A. Use business recordings

B. Speak slowly and clearly

C. Learn telephone manners

D. Practice often with a friend

E. Always be considerate of your friends

F. Make sure you understand the other speaker

Telephone tips

If the phone rings and someone speaks in English, don’t be afraid to answer it! The fear of talking on the phone in a second language will disappear if you practice often. Here are a few tips for helping you improve your ability to answer a call in English.

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    Listening to someone speaking in a second language over the telephone can be very challenging because you cannot see the person you are trying to hear. However, it may be even more difficult for the person you are talking with to understand you. You may not realize that your pronunciation isn’t clear because your teacher and fellow students know and understand you. Pay special attention to your weak areas of your pronunciation when you are on the phone.

62._______________

    Don’t pretend to understand everything you hear over the telephone. Even native speakers ask each other to repeat and confirm information from time to time. This is especially important if you are taking a message for someone else. Learn the appropriate expressions that English speakers use when they don’t hear something properly. Don’t be afraid to remind the person to slow down more than once. Keep your telephone in an area that is away from other noise distractions such as a radio or television.

63._______________.

    Ask another student to practice talking on the phone with you. You might choose one night a week and take turns phoning each other at a certain time. Try to talk for at least fifteen minutes. You can talk socially, or role play different scenarios in a business environment. The most important thing about practicing telephone English is that you are not able to see each other’s mouths.

64. _______________. 

    There are many ways to get free telephone English practice. After business hours, you can call and listen to recorded messages. Write down what you hear the first time, and then call back and check if your notes are accurate. Make sure you have a pen handy so that you can repeat the information and check your comprehension.

65._______________.

    The way that you speak to your best friend on the phone is very different from the way you should speak to someone in a business setting. Many speakers make the mistake of being too direct on the telephone. It is possible that the person on the other line will think that you are being rude on purpose if you don’t use formal language in certain situations. Sometimes just one word such as could or may is necessary in order to sound polite. Take the time to learn how to answer the phone and say goodbye in a polite manner, as well as all the various ways one can start and end a conversation casually.

Listening to someone on the telephone is like listening to a taped recording in class. The only difference is that you have to talk back! Follow the tips above and remember that practice makes perfect!

单词拼写，每空一词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

66. I’ d like a piece of       (巧克力).                                             66._________

67. We can ___________（交流）in both Chinese and English                           67._________

68. Our party has now a correct ________ (政治)line.                                        68._________

69. I’m __________（决定） to go and nothing will stop me                           69._________

70. The truth of       (马克思主义)comes from practice.                             70._________

71. They got lost in the desert and ______(挨饿)to death.                               71._________

72. When________ (比较) with other architecture, the 2008 Olympic stadiums look brilliant.

                                                                 72. ________

73.The robber was tried and       (判决)to death.

73.________

74. His job is to do ________(科学) research.                                         74._________

75..My aunt used to keep ________(鹅)in the county.                                  75._________

Importance of Education to Youths

       Education serves as the means to develop oneself physically, mentally and socially．Here's how education makes a difference in youths' lives．

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       The importance of education proves itself in the need to educate youths to become mature individuals．Youth is the growing stage of their lives．It is during these years that they develop from kids to become mature and responsible individuals．It is during this phase that they make career decisions and begin pursuing their goals．

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    Education should consist of training and development in their field（s） of interest． It should help the youths define their career objectives, decide what they want from life and enable them to achieve what they wish to．Education to youths must aim at helping them build a skill set and work on the skills acquired to develop subject expertise．It should include courses that can help them develop a career．The education should open doors for new opportunities in different fields．It should help the youths find avenues to pursue their interests．Education must help them set reachable goals and realize them．

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     It is important that education to youths aims at developing social awareness in these adults-to-be．The training given to them should consist of environmental education and social values．They should be made aware of the current social and environmental issues．They should be explained the steps they can take in dealing with the issues． Education should ex-pose the youths even to the darker side of society． Youths should be encouraged to come up with ideas and ways to better the society that they are part of．

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       Overpopulation, diseases and teenage pregnancy are some areas of growing concern to day．The reason is lack of sex education．Incomplete knowledge in this regard or wrong notions about sex causes such problems in teenagers．This underlines the importance of sex education to youths．Education should make the youths self-aware．

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       While instilling(灌输） the good in youths, education should also give them the ability to reject the bad． It should enable them to choose good against bad．Education should enable them to take decisions and make choices, each time preferring right to wrong．Education should give them the strength to accept the mistakes made, mend them and most importantly learn from them．Education should give them the courage to rise after every fall and turn every failure into a success．

 It is our hope that ______ of us will be left behind.       

A. nobody                B. no one                  C. every one           D none

 The church tower which ________ will be open to tourists soon. The work is almost finished.           

  A. has restored                    B. has been restored       C. is restoring                    D. is being restored

请根据下面提示,写一篇短文.词数不少于 50.

In your English class, the teacher shows the picture below and asks the class to discuss it. Your classmates may have different understandings.

Look at the picture carefully and tell the class how YOU understand it.

提示： 拔河(n.)  tug-of-war

 It is thought police had been called to the scene following a report of a collision involving her      vehicle and ________ of another motorist.

       A. one                          B. those                        C. some                       D. that

 We first met in the Slender West Lake in 2010, and both of us felt immediately that we _____ each other for years.

  A. knew              B. know            C. have known  D. had known

It is well-known that priceless undiscovered treasures and antiques may lie a mere 30 feet below the surface in Rome. Therefore, building an underground subway in the city of Rome is no easy work. The dilemma is how to build one without disturbing any artifact(古器物) that may lie buried and undiscovered below its large roads and streets.

Compared to other European capitals, Rome’s subway is far less developed. For years, Rome’s 2.8 million citizens relied only on two subway lines that fell short of meeting the people’s transportation needs. Being one of the oldest cities in the world, it faces some problems in constructing a new subway line such as the shortage of money, but especially protecting the underground treasures.

During the construction of the first two subway lines in the 1950’s, each excavation exposed archaeological remains and the construction had to be stopped to allow the local archaeologists to check them to see whether the discovery proved valuable to the history of the Romans.

After years of debate, the construction of a third subway line was agreed on. Now that the third subway line is under construction, it has been marked as an "archaeological survey" from the very beginning and great care is being taken. This new line will run through the very heart of the ancient city. It will be 24 kilometers in length and 25 to 30 meters below ground.

Archaeologists are working together with construction workers to excavate beneath Rome’s center. Almost immediately, excavation revealed some great finds. Just below the surface, excavators discovered building remains that were torn down in the late 19^th century.They dug one layer deeper, which exposed a 10^th century’s road that once crossed the city, and one layer below it, they discovered a sidewalk from the 8^th century. Near the ancient Forum, workers discovered a 6^th century’s copper factory. The early factory consisted of six small ovens used to work on copper alloys. Small copper masses discovered at the scene were sent for analysis. The workers also found the base of an imperial Rome public building.

There isn’t an inch of Rome that doesn’t have any artifacts below. Like their ancestors, today’s Romans have found a way to protect the old while creating the new.

39. What is the main difficulty Romans face when building a third subway line?

A. How to get the money needed to construct it.

B. How to protect the buried artifacts.

C. How to make it popular with tourists.

D. How to bring in new technology to construct it.

40. Why is a third subway line expected to be built in Rome City according to the passage?

A. Because its present subway lines fail to meet people’s needs for transportation.

B. Because it is the foundation of developing Rome’s economy.

C. Because its officials expect to discover valuable treasures while building it.

D. Because its citizens prefer subway lines to other transportation forms.

41. We can infer from the passage that the building of the third subway line          .

   A. will be impossible because Romans want to protect their artifacts

   B. is not difficult because of the government’s support

   C. was opposed by some people at first

D. was considered an easy thing

42. Which is the best title for this passage?

A. Roman Archaeologists’Research on Artifacts.

B. The Reason Why Romans Want to Build a Third Subway Line.

   C. Large Findings in Rome During the Process of Building Subway.

D. The Protection of the Artifacts in the Construction of a New Subway.

Cursive(手写体)is about to become extinct. Do we raise the red flag? To teach or not to teach cursive is the question that several state education departments are struggling with.

   Before you read this write-up, do a simple exercise. Pick a pen and paper and start writing in cursive. Yes, that fancy handwriting that you learned in grade school. You may not have forgotten the good times you had while writing loopy Ps and Gs as well as curly Ms and Ns. However, the chances are you won't be able to write it as excellently as you used to. Some people are good at making the perfect loops and curls, while some are bad. I am still terrible at it.

Cursive is hardly used by kids anymore as even adults don 't write in this style, unless they are using it for their

signature. Learning this handwriting was a usual practice in school for several decades. However, in 2011, the Indiana Department of Education made it optional (可选择的)for schools to teach cursive writing to the students. In fact, there were 46 more states who have done the same.

There are some who believe that it is high time for cursive to retire from school curriculum. After all, if we don ’ t leave the past behind, we cannot make way for new things. If you walk into any classroom, you would find children using keyboards to communicate in written form. On the other hand, fans of this cursive insist on its usefulness. They remind us that if we stop teaching and learning cursive in schools, very soon most of our historical documents will become hard to us.

Where do we stand on this subject Is it the right time to erase an almost forgotten handwriting and live in the keyboarding world? Or can we do both without compromising (妥协)on our school curriculum? Let me know your thoughts on this matter by leaving a comment in the section below.

32.People use cursive when they______________.

A. give their signature    B. are in Indiana

C. grow up as adults      D. are at school

33,In Indiana school, children _________.

A. must learn cursive              B. are interested in cursive

C. can choose to learn cursive       D. learn cursive everyday

34.It can be inferred that the author _______________.

A. prefers to learn cursive

B. is a cursive teacher

C. welcomes people to show their opinions

D. is a very famous expert in education

35. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Is Cursive Writing Necessary

B. Is Keyboarding World Good

C. A Keyboarding World

D. Advantages of Cursive

Have you complained   61    your family, your boss, or even your life? Maybe everyone has, but after reading this story, you may change your view and treat the world with another attitude.

An ass (驴),    62   (belong) to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work, could not bear the life any longer. So he made a request to God, to be released from his present service and provided with   63   master. After warning him    64     he would regret doing it, God made him to be sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, the ass found that he had    65    (heavy) loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, and asked for another change again. God, telling him that it would be    66    last time that he could satisfy his request, made him sold to a tanner (皮革工). The ass found that he    67   (fall) into worse hands. Knowing his new master’s occupation, he said, “It would have been better for me either to have been starved by the first owner    68    to have been overworked by the second. But now I have already been bought by my present owner,    69    will peel off my skin even after I am dead, and make me useful .”

We can see that people with dissatisfaction in a place are not    70   (like) to find happiness in another.

The fact that she was foreign made _____difficult for her to get a job in that country

A so    B. much     C. that       D. it  

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

  I was shopping with my wife and we have plenty of things to buy. We drove to the centre of the city but stopped our car in front of a shop. An hour later, we came back to the car. But it was strange that we could open the doors. So we asked the policeman for help. He was glad to help us. a few minutes later, he got the door open. Just then a man came up and shouted angry, “What are you doing with my car?” We were surprising and went to see the number of the car. It was not his. We were very embarrassed on that time. What do you think that we did then? We had to speak sorry to the man.

I had the meanest mother in the whole world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal, eggs or toast. When others had cokes and candy for lunch, I had to eat a sandwich. As you can guess, my supper was different from the other kids' also. But at least, I wasn't alone in my sufferings. My sister and two brothers had the same mean mother as I did.

    My mother insisted upon knowing where we were at all times. You'd think we were on a chain gang. She had to know who our friends were and where we were going. She insisted if we said we'd be gone an hour, that we be gone one hour or less — not one hour and one minute.

    We had to wear clean clothes and take a bath everyday. The other kids always wore their clothes for days. We reached the height of insults because she made our clothes herself, just to save money.

    The worst is yet to come. We had to be in bed by nine each night and up at eight the next morning. We couldn't sleep till noon like our friends. So while they slept --- my mother actually had the nerve to break the Child Labor Law. She made us work. We had to wash dishes, make beds, learn to cook and all sorts of cruel things. I believe she laid awake at night thinking up mean things to do to us.

    Through the years, things didn't improve a bit. We could not lie in bed, "sick" like our friends did, and miss school. Our marks in school had to be up to par. Our friends' report cards had beautiful colors on them, black for passing, red for failing. My mother, being as different as she was, would settle for nothing less than ugly black marks.

    As the years rolled by, first one and then the other of us was put to shame. We were graduated from high school. With our mother behind us, talking, hitting and demanding respect, none of us was allowed the pleasure of being a drop-out.

    My mother was a complete failure as a mother. Out of four children, a couple of us attained some higher education. None of us have ever been arrested or divorced. Each of my brothers served his time in the service of this country. She forced us to grow up into God-fearing, educated, honest adults. Using this as a background, I am now trying to raise my three children. I am filled with pride when my children call me mean. Why? Because now I thank God every day for giving me the meanest mother in the whole world.

21. What can we infer from the passage?

A. The author is not happy to have such a mean mother.       

B. The author's mother broke the Child Labor Law to make money.

C. The author's mother failed to educate her children to be honest adults

D. The author is strict with her children.

22. Why couldn’t the author eat candy for breakfast?

  A. Because she preferred cereal, eggs or toast to candy.

  B. Because her mother couldn’t afford for candy.

  C. Because her mother thought it not good to eat candy for breakfast.

  D. Because her mother had to gave candy to the author’s sister and two brothers.

23．The author’s mother made her children work because _________ .

   A. she had trouble falling into sleep

   B. she could not keep such a big family without her children’s help

   C. she was teaching her children to live by themselves.

   D. she had no time to do housework.

---Why are you standing the street in such hot weather?

   ----I just can’t help it. I am appointed to interview people ______to learn about the customers’ feedback on our products.

A.at random       B.at hand       C.at best           D.at intervals

 She knew that their relationship was coming to an end, for he sounded very cold and ___________ every time she phoned him.

A. natural B. distant C. hopeful D. blank

For the rest of March, a disease will sweep across the US. It will keep kids home from school.  __71__ Employees will suddenly lose their ability to concentrate.  

The disease, known as “March Madness”, refers to the yearly 65-team US men’s college basketball tournament(锦标赛).  __72__ Teams compete against each other in a single-elimination(单局淘汰) tournament that eventually crowns a national champion.  

__73__ The fun comes partly from guessing the winners for every game. Friends compete against friends. Husbands against wives. Colleagues against bosses.  

Big-name schools are usually favored to advance into the tournament. But each year there are dark horses from little-known universities.  This adds to the madness. Watching a team from a school with 3,000 students beat a team from a school with 30,000, for many Americans, is an exciting experience. Two years ago, the little-known George Mason University was one of the final teams. __74__

College basketball players are not paid, so the game is more about making a name for their university and themselves.  __75__ About $4 billion will be spent gambling on the event. According to Media Life magazine, the event will bring in $500 million in advertising income this year, topping the post-season income of every US professional league, including that of the NBA.

A.     Nearly 20 million Americans will find themselves prisoners of basketball festival Madness.

B.  The players will go all out for the games.

C.  But that doesn’t mean money isn’t involved.

D.  College students will ignore piles of homework.

E.  People are willing to spend more money on watching it.

F.    It begins on March 15 and lasts through the beginning of April.

G.  Many people had never even heard of the university before the tournament.