【正文】 ut a tenminute I walk there? is it? it far from here? you show me the way? A: Hi, train leaves at 10 pm and I could pick you up at B: think can’t for ’s fine with A: Sorry, I didn’t catch the last B: ’t be you want me to repeat it? else, please? ’m afraid that’s A: You must be for B: Yes, ’m you are…? I ’s speaking please? A: I wonder if you could tell me where to get map? Speaker B: don’t know where you want to have never heard about , but I really have no , maybe in the post office or II Reading Comprehension(40 points)Directions: There are 4 passages in this of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished each of them there are 4 choices marked A,B,C and the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the one Just as hands out the spelling test, you see Jeff pull out a small piece of paper with a lot of words on hides the note into his closed fist but soon takes it out he’s taking the test, you see him looking back and forth between the teacher and his ’s no mistaking ithe’s is when a person misleads, deceives, or acts dishonestly on kids, cheating may happen at school, at home, or while playing a a baseball team is for kids who are 8 or younger, it’s cheating for a 9yearold to play on the school, in addition to cheating on a test, a kid might cheat by stealing someone else’s idea for a science project or by copying a book report off the internet and turning it in as if it’s his or her original is inclined to cheat because it makes difficult things seem easy, like getting all the right answers on the it doesn’t solve the problem of not knowing the material and it won’t help on the next testunless the person cheats it may seem like cheaters have it all figured can watch TV instead of studying for the spelling other people lose respect for cheaters and think less of cheaters themselves may feel bad because they know they are not really earning that good , if they get caught cheating, they will be in trouble at school, and maybe at home, kids cheat because they’re busy or lazy and they want to get good grades without spending the time kids might feel like they can’t pass the test without when there seems to be a “good reason” for cheating, cheating isn’t a good did Jeff look at the teacher from time to time while taking the test? was afraid that the teacher might find out what he was had a question for the teacher but was afraid to wanted to get the teacher’s wanted to hand in his paper as he was done with to the author, cheating mainly in testrelated settings take on various forms and happen anywhere happens when one is doing a science project when we don’t know the answer to a question can’t cheating help to do? pass get a satisfactory make difficult things really get the of the following statements is closest in meaning to “cheaters have it all figured out”()? know they won’t be make a plan in can reach a balance between work and clearly know the consequences of main purpose of the passage is to readers why people cheat possible consequences of cheating students to quit cheating different occasions when people cheatPassage Two Experts say over half of the world’s seven thousand languages are in danger of two weeks one language a language disappears immediately when the last person speaking it , a local language might disappear more happens when an official language is used more often and children stop learning the local language of their languages often represent a form of control over a group of history, the language spoken by a powerful group spreads across a more powerful culture rarely respects the language and culture of smaller cultures lose their local language as the language of the culture in power has a stronger say protecting languages is very important for many contain the histories, ideas and knowledge of a also contain valuable information about local medicines, plants and endangered languages are spoken by native cultures in close contact with the natural ancient languages contain a great deal of information about environmental systems and species of plants and animals that are unknown to the last speakers of a language die off, the valuable information carried within a language also is, in many ways, a window to the mind and the hope for protecting languages can be found in children and their willingness to is these young people who can keep this form of culture alive for future of the following is true? one can prevent languages from will not be any local languages left some have existed 7,000 languages in of the world’s languages will possibly official language is a language that highly advanced a stronger influence with a local language a longer history is a window to the mind and the world because contains information about both culture and represents the working of the human minds languages are more closely related to culture languages can reveal ancient people’s thoughts to the passage, a language will be better protected when is linked to a powerful culture are forced to speak it keeps pace with the times are interested in learning it passage mainly discusses and culture power of language protection languagesPassage Three There’s a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada who has e up with a term to describe the way a lot of us North Americans interact these now a big research study confirms Wellman’s term is “networked individualism.” It’s not the easiest concept to fact, the words seem to contradict each can we be individualistic and networked at the same time? You need other people for ’s what he the Internet and came along, our social networks involved fleshandblood relatives, friends, neighbors, and colleagues at of the interaction was by phone, but it was still voice to voice, person to person, in real the latest study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project co