In the Gulf of Mexico the animals' presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could ________ mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen.

Hundreds of thousands of soccer fans are likely to get their first taste of live 3D viewing during this year's World Cup, the vast majority of them in cinemas   at home, according to football body FIFA.

A. more than                B. rather than                C. other than                        D. less than

Stressful environments lead to unhealthy behaviors such as poor eating habits, which _________ increase the risk of heart disease.

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was in the 8th grade in Ohio, a girl named Helen in my class had a terrible accident. As she was   31  to the bus in order not to miss it, she slipped on the ice and fell under the back wheels of the bus. She   32  the accident but was paralyzed from the waist down. I went to see her, in my 13-year-old   33  thinking that she wouldn’t live   34  from then on.

Over the years, I   35  and didn’t think much about Helen after that. Three years ago, in Florida, my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike,   36  a terrible brain injury. While I was looking after my son, a lady who said she was the hospital’s social worker called. It was a (an)   37  trying (难受的) day. I burst into tears for no reason and rang   38 .

A short time 1ater, a beautiful woman, in a wheelchair,   39  into my son’s room with a box of   40 . After 16 years, I still   41  Helen. She smiled, handed me the tissues and hugged me. I told her who I was, and after we both went through the shock of that, she began to tell me about   42  since we last saw each other. She married, had children and got her degree so that she   43  the path for those people who were less   44  than her. She told me that if there was anything she could give me, it would be   45 .

Looking at this wonderful, giving person, I felt   46 . But I also felt the first hope I had since learning that my son was   47 . From this person that I thought would have no   48  of life, I learned that where there is life, there is hope. My son miraculously (神奇的)   49  and we moved north, but I owe Helen   50  that I can never repay.

Charles Blackman: Alice in Wonderland

An Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria （NGV）, Australia

10 June—12 August 2009

Venue（地点）   The Ian Potter Centre

Admission     Free entry

Charles Blackman is famous for his beautiful painting of dreams. In 1956, he heard for the first time Lewis Carroll’s extraordinary tale of Alice in Wonderland — the story of a Victorian girl who falls down a rabbit hole, meets a lot of funny characters and experience all kinds of things .At that time, Blackman’s wife was suffering form progressive blindness. The story of Alice moving through the strange situations, often disheartened by various events, was similar to his wife’s experiences. It also reflected so much of his own life. All this contributed to the completion of the Alice in Wonderland paintings.

Illustrator Workshop

Go straight to the experts for an introductory course in book illustration. The course includes an introduction to the process of illustration and its techniques, workshop exercise and group projects.

Dates Sunday 17 June &Sunday 5Aug.10am—1pm

Venue Gas Works Arts Park

Wonderful World

Celebrate the exhibition and Children’s Book Week with special activities just for the day, including a special visit from Alice and the White Rabbit.

Date  Sunday 24 June, 11am—4pm

Venue Exhibition Space, Level 3

Topsy- Turvy

Visit the exhibition or discover wonderful curiosities in artworks in the NGV Collection and make a magic world in a box. Alice and the White Rabbit will be with you. Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland will be screened.

Dates　Sunday 8,15,22,29 July ,and Tuesday 24—Friday 27 July ,12noon—3pm

Venue Theatre, NGV Australia

Drawing Workshop

Distortions of scale (比例失真) can make artworks strange but interesting.Find out how Charles Blackman distorted scale in his paintings to create a curious world, then experiment with scale in your own drawings. More information upon booking.

Date Friday 27 July, 10:30am—3pm

Venue　Foyer, Level 3

1.Charles Blackman’s paintings come from _______.

2.Which two activities can you participate in on the same day?

3.To understand the Alice in Wonderland paintings, you should go to _______.

4.Activities concerning children’s books are to be held _______.

 The huge Florida wetland known as the Everglades is a slow-moving river 80 kilometres wide but only a few centimeters deep. People call the Everglades a “river of grass” because sawgrass covers most of it. Sawgrass is not really grass. It is a plant that has leaves edged with tiny sharp teeth that can easily cut through clothes—and skin!

Travel in the Everglades is difficult. You cannot walk through shallow water because the sawgrass will cut you. The water is too shallow for regular boats. So, we use an airboat. An airboat is a flat, open boat. Like an airplane, it has a big propeller to move it. The propeller is fixed on the rear of the boat. It makes a tremendous noise, but it does the job. The boat skims along the water’s surface. Although we can still get lost in an airboat, at least we are above the alligators(短吻鳄).

While hundreds of different kinds of animals live in the Everglades, the most famous is surely the alligator. Once endangered, alligators are now protected within Everglades National Park. Visitors are likely to see them both on land and in water.

For a long time, dangers have threatened the Everglades. Around 1900, some people felt this precious wetland should be drained (排干). They said it was just a big swamp and not good for anything. In the 1920s, there was a land boom in Florida. People wanted to build homes everywhere, including in the Everglades. They built canals, levees (防洪堤) , and other water systems that stopped the rivers flowing into the Everglades. Factories were built near rivers that flowed into the wetland. These factories dumped poisonous waste that damaged the Everglades ecosystem.

? People are now working to preserve the Everglades National Park for the future. Right now, one big problem is the paperbark tree. This tree is an invader from Australia.

Paperbark trees soak up a lot of water. In the early 1900s, people brought them to Florida because they thought they would help drain the Everglades. However, the invaders adapted too well. Paperbark trees have taken over hundreds of thousands of acres of the Everglades and killed other trees. Scientists are cutting down these invaders or spraying them with herbicides (除草剂) to kill them. ?

1.Which helps to explain why it is difficult to travel in Everglades?

2.Why do people use airboats instead of normal boats?

3.The following measures were taken to drain the Everglades except that people______. ?

4.The underlined word "invader" probably means something______. ?

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

71．Expo 2010 Shanghai China ____________________ (在召开)on both banks of the Huangpu River in the city of Shanghai, China, from May 1 to October 31, 2010.（hold）

72．The official song of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa titled Waka Waka features many musical elements that_____________________（追溯到）the ancient times.(date)

73．He looks sleepy. He must_____________ (熬夜了)last night, writing the essay. (stay)

74．— Is Bob still performing?

— I’m afraid not. He is said ______________（离开）the stage already as he has become an official.(leave)

75．_________________ (适应) the tropical heat was more difficult than they had expected. (adjust)

76．When the survivor woke up, he wanted to know      ____________     (是谁) that saved him from that burning house. (who)

77．The more ways we have of looking at a problem , ____________________ （越有可能）that we can find a solution. (likely)

78．His younger sister teaches in a secondary school, in front of      _______________    (流淌着一条小河). (flow)

79．It is possible that the King of Stonehenge was linked to the stones: he __________________

(很可能参与了) in planning the monument, or in helping transport and pull up the stones. (hand)

80．Representatives attending Copenhagen Conference recommended that  _______________   (采取严厉措施) to reduce carbon emission. (take)

I have told you the truth. _______I keep repeating it?

A. Must        B. Can        C. May       D. Will

The Internet gives people the chance to have the information _______ quickly and cheaply.

   A. to deliver       B. deliver      C. delivered      D. delivering

Germany nipped Ghana 1-0 in their last World Cup Group D game, _______ sent both teams into the last 16 at 2010 World Cup.

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