For students in universities, copying is _______.A. absolutely wrongB. unimportantC. unimaginableD. forgivable

Passage Two Born without sight, 7-year-old Lucas Murray used to be so afraid of walking that he wouldn’t take a step without his parents. He wouldn’t walk on a bumpy surface. But now, Lucas has become more mobile than his parents ever imagined, running with friends, playing basketball and jumping on a (蹦床)―all on his own. The incredible change is owed to a technique called echolocation, similar to the method used by dolphins and bats, that allows Lucas to paint a picture of his surroundings using the sound he creates himself. To "see" the world around him, he dicks his tongue and listens to the echo that bounces back. From the sound, he can make out the location, depth and shape of objects around him, allowing him to (导航) even unfamiliar areas. Though it’s estimated that only about 5% to 10% of the blind population now uses a (声呐系 统)-type approach, the Murrays hope it could someday become as common as the cane. Two years ago, Daniel Kish, a blind psychologist who has practiced the technique since childhood and has been teaching it for more than 15 years, traveled to the Murrays’ hometown and worked with Lucas for four days, teaching him not just echolocation, but also convincing Lucas and his parents that blindness doesfft need to be a limiting condition. "You have to let go, and it’s the hardest thing in the world;’ said Sarah Murray. When Kish suggested the family let Lucas walk along the shore on his own, she said, "It was frightening. And Lucas found it frightening too:" But after the family overcame the initial fear, Lucas made rapid progress. He learned how to detect different-sized bowls and cardboard panels by clicking to navigating grocery stores entirely on his own. In addition to clicking, Lucas also uses a white cane to find his way. "He likes exploring things, and he likes climbing things" his mother said. "He’ll go up the elevator. That wouldn’t have been believable in a million years:’ She said the technique is second nature to him now.To use the echolocation technique, Lucas has to learn how to ______. A. walk on a bumpy roadB. draw pictures of things aroundC. make sounds and respond to themD. copy the sounds of bats or dolphins

Companies employing workers all hope to keep the workplace safe.Job-related injuries are something that responsible employers avoid.They take the time and use company resources to make sure that the people who come to work each day are safe. Not only does this make good sense from a moral standpoint，but it also makes good financial sense.If a worker is injured on the job，it costs the company in terms of lost man hours，increased insurance costs，workers' compensation premiums （赔偿金），and legal costs. Productivity （生产效率） is lost when other workers have to stop doing their jobs to deal with the situation.Even after the injured worker has been sent home or taken to hospital，other employees may be unfocused or need to take time off from work in the result of the incident. When a workplace is safe，workers feel more comfortable and confident when they are in that environment.Productivity gets a promotion，and profits follow suit.Absence also drops when employers take steps to carry out an effective safety program. Investing in a good safety program brings with it other benefits too.When employees feel safe in the workplace and absence rates are kept down，they can focus on serving the company's customers properly.Many companies offer products or services that are similar to those that other companies carry or provide.Customers will decide which companies they want to deal with based on which one they feel provides the best customer service.Increased absence means longer wait times and customers are quite prepared to move on to another company they feel will be able to help them in a more timely manner if they are not getting the level of attention that they deserve. Everyone in the workplace has a duty and a responsibility to do whatever they can to keep the working environment safe.Managers should deal with employee concerns about safety issues in an appropriate manner.（1）What bad effect does an incident have according to the text？ ____ A.The company may close down，B.The quality of products may decline.C.Workers may be hard to concentrate.D.Workers may refuse to work again.（2）What do we know about the safe workplace from paragraph 4？ ____ A.It can inspire workers' creativity.B.It can bring workers a higher pay.C.It can put an end to workers' absence.D.It can bring the employer more money.（3）On what condition will the customers move on to another company according to the text？ ____ A.If they can't get a safer product.B.If they have to wait for a long time to get deserved attention.C.If they feel the company can't provide a safer workplace for them.D.If they find the company provides the same products as others offer.（4）Which of the following can be the best title of the text？ ____ A.How to Create a Safer WorkplaceB.How Employees Can Protect ThemselvesC.Why Safety Is Important in the WorkplaceD.Companies Are Ensuring Employees' Safety

三、阅读理解：It is natural for young people to becritical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the misunderstandingsbetween them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that theirparents are out of touch with modern ways; that they are possessive anddominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with crises; that theytalk too much about certain problems and that they have no sense of humor, atleast in parent-child relationships.I think it is true that parents oftenunderestimate their teenage children and also forget how they themselves feltwhen young.Young people often irritate their parentswith their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. Thisis not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which theyhave not yet been accepted. So they create a culture and society of their own.Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothesor hairstyles irritate their parents, this gives them additional enjoyment.They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they aresuperior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style andtaste.Sometimes you are resistant and proudbecause you do not want your parents to approve of what you do. If they didapprove, it looks as if you are betraying your own age group. But in that case,you are assuming that you are the underdog: you can’t win but at least you cankeep your honor. This is a passive way of looking at things. It is naturalenough after long years of childhood, when you were completely under yourparents’ control. But it ignores the fact that you are now beginning to beresponsible for yourself.If you plan to control your life,co-operation can be part of that plan. You can charm others, especiallyparents, into doing things the way you want. You can impress others with yoursense of responsibility and initiative, so that they will give you theauthority to do what you want to do.36. The author is primarily addressing_______.A. parents ofteenagers B. newspaper readers.C. those who give advice to teenagers D. teenagers37. The first paragraph is mainly about_______.A. the teenagers’ criticism of theirparents.B. misunderstanding between teenagers andtheir parents.C. the dominance of the parents over theirchildrenD. the teenagers’ ability to deal withcrises.38. Teenagers tend to have strange clothesand hairstyles because they ______.A. want to show their existence by creatinga culture of their own.B. have a strong desire to be leaders instyle and taste.C. have no other way to enjoy themselvesbetter.D. want to irritate their parents.39. To improve parent-child relationships,teenagers are advised to be _____.A. obedient B.responsible C. co-operative D. independent.

Some people who like to eat very hot chili（辣椒）peppers say that they can help you breathe better if you have a cold. Others believe that chilies give you added energy. We cannot tell you these ideas are true or false. But what we know for sure is that people have been growing chilies for centuries, and there are many kinds, about two hundred.Want to fire up your meals with homegrown chilies? Here are some ideas for you to make it come true. Follow these steps and enjoy your farming life at home.Chilies need a warm climate to grow better. Nothing is more important than enough heat for the growth. If you plant the seeds outside when the weather is cool, place the seeds under a glass. That will add warmth from the sun and protect them from wind. What's more, it helps make the temperature high than outside.If you plant inside, fill a pot（something to hold the seed）with soil. The pot should have holes in the bottom so water can run out. Drop several seeds onto the pot and cover them with some soil. Then cover the top of the pot with a plastic bag. Hold the pot in a warm area.When the chilies start growing, take off the bag. When the plants have reached about two centimeters high, take them out and place each one carefully in its own pot.When the plants are twenty centimeters high, tie the plants to a stick placed in the pot so that they will not fall down.When the chili peppers are thirty centimeters high, remove the tops off with your fingers. That should make new branches grow. When the first flowers show, give the plants some potash fertilizer（化肥）. When the weather is warm, place them outside. Make sure they get a good amount of light and water.Some people like to pick chilies when they are green. Others like to pick them when they are red. Both of them give colors, taste and differing amounts of heat to the soups, dish and other foods.The most important condition that chili seeds need in cool weather is .A.low temperatureB.enough waterC.enough heatD.no windWhat's the RIGHT order to plant chilies inside? ①Tie the plants to a stick placed in the pot.②Cover the top of the pot with plastic.③Remove the tops off the chili plant.④Drop some seeds onto the soil of the pot.A.③②①④B.④②①③C.①③②④D.①④③②We can know from the passage that .A.there are about 2 thousand kinds of chilies in the worldB.people have grown chilies for several hundred yearsC.chilies can surely make us feel better if we have a coldD.the pot has holes in the bottom to let air inWhere can we most probably read the passage? A.A magazine.B.A travel website.C.A textbook.D.A history leaflet.

What is critical to CALLA?A Improving learning approach.B Learning new words.C Using background information.D Knowing cognitive information.

Why Minority Students Don’t Graduate from College Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, was justifiably proud of Bowdoin’s efforts to recruit minority students. Since 2003 the school has boosted the proportion of so-called under-represented minority students ( (南美洲人), and Native Americans, about 30 percent of the U.S. population) in entering freshman classes from 8 percent to 13 percent. But Bowdoin has not done quite as well when it comes to actually graduating minorities. While nine out of 10 white students routinely get their diplomas within six years, only seven out of 10 black students made it to graduation day in several recent classes. The United States once had the highest graduation rate of any nation. Now it stands 10th. For the first time in American history, there is the risk that the rising generation will be less well educated than the previous one. The graduation rate among 25-to 34-year-olds is no better than the rate for the 55-to 64-year-olds who were going to college more than 30 years ago. Studies show that more and more poor and nonwhite students are eager to graduate from college--but their graduation rates fall far short of their dreams. The graduation rates for blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans lag far behind the graduation rates for whites and Asians. As the minority population grows in the United States, low college-graduation rates become a threat to national prosperity. The problem is noticeable at public universities. In 2007, the University of Wisconsin-Madison--one of the top five or so "public Ivies"--graduated 81 percent of its white students within six years, but only 56 percent of its blacks. At less-selective state schools, the numbers get worse. Community colleges have low graduation rates generally--but rock-bottom rates for minorities. A recent review of California community colleges found that while a third of the Asian students picked up their degrees, only 15 percent of African-Americans did so as well. Private colleges and universities generally do better, partly because they offer smaller classes and more personal attention. But when it comes to a significant graduation gap, Bowdoin has company. Nearby Colby College logged an 18-point difference between white and black graduates in 2007 and 25 points in 2006. "Higher education has been able to get around this issue for years, particularly the more selective schools, by saying the responsibility is on the individual student," says Pennington of the Gates Foundation. "If they fail, it’s their fault." Some critics blame affirmative action--students admitted with lower test scores and grades from shaky high schools often struggle at top schools. But a bigger problem may be that poor high schools often send their students to colleges for which they are "undermatched": they could get into better, richer schools, but instead go to community colleges and low-rated state schools that lack the resources to help them. Some schools out for profit cynically increase tuitions and count on student loans and federal aid to foot the bill--knowing full well that the students won’t make it. "Colleges know that a lot of kids they take will end up in remedial classes, for which they’ll get no college credit and then they’ll be dismissed," says Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust. "The school gets to keep the money, but the kid leaves with loads of debt and no degree and no ability to get a better job. Colleges are not holding up their end." A college education is getting ever more expensive. Since 1982 tuitions have been rising at roughly twice the rate of inflation. University administrators insist that most of those bikes are matched by increased scholarship grants or loans, but the recession has decreased private (捐助) and cut into state spending on higher education. In 2008 the net cost of attending a four-year public university equaled 28 percent of median family income, while a four-year private university cost 76 percent of median family income. More and more scholarships are based on scores, not need. Poorer students are not always the best-informed consumers. Often they end up deeply in debt or simply unable to pay after a year or two and must drop out. There once was a time when universities took an unreasonable pride in their drop-out rates. Professors would begin the year by saying, "Look to the right and look to the left. One of you is not going to be here by the end of the year." But such a Darwinian spirit is beginning to give way as at least a few colleges face up to the graduation gap. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the gap has been roughly halved over the last three years. The university has poured resources into peer counseling to help students from inner-city schools adjust to the faster pace of a university classroom, and also to help minority students overcome the stereotype that they are less qualified. State and federal governments could sharpen that focus everywhere by broadly publishing minority graduation rates. For years private colleges such as Princeton and MIT have had success bringing minorities onto campus in the summer before freshman year to give them a head start on college-level courses. The newer trend is to start recruiting poor and nonwhite students as early as the seventh grade, using new tools like hip-hop competitions to identify kids with sophisticated (语言的) means. Such programs can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to graduate without special support. With effort and money, the graduation gap can be closed. Washington and Lee is a small, selective school in Virginia. Its student body is less than 5 percent black and less than 2 percent Latino. While the school usually graduated about 90 percent of its whites, the graduation rate of its blacks and Latinos had dipped to 63 percent by 2007. "We went through a dramatic shift," says Dawn Watkins, the vice president for student affairs. The school aggressively pushed (师徒制) of minorities by other students and "partnering" with parents at a special pre-enrollment session. The school had its first-ever black homecoming. Last spring the school graduated the same proportion of minorities as it did whites. If the United States wants to keep up in the global economic race, it will have to pay systematic attention to graduating minorities, not just enrolling them.What was Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, proud of A．The College’s high enrollment rate of white students.B．The College’s high enrollment rate of minority students.C．The College’s high graduation rate of white students.D．The College’s high graduation rate of minority students.

Don’t count your _____ before they are hatched.(prov.)A. eggsB. chickensC. hensD. birds

Ability of words learning can be enhanced by _____. A making consultancy B making efforts C making connections D making imagination

Because she spoke Spanish, she got around the country very well ____.A. lonelyB. by herC. independentD. on her own