84. How can we decide to live with our parents or live alone? (no more than 13 words )

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SECTION C(25 points)

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

假定你所在的城市面临严重的交通问题。请从现象、原因及措施方面着手，以Traffic In Our City Needs Improvement 为题，写一篇120词左右的文章。

Traffic In Our City Needs Improvement

83. According to the writer, what are/is the advantage(s) of living alone? (no more than 5 words )

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82. In what aspect are living with parents and living alone different? (no more than 8 words )

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81. Why did the writer choose to live alone? (no more than 12 words )

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70. We can infer from the passage that_____.

A. the move to June will affect the number of people who visit Edinburgh

B. The festival is one of the world’s most innovative and challenging film events

C. The festival has been one of Edinburgh’s cultural focus for 60 years

D. it is generally believed that August is a busy month to the cultural circles in Endinburgh

PART FOUR　　 WRINGING

SECTION A

Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information from the passage.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

　 Cellphones play an important role in our society. Increased dependence on cellphones has led to a rise in the number of people who use the devices while driving. The use of cellphones contributes to the problem of inattentive driving.

A study, published in July 2005, suggested that banning hand-held phone use would not necessarily improve safety, if drivers simply switched to the hands-free phones. The study found that crash injury risk didn’t vary with types of phones. Drivers who used hands-free phones while driving were also likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves.

Many studies have shown that using hand-held cellphones while driving can bring a dangerous distraction(注意力分散). However, the theory that hands-free set are safer has been challenged by the findings of several studies .A study from researchers at the University of Utah concludes that taking on a cellphone while driving is as dangerous as drunk driving, even if the phone is a hands-free model. An earlier study by researchers at the university found that motorists who talked on hands-free cellphones were 18 percent slower in braking. Besides it took them 17 percent longer to regain the speed they lost when they braked.

There was also a study in September 2004. It found that drivers using hand-free cellphones had to redial calls 40 percent of the time, compared with 18 percent for drivers using hand-held sets. The study suggested that hands-free sets might provide drivers with a false sense of ease.

The study, the 100-Car Naturalistic Driving Study, broke new ground. The new study found that the most common distraction was the use of cellphones, followed by drowsiness(困倦). However, cellphone use is far less likely to be the cause of a crash or near-miss than other distractions, according to the study.

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.

Living with parents and living alone are like living on two different planets. It affects every detail of your life. When living with my parents, I sometimes asked for money, but they did not give me any. Therefore a question occurred in my mind: If I lived alone, would I be able to get what I needed? And then I decided to get separated and moved to another city alone.

Whether you live with your parents or live alone, you still have rules to follow. While you are living with your parents they will give you some rules to follow. As an experienced person, I used to follow my parents' rule of not hanging around with strange people. Another rule that my parents made up for me was not taking drugs and alcohol, when you live alone, you have to make your own rules. But living alone, rules can be disobeyed easily because nobody is forcing you to do anything.

Responsibilities are also different in both living with parents and living alone. If you live with your parents, you will have lessresponsibility than if you live alone. If you live with your parents, your parents will help you with your responsibilities, but when you live alone, you have to be responsible for everything that you need or want. For instance, when you live with your parents, your parents are responsible to buy and cook the food for you. On the other hand, if you live alone you have to be responsible for buying and cooking food for your own self.

　Asking for money from your parents is different from making money by yourself. Asking for money from your parents is much easier. Living with parents, you don't have to worry about rent, water, and electricity, while living alone, you have to pay for rent, water, and electricity every month. So many people who live alone have money problem.

Living with parents or living alone, no matter what decision you make depends on yourself. If you think the advantages of living with parents outweighs the disadvantages, you can do that or vice versa.

69. The underlined word “deprecated” in paragraph four probably means_____.

A. approved of　 B. disagreed to　 C. supported　　 D. held

68. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The Edinburgh international film festival is held every other year.

B. Jon Morgan thought there was still room for Edinburgh to expand.

C. The move can allow Edinburgh to further improve international fame.

D. This change won’t reduce the audiences.

67. The underlined sentence in the second paragraph suggests that____.

A. having two important events in one place and time has many advantages

B. having two important events in one place and time will cause pressure

C. wonderful things always go hand in hand

D. having a birthday on Christmas Day is a lucky thing

66. The passage intends to tell us that Edinburgh international film festival________.

A. needs improving　　　　　　　 B. enjoys great success

C. needs more breathing space　 D. will move to quieter June

65．The passage is taken from _____．

A．a poster for films　　 　　 B．a notice for entertainments

C．a TV programmes list　　 　　 D．a broadcast list

C

The Edinburgh(爱丁堡)international film festival, after 60 years as one of the city’s cultural focus in August, will move to June from next year. Artistic director Hannah McGill said the festival needed more breathing space.

“There are huge advantages to having all these cultural events in one place and time,” she said. “But there is limited space. It’s like when a child has a birthday on Christmas Day---it all comes on top of each other.”

Ms McGill said that the film festival wanted to use extra places to organize events and conferences which Edinburgh is too crowded to provide in August. She spoke of her difficulty, for example, at being unable to hold an exhibition as part of the film festival because of limited space.

However, Jon Morgan, director of the Edinburgh Fringe festival, deprecated the film festival’s move which suggested the city was overburdened in August. “There are still hundreds of spaces that aren’t used, and there is still room for it to expand,” he said.

The move to June made sense. It would allow more air between it and the London film festival, providing for more distinctive programming. “June will give us the breathing space to expand and create our own identity, allowing us to further develop our position as one of the world’s most innovative (创新的)and challenging annual film events,” she said.

The festival organizers thought that the move to June would not reduce audiences, saying film-lovers would visit Edinburgh in early summer. Ginnie Atkinson, the festivals managing director, said: “our audience is very film-focused. Last year we asked in our market research if they would come　 if we were the only show in town and they said yes.”