28、根据中文提示，用词组的适当形式填空。每空一词。

1. She ___________ ___________（收到……来信） her pen friend yesterday.

2. All the athletes ___________ ___________（对……满意） with the nice service during the Beijing Olympics.

3. ___________ ___________（到目前为止），many measures have been taken to control the spread of A/H1N1.

4. After the earthquake, he left for Wenchuan as a volunteer ___________ ___________（而不是） a tourist.

5. You_________ __________（最好） check over your exam paper carefully before you hand it in.

27、用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文正确、通顺。每词限用一次。

   Parents, especially those of teenagers, care about their children’s education more than anything else. They would do    1    for their children. Many of them spend most of their spare time    2    their children with studies. If they have no time or cannot do it themselves, they would hire family teachers    3    send their children to after-class schools. It seems as if a better    4    is all that parents expect for children.

How can we explain the present situation? First of all, many parents have   5   that future success depends more and more    6    skills and education. Secondly, in a competive （竞争的） society there are both losers and    7   . Those who have better skills and more knowledge will enjoy    8    opportunities.

Certainly, it is important to learn to succeed, but the    9    thing to learnis how to survive （生存） how to be a qualified citizen （合格的公民）.    10    this is included in good education, the children will surely have a bright future and healthy in body mind.

25、

In every little girl’s toy box, there might be a Barbie Doll. Barbie is 50 years old this year. It was designed in 1959 by an American businesswoman named Ruth Handler. She and her husband Elliott started the toy company Mattel. She named the new doll after their daughter Barbara. The first Barbie Doll appeared at the toy fair （交易会） New York on March 9th, 1959. This date is used as Barbie’s birthday.

Mattel sold three hundred thousand Barbie Dolls in the first year at a price of three dollars. Today, a fifty-year-old Barbie in good condition might cost more than twenty-seven thousand dollars. Mattel says 90% of the girls in the United States aged from three to ten own at least one Barbie Doll. And girls aged three to six own an average （平均） of about twelve.

When Mattel created Barbie Dolls half a century ago, they never thought this doll would become a legend. Now Barbie Dolls are famous all over the world. They are sold in one hundred and fifty countries, and every second three Barbie Dolls are sold around the world.

1. Who designed the first Barbie Doll in 1959?

A. Mattel.          B. Elliott.          C. Barbara.         D. Ruth Handler.

2. A Barbie Doll cost _________ dollars in the first year after it appeared.

A. 3               B. 50             C. 90              D. 27,000

3. What does the underlined word “legend” mean in the passage?

A. 传播            B. 传奇          C. 传承           D. 传达

4. The writer doesn’t tell us __________.

A. Barbie Dolls are very popular with girls    

B. Barbie Dolls sell well around the world

C. what the first Barbie Doll was based on

D. the doll Barbie was named after Barbara

5. What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Barbie’s birthday                       B. Barbie Dolls

C. A lovely girl named Barbie               D. Why are Barbies popular

24、根据短文内容判断下列句子的正误，正确的用“T”，错误的用“F”。

Computer technology has become an important part of people’s life. This technology has its own special words. One well-known computer words Google. It is the name of a popular “search engine （引擎）” for the Internet. People use the search engine to find information about almost any subject on the Internet. The people who started the company named it Google because in math google is very large number ----one hundred zeros follow the number one. When you “Google” a subject, you can get a lot of information about it. If you Google someone, you might find that person’s name on a blog. A blog is short for a Web log. It is a personal Web page. Some people write blogs to express their opinions and ideas over the Internet. Some use them to share their lives with faraway friends or family. Others write blogs to help them deal with sickness, money problems or to choose movies to see or books to read. Some people add information to their blogs every day. People who have blogs are called bloggers.

1. Google and Blog are two kinds of popular search engine.

2. One can use Google to search the Internet for all information he wants.

3. People may use Google to share their opinions or ask others for help.

4. Bloggers ought to add information to their blogs every day.

5. From the passage we can infer （推断） that computer technology is changing people’s life.

21、根据对话内容，从方框中选择恰当的句子补全对话。

A: Hi, Cindy. Your handbag looks so nice.    1  

B: Online. It’s only 30 yuan.

A: 30 yuan online?     2     Tell me how to do it, please.

B: All right. That’s easy. Just enter E-bay.

A:      3    

B: Well, first, you need to apply for （申请） a user’s passport. Next, go through the shopping list.

A: And then?

B: Choose one you like.      4      You’ll receive it in a few days.

A: Thank you!      5