Criminals have come up with a new fraud （欺诈） targeting the chip and PIN cards used by shop and petrol station customers across the country. They are stealing card-reading machines, taking them apart and installing （安装） devices which record card numbers and PIN’s, before returning them to the store. The installed devices are so hi-tech that they can transmit customers’ card details to a mobile phone. Cards are then cloned and used abroad in countries including the United States, Italy and Australia where cash machines do not have to read the unique microchip in British cards.

    Police have issued a warning about the fraud after arresting two men at a card-faking factory in Birmingham. A search of a house found stolen chip and PIN terminals, card account numbers, card readers and fake magnetic stripe cards.

 The criminals targeted shops by forcing staff to give them the card machines or getting a job there themselves. In some cases, they posed as engineers and took the machine away for an “upgrade.”

    Card fraud abroad has increased by 77 percent— and cost ￡207.6 million—in the past year. While fraudsters used to put pinhole cameras above the chip and PIN device to get hold of the number, they now use the chip and PIN terminal to get that basic data．They are getting hold of the PIN from inside the reader. Police said the Birmingham factory had stolen card machines from 30 shops, supermarkets and petrol stations across the country. These arrests are a significant development in the fight against the organized criminal gangs responsible for this type of fraud．

1．The criminals mentioned in the passage are most probably from ________.

A．Britain          B．America            C．China               D．Italy

2．According to the passage the criminals get money from the banks by ___________.

      A．stealing credit cards from petrol station customers

      B．installing devices inside the card machines

      C．cloning cards with customers’ card details 

      D．taking away card machines with PIN numbers

3．From the passage we can infer that______________.

      A．the fraud is mostly taking place in Birmingham

      B．the criminals withdraw money from banks in Britain

      C．the credit cards made by the criminals cannot be discovered 

      D．criminals cannot make exactly the same cards as real ones

4．The passage is mainly about ____________.

      A．the fighting against credit card fraud

      B．criminals and their new fraud

      C．a new fraud to be discovered

      D．police and smart criminals

阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：1）汉语提示；2）首字母提示；3）语境提示, 在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。

I had been thinking of the test result on my way to school.

When I walked into the classroom, the teacher was handing o           1．          

the test papers. I was feeling very n_____. I had not studied at                               2．          

____ at the weekend as I had thought it would be an easy test. I       3．        

went t_____ the paper many times but I could only answer three        4．        

out of the twenty _______. I did not want to fail in the exam. Then,    5．        

I put my book under my desk,     （打开） it and started looking   6．         

for the answers. The teacher wasn't looking at me, so I _____（抄）   7．         

something. Suddenly, I felt a hand on my s______ ! The teacher        8．         

caught me _____（作弊）. I didn't know what to say. The teacher     9．         

did not punish me for my doings, _______I felt ashamed．            10．         

大陆赠送给台湾的熊猫团团和圆圆在春节期间受到了台湾民众的热捧。假设你是陈力，你的英国朋友Jim想知道具体情况，请你根据以下要点向Jim做个简要介绍。

1．  团团圆圆的名字的寓意；

2．  他们去年12月份到达台湾后的反响（如：春节期间每天有将近2万人参观……）；

3．  你对团团圆圆的祝福。

注意：

1．  要准确使用语法和词汇；使用一定的句型、词汇，清楚、连贯地表达自己的意思；

2．  词数：120左右。开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Jim,

Thanks for the letter. Now let me tell you something about the two pandas.               

_______________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________  __________

Yours，

                                                                     Chen Li

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。

1．watched                  A．filled                B．recognized       C．whispered        D．practised

2．town                       A．bowl               B．shown             C．brown             D．blown

3．finger                      A．language          B．arrange            C．danger             D．autumn

4．industry                  A．valuable           B．suggest            C．future              D．dusty

5．ancient              A．accident        B．enjoyable       C．celebration       D．vegetable

It is reported that a car went out of        control on high way       north of Lanzhou and

three people got killed.

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

David is no longer the lazy boy       he used to be.

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

—“Do you mind if I keep pets in this building?”

—“         .”

A．Of course not. It’s not allowed here              B．Yes! I love pets

C．No, you can’t                              D．I’d rather you didn’t, actually

To our great      , Geoffrey’s illness proved not to be as serious as we had feared.

A．anxiety            B．relief           C．view           D．judgment

The film,       for children actually, is warmly received by both children and adults as well.

A．intended          B．admitted            C．promised          D．permitted

—Have you got the help needed in the earthquake—struck area?

—Well, many people and organizations have offered their help, but it was not nearly      .

A．as much as half                                          B．half so much as

C．half as much                               D．as half as much