A town in Oxfordshire has become the first in the UK to have biomethane(生物甲烷)gas from human waste piped to their homes for gas central heating and cooking．
Up to 200 families in Didcot now receive the gas via the national gas power system. Head of energy and technology at British Gas，Martin Orrill，said customers wouldn’t notice any difference as the gas is purified to the highest standard and has no smell．The gas is produced at a sewage(污物) treatment works in Didcot．
The entire process takes only less than three weeks, with the sewage being collected and sent first to settlement tanks．The solid waste material is then fed into digesters, where anaerobic bacteria(厌氧菌)digest the sewage，with the aid of enzymes(酶)to speed up the process．The digestion process produces methane，which can be burned to drive machines(甲烷)to produce electricity，or can be purified and fed into the gas network and piped to homes and businesses. British Gas says supplying the gas rather than electricity is far more efficient since around two-thirds of the energy is lost in producing electricity.
Partners in the Didcot project，British Gas，Scotia Gas Network，and Thames Water，all hope to expand the process to other towns，and other companies such as Ecotricity and United Utilities have also announced biomethane projects being planned．One of these projects in Manchester could be supplying 500 homes with biomethane by mid next year. Another British Gas project in Suffolk will provide gas from digestion of brewery(啤酒厂)waste to around 235 families．
The Didcot project cost￡25 million and was influenced by promises of government aids aimed at encouraging companies to develop renewable technologies．An EU directive means the UK must ensure at least 15 percent of its energy is from renewable sources by 2020．
The UK produces about 1.73 million tons of sewage annually．If all sewage treatment works in the UK were fitted with the technology，they could supply gas for up to 350, 000 families.
【小题1】.  Which of the following is TRUE of the biomethane gas?

A．the UK government supports the biomethane projects

B．the biomethane projects are very costly

C．the biomethane projects still face many barriers

D．the biomethane projects are promising

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
In one way of thinking, failure is a part of life. In another way, failure may be a way towards success. The “spider story’’ often told, Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13 th century, was hiding in a cave from the English. He watched a spider spinning a web. The spider tried to reach across a rough place in the rock. He tried six times without success. On the seventh time he made it and went to spin his web. Bruce is said to have taken heart and to have gone on to defeat the English. Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one. Abraham Lincoln, the famous American president, lost elections more times than he won them! He never gave up in the face of failure but kept trying and was eventually elected to Congress and then the presidency.
So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were conditions right? Were you in top from yourself? What can you change so things will go right next time?
Second, is the goal you’re trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goals may be. Think about this question. “If I do succeed this time, where will it get me?’’ This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn’t be doing anyway.
The third thing to bear in mind about failure is that it’s part of life. Learn to “live with yourself” even though you may have failed. Remember, “You can’t win them all.”
【写作内容】
1、概括短文的内容要点，该部分字数大约30词左右；
2、以“Is Failure a Bad Thing”为题写一篇文章，包含以下内容要点，该部分的字数大约120词左右。
⑴失败是生活中的常事
⑵人们对失败所持的不同态度
⑶你对失败的认识
【写作要求】
1、可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的观点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不要抄袭阅读材料中的句子
2、作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                  

第二节：阅读表达（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）

Would you spend more time playing outside, reading, or studying? Well, now it’s our chance to turn off your TV and find out! TV-Turnoff Week is here.

The goal of TV-Turnoff Week is to let people leave their TV sets off and participate in activities from drawing to biking. The event was founded by TV-Turnoff Network, a non-profit organization which started the event in 1995. In the beginning, only a few thousand people took part. Last year more that 7.6 million people participated, including people in every state in America and in more than 12 other countries! This is the 11 th year in which organizers are asking people to “turn off the TV and turn on life.”

According to the TV-Turnoff Network, the average kids in the US spend more time in front of the TV （about 1, 023 hours per year）than they do in school （about 900 hours per year）. Too much TV watching has made many kids      .In fact, in 2001’s TV-Turn-off week, US Surgeon General David Satcher said, “We are raising the most overweight generation of youngsters in American history. This week is about saving lives.”

Over the years, studies have shown that watching a lot of TV leads to poor eating habits, too little exercise, and violence. Frank Vespe of the TV-Turnoff Network said that turning off the TV “ is , or should be ,part of a healthy lifestyle.”

“One of the great lessons of participating in TV-Turnoff Week is the realization that every time I turn on the TV, I’m deciding not to do something else,” Vespe said.

TV-Turnoff Week seems to be making a difference. Recent US Census （人口普查）data shows that about 72 percent of kids under 12 have a limit on their TV time. That’s up from about 63 percent ten years ago.

81．What’s the best title of the passage? （Please answer within 10 words）

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82．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

According to many studies, spending too much time in front of TV has many bad results.

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83．Please fill in the blank in the third paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. （Please answer within 10 words）

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84．Can you think of other bad results of watching too much TV? （Please answer within 30 words）

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85．Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.

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第二节:任务型阅读（共5小题，每小题2分，共10分）：

阅读下列材料，从所给的六个选项 (A、B、C、D、E和F)中，选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。

61.________ Lily, a Spanish girl studying in the University of Nottingham, is looking for a house with large rooms, with broadband access located in an area within 5 minutes walk from the university.

62.________ Mike, a Brazilian boy who has just come to study English in Jubilee Campus, the University of Nottingham, needs a room with central heating in a safe area being only a 10-minute walk from Jubilee.

63.________ Li Ming, an easygoing Chinese boy from Beijing, is studying English literature in the University of Nottingham. He is a handsome boy who always keeps himself and his room clean. He hopes to find a room near West University Entrance.

64.________ Liu Ying, a Chinese girl from a city in the west of China, is studying in the University of Nottingham. She is looking for a place which is near University Campus and she hopes to do a part-time job to earn some money for the rent.

65.________ Jack, a boy student from Thailand, is looking for a room whose rent is less than ￡200. He hopes to share with easygoing boys, and get along well with the landlord, which can help him to be free from home sickness.

A.   Housemate Wanted! One person is required (preferably male) to live in a luxurious house with 5 girls and 2 boys. The house is in an ideal and safe location being only a 10-minute walk from University Park and Jubilee. The rent will only be ￡65 per week. The house has two bathrooms, 4 toilets, a larger furnished living room, central heating, a kitchen fully furnished with dishwasher and microwave, etc.

B.   Room To Let! A modern, comfortable house with large rooms is immediately available at 27 Warwick Street Dunkirk. It has been recently refurnished with broadband Internet access. It’s only 5 minutes’ walk from the University of Nottingham. Great location! You will pay only ￡235 per month to share with 3 other people.

C.   Three large rooms are available in a massive luxurious house within 10 minutes’ walk from University Campus. The rent is very cheap, only ￡175 per month! The sound and young landlord can make you feel at home. You’ll share with 2 easygoing brothers (one is a student nurse and the other is an engineer).

D.  A nice 3-bedroom house is immediately available and will last for one academic year (till next June or longer) in a quiet and safe area in Beeston. It is in good location next to a big shopping market within 7 minutes’ walk from West University Entrance. It has a nice fully furnished kitchen, big bedrooms, big shower rooms, TV, washing machines and broadband access. Easygoing and clean people are welcome to share the house.

E.  Housemate wanted! One person is required to live in a fully furnished house with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, three toilets, central heating, a kitchen with a fridge and a microwave, and broadband Internet access, located in a safe and quiet area being only a 10-minute walk from North University Entrance. The rent will only be ￡56 per week.

F.  Chinese student wanted! A Chinese student (preferably female) is required to live in a luxurious house with 5 Spanish girls who are learning Chinese as their second foreign language. They need to practice Chinese twice a week with the help of the Chinese student who will get ￡350 per month in return for her work. The house is located near QMC which is within 5 minutes’ walk from University Campus. The rent will be ￡325 per month.

Obama Still Smokes in Secret

US President Barack Obama has just made life more difficult for cigarette makers．He has just signed a law that will set tough new rules for the tobacco industry．The new law gives the US Food and Drug Administration the power to strictly limit the making and marketing of tobacco products．

At a White House signing ceremony Monday, Obama said that he was among the nearly 90% of smokers who took up the habit before their 18 th birthday．

Obama, who has publicly struggled to give up smoking, said he still hadn’t completely kicked the habit．Every now and then he still smokes in secret．

“As a former smoker I struggle with it all the time．Do I still smoke sometimes? Yes．Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No．” Obama said at a news conference．

“I don' t do it in front of my lads．I don’t do it in front of my family．I would say that I am 95% cured, but there are times when I mess up, " he said．

"Once you go down this path, it' s something you continually struggle with, which is exactly why the law is so important．The new law is not about me, it' s about the next generation of kids coming up．What we don ' t want is kids going down that path," he said．

Nearly 20% of Americans smoke and tobacco use kills about 440,000 people a year in the United States due to cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases．

1.The new law makes life difficult for             ．

A．Obama                               B．tobacco industry

C．White House                           D．US Food and Drug Administration

2.What do we know about Obama?

A．He no longer smokes．

B．He still smokes as usual．

C．He began to smoke at eighteen．

D．He is trying hard to give up smoking．

3.According to the passage, Obama is most concerned about           ．

A．children          B．officials           C．his family          D．businessmen