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Passage 1A foreigner’s first impression of the U.S. is likely to be that everyone is in a rush -- often under pressure. City people always appear to be __1__ to get where they are going, __2__ seeking attention in a store, or elbowing others as they try to complete their shopping. Racing through daytime meals is part of the pace of life in this country. Working time is __3__ precious. Others in public eating-places are waiting for you to finish so they, too, can be served and get back to work within the time allowed. You also find drivers will be __4__ and people will push past you. You will miss smiles, __5__ conversations, and small exchanges with strangers. Don’t take it personally. This is because people value time highly, and they resent someone else “wasting” it beyond a certain appropriate point.Many new arrivals to the States will miss the opening exchanges of a business call, for example. They will miss the ritual __6__ that goes with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee that may be a __7__ in their own country. They may miss leisurely business chats in a restaurant or coffee house. __8__, Americans do not assess their visitors in such relaxed __9__ over extended small talk; much less do they take them out for dinner, or around on the golf course while they develop a sense of trust. Since we generally assess and probe professionally rather than socially, we __10__ talking business very quickly. Time is, therefore, always ticking in our inner ear.Passage 2For the majority, the __1__ to study abroad is taken only after a period of at least six months of __2__ planning. "For me," says seventeen - year - old Gloria Marcato, "it's more important to learn to speak English and to live through this experience than it is to receive a __3__ from the American government." Others dream of __4__ on to college. "I want to be a conductor, and I've already chosen the best American music school," __5__ Sandro Rodrigo de Barros.Things, as they say, are not always so easy. Even young students who plan on __6__ in the United States just long enough to finish two semesters of high school have difficulty finding a host family. Very few arrive in the country with all the details worked out. Gloria Marcato is one of the lucky ones. Before leaving, she had received two letters and some photos of her new "parents." "I think it all __7__," says Gloria, "on how you answer the survey sent by the overseas study company here in Brazil. For example, I didn't __8__ on words. I even wrote about my four dogs, and said I went to church every Sunday." She hit the __9__. Americans are quite religious (the majority being Christian) and have a special place in their hearts for pets. American families, which __10__ foreign students, are not paid, though they are allowed a small income tax deduction.Passage 3That was the situation __1__ a couple of years later, when I was __2__ an opportunity to study English through an online course. The communication __3__ was a computer, phone line, and modem. I soon got __4__ to the necessary equipment, learned the technology from a friend and participated in the virtual classroom 5 to 7 days a week.Online learning is not __5__ than regular classroom study; it requires much time, commitment and discipline to keep up with the flow of the course. I worked hard to __6__ the minimum standards set by the course and to complete __7__ on time. I practiced all the time. I carried a little dictionary with me __8__ I went, as well as a notebook in which I listed any new words I heard. I made many, sometimes embarrassing, mistakes. Once in a while I cried with frustration, and sometimes I felt like giving up. But I didn ’t feel__9__ by students who spoke faster than I did because I book all the time I needed to think out my ideas and wrote a reply before posing it on the screen. Then, one day I realized I could understand just about everythingIcame across, and most importantly, I could “say”anything I wanted to in English. Although I still made many mistakes and was __10__ learning, I had finally reaped the benefits of all that hard work.Passage 4__1__ I was growing up, I was __2__ to be seen with my father. He was __3__ crippled and very __4__, and when we walked together, his hand on my arm for __5__, people would __6__. I would inwardly struggle at the unwanted attention. If he ever noticed or was bothered, he never let on.It was difficult to __7__ our steps----his halting, mine impatient----and because of that, we didn’t say much as we went along. __8__ as we started out, he always said, “You set the pace, I will try to __9__ to you.”Our usual walk was to or from the subway on which he traveled to work. He went to work sick, and despite nasty weather. He almost never __10__ a day, and would make it to the office even if others could not. A mater of pride.Passage 5The printed word is just about the most important way we have of communication with one another. Look around you at the __1__ in school, at the newspapers at home, at the posters on walls and the stamps you __2__ on envelopes before posting them.Consider too, the __3__ of being able to understand the instructions __4__ on packets of food and medicine sold in shops. In these and in many other ways, the printed word has become so important that it is easy to imagine how life could go on without it, in everyday life there are hundreds of situations in which people need to __5__ with one another, and the printed word is nearly __6__ the best method of communication where large numbers of people are involved.__7__ you may know, communication intended to reach a large number of people is called “mass communication”. The main present-day __8__ of mass communication using the printed word are newspapers, magazines and books. The best known forms of __9__ mass communication which do not use the printed word are television and radio. Television or radio __10__, like newspapers, may also reach millions of people at a time.Passage 6Iron deficiency is very common among women in general, affecting one in four female ____1_____ and one in five women aged 18 to 45, respectively. But the ratio is even greater among active women, affecting up to 80 percent of female endurance athletes. This means, Lyle says, that "too many women ____2_____ the amount of iron they take in";. Women of child-bearing age are at ____3_____ risk, since their monthly bleeding is a major source of iron loss. Plus, many health-conscious women ____4_____ their risk by rejecting red meat, which contains the most easily absorbed form of iron. And because women often restrict their diet in an effort to control ____5 ____, they may not consume enough iron-rich food, and are liable to experience a deficiency.Exercise can result in iron loss through a ____6_____ of mechanisms. Some iron is lost in sweat, and, for unknown reason, intense endurance exercise is sometimes associated with bleeding of the digestive system. Athletes in high-impact sports such as running may also lose iron through a phenomenon where small blood ____7_____ in the feet leak blood.There are three ____8_____ of iron deficiency. The first and most common is having low iron reserves, a condition that typically has no symptoms. Fatigue and poor performance may begin to appear in the second stage of deficiency, when not enough iron is present to form the molecules of blood protein that ____9_____ oxygen to the working muscles. In the third and final stage, people often feel weak, tired, and out of breath —and exercise ____10_____ is severely compromised.Passage 7Before all the different ____1_____ of Barbie dolls for sale now, there was just a single Barbie. Actually, her name was Barbara.Barbara Handler was the ____2_____ of Elliot and Ruth Handler, co-founders of the Mattel Toy Company. Ruth came up with the idea for Barbie after ____3_____ her daughter play with paper dolls. The three-dimensional model for Barbie was a German doll —a joke gift for adults ____4_____ as having the appearance of “a woman who sold sex”. Mattel refashioned the doll into a decent, all-American —although with an exaggerated breast size —version and named it after Barbara, who was then a ____5_____.Since her ____6_____ in 1959, Barbie has become the universally recognized Queen of the Dolls. Mattel says the average American girl owns ten Barbie dolls, and two are sold somewhere in the world every ____7_____.Now more than sixty years old, Barbara — who ____8_____ interviews but is said to have loved the doll —may be the most famous unknown figure on the ____9_____.Barbie's boyfriend, Ken, was introduced in 1961 and named after Barbara's brother. The real Ken, who died in 1994, was disgusted by the doll that made his family ____10_____. "I don't want my children to play with it," he said in 1993.Passage 8Sad to say, many English people in the 1920’s and 1930’s thought Chaplin’s Tramp a bit, well, “crude”. Certainly middle-class ____1_____ did; the working-class audiences were more likely to clap for a character who ____2_____ against authority, using his wicked little cane to trip it up, or aiming the heel of his boot for a well-placed ____3_____ at its broad rear. All the same, Chaplin’s ____4_____ beggar didn’t seem all that English or even working class. English tramps didn’t sport tiny moustaches, huge pants or tall coats: European leaders and Italian waiters wore things like that. Then again, the Tramp’s quick eve for a ____5_____ girl had a coarse way about it that was considered, well, not quite nice by English audiences —that’s how foreigners behaved, wasn’t it? But for over half of his screen ____6_____, Chaplin had no screen voice to confirm his British nationality.Indeed, it was a ____7_____ for Chaplin when he could no longer resist the talking movies and had to find "the right voice" for his Tramp. He ____8_____ that day as long as possible: in Modern Times in 1936, the first film in which he was heard as a singing waiter, he made up a nonsense language which sounded like no known ____9_____. He later said he imagined the Tramp to be a college-educated gentleman who'd come down in the world. But if he'd been able to speak with an ____10_____ accent in those early short comedy movies, it's doubtful if he would have achieved world fame. And the English would have been sure to find it "odd". No one was certain whether Chaplin did it on purpose but this helped to bring about his huge success.Passage 9A transformation is occurring that should greatly boost living ____1_____ in the developing world. Places that until recently were deaf and dumb are ____2_____ acquiring up-to-date telecommunications that will let them ____3_____ both internal and foreign investment. It may take a decade for many countries in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe to improve transportation, ____4_____ supplies, and other utilities. But a single optical fiber with a diameter of less than half a millimeter can carry more ____5_____ than a large cable made of copper wires. By installing optical fiber, digital switches, and the latest wireless transmission systems, a parade of urban centers and ____6_____ zones from Beijing to Budapest are stepping directly into the Information Age. A spider's web of digital and wireless communication links is already reaching most of Asia and parts of Eastern Europe.All these developing ____7_____ see advanced communications as a way to leap over whole stages of economic development. Widespread access to information technologies, for example, ____8_____ to condense the time required to change from labor- intensive assembly work to industries that ____9_____ engineering, marketing, and design. Modern communications "will give countries like China and Vietnam a huge ____10_____ over countries stuck with old technology".How fast these nations should push ahead is a matter of debate. Many experts think Vietnam is going too far by requiring that all mobile phones be expensive digital models, when it is desperate for any phones, period. "These countries lack experience in weighing costs and choosing between technologies," says one expert.9、Answer : 1. B 2. H 3. N 4. O 5. A 6. M 7. G 8. J 9. I10. CPassage 10The comparatively treeless plains of North Africa have suffered a progressive drying up, both ____1____ and man-made, but the region was ____2____ so rich in fertile soil that district we now know as the Libyan Desert was, in the old days, part of the granary (粮仓) of the Roman Empire, and the centre of the Sahara ___3___ a busy trading population for a long period. That was when there were ___4___ in plenty and the fields were the traditional “fields of the woods ” — clearings in the forest — and therefore always trees ____5___.It is the trees that lift the water and send ___6___ into the air so that it may fall as dew or rain further on. Trees reduce the speed of the wind, and provide shelter and shade; the roots ____7__ minerals in the soil and these are carried to the leaves which, when they have fulfilled their function, return to the earth, giving the soil the combination of minerals that plants require.But through the ages Africa has been ___8___. Successive invaders have felled the forest to provide grazing lands for their flocks and herds. With the removal of the essential tree cover, the water ____9___ was broken, the earth became feverish and sick, and in course of time was unable to support those who had broken the _____10_____ of life by removing the earth ’s green mantle —the trees.。