World Expo 2010 Shanghai China is to be staged in Shanghai from May1 to October 31, 2010. If you plan to visit the Shanghai Expo this summer, China Pavilion is a must-see area for you.
China Pavilion, which is called Oriental Crown（東方之冠）, is located at the center of the Expo site. Standing 63 meters tall, the China Pavilion takes the shape of an emperor’s crown, with the upper layers larger than the lower ones. Covering 160,000 square meters in floor space, the pavilion consists of a national hall and a regional hall. Construction on the China Pavilion began on December 18, 2007. The design of the China Pavilion was picked from a total of 344 designs put forward by Chinese from around the world. The pavilion possesses both traditional and modern features, which helps develop the theme of the 2010 Expo: “ Better City, Better Life”. For example, it is red in appearance, which contains the elements of traditional Chinese culture, and it is green indoors, with the use of energy-saving techniques. The Shanghai World Expo is expected to attract 70 million visitors from across the globe. It is estimated that 400,000 people will visit the Expo and its 140 pavilions every day during the period, but the China Pavilion is only able to receive about one tenth of the total. How to accommodate so many people in the pavilion remains a tough task. Luckily, the China Pavilion is built as a permanent landmark.
During the Expo, the main structure will be used for an exhibition based on the theme of “ Chinese wisdom in urban development” by explaining the values of harmony, nature and spirit. The three-story pavilion has three sections. The top floor’s “Footprint of the East” will show some of the changes in Chinese cities. There, you can see a film which shows how Chinese cities have changed, especially in the past 30 years. According to Lu Chuan, director of the film, the scenery is like something from Lord of the Rings. On the second floor, “Journey of Wisdom” will explain China’s four great inventions. And the ground’s “Blossoming City” will display scenes from cities of the future.
小題1:Which of the following words can be used to describe the China Pavilion?
A．TinyB．Round
C．Exotic（異國情調(diào)的）D．Environmentally-friendly
小題2:From the passage, we can infer that _____.
A．China Pavilion will be pulled down after the World Expo 2010 is over
B．China Pavilion will probably continue to be open to visitors after the Expo is over
C．you can continue to visit the other pavilions after the Expo is over
D．some foreign friends took part in the designs of the China Pavilion
小題3: On the second floor, you can _________.
A．enjoy a film about the changes of cities in China
B．learn what Shanghai looked like in the 1920s
C．find out how paper was invented
D．see how Chinese cities will look like in the future

小題1:D
小題1:B
小題1:C
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Americans like to travel on their yearly holiday．Today，more and more travelers in the United States are spending nights at small houses or inns （客棧） instead of hotels．They get a room for the night and the breakfast the next morning．
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A．a(chǎn)ll the year roundB．for yearsC．every yearD．every other year
小題2:According to the passage，which of the following is NOT true？
A．Some Americans like to stay at bed-and-breakfast homes instead of at hotels．
B．The bed-and-breakfast inns are private homes opened to vacationers．
C．The bed-and-breakfast inns have been popular in America for a long time．
D．The bed-and-breakfast inns owners provide a morning meal for their visitors and a room for the night．
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A．It is like visiting someone’s home．B．The money they spend there is much less．
C．They can meet local families． D．All of the above
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A．the travelers needn’t pay anything
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Among the many things that Brisbane (布里斯班), Australia, does really well, the care for kids is the best one. Here is a list of places that will be suitable for your kids.
Swimming pools
Simple way for happiness: mix kids with water. Of course, this is a choice for the hot summer months.
Parks
Free outdoor fun: it’s suitable for kids of all ages. It’s a place for parents to let kids run wild.
The Children’s Art Centre
The Children’s Art Centre has been very popular. Kids’ favorite here is some exhibitions specially designed for children. But we must pay some money.
South Bank Parklands
South Bank Parklands has everything you need to keep kids amused. Take them for a swim at the man-made beach. On weekends, go through the arts market or go to a cheap movie. South Bank Parklands often gives free performances too.
Roma Street Parkland
Close to bus transport, this parkland is easily accessible（可進入的）. It’s  ideal (理想的) for kids of all ages. Younger kids can take a trip on the Jelly Bean Express, a 1.3 km trackless train ride around the parkland. Free entry(進入) and open every day.
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A．Brisbane—a beautiful city in Australia.
B．How to travel in Brisbane.
C．Famous parks and activities in Brisbane.
D．Some interesting places for kids in Brisbane.
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A．South Bank ParklandsB．Roma Street Parkland
C．The Children’s Art CentreD．Parks
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A．It opens only at weekends.
B．Only younger kids can visit it.
C．We need not buy tickets for a visit.
D．Younger kids have to walk while visiting it.
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A．Man-made beach.B．Some exhibitions.
C．Arts market.D．Jelly Bean Express.
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Everybody hates it, but everybody does it. A recent report said that 40％of Americans hate tipping. In America alone, tipping is a $16 billion-a-year industry. Consumers acting politely ought not to pay more than they have to for a given service. Tips should not exist. So why do they? The common opinion in the past was that tips both rewarded the efforts of good service and reduced uncomfortable feelings of inequality. And also, tipping makes for closer relations. It went without saying that the better the service, the bigger the tip.
But according to new research from Cornell University, tips no longer serve any useful function. The paper analyzes numbers they got from 2,547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants. The connection between larger tips and better service was very weak. Only a tiny part of the size of the tip had anything to do with the quality of service.
Tipping is better explained, by culture than by the money people spend. In America, the custom came into being a long time ago. It is regarded as part of the accepted cost of a service. In New York restaurants, failing to tip at least l5％ could well mean dissatisfaction from the customers. Hairdressers can expect to get l5％-20％, and the man who delivers your fast food $2. In Europe, tipping is less common. In many restaurants the amount of tip is decided by a standard service charge. In many Asian countries, tipping has never really caught on at all. Only a few have really taken to tipping.
According to Michael Lynn，the Cornell papers’ author, countries in which people are more social or outgoing tend to tip more. Tipping may reduce anxiety about being served by strangers. And Mr. Lynn says, “In America, where people are expressive and eager to mix up with others, tipping is about social approval. If you tip badly, people think less of you. Tipping well is a chance to show off.”
小題1:This passage is mainly about________.
A．different kinds of tipping in different countries
B．the relationship between tipping and custom
C．the origin and present meaning of tipping
D．most American people hate tipping
小題2:Which of the following best explains the underlined phrase “caught on” ?
A．Been hated．B．Become popular．
C．Been stopped．D．Been permitted
小題3:Among the following situations, in your opinion, who is likely to tip most?
A．A Frenchman just quarreled with the barber who did his hair badly in New York.
B．A Chinese student enjoyed his meal in a famous fast food restaurant in New York.
C．A Japanese businessman asked for a pizza delivery from a Pizza Hut in New York.
D．An American just had a wonderful dinner in a well known restaurant in New York.
小題4:We can infer from this passage that________.
A．tipping is no longer a good way to satisfy some customers themselves
B．tipping has something to do with people’s character
C．tipping in America can make service better now
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B．Foreigners will receive their products in two weeks.
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D．ChinaSprout will send the order confirmation in two days.
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Everyone knows that the French are romantic, the Italian are fashionable and the Germans are serious. Or do they? Are these just stereotypes or is there really such a thing as national character? And if there is, can it affect how a nation succeed or fail?
At least one group of people is certain that it can. A recent survey of the top 500 entrepreneurs (實業(yè)家) in the UK found that 70 percent felt that their efforts were not appreciated by the British public .
Britain is hostile to success, they said. It has a culture of jealousy (嫉妒) . As a result, the survey said, entrepreneurs were “unloved, unwanted and misunderstood”. Jealousy is sometimes known as the “green-eyed monster” and the UK is its home. Scientists at Warwich University in the UK recently tested this idea. They gathered a group of people together and gave each an imaginary amount of money. Some were given a little, others a great deal. Those given a little money were given the chance to destroy the large amounts of money given to others—but at the cost of losing their own. Two thirds of the people tested agreed to do this.
This seems to prove the entrepreneurs were right to complain. But there is also conflicting evidence. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently reported that the UK was now the world’s fourth largest economy .That is not bad for people who are supposed to hate success. People in the UK also work longer hours than anyone else in Europe. So the British people are not lazy , either .
“It’s not really success that the British dislike,” says Carey Cooper, a Professor of management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. “It’s people using their success in a way that seems arrogant (傲慢) or unfair or which separates them from their roots .”
Perhaps it is the entrepreneurs who are the problem. They set out to do things in their way. They work long hours. By their own efforts they become millionaires. But instead of being happy they complain that nobody loves them. It hardly seems worth following their example. If they were more friendly, people would like them more. And more people want to be like them.
小題1:What does the underlined “it” in the second paragraph refer to?
A．One group of people B．A great survey
C．National character D．A nation
小題2:Most entrepreneurs surveyed believe that         
A．they are not popular simply because they are successful
B．the British public are hardworking
C．love of success is Britain’s national character
D．they are considered as “green-eyed monsters”
小題3:What does the result of the Warwich University test show?
A．Two thirds of the people tested didn’t love money
B．Most people would rather fail than see others succeed
C．An imaginary amount of money does not attract people
D．Most people are willing to enjoy success with others
小題4:The writer of the passage seems to suggest that         .
A．Jealousy is Britain’s national character
B．British entrepreneurs are not fairly treated
C．the scientists are Warwich University did a successful test
D．the British dislike the entrepreneurs because they do not behave properly

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Celebrity (名人) has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product. Besides, fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover because they don’t sell nearly as well as famous faces. As a result, celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential, moving from advertising for others’ products to developing their own.
Celebrity clothing lines aren’t a completely new phenomenon, but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers, and limited to a few TV actresses. Today they’re started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands. The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market, they expand their production scale rapidly, covering almost all the products of daily life.
However, for every success story, there’s a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer appeal. No matter how famous the product’s origins is, if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And once the initial (最初的）attention dies down, consumer interest might fade, loyalty returning to tried-and-true labels.
Today, celebrities face ever more severe embarrassment. The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever, but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebrity’s shelf life, and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still, the ego’s (自我的）potential for expansion is limitless. Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered. As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only a short time, but fashion — like celebrity — has always been temporary.
小題1:Fashion magazines today ________.
A．seldom put models on the cover
B．no longer put models on the cover
C．need not worry about celebrities’ market potential
D．judge the market potential of every celebrity correctly
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A．price rather than brand name is more concerned
B．producers prefer models to celebrities for achievements
C．producers prefer TV actresses to film stars for advertisements
D．quality rather than the outside of products is more concerned
小題3:The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly ______.
A．decrease the popularity of a celebrity and the sales of his products
B．damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general public
C．cut short the artistic careen of a celebrity in show business
D．influence the price of a celebrity’s products
小題4:The passage is mainly about _______.
A．celebrity and personal style
B．celebrity and market potential
C．celebrity and fashion design
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The campaign（競選）is over. The celebrations have ended. And the work for US president-elect Barack Obama has begun.
The 47-year-old politician rose to the highest post because of his stand against the war in Iraq and his plans to fix a weak economy. But what will the first 47-year-old African-American president do for race relations?
Obama’s victory appears to have given blacks and other minorities（少數(shù)民族）a true national role model. For years, many looked to athletes and musicians for inspiration. As Darius Turner, an African-American high school student in Los Angeles, told the Los Angeles Times, “Kobe doesn’t have to be everybody’s role model anymore.”
However, Bill Bank, an expert of African-American Studies, says that eventually young blacks need to find role models in their own communities. “That’s not Martin Luther King, and not Barack Obama,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “It’s actually the people closest to them. Barack only has so much influence. ”
In the opinion of black British politician Trevor Phillips, Obama’s rise will contribute more to multiculturalism than to race relations in the US.
“When the G8 meets, the four most important people in the room will be the president of China, the prime minister of India, the prime minister of Japan and Barak Obama,” he told London’s The Times newspaper. “It will be the first time we’ve seen that on our television screens. That will be a huge psychological shift（心理轉(zhuǎn)變）for both the white people and the colored ones in the world. ”
小題1: For years, before Obama was elected president of the US, __________.
A．Kobe was the only role model for all the blacks
B．blacks could only find role models on the basketball court
C．minorities in America couldn’t find role models in their real life
D．American blacks had no role model who was successful in political area
小題2:According to Bill Bank, ____________.
A．it’s better for young blacks to find role models in those who are close to them
B．young blacks should not be so much influenced by Obama
C．blacks should find other role models because Obama is far from their reality
D．Obama is not the proper role model for African-Americans
小題3:What would be the best title for this passage?
A．The First African-American PresidentB．America’s New Role Model
C．Obama-- A Successful Black. D．Choosing a Right Role Model
小題4:What will be the huge psychological shift Trevor mentioned at the end of the passage?
A．The other three leaders all support Obama.
B．Obama is an African-American president.
C．None of the four leaders is white.
D．The other three leaders except Obama are from Asian countries.

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Nowroz:  Iranian New Year or Nowroz is celebrated on the first day of spring sometime in March. Nowroz ceremonies are symbolic representations of good and evil. People sing, dance and parade as in a carnival through the streets with drums and trumpets to spread the news of the coming new year.
Rosh Hashanah:  The Jewish New Year is called “Rosh Hashanah”, and is celebrated in the month of September. It is a holy time when people think of the things they have done wrong in the past, and promise to do better in the future. Special prayers are held, and an instrument called a Shofar is played. Children are given new clothes, and New Year loaves are baked and fruits are consumed to remind people of harvest time.
Shogatsu:  In Japan, the New Year (Shogatsu) celebrations are from January 1 to January 3 and most Japanese don’t work during these days. In Japan, years are traditionally seen as completely separate from each other, and the New Year is a fresh start. This means that in December all duties should be completed. Parties are held to forget the worries and troubles of the old year. Homes and cars are decorated. On New Year’s Eve, most people spend their time with their families.
Bahai New Year:  The Bahai people have their own calendar consisting of nineteen months of nineteen days plus a couple of extra days between the eighteenth and nineteenth months. They have, however, adopted the Iranian custom of beginning the New Year in the spring equinox (春分). The day begins at sunset rather than midnight, and the New Year celebrations are held on the evening of March 20th.
小題1:During the Jewish New Year,        .
A．people don’t mention things they have done wrong
B．children often wear new clothes
C．loaves and fruits are often forbidden to be served
D．Shofar is their favourite food
小題2:   Which of the following festivals are celebrated in the same month?
A．Nowroz and Shogatsu.B．Rosh Hashanah and Shogatsu.
C．Nowroz and Rosh Hashanah.D．Nowroz and the Bahai New Year.
小題3:   What can we learn from the text?
A．Japanese families often stay together to celebrate Shogatsu.
B．The Bahai people usually hold a carnival to celebrate the New Year.
C．The Jewish harvest fruits to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.
D．The Iranians often hold family parties to celebrate Nowroz.

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