1 . True friendship is like sound health, the value of which is seldom known________ it is.

A．when

B．if

C．until

D．since

2 . A http:/www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/

Fantastic site from CNN. Over 50 news stories categorized under headings such as crime, environment and adventure. Each story has a range of activities focusing on comprehension and vocabulary, mostly of the multiple-choice variety.

B http:/www.npr.org/

NPR is an American radio network with an extensive audio archive—an excellent source of authentic English.

C http:/www.humorlinks.com/

Hilarious site bringing together over 7,000 links to humor of every kind, from American comedy to Australian cartoons. Here you will see the funniest jokes and pictures from around the world.

D http:/www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/

Hundreds of fascinating interviews with famous people from every walk of life: actors, cartoonists, musicians, painters, philosophers, political activists, scientists and writers.

E http:/www.bbc.co.uk/music/listen

Lots of online music from classical to jazz, from blues to rap. You can listen to radio programs or select a range of special features.

F http: /www.onestopenglish.com

Here you will find listening activities—updated each month--from the online magazine from Macmillan.

1. http:/www.literacynet.org/cnnsf is a website intended for those who________.

A．are learning English

B．are writing news stories

C．are interested in environment protection

D．are designing activities for newspapers

2. For someone who is doing a project on this year's Nobel Prize winner, ________ will be the most suitable website to turn to.

A．http:/www.onestopenglish.com

B．http:/www.humorlinks.com/

C．http:/www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/

D．http:/www.bbc.co.uk/music/isten

3. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A．How to Choose a Suitable Website

B．This Week's Web Guide

C．Web Radio: New Access to Information

D．Special Features from Famous Websites

3 . 经常性的锻炼能使我们拥有高质量的生活。(ensure) （汉译英）

4 . 提醒我明早六点出发，因为我记性不好。(remind) （汉译英）

5 . 18-year-old Kayla Perkins explains what is in her bedroom, “I throw something on the floor and I know right where it is.” However, her parents, Steve and Deborah Perkins, of McKinney,Texas, haven’t caught on. Even Kayla admits that, at the worst, her room is a mess.

Most families at some point have at least one child whose room looks like a landfill (垃圾堆) .The mess can disturb the whole household. Dirty clothes pile up; dirty dishes get lost in the mess and smell bad; homework is lost; and valuable things are ruined.

Some parents let it go, believing that a bedroom is private space for children to manage as they wish. Others lecture their children, offer rewards for cleaning, or punish them when they don’t. What doesn’t work, parenting experts say, is constant lectures, verbal (口头的，言语的) threats or getting very angry. Mrs. Perking says they picked up all the clothes on Kayla’s floor and hid them. They cleaned everything up. When Kayla came back to a bare bedroom, there was screaming and shouting, “How can I live without my clothes?” Mrs. Perkins asked Kayla to earn her clothes back by doing housework. These days, she keeps her room clean.

Humour can help, too. For example, since Jessica, the 14-year-old daughter wasn’t bothered by the dirty clothes all over her floor, the whole family started using her room as a place to store dirty clothes. Her attitude changed after her family did that. By the time she gave in and cleaned up her room a few days later, even she was laughing.

Parenting expert, Jim Fay, also recommends that parents first ask children in a nice way to clean up and agree on a reasonable time limit. Children often behave better if you treat them in the way you would want to be treated by your boss at work - with respect and high expectation.

1. What is the best title of the passage?

A．How to Make Children Clean up Their Bedrooms

B．Ways to Correct Children’s Bad Habits.

C．Encourage Children to Share More Housework.

D．Tips on Cleaning up the Room.

2. According to the experts, when children’s room looks like a landfill, parents at first should           

A．let children have their own private space.

B．lecture their children and give verbal threats.

C．set an example and offer rewards for cleaning.

D．ask them in a nice way and set a reasonable time limit.

3. What can we conclude from the passage?

A．Playing hide-and-seek can help children change their attitude.

B．Parents differ over their children’s bedroom cleaning.

C．Children often behave better if parents treat them like bosses.

D．Most children feel uncomfortable when their rooms are too clean.

6 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

The Goosehead guide to life

Ashley Powers mother bought a computer for her when she was eight. When she was thirteen, she was surfing the Internet regularly, but she     1    not find anywhere for teenagers to meet and talk. And one day she thought, "If I had my own website, I'd make it a really interesting site for teenagers."

So, when Ashley was sixteen, she launched her own website, called Goosehead. She had no idea how big a success it     2     (be), but three years later, the site was the most successful teen site in the USA! It was getting 100,000 hits every day, and Ashley had about 30 employees.

After a few years, the website closed down. Then Ashley, who lives in Los Angeles,    3    (ask) to write a book called The Goosehead Guide to Life. The book is about     4    to design a website and start a business. It begins with a section called All About Ashley,     5    Ashley tells readers what it's like     6    (be) the boss of a company when you're only sixteen - not always easy! "I was so happy. But it was crazy in a lot of ways. I got very stressed. I mean. I was only sixteen - I didn't even have a car! If you were sixteen and you had your own company, you'd be stressed too!"

In her book, Ashley talks about the problems facing teenagers today, and about the importance of friendship, but also about being independent. "Learn to love your friends but not rely on them. I did that by     7     (create) Goosehead on my own."

Ashley says that The Goosehead Guide o Life is not a book of teenage advice. "It isn't a book that's going to tell you what to do. I hope you can work that out for     8    ,”she says.“I just want to provide a little inspiration to teenagers. Maybe    9     reading my story, you'll launch your own website. But perhaps you've got a better idea? Well, if I were you, I'd just do it,     10    it is. Maybe it won't work-but maybe it will!"

7 . Directions:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box.Each word can only be used once.Note that there is one word more than you need.

A.various	B.wonders	C.offer	D.related	E.seemingly	F.exposed
G.explorations	H.actually	I.real	J.unique	K.staring

No Destination Is the Wrong Place to Go

Everyone has a list of destinations they promise themselves to visit during their lifetime. People travel for endless reasons,whether it’s to experience different cultures,see natural     1    of the world,or learn about heritage.All these ideas are exciting options,because in every situation,you will be     2     to something unfamiliar and life-changing.

I recently had a discussion with someone about my student abroad experience.They listened as I recounted my     3     around Italy and my additional travels. “I would love to do something like that,” they said, “but I feel like everyone goes to Europe now.It’s not really that     4     anymore.”

I was pretty shocked by such a statement.Since when was traveling anywhere not cool enough?Naturally,the older you get ,the more people you’re going to know,especially those who have traveled to     5     parts of the world.However,does standing underneath the Eiffel Tower have less value to me because so many travelers have done the exact same thing?Or climbing and taking a picture at the top of the Florence Duomo also means the decreased value?

My answer:absolutely not.Reading travel blogs and    6     at photographs is helpful and enjoyable,but nothing close to     7     experiencing that place.The truth is,every new destination is unique,and it’s nearly impossible to make a “wrong” decision.

It is important to focus on your own personal journey,not the experience of others.Every city, state,and country,has thousands of different things to     8    .The places you will visit all have fascinating people,different kinds of delicious food you’ve never tried before,and unbelievable history that will blow your mind.Travelling will nevertheless change you and leave an imprint on the way you see the world—no matter where you go.

Whether the destinations we desire are     9     simple or obscure(不清楚的)in the eyes of others,every experience has its own unique value.Keep your adventures     10     while also taking advantage of the opinions and advice of others.In every new destination,you will find a new part of yourself.Truly,no destination is the wrong place to go.

8 . The Music Industry — A New Industry

Not long ago, most professional musicians lived in a world far removed from business management, distribution and promotion. But today, social media, laptop production techniques and musical tastes have largely ______ the old relationship between musicians, their audiences and the marketplace.

A leading U.S. conservatory（音乐学院）now teaches students how to ______ successful careers in this new world. Robert Sirota, president of New York’s famous Manhattan School of Music, takes a small break from his work to play one of his own _______. It’s one moment of traditional musical expression in a conservatory that ______ that the music industry is in major change.

“Everything we know about the _______ of music-making, and the industry of music — including recordings, published materials, concert places, the way people enjoy the performance and concerts — have changed rapidly in the last 20 years,” he says, “and it became clear to me and other people of like mind to ______ how to develop young artistic leaders who are truly ________ of making their way in this new world.”

That’s why the Manhattan School of Music created the Center for Music Enterprise, where students can learn about new media, fundraising, ______ their own concert series, producing their own recordings, creating a package for the media and other necessary skills. Sirota, who completed his own conservatory education in the 1970s, _______ today’s Internet world with what used to be.

“The ______ as we understood in the music world, was that there were a small number of major international symphony orchestras, there were some excellent performers, and there was an _______ audience of concertgoers,” he says. “There were in addition, several multi-national record companies. But what has happened is the way people listen to music has changed.” Klorman knows that many young musicians are worried about the information needed to _______ a successful career today. However, he says the current climate rewards personal initiative and imagination as never before. And if we are creative about putting together new _____, we can carve out a whole new market for ourselves.

The ______ at the Center for Music Enterprise are among the most popular at the Manhattan School of Music. In fact, the supply is not ______ to the demand and the program is expanding. This success has in turn inspired other conservatories to teach business skills for tomorrow’s musical careers.

1.

A．sponsored

B．replaced

C．constructed

D．competed

2.

A．create

B．undertake

C．reflect

D．arrange

3.

A．compositions

B．solutions

C．projects

D．channels

4.

A．claims

B．appeals

C．declares

D．recognizes

5.

A．event

B．item

C．business

D．affair

6.

A．figure out

B．carry on

C．make up

D．set about

7.

A．aware

B．capable

C．ignorant

D．independent

8.

A．inventing

B．transferring

C．searching

D．launching

9.

A．associates

B．differs

C．contrasts

D．varies

10.

A．situation

B．fight

C．statement

D．disaster

11.

A．established

B．constructed

C．founded

D．instructed

12.

A．remain

B．insist

C．persevere

D．sustain

13.

A．customs

B．traditions

C．opportunities

D．purposes

14.

A．courses

B．activities

C．responsibilities

D．contracts

15.

A．suitable

B．adequate

C．exact

D．crucial

9 . How Should School Education Be Reformed?

The state of public school facilities in the United States is a matter of great concern to educators and administrators. While the mission of public schools has expanded beyond education to include social support and extra-curricular activities, the academic schedule has changed little in more than a century. A report on time and learning released today by the state education committee says saving school time for academic teaching and moving away from the time-limited tradition of education are crucial steps in the school reform process.

The committee’s report, entitled Time Prisoner, described fixed clocks and calendars in American education as a fundamental design problem that urgently needs to be changed. “Time should serve children instead of children serving time.” the report says. The two-year committee found that holding American students to world-class standards will require more time for classroom instruction. “We have been asking the impossible of our students that they learn as much as their foreign peers while spending half as much as in core academic subjects.” it states.

The committee compared the relationship between time and learning in Japan, Germany and the United States and found that American students received less than half of the basic academic education received by Japanese and German students. On average, American students can earn a high school diploma if they spend only 41 percent of their school time on academics, says the report. American students spend an average of three hours a day on core academics such as English, math, science, and history, the committee found. Their report recommends offering a minimum of 5.5 hours of academics every school day.

The nine-member committee also recommended extending the daily school hours beyond the traditional six hours. “If schools want to continue offering important activities outside the academic core, as well as serving as a center for family and community services, they should keep school doors open longer each day and each year.” says John Hodge Jones, education official of schools in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and chairman of the committee. The typical school year in American public schools is 180 days. Eleven states allow school years of 175 days or less, and only one state requires more than 180 days.

“For over a decade, education reformers have been working excitedly to improve our schools,” says Milton Goldberg, executive director of the committee. “But... if reform is to truly take hold, the six-hour, 180-day school year should go into museums — an exhibit from our education past.”

1. Compared with the academic courses more than a hundred years ago, the academic courses now ___________.

A．include some extra-curricular activities

B．remain much of what they used to be

C．demand students’ more contribution of time

D．focus more on education of social support

2. The researches by the committee mentioned in the passage are most concerned about __________.

A．the fashion of education management

B．the elements of school education

C．the changes in education in the recent century

D．the time devoted to academic learning

3. As it is mentioned in the passage, schools in the U.S.A do the following except __________.

A．provide important outside-academic activities

B．have competition with schools of other countries

C．arrange six-hour teaching and learning every day

D．serve social units such as family and community

4. Executive director of the committee Milton Goldberg would most probably disagree that ___________.

A．the time of school day and school year should be reduced

B．what the education reformers have done is not good enough

C．visiting museums can improve students’ academic learning ability

D．social support and extra-curricular activities should be cancelled

10 . About the time that schools and others quite reasonably became interested in seeing to it that all children, whatever their background, were fairly treated, intelligence testing became unpopular.

Some thought it was unfair to minority children. Through the past few decades such testing has gone out of fashion and many communities have indeed forbidden it.

However, paradoxically(自相矛盾的), just recently a group of black parents filed a lawsuit (诉讼) in California claiming that the state’s ban on IQ testing discriminates(歧视) against their children by denying them the opportunity to take the test. (They believe, correctly, that IQ tests are a valid method of evaluating (评估) children for special education classes.) The judge, therefore, reversed, at least partially his original decision.

And so the argument goes on and on. Does it benefit or harm children from minority groups to have their intelligence tested? We have always been on the side of permitting, even promoting such testing. If a child of any color or group is doing poorly in school it seems to us very important to know whether it is because he or she is of low intelligence, or whether some other factor is the cause.

What school and family can do to improve poor performance is influenced by its cause. It is not discriminative to evaluate either a child’s physical condition or his intellectual level.

Unfortunately, intellectual level seems to be a sensitive subject, and what the law allows us to do varies from time to time. The same fluctuation (起伏) back and forth occurs in areas other than intelligence. Thirty years or so ago, for instance, white families were encouraged to adopt black children. It was considered discriminative not to do so.

And then the style changed and this cross-racial adopting became generally unpopular, and social agencies felt that black children should go to black families only. It is hard to say what are the best procedures. But surely good will on the part of all of us is needed.

As to intelligence, in our opinion, the more we know about any child’s intellectual level, the better for the child in question.

1. Why did the intelligence test become unpopular in the past few decades?

A．Its validity was challenged by many communities.

B．It was considered discriminative against minority children.

C．It met with strong opposition from the majority of black parents.

D．It robbed the black children of their rights to a good education.

2. The author believes that intelligence testing       .

A．may ease racial discrimination in the United States

B．can encourage black children to keep up with white children

C．may seriously worsen racial discrimination in the United States

D．can help black parents make decisions about their children’s education

3. The author’s opinion of child adoption seems to be that       .

A．no definite rules can be prescribed

B．white families should adopt black children

C．adoption should be based on IQ test results

D．cross-racial adoption is to be advocated

4. Child adoption is mentioned in the passage to show that ______.

A．good will may sometimes complicate racial problems

B．social surroundings are vital to the healthy growth of children

C．intelligence testing also applies to non-academic areas

D．American opinion can shift when it comes to sensitive issues