Teachers, train drivers, oil refinery workers and other French employees have _____to strike in protest of President Sarkozy's pension (养老金) reforms.

A. connected                     B. united                   C. joined                     D. attempted

The problem of air pollution is becoming more serious ______ the increasing number of cars.

       A. as for                      B. because             C. as a result          D. as a result of

Ricochet, a 19-month-old golden retriever（金毛寻回犬）, was bred(饲养) to be a service dog but never made it. Now, she has found her role in the ocean, surfing with a disabled teen.

Patrick Ivison, 15, suffered a severe injury in a car accident when he was 14 months old. He has been disabled since, but the Californian boy never gave up on the goal of walking. He recently took his first steps. When Ivison first met Ricochet, the two immediately hit it off. To raise money for Ivison’s physical therapy(治疗), which is not covered by insurance, it was suggested that the pair take up surfing. Ivison said that when he first heard the idea he thought, “We are completely out of our minds.”

But from the start, the two took to surfing naturally. With the help of his mom, Jennifer Kayler, and friends, who carry Patrick to the ocean and guide the extra-large surfboard into the waters, Ivison rides the waves with his pal standing on the back. “It’s kind of like a grand performance out there,” Ivison said of the group of people who help him out. The dog helps to balance out the board The teen remembered one pass when “we were about to flip over and then she stepped on that side of the board and helped us out.”

The two participated Sunday in the Surf City Surf Dog contest as a fund-raiser(募集资金者). They wowed the cheering crowd during their exhibition. The event raised $8,200. About $2,000 will go toward a service dog for Ivison, and the rest will go toward his “Help Patrick Walk” therapy fund.

Ivison got disabled when             .

A. he drove to the seaside                    B. he began to learn surfing

C. he suffered a severe disease             D. he was over one year old

Ivison decided to take up surfing in order to       .

A. collect money for his treatment       B. set an example for the disabled

C. realize his dream of being a surfer

D. develop courage and positive attitudes

What did Ivison think about the idea of going surfing in the beginning?

  A. Easy.             B. Interesting.        C. Crazy.        D. Exciting.

In what way does Ricochet help Ivison surf?

A. She keeps on cheering Ivison on.

B. She keeps the balance of the surfboard.

C. She gives signals when huge waves come.

D. She pulls the board back if Ivison falls off.

Since new technologies are ever growing, employers now have the chance to monitor （监控） their employees to make them spare more time to work when they use their phones, computer terminals, emails and even when an employee is using the Internet．

Recent surveys have shown that a majority of employers monitor their employees’ activities．It was found that three fourths of employers monitored the websites their employees visited in order to prevent improper surfing．The survey further indicated that 65% of employers used software to block connections to websites considered off limits to employees．One third of employers monitored their employees’ number of keystrokes and the amount of time spent on the keyboard and lastly just over half of the employers surveyed review and kept email messages．

Most of the time, email is not considered private if the email system is used at a company, the employer owns it and is allowed to review its contents．Email messages that are sent within the company, as well as those that are sent from the employee’s terminal to another company, or from another company to the employee are subject to monitoring．If an email is deleted out of the employee’s account, that doesn’t mean that they are totally deleted．The messages are kept in memory．Emails are often backed up along with other important data from the computer system．If an employer’s email policy specifically states that messages marked as “private” will be kept confidential （机密的）,however, there may also be some exceptions to that policy （政策）．

In order to know their employer’s email policy, employees should read over the employee handbook．If the handbook doesn’t address the issue of email monitoring, they should speak with their employer about their policy for emails and privacy．Currently there are very few laws that address workplace privacy; however, there are some organizations that are working to advocate for employees so that there will be a stronger government regulation of employee monitoring activities．

According to the author, the employers’ monitoring ____．

       A．may be an efficient management method

       B．should be performed secretly

       C．has resulted from the development in computers

       D．is quite common nowadays

Employers probably think that monitoring the employees can help them ____．

       A．improve their work efficiency（有效） B．use computers properly

       C．develop a way of keeping office secrets  D．reduce their mental pressures

It can be inferred from the passage that ____．

       A．employees should delete their own emails at once to keep them secret

       B．an employer’s email policy may protect the employees’ privacy

       C．nobody can help solve the problem of office privacy

       D．an employee may feel troubled by being monitored in the office

The underlined phrase “advocate for” in the last paragraph means “____”．

       A．tell the employees the truth

       B．publicly support

       C．ask the employees to be more attentive

       D．remind the employees of the possible failure

Mrs. Brown ______ her husband to give up smoking and from then on he became stronger and stronger.

A. promised       B. persuaded    C. pretended   D. advised

--- Perhaps John’s not in.    --- _______. Look, the light is on.

  A. Yes, he can be at home.                             B. No, he couldn’t go out

  C. Yes, he must be at home                                   D. No, he needn’t go out

Can you imagine exchanging the pleasure of city life for a quiet life in the countryside?

Many people want to move from the country to the city because they think that life in the city is more exciting and better than that in countryside, especially young people who like new, modern things. People like popular things and feel that they can only find the latest styles in the city.

However, it is possible to enjoy the higher quality of country life and still enjoy some of the advantages of living in the city.

Nowadays, traveling is fast and easy, and information can be found on the Internet, so many people are able to do their work in home offices. Because they have e-mail and personal computers, they don’t have to be in big cities to manage their businesses. It is not important where they actually work because the results of their work can be sent everywhere with e-mails. Therefore, there is no need to put up with all of the disadvantages of the city. Now they can escape busy city life to enjoy the quiet country life and still be able to have successful jobs.

Other people are interested in technological things and high-tech jobs and think they can only find them in big cities. If they want to find a job, especially a good position in a company, they think that they have to live in a city. For these jobs, they are willing to put up with many of the disadvantages of city life, such as crime, heavy traffic, and pollution.

The main idea of this passage is that          .

  A. life in the city is different from life in the countryside

  B. people prefer living in the city to living in the countryside

  C. cities have more disadvantages than the countryside

  D. more and more people like living in the city

With the development of       ,people can enjoy life in the countryside as comfortably as they can in the city.

  A. e-mail technology                    B. personal computers

  C. transportation and computers           D. business

According to the passage, what does the countryside have but cities don’t have?

  A. Technology.     B. Traffic.         C. Education.     D. Natural environment.

What is the author’s attitude towards city life?

  A. He is for it.                         B. He is against it.

  C. He likes neither.                     D. He shows no opinion.

　　Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences? Strangely enough, the answer to both these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person's intelligence are fixed at birth, but whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.

　　It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random(随机地) from the population,it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If on the other hand we take two identical (完全相同的) twins they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.

　　Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth playsa part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all, are likely to have similar degrees of intelligence.

Which of these sentences best describes the writer’s point in Para. 1?

　　A. To some extent, intelligence is given at birth.

　　B. Intelligence is developed by the environment.

　　C. Some people are born clever and others born stupid.

　　D. Intelligence is fixed at birth, but is developed by the environment.

It is suggested in this passage that_______.

　　A. unrelated people are not likely to have different intelligence

　　B. close relations usually have similar intelligence

　　C. the closer the blood relationship between people, the more different they are likely

　 　　to be in intelligence

　　D. people who live in close contact with each other are not likely to have similar degrees

　 　　of intelligence

In Para. 1, the word "surroundings" means_______.

　　A. intelligence 　　　　　B. life

　　C. environments 　　　　　D. housing

The best title for this article would be_______.

　　A. On Intelligence

　　B. What Intelligence Means

　　C. We are Born with Intelligence

　　D. Environment Plays a Part in Developing Intelligence

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All the students ______ gets along very well with will be invited to her birthday party．               

       A．who      B．that            C．she             D．what