Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on goes forward at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction. For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute without least consideration; he does so with skill and polish（完美）: “I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size. It happens to be the color you mentioned." Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: “This is the right color and may be the right size but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.

Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only “having a look round". She is always open to persuasion: indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lookout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a tiresome process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

According to the passage, a man’s shopping is based on _______.

       A．his money B．his hobbies       C．his need    D．his friends

Why does a lady welcome suggestions from anyone while buying a dress?

       A．Because she wants to buy a dress that every one thinks suits her.

       B．Because she doesn’t know how to buy a dress.

       C．Because she doesn’t know whether to buy it or not.

       D．Because she wants to show herself off in public.

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

       A．Most men have patience with trying it on while buying a jacket.

       B．Most women have a poor sense of value when buying a dress.

       C．A woman’s shopping is based on her need. k+s-5#u 

       D．A man doesn’t pay much attention to the price of the clothes he wants to buy.

The passage mainly talks about the ______ between men shoppers and women shoppers for clothes.

       A．similarities       B．differences       C．varieties    D．intentions

　　Few pleasures can equal _____ of a cool drink on a hot day .

　　A. some  B. any  C. that    D. those

　　If we work with a strong will , we can overcome any difficulty, _____ great it is .

　　A. what B. how C. however D. whatever

I feel greatly honored ____ into their society.

A. to welcome          B. welcoming

C. to be welcomed       D. welcomed

健康问题一直是生活中的热点话题。尤其对于女性来说，你知道穿矮高跟鞋和纯粹的高跟鞋对你身体健康的影响吗？

Healthy knees aren't the main consideration in choosing high heels, but new research says chunky heels are just __________as spindly stilettos（细高跟鞋）.

"It takes a long time to feel the effects of knee osteoarthritis（骨关节炎）— and once you do, it is too late," said Dr. Casey Kerrigan, leading researcher of the study and associate professor at Harvard Medical School's department of physical medicine.

"I compare it to smoking — one cigarette is not painful, but over a lifetime it is. Wide-heeled shoes feel comfortable, so women wear them all day long, "Kerrigan said.”They are better for your feet than stiletto heels, but just as had for your knees.”

The idea that high heels are bad for your health isn't new — scientists have warned women for years that they contribute to problems ranging from corns to hammer toes, tendonitis, knee pain, sprained（扭伤）ankles and back problems.

But in 1998, Kerdgan and a team of Harvard researchers were the first to link high heels and knee osteoarthritis, a painful joint disease that destroys cartilage（软骨）surrounding the knee.

The first study looked only at stiletto heels, and Kerrigan said she wanted to study the chunky high-heeled shoes she noticed many women wearing.

"This study confirms what we all intuitively（直觉地）know that high-heeled shoes of any kind are not good for our health," said Dr. Glenn Pfeifer, a San Francisco doctor and member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons who was not connected to the study.

1. What’s the main idea of the passage?

2. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

In my opinion, it is similar to smoking, for smoking one cigarette does little harm but if you smoke all your life, it’ll be very painful.

3. Please fill in the blank in the passage with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.（within ten words）

4. What do you think of wearing the chunky heels according to the passage? （within 30 words）

5. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.

—Victor certainly cares too much about himself.  

—Yes. He’s never interested in what ____ is doing.  

A. no one else     B. anyone else     C. someone else    D. nobody else  

—Which of the two computer games did you prefer?

—Actually I didn’t like ______.  

A. both of them    B. either of them    C. none of them    D. neither of them  

书面表达（满分25分）

从电视上看到流行甲型HINI流感（A/HINI flu）仍然在美国流行,你为你正在美国上学的笔友Jack的健康与安全担心。请你给他写一封信询问他的情况，并给他提出防护建议。

要点：

一、询问

1．他的健康状况；

2．他们学校有无甲型HINI流感病例（A/HINI flu cases）；

3．他们是否对这一大面积流行的疾病感到恐惧。

二、建议

1．尽量呆在家里，少去人多的地方；

2．勤洗手；讲卫生

3．多开窗，保持空气新鲜；

4．多吃水果蔬菜。

注意：

1．字数：100左右；

2．首尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Jack,

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— Do you know something about Kwanzaa?

    — It is _____festival celebrating the culture and history of African Americans.

A．a seven-day      B．a seven-days     C．a seven day      D．seven days

Jack went back home after a heated discussion, _______.

         A．annoyed and tired               B．annoying and tired

         C．annoyed and tiring              D．annoying and tiring