Which is safer ── staying at home, traveling to work on public transport, or working in the office? Surprisingly, each of these carries the same risk, which is very low. However, what about flying compared to working in the chemical industry? Unfortunately, the former is 65 times riskier than the latter! In fact the accident rate of workers in the chemical industry is less than that of almost any of human activity, and almost as safe as staying at home.

The trouble with the chemical industry is that when things go wrong they often cause death to those living nearby. It is this that makes chemical accidents so newsworthy. Fortunately, they are extremely rare. The most famous ones happened at Texas City (1947), Flixborough (1974), Seveso (1976), Pemex (1984) and Bhopal (1984).

Some of these are always in the minds of the people even though the loss of life was small. No one died at Seveso, and only 28 workers at Flixborough. The worst accident of all was Bhopal, where up to 3,000 were killed. The Texas City explosion of fertilizer killed 552. The Pemex fire at a storage plant for natural gas in the suburbs of Mexico City took 542 lives, just a month before the unfortunate event at Bhopal.

Some experts have discussed these accidents and used each accident to illustrate a particular danger. Thus the Texas City was caused by tons of ammonium nitrate, which is safe unless stored in a great quantity. The Flixborough fireball was the fault of management——production was going on during essential repairs. The Seveso accident shows what happens if the local authorities lack knowledge of the danger on their doorstep. When the poisonous gas drifted over the town, local leaders were incapable of taking effective action. The Pemex fire was made worse by an overloaded site in an overcrowded suburb. The fire set off a chain reaction of exploding storage tanks. Yet, by a miracle, the two largest tanks did not explode. Had these caught fire, then 3,000 strong rescue team and fire fighters would all have died.

56. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Working at the office is safer than staying at home.

B. Travelling to work on public transport is safer than working in the office.

C. Staying at home is safer than working in the chemical industry.

D. Working in the chemical industry is safer than traveling by air.

57. Chemical accidents are usually important enough to be reported as news because_____.

A. they are very rare            B. they often cause loss of life

C. they always occur in big cities  D. they arouse the interest of all the readers

58. According to the passage, the chemical accident that was caused by the fault of management happened in__________.

A. Texas City    B. Flixborough     C. Seveso    D. Mexico City

59. From the passage we know that the underlined words “ammonium nitrate” is a kind of _____.

A. natural gas, which can easily catch fire

B. fertilizer, which can't be stored in a great quantity

C. poisonous substance, which can't be used in overcrowded areas

D. fuel, which is stored in large tanks

60. From the discussion among some experts we may conclude that _____.

A. to avoid any accident we should not repair the facilities in chemical industry

B. he local authorities should not be concerned with the production of the chemical industry

C. all these accidents could have been avoided or controlled if effective measures had been taken

D. natural gas stored in very large tanks is always safe

The easy way out isn’t always the easiest. I learned that lesson when I decided to treat Doug, my husband of one month, to a special meal. I glanced through my cookbook and chose a menu that included homemade bread. Knowing the bread would take time, I started on it as soon as Doug left for work. As I was not experienced in cooking, I thought if a dozen were good, two dozen would be better, so I doubled everything. As Doug loved oranges, I also opened a can of orange and poured it all into the bowl. Soon there was a sticky dough(生面团) covered with ugly yellowish marks. Realizing I had been defeated, I put the dough in the rubbish bin outside so I wouldn’t have to face Doug laughing at my work. I went on preparing the rest of the meal, and, when Doug got home, we sat down to Cornish chicken with rice. He tried to enjoy the meal but seemed disturbed. Twice he got up and went outside, saying he thought he heard a noise. The third time he left, I went to the window to see what he was doing. Looking out, I saw Doug standing about three feet from the rubbish bin, holing the lid up with a stick and looking into the container. When I came out of the house, he dropped the stick and explained that there was something alive in our rubbish bin. Picking up the stick again, he held the lid up enough for me to see. I felt cold. But I stepped closer and looked harder. Without doubt it was my work. The hot sun had caused the dough to double in size and the fermenting yeast(酵母)made the surface shake and sigh as though it were breathing. It looked like some unknown being from outer space. I could see why Doug was so shaken. I had to admit what the ‘living thing’ was and why it was there. I don’t know who was more embarrassed by the whole thing——Doug or me.

51. The writer’s purpose of writing this story is ________.

A. to tell an interesting experience

B. to show the easiest way out of a difficulty

C. to describe the trouble facing a newly married woman

D. to explain the difficulty of learning to cook from books

52. Why did the writer’s attempt at making the bread turn out to be unsuccessful?

A. The canned orange had gone bad.

B. She didn’t use the right kind of flour.

C. The cookbook was hard to understand.

D. She did not follow the directions closely.

53. Why did the writer put the dough in the rubbish bin?

A. She didn’t see the use of keeping it.

B. She meant to joke with her husband.

C. She didn’t want her husband to see it.

D. She hoped it would soon dry in the sun.

54. What made the dough in the bin looks frightening?

A. The rising and falling movement.          B. Its shape.

C. The strange-looking marks.               D. Its size.

55. When her husband went out the third time, the writer looked out of the window because she was ________.

A. surprised at his being interested in the bin

B. afraid that he would discover her secret

C. unhappy that he didn’t enjoy the meal

D. curious to know what disturbed him

With the popular low-carbon lifestyle, energy saving occurs more frequently in everyday life. Here are a number of easy suggestions you can follow to keep cool without an air conditioner. Most don’t need electricity as well.

1.       Wet your wrists and other pulse points with cold water. Use a piece of ice wrapped in a face cloth. Constantly cooling off the wrists will also cool off the body. Never use just ice; make sure it is wrapped in a towel or something similar. Studies show that this will reduce your core body temperature by as much as 3.5℃. The relief is almost immediate, and will last for up to one hour!

2.       Drink lots of cold drinks. Water is the best but cool liquid of any type that will help to cool you down. The electrolytes(电解质)help to make sure you don’t lost vital minerals through sweating. Adding ice will also help cool you off. Ice does not actually help you cool off if it is in the water you will drink. Cool water does help, and the colder the water is, the more energy our body spends in making it body temperature so that your body can use it.

3.       Keep still and quiet. This is not a good time for exercising, sports or running around . Keep these activities for the evening when the air becomes cooler and the sun goes down.

4.       Place wet towels on the back of your neck and also the top of one’s head. Athletic team doctors have used this for years!

5.       Use perspiration to cool the body down. If you don’t follow Number3, then water vapor produced by sweating actually take heat away form your body if it is exposed to air and allowed to evaporate. The best thing to do is to put your sweaty self in the path of a cool breeze of fan

6.       Stay in the shade.  Read a good book, sit still or take a nap.

7.       Open the windows to let in a breeze. Use screens to keep out insects if they are a problem.

8.       Go swimming. If you can, select a shady body of water.

46. The author suggests adding ice into the drinks because_______________.

A. ice can actually help people cool off 

B. icy drinks contain more vital minerals

C. icy drinks cost more body energy   

D. people love cold drinks in hot weather

47. Which of the following suggestions is NOT given to people who want to cool off?

A. Keep still and quiet and quit exercising completely.

B Expose your sweaty body to moving air after exercise.

C. Stay in a shady place with enough fresh air.

D. Put wet towels on the back of your neck to cool you down.

48. What does the underlined word “perspiration” in Para.6 mean？

A. Exercising.       B. Drinking.       C. Sleeping.       D. Sweating

49. It can be inferred that the author encourages the readers to ________________.

A. spend the summer inside the house     B. relieve pain with a piece of ice

C. use less electricity to save energy      D. avoid being exposed to the wind

50. Which is the best title of the passage?

A. Icy Water Can Help You Keep Cool

B. Keep Cool without an Air conditioner

C. Suggestions to People in Summer

D. What Can We Do in the Hot summer

阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卷标号为36-45的相应位置上。

Some humor can be cruel but some people seem to enjoy seeing other people’s bad luck at times. Perhaps it makes ___36____ feel more content with our life because we feel there is someone else ___37____(bad) off than ourselves. ___38___, some actors can astonish us with the deep feelings. Charlie Chaplin, the most famous actor ___39____ the period of silent films, was such an actor. He was able ___40____(make) terrible situations funny and at the same time show the humanity and kindness that can be found in the most difficult circumstances. Take The Gold Rush for example. The film___41___(set) in California in the middle of the nineteenth century. Chaplin and his friend wash sand from the river in a pan of water. ___42___they expect eagerly to find gold, they have not been ___43___ (fortune) enough to find any. Instead, they are caught in a snowstorm in a small wooden house, ___44___ (have) nothing to eat. They are so hungry ___45___ they have to boil a pair of leather shoes and eat it. Chaplin seems to eat every mouthful with great enjoyment and makes it seem to be one of the best meals he has ever had!

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 21―35各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该题涂黑。

Bobby, a poor guy was famous for his attempts to climb the big snowy mountain. He had tried at least 30 times, but had always___21___. Every time, he began the climbing at a good pace. But as he went on, he would look down at his worn-out ___22___ more often. Finally when the clouds had gathered round him, he understood that he wouldn’t be able to enjoy the ___23___from the top.

Last month, he went up the___24___ with Peeper, who gave him a pair of ___25___ sunglasses. “If it starts clouding over, put these___26__ on, or if your feet start hurting, put them on too. These are special glasses; they will___27__you.”

Bobby ___28__ the gift without thinking much, but when his feet started ___29__ again, he remembered what Peeper had said and he put on the glasses. The pain was pretty bad, but with those new sunglasses he could still ___30___to continue. This time the ___31___ were so light that he could still see the top through them. And so Bobby kept climbing, ___32___ the clouds behind, forgetting his___33___, and finally arriving at the top. It was certainly worth it.

　 In fact, the mountain below was still ___34___ by a sea of clouds. But the sunglasses Peeper gave was made in such a way that he could only see them if he looked upwards. Bobby realized that the only ___35___ of reaching the top had been his own discouragement.

21．A．stopped　　 B．dropped C．fallen 　 　D．failed

22．A．shoes B．shorts C．hats D．

24．A．road 　　 　　　 　　 B．mountain　 C．tower　　 　D．top

25．A．strange　　 　　　　 B．special　　 C．ordinary 　 　D．expensive

26．A．trousers　　 　　　 B．clothes C．shoes　 　　 　D．glasses

27．A．help　 　　　 　 B．save 　　 C．calm　　　 　　 D．improve

28．A．got　 　　　　 　　 B．disliked 　　　 C．accepted　　 D．refused

29．A．complaining　 　　　 B．working 　　　 C．hurting　 　　 　 D. trembling

30．A．manage　　 　 B．try　　 　　 　　 C．fail　 　　　D．have

31．A．trees　　　 B．grass 　　 　　　 C．glasses　 　　　 　 D．clouds

32．A．throwing 　　　　 B．forgetting 　　　 C．leaving　 　　　 　 D．putting

34．A．defeated　 　 B．prevented 　　 C．surrounded　 D．connected

35．A．hesitation 　　　 B．difficulty　 　　 C．trick　　　 　　　 D．way

假如你校要举办一次主题为“How to communicate with friends”的英语演讲比赛，请你用英语写一篇演讲稿。要点如下：

1．    尊重并信任朋友，作为回报，他们也会信赖你。 

2．    常与朋友聊天，增强相互了解。

3．    换位思考问题，体会别人所想，找出合适的交流方式。

4．    诚恳与体贴在沟通中非常重要。

注意：

1．词数：100字左右；

2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3．参考词汇：换位思考 put oneself in sb’s shoes

[写作要求]
  1．只能使用5个句子表达全部内容；
  2．文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

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句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

Hello, everyone, I’d like to share my ideas about the topic of communicating with our friends.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

首先请阅读下列餐馆的信息：

A. Pasta House –– new Italian restaurant located in the heart of the city. Simple but delicious inexpensive meals. Also has a good range of vegetable-only meals. It’s always crowded so be ready to order take-away or share a table. Open 11 a.m. to midnight.

B. A Taste of India –– famous for its spicy curries and many southern Indian dishes using chilli. You will usually be able to find a table during the week but if you’re planning to go on the weekend make sure you book a table in advance. Open noon to midnight.

C. Paris Match –– this is the finest French restaurant in the city. Wonderful food you can enjoy in luxurious surrounding. The perfect place to have a romantic meal or impress a business partner, but be prepared for a large bill. Open noon to 2 a.m. Booking essential.

D. Mountain Diner –– not fancy but tasty. Excellent Asian and European dishes. Countryside location surrounded by forest. It’s at least an hour’s drive from the city so you might want to stay at the nearby Mountain Hotel overnight. Open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

E. Owl Café–– open 24 hours a day the café has a large selection of set breakfast, lunch and dinner meals for you to choose from, or you can enjoy one of their many delicious snacks and desserts over a cup of freshly made coffee.

F. Greek Bistro –– a lively restaurant that serves great-value Greek food and has live Greek music played by a local band. Customers are encouraged to take part in the entertainment so be ready for a night of loud fun and laughter. Open 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.

以下是五个人的选择要求，请匹配每个人拟选择的地方：

81. Bill –– was late getting up today so hasn’t had time to make breakfast. He wants to pick up something to eat before he goes to work so he has enough energy to last through to lunch time. 

82. Julie –– works in the city and wants to get some lunch. She doesn’t want anything too special so long as it is tasty and not too expensive. Julie likes all kinds of food but because she is on a diet she wants to avoid anything containing meat. 

83. Sally –– has friends visiting her from out-of-town and wants to take them to dinner. She wants to take them somewhere they can enjoy the atmosphere and have fun. She is a university student so doesn’t have a lot of money and doesn’t like her food too hot. 

84. Albert –– is a businessman who will meet an important European client for a business dinner next week. Want to book a table at a quiet restaurant that will impress his guest with both its food and its surroundings. 

85. Robert –– is meeting his friend Ben for lunch today (Tuesday) and wants to take him to a nice restaurant. Both Robert and Ben enjoy good quality spicy food. Robert doesn’t like arranging things in advance so he hasn’t booked a table.

　 Microwaves are usually used to warm up food, but what about warming people?

Using microwaves to directly heat owners of a room would save much of the energy wasted by heating walls and furniture. And despite popular ideas about microwaves, this technique would be safe, according to Charles R. Burlier of the Microwave Research Center in Marlborough, New Hampshire. Low-power microwaves only penetrate (贯穿) the skin (low-power microwave penetration in a ham is about 0.2 inches, for example) and with no negative effects.

　 To test this idea, Buffler subjected himself to microwaves in a special room using a standard 500-watt, 2459 MHz magnetron (磁控管). He found that a person will start to feel warmth at about 20 milliwatts per square centimeter (mw. / sq. cm.) ; a satisfactory feeling of warmth occurs between 35 and 50mw. / sq. cm. By comparison, a person standing in noonday summer sun feels the amount of 85 mw. / sq. cm. And a frozen meat pie in your microwave oven receives about 1000 mw. / sq. cm.

　 In houses of the future, each room could be provided with its own magnetron, says Buffler. When you stepped into the living room, for example, a motion detector would turn on the magnetron, filling the room with low-power microwaves. In the same way that a microwave oven heats up a hamburger, but not the plate it’s on, you would feel warmth from the microwaves without changing the temperature of your coffee table. (You could, however, make your favorite easy chair even more comfortable by treating it with a radiation-absorbing chemical. )

　 While it might be some time before homeowners are comfortable enough with the idea to set up whole-body microwave heaters in houses, Buffler says microwaves may attract livestock farmers. Lambs that are born outdoors in winter, for example, are frequently lost to cold. Microwaves could warm the lambs safely and quickly.

76. Which of the following can tell the main idea of the passage?

A. A new heating system.　　　　　　　　 B. A new microwave oven.

C. A popular technique. D. The magnetron.

77. According to paragraph 2, which of the following does not describe the characteristics of a microwave heater?

A. It directly heats people in a room　　　　 B. It heats walls and furniture in a room.

C. It is safe.　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　D. It saves energy．

78. The test conducted by Buffler shows that when a person feels comfortable warmth, he receives about______.

A. 20 mw. / sq. cm.　　　 B. 40 mw. / sq. cm.　 C. 60 mw. / sq. cm. 　 D. 85 mw. / sq. cm

79. According to paragraph 4, which of the following fills the room with low-power microwaves?

A. The magnetron.　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. A frozen meat pie.

C. The microwave oven.　　　　　　　　　 D. The radiation-absorbing chemical.

80. Which of the following statements about microwave heaters would Buffler most probably agree with?

A. Microwave heaters will soon be widely used by homeowners.

B. Microwave heaters sometimes make people feel uncomfortable.

C. Perhaps microwave heaters will be first used by livestock farmers, who wish to protect their lambs in winter.

D. Microwave heaters cannot be accepted by the public because they are somewhat unsafe.

   The majority of parents and children experience some tension with one another The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.

   An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past. “We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seem to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “They’re expected to show rebellion(叛逆) and selfishness but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation (商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”

   So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall. “I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. “Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”

   Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, “Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”

71. What is the popular image of teenagers today?

A. They hate living with their parents.             

B. They are worried about school.

C. They often quarrel with other family members.  

D. They have to be locked in the room to avoid troubles.

72. The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ______.

A. make family decisions                      B. cause trouble in their families

C. go boating with their family                  D. share family responsibility

73. Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today’s parents______.

A. care little about their children’s life    

B. go to clubs more often together with their children

C. are much stricter with their children    

D. give their children more space

74. According to the author, teenage rebellion ______.

A. is very common nowadays              B. may be a false belief

C. existed only in the 1960s                D. resulted from changes in families

75. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Harmony in family                  B. Negotiation in family

 C. Teenage trouble in family             D. Education in family.

　　　 When asked what they have done to help protect the environment, most people will almost mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over–consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.

　 The total amount of packaging has increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.

　 Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of it for burying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.

　 But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But it is also applied to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.

　 There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary materials are collected. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.

66. The underlined phrase “that over-consumption” refer to______________.

A. Having more material than is needed． 　 　 B. Recycling too many wastes．

C. Making more products than necessary． 　　　 D. Using too much packaging．

67. The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show ___________．

A. the tendency of cutting household waste B. the increase of packaging recycling

C. the rapid growth of supermarkets 　　 　　　D. the fact of packaging overuse

68. According to the text, recycling ___________．

A. helps control the greenhouse effect 　　　　 B. means burning packaging for energy

C. is the solution to gas shortage D. leads to a waste of land

69. It can be inferred from Paragraph 4 that____________.

A. Unpackaged products are of bad quality．

B. It is improper to judge quality by packaging．

C. Other products are better packaged than food．　　

D. Supermarkets care more about packaging．

70. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. People like collecting recyclable wastes．

B. Needless material is mostly recycled．

C. Fighting wastefulness is difficult．　　　

D. The author is proud of their consumer culture．