If words continue to be used for at least five years they generally end up in the Oxf

In most cases, the taxpayer may continue to use percentage （statutory) depletion after t

he initial basis has been fully recovered. In other words, the taxpayer's depletion deduction can exceed the cost of the depletable asset.()

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hold great respect for their cultural______. He would like to order today’s ______ in this restaurant. Their dances have______ our interest in their culture. The boy was so ______ by the game that he forgot to do this homework. Jenny’s story ______ the artist to create many famous paintings. We pray that both sides will continue to ______ their commitment to the peace agreement. This store is the largest ______ in this city. He had a ______ that one day all slaves would be free. We will ______ for excellence in our service. Quality is our best ______ to our customers.

. We hold great respect for their cultural ______. He would like to order today’s ______ in this restaurant. Their dances have _______ our interest in their culture. The boy was so ____ by the game that he forgot to do his homework. Jenny’s story _____ the artist to create many famous paintings. We pray that both sides will continue to ______ their commitment to the peace agreement. This story is the larget ______ in this city. He had a _____that one day all slaves would be free. We will _____ for excellent in our service. Quality is our best ___ to our customers.

The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure 【M1】______

who does the changing. One possibility is that children are responsible. A

professor of linguistic at the University of Hawaii, explores this in one of his 【M2】______

recent books. Sometimes around 1880, a language catastrophe occurred in 【M3】______

Hawaii when thousands of emigrant workers were brought to the islands to 【M4】______

work for the new sugar industry. These people speaking different languages

were unable to communicate with each other or with the native Hawaiians or

the dominant English-speaking owners of the plantations. So they first spoke

in Pidgin English-- the sort of thing such mixed language populations have 【M5】______

always done. A pidgin is not really a language at all. It is more like a set of

verbal signals used to name objects and without the grammatical rules needed

for expressing thoughts and ideas. And then, within a single generation, the 【M6】______

whole mass of mixed people began speaking a totally new tongue: Hawaiian 【M7】______

Creole. The new speech was contained ready-made words borrowed from all 【M8】______

the original tongues, but beared little or no resemblance to the predecessors in 【M9】______

the rules used for stringing the words together. Although generally regarded as 【M10】______

primitive language, Hawaiian Creole had a highly sophisticated grammar.

【M1】

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Teaching children to read well from the start is the most important task of elementary schools. But relying on educators to approach this task correctly can be a great mistake. Many schools continue to employ instructional methods that have been proven ineffective. The staying power of the "look-say" or "whole-word" method of teaching beginning reading is perhaps the most flagrant example of this failure to instruct effectively.

The whole-word approach to reading stresses the meaning of words over the meaning of letters， thinking over decoding， developing a sight vocabulary of familiar words over developing the ability to unlock the pronunciation of unfamiliar words. It fits in with the self-directed，"learning how to learn" activities recommended by advocates of "open" classrooms and with the concept that children have to be developmentally ready to begin reading. Before 1963， no major publisher put out anything but these "Run-Spot-Run" readers.

However， in 1955， Rudolf Flesch touched off what has been called "the great debate" in beginning reading. In his best-seller Why Johnny Can"t Read， Flesch indicted the nation"s public schools for miseducating students by using the look-say method. He said——and more scholarly studies by Jeane Chall and Rovert Dykstra later confirmed——that another approach to beginning reading， founded on phonics， is far superior.

Systematic phonics first teaches children to associate letters and letter combinations with

sounds; it then teaches them how to blend these sounds together to make words. Rather than building up a relatively limited vocabulary of memorized words， it imparts a code by which the pronunciations of the vast majority of the most common words in the English language can be learned. Phonics does not devalue the importance of thinking about the meaning of words and sentences; it simply recognizes that decoding is the logical and necessary first step.

The author feels that counting on educators to teach reading correctly is_________. 查看材料

A. only logical and natural

B. the expected position

C. probably a mistake

D. merely effective instruction

anguage, he should be able to notice a number of significant truths. The history of our language has always been a history of constant change--at times a slow, almost imperceptible change, at other times a violent collision between two languages. Our language has always been a living, growing organism, it has never been static. Another significant truth that emerges from such a study is that language at all times has been the possession not of one class or group but of many. At one extreme it has been the property of the common, ignorant folk, who have used it in the daily business of their living, much as they have used their animals or the kitchen pots and pans. At the other extreme it has been the treasure of those who have respected it as an instrument and a sign of civilization, and who have struggled by writing it down to give it some permanence, order, dignity, and if possible, a little beauty.

As we consider our changing language, we should note here two developments that are of special and immediate importance to us. One is that since the time of the Anglo-Saxons there has been an almost complete reversal of the different devices for showing the relationship of words in a sentence. Anglo-Saxon (old English ) was a language of many inflections. Modem English has few inflections. (78) We must now depend largely on word order and function words to convey the meanings that the older language did by means of changes in the forms of words. Function words, you should understand, are words such as prepositions, conjunctions, and a few others that are used primarily to show relationships among other words. A few inflections, however, have survived.

And when some word inflections come into conflict with word order, there may be trouble for the users of the language, as we shall see later when we turn our attention to such matters as WHO or WHOM and ME or I. The second fact we must consider is that as language itself changes, our attitudes toward language forms change also. The eighteenth century, for example, produced from various sources a tendency to fix the language into patterns not always set in, which grew until at the present time there is a strong tendency to restudy and re-evaluate language practices in terms of the ways in which people speak and write.

In contrast to the earlier linguists, modem linguists tend to ______ .

A．attempt to continue the standardization of the language

B．evaluate language practices in terms of current speech rather than standards or proper patterns

C．be more concerned about the improvement of the language than its analysis or history

D．be more aware of the roles of the language usage

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the

China has outlined a new approach to foreign investment, with planners saying they will now focus less on attracting large amounts of cash and more on selecting investments that will bring skills and technology into the country. The change in tactics,【B1】______ in an official document published by the National Development and Reform. Commission, comes after more than a year of【B2】______ debate over the role foreign investors should play in China's economy. China has long been one of the world's top【B3】______ for foreign investment, and international companies【B4】______ in more than $70 billion last year, drawn by the country's low costs,【B5】______ prowess and huge domestic market. But the inroads have caused some unease among both ordinary people and officials, who also want to see domestic companies do well. The new foreign-in vestment plan, which isn't a【B6】______ blueprint but rather a statement of broad【B7】______ , does say that regulators will look more closely at foreign takeovers of local companies and other issues of "national economic security" that have received increasing attention recently. But the vision it advances represents neither an attempt to【B8】______ close off China's economy nor a new round of liberalization. The planning agency said【B9】______ . For instance, new investments by foreign companies will face stricter environmental and land-use standards. On the other hand,【B10】______ . The plan said China will continue to open up service industries,【B11】______ . The commission also pledged to improve the business environment by reducing red tape and strengthening enforcement of intellectual-property rights.

【B1】

lf the people in the world cannot read or write. They can learn about things only by watching and listening. However, people who can read are able to learn about anything they wish. People can read a language better if they have listened to it or learned to speak it. Reading, listening, and speaking are ways people come to understand the words of a language. Being able to write also makes reading easier. A mother or father is often a child’s first reading teacher. By speaking to a baby, the parent helps the baby understand what language is and what it is for. Children feel love and joy in the sounds of words. They try to talk back. As babies listen and speak, they store up facts and ideas. Certain things children do in the early years help them learn. Young children enjoy looking at picture books. Later, the parent reads books that the child can look at as well as listen to. At age five many children are beginning to read and write. Some can recognize their own names. Children continue to learn to read in school with their teacher’s help. Sometimes children read out loud. At other times they read silently. They learn to understand and remember. Reading teaches them new facts and helps them get along in everyday life.

1.The word “fortunate” in the first paragraph means ().

A.lucky

B.successful

C.wealthy

D.good

2.People who can read .

A.can learn by reading.

B.can understand a language better.

C.are probably able to learn better.

D.all of the above

3.A child can learn things around very quickly. It may be because ().

A.his parents often speak to him.

B.He can understand things by listening.

C.He has his own storage of knowledge by and by.

D.All of the above.

4.Parents often read books for their children mainly because ().

A.stories in the books can make children calm.

B.Children can gain some knowledge form. the books.

C.It is easy to make children fall asleep.

D.Parents need to talk with their children in this way.

5.Speaking and reading are very important because ().

A.they are two fundamental ways through which children learn a language

B.children should make a living through these ways

C.because children learn the two skills since they are very young

D.children should learn to read to recognize their own names