It’s hot today. The temperature ________ to 35℃.

(A) So do I

(B) I would like it very much

(C) I don’t know

(D) I don’t like it at all

It was hot yesterday,but it is very hotter today.()

A.It is hot today.

B.It is not my business.

C.Who is on duty this week？

D.Let me have a try

A.A.()

B.B. bot

C.C... and

D.D. so... but

E.E. neither... nor

_1_ about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. We're _2_ with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity（肥胖）. Perhaps the _3_ to this ambivalence（矛盾情结）lies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop（经济作物）wasn't eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more _4_ ways of doing it.

The immigrant experience, too, has been one of inharmony. Do as Romans do means eating what “real Americans” eat, but our nation's food has come to be _5_ by imports—pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the country's most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles.

Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nation's defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sitins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political.

But strong opinions have not brought _7_ . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become _8_ of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain.

The _9_ in food is still prosperous in the American consciousness. It's no coincidence, then, that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage（束缚）. It's what we eat—and how we _10_ it with friends, family, and strangers—that help define America as a community today.

A. answer

I. creative

B. result

J. belief

C. share

K. suspicious

D. guilty

L. certainty

E. constant

M. obsessed

F. defined

N. identify

G. vanish

O. ideals

H. adapted

Passage Three

Many theories about the origin of the ocean have been proposed by scientists. The most widely accepted one is that the earth at some time in its very early history became hot enough to melt the materials from which it was formed. While in this molten state, lighter rock-forming materials (造岩材料) floated on the surface of the heavier ones. Then, between four and a half four billion (十亿) years ago, the molten earth cooled sufficiently to form. a crust of rock that was many miles thick.

Surrounding the earth was an unbroken canopy of clouds miles thick and made up mostly of water vapor. Rain falling toward the still-hot earth was heated to steam and rose to the clouds again. After many millions of years, as the earth continued to cool, its surface temperature fell below the boiling point of water. Rainwater could now remain on the earth, covering its whole surface except for the higher places on earth that had been formed from the lighter rock materials.

In 1970, scientists had pieced together evidence that the lighter rock materials had formed one huge continent by a vast ocean. Then, about 200 million years ago, the great continent began to break up, the pieces moving slowly apart.

The onrushing waters of the single huge ocean now entered and filled the spaces between the separating continents--and became the several oceans and seas we know today.

41. This passage mainly talks about ______.

A. the origin of the earth

B. the origin of the ocean

C. the history of the earth

D. the forming of the earth's crust

Once a week my aunt would announce, "I am going to have my bath today."

Now most people find it fairly simple to have a bath.You probably remember how it goes.You enter the bathroom, you put the plug in, turn on the hot water, get into the bath, wash, sing, get out, dry yourself and exit.My aunt's approach was more epic(宏大的), like one of those long Eisenstein films where people seem to be climbing up the same flight of stairs forever.

My aunt would first slowly collect her clean linen(亚麻布衬衫), so as to have it all ready for changing into after her bath.This involved sorting out her linen, which took up most of the morning.Sometimes she would find an old letter buried among her linen, become interested in the memories it aroused and have to postpone the bath until the next day.But if all went well, she would have a bite of lunch and start Phase Two around two o'clock.

Phase Two was washing out the bath.She would wash the bath very thoroughly, rinse(冲洗) it with running cold water, rewash it and then carefully feel the whole surface with her fingers.If there was the slightest blemish, she would clean the whole bath out again.This took about an hour.Then she would fill the bath.

By this time she was feeling a bit hungry and exhausted.So she would put on the kettle for a cup of tea.Several cups of tea and several cream crackers (her favourite food) later, she would go back to the bathroom.And find the water stone cold.

1.According to the writer, most people().

A.read magazines in the bath

B.make bath time a special occasion

C.sing when they are in the bath

D.have a bath once every other week

2.The writer's aunt().

A.never got used to taking a bath regularly

B.always treated bathtime as an event

C.hated climbing the stairs to the bathroom

D.would collect her new linen quickly

3.How did she use to spend most of the morning？()

A.Reading old letters.

B.Preparing lunch.

C.Getting the bath water hot.

D.Sorting out her linen.

4.Why might the writer's aunt put off bathing until the next day？()

A.She might get fascinated by an old letter.

B.She would sometimes get too tired.

C.She would sometimes have lunch instead.

D.She might start ironing the linen.

5.She would never fill the bath until she().

A.had cleaned it at least three times

B.had had several cups of tea

C.had polished it inside and outside

D.had made sure it was perfectly clean

A.It's March 6.

B.It's a fine day today.

C.It's March.

D.It's Monday.

—You seem a little blue today. What's the matter？

—_____________________.

A It's been a difficult day.

B It doesn't matter.

C I am a little sad.