Every Australian child is brought up on Vegemite(维吉米特黑酱)!Yes, this dark colored food paste made from yeast extract(酵母膏)is put on fresh bread and toast as a snack, breakfast, lunch on the run or when there's basically nothing else left in the house to eat. It takes time to adapt to it for those not used to it. Simply watch overseas visitors make faces when tasting it for the first time found in every indigenous Australian home! In fact, it is considered a national food and cultural sign.

    Vegemite has an interesting history. More than ninety years ago, a leading Australian food technologist was given the challenge of creating a food item from a by-product of the beer manufacturing process. This by-product was developed into a pure vegetable extract spread for use on bread and toast. It has since found its way into many Australian homes.

    Before World War II it was confirmed by the British Medical Association for its medicinal benefits as a nutritionally balanced food for patients. It became very important during World War II. As a result of the heavy demand by the armed forces, the supplies to civilians were rationed(限量)with the following message given by the government：Vegemite fights with the men up north! If you are one of those who don't need Vegemite medicinally, then thousands of the injured are asking you to deny yourself of it for the time being. After the war, with many babies born, Vegemite was confirmed as a necessary source of Vitamin B1, B2 for babies.

9. What does the underlined word “indigenous” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A. Rich.    B. Native.    C. Remote.    D. New.

10. What's the purpose of the message given by the government?

A. To encourage Australians to fight for their nation.

B. To tell people Vegemite has high nutritional value.

C. To suggest that people leave Vegemite to the army.

D. To inform Vegemite has medical functions.

11. The author is trying to show us the fact that Vegemite ________.

A. has been a part of Australian history

B. is a kind of popular food for babies only

C. is popular in every English-speaking country

D. has become a favorite food for overseas visitors

 ________ ? Your dog can get jealous when you pay attention to other dogs, other people or even other things.

A. Guess what       B. How come          C. What's up         D. Why not

People lie all the time, but depending on how skilled they are. It can be difficult to determine when someone is lying to you. Do you know how to recognize the signs that someone is lying to you?   36 

1. Liars make false eye contact.

A person who is lying to you won’t make eye contact with you or they make too much eye contact. If a person is lying he may feel you are watching him and he will look down at the floor or away from your eyes. Some people try to stare at you in the face in a deliberate way.   37 

2. Liars avoid using contractions(缩略语)

    The liars will say “I did NOT notice your money”，instead of “ I didn’t notice your money”. This is an attempt by the liars to be absolutely clear what they mean.   38 

3. Weird(Strange) Body Language.

Liars often feel uneasy, turn away from the person to whom they are speaking, blink rapidly, smile less and have pitch changes in their tone of voice. They may cross their arms which is a sign of being “closed” or trying not to reveal too much information.   39  . They could touch parts of their face, an ear or a nose or play with keys or another item that they have in their hand.

4. Liars provide additional information without being asked for it.

      40  . The result is the more complicated the story is, the less believable it will be. You will have the feeling that nothing could be further from the truth.

A. Usually, it ends up making the story a lot less believable.

B. Here are some easy ways to help you recognize liars and catch lies.

C. Sometimes people will look unnatural when they are lying.

D. They will get angry if you doubt their story.

E. They seem to think that by telling their story in detail, you will find it more believable.

F. They try to change the subject or move the conversation in a different direction.

G. In this way, they feel like making eye contact will make what they are saying more believable.

 I was not in Beijing last June, otherwise I_______ my son’s graduation ceremony.

A. would not miss                                            B. didn’t miss      

C. would not have missed                                     D. had not missed

 The international situation is currently undergoing great changes ________ UNESCO plays an irreplaceable role in promoting international cooperation.

   A. That                     B. what                  C. which              D. where

 –If we take a plane, we’ll of course have arrived in Paris by the next weekend.

  -Don’t be sure, we should___________ the weather factors. What shall we do if it is foggy?

  A. reflect on              B. answer for        C. correspond to   D. calculate on

Nowadays, more and more schools in China have rules making students wear school uniforms to school. A lot of Chinese students complain about_ 61  (wear) their school uniforms every day. But do American students get   62 (annoy) about their uniforms, too? American high schools usually have a dress code(衣着标准),   63  is about requirements for students' dressing. Boys at school must wear clean jackets every day. Girls are   64     (luck) than boys, for they have more flexible   65  (choose) than boys. They can either dress similarly to the boys    66  wear a dress. In general, it takes a student 10-15 minutes every morning   67   (dress) up for class. As students do in China, plenty of American students also have their complaints about school uniforms. What if students really dislike the dress code and want to get rid of it? Instead of getting punished,   68 (actual) there're ways to do that. At my school, "dress down" tickets  69  (sell) on school days. If students are willing to buy a ticket, they don't need to wear school uniforms the following day. I have a strong  70   (believe) that one day Chinese students can buy these tickets, too.

 — I have no appetite for anything today.

— ___________? I think you should see a doctor.

A. Why not                 B. So what                  C. What for         D. How come

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1. 年龄:

2. 学习情况及英语水平:

3. 兴趣和特长:

4. 性格特点.

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3. 开头语和结束语己为你写好

Dear Sir/Madam,

                                             _______________________________

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                                                               Sincerely yours,

                                                                      Li Hua

  If Mickey Mouse is a westerner who has captured the world，Hello Kitty is the world’s

sweetheart from Asia. With its two innocent black eyes and the cute ribbon on its ear，this

white-faced kitten has captivated(迷住）the hearts of women of all ages since 1974.

    Hello Kitty is found on more than 50 thousand items，including toys，school supplies，

make-up and even neckties.

    To celebrate the character’s 38' birthday，an exhibition called“Inside Kitty" is underway

at the Seongnam Arts Center in Yatab-dong.

    “Kitty was not popular at all at first，even in Japan. Only since 1985，11 years after it was

born，have people started to pay attention to it，”Yuko Yamaguchi，one of the designers of the

character，told the press.

    “Hello Kitty was only for kids then. But in 1987，I got a letter from a high school student

who said that her friends teased her because she had a Hello Kitty product. She asked the com-

pany to make something that did not look strange for her to carry around. Since then we’ve

tried to come up with things that all ages can enjoy，”Yamaguchi said.

    Hello Kitty became popular after being displayed in Anna Sui boutiques(精品店）in the

United States. Young women from all over the world have been in love with the character ever

since. The boutique of MAC，a make-up brand，packed，on the day the brand was released，its

first products made in collaboration with Hello Kitty.

“The character has to communicate with people. It should change over time，and always

stay fashionable，＂Yamaguchi said.

    “Inside Kitty" starts by viewing the past of the character. Kitty fans will be delighted to

see Hello Kitty items from throughout the past 38 years on display.

How Learning Habits Influence On Learning Results. It’s useful and necessary to discuss learning habits. There is a famous saying “Good habits lead to good endings.”,    1    shows the importance of habits.

“An apple a day keeps doctor away .”also shows how a healthy everyday habit helps to build up our body.     2    , good learning habits can help us gain great learning results    3    (include) high scores and abundant knowledge. At first, learning habits form our ways of thinking and attitudes     4   the content of our learning. Obviously, a good habit can help us to speed up to reach our destinations.    5    we can see, cultivating a good habit is so important      6     I would like to introduce one kind of good learning habits -- keep a learning diary every day. We can start the habit by    7    (write) learning summary and remember to record something impressive and     8    (mean). Keep it in mind, and gradually we can gain this good learning habit and benefit from it.

What’s more, I find out that I still have some bad learning habits as well. I can     9    concentrate on reading for a short time and I   10   ( conquer) this problem by spending more effort on concentration practice.

I believe that through my efforts, I can gain good learning results by having good habits.

    When the Internet hits an industry, the result is usually pretty dramatic.

Newcomers with revolutionary business models blow away the old established players. Think what happened to Kodak when photography went digital, and what happened to high street book shops when Amazon got going.

Now it is the turn of higher education. Right now this change is focused on the Mooc—shorthand for massive open online courses. Essentially these are packaged-up pieces of learning that last a few weeks, are often put together by a top professor at a top university, and are available to anyone with a computer. Enrolment(登记)is unlimited, there are no entry requirements, and they are completely free.

Mooc providers will tell you proudly that their product is not an alternative to going to university, it’s an alternative to not going to university. One of the big players in the Mooc world is Coursera, set up by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, two computer science professors at Stanford University in the United States.

About two years ago Prof. Ng decided to put lectures from his Machine Learning course online, with surprising results: “I put one of courses online and it reached an audience of 100,000 students,” he says. “To put that number into context, I used to teach 400 students a year at Stanford, which means to reach a comparable sized audience I would have had to teach at Stanford for 250 years.”

“I think Moocs have a huge potential. The technology that allows one professor to teach not just one student, but 100,000 really changes the economics of higher education,” Prof. Ng says. “Once you have created the course content it costs almost nothing to sigh up another student. What that means is we can afford to connect everyone in he world to a great education.”

29. What is the best title for the passage?

   A. The New Will Replace the Old                  B .Science Is Developing Very Quickly

   C. Great Changes Take Place Every Day             D. Traditional Industries Can Hardly Survive

30. What do we learn about Moocs?

   A. They are usually very cheap                     B. They are limited to college students

   C. They are given by famous professors                 D. They have limit to students’ number

31. Prof. Ng gave some numbers in Paragraph 5 to show ________.

   A. the higher quality you Moocs                       B. the large influence of Moocs

   C. the great convenience of Moocs                     D. the quick development of Moocs

32. What’s Prof. Ng’s attitude towards Moocs?

   A. Unclear             B. Doubtful          C. Objective         D. Optimistic

I bought ________ of milk she did.

       A．double an amount                 B．double the amount

       C．the double amount                      D．double amount

Around twenty years ago I was living in York．21  I had a lot of experience and a Master's degree, I could not find 22  work..

 I was 23  a school bus to make ends meet and 24  with a friend of mine, for I had lost my flat．I had 25 five interviews with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not 26  the job．“Why has my life become so 27  ?” I thought painfully.

 As I pulled the bus over to 28  a little girl, she handed me an earring 29  I should keep it 30  somebody claimed (认领) it．The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”.

 At first I got angry．Then it 31  me – I had been giving all of my 32   to what was going wrong with my 33   rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a 34  of fifty things I was happy with．Later, I decided to 35  more things to the list．That night there was a phone call for 36  from a lady who was a director at a larger 37 ．She asked me if I would 38  a one-day lecture on stress management to 200 medical workers．I said yes. My 39  there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job．To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of 40  that I completely changed my life.

21.A．As              B．Though        C．If              D．When

22.A．successful        B．extra          C．satisfying        D．convenient

23.A．driving           B．repairing      C．taking           D．designing

24.A．working          B．travelling      C．discussing       D．living

25.A．prepared for       B．attended       C．asked for        D．held

26.A．lose             B．like           C．find             D．get

27.A．hard             B．busy          C．serious          D．short

28.A．wave at          B．drop off        C．call on          D．look for

29.A．ordering         B．promising      C．saying           D．showing

30.A．in case          B．or else         C．as if             D．now that

31.A．hurt            B．hit             C．caught           D．moved

32.A．feelings         B．attention        C．strength          D．interests

33.A．opinions         B．education       C．experiences      D．life

34.A．list             B．book          C．check            D．copy

35.A．connect         B．turn           C．keep             D．add

36.A．her            B．a passenger      C．me              D．my friend

37.A．hospital        B．factory          C．restaurant         D．hotel

38.A．listen to        B．review          C．give             D．talk about

39.A．plan           B．choice          C．day              D．tour

40.A．operation       B．speaking        C．employment       D．thinking

Today our life and work rarely feel light or pleasant. Instead, the whole experience of being alive begins to melt into one enormous obligation(责任).36．

We say this to one another with great pride. 37 We are unavailable to our friends and family, unable to find time for the sunset, to finish off our obligations without time for a single mindful breath. This seems to have become the model of a successful life.

Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We lose the relaxation that gives us help.38． Poisoned by the belief that good things come only through tireless effort, we never truly rest. This is not the world we dreamed of when we were young. But how did we get so terribly rushed in a world filled with work and responsibility, yet it lacks joy and delight?

39． Sunday is the time to enjoy and celebrate what is beautiful and good, time to sing songs, give thanks, and walk. It is time to be refreshed as we stop our work, our chores and our important projects.

Sunday is more than the absence of work. Many of us, in our desperate drive to be successful and care for our many responsibilities, feel terrible guilty when we take time to rest. 40． Many of us still recall when, not long ago, shops and offices were closed on Sundays. Those quiet Sunday afternoons are deep in our cultural memory.

A. We also miss the quiet that gives us wisdom.

B. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.

C. It becomes the standard greeting everywhere, “I am so busy.”

D. We work through day and night, feeling rather exhausted.

E. But the Sunday has proven its wisdom over the ages.

F. The reason is simple: we have forgotten the Sunday.

G. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others.

Is beauty something always positive? Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive（主管的） circle, beauty can become a disadvantage.

While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman. Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck.

   All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the manly qualities required.

   This is true even in politics, “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently, ” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates（候选人）. She asked 125 college students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.

    The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.

32. In traditionally female jobs, attractiveness ________.

A. makes women look more honest and capable               B. strengthens the manly qualities required

C. often enables women to succeed quickly          D. is of no importance to women

33. Bowman’s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness _____.

A. turns out to be a disadvantage to men             B. has as little effect on men as on women

C. affects men and women alike                           D. is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to women

34. According to the passage, people’s views on beauty are often _____.

A. practical               B. one – sided          C. old fashioned         D. supportive

35. The passage is mainly about _____.

A. the advantages of being attractive                   B. the disadvantages of being attractive

C. equal rights for women                              D. the importance of appearance

She got up early to be ready for the post. From the second floor flat she could see the postman when he came down the street, and the little boy from ground floor brought up her letters on the rare occasions when anything came.

Today she was sure there would be something. Myra wouldn’t forget her mother’s birthday, even if she seldom wrote at other times. Of course Myra was busy. The old lady was proud of Myra. Her husband had been made Mayor, and Myra herself had got a medal for her work.

   The old lady was eighty today. She had put on her best dress. Perhaps—perhaps Myra might come. After all, eighty was a special birthday.

Even if Myra did not come, she would send a present. The old lady was sure of that. Two spots of colour brightened her cheeks. She was excited—like a child. She would enjoy her day.

Yesterday Mrs. Morrison had given the flat an extra clean, and today she had brought a card and a bunch of flowers when she came to do the breakfast. Mrs. Grant downstairs had made a cake, and in the afternoon she was going down there to tea. The little boy, Johnnie, had been up with a packet of mints, and said he wouldn’t go out to play until the post had come. “I guess you’ll get lots of presents.” he said.

What would she like? A pair of slippers perhaps. Or a new coat. A coat would be lovely. Blue’s such a pretty colour. Jim had always liked he in blue. Or a table lamp. Or a book, a travel book, with pictures, or a little clock, with clear black numbers. So many lovely things.

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Paragraph 1:

She stood by the window, watching _____________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 2:

Almost unwillingly she tore the envelope open. ____________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I don’t think it is teachers who _________ for giving students too much pressure.（   ）
A．are going to blame   B．are to blame

C．are to be blamed D．should blame

_____ his great courage, the boy was left alone in a dark room, no lighted candle_____ it up．

A． Considered；lighted

B． Considering；lighting

C． Having considered；lighted

D． To consider；lighting

A man invited a beautiful girl to have a coffee. As they sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too ____41____ to say anything and she felt uncomfortable. ____42____, he asked the waiter, “Could you please give me some ____43____? I'd like to put it in my coffee.”

    Everyone stared at him. He turned ____44____, but when the salt came, he put it in his coffee and drank. ____45____, she asked, “Why salt with coffee?” He explained, “When I was a little boy, I lived ____46____ the sea. I liked playing on the sea. I could feel its taste salty, like salty coffee. Now every time I drink it, I think of my ____47____ and my hometown.”

    She was deeply ____48____. A man who can ____49____ that he's homesick must love his home and care about his ____51____. He must be responsible. Then, they ____51____ their love story. Later, they ____52____ and lived happily together. And every time she made coffee for him, she put in some salt, the way he liked it.

    After 40 years, he ____53____ and left her a letter which said, “My dearest, please ____54____ my life-long lie. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous that I asked for salt instead of sugar. Many times, I tried to tell you the ____55____, but I was afraid that it would ____56____ everything. Sweetheart, I don't ____57____ 1ike salty coffee. But as it ____58____so much to you, I've learnt to enjoy it. Having you with me was my greatest ____59____. If I could live a second time, I hope we can be together again,____60____ it means that I have to drink salty coffee for the rest of my life.”

41．A．nervous    B．busy    C．lazy    D．honest

42．A．Generally    B．Suddenly    C．Gradually    D．Actually

43．A．water    B．sugar    C．salt    D．wine

44．A．old    B．wrong    C．blue    D．red

45．A．Curious    B．Angry    C．Anxious    D．Careless

46．A．under    B．near    C．in    D．above

47．A．future    B．knowledge

C．childhood    D．background

48．A．annoyed    B．interested    C．depressed    D．touched

49．A．admit    B．admire    C．promise    D．refuse

50．A．company    B．family    C．business    D．farm

51．A．ended    B．planned    C．started    D．changed

52．A．left    B．succeeded    C．failed    D．married

53．A．passed away    B．paid off

C．left behind    D．set off

54．A．forget    B．forgive    C．remember    D．miss

55．A．lecture    B．lesson    C．truth    D．history

56．A．improve    B．achieve    C．get    D．ruin

57．A．easily    B．merely    C．exactly    D．closely

58．A．troubles    B．matters    C．costs   D．destroys

59．A．happiness    B．fault    C．regret    D．effort

60．A．so that    B．as though    C．in case    D．even if