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The Michael Jackson "Michael09" T-shirt is a great way to remember an American music legend!

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Price: $21.99

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1.By dialing 414-479-9860, a fan of Michael Jackson can buy________ from the seller.

A. an iPod B. a CD player C. a Thriller album D. a music skin featuring the star

2.Which of the following descriptions of "Music skins–Vinyl protective covers" is true?

A. They are of the best quality.

B. They need to be changed constantly.

C. They have skins for all laptop models.

D. They don't have skins for classical musicians.

3.How much do you have to pay for a "Michael09" T- shirt in red (size XL) and two music skins with images of Madonna?

A. $39.99 B. $83.97 C. $61.98 D. $101.79

4.The best title of the 3rd advertisement would be ________.

A. Training at Home B. Working at Home C. Recording Work D. Learning at Home

In the Harry Potter films, Hermione Granger is better than her male friends and is considered the brightest pupil in her grade. Isn’t it often the same in schools of our real world? A great many boys fall behind their female classmates.

“It’s surprising but true that most of the top students have been girls since primary school. Girls are class leaders, club presidents and the top ones in exams,” said Wang Feixuan, 15, who studies at a Chengdu school. By any measure, Wang herself is a high-achiever. She is a top student, a team leader in her school’s sports club and a winner in national English and IT competitions.

But why do so many girls outperform their male peers（同輩）?

In Sun Yunxiao’s latest book Save Our Boys, he points out that the education system is “more suited to girls, who are good at memorizing and like to sit quietly and read.” Yet he also says that girls have to do so much more when they compete with males for honors, top universities and later good jobs. They can feel great pressure（壓力）nearly every day.

This seems to be the same in most countries in the world. Young women in the United States are also reported to feel the same pressure to be perfect.

“Let’s look at what we ask of our teenage girls,” says an American professor Stephen Hinshaw in an interview.

He thinks that it’s no longer enough that a girl does well in school and is a caring friend. On the TV, on the Internet, and everywhere, girls see images of impossible perfection（完美）.

Today’s young women must be good learners, good athletes, and fill their after-school lives with other activities. But they’re also asked to have the styles and looks of popular stars. “Be pretty, sweet and nice. Be athletic, competitive and get straight. Be impossibly perfect.” Stephen Hinshaw sums up.

1.The passage suggests that________.

A. our society asks far too much of teenage girls

B. teenage girls shouldn’t be so perfect at school

C. boys are always lazy ones rather than girls

D. American girls have less pressure than Chinese girls

2.According to the passage, it is true that .

A. boys are less smart than girls throughout school life

B. boys usually don’t have so much pressure as girls do

C. girls are all fond of the Chinese education system

D. girls are better at school because boys don’t work hard

3.The underlined word outperform means_________.

A. mistake B. misunderstand C. ignore D. defeat

4.What’s the best title for the passage_________?

A. Impossibly Perfect Is Possible. B. Why Are Girls So Perfect?

C. Perfect? Pressure Every Day! D. Perfect: Boys or Girls?

If you want to attend the hottest events of 2014, don’t waste your time looking through dozens of hotel options（選擇）or vacation packages. Instead, look to cruise ships（坐航游）that can ferry you to and from the most expected holiday, sporting, and cultural events of the year.

Here’s a look at the some of the most popular:

Australian Open in Melbourne (January 13–26, 2014)

Tennis fans worldwide are eager for the tickets to matches at any one of the four annual Grand Slam events: the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. In January 2014, luxury cruise line Silversea will offer fans a three-night pre-cruise package to the 109th Australian Open in Melbourne. Silversea passengers will attend third round singles matches at Rod Laver Arena on January 17 and 18 before taking the 382-passenger Silver Shadow for a special 15-night Melbourne to Bali voyage.

Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (February 28–March 4, 2014)

Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival is one of the most popular celebrations of its kind in the world, drawing two million visitors each and every day of the festivities that include parades, street fairs, and costume balls. Holland America’s Maasdam will spend three days in Rio during Carnival as part of its 26-day Amazon & Carnival Explorer journey.

2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil (June 12–July 13, 2014)

If you’re a soccer fan that came up empty in the search for a hotel room for the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals in Rio de Janeiro, there’s still hope. Book MSC Cruises’ 18-night Miami to Rio voyage aboard Divina. The ship departs Miami on May 24 and arrives in Rio just in time for the World Cup.

New Year’s Eve in Hong Kong (December 31, 2014)

Hong Kong is a magical destination（目的地）and New Year’s Eve festivities and fireworks pull out all the stops to make a holiday trip to that city even more attractive. Crystal Cruises’ all-inclusive luxury ship, Symphony, will spend two nights in Hong Kong-- and celebrate New Year’s Eve Chinese-style—during its 15-night holiday voyage that leaves Bangkok on December 21. This roundtrip voyage also calls on Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in Vietnam.

1.According to the passage, which of the following ships will take the longest time of voyage?

A. Silver Shadow. B. Maasdam. C. Divina. D. Symphony.

2.The events that will take place in Rio de Janeiro in 2014 are ___________.

A. Carnival and FIFA World Cup

B. New Year’s Eve fireworks and Carnival

C. the Australian Open and Grand Slam events

D. New Year's Eve fireworks and FIFA

3.Where does this passage probably come from?

A. In a sports magazine. B. In a textbook.

C. In a science report.D. In a travel brochure.

4.The main purpose of the passage is to ___________.

A. give information about the hottest events of 2014

B. introduce cruise ships to some big events of 2014

C. describe the most popular tourist destinations in 2014

D. persuade readers to take cruise ships for 2014 holiday

“Find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Do you agree with this old saying? Joanne Gordon does. She is the author of Be Happy at work and other books about careers(職業(yè)). Gordon believes that about 30% of employees in North America do not like their jobs, and she thinks that is terrible. She wants to help people who do not feel satisfied with their jobs find work that is good for them. Joanne says, “There are no happy jobs, only happy workers.” She believes that happy workers share three main characteristics（特點）.

First, happy workers enjoy the daily activities of their jobs, and they look forward to the workday. Take Tony Hawk, for example. At age 14, he became a professional skateboarder. Now he is a businessman working on projects related to skateboarding—films and video games, but he still skates every day. He once said, “My youngest son’s pre-school was recently asked what their dads do for work. My son said, ‘I’ve never seen my dad do work.’” Tony agrees that his job doesn’t look like work. He has found a way to spend each day doing a job he enjoys.

Second, happy workers like the people they work with. Sally Ayote says, “I work with the coolest people in the world.” She and her group cook for almost 1,200 people in Antarctica. Most of these people are scientists who are doing research. Sally loves to sit and talk with them. She says, “There is no television here, no radio, so I get to know the scientists and what they’re studying.” Sally thinks she has a great job, and the best part about it is the people.

Third, happy workers know that their work helps others. Caroline Baron’s work helps people who have had to leave their home countries because of war or other dangers. She is a filmmaker who started an organization called FilmAid, which shows movies in refugee(難民) camps around the world. Caroline believes that movies can be very helpful in these camps. For one thing, entertaining movies let refugees forget their troubles for a little while. Movies can also teach important subjects like health and safety. For example, in one camp, thousands of refugees saw a movie about how to get clean water. Caroline knows that is helping other people, and this makes her feel proud and happy about her work.

Tony Hawk, Sally Ayote, and Caroline Baron all get great satisfaction from their work. Tony Hawk says, “Find the thing you love. If you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.” Joanne Gordon would agree. She encourages people to find something they enjoy doing, find people they like to work with, and find ways to help others. Then they can be proud of what they do, and they will probably be happy at work.

1.Who is the book, Be Happy at Work, written for?

A. Joanne Gordon herself.

B. Tony Hawk, Sally Ayote, and Caroline Baron.

C. People who do not feel satisfied（滿意的）with their jobs.

D. The workers who agree with the author’s ideas.

2.Why did Tony Hawk’s son say, “I’ve never seen my dad do work.”?

A. Because Tony Hawk’s job doesn’t look like work.

B. Because Tony Hawk always finds something enjoyable in his job.

C. Because Tony helps people forget their troubles while skating.

D. Because the best part about his job is to spend each day skating.

3.Tony Hawk, Sally Ayote, and Caroline Baron are good examples that show us __________.

A. how to be a successful businessman

B. how to help people in difficulties

C. how to get along with the coolest people

D. how to become a happy worker

4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Some people believe that only a few kinds of jobs can really make people feel happy.

B. The writer of the passage tells us that many different kinds of work can be enjoyable.

C. The author of Be Happy at Work thinks that happiness at work is really important.

D. Joanne Gordon believes that people will probably be happy at work when they are proud of what they do.

Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time; _________________, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way children, learning to do all the other things without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle, compare their own performances（表現(xiàn)）with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he became dependent on the teacher.

Why should we teachers waste time on such tiring work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let’s end all this nonsense（荒謬的）of grades, exams and marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.

We should, of course, offer help to them just as they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one’s life is nonsense in a world as complicated（復(fù)雜的）and rapidly changing as ours. Don’t worry! If something is basic, they will go out into the world and learn it.

1.What is the main idea of the passage? (No more than 8 words.)

_____________________________________________________________________________

2.Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

Teachers seem to think that a child can’t find out a mistake or correct it without their help.

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

3.Please fill in the blank in the first paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.

(No more than 10 words.)

_____________________________________________________________________________

4.According to the passage, what should a teacher do? (No more than 15 words.)

A teacher should ______________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

5.What is the author’s attitude towards grades, exams and marks at school?

(No more than 5 words.)

The author thinks _____________________________________________________________

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1.Western diet c___________ too much fat and sugar in the form of potato chips, butter, cream, coca cola, and chocolate.

2.It’s really difficult to stop smoking, because it is believed that smoking is a__________.

3.America___________(生產(chǎn)) more cars this year than last year.

4.Our school has ___________(采用) a new teaching method.

5.___________(復(fù)習(xí)) for exams gives you a chance to bring together all the individual parts of the course..

6.We’re always ____________(爭論) with each other about money.

7.Mark is a headmaster, who is a man of some_____________(影響) in our town.

8.Vivaldi _____________(作曲) a large number of very fine concertos(協(xié)奏曲) at that time.

9.There were more than 100 main ____________(人物、角色)in the novel.

10.There’s no enough___________(證據(jù)) to prove that the missing airplane from Malaysia has been under terrorist attacks.

下列短文共有十處錯誤，請在原文中改出。增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號，并在其下面寫出該加的詞。刪除：把多余的詞劃掉。修改：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

Dear George,

It’s been a week before we left your family and we are now back home. Thank you very much for showing them around your city and providing us for the wonderful meals.

After we said goodbye to you, we went to Washington D.C., which we stayed for three days. My brother was so much fond of the museums there that he begged my parents to staying another couple of day. However, my father had to return to work on Monday so we fly back last Saturday afternoon. It was really a nice experience.

If you’d like to make trip to our city some day, I will be more than happier to be your guide.

Yours

假如你是李華，你的美國朋友Eric在網(wǎng)上收看了今年的春節(jié)聯(lián)歡晚會(Gala)，在給你的郵件中，Eric希望了解更多的“春晚”的情況。請根據(jù)以下要點，完成郵件回復(fù)。

要點：

1、“春晚”從1983年開始舉辦，中國人視之為精神大餐（big feast），已發(fā)展成大多數(shù)中國人很難忽略的大事。

節(jié)目包括歌舞、相聲（crosstalk）、小品（sketches）、雜技（acrobatics）……

3、你看過的最喜歡的某個“春晚”節(jié)目和原因。

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– I’m sorry for being late. I should have phoned you earlier.

– _____. I’ve just arrived.

A. That’s no trouble. B. You are welcome. C. That’s all right. D. You can never tell.

The fire was finally brought under control, but extensive damage _________.

A. is causedB. was causing C. had causedD. had been caused