The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families．But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image （印象） of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels．

       An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past．“We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seen to be about their families,” said one member of the research team．“They’re expected to be rebellious（叛逆的） and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds: they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well．There’s more negotiation（商議） and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process．They don’t want to rock the boat．”

       So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends．” My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall．“I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing．As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it．” Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees．“Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation．For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night．But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that．”

       Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected．It is possible that the idea of teenager rebellion is not rooted in real facts．A researcher comments, “Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in out social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings．But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled．The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over．”

1．What is the popular images of teenagers today?

       A．They worry about school

       B．They dislike living with their parents

       C．They have to be locked in to avoid troubles

       D．They quarrel a lot with other family members

2．The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ___

       A．share family responsibility                     B．cause trouble in their families

       C．go boating with their family            D．make family decisions

3．Compared with parents of 30 years age, today’s parents___．

       A．go to clubs more often with their children

       B．a(chǎn)re much stricter with their children

       C．care less about their children’s life

       D．give their children more freedom

4．According to the author, teenage rebellion____．

       A．may be a false belief                          B．is common nowadays

       C．existed only in the 1960s                  D．resulted from changes in families

Dear all,

       Please read Professor Hume's email about his next lecture on Rosa Parks．

       Susan Miller

       Secretary

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Dear Susan,

       Please forward this message to students of my history class．

       Besides the life story of Rosa Parks in the textbook, the students are also required to read the passage below and some related stories that can be borrowed from the school library．

       Ted Hume

       The early experiences of Rosa Parks（1913-2005）, long known as the “mother of the civil rights movement, ”were not different from those of many African-Americans at that time．The black woman, however, turned the course of American history in December 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man．“By sitting down, ”remarked John Lewis, “she was standing up for all Americans．”

       Among the numerous awards Parks received in her life were the Presidential Medal of Freedom（1996）and the Congressional Gold Medal（1999）．

       Parks died on Oct．24, 2005．At St．Paul                                A．M．E．Church in Montgomery, a large crowd including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice celebrated her life．Rice said she and others, who grew up when the political activities of Parks held public attention, might not have realized her impact（影響）on their lives, “but I can honestly say that without Mrs．Parks, I probably would not be standing here as Secretary of State．”

       After her casket（靈柩）was placed at the Capitol, U．S．President Bush, members of Congress and ordinary Americans paid their respects．In American history Parks is the first woman to lie in state at the Capitol, a very high regard usually reserved for Presidents of the United States．

1．What is the main purpose of Susan’s email?

       A．To make arrangements for Professor Hume's class．

       B．To introduce to the students Rosa Parks．

       C．To help the students organize a lecture．

       D．To answer Professor Hume's last email．

2．What does the underlined word “forward” mean?

       A．Explain．            B．Send．                C．Take．                D．Read．

3．The political impact of Rosa Parks lies in the fact that she ．

       A．helped Condoleezza Rice achieve political success

       B．joined the civil rights movement at a young age

       C．made racial equality a common value in American society

       D．set a good example in her early life for other black Americans

4．How was Rosa Parks treated after her death?

       A．She was named “mother of the civil rights movement．”

       B．She was received by President Bush at the Capitol．

       C．She was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom．

       D．She was honored to lie in state at the Capitol．

Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists．No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change—to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before．

       Landscape（風(fēng)景） is another unchanging element of art．It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists．In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice．Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before．Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees．In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background．He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography（攝影術(shù)） to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom．

       Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another．The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests．To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods．

       Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant．Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience．Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings．

1．Leslie's paintings are extraordinary because_______ ．

       A．they are close in style to works in ancient times

       B．they look like works by 19th-century painters

       C．they draw attention to common things in life

       D．they depend heavily on color photography

2．What is the author's opinion of artistic reality?

       A．It will not be found in future works of art．

       B．It does not have a long-lasting standard．

       C．It is expressed in a fixed artistic form．

       D．It is lacking in modern works of art．

3．What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?

       A．They express people's curiosity about the past．

       B．They make people interested in everyday experience．

       C．They are considered important for variety in form．

       D．They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation．

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。

       __1___ People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things they need or want．When they work, they usually get paid in money．

       Most of the money today is made of metal or paper．____2___ One of the first kinds of money was shells．

       Shells were not the only things used as money．In China, cloth and knives were used．In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money for a long time．Elephant tusks, monkey tails and salt were used as money in parts of Africa．

       The first metal coins were made in China．They were round and had a square hole in the centre．_____3_____

       Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money．___4____ Sweden and Russia used copper （銅） to make their money．Later some countries began to make coins of gold and silver．

       But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive．Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money．_____5___ The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today．

       Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money until today．

       A．The first coins in England were made of tin （錫）．

       B．But people used to use all kinds of things as money．

       C．No one knows for certain when people began to use money．

       D．People strung （串連） them together and carried them from place to place．

       E．Money, as we know, is all made of paper．

       F．They began to use paper money．

       G．Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services．

假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。對標(biāo)有題號的每一行作出判斷：如無錯誤，在該行右邊橫線上畫一個勾（√）如有錯誤（每行只有一個錯誤），則按下列情況改正：

       刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。

       增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符合（^），在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。

       修改：在錯的詞下劃—橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。

       注意：1．每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

       2．允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計(jì)分。

Dear Mr. Johnson,

       I’ve learned from a newspaper that some clerks are wanting in your company．I am eager to being one of them．So I am writing the letter．My name is zhang Hua．I was born in the Hebei Province and I am in good health．I’ve just graduated in the Computer Department of Wuhan University．I did very good in all subjects and I am especial good at computer studies and English．I can read science books in English and doing some writing in English as well．

       Beside, I know a little French．And in my spare time, I enjoy playing basketball．As is said that your company is very famous and I’ll very glad if you let me work for it．My telephone number is 027-89276628．I am looking forward to hearing from you soon．

請看《中國日報》的報道：

    The "illegal cooking oil" is usually made from discarded kitchen waste that has been refined, the report said, adding that the oil, which contains a highly toxic and carcinogenic substance called "aflatoxin", can cause cancer．

該報告稱，“地溝油”通常使用餐廚垃圾提煉而成，成分中含有的黃曲霉素毒性很強(qiáng)，可致癌。

使用illegal cooking oil已成為餐飲行業(yè)的open secret（公開的秘密）。國家藥監(jiān)局近日發(fā)布緊急通知，要求嚴(yán)防“地溝油”流入餐飲服務(wù)環(huán)節(jié)，對于違反單位，情節(jié)嚴(yán)重的將吊銷其餐飲服務(wù)許可證。

請你就此談?wù)撃阕x了該新聞的感受。要求：詞數(shù)120左右，行文連貫。

The place was flooded ________ it had been raining for several weeks.

A．because        B．because of          C．ever since          D．a(chǎn)s a result of

The general said to the men, “Don’t stop practicing.

The general _______ the man ________.

A．ordered; not to stop              B．ordered; don’t stop

C．said to; not to stop               D．requested; to not stop

The farm grows various kinds of crops, _______ wheat, corn, cotton and rice.

A．for example          B．a(chǎn)s        C．so that        D．such as

I’d like to go ________ to help people, ________ when they are in trouble.

A．straight; especially                        B．straight; specially

C．straightly; specially                       D．straightly; especially