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US President Barack Obama has just made life more difficult for cigarette makers. He has just signed
a law that will set tough new rules for the tobacco industry. The new law gives the US Food and Drug
Administration the power to strictly limit the making and marketing of tobacco products.
At a White House signing ceremony Monday, Obama said that he was among the nearly 90% of
smokers who took up the habit before their 18 th birthday.
Obama, who has publicly struggled to give up smoking, said he still hadn"t completely kicked the habit.
Every now and then he still smokes in secret.
"As a former smoker I struggle with it all the time. Do I still smoke sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily
smoker, a constant smoker? No." Obama said at a news conference.
"I don" t do it in front of my lads．I don ?t do it in front of my family．I would say that I am 95%
cured, but there are times when I mess up, " he said．
"Once you go down this path, it" s something you continually struggle with, which is exactly why the law
is so important．The new law is not about me, it" s about the next generation of kids coming up．What
we don " t want is kids going down that path," he said．
Nearly 20% of Americans smoke and tobacco use kills about 440,000 people a year in the United
States due to cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases．
B．tobacco industry
C．White House
D．US Food and Drug Administratio
B．He still smokes as usual．
C．He began to smoke at eighteen．
D．He is trying hard to give up smoking．
B．officials
C．his family
D．businessmen
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by nearly 17 million
people. That can cause no end of confusion when Mas get together, especially if those Mas also share the same given name, as many Chinese do.Ma Cheng’s book-loving grandfather came up with an elegant solution to this common problem.
Twenty-six years ago, when his granddaughter was born, he consulted his library of Chinese dictionaries
and lighted upon a character pronounced “cheng”. Cheng looks just like the character for horse, except
that it is condensed (压缩) and written three times in a row.
The character is so rare that once people see it, Miss Ma said, they tend to remember both her and her name. That is one reason she likes it so much.
Chinese parents’ desire to give their children a spark of individuality (个性) is colliding (冲突) with the Chinese government’s desire for order. Seeking to modernize its vast database on China’s 1.3 billion
citizens, the government’s Public Security Bureau has been replacing the handwritten identity card that
every Chinese must carry with a computer-readable one, complete with color photos and microchips. The new cards are harder to forge (伪造) and can be scanned at places like airports where security is a
priority.
The bureau’s computers, however, are programmed to read
only 32,252 of the roughly 55,000 Chinese characters according to a 2006 government report. The result is that Miss Ma and at least some
of the 60 million other Chinese with obscure characters in their names cannot get new cards - unless they
change their names to something more common.
Moreover, the situation is about to get worse or, in the government’s view, better. Since at least 2003, China has been working on a standardized list of characters for people to use in everyday life, including
when naming children. The list will aim to control the use of obscure names.
1. Which of the following can describe the function of Paragraph 1?
A. Lead-in.
B. Main idea.
C. Summary.
D. Argument.
2. This passage is somewhat like a(n) ________.
A. advertisement
B. official document
C. special report
D. study plan
3. What can we know about Ma Cheng according to the passage?
A. She has got her new ID card.
B. She was named after her grandfather.
C. She is 26 years old now.
D. She wants to change her name.
4. The underlined word “obscure” in the fifth paragraph is closest in meaning to "________".
A. common
B. poor
C. puzzling
D. meaningless
5. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A. China’s Public Security Bureau’s computers can read 55,000 Chinese characters.
B. The usage of Chinese characters would be more and more standard.
C. Standardized list of Chinese characters has been given out to the public.
D. Those who have stra
nge names will have their new ID cards sooner or later.But when former South African President Nelson Mandela advised two dozen Los Angeles-area youth leaders to take education seriously, his audience was listening．
The famed old man said to the young people that if they expected to improve the fives fives(一种游戏) of others in the future,they must work at improving their own fives now．"Education is one of the most important weapons you have,"Mandela advised,"it will place you in a far better position to serve yourself and your community．"
"The point is,he was young once and rebellious(反叛的)once and he kept his dream alive,just as you each have dreams．" Explained South Africa"s ambassador to the United States,Sheita Sisulu,as she introduced Mandela to the young crowd．
Asked for specific advice about changing society by 21-year-old Ahmed Younis,Mandela suggested that somehow helping arouse(唤醒)more American interest in foreign affairs might be a start．
"There is an impression that Americans,in general,have not followed international developments properly,"Mandela said,"I"m not making that statement myself, but there are serious political analysts who say Americans are not well informed as to what has happened in the world．"
22-year-old Omari Trice said Mandela left him full of passion．"He"s a person who set the tone(格调)for an entire nation．"said Trice．
"You go away feeling you need to be Superman in order to get things done．"Trice said．
1．From the passage,we can conclude that American youth_____．
A．are willing to accept the advice from world-famous leaders
B．usually think that advice from old people is not worth considering
C．have a good understanding of the old
D．have no intention to improve the fives of others
2．Nelson Mandela makes the point in his speech that American youth leaders should_____．
A．improve their own fives
B．go to college for better education
C．put more importance on education
D．become interested in foreign affairs
3．What Sheila Sisulu said suggested that ．
A．Nelson Mandela never lost hope in his life
B．was especially troublesome when young
C．Nelson Mandela was quite different from American youth when young
D．American youth should be no more rebellious
4．From what Trice said,we can know that ．
A．he was greatly impressed and encouraged by Mandela"s speech
B．he thought little of Mandela"s speech
C．he must be a superman in order to change society
D. he"ll be more interested in international development
| Country or area | Manufacturing | Resources development | Commerce and Services | Others | Total |
| A | 722 | 38 | 8952 | 137 | 9849 |
| B | 2049 | 4 | 571 | 107 | 2731 |
| C | 2937 | 12 | 3630 | 101 | 6680 |
| D | 3657 | 6813 | 1209 | 12 | 11691 |
| E | 716 | 84 | 1952 | 71 | 2823 |
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| Wen Jiabao arrived in Singapore yesterday for an official visit to the country. It is the first visit by a Chinese premier to Singapore in eight years. In the arrival statement, Wen said he is looking forward to the meeting with Singapore on ways to deepen East Asian cooperation between two nations so as to contribute to the building of a peaceful, harmonious relationship." Premier Wen Jiabao and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong agreed to jointly develop an environmentally friendly city in northeastern China. The city will be a model for sustainable development, a Singapore government statement said. The "Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city" will be developed by a joint venture formed by Chinese and Singapore companies. "This eco-city, to be built in Tianjin, will become another highlight in our relations," Wen said after signing an agreement with Lee, who agreed, "On the Singapore side, on all levels, we"ll give this project our full support."The two sides will share expertise and experiences in urban planning, environmental protection, resources conservation, recycling, use of renewable resources and wastewater re-use. China"s economic planning agency issued a set of guidelines earlier this month welcoming foreign investment in environmentally friendly areas such as recycling, "clean" industries and environmental protection.Bilateral relations between China and Singapore have seen big progress even though the two countries established diplomatic ties only 17 years ago, Wen said during his talks with Lee. China and Singapore have also kept close contact and coordination on regional issues, he added. Wen said China and Singapore are both important Asian countries that share common interests in many areas. Title: Wen"s visit to Singapore  | |||||
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| Flying over a desert area in an airplane, two scientists looked down with trained eyes at trees and bushes. After an hour"s flight one of the scientists wrote in his book, "Look here for probable metal. "Scientists in another airplane, flying over a mountain area, sent a message to other scientists on the ground, "Gold possible, "Walking across hilly ground, four scientists reported, "This ground should be searched f  or metals. "From an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scientist sent back by radio one word:" Uranium None of the scientists had X-ray eyes: they had no magic powers of looking down below the earth"s surface. They were merely putting to use one of the newest methods of locating minerals in the ground, using trees and plants as signs that certain minerals may lie beneath the ground on which the trees and plants are growing. This newest method of searching for minerals is based on the fact that minerals deep in the earth may affect the kind of bushes and trees that grow on the surface. At Waston Bar Greek, a brook(小溪)six thousand feet high in the mountains of British Colunbia, Canada, a mineral search group gathered bags of tree seeds. Boxes were filled with small branches from the trees. Roots were dug and put into boxes. Each bag and box was carefully marked. In a scientific laboratory the parts of the forest trees were burned to ashes and tested. Each small part was examined to learn whether there were minerals in it. Study of the roots, branches, and seeds showed no silver. But there were small  amounts of goldin the roots and a little less gold in the branches and seeds. The seeds growing nearest to the tree trunk had more gold than those growing on the ends of the branches. | |||||
| 1. Scientists were flying over a desert of a hilly wasteland or a mountain area in order to search for_________ in the ground. | |||||
| A. gold B. silver C. metals D. minerals | |||||
| 2. The study of trees, branches and roots shows that_________. | |||||
| A. there were larger amounts of gold in the branches than in the seeds B. there were smaller amounts of gold in the roots than in the branches C. there were less amounts of gold in the seeds growing on the ends of branches than seeds growing nearest to the tree trunk D. there was more gold in the branches than in tile roots | |||||
| 3. Which is the best title suggested below? | |||||
| A. Scientists Searching for Metals with Special Power B. New Methods of Searching for Minerals C. Gold Could Be Found by Trees and Plants D. A New Method of Searching for Minerals-Using Trees and Plants | |||||
| 4. The scientists were searching for minerals by using_________. | |||||
| A. X-ray. B. magic power C. a special instrument D. trained eyes |