages and reduce public pensions. While today’s seniors complain about reduced benefits, the next generation of retirees may look back on their parents’ pension checks with envy.QuestionsParaphrase Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti’s statement “The welfare state is producing too few cradles and too few graves”? What is implied by the last sentence of the passage “While today’s seniors complain about reduced benefits, the next gene ration of retirees may look back on their parents’ pension checks with envy”?Passage BIn the old days, it was all done with cakes. For Marcel Proust, it was a visit to Mother’s for tea and madeleines that provided the access to “the vast structure of recollection” that was to become his masterpiece on memory and nostalgia, “Remembrance of Past Things.” These days, it’s not necessary to evoke the past: you can’t move without tripping over it.In an age zooming forward technologically, why are all the backward glances? The Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition of nostalgia reads: “acute longing for familiar surroundings; severe homesickness.” With the speed of computers doubling every 18 months, and the net doubling in size in about half that, no w onder we’re aching for familiar surroundings. Since the cornerstone of the Information Age is change, anything enduring becomes precious. “People are looking for something authentic,” says McLaren. Trouble is, nostalgia has succumbed to trends in marketing, demographics and technology. “Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be,” says Michael J.Wolf, senior partner at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in New York. “These are the new good old days.” Baby boomers form the core of the nostalgia market. The boomers, defined by American demographers as those born between 1946 and 1964, are living long and prosperous lives. In both Europe and America, they remain the Holy Grail for admen, and their past has become everyone’s present. In a study on “entertainment imprinting,” two A merican marketing professors, Robert Schindler and Morris Holbrook, asked people ranging in age from 16 to 86 which popular music from the past they liked best. People’s favorite songs, they found, tended to be those that were popular when they were about 24, with their affection for pop songs diminishing on either side of that age. Doubtless Microsoft knows about entertainment imprinting, or at least nostalgia. The company hawks its latest Explorer to the strains of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound,” just as it launched Windows 98 to the tune of “Start Me up” by the Rolling Stones. Boomers remember both tunes from their 20s.If boomers are one market that values memories, exiles are another. According to the International Organization of Migration, more than 150 million people live today in a country other than the one where they were born—double the number that did so in 1965. This mass movement has sources as dire as tyranny and as luxurious as the freedoms of an EU passport. But exiles and refugees share one thing: homes left behind. Type in “nostalgia” on the search engine Google, and one of the first sites that pop up is the nostalgia page of The Iranian, an online site for Iran’s exiles, most of whom fled after 1978’s Islamic revolution. Perhaps t he savviest exploitation of nostalgia has been the secondhand-book site alibris. com, which features stories of clients’ rediscovering long-lost books on it. One John Mason Mings writes of the glories of finding a book with information on “Kickapoo Joy Juice,” ad dreaded medicine of his youth. A Pennsylvanian waxes over alibris’s recovery of his first-grade primer” Down cherry Street.” The Net doesn’t merely facilitate nostalgia—it promotes it. Web-based auction houses have helped jump-start markets for vintage items, form marbles to Apple Macintoshes.Cutting-edge technology, designed to be transient, has even bred its own instanostalgia. Last year a $666 Apple I went for $18,000 to a British collector at a San Francisco auction. “Historic! Microsoft Multi plan for Macintosh” crows one item on eBay’s vintage Apple section. Surf to The Net Nostalgia Quiz to puzzle over questions like “In the old days, Altavista used to have which one of these URLs?”Those who don’t remember their history are condemned to rep eat it. Or so entertainment moguls hope, as they market “70s TV hits like “Charlie’s Angels” and “Scooby Doo,” out next year, to a generation that can’t remember them the first time round. If you’ve missed a Puff Daddy track or a “Sopranos” episode, panic not. The megahits of today are destined to be the golden oldies of 2020, says Christopher Nurko of the branding consultant FutureBrand. “I guarantee you, Madonna’s music will be used to sell everything,” he says. “God help me, I hope it’s not selling insurance.” It could be. When we traffic in the past, nothing’s sacred.QuestionsExplain the beginning sentence “In the old days, it was all done with cakes.” What is the other big group besides baby boomers which values memories? What do these people share? What is “nostalgia market”? What do they sell in the nostalgia market?Part 4: Writing. （30 P）Please reflect on the following opinion and write an essay of about 400 words elaborating your view with a well-defined title.Some people believe the key of the reform in the education system is a well-shared awareness that educations is there, instead of simply offering the knowledge important to the students, to improve the students in an all-round way, and especially to guide them to a careful pondering over such fundamental issues as life itself and social responsibility. An undue emphasis on knowledge-education and the resultant ignorance over the guidance to the students to a proper understanding of life will bring us nothing but a large number of “memorizing machines”. We can never expect a group of young people well prepared for the real social life.广东外贸2010年MTI硕士入学考试第2卷：英汉互译一、词汇翻译（30 P）CPPCCUNESCOASEMChina-ASEAN ExpoSWOT analysisGlobal SourcingInformation AsymmetryShanghai World ExpoInnocent PresumptionThe Civil Law SystemThe Book of RitesMenciusConsecutive InterpretingThe House of CommonsA Farewell To Arms全国人民代表大会外交部会展经济注册会计师次贷危机董事会中国证监会廉政公署暂行规定有罪推定佛经翻译百年老店。
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武汉实验外国语学校2010年初中英语语种招生综合测试卷 Section 1 Listening (满分35分) 一、听下面一首儿歌，请根据歌曲内容填上合适的词语。本材料进播放一遍。(每小题1分，满分5分) I’m a policeman dressed in blue, here are some(1)________I like to do. Direct the(2)______in your town, help to keep you safe and (3)________. It’s my job and I like it fine. no one has a better job than mine. I’m a policeman dressed in blue, I want to be a (4)_______to you. You can see me every day, I will(5)_________my hand and say. It’s my job and I like it fine. No one has a better job than mine.
二、听下面一段原声录音，根据所听内容选出最佳答案，并将代表该答案的字母填在提前括号内。本材料仅播一遍。（每小题1分，满分3分） ( )6.___________are NOT Christmas traditions. A. Colorful lights B. Gifts C. Windows ( )7.people can NOT enjoy “White Christmas ” in_______. A. America. B. England C. Australia ( )8.Irving Berlin is a _________. A. singer B. song writer C. music teacher
三、听下面五个问句，根据所听内容选出相应的答语，并将代表该答案的字母填在题前的括号内。每个问题仅读一遍。（每小题1分，满分5分） ( )9.A.hold on ,please. B. No, thanks. C. You are wrong. ( )10.A..By bus. B. My father. C. At home. ( )11.A.In a library. B. In a restaurant. C. In a bookshop. ( )12.A.It’s 5 o’clock. B. For 5 days. C. I’m 5 years old. ( )13.A.Yes,I like. B. The red one. C. No, I can’t.. 四、看下面六幅图片，每幅图你都会听到三个描述此图的句子A、B和C,请选出正确描述此图的句子，并将代表该答案的字母填在提前的括号内。本体仅读一遍。（每小题1分，满分6分） ( )14 ( )15 ( )16 ( )17 ( )18 ( )19 五、听下面五段对话，根据对话内容回答相应的问题，并将代表该答案的字母填在提前的括号内。每段对话仅读一遍。（每小题1分，满分5分） ( )20.Where is the mobile phone now？ A. Under the chair. B. Behind the chair. C. On the chair. ( )21.Which of the things is NOT needed for a charity walk? A. An umbrella. B. A map. C. A cap. ( )22.Where does the conversation probably happen? A. At the cinema. B. At the cinema’s. C. At the dentist’s. ( )23.How many books can Alice borrow at the most today? A. Five. B. Three. C. Two. ( )24.What does the woman think of orange? A. It’s the colour of heat. B. It can bring her success. C. It means power. 六、听下面一段大对话，根据对话内容将对话中地点所代表的字母写在食物下的横线上。注意：地点可以重复使用。本段对话读两遍。（每空1分，满分6分）
A. San Francisco B. Seattle C. Chicago D. Los Angles E. Boston 25________ 26___________ 27____________ 28_________ 29________ 30____________ 七、听下面一段材料,根据内容完成各个小题,本段材料读两遍.(满分5分) I. 根据独白内容,判断下列句子正误,将T(正确)或F(错误)填入题前的括号内. ( )31.More than 19 million people live in Mexico City today. ( )32.The east and west are covered by the rain forests.
II. 根据独白内容,选择最佳答案,并将代表该答案的字母填在题前的括号内. ( )33.How many states are there in Mexico? A. 30 B. 31 C. 29 ( )34.In Mexico, much of the north is _____________. A. forests B. mountains C. desert ( )35.Children in Mexico speak ________ and _____________. A. French; English B. Spanish; English C. Spanish; French
Section Two Reading and Writing (满分10分) 八、根据事物发展规律,将下列句子排序.把代表该句子的字母写在括号内,再将答案转填到首页答题区.(每小题1分,满分5分) A. They plant the seeds in a greenhouse in spring. B. They put little plants in the ground and water them. C. In autumn the pumpkins are big enough and farmers pick them. D. The seeds grow into little plants. E. The pumpkins grow very quickly. F. The flowers grow into little pumpkins. G. The plants grow bigger and bigger. Yellow flowers begin to grow on the plants.
A—36. ( )—37. ( )—38. ( )—39. ( )—40( )—C 九、根据以下五个人的愿望,为每个人选择一个合适的网站.把代表该网站的字母写在题前的括号内,再将答案转填到首页答题区.(每小题1分,满分5分) ( )41. It must be very exciting to travel in Paris. That’s my dream place! I hope to visit all the wonderful places there! ( )42. English is difficult for me. I dream that I can speak English fluently one day. I need a Website to help me with my English. ( )43. I love sports! I am a football fan! I am crazy about it. I always want to know the latest news about some games. ( )44. I want to give Lily, my best friend a big surprise on her birthday. I am going to buy her some special gifts online. ( )45.What kind of movies are my favourite? Cartoons of course! I would like to watch all the cartoons by Disney. A. www.cuphoto.com Pictures about news, famous people ,big events…. B. www.mulltheatre.com Here you can find any movie you like. We have the best comedies, tragedies, detective stories, cartoons…. C. www.FIFA.com About the international football teams. The latest news about football games, football teams and players. D. www.ilovechina.com About travelling in China, the weather, the people, the places of interest there… E. www.tourists.con About all the travelling information in France including the weather ,the places of interest, the hotels…. F. www.taobao.com Online shopping of clothes, books, shoes, and toys….. G. www.crazyenglish.org It offers a lot of English skills, and the BBS is very good too. It’s a site to practice English in a fun way….