The two basic modes of interpreting are simultaneous interpreting and consecutive interpreting.

In Britain arrangements for inviting and entertaining guests at a wedding are usually the responsibility of the bride’s family. In most cases it is mainly friends and relations of both families who are invited, but when the bride’s father is businessman of some kind, the wedding reception may provide a useful occasion for establishing social connections with clients or customers and other people whose good will may be of advantage to him. It is, however, the bride’s mother who had the job of sending out the formal printed invitation cards.

In the case of a church wedding, the vicar of each parish in which the ceremony bride and bridegroom live is normally informed about a month in advance of the ceremony so that an announcement of the coming wedding can be made in church on each of three Sundays before it takes place. Anyone who may know of an existing marriage of either partner is ordered to give information about it, though this means of avoiding bigamy must have been more effective in the days when people moved about the world less than they do today. Often up to a hundred or more people attend the religious service and the bride usually wears the traditional long white dress and veil, while her bride - maids, who are often children, wear long dress in attractive colors. This may also happen in the case of a civil wedding in a register office but is probably less usual.

The reception which follows may be held in a restaurant, a local hall or, when there are few guests, in the bride's own home. Refreshments are provided, a special iced wedding - cake is cut (usually to the accompaniment of speeches) and distributed to the guests, toasts are drunk and dancing may follow. At some point in the celebrations, the bride goes off the change into everyday clothes and then leaves the party with her husband to go on their honeymoon, the journey they will make together, often in romantic surroundings abroad.

According to the passage some guests may be invited because _________.

A．they are likely to be annoyed if they are not

B．they may give valuable presents

C．their presence could provide future benefits

D．they may help with the expenses of the wedding

Directions：In each of the following groups of words，there are four underlined let．ters orDirections：In each of the following groups of words，there are four underlined let．ters or letter combinations marked A，B，C andD．Compare the underlined parts and i-dentify the one that isDifferent from the others in pronunciation．Mark your answerByblackening the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET I． （）

A．curiosity

B．Curious

C．during

D．tune

According to M. A. K. Halliday, the three metafunctions of language are experiential metafunction, interpersonal metafunction and discourse metafunction. ()

By referring to evolution, the author intends to show that

A．men and women are different in spatial conception and ability.

B．males are bom with the hunter"s mentality and females the gatherer"s.

C．different ways of navigation can date back to the ancient times.

D．early humans have decided the division of labor for men and women.

YouaremaintainingyourdatabaseinOracle10g.Youareperforminganincompleterecoverybecausethetablespace，DATA1，wasdroppedandpurgedfromtheRecycleBin.Afterperforminganincompleterecovery，youopenthedatabasewiththeRESETLOGSoption.WhatwillNOTbetheimpactofusingtheRESETLOGSoption？（）

A.Thelogsequenceforthedatabasewillrestartfrom1.

B.Thelogsequencenumberwillbewrittentothecontrolfile.

C.Thelogsequencenumberwillbewrittentothedatafileheaders.

D.Thelogsequencenumberwillbewrittentotheinitializationparameterfile.

【填空题】On the most basic level computer （1） are great to share resources, such as printers and （2） space. On the most advanced level （3） networks can carry video （4） for remote （5） conferencing for example. The average （6） of data transfer——the （7）——depends always on the slowest （8） in a chain between computers. Traditionally the （9） transfer rate decreases with the distance between the computers that exchange （10）. With the advances of technology this difference becomes blurred and less significant.

As you are students of English, it's very possible that you'll be interested in England. That's where the language was first spoken. But England is often called by other names. This often confuses people and I wonder if you know what these names mean. So, now I would like to tell you about this matter of names. I believe that you have heard people use the names England, Britain of Great Britain. Let's see what each of these names means.

If you look at a map of Europe, you'll see a group of islands--one larger island off the northwest coats, one smaller and many tiny ones. These make up what is called the British Isles (不列填群岛). The largest island of the British Isles in Britain. It is also called Great Britain. The smaller island is Ireland (爱尔兰)。

Britain is divided into three parts: Scotland, Wales and England. But sometimes the word " England" is used instead of "Britain". Why so?

In anceient times, what is Britain now used to be three different countries. People in these different counntries spoke different languages. Over many years the three countries became one. England in the largest and richest of the three and it has the most people. So the English people take it for granted that their own name stands for the whole island.

There's another thing that confuses people; sometimes you may hear people say "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. "That is the official name of the country. Northern Irelnd is only one sixth of the island of Ireland. The rest of the island is an independent state, called the Republic of Ireland. So we have the names of "England", "Britain"," Great Britain", and "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Now do you know what each of them means?

English was first spoken in ______.

A．Britain

B．England

C．Great Britain

D．Ireland