8. The heart diseases                tense,smoking and inadequate physical exercises. (associate)

心脏病与紧张、吸烟以及缺乏锻炼有密切的关系。

7. It is hard to imagine a student            textbook while other children are playing (focus)

当别的孩子在玩耍的时候，很难想象一个学生能集中精力在课本上。

6.                that city people there hand their wet clothes across streets. (sight)

城里人横街晾晒湿衣服真是个令人惊讶的景象。

5. Proof has shown reform in China in the past years                   to its economic improvement (importance)

实践证明，中国过去几年进行的改革对于其经济的提升至关重要。

4. The UN Associations work to inform the public about                          in global affairs (role)

联合国协会致力于使公众了解联合国在全球事务中发挥的作用。

3. All you need to do is to shorten the sleeves of the dress instead of         . (pick)

你要做的只是将袖子弄短，而不是将整件衣服拆开。

2. The force of the wind is measured                  of 0-12. (scale)

风力是按0-12级标准等级测量的。

1. Plants and animals that live near nuclear power plants                 

we don't know about. (expose)

在核电站附近的动植物正在受到我们所不知道的辐射的影响。

British newspapers are among the oldest and most famous in the world. But recently big changes have seen these traditional publications try to fit the modern world. After 216 years,The nmes (《泰晤士报》) has changed its size to become much smaller. In fact,the paper has cut its size in half from a broadsheet to tabloid.

InBritainthe newspaper market is divided between the larger broadsheets and the smaller tabloids. These terms refer to the size of the papers' pages but there is also a clear difference in content. Broadsheets such as The Times,The Gwardian(《卫报》) and Daily Telegraph 《每日电讯报》) are serious papers. They cover a broad range of political,economic and international is?sues. Their stories are also reasonably long and use quite formal language.

Tabloids have far more stories about less serious issues such as celebrities' love lives. Their stories are shorter and use more simple language. Tabloids often have bigger pictures. Britain's bestselling newspaper,The Sun,is a tabloid and has a naked (棵体的) girl on page three every?day.

By changing to the size of a tabloid,The Times is following in the footsteps of a less fa?mous broadsheet paper The Independent (《妆：报》) .It changed to tabloid last year and saw its sales increase greatly. Although both papers have switched to the smaller size,the content of the papers has remained the same. They are both still serious papers.

The two papers claim that people find the smaller size easier to handle when they travel to work on the bus or the train in the morning. Instead of calling the new style of their paper tab?loid,the paper says its new size is "compact"(紧凑型) .

(   ) 5. What is the difference between tabloid and compact?

   A. They have the same size and meaning but different calling.

   B. Tabloid is a kind of smaller paper with short stories,pictures and celebrities' affairs.

   C. Compact is the same kind of paper as its broadsheet with the same contents.

   D. They are in the same size but different contents：popular―serious.

(   ) 6. According to the text,which can best describe the two kinds of papers?

   A. Broadsheets are larger in size while tabloids are smaller.

   B. Tabloids are less serious than broadsheets.

   C. Broadsheets contain more news than tabloids.

   D. They are different in size,content and the style of language.

(   ) 7. In which of the following newspapers would you find more news about the personal life of the famous soccer star Beckham?

   A. The Sun   B. The Times

   C. The Independent   D. The Guardian

(   ) 8. According to the passage we can infer the main reason for The Times changing into the tabloid is that         .

   A. it wants to become convenient for people to carry

   B. it wants to increase its circulation (发行量)

   C. it intends to follow what The Independent has done

   D. it is unlikely to stay in business if it does not change

Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modern woman tend to have the opposite effect,because they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. Machines have a certain novelty (新奇的) value,like toys for adults. It is certainly less tiring to put clothes in a washing machine,but the time saved does not really amount to much：the machine has to be watched,the clothes have to be carefully sorted out first,stains removed by hand,buttons pushed and water changed,clothes taken out,aired and ironed. It would be more liberating to pack it all off to a laundry and not necessarily more expensive,since no capital in?vestment is required. Similarly,if you really want to save time you do not make cakes with an electric mixer,you buy one in a shop. If one compares the image of the woman in the women's magazine with the goods advertised by those periodicals,one realizes how useful a projected im?age can be commercially. A careful balance has to be struck; if you show a laboursaving de?vice,follow it up with a complicated recipe on the next page;on no account hint at the notion that a woman could get herself a job,but instead foster her sense of her own usefulness,empha?sizing the creative aspect of her function as a housewife. So we get cake mixes where the cook simply adds an egg herself,to produce "that lovely homebaked flavour the family love"，and knitting patterns that can be made by hand,or worse still,on knitting machines,which became tremendously fashionable when they were first introduced. Automatic cookers are advertised by pictures of pretty young mothers taking their children to the park,not by professional women presetting (预先设置) the dinner before leaving home for work.

(   ) 1. What does the underlined word " eliminating" mean?

   A. Wiping out. B. Doing away with. C. Throwing out. D. Carring off.

(   ) 2. What is the shortcoming of the home electric goods advertised as liberating the mod?ern women according to the author?

   A. They have absolutely no value for the housewives.

   B. They really save the housewife very little time.

   C. They save the housewife's time but not her money.

   D. The can remove unpleasant aspects of housework.

(   ) 3. In the writer's opinion,the goods advertised in women's magazines are really meant to         .

   A. free housewives from housework

   B. encourage housewives to go out to work

   C. make housewives into excellent cooks

   D. give them a false sense of fulfillment

(   ) 4. What is the main meaning of this passage?

   A. Consuming anything just relying on the basic need not the advertising.

   B. Tremendous fashion can't bring you a certain novelty value.

   C. Advertising is reliable and always describes things true to the fact.

   D. Women have to redouble their efforts to get the real liberation.