-- It is said that Ziyi Zhang sang a song for the 2008 Chinese New Year Spring Festival Party without rehearsal in advance, isn’t it?

    -- I’m not sure         it is true.

A．how         B．that           C．why           D．whether

Complete the passage with the words in the box. There is one extra word.

A few years ago, I went hiking with my older sister, Mary, and her friend, Jonathan. Our   1   was to reach the tip of the mountain so we could see the beautiful view. The hike was   2   and the heat drained our energy. As we were   3   the summit, through the treetops we could see the valley below. The sight at that point was   4  impressive. Jason was satisfied with the view and suggested we turn back. Jessi and I insisted we keep going so we could make it to the top, but Jason decided not to continue. When we finally reached our destination, the whole view was   5  . The view from the summit gave us a 360 degree advantageous point of the entire area, which was much more incredible than the limited view Jason had where he stopped. It was well   6   the extra effort. What is the point of this story? Set your goals and never settle for less than what you can achieve!

As we   7   high school to go forward with our lives, we will each have our own mountains to climb. All of us will face different challenges and struggles. We all have the   8   to set new goals and to achieve them. As we continue in life, we must remember that if we succeed, we must not be proud. If we fail, we must not   9  . If we face adversity （逆境）, we must trust that there is always a way through it. If we experience prosperity, we must never forget those who are not so fortunate.

As graduates, we have already proven we can achieve important goals. Let’s go forward, set new goals and never settle for less than what we can achieve.

This week, London will be full of celebrations to welcome the Year of the Rat. Every year, London’s Chinatown   1   a spectacular event to celebrate Chinese New Year, the largest event outside of Asia.

This year in the UK, there seems to be a huge amount of   2   in Chinese culture. For the third year running, the ‘China in London’ season is being held. This   3  event will run from February to April, finally in the Olympic torch relay,   4  the Olympic flame will pass through London on its way to the start of the Beijing Games.

The ‘China in London’ season will combine a huge number of events,   5  from art exhibitions to modern dance, film festivals  6   tea tasting, musical concerts to children’s half-term activities. In addition,  7   Chinese culture festival, ‘China Now’ is launching at Chinese New Year.

This is a nationwide season of events leading up to the Beijing Olympics. As well as   8 events, this programme includes an   9   programme for schools to develop relationships with China, and a Football Exchange, where the UK Football Association will be   10   children in China and offering a lucky few the chance to visit Britain on a football tour.

The main Chinese New Year   11   will be held on Sunday 10th February, and is expected to attract around 300,000 visitors. It will showcase both   12   and contemporary Chinese arts, bringing together British-born and Chinese performers.

The   13   of the day is the grand parade through the streets of London, led by a traditional dragon dance, followed by musicians, acrobats, artists and children. There will be a large stage and screen in Trafalgar Square featuring martial arts, music and dance.

It wouldn’t be Chinese New Year   14   fireworks and firecrackers,   15  Leicester Square will see displays on the hour all afternoon. Nearby theatres and arts centers will also be holding special New Year events, such as variety shows.

1．A．celebrates              B．welcomes            C．holds                  D．delivers

2．A．passion                 B．interest                C．sensation             D．increase

3．A．old                       B．extended              C．new                    D．developed

4．A．when                    B．where                 C．which                 D．what

5．A．exchanging            B．preventing           C．ranging               D．changing

6．A．and                       B．with                    C．for                      D．to

7．A．one                       B．a                         C．another               D．that

8．A．wonderful             B．terrific                 C．interesting           D．cultural

9．A．education              B．economy             C．culture                D．football

10．A．coaching             B．teaching              C．practicing            D．enrolling

11．A．parade                 B．celebration           C．performance        D．show

12．A．good                   B．wonderful            C．ancient                D．traditional

13．A．show                  B．event                   C．share                  D．highlight

14．A．without               B．except for            C．with                    D．apart from

15．A．where                B．so                       C．when                  D．if

There is a new trend that has started in some Italian cities. It is called “Citta Slow”. “Citta” in Italian means city. The concept of “Citta Slow” aims to improve people’s quality of life by creating a more caring and ecologically correct environment through the enjoyment of food art, theatre, community gathering places and so on.

Slow cities are characterized by a way of life that enables people to live slowly. Traditions and traditional ways of doing things are valued. Slow cities have less traffic, less noise and fewer crowds.

These cities stand up against the fast pace of life often seen in other cities throughout the world.

Towns in Italy have banded together to form an organization called the Slow City Movement. The global organization hopes to help the world by deciding which cities can call themselves Slow Cities and which cities cannot.

The principles of the Slow City Movement are those we would like all cities to live by. Hopefully the movement will continue and cities that cannot meet the strict criteria will continue to work towards these principles.

The Slow City Movement is already very popular around the world. London is one of the cities that are taking part and it has its own website. The website says: “There are people in cities all over the world who have found all sorts of ways to bring a sense of relaxation to places where it can often be stressful to live. Slow London provides a place for these people to meet and share their ideas.”

1．“Citta Slow” is          .

       A．a movement started in some Italian cities

       B．a new trend already popular around the world

       C．a way of life that enables people to live slowly

       D．a concept against the fast pace of life

2．According to the passage, to improve people’s quality of life, it is effective to        .

       A．practice as your previous generations did

       B．persuade all people to travel on foot

       C．pay a single visit to the theatre

       D．put emphasis upon the fast pace of life

3．Which of the following statement is NOT true about the Slow City Movement?

       A．The Slow City Movement was initiated in Italy.

       B．London is taking part in the Slow City Movement.

       C．The Slow City Movement is trying to form the standard of slow cities.

       D．Only some cities are slow ones by the criteria.

4．Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?

       A．Citta Slow

       B．Slow Cities

       C．Slow Cities and the Slow Movement

       D．The Slow City Movement

Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services                     I – 797 C, Notice of Action

Form I – 797C （Rev. 01/31/05）

1．What does this table allow you to do?

       A．To apply for a visit to America.

       B．To apply for immigration to America.

       C．To apply for a visit to the People’s Republic of China.

       D．To apply for immigration to the People’s Republic of China.

2．You can get to the destination on          .

       A．May 25,1975                                       B．January 31, 2005 

C．June 18,2007                                      D．July 18, 2007

3．Suppose you plan to change your applicant status, you have to            .

       A．notify U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services immediately

       B．pay another fee as required

       C．apply for a new F – 1, F – 3. M – 1, M – 3 or J – 1 non – immigrant visa

       D．make a phone call to the Customer Service

Every year, malaria （疟疾） sickens about five hundred million people. More than one million of them die, mostly young children and pregnant women in Africa.

For several years in sub-Saharan Africa, the Global Fund and other groups have been paying for bed nets treated with long-lasting insect poison. Malaria is spread by mosquito bites. The groups have also invested in ant malaria drugs for A.C.T., artemisinin-based combination therapy.

Recently, a team from the World Health Organization visited Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda and Zambia. These countries were the first to distribute the bed nets and medicine. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis（肺结核）and Malaria requested a study to see if the interventions were helping.

The researchers found that the answer is yes. They looked at records of children under five. They found that malaria deaths fell by sixty-six percent in Rwanda between two thousand five and two thousand seven. Deaths fell by fifty-one percent in Ethiopia, thirty-four percent in Ghana and thirty-three percent in Zambia.

The team reported that limited supplies of bed nets could help explain the more limited effects in Zambia and Ghana. But the findings in Ghana were more difficult to explain, because deaths from causes other than malaria fell more sharply. The report says this was in keeping with general improvements in health services.

The full report can be found at who. int, on the page for the global malaria program.

In another new study, researchers reported that vitamin A and zinc treatments might also help protect young children from malaria. Scientists in Burkina Faso found that malaria rainfection rates fell by thirty – four percent in a group of children treated with vitamin A and zinc.

The findings appear in Nutrition Journal, an open access publication that can be read free of charge at nutrition. com.

1．Which is probably the most useful in fighting malaria according to the passage?

       A．Bed nets.                                            B．Medicine.

       C．Vitamin A and zinc treatments.               D．Killing mosquitoes.

2．Why did a team from the World health Organization visit the African countries?

       A．To help the African countries to fight malaria.

       B．To identify whether their effort to fight malaria was effective.

       C．To study which people tend to be infected with malaria.

       D．To study what measures can be taken against malaria.

3．What can be concluded from the passage?

       A．Malaria only appears in Africa.

       B．Malaria is no longer a threat to African countries.

       C．The researchers are disappointed with the result of the study.

       D．People all over the world are trying to treat malaria.

4．Which one summarizes the passage best?

       A．A Success Story for Malaria Control in Africa

       B．Malaria in Africa

       C．Say No to Malaria

       D．How to Treat Malaria

Farmers in the United States sometimes plant switch grass as a border crop. But could this tall grass lower the nation’s dependence on foreign oil?

The Department of Energy plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to help produce fuels from materials that are not part of the food supply. Growing corn, or maize, for fuel has raised concerns about the supply and cost of corn available for food and animal feed.

Fuel made from switch grass or forestry waste like sawdust（锯屑） is known as cellulosic（有纤维质的） ethanol（酒精）. Department officials say it contains more energy and produces fewer greenhouse gases than ethanol made from corn. Switch grass is also easier to grow.

Last month, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a study of switch grass grown on low-quality land. Government scientist Ken Vogel was the lead author. The study says the switch grass produced five times more energy than was needed to grow it. Also, it says switch grass, over its lifetime from crop to fuel, produces much less carbon compared to gasoline.

Fossil fuels like oil take carbon from the ground and release it as waste gas when the fuel is burned. Biofuels（生物燃料） like corn and cellulosic ethanol also produce greenhouse gases, through growing crops and making the fuel. The difference is that biofuels remove carbon from the atmosphere through the growth of the feedstock, the material for the fuel.

Science magazine just published two studies of biofuels and the heat-trapping gases that scientists link to climate change. One of the reports notes that most studies have found that substituting biofuels for gasoline will reduce greenhouse gases.

But it says the earlier studies failed to count the carbon released into the atmosphere as farmers worldwide react to higher prices. They are clearing forests and grasslands to make way for new cropland to replace the grain used for biofuels. Doing so can release much of the carbon stored in the plants and soil, and sacrifice future storage.

The study found that corn-based ethanol could increase greenhouse gases for years from land use change. And it found that biofuels from switch grass, if grown on American corn land, could also increase emissions, though by less.

The study team, led by Timothy Searchinger at Princeton University, says the result shows the value of using waste products for fuel. The other report says carbon savings depend on how biofuels are produced.

1．Switch grass is a better fuel than corn in all the following aspects except         .

       A．switch grass grows on low – quality land

       B．switch grass produces more energy than corn

       C．switch grass produces fewer greenhouse gases than corn

       D．switchgears is easier to grow

2．It is implied in the underlined sentence that         .

       A．an increasing number of people worry about the use of corn as fuel

       B．there will be an increase in price of corn for food if it is used as fuel

       C．there will be an decrease in quantity of corn for food if it is used as fuel

       D．all the above choices are right

3．Biofuels produces much less carbon compared to Fossil fuels in that         .

       A．biofuels produce less greenhouse gases than fossil fuels

       B．fossil fuels release carbon while biofuels not when burning

       C．biofuels take in carbon from the air when they are growing

       D．biofuels produce greenhouse gases only when they are burning

4．The passage indicates that           .

       A．we’d better make full use of biofuels to protect the environment

       B．the value of using biofuels remains to be further studied

       C．it’s costless to grow biofeuls

       D．biofuels are just switchgrass and corn

Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from the list A – F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.

John Graham won the annual competition of tall tales, which is held at the Bridge. Inn in Santon Bridge, in Britain’s Lake District. The “world’s biggest liar” has been crowned, after telling a tale about a German World War II submarine invading Britain to get digital television decoders. The 69 – year – old Graham, who has won the title five times before, insisted to BBC radio that “it was a true story”.

The annual World’s Biggest Liar Competition, which now draws tourists and competitors from around the world, dates back to the 19 ^th century when it was founded to honor a famous man called Will Ritson （1808 – 1890）.

The contest is always held at the Bridge Inn. Ritson was a popular pub owner who lived in the western Lake District. He always kept his customers interested with his funny stories. Of course, Ritson was a very honest and sincere man, who insisted that all his tales were true.

Each year, a contest is held to award the title of “The Biggest Liar in the World” to the person who is worthy of following in Ritson’s footsteps. More than 120 people from across the country, and from as far away as Sweden and South Africa, have taken part in this interesting competition.

Competitiors have five minutes to tell the biggest lie. Last year’s winner Sue told the truth of “telling a successful lie”, “I think you have got to keep that element of truth and then add some mad and fantastical elements. If you start off in a spaceship then you’ve lost people straight away.”

“Politicians and lawyers are banned from entering as they are judged to be too skilled at telling lies.”

Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

1．他擅长使用各种电脑。（operate）

2．他的父母对他的前途十分有信心。（confident）

3．和你在一起的时候，我很容易有好心情。（It）

4．我们俱乐部决不会对这种事情听之任之的。（have）

5．对于有关自己学校里的各种事情，大多数同学在网上都参加过讨论。（participate）

6．各个地区采取了措施，使未能回家的人一起过了个快乐年。（so that）

Write an English composition about 120 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

谈谈高考结束之后，你最想做的一件有意义的事情，并且阐明其理由。