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More teachers are starting off the school year with letters to parents and students to introduce themselves and set a tone (基调) for the year．The letters are a good way to start positive communication with parents, several teachers told Education World．
“I think it’s professional (专业的)，”said Dorothy Peselli, an English teacher at Sparta High School in Sparta, New Jersay, Peselli, who gives out the letters the first day of school, told Education World．“It gives parents an image of you as a professional．If you start communication off in a positive manner, you will have the parents on your side when you need them．”
In her letter to parents, Peselli encourages them to call or e-mail her with specific concerns about their children．“I want to work as a team to make sure that your child becomes an independent lifelong learner,” Peselli wrote to parents last September．She also telephones the parents of all

her students at the beginning of the year．
Peselli includes with the letter a classroom handbook (手册)listing plans and rules ．And she requires that both parents and students read and sign statements (included in the letter!) that they read the handbook．The student letter also lists needed supplies and gives encouragement．“Please come to class ready to work and learn．This will be an exciting year for all of us,” it says
Last year, Peselli taught at a different high school and parents there were “shocked”, but appreciative, that she had so much contact with them,“I received roses and a thank-you note from one boy and his mother”．Peselli said．She wished her own children’s teachers would take the time to write notes as well．“I never got a letter home from any of my daughter’s high school teachers．” she said, “It would be nice to know the background of some of the people who are teaching my daughter．”
小题1:We may learn from the text that

A．most teachers are writing letters to parents and students

B．the handbook is used to list supplies and give encouragement

C．Peselli believe it important for teachers to exchange information with parents

D．Peselli mainly introduces her background and teaching experiences in the letters

小题2:The underlined word “it” in the fourth paragraph refers to

A．the handbook	B．the requirement
C．the school	D．the letter

小题3:We can infer from the last paragraph that

A．parents were satisfied with Peselli’s way of working

B．Peselli means to surprise parents by writing students

C．Peselli seemed to be popular among boy students

D．all Peselli’s children are studying in high schools

小题4:The purpose of the text is to ．

A．introduce an English teaching method

B．give advice on how to teach students

C．encourage teachers to keep in touch with parents

D．show us how Dorothy Peselli makes teaching plans

答案

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:C

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It was starting to get dark and Bobby turned to walk home when suddenly his eyes caught the setting sun’s rays reflecting off something along the roadside. He reached down and discovered a shiny dime(一角钱). Never before has anyone felt so wealthy as B

obby felt at that moment.
As he held his new found treasure, a warmth spread throughout his entire body and he walked into the first store he saw.
His excitement quickly turned cold when the salesperson told him that he couldn’t buy anything with only a dime.
He saw a flower shop and went inside to wait in line. When the shop owner asked if he could help him, Bobby presented the dime and asked if he could buy one flower for his mother’s Christmas gift. The shop owner looked at Bobby and his ten cents offering. Then he said to him, “You just wait here and I’ll see what I can do for you.”
The sound of the door closed as the last customer left. All alone in the shop, Bobby began to feel cold and afraid. Suddenly the shop owner came out. There, before Bobby’s eyes, lay twelve long stem, red roses, with leaves of green and tiny white flowers all tied together with a big silver bow. Bobby’s heart sank as the owner picked them up and placed them gently into a long white box. “That will be ten cents, young man.” The shop owner said reaching out his hand for the dime.
Sensing the boy’s reluctance(勉强), the shop owner added, “I just happened to have some roses on sale for ten cents a dozen. Would you like them?”
When the man placed the long box into his hands, he knew it was true. Walking out of the door that the owner was holding, Bobby heard the shopkeeper say, “Merry Christmas, son.”
小题1:Bobby feel that he was rich?

A．Because he found a purse with many dollars

B．Becau

se he found some money on the way home.

C．Because he was given a bunch of flowers

D．Because he found some hidden treasure.

小题2:What can we infer from the third paragraph?

A．Christmas gifts were always very expensive

B．The salesperson’s words greatly disappointed Bobby.

C．Bobby was tired of trying one shop after another

D．The salesperson was trying to cheat Bobby.

小题3:While waiting for the shop owner in the flower ship, Bobby .

A．was full of excitement and joy

B．was very thankful to the shop owner

C．felt he had been cheated by the owner

D．was not sure whether the owner would accept his offering

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Gmail tmned five years old this week．It"s somewhat amazing to think we"ve only had it since 2004; Gmail c

hanged the webmail game forever by offering features we now take for granted: a streamlined interface （界面]） , powerful search, pioneering use ofAjax and a then-huge 1 GB of mailbox space．“You"ll never need to delete another message " was how Google described it at the time．
Back then, I was still making do with Hotmail．But its clumsy interface and tiny amount of storage space made the decision to move on an easy one．Getting an account made all the difference in the world to my email experience．Suddenly I was freed from having to delete emails every few days to make space in my mailbox．And the app（application） was smooth and responsive, like a desktop client （客户端程序）—and pretty fast in comparison to Hotmail．" Conversation view" and using labels instead of folders took a little getting used to, but in all Gmail felt far more professional and made me much more productive．
Gmail is a favorite app of ours ever on WebWorkerDaily, and with good reason．It"s still the best webmail client for web workers as it lets us access our email whenever and wherever we need to, on any device, with minimum effort．And Google hasn"t spent the five years sitting on its Gmail success, either, but has introduced improvements to the service that include Gmail Tasks, chat, video chat and voice chat, combined with Google Calendar and Docs, Google Apps for Domains, and, of course, even more storage．We"ve recently covered the many features found in Gmail Labs: a way to "undo" seat messages, using canned responses for smart autoresponders, offline support using Gears and how to customize the way you．view your mailbox using multiple inboxes．
小题1:The underlined sentence in the first paragraph implies that_____．

A．we shouldn"t take Gmail for gra

nted

B．you can try to write any kind of message

C．Gmail can correct your mistakes of itself

D．you needn"t worry about the mailbox space

小题2:Which of the following is not Gmail"s striking feature?

A．Offline support．	B．Using labels．
C．Undo sent messages．	D．Mailbox space．

小题3:Gmail is _____．

A．first introduced by WebWorkerDaily

B．a tool merely used to send messages

C．a great success just the same as Hotmail

D．a webmail client with multiple functions

小题4:What can we infer from the passage?

A．It is easier and more convenient to use folders．

B．Quantities of people have chosen to use Gmail．

C．Gmail had a video chat function when invented．

D．Gmail and Hotmail were invented at the same time．

小题5:What is the best title of this passage?

A．Gmail— favourite app of ours

B．Functions of a special email service

C．Comparison between Gmail and Hotmail

D．Advantages and disadvantages of Gmails

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When did you last see a polar bear(北极熊）? On a trip to a zoo,perhaps? If you had attended a winter activity in New York a few years ago, you would have seen a whole polar bear club. These "Polar Bears" are people who meet frequ

ently in the winter to swim in freezing cold water. That day, the air temperature was 3℃, and the water temperature was a little higher. The members of the Polar Bear Club at Coney Island, New York are usually about the age of 60. Members must satisfy two requirements. First, they must get along well with everyone else in the group; this is very important because there are so many different kinds of people in the club. Polar Bears must also agree to swim outdoors at least twice a month from November through February.
Doctors don"t agree about the medical effects of cold-winter swimming. Some are worried about the dangers of a condition in which the body"s temperature drops so low that finally the heart stops. Other doctors, however, point out that th

ere is more danger of a heart attack during summer swimming because the difference between the air temperature and water temperature is much greater in summer than in winter.
The Polar Bears themselves are satisfied with the benefits of cold-water swimming. They say that their favorite form of exercise is very good for the circulatory system(循环系统）because it forces the blood to move fast to keep the body warm. Cold-water swimmers usually turn bright red after a few minutes in the water. A person who turns blue probably has a very poor circulatory system and should not try cold-water swimming.
　　The main benefits of cold-water swimming are probably mental.The Polar Bears love to swim all year round; they find it fun and relaxing. As one 70-year-old woman says,"When I go into water, I pour my troubles into the ocean and let them float away."
小题1:The members of the Polar Bear Club must meet the following requirements except that_____.

A．they must swim outdoors at least 8 times in the four cold months

B．they must reach the age of 60

C．they should

be easy to make friends with

D．they must agree to swim outdoors from November through February

小题2:According to the passage, some doctors believe it is true that_____.

A．Polar Bears are bears swimming in freezing water

B．cold

-water swimming can make the body temperature dangerously high

C．you are healthy if cold-water swimming turns your skin color blue

D．cold-water swimming causes more heart attacks in summer than in winter

小题3:The Polar Bears like to swim year-round, for_____.

A．it is an easy way to keep the body warm in winter	B．they can remain young
C．they find it enjoyable and interesting	D．they might meet fewer troubles in life

小题4:The passage is mainly about_____.

A．the requirements of the Polar Bear Club

B．a group of cold-water-swimming livers

C．the Polar Bears" life in New York

D．doctors" ideas about cold-water swimming

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Fifty–eight percent of the teachers interviewed in the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) questionnaire had come across copying among their pupils. Gill Bullen from Itchen College in Southampton, for example, said, "Pieces handed in by two students were identical and significantly better than either of them could have done. Not only that, the essays handed in didn"t quite answer the title question I had set". A teacher from Leeds said, "I had one piece of work so bravely cut and pasted that it still contained ads from the web page."
Connie Robinson from Stockton Riverside College said, "With less able students it is easy to spot copying as the writing style changes in the middle of the assignment, but with more able students it is sometimes necessary for tutors to carry out Internet research to identify the source of the copy."
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ATL, said," Teachers are struggling under a mountain of cut-and-pasting to spot whether work was the student"s own or copy." She called for policies to stop copying, and asked for help from exam boards and the government in providing resources and techniques to detect cheats.
But there was another side. "I have found once students clearly understand what copying is, its consequences and how to reference correctly so they can draw on published works, copying becomes less of a problem," said Diana Baker from Emmanuel College, Durham.
"I think the majority of students who engage in copying do it more out of ignorance than the desire to cheat. They really want to succeed on their own."
53. The passage mainly wants to tell us ____________.

A. the benefits of the Internet for students

B. web copying is a serious problem in the UK

C. the ways to find web copying for teachers

D. how we can use the Internet to do homework

54. The underlined word “identical” (Paragraph 1) probably means ____________.

A. excellent

B. contrasting

C. the same

D. complex

55. What is TRUE according to Connie Robinson?

A. It’s not easy to find the less able students copy from the Internet

B. It’s difficult to find whether the more able students have copied.

C. The less able student will not change their writing style when copying.

D. The more able students needn’t copy from the Internet.

56. What’s the writer’s attitude towards “copying”?

A. The writer doesn’t tell us.	B. The writer feels angry about it.
C. The writer thinks it doesn’t matter.	D. The writer approves of it.

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完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Since my family were not going to be helpful, I decided I would look for one job by myself and not tell them about it till I"d got one.
I had seen an agency advertised in a local newspaper. I rushed out of the   21_   in search of it. I was wildly excited, and as    22_ as if I were going on the stage. Finding the    23_ quite easily, I ran breathlessly through a door which said " Enter without knocking, if you please. "
The simple atmosphere of the office    24_ me. The woman looked carefully at me   25_ through her glasses, and then    26_ me in a low voice. I answered softly. All of a sudden I started to feel rather   27_ . She wondered why I was looking for this sort of   28_ . I felt even more helpless when she told me that it would be   29 to get a job without    30_ . I wondered whether I ought to leave,   31_   the telephone on her desk rang. I heard her say:
“   32_ , I"ve got someone in the   33_ at this very moment who might    34_   . " She wrote down a   35_   . and held it out to me, saying: "Ring up this lady. She wants a    36   immediately. In fact, you would have to start tomorrow by cooking a dinner for ten people."
"Oh yes, " said I——   37_   having cooked for more than four in my life. I   38_ her again and again, and rushed out to the   39_ telephone box. I collected my thoughts, took a deep breath, and rang the number. I said confidently that I was just what she was looking for.
I spent the next few hours   40_   cook books.
21． A．bed        B．house      C．agency      D．office
22． A．proud       B．please        C．nervous     D．worried
23． A．family       B．door      C．place        D．stage
24． A．calmed       B．excited       C．frightened    D．disturbed
25． A．as usual      B．for a while   C．in a minute   D．once again
26． A．advised      B．examined     C．informed    D．questioned
27． A．encouraged   B．dissatisfied   C．hopeless     D．pleased
28． A．place        B．job            C．advice       D．help
29． A．difficult      B．helpless       C．possible      D．unusual
30． A．ability       B．experience     C．knowledge   D．study
31． A. after      B．since       C．until         D．when
32． A． Above all   B．As a matter of fact   C．As a result   D．In spite of that
33． A． family     B．house        C．office        D．restaurant
34． A． hire       B． accept      C．suit          D．offer
35． A． letter      B．name    C．note        D．number
36． A． cook       B．help      C．teacher      D．secretary
37． A． almost      B．never        C．nearly       D．really
38． A． answered    B．promised     C．thanked     D．told
39． A. outside    B． local       C．closest       D．nearest
40． A． burrowing   B．buying         C．reading      D．lending

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