In America,where labor costs are so high, do-it-yourself is a way of life.Many people 36 their own car,build their own garages,even rebuild their own 37 .Soon they may also be writing their own books.In Hollywood there is a company 38 publishes(出版) Children’s books 39 the help of computers.Although other book 40 also publish that way,this particular company is very 41 .It “personalizes”（使个性化）the book by having the computer make the reader the leading character in the story.Here is 42 they do it.Let us say your child 43 Jenny.She lives on Oak Drive in St. Louis,has a dog named Spot,a cat named Tabby,and three playmates 44 names are Betty,Sandy ,and Jody.The computer uses this 45 to fill out a story that has 46 been prepared and illustrated（发行）.The story is then printed（印刷） with standard equipment 47 a hard-cover book.A child who 48 such a book might say,”This book is about me”;the company therefore calls 49 the Me-book Publishing Company”.

　　 Children like the Me-books because they like to see their own names in print and 50 of their friends and their pets. 51 more important ,”personalization” has been 52 to be important tool（工具） in 　__53 enthusiasm（热情） for reading.So Me-books are helping 　54 to learn how to read, 　55 appealing to（吸引） that natural desire to see his own name in print.

36.A.drive　　 　　　　 B.buy　　　 　　　 C.repair　　　　　　　　　　 D.notice

37.A.houses　 　　　　　 B.buses　 　　　　　　 C.TV sets　 　　　　　　 D.computers

38.A.where　　　 B.不填　　　 　　　　 C.that　　　　 　 D.what

39.A.under　　 　　　 B.with　　　 　　　 C.in　　　　 　　　　　 D.by

40.A.stores　　 　　　　 B.libraries　　 　　　 C.sellers　　　 　 D.companies

41.A.common　 　　　　 B.important　 　　　 C.unusual　　 　 D.ordinary

42.A.how　　　 　　　 B.why　　　 　　　 C.what　　　 　 D.where

43.A.names　　 　 B.to be named 　 C.naming　　 　　 D.is named

44.A.who　　　 　　　 B.who’s　　　 　　 C.whose　　　 D.that

45.A.news　　 　　　　 B.information　 　　 C.condition　 　　　　 D.direction

46.A.already　 　　　　 B.really　 　　　　 C.carefully　　 　 D.fully

47.A.as　　　 　　　　 B.that　　　　 　 C.like　　　　 　 D.such

48.A.gives　　 　　　　 B.borrows　　 　　 C.looks for　　 D.receives

49.A.them　　　 　　　 B.itself　　　 　　 C.yourself　　 D.it

50.A.that　　　 　　　 B.what　　　 　　 C.which　　　 D.those

51.A.But　　　 　　　 B.And　　　　 　　 C.So　　　　 　 D.Therefore

52.A.founded　 　　　 B.invented　　 　　 C.found　　　 D.heard of

53.A.developing 　　　 B.working　　 　　 C.seeing　　　 　 D.improving

54.A.a boy　　　 　　　 B.a girl　　　 　　 C.a student　　 D.a child

55.A.by　　　　 　　　 B.for　　　　 　　 C.with　　　　 D.about

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1．Which of the following magazines is published monthly?

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2．Which two magazines are published by the same publisher?

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A．Wired. and Instyle.

B．Discover. and. Instyle.

C．Self and Discover

D．Self and Wired

3．Which magazine offers the biggest price cut?

[　　]

4．The “Style Lab” in Self provides readers with articles which ________.

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A．offer advice to ordinary women on clothes

B. show how a woman can become famous

C．introduce places with the best food

D．discuss ways of training models

5．Those who are interested in management and the use of high technology would probably choose ________.

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B

　　Chinese children will be able to get a taste of adult working life in a theme park planned for Hang-zhou city,East China's Zhejiang Province.The Kids City,the first of its kind in China,will allow children aged five to ten to try out jobs of their choice after it opens in October 2008.

　　Located in eastern Hangzhou,the indoor entertainment and educaion park,similar to "Kidzania" in Mexico and Japan,offers more than 50 professions,including pilot,doctor,police officer and lawyer,according to Hangzhou Youth Activity Center(HYAC),the organizer of the park,The park will be a 7:10 scale (比例尺) city with streets,hospitals,museums,supermarkets, schools,airport and other facilities.Construction has begun on the indoor section.

　　Inside the 7,000-square-meter city,every kid would get a bank account holding special money that they can only spend in the park.They could earn more money by working in different booths or workshops.One job would take about half an half an hour and the whole tour would usually last five to six hours."The interactive(交互式) experience will help kids to learn about the adult life,which is good for their future career planning.They will have a lot of fun here,"said Huang Jianming,chief of HYAC.Parents are not allowed to enter the city,but they can take pictures from outside the huge glass house.

　　The ticket price has not been decided yet.But HYACsaid it might be lower than Kidzania Tokyo's and around several hundren yuan.With the majority of investment(投资) coming from the government,the project also needs financial support from companies and organizations,according to HYAC.

　　The world's first Kidzania was opened in Mexico City in 1999.It has turned out to be a huge success receiving about 800,000 visitors every year.In 2006,Kidzania opened its Tokyopark in Japan,which also became an attraction to kids."We are confident that the Chinese version(版本) wll be very successful."said Huang.

　　60.The theme park is aimed at letting the kids_______.

　　　A.work with adults B.experience adult careers

　　　C.imitate adults looking after a family D.watch adults work

　　61.The Kids City will________.

　　　A.be more than half the size of Hangzhou City

　　　B.consist of two parts,one larger than the other

　　　C.contain buildings smaller than those we use

　　　D.have lower buildings than Kidzania Tokyo's

　　62.A visitor to the Kids City ______.

　　　A.has nothing in his bank unless he's worked

　　　B.always leaves his tour with much money in his bank

　　　C.learns to earn money as well as to use it

　　　D.can try out all the professions on one tour

　　63.How many of such theme parks are open to visitors at present in the world?

　　　A.Only one B.Two C.Three D.None

 

Anna lived on the side of a valley．One summer, there was a very big 　     , and a lot of houses down below Anna＇s were washed away．Anna＇s house was 　   enough to escape the flood, so when the water had      and the other houses were 　    there with no roof and no walls and all covered with mud（泥）, her house was just all right．

 Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children,   　 Anna took in one of the families that had lost 　   in the flood and she 　    her home with them until it was 　  　 for them to rebuild their house．

 Anna＇s friends were 　  when they saw Anna do this．They could not understand why Anna wanted to give   so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to 　   ．

 “Well,” Anna  　    her friends, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very  　   , because her husband had been killed in the 　   　  and she had a lot of children I have now．The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for Christmas this year, so I’m going to 　      only one present to all of us．Now I’ll go and get it．’ She came back with a  　    who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents．‘Here’s our 　   ,she said to her children．

 The children were 　   and happy to get such a present．They 　   the little girl, and she grew up as their sister．Such was that Christmas present．”

1.A．accident    B．flood         C．fire            D．earthquake

2.A．below       B．big           C．high           D．small

3.A．reduced     B．come         C．disappeared      D．appeared 

4.A．rising       B．standing       C．flowing         D．falling    

5.A．so         B．for            C．but             D．since

6.A．nothing    B．anything       C．something        D．everything

7.A．gave       B．shared        C．found           D．built

8.A．necessary  B．important      C．obvious          D．possible

9.A．worried    B．disappointed   C．satisfied          D．puzzled

10.A．them      B．him          C．herself           D．us

11.A．supply     B．grow         C．support          D．educate

12.A．asked for  B．talked with     C．turned up         D．explained to

13.A．sad       B．rich           C．poor            D．happy

14.A．storm     B．rain           C．war            D．flood

15.A．because   B．which         C．that            D．as

16.A．get       B．make         C．send             D．buy          

17.A．boy      B．student        C．teacher          D．girl

18.A．child     B．daughter       C．present          D．sister        

19.A．angry     B．lovely         C．excited          D．sorry

20.A．disliked   B．gained         C．led             D．welcomed

 

The word “conservation” has a thrifty meaning. To conserve is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such a good condition that others may also share the enjoyment. Our forefathers had no idea that human population would increase faster than the supplies of raw materials: most of them, even until very recently, had the foolish idea that the treasures were “limitless” and could “last forever”. Most of the citizens of earlier generations knew little or nothing about the complicated and delicate system that runs all through nature, and which means that, as in a living body, an unhealthy condition of one part will sooner or later be harmful to all the others.

　　Fifty years ago, nature study was not part of the school work; scientific forestry was a new idea; wood was still cheap because it could be brought in any quantity from distant woodlands; soil destruction and river floods were not national problems; nobody had yet studied long-term climatic cycles in relation to proper land use; even the word “conservation” had nothing of the meaning that it has for us today.

　　For the sake of ourselves and those who will come after us, we must now set about correcting the mistakes of our forefathers. Conservation should be made part of everybody’s daily life. To know about the water table in ground is just as important to us as a knowledge of the basic math formulas. We need to know why all watersheds (上游集水区) need the protection of plant life and why the running current of streams and rivers must be made to give their full benefit to the soil before they finally escape to the sea. We need to be taught the duty of planting trees as well as of cutting them. We need to know the importance of big, grown trees, because living space for most of man’s fellow creatures on this planet is figured not only in square measure of surface but also in cubic (立方体的) volume above the earth. In a word, it should be our goal to restore as much of the original beauty of nature as we can.

1.The author’s attitude towards the use of natural resources is _________.

A. positive         B. uninterested     C. optimistic           D. critical

2.According to the author, the greatest mistake of our forefathers was that _________.

　　A. they had no idea about scientific forestry

　　B. they had little or no sense of environmental protection

　　C. they were not aware of the importance of nature study

　　D. they had no idea of how to make good use of raw materials

3.To avoid repeating the mistakes of our forefathers, the author suggests that ______

　　A. we plant more trees

　　B. natural sciences be taught to everybody

　　C. environmental education be directed toward everyone

　　D. we return to nature

4.How can you understand the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?

A. Our living space on the earth is getting smaller and smaller.

B. Our living space should be measured in cubic volume.[来源:Z。xx。k.Com]

C. We need to take some measures to protect space.

D. We must preserve good living conditions for both birds and animals.