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differences between American youth and French youth.
The first difference is in appearance. Going around in the U.S., I found that American youth do not
really care about their appearance. In the morning, they choose something in their closet and wear it with
another thing, often of different colors and styles, without wondering whether their choices make them
look strange. The reason behind this is that they don"t care what people look like, but are just interested
in their ideas. I think it"s great, but it also causes problems. Since they don"t care about their appearance,
they don"t really care about their weight. Often they get fat without realizing it.
There are differences in relationships too. When the American youth fall in love, they don"t really think
of the future. Also, there are differences in the rules concerning behavior that is allowed. In some respects, the French are more accepting. For example, in America it is generally unacceptable to make physical
display of love. Lovers, actually, can"t kiss or hold each other everywhere they want. People think that not showing love in public places is a way to respect others. On the contrary, the French youth can do almost everything they want.
As for other types of relationships, there are also big differences. Americans act differently from
French people in front of unknown people. When an American girl, for example, arrives in front of people she has never met before, she will talk with them, trying to create a kind of tie between her and this new
circle of people. The French girls will just think about rather than really do this kind of thing because they
are too shy and lacking in self-confidence.
To finish, I noticed that in American classes, when pupils want to say or ask something, they just do it. In general, they don"t really care how the others will judge them. In France, it"s not the same cas
e. If somebody wants to ask something, he/she will think about it before speaking up. I appreciate the freedom in Americans" behavior, ideas, and ways of expressing themselves.B. aspects
C. honors
D. means
B. will rarely display their love in public
C. will always think about their future
D. will kiss wherever they like
B. their public images
C. their physical displays
D. their lover"s ideas
B. friendship
C. similarities
D. relationships
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are controlled for many reasons, primarily to maintain reliable water supplies for daily, agricultural and
industrial needs, for power generation, for navigation (航行), and to prevent flooding.
River control is achieved by channelization, a term that covers a range of river engineering works, including
widening, deepening, straightening and stabilization of banks, and by the construction of dams.
An important period of channelization took place in Europe during the 19th century, when many large rivers
were straightened and their beds deepened. One of the most dramatically changed was the Tisza River, a branch
of the Danube that flows through Hungary. The controlling of the Tisza, designed to reduce flooding and make
land for agriculture, included cutting off more than 100 meanders (河曲), shortening the river"s length by nearly
400 kilometers.
One of the most common ways in which people control rivers is by damming them. The past 50 years or so
has seen an increase in dam construction worldwide, and at the beginning of the 21st century, there were about
800,000 dams globally, some towering more than 200 meters in height.
Despite their successes, many dams also cause significant environmental changes that prove harmful. Some
particularly deep reservoirs (水库) can bring about earthquakes due to the stress on their bottom rocks caused
by huge volumes of water. Downstream of a reservoir, the river is certainly influenced in many ways:water
volume, speed and quality are all affected, leading to changes in the landscape and among plants and animals.
plants or animals. Languages are considered to be endangered when parents are no longer teaching the l
anguage to their children and are not using it actively in everyday life. A language is considered to nearly
disappear when it is spoken by only a few elderly native speakers.
The world faces enormous challenges in order to protect different kinds of languages. Of the more than 6,912 languages, half may be in danger of disappearing in the next several decades.
It is caused by many reasons: small numbers of speakers, the regular use of other languages, attitudes
towards their languages, moving of the younger population, government policies, and languages used in
education and so on. A language may lack important things such as a body of literature, and people who
read and write it. A language may also lack prestige (声望) and support of its speakers.
The survival of a language is also threatened when speakers move to other areas where different
languages are spoken, or when government policies improve the use of a specific language in school,
official business and the media. These situations encourage people to learn the wider-known language
and may cause them, especially the young, to stop using their mother tongue. Often those speaking
lesser-known languages will choose to learn a more prestigious language with the hope of greater
economic opportunities. Most of the world"s parents are teaching their children English, French, Spanish,
Chinese, Arabic, Russian or some other main languages instead of their own languages for social and
economic reasons.
B. Reasons why languages become endangered.
C. What an
endangered language is. D. Languages spoken by few speakers.
B. more than 3,456
C. 6,912
D. less than 3,456
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angered language is to _________.B．pass laws to protect the language
C．raise the salaries of the people who speak the language
D．teach the language to young ch
ildren and encourage people to speak it oftenB．government policies have a big effect on languages
C．the endangered language is a language that is spoken by a few people
D．languages are relat
ed to their speakers" social 
and economic position devil and ugliness？
Have you read the book “The Wolf Totem” by a famous writer Jiang Rong, which tells the story of the
relationship between wolves and human beings? Have you ever_1_the wolves" world? If you had, you
would 2 the wolves.
In the book, wolves are heroes on the large grassland. They know more about 3 than humans. They
can attack lambs (羔羊) without disturbing their mothers. They also know how to 4 full use of the shape
of land to 5 sheep. I believe that if wolves were humans, they would be 6 experts good at fighting.
The wolf is a kind of special creature that can deeply understand 7 . Each wolf serves its group with
its heart and soul. A 8 wolf has little power, but a pack of wolves 9 nothing. All the wolves obey the
rules. 10 they are defeated, they run away together. It is their teamwork 11 makes wolves powerful.
The wolves also have great self-respect and won"t 12 to anyone. The writer, who wrote the book
“The Wolf Totem”, 13 stole a one-month-old baby wolf and raised it very carefully. To his 14 , he found
the little wolf still wanted to go back with 15 wolves. He bit through the iron chain that limited him. The
wolf was 16 and he never gave in, fighting 17 his death. The little wolf died as a glorious fighter.
I was shocked by this kind of 18 : wolves are one of the most respected creatures on earth. I want
everyone to look at wolves in a 19 way. They are our teachers. They show us how to survive and 20
in this not simple and dangerous world. Please honor the wolves, please honor all these heroes of nature!
| ( )1. A. talked about ( )2. A. hunt ( )3. A. space ( )4. A. make ( )5. A. fight ( )6. A. special ( )7. A. operation ( )8. A. single ( )9. A. fight ( )10. A. As for ( )11. A. what ( )12. A. turn in ( )13. A. once ( )14. A. satisfaction ( )15. A. rest ( )16. A. proud ( )17. A. until ( )18. A. selflessness ( )19. A. curious ( )20. A. walk | B. left for B. admire B. spot B. take B. avoid B. imaginative B. teamwork B. brave B. struggle B. As though B. he B. give in B. just B. disappointment B. others B. satisfied B. although B. self-confidence B. different B. hand | C. thought about C. draw C. food C. have C. trap C. outstanding C. lifestyle C. lonely C. fear C. Even so C. that C. take in C. soon C. pleasure C. another C. willing C. before C. self-respect C. strange C. get | D. cared for D. watch D. survival D. get D. discover D. creative D. control D. fair D. fail D. Even if D. one D. break in D. only D. delight D. the other D. eager D. unless D. self-protection D. humorous D. succeed |
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| To many basketball fans in Taiwan, the William Jones Cup or the Basketball Association may be their sweetest memory. But if you ask them, "What"s the hottest basketball event now?" There is the only answer: HBL, the High School Basketball League. Founded in 1988, the HBLwas at first just a high school basketball tournament. After the Taipei School Sport Federation took charge in 1996 and renamed it HBL, everything changed. The Federation decided to co-operated with Nike, the well-known sportswear manufacturer, and use its experience in marketing to promote the game. The HBL started with 129 teams; today there are more than 250. no longer just of interest to the players, it"s now Taiwan"s biggest basketball event. Fellow students, alumni (男毕业生,男校友), and sports fans all over Taiwan cheer for their favorite teams. At last year"s finals, Taipei and Kaohsiung mayors came to cheer for their teams. The HBL starts in September with qualifying and preliminary(预备的,初步的) rounds and continues through April of the following year, when the finals are held. Broadcasting the games on television has helped make the HBL a wildly popular event. It"s become the place to spot young basketball talent. Today"s HBL players are tomorrow"s professionals. Recent HBL tournaments have been very competitive, with no one school taking the advantage. This wide-open quality of the tournament makes it more exciting. Everyone wants to see how this year"s games will come out. HBL fever just keeps getting hotter. | |||
| 1. What is the hottest event in the eyes of most basketball fans in Taiwan? | |||
| A. HBL B. The William Jones Cup C. The Basketball Association D. NBA | |||
| 2. What was it that helped to make the High School Basketball League wildly popular to the public? | |||
| A. The co-operation with Nike, the well-known sportswear manufacturer. B. Broadcasting the games on televisio  n. C. Taipei and Kaohsiung mayors" coming to cheer for their teams at last year"s finals. D. Many tomorrow"s professionals" joining. | |||
| 3.Why does the writer say"Recent HBL tournaments have been very competitive"? | |||
| A. Because there isn"t a school taking the advantage. B. Because HBL fever just keeps getting hotter. C. Because it"s become the place to spot young basketball talent. D. Because the Taipei School Sport Federation took charge of it. | |||
| 4. What would be the best title for the passage? | |||
| A. Today"s Players---Tomorrow"s Professionals B. The High School Basketball League of Taiwan C. The Basketball Fans in Taiwan D. HBL Fever---Just Keeping Getting Hotter | |||
| 5. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? | |||
A. At first, the HBL was no more than a high school football ball tournament. B. It was the successful co-operation with Nike, the well-known sports  wear manufacturerthat changed everything of HBL. C. Many of the mayors came to cheer for their teams during the event. D. Everyone wants to see how the teams will come out to take part in the games. | |||
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| Today we will talk about expressions with "apple". "Apple pie order" means very well organized. Nobody is sure when and where this expression began. It is said that the women of New England loved to have everything in its place, especially when they were making apple pie. Another expression "apple of discord" describes the opposite condition. The ancient story says that all the gods and goddesses were celebrating a marriage when Discord, one of the gods, threw a golden apple on the table which was to be given as a prize to the most beautiful goddess. How could they choose among Juno, Minerva and Venus? When Paris decided to give the golden apple to Venus, Juno and Minerva were very angry and threatened(威胁)him. This began the long Trojan War. Calling a tomato "a love apple" was a mistake. In the sixteenth century, Spain imported the tomato from South America to Morocco, and then Italian businessmen took it to Italy. The Italian name for the tomato was pomo di Moro-apple of the Moors(荒野). When French growers imported it from Italy, they thought di Moro meant d"amour, the French word for love. And so pomo di Moro became the apple of love. People believe many things about the apple. One belief is that it has great powers of keeping people healthy. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Another belief is based on fact. "One rotten apple spoils the barrel." The expression has come to mean that one bad person in a group can cause everyone to act badly. | |||
| 1. Which of the following expressions means badly organized? | |||
| A. Apple pie order. B. Apple of discord. C. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. D. One rotten apple spoils the barrel. | |||
| 2. Which of the following statements is WRONG? | |||
| A. Discord is the name of a god. B. Di Moro means love in Italian. C. "Apple pie order" means very well organized. D. Many people believe apples can keep them healthy. | |||
| 3. We can most probably hear this passage in a radio program about ______. | |||
| A. famous people in America B. traveling in America C. eating in America D. words and their stories |