2008年春季招生考试英语上海市

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nowadays a lot of adults go to evening schools ________ further education

Many fast-growing countries are lass concerned with protecting  _________against climate change.

When I was young,I was told that I ______ play with matches

Those who have _____ money than sense may sometimes act foolishly

Population experts predict that most people ______ in cities in the near future

You didn’t use to like him much when we were at school ,___________?

Officials say that few patients ___________with the virus owing to the effective prevention

As a new drive,I have to practise _________ the car in my small garage again and again

The news _____ our athletes won another gold medal was reported In yesterday’s newspaper

Due to the heavy rain and flooding ,ten million people have been forced ________their homes

Please remind me of the meeting again tomorrow ______ I forget

_______this is only a small town,it’s crowded with tourists who come here all year round.

Villagers here depend on the fishing industry._________ there won’t be much work

Throughout history, the language _____ by a powerful group spreads across a civilization

If we have illegal immigrants ________ in,many local workers will lose their jobs

______ we are sure about is the need to prevent children from being spoiled

The story of the homeless orphan has _____ sympathy from the public.

Food safety is ________ important,so the government spares no efforts to prevent food pollution.

Every ton of this recycled paper uses 90 litres of water in its ________

Some people maintain that watching violence on TV is one of the major causes of ______behaviour and crime in society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The two youths were standing in a dark shop doorway because ______

What did Mrs Riley do to the two youths ?

The story tells about an elderly woman who ______

This passage most probably is a(n)____

From the passage we learn that the Mindle is a device which________

Which the device,the reader is able to ____

Different from mobile phones,Mindle ______

Researchers name the skeleton Hobbit because ______

Small discoveries in Indonesia are important because _____

According to Daniel E.Lieberman ________

Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

According to the passage “which ?”is a _____

When the author said that customers “would have been ￡1,263.60 worse off”, he was telling us that customers would have _______

The phrase at random in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to “_________”

The passage is mainly concerned with the phenomenon that ________

European television had the idea of taking ordinary people and turning them into “stars ”by putting them in unusual situation .”Big Brother”(created in Holland )was one of the first.A group of people were locked in a small house with cameras running 24 hours a day .It was called a “watch and dial ”show because viewers vote by telephone to decide who should leave or stay.

“Big Brother” was probably the fist of the new reality shows,but such a programme has developed.Many have found appeal by having a theme to them,but most are based on the principle of “survival of the fittest ”by eliminating participants as the series progresses .So we have the dating shows where winners either pair off or stay true to their partners outside the TV studio .Then there are those that test people’s abilities for specific jobs like running a kitchen, becoming an interior designer or a top model .

Critics say these programmes are basically bad television, but people watch them. So why are there so many of them? For the viewer it’s an opportunity to “people watch”.It’s natural to like watching other people. They’re interesting.We can imagine what we would do in that situation.We get to know the characters and see them grow and develop week after week.And of course, television is the perfect place to watch people.Like the theatre or cinema we can look at other people and they can’t look back .But with television, we can watch in the privacy of our own homes, We watch,but we don’t have to admit it to anyone .

The TV companies like reality shows because they are cheap to produce and attract younger viewers, which advertisers like.The last “Big Brother” in Britain attracted enormous advertising revenue. They aren’t dependent on “star” actors with enormous salaries. And your actors won’t go on strike. And why do people participate in them ?Well ,for fame and money of course.In the past ,appearing on television wasn’t for ordinary people.You had to be good at something ,like sport, or reading the news, or acting .But not any more

It seems that most shows do well at the beginning but then the viewing figures begin to fall .And it varies from country to country too. For example ,one show had an adopted child try to guess the identity of her real father,and another had a family arguing over an inheritance .Both were cancelled after one episode.Perhaps the novelty has worn off.Certainly, reality TV seems to appeal much more to the younger audience. And now there are so many shows around even the young have become more critical. Reality show will probably survive—it’s just no longer so easy to make a successful one .

你擦一下窗好吗？（mind ）

有困难请向警察求助。（turn to ）

他一到上海就和我们取得了联系。（contact ）

演出还没有结束，孩子们就睡着了。(before )

导演得知自己的影片获奖，感到无比自豪。（award ）

这些十八世纪的油画保存昨这样好，使参观者大为惊叹。（so …that ）

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    Dear Sir/Madam,                                              Dec 15th ,2007
    We are students of East Senior High School ……
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    Yours sincerely,
    Yao Hua