Some people argue that the pressures on international sportsmen and sportswomen kill the spirit of sport: the pursuit (追求) of personal excellence. Children kick a football around for fun. When they get older and play for local school teams, they become competitive but they still enjoy playing. The sportsman representing his country cannot afford to think about enjoying himself, he has to think only about winning. He is responsible for an entire nation’s hopes and dreams.
A good example is the football World Cup. Football is the world’s most important sport. It is even more important now that the United States is seriously taking it up. Winning the World Cup is perhaps eh greatest of international sporting success. Mention “ Argentina ” to someone and the chances are that he’ll think of football. In a sense, winning the World Cup “ put Argentina on the map ”.
Sports fans and supporters get quite irrational about the World Cup. People in England felt that their country was somehow important after they won the World Cup. Last year thousands of Scots sold their cars, and even their houses, and spent all their money traveling to Argentina, where the finals were played.
So am I arguing that international competitions kill the idea of sport? Certainly not! Do the Argentineans really believe that because eleven of their men proved the most skillful at football, their nation is better than all others? Not really. But it’s nice to know that you won, and that in one way at least your country is best.
小題1:What is mainly discussed in this passage is _________.
A．why international sport is necessary
B．what international sport is like
C．how international sport goes on
D．what disadvantages international sport has
小題2:Those who are against international competitions think that ________.
A．sport should not be so popularB．sport should not be competitive
C．sport should be for personal purposeD．sport should be made easier
小題3:We can infer from the passage that the underlined word “ irrational ” means_________.
A．a(chǎn)gainst reasonable behaviorB．having much knowledge
C．unable to understandD．eager to know
小題4:What does the writer mean by saying that winning the World Cup “ put Argentina on the map”_____
A．Argentina has the best football player
B．Argentina has become world-famous for football
C．Football is very popular in Argentina
D．Argentina has begun to pay much attention to football

小題1:B
小題1:C
小題1:A
小題1:B
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Many rural areas in the United States have no doctor. Some medical schools are trying different ways to treat the problem . One idea is to educate doctors in smaller communities and hope they stay. Dr. William Cathcart-Rake heads a new program at the University of Kansas in the Midwest.
“We need more doctors. There’s somewhere like a quarter of all of our physicians in Kansas who are sixty years of age or older. So we need to be replacing physicians, too.”Says Dr. William Cathcart. He also says medical students from rural areas now typically study in Wichita or Kansas City, two of the biggest cities in Kansas. They say, “You know, I really have every intention of coming back to rural Kansas,”but they meet a soul mate, they get married, their soul mate happens to be from a big city and we never see them again. They get captured in the big city. Hopefully, if we train them in smaller communities, they can meet the future spouses here , they can network here, and they have those connections which can hopefully be lifelong.
The program is based in Kansas’ tenth largest city , Salina, home to about fifty thousand people. Salina is about a three-hour drive from Kansas City, past fields of corn, soybeans and cattle.
Student Claire Hinrichsen grew up in a town of about six hundred people. She attended the University of Kansas, or KU, as an undergraduate. One reason why the chose the Salina program is because of the size. There are only eight students—the smallest medical school in the country. Classes are taught by professors in Salina or on a video link from Kansas City or Wichita.
Students who complete the four year program will then do their residency training in a small community in the surrounding area. One place a resident might work is the Clay Center Clinic, where Dr. Kerry Murphy is a family physician.
Rural doctors generally serve older, poorer patients. Going into a specialty in a big city can mean better working hours and more money to pay off student loans.
The Salina program will pay tuition for each year that students practice in a rural area in Kansas.
小題1:What does the underlined word “spouses”in Paragraph 2 mean?
A．Wives husbands.B．Homes.C．Families.D．Physicians.
小題2:The reason why the medical students don’t want to go back to rural areas is that    .
A．they don’t like to live in the rural Kansas
B．there are not many girls in the rural Kansas
C．they found their soul mates in cities
D．the life in rural Kansas is so hard
小題3:From the text we learn that   .
A．Salina has a population of 500,000
B．a(chǎn) quarter of all physicians in Kansas are too old for the ideal doctors
C．William Cathcart-Rake heads a new program in rural Kansas
D．Educating more doctors in cities can settle the problem
小題4:Why did student Claire Hinrichsen choose the Salina program?
A．Because she found her soul mate in rural Kanas.
B．Because she likes to work as a doctor.
C．Because she grew up in a town of 6,000 people.
D．Because she likes the size of the program.
小題5:What is the purpose of the passage?
A．To make it known that it lacks doctors very much in rural Kansas.
B．To introduce a program handling the lack of doctors in rural Kansas.
C．To train students to become doctors for rural Kansas.
D．To meet the demands of doctors for many rural towns in Kansas.

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Speech—the act of uttering sounds to convey meaning—is a kind of human action. Like any other
constantly repeated action, speaking has to be learned, but once it is learned, it becomes a generally
unconscious and apparently automatic process.
As far as we can determine, human beings do not need to be forced to speak; most babies seem to possess a
sort of instinctive drive to produce speech like noises. How to speak and what to say are another matter
altogetner. There actions are learned from the particular society into which the baby is born; so that, like all
conduct that is learned from a society—from the people around us—speech is a patterned activity.
The meandering(漫目無地的)babble(咿呀學(xué)語)and chatter of a young child are eventually channeled by
imitation into a few orderly grooves that represent the pattern accepted as meaningful by the people around
him. Similarly, a child’s indiscriminate(不加分辨的)practice of putting things into his mouth becomes limited to putting food into his mouth in a certain way.
The sounds that a child can make are more varied and numerous than the sounds that any particular language uses. However, a child born into a society with a pattem of language is encouraged to make a small selection of sounds and to make these few sounds over and over until it is natural for him to make these
sounds and not others.
小題1:For an adult, the process of speaking usually involves         .
A．conscious selection of soundsB．imitation of those around him
C．a(chǎn) drive to make noisesD．unconscious actions
小題2:The selection says that most babies have an instinctive drive to        .
A．express ideas in wordsB．make speech like noise
C．convey meaningD．imitate sounds around them
小題3:Conduct that is learned from a society may be called      .
A．instinctive driveB．selectionC．a(chǎn)utomatic activityD．patterned activity
小題4:The sounds that a child is able to make are        .
A．not as varied as those used in languageB．more varied and numerous than those in any language
C．far fewer than those needed to form a languageD．completely different from the sounds of language
小題5:We may say that a child has learned to speak if he       .
A．makes varied soundsB．carefully considers each sound he makes
C．makes only certain sounds naturallyD．imitates people around him

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In some countries，people eat rice every day．36 they eat it two or three times a day，for breakfast， lunch and supper． They can 37 it， fry（煎）it or 38  it into rice noodles．They usually eat it 39 meat，fish and vegetables．
Some people do not eat some kind of 40． Muslins，for example，do not eat pork，and Hindus do not eat beef．
The Japanese eat a lot of fish．Japan is an island and its 41 go all over the  Pacific looking for fish to 42．The Japanese sometimes eat uncooked fish，and they also eat a lot of rice．
In 43 such as Britain，Australia and the United States，the most important food is 44 or potatoes． People there usually make their bread from wheat flour． They  45 potatoes in different ways． They can boil them，fry them and roast（烤）them．
In Africa，maize（玉米）is the most important food．46 rice and wheat，maize is a kind of cereal（谷物）． African people make the maize 47 flour． From this flour they make 48 kinds of bread and cakes．Many Africans are very 49 and they can’t afford to eat much 50 with their cereal．
Cereals are a very important kind of food 51 we also need plenty of vegetables and lots of fresh 52．
Some people eat 53 fruit and vegetables． They do not eat meat or fish or54  that comes from animals． They eat only food from 55． Some people say that food from plants is better for us than meat．
小題1:
A．SometimesB．SometimeC．Some timeD．Some times
小題2:
A．drinkB．eatC．haveD．boil
小題3:
A．makeB．turnC．changeD．eat
小題4:
A．a(chǎn)sB．likeC．withD．together
小題5:
A．a(chǎn)pplesB．fishC．meatD．vegetables
小題6:
A．trainsB．planesC．fishing boatsD．life boats
小題7:
A．buyB．weighC．holdD．catcj
小題8:
A．the worldB．countries
C．the eastD．developing countries
小題9:
A．breadB．cakeC．flourD．vegetables
小題10:
A．cookB．eatC．makeD．take
小題11:
A．LikeB．AsC．BeingD．With
小題12:
A．ofB．fromC．intoD．up to
小題13:
A．the sameB．differentC．everyD．each
小題14:
A．richB．poorC．strongD．weak
小題15:
A．meatB．maizeC．flourD．bread
小題16:
A．soB．a(chǎn)sC．becauseD．but
小題17:
A．riceB．cakesC．fruitD．potatoes
小題18:
A．not onlyB．onlyC．besidesD．except
小題19:
A．somethingB．a(chǎn)nythingC．porkD．beef
小題20:
A．plantsB．a(chǎn)pplesC．pigsD．fish

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I went to the Chinatown market in London last Sunday. The first thing I did was to go to one of the Chinese green grocers’ shops. As soon as I entered the shop, I smelt mixtures of Chinese spices and saw the new season’s fruits. My son wanted a bag of sweets, so we popped into the shop next door which sells many kinds of candy.
There’s a lot of noise in the Chinatown market and you will see many tourists too. There are a lot of cars and trucks that never stop beeping. While people are loading and unloading their goods, most of them have their cars and trucks parked in the middle of the road. This causes great inconvenience for other drivers. Can you imagine that?
After we had done all our shopping, my son and I went to a restaurant for lunch. We enjoyed our meal very much. But the shopping made us both very tired at the end. We headed down the road to catch our bus home. My son and I enjoyed riding in the bus. We also enjoyed looking at different buildings and people walking by dressed in fancy outfits. Although Chinatown can be a busy place to shop, I do enjoy going there now and then. I can buy some of my necessities, and I can also look and browse around the other shops and department stores where I can indulge (使沉迷) myself with some nice things. Chinatown is located in the heart of central London where you can find tons of shops and other places to amuse you. And for me, I certainly don’t mind going back there again soon.
小題1:The underlined words “popped into” most probably could be replaced by “_____”.
A．broke intoB．rushed intoC．pushed intoD．walked into
小題2: The author probably didn’t go to a ______.
A．restaurantB．grocery
C．clothing storeD．sweets shop
小題3:What can we learn from the passage?

小題4:From the passage, we can infer that the author most probably went to Chinatown by­­_____

小題5:What does the last sentence of the passage imply?

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Every culture in the world has marriage and wedding ceremonies . Usually marriages are between one woman(the bride) and one man ( the groom). However, in other parts of the world a man may have several wives, or, as in some areas of India, a wife may have more than one husband..
There are also many different kinds of wedding ceremonies practiced around the world. These ceremonies can be very short and simple, or very long and complicated.
One of the largest and most expensive wedding ceremonies in recent times was held in Dubai in 1981. The couple tying the knot at this wedding were the son of Sheik ( a male Arab ruler) Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum and Princess Salama. The wedding ceremony took seven days and cost $44 million. It was held in a large building which was specially built for the ceremony and looked like a stadium. The bride and groom needed a large place for their wedding because more than 20,000 guests were invited.
The reasons why a man and woman get married also vary. Sometimes they marry because they are in love, sometimes they marry because someone they meet through a matchmaker, and sometimes they marry because their parents tell them that they must marry.
One unusual example of an arranged marrige took place in Bangladesh in 1986.  The groom was an eleven-month-old boy and the bride was a three-month-old girl. They were the youngest married couple ever.
The parents of the bride and groom arranged the marriage as a way of ending a fight between the two families who had been arguing over a farm for twenty years. Both families thought they owned the farm, but no one knew exactly . The fight ended for good when the young boy married the young girl. By arranging this marriage, neither famlily was forced to lose face. The two families agreed to give the farm to the young people.
小題1:What is the best title for this passage?
A．An Unusual Wedding TraditionB．A Short History of Marriage
C．Common Western Wedding Trations.D．Interesting Wedding Around the World
小題2:Who got married in the large Wedding Ceremony described in the passage?
A. a farmer and a neighbor             B. the son of a sheik and a princess
B. a king and a queen                 D. two babies.
小題3:Why was the wedding ceremony in Dubai held in a building like a stadium?
A. The ceremony was very long       
B. The groom loved to play sports.
C, Many people came to the wedding.  
D. People in Dubai usually get married in stadium.
小題4:Why did the families in Bangladesh make their children get married?
A．The children were in love
B．The families wanted to end the fight
C．The families wanted to buy a farm.
D．The bride’s family wanted to sell their farm.
小題5: What was strange about the wedding in Bangladesh ?
A．The bride and groom were young.B．The wedding was on a farm
C． It was an arranged marriage.D．More than 20,000 guests came to the wedding

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Food
British people like good food, and more than half of them go to a restaurant every month. Fast food is also very popular---30% of all adults have a hamburger every three months, but 46% have fish and chips!
Sports
British people don’t do a lot of sports. Only 17% of people go swimming every week, about 9% go cycling and 8% play golf--- and only 6% of people play football (but 32% go to watch it).
Cinema and TV
Films are very popular in Britain, and about 60% of the young people go to the cinema every month. At home, men watch TV for about three hours every day ---30 minutes more than women.
Holidays
British people love going on holiday, and have 56 holidays every year. Most of these holidays aren’t spent in the UK---27% are in Spain. 10% are in the USA, and 9% are in France. Maybe this is because the weather in Britain isn’t very good!
Presents
British people don’t send others expensive presents like other Europeans. They often send chocolates, wine and flowers of good quality(質(zhì)量).
小題1: Which food could be more popular among Briti sh adults, a hamburger or fish and chips?
A．A hamburger.B．Fish and chips.C．Both.D．Neither.
小題2:Those who are interested in movies are _____.
A．menB．womenC．young peopleD．old people
小題3:How long do British women spend watching TV every day?
A．Three hours.B．Three hours and a half.C．Two hours.D．Two hours and a half.
小題4: British people’s favorite country for a holiday is _____.
A．SpainB．FranceC．AmericaD．Australia
小題5: What present don’t British people often send?
A．Chocolat es.B．Wine.C．Flowers.D．Money.

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A．fill out two different formsB．get a form from ChinaSprout
C．provide his credit card number onlineD．print out the online order sheet and fill it in
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B．Foreigners will receive their products in two weeks.
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Everyone knows that the French are romantic, the Italian are fashionable and the Germans are serious. Or do they? Are these just stereotypes or is there really such a thing as national character? And if there is, can it affect how a nation succeed or fail?
At least one group of people is certain that it can. A recent survey of the top 500 entrepreneurs (實(shí)業(yè)家) in the UK found that 70 percent felt that their efforts were not appreciated by the British public .
Britain is hostile to success, they said. It has a culture of jealousy (嫉妒) . As a result, the survey said, entrepreneurs were “unloved, unwanted and misunderstood”. Jealousy is sometimes known as the “green-eyed monster” and the UK is its home. Scientists at Warwich University in the UK recently tested this idea. They gathered a group of people together and gave each an imaginary amount of money. Some were given a little, others a great deal. Those given a little money were given the chance to destroy the large amounts of money given to others—but at the cost of losing their own. Two thirds of the people tested agreed to do this.
This seems to prove the entrepreneurs were right to complain. But there is also conflicting evidence. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently reported that the UK was now the world’s fourth largest economy .That is not bad for people who are supposed to hate success. People in the UK also work longer hours than anyone else in Europe. So the British people are not lazy , either .
“It’s not really success that the British dislike,” says Carey Cooper, a Professor of management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. “It’s people using their success in a way that seems arrogant (傲慢) or unfair or which separates them from their roots .”
Perhaps it is the entrepreneurs who are the problem. They set out to do things in their way. They work long hours. By their own efforts they become millionaires. But instead of being happy they complain that nobody loves them. It hardly seems worth following their example. If they were more friendly, people would like them more. And more people want to be like them.
小題1:What does the underlined “it” in the second paragraph refer to?
A．One group of people B．A great survey
C．National character D．A nation
小題2:Most entrepreneurs surveyed believe that         
A．they are not popular simply because they are successful
B．the British public are hardworking
C．love of success is Britain’s national character
D．they are considered as “green-eyed monsters”
小題3:What does the result of the Warwich University test show?
A．Two thirds of the people tested didn’t love money
B．Most people would rather fail than see others succeed
C．An imaginary amount of money does not attract people
D．Most people are willing to enjoy success with others
小題4:The writer of the passage seems to suggest that         .
A．Jealousy is Britain’s national character
B．British entrepreneurs are not fairly treated
C．the scientists are Warwich University did a successful test
D．the British dislike the entrepreneurs because they do not behave properly

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