Dear Boarding Students，
At this time of school year，we can feel some students begin to experience excitement as the summer vacation comes. But some others still don't want to start packing. I once again ask for your attention as we will have summer camps for the new students. There is much work to be done in packing and cleaning-up，especially during exam week.
Each student will get a task list and each task has a deadline（期限）．The dorm（寝室）teachers will work with each student each night to make sure you are getting the tasks done on time. It would be helpful if your parents encourage you to do a little packing and cleaning from now on. It means you can take the posters off the wall，pack up winter clothes，return all borrowed books to the library，etc. Spending twenty minutes a day on your tasks will make the last week of the term very easy，and you can spend more time on the important preparation for exams. If you plan to travel home，I'd like to remind you to take some of your belongings with you.
The coming weekend is a“closed weekend”．During that time no one is allowed to leave school. After packing we need to prepare the dorms for moving out，and store（储藏）students' large belongings.
The last exam is on Thursday and all students leave after their exam. The dorm will remain open until 5 p. m. on Friday for those students that could not get a ride or flight. Please let us know if you need transportation to the airport.
Thank you again for all your attention during the last，busy month of school. As always，you，welcome to call or email me with any questions.
Peter Margio
Director of Campus Life
453-757-2630
pmargioC baylinschool. comThis email is from Director of Campus Life to .
| A．dorm teachers | B．boarding students |
| C．parents and students· | D．parents of boarding students |
Which of the following is the best for the blank（空白处）in Paragraph 2?
| A．It's better to break the huge task into smaller parts. |
| B．It's better to take the posters off the wall. |
| C．It's better to invite parents to pack up winter clothes． |
| D．It's better to return all borrowed books to the library. |
The underlined word“belongings”in Paragraph 2 means“ ”in Chinese.
| A．体育器材 | B．生活手册 |
| C．随身物品 | D．交通工具 |
Boarding students should_______ according to the passage.
| A．remember to store their small backpacks |
| B．go shopping with their parents |
| C．leave school during the “closed weekend” |
| D．all leave after their exam on Thursday |
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When people want to find something on the Internet, they often say,“Let’s Google it!”It means “Let’s search for it on the Internet!”
It all began in the summer of 1995, Larry Page, 24, and Sergey Brin, 23, met at Stanford University. In their project, the two students came up with a plan to make a new search engine(引擎). They founded(成立)Google a year later. It became a company on September 7,1998.
Google is not the first search engine, but it is certainly the most successful. Google’s worldwide market share(市场占有率)was as high as 82.8 percent last year, according to Marketshare. Hitslink.com.
Before Google,search engines ranked (排名) websites simply by how many times the webpage has been visited. Page and Bin used a completely different way, by the number of other websites that linked(链接) to that site. Google helps people find the most important site that connects to their key words.
As popular as Google in the English world, in China, Baidu is the most popular and biggest search engine. It held a market share of nearly 80 percent for web search in 2012.
Baidu was started in 2000 by Li Yanhong and Xu Yong. It offers searches for website, audio, images...It also provides the largest online Chinese encyclopedia(百科全书)，Baidu Baike.
1题为判断正误（“T”表示正确，“F”表示错误）；2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题找出下面句子的同义句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。Google is the first search engine.( )
The word “Google”has the same meaning as.
When did Larry and Sergey make Google a company?
Google is the most successful search engine, but it isn’t the first one.(找近义句)
We have known for a long time that flowers of different plants open and close at different time of day. Yet no one really understands why flowers open and close like this at particular times. It is not as simple as we might think, as new experiments have shown. In one experiment, flowers were kept in darkness. We might expect that the flowers, without any information about the time of the day, did not open as they usually do. In fact, they continued to open at their usual time. This shows that they have some mysterious (神秘的) way of knowing the time.
Their sense of time does not depend on information from the outside world; it is, so to speak, inside them, a kind of “inner clock”. This discovery may not seem to be very important. However, it was later found that not just plants but also animals including man have this “inner clock”which controls working of their bodies and their activities.
Human beings, then, are also controlled by this mysterious power. Whether we wish it or not, it affects such things in our life as our need for sleep, our need for food. And our ability to concentrate(集中).One experiment was done for finding out.
| A．when different flowers open and close |
| B．if flowers have a mysterious way of knowing the time |
| C．how flowers are used to tell the time in the darkness |
| D．why flowers open and close at particular time |
Before the experiment arrived at a conclusion, people had thought that the flowers .
| A．would never open in darkness |
| B．would change their usual time to open |
| C．would continue to open at their usual time |
| D．would open earlier than the usual time |
That flowers have the sense of time is related to.
| A．sunlight |
| B．weak light |
| C．the “inner clock” |
| D．the information from the outside world |
From the passage, we know thatdon’t have mysterious power inside.
| A．wild animals | B．human beings |
| C．all creatures(生物) | D．lifeless things |
We may know that if we make good use of the ‘inner clock’,.
| A．we will have more strength to do our work. |
| B．clocks or watches are no longer useful to us |
| C．we will be able to live as long as we wish to |
| D．human beings will need less sleep, less food or less movement |
Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The program works because everyone’s eyes are different. So in the future you won’t have to remember a number when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank. You’ll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are.
The eye-recognition(眼睛识别) program is already being tested in shops and banks in the USA, Britain and France. Soon, this technology(技术) will change all other ways of finding out who people are.
However, scientists are working on other systems. Machines will soon be able to know you from the shape of your face or hands or even your smell! We already have machines that can tell who you are from your voice or the mark made by your fingers.
Eye-recognition is better than other kinds because your eyes don’t change as you get older, or get dirty like hands or fingers. And even twins have different eyes, so the program can be up to 94％ correct, depending on(依靠) how good the technology is. Some programs may only be right 51％ of the time. In Britain, it was found that 91％ of people who had tried it said that they liked the idea of eye-recognition.
In the future your computer will be looking at you in the eye. So smile!The eye-recognition program has already been tested inin a few countries.
| A．shops and banks |
| B．libraries and schools. |
| C．banks and schools |
| D．hospitals and hotels |
How does the eye-recognition program work?
| A．You type a number. |
| B．You look at the machine. |
| C．The machine listens to your voice. |
| D．You need to walk with the machine. |
We already have machines that can tell who you are from .
| A．your eyes or your smell |
| B．your face or your voice |
| C．your face or your foot print |
| D．your voice or the mark made by your finger |
The eye-recognition program can be up tocorrect, depending on how good the
technology is.
| A．51% | B．14% | C．94% | D．49% |
Which of the following is true?
A.Eye-recognition program has already been tested in the USA.
B.Smell-recognition will take the place of all other ways of finding out who people are.
C.51% of people like the idea of eye-recognition program.
D.Computers can remember you by looking at your clothes.
At school many things happen to us. We may feel excited when we have success in a school play. We may feel sorry if we lose an important game. We want to keep the memory for the rest of our lives.
How to keep the memory? Our English teacher, Miss Wang, has taught us a good way of remembering things to make our own yearbook. What is a yearbook? A yearbook is a kind of book which is used to keep the memory of exciting moments. It's usually made at the end of the year.
Last December, we began to make our yearbook. First we chose the persons who had done something special, then some students interviewed (采访) them, some wrote down their stories, others took photos of them. Everyone in our class had something to do. Finally our teacher helped us to put the things together. We had our first yearbook.
All of us put a lot of love into making the yearbook. It is so wonderful that not only the students but also our parents and teachers will remember the special time for ever.We may feel ______if we lose an important game.
| A．sorry | B．happy |
| C．excited | D．interested |
Who has taught us a good way of remembering things to make our own yearbook?
| A．Miss Yang. | B．Miss Huang |
| C．Mr Wang | D．Miss Wang. |
A yearbook is made to ______.
| A．take notes | B．keep the memory |
| C．do our homework | D．remember English words |
A yearbook is usually made ______.
| A．at the beginning of the year |
| B．at the middle of the term |
| C．after the first exam in a term |
| D．at the end of the year |
Finally______helped us to put the things together.
| A．our parents | B．our brothers |
| C．our teacher | D．our friends |
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People use the words “ mouse” and “ rat” when talking about small animals with round ears, a pointy(尖的)nose, and a long tail. However, there are many different kinds of rats and mice, such as the Norway rat, black rat, house mouse, and deer mouse. The most common(常见的)rat that people see is the Norway rat, while the house mouse is the most common mouse that people find in their homes.
If you can’t tell the difference between a rat and a mouse, you are not alone. The Norway rat and the house mouse both come from an animal, which lived millions of years ago. As a result, they have much in common. Both Norway rats and house mice have long tails, whiskers(须), and round ears.
However, there are many differences between Norway rats and house mice. The Norway rat is much bigger than the mouse. A Norway rat can weigh over ten times(倍) as much as a house mouse and is usually three times as large. Also , a Norway rat has big feet and small ears compared to the size of its body. And its tail is longer than its body, while a Norway rat’ s tail is shorter.
| The Norway rat and the house mouse |
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| Similarities |
They both come from the same animal. They both have They have similar |
| Differences |
The Norway rat is _ The Norway rat is usually three times as The Norway rat has big feet and small ears compared to its body, while the house mouse has small feet and big ears compared to its body. The Norway rat’s tail is shorter than |