-
A. fulfill
B. assume
C. demands
D. particularly
E. personal
When
Michelle Obama became first lady of the United
States on January 20, she began to
F.
represent
G
. possibly
H. welfare
I.
presence
J. symbolic
join her husband in a partnership to
transform the public face America presents to the
world. In the
process, she is expected
to ___41____ a new role that offers exciting
opportunities and challenges.
Although
the position of first lady
is unelected
and u
npaid, a president’s spouse has
many
official duties, some practical
and some ceremonial or ___42____. As first lady,
Michelle Obama
will
___43___
her
country
when
traveling
overseas,
and
she
will
preside
(
担任
)
as
hostess
at
White House state dinners and other
important functions. In addition, she will
___44___ continue
meeting
with
citizens
across
the
United
States,
much
as
she
did
during
the
2008
presidential
campaign.
Modern U.S.
first
ladies often
devote
part
of
their
time
to
a
public-service
agenda of
their
own choosing. Michelle
Obama already has indicated she is ___45___
interested in the ___46___
of military
families, and her efforts on their behalf almost
certainly will ensure that those families’
needs receive high-level attention.
On
a
more
___47___
level,
the
first
lady
has
told
reporters
she
intends
to
___48___
her
obligations as
“mom
-in-
chief” to the
Obamas’ two young daughters, Malia and Sasha, as
the girls
adjust to their new home at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Her balancing act should
be familiar to
working
mothers
everywhere
as
she
strives
to
meets
the
___49___
of
a
fast-paced
job
while
carving out time with
her husband and children.
41-49
B J F G D H E A C
A
．
avoiding
B
．
regard
C
．
correct
D
．
properly
AB
．
custom
Foreigners often fail to appreciate the
formal code of greeting in France. The French
shake
AC
．
anyone
AD
．
feature
BC
．
those
BD. notic
CD
．
polite
hands with everyone(family, children,
strangers), at home, on the way to work, at work,
on leaving
work, on the way home from
work, etc. Thus, in an office , perhaps a dozen
people, no work will
be done for the
first half hour while
41
who have not
met since the day before, remind each
other who they are.
However,
it is important to remember with whom one has
shaken hands on any one day. The
French
42
it
as
extremely
bad
manners
to
shake
hands
twice,
as
though
one
had
not
taken
enough
43
for the first time.
It is
still the
44
to say
< br>“
Bonjour
”
and
“
Au
revoir
”
to others when
entering or leaving a
shop
or
bar.
This
is
not
because
the
French
are
too
45
.
It
is
because
they
see
acknowledging(
注意
)
the
existence
of
others
as
a
way
of
46
being
rude.
This
may
seem
unbearably slight to others, but to the
French it is most important. Manners mean
civilization to
them.
Kissing is not so much of a(n)
47
of French life as others supposed. But
when it does
take place, it must be
done
48
, according to the rules.
The
49
order is left cheek, right
cheek, left cheek---very formal, very
stylized. In Paris four kisses are sometimes
permitted: left,
right, left, right.
41
．
BC
42
．
B
43
．
BD
44
．
AB
45
．
CD
46
．
A
47
．
AD
48
．
D
49
．
C
A. major
F. surprisingly
B. determined
G. impressed
C. promotion
H. questions
D. prosperous
I. cooperation
E. stressed
J. increasingly
Barack Obama has been a hit in China.
Apart from holding talks with Chinese leaders, the
president ___41___ the Chinese with a
lively question-and-answer session with college
students.
In fact, he is the first U.S.
president to visit China inside his first year in
office.
“
The United States
insists we do not seek to contain
China
’
s
rise,
”
he told Chinese
students in
Shanghai.
“
On the contrary, we welcome
China as a strong and ___42___ and successful
member
of the community of
nations.
”
The
U.S.-China
relationship
has
opened
the
door
to
partnerships
on
___43
___
global
concerns including economic recovery,
clean energy, climate change, and the ___44___ of
peace
and beyond, he added.
Indeed, given these pressing issues,
China and the United States have ___45___ found
their
future linked together. They
discovered that the largest developing nation and
the most powerful
industrialized
country have to work in concert.
Obama
’
s visit to
China on November 15-18 highlighted the complexity
of arguably the most
important
bilateral
(
双边
)
relationship
in
the
world.
Moreover,
for
all
their
differences
and
disagreements, Beijing
and Washington are ___46___ to manage their
relations in a way that will
contribute
to world peace and development.
Obama
kicked off his first state visit to China in the
country
’
s financial and
economic centre,
Shanghai,
where
he
held
a
“
town
hall
”
meeting
with
more
than
500
Chinese
students.
The
one-hour discussion, during which Obama
took ___47___ ranging from antiterrorism to
recipes
for success with his signature
charisma (
领袖魅力
), was
broadcast live on the websites.
He
___48___
that
young
people
could
help
build
bridges
in
U.S.-China
___49___
—
a
process that he said must grow beyond
the two countries
’
governments to take root in the people.
41
—
45 GDACJ
46
—
49
BHEI
A. equally
F. countless
B. recycle
G
. capable
C. portion
H. convenient
D. dissolve
E. threaten
I. approximately
J. comforts
The
pollution
of
the
earth’s
soil
and
water
has
become
an
issue
of
great
concern.
Until
recently,
most
of
that
concern
has
focused
on
the
land
41
of
the
planet,
where
pollution
directly affects people in their daily
lives. Now, however, we have begun to realize that
marine (
海
洋的
)
pollution is
42
important.
According to S.A. Patin, marine pollution is the
condition
that
results
when
people
introduce
into
the
seas
substances
harmful
to
life,
health,
resources,
activities, or
43
.
Marine
pollution is far from new. For over a million
years, people have thought of the sea as
a
44
place
to
throw
their
garbage.
And
it
is
true
that
the
sea
has
a
great
capacity
for
absorbing
organic
wastes.
Some
of
these
wastes
are
eaten
directly
by
the
larger
fishes.
Others
quickly
45
into
a
kind
of
organic
soup
that
provides
food
to
46
species
of
single-celled plant and animal life.
As
civilizations
grew,
more
different
pollutants
were
dumped
into
the
seas.
Still,
this
pollution did not
really threaten the marine environment. The seas
seemed
47
of coping with
anything
that
people
could
throw
at
them.
This
situation
changed,
however,
when
suddenly
factories began dumping enormous
quantities of materials into the seas. Especially
in some coastal
areas near large
cities, ocean pollution began to
48
marine life. For the first time, the
oceans
began to fail in their ability
to
49
humanity’s
waste.
Section B
41. C
42. A
43. J
44. H
45. D
46. F
47. G
48. E
49. B
A.
influence
B.
devoted
C.
physically
D.
circumstance
E.
affected
F.
overall
G
. financially
H. decision
I. positive
J.
strive