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1.Any student who wants to learn about the insurance plans can click the following EXCEPT ______.

A. Student Safety B. International Citizens

C. Atlas International D. Student STM

2.The underlined word “browse” (in Paragraph 4) means “______”.

A. look after B. look for

C. look through D. look at

3.Where can we probably read this passage?

A. In a newspaper. B. On the Internet.

C. In a magazine. D. In a story book.

4.The group insurance center is for ______.

A. every student B. groups of international students

C. American students D. single international student

Some people will do just about anything to save money. And I am one of them. Take my family’s last vacation. It was my six-year-old son’s winter break form school, and we were heading home from Fort Lauderdale after a weeklong trip. The flight was overbooked, and Delta, the airline, offered us $400 per person in credits to give up our seats and leave the next day. I had meetings in New York，So I had to get back. But that didn't mean my husband and my son couldn't stay. I took my nine-month-old and took off for home.

The next day, my husband and son were offered more credits to take an even later flight. Yes, I encouraged—okay, ordered—them to wait it out at the airport, to "earn" more Delta Dollars. Our total take: $1,600. Not bad, huh?

Now some people may think I'm a bad mother and not such a great wife either. But as a big-time bargain hunter, I know the value of a dollar. And these days, a good deal is something few of us can afford to pass up.

I've made living looking for the best deals and exposing （揭露） the worst tricks. I have been the consumer reporter of NBC's Today show for over a decade. I have written a couple of books including one titled Tricks of the Trade: A Consumer Survival Guide. And I really do what I believe in.

I tell you this because there is no shame in getting your money’s worth. I’m also tightfisted when it comes to shoes, clothes for my children, and expensive restaurants. But I wouldn't hesitate to spend on a good haircut. It keeps its shape longer, and it's the first thing people notice. And I will also spend on a classic piece of furniture. Quality lasts.

1.Why did Delta give the author's family credits?

A. They took a later flight.

B. They had early bookings.

C. Their flight had been delayed.

D. Their flight had been cancelled.

2.What can we learn about the author?

A. She rarely misses a good deal.

B. She seldom makes a compromise.

C. She is very strict with her children.

D. She is interested in cheap products.

3.What does the author do?

A. She's a teacher. B. She's a housewife.

C. She's a media person. D. She's a businesswoman.

4.What does the author want to tell us?

A. How to expose bad tricks. B. How to reserve airline seats.

C. How to spend money wisely. D. How to make a business deal.

Tips for cooking on a Tight Schedule

From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often: ability, money and time, 1.____Money is a topic I’ll save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen. Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule:

1. Think ahead. The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I’m already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat. So think about of the coming week. When will you have time to cook? Do you have the right materials ready? 2.______

2.Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a meal, make the most of it and save yourself time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread? 3.______ it takes around the same amount of time to make more of something. So save yourself the effort for a future meal.

3.4.________ This may surprise you, but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your time is experimentation. It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes that can work well with your appetite and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.

Hopefully that gives you a good start. 5.______ and don’t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!

A. Try new things.

B. Ability is easily improved.

C. Make three or four instead.

D. Understand your food better.

E. Cooking is a burden for many people.

F. Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden.

G. A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.

If failure is like a day without the sunshine, I’ll still smile at it, as clouds may be dancing in the sky. Success does not every person, just like the sun doesn’t shine every day.

Do you give up your plan to go hiking because the weather isn’t as good as you had hoped? No, of course not. I would rather go on trying no matter what I and enjoy on the way to my destination (目的地). , failure is like a naughty boy who plays with us on the way to our goals. Not only does he want to us, but he wants to help us become braver. The more we , the braver we’ll be.

If failure is the without the moon, I’ll still smile at it, as stars may twinkle on us still. , we all like the moon, but should we ignore the stars? There is always something more important than . In other words, we shouldn’t only on whether we succeed or fail. In fact, we learn a lot from failure. It is really helpful. The more we learn from failure, the we’ll be.

If failure is a bird without , I’ll still smile at it. Flying isn’t the only thing a bird can do. If we can’t be by the wide blue sky, why don’t we adapting ourselves to the forest through our beautiful singing? Failure us that we should believe in ourselves. We may fail in one area, but we may in another. Maybe we’ll find that we have a talent for something we never knew about before. Who ?

Life is like a box of chocolates, and you know what you’re going to get. Just keep on trying. The process of trying is much more valuable than the .

Smile at and smile at life.

1.A. meet B. know C. favour D. see

2.A. even B. still C. too D. just

3.A. suffer B. hate C. dislike D. fear

4.A. Generally B. Unluckily C. Actually D. Naturally

5.A. beat B. change C. test D. frighten

6.A. laugh B. cry C. play D. smile

7.A. day B. night C. sky D. place

8.A. In fact B. Of course C. In deed D. In turn

9.A. aim B. joy C. success D. work

10.A. live B. focus C. depend D. base

11.A. nicer B. healthier C. wiser D. younger

12.A. legs B. feet C. teeth D. wings

13.A. received B. accepted C. noticed D. covered

14.A. try B. begin C. appreciate D. enjoy

15.A. suggests B. insists C. reminds D. orders

16.A. forget B. start C. stand D. achieve

17.A. sees B. knows C. believes D. does

18.A. never B. already C. usually D. always

19.A. methods B. success C. victories D. results

20.A. defeat B. sorrow C. failure D. loss

My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The time 1. I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life. I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and he had opened2. black law firm to advise poor black people on their problems.

I began school at six . The 3. where I studied only two years was three kilometres away. I had to leave , 4. my family could not continue to 5. the shool fees and the bus fare . I could not read 6. write. After trying hard , I got a job in a gold mine . This was a time when one had got to have a passsbook to live in Johanneburg. 7. (sad) I did not have this passbook because I was not born there and I was worried8. whether I would be out of work.

The day when Nelson Mandela told me what to do and helped me was one of the 9. (happy) days of my life . He told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in Johanneburg. I never forgot 10. kind he was and when he organized the ANC Youth League , I joined it as soon as I could .

每句中只有一處錯(cuò)誤，每處錯(cuò)誤僅涉及一個(gè)單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：把缺詞處叫個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（∧），并在其下面寫(xiě)出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫(xiě)出修改后的詞。

注意：每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

1.I think study French will help me in my job.

2.We were going out while it began to rain.

3.This book is even interesting.

4.He made such many mistakes in his composition.

5.The workforce has been reduced to 30%.

6.He as well as his friends have come.

7.I always the first to get to the office.

8.He prefers going out to stay at home.

9.Doing eye exercise is good for you.

10.He likes to go walking which there are no shops.

11.Can you give me some advices on how to lose weight.

漢譯英（每小題3分，共8小題，滿(mǎn)分24分）

1.在農(nóng)場(chǎng)每天都有很多工作要做。

_________________________________________________________

2.犯錯(cuò)越多，學(xué)的越多。

_________________________________________________________

3.我期待早日收到你的來(lái)信。

_________________________________________________________

4.我覺(jué)得等待考試結(jié)果讓我壓力很大。

_________________________________________________________

5.他喜歡集郵，但不喜歡電子游戲。

_________________________________________________________

6.他們起得很早，為了趕上第一班公交車(chē)。

_________________________________________________________

7.下午茶聚會(huì)繼續(xù)在富人的社交生活中發(fā)揮著重要作用。

_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

8.快樂(lè)是幸福生活的關(guān)鍵。

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The Kid of the Year Photo Contest entry period begins at 12：00 am March 23,2013, and ends December 21, 2013 (the “Entry Period”). Entries must be received by 9：00 pm on December 21,2013 (“Entry Deadline”). Entries will not be acknowledged or returned.

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Then complete the registration form and follow the instructions to upload one album of up to six photos of your child aged three months to eight years. You may provide one description and one album title that will be applied to all photos. Photos, without any brand names or trademarks, must be taken by participants, non?professional, unpublished and may not have won any prize or award. Photos must be.jpeg or.bmp image formats (格式) and cannot be over 3 MB.

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Photos must not contain material that infringes (侵犯) the rights of another, including but not limited to privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement. Photos must not contain brand names or trademarks.

LIMIT: One entry per household, per eligible (有資格的) child, per week. One weekly prize per child. For entries of more than one eligible child in the household, the entry process must be completed separately for each child. No group entries.

1.To enter the contest, photos must ________.

A．have won some prize or award

B．contain parents’ personal information

C．contain brand names or trademarks

D．be taken by non?professional participants

2.Linda, a mother with seven?year?old twins, wants to enter the contest. She must ________.

A．complete the entry process separately for each of her kids

B．go to Meredith Corporation to fill out the registration forms

C．provide a description and an album title for the kid’s photos

D．provide the information to Facebook if she chooses Facebook Entry

3.We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．you should buy something first before you enter the contest

B．you should send your entry before 9：00 pm on December 21,2013

C．your entry will not be returned even if you don’t win the contest

D．the editors of the contest will decide who will win the 20,000 dollars in prizes

4.The purpose of the passage is ________.

A．to advertise the website Facebook. com

B．to encourage parents with children to enter a photo contest

C．to introduce two methods of entering a photo contest

D．to attract photographers’ interest in a photo contest

Many a online shopper stayed up until 2 am on Sunday, looking through the Internet to buy products being sold at half price before they could be snapped up （be bought）by other shoppers. Tens of millions of the Internet users were crazy to take advantage of the half?price promotion, started by the e?commerce(電子商務(wù)) giant Alibaba Group on Sunday, Nov. 11, which is known as Singles’ Day in China, and is the Chinese answer to Cyber Monday in the United States.

By 7 pm on Sunday, 14.1 billion yuan’s worth of sales was made on tmall. com and taobao. com. That could make Singles’ Day the biggest e?commerce sales day on record. The research company comScore said US online retailers (零售商) saw $ 1.25 billion of sales during last year’s Cyber Monday, the day after Thanksgiving weekend and the busiest day for online retailers as US shoppers start to prepare for Christmas.

Singles’ Day originated with university students, and was later adopted by e?commerce companies as a promotional opportunity. E?commerce companies, including Jingdong Mall and Amazon China, also took part in the promotion.“ In the past, people only shopped online occasionally, but now, online shopping is a lifestyle accepted by many，” said Zhang Yong, Tmall president.

Alibaba began to hold Singles’ Day promotions in 2009, and last year, its sales totaled 5.2 billion yuan.“I don’t know whether we would lose money, but I don’t think we could earn much on this day by selling goods at half price，” said Hao Hongfeng, chairman of Beijing Jiuxian E?Commerce, a liquor retailer in Beijing who took part in the event. He said it is a good opportunity for online retailers to get their names known.

1.Who first introduced Singles’ Day to the public?

A．Some college students.

B．The online shoppers.

C．Researchers in comScore.

D．The online retailers.

2.Why were the online retailers so active in the promotion?

A．To make their names known to more people.

B．To make a lot more money.

C．To make more business friends through the event.

D．To sell more products.

3.What’s the secret behind the success of this promotion?

A．The quality of the products.

B．The fame of the retailers.

C．The favorable price.

D．The after?sales service.

4.Which title do you think is more suitable for this article?

A．Chinese Shopping Style

B．The Origin of Singles’ Day

C．Online Purchasing Power

D．A Craze for Online Promotion

Spring is coming, spring is coming,

Birdies, build your nest;

Weave (編織) together straw and feather,

Doing each your best.

Spring is coming, spring is coming,

Flowers are coming too:

Pansies, lilies, daffodillies

Now are coming through.

Spring is coming, spring is coming,

All around is fair,

Shimmer (閃爍) and quiver (輕微顫動(dòng)) on the river,

Joy is everywhere.

——William Blake

1.The poet felt _____ when he was writing the poem.

A. surprised B. lonely C. happy D. sad

2.What does the underlined word “fair” mean?

A. Pleasant. B. Noisy. C. Dirty. D. Busy.