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1.What is stressed in the ad?

A．The coin is of high quality and worth collecting.

B．The coin can be circulated as a currency.

C．Limited supplies guarantee a stable price of the coin.

D．Demand for the coin is bound to break records.

2.If you buy six 2012 U. S. Mint Silver Eagles by post, you should pay at least ____.

A．$230.7           B．$233.7            C．$240.7           D．$243.7

3.The ad strongly encourages people to purchase the silver coins by ____.

A．shopping online

B．making a phone call

C．lining up in front of the stores

D．writing to the company

1. 多數(shù)人統(tǒng)治，人頭都算數(shù)；少數(shù)人統(tǒng)治，人頭就落地。

   Under m      rule, heads are counted; under minority(少數(shù)) rule, heads are cracked.

2. 愚者的心長在嘴里，智者的嘴藏在心里。

   The heart of a fool is in his mouth but the mouth of a wise man is in his h     .

3. 快活的人通常都是傻瓜。

   A m      man is usually a fool.

4. 趁熱打鐵。

   S      the iron while it is hot.

5. 麻煩不找你，別去找麻煩。

   Never trouble trouble until t      troubles you.

6. 不要以從別人那里借來的觀點(diǎn)為生。

Don’ l      on the borrowed opinions of other men .

7. 幸運(yùn)和不幸是鄰居。

   F      and misfortune are next-door neighbors.

8. 世界是一出戲，要是事先知道情節(jié)，就不值得看了。

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the p    .

9.患難見真情。

   A friend in n     is a friend indeed.

10. 工欲善其事，必先利其器。

   A craftsman who wishes to do his work well must first s      his tools.

單詞拼寫
【小題1】You can’t use father’s car without his p_________.
【小題2】Having a b________ diet is good for our health.
【小題3】The math problem is so c_________ that no one in the class can work it out.
【小題4】I was wondering if you could do me a f_________, that is , to help me take care of my pets.
【小題5】The scientists spent 3 months g_________ information for the biological experiment.
【小題6】She left a very c________ message on my answering machine. I really couldn’t understand what she was trying to say.
【小題7】All the tourists were f__________ by the beautiful scenery of the city.
【小題8】Teaching is a tiring but a r___________ job, especially when you see the difference you’ve made in the life of your students.
【小題9】You are expected to a_______ to your parents when you made a mistake.
【小題10】Drinking too much is h_________ to one’s health.
【小題11】When he was a little boy, Tony usually __________(尋求)help from his parents and friends in time of trouble.
【小題12】Everyone sang and danced, enjoying the happy and relaxed __________(氣氛) at the party.
【小題13】Hard work is ___________(基礎(chǔ)的) to success.
【小題14】Customers who buy 10 at a time will get a 50% __________(折扣)。
【小題15】People in different countries have different customs and _________(宗教的) beliefs.
【小題16】The letter wasn't addressed to me but I opened it out of ___________(好奇).
【小題17】Working as a _____________(實(shí)習(xí)生) helped him to earn extra money.
【小題18】Dinosaurs ____________(存在) on the earth millions of years ago.
【小題19】_________(退休) at the age of 40 sounds boring.
【小題20】There are many __________(理論) about how the universe began.

This brief book is aimed at high school students, but speaks to anyone learning at any stage of life．

       Its formal, serious style closely matches its content, a school-masterly book on schooling．The author, W．H．Armstrong, starts with the basics: reading and writing．In his opinion, reading doesn’t just mean recognizing each word on the page; it means taking in the information, digesting it and incorporating it into oneself just as one digests a sandwich and makes it a part of himself．The goal is to bring the information back to life, not just to treat it as dead facts on paper from dead trees．Reading and writing cannot be completely separated from each other; in fact, the aim of reading is to express the information you have got from the text．I’ve seen it again and again：some-one who can’t express an idea after reading a text is just as ineffective as someone who hasn’t read it at all．

Only a third of the book remains after that discussion, which Armstrong devotes to specific tips for studying languages, math, science and history．He generally handles these topics thoroughly and equally, except for some weakness in the science and math sections and a bit too much passion regarding history to his students, that was a hundred times more than my history teachers ever got across．To my disappointment, in this part of the book he ignores the arts．As a matter of fact, they demand all the concentration and study that math and science do, though the study differs slightly in kind．Although it’s commonly believed that the arts can only be naturally acquired, actually, learning the arts is no more natural than learning French or mathematics．

My other comment is that the text aged．The first edition apparently dates to the 1960s—none of the references seem newer than the late 1950s．As a result, the discussion misses the entire computer age．

These are small points, though, and don’t affect the main discussion．I recommend it to any student and any teacher, including the self-taught student．

1.According to Armstrong, the goal of reading is to________

A．gain knowledge and expand one’s view

B．understand the meaning between the lines

C．express ideas based on what one has read

D．get information and keep it alive in memory

2.What is a shortcoming of Armstrong’s work according to the author?

A．Some ideas are slightly contradictory

B．There is too much discussion on studying science

C．The style is too serious

D．It lacks new information

3.This Passage can be classified as________．

A．a(chǎn)n advertisement        B．a(chǎn) book review

C．a(chǎn) feature story    D．A news report

4.Which of the following words can best describe the author’s attitude towards the book________

A．positive           B．neutral         C．negative        D．objective

對話填空（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）

請認(rèn)真閱讀下面對話，并根據(jù)各題所給首字母的提示，在答題卡上標(biāo)有題號的橫線上，寫出一個(gè)英語單詞的完整、正確的形式，使對話通順。

L =" Lucy  " J = Jim

L : Oh, I’ve just had a (76) t        day today.                                 76．     

J : What (77) h         ?                                                                                       77．     

L : Well, I overslept in the morning. I didn’t hear the                         

(78) a        clock.                                                                 78．     

J : Oh, everyone does that once in a (79) w                                  79．     

L : I was late for class, so I drove a little (80) f       . Guess who saw me?

80．     

J : A policeman? You got a ticket?

L : Yeah. He didn’t care that I was late. Anyway, I got to class,

(81) b        I had brought the wrong book. The teacher wasn’t 81．     

(82) h         .                                                                      82．     

J : That’s really had.

L : What’s (83) w        , I have a paper due tomorrow. It’s on a      83．     

Hard drive (硬盤). I went to the computer lab and I couldn’t

(84) f          my file. I forgot to save the information.           84．     

J : Oh, not!

L : And now I need to go home. And you know (85) w       ?          85．     

My car keys are missing.