1. 出生时无手无脚，曾被很多人当作怪物嘲笑；

74. What’s the main idea of the passage? ( no more than 9 words)　 (3分)

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Section B (10分)

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

America's economy has started to grow again. It is shown says productivity jumped in July, August and September. That meant companies produced more with fewer workers. Also, new claims for unemployment aid fell last week to the lowest number since January.

The Obama administration is trying every means to speed recovery. A program that paid Americans to buy new vehicles lifted sales for automakers. Ford just reported a profit of almost a billion dollars for July through September. A second government program -- smaller taxes for first-time home buyers -- has helped the housing market. These all fueled a lot of the recent economic growth.

But eight million jobs have disappeared since the recession began in December of 2007. Jack Strauss at Saint Louis University in Missouri says recent recoveries have been slow to create jobs. Experts debate the reason for these so-called jobless recoveries. But Professor Strauss says a banking crisis is especially hard to recover from, because there is less money to lend to support growth. Besides that, credit conditions threaten small businesses -- the main engine of job growth This week, CIT, a lender to small and medium sized businesses, sought bankruptcy protection from its creditors(债权人)so it can reorganize. Taxpayers will likely lose more than two billion dollars in federal rescue money.

However, there seem to be some changes. Low interest rates and growing federal deficits(逆差)have weakened the dollar. And that lowers American export price, which could help job creation. Yet where exactly will future jobs come from?

Investor Warren Buffet says America's "future prosperity" depends on its rail system. On Tuesday he agreed to buy the nation's second-largest railroad. The forty-four billion dollar deal is his company's biggest ever. Obama is also putting much money in transportation to stimulate the economy.

Although there are some signs of a recovery, it is too soon to tell if this will be sustainable in the future.

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Section C

Directions: Write an English composition according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

Dick是一个25岁的澳大利亚青年，他的成功之路被认为是奇迹.请根据以下信息，以“Attitude is altitude”为题目，写一篇不少于120词左右的短文，同时谈谈Nick的经历对你的启发。

73. What idea does the underlined sentence try to support ? (no more than 11words)(3分)

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72. How do people celebrate Christmas according to the passage?(no more than 10 words)(2分)

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71. Why are corn dolls used to celebrate Lughnasadh? (no more than 14 words)(2分)

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70. According to Eric Potter, the new gas shale exploration _______.

　　　 A. will provide America with about one fourth of their energy

　　　 B. will increase demand for energy

　　　 C. will make gas producers invest a big sum of money

　　　 D. may be influenced by the changing market prices

PART FOUR WRITING

Section A (10分)

Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information for the passage.　 Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

There are many customs and traditions connected to yearly celebrations which are part of Britain’s folklore (民俗). Lughnasadh is a celebration at the beginning of August. A custom connected with it is to make corn dolls with corn from the last of the harvest. The doll is saved until the following spring when it is put back into the earth with new seeds. People believe that the doll contains the spirit of the corn and will bring a good harvest. Christmas too is full of ancient customs. The traditions of lighting a fire and decorating the home with an evergreen have their roots in times long before Christianity. The fire is to keep away evil spirits and fill the home with light and the evergreen is valued because it is a sign that life continued during those cold, dark days.

Not all the origins of ancient traditions are remembered, however. The roots of Morris dancing, for example, are not known. This is a dance in which men (and sometimes women ) dressed in white dance together. Some people think the dance may be from pre-Christmas times, and others say it was introduced into Britain in the late 15^th century and that it comes from Moorish dancing. In any case, it is interesting to see that Morris dancing is not a dying tradition. There are Morris dancing groups in places as far away as New Zealand and San Francisco!

Although these customs have been passed down to us from forgotten generations, they themselves have not been forgotten and continue to play a part in our modern lives. Every week groups of individuals regularly meet to sing, play instruments or practice ancient dances and this month people all over Britain shall be preparing their homes for the ancient celebration we now call Christmas, lighting fires and putting up Christian trees, just as their great-great–grandfathers once did.

69. Gas shale exploration may cause disagreement because _______.

　　　 A. it may cause water pollution　 　　　　　 B. it brings too high profits

　　　 C. it breaks the law　　　　　　 　　　　　 D. it is out of states’ control

68. From the passage, we learn that _______.

　　　 A. big oil and gas companies only search for gas in their own country

　　　 B. gas shale exploration will be taken over by big oil and gas companies

　　　 C. there may be huge fields of gas shale under the Appalachian Mountains

　　　 D. one fourth of the natural gas in America is coming from gas shale exploration

67. The word “fracture” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.

　　　 A. create　　　　　　 B. break　　　　　　 C. change　　　　　 D. decrease

66. We can learn from the first paragraph that ________.

　　　 A. natural gas releases methane and carbon dioxide

　　　 B. natural gas is considered as the cleanest energy

　　　 C. natural gas is more environmentally friendly than other fossil fuels

D. natural gas is a renewable source of energy