24. D) Insulted.
25. B) There should be a limit to one's sense of humour 填空:
26. prospering 27. decade 28. opposite 29. sustain
30. In simple terms 31. establish 32. reasonably 33. take into account 34. misleading 35. using up 选词填空答案： 36 H passively 37 F harmful 38 I previously 39 L surfing
40 C decade 41 A climbed 42 G outcomes 43 E effective 44 B consume 45 D determine 阅读答案： 46-55 FBMCE QGPJD
56 B) Well-educated people tend to work longer. 57 B) A rapid technological advance. 58 A) Economic growth will slow down.
59 C) Even wealthy people must work longer to live comfortably in retirement.
60 D) Skills are highly valued regardless of age. 61 C) The decline of the grain yield growth.
62 A) Their self-sufficiency is vital to the stability of world food markets.
63 D) They focus more on the increase of animal feed than human food feed grains.
64 D) The world will be able to feed its population without increasing farmland.
65 B) It is based on a doubtful assumption. 翻译答案：
在西方人心目中，和中国联系最为密切的基本食物是大米。长期以来，大米在中国人的饮食中占据很重要的地位，以至于有谚语说“巧妇难为无米之炊”。中国南方大多种植水稻，人们通常以大米为主食;而华北大部分地区由于过于寒冷或过于干燥无法种植水稻，那里的主要作物是小麦。在中国，有些人用面粉做面包，但大多数人用面粉做馒头和面条。
In the eyes of the western, the basic food closest to China isrice. Rice has long occupied so significant a position in the dietof Chinese that there is a proverb “ Even a clever housewife cannotcook a meal without rice”. Rice is grown mostly in southern Chinawhere people usually take rice as their staple food, while itcannot be planted in northern China where the climate is either toocold or too dry for rice to grow. As a result, the main crop in thenorth is wheat. In China, flour is sometimes the main
ingredientfor bread but more often used to make buns and noodles。第一句，简单句;第二句如此以至于结构“so... that…\注意so的用法，直接接adj. 或adv。第三句南北对比，可以用while或whereas连接，最后一句也是对比句，主语people是比较泛的大主语，考虑改写为被动句。
写作 参考范文：
As is graphicallydepicted in the cartoon, modern life has been dominated bycomputers. No matter the young man is in the office, at home, andin his spare time, the only friend he has is a computer. Even whenhe sleeps, what is in his dream is still the computer. Apparently,the cartoon aims to reveal the fact that the computer has begun toplay a negative role in the modern life.
第一段三句话，第一句大体描写，第二句细节描写，第三句话揭示图画目的。
The reasons whymodern people are tied up with computers are as follows. To beginwith, they have become increasingly busier in making money;therefore, they need a quick way to outlet their pressure andexhaustion and computer is their ideal companion. Moreover,computers can assist people to