It is reported that around three hundred million plastic bags are used by Chinese residents each day. 76._______ is known to us all, our earth is crying 77.______help because of the serious white pollution.   

To our joy, all the shopping places will be 78. b______ from providing free plastic bags from 79. ________（六月）1st this year. I can’t agree more to this. 80. A_______  we have known the bad effects of plastic bags on our environment, still we find it difficult to refuse 81. _______  ―they are so 82.  ________（方便的）to us. Thanks to the government, firm 83. m_______ are to be taken to limit them. I am sure that people will become used to giving up the plastic bags. Only by 84. _______（改變）the way we treat the earth can we 85.  _______（形成）a harmonious relationship with it. Saving the earth is saving ourselves. Let’s stop using plastic bags.  

New York Time―A gunman killed eight people at a mall in Omaha this afternoon and then killed himself, setting off panic among holiday shoppers, the police said.  

“The person who we believe to be the shooter has died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds,” Sgt. Teresa Negron of the Omaha Police Department said at televised news. “We have been able to clear the mall,” she said. “We don’t believe we have any other shooters.” The police said that at least five other people had been injured in the shootings.  

She did not give the shooter’s identity. “We are still conducting the investigation,” Sergeant Negron said, adding that the city’s mayor, who was out of town, was on his way back to Omaha.  

    She said the police received a 911 call from someone inside the Westroads Mall on the west side of Omaha, and shots could be heard in the background. The first police officers arrived at the mall six minutes after the first call, she said, but by then the shootings were over.  

It is reported that the gunman left a suicide note that was found at his home by relatives. A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity（匿名）said the note indicated that the gunman wanted to “go out in style.”  

The shootings broke the usually banal routine of holiday shopping. The gunman was said by some witnesses to have fired about 20 shots into a crowd. Some customers and workers ran screaming from the mall, while others dived into dressing rooms to hide from the shooter.  

Shoppers and store workers were trapped inside the mall, which has roughly 135 stores. Others streamed out of mall exits with their hands raised. President Bush was in Omaha this morning to deliver a speech, but he had left the city by the time the shootings took place.  

72. Where did the shooting first come out?  

A. In a newspaper         B. On the Internet     C. In TV news         D. In a police poster  

73. What do the underlined words “go out in style” probably mean?  

A. go out of the mall in particular clothes  

B. walk in the mall with everybody focused on  

C. go to a socially event by fashionable means  

D. stop his life in a impressive way  

74. Which of the following is true according to the passage?  

A. Nobody knows why the shooter did so and nothing was found at his home.  

B. The city’s mayor happened not to be in the city when the shooting took place.  

C. Police arrived at the mall before the shootings were over and rescued customers.  

D. The official who showed what the note mean have no request of his own identity.  

75. We can infer from the passage that ______.  

A. There is only one shooter in this event.  

B. The shooting created fears among the customers.  

C. An important holiday is coming soon.  

D. President Bush came here for the shooting.  

Millions of people will be able to track（追蹤）each and every move by friends and family through their mobile phones，thanks to a new feature launched（發(fā)布）by Google yesterday．  

The new system named “Latitude” uses a map to show exactly where a loved one is at any time, sometimes discovering their location to a few meters．Worried parents will be able to check up on where their children have got to after school, friends can meet for a quick drink if they see they are nearby and wives will be able to see if their husbands really are working late at the office．  

The feature was made available immediately on millions of mobile phones that can access the web，such as the BlackBerry．Within weeks Google hopes to launch a new one that wilt also work on computers as well．  

“Once you've shared your location，you can hide it from all of your friends at once，or you can turn off Google Latitude completely at any time．” said a Google spokesman．“You can adjust your privacy settings（隱私設(shè)置）in Latitude so that you share as much or as little about your location as you want，with whom you want．”  

Google said that the company had tested the product with thousands of people to make sure that it was safe for the customers，but experts were not so sure．Simon Davies，director of Privacy International，said Latitude would open up a “privacy minefield（危險(xiǎn)地帶）”．  

“It's about the little white lies．You might be avoiding going to work, and now your boss might be able to see that you're at Twickenham instead of at home．”said Ian Angell, an information expert at the London School of Economics．“You've already got mobile phone technology where husbands and wives track each other in secret．Now Google is so widely used that it will only worsen the situation.”  

68. According to Google，the new system “Latitude” can         ．  

A. prove that the partner has told a lie about working late  

B. tell the parents the locations of their children after school  

C. provide the friends with the most suitable pub for a drink  

D. help people find what their loved ones are doing at any time  

69.The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 probably refers to         .  

A. the new system      B. the Google company  

C .the mobile phone    D. the privacy minefield  

70. From the passage，we know that Ian Angell believed     .  

A. Latitude keeps husbands and wives in good relationship  

B. Google tricked all its customers to make more money  

C. with Latitude more privacy problems would come up  

D. privacy settings could protect your personal information  

71. The best title of the passage might be     .  

A. Google Allows You to Track Friends' and Families' Every Move  

B. Google and BlackBerry Open the New Webs to Their Customers  

C. Latitude Working on Computers is Being Developed by Google  

D. Latitude Sets a Good Example on Mobile Phone Privacy Settings  

You can never be too sure these days in the United States of your neighbors or even your customers! Try to keep a low profile（姿態(tài)）in your neighborhood: Don’t announce to just about everyone that you are running a home business with thousands of dollars worth of equipment. As much as possible, don’t invite clients（客戶）or visitors to your home. In fact ,I know of some home-based entrepreneurs（企業(yè)家）who would rather meet their clients in a neutral ground, e.g. the client’s office or even Starbucks.  

There are other ways to keep burglars away from your house.  

●Keep lights on around your house in the evenings. Light is a natural fright for burglars.  

●Invest in a security alarm, particularly if your house is located in a remote spot. Security systems can often bring down the cost of your homeowner’s insurance premiums（費(fèi)用）.  

●Make sure that all windows and doors are locked and the security alarm turned on before you sleep at night or go out of the house. Avoid keeping house keys in obvious places, such as under the lamp or top of the doorframe.  

●Adding an additional lock will provide extra security when you are home. The dead-lock, sometimes called an “exit-only deadbolt” is an deadbolt that doesn’t have an external（外部的）key. It’s clearly visible on the door from the outside, but can’t be broken into without destroying the door, frame, or lock itself. While the security won’t help directly when you aren’t home, the visibility may discourage an intruder from trying the door.  

●Your door itself should be made of strong materials, such as one-inch thick solid hardwood or heavy metal.  

64. The advice given by the writer in the passage focuses on __________.  

A. how to make your house safe from burglars  

B. what to do when your house is broken into  

C. how to improve social security in the United States  

D. how to run a home business  

65. Some home-based entrepreneurs don’t invite clients to their home ___________.  

A. to enjoy convenience outside their home  

B. for reasons of their property safety  

C. not to let others know their business  

D. in order to avoid being seen by burglars  

66. All the following are part of the writer’s advice except that the homeowner ________.  

A. buy a security alarm and turn it on in the evening  

B. fix an extra lock on the door for extra security  

C. have the doors made of solid hardwood or heavy metal  

D. keep lights on in all rooms to threaten burglars  

67. What does the underlined word “intruder” most probably mean in this passage?  

A. Someone who is invited to visit.  

B. Someone who illegally enters the home.  

C. Someone who pays regular visits to the home.  

D. Someone who tries to destroy the lock.  

London

01 April 2009

U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown are calling for global unity as world leaders gather in London for an emergency economic summit（峰會(huì)）.

The president says no one country can fix the economic crisis.

Mr. Obama stressed the need for all participants to seek common ground to deal with the economic crisis.  "I am absolutely confident that this meeting will reflect enormous consensus（一致的意見）about the need to work together to deal with these problems," said Mr. Obama.

There are signs of tension, as the G20 summit prepares to begin its work in London.  Some countries are blaming the United States for sparking the economic crisis through the deregulation（撤銷管制規(guī)定）of its financial scene - a move that sparked an economic recession（衰退期）. The president says the United States has made mistakes, but so did other countries whose regulatory systems could not keep pace with a changing financial sector. He says it is time to look for solutions. "At this point, I am less interested in identifying blame, than in fixing the problem," he said.

President says differences are overstated.

France and Germany say the emphasis should be on regulatory reform.  French President Nicholas Sarkozy even told an interviewer that he might walk out of the summit, if nations fail to agree on stricter regulation（調(diào)整）of global financial markets. Brown predicts no walkouts. President Obama says reports of differences are overstated.  And, Prime Minister Brown predicts no one will walk away from the summit and its important work." I am confident President Sarkozy will not be here for the first course of our dinner, but will still be sitting as we complete our dinner this evening," said Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown says "Never before has the world come together in this way to talk about an economic crisis," he said. “Any of the crises we have seen since the second World War, you have not had this level of international cooperation."

56. According to the news report, the aim of the summit in London is mainly to ________.

A. seek solutions to the world economic crisis

B. remove the misunderstanding between world leaders

C. build up new regulatory systems in each country

D. strengthen the economic relationship between countries

57. When President Obama says no one country can fix the economic crisis, he wants to stress the _______.

A. importance of the USA taking part in the summit

B. effort to reach an agreement on the economic recession

C. need for all the members at the summit to work together.

D. the necessary reform in the regulatory systems

58. Differences between leaders at the summit can be seen from the fact that__________.

A. President Obama says differences are overstated.

B. French President told an interviewer that he might walk out of the summit.

C. Prime Minister Brown predicts no one will walk away from the summit.

D. nations do not agree on stricter regulation of global financial markets.

59. Mr Brown seems to see the summit as_________.

A. the only way to solve the world problems

B. an unhappy gathering for the world leaders

C. a high-level international cooperation

D. a meeting with too many differences

My son was badly hurt in a fire. After he  36  from a series of treatments, the doctors told him they would not do any operation for six months  37  it took long for the skin to stop shrinking（收縮）. So, he had to return to college with a visible 10-inch  38  on his face.

I said to my son, “Keaton, 39 will pay any more attention to your scar  40  you do. If it does not bother you, it will not bother 41.” He took my advice to heart and returned to school with his head 42 high ― glad he was alive.

43 , everyone has scars and shortcomings. Some of you may spend much time thinking that people would like you better, 44 you looked different, or dressed differently, or could have a different and newer 45 .

But you see, like Keaton’s scar, people will only judge you by your looks, or your  46 , or your car, if you are judging yourself by these same false  47 .

One of my friends in college was very 48 . At first, when people met him, they noticed his  49  for about 10 seconds. This man felt  50  about himself and spent most of his time  51  about other people’s comfort and welfare.  52 , people ignored his looks. What people 53 was his kindness and his concern for them. He didn’t act in an ugly way so people didn’t treat him as an ugly man.

Therefore, concentrate on what you value 54 yourself, because if you can see that beautiful person, everyone you are in contact with will see the same  55 .

 Parents must        the idea that “I love you always，but sometimes I do not love your behavior.”

A. get along       B. get around                      C. get through              D. get across

Experts warn that global warming will cause dramatic climate changes including more       floods, heat waves and droughts.

A. usual                        B. ordinary                   C. frequent                   D. common

This kind of book ______ very useful but books of that kind ______ useless.

A. is ; is          B. is ; are             C. are ; is            D. are ; are

You can come to the dance ______ you dress.

A. whatever       B. whichever             C. however                D. whenever