Week 1(1)A number of people living near the Hongqiao Airport in Minhang District arec___1___ about the noise created by red-eye flights, but environmental protection official said the airport is not violating noise-control regulations.China stopped flights from taking off or l____2__ after midnight over safety concerns in 2002. But on March 26, the government dropped the ban in order to make f___3__ use of airports.Residents (居民) knew they would have to put up with noise from planes everyday when they moved to the village, but they never imagine there would be so much noise at night. They said they are awaken a __4____ every night, and they can't fall asleep again.According to an official surnamed Chen with the Jiaobao neighbor committee,most people living in the area are elderly and they said flights take off from Hongqiao Airport every day at 2:00 a.m. and 5:45 a.m., which has c____5___ their sleep for a whole night into three pieces.According to Environment Protection Partition of Shanghai, residential areashould be kept at a certain d____6___ from airports to cut down complaints about noise and air pollution. The distance depends on the surrounding environment. Local residents have written to the government, they hope the p____7___ can be solved as soon as possible.1.________2._______3.________4. ________5._________6._______7.________答案(1) complaining, landing, full, almost, cut, distance problem(2)Two furniture stores opened in the downtown. One was started by a rich man. He aboutm___1____ know didn't he But building. big a on money of lot a spentfurniture.The second store was owned by a carpenter. He had a lot of e_____2___ making tables, chairs, and other things. H____3___, he didn't have a lot of money. His store was small.In the first, many people went to the rich man's store. He sold a lot of furniture.But soon, customers started c____4____. The furniture was badly made. The owner didn't c____5___.The first year was hard for the carpenter. He only had a few customers, but they loved his work. It was very well made. These people told their friends about the store. S____6___, the business became more and more successful.What was the secret of the carpenter's success? Quality and good s_____7__.Those two things are important for every business.1.________2._______3.________4. ________5._________6._______7.________答案(2) much, experience, However, complaining, care, Slowly service(3)In the world, soccer of football is the most popular sport. This is because many countries have wonderful teams for the World Cup.To remember 2002 FIFA World Cup, children from d__1___ countries and more than 60 children from Japanese schools came together and spent three weekendsd___2____ a big picture called “Dream World Cup”in Japan. The children drew animals, flowers and people playing soccer u__3___ a blue bright sky. They wished each football team good luck by drawing the flags (旗帜) of all the countries that would t__4___ part in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The picture wasp____5___ up in a park near a playground in Yokohama. Some football teams would have games there.Are you a football fan? The World Cup makes more and more people i___6___ in football. Teenagers like playing and watching football. Many of them love some football stars so much that they get pictures of their favorite players on the walls of their rooms. That is the way to s__7__ their love for the World Cup as children in Japan.1.________2._______3.________4. ________5._________6._______7.________答案(3) different, drawing, under, take, put, interested show(4)In the U.S. Mother's Day is a holiday on the second Sunday in May. It is a day when children give their mothers cards, presents and flowers.One of the best w___1___ to celebrate Mother's Day is to give your mother theday off. Let her have a good rest w__2____ other members of the family do the housework.Many families begin Mother's Day with breakfast in bed. Usually Dad and thechildren will let Mum sleep as they go into the kitchen and get r___3__ for her favourite meal. A Mother's Day breakfast can make of anything your mum likes. After the food is cooked, keep everything nicely on a plate. Don't f__4___ to putthe bottle with only one flower. With spring here, the children can p___5__ up the nicest flower from the garden outside. When everything is ready, carry the plate and Mum's favourite books or newspapers up to her bedroom c____6____. Cards and given to Mum inother things from the children can be put on the plate before it isbed.Many families take Mum out to her favourite restaurant for a meal. It is a goodday to let your mother rest and let her see what a h___7___ family she has.答案(4) ways, while, ready, forget, pick, carefully, happy(5)Some big cities are crowded. They have bus or train s__1___ to help people travel through them. In these cities, many people do not have cars. For example, in New York, only about one third of the people drive to work.Why do people need to have a car? Some people need a car to get to work; some people want to show their richness, others like the freedom of having a car. But having a car can be e__2____. Many people take buses or trains instead of driving a car. They don't have to worry about the c__3__ of having a car.How much would it need to o__4___ a car? Learn the prices of new and usedcars by looking at advertisements in the newspapers. Then c___5___ how much you would have to pay each month for a car. If you buy a car, you have to pay for insurance and registration (牌照). You also have to take care of the car and buy gas. Put all the money you have to pay and compare it with w____6__ you pay for buses and trains.Now do you s___7__ want to buy a car?1.________2._______3.________4. ________5._________6._______7.________答案(5) services, expensive, costs, own, count, what, still(6)Have you ever had a day when everything seemed to go wrong, and nothing seemed to go right?Not too long ago, I was s___1__. I told my mother all about it, hoping for some pity. Instead, she said, “I heard Jamie was having a d___2___day, too. Why don't you make her some cookies?”I didn't r___3__ want to do that, but I didn't want to go back to my other problems, either. I made the cookies and p___4__ them in a box. Then I made a card with some flowers on it and wrote a small note.That afternoon I went to my friend's f___5__. When Jamie came to the door, she looked at me surprisingly. Before she could say anything, I said, “I heard you were having a hard day and decided to bring you something. I hope your day goes better.”The look on Jamie's face was one that I could never put into words. It was as if a dark sky s___6__ turned into sunshine.When I r___7___ home, I felt a lot better. That day I knew that those whobrought sunshine to others could also feel happy.1.________2._______3.________4. ________5._________6._______7._______答案(6) sad, difficult, really, put, flat, suddenly, returnedWeek 21A new Apple store scheduled(计划) to o on Saturday in Beijing will be the company's largest retail store(专卖店) in Asia, a senior company official said today.John Browett, Apple's senior vice president of retail, said the new store in the Wan gfujing shopping district will be the company's largest store in Asia, w more than 300 employees（员工）and a full range of accessories（配件）for Apple products.Browett did not say w the company will offer the iPhone 5 to the mainland （大陆）market when the Wangfujing store opens.The Wang fujing store was open to the media for one hour this morning. The iPhone5 was not on display at the store, a headphones（耳机）designed for the phone were on display.Apple is stepping up its efforts to expand its presence in China. Browett said a store in south China's city of Shenzhen is just about to open and m stores are潣業杮愠牣獯?桃湩?We are looking foward to s every Chinese customer in every city, said牂睯瑥?尠畂?桴瑡??潧湩?潴琠歡?獵猠浯?楴敭尮Smart phones have overtaken（赶上）desktop computers as the primary means of accessing the Internet for most Chinese, according to data from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).CNNIC data indicates that 388 million Chinese regularly surfed the Internet via their mobile phones at the e of June.Apple has 390 retail stores around the world. The Wangfujing store is its third in Beijing and sixth on the Chinese mainland.答案open with whether although more serving end2Let me hazard（冒险）a wild guess: the system of passwords you use on the internet –for accessing online banking, email, shopping sites, Twitter and Facebookaccounts –is a mess.You know perfectly well what you ought to be doing: for e site you visit, you should be choosing a different, complex sequence of letters, numbers and symbols, and then memorising it. But you don't do this.So instead you use the s familiar words for every site –your dog's name, the name of your street –with occasional ingenious(灵巧的) permutations(排列), such asadding S at the end. Or maybe you do try to follow the rules, in which case you'rep constantly getting locked （卡住）out of your bank account or trying to remember the answers to various absurd（荒谬的）security questions. (What was your favourite sport as a child?) And things are getting w : these days, you find yourself forced to choose passwords with both upper- and lower-case letters(大小写字母), and how can normal human being remember multiple combinations of those? Not you, that's for sure.One reason not to feel too guilty（内疚的）about your bad password behaviour is that it seems to be almost universal. Last month, an analysis of leaked pin numbers （泄露密码）revealed that about one in 10 of us uses S4; a recent securitybreach at Yahoo s that thousands of users' passwords were either password, welcome, S456 orinja.This is where the length of your password makes an almost unbelievable d . For a hacker with the computing power to make 1,000 guesses per second, afive-letter, purely random, all-lower-case password, such aspqzy, would take threeand three-quarter hours to crack(打开). Increase the number of letters to 20 and the cracking t increases, just a little bit: it's 6.5 thousand trillion centuries.The least hackable password, then, would be a long string of c randomletters, numbers, spaces and symbols –but you'd never remember it. However, because length matters（要紧）so much, the surprising truth is that a longish(稍长的) string of random English words, all in lower case –say, awoken wheels angling（钓鱼）ostrich –is actually much more secure than a s password that follows your bank's annoying rules, such as wq89453.One day, we may not have to worry about a of this: there are innovations（创新）in development that might replace passwords entirely. Touchscreens could be configured（安装）to detect subtle aspects of your interactions with your computer –the distances between your fingers, the speeds at which you tap and scroll.答案each same probably worse showed difference time completelyshorter any3Next time you get your debit card（借记卡）out, you might want to use it to buy some hand wash.A study has found that n one in 10 bank cards contains faecal（粪便的）oflevels high containing notes bank seven in one with better little is Cash matter. bacteria similar to that found in a dirty toilet bowl.The research, carried out at Queen Mary, University of London，showed ourhands are therefore dirtier than we might t .26 percent of hands sampled showed traces of faecal contamination (污染)including bacteria such as E.coli, the study f .And we may be making ourselves ill as a result. A further survey of the 272 participants revealed only 39 percent washed their hands b eating.The vast majority (91 percent) of respondents（应答者）also stated that they washed their hands after using the toilet, although the levels of faecal organisms contaminating the cards and currency suggested otherwise(另一面), researchers said. Washing hands with soap can r diarrhoeal（腹泻的）infections by up to 42 percent but only 69 percent of people reported doing this whenever possible.Dr Ron Cutler, who led the research at Queen Mary, said: 'Our analysis revealed（显示）that by handling cards and money each day we are coming into contact withsome potential pathogens （病原体）revealing faecal contamination including E. coli and Staphylococci.'People may tell us they wash their hands but the research shows us d , and highlights just how easily transferable（可转移的）these pathogens are, surviving on our money and cards.'Dr Val Curtis said: 'Our research shows just how important handwashing is - the surprising levels of contamination that we found on everyday objects is a sign that people are forgetting to wash their hands after the toilet, one of the key m for infection（感染）prevention.''We hope this study makes people think t and encourages people to washtheir hands after going to the toilet and before eating.'答案nearly think found before reduce different moments twice4Just A Little SmileMike was walking home from school one day when he noticed a boy ahead ofhim had tripped and dropped all of the books he was c , along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a tape recorder. Mike knelt（跪下）down and helped the boy p up the scattered articles. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of the burden.As they walked, Mike discovered the boy's name was James, that he loved video games, baseballand history, and that he was having lots of t with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend.They arrived at James' home first, and Mike was invited in for a Coke and towatch some television. The afternoon passed pleasantly with a few laughs and some shared small talk, then Mike went home.They continued to see each other around school, had lunch t once or twice, then both graduated from junior high school. They ended up in the same high school where they had brief contacts over the years.Finally the long awaited senior year came and three weeks before graduation, James asked Mike if they coud talk.James reminded him of the day years ago when they first met. Did you ever wwhy I was carrying so many things? asked James. You see, I cleaned out my locker because I didn't want to leave a mess for anyone e . I stored away some of mymother's sleeping pills. I was going home to commit suicide（自杀）. But after we spent some time talking and laughing, I realized that if I k myself, I would have missed that time and so many others might follow. So you see, Mike, when you楰正摥甠?桴獯?潢歯?桴瑡搠祡?潹?楤??潬?潭敲映牯洠?夠畯猠癡摥洠?楬敦尮答案killedelse wonder carrying pick trouble together5Evolution（进化）has changed our bodies and f over thousands of years —and it's still happening.Here's how leading anatomical（解剖学的）experts predict our descendants（后裔）will differ physically from us in 1,000 years from now.We'll be taller at 6-7 feet b of improved nutrition and medical science. Osteopath Garry Trainer, from north London, says: “The average American is about one inch taller than in 1960.”Our intestines (肠)will get shorter so we don't absorb as much fat and sugar —a natural w of avoiding obesity（肥胖）, says dentist Dr Philip Stemmer.If male fertility（生育能力）declines（下降）further, there will be smaller testicles（睾丸）.Our most used extremities（四肢）will change dramatically. Arms and fingersget longer to reduce the need to reach too far and nerve endings in hands and fingers will increase because of the greater use of devices such as iPhones that ncomplex eye-hand coordination.We'll have smaller brains, maybe because so much memorising and thinking isdone by our computers. “Science fiction images show humans of the future with hugebrains but big brains are not necessarily the best,”says Chris Stringer, from the Natural History Museum.for smaller mouths. Cary Cooper There will be large eyes to compensate（弥补）of Lancaster University, explains: “Communication will rely on facial expressions and eye movements.”Dentist Dr Stemmer also thinks there could be fewer teeth as s food needs lesschewing and biting. He says: “We could even get our nutrition from liquids or pills in the future, which could mean less teeth and receded jaws.”Expect people to have quadruple（四倍）chins （下巴）. “Our bodies were designed for eating less and using more energy than a m lifestyle requires,”saysRajiv Grover, a consultant plastic surgeon.We can expect other dramatic changes too.Everyone will have the same s of noses because climate is having less influence on broad or narrow hooters thanks to air conditioning and central heating. Central heating and warm clothing m we'll be less hairy but there'll be more wrinkles（皱纹）as a result of peering at our electronic devices.We could end up with saggy（下垂的）turkey necks too because extra sun will cause loose skin and baggy（膨胀的）eyelids. And there will be darker skin as people move around the planet and races mix.答案faces because way need softer modern shape meansWeek 31Strikes are very c in Britain. They are extremely h to its industry. In fact, there are other countries in Western Europe that lose more working days through strikes every year than Britain. The t with the strikes in Britain is that they occur （出现）in essential（主要的）industries. There are over 495 unions in Britain. Some unions are very small. Over 20 have more than 100,000 members. Unions do not exist only to demand h wages（工资）. They also educate their members. Tradeconditions. working i to try and sick the for benefits provide Theyunioners say that we must thank the unions for the great improvement in working conditions in the last hundred years. It is now against the law for union members to go on strike w the support of their union. This kind of strike is called the unofficial strike and was common until recently. Employers feel that unofficial strikes were most harmful because they would not be predicted. H , these unofficial strikesstill occur from time to time and some unions have also refused to cooperate with the law. As a result, the general picture of the relations between workers and employers in Britain has gone from bad to w .答案common harmful trouble higher improve without Howeverworse2You should not fear spiders because of their poison毒. Of all the spiders in North America, only one kind is really dangerous and m would not bite even if theywere handled. They much prefer to run away or to drop to the ground on a thread 线of silk. Even so, when a spider r directly toward a person, it gives the impressionthat it is about to a . Actually, it can not see the person in this way. The spider istoo short-sighted to see things at a distance. It only wants to go where it will not be disturbed. In the United States one kind of spider is responsible for the frightening reputation of the rest. It is the Black Widow. Because the female, which is larger than the male, often eats her husband a making love. The Black Widow is found in all states but is most common in the south and the west. She constructs（构建）a loose, irregular web under a pile of rowans（花楸）（一种山梨）or near the foundations of buildings where she is s_____ disturbed. She is not an attacking spider andmany people have proven this by letting her crawl（匍匐而行）over their hands. When she bites, it is usually in self-defence自卫. In spite of (尽管)the s you may have heard, it is rare for a person to be bitten by a Black Widow and even more usual for the bite to prove fatal（致命的）. But remember that her poison is pand even though she is shy, she should be respected.答案most runs attack after seldom stories powerful3Life coaches are in high demand these days, especially by stars in Hollywood! So what's a life coach and what does he or she do？While a basketball coach t you on your basketball skills, a life coach givesyou advice about your life, tries to figure out what you want and helps you achieve different goals. If your goal is to get in shape, then a life coach e you to get tothe gym,（体育馆）and hire a personal fitness trainer to help you eat healthier m . If you dream about traveling around the world but don't have enough money, a life coach will dish out financial advice, give you suggestions on how to save and invest your money, or even help you look for a better-paying j !A life coach is not a therapist, more than a consultant and not just a f : a life coach is skilled in helping you to make great improvements in your life. If things are pretty good, but you want them to be better, coaching is for you! Your life coach is your personal expert to help you realize your f potential（潜力）!Anything you can do, you can do it f and better with a coach!A life coach usually works with you over the phone, often weekly. He or she will you rightfor most important is what on you focus that will help you questions asknow, partner with you in identifying what you want, finding your values and goals, encouraging you to take action, and helping you achieve s .答案trains encourages meals job friend full faster success4In Europe, the United States and Japan, restaurants are testing technology to let diners order their food directly from a screen at their table, i of depending on a waiter or waitress to note their choice.Besides cutting costs, companies that sell the “e-menu”(电子菜单) argue that it has a novelty value that can a younger customers, and visual photographs of different food make diners order more.The idea may be just the latest trick in a trade which is d by consumer appetites. But at least for now, it appears to be boosting（促进）business.In Israel, some bars, pubs and family restaurants have already installed（安装）e-menu technology. The system is based on touch-screens already u inself-service canteens or for ticketing in airports and cinemas.“It's about impulse-buying. If a person starts looking at p of chocolate cake,the chances are he'll order it,”said a restaurant manager.The system has also been supplied to restaurant in France, South Africa, and Belgium.Frame, a restaurant in Israel which has installed the system, said sales on tables with the e-menu have increased by about 11 percent. Customers often call ahead to reserve tables equipped with the screens. At one of the e-menu tables, an i technology worker Gil Uriel and his young family were excited as they checked out pictures of the dishes on offer and talked about desserts.“It's more visual,”said Uriel, as his children clicked away on a games function ___ but it's much easier when between courses. “We can still choose, we can still argueyou can all see it.”答案i nstead attract driven used pictures information5As a parent, teaching your children how to use 911 in an emergency could be a sbut very important lesson.Not many years ago, each emergency agency had its own telephone number. Fora fire, people called the fire department, for a crime or a traffic a the police; for amedical situation an ambulance or a doctor.In 1968, the American government worked with the phone company to establish911 as the central number for all types of emergencies. When a call comes in, a worker in the emergency center answers the phone q , writes down the caller's information, and then helps the caller contact the emergency agency. According to the National Emergency Number Association, almost all Americans know they should call 911 when an emergency h .B teaching children to call 911, parents can also do some other things toteach children to deal with emergencies. Parents should discuss with children what should be done if an emergency happens. You can ask him or her, “What would you do if our house were on fire?”or “What would you do if you saw s trying tobreak in?”Teaching children to do a drill is the best way to teach them to deal with different emergencies.In a word, you should teach your children how to f emergencies. It is helpfulfor them to deal with some unexpected dangerous accidents.答案quickly simple accident face someone Besides happens Week41In recent years, playing kite-board seems to become more and more popular in Alaska in America. It is a new and old game. The game has w 1 the interest of many young people. The game is interesting but a little d 2 . One needs to play it very c 3A kite-board is in fact a skateboard（滑雪板）drawn（拉）by a few big flying kites. The old game was p 4 by some young people in Holland and Spain as e 5 as the last century. Since the board was hard to control（控制）,f 6 people dared（敢）to play it. With the development of the design（设计）of kite and skateboard, many people can l 7 how to play it. A kite board may go as f 8 as about 50 kilometres an hour. If you haven't had any practice, you'd better not play it. It is not s 9 .It is said that the game can exercise not only your b 10 but also thesensitivity of your brain（大脑的敏捷）.答案1.won2. difficult/dangerous3. carefully4. played5. early6. few7. learn8. fast9. safe 10. body2．2012 Nobel Prize for literature went to Chinese writer Mo Yan, the first Chinese citizen to claim the prize.His works were praised by the awarding committee as having qualities of桜污畬楣慮潴祲爠慥楬浳（魔幻现实主义）. Since the s of this week, Mo Yan hadthe highest odds on the Ladbrokes betting site, and has been a hot topic in Chinese media.Born in a family of a farmer in Shandong Province, the 57-year-old is k inthe West for two of his novels which were the basis of the film 'Red Sorghum.'(红高粱) Mo Yan, meaning don't speak in Chinese, is his pen name. The prize is worth1.2 million US dollars and wasa by the Swedish Academy. The four of the last five awards have been won by European authors.Talking about literature, there is a talk that Chinese writer Mo Yan might bring China its f Nobel Prize in Literature. The 57-year-old contemporary Chinese writer, Mo Yan, has been dominating Chinese media headlines.His literary achievements make him a serious competitor for this year's prize. Hehas been a popular figure in China's literary scene since the mid-1980s.Most people would find it hard to associate the animalistic（肉欲的）spirits in Red Sorghum with the mild-mannered and even timid （胆怯的）looking Mo Yan. Most of Mo Yan's works are set in his own hometown, Gaomi County, in EastChina's Shandong Province. Before the age of 20, he'd never ventured beyond the boundaries of his own county.Mo Yan was born in 1955, the fourth child in his family. In his early years, he e poverty, hunger and was repressed by a particularly harsh father. All of these things have influenced Mo Yan's later writings.When Mo Yan was 12 years old, he was forced to leave school and graze（放牧）cattle. To satisfy his t for reading, Mo Yan read every single book he could get hold of, even the dictionary.When he turned 20, he joined the army and got to see the w beyond hishome village. Six years later in 1981, he started his writing career. In 1987, The Red Sorgum burst onto China's literary scene., Life and（酒国）潍夠湡甥???瑯敨?慭潪?潷歲?湩汣摵?呜敨删灥扵楬?景圠湩履, Big （檀香刑）（生死疲劳）, 卜湡慤睬潯?敄瑡屨Death Are Wearing Me 畏屴牂慥瑳?湡?楗敤?灩屳（丰乳肥臀）and more. Mo has won s top Chinese and international prizes including the Mao Dun Prize 2011 for Frog.More than any other Chinese author, Mo Yan is well represented in foreign languages around the world. And with good reason - he's one of the great novelistic masters of modern Chinese literature, with a long list of ambitious novels to his name. His writing is p , visual, and broad, dipping into history, fantasy and absurdity to tell stories of China and its people.答案start known awarded first experienced thirst world several powerful3British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats with milk and won a National Bravery Award（国家勇敢奖）.Leech, 35 years old, said that when he was sending out milk as u 1 along Pine。
