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B. Without better preparedness, we will mitigate the negative health impact from outbreaks. C. If we implemented the international health regulation, we surely could defend ourselves against the next pandemic.
D. Any single country or agency can handle the next pandemic single-handedly.
75. What’s Dr Chan’s attitude towards handling the next pandemic under global solidarity? A. Pessimistic. B. Indifferent. C. Negative. D. Optimistic.
Section C
Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need. A. The country with the largest population by 2050 B. Conditions of rapid growth in population C. The factors considered in the population study D. A new research on world population by 2050 E. The country unlike other developed countries in population growth F. Two strikingly different countries in population
76. __________________
New research shows that Earth will have more than 9,000 million people by 2050. The world population is currently estimated at 6,400million. The research is from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), a private group based in Washington. It says most growth will take place in developing countries in Africa and western Asia. 77. __________________
India is expected to pass China as the world’s most populated nation. By the middle of the century, the report says, India will have over 1,150 million citizens, an increase of 50 percent. China currently has 1,300 million people. The PRB says the population should increase about 10 percent by 2050.
78. __________________
Most industrial nations will see a drop in their population. The only big exception is expected to be the United States. The report says the United States will remain the third biggest nation. The population is close to 300 million now. It is expected to reach 420 million. The report says this will be because of immigration and low death rates among babies. 79. __________________
The study is based on information from governments and the United Nations. Researcher Carl Haub wrote the report. He explained infant death rates, life expectancy, birth rates and the age structure of nations. The study also considered family planning use and, for the first time, rates of AIDS.
80. __________________
Mr. Haub says most growth will take place in countries with young populations and traditionally large families. He points to Nigeria and Japan as two nations that are moving in opposite directions in terms of population. In Nigeria, almost half the people are under the age of
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15, and Nigeria women generally give birth about six times during their lives. By comparison, the average Japanese woman has one child. And today about 20% of Japanese are over the age of 65. Mr. Haub expects the Japanese population to decrease by 20%. He estimates that the population of Nigeria will increase by more than 120% by the middle of the century.
Section D
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
Bringing up children is hard work, and you are often to blame for any bad behavior of your children. If so, Judith Rich Harris has good news for you. Parents, she argues, have no important long-term effects on the development of the personality of their children. Far more important are their playground friends and neighborhood. Ms. Harris takes to hitting the assumptions, which has dominated developmental psychology for almost half a century.
Ms. Harris’s attack on the developmentalists’ “nurture” argument looks likely to reinforce doubts that the profession was already having. If parents matter, why is it that two adopted children, reared in the same home, are no more similar in personality than two adopted children in separate homes? Or that a pair of identical twins, reared in the same home, are no more alike than a pair of identical twins reared in different homes?
Difficult as it is to track the precise effects of parental upbringing, it may be harder to measure the exact influence of the peer group in childhood and adolescence. Ms. Harris points to how children from immigrant homes soon learn not to speak at school in the way their parents speak. But acquiring a language is surely a skill, rather than a characteristic of the sort developmental psychologists hunt for. Certainly it is different from learning to be honest or hard-working or generous. Easy as it may be to prove that parents have little impact on those qualities, it will be hard to prove that peers have vastly more.
Moreover, mum and dad surely cannot be got rid of completely. Young adults may, as Ms. Harris argues, be keen to appear like their peers. But even in those early years, parents have the power to open doors: they may initially choose the peers with whom their young associate, and pick that influential neighborhood. Moreover, most people suspect that they come to resemble their parents more in middle age, and that people’s child rearing habits may be formed partly by what their parents did. So the balance of influences is probably complicated, as most parents already suspected without being able to demonstrate it scientifically. Even if it turns out that the genes they pass on and the friends their children play with matter as much as affection, discipline and good example, parents are not completely off the hook.
(Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS)
81. Why do people think it is not easy for parents to bring up their children?
82. The two examples in Para.2 are mentioned to show that ___________________________. 83. What do the majority of the people suspect when the children reach middle age? 84. According to current developmental psychology, parents_____________.
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第II卷
I. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 1. 他把大部分业余时间用于陪伴住院的孤老。（devote） 2. 任何一个不经历几次失败的人几乎体会不到成功的喜悦。（Whoever） 3. 生命就是一次旅程，在这次旅程中，机遇和挑战并存。 (journey)
4. 既然你对我们的话题不感兴趣， 我认为没有必要继续我们的讨论了。（need） 5. 只有当你失去东西时，才会觉得它是多么的宝贵，所以要学会珍惜所拥有的。（Only when） Ⅱ. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120 - 150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
人人渴望幸福，但由于忙于学业或工作，我们忽视了幸福。你认为幸福是什么？结合生活中的事例阐述你对幸福的理解。
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松江区高三年级英语期末试卷
2012.01
参考答案
I. Listening Comprehension Section A
1-----10 CCBDC ACBDC
Section B
11-----13 ACB 14----16 BCC
Section C 17. notes 18. Record
21. fruits and vegetables 23. cutting grass
19. Skim 20. every
22. checkout counter
24. plant trees
II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A
25----29 BCCBA
30-----34 BCACB
35-----40 ACDCB B
Section B 41.H 42.J 43.E 44.A 45.C 46.B 47.F 48.G 49.D
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A 50-----54 BBCAD 55-----59 ACBDB 60-----64 ACBCD
Section B
65-----68 DABD 69-----71 DBA 72-----75 CBAD
Section C 76-----80 DAECF
Section D
81. Because they’re often blamed for of their children’s bad behavior.
82. parents don’t have much /important /effect on children’s personality./children’s
development/children
83. they will resemble their parents
84. have some effects on the children’s life
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