Choose words that the underlined vowels are the same.

A、hard

B、calm

C、staff

D、catch

Identify the words that do not belong to the same semantic field as the others in the set.

?Read the following letter.

?Choose the best word to fill each gap.

?For each question (19 -33), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.

?One answer has been given as an example.

Most managers make decisions under conditions of risk. and the managers at Super Drinks are no exception. With 10 percent of the domestic soft-drink market under its (19) the company has now (20) its horizons and moved into the wine industry.

Having (21) ＄110 million buying the Taste Wine corporation. Super Drinks are currently in the process of (22) to the wine business the same tools that have made coke a popular soft drink in the world -- money, muscle and marketing. The firm is trying to (23) its newly acquired wine business to the soft-drink mold that has proved (24) .

Can Super Drinks make this (25) pay off? The company is optimistic. For example. while Taste grossed only ＄65 million the year it was (26) , Super Drinks' executives believe it will gross over ＄1 billion by the end of the 2010s. nearly 15 times Taste's current (27) . On the other hand. there are several things that Taste has going for. One is the Super Drinks' money and management expertise that are available for this wine (28) The other is that while Taste, in the past, (29) only the New York table wine business and produced sweeter wines that (30) less than 10 percent of the domestic market, the Taste wine brand was the most commonly (31) of all. Building on these (32) , the management hopes to. via effective decision making, make Taste wine almost as (33) as Super Drinks.

(19)

A．guidance

B．direction

C．control

D．management

Replace the underlined words with the correctform of the words below. exaggerate historical identify instinct objective poverty similarly unexpected 1 The president was extremely popular, so his assassination was quite extraordinary . 2. As a writer, he took the facts and then made them more dramatic to make a better story. 3 In the past , the US was a colony of the UK, and today the two countries still enjoy a close relationship. 4 She tries hard to write factually but cannot stop herself from revealing her opinions. 5 The state of being poor is defined as the inability to pay for your basic needs. 6. They say bad news travels fast. In the same way , we hear extremely quickly about major news stories. 7. When there’s breaking news, I automatically check several news media sources. 8. She was in New York on 9/11, so she sympathizes with ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events.

The teacher creates a situation and askes the students to speak out the words that can be used in that situation. What vocabulary learning strategy does the activity help to train?

A. Association.

B. Contextualization.

C. Collocation.

D. Cohesiveness.

Directions:

Readthefollowingtext.ChoosethebestwordorphraseforeachnumberedblankandmarkA,B,C,or

DonANSWERSHEET1.

Text

After20yearsofmarriage,ahusbandmaystillnotunderstandhiswife.Howisitthatsheisneverata26forwords?Howcanshe27thenamesofacoupletheymeton28yearsago?Nowweknow29totellhim:it'sherbrain.

Althoughthereareobviouslycultural30forthedifferencesinemotionsandbehavior,31breakthroughresear

chrevealsthatthe32ofmanypuzzlingdifferencesbetweenmenandwomenmay33inthehead.Men'sandwomen's

brains34muchincommon,buttheyaredefinitelynotthesame35size,structureorinsight.Broadlyspeaking,

awoman'sbrain,likeherbody,istentofifteenpercentsmallerthanaman's,36theregionsdedicatedtolanguagemaybe

moredensely37withbraincells.

Girlsgenerallyspeakearlierandreadfaster.Thereasonmaybe38femalesusebothsidesofthebrainwhenthey

read.In39,malesrelyonlyontheleftside.

Ateveryage,women'smemories40men's,Theyhaveagreaterabilityto41___nameswithfacesthanmendo,and

theyare42atrecallinglist.Theeventspeoplerememberbestarethosethatanemotionisattachedto.43womenuse

moreoftheirrightbrains,which44emotions,theymaydothisautomatically.

Whilewedon'tyetknowwhatallthesefindingsimply,onethingis45:maleandfe-malebrainsdothesamethings,buttheydothemdifferently.

26________.

[A]slip

[B]puzzle

[C]loss

[D]failure

Directions:

Readthefollowingtext.ChoosethebestwordorphraseforeachnumberedblankandmarkA,B,C,orDonAN

-SWERSHEET1.

Text

After20yearsofmarriage,ahusbandmaystillnotunderstandhiswife.Howisitthatsheisneverata26forwords?Howcanshe27thenamesofacoupletheymeton28yearsago?Nowweknow29totellhim:it'sherbrain.

Althoughthereareobviouslycultural30forthedifferencesinemotionsandbehavior,31breakthroughresearch

revealsthatthe32ofmanypuzzlingdifferencesbetweenmenandwomenmay33inthehead.Men'sandwomen's

brains34muchincommon,buttheyaredefinitelynotthesame35size,structureorinsight.Broadlyspeaking,a

woman'sbrain,likeherbody,istentofifteenpercentsmallerthanaman's,36theregionsdedicatedtolanguage

maybemoredensely37withbraincells.

Girlsgenerallyspeakearlierandreadfaster.Thereasonmaybe38femalesusebothsidesofthebrainwhenthey

read.In39,malesrelyonlyontheleftside.

Ateveryage,women'smemories40men's,Theyhaveagreaterabilityto41___nameswithfacesthanmendo,and

theyare42atrecallinglist.Theeventspeoplerememberbestarethosethatanemotionisattachedto.43women

usemoreoftheirrightbrains,which44emotions,theymaydothisautomatically.

Whilewedon'tyetknowwhatallthesefindingsimply,onethingis45:maleandfe-malebrainsdothesamethings,buttheydothemdifferently.

26______.

[A]slip

[B]puzzle

[C]loss

[D]failure

Directions:

Readthefollowingtext.ChoosethebestwordorphraseforeachnumberedblankandmarkA,B,C,orDon

ANSWERSHEET1.

Text

After20yearsofmarriage,ahusbandmaystillnotunderstandhiswife.Howisitthatsheisneverata26forwords?Howcanshe27thenamesofacoupletheymeton28yearsago?Nowweknow29totellhim:it'sherbrain.

Althoughthereareobviouslycultural30forthedifferencesinemotionsandbehavior,31breakthroughresearchreveals

thatthe32ofmanypuzzlingdifferencesbetweenmenandwomenmay33inthehead.Men'sandwomen'sbrains

34muchincommon,buttheyaredefinitelynotthesame35size,structureorinsight.Broadlyspeaking,awoman's

brain,likeherbody,istentofifteenpercentsmallerthanaman's,36theregionsdedicatedtolanguagemaybemore

densely37withbraincells.

Girlsgenerallyspeakearlierandreadfaster.Thereasonmaybe38femalesusebothsidesofthebrainwhenthey

read.In39,malesrelyonlyontheleftside.

Ateveryage,women'smemories40men's,Theyhaveagreaterabilityto41___nameswithfacesthanmendo,and

theyare42atrecallinglist.Theeventspeoplerememberbestarethosethatanemotionisattachedto.43women

usemoreoftheirrightbrains,which44emotions,theymaydothisautomatically.

Whilewedon'tyetknowwhatallthesefindingsimply,onethingis45:maleandfe-malebrainsdothesamethings,buttheydothemdifferently.

26_______.

[A]slip

[B]puzzle

[C]loss

[D]failure

Directions:

Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.

Text

If you are worried about things and are under a lot of stress at work or school, then you are probably not sleeping well. Worry can keep you awake, tossing and (26) in bed until the early hours of the morning when you eventually (27) asleep. When you wake up, you don't feel (28) , but tired and worn out and 29 to face a new day.

Dr. Henry Winkle, in a recent newspaper article (30) Stress and Sleep, (31) that stress and lack of sleep are directly (32) Dr. Winkle says, "the more we worry, the (33) we sleep, the more we are unable to deal with (34) " "If we can find a way to get a good night' s sleep," he (35) ," we can often find the (36) to deal with what' s worrying us. "

So, what is a good night' s sleep? Research shows that the amount of sleep which people need in order to keep healthy (37) a lot. Seven hours is about the average amount, (38) strangely enough, sleeping longer often gives you a headache (39) of making you feel more refreshed.

Dr. Winkle believes that preparing for sleeping is important. People who work late should try to give themselves a short (40) and do something restful before going to bed. This could be watching TV or listening to music. Doing some exercise (41) in the day should help you to feel physically as well as (42) tired. A bedtime drink can also help, but coffee or tea should be avoided as they contain caffeine (咖啡因) and will keep you (43) ." When you put the light (44) ," Dr. Winkle says, "concentrate on relaxing your muscles. Working slowly up from your feet, and you'll be asleep (45) you know it. "

26. [A] turning

[B] rolling

[C] twisting

[D] rotating

回答题

Directions:

Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A， B，C， or D on your ANSWER SHEET.

It is an unfortunate fact of today"s life that most people are growing up unable to see the stars.

The prime night sky exists only 26pictures. This is true not only in cities and suburbs， but al-so in 27areas. We have lost our view of the stars and 28our nighttime environment as well.

Such a loss29be acceptable if light pollution were the inevitable price of progress， 30it is not. Most sky glow is 31 . It comes mainly from lighting sources that do little to increase32 safety， security or utility. They produce only glare，33over one billion dollars annually in the U.S. alone.

34science， the impact has been even more dramatiC.Scientists require observations of extremely faint objects that can only be 35 with advanced devices at sites 36of air pollu-tion and urban sky glow. For example， some images of the objects can 37information about faraway comers of the universe， helping us understand the way in 38our world was actually formed.39 ， the light from these objects can be lost at the very end of its 40 in the glare of our own sky.

Reducing light pollution is not difficult. It 41that public officials and citizens be 42of the problem and act to counter it. As 43people can help reduce sky glow just by 44 lighting only when necessary.

The stars above us are a 45heritage. We must do our best to preserve it.

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