Macao is only forty miles from Hong Kong and it is easy to reach. You can get there by sea. It is an interesting place and it has a long history. Macao is part of China and most people living there are Chinese.

The first Europeans in Macao came from Portugal. More than four hundred years ago the Portuguese went there to trade with China. Some settled and made their homes there. They built strong forts（要塞）to guard the city and the harbor. They also built churches, schools, hospitals and other places. Slowly the city grew. People from many other countries came to live and work in Macao.

Today many people live in Macao. Some only go there to watch dog－racing or motor－racing or to gamble（賭博）with their money. But Macao is a quiet and peaceful place. It is pleasant just to walk around and look at the old buildings and forts. You feel you are back in the old days. Of course，some of the buildings are now in ruins. The Church of St. Paul has only the front wall with many steps leading up to it. But it is still interesting to see.

When you are hot and tired, there are small cool gardens to rest in. When you are hungry, there are good restaurants with many kinds of food. Nearby are some islands, which are also nice to visit and are easy to get in. There are certainly a lot to see and to do in Macao.

1.Macao is easy to get to because it is____.

A. part of China and most people living there are Chinese

B. an interesting place

C. very fast and cheap by sea

D. not far away from Hong Kong

2.You feel in Macao you are back in the old days because ____.

A. some of the buildings are now in ruins

B. you can watch dog-racing or motor-racing

C.you can find the old buildings and forts

D. it is a silent and peaceful place

3.The writer's idea is that ____.

A. people from many countries came to live and work in Macao

B. the Portuguese were willing to do business in China

C. people in Macao serve good food

D. Macao is a quiet and peaceful place with a lot to see and to do

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

“Three Apples” changed the world. The first one seduced(引誘)Eve. The second one awakened Newton. 1. . Here are some famous words from Steve Jobs to share.

On character

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. 2. .

On good design

That's been one of my mottoes---focus and simplicity .Simple can be harder than complex---You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

On his outlook

3. . Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

On your working life

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. 4. . If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

On the importance of death

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. 5.. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.

A．It's very character building.

B．The third one was in the hands of Steve Jobs.

C．This is not a one-man show.

D．And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

E．And yet death is the destination we all share.

F．It' s really hard to design products by focusing on groups.

G．Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

完形填空

閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。

A successful scientist is generally a good observer. He makes full _________of the facts he observes. He doesn’t accept ideas which are not _________ on obvious facts, and therefore refuses to accept authority as the only_________ for truth. He always _________ ideas carefully and makes experiments to prove them. The rise of _________ science may perhaps be considered to _________ as far back as the _________ of Roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher of Oxford, who lived _________ the years 1214 and 1292. He was probably the first in the middle_________to suggest that we must learn science _________observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself _________ many important discoveries. Galileo, however, who lived more than 300 years later (1564-1642), was the greatest of several great men, _________ in Italy, France, Germany, or England, began by _________ to show how many important _________ could be discovered by observation. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more _________ towards the earth than small ones, _________ Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the _________ of the leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two _________ stones and proved Aristotle was wrong. It was Galileo’s _________ of going direct to Nature, and proving our _________ and theories by experiment, that has led to all the discoveries of modern science.

1.A. use B. time C. speed D. trust

2.A. worked B. based C. lived D. written

3.A. reason B. cause C. advice D. result

4.A. thinks B. checks C. has D. learn

5.A. natural B. physical C. ancient D. modern

6.A. date B. keep C. look D. take

7.A. study B. time C. year D. birth

8.A. both B. each C. between D. Among

9.A. schools B. ages C. days D. Countries

10.A. in B. with C. on D. by

11.A. did B. made C. took D. gave

12.A. who B. when C. that D. where

13.A. ways B. degrees C. levels D. chance

14.A. truths B. problems C. people D. subjects

15.A. slowly B. rapidly C. lightly D. heavily

16.A. although B. because C. when D. If

17.A. place B. foot C. top D. ceiling

18.A. big B. small C. equal D. unequal

19.A. spirit B. skill C. theory D. discovery

20.A. plans B. opinions C. world D. Ability

閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容(每空只填1個(gè)單詞)或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

I was always told that the three “P”s, patience, positive thinking and perseverance (毅力), were a sure path 1. success. But this advice does not always work as planned. My high school maths exam is one example. The exam, 2. was originally to be held in our classroom, 3. (change) to the library at the last minute. This, 4. , didn’t bother me because maths had always been my strongest subject. I patiently walked to the library, took my seat and did some deep breathing to help relax 5. . But my mood quickly changed when I saw 6. first question. I had no idea how to do it. I tried to stay positive and persevered 7. I finally found the solution. With the problem 8. (solve), I felt proud of my achievement. 9. (fortunate), I then noticed that I had just 10 minutes left 10. (complete) the rest!

短文改錯(cuò)

假定英語(yǔ)課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請(qǐng)你修改同桌的以下作文。文中共有10處語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤，每處錯(cuò)誤僅涉及一個(gè)單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

注意：1. 每處錯(cuò)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(jì)分。

Though great progress has made in science these years, there are still many people living in poor conditions. They make their lives by collecting and selling used thing. Their children cannot go to school because they have not enough money to send their children to there. Why you think so many people still suffer from poverty now? The answer lies on the population explosion. A president of a developing country once said; "It is us who are to blame for the poverty because we used to 'produce' child without limit." Although this few words sound simple enough, they have clear pointed out one of the causes of the population explosion.

書(shū)面表達(dá)

假如由你負(fù)責(zé)接待一個(gè)外國(guó)旅游團(tuán)。請(qǐng)你擬定一篇發(fā)言稿向游客介紹南京。要點(diǎn)如下：

1.南京位于中國(guó)東南部，是江蘇省省會(huì)(capital)，人口約500萬(wàn)。

2.南京有2400多年的歷史，曾有10個(gè)朝代(dynasty)在此建都。

3.南京很美，有許多名勝(places of interest)，如玄武湖(the Xuanwu Lake)、雞鳴寺(the Jiming Temple)、石頭城(the Stone City)等，還有許多現(xiàn)代化的工廠和高大的建筑。

注意: 1. 文章的開(kāi)頭和結(jié)尾已給出；2.詞數(shù)：100字左右。

Ladies and gentlemen,

Welcome to our city.

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_________________________________________________________________________

I’m sure you will have a good time here. Thank you.

After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program, her mother recalled, Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices. “Everyone else was already admitted to college,” her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said from the family home. “So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said, ‘You have to let me in.’ ”

“Impressed--she was a National Merit (全國(guó)英才) finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil--Yale did, admitting her to the class of 1978, where she started writing for the Yale Daily News and decided to be a journalist,” her mother said.

On Wednesday, Marie Colvin, 56, an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London, was killed as Syrian forces shelled(炮擊) the city of Homs. She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack.

“She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday”, Mrs. Colvin said. “Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out. She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it.”

Mrs. Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict zones. “If you knew my daughter,” she said, “it would have been such a waste of words. She was determined, she was enthusiastic about what she did, it was her life. There was no saying ‘Don’t do this.’ This is who she was, absolutely who she was and what she believed in: cover the story, not just have pictures of it, but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.” “So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism,” her mother said.

1.From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1, we can infer that ________ .

A. Yale was her last choice

B. Marie Colvin was confident of herself

C. Yale must keep its promise to Marie Colvin

D. Marie Colvin was good at persuading

2.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Marie Colvin’s life?

a. She was doing a story in Syria and got killed.

b. She was admitted to Yale University.

c. She studied in Brazil as an excellent student.

d. She was hired by The Sunday Times of London.

e. She began to take an interest in journalism.

A. d→e→c→a→b B. b→c→d→e→a

C. e→d→c→b→a D. c→b→e→d→a

3.From the last paragraph, we can know that Mrs. Colvin ________.

A. dislikes the choice of her daughter.

B. cares little about her daughter.

C. knows her daughter very well.

D. doesn’t fully appreciate her daughter.

4.What can be the best title of the text?

A. Covering Stories in a Dangerous Conflict Area.

B. Applying for Top Universities, a Successful Case.

C. Choosing Lifelong Careers Based on Your Own Interest.

D. Recalling Her Daughter, a Journalist Killed in Syria.

Death rates for heart disease in Britain have dropped by more than 40 percent in a decade，UK scientists will report today．

Wide uptake of cholesterol—busting statin drugs(降膽固醇藥)，healthier lifestyles and better medical practices have seen a huge reduction in deaths caused by heart attacks，stroke and other cardiovascular(心血管的) problems．

However，heart disease remains Britain’s biggest killer．

The new study，by experts at Oxford University，shows there has been a 44.4 percent drop in death rates among men in the UK and a 43.6 percent drop among women linked to heart problems in the ten years to 2011．

The team compared death rate associated with cardiovascular disease across Europe．They found that Britain has one of the best records in Europe，with 342 deaths as a result of heart disease per 100，000 men in 2011，and 232 per 100，000 women．

Some nations---including Ukraine，Macedonia and Moldova—see more than 1,000 heart deaths per 100，000 of the population．

Overall，heart disease causes 45 percent of all deaths across Europe，but only 27 percent in the UK．The study，led by Dr Nick Townsend，showed that cardiovascular disease is mainly a disease of old age．

But researchers said that across Europe it still causes more than 1.4 million deaths in those aged under 75 and nearly 700，000 deaths in under 65s．Dr Townsend said：“Cardiovascular disease results in 49 percent of deaths among women and 41 per cent among men．”

1.From the text we can know_____．

A．heart disease no longer threatens the British

B．the heart death rate among British men is lower than among women

C．the old mainly dies of stroke in Europe

D．the heart death rate in Ukraine is higher than in Britain

2.What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．Stroke． B．Cardiovascular disease．

C．Lung disease． D．Heart attacks．

3.How does the author support his idea?

A．By analyzing data．

B．By following processes．

C．By describing his own experiences．

D．By discussing research experiments．

4.Where is the text most likely to have been taken from?

A. A speech B. A story

C. A scientific study D. A personal diary

An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sales of bottled water from Japan. The water, it angrily argues in public, has traveled 10,000 “food miles” before it reached Western customers. Transporting water halfway across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the UK. It is also worrying that we were wasting our fuel by buying prawns from Indonesia (7,000 food miles ) and carrots from South Africa (5,900 food miles).

Counting the number of miles traveled done by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of the environmental damage due to industry. Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy efficient. It should be noticed that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck to a farmers’ market doesn’t necessarily use less fuel on its journey than a similar product transported hundreds of miles by sea. Besides, the idea of “food miles” ignores the amount of fuel used in the production. It is possible to cut down your food miles by buying tomatoes grown in Britain rather than those grown in Ghana. The difference is that the British ones will have been raised in heated greenhouse and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun.

What is the idea of “food miles” does provide, however, is the chance to cut out Third World countries from First World food markets. The number of miles traveled by our food should, as I see it, be regarded as a sign of the success of the global trade system, not a sign of damage to the environment.

1.The Food Commission is angry because it thinks that ________.

A. UK wastes a lot of money importing food products

B. some imported goods causes environmental damage

C. growing certain vegetables causes environmental damage

D. people wasted energy buying food from other countries

2.The phrase “food miles” in the passage refers to the distance ________.

A. that a food product travels to a market

B. that a food product travels from one market to another

C. between UK and other food producing countries

D. between a Third World country and a First World food market

3.By comparing tomatoes raised in Britain and in Ghana, the author tries to explain that ________.

A. British tomatoes are healthier than Ghanaian ones

B. Ghanaian tomatoes taste better than tomatoes ones

C. cutting down food miles may not necessarily save fuel

D. protecting the environment may cost a lot of money

4.From the passage we know that the author is most probably ________.

A. a supporter of free global trade

B. a member of a Food Commission

C. a supporter of First World food markets

D. a member of an energy development group

Dog Fancy

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Details:

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Dog for Kids

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Details:

Dogs for Kids offers interactive and educational activities, which is intended for children (ages 8 to 12) who love dogs and puppies. Each full-color issue has training tips, fun activities to do with dogs, games, puzzles and posters. Dogs for Kids has received the Maxwell Award for Special Interest Magazines from the Dog Writer’s of America for 2 years in a row.

The Bark

Cover Price: $ 19.80 Price: $ 15.00 ($ 2.50 /issue)

Details:

The Bark magazine is designed to include everything related to dog culture. Each issue includes stories, essays, poetry, reviews, interviews and artwork related to the relationship between humans and dogs. The Bark is not a how-to-care-for-your-dog magazine. It’s a magazine about living with dogs, which is your magazine: touching, smart and simply wonderful.

Dog World

Cover Price: $ 48.88 Price: $ 15.00 ($1.25 / issue)

Details:

Dog World is written for the dog enthusiasts, including professionals in the pet industry. Articles entertain and educate readers about dog health-care, nutrition, appearance, training and behavior and the law. Dog World is a must–read for its devoted, loyal dog–loving readers.

1.Who would be most interested in the above magazines?

A. Wildlife protectors.

B. Story book writers.

C. Pet dog owners.

D. City zoo managers.

2.Which magazine saves most?

A. Dog Fancy. B. Dogs for Kids.

C. The Bark. D. Dog World.

3.The underlined word “enthusiasts” in the last part means _____.

A. 主人 B. 獸醫(yī) C. 專(zhuān)家 D. 狂熱者