阅读填空（建议用时：30分钟）Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information from the passage.Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.1(2013·长沙模拟)Taking the High School Placement Test(HSPT高中编班测试)is a fact of life for an eighth grade student wishing to get into a high school. All students must take this test for admission. Being informed about what the test is and what the test is for will help reduce the feeling of being very worried about the test.HSPT is a placement test to make proper placement in the ninth grade. This examination is used to evaluate a student’s knowledge and determine if the student has enough knowledge and understanding in certain subject areas.The HSPT comes in two forms: the Open Form and the Closed Form. Both forms of the test measure the basic skills in language, reading and mathematics.There are some tips to help answer the reading comprehension questions. Knowing much about some common reading comprehension questions is the key to doing well on this part of the test. Being familiar with these types of questions can help you spend less time looking for the answers.Often a reading comprehension test will ask you to choose the best title for the passage. All of the choices fit the passage but there will be only one choice that contains the main idea of the passage.Never spend too much time on one question. Make certain that you have allowed yourself enough time to answer all of the questions. It means that you should manage time successfully.The other parts of the test, including vocabulary, history and math, need a different way for doing well. When working on these parts, you should always do the easiest questions first and then go back to answer the harder questions. Always use any scratch paper(草稿纸)you are given and do your calculation on it to avoid simple mistakes.The tests differ in the type of information they provide. It is important for a student to take the test of the school which he wishes to attend.Title: 1.2(2013·长沙模拟)Having long been underrated(低估)and ignored, the penny is one ofAmerica’s most endur ing failures. But a recent proposal to ban the pennyby some US congress members seeks to put the coin to sleep—permanently.Representative Jim Kolbe from Arizona is the man who proposed the billto stamp out the penny. He says the coin has outlived its usefulness. Withmetal prices soaring, Kolbe says it costs 1. 23 cents to produce a penny. Producing the coins will amount to a $20 million waste each year.It is not simply about the cost of production. Centuries of inflation have made the penny—first put into circulation in 1787—close to worthless.Many Americans don’t even view pennies as currency any more. They take them only reluctantly in change and then put them in jars or desk drawers at home. An estimated $10. 5 billion in pennies, or $93. 75 per household, sits idle in piggy banks and behind sofas.Anti-penny advocates argue that 1-cent coins cost US companies more than $300 million a yearin lost productivity. This comes mostly from the time and effort spent counting and putting pennies into paper rolls for bank deposits.Jim Kolbe suggests that all cash transactions be rounded to the nearest nickel. For example, items that cost 11 or 12 cents would be rounded down to 10, 13-and 14-cent items would be rounded up to 15. People paying by credit or bank card, however, would likely continue to pay exact amounts.But plenty of Americans oppose the ban. Some say eliminating the penny would cause significant hardship to a wide range of people.US economist Raymond Lombra says that moving to the 5-cent nickel would cost consumers $ 3 billion over five years. The poor suffer more since they tend to buy with cash instead of credit cards.Penny supporters point out that the penny is the only coin carrying the image of America’s much respected president Abraham Lincoln. Some major charities are also alarmed by talk of a penny ban. They often base fund-raising campaigns on donations of pennies and other coins. One such campaign is called“Pennies for Patients”. They have raised more than $68 million through coin collections since 1994.A recent US Today poll found that 55 percent of adults want to keep the penny. They may not value pennies as currency like before, but they remain attached to them as an old, familiar friend.“The penny has been a necessary pa rt of the American experience—whose childhood would be complete without penny candy and other small purchases? ”reads a post supporting the penny on a forum.It shapes US superstitions. “Find a penny, pick it up, and all day you will have good luck. ”“A penny saved is a penny earned. ”And little girls are sometimes called“as pretty as a penny”.Title: Ban 1. or Not?2. :They have long been underrated and ignored.Reasons for the ban:·The coin has outlived its usefulness.·3. to produce coins are rising fast.·Centuries of inflation have made the penny close to worthless.·Large amount of 4. is wasted counting and putting pennies into paper rolls for bank deposits.5. :·All cash transactions are rounded to 6. .·People paying by credit or bank card would continue to pay exact amounts.Reasons against the ban:·Eliminating the penny would cause significant hardship to a wide range of people.·Rounding to the 5-cent nickel would cost consumers $3 billion over five years.·The penny is the only coin carrying the image of America’s much respected president 7. .·8. base fund-raising campaigns on donations of pennies and other coins.·55 percent of adults regard it as a necessary part of 9. .·The penny shapes 10. .3Society is a web of relationships, requiring all parties to work together to create something good. What makes society work best are effective relationships that are based on mutual(相互的)understanding. If you understand what people want and why they want it, you can usually find a way to make progress together.High-quality relationships make people happy. Some people living in the poorest communities have almost nothing but turn out to be the happiest because they share a life together. If effective relationships are working, happiness is always possible.Here are some simple tips for building effective relationships.Listen to and try to understand others’positions and feelings. Listening in itself can lead to understanding, and if you understand someone else fully, then you know how to work better with him or her.Openly express your needs and feelings. Sometimes we expect people—particularly those close to us at home or work—to understand what we want and to give us what we need intuitively(凭直觉地). However, people are so complicated and so different that even when they have lived together for 60 years, they can still surprise each other. So we need to say what we need and to express how we feel.In order to make our relationships more effective, we should treat ourselves and other people with respect. Respect is one of the most important elements of any good relationship.Finally, learn to face differences correctly. Learning this takes time and can be uncomfortable. However, if we can try to remove differences in an effective way, we are more likely to build exciting and satisfying relationships with others.By doing these things you may discover that the happiness you long for is much closer than you thought.答案解析1【文章大意】本文是一篇说明文, 介绍了HSPT的情况。