D

You can deposit money in a building society and obtain yearly interest at a certain rate．You can also borrow money from a building society．What, then, is difference between a bank and a building society? In fact, a building society does not seem to be very different from a savings bank．Many people regularly save money by depositing small amounts monthly in a building society, just as other people regularly save money by depositing small amounts monthly in a savings bank．Some people deposit large amounts in a building society as an investment．They receive higher interest than they would receive from a savings bank; their money can be invested either in building society shares or in loans to the society．

These societies are controlled by law, but they are not government organizations．They were originally started to enable people to buy houses．One of their main purposes is to provide loans for buying or building houses．Many people prefer buying a house to paying rent, but some of them cannot afford to buy a house．To cover the cost they borrow the money from a building society．The loan plus the interest is paid back in monthly amounts over an agreed number of years．Probably the payments made in this way are no more than the rent of a rented house．But at the end of the stated period, when the debt is paid, the borrower becomes the owner of the house．To protect the building society from “bad debts” he must sign a statement to say that the house belongs to the society until the debt is paid．

A building society invests the savings of its shareholders in houses and property．Unlike a bank, it does not serve as a general clearing house （清算所） for every kind of exchange or business operation．Its activities are limited compared with those of a bank．

68．A building society is different from a bank in that ____．

       A．the former is limited in its activities

       B．the latter is limited in function compared with the former

       C．a(chǎn) bank doesn’t serve as a general clearing house

       D．a(chǎn) building society can protect itself from “bad debt”

69．Some people put large amounts of money in the building society because _______．

       A．they can get more profit than they do in a bank．

       B．they may choose between the form of building society shares and that of loans for their investment

       C．they may enjoy shares and loans at the same time

       D．they like the society

70．If you borrow money from the society to buy a house, ____．

       A．you have to return the money to the building society the moment it is needed．

       B．you have to sign an agreement to repay the loan after a number of years

       C．what you pay back monthly for the loan would be less than the rent

       D．the house doesn’t belong to you unless you have repaid all the debt

第二節(jié) 書面表達(dá)

       在寄宿制高中，大部分學(xué)生住校，但仍有一部分學(xué)生選擇走讀。你校就此開展了一次問卷調(diào)查，主題為：“學(xué)生是否應(yīng)該住校？”下表是本次調(diào)查的結(jié)果，請你就此結(jié)果寫一篇調(diào)查報(bào)告，并適當(dāng)闡述自己的觀點(diǎn)。

23．Well，that’s just the deal．_____price will be out of my reach．

       A．The higher              B．A higher                 C．The highest             D．A highest

26. The news that scientists so far haven’t found out the cause of bird flu discouraged some WHO officials,________?   

   A. didn’t they           B. did it          C. didn’t it        D. did they

16. Now many people_____higher degrees probably finish up nowhere when they try to get a highly-paid job.

A. with             B. in              C. for         D. At

假如你是李華，針對目前有些中學(xué)生購買彩票的現(xiàn)象，給21st Century 報(bào)社編輯寫信，并談?wù)勛约旱目捶�，其中包括以下要點(diǎn)：

1．弊遠(yuǎn)大于利；

2．中學(xué)生沒有經(jīng)濟(jì)來源，容易誘發(fā)一些不良行為；

3．從當(dāng)前說，會(huì)影響學(xué)習(xí)；

4．從長遠(yuǎn)看，會(huì)養(yǎng)成事事走捷徑的僥幸心理，其危害將影響其一生。

注意（1）信的開頭和結(jié)尾已經(jīng)給出；

    （2）必須包括以上要點(diǎn)，可適當(dāng)發(fā)揮，但不要逐句翻譯；

    （3）字?jǐn)?shù)100左右，不包括開頭、結(jié)尾。

Dear editor .

At present , many high school students are addicted to buying lottery tickets and they seem to have good reasons . However , I’d like to talk about my views on the phenomenon .

Therefore , I think it is necessary for them to keep away from lottery stations and concentrate on their studies for now .

Yours ,

Li Hua

Complete the passage by choosing the proper words in the box.

Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. political   B. supported       C. gossip        D. set          E. contemporary    

F. literary     G. alive          H. significance    I. enterprises    J. figures

     It is impossible to imagine Paris without its cafés. The city has some 12,000 cafés varying in size, grandeur, and   41   . The cafés are like an extension of the French living room, a place to start and end the day, to  __42_   and debate.

When did the cafés in France start? The oldest café in Paris is Le Procope. It was opened in 1686 by Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, the man who turned France into a coffee-drinking society. Le Procope attracted Paris’s political and   43   elite, and in this way played an important part among the upper class. By the end of the 18th century, all of Paris was intoxicated with （沉醉在）coffee and the city    44     some 700 cafés. These were like all-male clubs, with many functioning as centers of   45   life and discussion. By the 1840s the number of cafés had grown to 3,000. The men who gathered in these cafés and  46   the theme of the times included journalists, playwrights and writers. Around the turn of the 20th century, the sidewalk cafés became the meeting halls for artists and literary   47  .

Nowadays in Paris cafés still play the role of picture windows for observing   48  life. The artists gathered at the café may not be as great as those of the past, but faces worth watching are just the same. Linger a bit and you will see that the Parisian stereotypes are still_49    and well. You’ll see the old men in navy berets; ultra-thin, bronzed women with hair dyed bright orange; and schoolchildren sharing an afternoon chocolate with their mothers. The café in Paris has always been a place for seeing and being seen.

Thousands of jobs come into our Job Centre every week, but they get snapped up (搶購) quickly. So although we shall do all we can to help you, it’s important for you to do all you can to help yourself. This passage tells you how.

Registered for work

Once you have registered for work we will match you with available vacancies. If you want to claim unemployment benefit (失業(yè)津貼), you also have to get registered at our Job Centre. But you actually apply for and claim it at the local Unemployment Office.

Getting a job through self-service

Jobs that come in are put on self-service show as soon as possible. Half the people who find jobs through our Job Centre find them through self-service. You can call in at any time to look at the jobs shown.

Come to our Employment Advisers

If you want more help or advice, don’t forget that’s what we’re here for. Our Employment Advisers can help you with things like:

★thinking about the different sorts of jobs you could do and which are best for you.

★jobs available locally or elsewhere.

★whether you are suitable for a TOPS training course.

★funds to help you look for, and move to, work in other parts.

Even though you have a clear idea of the sort of job and pay you want, you may find that something different will suit you quite well. Keep this in mind when you are talking with Employment Advisers.

If you don’t find a job on your first visit

Go into self-service as often as you can to look at the jobs on show there. Good vacancies are coming in all the time just because you’ve been registered for work.

64.The purpose of the passage is to         .

        A. tell people how to become an Employment Adviser

         B. teach the unemployed people how to get registered for work

         C. give information about services available for the unemployed

         D. introduce the TOPS training course for the unemployed

65.The unemployed people can claim unemployment benefit from          .

        A. the Job Centre                    B. all the Unemployment Offices

         C. the Employment Advisers     D. the local Unemployment Office

66.Employment Advisers can           .

        A. help you find out what kind of jobs suits you best

         B. help you register for work and use self - service

         C. help you claim as much unemployment benefit as possible

         D. help you find a job suitable for you on your first visit

67.The underlined word “vacancies” in the passage means           .

        A. jobs        B. benefits      C .suggestions        D. services

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Waste to Energy—JUST BURN IT!

WHY BURN WASTE?

    Waste-to-energy plants generate (產(chǎn)生) enough electricity to supply 2.4 million households in the US. But, providing electricity is not the major advantage of waste-to-energy plants. In fact, it costs more to generate electricity at a waste-to-energy plant than it does at a coal, nuclear, or hydropower plant. 

The major advantage of burning waste is that it considerably reduces the amount of trash going to landfills. The average American produces more than 1,600 pounds of waste a year. If all this waste were landfilled, it would take more than two cubic yards of landfill space. That’s the volume of a box three feet long, three feet wide, and six feet high. If that waste were burned, the ashes would fit into a box three feet long, three feet wide, but only nine inches high!

Some communities in the Northeast may be running out of land for new landfills. And, since most people don’t want landfills in their backyards, it has become more difficult to obtain permits to build new landfills. Taking the country as a whole, the United States has plenty of open space, of course, but it is expensive to transport garbage a long distance to put it into a landfill.

TO BURN OR NOT TO BURN?

 Some people are concerned that burning garbage may harm the environment. Like coal plants, waste-to-energy plants produce air pollution when the fuel is burned to produce steam or electricity. Burning garbage releases the chemicals and substances found in the waste. Some chemicals can be a threat to people, the environment, or both, if they are not properly controlled.

Some critics of waste-to-energy plants are afraid that burning waste will hamper (妨礙，阻礙) recycling programs. If everyone sends their trash to a waste-to-energy plant, they say, there will be little motive to recycle. Several states have considered or are considering banning waste-to-energy plants unless recycling programs are in place. Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York City have delayed new waste-to-energy plants, hoping to increase the level of recycling first.

So, what’s the real story? Can recycling and burning waste coexist? At first glance, recycling and waste-to-energy seem to be at odds (不一致), but they can actually complement (彌補(bǔ)) each other. That’s because it makes good sense to recycle some materials, and better sense to burn others.

Let’s look at aluminum, for example. Aluminum mineral is so expensive to mine that recycling aluminum more than pays for itself. Burning it produces no energy. So clearly, aluminum is valuable to recycle and not useful to burn.   

Paper, on the other hand, can either be burned or recycled—it all depends on the price the used paper will bring.

Plastics are another matter. Because plastics are made from petroleum and natural gas, they are excellent sources of energy for waste-to-energy plants. This is especially true since plastics are not as easy to recycle as steel, aluminum, or paper. Plastics almost always have to be hand sorted and making a product from recycled plastics may cost more than making it from new materials. 

To burn or not to burn is not really the question. We should use both recycling and waste-to-energy as alternatives to landfilling.

Waste to Energy—JUST BURN IT!