We may have different opinion in organizing class activities. We may have various ways to dealing with such a situation. When I have a better idea, I would choose to stick to them. By doing so, I can not only share good ideas with others and also learn to express myself clear.

    Once we were discussing why to go for an outing. Most of my classmates wanted to go to a park while I had an idea of going to a nice place. I manage to persuade my classmates into accepting my idea. We did have a good time on that day. Good opinions are worth sticking because they can benefit us all.

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限一词。

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Some students copy others’ homework. In one hand, it is true that sometimes we have many problem with our homework. On the other hand, some students copy others’ homework because they are not interesting in their lessons.

On my opinion, copying others’ homework are a bad habit. For one thing, it was against the rules of the school. We should work hardly to achieve high grades. For another, because copying others’ homework, we will lose the ability to thinking.

    So, let’s worked together to give up such bad behavior

You may be surprised to see “making sure children never suffer” as a mistake. The following __41__ may help you understand how rescuing children from all suffering __42__ weakness.

A little boy felt sorry for a butterfly struggling to 43  from its chrysalis(蛹). He decided to _44_ the butterfly. So he peeled(剥开) the chrysalis open for the butterfly. The little boy was so _45  to watch the butterfly spread its wings and fly off into the sky. Then he was horrified __46__ he watched the butterfly fall to the ground and die because it did not have the muscle __47_ to keep flying. In fact, the butterfly’s struggle to __48__ the chrysalis helps the butterfly become stronger.

Like the little boy, __49__ too often want to protect their children from struggle in the __50__ of love. They don’t realize that their children need to struggle, to experience __51__, to deal with disappointment, and to solve their own problems. Only in this way can children __52__ their emotional strength, become __53__ and develop the skills necessary for the even bigger struggles they will meet throughout their lives. Children experiencing sufferings can __54__ the ups and downs of life.

However, it isn’t helpful either in this case when parents __55__ lectures(训斥), blame and shame to what the child is experiencing. Mothers __56__ to say, “Stop crying and acting like a spoiled boy. You can’t always get what you want.” These __57__ words should be avoided.

Instead, parents can offer loving support. You can say, “Don’t lose __58__. Be brave! You will succeed if you try again.” Then comes the tough part — no __59__ and no lectures. Simply allow him to discover that he can get over his disappointment and 60  what he can do to get what he wants in the future.

41. A. story                B. proverb           C. saying                     D. experiment

42. A. damages           B. burns              C. creates                   D. experiences

43. A. hear                B. suffer             C. date                       D. emerge

44. A. kill                  B. feed                C. help                       D. rescue

45. A. excited            B. moved            C. puzzled                  D. depressed

46. A. as                   B. since              C. before                     D. until

47. A. power                B. energy              C. strength                        D. force

48. A. come up with     B. do away with   C. get along with        D. break away from

49. A. teachers             B. parents            C. relatives                   D. friends

50. A. case                        B. charge            C. name                    D. course

51. A. friendships       B. scholarships   C. relationships            D. hardships

52. A. strengthen        B. require            C. get                               D. achieve

53. A. warm-hearted     B. strong-willed     C. absent-minded          D. cold-blooded

54. A. expect              B. predict            C. survive                  D. avoid

55. A. add                 B. adapt              C. devote                   D. contribute

56. A. pretend              B. happen             C. tend                       D. seem

57. A. discouraging     B. inspiring          C. interesting              D. touching

58. A. heart               B. face                C. sight                      D. weight

59. A. parking              B. smoking           C. drinking                 D. rescuing

60. A. figure out         B. carry out         C. rule out                  D. drop out

MUMBAI – Indian commandos battled into the early hours of Friday to end a multiple hostage crisis in Mumbai after suspected Islamic militants killed 125 people across the city.

Officials said they had almost totally cleared the luxury Taj Mahal hotel where gunmen had been held up for more than 24 hours.

Indian security forces personnel released hostages from Nariman House in Mumbai. Thirty-nine people were rescued from the five-star Oberoi hotel, where "mopping up（清理火场）" operations were still underway, police said.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the militants had come from "outside the country.”

The Press Trust of India said one Pakistani militant had been arrested, although Pakistan's government fiercely denied any involvement.

Indian media reports said between six and nine foreign nationals were among the dead in Mumbai -- including a Japanese businessman, an Australian, a Briton , a German and an Italian.

At least five gunmen had been shot dead and one captured, police said. Fourteen security personnel were also killed, including the head of Mumbai's anti-terror squad.

To draw maximum international attention, the militants used small groups to attack a total of about a dozen targets in India's financial hub , including the main railway station, a hospital and a restaurant popular with tourists.

An unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahedeen claimed responsibility, with one gunman telling an Indian TV channel by phone that the outfit（装备）was of Indian origin and motivated by the treatment of Indian Muslims.

Up to 327 people were reported wounded.

The main Bombay Stock Exchange was closed until further notice, as were shops, schools and businesses.

Prime Minister Singh said the aim had clearly been to spread panic by choosing high profile（知名度高的）targets and "indiscriminately（随心所欲地）killing foreigners. "

Witnesses said the gunmen had been very particular in their choice of hotel hostages. "They said they wanted anyone with British and American passports," said one British guest at the Taj Mahal hotel.

56. The following statements are NOT true except ________.

A. thirty-nine hostages were rescued from the Taj Mahal Hotel

B. fourteen gunmen were killed in Nariman House

C. the target of the attack was obviously on Britons and Americans

D. an American was among the killed foreigners

57. The best title of this passage can be _______.

A. Hostages Released by Indian Commandos         B. Mumbai Under Terrorist Attack

C. Islamic Militants Attacking Westerners in Mumbai

D. Unfortunate Britons and Americans in Mumbai

Never before in Chinese history has a documentary(记录片) film aroused so much public enthusiasm. Everybody is talking about a 7-part documentary called A Bite of China which was broadcast late at night on CCTV 1. The documentary describes various gourmet items across the vast Chinese culinary (烹饪) land-scape.

According to Taobao, China’s biggest online retail (零售) website, just five days after the series began to air, nearly 6 million people went to the site in search of various local specialties, particularly those mentioned in the documentary. More than 7.2 million deals were concluded. A ham producer from Yunnan Province saw his sales grow 17 times in five days.

However, one can’t help but believe that the documentary’s popularity is probably linked to the endless stream of terrible food security issues that have emerged in recent years. In one well-received article, a native wrote, “I wonder how many felt so empty-hearted and sighed after watching the film. Formaldehyde (甲醛) sprayed cabbages, Sudan Red colored salty eggs, restaurants using gutter oil. The list is long”

A varied and ancient food culture that is famous world-wide and which should have made the Chinese proud ends like this: one can only sigh. Food is the most vital thing in people’s lives. Yet China’s food industry is a typical description of “bad money driving out the good”. The market is huge while the cost of faking (假冒) and cheating is so low for unscrupulous (不道德的) businessmen; and the punishment is too light. Take the milk industry as an example. Although Sanlu, the company that sold the melamine-adulterated (掺有三聚氰胺的) milk powder, was punished, thousands of other dairies didn’t work hard to improve the quality. In order to allow national brands to survive, Chinese authorities are happy to loosen their regulations.

As the documentary shows, people are attracted not to gourmet items like matsutake, a species of rare mushroom grown naturally in remote forests, but to common Chinese dishes like barley, lotus root or tofu. They are what meet our basic needs. This explains why people are so excited about A Bite of China---it is a reminder that there is still a world out there where food is excellent and people have dignity.

28. The underlined part in Paragraph 1 “gourmet items” probably means________.

   A. beautiful clothes                               B. delicious food

   C. latest technology                  D. great inventions

29. The second paragraph mainly talks about________.

   A. the popularity of the documentary

   B. the content of the documentary

   C. the history of Chinese gourmet

   D. the producer of the documentary

30. We can infer from what a native wrote in one well-received article that_______.

   A. none of the television viewers have a knowledge of the Chinese food culture.

   B. the documentary was made by a world-famous Chinese director

   C. the price of food is too high for many common people

   D. there is a huge contrast between the ancient food culture and the reality

31. According to the passage, China’s food industry is full of faking and cheating because________.

   A. there are still so many poor people at the present time.

   B. the Chinese government encourages the businessmen to do so

C. the punishment for unscrupulous businessmen isn’t serious enough

   D. the food technology is not so advanced as in developed countries

 The manager will put ______ he thinks has a strong sense of duty in the leadership position.

A. anyone           B. whoever      C. whomever           D. who

We drove a long way to see him; only _______ that he had just left for the south.

     A. finding         B. found            C. having found     D. to find

A lot of us think that we should visit the dentist every six months. Whether those check-ups are really necessary is, however, a matter of debate. In 2000, three-quarters of dentists surveyed in New York were recommending six-monthly check-ups, despite the absence of evidence. Today, many organizations still recommend six-monthly check-ups. But for several decades some have been arguing that the choice of six months as the ideal space between visits is rather questionable. For example, Aubrey Sheiham, a professor of dental public health, published a paper complaining about the lack of evidence for six-monthly   check-ups. Almost 40 years, he’s still making the same point.

Last year the Cochrane Collaboration performed a review of the research that had been done and they were disappointed with what they found. The quality and quantity of the research was simply too poor to back up the idea of six-monthly check-ups.

There’s something else we have to bear in mind. Even when a study finds, for example, that children who go to the dentist frequently have fewer fillings (填充物), there may be other factors (因素) at work. Those same children may have other advantages; they may eat more healthily and have better quality dental equipment.

How often should you visit the dentist, then? Bodies like Nice, which provides guidance for the National Health Service in England and Wales, say that the frequency of dental visits all depends on the individual. They recommend that children go at least once a year because their teeth can decay (蛀蚀) faster, while adults without problems can wait as long as two years. They even go as far as to say that longer than two years is OK for people who have shown commitment to caring for their teeth.

Where does this leave the rest of us the next time we receive a card in the mail reminding us our next dental visit is due? We’d all like an excuse to go less often, and the good news is that if you don’t have any problems you can probably wait a little longer than six months between visits. But exactly how long you can wait before your appointment with the dentist’s chair will depend on the assessment you and your dentist make of your own risk. 

8. Who supports six-monthly dental check-ups?

A. All the dentists.                                      

B. Many organizations.                

C. Aubrey Sheiham.                                         

D. The National Health Service.

9. We can learn from the last two paragraphs that ______.

A. people often find excuses to avoid the next dental visit

B. people should decide when to go to the dentist by themselves

C. the frequency of dental visits varies for different people

D. the healthier a person is, the less frequent the dental visits are

10. The research may not prove the idea of six-monthly check-ups because ______.

A. the researchers are not qualified

B. the number of the subjects was big

C. there was a lack of quality dental equipment

D. there might be other factors at work

11. What is the best title for this passage?

A. How Often Do We Need to Visit Our Dentist?

B. Why Do We Need to Visit Our Dentist?

C. Who Should Go to the Dentist Frequently?

D. How Can We Go to the Dentist Less?

 You are a team star! Working with_______ is really your cup of tea.

A. both              B. either                  C. others                  D. the other

 His comprehensive surveys have provided the most  statements of how, and on what basis, data are collected.

A. explicit           B. ambiguous

C. original           D. arbitrary

假设你是李华，你的外国朋友Peter听说你暑假期间在社区医院做义工，给你发来邮 件询问相关情况。请根据下面文字信息给他回封邮件。

1.工作时间：7月15日-7月31曰，上午6:30-11:30;

2.工作内容：为55岁以上老人免费体检时提供帮助，包括组织排队，引路，帮助填表格等；

3.你的收获。

注意：

1.词数100左右；

2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;

3.开头和结尾己给出，不计入总词数。

可能用到的单词：社区医院community hospital

Dear Peter, _______________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

In 1974, after filling out fifty applications, going through four interviews, and winning one offer, I look what I could get — a teaching job at what I considered a distant wild area: western New Jersey. My characteristic optimism was alive only when I reminded myself that I would be doing what I had wanted to do since I was fourteen -- teaching English.
     School started, but I felt more and more as if I were in a foreign country. Was this rural area really New Jersey? My students have a week off when hunting season began. I was told they were also frequently absent in late October to help their fathers make hay on the farms. I was a young woman from New York City, who thought that “Make hay while the sun shines” just meant to have a good time.
     But, still, I was teaching English. I worked hard, taking lime off only to eat and sleep. And then there was my sixth-grade class -- seventeen boys and five girls who were only six yean younger than me. I had a problem long before I knew it. I was struggling in my work as a young idealistic teacher. I wanted to make literature come alive and lo promote a love of the written word. The students wanted to throw spitballs and whisper dirty words in the back of the room.
     In college I had been taught that a successful educator should ignore bad behavior. So  I did, confident that, as the textbook had said, the bad behavior would disappear as I gave ray students positive attention. It sounds reasonable, but the text evidently ignored the fact that humans, particularly teenagers, rarely seem reasonable. By the time ray boss, who was also ray taskmaster known to be the strictest, most demanding, most quick to fire inexperienced teachers, came into the classroom to observe me, the students exhibited very little good behavior to praise.
     My boss sat in the back of the room. The boys in the class were making animal noises, hitting each other while the girls filed their nails or read magazines. I just pretended it all wasn’t happening, and went on lecturing and tried to ask some inspiring questions. My boss, sitting in the back of the room, seemed to be growing bigger and bigger. After twenty minutes he left, silently. Visions of unemployment marched before my eyes.
     I felt mildly victorious that I got through the rest of class without crying, but at my next free period I had to face him. I wondered if he would let me finish out the day. I walked to his office, took a deep breath, and opened the door.
     He was sitting in his chair, and he looked at me long and hard. I said nothing. All I could think of was that I was not an English teacher; I had been lying to myself, pretending that everything was fine.
     When he spoke, he said simply, without accusation, “You had nothing to say to them.”
     “You had nothing to say to them," he repeated. “No wonder they’re bored. Why not get to the meal of the literature and stop talking about symbolism. Talk with them, not at them. And more important, why do you ignore their bad behavior?” We talked. He named ray problems and offered solutions. We role-played. He was the bad student, and I was the forceful, yet, warm, teacher.
     As the year progressed, we spent many hours discussing literature and ideas about human beings and their motivations. He helped me identify my weaknesses and my strengths. In short, he made a teacher of me by teaching me the reality of Emerson's words: “The secret to education lies in respecting the pupil.”
     Fifteen years later I still drive that same winding road to the same school. Thanks to the help I received that difficult first year, the school is m y home now.
55. It can be inferred from the story that in 1974 ______.
A. it was rather difficult to get a job in the USA  

B. the writer became an optimistic person   

C. the writer was very happy about her new job
D. it was easy to get a teaching job in New Jersey
56. According to the passage, which of the following is most probably the writer’s problem as a new teacher?  

A. She didn’t ask experienced teachers for advice.
B. She took too much time off to eat and sleep.    

C. She had blind trust in what she learnt at college.

D. She didn’t like teaching English literature.
57. What is the writer’s biggest worry after her taskmaster's observation of her class?
A. She couldn’t ignore her students’ bad behavior any more.
B. She might lose her teaching job.         C. She might lose her students’ respect.
D. She couldn’t teach the same class any more.

58. Which of the following gives the writer a sense of mild victory?
A. Her talk about symbolism sounded convincing.  

B. Her students behaved a little better than usual.
C. She was invited for a talk by her boss after class.
D. She managed to finish the class without crying.  

59. The students behaved badly in the writer's classes because ______.
A. they were eager to embarrass her                

B. they didn't regard her as a good teacher           

C. she didn't really understand them

D. she didn’t have a good command of English
60. The taskmaster’s attitude towards the writer after his observation of her class can be best described as ______.
A. cruel but encouraging                   B. sincere and supportive                   

C. fierce but forgiving                     D. angry and aggressive

教师节即将来临，请你根据以下提示给你的英语老师Mr. Smith 写一封感谢信，并表示节日的问候。

（1）表示感谢

（2）描述他的教学（讲故事，教唱歌，做游戏，举行晚会…课堂生动有趣，使我们对英语产生兴趣）

（3）表示节日问候

字数：100左右

More than four decades ago British scientist Robert Edwards first witnessed the miracle of human life

growing inside a test tube at his Cambridge lab. Since that ground-breaking moment, more than four million babies have been born through IVF and in 2010 his great contribution to science was finally recognized as he was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine．

The prize for Dr Edwards, who was given a Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Award in 2008, includes￡900,000 cheque. The Nobel Assembly described IVF as a "milestone in modern medicine"．

With the help of fellow scientist Patrick Steptoe, the Manchester-born physiologist developed IVF — leading to the birth of the world's first test tube baby. Dr Steptoe died 10 years later but their work has transformed fertili-

-ty treatment and given hope to millions of couples．

It was a scientific breakthrough that transformed the lives of millions of couples. They said: "His achievemen-

-ts have made it possible to treat infertility, a disease which makes human unable to have a baby. This condition has been afflicting a large percentage of mankind including more than 10% of all couples worldwide.”

Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, made international headlines when she was born in Oldham, Gtr Manchester, in 1978 to parents Lesley and John who had been fruitlessly trying for a baby since 1969．

Ivf-in-vitro fertilisation is the process whereby egg cells are fertilised outside the body before being implanted in the womb. After a cycle of IVF, the probability of a couple with infertility problems having a baby is one in five — the same as healthy couples who conceive naturally．

Professor Edwards, who has five daughters and 11 grandchildren, began his research at Cambridge University in 1963, after receiving his PhD in 1955．He once said: "The most important thing in life is having a child. Noth-

-ing is more special than a child.” With the help of fellow scientist Patrick Steptoe, Prof. Edwards founded the Bourn Hall clinic in Cambridge shire, which now treats more than 900 women a year. Each year, more than 30,000 women in Britain now undergo IVF and 11,000 babies are born as a result of the treatment．

But his work attracted widespread criticism from some scientists and the Catholic Church who said it was "unethical and immoral"．

Martin Johnson, professor of reproductive（生殖的） sciences at the University of Cambridge, said the award was "long overdue". He said: “We couldn't understand why the Nobel has come so late but he is delighted — this is the cherry on the cake for him.”

Professor Edwards was too ill to give interviews but a statement released by his family said he was "thrilled and delighted"．

50．What is Robert Edwards’ contribution to science?

   A. Challenging a disease which stops human having a baby．

   B. Seeing the wonder of the first tube baby growing.

   C. Enabling millions of couples to live a better life．

   D. Helping couples with infertility to have tube babies．

51．What does the underlined word “afflicting”（Paragraph 4）most probably refer to?

   A. Troubling.       B. Developing.     C. Improving.      D. Confusing.

52．Why did Professor Edwards begin his research on tube baby?

   A. Because he thought it of great significance to have a child in life．

   B. Because the birthrate around the world was unexpectedly low then．

   C. Because a special child did make a difference to an ordinary family．

   D. Because his fellow scientist wanted to give hope to the unlucky couples．

53．It can be inferred from Paragraph 8 and Paragraph 9 that ___________．

   A. some people envied Professor Edwards for his being awarded

   B. different opinions were voiced on Professor Edwards’ finding

   C. Professor Edwards deserved the prize for his breakthrough

   D. the prize was late because the finding was first considered immoral

54. What might be the best title for the passage?

   A. Life Stories of Robert Edwards        B. Preparations for Having a Baby

   C. Nobel Prize for IVF Expert Edwards    D. Treatment of Infertility in a Lab

Christmas was a quiet affair when I grew up. There were just my parents and I. I vowed that someday I’d marry and have six children, and at Christmas my house would vibrate with energy and love.

I found the man who shared my dream, but we had not reckoned on the possibility of infertility. Undaunted, we applied for adoption, and then he arrived.

We called him Our Christmas Boy because he came to us during that season of joy. Then nature surprised us again. We added two biological children to the family—not as many as we had hoped for, but three made an entirely satisfactory crowd.

As Our Christmas Boy grew, he made it clear that only he had the expertise to select and decorate the Christmas tree. He rushed the season, starting his gift list in November. He pressed us into singing carols, our froglike voices contrasting with his musical gift of perfect pitch. Each holiday he stirred us up, leading us through a round of merry chaos.

Then, on his 26th Christmas, he left us in a car accident on his way home to his wife and infant daughter. But first he had stopped by the family home to decorate our tree.

Grief-stricken, his father and I sold our home, where memories clung to every room, and moved away. Seventeen years later, we grew old enough to return home, and settled into a small quiet house, like the house of my childhood. Our other son and daughter had married and begun their own Christmas traditions in another part of the country.

One day, I heard the doorbell ring. There stood our granddaughter, and in her gray-green eyes I saw the reflection of Our Christmas Boy. Behind her, lugging a large pine tree, came her mother and stepfather. They swept past us in a flurry of laughter; and then decorated the tree.

“You’ll recognize the ornaments,” said my former daughter-in-law. “They were his. I save them for you.”

When I murmured that we hadn’t had a tree for 17 years, our granddaughter said, “Then it’s time to have one!”

They asked us to join them the next morning for church and for dinner at their home.

Our granddaughter ordered, “I’m singing the solo and I want you to be there.”

We had long ago given up the poignant Christmas services, but now, we sat rigid in the front pew, fighting back tears. Our granddaughter’s magnificent voice soared, clear and true, in perfect pitch. How her father would have relished that moment!

We had been alerted that there would be a lot of people for dinner---but 35! I could not sort out who belonged to whom, but it didn’t matter. They all belonged to each other. It occurred to me that a true family is not always one’s own flesh and blood. It is a climate of the heart. Had it not been for our adopted son, we would not now be surrounded by caring strangers.

Later, our granddaughter asked us to come along with her to a place she likes to go.

In the foothills there was his grave. As we stood by the headstone in the chilly but somehow comforting silence, we were not prepared for our granddaughter’s next move. Once more that day her voice, so like her father’s, lifted in song, and the mountainside echoed on and on into infinity.

When the last pure note had faded, I felt a sense of peace, of the continuity of life, of renewed faith and hope. The real meaning of Christmas had been restored to us.

67. The author swore that he would ________ when she grew up.

A. give birth to six children at least by marrying

B. crowd her house with energy and love by having more children

C. find a man with the same dream to create a warm home

D. make her house a noisy place by adopting a Christmas boy

68. Why did the author and her husband call their adopted son “Our Christmas boy”?

A. Because they were unable to have a child  

B. Because they wished to be blessed by God

C. Because they adopted the boy on Christmas

D. Because the boy was actually a gift for Christmas

69.The author and her husband sold their house in order to ________.

A. show their grief of losing the son                    B. stop their sudden grief from the loss

C. flee from their previous memories                   D. recover from their great sorrow

70. The author reveals to us that the truth of Christmas lies in ________.

A. a realistic dream bound to come true    

B. a happy moment crowded with children

C. a loving family union with an air of a festival      

D. a peaceful continuing life with faith and hope

Various student clubs are set up in many senior high schools to urge students to ________ the opportunities to cultivate their good virtues and qualities.

      A. gain admission to   B. make light of          C. keep faith with        D. take advantage of

Can you imagine a world without chocolate? It's not something I'd 1ike to do. So I was relieved to read that there’s a university with a programme to safeguard the future of chocolate!

The University of Reading, in England, has just opened a new clearing house for all the world’s new cocoa varieties. They must be quarantined(隔离检疫)before they can be grown. Why? Cocoa production hit a record high of 4.4 million tons last year but about 30％of the precious crop is regularly lost to pests and diseases. Now we don’t want that, do we?

Demand for chocolate has been increasing faster than the world supply of cocoa and researchers think that new varieties are key to solving this problem.

The University of Reading has been protecting the quality of the new crops since 1985, after it took over the task from the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, London. And it has improved its facilities. The leader of the institution’s cocoa project, Professor Paul Hadley, says, “One of the main issues concerning cocoa improvement is the supply of reliably clean, healthy, interesting cocoa material.”

The cocoa centre has a collection of 400 plant varieties and their greenhouse uses a lot of energy to keep them in tropical conditions. After up to two years in quarantine, clean and safe seeds are sent to some 20 countries, including several in West Africa. That’s where 75％of the cocoa used for chocolate worldwide comes from. The crop is extremely important for the local economy: it employs about two million people.

Professor Hadley says he works with a small team of skilled technicians who look after the collection. And more of us seem to count on them now.

The scientist says, “There is some concern within the industry that demand is increasing constantly, particularly in countries like China, where the standard of living is increasing and people are getting a taste for different chocolates.”

29. What is the text mainly about?

A. Safeguarding cocoa seeds.

B. Planting cocoa worldwide.

C. Keeping cocoa in greenhouse.

D. Finding the new market for cocoa.

30. The institution’s cocoa project is to_______.

A. have cocoa skin removed

B. offer more jobs to people

C. ensure the quality of cocoa

D. supply cocoa for two million people

31. What does the last paragraph tell us?

A. The taste of chocolates is changing.

B. Demand for cocoa is increasing fast.

C. People are concerned about cocoa varieties.

D. Chinese have a long history of eating chocolates.

32. What’s the purpose of the text?

A. To educate.     B. To advertise.

C. To warn.       D. To inform.