在句子的横线上，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）。
【小题1】 ________（平均）earnings in the state are about $ 1,5000 a month. 
【小题2】 Mike , a foreign ______ (商人),came to the factory last week.    
【小题3】For            (各种各样)reasons, he had to leave his homeland.
【小题4】The notice reads: “Don’t come in without          （允许）”.
【小题5】Officers can’t work properly without certain important pieces of ___________(设备) .
【小题6】It is well known that quality is more important than ______ (数量).
【小题7】The doctor _____________ (表扬) the daughter for her courage this morning.
【小题8】With the prices of goods going up ,The cost of living is increasing ___________(逐渐).
【小题9】He stood up and went out, disappearing in the ____________（远处）.
【小题10】They lived in London until quite ____________(最近).
【小题11】This article deals with American literature and American cultural            (背景).
【小题12】He stayed there watching out of ________ (好奇).
【小题13】There was a            (广场)with trees and grass in it in the center of the city.
【小题14】Plants             (倾向于) to die if you don’t water them regularly. 
【小题15】It wasn’t until the 1960s that the Australian government came to realized the importance of passing laws to             (加强) the rights of the “ first Australians”.

在句子的横线上，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）。

1. ________（平均）earnings in the state are about $ 1,5000 a month. 

2. Mike , a foreign ______ (商人),came to the factory last week.    

3.For            (各种各样)reasons, he had to leave his homeland.

4.The notice reads: “Don’t come in without          （允许）”.

5.Officers can’t work properly without certain important pieces of ___________(设备) .

6.It is well known that quality is more important than ______ (数量).

7.The doctor _____________ (表扬) the daughter for her courage this morning.

8.With the prices of goods going up ,The cost of living is increasing ___________(逐渐).

9.He stood up and went out, disappearing in the ____________（远处）.

10.They lived in London until quite ____________(最近).

11.This article deals with American literature and American cultural            (背景).

12.He stayed there watching out of ________ (好奇).

13.There was a            (广场)with trees and grass in it in the center of the city.

14.Plants             (倾向于) to die if you don’t water them regularly. 

15.It wasn’t until the 1960s that the Australian government came to realized the importance of passing laws to             (加强) the rights of the “ first Australians”.

Doors and windows can’t keep them out; airport immigration officers can’t stop them and the Internet is a complete reproduction soil. They seem harmless in small doses, but large imports threaten Japan’s very uniqueness, say critics. “They are foreign words and they are infecting the Japanese language”.

“Sometimes I feel like I need a translator to understand my own language, ”says Yoko Fujimura with little anger, a 5-year-old Tokyo restaurant worker.“It’s becoming incomprehensible”.

It’s not only Japan who is on the defensive. Countries around th globe are wet through their hands over the rapid spread of American English. Coca?Cola,for example, is one of the most recognized terms on Earth.

It is made worse for Japan, however, by its unique writing system. The country writes all imported utterances(言论) except Chinese?in a different script called katakana (片假名). It is the only country to keep up such a difference. Katakana takes far more space to write than kanji?the core pictograph (象形文字) characters that the Japanese borrowed from China 1,500 years ago. Because it stands out, readers complain that sentences packed with foreign words start to look like extended strings of lights. As if that weren’t enough, katakana terms tend to get puzzling.

 For example, digital camera first appears as degitaru kamera. Then they became the more ear?pleasing digi kamey. But kamey is also the Japanese word for turtle. “It’s very disappointing not knowing what young people are talking about,” says humorously Minoru Shiratori, a 53?year?old bus driver. “Sometimes I can’t tell if they’re discussing cameras or turtles.”

In a bid to stop the flood of katakana, the government has formed a Foreign Words Committee to find suitable Japanese replacements. The committee is slightly different from French?style language police, which try to support a law that forbids advertising in English. Rather, committee members and traditionalists hope a non?stop campaign of persuasion, gentle criticism and leadership by example can turn the tide.

12.According to the author, the reason why the Japanese is infectd greatly by English is .      

A.that nothing can prevent it from entering into Japan

B.that English is the most recognized language in the world

C.that the government has not set up a special administration department to control this trend   before it becomes popular in Japan

D.not clearly mentioned in this passage

13.By saying “counties around the globe are wet through their hands over the rapid spread of American English,”the author infers that        .

A.even a restaurant worker in Japan may feel the English infection on Japanese

B.the flood of katakana has covered most of countries in the world

C.Coca?Cola is the most popuar on the earth and this product covers all the global market

D.many other countries are affected greatly by American English

14.According to the author, the last paragraph mainly deals with.      

A.how French-style language police has prevented the infection of English

B.how Japanese Foreign Words Committee prevents the infection of foreign words

C.the suitable Japanese replacements

D.why committee members and traditionalists begin to declare a war against the infection of foreign words

15.Which conclusion can be drawn based on the opinions from the Japanese people (in paragraph 2 and 4 of this passage)?

A.The elders strongly advocates replacing the foreign words than young people.

B.All the people dislike speaking the foreign words, such as “digi kamey”.

C.They are so old that it is necessary to give some language assistance by a specialist.

D.People’s work determines the language they speak.

  Some of the planet’s most precious animals and plants are disappearing, according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The group, based in Switzerland, works with governments and experts to protect threatened species. On September 12, the IUCN released its Red List, a list of species at greatest risk of extinction.
The list includes 41,415 animals and plants. The IUCN says that habitat destruction, hunting and other causes threaten one in four mammals, one in eight birds and one in three amphibians(两栖动物).
Who is to blame?
Scientists believe that 99 percent of threatened species are at risk because of human activity. “We are losing animals and plants at a high rate,” says Julia Marton-LefEevre, director general of the IUCN. “We need to change our behavior.” Warmer oceans and over-fishing are changing sea life. This year for the first time corals(珊瑚) made their appearance on the list. The gharial, a crocodile living in India and Nepal, has lost almost 60 percent of its population in the last 10 years. It is a victim（受害者）of habitat destruction.
Still, the news is not all bad. Thanks to efforts made to protect it, the Mauritius echo parakeet, a bird once endangered, has seen an increase in its population. “This shows that protection methods can work,” says Marton-LefEevre. “That’s the message we want to send to young people.”
In China the new reserve（保护区）itself is part of green efforts that have seen more than 2,400 nature reserves of various kinds being set up, covering more than 15 percent of the nation’s land area, official figures showed.
"The country’s natural resources(资源) have benefited from conservation," said Lei Guangchun, director of the nature reserve department of Beijing Forestry University. "It is a big increase nowadays compared with other countries." Lei said.
The total areas of China’s natural reserves have covered 1.38 million km2, which accounts for 15.4% of China’s area, higher than both the world average（平均水平） of 11% and the rate in most developed countries.
Li Zhong, an official in charge of the nature reserves office with the State Forestry Administration, thought it was important to increase investment（投资） in such reserves at all levels.
【小题1】What do we know about the IUCN?

— Can I help you, madam?

— Yes, I bought this air conditioner here yesterday, but it _____ now.

A. didn’t work          B. won’t work  C. can’t work    D. doesn’t work