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What do you see from a handful of seeds? Some see green plants, some see blooming flowers, or just seeds. But one group of Shanghai students saw an opportu??nity to make money.

Eight students from No 2 Secondary School Attached to East China Normal Uni??versity started a virtual company selling different seeds and seed products. They successfully sold 28 pictures pasted with different seeds at a campus auction a week a??go. The company, which has recruited around 20 student staff members, has earned over 2000 yuan in the past three months.

"We donated part of the money to a poor school in the countryside of Anhui Province. It's great to realize our ideal of ‘spreading love and culture with seeds’ after many tests and lots of hard work," said Senior 2 Shi Chen, CEO of the compa??ny.

Just like any other company, Shi's didn't develop smoothly. Shi and her young colleagues used to sell fresh flowers and old books, and later found seeds might be something that their company could engage in. They bought seeds of various plants and flowers at low prices from a local farm and sold them in schools or on streets. The creative students also made accessories and pictures with different seeds.

With little business knowledge, the students had to learn new skills as the lead??ers of different departments, such as public relations (PR), sales and marketing. They persuaded a joint Sino-French company near their school to give them training in business management. They also asked some local businessmen to act as their consul??tants.

"They helped us overcome our shyness. We also learned quite a lot of business theory. I found communication skills and teamwork are very important for my job," said Senior 1 Qian Yifei.

The 16-year-old was elected as PR manager thanks to her talent for speaking. She is also in charge of after sales service, dealing with complaints and providing suggestions.

As the head of the company, CEO Shi has a lot more to think about. First of all, she has to learn how to make her colleagues work efficiently as the company only opens at weekends due to all their studies. So she established a system to evaluate every one's performance, in terms of punctuality, efficiency, profits knowledge and so on.

"It makes the company more formal," she said.

59. What is the purpose of opening the company?

A. To earn money for their education fees.

B. To spread love and culture with seeds.

C. To see whether they can open a company.

D. To collect money to open a Hope School.

60. At a campus auction a week ago, they ________ .

A. sold 28 green plants with different flowers

B. sold 28 seeds pasted with different pictures

C. sold 28 pictures pasted with different seeds

D. sold 28 flowers pasted with different pictures

61. According to Qian Yifei, what matters most in dealing with public relations?

A. Communication skills and teamwork.

B. Creative and critical thinking.

C. Educational background.

D. Business theories.

62. What does the word "it" (in the last paragraph) refer to?

A. Selling seeds.

B. To have a person as CEO.

C. Every colleague’s performance.

D. To make her colleagues work efficiently.

63. What can we learn from the passage?

  A. The company is owned by 8 students.

B. The company is over-night successful.

C. The company gets a lot of help from others.

D. The company sells old books and fresh flowers.

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第四部分：写作（共三节，满分35分）

第一节：选择适当的词填空。（共10小题；每小题1分,满分10分）

settle down,  rather than,  caught sight of,  by accident,  in time,

on the contrary,  bring up,  had a gift for , cooled down,  prevented from

76. The car came to a halt（停止） just __________ to prevent an accident. 

77. What __________ you __________  joining us last night?

78. A heated argument could have been settled better if both sides __________ first.

79. __________ allow the vegetables to go bad, he sold them at half price.

80. After years of travelling, he decided to __________ here.

81. I __________ her out of the corner of my eye when I stepped out of my office.

82. That she __________ dancing at the age of three amazed her parents.

83. These are matters that you can __________ at the meeting tommorrow.

84. The gun went off __________ and hurt the boy badly. 

85. I’m not ill. __________, I’m very healthy.

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He could see the tall chimneys of the factory _________.

A. from distance    B. in distance       C. in the distance  D. to a distance

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______is mentioned above, the number of the students in senior schools is increasing.

   A. Which              B. As                C. That           D. It

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_____ made us proud was ______more than 98% of our classmates had been admitted to key universities.

A. What; because         B. What; that      C. That; what                  D. That; because

Eight-year-old Bethany and seven-year-old Eliza are having a great time jumping around in the orchard of their home in a village near Penrith. They can play any time they like because they don't go to school. Instead, they are educated at home by their parents, Paul and Veronika Robinson. But they don't have lessons, have never used a timetable and learn only what and when they want to learn. .www..com

“I want my kids to have freedom in their childhood, not spend it in an institution," says 37-year-old Veronika, "School is all about control and following the rules." Veronika and her 56-year-old husband Paul have never experienced the daily rush to get dressed and out of the door that is common in most households with school-aged children. "We get up at our leisure - usually around 8:30," says Veronika. "We might visit a friend, or go to the library, and on Tuesdays we shop at the market. In summer, we spend most of our time outside and the girls entertain themselves a lot.” .www..com

New research due to be published this spring reveals a very different picture of Britain's home educators. "Out of 297 families, 184 said that they never use a timetable,” says Mike Fortune-Wood of Home Education UK. "Ninety per cent never or rarely use textbooks, and nearly all said that happiness, contentment and self-fulfillment were more important than academic achievement. Only 15% felt that planning what to learn was very important.” .www..com

So far, so good. But what, you might ask, are the children actually learning?

"It wasn't important to me that the girls could read by a certain age, but they both picked it up for themselves at around seven," says Robinson. "Weighing cooking ingredients uses maths, and making a shopping list teaches them to write. Observing five hens has taught the girls about survival of the fittest. "

But what about when the children grow up? Can they go to university? The home educators' answer is they can if they want to. There are a variety of routes into higher education, but probably the most common is to join a local college. This is what Gus Harris-Reid has done. "I was educated at home all my life. I'd never had a lesson or been inside a classroom until I started GCSEs," says the 18-year-old. "I'm now studying for 4 A-levels at Exeter Colle ge. I've had no problem with the work or with fitting in." When asked to reflect on his experience of home education, his considered response is, "Like a permanent holiday, really!" Not a bad start for someone who plans to take a mechanical engineering degree next year. .www..com

What is the topic of this article?

　　A. New ways of learning to read and write   B. Problems with UK schools

　　C. Home education in the UK                    D. Wild, undisciplined children

According to the article, in homes with school-going children, ______.

　　A. mornings are rushed and stressful.

　　B. the children hardly ever go outside.

　　C. the family wakes up around 8:30am.

　　D. the children must ask permission to go to the toilet.

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

　　A. Most home educators believe that happiness is more important than good grades.

　　B. Most home educators believe that planning is important.

　　C. Most home educators do not follow a timetable or use textbooks.

　　D. Most home educators are not worried about when their children learn to read and write.

What does the article say about home-educated children getting into university?

　　A. They learn so many useful skills at home that universities are happy to accept them.

　　B. They can get into university if they have 4 A-levels.

　　C. They can go to school later and get the qualifications they need in order to enter university.

D. Home education is so relaxed that they are likely to experience problems when faced with the pressures of a degree course.

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第二节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

此题要求改正所给句子中的错误，按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词：把多的词用斜线（\^*）划掉，在该行写出该词，也用斜线划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧^*），在该行写出该加的词。

该行错一个词：在错词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

A boy and his father were having walk in the                                   76. __________

country when it suddenly began to rain very hardly.                    77. __________

They do not have their umbrellas with them, and there                    78. __________

had nowhere to hide themselves from the rain, so                       79. __________

he soon got wet. While they were walking home through                        80. __________

the rain, the boy was thinking for a long time. Then at                  81. __________

last he turned to his father and said to him, “Why did                  82. __________

it rain, father? It isn’t nice, isn’t it?” “No, it isn’t very                  83. __________

nice, but it’s much useful, Tom!” answered his father.                  84. __________

“It rains to make the fruits and the vegetables to grow for us.”                 85. __________

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Don’t argue about it. I will _________ the matter and then tell you who is right.

      A. look into                    B. turn into              C. get into                       D. bring into

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 Do you often shop in our store? How much do you ______ spend every time?

    A. approximately         B. properly                 C. immediately  D. probably

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 The play had already been on for quite some time when we _______ at the New Theatre.

  A. have arrived           B. arrived              C. had arrived             D. arrive