NEW YORK—Microsoft on Monday made another effort to challenge Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android in the exploding smartphone market—launching a wireless operating system，Windows Phone 7.
Consumers will consider it“always delightful and thoroughly mine，”Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at a launch event. Ballmer said last year that Microsoft had“screwed up”with its Windows Mobile operating system.For example，it failed to keep up with touch-screen innovations that make iPhones and Android phones easy to use.
Microsoft fell from third to fourth place in market share this year，behind BlackBerry，iPhone and Android. Only 10.8% of smartphone owners used Microsoft’s system in August，down from 18% last December.
But Windows Phone 7 is“a total departure from anything they’ve done”.Microsoft says it sought to simplify common activities. For example，you can instantly take a picture with a phone’s camera by pushing a button on the device. You don’t have to first awaken it from its sleep mode and launch the camera application. You also can program the phones to automatically upload photos to Facebook or other social network sites in a couple of seconds. Users can easily work with Microsoft Office contact and calendar information as well as documents created in Microsoft’s Word，Excel and PowerPoint.
The phones will not show videos built on Adobe’s Flash platform，widely used by services including YouTube and Hulu.
AT&T will offer the first Windows Phone 7 smartphone，the Samsung Focus，on Nov.8.Soon after，it will have the LG Quantum and HTC Surround. Each will cost S|  199.99 with a two-year service contract. T-Mobile will have two Windows Phone 7 models out for the holiday shopping season：the HTC HD7 and Dell Venue Pro. It did not say how much they’ll cost.
小題1:What is the main idea of paragraph 4？
A．Why Microsoft fell behind others.
B．How to use Windows Phone7.
C．Advantages of Windows phone7.
D．Speed of Windows phone7.
小題2:What does the underlined phrase“screwed up”in the 2nd paragraph probably mean？
A．To make a bad mistake.B．To make big progress.
C．To achieve main goals.D．To keep up with others.
小題3:Which of the following phones will NOT use Windows Phone 7 operating system？
A．Quantum.B．Surround.C．Android.D．Focus.
小題4:Why did Microsoft see a drop in market share last year？
A．Because its operating system didn’t catch up with changes.
B．Because its phones can’t show videos from YouTube.
C．Because it was inconvenient to take photos using its phones.
D．Because its system was based only on Microsoft soft wares.
小題5:Which of the following can be the best title of the passage？
A．Smartphone Market Welcomes New Giant
B．Microsoft to Fight Back on Smartphone
C．Mobile Phones Getting Smarter and Easier
D．Microsoft Proved a Failure in Smartphone

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:C
小題4:A
小題5:B
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Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Premier Wen Jiabao chatted with Yu Jianrong online.
B．One Foundation has set up a hotline for missing children.
C．ACWF promised to offer Ren Fangfang free plastic surgery.
D．Poverty and family problems contribute to child begging
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Which of the following directly take part in the campaign to help child beggars?
A．Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and China Daily
B．The All-China Women's Federation and Xinhua News Agency
C．One Foundation and Shanghai Time Plastic Surgery Hospital
D．Civil Affairs and Public Security Departments and China Daily
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What’s the main purpose of the online blog campaign started by Yu Jianrong?
A．To draw the top leader’s attention to the child beggars.
B．To call for comprehensive steps from the government.
C．To gain support from charities and other social institutions.
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B．many children are suffering from ill-treatment and neglect
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A．2000B．2004C．2008D．2010
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C．children who know their rights will make more money
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Xinhua Sept．25,2008
JIUQUAN, Gansu---China launched successfully its third manned spacecraft on Thursday with three astronauts on board to attempt the country’s first-ever space walk．
The spaceship Shenzhou VII blasted off（發(fā)射） on a Long March II-F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gansu Province at 9：10pm．a(chǎn)fter a breathtaking countdown to another milestone on China’s space journey．
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Mr. President of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Liu Qi, members of the Organizing Committee, dear Chinese friends, dear athletes:
For a long time, China has dreamed of opening its doors and inviting the world's athletes to Beijing for the Olympic Games. Tonight that dream comes true. Congratulations, Beijing.
You have chosen as the theme (主題) of these Games "One World, One Dream". That is what we are tonight.
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Athletes, the Games were created for you by our founder, Pierre de Coubertin. These Games are yours. Let them be the athletes' Games.
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Beijing, you are a host to the present and a gateway to the future. Thank you.
I now have the honor of asking the President of the People's Republic of China to open the Games of the XXIX Olympiad of the modern era.  
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao inspects the cracked bottom of the Degehaizi Reservoir in Luliang County, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, March 20, 2010. During a three -day inspection trip in the drought -plagued Yunnan Province ending on Sunday, Premier Wen visited Qujing City, one of the regions that suffered the most from the severe（十分嚴(yán)重的）drought ravaging since last October, to comfort the affected locals and direct relief work. （Xinhua/Yao Dawei）
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