You can sometimes _ a point you want to make with a short personal story.

A.A. I start making mistakes when I work really lat

B.B. Sometimes I think I should just quit this jo

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D.D. I can make it.

根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。（每空一词） There a__85__ many words in English, but you can’t know every English word. W__86__ you read, you’ll often find many new w__87__ you don’t know. You’ll not have enough t_88_ to stop reading and try to find every new word in a dictionary（词典）. Sometimes you can g__89__ the meaning of a new word because you know some of the parts of the new word. For example. if a word ends in the l__90__ “er”, that word must be the name for a p__91__ or a thing that does some action(动作). A w__92__ is a person who writes. Sometimes this is not enough to u__93__ a word, but it will h__94__ you to know the article(文章) easily when you are reading.

roblem, and they are very bad for musicians. 3. I can buy pirated software in some small computer stores I know. 4. You know it is pirated if it is very cheap. 5. You can tell the software is pirated if the label is from a copy machine. 6. Sometimes the seller gives you a CD that has no printing on it. 7. Sometimes real copies of software cost more than a thousand dollars. 8. I think it is wrong to buy pirated software because it is like stealing from the company.

Health Care and Epidemics (流行病)

Everyone suffers from disease at some time or another. However, millions of people around the world do not have good health care. Sometimes they have no money to pay for medical treatment. Sometimes they have money, but there is no doctor. Sometimes the doctor does not know how to treat the disease, and sometimes there is no treatment. Some people are afraid of doctors. When these conditions are present in large population centers, epidemics can start.

Epidemics can change history. Explorations and wars cause different groups of people to come into contact with other. They carry strange disease to each other. For example, when the Europeans first came to North and South America, they brought diseases with them that killed about 95 percent of the Native American population.

People are very afraid of unknown things, especially diseases. People have all kinds of ideas about how to prevent and treat disease. Some people think that if you eat lots of onions or garlic, you won' t get sick. Others say you should take huge amounts of vitamins. Scientific experiments have not proved most of these theories. However, people still spend millions of dollars on vitamins and other probably useless treatments or preventatives. Some people want antibiotics whenever they get sick. Some antibiotics are very expensive. Much of this money is wasted because some diseases are caused by a virus. Viruses are even smaller than bacteria, and they cause different kinds of diseases. Antibiotics are useless against viruses.

Because of their fear, people can be cruel to victims of disease. Sometimes they fire them from their jobs, throw them out of their apartments, and refuse them transportation services.

In the plague (瘟疫) epidemics a few hundred years ago, people simply covered the doors and windows of the victim' s houses and left them to die inside, all in an effort to protect themselves from getting sick.

Doctors know how most epidemic diseases spread. Some, like tuberculosis, are spread when people' s sneeze (喷嚏) sends the bacteria shooting out into the air. Then they enter the mouth or nose of anyone nearby.

Others are spread through human contact, such as on the hands. When you are sick and blow your nose, you get viruses or bacteria on your hands. Then you touch another person' s hand, and when that person touches his or her mouth, nose, or eyes, the disease enters the body. Some diseases spread when people touch the same dishes, towels, and furniture. You can pick up a disease when you touch things in public buildings.

Other diseases are spread through insects such as flies, mosquitoes, and ticks.

One disease that causes frequent, worldwide epidemics is influenza, or flu for short. The symptoms (症状) of influenza include headache and sometimes a runny nose. Some victims get sick to their stomachs. These symptoms are similar to symptoms of other, milder diseases. Influenza can be a much more serious disease, especially for pregnant women, people over sixty-five, and people already suffering from another disease, such as heart problems. About half of all flu patients have a high body temperature, called a fever. Flu is very contagious. One person catches the flu from another person; it doesn't begin inside the body as heart disease does.

Sometimes medicine can relieve the symptoms. That is, it can make a person cough less, make headaches less intense, and stop noses from running for a while. However, medicine can ' t always cure the disease. So far, there is no cure for many diseases and no medicine to prevent them. People have to try to prevent them in other ways.

Some diseases can be prevented by vaccination (接种疫苗). A liquid vaccine is injected into the arm or taken by mouth and the person is safe from catching that

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

s in one day In the morning the weather is warm just like in spring.An hour later black clouds come and then it rains hard The weather gets a little cold.In the late afternoon the sky will be sunny, the sun will begin to shine, and it will be summer at this time of a day.In England, people can also have summer in winter, or have winter in summer.So in winter they can swim sometimes, and in summer

sometimes they should take warm clothes.When you go to England, you will see that some English people usually take an umbrella or a raincoat with them in the sunny morning.

but you should not laugh at them.If you don't take an umbrella or a rain coat, you will regret later in the day.

6.People in England often talk about the weather，because the sky is sunny all day.()

A.T

B.F

7.From the story we know that when black clouds come，there is a heavy rain.()

A.T

B.F

8.The sentence “People can also have summer in winter.”means “it is sometimes too warm in winter.”()

A.T

B.F

9.In the sunny morning some English people usually take a raincoat or an umbrella with them because their friends ask them to do so.()

A.T

B.F

10.The best title for this passage is Summer or Winter in England.()

A.T

B.F

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听力原文：M: Can I open a foreign currency account and convert my money into a currency which offers the highest interest？

W: Yes, we can arrange that for you, but foreign currency exchange rates are subject to fluctuation and sometimes you will suffer losses.

Q: What does the woman mean？

(11)

A．Interest rate of a foreign currency is much higher.

B．There are risks of losing money sometimes to open a foreign currency account.

C．Foreign currencies exchange rates are relatively stable.

D．It is advisable to open a foreign currency account.

s. Every business has its ups and downs, and so does every person. In other words, sometimes we succeed and sometimes we fail. Another common way of saying this is “You win some and you lose some.” Nobody wins all the time, not even in the great success stories that we read or hear about. Think of a successful entrepreneur. Now, do you think that person achieved great success on their first attempt In 99% of cases, the answer is no. Every successful businessperson learned through failure. Now have a look at your favorite business news site. You’ll see that almost every story can be put into either the category of success or that of failure. Businesses either grow or shrink but they don’t remain the same.

1. Every person has his or her ups and downs.()

2. A common saying “You win some and you lose some” means that sometimes we succeed and sometimes we fail.()

3. Ninety nine percent of successful businessmen achieved great success on their first try.()

4. Successful businessmen learn through failure.()

5. Businesses either shrink or remain the same.()

Alicia: Would you tell me something about stock shares？

Brian: OK.(1)In other words, if you buy shares of stock in a business, you become a partial owner of the business.

Alicia: How can investors make money？

Brian: (2)if a person invests in a company that does very well.

Alicia: It's possible for the investors to get a complete loss, isn't it？

Brian: Everyone wants the stock market to go up, but sometimes, (3)This is usually true for all stocks.

A.The price of each share will go up.

B.even when a company does well the stock may go down.

C.Shares represent a partial ownership of the company.

D.There is a listed company behind every stock

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE: A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE

It is the {weirder; weirdest; weird} thing. There are more ways than ever to communicate with people, yet it sometimes seems like it is more difficult to connect — and stay {connecting; connected; to connect} — with anyone.

Should you {shoot; mail; give} off an email？ Tap out a text？ Post a private message on Facebook？ Write on their Facebook wall？ Skype, poke, ping or conjure them up on a digital tin can phone？

And once you reach someone, you wonder: Is he paying attention？ How do you know？ Even with the techno-ease of {uncountable; countable; countless} communication devices, conversations can still be troublesome. Questions are asked and answered {out; away; within} of order. Instructions and directions go half-read. Meetings are botched. Feelings are hurt.