There are many different ways of seeing a town for the first time. One of them is to walk around it, guide-book 36 hand. Of course, we may 37 with our guide-books the history and 38 developments of a town and get to know them. 39 then, if we take out time and 40 in a town for a while, we may get to know it better. When we 41 it as a whole, we begin to have some 42 ,which even the best guide-books do not answer. Why is the town just 43 this, this shape, this plan, this size? Why do its streets 44 in this particular way, and not in any 45 way?
Here even the best guide-book 46 us. One can’t find in it the information about how a town has developed to the 47 appearance. It may not describe the original (最初的) 48 of a town. However, one may get some idea of what it 49 look like by walking around the town. One can also imagine 50 the town was first planned and built . Then one can learn more about in what direction the town 51 to develop.
What is the 52 of studying towns in the way? For me, it is 53 that one gets a greater depth of pleasure by visiting and seeing a town with one’s own eyes. A 54 visit to a town may help one better understand why it is attractive 55 just reading about it in a guide-book.
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| 小题3: | | A．strange | B．similar | C．separate | D．special |
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| 小题4: | | A．But | B．Before | C．Since | D．Until |
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| 小题5: | | A．march | B．work | C．stay | D．wail |
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| 小题6: | | A．look at | B．look after | C．look for | D．look up |
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| 小题7: | | A．ideas | B．opinions | C．feelings | D．questions |
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| 小题11: | | A．helps | B．tricks | C．fails | D．satisfies |
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| 小题12: | | A．old | B．normal | C．first | D．present |
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| 小题13: | | A．capital | B．meaning | C．design | D．change |
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| 小题14: | | A．used to | B．seemed to | C．had to | D．happened to |
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| 小题16: | | A．stops | B．appears | C．starts | D．continues |
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| 小题17: | | A．point | B．view | C．problem | D．difficulty |
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| 小题18: | | A．nearly | B．simply | C．generally | D．hardly |
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| 小题19: | | A．costly | B．formal | C．group | D．personal |
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| 小题20: | | A．from | B．than | C．through | D．with |
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解读：本文是一篇说明文，介绍了了解一个城镇的不同的方法。作者提出亲自到城镇里转一转要比拿一本旅行指南好。
小题1:A。in hand在手中。其中之一是手中拿着指南转一转。
小题1:B。句意：当然，我们可以用旅行指南去研究一个城镇的历史以及它独特的发展，然后慢慢了解它。分清句子结构，study的宾语是history。
小题1:D。special独特的。解析见上题。
小题1:A。but但是，表示转折。解析见下题。
小题1:C。句意：不过，如果我们花时间在城里待（stay）一会儿，我们可以更好地了解它。
小题1:A。句意：当我们总体看过（look at）之后，我们会有一些连最好的旅游指南都解答不了的问题。
小题1:D。由下文的answer可知选D。question问题。
小题1:C。为什么小镇像（like）这样。
小题1:B。指街道延伸用run/extend。
小题1:C。other“其他的”。这里指：为什么街道以这种独特的方式延伸，而不是任何其他方式？
小题1:C。句意：甚至最好的旅行指南也会使我们失望。fail sb“使某人失望，有负于某人”。trick sb“哄骗某人”，与语境不符。
小题1:D。present“目前的”。这里是指“一个城镇如何发展成了现在的样子”。
小题1:C。根据后面“the town was first planned and built”可知此空应填design。
小题1:A。used to look like“过去看起来是什么样的”。
小题1:B。how怎么。小镇起初是怎么计划和建造的。
小题1:D。句意：于是，一个人能够对这个城镇继续（continue）往什么方向发展有更多的了解。
小题1:A。what is the point of doing sth“做某事有何意义”。
小题1:B。simply“仅仅，只不过”。
小题1:D。personal“个人的；亲自的”。 亲自到城镇里参观。
小题1:B。为什么它比（than）在旅行手册看更具有吸引力。
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"Every time we had dinner, I felt awkward when my Chinese mom__２１___asked me to eat more. My mom in American would__２２___push me like that.__２３___I couldn"t tolerate it any more, so I asked why she did that. She told me it was because she loved me and really looked__２４___me as her own child and she worried about whether I felt hungry. From that point I understood that Chinese people had__２５___a poor life in the past.__２６___worries parents most is whether their children have enough food. Although their lives have dramatically improved, they are used to__２７___the old concerns. I still don"t feel easy with constant___２８__to eat, but when my Chinese mom tries to persuade me__２９___more, I always thank her with a smile__３０___feeling angry."
This story comes from Tyler, an American youngster who once lived in my neighbour’s home. His Chinese mom is Wang Huirong, a__３１___from Beijing Normal University.
As economic__３２___between the US and China become more frequent, an increasing number of American teenagers have become interested in Chinese culture, which seems very new and__３３___ to them. Chinese has gradually become a(n) __３４___choice for American high school students studying a second language. Tyler"s father has a trade relationship with China stretching back to the beginning of reform and opening-up, which gave Tyler the opportunity to have__３５___to China from a very young age.
"Only__３６___and opening-up has allowed us to have a lovely American teenager come and visit us frequently. I couldn"t even imagine that in the past. Before we actively sought to avoid __３７___relations. None of us could ever have imagined that one day we would live with foreigners __３８___we were from the same family." says Wang with deep feeling.
Tyler"s Chinese has improved a lot. When he first arrived at Wang"s home he often watched the retiree__３９___ she spoke, but couldn"t respond. Wang often felt anxious and asked for my help with translating. But now Tyler has no problem__４０___with us in Chinese.
| 小题1: | | A．eagerly | B．repeatedly | C．friendly | D．warmly |
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| 小题2: | | A．also | B．never | C．often | D．not |
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| 小题3: | | A．However | B．But | C．Finally | D．Therefore |
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| 小题5: | | A．led | B．leaded | C．live | D．made |
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| 小题7: | | A．speaking | B．talking | C．voicing | D．saying |
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| 小题9: | | A．eat | B．eating | C．to eat | D．ate |
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| 小题10: | | A．other than | B．but than | C．instead | D．instead of |
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| 小题11: | | A．retiree | B．worker | C．professor | D．official |
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| 小题12: | | A．changes | B．exchanges | C．conflicts | D．improvements |
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| 小题13: | | A．different | B．difficult | C．challenging | D．exciting |
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| 小题15: | | A．entrance | B．access | C．door | D．way |
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| 小题17: | | A．foreigner | B．aboard | C．civil | D．overseas |
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| 小题18: | | A．like | B．as if | C．as | D．even if |
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I love science and science fiction. Like many science fiction fans, I am fascinated by the possibility of time travel. However, one must combine romance with reasoning and look into the chances of time travel critically.
First of all, we must remember the whole universe is in motion. If we want to go back to yesterday, our "time machine" has to move back in time and space. If someone claimed he was at home when he suddenly travelled 200 years back in time, he either had an illusion or made the story up. Two hundred years ago, Earth was in a different place in space, so how can you travel back 200 years without moving in space? Don"t get me wrong. I am not knocking the genius of science fiction writers. H.G. Wells"s "The Time Machine" is a great work of fiction, but that’s all. I have read many other time travelling science fiction stories since reading H.G. Wells, but none address this problem of displacement.
My own argument for the im p ossibility of time travel is that physical states of the past no longer exist and those of the future are not here yet. To be able to move back and forth in time requires everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen everywhere in the whole universe at every single moment in time－past, present, and future－to be stored as a "reality" somewhere－like the save game file of a computer game that contains every single byte of information of the game at the point it was saved, but you would need an almost extremely large file and almost extremely many of them－so it can be re-entered and communicated with, and not just light signals for viewing. To me, I don’t buy it.
小题1:Which of the following can be the best title?| A．How to make time travel possible? | | B．Why am I fascinated by time travel? | | C．Why do I think time travel is not possible? | | D．How to explain the possibility of time travel? |
小题2:What’s the meaning of the underlined word “illusion”?| A．success | B．dream | C．switch | D．support |
小题3: According to the author, which of the following is RIGHT?| A．We can go back to the past by time travel. | | B．People can travel to the future by moving in space. | | C．“The Time Machine” is nothing more than a science fiction. | | D．Everything that happened, is happening and will happen can be stored somewhere. |
小题4:In the author’s opinion, time travel might be possible if .| A．people could combine romance with reasoning | | B．people could stop the movement of the whole universe | | C．people could use time machine under the instruction of H.G. Wells | | D．people could “save” everything in the past, present and future in a certain space |
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People playing computer games to train their brains might as well be playing Super Mario, a new research suggests. In a six-week study, experts found people who played online games designed to improve their cognitive skills didn’t get any smarter．
Researchers recruited（招募） participants from views of the BBC’s science show Bang Goes the Theory．More than 8,600 people aged 18 to 60 were asked to play online brain games designed by the researchers to improve their memory, reasoning and other skills, for at least 10 minutes a day, three times a week．
小题1:What’s the purpose of online brain games according to the designers?| A．To take part in the study. | | B．To draw public attention to computer. | | C．To provide free service to teenagers. | | D．To improve players’ IQ. |
小题2:How many people were inveolved in the study made by the researchers?| A．About 60. | B．Only 2700. | C．8600 or so. | D．Around 11,300. |
小题3:．What’s the result of the study about online games?| A．Those who didn’t play online games felt disappointed. | | B．Those who played online games proved smarter. | | C．Online games don’t improve the players’ skills at all. | | D．Online games will be more popular than before. |
小题4:The best title for the passage may probably be .A． Don’t Play Games Any More | B．New Study of IQ | | C．Brain Games Don’t Raise IQ | D．Brain Games and Super Mario |
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The first English week at our school started on May 4th, 2009. The whole school was filled with an English learning atmosphere. A series of activities was held. There were handwriting activities, story writing, English songs, role playing in English, and so on, all the teachers and students were very happy. They spoke English, sang English songs and enjoyed all the activities.
Handwriting was for the students in lower grades. Although most of them couldn’t write so well, they were all very careful about it. In the show window, there were a lot of colorful handwritten papers. They copied some articles from books or newspapers. And then they decorated them with pictures in different colors, and some even put their own photos on them. How cute and lovely they looked!
Story writing was for students in Grade 7 and Grade 8. These students are always fond of cartoons, so they got interested in this activity. Reading the stories they made up, all the visitors couldn’t help speaking highly of them.
The most important event was the English show on the last day. The students and teachers presented(上演) a lot of English songs and English operas. Each program won storms of applause.
One week is not very long, but all the students and teachers learned a lot. Just as the headmaster said, “It is a helpful week. It will certainly lead us to enjoy and learn more from our English studies.”
小题1:In this passage, the English week is described as__________.| A．surprising | B．boring | C．enjoyable | D．serious |
小题2:Which of the following is Not true?| A．All the students took part in the handwriting contest. | | B．The story writing contest was for students in Grade 7 and Grade 8. | | C．The English show was the most important event. | | D．Teachers also took part in the English week. |
小题3: What does the underlined word “applause” probably mean?| A．Noise | B．Cheer | C．Sound | D．Music |
小题4:What does the writer probably want to tell us at the end of the passage?| A．The activities are a good way to learn English. | | B．Students usually don’t like English. | | C．The activities last longer. | | D．Learning English in the classroom is invaluable. |
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For years my husband, John, and I had dreamed of taking our three kids to Disney World．We"d planned our trip down to the last detail and dollar．But in Georgia, halfway there, our car broke down．
At a garage, the mechanic promised our Mercury Sable would be repaired by the next week．Meanwhile, John tried to find us a rental car．After many phone calls, John finally found a car．Luckily, our auto club would pick up the tab．We ended up arriving there three hours behind schedule．We tried every ride and met Mickey．
At the end of the long weekend we called the garage to check on our car．It turned out that the mechanic hadn"t even looked at it yet! John got on the phone again．He found it would cost more than $ l, 100 to rent a car to drive home．That plus a plane ticket for him to go pick up our own car and we"d be out over $2,000!
I wailed（痛哭） and asked John, "What are we going to do?" He said, "It"ll work out．" John encouraged me not to lose heart and he insisted on trying to find a way out．Amazingly, John found a car transport company that had a car we could drive home, paying only for gas! But all the way home I couldn"t stop thinking about the money we"d still need for John"s trip back to the garage and another long driving home．
When we got home, the high school student who had fed our cats asked how our trip was．I gave him the rundown, "Things worked out okay except that our car"s still stuck in Georgia．" "No problem," he said．"I"m heading to Florida for a spring break with my parents．We"ll be glad to stop in Georgia on the way back and pick up your car．"
We ended up spending only $50 more than we"d budgeted．The next week, our car was back, and I had a new understanding of dealing with trouble．Whatever happens, if you never give up, a good solution will come out at last．
小题1:From the passage we can learn that ．| A．Disney World is located in Georgia | | B．Mercury Sable is the name of the mechanic | | C．the couple budgeted for their trip carefully | | D．repairing their car needed a lot of money |
小题2:The underlined phrase "pick up the tab" probably means “___________”．| A．pay the expense of renting a car | | B．find a taxi for the club members | | C．give somebody a lift on the way | | D．take someone home free of charge |
小题3:Why was the author unhappy at the end of the weekend?| A．They didn"t have enough money to rent a car to go home． | | B．They spent $2,000 more than they had budgeted． | | C．They didn"t enjoy themselves in Disney World． | | D．They found their car hadn"t been repaired at all． |
小题4:We can infer from the passage that _______________________．| A．the car transport company usually had its cars rented | | B．the couple had to drive the company"s car to an appointed place | | C．the car transport company charged the couple some money | | D．a student helped the couple return the car to the company ． |
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