Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico, U.S.A.,is in the central part of the state, on the Santa Fe River, which flows into the Rio Grande 35 kilometres west of the city. More than two thousand metres above sea level, it lies in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains with the Ortiz Mountains to the southeast.
Santa Fe was founded in 1609 by the Spanish (西班牙人)on an old Indian village.In 1680 the Indians seized the place but only held it for twelve years before the Spanish retook it. The city remained under Spanish rule until Mexico won its independence (獨(dú)立) in 1821. From then on it was a Mexican city until 1846 when it was taken over by American troops.
With a population of 48,953, Santa Fe is now the second largest city in the state. Because of its sunny weather, rich history and surrounding mountains, it is a good place for holiday makers. Besides hunting and skating in the mountains people enjoy shopping in the Indian and Spanish shops, which brings a large income to the city every year. In summer there is an international opera (歌劇) season when operas are shown in a partly-roofed ,open-air theatre daily for people from all over the world.
小題1:At present Santa Fe belongs to           .
A．IndiaB．MexicoC．Spain(西班牙)D．the United States
小題2:Which of the drawings below gives an idea of what Santa Fe is like?
RG="the" Rio Grande  SFR="the" Santa Fe River  OM="the" Ortiz Mountains

小題3:Santa Fe was under the rule of the Mexicans in        .
A．1675B．1695C．1816D．1833
小題4:The people who held Santa Fe for the longest period in history were the           .
A．SpanishB．IndiansC．MexicansD．Americans
小題5:What is of special interest to people who visit Santa Fe in summer?
A．Hunting.B．Fishing.C．Watching operas.D．Doing shopping.
小題6:Santa Fe is best described (描述) as a             .
A．trade centreB．holiday centreC．home for all nationsD．seaport city
小題7:One of the reasons for visitors to come to Santa Fe is that it            .
A．has fine weatherB．is the state capital
C．has historical monumentsD．is on the Santa Fe River

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小題1:President Obama learned about Jeremy long before through      .
A．news reportsB．a(chǎn) friendC．Bill SimmonsD．Arne Duncan
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A．He/ she would be condemned by the public．
B．He/ she would be awarded by the government．
C．He/ she would have to worry about liability．
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A．Nobody helped the girl who was struck twice by two different vans．
B．The toddler died immediately after she was hit a second time．
C．High moral standards were once regarded as national pride in China．
D．Journalists from TVS captured the incident by using a camera．
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A．profit and materialism B．people’s perceptions
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D．The fear of being accused of harming her．
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It’s high-frequency noise. The UK police recently agreed to use a device (裝置) called the Sonic Teenager Deterrent. It sends out a sound that makes teenagers become so impatient and angry that they have to cover their ears tightly and walk away.
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A．threaten teenagers in public
B．drive away trouble-makers under 20
C．help mothers control their teenage children
D．help the police control shopkeepers
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B．shopkeepers are troubled by noisy insects
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D．the police invented a new device to deal with teenagers
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A．to advertise a new hi-tech device
B．to tell the reader a piece of news
C．to sell the device to shopkeepers
D．to inform the public as the spokesman of the police
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BC Social Report, August 14, 2010
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A．Scandinavians are the happiest people in the world
B．the research is carried out by Oxford University
C．the people of the northern countries are much happier
D．Italians expressed their trust in politics and institutions
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A. Subjunctive.          B. Objective.    C. Pessimistic.    D: Optimistic.
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The candidates,aged from 15 to 20,must be from foreign countries and not native Chinese speakers,said a statement issued by the Chinese language Council (CLC),the contest’s organizer,here Thursday.
All of the candidates have passed the preliminary contests(初賽)held in their own countries.
According to the organizer,the competition will have a top prize,five second prizes,10 third prizes and a dozen prizes for special talents.The organizer will also launch an online vote for“the most liked candidate.”
It was the third year China has held the contest.
“The competition not only tests the proficiency of Chinese language but also the candidates capability to communicate across different cultures.”the statement said.
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小題1:The text is intended to       .
A．show the popularity of Chinese language learning in the world
B．introduce an international Chinese language learning test system
C．make readers aware of the importance of Chinese language learning
D．report an international Chinese language contest to be held
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A．organized by the Chongqing Municipality government
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C．held every three years in Chongqing Municipality
D．to provide foreign students with a chance to know China
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A．Thousands of Chinese teacher are sent abroad to teach the language.
B．282 Confucius Institutes are established in China to teach Chinese.
C．The Chinese language contests for foreign students are regularly held.
D．Many Chinese students are sent abroad for culture exchanges every year.
小題5:In which part of the newspaper is the text most likely to be found?
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Next month is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the explosion and fire that destroyed a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The nineteen eighty-six event was the world's worst accident in the nuclear power industry.
A new United Nations report says more than six thousand cases of thyroid cancer have been found. These are in people who were children in affected areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The report says that by two thousand five the cancers had resulted in fifteen deaths.
The cancers were largely caused by drinking contaminated milk. The milk came from cows that ate grass where radioactive material had fallen.
To get the latest updates, go to www.unsv.com.
Contributing: James Brooke
小題1:The passage mainly tells us __________.
A．What measures the Japan Government takes to solve the nuclear crisis .
B．Worries and influences caused by the nuclear crisis .
C．With great efforts of scientists , the Japan Government has put the nuclear crisis under control .
D．To explain that the nuclear crisis has less effect on its neighboring countries.
小題2:Which of the following is NOT the influences caused by the leak of Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station?
A．Workers at the nuclear station are suffering the risk of death .
B．People can get cancer from low doses of ionizing radiation, the kind released in a nuclear accident.
C．The radioactive material may be blown over the area causing the pollution to water .
D．The concentration of radioactivity in the seawater can not be diluted.
小題3:What’s the meaning of the underlined word “dilution”?
A．chemicalB．salt C．dissolutionD．elimination
小題4:According to the passage which of the following is not TRUE ?
A．Water people drink ,food and vegetables people eat may be polluted by nuclear radiation .
B．Japan is the only country to have had atomic bombs dropped on it.
C．You can go to www.unsv.com. to get the latest news .
D．The nuclear accident in Japan is the worst in the nuclear power industry.

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The police officers enthusiastically support camera use．One officer said that too many people think the police often lie; cameras would show citizens that police tell the truth．"The money that we've been spending on lawsuits will be better spent on more cameras," said one officer．
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小題1:We can learn from what the chief said that with cameras on ___．
A．the police will not be treated unjustly
B．the police will be free from any lawsuits
C．the police can beat the law-breakers first
D．the police can monitor everything around
小題2:What's the purpose of installing video cameras in police cars?
A．To pay less money on lawsuits．
B．To cut the number of lawsuits．
C．To prevent lawsuits from happening．
D．To stop being beaten by law-breakers．
小題3:Which group of people support camera use most?
A．Council members,B．Police officers．
C．Local people．D．Drug users．
小題4:What can be learned from the last paragraph?
A．Most citizens support camera use in police cars,
B．The police are trying to take control of everything．
C．The man showed great disagreement on camera use in police cars．
D．Other citizens will join the man to object to camera use in police cars．

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WASHINGTON — Money can buy happiness, but only if you spend it on someone else, according to researchers.
Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly boost happiness, the team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found on Thursday.
Their experiments on more than 630 Americans showed they were measurably happier when they spent money on others --- even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier.
“We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn,” said Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia.
They asked their 600 volunteers first to rate their general happiness, report their annual income and detail their monthly spending including bills, gifts for themselves, gifts for others and donations to charity.
“Regardless of how much income each person made, those who spent money on others reported greater happiness, while those who spent more on themselves did not,” Dunn said in a statement.
Dunn’s team also surveyed 16 employees at a company in Boston before and after they received an annual profit-sharing bonus of between $3,000 and $8,000.
“Employees who devoted more of their bonus to pro-social spending experienced greater happiness after receiving the bonus, and the manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important predictor of their happiness than the size of the bonus itself,” they wrote in their report, published in the journal Science.
“Finally, participants who were randomly (隨機(jī)地) required to spend money on others experienced greater happiness than those required to spend money on themselves,” they said.
They gave their volunteers $5 or $20 and half got clear instructions on how to spend it. Those who spent the money on someone or something else reported feeling happier about it.
“These findings suggest that very minor adjustment in spending allocations (分配) --- as little as $5 --- may be enough to produce real gains in happiness on a given day,” Dunn said.
This could also explain why people are no happier even though US society is richer.
“Indeed, although real incomes have increased dramatically in recent decades, happiness levels have remained largely flat within developed countries across time,” they wrote.
小題1:
Dune’s experiment on 630 Americans was to ________.
A．help people make careful plans for their moneyB．encourage people to be generous to others
C．see how to spend money is important to happinessD．test whether $5 is enough to buy happiness
小題2:
What can we conclude according to the experiment?
A．Happiness largely depends on the size of your bonus money.
B．Happiness, as a matter of fact, has nothing to do with money.
C．The more money you give away, the happier person you will be.
D．Spending money for the good of society will make you happier.
小題3:
How many different ways are used by the researchers to test their theory?
A．Two.B．Three.C．Four.D．Five.
小題4:
The last sentence of the passage means _______.
A．happiness does not necessary increase as money grows
B．people in richer countries actually have more problems
C．fast economic growth has a bad effect on people’s life
D．great increase of income contributes to keeping happiness level stable

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