【阅读理解】It had been boring hanging about the hotel all afternoon. The road crew were playing a game with dollar notes. Folding them into small planes to see whose would fly the furthest. Having nothing better to do, I joined in and won five, and then took the opportunity to escape with my profit. Despite the evil-looking clouds, I had to get out for a while. Why did the writer want to leave the hotel?

【阅读理解】Young musicians in African countries are creating a new kind of pop music. The tunes and the rhythms of their music combine African traditions with various forms of music popular today, such as hip-hop, rap, rock, jazz, or reggae. The result is music that may sound familiar to listeners anywhere in the world, but at the same time is distinctly African. It is different also in another way Many of the songs are very serious and they deal with important social or political issues in Africa today. This passage is about how African pop music is_______.

【阅读理解】“Longer life would give us a chance to recover from our mistakes and promote long term thinking,” says Dr Gregory Stock of the University Of California School Of Public Health. “It would also raise productivity by adding to the year we can work.” Longer lives don't just affect the people who live them. They also affect society as a whole. “We have war, poverty, all sorts of issues around, and I don’t think any of them would be at all helped by having people live longer,” says US bioethicist Daniel Callahan. “The question is ‘What will we get as a society’s suspect it won’t be a better society.”Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the things that living longer might enable an individual to do?

【阅读理解】Two United Nations agencies warned on Tuesday that children are most at risk of developing skin cancers as a result of the long-term decline in the earth's protective ozone layer. The agencies, the World Health Organization(WHO)and the UN Environmental Programme(UNEP), issued the warning as they launched a global programme aimed at alerting schools to the dangers of exposure to the sun.Why does the risk of developing skin cancers in children become greater and greater?

【阅读理解】Jamie was worried about the junk food which he saw being served which included burgers, pizzas and chips. So he decided to ban the junk and started cooking some good soup and curries for the children instead. So he improved the school dinners in that particular school, and trained the dinner ladies to cook healthy food. Then he put pressure on the government to improve the standards of school food across the country. And it looks like the changes have taken place.Generally, schools didn’t serve ________ to students before.

【阅读理解】Once all this ended, I followed Ed and Helen home to be sure they arrived safely. After I waved goodbye and wished them my best, I thought, “That is the kind of love in life. The love is not physical or romantic but care in any time.”We can learn from the story that ________.

【填句补文】Gang Xiao and Ben Schrag at Brown University, visualize the current by measuring subtle(细微的) changes in the magnetic field of an object and ________.

【填句补文】The black robin(旅鸫)is one of the world's rarest birds. It is a small, wild bird, and it lives only on the island of Little Mangere, off the coast of New Zealand. In 1967 there were about fifty black robins there; in 1977 there were fewer than ten. ________.

【填句补文】The basic tools for an interview are paper and two or three well-sharpened pencils. But keep your notebook or paper out of sight until you need it. There's nothing less likely to relax a person than the arrival of someone with a note-taking pad. ________. Take a while just to chat, judging what sort of person you're dealing with, getting him or her to trust you.

【填句补文】Five-year-old Lani still takes seven medicines with her breakfast every morning. "She’s very good about it," says her father David. Lani is alive today because of her father David, in more than one way; when she was one year old she received part of her father’s liver in a liver—transplant operation. Lani was born with a liver illness. ________. Doctors advised that a transplant was the only way in which she would live.