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Today"s Britain is full of TV shows like Fame Academy, which claim to offer young hopefuls an instant passport to fame and riches. But a very different kind of academy may provide a new generation of Brits with a slower, steadier path to wealth.
A "pig academy" in the east of England is aiming to train up new pig farmers to help promote local agriculture and meet the UK"s growing demand for pork. Last year consumption of pork products increased by 6,000 tonnes. But British farmers have not benefited from this rise in demand. A combination of increasing feed prices, competition from cheaper imports and an outbreak of foot and mouth disease have all eaten into their profits. Pig numbers in the UK have actually almost halved in the last decade.
Now, Fresh Start Pig Academy in Lincolnshire is launching a course which intends to redress (修复) the balance. They say pig husbandry (养猪业) is a growth industry and newcomers are welcome. For those of you who fancy getting your hands dirty, the course will teach you everything you need to know, from keeping pigs healthy to raising the capital needed to start up.
Pig farmer Anne Longthorp followed her father into the industry and believes that farming pigs is very rewarding work: "They"re great, curious animals to work with. Just watching their behaviour – it"s really interesting work. There is a lot more to pig farming than people give us credit for. It"s very scientific."
So, while most of Britain"s young people may continue to dream of overnight stardom, others will hope a more traditional career will help them bring home the bacon.
小题1:The second paragraph is mainly about the pig academy come into being.

A．why

B．how

C．when

D．where

小题2:Which is not the contribution to the decrease in pig farmers" enthusiasm?

A．growing demand for pork

B．increasing feed prices

C．competition from cheaper imports

D．outbreak of foot and mouth disease

小题3:From the passage we can infer that the Pig Academy will .

A．lead the youth to riches faster than the Fame Academy

B．provide geilivable help for whoever attends the course

C．be more popular with young people than other academies

D．make some young people overnight star

小题4: What does the underlined phrase "getting your hands dirty" probably mean?

A．making your hands dirty by raising pigs

B．taking up the job as a pig farmer

C．avoiding the pig bed dirty to keep them fit

D．collecting enough money to raise pigs

小题5:Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A．Anne Longthorp loves the job of farming pigs.

B．Anne Longthorp’s family all like raising pigs.

C．Most young people in Britain will like the career of farming pigs.

D．People who farm pigs are allowed to bring home many bacons.

答案

小题1:A
小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:B
小题1:A

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The British are very polite and have good manners—they are never tired of saying “Thank you”，“I am sorry”， or “Excuse me.” They have good table manners. They enjoy their breakfasts and most of all the traditional tea around 4 or 5 o’clock.
The normal working week has five days. Factory workers usually start at 8 am and offices, shops and schools open at 9 am. Workers have 3 weeks’ holidays and professional workers(people with higher education ) have usually longer holidays (a month or more). Except these holidays they have public holidays: e.g. New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
An average Englishman like to live in his own house. Houses are made of red bricks, stone and wood. The house usually has from 4 to 6 rooms, two floors, small front and back gardens. On the ground floor there is a hall, a kitchen, a living room with a fireplace and on the first floor there are parents’ and children’s bedrooms and a bathroom. The prices of houses depend on the area—the most expensive are the houses in London and South England (about 200,000 pounds); smaller houses in other areas may cost about 50,000 pounds.
Social Welfare—The National Health Service gives largely free treatment for everyone living in Britain. People can choose their family doctors. In case of emergency you can call the ambulance by dialing 999 from everywhere. Health centres are run by local authorities. About 7 percent of hospitals, dentists and family doctors work as private.
There are about 130 daily and Sunday newspapers and a lot of weekly papers and magazines. The oldest newspaper is The Times. Other famous newspapers are Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Financial Times, etc.
小题1:If you are a student in Britain, when do you begin to go to school?

A．At 6 am .

B．At 9 am .

C．At 8:00 am .

D．At 9:30 am .

小题2: Which of the following about the British is false according to the passage?

A．They have good manners when at table.

B．They always have the traditional tea around 4 or 5 am.

C．They love families and pets.

D．They feel very tired when they say “Thank you”,“Sorry ” or “Excuse me.”

小题3:Who has the longest holiday?

A．A shop assistant.	B．A doctor.
C．A factory worker.	D．A nurse.

小题4:If you find someone seriously ill in Britain, what is the best thing you should do?

A．Phone his family doctor.	B．Take him to hospital.
C．Dial 999.	D．Find a doctor for him.

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Of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, linguists (语言学家) say, nearly half are likely to disappear this century. In fact, one falls out of use about every two weeks.
Some languages die out in an instant, at the death of the only surviving speaker. Others are lost gradually in bilingual (双语的) cultures, as local tongues are edged out by the dominant (占主导地位的) language at school, in the marketplace and on television.
New research, supported by the National Geographic Society and the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, has found the five regions where languages are disappearing most rapidly. They are northern Australia, central South America, North America"s upper Pacific coastal zone, eastern Siberia, and Oklahoma and the southwestern United States.
K. David Harrison, an associate professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College, US, said that more than half the languages had no written form and were vulnerable to loss and being forgotten." Their loss leaves no dictionary, no text, or no record of the accumulated knowledge and history of a disappeared culture.
Harrison and other researchers started their rescue project last year. They have been trying to identify and record endangered languages. They interviewed and made recordings of the few remaining speakers of a language and collected basic word lists. The individual projects, some lasting three to four years, involve hundreds of hours of recording speech, developing grammar and preparing children"s readers in the obscure (逐渐没落的) language. The research has concentrated on preserving entire language families.
"These are probably languages that cannot be brought back, but at least we made records of them," said Gregory Anderson, director of the Living Tongues Institute, in Oregon, US.
小题1:What does the passage mainly tell us?

A．Many languages are quickly disappearing.

B．Some languages are disappearing because they are hard to remember.

C．Chinese is one of the languages that are disappearing.

D．Thanks to some researchers, many endangered languages have been rescued.

小题2:What does the word vulnerable in the fourth paragraph mean?

A．easy to remember.	B．easy to forget.
C．likely to be damaged.	D．likely to be protected.

小题3:Which of the following is true according to the fifth paragraph?

A．Harrison and other researchers are trying to find out why some languages died out.

B．Harrison and other researchers tried to start a rescue project.

C．Harrison and other researchers have concentrated on preserving all the languages.

D．Harrison and other researchers have done some rescue work on the obscure languages.

小题4:One of the things that Harrison and other researchers did was .

A．to have more people speak the disappearing language

B．to make records of the disappearing language

C．to limit dominant languages

D．to publish a dictionary of the disappearing language

小题5:What do you think is the suggested reason for some languages disappearing?

A．Local tongues are gradually edged out by the dominant language at school, in the marketplace and on television.

B．The number of people who speak the languages are small.

C．There are no dictionaries for the languages.

D．No one make records of the languages, so they gradually disappear.

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Kenya wants to organize a major international conference to discuss how to fight piracy(海盗) off the coast of Somalia. The conference may also deal with ways to rescue Somalia from seventeen years of civil war. More than forty percent of its people depend on food aid.
Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula says the world cannot end piracy and civil war without dealing with Somalia’s political problems.
Somali pirates operate in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. The Gulf of Aden connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean by way of the Suez Canal. The pirates have fast boats, modern weapons and equipment like satellite phones and global positioning systems.
Pirates hijacked the Sirius Star off the coast of Kenya and moved it to waters off Somalia.
The tanker Sirius Star, at three hundred thirty meters long, is the biggest ship ever known to have been captured by pirates. It also happened farther south than most attacks, and farther out at sea ---- more than eight hundred kilometers from land.
The ship was headed for the United States with two million karrels of oil, worth an estimated one hundred million dollars. A Saudi Arabian company owns the tanker. The pirates have reportedly demanded twenty-five million dollars in negotiations to release the ship and its crew of twenty-five.
Somali pirates generally do not steal goods or kill hostages. They are believed to be holding seventeen ships with about three hundred crew members. Among the ships is a Ukrainian vessel hijacked(劫持) in September with a load of military weapons including tanks.
The increase in piracy is raising the cost of insuring ships. Also, oil from the Middle East and exports from East Asia could take longer to arrive.
Some of the world’s heaviest shipping traffic passes the Somali coast. But major shipping companies have begun to consider new routes. One of the world’s biggest shippers, A.P, Moeller Maersk, says it will avoid the Gulf of Aden. A move away from the Suez Canal could hurt Egypt’s economy.
American and other foreign navy ships are now watching for pirates. This week the Indian Navy destroyed a heavily armed “mother ship” in the Gulf of Aden. But the area to protect covers more than one hundred sixty million square kilometers.
小题1: According to the passage, which of the following is the key to solving the piracy in Somalia?

A．Providing lots of money.	B．Ending Civil war.
C．Supplying enough food.	D．Handling Somalia’s political problems.

小题2: Somali pirates do the following things except that _______.

A．they demand money	B．they hold the ships with crew
C．they kill some of the hostages	D．they hijack ships with military weapons

小题3:What can we infer from the passage?

A．The cost of ship

transport is decreasing.

B．The routes of some ships might change.

C．Nothing has been done to fight against the piracy.

D．The Suez Canal is of no importance to Egypt’s economy.

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The Americans believe that anybody can become President of the United States. In a recent Hollywood comedy(喜剧), that is exactly what happens.
Dave Kovic, played by Kevin Kline, is a kind-hearted man who runs a business that finds people jobs. He leads a typical(典型的) American way of life, except for one thing－he looks exactly like the President, Bill Mitchell. In fact, the only thing that makes him different from the nation’s leader is that he is very nice!
The president has started using look-alikes during some public appearances. Dave is offered a chance to “serve his country” by becoming one. However, things go wrong. The President becomes very ill and Dave ends up acting as the President forever.
Director Ivan Reitman, who made the popular and successful comedies like Twins, Ghostbusters and Legal Eagles, could have gone for easy laughs by making fun of the American government. Instead, Dave is an attractive comedy about an ordinary man in extraordinary situations. Kevin Kline gives a double performance as Dave and the President, and Sigourney Weaver is at her best as his First Lady. The love story that develops between her role and Dave is a real classic(经典).
The film is 100% American. However, if you’ve ever felt that anybody could do a better job running the country than the people in power, then you’ll enjoy Dave!
小题1:What is the purpose of the text?

A．To tell the reader about the American government.

B．To discus the Americans’ ideas about the President.

C．To make a comparison between Dave and other films.

D．To introduce a new film to the reader.

小题2:Who plays the role of the President in the film?

A．Sigourney Weaver.	B．Kevin Kline.
C．Bill Mitchell.	D．Ivan Reitman.

小题3:The underlined word “one” in the 3rd paragraph refers to _____.

A．the President

B．the director

C．an actor

D．a look-alike

小题4:Which of the following is best supported by the text?

A．The author makes fun of the President.

B．The author thinks highly of the fi

lm.

C．The author is a fan of Hollywood comedies.

D．The author wishes to become the American President.

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There are many types of reports. A report is simply an account of something that has happened. The commonest are news repo

rts. We get them in newspapers, over radio and on television. Sometimes cinemas also show us newsreels(新闻影片).
The main purpose of a newspaper is to provide news. If you examine a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, fashions, sports, books, etc. The news covers everything that happens to people
and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very amusing.
A news report is usually very short, except when it is about something very important, but it contains a lot of information. It is also written in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in fact a summary of the news item. It gives all the necessary information, what, when, where, how and why. The other paragraphs give full details of the subject. There may also be interviews with people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas(引号).
Often there are photographs to go with the news to make it more interesting.
小题1:The easiest way to get today’s news is____.

A．to go to the cinema

B．to watch a color TV

C．to read today’s newspaper

D．to listen to the music over radio

小题2:Newspapers sell well mainly because____.

A．They cost very little

B．They are easy to get

C．They have got pictures to go with new

D．They provide all sorts of news in them

小题3:If you want to get enough information about yesterday’s traffic accident within a very short time, you’d better____.