1. 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Don'tyou just love ice skating every winter? I am sure that since winter isapproaching, your skates are set to come out, just waiting to be used. Impressyour friends with a new trick on how to ice­skate backwards with the help ofthese trips.

Stand straight

 The first thing that you need to do is standstraight.， if you feel that you are falling backwards. Don't worry；this happens to all.

 Confidence is what you need

Themost important step while learning how to skate backwards is having enoughconfidence in yourself and in what you are doing. How can you achieve this? Bypractice. One of the important ice skating tips and techniques is that if youfeel that you are losing your balance, then scissor (做剪式运动) your skates.

 Maintain speed

 Try sculling with one skate while rolling in astraight line with the

 other.Now bring the skate which you are using to scull, and then again,repeat the same process. Make sure that you put most of your weight on theskate which is moving straight and not the one with which you are sculling.Now, try the same thing using the other foot.

 Once you are confident that you can scull witheither foot, the next thing that you have to do is increase your speed. Trysome of your own tricks now. Scull with either foot or with both at the sametime.

 Scull and be aware

 While you keep one foot straight, keepsculling with the other. You can do that with both feet at the same time.，but don't get so involved that you don't see where you are going. If you arenot watching your back, you might just bang into something or someone.

A．That is, keep pushing yourself backwards with an outwardstroke(滑动)

B．While going backwards, just get used to the feeling ofmoving backwards

C．Keep practicing this till you are confident about it

D．Increase your speed now

E．One must be brave enough to learn to ice­skate backwards

F．Concentrate on what you are doing

G．Just put your chin up and slightly bend your knees

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Steveis interviewing the famous biographer (传记作家)Garen Thomas.

Steve：Thomas, a famous writer, would you please tell ussomething about yourself and your new books?

Garen：Of course.

Steve：Where were you born?

Garen：I was born in Chicago, but I spent most of my childhood inNew York.

Steve： was your childhood like?

Garen：I had pretty strict parents. They wished me to be successfulin studies. So I think my childhood was (bore)and I was always complainingabout it.

Steve：Do you get along well your parents now?

Garen：Oh sure, I have reached middle age now. So far I (understand) their love for me.

Steve：Where did you go to university?

Garen：I graduated Yale University with a degree in EnglishLiterature.

Steve：How did you start writing?

Garen：I like writing from young, it is not easy for me toenter this occupation. You know, I once worked in companies. I started writingfor magazines and eventually (ask) to write books, so I was pretty lucky.

Steve： did you begin to write the book about the presidentObama?

Garen：From the beginning of 2008, it (take) me 6 months toprepare for it, interviewing and finding information about him. Obama told memany stories about his life and family.

Steve：Sounds interesting.

1. —Look，here comes your dream girl. Invite her to dance.

—________ What if she refuses me?

1. Once the poison is________，there is no further danger.                   

1. Anyway，I can't cheat him—it's against all my________.

1. I think our education should give all children______opportunities to develop their special gift.

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         A sunflower is a sunflower. A mobile phone is a mobile phone. But can you combine the two to do something for your local environment?

         As early as next year it may well be possible. When you have finished with your mobile phone you will be able to bury it in the garden or a plant pot and wait for it to flower. A biodegradable (生物可降解的) mobile phone was, this month, introduced by scientists. It is hoped that the new type of phone will encourage consumers to recycle.

        Scientists have come up with a new material over the last five years. It looks like any other plastic and can be hard or soft, and able to change shape. Overtime it can also break down into the soil without giving out any toxic (有毒的) chemicals. British researchers used the new material to develop a phone cover that contains a sunflower seed. When this new type of cover turns into waste, it forms nitrates (硝酸盐). These feed the seed and help the flower grow.

       Engineers have designed a small transparent (透明的)window to hold the seed. They have made sure it only grows when the phone is thrown away.

    “We've only put sunflower seeds into the covers so far. But we are working with plant experts to find out which flowers would perform best. Maybe we could put roses in next time，” said one scientist.

        As phone technology is developing so quickly people are constantly (经常地) throwing their mobiles away. This means manufacturers are under pressure to find ways of recycling them.

        Some 650 million mobile phones have been sold this year. Most of them will be thrown away within two years, adding plastic, heavy metal and chemical waste to the environment. A biodegradable cover can offer some relief for nature, according to the scientists.

    “The seed is released and the flower grows in the pot so you don't have to concern yourself with the phone when you have finished using it，” said Kerry Kirwan. She leads the research team, which is based at the University of Warwick in Britain.

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        Most people know that Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the first person to win it twice. However, few people know that she was also the mother of a Nobel Prize winner.

        Born in September, 1897, Irene Curie was the first of the Curies two daughters. Along with nine other children whose parents were also famous scholars, Irene studied in their own school, and her mother was one of the teachers. She finished her high school education at the College of Sévigné in Paris.

       Irene entered the University of Paris in 1914 to prepare for a degree in mathematics and physics. When World War I began, Irene went to help her mother, who was using X­ray facilities (设备) to help save the lives of wounded soldiers. Irene continued the work by developing X­ray facilities in military hospitals in France and Belgium. Her services were recognised in the form of a Military Medal by the French government.

        In 1918, Irene became her mother's assistant at the Curie Institute. In December 1924, Frederic Joliot joined the Institute, and Irene taught him the techniques required for his work. They soon fell in love and were married in 1926.Their daughter Helene was born in 1927 and their son Pierre five years later.

        Like her mother, Irene combined family and career. Like her mother, Irene was awarded a Nobel Prize, along with her husband, in 1935. Unfortunately, also like her mother, she developed leukemia because of her work with radioactivity(辐射能) .Irene Joliot­Curie died from leukemia on March 17,1956.

1. ________， I'd like to say how much I've enjoyed staying in your beautiful country.

1. How can you resign yourself________such a terrible group?