You probably know who Marie Curie was, but you may not have heard of Rachel Carson. Of the outstanding ladies listed below, who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?

Jane Addams(1860-1935)

Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank. Addans helped the poor and worked for peace. She encouraged a sense of community(社区)by creating shelters and promoting education and services for people in need In 1931,Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rachel Carson(1907-1964)

If it weren’t for Rachel Carson, the environmental movement might not exist today. Her popular 1962 book Silent Spring raised awareness of the dangers of pollution and the harmful effects of chemicals on humans and on the world’s lakes and oceans.

Sandra Day O’Connor(1930-present)

When Sandra Day O’Connor finished third in her class at Stanford Law School, in 1952,she could not find work at a law firm because she was a woman. She became an Arizona state senator(参议员) and ,in 1981, the first woman to join the  U.S. Supreme Court. O’ Connor gave the deciding vote in many important cases during her 24 years on the top court.

Rosa Parks(1913-2005)

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rasa Parks would not give up her seat on a bus to a passenger. Her simple act landed Parks in prison. But it also set off the Montgomery bus boycott(抵制). It lasted for more than a year, and kicked off the civil-rights movement.

1. What is Jane Addams noted for in history?

A. Her social work.

B. Her teaching skills.

C. Her efforts for a prize.

D. Her educational background.

2. What led to O’Connor’s being rejected by the law firm?

A. The poor financial conditions.

B. Her lack of proper training in law.

C. Her little work experience in court.

D. The unfair practice against women.

3. Who started the civil-rights movement in the US?

A. Rosa Parks.

B. Jane Addams.

C. Rachel Carson.

D. Sandra Day O’ Connor.

4. What can we infer about the women mentioned in the text?

A. They are highly educated.

B. They are truly pioneers.

C. They are rather creative.

D. They are peace-lovers.

 It was not until near the end of the letter________ she mentioned her own plan.

 A. that       B. where        C. why     D. when

   As our Earth’s temperature warms up because of climate change, it is having unexpected effects on our world’s forests. When temperatures rise, trees close their skins to    1    the loss of water, and this, in turn, slows down the    2    of photosynthesis(光合作用). As a result, these trees are shorter and grow slowly, as well as have a    3    death rate.

Climate change also increases the    4    of droughts and wildfires. After wildfires, it takes a while for the forest systems to    5    , and in some cases, the forests are    6    permanently. Trees that are stressed are also    7    to attacks by bacteria(细菌). In tropical forests, vines that use the trees as    8    can often choke the trees and rob them of nutrients. Finally, humans have    9    the forest landscape through logging. When trees are replanted on the soil, they will never grow as large as the    10    trees that were cut down.

As these forests disappear, species that once called them “home” are forced to change,    11    the variety of those systems.    12    , some endangered species are unable to    13    and die. Old-growth forests are disappearing in all regions of our world. When forests die, younger forests that are reestablished in the same area grow back weaker and smaller    14    poor vegetation. With trees dying increasingly and continuously, will future generations    15    out on the wonders of forests?

1．A．protect              B．prevent                   C．save                       D．free

2．A．movement         B．situation                 C．process                   D．operation

3．A．higher              B．firmer                    C．lighter                    D．smaller

4．A．choice              B．measure                  C．qualification           D．chance

5．A．grow                B．rescue                    C．recover                  D．decline

6．A．ignored             B．lost                        C．hurt                       D．left

7．A．accessible          B．enjoyable                C．acceptable              D．favorable

8．A．attention           B．command               C．trust                       D．support

9．A．frightened         B．paid                       C．ruined                    D．wasted

10．A．common         B．original                  C．distant                    D．strong

11．A．affecting         B．improving              C．forgetting               D．reflecting

12．A．Besides           B．Surprisingly            C．Otherwise               D．Unfortunately

13．A．devote            B．keep                       C．adapt                     D．lead

14．A．due to             B．in addition to          C．instead of               D．in spite of

15．A．pass                B．miss                       C．break                     D．bring

假如你是Tom, 你的美国笔友David向你写信诉说他没有朋友的苦恼。请你给他写一封回信，告诉他如何交朋友。内容可包括以下要点：

1. 保持自信，待人礼貌；

2. 要保持自己的特色；

3. 和朋友经常保持联系。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

      2. 可以适当增加自己的观点；

      3. 信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear David,

I’m glad to have received your letter.                                                                 

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I hope you can make a lot of good friends and be a happy boy

                                                                Yours truly,

                                                                Tom

 “People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice(牺牲) that would help deal with climate change,” the world’s leading authority on global warming has told The Observer.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further.

Pachauri, who was re-elected the panel’s chairman for a second six-year term last week, said diet change was important because of the huge greenhouse gas emissions (排放) and other environmental problems associated with raising cattle and other animals. “It was relatively easy to change eating habits compared to changing means of transport,” he said.

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation has estimated that meat production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. These are produced during the production. For example, ruminants (反刍动物), particularly cows, give off a gas called methane(甲烷), which is 23 times more effective as a global warming agent than CO₂.

Pachauri can expect some opposite responses from the food industry to his advice, though last night he was given unexpected support by Masterchef presenter and restaurateur John Torode. “I have a little bit and enjoy it,” said Torode. “Too much for any person is bad. But there’s a bigger issue here: where the meat comes from. If we all bought British and stopped buying imported food, we’d save a huge amount of carbon emissions.”

Professor Robert Watson, the chief scientific adviser for the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, said government could help educate people about the benefits of eating less meat, but it should not regulate. “Eating less meat would help, there’s no question about that,” Watson said.

However, Chris Lamb, head of marketing for pig industry group BPEX, said the meat industry had been unfairly targeted and was working hard to find out which activities had the biggest environmental impact and reduce them. “Some ideas were contradictory,” he said. “For example, one solution to emissions from cattle and other animals was to keep them indoors, but this would damage animal welfare. Climate change is a very young science and our view is there are a lot of simple solutions being proposed.”

63. What is directly related to global warming?

A. Consumption of meat.              B. Growth of cattle.

C. Methane from ruminants.               D. Processing of meat.

64. Who holds a view opposite to the others’ in the passage?

   A. Rajendra Pachauri.    B. John Torode.     C. Robert Watson.       D. Chris Lamb.

65. It is implied in the passage that _____.

   A. we should try to keep away from cattle    B. ruminants should not be left outdoors

   C. the meat industry will soon close down   D. we must do our duty to save the earth

66. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

A. Less meat, slower global warming        

B. More animals, more greenhouse gas

C. Less imported food, better our environment  

D. Greater diet change, smaller climate change

Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States and Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes which will give them a head start in life.   31   So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education.   32    However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.

Parents can see that their children’s skills differ. Some children are very skilled in some areas while poor in others.   33    The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills that they need to be confident, happy and clever.

Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework. Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in

life.  34   It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully step by step. The result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and lots of self-confidence.

Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to repair them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up.    35    And that is more important.

A. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.

B. The more cost in education, the better the result will be.

C. Cooking requires patience and time.

D. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today's children are badly off for self-respect and self-confidence.

E. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is.

F. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind.

G. Thus, the more the children use the computer, the better the result will be.

—The government should try to balance economic growth and pollution from industry.

—____. It’s time to do it.

A. All right      B. Exactly         C. Go ahead            D. That’s OK