Electronic waste, or e-waste, refers to electronic products that are no longer usable. This can include TVs, cell phones and computers and other office electronics, electronic toys and videos machines. Today, the average turnover（更換）rate for a computer in the United States is every two years, according to the environmental group, Greenpeace.

The group's Dai Yun says e-waste is a global problem. "The electronic industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The high speed of growth in this industry means more and more electronic products are being wasted and thrown away. If no one decides to retrieve the old products and process them properly, the electronic waste will sweep over the earth like the huge wave behind me and pollute the Earth seriously."

Greenpeace works out that 20 to 50 million tons of e-waste are produced globally each year. The components（部件）in many electronic products contain harmful chemicals that pollute ground water and the environment.

At present , the U.S. has no federal law for the disposal (處理) of e-waste although a few states have e-waste recycling programs in place, but there is no law. The U.S. exports much of its e-waste to third world countries, such as India and China, where workers took apart computers for valuable parts, hoping to sell them for money. But harmful wastes expert, Dr. Bakul Rao, says that's a dangerous practice. "From now on, the recyclers are not very educated. All they know is they can retrieve copper or gold out of it. So, the easiest way to do that is leach (過濾) it out in an acid or burn it off to retrieve it. So, that's where they don't know how to deal with it, neither do they have any health systems in place. So, their exposure is more."

Which of the following is most likely not to be a form of e-waste?

 A. A mobile phone B. A radio  C. An e-bike        D. A table

What does the underlined word "retrieve" (paragraph 2) probably mean?

 A. look into   B. take apart   C. get back   D. throw away

What of the following statements is true according to the passage？

A. The U.S. has strict national laws for dealing with e-waste.

B. Third world countries import e-waste to get valuable parts, which is a safe and easy way to

make money.

C. The way uneducated workers deal with old computers does great harm to the environment as well as to their own health.

D. More and more electronic waste is being wasted and thrown away mainly because of

people's bad habits.

What is the purpose of writing the passage?

A. To attract more people's attention to e-waste.

B. To call on people not to throw away e-waste anywhere.

C. To tell people what e-waste is and how to deal with it well.

D. To warn people to break away from the electronic industry.

The next paragraph probably concerns_______.

A. how to deal with e-waste properly

B. how to protect ourselves from harm by e-waste

C. How to slow down the development in the electronic industry

D. how to make full use of e-waste

A popular student in her small high school, Katie started college expecting to do well in her courses and be best friends with her roommates. But things didn’t turn out that way. Psych 101, the course she thought would be a first-semester favorite, turned out to be a struggle. And her roommates were as different from Katie as the student restaurant’s mystery meat was from her mom’s roasted pork.

Living away from home tends to be the toughest adjustment for first-year students. You may feel homesick in your first weeks or months. It can help to call, write, or email your parents and friends making them know how you’re doing. You can also talk with your roommates. As first-year students themselves, they’re probably experiencing many of the same fears and worries that you’re dealing with.

But what if you don’t get along well with your roommates?

In some cases, it can be a good thing if you and your roommates aren’t much alike. Different views on things may be helpful, so respect your differences no matter what.

If you and your roommates don’t get along well, it can help to find someone who you feel does understand you, which should be easy on a campus with so many people. Many schools have student organization nights where all of the campus clubs gather and promote their organizations, so you can meet people with the same interests there as you. You’ll also meet tons of people in class or in your dorm building.

As homesickness, painful throats, sprained (扭傷的) ankles and wisdom teeth that act up are common among college students, you should check out your student guidebook or your school’s website to find out information about the university health center.

If you think you cannot deal with your problems, make a stop at the school counseling (咨詢) center. First-year troubles are something the counselors know well. You can get help there.

From Paragraph 1 we can infer that ____.

A. Katie had been worried about the changes before starting her college life

B. Katie felt satisfied when her college life started

C. Katie wasn’t used to the new environment in college at first

D. Katie has fallen behind in her study after the first semester in college

What’s the author’s suggestion on dealing with homesickness?

A. Adjust to it.

B. Share fears and worries with your parents.

C. Talk to your roommates about it.

D. Get along with your roommates.

Which of the following ways of dealing with roommates is RIGHT?

A. Not trying to change them.

B. Not making friends with them.

C. Developing the same interests as them

D. Not talking with them.

What’s the main idea of the text?

A. Freshmen may meet many problems.

B. Communication is important in college.

C. How you can adjust to your first year in college.

D. How schools help freshmen to get used to college life.

It is difficult for doctors to help a person with a damaged brain Without enough blood, the brain lives for only three to five minutes More often the doctors can’t fix the damage Sometimes they are afraid to try something to help because it is dangerous to work on the brain The doctors might make the person worse if he operates on the brain

Dr. Robert White, a famous professor and doctor, thinks he knows a way to help He thinks doctors should make the brain very cold. If it is very cold, the brain can live without blood for 30 minutes. This gives the doctor a longer time to do something for the brain.

Dr. White tried his idea on 13 monkeys. First he taught them to do different jobs, then he operated on them. He made the monkeys’ blood back to the monkeys’ brains. When the brain’s temperature was 10℃, Dr. White stopped the blood to the brain. After 30 minutes he turned the blood back on. He warmed the blood again. After their operations the monkeys were like they had been before. They were healthy and busy. Each one could still do the jobs the doctor had taught them.

6. The biggest difficulty in operating on the damaged brain is that_____.

A. the time is too short for doctors     

B. the patients are often too nervous

C. the damage is extremely hard to fix

D. the blood-cooling machine might break down w*w

7. The brain operation was made possible mainly by        .

A. taking the blood out of the brain      B. trying the operation on monkeys first

C. having the blood go through a machine   D. lowering the brain’s temperature

8. With Dr. White’s new idea, the operation on the damaged brain        .

A. can last as long as 30 minutes   B. can keep the brain’s blood warm

C. can keep the patient’s brain healthy  D. can help monkeys do different jobs

9. What is the right order of the steps in the operations?

A. send the cooled back to the brain     B. stop the blood to the brain

C. have the blood cooled down     D. operate on the brain

A. a, b, c, d    B. c, a, b, d    C. c, b, d, a    D. b, c, d, a

10. Which of the following is not true?

A. If there isn’t enough blood, the brain can live for only three to five minutes.

B. If the brain is very cold, it can live without blood for half an hour.

C. Dr. White tried his idea for thirteen times.

D. After their operations, the monkeys were healthy and busy again

Arts and culture is lived and breathed in every corner of Canada. Due to a racial and immigrant （移民）population the variety and richness of art and sports is very evident.

Since the Second World War, Canada has produced an impressive amount of writing. From novels to poetry, the selection is wide. Native writers are also becoming better known across Canada in recent years.

Musicians are reaching a higher level of recognition in the world music scene. Everything from Country to Pop, Classical to Heavy Rock can be found across Canada and across the globe performed by Canadian artists.

Film Crew in Canada The National Film Board is the primary producer of movies in Canada. However, many Hollywood studios are turning to Canada as a source for locations and as an alternative to the more expensive USA. Many well known actors, directors, screen writers and movies come from Canada and often scoop awards for their work.

French art was the first to appear in Canada along the St Lawrence in and around Quebec. Since then the volume of art and artists has increased. Canadian photography as well as painting by Canadians are not well known outside of Canada but recognition is increasing.

Sport is a major part of today's society in Canada. Hockey is the most popular spectator sport with more participants taking part in curling. American style football and baseball are also very popular and all of these sports are played across Canada.

1. What would be the best title of the passage?

  A. A brief introduction to Canada         B. Canadian arts, culture and sports

C. Canadian artists                     D. Canadian arts and culture are world famous

2. Canada has many forms of art and culture because it has ________.

  A. a long history                     B. a large area  

  C. a large population                  D. a variety of nations and immigrants

3. Many Hollywood studios come to settle in Canada because_______.

A. The cost in Canada is lower than that in the USA.

B. Canada has many well known actors and directors.

C. They want to work together with the movie producers in Canada.

D. They want to make movies about Canada.

4. Which group of Canadian artists are well known all over the world today?

 A. Native writers and screen writers      B. Photographers and actors

C. Painters and writers                D. Musicians and actors, directors

5. Which of the statements about Canada is Wrong?

A. Canadian Arts has been much influenced by French people.

  B. Canadian people love sports very much.

  C. There are many big film-making companies in Canada.

  D. Canadian Arts and artists are becoming better known.

About 1966 or so, a NASA(美國航空航天局) team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City. There the landscape of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the lunar surface. Among all the trucks and large vehicles were two large figures that were dressed in full lunar space suits.

Nearby a Navajo shepherd (牧羊人) and his son were watching the strange creatures walk about, occasionally being watched over by other NASA workers. The two Navajo people were noticed and ap??proached by the NASA people. Since the shepherd and his son did not know English, they asked the NASA people who the strange creatures were. The NASA people told them that they were just men that were getting ready to go to the moon. The shepherd became very excited and asked if he could send a message to the moon with the astronauts.

The NASA officials thought this was a great idea so they provided a tape recorder. After the man gave them his message, they asked his son to translate. His son would not.

Later, they tried a few more people on the reservation to translate and every person they asked would chuckle (偷偷地笑) and then refuse to translate. Finally, with cash in hand someone translated the message, "Watch out for these guys, they have come to take your land! "

9. The appearance of the Navajo Reservation is very similar to that of ________.

A. the Tuba City

 B. the moon

C. the NASA research center

 D. the Apollo moon mission

10. When the older Navajo heard that the men in front of him were going to the moon, he ______.

A. felt frightened and ran away quickly

B. chatted excitedly with the NASA workers

C. got on the modern trucks and large vehicles for fun

D. tried to say something to the moon creatures

11. The son did not translate the words his father said because ________.

A. he had trouble in understanding his father

B. the words his father used were too difficult to be translated

C. his father was sending a warning against the NASA people

D. he believed that the NASA workers could understand their language

12. According to this passage, we can know that the shepherd was ________.

A. patient and brave       B. foolish and impolite

C. humorous and intelligent   D. knowledgeable and talkative

THERE are many different Londons, and they appeal to people with many different passions: museum lovers, theatergoers, opera buffs (愛好者，迷；熱心人), devotees of royalty, students of history, people who like to walk in the rain. But richest of all, perhaps, is the London for book lovers.

Because the city is the star and the backdrop of so much great literature, it is possible to believe you know it very well — how it looks, how it feels — without ever leaving your home country, or indeed your home. But it is better to visit, if only for the joy of seeing the landscape of your imagination come to life. How breathtaking to happen upon Pudding Lane, where a bakery accident led to the Great Fire of 1666, after reading Pepys’s account in his diaries. Or to wander along Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes once fictionally solved the unsolvable. Walk across London Bridge and gaze down, toward Southwark Bridge: this is the stretch of the Thames where Dickens’s sinister characters dredged up corpses in “Our Mutual Friend.”

The city is not so foggy as it was in 1952, when Margery Allingham published “The Tiger in the Smoke,” or as socially stratified as it when Marianne Dashwood waited in “Sense and Sensibility” for a suitor who never called; or as greedy as it was in the thrusting 1980s of Martin Amis’s “Money.” But it is all of those Londons, an accrual of different descriptions and eras. It is a city made for description — reread the first passages of “Bleak House,” also on the subject of fog, for a moody introduction — and one that so respects its authors that it buried a number of the best ones in style, in Westminster Abbey.

There are plenty of organized literary-themed tours around the city, easily found on the Internet. Or you can wander characteristically on your own, which is more fun. If you take the Tube or the bus, make sure to carry a book.  

6. What can we infer from the first paragraph?

A. Most people of London like visiting museums.

B. No Londoners go to cinemas to see the films.

C. A majority of Londoners are book lovers.

D. All the Londoners like to walk in the rain.

7. What information can you get from Pepy’s diaries?

A. Great Fire of 1666 caused by an accident in a bakery.

B. Sherlock Holmes once lived in Baker Street.

C. London Bridge is next to Baker Street.

D. “Our Mutual Friend” is one of Dickens’s works.

8. Who is Sherlock Holmes?

A. A book lover.            B. A character of Dickens’s novel: “Our Mutual Friend”.

C. A detective.              D. A person who set the Great Fire of 1666.

9. In which book can’t you find the description about the fog in London?

A. “The Tiger in the Smoke”        B. “Sense and Sensibility”

C. “Money”                                       D. “Our Mutual Friend”

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

A. Most kinds of tours around London may be found on the Internet.

B. You must be shown around London by a guide.

C. There are many kinds of literary-themed activities including tours.

D. You’d better take a book when you travel in London.

閱讀下列短文, 掌握其大意, 然后從1—10各題所給的A, B, C和D四個選項中, 選出最佳選項, 并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

It’s very easy to see why people have bad attitudes. A quick look at the news revealing _1___ with crime, war and corruption (腐敗) can easily bring us down. Is it possible to _2__ a healthy, happy attitude when surrounded by these negative things?

   Sure it is! It is possible to wake up each morning with a good mood and _3__ the day. Having a positive _4__not only allows us to enjoy life more but also _5__ our health and relationships with others.

   To lead a happy life, we need to have a positive attitude. We are responsible for our own _6__; other people can’t make us happy. We need to decide to make ourselves happy. This is wonderful because we don’t have to wait around for someone else to do it for us.

   We should surround ourselves with __7_ people. We are influenced by those people with whom we spend the most time. When we have positive friends, we become positive. Otherwise, we become _8__.

   We should also use positive_9__. A. L. Kitselman once said, “‘I am…’ are powerful words; be careful when you use them.” We need to replace our negative self-talk with positive words. Don’t say “I hate getting up in the morning.” Instead, try to say “I am _10__to see a new day.” Changing our self-talk will lead us to the changes in our behavior.

1. A. affairs          B. questions       C. troubles         D. problems               

2. A. change        B. refuse          C. keep           D. invent

3. A. look forward to        B. look down on    C. look up to       D. look back on

4. A. opinion         B. attitude       C. influence         D. answer

5. A. damages        B. improves        C. affects        D. weakens

6. A. satisfaction      B. decision        C. happiness       D. development

7. A. positive       B. friendly        C. easy-going        D. good-mannered

8. A. anxious         B. nervous        C. satisfied        D. negative

9. A. writings       B. pictures        C. expressions      D. signs

10. A. painful       B. bored         C. thankful              D. surprised

Mr Green drove slowly on the way home until he reached the high way,  ______the speed limit was 60 miles per hour.   

A. because           B. which           C. where             D. that

Mrs Brown was much disappointed to see the mobile phone she had had______the week before went wrong again.　

A. it         　B. it repaired　      　C. repaired    　D. to be repaired

Across the globe, single parent homes are on the rise. In the US, the 2000 census (人口普查) showed 24.8 million, or nearly 24 percent of the nation’s 105.5 million households, were traditional two-parent homes. By comparison, 9.8 million households, or 9 percent of all US households were headed by an adult raising a child alone. The 1990 census showed 26 percent of homes were led by a married mother and father, and 8 percent of homes were led by a single parent.

Similar increases occurred in other countries. In the UK, lone-parent homes increased from 3.3 percent in 1990 to 5.5 percent in 1999. Single parent households in Australia rose from 5.8 percent in 1990 to 7.6 percent in 1999. Belgium saw the increase from 1.8 percent to 2.7 percent during the same period of time. These countries tend to have greater acceptance of the single parent because there are fewer nearby family members to disapprove, Riche, a Census Bureau director, said.

Just as in the US, those changes raised new questions about how involved govenment should be in helping single parent families. Some research suggests children raised in two-parent families are better off than those who depend on one.

    “The position of one-parent families in any country is very much a gender (性別) issue-women’s opportunities, especially working-class women on low income,” said Sue Cohen, coordinator (協(xié)調(diào)員) of the Single Action Parents Network in England.

5.Not considering the exact number of the single-parent families, which country saw the fastest rise rate in 1999, compared with 1990?

A.UK.          B.Australia.               C.America.               D.Belgium.

6.What is the cause of the rise of single parent families across the globe?

A.The nearby family members have a favourable opinion.

B.A lone parent is well off enough to support his /her children.

C.A lot of problems have arisen in two-parent families.

D.We cannot get enough proving information from the text.

7.Which of the following is TRUE about the increase of single parent families according to the passage?

A.It will somewhat limit the growing population of younger generation.

B.Governments should take actions about the social problems brought about by it.

C.Single parent families are not looked down upon in any country mentioned here.

D.Generally speaking, the single parents needn’t worry since they are highly paid.

8.Which of the following diagrams correctly shows the rise of single parent families in the US from

1990 to 2000?