Twenty years ago, Americans were a rare sight in China. But decades later, things have changed greatly. Americans are found in every Chinese province and region and in all walks of life. Much of this change is due to the increasing exchange and improving relationship between the two countries, but what attracts many here is China’s rapid development and the huge opportunities that have arisen with that development.
Erik Nilsson has been working for the English newspaper China Daily as a reporter for five years since his graduation from Central Michigan University. Although his original plan was to become a conflict zone reporter in Latin America, he decided to stay at China Daily
Robert Brownell, a former IT engineer with Microsoft in Seattle, is now teaching in China and appreciates the different atmosphere in the school. His actions are a lot less restricted here than they would be in the U.S. “For good students, I can give them candy,” he explains. “But in American schools, if you give food to students, they have to be sealed(密封)and tested. In China I can pat them on the back and raise my voice. But in America, everything is regulated so much, you just can’t do anything.”
Kodi Keith Avila, the 30-year- old Hawaiian is running a business English school, New York Minutes, in Beijing. Avila first came to China in 2007 on a scholarship program as a student of University of Hawaii. It was encouragement from his professor that finally convinced him to go to China. “He thought China would overtake other countries in trade, consumption and technology,” Avila said.“I saw many good opportunities for personal careers or business development in China. So many limousines Audi, Mercedes-Benz, so many businessmen and skyscrapers. One can get a business license in China as long as one has a good business plan”he told China Today.
“I came to China because I am interested in Chinese medicine. Learning Chinese language will help me learn Chinese medicine,” Caponigro told China Today. She is not alone among Americans in becoming more and more fascinated with Chinese culture.
小題1:After graduation, Erik Nilsson first planned to __________.
A．work as an English newspaper editorB．work for China Daily
C．become a conflict zone reporter in AmericaD．cover his reports in Latin America
小題2:From Robert Brownell’s story, we know that ________.
A．He couldn’t find a job and had to come to China
B．School teachers share more freedom in China than in the U.S.
C．American teachers are not allowed to give food to their students
D．American classes are more fun and lively
小題3:Kodi Keith Avila stays in China running his business because ______.
A．he is on a scholarship program as a student of University of Hawaii
B．he was encouraged and seized the business opportunity
C．he has provided the start-up capital
D．his professor convinced him to run a school
小題4:Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A．The Fascinating Chinese Culture
B．China--- A Jobseekers’ Wonderful Place
C．Starting Business in China
D．Americans Following Their Dreams to China

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:B
小題4:D

試題分析：文章介紹現(xiàn)在美國人來中國越來越多了，說明為什么會有這樣的變化。通過引用了幾個(gè)人的話，表明他們的感受。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第二段的句子：Although his original plan was to become a conflict zone reporter in Latin America, he decided to stay at China Daily可知Erik Nilsson本打算做沖突地區(qū)的記者的，選
C
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第三段的句子：His actions are a lot less restricted here than they would be in the U.S. 可知在中國老師更加自由。選B
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第四段的句子：It was encouragement from his professor that finally convinced him to go to China. “He thought China would overtake other countries in trade, consumption and technology,”可知Kodi Keith Avila 被鼓勵(lì)要抓住商業(yè)機(jī)會。選B
小題4:主旨題:從第一段的家族：but what attracts many here is China’s rapid development and the huge opportunities that have arisen with that development. 可知吸引美國人來到中國的主要原因是中國的發(fā)展和發(fā)展帶來的機(jī)遇，可知美國人是為了追逐夢想來到中國的。選D
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March 22, 20II---Most restaurants in the United States offer their customers a glass of tap water at no charge with their meal, but this week many restaurants are asking dinners to pay a dollar, or more, for a glass of water. Cards on their tables explain that this small amount helps bring clean water to children around the world. It’s called the UNICEF Tap Project.
“UNICEF’s Tap Project is really all about bringing attention to the fact that over 900 million people around the globe do not have access to good, clean, healthy drinking water,” says Cary Stem, who heads the US Fund for UNICEF. She adds that water-borne illness is the second-highest cause of preventable childhood death in the world.
“Each and every day approximately 4,100 children die just because they don’t have that access - 4,100 every single day.”
The public service campaign encourages people to help change that statistic with a simple, affordable action: paying a dollar to get a glass of tap water at a restaurant.
“One dollar buys enough good, clean water for a child for 40 days,” Stem says.
“The tap project has expanded since it began five years ago with 300 restaurants in New York City. This year, Stem says, about 3,000 restaurants across the country are participating in the campaign. We raised about $2.5 million over the last five years of this campaign,” says Stem. “Last year, we raised over $1 million for the first time. This year we’re hoping to top that.”
Stem credits the continued success of the campaign to an army of volunteers who support the tap project and raise money in their communities.
The UNICEF Tap Project is promoting its efforts with a simple motto: when you take water, give water. Currently, UNICEF works in more than 100 countries around the world to improve access to safe water and sanitation facilities in schools and communities.
Stem hopes that, by participating in the project, more Americans will realize that what they often take for granted is a precious and scarce resource in many other parts of the world.
小題1:Restaurants began to charge for tap water to _______.
A．increase their profit
B．urge customers to save water
C．raise people’s awareness of the world water problem
D．collect money for those without access to safe water
小題2:We can learn from the text that the Tap Project ________.
A．began in New York City
B．was started by volunteers
C．is hoping to collect $2.5 million this year
D．provides help for 1,000 countries in the world
小題3:It can be learned that _______.
A．the Tap Project began in 2006
B．America suffers a serious problem
C．4,100 children die of water pollution every year
D．water-borne illnesses are the biggest killer of children
小題4:How does Cary Stem feel about the work of the Tap Project?
A．ConcernedB．HopefulC．DisappointedD．Angry

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A deadly strain of avian flu may have passed between people for the first time, experts believe.The avian influenza A (H7N9) virus is thought to have been transmitted between father and daughter in eastern China, according to research published online by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet of H7N9 transmission between humans since its discover in February, but its ability to transmit itself was deemed "limited and non-sustainable" by the Chinese researchers behind the study.At the end of June 133 cases had been reported, including 43 deaths. Most infections have been among people visiting markets, selling live birds or among those who had contact with live poultry（家禽） in the seven to 10 days before becoming ill.
The latest study examined the case of a 60-year-old father who regularly visited a live poultry market and became ill five to six days after his last visit in March. He was admitted to hospital with fever, cough and shortness of breath. Despite intensive care treatment he died of multiple organ failure on 4 May. His 32-year-old daughter, who was previously healthy, looked after him at his bedside before he was admitted to intensive care. She had no known exposure to live poultry before falling ill with a very high temperature, cough and fever. The daughter developed symptoms six days after her last contact with her father and was admitted to hospital where she died of multiple organ failure on 24 April.
Follow-up investigations(調(diào)查) uncovered almost genetically identical virus strains from each patient, suggesting transmission from father to daughter. Another 43 people were also tested who had had close contact with the father, daughter or both.
Dr Peter Horby, senior clinical research fellow at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Hanoi, Vietnam, said of the study: "The most likely source of infection for the daughter was her father, during the period that she cared for him while he was ill. "He said “l(fā)imited person to person transmission had been reported for other strains like H5N1 , H7N7, and the pig origin flu virus H3N2. Those strains had been around for more than a decade but have not progressed any further down the path towards a world-wide virus.” “Limited human-to-human transmission of H7N9 virus is therefore not surprising, but strengthening to monitor it was still needed,” Dr Horby added.
小題1:What’s the main idea of the passage ?
A．The findings about H7N9 transmission only between father and daughter .
B．H7N9 transmission may be spreading between people .
C．133 cases of H7N9 transmission have been reported .
D．Both the father and daughter died of multiple organ failure.
小題2:The reason why the daughter died of multiple organ failure was that _____.
A．she fell ill with a very high temperature, cough and fever.
B．she was exposed to live poultry before falling ill.
C．she had close contact with the father while caring for her sick father .
D．she sold live birds in five to six days before falling ill .
小題3:Which of the following is Wrong about H7N9 transmission?
A．It was limited and non-sustainable
B．It was person to person transmission
C．It wasn’t progressed any further down the path towards a world-wide virus.
D．It happened between father and daughter .
小題4:The underlined word s “was deemed” in paragraph 2 probably means _______
A．was decreased B．was regarded as
C．was thought ofD．was developed
小題5:What type of writing is the article likely to be ?
A．A news report.B．Popular science.
C．A medical reportD．A medical findings

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Answering the Community Needs of Our City
The Silver City Council recognizes that citizens have certain needs. To better meet your needs, we have made several changes to community facilities in 2004. This chart shows how we have tried to make your life better.
 
Transport
☆Some facilities at Station Street Hospital have been upgraded.
☆Three stations for the suburbs have been added to the western train service.
☆20 new buses for the southern line were purchased in January.
☆50 percent of city bus-stops have been upgraded.
☆Buses to the eastern suburbs will run every 15 minutes.
Education
☆Textbooks will be free to all primary students in 2004 !
☆Rental for private schools has been reduced.
☆Teachers report that the 'no hat - no play' rule has been successful.
Communication
Protection and Security
 
☆Broadband cable is now available to all parts of the city.
☆A(yù)ll of the new Government buildings are ' smart'-wired for better computer service!
☆Extra police now patrol (巡邏 ) the tourist areas.
☆50 new police officers graduated in July and have taken up duties in the city area.
 
Medical Facilities
Entertainment / Recreation
 
☆The new state-of-the-art Nightingale Hospital was opened in June.
☆To overcome a shortage of trained medical staff at Dover Hospital, 10 doctors have been   employed from overseas.
☆The John Street basketball courts have been re-surfaced !
☆The new Central Community Building opened in May.
☆5,000 new fiction books were bought for the Silver City Library.
 
小題1:The public notice is from _________.
A．the communityB．the local government
C．the citizensD．a(chǎn) travel agency
小題2:The notice is mainly about _________.
A．the work carried out by the people of Silver City
B．the facilities available in Silver City
C．some improvements in Silver City
D．information for interested tourists
小題3:All the following are true EXCEPT that ___________.
A．both residents and tourists can enjoy more security now
B．Station Street Hospital had out-dated facilities before 2004
C．primary students had to pay for their textbooks in 2003
D．Dover Hospital is still short of trained medical staff
小題4:Which of the following changes would tourists to Silver City be most happy with?
A．Travel books are provided in the new library.
B．Traveling by train is more convenient in Silver City.
C．Free medical treatment is available at Station Street Hospital.
D．There are more police officers on duty now.

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On April 20,2013, a big and powerful earthquake attacked Ya’an, Sichuan Province. A great many buildings and houses collapsed, a lot of people were killed and even more people lost their homes in the earthquake .
Death toll from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Ya’an in southwestern China's Sichuan Province has risen to 188 (as of 18:00 pm, April 22, ), according to latest calculations by local Civil Affairs Bureau. At least 11,826 were reportedly injured in the quake while 25 are still missing, the bureau said.
Experts are anticipating much less casualties in the quake than that from the 8.0 magnitude quake hit Wenchuan on May 12, 2008, also in Sichuan Province, which killed more than 80,000 and injured over 300,000.
Energy released from Wenchuan earthquake would be 30 times of that from Ya’an quake, according to Zhang Xiaonan, an expert with China's Geophysical Union. Dai Junwu with Harbin-based seismological bureau expects the death toll at less than 1,000, and economic losses from the quake could reach up to 100 billion yuan.
Police and expert teams have already rushed for rescue in the quick stricken areas, and the State Council has banned unauthorized rescue efforts and individual vehicles from going to the quake zone to avoid congestion(交通阻塞).
Rescue efforts were carried “timely and orderly”, said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang who flew to the quicken-stricken area on Sunday, the second day of the quake. He was quoted as saying that “the current priority is to save lives”.
小題1:When did Ya’an earthquake occur?
A．April 22,2008B．April 20,2013C．May 12,2008D．May.22 2013
小題2:How many people injured in the earth(as of 18:00 pm, April 22 ) according to the passage?
A．About188B．At least 11,826
C．More than 80,000D．Over 300,000.
小題3:What does the underlined word “ collapsed”( in para.1) mean?
A．fell down suddenlyB．broke up
C．burnt to the groundD．turned into pieces
小題4:Why did the State Council has banned unauthorized rescue efforts and individual vehicles from going to the quake zone?
A．Because Ya’an earthquake was not as disastrous as Wenchuan earthquake.
B．Because the people of Ya’an could save themselves.
C．Because the State Council wanted to avoid being overcrowded.
D．Because the State Council wanted to protected the rescuing people
小題5:Which one is NOT true according to the passage?
A．Wenchuan earthquake released 30 times energy of Ya’an earthquake.
B．Premier Li Keqiang who flew to the quicken-stricken area on April,21,2013.
C．Wenchuan earthquake killed around 80000 people.
D．Zhang Xiaonan expected the economic losses from the quake could reach up to 100 billion yuan.

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The long, lonely voyage of the Japanese ghost ship is over.
A US Coast Guard cutter poured cannon fire(開炮) into an abandoned Japanese ghost ship that had been floating since last year’s tsunami, sinking the ship into waters more than 305 meters deep in the Gulf of Alaska and removing the danger it created to shipping and the coastline on Thursday.
The cutter’s guns tore holes in the 164-foot Ryou-Un Maru, and then it began to take on water and lean to one side. In about four hours, the ship disappeared into the sea, said Chief Petty Officer Kip Wadlow.
The ship had no lights or communications system, and its tank was able to carry more than 7,570 liters of diesel fuel. Officials, however, didn’t know exactly how much fuel was aboard.
“It’s less risky than it would be running into shore or running into other ships,” coast guard spokesman Paul Webb said.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency studied the problem and decided it was safer to sink the ship than let the fuel evaporate and pollute the sea environment.
Ryou-Un Maru was probably among the first wave of the 1.5 million tons of garbage of refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, roofs and fishing nets heading toward North America since last March when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck Japan.
As the coast guard was ready to fire on the ship, a Canadian fishing ship, the 19-meter Bernice C, claimed the rights to save the ghost ship in international waters.
Plans to sink it were paused so the Canadian crew could have a chance to take the stricken ship. A Canadian official with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press that the Bernice C was unable to drag it.
Then the Canadian boat left, and once it was about 10 kilometers from the Japanese ship, the Coast Guard began to fire, first with 25 mm shells, then a few hours later with ammunition twice that size.
State officials have been working to test the danger of garbage including materials affected by a damaged nuclear power plant, to see if Alaska residents, seafood or wild animals could be affected.
小題1:Which of the following is NOT the reason for sinking the Japanese ship?
A．It had no lights or communications system.B．It might be washed up onto the shore.
C．It was a danger to other passing ships.D．The oil it carried could pollute the sea.
小題2:The plan to fire on the Japanese ghost ship was paused because ________.
A．the ghost ship was beyond the reach of the Coast Guard’s guns
B．the shells were not powerful enough to sink the ghost ship
C．state officials worried the ghost ship might give out radiation
D．a(chǎn) Canadian fishing boat wanted to save the ghost ship
小題3: Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?
A．Japanese ghost ship arriving at USB．Tsunami garbage heading to US
C．Cannon fire sinking Japanese ghost shipD．Japanese ghost ship polluting the Pacific

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That Upper class people generally have more educational opportunities, greater financial security, and better jobs than people from lower social classes, but that doesn’t mean they’re more skilled at everything. A new study finds, surprisingly, that lower class people are better at reading the emotions of others.
The researchers were inspired by observing that, for lower class people, success depends more on how much they can rely on other individuals. For example, if you can’t afford to  buy support services, you have to rely on your neighbors or relatives to watch the kids while you’re busy.
One experiment researched on volunteers who worked at a university: some had graduated from college and others had not. Researchers used the educational level as an indicator（標(biāo)志）for social classes. The volunteers did a test of emotion perception（感知）, in which they were instructed to look at pictures of faces and indicate which emotions each face was displaying. People with more education performed worse on the task than people with less education.
In another study, university students who were of higher social status had a more difficult time accurately（準(zhǔn)確）reading the emotions of a stranger.
These results suggest that people of upper-class status aren’t very good at recognizing the emotions other people are feeling. This is because they remember their upper status and they think they can solve their problems without relying on others.
In the third experiment, people were made to feel that they were at a lower social class than they actually were, and they got better at reading emotions.
“The differences between upper-class people and lower-class people are not something ingrained（根深蒂固的）,” Kraus says. “It’s the cultural environment leading to them.” This work helps show that the traditional image of the classes is wrong. “It’s not true that a lower-class person, no matter what kind of person, is going to be less intelligent than an upper-class person. It’s all about the social environment the person lives in, and the specific challenges the person faces. If you can change the environment even temporarily, social class differences in lots of behaviors can be removed.”
小題1:According to the passage, when lower-class people meet problems, they tend to ______.
A．turn to othersB．work even harder
C．feel more frustratedD．learn from upper-class people
小題2:Why did people perform better in emotion perception in the third experiment?
A．Because they became less independent.
B．Because they didn’t know they were cheated.
C．Because they felt they must ask for help from other.
D．Because they were made to understand lower-class people.
小題3:What does the passage mainly talk about?
A．Upper-class people are not skilled at everything.
B．Upper-class people have trouble recognizing others’ emotion.
C．Lower-class people need to be given more employment opportunities.
D．There are many differences between upper-class people and lower-class people.

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Which is sillier: denying we ever went to the moon or trying to convince the true non-believers?
Once upon a time—July 20, 1969, to be specific – two men got out of their little spaceship and wandered around on the moon for a while. Ten more men walked on the moon over the next three and a half years. The end.
Unfortunately, not quite. A fair number of Americans think that this whole business of moon landings really is a fairy tale. They believe that the landings were a big hoax (騙局) staged in the Mojave Desert, to convince everyone that U.S. technology was the “best” in the whole wide world.
Which is the harder thing to do: Send men to the moon or make believe we did? The fact is that the physics behind sending people to the moon is simple. You can do it with computers whose entire memory capacities can now fit on chips the size of postage stamps and that cost about as much as, well, a postage stamp. I know you can because we did.
However, last fall NASA considered spending $15,000 on a public-relations campaign to convince the unimpressed that Americans had in fact gone to the moon. That idea was mostly a reaction to a Fox television program, first aired in February 2001, that claimed to expose the hoax. The show’s creator is a publicity hound (獵狗) who has lived up to the name in more ways than one by hounding Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. Mr. X (as I will call him, thereby denying him the joyous sight of his name in print) recently followed Buzz Aldrin around and called him “a thief, liar and coward” until the 72-year-old astronaut finally lost it and hit the 37-year-old Mr. X in the face.
Anyway, NASA’s publicity campaign began to slow down. The nonbelievers took the campaign as NASA’s effort to hide something while the believers said that $15,000 to convince people that the world was round — I mean, that we had gone to the moon — was simply a waste of money. (Actually, the $15,000 was supposed to pay for an article by James E. Oberg, an astronomy writer who, with Aldrin, has contributed to Scientific American.)
If NASA’s not paying Oberg, perhaps it could put the money to good use by hiring two big guys to drag Neil Armstrong out of the house. Armstrong is an extremely private man, but he is also the first man on the moon, so maybe he has a duty to be a bit more outspoken about the experience. Or NASA could just buy Aldrin a commemorate plaque (紀(jì)念匾) for his recent touch on the face of Mr. X.
小題1:We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that some Americans believe _______.
A．moon landings were invented
B．U.S. technology was the best
C．moon landing ended successfully
D．the Mojave Desert was the launching base
小題2:According to the writer, which of the following is to blame for the story about the hoax?
A．NASA’s publicity campaign. B．The Fox television program.
C．Buzz Aldrin. D．James E. Oberg.
小題3:The believers think that NASA’s publicity campaign is ________.
A．proof to hide the truth
B．stupid and unnecessary
C．needed to convince the non-believers
D．important to develop space technology
小題4:What is implied in the last paragraph?
A．NASA should not bother with the non-believers.
B．Armstrong was a very private and determined person.
C．Armstrong should be as outspoken as Buzz Aldrin.
D．NASA should send more astronauts to outer space.

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56­year­old becomes 1st woman to swim Atlantic
(AP)－Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, excited and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first time in almost a month. Reaching a beach in Trinidad, she became the first woman on record to swim across the Atlantic Ocean—a dream she'd had since the early 1960s,when a stormy trans­Atlantic (飛越大西洋) flight got her thinking she could wear a life vest and swim the rest of the way if needed.
The 56­year­old left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa's western coast on Jan.12,2009, swimming 19 out of 25 days battling waves of up to 30 feet.The distance from Cape Verde to Trinidad is about 700 miles.Crewmembers are still computing exactly how many miles she swam.
The original plan was for her to swim to the Bahamas—a distance of about 2,100 miles—but inclement (惡劣的) weather forced her to change her plans and she arrived at Trinidad on Feb.5.She now plans to swim from Trinidad to the British Virgin Islands,ending her voyage at the Bitter End Yacht Club in late February.
Her journey came a decade after French swimmer Benoit Lecomte made the first known solo trans­Atlantic swim,covering nearly 4,000 miles from Massachusetts to France in 73 days.No woman on record had made the crossing.
Figge wore a red cap and wet suit,with her only good­luck charm (護(hù)身符) underneath:an old,red shirt to guard against chafing (磨痛),signed by friends,relatives and her father,who recently died.The other cherished (珍惜) possession she kept onboard was a picture of Gertrude Ederle,an American who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.“We have a few things in common,”Figge said,“She wore a red hat and she was of German descent (血統(tǒng)).We both talked to the sea,and neither one of us wanted to get out.”
小題1:When did Jennifer Figge want to swim across the Atlantic Ocean？
A．After she reached a beach in Trinidad.
B．After she pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand.
C．After her stormy trans­Atlantic flight in the early 1960s.
D．After her graduation from a university.
小題2:Jennifer Figge had to change her plans 　　　　.
A．because she wanted to shorten her voyage
B．because of bad weather conditions
C．because she wanted to end her voyage in late February
D．because she wanted to set a new world record
小題3:When did Benoit Lecomte probably make the first known solo trans­Atlantic swim？
A．In 1999.B．In 1988.C．In 1978 .D．In 1968.
小題4:For what purpose did Jennifer Figge keep a photo of Gertrude Ederle？
A．Figge would like to follow her example.
B．She had the same red cap as Figge always wore.
C．Figge also wanted to swim across the English Channel.
D．They were both born in Germany.

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