1 . 用方框中词组的正确形式完成句子，每个词组只使用一次。(方框中有两个选项为多余选项)

donate to,     lead to,     refer to,     relate to,     turn to,     date back to,     give way to

1. This vase is a great antique. It ________ the Tang Dynasty.
2. For assistance, they ________ one of the city’s most innovative museums.
3. According to his friends, he was not a man who ________ this kind of pressure.
4. The red line on the graph ________ the birth rate and the blue line to the death rate.
5. Between 1990 and 1992, there were more than 1,000 mergers (合并) in that industry, all of which ________ job losses.

2 . 根据音标拼写单词
1. [əˈfeə(r)] ________
2. [kəmˈpærɪs(ə)n] ________
3. [ˈkærəktə(r)] ________
4. [ˌkɒntrɪˈbjuːʃ(ə)n] ________
5. [ˈmeɪdʒə(r)] ________
6. [ˈkɒntrɑːst] ________
7. [rɪˈɡɑː(r)d] ________
8. [ˈentrəns] ________
9. [ˈstrʌɡl] ________
10. [maʊnt] ________

3 . They (the group) also hope to further educate people about the importance of ________ for future generations to understand and appreciate. (根据课文内容填空)

4 . The British love word-play and they’re enthusiastic about defending the use of their language. In recent years, books about the grammar, pronunciation and punctuation (标点) of English have been written by the dozen, and sold extremely well, reflecting people’s love of the English language. People want to defend the “correct” use of their language, but also to preserve its ability to evolve along with society. Lynne Truss’s book Eats, Shoots & Leaves is an excellent example of these two opposite ideas. Its title shows the way that punctuation can change meaning in a sentence. “Eats shoots and leaves” is a perfectly normal description of a panda’s diet: he eats the shoots and leaves of bamboo trees. But the position of the comma (逗号) turns those nouns into verbs, and makes up a ridiculous little story: the panda eats (his dinner), he shoots (a gun), and he leaves (the building). It’s a silly joke, but it shows how changing something as simple as a comma can change the entire meaning of a sentence.

Published in 2003, Eats, Shoots & Leaves was an unexpectedly huge success. It is easy to assume the typical reader of this kind of book as the humourless type. However, the book has sold thousands and thousands of copies — it must be appealing to a wide range of people. The book’s winning secret is this: it makes some serious points about language and punctuation, but also has a light-hearted dimension, and uses stories and jokes to show its points. It has invited some tough criticism, too, especially from the US. On a broader range, Eats, Shoots & Leaves has opened up a lot of public debate on Truss’s ideas. Whether they agree with her or not, punctuation and grammar has become a popular topic to discuss.

In every generation there will be people who think that the standard of language is in decline, and who are more than happy to write to the newspapers to express their concern and opinions. Truss’s book also appeals to those who think that texting and blogging is lowering the standard of literacy. Whether the standard of the English language is decreasing, or simply evolving into new forms, the success of Eats, Shoots & Leaves proves that this is a subject that many English speakers find interesting and important.

1. The title of the book Eats, Shoots & Leaves is a joke which shows ________.

A．a funny feeling	B．a trend in writing
C．a fact about animals	D．a grammatical point

2. The book has been successful because ________.

A．it causes concern for proper use of language in a fun way

B．it shows the British like to teach English to other people

C．it solves a serious English language problem

D．it presents the new research on English

3. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．The English language was better in the past.

B．The English language is being improved by technology.

C．There is often dissatisfaction with the standard of English.

D．There have always been debates on the use of punctuation.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．The Problem Punctuation Created	B．The Difference a Comma Made
C．Public Debate about Language Standards	D．Proper Understanding of Silly Jokes

5 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

A 90-year-old has been awarded “Woman Of The Year” for     1     (be) Britain’s oldest full-time employee — still working 40 hours a week. Now Irene Astbury works from 9 am to 5 pm daily at the pet shop in Macclesfield,     2     she opened with her late husband Les. Her years of hard work have     3     (final) been acknowledged after a customer nominated (提名) her to be Cheshire’s Woman Of The Year.

6 . 冒着生命危险去救人是需要很多爱与勇气的。(risk) (汉译英)

7 . 那些避难所都被洪水冲毁了。整个城市都成了一片废墟。(sweep，ruin) (汉译英)

8 . 选词填空

apply; deliver; impress; recognise; attract; survive; confuse; recommend

1. In the camp, we will learn some _________skills.
2. His _________for membership of the club was accepted.
3. The first week of senior high school life was a bit _________.
4. You have changed a lot so that I could hardly _________you.
5. We need to make the club _________to a wider range of people.
6. What was your _________of your first day at senior high school?
7. I _________this book to anyone with an interest in language learning.
8. Dangerous conditions will make it difficult to _________food and supplies.

9 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

My first class was math.I really like math.I went into the classroom and sat down at a desk in the second row right near the door. The girl named Pat    1    (leave) a deep impression on me. She was very friendly. She was also very    2    (forget). She forgot her pen, so she borrowed mine.She forgot her paper, so I    3    (give) her a sheet of paper. The one thing she didn’t forget was my name.We felt like friends already!

10 . A cultural view on personal space

It’s a well-known fact that the British prefer a large “bubble” of personal space around them.     1     And in South America, a friend may grab you by the arm during conversation to make their point.

Now, a study published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology has looked into why different cultures have such different approaches to personal space.     2     They developed an earlier study that divided individuals into “contact” and “non-contact” cultures. Contact cultures—southern European, Latin American and Arabian—engaged in more touching and stood closer during conversation than non-contact cultures in northern Europe, North America and parts of Asia.

To a degree, this proved correct. Argentina becomes known as the most touchy-feely nation; people here keep the same distance from a stranger as a British person would an acquaintance and a Canadian individual a close friend or partner.     3     They come out with the widest distance you should stand from a stranger—more than 1.3m—but one of the narrowest gaps for close friends, just 40cm, compared to nearly 60cm for a British person. So the theory of warm versus cold is not as straightforward as it sounds.

    4     The higher a country’s average temperature, the closer people will stand to a stranger. But older people in warm climates keep a bigger distance from close friends and stand closer to strangers; women generally keep a greater distance from someone they don’t know.

The academics leading this study admit that there is a lot more to do. But what we do know is to keep your distance in Canada; prepare for a hug in Argentina.     5     They like to stand closer than anybody. To keep warm, perhaps.

A．It’s important to get the distance right, though.

B．Romanians clearly take longer to establish trust.

C．How close we stand to other people varies widely between countries.

D．And if you end up on good terms with a Norwegian, don’t draw back.

E．However, in India people will pack into trains and buses without a second thought.

F．One theory the researchers wanted to test was whether climate affects personal space.

G．The study certainly found that climate, age and gender have an effect on personal distance across cultures.