Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea．People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.

    Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East Indian Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.

   At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea．Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added．She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did, so they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few British drink tea without milk.

   At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening. No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, tea-time was born.

1．Which of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?

A. The British got expensive tea from India. 

B. Tea reached Britain from Holland.

C．The British were the first people in Europe who drank tea.

D．It was not until the 17th century that the British had tea.

2．Tea became a popular drink in Britain_____________.

A．in eighteenth century            B．in sixteenth century

  C．in seventeenth century      D．in the late seventeenth century

3．People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because_____________.

A．it tasted like milk               

B．it tasted more pleasant

C．it became a popular drink

  D．Madame de Sevigne was such a lady with great social influence that people tried

   to copy the way she drank tea

4．We may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly

due to the influence of　________.

A．a famous French lady              B．the ancient Chinese

C．the upper social class             D．people in Holland

5．What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The history of tea drinking in Britain     B．How tea became a popular drink in Britain

C．How the British got the habit of drinking tea   D．How tea-time was born

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  全球变暖是我们都关注的话题，我们每个人都应该对自己每天的生活和选择所产生的温室气体负责。因此，防止气候变化需要地球上的每个人共同来努力。写一篇100字左右短文介绍如何减少碳排放量。开头已给出。

采用喷头淋浴而非浴缸。

不使用时，关掉所有电器，如灯等。

买适量的食物，合理处理剩饭。使用自己的饭盒，不用一次性饭盒。

使用可再用的购物袋。

Words: 温室气体: greenhouse gases               碳排放量: carbon emission

       一次性饭盒: disposable container  饭盒: lunch box   剩饭: leftover food

  Global warming catches and holds our concern. _____________________________________

_______ the pull of the earth, a rocket must reach a speed of 28440 km/h.

A. In order to flee                                          B. So as to escape  

C. To escape                                               D. So that to flee

The moment        John will never forget is       Mr．Smith gave him a lot of valuable advice on how to improve his writing．

         A．that; that  B．that; when         C．when; that         D．when; when

Is this the reason ______ at the meeting for his carelessness in his work?

  A. why he explained     B. he explained    C. what he explained    D. how he explained

—Your flight was quite late last night.

—Yes, it was midnight __________ our plane finally got to Jinan.

       A．that   B．when C．since D．until

C

    With smart phones taking the world by Storm，a phone that Can only send and receive voice

calls and text messages may seem like a relic from a bygone age．Yet in East Africa，simple

phones like these are changing the face of the economy，thanks to the mobile money services that are spreading across the region．

    Usilng the text-messaging function built into the GSM system(全球通)used by most cell

 phone networks，these services allow people without a bank account or credit card to use their

 phone as an electronic walletthat can be used to store．send or receive cash．

    It works like this：you pay cash to your local agent who then tops up your mobile money

 account using a secure form of text messaging．That money can be transferred(转账)to another

 person by sending a message to their cell phone account．

    For some the system is a lifeline．“If I didn,t have my mobile phone．1 would be very

poor，”says Neyasse Neemur，a mother of four children who lives in northern Kenya．“Now I

can sell fish．”

    Neemur took up fishing in July last year，but making money from it was a little tricky，

especially as Turkana people do not usually eat fish．A truck from Ethiopia to Tanzania passes

through her village once a week，and she arranged to have the driver transport the fish several

 hundred kilometres south to market in Kisumu．where relatives sell the fish．

    “I get the money transfer immediately．”says Neemur．“Then I can pay for my children to go to school and for vegetables and beans，”she adds，“so I don’t need to eat fish．”

    According to the Central Bank of Kenya，payments worth around l billion Kenyan shillings

($13 million)per day were transferred through Kenya,s mobile money systems in 2009，equalling

the country,s credit card transactions(业务)．The bank expects mobile money transfers to overtake credit cards in 2010．

49．In Paragraph l，the author uses“simple phones”to________.

  A．make a comparison    B．introduce a topic

  C．describe a scene      D．offer an argument

50．What can we learn about the simple phones in East Africa?

  A．They might help the local people apply for a bank account．

  B．They will replace the banks completely in the near future．

  C．They provide a safe means for the locals to do business．

  D．They can do nothing except send and receive calls or messages．

51．The word“it”in the third paragraph refers to_______.

  A．the GSM system    B．the mobile money service

  C．the credit card service D．the cell phone networks

52．The story of Neyasse Neemur suggests that_______.

  A．the mobile money service plays a key rote in the locals, life

  B．Neemur uses her mobile phone to contact her customers

  C。her relatives tricks Turkana people to eat the fish they sell

  D．the Bank of Kenya helps her improve her living condition

    第一节语音知识(共5小题；每小题l分，满分5分)

    从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，

并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1．message    A．library         B．surface       C．agriculture         D．familiar

2．apologize   A．globe B．handsome C．poplar         D．common

3．bargain       A．explain       B．afraid          C．straight      D．mountain

4．bowl   A．flower         B．power         C．throw         D．shower

5．picnic A．cinema       B．discovery   C．circle D．peaceful

Thanks to the policy, birth rates in the country_____ 2 percent annually for the past five years.

Isn't it about time you _____ to do morning exercises?　

A. have begun    B. begin　　  C. should begun　　 D. began