My topic is fashion(时装). Fashion is important to all of us. Now we are all wearing school uniforms(校服). When we go home, what do we do? We change into other clothes. If we are going out, we like to wear fashionable clothes. So my first object is this blouse. It looks beautiful, doesn’t it? It is the most expensive piece of clothing, and I love it. It cost over ＄600. You may say that it is too expensive, but luckily I can afford it. The more you spend, the better the quality is. So you see, fashion is quite important to me, I admire it.

However, I’m not as fond of fashion as my elder brother. Last summer, my parents took us both to London. They wanted to show us some famous sights. But my brother Gary did not appreciate the old buildings. He just wanted to spend all his time in the big shopping arcades(拱廊), searching for the coolest pair of trousers! For him, fashion was more important than culture. These are the trousers he bought. Were they worth the expensive of a trip to London to buy these? I don’t think so. I think it was a waste of time and money.

We must, however, remember that fashion is a very big business. Changes in fashion can create or lose jobs. As an example, I have bought this blonde(淡黄色的) wig(假发) to show you. Do you like it? It belongs to one of my mother’s friends. She told me that in the 1960s, it was fashionable for western women to wear wigs. But a few years later fashions changed and women wore wigs much less often. Then the wig factories closed down and hundreds of workers lost their jobs.

53. The passage may be ____.  

A. a story from a magazine        B. a piece of news from a newspaper

C. a report on the radio           D. a speech to the classmates

54. The author （作者）showed all these objects EXCEPT_____ in the passage.

A. the blonde wig                B. the expensive blouse

C. the coolest trousers             D. the school uniform

55. What does the author （作者）want to tell us in last paragraph?

A. Wigs were always popular

B. People in the east once liked wearing blonde wigs

C. Fashion is actually a business

D. Business often depends on the production of wigs.

 

A three-year independent investigation into the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon has yielded new eyewitness evidence which, according to the Southern California-based researchers who conducted the investigation conclusively (and unfortunately), establishes as a historical fact that the violence which took place in Arlington that day was not the result of a surprise attack by suicide hijackers, but rather a military black operation involving a carefully planned and skillfully executed deception."

A CNN Reporter at the scene states that there is no evidence that a 757 hit the Pentagon.

　  What hit the Pentagon? A Boeing 757 loaded with passengers and fuel right? Who was on Flight 757? According to the Flight Information there were No Arabs on it. That makes me wonder if Flight 757 actually existed at all.

　　From the pictures and the videos, people can find that there are several doubtful points that need to be taken into consideration, for example the marker line on the grass in the satellite and ground pictures, the different colors of the smoke, the hole which the plane impacted, and the standing pylons (架线塔).

　　Also, from the comparison of the different pictures, people can find some other strange points. For example, the gear (齿轮) is not the matching one. The wreckage of the plane is not the one from the American Airlines. The glass on the pavement of the pole is another doubtful point. The last thing that need considering is about the collapse. One of the gif video shows the plane impacting the Pentagon. The only problem with this video footage is that it has been altered (改变) and can not be fully trusted.

　　These crash photos and videos shown here clearly have been doctored (篡改) and don't even match the physics of what happened. So where is the real video? It leaves me many questions. Is this a missile? It is a real enigma.

1.Where can you possibly read this article?

A．In a newspaper.

B．In a book.

C．On a website.

D．In a magazine.

2.What the word “yielded” mean in the first sentence?

A．given in

B．surrendered

C．given away

D．produced

3.Which of the following doubtful points is not mentioned in the passage?

A．the colors of the smoke	B．the model of the plane
C．the standing pylons	D．the marker line on the grass

4. What is the author’s attitude towards the 911 investigation?

A．Positive.

B．Neutral.

C．Skeptical.

D．Negative.

 

Is this the way ____ you do it?

  A. which          B. in that          C. /                    D. that

 

 

Mr. Smith gave his wife ten pounds for her birthday．The day after her birthday Mrs. Smith went shopping．She got on    36   and sat down next to an old lady．  37    she noticed that the old lady’s handbag was   38   ．Inside it, she found a wad（沓）of pound notes   39   the one her husband had given her. She quickly   40   her own bag—the notes were    41   .Mrs. Smith was now sure that the old lady sitting   42   her must have stolen them．She thought    43   not have to call the    44   as she didn’t like getting people    45  ． 

So she decided to take back the money   46   the lady’s handbag and say   47  about it．She looked around the bus to make sure   48  was watching, then she carefully put her hand into   49   handbag, took out the notes and   50   her own handbag． 

When she got home that evening, she showed   51  the beautiful hat she had bought．“How did you   52   it?” he asked．“  53  you gave me for my birthday, of course．”“Oh,   54  then?” he asked, as he   55   a wad of pound notes on the table． 

1..．

A．a bus

B．a train

C．an old ship

D．a plane

2..．

A．In a minute

B．After a while

C．For a second

D．On the moment

3..．

A．good

B．old

C．open

D．shut

4..．

A．the same that

B．perhaps was

C．probably as

D．exactly like

5..．

A．looked at

B．watched carefully

C．saw to

D．looked into

6..．

A．gone

B．missed

C．disappear

D．found

7..．

A．close

B．next to

C．before

D．behind

8.. 

A．she would

B．he could

C．she must

D．he might

9..．

A．driver

B．old lady

C．police

D．husband

10..．

A．to difficulty

B．into trouble

C．out of work

D．seeing her

11.. 

A．into

B．out

C．away

D．from

12..．

A．something

B．everything

C．anything

D．nothing

13.. 

A．nothing

B．somebody

C．nobody

D．neither

14..．

A．the old lady’s

B．her husband’s

C．the police’s

D．her own

15..．

A．gave it away

B．put them into

C．brought them out

D．took it to

16..．

A．the driver

B．the police

C．the old lady

D．her husband

17..．

A．pay for

B．spend on

C．cost in

D．take to

18..．

A．Use them

B．With the money

C．With that

D．Using it

19..．

A．how is it

B．what’s that

C．where is it

D．why is this

20..．

A．put up

B．held out

C．pointed to

D．handed up