1 . Shenzhen is an ideal shopping place for visitors. The following is a list of the most popular shopping areas in the city.

North Huaqiang Area

The most prosperous shopping area in Shenzhen, it is home to dozens of market places for electronic products, clothing and jewelry. Some market places each house hundreds of shops, from flagship stores selling big brands to small shops where you can bargain.

It is also a great place to dine, with plenty of restaurants offering various Chinese dishes and foreign brands like Pizza Hut, Hagen Dazs and AijiSen.

Dongmen Area

One of the oldest commercial centers in Shenzhen, this area highlights a walking street flanked by humming stores. It is a good place to buy clothes, handbags, fashion accessories, jewelry, handicrafts, toys and small electronic gadgets.

MixC Shopping Mall

It is the city’s largest shopping mall and one of the most luxurious, selling clothes, cosmetics and fashion accessories. There is a large indoor ice skating rink, a movie theater and a supermarket selling many imported goods. You can also find quite a few foreign restaurant brands here, including Pizza Hut, Starbucks and a Japanese noodle house.

Shekou

Sitting by a beautiful cove in Western Nanshan District, this quiet place is frequented by many expatriates living in Shenzhen. There are stores selling antiques, collectibles, handicrafts and souvenirs, as well as bars and restaurants offering western food.

1. What can you do at North Huaqiang Area？

A．Skate.	B．Enjoy Chinese food.
C．Watch a film.	D．Buy antiques.

2. Where can you find a large indoor place to skate？

A．In North Huaqiang Area.	B．In Dongmen Area.
C．In MixC Shopping Mall.	D．In Shekou.

3. Where does this passage probably come from？

A．A text book.	B．A museum guide.
C．A news report.	D．A travel magazine.

2 . Now, let’s talk about earthquakes on our planet. Some countries have large numbers of earthquakes. Japan is one of them. Others do not have many. For example, there are few earthquakes in Britain. There is often a great noise during an earthquake. The ground vibrates (震动). Houses fall down. Trains run off the lines. Sometimes, there is a heavy loss of human lives.

Earthquakes often happen near volcanoes, but this is not always true. The centers of some earthquakes are under the sea. The bottom of the sea suddenly moves. The powerful forces inside the earth break the rocks. The coast is shaken and great waves appear. These waves, also known as seismic waves(地震波), or tsunamis(海啸) can travel long distances and rush over the land when they reach it. They are strong enough to break down houses and other buildings. Very often fires follow the most serious earthquakes. In 1906, the numbers of fires were burning in the city. The water pipes were also shaken and broken, so it was not possible to put the fire out. There was no water. The Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 happened just before noon. People were cooking meals on their fires at that time. When the ground shook, the fires shook, too. Hot materials were thrown on the different parts of the houses, some of which were made of wood. Soon 134 fires were burning in the city.

What kind of building stands up best in an earthquake? A building with concrete walls is perhaps the best. A steel frame will make it even stronger. The frame holds the different parts together and the walls so not easily fall. There is less chance of fire because concrete and steel do not burn. Over the years, scientists studied the results of the earthquake in different parts of the world, and they are convinced that this kind of building is the safest.

1. What can we know about earthquake from the first paragraph?

A．Britain has large numbers of earthquake.

B．There is often a great noise during an earthquake.

C．There is a heavy loss of human lives in every earthquake.

D．Trains will not run off the lines during the earthquake.

2. Some of the undersea earthquakes were caused by ______.

A．the breakout of the volcano	B．the seismic waves
C．the tsunami	D．the powerful forces inside the earth

3. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．A building with concrete walls and a steel frame stands up best in an earthquake.

B．There is no chance of fire in a building with concrete walls.

C．Scientist studied the causes of the earthquake to get the conclusion.

D．A steel frame has no help in making the house stronger.

4. This text is probably a ______.

A．book review	B．popular science report
C．newspaper ad	D．fairy tale

3 . “Buffalo, buffalo, Buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, Buffalo, buffalo’’ is a real sentence.

How?

Let's break it down, starting with simple phrase.

Monkeys from Pisa bully deer from London.

Ok, admittedly, it's an impossible scenario, but it is a grammatically fine sentence. In English, we can use place names as adjective, so let's shorten the sentence a little.

Pisa monkeys bully London deer.

Now we'll throw in some giraffes from Paris to even the score with those mean monkeys.

Pisa monkeys, whom Paris giraffes intimidate, bully London deer.

English is peculiar in that you can omit relative pronouns, e.g., “ the person whom I love’’ can be expressed as ‘’the the person I love.’’ Let’s do that to this sentence.

Pisa monkeys Paris giraffes intimidate bully London deer.

This kind of pronoun removal can be a little more dedicate to grasp when written than when spoken. Saying the above sentence with pauses after monkeys and intimidate can help. Now we need to replace both of the verbs, intimidate and bully, with their (admittedly uncommon) synonym, buffalo.

Pisa monkeys Paris giraffes buffalo buffalo London deer.

Again, pauses help keep the meaning in mind: Put a pause after monkeys and the first buffalo. Now we'll replace all the worldwide place names with the second-largest city in New York State, Buffalo.(That’s Buffalo’s tallest building, One Seneca Tower, below.)

Buffalo monkeys Buffalo giraffes buffalo buffalo Buffalo deer.

You can probably guess what the next step is. But before we replace all the animals with the common name for the American bison, note how the capital letters in the above sentence help you keep the place names separate from the other usages of the word. Ok, here goes:

Buffalo, buffalo, Buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, Buffalo, buffalo.

One last thing to note: This exceptional sentence is possible because the plural of the animal buffalo is buffalo, not buffalos, otherwise all the words wouldn’t be identical.

1. How should we read the following sentence with proper pauses?

A．Buffalo buffalo Buffalo / buffalo buffalo /buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

B．Buffalo Buffalo /Buffalo buffalo buffalo / buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

C．Buffalo buffalo Buffalo / buffalo buffalo buffalo / Buffalo buffalo.

D．Buffalo buffalo /Buffalo buffalo / buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

2. What’s the key element to make this sentence possible?

A．The relative pronouns in English can be omitted.

B．In English, place names can be used as adjectives.

C．The city has the same name with a kind of American bison.

D．The word buffalo has the same form of singular and plural.

3. Where can you probably find this article?

A．Wandering the Earth

B．Linguistics Around Us

C．Popular Animal Science

D．Collins English Grammar

4 . There are thirty-four bridges on the Thames River in London, the following are among the most famous ones.

Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge has stood over the River Thames in London since 1894 and is one of the finest, most recognizable bridges in the World. It is the bridge in London you may see in movies and on advertising writing for London. Tower Bridge is the only Thames Bridge that can be raised. It used to be raised about 50 times a day, but nowadays it is only raised 4 to 5 times a week.

London Bridge

The construction of the first stone London Bridge started in 1176 and finished years later. Houses and shops were once built on the bridge, which made the road so narrow that it was often jammed with people, horses and carts. A ‘keep left’ rule was made in 1733 to keep the traffic moving. This became the rule of the road in Britain. In 1757 the old bridge was pulled down and a new one was built in 1831. Interestingly, that one was pulled down again in 1967 but rebuilt in Lake Havasu City, USA, as a tourist attraction. The present London Bridge was opened in 1973.

Millennium Bridge

The Millennium Bridge is a bridge for walkers. It was built to connect the Tate Modern Art Gallery to the City and St Paul’s Cathedral (圣保罗大教堂) in 2000. Thousands of people rushed to see the new bridge. Almost immediately after opening, the bridge had to be shut because of the dangerous waving caused by too many visitors. It has now been reopened. The bridge is about 320 meters, costs 16 million pounds to build and only takes walkers.

Westminster Bridge

Westminster Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge over the River Thames between Westminster and Lambeth. The present bridge, opened in 1862, is the second on the site and took the place of an earlier bridge opened in 1750. The British romantic poet, William Wordsworth, wrote a famous poem “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” in the autumn of 1802.

Want to know more about the bridges on the Thames River? Click here www.bridgesinbritain.com.

1. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A．The 1831 London Bridge is now in the USA.

B．Tower Bridge is much less frequently lifted today than before.

C．Cars and buses are not allowed to cross Millennium Bridge.

D．Westminster Bridge is for walkers only.

2. The Passage is most probably taken from a ________.

A．school report	B．website article
C．teenage magazine	D．science fiction

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．William Wordsworth wrote many poems of the bridges on the Thames River.

B．Millennium Bridge wasn’t built strong enough so that it had to be pulled down and rebuilt.

C．That all the traffic is kept left in Britain was from a rule of an old London Bridge.

D．Tower Bridge is the symbol of London because it is the first bridge on the Thames River.

5 . We're always looking for well-written reviews of books, music, movies, television shows, websites, video games and other products. When writing a review, concentrate on exactly what you liked or didn't like. Give examples of strengths and weaknesses, be descriptive and provide background information on an author, director, actor or musician, if possible. Find professional reviews in magazines or newspapers and see how reviewers deal with their topics, but be sure to express your own voice in your review.
Grammar Hint for Reviews：When describing a book, movie, album or anything else, use the present tense.
Book Reviews
Discuss an author's technique, strengths and weaknesses instead of focusing on the plot. Does the story flow？ Is there a strong sense of character and place？Did you stay up until dawn to finish it？Is it good reading for teenagers？What influence did it have on you and why？If you've read other books by the same author, discuss how this book compares.
Movie Reviews
Think of the major Oscar categories and consider the performances, music, lighting and setting, etc. Do these work together？ Did some hold up while others didn't？ If the movie is based on a book, discuss whether one is better than the other and why. If the movie is a remake, compare the film to its original.
Remember that a well­written movie review should discuss strengths and weaknesses. Some readers may not have seen a movie yet, so don't give away an exciting scene or the ending！
College Reviews
Begin by providing an overview of the college, including location, size and a description of the campus and/or dorm life. Think about all aspects of your college visit. What academic, athletic and after-class programs are available？ What are the students like？ What makes the college different from others？ Every school has strengths and weaknesses. Be objective. Consider what the school has to offer and who might enjoy or benefit the most from attending there.
1. When writing a review, you .

A．cannot refer to any previous review

B．must express your own views and opinions

C．must provide some information about the author

D．needn't give any examples to support your views

2. Which aspects should be included in all three reviews？

A．Strengths and weaknesses.	B．Plot and character.
C．Programs and scenes.	D．Location and description.

3. Where can you probably find the passage？

A．In a personal diary.	B．In an official report.
C．In a tourist guidebook.	D．In a popular magazine.

6 . Put sunscreen on before going out in the sun. Take it with you.
Use it: after a swim; every hour or so while playing outdoors; if you get sweaty
Cover up when the sun is overhead:
10 am—2 pm; especially at lunch time.
Get you suntan gradually and not too much.
Controlled exposure to sunshine helps avoid skin cancer.
Ask your chemist to recommend a suitable sunscreen.
Queensland Cancer Fund P. O. Box
Spring Hill, QLD. 4000 Phone（07）839 7077
Provided for community awareness by the Queensland Cancer
1. This passage is most likely to be ________.

A．an article from a student text book	B．a direction from a bottle of medicine
C．an advertisement from a newspaper	D．a suggestion from a chemist

2. Which statement is true?

A．The more you get sunshine, the better your health will be

B．You’ll never have skin cancer with controlled exposure.

C．You mustn’t stay outside from 10am to 2pm.

D．You should frequently put on sunscreen while playing outdoors.

3. According to the passage we can see that Queensland Cancer Fund wants to ________.

A．sell sunscreen, shirt and hat	B．encourage people to play in the sun
C．help people guard against skin cancer	D．make money out of sunscreen

4. If you want a sunscreen, you should ask ________ for advice.

A．the seller

B．the advertiser

C．your parents

D．your doctor