_1_ One of the best things you can possibly do is to start you own club. It’s gr

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_1_ One of the best things you can possibly do is to start you own club. It’s great fun especially if you are the sort of person who feels there’s never anything to do during the school holidays.
The first thing you need to come up with is an idea for your club. _2_ Pets, clothes, pop music or dancing groups, sports, making things? The list is endless.
Next you need some friends to be in your club with you. _3_ All you need is three or four other people who are interested in the same thing as you.
_4 You should all sit down somewhere together with lots of pieces of paper and write down every name you can think up. That’ll keep you busy for ages.
At your first meeting you should make up a rule book. And the first rule should be no grown-ups or little/big brothers or sisters! The best clubs are always secret!
Now you have just about everything you need, except membership cards. These are very important and again you can speed a lot of time making them. 5 Why not leave some space for a photo of yourself? That will make the membership card really look like it.
So there you are, get clubbing! Once you get started you’ll think of loads of more interesting things to do!

A．That’s easy.

B．Enjoy your own club!

C．Invite a designer to join you.

D．What are you interest in?

E. Some vacation is just around the corner.
F. Then you need to p ick a name for your club.
G. Use a bright thick pen to make a special design.

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小题1:. E
小题1:.D
小题1:.A
小题1:.F
小题1:.G

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Charley: Come on, Steve. __________61.
Steve: Wait a minute. ___________62.
Charley: OK.
Steve: By the way, can we give my sister a ride home tonight?
Charley: Sure. _____________63.
Steve: Yeah. She wants to take some pictures.
Charley: ______________ 64.
Steve: Yeah. She would like to work for a newspaper some day.
Charley: But I think it might be difficult for her to succeed. _____________65.

A．Well, she always enjoys sports games, doesn’t she?

B．I didn’t know Eva was interested in photography.

C．There are a lot of photographers out there.

D．You mean she is coming to the game, too?

E.I just have to close up the shop.
F.Eva’s closing the door.
G.It’s time to go.

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Mary was an university student. She didn’t have much
小题1:_________
money and her parents were not rich, and she had an uncle
小题2:.________
who had been fortunate enough to collect great wealthy.
小题3:._________
He always gave her valuable Christmas and birthday present.
小题4:_________
When her uncle’s birthday came round, Mary want to buy him
小题5:._________
something real special, but because he was rich, she did not
小题6:._________
know how to get him. She went into the best shop in her
小题7:_________
town and explained what her problem was to one of helpful
小题8:._________
shop assistants. Finally she asked, “What do you have for
小题9:._________
someone who has already got everything she wants or needs to ?”
小题10:_________
The assistant sighed deeply and answered, “envy, only envy.”

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A．offers

B．influences

C．uncovered

D．exactly E. big

F. found G. campaigns H. involved J. properly I. notion

What’s in a name? Letters offer clues to one’s future decisions, apparently. Previous studies have suggested that maybe a person’s monogram __1__ his life choices — where he works, whom he marries or where he lives — because of “implied self-esteem (自负),” or the temptation of positive self-associations. For instance, a person named Fred might be attracted to the __2__ of living in Fresno, working for Forever 21 or driving a Ford F-150.
Now a new study by professor Uri takes another look at the so-called name-letter effect and __3__ other explanations for the phenomenon. He analyzed records of political donations in the U.S. during the 2004 campaign — which included donors’ names and employers — and found that the name of a person’s workplace more closely related to the first three letters of a person’s name than with just the first letter. But he suggests that the reason for the association isn’t implied self-esteem, but perhaps something __4__ the opposite.
Duyck, one of the researchers whose previous work __5__ the name-letter effect, isn’t so quick to abandon the implied self-esteem theory. He pointed out that the sample group Uri studied may have biased the results: Uri analyzed the name-letter effect in a sample of people who donated money to political __6__. Still, Duyck notes that Uri’s theories are credible, and that even while some people may __7__ the same name of companies, employees may be tending to those companies because they start with the same letter as their names. In the end, whatever the explanation for the name-letter effect, no one really disputes that self-esteem is __8__ on some level. But the true importance of the effect is up for debate. “I can’t imagine people don’t like their own letter more than other letters,” says Uri, “but the differences it makes in really __9__ decisions are probably slim.”

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A. Using expensive testing equipment
B. Staffing a modern hospital
C. Testing becoming a great help
D. Cost of medical accidents
E. Cost of training medical workers
F. Measures of reducing medical costs

小题1:_____________________
Physicians’ fees are only one reason for rising health costs in the United States. Medical research has produced many tests to diagnose, or discover, patients’ illness. Physicians usually feel obliged to order enough tests to rule out all likely causes of a patient’s symptoms. A routine laboratory bill for blood tests can easily be more than $100.
小题2: _____________________
Sophisticated new machines have been developed to enable physicians to scan body organs with a clarity never before possible. One technique involves the use of ultrasound – sound waves beyond the frequencies that human beings can hear – to produce images. Others use computers to capture and analyze images produced by X-rays or magnetic fields. These machines are extremely expensive: The price of a single machine can exceed one million dollars.
小题3:_____________________
New technologies also mean new personnel. Physicians, nurses and orderlies can no longer staff a hospital alone. Hospitals now require a bewildering number of technical specialists to adminis

ter new tests and operate advanced medical equipment.
小题4:_____________________
Physicians and hospitals also must buy malpractice insurance to protect themselves should they be sued for negligence by patients who feel they have been mistreated or have r

eceived inadequate care. The rates for this insurance have been raised very steeply in the last ten years, as patients have become more medically knowledgeable, and as juries sometimes awarded very large amounts of money to injured patients.
小题5: _____________________
As a result, hospital costs and physicians’ fees rose steadily through the 1990s. Government agencies became convinced that it was necessary to limit rising medical costs. One approach is to require hospitals to prove that a need exists for new buildings and services. Hospitals also have faced pressure to run their operations more efficiently, and to decrease the duration of hospital stays for patients receiving routine treatment or minor surgery.

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In the old days of publishing, getting your manuscript into the hands of an editor often meant mailing the unsolicited finished product to the offices of literary agents or editors, where it would receive a cursory look from an editorial assistant — or none at all.
A modern version of the slush pile is the online “writing community,” a Web site where aspiring novelists can post their ideas, writing samples or manuscripts and open them to comments and reviews from strangers. On Tuesday Penguin Group USA, the publisher of Tom Clancy, Kathryn Stockett and Nora Roberts, will unveil its own venture, Book Country, a Web site for writers of genre fiction. In its initial phase Book Country will allow writers to post their own work — whether it’s an o

pening chapter or a full manuscript — and receive critiques from other users, who can comment on points like character development, pacing and dialogue. Later this summer the site will generate revenue by allowing users to self-publish their books for a fee by ordering printed copies. (The books will bear the stamp of Book Country

, not Penguin, and the site is considered a separate operation from Penguin.) The site will also explain the business of finding an agent, marketing and promoting a book, using social media and handling digital and subsidiary rights.
Penguin hopes the site will attract agents, editors and publishers scouting for new talent, and allow writers to produce work with more polish and direction than they could otherwise. The project has been spearheaded by Molly Barton, the director of business development for Penguin and the president of Book Country. “One of the things I remember really clearly from my early editorial experiences was this feeling of guilt,” Ms. Barton said in an interview. “I would read submissions and not be able to help the writer because we couldn’t find a place for them on the list that I was acquiring for. And I kept feeling that there was something we could do on the Internet to really help writers each other.”
小题1: How did an author send unsolicited finished products to editors in the old days of publishing? _______________________________________________
小题2: The online “writing community” is where aspiring novelists post their ideas and ___________________________________________________________________________
小题3:The site uses social media and

digital and subsidiary rights to _______________________.
小题4:What’s the real purpose of Penguin creating the web site? _______________________________________________

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