An increase in the number of suicides in South Korea, has led policeman Yoo Byoung-jong to a new job. He patrols(巡逻) Seoul’s bridges to stop desperate people from throwing themselves into the river.

According to South Korea’s health ministry, suicide rates have doubled in a decade and are now the leading cause of death for people in their 20s and 30s.

The country has the fourth-highest suicide rate among the 30 industrialized countries in the Organization for Co-operation and Development (OECD). It recorded 22.8 suicide deaths for every 100,000 people in 2003．That’s lower than Hungry, Finland and close neighbour Japan. But the number is growing by about 1 percent each year, faster than for all other OECD nations.

In a move to cut suicides by a fifth by 2010, the health ministry is running a television ad campaign. It opens with a lonely man walking on a bridge. A voice over says: “Think five minutes more before you give it all away. Don’t forget you have a loving family.”

Other ministry plans include setting up more hotlines and training more suicide counselors. Authorities are also limiting websites that provide suicide methods and sometimes even sell toxic(有毒的) chemicals.

    Distressed individuals range from students worried about poor grades to people in debt as well as disgraced politicians.

    Experts say the rising toll(死亡人数) in some way can be blamed on media coverage of recent high-profile suicides. These include top business leaders and celebrities(名人) who apparently lead a number of people to copy their actions.

    “We saved 50 lives this year when people turned to bridges as a place to die after news reports of such deaths by ‘big shots’,” said the 38-year-oldYoo, in December.

    Last July, the government and civil associations urged media to avoid reporting specific methods and locations of suicides. But it is difficult to clearly give reasons for the suicide increase.

1．The passage is mainly about    .

  A．suicide problems in Korea                    B．how to reduce suicides in Korea

  C．desperation                                         D．the relations between life and suicide

2．Suicide rates in South Korea    .

  A．have done great harm to the economical development             

  B．are going from bad to worse

  C．didn’t draw special attention of the government

  D．arouse international concerns

3．It doesn’t say but implies that    .

  A．present hotlines are not enough for suicide counsellors

  B．people choose suicide as the way to end their lives because they are short of love

  C．cutting suicides by a fifth by 2010 is easy to carry out

  D．authorities manage websites efficiently

4．Lowering the number of reported suicide by celebrities in the media in Korea   .

     A．will be limited     

       B．didn’t affect people’s daily life

     C．might cause fewer people to commit suicide

       D．damage the fame of media

5．Yoo Byoung-jong’s new job to patrol Seoul’s bridge has    .

     A．made him suffer a lot

     B．prevented people from jumping into water

     C．burdened himself

     D．proved a good way to save lives

Girls who get enough dairy(牛奶的) products in their diets may weigh less than other teens with the same age.

Girls who consumed more dairy products were found to have slimmer(苗条的) middles than girls of the same age and race who ate the same number of calories and got the same amount of exercise. Girls who drank more soda, but also ate the same total calories, tended to be heavier.

The newly reported study included 323 white and Asian girls between the ages of 9 and 14.

A number of studies, mostly in adults, have shown that calcium(钙)may be key in maintaining normal body weight and fat stores. One reason may be the nutrient’s effects on hormones that help store calories as fat. In the new study, reported in the Journal of Nutrition, calcium from dairy sources, but not non-dairy foods, was related to lower weight and less abdominal(腹部的)fat—the link was particularly strong among girls of Asian decent(血统), who made up 47 percent of the study group. This suggests that “the dairy ingredient of the calcium intake is the key factor,” write the study authors, led by Dr. Rachel Novotny of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. It’s possible, they explain, that other nutrients in milk play an important role in weight balance.

For reasons that are unclear, the effect on body fat was stronger for Asian girls than for white girls, according to Novotny and her colleagues. They speculate that ethnic(种族的)differences in which dairy products are usually consumed, or in eating habits-having small amounts of dairy throughout the day, for instance, rather than a single large serving—may help explain the finding.

According to the researchers, soda may increase pounds by adding calories to kid’s diets, or by replacing milk. Milk, they note, has a range of nutrients, including protein and fat, which means it is metabolized(使新陈代谢)relatively slowly. Soda contains only sugar, which is quickly metabolized, easily causing hunger.

1．What would be the best title for this passage?

     A．Dairy Products Build Slimmer Bodies in Girls

     B．Different Ways Help Girls Keep Weight Balance

     C．Dairy Products Gain Popularity with Girls

     D．Study Suggests Girls Say No to Soda

2．According to this passage, dairy products      .

     A．always prevent girls from becoming fat

     B．can lower body fat in girls

     C．are most favored by girls of Asian descent

     D．contain more calcium than non-dairy foods

3．Which of the following does Paragraph 4 mainly focus on?

     A．Different studies on calcium.

     B．Ways to make use of calcium.

     C．The role of calcium in dairy foods in weight balance.

     D．The link between nutrients in milk and body weight.

4．In the second last paragraph, the underlined word “speculate” probably means   .

     A．prove              B．suggest            C．believe             D．guess

单词拼写.

1．What Daniel said just now      (表明，预示) that he knows what has happened to Jane.

2．A man who      (目睹) the accident said that the car was going at nearly 100km per hour when it crashed.

3．The physician was not experienced, so he did not know how to      with (处理) the illness.

4．How many Chinese      (代表) will attend the international conference?

5．She      (概括) the aims of the national basketball team for the next year at yesterday’s meeting.

6．She was deeply a     by the deeds of the hero who fought in the war.

7．She shouted at me, but I tried to keep c     and ignore her.

8．A l     of vitamin E is a frequent cause of muscle weakness.

9．Not enough money is a     to help the students in poor areas.

10．The teacher has a great i     on her students.

I’ve been to Hong Kong for three days, and                                 1．    

I’m having great time. Yesterday my friend                                         2．    

showed me about Hong Kong. It was a very                                       3．    

busy day, but I saw many interesting thing here                                  4．    

and there. We first visit Hong Kong Park.                                           5．    

After that, we walked to St. John’s Cathedral. I                                  6．    

think it is a very old church in Hong Kong.

Then we went to Victoria Park. There they                                         7．    

could see all over Hong Kong. It was real                                           8．    

wonderful. After lunch we caught a bus to a

supermarket. On the bus back the hotel, we　　　　　　　　　　　 9．    

both felt tired and very happy. We enjoyed                                          10．    

ourselves very much.

假如你叫李明， 你有一位英国网友名叫Tom，他听说过中国的故宫，但知之不多，于是给你发来了e-mail，请你向他介绍一下有关故宫的一些情况。请你根据下面提供的一些要点给他回一个电子邮件：

1．故宫（the Palace Museum）又叫紫禁城（the Forbidden City）。它于1407年开始修建，二十万人花了十四年的时间，于1420年建成。

    2．它所有的宫殿一共有9,999个房间。在中国，9这个数字传统地被认为是吉祥的。

    3．现在，每周星期二，故宫免费向中国学生开放。

    4．故宫有着中国历史上五千多年的珍宝（precious treasure）。请他亲自来看看。

注意：1．词数：100左右

      2．信的开头已为你写好

      3．不可逐字翻译

Dear Tom,

   It is nice to receive your e-mail. Now I’d like to tell you something about the Palace Museum.

   Best wishes.

                                                                       Yours,

                                                                      Li Ming

—We want someone to design the new art museum for us?

—           the young fellow have a try?

A．May         B．Shall         C．Will          D．Need

        is known to everybody, the moon travels round the earth once every month.

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

The picture reminded me of the golden days in the small village           I was taken good care of.

A．where       B．that   C．then         D．which

You’d better speak louder to make yourself             .

A．hearing     B．heard        C．hear  D．to hear

“Will you go skating with me this winter vacation?”

“It          .”

A．all depend                                                  B．all depends          

C．is all depended                                            D．is all depending