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1．词数：120~150字；

2．参考词汇：黄金周the Golden Week（或以the GW代替）

London has more than nine million visitors every year．They come and visit some of the most famous places in England：Big Ben, the Tower of London and the River Thames.

You can see some of the most interesting places in the city by getting on one of London's tour buses．It has an open roof and let you off at any places you want to visit.

The River Thames is London’s main waterway．It has shaped the capital’s landscape，history and geography．So one of the best ways of making sense of the city is to take a trip along the river．Much of the riverbank can now be walked along，particularly the south bank.

The clock tower of the Houses of Parliament，Big Ben，has become one of the main symbols of London．It rises up nearly 100 m to a golden point above the clock and a 13-ton bell. The sound of the bell，which you can hear at the beginning of many television and radio programmes，has become well-known throughout the nation．No visit to London is complete without a look at the Tower of London，in the eastern part of the city．After Big Ben, the Tower may be London's most visited tourist spot．

Sightseeing in London is great，but      . So，the best way to start the day is to fill up on an English breakfast．For starters，have an egg，bacon，sausages，tomatoes，mushrooms, black pudding and fried bread．Then finish off with toast and jam，and a large pot of tea．You can buy an English breakfast in nearly every hotel，and at many restaurants and cafes．

An English pub is a good place to stop for lunch and a drink：You can get hot or cold food and try one of England's beers．Or you can sit outside one of the many roadside pubs and cafes in London，and simply watch the busy world go by．

阅读上面的短文，请根据短文后的要求答题（请注意问题后的字数要求）

1．What is the best title of the passage?（within 10 words．)

2．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

It is very regretful if you don’t go to the Tower of London when visiting London.

3．Please fill in the blank in paragraph 5 with proper expressions to complete the sentence．(within 10 words．)

4．Which place of London do you want to visit most? Why?（within 30 words.)

5．Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into Chinese．

    With fifteen years Britain and other nations should be well on with the building of huge industrial complexes for the recycling of waste．The word rubbish could lose its meaning because everything which goes into the dumps would be made into something useful．Even the most dangerous and unpleasant wastes would provide energy if nothing else．

   The latest project is to take a city of around half a million inhabitants and discover exactly what raw materials go into it and what go out．The aim is to find out how much of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste were built just outside the city．This plant would recycle not only metal such as steel，lead and copper, but also paper and rubber as well．

   Another new project is being set up to discover the best ways of sorting and separating the rubbish．When this project is complete，the rubbish will be processed like this：First，it will pass through sharp metal bars which will tear open the plastic bags in which rubbish is usually packed then it will pass through a powerful fan to separate the lightest elements from the heavy solids；after that founders and rollers will break up everything that Can be broken．Finally, the rubbish will pass under magnets(磁铁)，which will remove the bits of iron and steel；the rubber and plastic will then be sorted out in the final stage．

   The first full-scale giant recycling plants are perhaps fifteen years away．Indeed，with the growing cost of transporting rubbish to more distant dumps，some big cities will be forced to build their own recycling plants before long．

1．The phrase “be well on with…”(Para．1)most probably means         .

A．have completed what was started

B．get ready to start

C．have achieved a great deal in

D．put an end to

2．What is NOT mentioned as a part of the recycling process described in paragraph 3?

A．Breaking up whatever is breakable．

B．Sharpening metal bars．

C．Separating light elements from the heavy ones．

D．Sorting out small pieces of metal．

3．What’s the main reason for big cities to build their own recycling plants?

A．To deal with wastes in a better way．

B．To protect the environment from pollution．

C．To get raw materials locally．

D．To get big profits from those plants．

4．The first full-scale huge recycling plants        .

    A．began to operate fifteen years ago

    B．will probably take less than fifteen years to build

    C．will be built for fifteen years

    D．will probably be in operation in fifteen years

5．The passage is mainly about        ．

A．a cheap way to get energy

B．the location of recycling plants

C．new ways of recycling wastes

D．the probability of city environment

Googlefight is a simple service available on the Internet which offers you the chance to compare two different items and see how many hits they get on the Google search engine．This seemingly simple device has proved invaluable to users，especially to help win arguments．

    For example，imagine that you and your friends are arguing about who are the most popular music or movie stars，you can decide the argument by writing the names in the Googlefight boxes．Let’s say that you are arguing about Jackie Chan and Jet Li．You will quickly discover that Jet Li is mentioned 16 million times on Google pages，whereas Jackie Chan is mentioned a mere 12 million times! In this unscientific way，you can claim victory for one Star over another．

    But teachers have come up with ways of using Googlefight which are much more useful from an academic point of view，particularly when it comes to studying languages．You can，for example．find out the frequency of two words with the same meaning，and deduce(推断) from the answers which one is more common．For example，let’s take the words “buy” and “purchase”，which mean the same thing（although “buy” is only a verb and “purchase” is both a verb and a noun)．It is immediately clear from Googlefight that “buy” is much more commonly used，with a massive three and a half billion hits，compared to only one billion occurrences for the more formal word．

But the real value of Googlefight to the language learner is in determining which is the more common of two phrases．For example，“raining cats and dogs” is an old-fashioned English expression about the weather．Do English speakers still use it? Or are they more likely to say “pouring down”? Googlefight suggests the latter．“Pouring down” has 898,000 Google hits，whereas “raining cats and dogs” only has 326,000．

With phrases，it's important to remember that you need to use quote marks to make the search more accurate．For example．if you type in the similar phrases “look after” and “take care of'” without quote marks，the second phrase seems to be more common，but with quote marks，the result is reversed(相反的)．

1．What is Googlefight?

A．A fight between two people on Google．

B．A way to make sure you win an argument．

C．A website showing how many hits two different things have．

D．A list of all the websites on Google．

2．If you want to know which star has more website hits, you      .

A．can write their names in two boxes

B．can decide if it’s Jackie Chan or Jet Li

C．have 16 million chances to win

D．have to claim victory in the argument

3．Language teachers find it useful because         .

A．there are a lot of words on Google sites

B．it can tell them which of two words appears more often

C．some words mean the same thing

D．common words have a billion hits

4．What must you remember to do if you are checking phrases by Googlefight?

A．Make sure they mean the same thing．

B．Make sure they are different．

C．Remember to put quote marks round the phrase．

D．Don’t put quote marks round the phrase．

5．Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Googlefight is effective to determine the more common of two phrases．

B．Googlefight is a scientific way to decide an argument．

C．Quote marks can make the search more accurate．

D．Googlefight is invaluable to help win arguments．

Can you understand the beginning of this essay? “My smmr hols wr CWOT．B4．we usd 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & 3 kds FTF.”

    The Scottish teacher who received it in class had no idea what the girl who wrote it meant． The essay was written in a form of English used in cell phone text messages．Text messages(also called SMS)through cell phones became very popular in the late 1990s．At first mobile phone companies thought that text messaging would be a good way to send messages to customers，but customers quickly began to use the text messaging service to send messages to each other．Teenagers in particular enjoyed using text messaging，and they began to create a new language for messages called “texting”.

   A text message is limited to 160 characters，including letters，spaces，and numbers，so messages must be kept short．In addition，typing on the small keypad of a cell phone is difficult，so it's common to make words shorter．In texting；a single letter or number can represent a word，like“r”for“are，” “u”for“you，”and“2”for“to．”Several letters can also represent a phrase，like“10l”for“laughing out loud．”Another characteristic of texting is the leaving out of letters

in a word，like spelling“please” as“pls．”

  Some parents and teachers worry that texting will make children bad spellers and bad writers. The student who wrote the essay at the top of this page said writing that way was more comfortable for her．(The essay said，“My summer holidays were a complete waste of time． Before，we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend，and their three kids face to face．”)

   Not everyone agrees that texting is a bad thing．Some experts say languages always develop，and this is just another way in which English is changing．Other people believe texting will disappear soon．New technology for voice messages may soon make text messages a thing of the past．

1．What is the writer’s opinion of text messaging?

A．The writer does not give his opinions．   

B．It is not bad for children．

C．It will make children bad writers．

D．It is fun and easy to do

2．Which characteristic of texting is NOT described in the passage?

A．Using letters to represent words.

B．Using phrases to represent essays.

C．Using letters to represent phrases.

D．Using numbers to represent words.

3．Which of the following was most probably the title of the student's essay?

A．My Smmr Hols                             B．CU in LA

C．My GF                                        D．MyGr8Tchr

4．Why do some people think that texting is bad?

A．It costs too much

B．It's not comfortable．

C．Teenagers won't learn to write correctly

D．It's too difficult for teenagers to type

5．Why aren't some people worried about the effect of texting?

A．Not many people use texting.

B．Spelling in English is too difficult．

C．Teenagers quickly become bored with texting．

D．Texting will disappear because of new technology.