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Hilversum is a medium-sized city between the major cities of Amsterdam and Utrecht in the Gooi area of North Holland,the Netherlands.Unlike most of the Netherlands,Hilversum is actually in a hilly area with the soil mostly consisting of sand.Once called the Garden of Amsterdam,it still attracts travelers to come over to cycle and walk through the surrounding forests.They visit it for a relaxing day off from the urban madness.For Dutch people,Hilversum is all about textile(紡織) and media industries,and modern architecture.

In history,Hilversum was largely an agricultural area.Daily life was marked by farming,sheep raising and wool production.A railway link to Amsterdam in 1874 attracted rich traders from Amsterdam to Hilversum.They built themselves large villas(別墅) in the wooded surroundings of the town.One of the families moving in was the Brenninkmeijers,currently the wealthiest family of the Netherlands.They moved in after big success in the textile industry and aided a substantial textile industry in Hilversum.But the textile boom lasted only several decades.The last factory closed in the 1960s.

The change to a media economy started in 1920,when the Nederlandse Seintoestellen Fabriek(NSF) established a radio factory in Hilversum.Most radio stations settled in the large villas in the leafy areas of the town.Television gave another push to the local economy.Hilversum became the media capital of the Netherlands,and Dutch television stars moved into the leafy neighborhoods surrounding the town.

In the early 1900s,modern architects W.M. Dudok and J.Duiker placed hundreds of remarkable buildings in Hilversum.These modern architectural masterpieces(杰作) are so many that Hilversum almost feels like an open air museum.Dudok alone shaped most of 20th century Hilversum and approximately 75 buildings still bear his unique characteristics.His masterpiece,Hilversum Town Hall was built in 1928-1931.It has wide international fame and is included in many architecture textbooks.The building has a remarkable shape and looks like a combination of “blocks”.Actually,one may start his journey of modern architecture by walking or biking the W.M.Dudok Architectural Route in Hilversum.

1.Hilversum is different from most of the Netherlands in that .

A.it has a large population

B.it is cut off from big cities

C.it has many beautiful gardens

D.it is in a hilly area with sandy soil

2.What was the greatest contribution of the Brenninkmeijers to Hilversum?

A.Building a railway link to Amsterdam.

B.Helping its textile industry to develop.

C.Constructing large villas for the poor.

D.Assisting its agricultural industry.

3.The beginning of the media industry in Hilversum was marked by the establishment of .

A.a radio factory B.the media capital

C.a radio station D.a TV station

4.What is known about W.M.Dudok’s Hilversum Town Hall?

A.It consists of approximately 75 buildings.

B.It looks like an open air museum in the city.

C.It is a classic example in architecture textbooks.

D.It has shaped most of 20th century Hilversum.

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Driving in Canada is similar to driving in many parts of the United States.Distances and speeds,however,are posted in kilometres per hour and some signs,particularly in Quebec,may only be in French.

Unless otherwise posted,the maximum(最大限度的) speed limit in Canada is 50km/hr in cities and 80km/hr on highways.On rural highways,the posted speed limit may be 100km/hr.It is not allowed to take automobile radar detectors(汽車?yán)走_(dá)檢測器) into Quebec,Ontario,Manitoba,and the Yukon.Seat belt use is required by law for all passengers,and child car seats must be used by children under 40 pounds.Some provinces require drivers to keep their vehicles’ headlights on during the day and some have banned(禁止) driving while using a hand-held cell phone.Motorcycles cannot share a lane(車道),and safety helmets for motorcycle riders and passengers are necessary.Running a red light is a serious crime throughout Canada and drivers are advised to stop before starting when a light turns green.

Winter travel can be dangerous due to heavy snowfalls and icy conditions.Some roads and bridges are often closed in winter.Snow tires are required in some provinces.Travelers should also be careful about animals while driving at night in rural areas.

Highway 401,from Detroit to Montreal,is one of the busiest highways in North America.It has been the scene of many deadly traffic accidents due to sudden and severe weather changes,high rates of speed,and heavy truck traffic.Thus drivers should be alert while travelling here.

Please refer to our Road Safety page for more information and tips.Also,we suggest that you visit the website of Canada’s national authority responsible for road safety.

1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

A.All signs on the roads in Quebec are in English.

B.Automobile radar detectors are allowed to be used in Manitoba.

C.Passengers may choose not to wear seat belts while in a car in Canada.

D.The speed of cars in Canadian cities should be less than 50km/hr.

2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned that have led to deadly accidents on Highway 401?

A.Bad weather. B.Drunk driving.

C.High speed. D.Heavy traffic.

3.The underlined word “alert” in Paragraph 4 could best be replaced by .

A.careful B.relaxed

C.nervous D.pleased

4.What is the best title for the text?

A.Different traffic rules in Canada

B.Tips for travelling by car in Canada

C.Special rules for driving in Canada

D.Traffic safety and road conditions in Canada

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Backpacking in Europe is a wonderful experience for young people around the world.After high school or university,you can plan a European backpacking trip.

Packing

As you plan the things you will carry,bring warm clothes and a raincoat or umbrella to deal with changing weather in different European countries.Europeans like dressing nicely,and good clothes will make you feel less like a dusty(滿是灰塵的) backpacker.It is not worth taking the trouble to bring a hair dryer or shampoo,as you can buy basic necessities(必需品) in Europe.

Hostels

The cheapest places to sleep when backpacking in Europe are hostels(where people can stay and eat fairly cheaply).Most hostels have a lot of information about low-cost ways to see local attractions,and many offer tours.The cost for hostel beds differs from country to country.In Paris,you might pay 30 euros,but in Bulgaria,you can get a bed for 10 euros.In general,hostels are more expensive in large,popular cities such as Paris,Rome and London.

Many backpackers use rail passes(火車通票),which allow unlimited(不受限的) travel within country groups over a period of time.If you have the time to travel by train and will be traveling in a country group,this can be a good deal.Otherwise,you may consider point-to-point tickets,local trains,buses and airlines such as Ryanair,easyJet and Wizz Air,which offer cheap flights.

Food

Eating out in Europe can come with a high cost,and the best way to cut your food budget(預(yù)算) is to cook meals in the shared kitchens in hostels.You can make several meals into picnics to take advantage of Europe’s parks.When shopping for your picnic,try and buy at a local market.You save some euros while supporting the local industry at the same time.When eating out,choose restaurants away from tourist attractions.

1.Which of the following is an advantage of hostels?

A.They are often built in popular cities.

B.They are mainly open to young people.

C.They usually provide tour information.

D.They always ask the same price for their beds.

2.Which of the following can be put in the blank in the text?

A.Traveling. B.Shopping.

C.Entertainment. D.Transportation.

3.To make a cheap trip in Europe,you’d better .

A.eat meals on the train

B.choose a restaurant near a park

C.enjoy a meal sold at a local market

D.cook your own meals at the hostel kitchen

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容,從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。

The sea has always interested man.From it he can get food,minerals and treasure.1. But he couldn’t go far beneath its surface.

2. However,he isn’t a fish.Because he must breathe air,he can’t stay under the water’s surface for any length of time.To explore deep water,man faces even more dangers and problems.

A diver who wants to stay under water for more than a few minutes must breathe air or a special mixture of gases. 3. He can carry a tank of air on his back and breathe through a hose and a mouthpiece.Water weighs 800 times as much as air.Tons of water pushes against a diver deep in the sea. 4. .

When a diver is under great pressure,his blood takes in some of the gases he breathes.As he rises to the surface,the water pressure becomes less.If the diver rises too quickly,the gases in his blood form bubbles.The diver is then suffering from the bends(減壓病).The bends can cause a diver to double up in pain. 5. .

A.His body is under great pressure.

B.Scientists are trying to find more about the sea.

C.For thousands of years,he could sail on it.

D.They can even kill him.

E.He can wear a diving suit and have air pumped to him from above.

F.The water pressure can cause a diver to breathe with difficulty.

G.Man wants to explore deep into the sea.

閱讀下列短文,從短文后所給的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。

Little Ethan died yesterday.Just a week before his __________ ,people in his town of West Jordan,Utah,America got together to celebrate the __________ ahead of(提前) time.So Ethan,who had leukemia (白血病),could __________ holidays.

Ethan,who was only 4 years old,passed __________ .“Super Hero Ethan didn’t make people __________ .He was as brave as any other super hero.He encouraged us to fight with diseases __________,”one of the friends said.

Though diagnosed(診斷) just before his second __________ ,Ethan lived almost three years after that and only __________ receiving treatment very recently.“Experts thought there was no point in continuing the treatment.The __________ said he’d got two days to a couple of weeks left to __________ ,and so we began to think we would make the most of the last days remaining with us,”Ethan’s father,Merrill Van Leuven said.

On October 21,2014, __________ of West Jordan celebrated (慶祝) Halloween ahead of time and Ethan acted as a Superman.On October 23,2014 a performance was __________ in the town to celebrate Ethan’s fifth birthday ahead of time.“You are our __________ ,”a police officer said over the car’s loud speaker.“Thank you __________ being a part of our lives,Ethan,our hero.”

On October 24,2014,the town celebrated Christmas,which is Ethan’s __________ day.A lot of neighbors __________ their houses,and as a gift Santa Claus gave Ethan a __________ on a fire truck.People sang the Christmas song and Ethan __________ the neighborhood to see the decorations(裝飾).

Merrill said he was very __________ by the neighbors’ support.He said that although Ethan passed away, he would remember the “gift” given by the __________ people in the town forever.

1.A.performance B.interview C.death D.journey

2.A.holidays B.events C.achievements D.success

3.A.forget B.understand C.discover D.enjoy

4.A.down B.away C.off D.into

5.A.worried B.excited C.delighted D.disappointed

6.A.bravely B.patiently C.gladly D.carefully

7.A.round B.birthday C.accident D.attempt

8.A.forgot B.considered C.stopped D.minded

9.A.teachers B.friends C.doctors D.neighbors

10.A.live B.save C.leave D.appear

11.A.kids B.travelers C.teachers D.citizens

12.A.stopped B.held C.prepared D.built

13.A.model B.son C.hero D.star

14.A.for B.in C.with D.by

15.A.ordinary B.favorite C.heavy D.traditional

16.A.knocked down B.turned down C.built up D.dressed up

17.A.flower B.ride C.flag D.gift

18.A.invited B.thanked C.visited D.helped

19.A.angry B.curious C.nervous D.moved

20.A.kind B.confident C.calm D.generous

假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文,請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯誤,每句中最多有兩處,每處錯誤僅涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加:在缺詞處加一個漏字符號(∧),并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除:把多余的詞用斜線(\)劃掉。

修改:在錯的詞下劃一橫線,并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意:1.每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2.只允許修改10處,多者(從第11處起)不計分。

I was a high school student then, from low-income family. So I have to work to support my family. My first one job was to clean tables in a small restaurant.I still remember going there early and felt anxious of the new world. I worked harder because I was afraid of losing the job. At night, I was sometimes very tired to do my homework. And I came to understand this was not easy to earn money, and that knowledge could change my lives. So I think what I learned from the job was much more important as what I earned.

閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中選出最佳選項。

Two billion children in the developing world can’t receive good education—the key to human development.However,technology offers an answer which allows the poor in developing countries to learn.It is a tool which holds the ability to change the lives of the poor,as it provides a means of learning and communicating.

Educational programmes must break away from old systems.New companies such as One Laptop(筆記本電腦)Per Child(OLPC),an organisation founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte have been active in solving the world’s education problem.

The Internet has changed the world,allowing educational services to help with the global fight against poverty.Khan Academy is one such service.Like OLPC,it is an organisation founded by Harvard Business School graduate Salman Khan with the task of “providing a world-class education to anyone,anywhere”.The education offered includes a large number of math-related topics.

The GMAT Pill Review is another company that trains MBA candidates(應(yīng)考人)worldwide to prepare for the GMAT exam on both the Quant and Verbal section.Founded by Stanford graduate Zeke Lee,the company offers services which are priced at about 75% less than other similar programmes.It allows students from developing countries who might not be able to afford similar courses to have access to these services.

Whether paid or free these services provide educational opportunities to those who would never have had the chance in the past.As a result of the technology revolution(革新),business schools may see more students from different corners of the world.Because of the Internet,people in developing nations have access to better and more affordable educational opportunities.More and more people will try to improve their lives through educational opportunities outside of their homeland—an idea usually uncommon in developing countries.

1.According to the text,technology can .

A.improve people’s reading ability

B.solve the problems facing the whole world

C.help the poor to reduce poverty

D.cause poverty in developing countries

2.We can learn from the text that Khan Academy aims to .

A.help the poor pay for good courses

B.provide every child with a computer

C.help train MBA candidates

D.make everyone receive good education

3.In the past,people in developing countries .

A.had no educational opportunities in their homeland

B.seldom thought of receiving foreign education to change themselves

C.always believed education was of great importance

D.wouldn’t leave their homeland to reduce poverty

4.Why did the author write the text?

A.To introduce some organisations in developed countries to help developing countries by technology.

B.To explain why education and technology revolution are very important to developing countries.

C.To describe relationships between developed countries and developing countries.

D.To show how educational programmes in developed countries are started.

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School leaders from around the country gathered at the White House on November 19 for“Connected to the Future,” a conference about digital technology in education.Connected is the Obama Government’s five-year plan to support the growth of digital learning in schools.This growth includes equipping America’s schools with high-speed broadband Internet(寬帶互聯(lián)網(wǎng)).

At the conference,President Barack Obama said the U.S.Department of Education is taking steps to help educators and school districts as they change to digital learning.The department created new guidelines to help schools work to improve their technological infrastructure(基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施).The guidelines are also designed to help schools choose the right digital devices(裝備)and set up policies(政策)for their proper use.

“We have to do more to offer our children a world-class education,”O(jiān)bama told the crowd of school leaders.“We have to improve our education level if we are going to make sure that every child in America can go as far as their dreams and talents will take them.”

According to Cecilia Muoz,director of the Domestic Policy Council,less than 40% of public schools in America have high-speed Internet access in their classrooms.She believes that Connected will make America a leader in using technology to educate students.

Muoz mentioned the Mooresville school district as a success story.Mooresville provides each student in grades 3 through 12 with a device,and uses a mostly digital subject.Muoz said Mooresville now ranks third in test scores and second in graduation rates(比例)in the state.

At the end of the president’s speech,1,200 school leaders attending the event signed the Future Ready District Pledge on their iPads.It promises the education leaders to help develop a culture of learning through technology at their schools,and to support teachers and students in using technology.

“Every child deserves a chance at a world-class education,”O(jiān)bama added.“That’s what makes our nation great.”

【小題１】Who will take charge of putting the plan into practice?

A.The leaders of all the schools.

B.All the state government officials.

C.The U.S.Department of Education.

D.The U.S.Domestic Policy Council.

【小題２】Which of the following statements is true?

A.All students in Mooresville have digital devices.

B.Mooresville has carried out Connected for years.

C.Teaching quality in Mooresville was the worst in the past.

D.Digital learning helps Mooresville’s test scores and graduation rates go up.

【小題３】The purpose of Connected to the Future is to .

A.make America get ahead in digital learning

B.make all the schools teach with digital technology

C.enable more schools to connect with the Internet

D.equip all schools with the high-speed Internet in 3 years

【小題４】This passage mainly wants to .

A.tell readers how to use digital devices for learning

B.introduce some information about a five-year plan for digital learning in U.S.

C.encourage more and more countries to use digital devices to teach

D.make people know the importance of teaching with digital devices

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As more and more people speak the global languages of English,Chinese,Spanish,and Arabic,other languages are rapidly disappearing.In fact,half of the 6,000—7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century,according to the United Nations Educational,Scientific,and Cultural Organization(UNESCO).

In an effort to prevent language loss,scholars from a number of organizations—UNESCO and National Geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

Mark Turin,a scientist at the Macmillan Center,Yale University,who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas,is following in that tradition.His recently published book,A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture,grows out of his experience living,working,and raising a family in a village in Nepal.

Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin,who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India,Nepal,Bhutan,and China.But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.

At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials—including photographs,films,tape recordings,and field notes—which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.

Now,through the two organizations that he has founded—the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project—Turin has started a campaign to make such documents,found in libraries and stores around the world,available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected.Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet,Turin notes,the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

1.Many scholars are making efforts to .

A.promote global languages

B.rescue disappearing languages

C.search for language communities

D.set up language research organizations

2.What does “that tradition” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A.Having full records of the languages.

B.Writing books on language teaching.

C.Telling stories about language users.

D.Living with the native speakers.

3.What is Turin’s book based on?

A.The cultural studies in India.

B.The documents available at Yale.

C.His language research in Bhutan.

D.His personal experience in Nepal.

4.Which of the following best describes Turin’s work?

A.Write,sell and donate.

B.Record,repair and reward.

C.Collect,protect and reconnect.

D.Design,experiment and report.

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When I was in college,I was always very passionate(熱情的)about music and I was proud to be a member of our band.However,I almost gave up because of my fear of playing solos(獨奏).

One day two years ago my director informed me that he wanted me to be the featured soloist in a piece of music.Of course I was terrified,but he encouraged me that everything would be OK,and that he believed me and knew that I could do it.Up until four days before the concert,I could not make it through the solo.I would always seem to get discouraged before I played it.

I decided to ask my director for help thinking that he would tell me that I didn’t have to do it and that he was still proud of me.All he said was“You just have to believe yourself.”I didn’t think trying his advice would hurt,so I started the next morning differently.Instead of wondering how I could mess up,I imagined myself playing through my solo with confidence and I kept on telling myself that I could do it.

The strange thing was...it worked!After that day I played the solo without any mistake.When the big concert came,although I was a little nervous,I knew that I could do this.I didn’t know what was going to happen,but I realized that the only person that was holding me back from being my best,was myself.I believed myself.I thought things would go a little more differently than they had in the past.Of course,I played the solo wonderfully and I gained acclamation from all the audience.

Always do the thing that you fear the most,don’t get discouraged if you fail,and just keep on trying harder.

1.It can be known from the passage that when in college the author .

A.took pride in his college band

B.was fond of music very much

C.started to learn playing music

D.was told to stop playing solos

2.What was the author’s reaction when he was told to play a solo in the concert?

A.He was excited that he could hardly sleep.

B.He believed that he could play it wonderfully.

C.He couldn’t believe the news was true.

D.He didn’t believe he could make it.

3.The author played the solo wonderfully in the concert because .

A.the director directed him personally on the stage of the concert

B.he happened to play it well without any mistake

C.he became confident with the encouragement of the director

D.the director played the solo together with him on the stage