最近，在一本英文旅游雜志上刊登了國際空間站(TSS-- International Space Station)將在2020年對游客開放的信息（見下表)。如果有可能（具備足夠的時間和金錢)，你是否會去爭取成為第一批游客。請談?wù)勀愕睦碛伞?/span>

Information About the Trip to ISS

Number of visitors 2 every year

Length of stay 30 days (at most)

Cost $ 27000 per night (stay)

$ 40 million (transport)

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A museum has managed to draw in lots of visitors to learn about 【1】 century-old duck recipe and sample the dish. The Sanzhenzhai museum, 【2】 (locate) next to the Wuzhen scenic spot, covers an area of 5,000 square meters. It 【3】 (build) for the public to understand the brand’s culture. “We attempt 【4】 (ride) on the wave of Wuzhen’s increasingly hot tourism and improve our brand's fame and sales,” says Lu Fengxue, the sales manager of Sanzhenzhai. The brand was born in Wuzhen in 1848 and has been popular 【5】 the distinctive taste of its duck products. Now, Sanzhenzhai has approximately 100 【6】 (outlet) across the country. The museum 【7】 (become) a hit since it opened at the end of October. Approximately 70 buses drop by the museum on a daily basis, 【8】 translates to roughly 7,000 tourists. Tourists 【9】 (typical) choose three ducks at 100 yuan, according to Lu. “【10】 (we) products are especially popular with the middle-aged and seniors,” says Lu.

1、參加英語課堂活動；

2、看英語書刊，看英語電視；

3、學(xué)唱英語歌曲；

4、交外國朋友，在網(wǎng)上和他們用英語聊天。

注意：1、詞數(shù)不少于100。

2、可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

Dear Li Hua,

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Yours,

Tom

To tell the difference between “normal” anger and “anger problem” is difficult. After all, everyone gets really mad from time to time. Experts point out a few ways.

Disordered anger, as it is sometimes called, tends to be of greater intensity (強(qiáng)度). 【2】 An example: While most people would get upset if a driver cut them off, someone with disordered anger might try to chase down the car and force it off the road.

And in cases of disordered anger, the person gets angry more frequently and his/her anger lasts longer.【3】 But people with anger problems often stay angry for days, weeks or even years; their feelings of anger don’t disappear over time.

【4】 Disordered anger often damages people’s lives. “It interferes (干擾) with people’s relationships and their jobs,” says Raymond Chip Tafrate, a US psychologist. “Even their health is affected.”

Anger clearly increases the risk of certain health problems, as many studies have shown. When people are angry, their hearts beat faster and their blood pressure goes up. 【5】

Experts suggest that people with an anger problem take anger-management programs. The programs teach people to control their responses to stressful situations through the use of relaxation techniques. The programs sometimes also include life-skills training to help bring down stress and remove angry feelings.

A.Anger takes away people’s joy in life.

B.Consequencesare also important to consider:

C.The anger buried inside him rises to the surface.

D.For most people, angry feelings disappear quickly.

E.Over time, these changes will have bad effects on the body.

F.In the past, many doctors didn’t accept the idea that anger could be a problem all on its own.

G.It takes very little to set off a person with an anger problem, and their responses are very strong.

Though Chinese is 【1】(old) than English, English is spoken 【2】 many people around the world every day. English speakers are always 【3】(make) new words and we should be able to know where most words come from.

Sometimes, however, no one may 【4】(real) know where a word comes from. Did you ever think about why hamburgers are called hamburgers, especially when they are not made with ham? About a hundred years ago, some 【5】(man) went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany 【6】(call) Hamburg.

They did not speak good English, 【7】 they ate good food. When some Americans saw them 【8】(eat) round pieces of beef, they asked the Germans what it was. The Germans did not understand the question and answered, ＂We came from Hamburg.＂ One of these Americans owned 【9】 restaurant, and had an idea. He cooked some round pieces of the beef like the man from Hamburg ate and 【10】(sell) them in many countries around the world.

The father asked, “Which way of eating can avoid wasting a peach?”

The eldest son said, “Of course, we should eat those overripe, for they can’t be kept for three days.”

“But after you eat up those, the peaches in the other basket will go bad!”Certainly, the father was not satisfied with the eldest son’s advice.

The second son thought for a while and said “We should eat the peaches just ripe. Choose the good ones!”

“If so, won't the overripe peaches be wasted? Don’t you think it pity?” The father turned to the youngest son, “What good idea do you have?”

“I feel,” thinking for a while, the youngest son said, “we’d better mix them together, give some of them to the neighbors, and let them help us eat, so that we won’t waste a peach at all.”

Hearing this, the father nodded and said with a smile, “OK. It is really a good way. Then let’s do it by your way.”

【1】Who offered them two baskets of peaches?

A.A bossB.A friend.

C.A relative.D.A neighbor.

【2】The father asked his sons a question about how to _______.

A.avoid wasting a peachB.sell the peaches

C.eat the overripe peachesD.send the ripe peaches

【3】Which was the eldest son’s idea?

A.Eating them up.B.Eating those ripe peaches first.

C.Giving some to the neighbors.D.Eating those overripe peaches first.

【4】Why did the father nod and smile at last?

A.He felt sad.B.He felt worried.

C.He was satisfied.D.He was disappointed.

【1】新的路標(biāo)似乎杜絕了可能發(fā)生的交通事故。（seem)

【2】七十周年閱兵式壯觀的景象將永遠(yuǎn)銘刻在我的腦海里。（impress)

【3】由某些如軟塑料或金屬等材料制成的容器，不適合用微波爐加熱食物，這是 常識。（It)

【4】不管我們多么強(qiáng)烈地不認(rèn)同他人觀點，尊重其表達(dá)的權(quán)利和寬容他們的想法 是學(xué)校應(yīng)該鼓勵和提倡的價值觀。（no matter)

【1】Your _______ (injure) looks terrible. It must hurt very much.

【2】The sound is _______ (extreme) huge.

【3】He knew nothing about _______ (organize) any big activities.

【4】He was _______ to make his dream come true.(determine)

【5】Actually, he is not a _______ (nation); he is from Hunan Province.

【6】We are all _______ about our children’s health. (concern)

【7】He has gone there _______ purpose to see what happened.

【8】It’s because he didn’t catch the first bus _______ Tom was late for school.

Every Little Bit Counts?

One of the weapons in the fight against poverty is microcredit also called microlending). Microcredit is the practice of giving very small, short-term loans to poor people.【1】 The loans help the borrowers start or upgrade small businesses. Microcredit organizations assume that poor people can lift themselves out of poverty if they only have access to standard financial services.

Grameen Bank, started as a project in 1976, is a pioneer of microcredit.【2】 Borrowers often have no steady job no other property, and no one to co-sign on the loan - common requirements for getting a loan elsewhere. Grameen Bank promotes credit as a human right, and with a 98% repayment rate, it seems to have helped its borrowers improve their lives and made a profit through interest in the meantime.

Successes like Grameen Bank and others caused governments and NGOs to rush to fund microcredit operations. How wonderful to imagine that the cure for poverty could be profitable! However, recent studies question how effective microcredit really is. Critics say that poor people with enoughentrepreneurial(創(chuàng)業(yè)的) drive to get a loan would have succeeded anyway. Those without the drive don't end up in better circumstances after paying back loans，which aren’t always used for businesses. 【3】 And though microcredit is described as a way to empower women，some say the loans aren’t causing any measurable improvement in women’s lives.

The ideas behind microcredit are uplifting: that all humans are filled with potentials and that one small bit of assistance can help a whole family live better. 【4】 Time and close study will tell if microcredit is really the miracle it appears to be.

A. They also say that without a basic education, poor borrowers aren't equipped to manage the businesses they create.

B. In general, the loans are 100 USD or less, usually paid back within six months.

C. Borrowers need to provide the credit history, which the lenders will use as the criteria when evaluating a loan.

D. They may, however, ignore systematic causes of large-scale poverty.

E. Most microcredit agencies are struggling as the vast majority of loans are not paid back.

F. It has given out more than eight billion dollars in loans to people who could never borrow money otherwise.

【1】He soon _______ _______ _______ (對……厭倦) his life in California and decided to move to New York.

【2】Many people agree that a good marriage _______ _______ _______ (以……為基礎(chǔ)) trust.

【3】______ ______(根據(jù)……判斷) what you said, he could have completed the work ahead of time.

【4】If you _______ _______ ______ _______ (好好利用) your spare time, I'm sure you will succeed sooner or later.

【5】The whole building _______ _______ _____(變成了廢墟) after a terrible earthquake.

【6】Although he _______ _______ (遭受；患病) heart trouble, he never stopped his research.