Many Chinese people who have been to the United States think that Americans pay a little part of their money for food each day. Yet, in the latest 13 years, food prices have gone up 30% for most American families. Everyone agrees that the cost of feeding a family has risen sharply. But who is really responsible（有责任的）?

Many people say the farmers who produce the vegetables, fruit, meat, and eggs are responsible. But farmers say that the rise in food prices is very small compared to (和…相比) the rise in their cost of living. Farmers think middlemen（中间人）have got much more money than they do. Middlemen are those people who stand between the farmers and the people who buy and eat the food. For example, truck drivers, owners of food stores and so on. Are middlemen really responsible for higher food prices?

Economists（经济学家）don’t think so. They have found that the money that meat packers（包装商）and food stores get is less than 1% in all. They say that food costs more now because modern housewives have jobs outside the home. They have less time for cooking after a day’s work. They like to buy food which has already been prepared before it reaches the market. They want to buy many kinds of food that can be put on their dining tables easily and quickly. But of course they must be prepared to pay for the services of those who make their work easier.

It seems that the answer to the question of rising prices is not an easy one. Quite a number of people share the responsibility for the sharp rise in food costs.

1.Farmers speak for themselves because _____.

A. the middlemen have had the biggest share of profit（利润）

B. the cost of their products have risen sharply too

C. their cost of living has gone up a lot, too

D. they’ve got very little in the rise of food prices

2.Economists blame (责怪) _____.

A. farmers B. middlemen C. housewives D. storeowners

3.What’s the writer’s opinion (观点)?

A. He agrees with the economists.

B. He doesn’t think farmers are responsible.

C. He thinks the middlemen might get a lot of profit.

D. He thinks all those people should be responsible.

Today I want to introduce a writer Greg Mortenson to you, especially one of his works called Three Cups of Tea. It has been one of the best sellers. Why can it be so popular?

Greg Mortenson was born in the state of Minnesota and grew up near Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Mortenson later became a nurse. He loved to climb K2 in Pakistan, the second highest mountain in the world. One day, he failed to reach the top of K2, and he became separated from his climbing group on the way down. He was very tired, sick and lost. He had no food, water or shelter(住所).

Mortenson reached a poor village called Korphe in the Karakoram mountains of Pakistan. The villagers had never seen a foreigner before. They provided food and a place for him. Mortenson became friends with the villagers and he wanted to see their school. But they had no school.

He promised(承诺) to return and build a school for the children of the village. This was not easy. He had to return to the United States, ask people for money, buy materials in Pakistan, send them to the village and build the school. But he finally carried out his promise after more than three years. That first school in Korphe was so successful that he decided to continue building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It turned out to be a great act.

Three cups of Tea is about many interesting people Mortenson met and the problems he faced.

I think he is really wonderful. He should be the pride(骄傲) of his country.

1.Three cups of tea is ______________.

A. a book B. a kind of drink

C. a kind of cup D. a programme

2.Greg Mortenson grew up___________ and his birth place was ___________.

A. in Asia; Mount Kilimanjaro

B. in Africa; England

C. in Europe; Tanzania

D. in Tanzania; the state of Minnesota

3.The underlined words “turned out” mean ________ in Chinese.

A. 证明 B. 打开 C.出来 D.解雇

4. Rearrange（重新排列） the things happened to Greg Mortenson.

a. He built a school for a poor village called Korphe.

b. He became a nurse.

c. He failed to reach the top of the second highest mountain in the world.

d. One of his works called Three Cups of Tea has been a best seller.

A. d-c-a-b B. b-c-a-d C. b-a-c-d D. d-b-c-a

任务型阅读 阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容完成表格中所缺信息，在答卷上相应的横线上填写答案，每空限填一词。

A book which is still being discussed by many Americans today is “Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler. In this book the writer describes the great changes which have been made in family life because of science and industry.

In the past, when more Americans lived on farms, the typical(典型的) family had many children. In a farm family, parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Uncles and aunts often lived nearby, too.

But now, when industry has become more important than agriculture(农业) in American life, families are becoming smaller and smaller. Industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land to move again whenever necessary. Large families can’t be moved from place to place as easily as smaller families can.

In the future, a typical family will be required to move even more often than now, so families will be even smaller .The typical family may keep childless and consist only of a man and a woman. A smaller number of families may raise(养育) children. These families may raise children as their main occupation, leaving the childless families free to move from job to job. What’s more, these child-raising families may raise other people’s children in addition to their own.

根据句意，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。

1.I have no _______(communicate) with the girl.

2.Broadway has been famous for its theatres since the early _________(twenty) century.

3.His grandfather has been ______(die) for three years.

4.Have these soldiers receive their _________(wife) letters?

根据句意和汉语注释，写出单词的正确形式

1.The TV _______________ (节目) on Channel Six are all about films.

2.I always _______________ (想念) my parents after I left hometown to live in the school.

3.There will be _______________ (采访) for the pop star this afternoon.

4.Are there any _______________ (国际的) banks in this modern town?

动词填空，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空，在答卷上相应的横线上填写答案。

1.-Where have you been? Your mother ___________(wait) for you in your office for too long.

2.We can never catch up with the fashion because it ____________ (change) all the time.

3.—I called you several times this morning, but you didn’t answer.

—Sorry, I _______________ (play) tennis the whole morning.

4.From time to time, I _________(feel) the wind on the balcony when I lived in the old flat.

5.---What can we use computers for? ---_______(send) emails.

6.The life he has been used to __________(be) different in the future.

7.When you laugh or smile, your body ___________ (relax)

8.—It must be on Channel 2. Try that.

—I _______________ (try) that. But I still can’t get anything.

完成句子 按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子，在答卷相应的横线上填写答案。

1.李先生出国三年了。

Mr. Li_______ _______ ___________ ______ three years ago .

2.这个过山车高速运行，真是有趣。

The roller coaster ________ _____ ________ ________ and was really exciting.

3.从我上次收到他的来信，已经三周过去了。

It _______________________________________________________________ him last time.

4.他已经意识到学习英语的重要性了。

He’s _____________________________________________________ already.

5.这两个导游过去经常联系彼此。

The two _______________________________________each other.

6.我的叔叔和这些职员们海南出差过两次了。

My uncle with these office workers ____________________________________________twice.

书面表达

请你以 A Trip to Wuxi为题写一篇短文，包括以下要点：

1. 上周末你和家人一起乘长途车去了无锡；

2. 你们已经来无锡两次了;最近几年变化很大;你们在那呆了两天；

3. 第一天你们乘公交车去南禅寺(Nanchan Temple)而且在那吃午饭;饭后去锡惠公园(Xihui Park)，在那儿划船，爬山;傍晚去太湖广场(Taihu Square)放风筝,拍了许多照片；

4. 第二天，你们步行去市中心购物,给亲戚买礼物;

5. 你们玩得很开心。希望……(自由发挥至少1点)

要求：1. 文章内容须包括所有要点，要求语句通顺，意思连贯；

2. 词数80个左右。文章开头已给出，不计入总词数,

My family and I went to Wuxi by coach last week.______________________________

— Let’s go to see the show.

— I _____ it. It’s very interesting.

A. have seen B. see C. am seeing

— It’s very hot, but quite wet today.

— _____.

A. So it is B. It is so C. So is it