3、An affordable housing law passed three years ago promises a possible supply of below-market-rate homes, but has failed to encourage increased housing production and is unlikely to affect San Francisco’s poorest families.

Barbara, 44, who came to The City in 1970, have been trying to pick herself up from the bottom, where she and her children started out with just the clothes on their backs-through the  kindness of others they got by.

They were last homeless in 1999. Since then, Barbara has worked hard to keep from returning to the streets and the shelters, taking advantage first of transitional(过渡的) housing, then a rent assistance, and studying for a job as a nursing assistant and a home health aide.

However the cost for housing has made it difficult for her to live within her limit. She can’t afford proper housing. Even an improper shelter costs as much as $ 1,200 for rent. She has to spend every night in a dining room. In this respect, she is not alone. There are hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans who are in the same boat with her.

Since 2000, she’s been providing health care in the homes of charity(慈善机构), and relying on an assistance program to pay the rent for her two-bedroom apartment in the Lower Height. A few months ago she lost her full-time job due to budget cuts, just as she had hoped to get a permanent post that would allow her to cover her $ 1,700 monthly rent.

 Now she works three or four hour shifts six days a week for $ 10.50 an hour, taking the bus around from client to client and worrying that in February, when her rent assistance is gone, she could end up on the streets with her family again.

39．From the passage we can learn that ____________ in San Francisco.

       A．there is a serious lack of proper housing

       B．there are many people who can not afford housing

       C．transitional housing is as expensive as apartments

       D．a rent assistance can be given to every citizen

40．Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?

       A．They were once given clothes by kind people

       B．They were once sleeping on the street

       C．They were once offered transitional housing

       D．They were once living with a nursing man

41．What does the underlined part live within her limit probably mean?

       A．Live a miserable life                             B．Live beyond what she earns

       C．Make both ends meet                           D．Follow her way.

42．The passage suggests that _________________.

       A．Barbara would be homeless again          B．Barbara is a lazy person

       C．Barbara could not live without help        D．Barbara is out of work now

2、I was born when my father and mother were on their way to Nash, a lonely place where they were to meet with hardship and difficulties. They both liked this land very much, which might have best explained why they moved from Missouri to such a town in western Kansas. They did most of their shopping in Nash, but before Nash was built, they shopped at the little town of Moran, where there was a small grocery store.

I remember when the railroad came to Nash, when the first telephones came, and the first cars. We lived six miles from town so we missed out meeting the trains. My mother was sick when I was small, so I did a lot of the household chores, even doing the laundry, as I was the oldest, but I never worked outside with my five brothers. I remember going to school with my brothers. When we played basketball, we played outside, and the girls wore skirts and bloomers, and got along fine. I liked spelling matches, and we competed with other schools once or twice a month.

I married Herm Messenger, a farmer in 1971. eleven children were born to us, four boys and seven girls, four dead at birth. One pair of twins, Paul and Pauline, however Pauline died when she was nineteen months old. My first washing machine was operated by hand, pushing the handle back and forth. Later, I got a machine with an electric motor. My first machine with a wringer(绞拧机) was a kind of a joke, as herm took it to the church, and put it on the Christmas tree for me. That might not be exciting to a housewife today, but I thought it was!

36．From the passage we can learn that the writer’s parents __________.

       A．had the first child unexpectedly            

       B．liked Missouri very much

       C．had a hard time in Nash                       

       D．had to shop a great deal

37．The second paragraph tells that the author ___________.

       A．saw for herself first trains, first telephones and first cars

       B．played, worked and went to school with his brothers

       C．did a lot of household chores when she was small

       D．enjoyed winning the spelling matches when at school

38．In the last paragraph the author suggests that ____________.

       A．the way her husband put a wringer on a tree was funny

       B．she was excited when she received the wringer from her husband

       C．her husband was fond of playing a joke on her

       D．her first washing machine was electrically run

1、In the last 20 years the word “knowledge” has become an adjective. As personal computers started  16   on every desktop, key information was stored in knowledge bases   17   to knowledge networks. Most of the “  18  ” on which the knowledge economy(经济) is built is actually just information－data, facts and basic business intelligence(智能).

With the Internet, you can get   19   to almost all the information throughout the entire world. Web   20   can help deal with the information in ways that were not   21   only a decade ago. But the information we use does not   22   into the knowledge we need.

For example, the knowledge you   23   throughout your working life can make you  24

in the organization you work for. Your ability to   25   it with the knowledge of co-workers and companions can make the difference between success and failure.

Researchers are   26   technology that can “watch” you working, then make   27   about related subjects or ideas.   28  , even if the software makes a bad guess, it can   29   be valuable in helping get new ideas. Computer scientists are also   30   progress against a long-held   31   of “intelligent agents” that provide just-in-time information to help the work you’re doing. Experimental programs can test your ideas   32   commonsense logic, acting   33   “experts” to help guide your thinking.

These technologies help people join their own ideas with some   34   knowledge far more efficiently than was previously(先前) possible. But they also   35   a key problem unsolved: how to unearth all the new ideas that are being produced around the world.

32、 (山东省济宁市2008—2009学年度高三第一阶段质量检测)

假设你是李华，在英国参加夏令营时成为下图中的交通事故的唯一目击者，警察要求你用英语填写下面表格。请根据图中信息加上合理想象陈述事故发生的时间、地点、原因、过程和结果。词数控制在120—150之间。（直接写在表格中）

31、 (北京海淀区2009年高三年级第二学期期中练习——情景作文)

假设你是红星中学高三一的学生李华，上周你们班组织了一次感谢恩师的活动。请根据下面图示，为学校网站写一篇英文稿件，叙述这次活动从准备到结束的完整过程。

注意：词数不少于60。

30、________ of the land in that county ________ covered with trees and grass.

A. Two fifth…is      B. Two fifth…are    C. Two fifths…is       D. Two fifths…are

29、 It is about time the government ______ proper steps to solve the traffic problems.

A. takes                 B. to take                      C. took                         D. taking

28、The greater population is living in a city,______ for water, transportation, and disposal of rubbish.

A. there is need the greater                                B. the greater need there is

C. the greater need is there                                D. there is the greater need

27、--- What did you think of yesterday's film?

--- Well, I ______ when the film was only half way through.

A. was leaving              B. left                           C. have left                   D. was left