1 . Ask people in the UK what the words “Sunday roast” mean to them, and they’ll probably take you back to their grandmothers’ dining rooms - maybe with a few stories of “the greatest puddings” and “the best ever steak”. But now the traditional Sunday roast seems to have been left back in the old days. According to the Daily Mail, just one in 50 British families sits down to this weekly meal together.

There are many reasons why the roast is becoming less popular. In the busy modern world, where breakfast is a slice of toast eaten on the way to work or school and lunch is a quick sandwich in front of the computer screen, people just don’t seem to have the time or patience to make a roast.

And Sunday was once a day when people could easily go to the kitchen to cook. Nowadays, people are often out shopping or at the cinema until it’s far too late to start thinking about heating the oven (烤箱) up.

However, a recent article from The Telegraph warned against being carried away by our tight schedules: “It would be a shame to let this fine old tradition disappear.”

The Guardian further explained that the eating of the big meal is only the half of it. The Sunday roast also makes for relaxed morning activities in the kitchen, and the table becomes the perfect place to share good food and chat with family and friends. “For busy moms and dads, even if you can manage to turn off your mobile phone and the TV only once a week and turn the Sunday roast into a real family event, children can have fun cooking the food and clearing up together.”

1. Why do people pay less attention to Sunday roast?

A．They have a busy lifestyle.

B．They have no interest in cooking.

C．They don’t think it worthwhile.

D．They are living in the modern society.

2. What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．A recent article.	B．A traditional kitchen.
C．The fine old tradition.	D．The Sunday morning activity.

3. How does the author feel towards Sunday roast’s dying out?

A．Doubtful.	B．Positive.
C．Uncertain.	D．Sorry.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Sunday-Best Time for Family	B．Sunday Roast Dying Out
C．It’s the Perfect Time for Us	D．Let’s Sit Down Together

2 . In the subway station, I notice a black teenage boy waiting for the train, sitting on a railing(栏杆) just in front of a moving escalator(扶梯). It’s a hot evening; there is no air in the station. This black kid is just sitting there, settled on the railing, and I’m just standing there about 10 feet away looking for the faraway lights of the oncoming train. Then suddenly a white police officer is asking the kid for identification. The kid turns a little annoyed and asks what he’s been bothering about. The officer doesn’t explain. The kid pulls out some I.D. and hands it to the officer who looks at it and then barks out a demand for something with an address on it, a driver’s license.

Unwillingly, the kid pulls out a second piece of identification. The officer looks at it and tells the kid to come with him. Nothing I have seen or heard explains the officer’s strict approach or why the kid is being led away.

I get up to the officer and politely ask what this guy did and where he is taking him. He looks at me like I’m armed and crazy and tells me that it’s none of my business and to stay out of this.

“Could I please take down your badge(警徽) number, sir, as I’d like to report all this,” I say.

“Take down my badge number and then you show me a piece of identification. What are you, some lawyer?”

I copy down his badge number and then show him my driver’s license, asking, “Could you please tell me what this is all for?”

Looking at me over and again asking if I’m a lawyer, he tells me he’s taking the kid in for blocking the escalator and me in for “obstructing a police action.” Another black man hearing all this asks what’s going on and the officer gets very nervous. So I decide to go with him to his office. Then the officer gives his version of what happened and I politely interrupt to explain that the kid was in no way blocking the escalator traffic and that I was in no way “obstructing a police action”, not adding that I thought the way the officer handling the situation was racist and unnecessarily strict.

After this experience in the police station, I’m still wondering whether a well-dressed white man will be faced with a sharp command for identification for sitting on an escalator railing waiting for a train? If a bystander does want to get involved and inquire about an apparently unfair arrest, is a policeman’s only response a second arrest? Will our police officers always be seen by black kids as evils? Is my charge with racism too strong?

1. What is the black teenager doing at the train station?

A．He is blocking the escalator.

B．He is escaping the police.

C．He is waiting for the train.

D．He is damaging the escalator.

2. Why does the author stand out to help the black teenager?

A．He is a racist.

B．He is not afraid to get involved.

C．He is black.

D．He has a sense of justice.

3. According to the passage, we can know that.

A．The black boy doesn’t obey the police officer.

B．Subway stations are good places to hang about.

C．The white policeman thinks ill of the black teenager.

D．Situations like this in the passage will never change.

4. Which of the following best explain the underlined word in the passage?

A．blame.

B．forbid.

C．prevent.

D．defend.

3 . 语法填空

The Teacher-Student Relationship

A good teacher-student relationship will make learning enjoyable and interesting for the students.

To set up a good teacher-student relationship, a teacher’s     1     (behave) is important. The teacher should motivate (激发) the students so that they want to learn. A good teacher should be     2     (patience), friendly and strict. However, being too friendly may cause students to become lazy and stop making progress. On     3     other hand, being too strict may frighten the students. So a teacher should avoid     4     (go) to extremes (极端) in treating his students. And teachers should encourage the students to think     5     (independent) and learn to study by     6     (they) .

As for the students, they must always respect their teachers. Students should be eager to learn as well as willing     7     (work) hard. It’s important to listen with attention in class and it’s more important to learn to raise questions and work out problems     8     new ways.

Above all, both students and teachers have to focus on     9     they should do most, which means that the students have to study hard and teachers have to be responsible when teaching. Besides, students and teachers have to respect each other, which     10     (be) a necessary basis of setting up a good teacher-student relationship.

4 . As data and identity theft becomes more and more common, the market is growing for biometric(生物测量) technologies—like fingerprint scans—to keep others out of private e-spaces. At present, these technologies are still expensive, though.

Researchers from Georgia Tech say that they have come up with a low-cost device(装置) that gets around this problem: a smart keyboard. This smart keyboard precisely measures the cadence(节奏) with which one types and the pressure fingers apply to each key. The keyboard could offer a strong layer of security by analyzing things like the force of a user’s typing and the time between key presses. These patterns are unique to each person. Thus, the keyboard can determine people’s identities, and by extension, whether they should be given access to the computer it’s connected to—regardless of whether someone gets the password right.

It also doesn’t require a new type of technology that people aren’t already familiar with. Everybody uses a keyboard and everybody types differently.

In a study describing the technology, the researchers had 100 volunteers type the word “touch” four times using the smart keyboard. Data collected from the device could be used to recognize different participants based on how they typed, with very low error rates. The researchers say that the keyboard should be pretty straightforward to commercialize and is mostly made of inexpensive, plastic-like parts. The team hopes to make it to market in the near future.

1. Why do the researchers develop the smart keyboard?

A．To reduce pressure on keys.	B．To improve accuracy in typing.
C．To replace the password system.	D．To cut the cost of e-space protection.

2. What makes the invention of the smart keyboard possible?

A．Computers are much easier to operate.

B．Fingerprint scanning techniques develop fast.

C．Typing patterns vary from person to person.

D．Data security measures are guaranteed.

3. What do the researchers expect of the smart keyboard?

A．It’ll be environment-friendly.	B．It’ll reach consumers soon.
C．It’ll be made of plastics.	D．It’ll help speed up typing.

4. Where is this text most likely from?

A．A diary.

B．A guidebook

C．A novel.

D．A magazine.

5 . The United States has announced a plan to fight the quickly growing threat from cyber（网络）spies and Internet attackers known as hackers.

America's Attorney General (司法部长) Eric Holder recently said that ever-improving technology is making it easier for people and countries to strike at the United States. Mr. Holder said the Justice Department is fighting back aggressively. He said it is working with various states and government agencies.     1    .

And the attorney general called for increased co-operation with private companies.     2    . He said: “A single trade secret can be worth millions—or even billions—of dollars. Trade secret theft can require companies to lay off employees, close factories, to lose sales and profits, to experience a decline in competitive position and advantage, or even to go out of business.”

    3    , aiming to protect America’s interests and benefits.

The plan was announced the day after the American information security company Mandiant published the findings of its investigation of cyber-attacks.     4    . The victims of cyber attack include some of the biggest private companies in the United States like Apple Computer, Facebook, Coca Cola and many others.     5    . The attack areas range from satellites, information technology, telecommunications, aerospace, public administration to scientific research across the United States.

A．The new plan also calls for fines and trade actions against crimes committed by individuals and countries

B．Cyber theft also leads to much harm to companies and countries in Asia

C．They together investigate (调查) cyber theft and cybercrime and share the information

D．The hackers are also reported to have struck federal (联邦) and international agencies

E．They show that more than 140 companies have been attacked since 2006

F．Similar investigation of cyber-attacks is being carrying on by other countries like China

G．He described the importance of keeping trade secrets a secret

6 . 你发现周围很多同学在用手机发短信，玩游戏等，影响了正常学习，请针对这个现象，写一份广播稿，呼吁同学放下手机，多关注身边的人和事。内容包括：
1、简述频繁使用手机的危害性；
2、提出至少三项合理化的建议(多锻炼……)。
注意：1、词数100左右

2、开头及结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

3、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear fellow students,
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

That’s all. Thank you for your listening.

7 . One of the problems with passwords (密码) is that users forget them. In an effort to remember them, people use simple things like their dog’s names and their birth dates — anything that will give them a clue to remember what their passwords are. But for a hacker(黑客), this is the same as locking your door and leaving the key under the doormat(门口地垫).

To create a safe password that is easy to remember, follow these simple steps:

You should never use personal information as part of your password. It is very easy for someone to guess things like your last name and your pet’s name.

With the help of today’s computing power, it doesn’t take long to try every word in the dictionary and find your password, so you’d better not use real words for your password.

You can make a password much safer by mixing different types of characters. Use some capital letters along with small letters, numbers and even special characters such as & and %.

In order not to create a password using different character types that is hard to remember or using a word from the dictionary, you can use a “passphrase(代码)”. Think of a sentence from a song or a poem that you like and create a password using the first letters from each word. For example, instead of just setting a password like “yr$1Hes”, you can take a sentence such as “I like to read the about.com Internet network security website” and make it a password like “il2rta!nsw” by using the number “2” for the word “to” and using “!” in place of “Internet”. You can use may characters types and create a safe password that is hard to guess, but much easier for you to remember.

1. The underlined word “clue” in the passage is similar to “_____” in meaning.

A．an explanation	B．a condition
C．a conclusion	D．a piece of information

2. According to the passage, a passphrase is made up of _________.

A．different capital letters	B．long English words from the dictionary
C．sentences from a song or a poem	D．the first letters from each word of a sentence

3. Which of the following passwords might be the best according to the passage?

A．jessica208.	B．19890703.
C．il2rta!nsw.	D．3About&5.

4. What is the best title for this passage?

A．How to use you passwords correctly.

B．How to keep others away from your computers.

C．How to protect your private information online.

D．How to make you passwords safer and easier to remember.

8 . It probably won’t surprise you that teens are texting more than ever before. Experts show great concern for teen texting. Students might not learn correct grammar and spelling if they write a lot of text messages. Also all that texting takes away from hours that could be spent studying, exercising, pursuing hobbies, or talking with others face to face. Some kids even sleep with their phones beneath their pillows and wake up several times during the night to text.

Dr. Elizabeth Dowdell points out teens need to learn that they can—and should—turn off their phones sometimes. She and her team had two teenagers, Kenny and Franchesca, carry out an experiment. They should obey the rules: No phone for 48 hours. No computer or Internet either, unless it was for schoolwork. Would these two teenagers be able to do it?

“I think I’m going to feel really alone,” Kenny worried. Franchesca was nervous but brave. “I’m excited for the challenge,” she said. “I don’t know what’s going to happen.” They handed their phones to their mothers for safekeeping. The challenge was on.

The team caught up with Kenny and Franchesca after 48 phone-free hours. “Wow, it was pure suffering,” Kenny joked. “Though life with no phone wasn’t easy,” he admitted, “it had benefits. I felt less stressed because I didn’t have to be involved.” Sure, Kenny missed his friends, and he was sad at times. But he also felt relief from the constant texting. Instead of texting, Kenny went to the gym and caught up on schoolwork. He said that the first night he slept for 10 hours. He also spent time sitting with his family and talking. “I felt closer to my parents,” said Kenny.

Franchesca had an even happier result when she put away her phone. “I loved it!” she said. “I was going to the gym and hanging out with friends and playing basketball. I had a wonderful experience.” She slept better too, and she decided to continue the experiment for a while. “I think I’ll be so much smarter and healthier,” she explained. “Everybody in the world should try it.”

Kenny doesn’t plan to give up his phone again. But he now knows that he can live without it. “It was a reality check,” said the teen.

1. Experts are concerned about teens’ texting because it ______.

A．leads to learning disabilities

B．takes up their learning time

C．develops the habit of staying up late

D．causes misunderstandings with each other

2. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Teens will live a healthier life without phones.

B．Expecting teens to live without phones is not realistic.

C．Experimenting with phone use is popular among teens.

D．Teens don’t realize how different their lives are without phones.

3. How were the two teens’ reactions to the 48-hour challenge different?

A．Only Kenny participated in physical activities.

B．Only Kenny spent time talking with his parents.

C．Only Franchesca benefited from a really good sleep.

D．Only Franchesca appreciated the freedom of having no phone.

4. Which is the best title for the passage?

A．Giving up Texting	B．Rules for Using Phones
C．Two Days with No Phone	D．Problems Caused by Texting

9 . Getting less sleep has become a bad habit for most American kids. According to a new survey(调查) by the National Sleep Foundation, 51% of kids aged 10 to 18 go to bed at 10 pm or later on school nights, even though they have to get up early. Last year the Foundation reported that nearly 60% of 7- to 12-year-olds said they felt tired during the day, and 15% said they had fallen asleep at school.

How much sleep you need depends a lot on your age. Babies need a lot of rest: most of them sleep about 18 hours a day! Adults need about eight hours. For most school-age children, ten hours is ideal(理想的). But the new National Sleep Foundation survey found that 35% of 10- to 12-year-olds get only seven or eight hours. And guess what almost half of the surveyed kids said they do before bedtime? Watch TV.

“More children are going to bed with TVs on, and there are more opportunities(机会) to stay awake, with more homework, the Internet and the phone,” says Dr. Mary Carskadon, a sleep researcher at Brown University Medical School. She says these activities at bedtime can get kids all excited and make it hard for them to calm down and sleep. Other experts say part of the problem is chemical. Changing levels of body chemicals called hormones not only make teenagers’ bodies develop adult characteristics, but also make it hard for teenagers to fall asleep before 11 pm.

Because sleepiness is such a problem for teenagers, some school districts have decided to start high school classes later than they used to. Three years ago, schools in Edina, Minnesota, changed the start time from 7:25 am to 8:30 am. Students, parents and teachers are pleased with the results.

1. What is the new National Sleep Foundation survey on?

A．American kids’ sleeping habits.	B．Teenagers’ sleep-related diseases.
C．Activities to prevent sleeplessness.	D．Learning problems and lack of sleep.

2. How many hours of sleep do 11-year-olds need every day?

A．7 hours.	B．8 hours.
C．10 hours.	D．18 hours.

3. Why do teenagers go to sleep late according to Carskadon?

A．They are affected by certain body chemicals.

B．They tend to do things that excite them.

C．They follow their parents’ examples.

D．They don’t need to go to school early.

10 . Some children are natural-born bosses. They have a strong need to make decisions, manage their environment, and lead rather than follow. Stephen Jackson, a Year One student, “operates under the theory of what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine,” says his mother. “The other day I bought two new Star Wars light sabers(剑). Later, I saw Stephen with the two new ones while his brother was using the beat-up ones.”
“Examine the extended family, and you’ll probably find a bossy grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin in every generation. It’s an inheritable trait.” says Russell Barkley, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. Other children who may not be particularly bossy can gradually gain dominance（支配地位）when they sense their parents are weak, hesitant, or in disagreement with each other.
Whether it’s inborn nature or developed character at work, too much control in the hands of the young isn’t healthy for children or the family. Fear is at the root of a lot of bossy behavior, says family psychologist John Taylor. Children, he says in his book From Defiance to Cooperation, “have secret feelings of weakness” and “a desire to feel safe.” It’s the parents’ role to provide that protection.
When a “boss child” doesn’t learn limits at home, the stage is set for a host of troubles outside the family. The overly willful and unbending child may have trouble obeying teachers or coaches, for example, or trouble keeping friends. It can be pretty lonely as the top dog if no one likes your bossy ways.
“I see more and more parents giving up their power,” says Barkley, who has studied bossy behavior for more than 30 years. “They bend too far because they don’t want to be as strict as their own parents were. But they also fell less confident about their parenting skills. Their kids, in turn, feel more anxious.”
1. Bossy children like Stephen Jackson __________.

A．make good decisions	B．show self-centeredness
C．lack care from others	D．have little sense of fear

2. The study on bossy behavior implies that parents __________.

A．should give more power to their children

B．should be strict with their children

C．should not be so anxious about their children

D．should not set limits for their children

3. Bossy children may probably become __________.

A．relaxed	B．skillful
C．hesitant	D．lonely

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．How bossy behavior can be controlled.

B．How we can get along with bossy children.

C．What leads to children’s bossy behavior.

D．What effect bossy behavior brings about.