70.The passage mainly tells us . A.that 2010 Games security will cost less than 1 billion B.how 2010 Games security will be carried out C.the plans that Mercer has made for the 2010 Games security D.2010 Games security with ensure safety and best service. PART FOUR WRITING SECTION A Directions: Read the following passage.Complete the diagram / Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information for the passage. Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer. Why must we pay taxes? The answer is that the government needs money for many things, for example, to pay its soldiers, sailors and airmen, to build roads, bridges, offices, schools, etc, and to buy goods from abroad; and only the people of the country can supply the money. One of the most important taxes is income-tax which a person pays according to the amount of his income, whether he is a merchant, a doctor, a lawyer, a shopkeeper, a miner or anything else.This is called a “direct tax, because it is paid in money directly to the government. Another tax is paid on goods such as watches, jewelry, new clothes, tobacco, wine, etc, when they are brought into a country.Such a tax is paid as part of the price of these goods if they are late sold in shops.We call it “indirect tax, because it is paid indirectly through the shopkeepers. People usually complain about having to pay taxes, but they forget that the money is spent on things that they and their families need.We need policemen to catch thieves, to see that men obey the laws, to direct traffic, etc, and they must be paid what they earn; children need education and there must be schools and teachers; we want our streets to be kept clean, and the wages of men who do this kind of work have to be paid.Above all, the country must always be ready to defend itself against attacking enemies, and we can’t have an army without paying for it.Besides, if a country wants to develop, there are many other things to do. Taxes, therefore, cannot be avoided.We buy our food and clothes and pay for our amusements; but, there are several things that the State finds the money for, and that is necessary for us if our society is to continue.We have no real reason to complain, therefore, when we are asked to supply money to be spent for the good of ourselves and for our fellow-citizens. Tax is a 71 part of our life Why must we pay taxes? ⊕The State need the money for our society to 72 . ⊕We supply money for the good of ourselves and 73 . How do we pay taxes? ⊕ 74 The tax is paid according to one’s 75 . The tax is paid to the government. ⊕ 76 The tax is paid through 77 . The tax is paid as part of the price of goods. Where does tax money go? ⊕To 78 -to keep us safe ⊕To teachers-to 79 ⊕To cleaners-to 80 ⊕To the army-to defend our country SECTION B Directions: Read the following passage.Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit.Write your answers on your answer sheet. Baloney sausage is a kind of sausage that many Americans eat often.The word baloney also has another meaning in English.It is used to describe something-usually something someone says-that is false or wrong or foolish. Baloney sausage comes from the name of the Italian city, Bologna.The city is famous for its sausage.a mixture of smoked.spiced meat from cows and pigs.But baloney sausage does not taste the same as beef or pork alone. Some language experts think this different taste is responsible for the birth of the expression baloney.The baloney sausage tastes nothing like the meat that is used to make it. Baloney is a word often used by politicians to describe the ideas of their opponents. The expression has been used for years.Fifty years ago.a former governor of New York State, Alfred Smith.criticized some claims by President Franklin Roosevelt about the successes of the Roosevelt administration.Smith said, “No matter how thin you slice it, it is still baloney. A similar word has almost the same meaning as baloney.It even sounds almost the same.The word is blarney.It began in Ireland about 1600. The lord of Blarney castle.near Cork.agreed to surrender the castle to British troops.But he kept making excuses for delaying the surrender.And.he made them sound like very good excuses.“this is just more of the same blarney. The Irish castle now is famous for its Blarney stone.Kissing the stone is thought to give a person special powers of speech.One who has kissed the Blarney stone, so the story goes, can speak words of praise so smoothly and sweetly that you believe them, even when you know they are false. 查看更多

 

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Robert Frost was one of America’s best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came late in his life.

He was born in San Francisco, California in 1874. He lived in California during his early  childhood. He was named after the chief Southern general in America’s Civil War. The general’s name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to honor the general.

    Someone once asked another American writer, Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The best thing, he said, was to have an unhappy childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost’s childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very good writer. Robert Frost’s father was a reporter who wanted to be a politician. He often drank too much wine and became angry. Robert was the victim (受害者) of his anger.

    Robert Frost finished high school in 1891. After high school, Robert’s grandfather offered to pay his costs at Dartmouth College. But Robert left the school after a few months. He did not like it. He spent the next few years working at different jobs. At one time, he worked in a factory. Later, he repaired shoes. He was a teacher. He was a reporter. Always, he wrote poetry.

    Robert Frost attended Harvard University for two years. After that, he returned to the many jobs  he held before. For a while, Frost tried to take care of a farm in the state of New Hampshire. He was not a successful farmer. And he continued to write poetry. He said that until 1930, he earned only about ten dollars a year from writing.

    In 1912, he decided to try to make a new start. He took his family to Britain. The cost of living was low. In Britain, Frost found a publisher for his first book of poems. The book was called A Boy’s Will. When it appeared in 1913. Frost received high praise from British readers. Praise was something he had not received in his own country.

    Ezra Pound, another American poet living in Britain, read the poems and liked them very much. He wrote a magazine article about Frost. He also helped get Frost’s second book of poems published in America. That book was called North of Boston.

1.The followings are writers EXCEPT ________.

A. Robert Edward Lee                 B. Robert Lee Frost

C. Ernest Hemingway                  D. Ezra Pound

2.The passage wrote about Hemingway in order to show that

A. he had great influence on Frost’s poetry and life

B. Frost’ s poetry style was the same as Hemingway’s

C. Frost was unhappy because he was the victim of his father

D. Frost spent his childhood unhappily

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Once Frost’s first book was published he gained great praise in his country.

B. After leaving Harvard University, he began to learn to write poetry.

C. Frost was found lo have a gift in poetry while he studied in high school.

D. Robert Frost’s father was angry and drank a lot because he didn’t realize his dream.

4.What’s the passage mainly about?

A. Robert Frost’s unhappy childhood. B. Robert Frost’s first and second book.

C. Robert Frost’s family and jobs.  D. Robert Frost’s life and poetry.

 

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Fifty–eight percent of the teachers interviewed in the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) questionnaire had come across copying among their pupils. Gill Bullen from Itchen College in Southampton, for example, said, "Pieces handed in by two students were identical and significantly better than either of them could have done. Not only that, the essays handed in didn't quite answer the title question I had set". A teacher from Leeds said, "I had one piece of work so bravely cut and pasted that it still contained ads from the web page."  
Connie Robinson from Stockton Riverside College said, "With less able students it is easy to spot copying as the writing style changes in the middle of the assignment, but with more able students it is sometimes necessary for tutors to carry out Internet research to identify the source of the copy."
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ATL, said," Teachers are struggling under a mountain of cut-and-pasting to spot whether work was the student's own or copy." She called for policies to stop copying, and asked for help from exam boards and the government in providing resources and techniques to detect cheats.
But there was another side. "I have found once students clearly understand what copying is, its consequences and how to reference correctly so they can draw on published works, copying becomes less of a problem," said Diana Baker from Emmanuel College, Durham.
"I think the majority of students who engage in copying do it more out of ignorance than the desire to cheat. They really want to succeed on their own."
53. The passage mainly wants to tell us ____________.

A. the benefits of the Internet for students
B. web copying is a serious problem in the UK
C. the ways to find web copying for teachers
D. how we can use the Internet to do homework
54. The underlined word “identical” (Paragraph 1) probably means ____________.
A. excellent
B. contrasting
C. the same
D. complex
55. What is TRUE according to Connie Robinson?
A. It’s not easy to find the less able students copy from the Internet
B. It’s difficult to find whether the more able students have copied.
C. The less able student will not change their writing style when copying.
D. The more able students needn’t copy from the Internet.
56. What’s the writer’s attitude towards “copying”?
A. The writer doesn’t tell us.
B. The writer feels angry about it.
C. The writer thinks it doesn’t matter.
D. The writer approves of it.

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Madame de Stael says that only the people who can play with children are able to educate them. For success in training children, the first condition is to become a child oneself. It means to treat the child as really one’s equal, that is, to show him the same consideration, the same kind of confidence one shows to an adult. It means not to affect the child to be what we ourselves want him to become, but to be affected by the impression of what the child himself is; not to treat the child with cheating, or by force, but with the seriousness and true love suitable to his own character.

Not leaving the child in peace is the greatest problem of present methods of training children. Parents do not see that during the whole life, the need of peace is never greater than in the years of childhood, an inner peace under all outside liveliness.

But what does a child experience? Corrections, orders, interference(干涉), the whole livelong day. The child is always required to leave something alone, or to do something different, to find something different, or want something different from what he does, or finds, or wants. He is always guided in another direction from the true inner will that is leading him. All of this is caused by our so-called enthusiasm in directing, advising, and helping the child to become the same model produced in one assembly line(流水线). Understanding, the deepest characteristic of love, is almost always absent.

To bring up a child means carrying one’s soul in one’s hand; it means never placing ourselves in danger of meeting the cold look on the face of the child. It means the truth that the ways of injuring the child are limitless while the ways of being useful to him are few. How seldom does the educator remember that the child, even at four or five years of age, has already had a sharp feeling! The smallest mistrust and unkindness, the least act of injustice, leave wounds that last for life in the heart of the child. While, on the other hand, unexpected friendliness and kindness make quite as deep an impression on those soft senses.

1.The passage mainly talks about _______.

A.misleading zones and right ways in educating children

B.current problems in training children

C.what should be taught to children

D.the importance of educating children

2.Children, according to the passage, are experiencing _______.

A.corrections, orders and peace

B.orders, interference and peace

C.interference, orders and corrections

D.peace, guide and praise

3.If you were a parent, which of the following methods is TRUE according to the text?

A.You could treat your children not so seriously for they don’t understand many things.

B.You could train your children as you wish them to be since you are parents.

C.You should sometimes leave your children in peace as they wish in their childhood.

D.You should correct your children immediately if their behavior is not what you want.

4.We may conclude that the author believes people should _______.

A.play with the children with enthusiasm all day long just to please them

B.try to give an order, advice and suggestions to their children at any time

C.treat their children just as the way they treat an adult in their daily life

D.regard their children as an equal to them and have understanding of the inner peace of them

 

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The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889, in memory of the 100th birthday of the French Revolution. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of England, opened the tower. Of the 700 suggestions that were handed in, Gustave Eiffel’s was chosen.

However, at first, it was not well accepted by all and a group of people — including many well-known writers and painters at that time — were fiercely against its design.

Being about 300 meters in height, and 7,000 tons in weight, it was the world’s tallest building until 1930. It was a great project for France. 300 workers took two years to build it. It isn’t an ordinary building, since it is almost made of steel. For example, its body moves around at most 12 cm in heavy wind. Moreover, its height changes up to 15 cm according to the temperature.

It was almost destroyed in 1909, but was saved because of its antenna(天线), which is used for communication at that time. Beginning in 1910 it became part of the International Time Service. French radio and French television have also made good use of its height.

The Eiffel Tower has also seen a few strange things. In 1923, a journalist rode a bicycle down from the first level of it. And in 1954, a mountain climber climbed on top of it and tried to measure its exact height.

Anyway, although its birth was difficult, it is now well accepted all over the world. It has been considered as one of the symbols of Paris.

1.The passage mainly tells us ________.  

A.the history of the Eiffel Tower

B.some information about its design

C.what the Eiffel Tower was used for

D.how it became one of the symbols of Paris

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to this passage?

A.Many people couldn’t accept the Eiffel Tower at the beginning.

B.It was the world’s tallest building for hundreds of years.

C.A journalist rode down from the Eiffel Tower in 1954.

D.The Eiffel Tower was saved because of its height.

3.The French Revolution took place in _______.

A.1889

B.1923

C.1789

D.1930

 

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As you grow rapidly through your teenage years,you will experience a lot of changes.The changes may seem difficult and they may seem to happen quickly.Don't panic!You will deal successfully with them!You are a young adult now!
With more responsibility,you will find more freedom to make your own choices.This is a time to be well informed about your choices so that you can make healthy balanced decisions that will help shape your future.You may already know your career path or you may have no idea at all what you want to do.Both situations are fine!Work hard and the right opportunity will present itself to you.
Young adulthood means greater freedom and more choices.You will probably want to be independent.But try not to shut your family out of your life.You should learn to think of others even though you are old enough to look after yourself.Your family have been with you since you came into this world.
It is also perfectly natural in this time for you to spend more time with your friends than your family.Choose your friends wisely.A true friend will stand by you no matter what happens.
This period is part of the life cycle.There are some__people who will be with you throughout life's journey and there will be some people with whom you part and go separate ways.Leaving school can be hard.The reality is that you may not ever see all of your classmates again.
You are a young adult.It is your life.No one can live it for you.The choices that you make from now on will be your choices.So making the right choices will be important to you.Life is for living.Enjoy your life wisely!
【小题1】The best title for this passage would be   ________.

A.The Choices in Life B.The Key to Success
C.Say Goodbye to the Past D.Becoming a Young Adult
【小题2】Who do the underlined words“some people”(Paragraph 5)probably refer to?
A.your parents B.your classmates C.true friends D.your relatives
【小题3】The author thinks teenage years are   ________.
A.a period of complete freedom
B.too hard for young people to get through
C.an important time for the young to make the right choices
D.a very important period for young students to leave their parents
【小题4】Who is the passage mainly written for?
A.Teenagers B.Teachers C.Young parents D.Adults

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