Reading

Choose the best answer:

Doing their part (P3)

1. Why do some US schools require students to do community service to graduate? (No more than 25 words)

2. How many hours of community service are students required to do to graduate from most US private schools? (No more than 5 words)

3. Explain the underlined word “launched” in Paragraph 10 in English. (No more than 5 words)

4. Why does Sooknanan do so many kinds of volunteer work? (No more than 15 words)

5. Should Chinese students be encouraged to do community service? Please give your reasons. (No more than 20 words)

The French are... (P4)

6. What is the focus of the article?

A. The traditional eating habits of the French.

B. The delicious foods that the French take pride in.

C. French traditional eating culture being threatened.

D. The worldwide protests caused by the spread of American fast food companies.

7. We know from the text that ____.

A. traditional French coffee houses are likely to close

B. no Frenchmen like American fast food

C. in the West, all people prefer fast food

D. America likes to destroy other countries' culture

8. We can infer from the article that ____.

A. Cappucciono is the name of a kind of fast food

B. tourists can help stop the spread of fast food culture

C. the new McDonald's beneath the Louvre is its 1,143rd restaurant in France

D. Pizza Hut is in Egypt to advertise American culture

Paying the price (P6)

9. Which of the following statements about greenhouse gases is FALSE?

A. They stop heat from escaping into space.

B. They upset the balance of nature and ecosystem.

C. They might lead to rapid change in climate.

D. They are important for maintaining life on Earth.

10. The example of the last ice age in Paragraph 4 is used to _____.

A. explain what is likely to happen over the next one hundred year

B. show what North America was like in the last ice age

C. explain how glaciers disappeared in North America

D. show that small changes in temperature can make a big difference to the Earth

11. The main point of Paragraphs 4-9 is to show _______.

A. how climate change ocurr

B. how climate change could affect our lives and the world's eco-system

C. what could be done to fight climate change

D. who will suffer as a result of the change

You're not ... (P8)

12. The students felt confident about the last exam at first because _____.

A. they had all studied well in college

B. they could discuss the problems while taking the exam

C. they were allowed to take reference materials into the exam

D. the professor had told them the exam problems in advance

13. What can we conclude from the article?

A. Most of the students had found good jobs before graduation.

B. Once the students saw the exam papers, they were worried.

C. Only a small number of the students finished answering the questions.

D. Although the students didn't finish the questions, they all passed the exam.

14. The professor designed the final exam problems in such a way as to ______.

A. show she is much more knowledgable than her students in engineering

B. make the students realize they still had a lot to learn after graduation

C. find out whether the students could put what they had studied into practice

D. test whether the students grasped what they had learned

Listening

Topic: Food

听下面一段独白，然后填上文章中所缺的内容。该段独白读两遍。

Color can make food mouth-watering, or it can make you want to 1 . This is what some scientists think.

Blue ice cream topped with black 2 ? It sounds disgusting. Who would want to eat such a 3 ?

Scientists claim that blue in a meal can make people lose their 4 to eat. If you don't want to eat too much birthday cake at a friend's birthday party, make sure you put your 5 on a blue plate.

Why is it that blue turns people off to food? Well, there aren't too many blue foods, are there? Can you think of any blue 6 ? And if you see any blue meat you can be sure it's gone bad. Yuck!

People don't want to be 7 . For thousands of years, blue, purple (紫色) and black were thought of as “color warning 8 ”. People believed that foods of these colors might be 9 .

So what should go into dishes? You need to think it over before helping your mum with dinner. That way your family members will be sure to enjoy dinner and not 10 lose their appetites (胃口).

Key:

Reading

1. To give students a taste of the real world, and the chance to explore a career and create a habit of volunteering.

2. At least 20 hours.

3. Caused something to start

4. She hopes the work will help her be admitted to Nova Southeastern University.

5. Possible answer: Yes. Community service would give students the chance to gain work skills and become responsible young citizens.

6—8 CAB 9—11 BDB 12—14 CDB

Listening

1—5 throw up; fruit; dessert; desire; slice

6—10 vegetables; poisoned; signs; poisonous; completely