Matsushita, the world’s largest provider of consumer electronics, has decided to move in on Hollywood. Last weekend, Matsushita company leaders met with movies VIPs from MCA, Inc., the entertainment community that produced the movies as “Jaws” and “E.T. the Extra-terrestrial”. If the negotiations are successful, Matsushita will pay somewhere between $6 billion and $7.5 billion for MCA, by far the largest U.S. buying by a Japanese company.

       The deal is larger than last year’s $5 billion buying of Columbia Pictures by Matsushita’s competitor, Sony Corporation. The movement by the Japanese companies shows Tokyo’s growing interest in the entertainment world. It is surprising for both sides of the Pacific Ocean. Why does a disciplined, no-nonsense nation like Japan want to get into show business? The answer is quite simple: To make money. Japanese corporation leaders feel the global potential of the entertainment business and recognize that there is an increasing market for movies and television in the rapidly industrializing world.

65.   The movement of buying American entertainment companies by the Japanese shows       that____     _.

      A. American movies are better than Japanese

      B. Japan has growing interest in the entertainment world

      C. Japanese market is larger than American market

      D. Japanese people are richer

66.   A disciplined nation like Japan wants to get into show business because _____

      A. they want to make money

      B. they want to learn from American people

      C. they want to entertain their people

      D. they want to win in the competition

67.   Matsushita would pay ______ for MCA.

      A.$5 billion

      B.$6 billion

      C.$7.5 billion

      D. Somewhere between $6 billion to $7.5 billion

         kinds of animals in the world died out           proved true.

     A. All ; has       B. When some ; have    C. While all ; have    D. That some ; has

I teach biology at UNLV three times per week. Last Monday, at the beginning of class, I cheerfully asked my  21  how their weekend had been. One young man said that his weekend had not been so  22 . He had his wisdom teeth removed. Then he went on to ask me why I always seemed to be so  23 .

       His question  24  me of something I’d read somewhere before: “Every morning when you get up, you have a  25  about how you want to deal with life that day,” I said. “I choose to be cheerful.”

“Let me give you an example,”I continued,  26 all sixty students in the class. “In  27  to teaching here at UNLV, I also teach out at a  28  in Henderson, 17 miles down the highway from where I live. One day a few weeks ago I drove those 17 miles to Henderson. I  29   the highway and turned onto College Drive. I only had to drive another quarter mile down the road to the college. But just then my car  30 . I tried to start it again, but the 31  wouldn’t work.  32  I turned my flashers on, took my books, and  33  down the road to the college.”

“As soon as I got there, I called and  34  for a tow truck to meet me at my car after  35 . The secretary there asked me what had happened. ‘This is my  36  day.’ ” I replied, smiling.

She was 37 . “What do you mean?”

“My car could have broken down anywhere along the highway. It didn’t.” I replied. “ 38 , it broke down in the perfect place: off the highway, 39  walking distance of here.

I’m still able to teach my class, and I’ve been able to arrange for the tow truck to meet me after class. If my car was meant to break down today, it couldn’t have been arranged in a more convenient 40 .”

I ended my story. In spite of the early hour, no one in my class seemed to be asleep. Somehow, my story had touched them.

21. A.schoolmates         B. children            C. teachers           D.students

22. A. had                    B. good            C. sad                          D.free

23. A. cheerful             B. grateful            C. hopeful                    D. thankful

24. A. informed            B.told                C. reminded                 D. warned

25. A. decision            B. choice             C. preference                      D. judgment

26. A. showing            B. demanding        C. addressing                   D. commanding

27. A. contribution       B. devotion      C. application           D. addition

28. A. school            B. college         C. university            D. institute

29. A. exited               B. found               C. crossed                    D. entered

30. A. broke              B. died             C. ended                    D. finished

31. A. instrument      B. wheel          C. light              D. engine

32. A. But              B. And             C. So                    D. Or

33. A. marched        B. drove              C. rode                D. followed

34. A. prepared            B. looked          C. waited                  D. arranged

35. A. class                   B. work               C. study                 D. lunch

36. A. usual                  B. unusual            C. unlucky                    D. lucky

37. A. astonished                B. excited            C. puzzled                 D. pleased

38. A. Anyway            B. Instead            C. Also                  D. Still

39. A. within             B. beyond            C. without                  D. along

40. A. order                       B. need                C. way                D. situation

I could hardly believe he ______ have been taken in by such a simple trick.

A. could        B. should       C. may          D. must

請(qǐng)仔細(xì)閱讀下列短文并改正其中的10個(gè)錯(cuò)誤。

Recently, students in our class have had a discussion on whether space is worthy exploring.

  30% of us thinks space exploration is not worthwhile. They think space is so far away from us and our daily life. And the money spending on space exploration can be used to solve the earth problems such as starvation and pollution.

  In the other hand, 70% think that space worth exploring because we have benefited a lot for it, such as using satellites for communication and to weather forecast. What’s more, with further space research, we may solve the population problem by moving to other planets one day. Also, space research will enable us to find new sources to solve the problem of energetic shortages on the earth.

–Could you do me ______ favour and hold the screen for me?

   --______.

A. a; My pleasure          B. the; With pleasure 

C. a; With pleasure         D. the; My pleasure

Almost all the students were having classes when the earthquake _________.

    A.  broke out     B.  put out         C.  came out      D.  got out  

.如今世界糧食短缺，價(jià)格飛漲，給部分地區(qū)造成社會(huì)動(dòng)蕩。假設(shè)在你校開展的研究性學(xué)習(xí)中，你們小組以“World Food Crisis”為題進(jìn)行研究，現(xiàn)在請(qǐng)你代表你們小組向全體同學(xué)簡(jiǎn)要介紹你們的研究成果。主要內(nèi)容如下：

  1．氣候變化，造成糧食減產(chǎn)

  2．工業(yè)發(fā)展，城市化加速，耕地減少

  3．世界能源價(jià)格上漲，使用糧食生產(chǎn)生物燃料你如何做出自己的貢獻(xiàn)

  注意：1．內(nèi)容包括以上要點(diǎn)，但不要逐句翻譯

        2．字?jǐn)?shù)100左右，文章開頭已提供，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)

        3．參考詞匯：城市化urbanization 生物燃料biofuels

    Hello, everyone,

    Now I'll tell you something about our research project The World Food Crisis on behalf of our group. As you know, food shortages have hit many countries in the world and even caused social unrest in some areas.

你校正在開展“創(chuàng)建文明班級(jí)，共建和諧校園”活動(dòng)，請(qǐng)根據(jù)下表內(nèi)容，以“Get Rid of Bad Habits and Greet Civilization”.為題寫一篇短文，向“China Daily”投稿，介紹有關(guān)情況。

主題：“同陋習(xí)告別，與文明握手”

目的：根除亂扔、亂吐、留長(zhǎng)發(fā)、吸煙、喝酒等現(xiàn)象；提倡穿校服、講禮貌

內(nèi)容：舉辦圖片展，進(jìn)行教室、宿舍美化評(píng)比等。

注意：1．詞數(shù)：100左右

      2．參考詞匯：文明  civilization   和諧的  harmonious

Our school has now started an activity called “Building Civilized Classes and a Harmonious Campus”. The topic is “Getting Rid of Bad Habits and Greet Civilization”.

閱讀下面的短文，然后按照要求寫一篇150詞左右的英語(yǔ)短文。

The Beaver and Its Goal

Last fall there was a beaver moving in the small stream beside our house. He immediately began taking down small trees, and within a couple of weeks our small stream turned into a small pond. Every day he added more to his dam and to his house.

With the stream now dammed up and his house built, we thought that would be the last of the beaver’s busy activity as winter set in. But ,to our amazement, he started chewing on a very large maple tree. Over the winter, when the weather allowed, he kept coming back and would chew a bit more.

With spring finally arriving, we went down to see the beaver’s progress and sure enough the tree was going to come down soon! The beaver’s original goal was to build a home for the winter. Working every day with that particular focus in mind, he achieved that goal. But the large maple tree he started chewing on last fall was a future goal----he wanted the large tree for the spring, to provide new food and branches to continue damming in anticipation of the spring thaw. And ,even with the setbacks he faced over the winter, he never gave up.

Sometimes we have a goal to just survive, but we also need to set goals for tomorrow. It is also very important that when faced with setbacks in achieving a goal, you need to stay focused and don’t let the setbacks discourage you.

寫作內(nèi)容

1.以約30個(gè)詞概括短文的要點(diǎn)；

2然后以120個(gè)詞以“目標(biāo)與成功”為主題發(fā)表看法，并包括以下要點(diǎn)：

(1)你認(rèn)為制定目標(biāo)很重要嗎？

(2)你認(rèn)為制定目標(biāo)后怎樣才能成功；

(3)舉例說明你是如何制定目標(biāo)并努力去實(shí)現(xiàn)目標(biāo)的。

寫作要求

1. 可以使用事例或其它論述方法支持你的論點(diǎn)，也可以參照閱讀材料的內(nèi)容但不得直接引用原文的句子；

2. 標(biāo)題自定。

評(píng)分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)：概括準(zhǔn)確，語(yǔ)言規(guī)范，內(nèi)容合適，篇章連貫。