Hardly could he _________this amount of work in such a short of time.

A.live through     B.look through     C.come  through   D.get through

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Our holidays were coming to an end but we had not yet realized our plan to drive to Dalat. Our   1about Dalat with its shining cherry blossoms (花) and scenic views were   2us to start our journey.

Then one morning our dream   3. We hired a car and drove   4to Dalat early in the morning. Splendid landscapes   5on either side of the road   6before us. The refreshing morning breeze was caressing (抚摸) our skin and in   7spirits we were singing merrily.

When we reached Blao Pass, we saw a white   8in front of us. We   9down the pass. It seemed to us that the young girl in the white car did not want to be   10as she was driving at full speed. Suddenly she lost  11of her car; it turned to the left and crashed into the slope and   12.

Quite frightened, we braked   13and jumped out of our car. We turned her car over and pulled out the girl who was   14in the car. The girl had narrowly escaped death. She was shivering like an aspen (白杨) leaf. In spite of her   15, she looked very beautiful, just like an angel. When she had   16from her panic, she timidly (胆小地) thanked us for having rescued her, then she looked at her flat   17in despair.

Reading her thoughts, we took off our shirts and began to   18the punctured tyre. We then put on the   19wheel for her. As soon as the work had been done, we started our  20again and followed Da Huong Lan—the girl we had helped.

1.A．thoughts              B．ideas                C．suggestions      D．stories

2.A．promising             B．telling              C．urging             D．refusing

3.A．came true             B．woke up          C．took place        D．broke out

4.A．back                    B．again               C．slowly             D．straight

5.A．at dusk                B．at night            C．at dawn           D．at noon

6.A．disappeared          B．unfolded          C．grown             D．developed

7.A．strange                B．fresh               C．high                D．low

8.A．bus                      B．car                  C．dog                 D．cat

9.A．walked                 B．ran                  C．climbed           D．sped

10.A．overtaken           B．beaten              C．discovered       D．known

11.A．anger                 B．control             C．life                  D．memory

12.A．left                    B．stopped            C．returned           D．overturned

13.A．highly                B．successfully     C．hard                D．hardly

14.A．trapped              B．locked             C．thrown            D．found

15.A．pleasure             B．death               C．shock              D．wake

16.A．came                 B．recovered         C．learned            D．turned

17.A．tyre                   B．chair                C．car                  D．leg

18.A．repair                 B．remove            C．throw              D．check

19.A．other                  B．new                 C．second-hand    D．spare

20.A．journey              B．voyage             C．passage           D．umbrella

     AThe three main types of secondary education in the United States have been provided by the Latin grammar school, the academy, and the public high school. The first of these was a colonial institution. It began in New England with the establishment in 1635 of the Boston Free Latin School. The curriculum(课程) consisted mainly of the classical languages, and the purpose of this kind of school was the preparation of boys for college, where most of them would be fitted for the ministry.?

The academy began in the early 1750’s with Benjamin Franklin’s school in Philadelphia, which later became the University of Pennsylvania. It extended generally to about the middle nineteenth century, except in the southern states where the public high school was late in developing and where the academy continued to be a principal means of secondary education even after 1900.The academy was open to girls as well as to boys, and it provided a wider curriculum than what the Latin grammar school had furnished. It was designed not only as a preparation for college but also for practical life in commercial and business activities. Although its wide educational values are evident and are recognized as important contributions to secondary education in this country, the academy has never been considered a public institution as the public high school has come to be.?

The public high school had its origin in Massachusetts in 1821 when the English Classical School was established in Boston. In 1827,the state enacted(制定)the first state wide public high　school law in the United States. By 1840,there were perhaps a dozen public high schools in Massachusetts and many in other eastern states by 1850,they could also be found in many other states. Just as the curriculum of the academy grew out of that of the Latin grammar school, the curriculum of the public high school developed out of that of the academy. The public high school in the United States is a repudiation(推翻) of the aristocratic(贵族的)and selective principle of the European educational tradition. Since 1890,enrollments( 入学)in secondary schools, mainly public high schools, have practically doubled in this country every ten years.

1.According to the passage, which of the following sequences indicates the order in which the schools developed?

       A．Latin grammar school, public high school, academy.

B．Latin grammar school, academy, public high school.

C．Public high school, Latin grammar school, academy.

D．Public high school, academy, Latin grammar school.

2.It is the opinion of the author that the academy, compared with the public high school, was ____.

A．obviously academically better

B．more discriminatory in student selection

C．coeducational

D．not generally considered as a public institution

3.One can probably infer from his article that “Latin grammar school” refers to ____.

A．the Boston Free Latin School

B．all the elementary schools in the United States

C．schools which taught Latin, exclusive of all other subjects

D．a number of schools which developed in New England

4.It is implied but not stated in the passage that ____.

A．European educational systems are not good

B．As high schools developed in the united states, the decision was made to make them responsible to people from all classes of society.

C．There was an aristocratic and selective principle in the European educational tradition

D．public high schools in the United States embraced the European educational tradition

In the eighteenth—century one of the first modern economists, Adam Smith, thought that the “whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country” provided revenue to “three different orders of people: those who live by rent, those who live by wages, and those who live by profit”. Each successive stage of the industrial revolution, however, made the social structure more complicated.?

Many intermediate groups grew up during the nineteenth century between the upper middle class and the working class. There were small—scale industrialists as well as large ones, small shopkeepers and tradesmen, officials and salaried employees, skilled and unskilled workers, and professional men such as doctors and teachers. Farmers and peasants continued in all countries as independent groups.?

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the possession of wealth inevitably affected a person’s social position. Intelligent industrialists with initiative made fortunes by their wits which lifted them into an economic group far higher than that of their working—class parents. But they lacked social training of the upper class, who despised them as the “new rich.”?

They often sent their sons and daughters to special school to acquire social training. Here their children, mixed with the children of the upper classes, were accepted by them, and very often found marriage partners from among them. In the same way, a thrifty, hardworking labourer, though not clever himself, might save for his son enough to pay for an extended secondary school education in the hope that he would move in a “white collar” occupation, carrying with it a higher salary and a move up in the social scale.?

In the twentieth century the increased taxation of higher incomes, the growth of the social services, and the wider development of educational opportunity have considerably altered the social outlook. The upper classes no longer are the sole, or even the main possessors of wealth, power and education, though inherited social position still carries considerable prestige.

1.If you compare the first and second paragraph, what groups of people did Adam Smith leave out in his classification?

A．Officials and employees.                       B．Peasants and farmers.

C．Doctors and teachers.                          D．Tradesmen and landlords.

2.Who were the ‘new rich’ during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

A．They were still the upper class people.

B．They were owners of large factories.

C．They were intelligent industrialists.

D．They were skilled workers who made their fortune.

3.According to the passage, what did those people do who intended to make their children move up in the social ladder?

A．They saved a lot of money for their children to receive higher education.

B．They tried to find marriage partners from the children of the upper class.

C．They made greater fortunes by their wits.

D．They worked even harder to acquire social training.

4.In the twentieth century class differences have been partly smoothed out by ____.

A．increased income and decreased taxation

B．taxation, social services and educational opportunities

C．education, the increase of income and industrial development

D．the decrease of the upper class population

Attitudes differed to small errors of grammar and usage, or inappropriateness of vocabulary and idiom, with the native speakers finding such errors a little irksome(令人厌烦的)，though sometimes amusing, while the Chinese panel members paid hardly any attention to such errors as, for example, misuse of phrasal verbs and similar usages: “When I saw the job description, I decided to apply the position.” “I expect to find out a lot of challenge in the job.” “I can deal the emergency situations efficiently.”?

Errors of idiom or appropriateness caused more comment, during the post interview discussion, from the native speakers than from the Chinese panel members, on whom the errors were sometimes lost. For example, one candidate, when asked what salary he expected, replied: “I don’t care about it.” The message was clear enough, namely that he was primarily interested in the job, but the formulation of the message was not quite right. Even such ribticklers(笑话)as “I am a well planned person .”and “I would like to expose myself in another field”(both actually heard at interviews) tended to cause lipbiting among the expatriate rather than the Chinese interviewers.?

Panels with two Chinese and one expatriate used to be more common, but are becoming less common. The reason is that with more of the interview now being conducted in Chinese, the non Chinese speaker does not know what has already been asked and is liable to repeat in English questions that have already been covered in Chinese. This caused, naturally enough, confusion in the interviewee and can adversely affect the whole interview.?

The sensible procedure would seem to be to open the interview in the mother tongue of the candidates, to put them at their ease, then at a later stage turn to English, to test English proficiency. In practice, however, possibly because of the problem mentioned in the previous paragraph when the panel contains a foreigner, it is often the reverse, with a few, fairly standard, opening questions in English, and if these are successfully answered, then the job interview properly gets underway in Cantonese.?

One of the worst interview scenarios(方案)is when a foreigner who thinks she/he can speak Cantonese (but does so, in fact, badly) decides to question the interviewee in Cantonese. In other circumstances of a social nature the interviewee would no doubt politely compliment the foreigner on his or her good Cantonese, but in the seriousness of a job interview situation, the Chinese is confused and slightly embarrassed for the foreigner. These forays(初步尝试)into Chinese usually end pretty quickly with one of the Chinese members of the panel rescuing the foreigner and continuing the interview in English.?

1.Concerning misuses of phrasal verbs,____.

A．both Chinese and the native speakers of English find them amusing

B．the Chinese interviewers tend to be tolerant

C．the Chinese interviewers and the English native speaker interviewers often have a discussion

D．might sometimes become a laughing stock to the native speakers of English but draw hardly any attention from the Chinese

2.It is implied in the passage that ____.

A．Chinese are generally liable to make mistakes in English grammar and vocabulary usage

B．expatriate interviewers are generally more friendly with interviews

C．braver candidates can often get the upper hand

D．the candidates often deliver an improper message for the use of inappropriate expressions

3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．The non Chinese speaking interviewer might ask the questions which have already been asked by the Chinese and hence cause confusion.

B．It is more practicable to start an interview with a few fairly standard questions in English before switching to Chinese.

C．The best procedure of an interview would seem to be beginning in Cantonese and then testing English proficiency.

D．The Chinese interviewee often politely compliments the foreign interviewer if he or she speaks cantonese if it is not actually so good in the interview.?

4.This passage is mainly concerned with ____.

A．whether language proficiency or work ability counts in job interviews

B．how to avoid awkward situation in a job interview in HongKong

C．the language used in a job interview with both Chinese and expatriate panel members

D．the sensible procedure of getting on with an interview where the Chinese interviewee’s English is to be tested

The concept of personal choice in relation to health behaviors is an important one. An estimated 90 percent of all illnesses may be preventable if individuals would make sound personal health choice and do not like to see it restricted when it is within the legal and moral boundaries of society. The structure of American society allows us to make almost all our own personal decisions that may concern our health. If we so desire, we can smoke, drink excessively, refuse to wear seat belts, eat whatever foods we want, and live a completely sedentary life style without any exercise. The freedom to make such personal decisions is a fundamental aspect of our society, although the wisdom of these decisions can be questioned. Personal choices relative to health often cause a difficulty. As one example, a teenager may know the facts relative to smoking cigarettes and health but may be pressured by friends into believing it is the socially accepted thing to do.?

A multitude of factors, both inherited and environmental, influence the development of health related behaviors, and it is beyond the scope of this text to discuss all these factors as they may affect any given individual. However, the decision to adopt a particular health related behavior is usually one of personal choices. There are healthy choices and there are unhealthy choices. In discussing the morals of personal choice, Fries and Grapo drew a comparison. They suggest that to knowingly give oneself over to a behavior that has a statistical probability of shortening life is similar to attempting suicide. Thus, for those individuals who are interested in preserving both the quality and quantity of life, personal health choices should reflect those behaviors that are associated with a statistical probability of increased vitality and longevity.

1.The concept of personal choice concerning health is important because ____.

A．personal health choice helps cure most illness

B．it helps raise the level of our medical knowledge

C．it is essential to personal freedom in American society

D．wrong decisions could lead to poor health

2.To “live a completely sedentary life style”(L7,Para.1)in the passage means____.

A．to “live an inactive life”                        B．to “live a decent life”

C．to “live a life with complete freedom”    D．to “live a life of vice”

3.Sound personal health choice is often difficult to make because ____. ?

A．current medical knowledge is still insufficient

B．there are many factors influencing our decisions

C．few people are willing to trade the quality of life for the quantity of life

D．people are usually influenced by the behavior of their friends

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项.选项中有两项为多余选项

Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the USA or Australia. They also want their children to take extra courses or activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes that will give them a head start in life.  1.So parents will spend unreasonable amount of money on education.  2.

However, what most parents fail to see is that the best education they can give their children is usually very cheap.

Parents can see that their children’s skills vary. Some children are skilled in some areas while poor in others.  3.

The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but not teaching them the most important skills: they need to be confident, happy and clever.

Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.

Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life.  4.It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. The result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of confidence.

Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest.he will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up.  5.And that is more important.

A. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is.

B. These activities are teaching a child not only to read a book, but also to think , to use his mind.

C. What most parents fail to realize though,is that today’s children lack self-respect and self-confidence.

D. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.

E. The more cost in education, the better the result will be.

F. Cooking demands patience and time.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文.文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加,删除或修改。

  增加： 在缺词处加一个漏字符号（ ＾ ），并在下面写出该加的词。

  删除： 把多余的词用斜线（ ＼ ）划掉。

  修改： 在错的词下面画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

Some Americans judge success on the length of his vacations. The man who gets a month’s vacation each year consider himself more successful than the man gets two weeks. Many people want to be teachers because it was teachers who can get three-month vacation every year. Some college teachers who teach three classes consider themselves more successful than that who teach only one or two , or none in all . In a short, the less work American do, the less successful they consider themselves.

在2008年北京奥运会上，中国著名运动员刘翔因腿伤退出比赛,引起人们的广泛争议,下面是某网站的一项调查：运动员受伤后，应该坚持还是应该退出? 请你结合下表，写一篇英语100词左右的短文。注意：开头已给出，不计入总词数。

　　In the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Chinese athlete Liu Xiang dropped out of the race due to his foot injury, which led to a heated discussion among people across the country.

    从每小题的A.B.C.D四个选项中，找出所给单词的正确读音，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

1.status          A. [′steitəs]     B. [sti:təs]    C: [′steites]      D [stei′təs]

2.convenient     A. [kən′vi:njənt]        B. [kən′vinjənt] 

C. [kæn′vi:njənt]       D. [kɔnvi:njənt]

3.hire           A. [′heiə]     B. [′hæə]     C. [hai′ə]        D. [′haiə]

4.majority  A. [mi′dʒɔriti]  B. [mi: ′dʒɔrəti]  C. [mə′dʒɔrəti]    D. [mæ′dʒɔriti]

5.nephew   A. [′næfju:]    B. [′nəfju:]       C. [′ni:fju:]      D. [′nefju:]