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re than ten million.

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Bbudget

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It takes the computer______to write ten letters.

A．no more than ten seconds

B．less than ten seconds

C．a little more than ten seconds

D．at least one second

est working hours in Europe is the UK. In the UK, a worker puts in over 43.6 hours a week on average - far higher than any other European country. The average in the European Union (EU) is around 40 hours a week. Astonishingly, in the UK, one in ten workers spends more than 61 hours a week at work. In addition, a British worker only has 20 days’ holiday a year.Interestingly, however, despite the fact that the British have the shortest holidays and the longest working hours in the EU, the UK's GDP per worker is one of the lowest in Europe. Mediterranean countries like Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy have some of the longest holidays in Europe, ranging from 33 to 36 days. Although Austria has the longest holiday time of all in Europe (38 days on average), it has an above-average GDP per worker.

1. UK Workers have the shortest holidays () .A. in the world

B. in Europe

C. in western Europe

D. in the Mediterranean

2. On average workers in the UK puts in ()hours more than those in the European Union.A. 3.6 hours

B. 17.4 hours

C. 20 hours

D. 21 hours

3. In the UK, () works more than 61 hours a week.A. one in five

B. one in ten

C. one in 20

D. one in 40

4. The second paragraph mainly tells us that ().A. the British have the shortest holidays

B. the British have the longest holidays

C. the British have the longest working hours

D. the UK’s GDP per worker is one of the lowest in Europe

5. () has the longest holiday time of all in Europe.A. Spain

B. Portugal

C. Austria

D. Greece

e bees' crushed bodies can better prevent serious and sometimes fatal sting reactions in the more than one million Americans who are hypersensitive to bee stings. The crushed-body treatment has been standard for fifty years, but a report released recently said that it was ineffective. The serum made from the crushed bodies of bees produced more adverse reactions than the injections of the venom did.

The research compared results of the crushed-body treatment with results of immunotherapy that used insect venom and also with results of a placebo. After six to ten weeks of immunization, allergic reactions to stings occurred in seven of twelve patients treated with the placebo, seven of twelve treated with crushed body extract, and one of eighteen treated with the venom.

The word "fatal" in paragraph 1, sentence 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

A．harmful

B．lethal

C．painful

D．disease-causing

dren,there may be other family members:grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.'That is to say,a large family may have more than two generations, and of ten there are more than two adults from different generations of a family.

The family members live together for many reasons. They may help to bring up children or to take care of an ill relative. They may also help with saving money. Sometimes children are brought up by their grandparents, for their parents have died or can never take care of them. Many grandparents look after the children, particularly when both parents are busy working.This large family is called extended family.It can be found all over the world. The number of these families has increased by 40 percent in the past ten years. Most of such families live happily together.(判断)

l.In an extended family, people live in different houses.

2.An extend family includes at least three generations.

3.In an extended family, chi ldren are looked after by their grandparents because their parentsare traveling around.

4.Extended families can be found all over the world.

5.Children can live happily with their parents and grandparents.

A．They understood that many things in the world are "fixed," but in art, we can make things alive by giving them some movement, by providing several perspectives．

B．Traditionally in China everyone is against monotony and routine,in art, one expresses this rebellious attitude towards monotony and routine by having more than one perspectiv

E．

C．They believed that Dao gave life to ten thousand things, so to understand Dao we need to analyze those many things and in art, we can do that by having several perspectives．

D．Chinese seek to find dynamic Dao in the movements． Thus an artist tries to express Dao dynamics by constantly changing that point of perspective in the painting

ave a comfortable house near the sea.

During the winter they would be quite happy, but every summer a lot of their relatives used to spend holiday in their house, and it was much cheaper than staying in hotel. Finally one day in June Mr. Richards complained to a clever friend of his who lived in the same place. “One of my wife’s cousins is going to bring her husband and children and spend ten days with us next month again. How have you prevented all your relatives from coming to live with you in summer？” “Oh,” the friend answered, “that is not difficult. I just borrow money from all the rich ones, and lend it to all the poor ones. After that, they seldom come again.” Hearing this Mr. Richards smiled.

第40题：The relatives preferred to stay in Mr. Richards’ house because ________.

[A] it was cool in summer

[B] they might spend less money

[C] they were more welcome

[D] it was a comfortable place

. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage. Nearly a third of women are the main breadwinners in their household in Britain, according to a major survey.Researchers said that in many relationships it was no longer assumed that the man would bring in the bigger income，47 in a time of widespread redundancies(裁员)． In a 48 shift in attitudes, four out of ten women said that the career of whichever partner had the highest income would take 49 in the relationship. In one in ten families, a house husband looks after the children and does the 50 while their female partner works full time. Ten percent of women admitted this role 51 had put strains on their relationship and some said it had even led to them 52 company． The Women and Work Survey 2010，commissioned(受……委托)by Grazia magazine，found that almost half of full-time mothers 53 not earning their own money. And two thirds of the mothers among the 2,000 women in the survey said they wanted to keep working in some way after having children. A 54 higher number of those with children under three said they would prefer to work--preferably part-time----rather than stay at home. Victoria Harper of Grazia said,"Women are getting good jobs when they graduate, and working up the career 55 faster than they have ever done." This means that there has to be more 56 between the roles of men and women in a relationship and when they have children. A．precedence I．especially B．connection J．parting C．prospect K．opposite D．slightly L．chores E．ladder M．disliked F．favored N．fluidity G．plan Ｏ．significant H．reversal 47.__________

I()in the company for more than ten years.

A. work

B. have worked

C. worked

nal status. The Chinese have risen to this position despite some of the harshest discrimination and violence faced by any immigrants to the United States in the history of this country. Long confined to a narrow range of occupations, they succeeded in those occupations and then spread out into other areas in later years, when opportunities finally opened up for them. Today much of the Chinese prosperity is due to the simple fact that they work more and have more (usually better) education than others. Almost one out of five Chinese families has three or more income earners compared to one out of thirteen for Puerto Ricans, one out of ten among American Indians, and one out of eight among Whites. When the Chinese advantages in working and educational are held constant, they have no advantage over other Americans. That is in a Chinese Family with a given number of people working and with a given amount of education by the head of the family; the income is not only about average for such families, but offer a little less than average.

While Chinese Americans as a group are prosperous and well-educated Chinatowns are pockets of poverty, and illiteracy is much higher among the Chinese than among Americans in general. Those paradoxes are due to sharp internal differences. Descendants of the Chinese Americans who emigrated long ago from Toishan Province have maintained Chinese values and have added acculturation to American society with remarkable success. More recent Hong Kong Chinese are from more diverse cultural origins, and acquired western values and styles in Hong Kong, without having acquired the skills to proper and support those aspirations in the American economy. Foreign- born Chinese men in the United States earn one-fourth lower incomes than native-born Chinese even though the foreign-born have been in the United States an average of seventeen years. While the older Hong Kong Chinese work tenaciously to sustain and advance themselves, the Hong Kong Chinese youths often react with resentment and antisocial behavior, including terrorism and murder. The need to maintain tourism in Chinatown causes the Chinese leaders to mute or downplay these problems as much as possible.

According to the passage, today, Chinese Americans owe their prosperity to ______.

A．their diligence and better education than others

B．their support of American government

C．their fight against discriminations

D．advantages in working only