2.Fresh vegetables cooked at home are always more nutritious than canned vegetables.

False.The difference depends more on how vegetables are prepared than whether they are fresh or canned.Vegetables cooked in too much water can lose a large quantity of vitamins.

1.People who don’t eat meat can stay healthy.

True.As long as people eat enough milk,eggs and meat alternates(替代物),they can get enough protein(蛋白质).

6.(★★★★★)What is the most proper title for the　 passage?

A.Income Increasing in Britain　　　　　　　　　　 B.Revolution Changing the World

C.Britains Going High Fashion　　　　　　　　　　 D.Sales in Britain Going Down

G

All of us eat every day,but most of us don’t understand nutrition(营养).How much do you know about good nutrition?Are the following statements true or false?

5.(★★★★★)What is the main idea of the passage?

A.Car use needs to be discouraged.

B.Clean air is only possible if we reduce car use during rush hours.

C.Car use is causing problems with the ozone layer creating poisonous gases.

D.The government spends billions of dollars controlling the pollution coming from cars.

F

After 78 years in the UK,the Dutch clothing retailer (零售商) has closed shop for the last time.But C & A is not alone.In the past week the best known names on British high streets-Marks & Spencer,Boots and littlewoods-have announced some of their worst ever trading figures.

The downturn is not a case of belt tightening.Although there are fears of a recession(衰退),UK consumer (消费者) spending has set new records in the past year.Experts say the sudden fall is the result of a revolution that is changing almost every side of British lives.

sumers are declaring an end to all things ordinary.The good taste revolution has swept the country with remarkable speed.Sales of once popular fashions (时髦) are dropping quickly.Just three years ago Marks & Spencer was the UK’s favorite.People now consider the fashions “ordinary”.

Yet just 100 yards (91 metres) from the empty aisles (通道) in London’s Oxford Street,the story is different.Burberry enjoyed a 35 per cent increase in sales income in the last three months of last year.Gucci saw its sales rise 25 per cent.Armani reported 20 per cent growth.Demand for the logo-print(商标) at Louis Vuitton cannot be satisfied immediately.And growth is not only limited to the wealthy Southeast.

Experts say Britain has moved from a “good enough” culture to “good taste”culture.Almost everywhere you look-from clothes,to food and drink,to cars,to home furnishings,to holidays-Britons are buying into a life less ordinary.

Rising wealth is driving the revolution.New research shows that the average UK household(family) is 40 per cent better off than in 1986.“In the past only those with money and time on their hands were able to devote energy to the search for tasteful living,”says Martin Harward,a director at the Henley Center.“But as incomes rise and free time increases,the privileged(wealthy) many are living higher.More middle-class consumers are developing a sense of their own self-image　 through what they buy.”

4.(★★★★★)The main idea of this passage is ________.

A.when the Internet came into being　　　　　　　　　 B.how Tim Berbers-Lee formed W3C

C.why computers develop so rapidly　　　　　　　　　 D.how the World Wide Web started

E

Reducing the use of cars during rush traffic hours will make the environment more livable.Unfortunately,our present living and working environments encourage the use of cars.But,the car is taking us down the road in lower-quality air.The exhaust(废气) from cars:

-damaging the earth’s protective ozone layer and helping to cause the global warming;

-causes as much as 50% of the smog-producing compounds and chemical rain in our atmosphere;

-causes 60% of the carbon monoxide in our atmosphere.

When you consider that the average person breathes in 9 000 quarts of air a day,you realize how important clean air is to human being.

The government has spent billions of dollars to control car pollution.Yet,some big cities are still in violation(侵害) of public health standards that protect people from breathing poisonous air.The health care costs related to unclean air are huge.

The traditional way of cleaning up what comes out of tailpipes has not done the job of getting rid of automobile emissions(散发物).Yet today’s cars produces far less pollution than models from the 1960’s.But there are now almost 51 million more cars on the road than there were in 1960,and drivers are traveling many more miles.As a result,cars are still the single largest source of city pollution today.

If we are going to achieve clean air,we need to discourage car use by individuals,especially during rush driving hours.

At the same time we reduce car use,we must also improve our public transportation system.If going to and from work by public transportation was convenient and cheap,people would use the system instead of using cars to drive to work.

Yes,it will cost money to improve our public transportation system.But we now spend billions each year in controlling car emissions without much success.Giving some of that money to public transportation would be a small price to pay for cleanest air.

Unless we do something to reduce car use and get people to use public transportation,our love affair with the car will be the death of our environment.

3.(★★★★★)What is the article mainly about?

A.The life of Dave Thomas.

B.The dream of Dave Thomas.

C.The schooling of Dave Thomas.

D.The growth of Dave Thomas’ business.

D

Tim Berners-Lee is the man who wrote the software programme that led to the foundation of the World Wide Web. Britain played an important part in developing the first generation of computers. The parents of Tim Berners-Lee both worked on one of the earliest commercial computers and talked about their work at home. As a child he would build models of computers from packaging materials. After graduating from Oxford University he went on to the real thing. In the 1980s scientists were already communicating using a primitive version(原始版本) of e-mail. While working at a laboratory in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a programme, which let him store these messages. This gave him another idea:write a programme that will let academics(学术界人士) from across the world share information on a single place. In 1990 he wrote the HTTP(服务程序所用的协议) and HTML(超文本链接标示语言) programmes which formed the basis of the World Wide Web.

The next year his programmes were placed on to the Internet. Everyone was welcome to use them and improve them if they could. Programmers used his codes to work with different operating　 systems. New things like web browers and search engines were developed. Between 1991 and 1994 the number of web pages rose from 10 to 100 000.

In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee formed the newly formed World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C. More than 200 leading companies and laboratories are represented by W3C. Together they make sure that everyone can share equally on the web. “The web can help people to understand the way that others live and love. It helps us understand the humanity of people,” he says.

2.(★★★★★)Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A.Two Strangers and a Wedding　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B.A Wedding Based on Love

C.A Short-Lived Marriage　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D.A Well-Matched Couple

C

Since 1989, Dave Thomas, who died at age 69, was one of the most recognizable faces on TV. He appeared in more than 800 commercials (商业广告) for the hamburger chain named for his daughter. “As long as it works,” he said in 1991, “I’ll continue to do those commercials.”

Even though he was successful, Thomas remained troubled by his childhood. “He still won’t let anyone see his feet, which are out of shape because he never had proper-fitting shoes.” Wendy said in 1993. Born to a single mother, he was adopted (收养) as a baby by Rex and Auleva Thomas of Kalamazoo in Michigan. After Auleva died when he was 5, Thomas spent years on the road as Rex traveled around seeking construction work. “He fed me,” Thomas said,“and if I got out of line, he’d beat me.”

Moving out on his own at 15, Thomas worked, first as a waiter, in many restaurants. But he had something much better in mind, “I thought if I owned a restaurant,” he said,“I could eat for free.” A 1956 meeting with Harland Sanders led Thomas to a career as the manager of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that made him a millionaire in 1968.

In 1969, after breaking with Sanders, Thomas started the first Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, in Columbus, Ohio, which set itself apart by serving made-to-order burgers. With 6 000 restaurants worldwide, the chain now makes ＄6 billion a year in sales.

Although troubled by his own experience with adoption, Thomas, married since 1954 to Lorraine, 66, and with four grown kids besides Wendy, felt it could offer a future for other children. He started the Dave Thomas Foundation (基金会) for Adoption in 1992.In 1993, Thomas, who had left school at 15, graduated from Coconut Greek High School in Florida. He even took Lorraine to the graduation dance party. The kids voted him Most Likely to Succeed.

“The Dave you saw on TV was the real Dave,”says friend Pat Williams “He wasn’t a great actor or a great speaker. He was just Joe Everybody.”

1.(★★★★★)The passage is mainly about ________.

A.the biological system of a living organism

B.the inventors of sandwich and hamburger

C.the development of human cells

D.the changes of a language

B

The wedding took place in a Birmingham hotel. The bride and her father arrived in a new black American sports car. Her father looked nervous and uncomfortable in front of the cameras. The bride wore a silk wedding dress. She smiled nervously at the waiting photographers and went to a room on the first floor where she met her future husband for the very first time.

Carla Germaine and Greg Cordell were the winners of a radio station’s competition. The aim of the competition was to find two strangers prepared to many without having met each other. Miss Germaine, 23, is a model. Mr. Cordell, 27, is a TV salesman. They were among the two hundred people who entered for a peculiar“experiment” organized by BMRB radio in Birmingham, England. Greg and Carla were among eight finalists who were interviewed live on radio. They took a lie detector(测谎仪) test and the station also spoke to their friends and family about their personalities. The competition judges included an astrologer(占星家) who declared that they were suited.

The couple celebrated their wedding with a wedding breakfast and a party for 100 guests in the evening, but not everyone shared their joy. Miss Germaine’s mother looked anxious throughout the wedding and Mr. Cordell’s parents are reported to be less than delighted.

Organizations, including the marriage guidance service Relate, have criticized the marriage. As one person put it, “We have enough problems getting young people to take marriage seriously without this. Marriage should always be about love.”

The couple are now on a Caribbean honeymoon followed by journalists. Their other prizes include a year’s free use of a wonderful apartment in the centre of Birmingham, and a car. But will it last?

5.重视题干中的关键词汇：main idea,the best title,the writer mainly wants to tell (or:show)…

●歼灭难点训练

A

Human language is a living thing.Each language has its own biological system,which makes it different from all other language.This system must constantly adjust to a new environment and new situation to survive and flourish.

When we think of human language this way,it is an easy step to see the words of a language as being like the cells of a living organism-they are constantly forming and dying and splitting into parts as time changes and the language adapts.

There are several specific processes by which new words are formed.Some words come into the language which sound like what they refer to.Words like buzz and ding-dong are good examples of this process.

Still another way in which new words are formed is to use the name of a person or a place closely associated with that word’s meaning.The words sandwich and hamburger are examples of this word-formation process.The Earl of sandwich,an English aristocrat(贵族),was so fond of gambling at cards that he hated to be interrupted by the necessity of eating.He thus invented a new way of eating while he continued his game at the gambling table.This quick and convenient dish is what we now call a sandwich-a piece of meat between two slices of bread.The hamburger became the best-known sandwich in the world after it was invented by a citizen of Hamburg in Germany.

As long as a language is alive,its cells will continue to change,forming new words and getting rid of the ones that no longer have any use.

4.注意观察，找准贯穿上下文的关键词汇。