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| A．Congratulations! | B．Best wishes! | C．No problem. | D．All right. |
2 . China has named the nation’s first Mars rover (火星车) Zhu Rong. For all of us, Zhu Rong is a well-suited name.
In an ancient Chinese story, Zhu Rong had the face of a man and the body of an animal. H rode on two dragons.
When he had a big fight with Gong Gong, the god of water, Zhu Rong won. But after the fight, the human world came into complete darkness. Then he brought fire from heaven to the world.
“Zhu Rong is regarded as the earliest god of fire in traditional Chinese culture,” a space official said. “The first Mars rover was named Zhu Rong. The name symbolizes light and hope for space exploration in our country, and means to guide humans to continue exploration.”
After leaving the earth last summer, Zhu Rong circled Mars for several months and landed on it in May. In recent years, our country has sent up the world’s first quantum satellite (量子卫星), and Chang’e-4 has made a soft landing on the moon. We have made great progress in space technology and will soon start building our own space station.
1. What Zhu Rong brought from heaven to the world was ________.| A．fire | B．wars | C．water | D．animals |
| A．a big fight | B．complete darkness | C．light and hope | D．Chinese culture |
| A．the earth | B．Mars | C．the moon | D．the sun |
| A．Zhu Rong is a bad person in an ancient Chinese story |
| B．China has made great progress in space technology |
| C．the writer is proud of China’s space technology |
| D．the official doesn’t like the name Zhu Rong |
4 . THE BOAT RESTAURANT
| Starters Tomato Soup $2.50 French Onion Soup $ 2.50 Chicken Salad $ 3.50 | Snacks Cheese Burger $ 3.40 Burger $3.00 |
| Main courses Chips $7.00 Cheese & tomato pizza $5.00 Chinese chicken & rice $6.15 | Desserts Ice cream $3.00 Lemon cake $2.45 Chocolate cake $2.45 |
| Drinks Water $ 1.50 Fresh orange juice $ 1.25 Coffee $ 0.80 | |
| Lunch served 1:30 — 2:30 p.m. Dinner served 6:00 — 9:00 p.m. | |
| A．$ 2.45. | B．$ 2.50. | C．$ 4.95. | D．$ 5.00. |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six |
| A．At 2:00 p.m.. | B．At 9:00 p.m.. | C．At 6:00 p.m.. | D．At 1:00 p.m.. |
1. awkward
2. strategy
3. campus
4. topic
5. generation
6. architect
7. civilization
8. champion
9. positive
10. stadium
1.简单介绍“智能机器人大赛”的内容
2.说明志愿服务的基本内容和要求。
3.介绍参加志愿者活动的好处。
词汇释义：智能机器人大赛Competition for Intelligent Robots
注意：1.词汇100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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7 . Many plants and animals live together, and they depend on each other. They are usually very different from their sharing partner, and yet all live easier lives because of each other. It is nature’s idea of sharing.
An example of this is the shark and pilot fish. The pilot fish is a little guy and he would be helpless if he hung around by himself in the great ocean. But his smartness makes up for his size. He cleverly swims along beside the shark and when the shark eats, the pilot fish gets the leftovers. The shark also benefits from this relationship. The pilot fish cleans food scraps (碎屑) and insects from the shark’s skin.
Another example is the sea anemone (海葵) and striped clown fish. The sea anemone looks like a flower but contains poisonous cells. When small fish swim into it, the anemone traps and paralyzes (使麻痹) them. However, the striped clown fish is able to swim into the poisonous anemone without being harmed. To pay for his safety, the clown fish brings food to the anemone. He also guides other fish into the anemone’s deadly trap.
Large mammals such as the ox, antelope and African buffalo form such a relationship with the oxpecker (牛椋鸟). They provide daily meals to the bird that eats insects. The various large mammals act as a restaurant with a varied menu for the oxpecker. What do they get in return from the bird? Free beauty treatments!
Some plants live together in a beneficial relationship. Fungus (菌类) does not have chlorophyll (叶绿素) that plants need to make food. However, the green alga (海藻) does contain chlorophyll. It is, therefore, able to feed the fungus along with itself. But nothing is free! The fungus repays it by protecting the alga. Since it takes in and stores water, it can provide the alga with an unending water supply.
1. Why does the pilot fish swim along beside the shark?| A．Because he likes eating the waste given off by the shark. |
| B．Because he can help the shark get food. |
| C．Because he can get food and protection. |
| D．Because he needs the help of the shark to lead his way. |
| A．paralyzes small fish for him | B．helps him catch other fish |
| C．does some cleaning work | D．warns him of the danger |
| A．Energy and light. | B．Energy and light. |
| C．Light and chlorophyll | D．Chlorophyll and water. |
| A．①→②③④⑤ | B．①→②③→④⑤ |
| C．①②③④→⑤ | D．①②③→④⑤ |
8 . BEIJING — The Chinese economy has shown positive signs of stabilizing (稳定), but it’s hard to judge what it will be next year, governor of China’s central bank said on Thursday.
Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, made the remarks on a panel discussion with delegates from the financial field to the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which opened here on Thursday morning.
China’s economic momentum (推进力) will depend on not only domestic conditions, but also changes brought by the global financial crisis, said Zhou, who is also a CPC delegate to the national congress.
“It has become increasingly clear that the Chinese economy is now moving towards a better direction,” he said.
Due to the impact of the debt crisis in Europe, China’s economy began slowing this year. The Chinese economy expanded only 7. 4 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2012, marking a downturn for seven straight quarters, the National Bureau of Statistics of China said.
As the government adopted a series of fiscal (财政的) and monetary measures and speeded up the approvals of investment projects to spur the slowing economy, the domestic economy has stabilized since September with better indicators, Zhou said.
He said it’s hard to judge how the global financial crisis will continue to affect the Chinese economy because the spreading of the European debt crisis and the so-called fiscal cliff problem in the United States have increased uncertainties of the world economy.
“We need to monitor the effect on our economy of the monetary, easing policies launched recently by the United States and the European Union,” he said.
China is likely to maintain the policy continuity to some extent in 2013, but will leave enough room to make the policy targeted and flexible.
1. What is the attitude of Zhou Xiaochuan towards the Chinese economy at present?| A．Doubtful. | B．Negative. | C．Optimistic. | D．Unknown. |
| A．cause | B．expand | C．decrease. | D．encourage. |
| A．Global financial crisis. |
| B．The debt crisis in Europe. |
| C．Fiscal cliff problem in the US. |
| D．The Chinese economy policy. |
| A．The People’s Bank of China published the economic statistics of China. |
| B．The Chinese economy policy will have a chance of flexibility in 2013. |
| C．The world economy is uncertain. |
| D．The global financial crisis has a great effect on the Chinese economy. |
9 . A woman whose social media searching for a nurse who cared for her almost 40 years ago went viral this week has found the mystery woman—in only 24 hours.
Amanda Scarpinati has wondered all her life about a nurse who helped her in the Albany Medical Center in 1977. At three months old, Scarpinati caught a cold, so her parents put her on a couch near a hot steam humidifier. She was in the living room by herself and rolled off the couch and landed right on the humidifier. She remained there for a full minute, suffering third degree burns on her face and hands.
Scarpinati spent seven weeks in the hospital and went through many surgeries during her youth as a result. All through elementary school, she was picked on and laughed at because of it. But one person Scarpinati knows treated her with only loving care—a nurse at the burn unit, whose photo Scarpinati had seen for years. “There is a picture of us together in an annual report for Albany Medical Center from that year. I don’t know how our family got hold of it, but I’ve always had the report and I would stare at the picture and wonder who she was, ever since I was a kid. But I’ve never had a name to go with the face,” Scarpinati says.
Scarpinati says she tried to locate the nurse 20 years ago, but with no luck. “I went to Albany Medical Center and they did some research but weren’t really able to find anything,” she says. “I just wanted to thank her.”
Nurse’s work is important to Scarpinati, whose mother is also a nurse. “What they do is truly amazing. Most of the time it’s not the doctors who have the beside manner, it’s the nurses that comfort you. I remember as a kid having one surgery and my mother couldn’t be there but a nurse was,” Scarpinati says.
1. Why did Amanda Scarpinati stay in the Albany Medical Center?| A．Because she caught a bad cold. | B．Because her parents didn’t raise her. |
| C．Because she was burned badly. | D．Because she fixed the humidifier. |
| A．She spent seven weeks in the hospital every year. |
| B．She was made fun of by other students in her school. |
| C．She was well treated by one person with loving care. |
| D．She had no spend most of her time on the Internet. |
| A．The picture on the medical center’s annual report. | B．The telephone number the nurse gave her. |
| C．The living room they once lived together. | D．The name of the nurse who cared for her. |
| A．Scarpinati’s mother is also a nurse. | B．Being a doctor is wonderful. |
| C．Nurses should do much for patients. | D．Nurse’s job is very important. |
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