Occasional self-medication has always been part of normal living. The making and selling of

drugs has a long history and is closely linked, like medical practice itself, with belief in magic. Only during the last hundred years or so has the development of scientific techniques made it possible for some of the causes of symptoms to be understood; so that more accurate diagnosis has become possible. The doctor is now able to follow up the correct diagnosis of many illnesses with specific treatment of their causes. In many other illnesses, of which the causes remain unknown, he is still limited, like an unqualified prescriber, to the treatment of symptoms. The doctor is trained to decide when to treat symptoms only and when to attack the cause: this is the essential difference between medical prescribing(开处方) and self-medication.

The advance of technology has brought about much progress in some fields of medicine, including the development of scientific drug therapy(疗法). In many countries public health organization is improving, and people’s nutritional standards have risen. Parallel with such beneficial trends are two which have bad effects. One is the use of high pressure advertising by the pharmaceutical(制药的) industry, which has tended to influence both patients and doctors and has led to the over-use of drugs generally. The other is the emergence of the sedentary(静止的) society with its faulty ways of life: lack of exercise, over-eating, unsuitable eating, insufficient sleep, too much smoking and drinking. People with disorders arising from faulty habits such as these, as well as from unhappy human relationships, often resort(采取) to self-medication and so add the taking of pharmaceuticals to the list. Advertisers go to great lengths to catch this market.

1．Which of the following is nearest in meaning to “symptom”?

       A．The cause of an illness.

       B．Any kind of drug.

       C．A change in the body indicating an illness,.

       D．The pain produced by any kind of illness.

2．Which of the following is TRUE?

       A．Today the causes of all symptoms are understood.

       B．Today accurate diagnosis of all illnesses is possible

       C．When doctors do not understand the cause of an illness, they treat the symptoms.

       D．Doctors never treat symptoms unless they understand the causes of an illness.

3．How many “beneficial trends” are actually mentioned?

       A．Two                   B．Three                  C．Four                   D．Five

4．By “People’s nutritional standards have risen” the writer means that people _________.

       A．are eating better food                           B．are eating less food

       C．are eating more food       D．are healthier than before

（B：Burley, the boss; J：Jeremy）

B：Good morning.

J：Good morning, Mr. Burley.

B：Please be seated.   1 

J：Yes, I have. I worked for B & J Business Forms Company.

B：  2 

J：I quite enjoyed it, but the office was too big and sometimes noisy. I want to work in a smaller and quieter office.

B： 3   I think my office is very quiet and modern. I hope you don’t stay away from work too much.

J：  4 

B：That’s very good indeed.   5   One of the young men in my office is always absent. Right! I’ll take you on.

A．I need a young man like you.

B．How long have you worked in an office before?

C．That sounds very good.

D．Have you ever worked in an office before?

E．In my last job I was only away for one day in two years.

F．I’d like to follow your advice.

G．And did you enjoy it?

根据下列句子及所给的汉语注释，在句子右边的横线上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。

1．The boy is too ___________(紧张) to speak in front of others.                     1.__________

2．She hopes to be a __________(音乐家) in the future.                                  2. _________

3．The athletes___________(承诺) that they will compete fairly.                       3.__________

4．It is our greatest pleasure that all the passengers go home _________(平安).  4. _______ __

5．A great number of college students are active in serving as _________(志愿者) for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.                                        5. _______ __

6．More and more classrooms in cities are _______ __(配备) with computers.   6. _______ __

7．Shortly after the big fire broke out, two _______ __(打) firefighters arrived to fight it.

                                                                                                                    7. _______ __

8．Both English and Chinese are their _______ __(官方) languages in this area.   8. _______ __

9．The couple have _______ __(定居) down in the city for twenty years.          9. _______ __

10．_______ __(十二月) is the twelfth month of a year.                                10. _______ __

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断；如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（/\），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

    Sam Parker is a famous photographer. Once he was sent Africa               1.____________

to take photographs of a wildlife there. His wife demanded to go with              2. ____________

him strongly, and he agreed with. At first she had a very enjoyable                   3. ____________

times. Then Sam went off to find some lions to photograph. His wife              4. ____________

went with him, but before long they became separate. She walked                   5. ____________

down one path while he walked down the other. Before a while                       6. ____________

Sam heard her crying. He ran back but saw her running toward                      7. ____________

him. A huge lion was running after them. Quickly Sam took out                      8. ____________

his camera and pointed it at his wife and the lion. Then he shouts,                   9. ____________

“Slow down, woman. I can’t get you both in the picture.”                             10. ____________

一个大雪的冬夜，一辆行驶在京珠高速路上的大巴发生了交通事故。请你根据下面的提示用英语写一篇短文讲述这个故事并发表看法。故事的主要过程：

1．车上的45名乘客及司机被困车内，汽油耗尽，等待救援。

2．公路附近的村民刘刚看到，和几位村民设法打开车门实施解救。

3．带他们回家提供食品和水，给孩子们保暖衣服。

4．两天后救援车赶来，他们离开刘刚家。

要求：

1．词数100—120词之间，开头已为你写好；

2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：trap（困住）

On a snowy winter night, a bus with 45 passengers had an accident on Jingzhu expressway because of the slippery road. _______________________________________________________

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—The weather’s always great here in Kunming, isn’t it?

—Yeah,           . But it seems changes have taken place recently.

A．you are all right       B．you are right     C．all right     D．that’s OK

About 698,000 laptops were sold in China in        second quarter ,       12.1% increase from a year ago.

A．a ;a   B．a ;the C．the ;the     D．the ;a

          to give up smoking ,he threw away his          cigarettes.

A．Determined ;remained                                 B．Determined ;remaining

C．Determining; remained                                D．Determining; remaining

Dennis ,if you are late again, I’ll phone your parents .I’m          ,you know.

A．serious     B．careful      C．true   D．promising

Agriculture was a step in human progress          which subsequently there was not anything comparable until our own machine age.

A．to            B．in             C．for           D．from