Directions; Complete the following passage by using the words in the box．Each word can only be used once．Note that there is one word more than you need．

A．survey      B．off          C．better      D．care     E．conducted

F．differed．   G．personal     H．prepared    I．contrast    J．differences,

GAN Xiaolin, 18, only gets half a day __1.__ school every week since the Hubei student started senior high school．Every day, he takes core （核心的） courses from 7:10 am to 10:30 pm．

Sometimes, Gan feels extremely stressed from the heavy workload．But he hopes that his three

years of hard work toward the college entrance examination will change his life for the _2._．

Gan is a typical Chinese student, as shown m a recently released survey．The new survey, which was __3.__ by the China Youth and Children Research Center and other foreign institutions, polled（调整） about 4,000 high school and vocational school students in China, Japan, the United States and South Korea．

The five biggest frustrations listed by all the young people were: an over-busy school life, an empty_4.__ life, dissatisfaction with their appearance, a lack of time for exercise and friends, and no spare money．

Although some of the teenage problems were y-niversai, there were big _ _5._ between the students when it came to the time they spent on sehoolwork．

For example, Chinese students spent the most time at school and on homework．Nearly 80 percent of them spent at least eight hours a week in school, and 56．7 percent spent two or more hours on their homework．By_6., only about 25 percent of US students, 20,5 percent of Japanese students, and 15 percent of Korean students had more than two hours of homework each night．

The responses from the Chinese students also _7._ significantly from their peers （同龄人）

in the other three countries when asked about their life goals．

Only 16．7 percent of Chinese students said that they didn't __8._ much about their future, while the figure for that category was 72．4 percent for US students, 59．1 percent for the Japanese and 58．2 percent for the South Koreans．The _9. found that Chinese students were more motivated than the other students to work hard for a better life．

四、单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
51. You look a little fatter. You’d better do some ________________（身体） training.
52. Zhang Zheng’s parents made many ___（牺牲） so that he could enter Beijing University.
53. He plays table tennis well despite his d__________________.
54. Since the accident, Tom can no longer move his legs and he has no feeling below his w____.
55. Although Samuel left school more than ten years ago, he still keeps in touch with his f__________ classmates.
56.  Xiao Wen already created many programmes and one of them received an a______ at her province’s science fair.
57. Though we have many difficulties in study, we must o_________________ them at once.
58. When a person is having many more food than he could bear, we consider him g________.
59. He a_______ the telescope so that he could see the stars more clearly.
60.  Creative thinking is a conscious effort to b________ away from old thought patterns in order to explore new possibilities

When the first spring flowers blossom, Easter comes. It is the oldest Christian feast, in memory of the resurrection (复活) of Jesus Christ.

Along with the traditional Easter walk or outing, the giving of Easter eggs and, more recently, of Easter presents is a main feature of the feast. Parents give their children “Easter eggs” – colored and boiled eggs, chocolate eggs, marzipan eggs – Easter bunnies, sweets, and other gifts. In some German regions, children virtually “collect” Easter eggs from their relatives, especially their godparents.

Usually, the Easter eggs are carefully hidden in the garden or in the house and the children must search for them on the morning of the Sunday. They are told that the Easter bunny has brought them. This anonymous(匿名的), mysterious bunny is like Santa Claus at Christmas. But it is less of an “educational” figure than Santa Claus is, since the eggs are not given to children as rewards for being good.

Some Easter egg games have been preserved at certain places in Germany or have even been newly developed. Children try to outdo others in rolling colored eggs down grassy slopes, for instance, or they knock the eggs’ pointed ends together and the child whose egg does not shatter（砸碎） gets the broken one, too. In some places, this custom was even used as the name of local festival.

1.What are the main features of Easter?

A.        Easter walk, Easter eggs, Easter bunnies and sweets.

B.        Easter outing and the giving of Easter presents.

C.        Easter walk, Easter eggs, Easter bunnies and Easter egg games.

D.        Easter outing, the collecting of Easter eggs, and Easter games

2.The underlined word “outdo” means ________.

A. do better than               B. do worse than               C. do slower than              D. do the same as

3.What can be inferred from the passage?

E.         Easter bunny will give gifts to children for better or worse.

F.         Easter bunny is very similar to Santa Claus, as they both bring gifts to children.

G.        Easter always falls on a Sunday.

H.        Some of the local festivals are named by Easter egg games.

根据句意及首字母或汉语提示，写出各句中所缺单词的正确形式。（每空一词，共10分）
【小题1】As you go up a mountain, you have to overcome the earth’s g           which pulls you down.
【小题2】The m             leaf has become the most important symbol of Canada since the national flag was introduced in 1965.
【小题3】The little girl was t          at the thought of being left alone at home and cried.
【小题4】He went to the United States in the 1980s and s                down there.
【小题5】Don’t leave matches or cigarettes on the table w              reach of little children.
【小题6】How quickly a fuel burns depends on how well it is mixed with              (氧气) or air.
【小题7】The policemen were sent to find the black box because it showed why the plane had           
(坠毁).
【小题8】The idea                 (存在) only in the minds of us young people today.
【小题9】This problem is only                 (稍微) difficult so I can work out.
【小题10】They claimed that when they were               (包围) by the gang they acted in self-defense.

Why Rent Textbooks?

Textbook renting is now a new fashion among college students.    1.   Let’s examine carefully further and see why renting books is a cost-effective way without shelling too much money from your pocket.

Gives value for your money

  2.  Those non-major subjects, are better acquired through renting. It saves one money and helps you give out the money you save on some other personal possessions you need in college.   3.  

Saves time

You can save a great deal of time when renting a textbook. Instead of browsing your way for hours trying to look for better deals online, you can simply go to a popular book renting marketplace online and just order away.

  4.  

User Friendly

Aside from being able to save money and time,   5.   Imagine trying to scan the virtual bookshelf and checking on comments of previous users and figuring out which ones got bad comments and which had great ones. It could be fun at first but if you are short of time, the process can become annoying. If you rent books, you will only be needing the book’s ISBN number and find it right away. No more time-wasting site search.

A. renting textbooks brings convenience to all users.

B. There is literally no need to skimming for hours.

C. The idea of renting one never existed since the book are affordable in libraries.

D. Research was made to find out if renting helps one save money and time rather than buying new textbooks.

E. Renting textbooks allows you to save at least 50% off the standard retail price (零售价) for each item.

F. Renting textbooks is a relatively new idea for everyone, indeed.

G. You don’t have to buy all of your textbooks.