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Online Movie Rentals

It is generally accepted that the best way to learn a language is to totally involve yourself in its culture by living in the country where it is spoken.   71   Fortunately, many aspects of a country’s culture have made their way to our lives in the form of various media and entertainment outlets. Not only do they allow a peek at life, but they make excellent study material for learning the language.

What to increase your language skills and enjoy some entertainment at the same time? Tired of going down to the video rental store to rent movies?   72 

Most companies require customers to operate on the following model:

●Select and sign up for a payment program online, which will determine how many movies you can rent and hold at any one time.

●  73  You can look up movies by title, actor or director. Then movies will be sent to you within 1~3 days, and shipping is covered by the company.

●Watch the movies, often with no late fees.

●  74 

●Check these sites for specific, up – to – date details.

Once you receive the movies, how can you improve your language skills with them? Well, just sitting in front of the TV with a drink in one hand isn’t a bad way to relax, but you won’t learn much. While seeing a movie you should take notes of new expressions. Write them down and look them up in a good English – English dictionary to understand their possible meanings.   75  If you don’t’ know how to use words, learning vocabulary will lose all meaning.

       A．Return the movies in a prepaid return envelope.

       B．If you haven’t finished on time, you can delay returning.

       C．Now, more and more companies are offering customers the chance to rent movies online.

       D．Then, think of some sample sentences for each word.

       E．Choose the movie you want to watch, generally 1~3 at a time.

       F．Watch movies as long as you have nothing to do.

       G．While many find packing up and moving to a country is not a practical option.

--- What about__________concert?

    --- It was too boring, you know, ________concert for me.

       A．a(chǎn); the       B．the; the     C．a(chǎn); /    D．the; a

We all think it is Mr Wang as well as his parents that _______ for his son’s bad performance at school.

A. are to blame      B. is to be blamed         C. are to be blamed       D. is to blame

 For many years, scientists couldn't figure out how atoms and molecules on the Earth combined to make living things. Plants, fish, dinosaurs, and people are made of atoms and molecules, but they are put together in a more complicated way than the molecules in the primitive ocean. What's more, living things have energy and can reproduce, while the chemicals on the Earth 4 billion years ago were lifeless.

　　After years of study, scientists figured out that living things, including human bodies, are basically made of amino acids and nucleotide bases. These are molecules with millions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms. How could such complicated molecules have been formed in the primitive soup? Scientists were stumped.

　　Then, in 1953, two scientists named Harold Urey and Stanley L. Miller did a very simple experiment to find out what had happened on the Primitive Earth. They set up some tubes and bottles in a closed loop, and put in some of the same gases that were present in the atmosphere 4 billion years ago: water vapor, ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane, and hydrogen.

　　Then they shot an electric spark through the gases to simulate bolts of lightning on the ancient Earth, circulated the gases through some water, sent them back for more sparks, and so on. After seven days, the water that the gases had been bubbling through had turned brown. Some new chemicals were dissolved in it. When Miller and Urey analyzed the liquid, they found that it contained amino acids-the very kind of molecules found in all living things.

61. When did scientists come to realize how the atoms and molecules on the Earth combined to make living thing?

　　A. 4 billion years ago. B.1953.　C. After seven days.D. Many years later.

62. Scientists figured out that human bodies are basically made of .

A.amino acids

B.molecules

C. hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms

D. water vapor, ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane and hydrogen

63. Harold Urey and Stanley L.Miller did their experiment in order to .　

A. find out what had happened on the Earth 4 billion years ago

　　 B.simulate bolts of lightning on the ancient Earth

　　 C. dissolve some new chemicals

　　 D.analyze a liquid

64. At the end of the last paragraph, the underlined word "it" refers to .

  A. a closed loop   B. an electric spark   C.water   D. the liquid

65. According to the writer, living things on the Earth include .

　 A. atoms and molecules                     B.chemicals　

C. plants, fish, dinosaurs and human beings     D.the primitive soup

The physics teacher told the students to observe carefully what would happen when a (n) _____ acted on the object.

A. force  B. energy       C. power D. strength

--Why did you stop writing?

   ---My ink has_______

   A. been run out     B. used up        C. run out of    D. run out

_______whether he ever considered_______that during discussions, he said, “No, I’ve got my job and they’ve got their job.”

       A．Asked; saying         B．Asking; saying C．Being asked; to say  D．To be asked; to say

 It’s freezing outside. You ______put on your coat.

A. had better to    B. had better     C. would rather    D. would better to

If your head is overheating, you are very likely to yawn(打哈欠) soon, according to a new study that has found the main purpose of yawning is to control brain temperature. The study explains several mysteries about yawning, such as why it’s most commonly done just before and after sleeping, why certain diseases lead to too much yawning, and why breathing though the nose often stops yawning.

“Brains are like computers,” Andrew Gallup, a researcher in the department of Biology at Binghamton University who led the study, said. “They operate best when cool.”

He and his co-workers Micheal Miller and Anne Clark did researches on yawning in parakeets(長(zhǎng)尾小鸚鵡) , which have relatively large brains, live wild in Australia, often experience temperature changes, and, most importantly, do not yawn when others yawn, as humans and some other animals do.

For the study, the scientists put parakeets under three different conditions: increasing temperature, high temperature and normal temperature. While the frequency(頻率) of yawns did not increase under the latter two conditions, it increased greatly when the researchers increased the temperature.

It’s now believed yawning operates like a radiator(散熱器).

If air in the atmosphere is cooler than the brain and body temperatures, taking it in quickly cools blood, which in turn cools the brain. The new findings also explain why tired people often yawn. Both tiredness and sleep loss can increase brain temperature, while yawning can cool down the brain.

In the future, researchers may focus more on brain temperature and its role in diseases and their symptoms. But the new study on yawning changes the popular idea that yawns are just signs of getting tired of something.

49. What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Why don’t people yawn at normal temperature?

B. The yawn explained—it cools your brain.

C. Yawning operates like a radiator.

D. The cause of yawning—finally found out.

50. The main reason why researchers chose parakeets to do the research is that parakeets______.

A. have very large brains                 

B. live wild in Australia

C. are not affected by others’ yawning       

D. experience frequent temperature changes

51. The writer may suggest doing all of the following to stop yawning EXCEPT______.

A. breathing through the nose           

B. turning up the heat

C. enjoying some cool wind               

D. putting a cold towel on your forehead

52. In which section of a newspaper would you most probably read this passage?

A. Discovery.        B. Education.         C. Health.              D. Mystery.

第二節(jié)：書面表達(dá)（滿分25分）

  假如你是李華，你的英國筆友Henry最近來信，詢問你對(duì)暑假的安排。請(qǐng)你根據(jù)以下要點(diǎn)，用英語回一封信，說明你的計(jì)劃，并簡(jiǎn)述理由。

1. 休息；

2. 讀書；

3. 陪伴父母；

4. 參加社會(huì)活動(dòng)。

注意：

1. 詞數(shù)100左右，信的開頭和結(jié)尾已為你寫好（不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)）；

2. 可根據(jù)內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，使行文連貫；

 Dear Henry,

  I’m very glad to receive your letter. _____________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Best wishes!

                                                  Li Hua