Muftoz is one of the 30, 000 people for whom Chilean seaweed industry provides a livelihood. Throughout Latin America, the cultivation (种植) and collection of seaweed are gaining a support both as a source of food and as a means of ensuring food security in a region where 34 million people are food insecure and poverty affects 47 percent of the rural population. Countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela have all explored seaweed production for food. Yet as demand outpaces production and wild stocks have declined， more attention is being paid to sustainable cultivation and harvesting methods that can keep the industry surviving.

Seaweed has a long history in South American style of cooking. The native cooking of Chile made frequent use of cochayuyo, the most abundant of the country 750 types of seaweed. Today, cochayuyo is commonly found in place of meat incharquican, a traditional dish cooked slowly in a closed pan.

Kelp, a type of large brown seaweed, as the new vegetable is a global trend too, and for good reason. Nutritionally, seaweed is packed with iodine and other nutrients, and appears on trend-making menus in Google's New York cafeteria, though it used to be thought difficult to get people to eat it.

While 83 percent of cultivated sea vegetables are produced for human consumption, we aren’t just eating it. Seaweed is used in fertilizers and animal feed, and seaweed-based food additives are likely in many products in your kitchen and bathroom right now. Carrageenan, made from red seaweed, is in everything from shampoo and toothpaste to ice cream and some hot dogs.

While seaweed grows readily—there are concerns that humans are taking too much of the wild stuff. It is possible that overexploitation of natural seaweed resources could lead to significant ecological, economic, and social consequences at local, regional, and even global scales. In Latin American countries like Brazil and Peru, where the seaweed industry is based on harvesting wild seaweed rather than cultivated, the need for environmentally friendly models is urgent.

【1】What do you know about seaweed?

A. It is hard to grow. B. It is good to health.

C. It tastes delicious. D. It costs a great deal.

【2】What can we learn from the passage?

A. How people collect weed. B. What people do with seaweed.

C. How people cook with seaweed. D. Where people trade seaweed.

【3】Why is seaweed cultivated according to the passage?

A. To make the best of the seas and to increase the export of seaweed.

B. To help more people out of poverty and to open up its new markets.

C. To meet the needs of the market and to preserve the wild resources.

D. To cut the costs of seaweed industry and to benefit rural population.

—But I still remember the story believe it or not, we got lost on a rainy night.

A. which B. that C. what D. when

【题目】假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词作斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1). 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2). 只允许修改10处。
We use both words and body language express our thoughts and opinions and to communicate with other peoples. We can learn a lot of about what a person is thinking by watch his or her body language. Words are important, but the way a person stands, folds his or her arms, or moved his or her hands can also give us informations about his or her feelings. Just like speaking language, body language vary from culture to culture. Making eye contact — looking directly in someone's eyes — is in some countries a way to show interest. In another countries, however, eye contact is a way to show that a person is rude or disrespectful.

Description:

The National Gallery is the British national art museum built on the north side of Trafalgar Square in London. It houses a diverse collection of more than 2,300 examples of European art ranging from 13th-century religious paintings to more modern ones by Renoir and Van Gogh. The older collections of the gallery are reached through the main entrance while the more modern works in the East Wing are most easily reached from Trafalgar Square by a ground floor entrance

Layout:

The modern Sainsbury Wing on the western side of the building houses 13th- to 15th-century paintings, and artists include Duccio, Uccello, Van Eyck, Lippi, Mantegna, Botticelli and Memling.

The main West Wing houses 16th-century paintings, and artists include Leonardo da Vinci, Cranach, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bruegel, Bronzino, Titan and Veronese.

The North Wing houses 17th-century paintings, and artists include Caravaggio, Rubens, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Claude and Vermeer.

The East Wing houses 18th- to early 20th-century paintings, and artists include Canaletto, Goya, Turner, Constable, Renoir and Van Gogh.

Opening Hours:

The Gallery is open every day from 10am to 6pm (Fridays 10am to 9pm) and is free, but charges apply to some special exhibitions.

Getting There:

Nearest underground stations: Charing Cross (2-minute walk), Leicester Square (3-minute walk), Embankment (7-minute walk), and Piccadilly Circus (8-minute walk).

【1】In which century’s collection can you see religious paintings?

A. The 13th. B. The 17th.

C. The 18th. D. The 20th.

【2】Where are Leonardo da Vinci’s works shown?

A. In the East Wing. B. In the main West Wing.

C. In the Sainsbury Wing. D. In the North Wing.

【3】Which underground station is closest to the National Gallery?

A. Piccadilly Circus. B. Charing Cross.

C. Embankment. D. Leicester Square.

ourselves to be happy is to write down the little things that cheer us up each day.

A. convey B. appeal C. train D. attempt

I tried to find all the pieces and put them _____, but it was not possible, so I kept only the_______piece and I made it round. I began to ______with it as a toy and became greatly attracted by the _____ that I could reflect(反射)light to dark places where the sun would never shine—in_____holes and some other dark places. It became a______for me to get light into the darkest places I could find.

I_______the little mirror, and, as I_______up, I would take it out when I had nothing to do and______the game, As I became a______, I grew to understand that this was not_______a child’s game but a metaphor（象征）for what I might do with my life. I came to_______that I am not the light or the source(来源) of light. But light—truth, understanding, knowledge—is_____, and it will shine in many dark places only if I reflect it.

I am just a single piece of a mirror whose________design and shape I do not know.______, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this_______—into the black places in the________of men—and change some things_________some people. Perhaps others may see and do the same. This is what I am about. This is the________of my life.

【1】A. pointed B. dropped C. broken D. sharpened

【2】A. together B. down C. back D. up

【3】A. best B. largest C. smallest D. longest

【4】A. talk B. share C. flash D. play

【5】A. idea B. reason C. decision D. fact

【6】A. pretty B. big C. deep D. empty

【7】A. game B. task C. job D. trouble

【8】A. forgot B. hid C. kept D. lost

【9】A. grew B. stood C. came D. went

【10】A. watch B. change C. remember D. continue

【11】A. father B. boy C. man D. grandfather

【12】A. always B. just C. really D. completely

【13】A. understand B. doubt C. announce D. expect

【14】A. absent B. there C. far D. home

【15】A. half B. most C. whole D. other

【16】A. So B. Certainly C. Besides D. However

【17】A. world B. village C. country D. city

【18】A. hands B. hearts C. eyes D. brains

【19】A. on B. like C. with D. in

【20】A. way B. meaning C. quality D. standard

A. it existed B. who existed C. there existed D. they existed

【题目】假设你是李华。你远在美国的笔友Jack对中国的春节很感兴趣，他来信询问有关情况。请你给他回一封电子邮件，简单介绍春节及中国人是如何过春节的。应包括如下要点：
1). 春节在中国的地位……
2). 春节持续的时间……
3). 春节来临之前人们……
4). 除夕之夜人们……
5). 春节期间人们……
6). 你对春节的态度……
注意：1). 词数100左右。
2). 可适当发挥，以使行文连贯。
3). 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：春节联欢晚会 Spring Festival Gala
Dear Jack,
Yours,
Li Hua

【题目】语法填空
When I was a child I thought a lot about what it means to love. I once asked my mother if she loved me or my father (many), certain that I knew the answer — me. Instead, she bent down and looked at me the eye, hands gently on each shoulder. She explained that she couldn't help(love) me and that the love of a mother for her baby was incredibly strong. But then she told me that the love she had for my daddy was a love of(choose), which made it special. Of all the people in the world, she chose and he chose her. Now that I'm married, I consider each day it takes to stay married as long as my parents have. It's not that I don't believe in romance. I believe more in the sacred of the ordinary. I believe in love that is sustained by deliberate (kind) and the choice to see little acts as testaments of love and commitment rather than indicators of a spark that has died of love communicated each time he cooks meals and I schedule his dental appointment. This picture of love is certainly less(excite), but decidedly real, and more romantic in its own way because of the weight of its (real).

A. in the black B. on a shoestring

C. over the moon D. at the drop of a hat