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Smith: Mary, have you got the result of the exam?
Mary: No. How is it?
Smith: Terrible. It seems that only half of the students passed the final exam.
Mary: Really? The exam_ been very difficultthis time.
Smith: Well, I’m really(surprise) too. There are many students who definitely didn’t fail. According to Carl, there are eight boys in his class who failed, (include) himself and Gorge.
Mary: Oh! Gorge is of the top students in the college. What about his sister, Catherine? Did she pass?
Smith: Oh, yes. It seems that she (get) good marks.
Mary: That’s (absolute) unbelievable! Gorge was much better student than his sister, and has been working so hard for the last few months.
Smith: It seems (fair), doesn’t it? But, from I’ve heard, perhaps he worked too hard. He was ill during the week of the exam.
Mary: Oh, I see. These things happen, sometimes. I suppose the teacher will take his illness into account and give him a pass.
Smith: Well, there is a rumor going around the head of the Department is leaving.
Mary: Because of the bad result, you mean?
Smith: Well, I suppose so. I’m not sure. Maybe Mr. Dustin is going to be the new Department Head.

任务型阅读（每空一词）(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’s education may be an unusual economical field, but increasing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its focus on encouragement, provides an explanation for why so many girls are rid of an education.
Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else’s family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school-the prophecy becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious(恶性的) circle of neglect.
An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.
Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant effect on health practices, including family planning.
Topic: The significance of female in developing countries

Viewpoint	Educating girls is more and worthy of being invested.
Families	From low-income families	From educated mothers’ families
Attitudes	Girls are of importance than boys.	Development should be for all the .
Practices	There is little in daughters, while boys are sent to school. Girls are made to stay at home, housework.	It is insisted that girls and boys be offered chances to be equally.
Consequences	A vicious circle	A virtuous circle
Significance	Educating women contributes to social, has economic advantages and health practices significantly, including family planning.
	Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding.

阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：1）汉语提示；2）首字母提示；3）语境提示, 在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。（每题1分；共10分）
All the students present, may I have your attention, please? I'm Elizabeth Taylor. As editor of the Voice, I'd like to iyou to our school newspaper. We need new hands to help uscan tell the students what's new every day through our newspaper. Experience isn’t quite necessary, but writing and typing skills are in great. We need people to read our（文章）to type and check them. We could also use a good photographer and several engineers. Since the Voice comesfive days a week. We need good students who know how to make theof their time. There’s some money for salarieson how much work to do, but don't expect to get rich. This isn’t something you do for money. Mostly it's just for fun. Anyone who’s wto joining us should speak to me（立刻）after this meeting. Be pto start right away. Our first paper appears tomorrow.

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词（注意：每个空格只填一个单词）
The Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Some parents send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the US or Australia, regardless of how much this costs. Many also want their children to take extra-curriculum (课外的) activities where they either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes that will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is, so parents often spend unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples buy a computer for their son or daughter.
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their children's skills vary; they will usually be skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today's children lack self-respect and self-confidence.
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study effectively. They are not teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever.
Parents can help achieve this by teaching their children practical skills like cooking, sewing and other housework.
Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. The result, a well-cooked dinner, will give a child a lot of satisfaction and confidence.
An old machine such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child as a toy may make him curious and arouse his interest. If he will spend hours looking at it, and try to mend it, your child might become an engineer when he grows up. Such activities do more than teach a child to read a book; but rather they teach them to think, and to use their minds. This is much more important than learning by reading a book.

Title	How Chinese Parents Should Educate Their ________
______ practice	Being generous with ___when it comes to education. Sending them to the ________schools abroad. Taking extra curriculum activities in order to ____a head start in life. _____more money than they can afford on education.
Bad results	Children's lack of ________and self-confidence.
Suggested ________	Teaching their children practical skills, which are the most important. Cooking. Sewing. Other housework. Repairing a ________radio or TV.
Good results	To make the children hardworking and confident. To enable them to think and to use their________.

The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar．For thousands of years, the festival ___________ (mark) by eating zong zi and racing dragon boats in honour of Qu Yuan, who is said to have committed suicide(自杀) by drowning himself.
Qu was a minister of the State of Chu ________ (situate) in present-day Hunan and Hubei provinces, during the Warring States Period（战国时期）．He was upright, loyal and highly respected．_______, he was dismissed from office．_______ (realize) that the country was in the hands of evil officials, Qu leapt into River Miluo on the fifth day of the fifth month．Nearby fishermen rushed over to save him but were _______ (able) to recover his body．
The people of Chu _______ mourned Qu’s death threw rice into the river to feed his ghost _______ year on the day of his death．But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a huge reptile（爬行动物）in the river had stolen the rice．The spirit then advised ________ to wrap the rice and bind it _______ throwing it into the river．
During the Duanwu Festival, zong zi is eaten to symbolize（象征，表示） the rice offerings to Qu．And the dragon-boat races symbolize ________ many attempts to rescue and recover Qu's body.

of fires	Hot electrical wiring, food and a dish towel are likely to result in fire. People’s with matches, candles or cigarettes often leads to fire.
taken to prevent fire	Check your house safety with your parents. ◆Have tests of fire alarms every to check that all smoke alarms in the house work. ◆Make sure that toasters are unplugged, and that things which fire easily are far from the stovetop and oven. ◆Make sure that electrical outlets are in working order and not overloaded. ◆Put a strong screen in front of the fireplace.
Escape plan	Make a fire safety plan in of fire. ◆Two escape routes from every room are planned for you to from. ◆An outside meeting place is agreed on. ◆Fire escape plan must be at least twice a year.
	Having a knowledge of fire prevention, making a plan for fire safety and putting the plan into action can make a .