单选题Instead of being sent to prison, the shoplifter was_______with a fine.A set out B set back C let off D let alone

有时候我们可能会阅读书或杂志中的文章，这些文章可能会促使我们去思考，并将自己的观点与文章中作者的观点进行对比。

The difference between a liquid and a gas is obvious (1)____ the conditions of temperature and pressure commonly found at the surface of the Earth. A liquid can be kept in an open container and fills it to the level of a free surface. A gas forms no free surface but tends to diffuse throughout the space available; it must (2)____ be kept in a closed container, as in the (3)____ of a planet’s atmosphere. The distinction was a prominent feature of early theories (4)____(describe) the phases of matter. In the nineteenth century, for example, one theory maintained that a liquid could be “dissolved” in a vapor without losing its identity, and another theory held that the two phases are made up of different kinds of molecules (分子). The theories now prevailing (5) t____ a quite different approach by emphasizing what liquids and gases have in common. They are both forms of matter (6)____ have no permanent structure, and they both flow easily. They are fluids.The (7)____(fundament) similarity of liquids and gases becomes clearly apparent when the temperature and pressure are raised somewhat. Suppose a closed container partially filled with a liquid is heated. The liquid expands, or in other (8)____, becomes less dense; some of it evaporates. In contrast, the vapor above the liquid surface becomes dense as the evaporated molecules are added to it. The combination of temperature and pressure (9)____ which the densities become equal is called the critical point. Above the critical point the liquid and the gas can no longer be (10)____(distinguish); there is a single, undifferentiated fluid phase of uniform density.

Directions:In this section, there is one passage followed by 5 questions. Read the passage carefully, then answer the questions in a maximum of 10 words. Remember to write the answers on the Answer Sheet.　　High Dropout Rate in US　　Many young people in the United States never finish high school. Exactly how many dropouts is another issue. Recent studies of dropout rates have had conflicting results. For one thing, schools define and measure their dropout rates differently.　　Some researchers say about fifteen to twenty parents of public school students do not complete their education. But many other experts and policymakers believe that for the past twenty years, the dropout rate has been around thirty percent. For Latino and black students, the numbers are even higher. Researchers say almost half of them leave school.　　At the same time, almost half the states let students leave school before the age of eighteen without informing their parents.　　Finding a good job without a high school education is more and more difficult. A Northeastern University study in 2002 found that almost half of all dropouts aged sixteen to twenty-four did not have a job.　　The lack of high school education can also lead to other problems. An estimated two-thirds of prisoners in the United States dropped out of high school.　　Recent studies have shown that the majority of students who drop out do not do it because they are failing. Many are bored with their classes or feel disconnected from their school and teachers. Some students feel that educators place low expectations on them. Teen pregnancies also add to the dropout problem.　　During the past twenty years, there have been efforts to increase graduation rate through education reforms. Some communities are working on dropout prevention programs. These include alternative high schools to meet special needs.　　Some programs, for example, provide free transportation and childcare to help young mothers and fathers finish school. Yet special programs can cost a lot, and many school systems have limited budgets.　　Federal spending on second-chance programs to help students finish school has decreased from the 1970s. This was shown in a report last year from the Educational Testing Service.　　Experts suggest early warning systems to help identify young schoolchildren at risk of dropping out of high school. They say schools also need to get parents more involved, especially if their children are missing school often.　　Questions:　　1．What is the researchers’ estimated percentage of school dropouts among Latino and black students?　　2．What efforts have been made to increase graduation rates?　　3．What has been done to help young parents complete their education?　　4．Who made a report about the decrease，of Federal spending on second-chance programs to help students finish school?　　5．What do experts suggest setting up to help prevent students from dropping out of school?

这些邮票由于其独特的艺术设计吸引了众多集邮者。(appeal to)

A postman delivers mail round a housing estate.
　　He does not want to visit the same street more than once, but can pass over the same street corners.
　　On which housing estate is this possible?

I don’t believe in Brown’s adventure at all. It sounds so ______.

No matter what measure they took, in no way ______.

Some people are deceived ______ that people like to rest and save themselves as much as possible.

越来越多的新能源被开发出来代替煤和石油。(exploit)

Every product ______ before it is sold.

Which measure have some countries not taken to deal with rising food prices?

不是我们说什么而是我们做什么才是重要的。(matter)

Everyone knew that the project would be completed and we’d all have to return to our own separate departments ______ .

How Babies Learn Language　　During the first year of a child’s life, parents and careers are concerned with its physical development very carefully. It is interesting just how easily children learn language. Children who are just three or four years old, who cannot yet tie their shoelaces, are able to speak in full sentences without any specific language training.　　The current view of child language development is that it is an instinct—something as natural as eating or sleeping. According to experts in this area, this language instinct is innate—something each of us is born with. But this prevailing view has not always enjoyed widespread acceptance.　　In the middle of last century, experts of the time, including a renowned professor at Harvard University in the United States, regarded child language development as the process of learning through mere repetition. Language “habits” developed as young children were they used incorrect forms of language correctly and ignored or punished when they used incorrect forms of language. Over time, a child, according to this theory, would learn language much like a dog might learn to behave properly through training.　　Yet even though the modern view holds that language is instinctive, experts like Assistant Professor Lise Eliot are convinced that the interaction a child has with its parents and caregivers is crucial to its developments. The language of the parents and caregivers is so important that the child will learn to speak in a manner very similar to the model speakers it hears.Given that the models parents provide are so important, it is interesting to consider the role of “baby talk” in the child’s language development. Baby talk is the language produced by an adult speaker who is trying to exaggerate certain aspects of the language to capture the attention of a young baby.　　Dr Roberta Golinkoff believes that babies benefit from baby talk. Experiment show that immediately after birth babies respond more to infant-directed talk than they do to adult-directed talk. When using baby talk, people exaggerate their facial expressions, which helps the baby to begin to understand what is being communicated. She also notes that the exaggerated nature and repetition of baby talk helps infants to learn the difference between sounds. Since babies have a great deal of information to process, baby talk helps. Although there is concern that baby talk may persist too long, Dr Golinkoff says that it stops being used as the child gets older, that is, when the child is better able to communicate with the parents.　　Professor Jusczyk has made a particular study of babies’ ability to recognize sounds, and says they recognize the sound of their own names as early as four and a half months. Babies know the meaning of Mummy and Daddy by about six months, which is earlier than was previously believed. By about nine months, babies begin recognizing frequent patterns in language. A baby will listen longer to the sounds that occur frequently, so it is good to frequently call the infant by its name.　　An experiment at Johns Hopkins University in USA, in which researchers went to the homes of 16 nine-month-olds, confirms this view. The researchers arranged their visits for ten days out of a two-week period. During each visit the researcher played an audio tape that included the same three stories. The stories included odd words such as “python” or “hornbill”, words that were unlikely to be encountered in the babies’ everyday experience. After a couple of weeks during which nothing was done, the babies were brought to the research lab, where they listened to two recorded lists of words. The first list included words heard in the story. The second included similar words, but not the exact ones that were used in the stories.　　Jusczyk found the babies listened longer to the words that had appeared in the stories, which indicated that the babies had extracted individual words from the story. When a control group of 16 nine-month-olds, who had not heard the stories, listened to the two groups of words, they showed no preference for either list.　　This does not mean that the babies actually understand the meanings of the words, just the sound patterns. It supports the idea that people are born to speak, and have the capacity to learn language from the day they are born. This ability is enhanced if they are involved in conversation. And, significantly, Dr Eliot reminds parents that babies and toddlers need to feel they are communicating.　　Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in the passage “How babies learn language”?　　YES if the statement agrees with the information　　NO　　　　　　　　if the statement dose not agree with the information　　NOT GIVEN　　　　if there is no information about this in the passage　　1．From the time of their birth humans seem to have an ability to learn language.　　2．According to experts in the 1950s and 1960s, language learning is very similar to the training of animals.　　3．Repetition in language learning is important, according to Dr Eliot.　　4．Dr Golinkoff is concerned that “baby talk” is spoken too much by some parents.　　5．The first word a child learns to recognize is usually “Mummy” or “Daddy”.

Lucy: Where’s Tony this evening?　　Joe:______　　Lucy: Really? What’s the matter with him?　　Joe: He has the flu.　　Lucy:______　　Joe: I will.

San Francisco, open your Golden Gate, sang the girl in the theatre. She never finished her song. That date was 18th April, 1906. The earth shook and the roof suddenly divided, buildings crashed to the ground and people rushed out into the streets. The dreadful earthquake destroyed the city that had grown up when men discovered gold in the deserts of California. But today the streets of San Francisco stretch over more than forty steep hills, rising like huge cliffs above the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean.

In this section, there is one passage followed by a summary. Read the passage carefully and complete the summery below by choosing a maximum of three words from the passage to fill in each of the blanks 51-5.Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.　　Malnutrition during weaning age—when breast milk is being replaced by semi-solid foods—is highly prevalent in children of poor households in many developing countries. While the etiology is complex and multifactorial, the immediate causes are recognized as feeding at less than adequate levels for child growth and development, and recurrent infections, including diarrhoea, resulting mainly from ingestion of contaminated foods. As a result, many young children, particularly between six months to two years of age, experience weight loss and impaired growth and development.　　Two such answers have arisen. Firstly, cereal fermentation is used for reducing the risk of contamination under the existing inappropriate conditions for food preparation and storage in many households. Secondly, a tiny amount of sprouted grains flour is used in preparation of weaning foods as a magic way to lessen the viscosity without decreasing energy density.　　A method to eliminate pathogenic bacteria and inhibit their growth during storage of weaning preparations can benefit nutrition and health in young children considerably. Use of fermented foods for feeding children of weaning age appears to be an effective solution. Fermented foods have lower levels of diarrhoeal germ contamination, they are suitable for child feeding, and can be safely stored for much longer periods of time than fresh foods. The practice has been a traditional way of food preservation in many parts of the world. The antimicrobial properties of fermented foods and their relative higher safety-documented since the early 1900’s—have been indicated in a number of studies.　　What are the underlying mechanisms by which fermentation processes help to prevent or reduce contamination? A possible answer suggests that during the fermentation process foods become more acid. This explains why diarrhoea-causing bacteria are not able to grow in fermented foods as rapidly as in unfermented ones. It is also hypothesized that some of the germs present in the foods are killed or inhibited from growing through the action of antimicrobial substances produced during fermentation (Dialogue on Diarrhoea, 1990). The fermented foods can, therefore, be kept for a longer time compared to fresh ones. It has been shown that while contamination levels in cooked unfermented foods increase with storage time, fermented foods remain less contaminated.　　Whatever the underlying mechanisms, the fact is that the exercise reduces contamination without adding to the household cost both in terms of time and money. Its preparation is easy. The cereal flour is mixed with water to form a dough which is left to be fermented; addition of yeast, or mixing with a small portion of previously fermented dough is sometimes needed. The dough can then be cooked into porridge for feeding to the child.　　Summary:　　Malnutrition and the resulting impaired growth and development in children of weaning age in developing countries results not only from (1)       but also from infections caused by contaminated food. Studies have addressed the problem of inadequate intake by using sprouted grains in food preparation. Contamination has been tackled with (2)      Both of these methods are, or were, used traditionally and are practical and inexpensive.Fermented foods have higher (3)      , and also have antimicrobial qualities. This means that contamination is decreased and that their (4)       is increased. Fermentation occurs when (5)      is left to stand, occasionally with simple additives.

如果你不改过自新的话，那你总有一天会坐牢的。(end up)

Although he is recognized as one of the most brilliant scientists in his field, Professor White cannot seem to______ in class.

The committee has made rules ______ all its members are supposed to work.

The three men tried many times to sneak across the border into the neighbouring country, ______ by the police each time.

The book gives a brief______ of the history of the castle which was built in the Middle Ages.

It was a stroke of luck that she had always been able to write with ______ hand, which sometimes helped her a lot.

And, _______, if you’re going to be gone for a while, say on vacation, Dr. Michael Fox suggests you keep in touch with him by email.