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A

UNICEF reports that 40 million children below the age of 15 suffer from abuse(虐待) and neglect. The USA National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse finds 3 million new reports of child abuse or neglect every year.

       According to such information on human rights abuses of children, the United Nations declared 2010 as the International Year of Youth. In answer to the common human rights abuses of young people, Dr. Mary Shuttleworth of Youth for Human Rights International(YHRI) recently completed her seventh annual World Tour to five continents in eighty days. The purpose of the tour is to promote the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights to tens of thousands of children and officials.

       According to UNICEF, 1.2 million children are illegally traded all over the world every year.

Sold as goods, these children are forced into inhuman labor, denied basic education and robbed of their childhoods. Youth who do not know their rights are easily cheated by ill-intentioned men. That is why YHRI thinks highly of education.

       “When the United Nations declared 2010 as the International Year of Youth, I knew that their human rights had to be greater than ever,” Dr. Shuttleworth said. The tour reached Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, South Africa, Swaziland, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, Greece, Taiwan, Japan, Hawaii and Los Angeles.

       The YHRI World Tour 2010 has reached tens of thousands of students as well as officials, educators, and religious leaders and thus promotes human rights education to millions more.

2010 was declared as the International Year of Youth because ______.

       A. 3 million children reported their information to the UN

       B. many children are suffering from ill-treatment and neglect

       C. children are illegally traded throughout the whole world

       D. human rights abuses of young people have been avoided

According to para. 2, Dr. Shuttleworth first started her annual World Tour in _____.

       A. 2000                 B. 2004                 C. 2008                 D. 2010

Youth for Human Rights International is paying attention to education because _______.

       A. education should serve most children

       B. too many children are forced to leave school

       C. children who know their rights will make more money

       D. children who know little about their rights are easily cheated

According to the passage, the YHRI World Tour 2010 _______.

       A. has almost stopped the child abuse            B. has reached different areas and people

       C. has found more forced child labor             D. was neglected by some political leaders

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E

It is reported that today in China, 50% of people who write blogs do so as a personal diary and 83% use their blogs for sending messages to friends. It is also found that there is a strong East-West difference. In places like the US, blogs that offer information on news attract more readers but in China, blogs are more likely to be about sharing personal feelings.

   It seems that bloggers can be divided into three types: IT bloggers, bloggers who record their ordinary feelings and media bloggers.

When blogging first started, the IT people had the technological advantage and they took the chance to put their thoughts on the web. Some of these IT people read their blogs.

The next wave of bloggers did not have any training as writes or in IT and wrote about normal daily life. Media bloggers, however, are trained writers, such as journalists and editors. When the many media bloggers showed up, the everyday blogs lost most of their readers. Media bloggers have the advantage of knowing how to communicate well through the written word.

However, the normal bloggers are still out there and increasing in number. It seems that blogging is the new way to express your feelings. People feel like the world is listening to, or rather reading, their problems, even if they are not .

What type of text is this?

   A. A blog.               B. A diary.             C. A news report.          D. A school textbook.

What is the passage’s subject?

Ａ．How many people in China blog.

Ｂ．How did blogging get started.

Ｃ．Different types of blogs and bloggers.

Ｄ．What media bloggers do.

How does the writers feel about the subject?

Ａ．He/She feels strongly that blogging is a good thing.

Ｂ．He/She feels that there are lots of problems with blogging.

Ｃ．We can’t tell since he/she is not a blogger.

Ｄ．We can’t tell since he/she is just reporting facts.

What is the writer’s tone?

A. Humorous and light-hearted.                  B. Serious and factual.

C. Conversational.                                     D. Informal.

It was not until the subprime loan crisis(次贷危机) ____ great damage to the American financial system that Americans ____ the severity of the situation.

A. caused, realized                                    B. had caused, realized

C. caused, had realized                               D. was causing, had realizedyjw

Have you read the book,        concerning the story of Song Dandan?

       A．it      B．one   C．which       D．the one

—Can I carry that heavy box for you?

—No, but thanks for        to do so.

              A. offering     B. expecting   C. advising     D. saying

Tired and disappointed, the rescue team finally reached _____ used to be a village.

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

Directions: Complete the following passage by using ONE word that fits the context．

Visit the Edinburgh Festival

       Every year, thousands of people come to Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, to be part of the Edinburgh Festival．For three weeks every August and September the city is filled with actors and artists from    over the world．They come to Edinburgh     the biggest arts festival in Britain．During this time the streets of the city are alive with music and dance from   morning till late at night．You can even see artists painting pictures on the streets．One of the best parts of the Festival is the “Fringe”,  students do comedy shows in small halls and cafés．

          of thousands of tourists come to the Festival to see new films and plays and hear music performed by famous musicians．This year, you can see over five hundred performances  actors from more than forty countries．

       The tickets for these performances are quite cheap and it is usually easier to see your favorite stars in Edinburgh   it is in London．Come to Edinburgh next summer, but remember it can be difficult to find a room,     why not book your hotel now?

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           But science may have just proved them right – because beautiful women are more likely to have daughters than their plainer counterparts, according to a study.

As parents tend to pass on genes that determine looks, this could result in handsome men becoming rather thin on the ground.         For example, Yasmin Le Bon is signed to the same modelling agency as daughter Amber, and Jerry Hall’s daughters Elizabeth and Georgia Jagger have both taken to the catwalk.  

Dr Satoshi Kanazawa, of the London School of Economics, analysed data from a survey of 17,000 babies born in Britain in March 1958 and tracked them throughout their lives.     When they reached 45, they were asked about the gender of any children they had.

Those rated as attractive were equally likely to have a son or daughter as their first child – but the unattractive sorts were more likely to have a son.     

Dr Kanazawa believes that parents tend to produce children who benefit from their own features.        So it pays for attractive women to have daughters. But couples blessed with strength and aggression rather than looks are better off having boys, as these characteristics are of more use to males.

A. Women are becoming more beautiful over the generations because attractive women have

more children than plain ones.

B. Single girls have always complained that good-looking men are difficult to find.

C. Beauty is of more benefit to a woman than a man.

D. At the age of seven, their attractiveness was rated by their teachers.

E. Put another way, the beautiful women were more likely to have daughters.

F. And it may also explain why many models have daughters who follow in their fascinating footsteps.

G. Famously good-looking parents like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are more likely to have girls than uglier couples.

It rains very heavily in this area, which has _______ annual rainfall of 7,000 mm, _______

ideal environment for forests.

A. the; an       B. an; 不填    C. an; an D. 不填; the

——volunteering is becoming           popular in China ．

       ——yeah, people are now aware that helping others is helping themselves．

       A．naturally         B．increasingly           

       C．splendidly        D．successfully