According to the pie chart above, _______ of the students were doing their homework at that time.

A.one tenthB.halfC.three fifthsD.three quarters

Starbucks is a chain of coffee company in America. It was f【1】in 1971. The first coffee shop is located in Seattle, Washington, USA. Starbucks includes more than 30 top global coffee beans, hand-made espresso（濃縮咖啡）, cold and hot drinks a rich variety of coffee machines, coffee cups and other products. Starbucks has n【2】21, 300 stores in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific.

Nowadays you can find one on every corner, but back in 1971, Starbucks was j【3】another coffee place bringing caffeine to the sleepy masses. And no one k【4】what a Pumpkin Spice Latte（拿鐵）was. The new-born Starbucks came into the world on August 18, 1987. Starbucks provides the middle class with a fashionable social meeting place w【5】is of pure and fresh style. It has three partners in China. The first Starbucks coffee shop in China opened s【6】on Jan 11, 1999. By late March 2008, Starbucks had more than 16,226 stores worldwide, i【7】11, 434 stores located in the United States.

Starbucks regards i【8】 as "the third place" and have a lot of loyal customers. And Starbucks takes majorities of manners to manage its brand, like top heavy roasting bean skill, professional employers, imitate relationship with customers and staff. Another is that Starbucks p【9】 favorable wages（工資）and benefits for their customers. Also, the high quality is the most key strong point in the competition. Last advantage is good location. Starbucks pays a【10】to opening up their shop near the place where there are many stations, supermarkets and office buildings.

【題目】

A new rubbish sorting system has been put into use in Fangchengyuan Community in Beijing. Local people not only sort their rubbish, but also put QR codes(二維碼）on it.

"When the rubbish is collected and the codes are seen, I will get small gifts and even some money," one of the local people told reporters.

"It's really creative and encouraging. "

About 350 communities have carried out this smart system in Beijing. The capital of China has joined a list of cities in the country that take action to support rubbish sorting. For example, Shenzhen and Shanghai have made laws to punish people and organizations for not sorting rubbish correctly.

China produces quite a lot of rubbish every year. Much of the rubbish is buried（填埋)in soil or burned without being sorted. Landfills（填埋場）take up a lot of land and have a risk of polluting the soil and water nearby. And burning rubbish can produce harmful gases.

Through rubbish sorting, we can reduce（減少）the use of landfills and air pollution. What's more, rubbish sorting saves resources, which could bring economic(經(jīng)濟的) benefits. For example, a ton of waste paper can be reused to make about 850 kg of paper, saving 17 trees and 50% of water. Because of their benefits, some countries have developed successful sorting systems.

Japan has a strict and detailed system. When people throw away a water bottle, the cap, the waste paper and the bottle itself have to go into three different bins(垃圾箱).

Every year, families receive special rubbish sorting timetables and directions from their local governments. They are advised to follow the timetables and directions when they throw away rubbish.

In Australia, every family is provided with three rubbish bins—the red lid(蓋子)bin for "general waste" like food and plastic bags, the yellow lid bin for "recycling" like steel are glass, and the green lid bin for "green waste "such as grass and leaves. On the streets, the bins are printed with pictures of the things that are allowed inside. It makes recycling quite easy.

【1】What will people get if they sort their rubbish in Fangchengyuan Community?

【2】How many communities have carried out this smart system in Beijing?

【3】What do families in Japan receive from their local governments every year?

【4】What is the green lid bin for in Australia?

【5】What are the benefits of rubbish sorting?

【題目】

SHANGHAI——Health researchers in Shanghai are calling for more protection for young children as the latest research shows about half of the children are suffering（受折磨）from secondhand smoke.

About 45% of children suffer passive（被動的）smoking in families, 50% in public places, and almost 6% on public transportation, shows a research reported by the Shanghai Children's Medical Center (SCMC)on Tuesday.

"Not only adults but also children and newborn babies are at risk for the bad effects of passive smoking," said Tang Jingyan, a doctor. Research has shown that children who are living in a secondhand smoke situation will suffer from more colds, coughs and sore throats, and they are more likely to suffer from pneumonia(肺炎）and will have a higher risk of developing cancer. Doctors even suggested that children suffering passive smoking are more likely to have behavioral problems and may not develop mentally(智力上) as quickly as other children.

Other research by the SCMC has found that more than 80% of child patients in the center live in a smoke-filled household, where one or both parents smoke. "Though doctors have stressed the harm of passive smoking over and over, it is still hard to reach a totally smoke-free home," said a doctor named Zhang Yiwen. Parents often want to smoke even though the have learned the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.

China has 540 million people suffering from passive smoke,180 million of the younger than 15, the age of smokers is also getting lower, "earlier reports said. "There are more young smokers than before. You can see young people wearing a school uniform(校服）and carrying a schoolbag light a cigarette(香煙）on the street. Some of them are even girl students," said Jing Xingming, a professor. "Children like to copy adults, especially their parents. If parents often smoke at home, it is very likely children will develop a smoking habit which can cause a bad circle," Jin said.

Reports from the Ministry of Health said China has about 350 million smokers, of whom 15 million are underage smokers. Also, around 40 million of the country's 130 million children aged between 13 and 18 had tried smoking, and 15 million had become addicted to(上癮) smoking.

【1】What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A.The bad effects of passive smoking.B.The influences of adults to children.

C.The bad living situations of children.D.The attitude towards children smoking.

【2】What can we learn from the passage?

A.About 45% of children suffer passive smoking in public places.

B.About 40 million children aged between 13 to 18 tried smoking.

C.About 350 million children are heavy smokers in China.

D.About 80% of the children in the SCMC smoke heavily.

【3】What is the writer's main purpose in writing this passage?

A.To question about the behaviors of the children smokers.

B.To show the reasons why children like learning smoking.

C.To call on people to protect children from secondhand smoke.

D.To encourage children to give up smoking as soon as possible.

【題目】

If you see a group of people dancing and singing on the street or in the railway station, you don't need to feel surprised. They are a flash mob（快閃族）. A flash mob, organized with the help of the Internet or other communications networks, is a group of people who come together suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a period of time, such as coming together to look at the sky, shouting something at the top of their voices for 30 seconds, and then quickly disappear before the police can arrive.

Using mobile phones, the flash mob can change its place if the first one has been replaced for any reason. Bill Wasik, a senior editor, organized the first flash mob in Manhattan in May,2003 and the first successful flash mob came together on June 3,2003—after the first try was foiled at Macy's department store. Following this, about 200 people crowded into the hall of the Hyatt hotel, applauding(鼓掌）in one voice for fifteen seconds, and next the mob pretending（假裝）to be tourists on a bus trip entered a shoe shop in Soho. Wasik said that he created flash mobs as a social experiment designed to make fun of hipsters(時尚潮人）.

Though flash mobs were firstly regarded as pointless, the idea has already developed for the benefit of political（政治的）and social events. Flash mobbing takes advantage of the effect of communicating information on Websites and by email, and protesters(抗議者）can similarly use it to be involved in political events.

Flash mob gatherings can sometimes surprise people. Such an activity might seem amusing and fantastic, but it also might frighten people who are not clear about what is taking place. Undoubtedly, flash mobs can serve as good political tools in any direction. They also have big economic potential（經(jīng)濟潛力）, such as using flash mobs to advertise a product.

The flash mob is now becoming more and more popular. People use it to do many things.

Flash mobs give people an opportunity to come together to create a memory.

【1】The word "foiled" in Paragraph 2 probably means "__________".

A.praisedB.preventedC.confusedD.succeeded

【2】Why did Bill Wasik create the flash mob?

A.To help people make friends.B.To advertise some products.

C.To create some memories.D.To make fun of hipsters.

【3】What can we infer about the flash mob from the passage?

A.It can be made use of in many fields just for fun.

B.It usually breaks up quickly for not having enough time.

C.If the place for the activity is decided, it can't be changed.

D.It gives people the chance to do something unusual together.

【4】Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A.Flash Mob: the Popular Culture

B.Flash Mob: the Political Potential

C.Flash Mob: the Short-term Memory

D.Flash Mob: the Beginning of Information

A．a(chǎn)s polite as B．a(chǎn)s politely as

C．more polite than D．more politely than

A. The less ; the better

B. The fewer ; the better

C. Fewer ; richer

D. More ; poorer

A. key B. the key C. a key

-- He got______ points of all the boys.

A. the most B. more C. the fewest D. the least

—Come in please. The door _______.

A. Be open; opens B. Be open; is opening

C. Open; opens D. Open; is open