The Pub Talk and King's English means

Mr. Wang teaches English in a middle school. He likes his work very much. He wanted【C1】______a teacher even when he was a young boy. There are six classes in a school day at Mr. Wangs middle school. Mr. Wang teaches five of these six classes.【C2】______his "free" hour from 2 to 3 in the afternoon, Mr.Wang【C3】______meet with parents , check students homework and【C4】______many other things. So Mr. Wang works hard from the moment he gets to school early in the morning until heleaves for home late in the afternoon, and his "free" hour is not free at all. In his English lesson, Mr. Wang sometimes teaches poems (诗). He likes poems very much, and he likes Li Bais poems【C5】______of all. In his fifth class today, Mr. Wang taught a poem. He wrote the poem on the blackboard and read it. As soon as he finished【C6】______the poem, the students began to ask questions. He answered all the questions. Then he asked his students to talk about the poem.【C7】______one wanted to stop when the bell rang.【C8】______ home, Mr.Wang thought about the fifth class. He was happy about what he did as a teacher. Every one of his students【C9】______ the poem. When they started to talk, they forgot about the time. He did not have to make them【C10】______ . He only had to answer their questions and help them understand the poem.

【C1】

A．was

B．being

C．to be

D．be

All the leading newspapers______the trade talks between China and the United States.

A．published

B．reported

C．printed

D．announced

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

When the leaders of media, telecommunications, IT and Internet companies congregate, as they did recently in Davos, the talk is upbeat about new accomplishments but subdued about recent ordeals: the dotcom bubble; the telecoms crash; the music industry bust; the advertising downturn; the e-publishing revenue stagnation; the PC slowdown; the wireless saturation; the semiconductor slump; the newspaper recession; tile R&D retrenchment. And the question is, why do these predicaments sweep over the information sector so regularly?

The prevalence of these problems points to fundamental issues beyond a specific industry or short- term period. Instead, we need to recognize that the entire information sector — from music to newspapers to telecoms to Internet to semiconductors and anything in-between — has become subject to a gigantic market failure in slow motion. A market failure exists when market prices cannot reach a self-sustaining equilibrium. The market failure of the entire information sector is one of the fundamental trends of our time, with far-reaching long-term effects, and it is happening right in front of our eyes.

The basic structural reason for this problem is that information products are characterized by high fixed costs and low marginal costs. They are expensive to produce but cheap to reproduce and distribute, and therefore exhibit strong economies of scale with incentives to an over-supply. Second, more information products are continuously being offered to users. And information products and services are becoming more "commodified", open, and competitive.

The talk with my teacher _________ my interest in cultures of English-speaking countries.

A．ignited

B．deviated

C．initiated

D．heightened

Outside, the rain continued to run down the screened windows of Mrs. Sennett's little Cape Cod cottage. The long weeds and grass that composed the front yard dripped against the blurred background of the bay, where the water was almost the color of the grass. Mrs. Sennett's five charges were vigorously playing house in the dining room. (In the wintertime, Mrs. Sennett was housekeeper for a Mr. Curley, in Boston, and during the summers the Curley children boarded with her on the Cape.)

My expression must have changed. "Are those children making too much noise?" Mrs. Sennett demanded, a sort of wave going over her that might mark the beginning of her getting up out of her chair. I shook lily head no, and gave her a little push on the shoulder to keep her seated. Mrs. Sennett was almost stone-deaf and had been for a long time, but she could read lips. You could talk to her without making any sound yourself, if you wanted to, and she more than kept up her side of the conversation in a loud, rusty voice that dropped weirdly every now and then into a whisper. She adored talking.

To look at Mrs. Sennett made me think of eighteenth-century England and its literary figures. Her hair must have been sadly thin, because she always wore, indoors and out, either a hat or a sort of turban, and sometimes she wore both. The rims of her eyes were dark; she looked very ill. Mrs. Sennett and I continued talking. She said she really didn't think she'd stay with the children another winter, Their father wanted her to, but it was too much for her. She wanted to stay right here in the cottage.

The afternoon was getting along, and I finally left because I knew that at four o'clock Mrs. Sennett's "sit down" was over and she started to get supper. At six o'clock, from my nearby cottage, I saw Theresa coming through the rain with a shawl over her head. She was bringing me a six-inch-square piece of spicecake, still hot from the oven and kept warm between two soup plates.

A few days later I learned from the twins, who brought over gifts of firewood and blackberries, that their father was coming the next morning, bringing their aunt and her husband and their cousin. Mrs. Sennett had promised to take them all on a picnic at the pond some pleasant day.

On the fourth day of their visit, Xavier arrived with a note. It was from Mrs. Sennett, written in blue ink, in a large, serene, ornamented hand, on linen-finish paper:

Tomorrow is the last day Mr Curley has and the Children all wanted the Picnic so much. The men can walk to the Pond but it is too far./'or the Children. I see your Friend has a car and I hate to ask this but could you possibly drive us to the Pond tomorrow morning?...

Very sincerely your,

Carmen Sennett

After the picnic, Mrs. Sennett's presents to me 60 were numberless. It was almost time for the children to go back to school in South Boston. Mrs. Sennett insisted that she was not going; their father was coming down again to get them and she was just going to stay. He would have to get another housekeeper. She said this over and over to me, loudly, and her turbans and kerchiefs grew more and more distrait.

(8) One evening, Mary came to call on me and we sat on an old table in the back yard to watch the sunset.

(9) "Papa came today," she said, "and we've got to go back the day after tomorrow.

(10) "Is Mrs. Sennett going to stay here?"

(11) "She said at supper she was. She said this time she really was, because she'd said that last year and came back, but now she means it."

(12) I said, "Oh dear," scarcely knowing which side I was on.

(13) "It was awful at supper. I cried and cried."

(14) "Did Theresa cry?"

(15) "Oh, we all cried. Papa cried, too. We always do."

(16) "But don't you think Mrs. Sennett needs a rest?"<

A．is often outside

B．wants to look like a literary figure

C．has thin hair

D．has unique taste in clothing

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

Scientific methodology is based on generating hypotheses and testing them to see if they make sense; in laboratories throughout the world, researchers spend at least as much time trying to disprove a theory as they do trying to prove it. Eventually, those ideas that don't prove false are accepted. But fingerprinting was developed by the police, not by scientists, and it has never been subjected to rigorous analysis—you cannot go to Harvard, Berkeley, or Oxford and talk to the scholar working on fingerprint research. Yet by the early twentieth century, fingerprinting had become so widely accepted in American courts that further research no longer seemed necessary, and none of any significance has been completed.

The discussion of fingerprinting is only the most visible element in a much larger debate about how forensic science fits into the legal system. For years, any sophisticated attorney was certain to call upon expert witnesses to assert whatever might help his case. And studies have shown that juries are in fact susceptible to the influence of such experts. Until recently, though, there were no guidelines for qualification; nearly anybody could be called an expert, which meant that, unlike other witnesses, the expert could present his "opinion" almost as if it were fact.

What does the man agree to do?

A．He will show the woman how to use the library.

B．He will write some compositions for the woman.

C．He will talk with the woman's English professor.

D．He will show the woman how to improve her writing.