对话填空（满分 10分） 阅读下面对话,掌握其大意,并根据所给首字母的提示,在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。

W: Tell me, Jack. Do you look t   1.  the Web much?

M: Well, to tell you the t2.  , I’m so busy with work. I don’t really have much time to s  3.     the Web. Let me think…I s    4.    I log on a couple of times a week, for about two or three hours.

W: So, What do you do o  5.   the Internet when you log on?

M: Well, I do a little e-mailing. I only get about two or three e-mails a week. Actually I p    6. writing real letters, with pen and paper.

W: Yeah, I’m the same way. Anything e   7.      you do on the Internet?

M: Well, sometimes I look up i   8. I need for my job. It s  9.    a lot of time looking through books in libraries.

W: Yes, it sure d  10.   

 

对话填空 （满分 10分）  阅读下面对话,掌握其大意,并根据所给首字母的提示,在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。

W: Tell me, Jack. Do you look t       the Web much?

M: Well, to tell you the t    , I’m so busy with work. I don’t really have much time to s         the Web. Let me think…I s          I log on a couple of times a week, for about two or three hours.

W: So, What do you do o       the Internet when you log on?

M: Well, I do a little e-mailing. I only get about two or three e-mails a week. Actually I p       writing real letters, with pen and paper.

W: Yeah, I’m the same way. Anything e           you do on the Internet?

M: Well, sometimes I look up i      I need for my job. It s        a lot of time looking through books in libraries.

W: Yes, it sure d      

（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Almost everyone likes to eat apples. Apples grow in nearly every part of the world. The United States produces more apples than any other country except France. The states of Washington and New York grow the most apples.   71   New York is on the east coast and Washington is on the west near Canada.

Apples are red, yellow or green. They are very popular in the United States.   72   Most American people are often too busy or too tired to cook dinner, so they often have their dinners very simply. Apple juice is also a popular drink and apple pie is the favorite sweet dish for many Americans.

  73   The trees there produce nearly five billion apples every year—one apple for every man, woman and child in the whole world.

  74   For example, “You are the apple of my eye.” means “You are actually the one I love best and care most.” In China, it is a custom in some places for the marrying couple to hold an apple in each one’s hand, promising that their marriage will be “safe” without anything bad and that their marriage will never be broken. “To apple polish” often refers to a man who fawns (奉承) on somebody for the purpose of getting some benefits. So you can easily get “apple polisher”. However, “in apple-pie order” usually has the same meaning as “in good order”.   75   In fact, it’s another saying about “compare two things that can’t be compared”.

A. The state of Washington is proud of its apples.

B. Apples play an important part in people’s health.

  There are many stories and sayings about apples.

D. Perhaps this is why “New York” is often called “Big Apple” by some people.

E. The apples in France are better than those in America.

F. Many people like to carry apples to work or to school to eat with their lunches.

G. It is likely that you hear about “compare apples and oranges”

What is eBay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods, including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes — the list goes on and on 

The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child. At high school, he became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, he worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade (升级) and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill, and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. Even in the great crashes of the late 1990s, ebay has gone from strength to strength. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet 

Ebay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business.  The world is your market place. Of course for each item, eBay gets a percentage and that is a great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold.

We learn from the text that eBay provides people with _________.

A. a way of buying and selling goods 

B. a place to show their own photos

C. a website for them to upgrade

D. a chance to buy things at low prices 

Why did Peter create eBay after graduating from university? 

A. For fun                              B. To make money 

C. For gathering the engineers              D. To fulfill a task of his company 

From “he has never looked back” in Paragraph 2 we learn that Peter _________.

A. did not feel lonely                     B. was always hopeful 

C. did not think about the past              D. became more and more successful 

How does eBay make money from its website? 

A. By bringing sellers together.             B. By charging for each sale 

C. By listing items online               D. By making e-photos.  

Today, there’s hardly an aspect of our life that isn’t being upended by the tons of information available on the hundreds of millions of sites crowding the Internet, not to mention its ability to keep us in constant touch with each other via electronic mail. “If the automobile and aerospace technology had exploded at the same pace as computer and information technology,” says Microsoft, “a new car would cost about $ 2 and go 600 miles on a small quantity of gas. And you could buy a Boeing 747 for the cost of a pizza.”

Probably the biggest payoff, however, is the billions of dollars the Internet is saving companies in producing goods and serving for the needs of their customers. Nothing like it has been seen since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when power-driven machines began producing more in a day than men could turn out in nearly a year. “We view the growth of the Internet and e-commerce as a global trend,” says Merrill Lynch, “along the lines of printing press, the telephone, the computer, and electricity.”

You would be hard pressed to name something that isn’t available on the Internet. Consider: books, health care, movie tickets, construction materials, baby clothes, stocks, cattle feed, music, electronics, antiques, tools, real estate, toys, autographs of famous people, wine and airline tickets. And even after you’ve moved on to your final resting place, there’s no reason those you love can’t keep in touch. A company called FinalThoughts.com offers a place for you to store “afterlife e-mails” you can send to Heaven with the help of a “guardian angel”.

Kids today are so computer literate that it in fact ensures the United States will remain the unchallenged leader in cyberspace for the foreseeable(能预测的) future. Nearly all children in families with incomes of more than $75,000 a year have home computers, according to a study by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Youngsters from ages 2 to 17 at all income levels have computers, with 52% of those connected to the Internet. Most kids use computers to play games (some for 30 hours or more a week), and many teenage girls think nothing of rushing home from school to have e-mail chats with friends they have just left.

What’s clear is that, whether we like it or not, the Internet is an ever growing part of our lives and there is no turning back. “The Internet is just 20% invented,” says cyber pioneer Jake Winebaum. “The last 80% is happening now.”

1.What can we learn from the Microsoft’s remark?

A. Today’s cars and airplanes are extremely overpriced.

B. Information technology is developing at an amazing speed.

C. Information technology has reached the point where improvement is difficult.

D. There’s more competition in information technology industry than in car industry.

2.According to the author, the biggest benefit of the Internet is that___.

 A. it saves companies huge amounts of money        B. it speeds up profit making

 C. it brings people incredible convenience       D. it provides easy access to information 

3.The author gives the example of FinalThoughts.com to make the point that____.

 A. there are some genius ideas on the Internet       B. almost anything is available on the Internet

 C. people can find good bargains on the Internet      D. some websites provide novel services to increase hits

4.What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?

 A. There is a link between income and computer ownership.

 B. Many American children don’t put computers to good use.

 C. Studies show that boys are more computer literate than girls.

 D. The U.S. will stay ahead in the information technology in years.

5.Which sentence has the phrase that possesses the same meaning as the one underlined in the fifth paragraph?

A. Some can tell you that he has changed their lives, while others think nothing of him.

B. Think nothing of it. It was my pleasure.

C. He thinks nothing of staying up all night in the Café bar.

D. He thinks nothing of the pain in his back for the moment.

6.What is the message the author intends to convey?

 A. The Internet is going to get firm hold of our lives some day.

 B. The Internet is going to influence our lives even more greatly.

 C. We should have a positive attitude towards the changes the Internet brings.

 D. Children should be well prepared for the challenges in the information age.