Once there was a rich man named Chulong.

One day, he was walking in his garden when he saw a strange____with beautiful features(特征) and sweet voice in a tree. Chulong____went near the tree and caught the bird, which he thought he could____and get lots of money.

“Don’t think about making money through me!” said the bird, “____will buy me, because, in imprisonment (监禁), I lose my beauty and sweet voice.” Chulong’s hope of making money was shattered. He became angry and wanted to____the bird for the meat.

Then the____bird suggested, “Well, set me free. In return I shall teach you____simple but useful rules, which can do good to you.”

Chulong didn’t believe the bird____, and he was afraid that the bird would fly away. However, the bird____it would keep its word(守信). Chulong wanted to take a risk. He set the bird free and it sat on the branch of a tree. It became____again.

Chulong asked, “Now teach me the rules.” “Certainly,” said the bird.

Then the bird taught Chulong the____: The first rule is Never believe everything others say. The second rule is Never be sad about something you don’t have. The third rule is Never throw away what you have in your hand.

“You silly bird,” shouted Chulong, “These rules are known to everyone. You____me.”

But the bird said, “Today, you had me in your hand, but you threw me away. You believed all that I said. And you are sad about not having me.____the rules are simple, you have never followed them. Now have you got the____of the rules? Just sit down and think for a while.” With these words, the bird____and disappeared from his sight.

1.A. cat B. bird C. panda D. monkey

2.A. proudly B. freely C. slowly D. weakly

3.A. eat B. study C. draw D. sell

4.A. Nobody B. Somebody C. Anybody D. Everybody

5.A. find B. borrow C. smell D. kill

6.A. busy B. helpful C. clever D. lucky

7.A. three B. four C. five D. six

8.A. for ever B. later on C. at first D. at last

9.A. promised B. remembered C. guessed D. hoped

10.A. ugly B. beautiful C. lazy D. hard-working

11.A. songs B. languages C. rules D. skills

12.A. cheated B. helped C. found D. forgot

13.A. Until B. Unless C. If D. Although

14.A. history B. value C. reason D. connection

15.A. woke up B. fell down C. flew away D. held on

1.If you want to get a library card, you_____________.

A. have to pay one dollar for it

B. needn't pay for it

C. need to borrow five books first

D. need to borrow a book for three weeks

2.You can borrow_______________at a time.

A. only one video B. two CDs

C. four books D. five books and one CD

3.At the library, you can_________________.

A. buy CDs B. watch videos

C. read newspapers D. borrow magazines

4.If you borrow two videos for a month, you should pay____________.

A. ＄I B. ＄2 C. ＄4 D. ＄8

5.According to the library rules, the library has__________________.

A. books in 42 languages

B. no language tapes

C. all kinds of video films

D. picture books for old people

World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945. Life changed for everybody, including women and children because of the war. Millions of people lost their lives during the war. The Diary of a young girl was a record of that time. The book was written by a girl named Anne Frank.

Anne Frank was born in Germany in Jun1929. Because the German Nazi(纳粹) hated the Jew(犹太人)and wanted to kill them, her family had to move to another country. In July 1942, they went into hiding in a secret place in her father’s office. During that difficult time, Anne kept writing diaries until she and her family were discovered by Nazis in August 1944. They were caught and sent to a Nazis camp. The next year, her mother died. In the same year, she and her elder sister died of illness, before the war ended.

After the war, her father collected her diaries and the book The diary of a young girl came out in 1947.It has been put over into 30 languages since then. The book has been read by people all over the world. In her diary, Anne wrote down her thoughts, her feelings, her hopes and her dreams for the future, "I want the diary to be my friend, and I'm going to call this friend KITTY.””I can’t spend all day complaining because it’s impossible to have any fun! Every day, I feel the beauty of nature and the goodness of the people around me. With all that, why should I be sad?" The diary of a young girl has also become a symbol of the greatness of the human spirit. It is called one of the wisest and most moving records on war.

1.In which year did Anne die of illness?

A. in 1939 B. in 1942 C. in 1944 D. in 1945

2.According to the passage, KITTY is_____________.

A. her diary B. her elder sister C. her mother D. her hiding place

3.Which of the following is true?

A. Anne was lazy, sad and complained all day.

B. The book is mainly about Anne’s school life

C. Anne loved life though she was in difficult time.

D. The book has been put into nearly 30 languages

4.Where did Anne hide?

A. in her father's office B. in a library C. in church D. on a farm

5.From the passage, we can infer(推断)________.

A. Anne was born in Germany.

B. Anne was a Jew

C. Anne's father collected the diaries.

D. Anne was a Nazi

Have you noticed your life becoming a little easier? Now, when you go to a certain shopping mall, you can enjoy its free Wi-Fi there. When you want to take a taxi, you can book one with your phone. In fact, all these can be seen as the basic parts of a smart city.

The idea of a smart city was brought up by US company IBM in 2010. Generally, a smart city is a city that uses digital technologies such as the Internet to improve city planning, save money and resources, and make our lifeconvenient. How smart can a city be? Here are great examples that we can learn from.

In 2009, Dubuque became the first smart city in the US. The city used smart water meters to take the place of traditional water meters. They can detect（探测〉water waste and leakage（泄漏）and send data to let the house owner know. The same system is used for other city resources like electricity and natural gas. This way, people know how they use their resources and are glad to help reduce waste.

Santander in Spain also gives us a look at the future. If people point a phone toward a nearby bus stop, the phone immediately shows all bus lines that serve the stop as well as their arrival times. The government organized a research team and provided an App（应用程序〉that collects data on almost everything: light, temperature, and the movements of cars and people. Opening the App near a supermarket provides immediate information on special

1.According to the passage, which of the following is RIGHT?

A. Digital technologies are used in smart cities.

B. An English company first raised the idea of a smart city.

C. A smart city is mainly made up of free Wi-Fi and phones.

D. A smart city is still an idea and hasn’t come into being.

2.The underlined word “convenient” is the closest in meaning to _____.

A. useful B. normal C. suitable D. easy

3.Compared to traditional water meters, smart water meters do better in .

A. cleaning water B. supplying water

C. saving water D. producing water

4.The example of Santander shows the use of smart systems in aspects（方面）EXCEPT _____.

A. business B. health care

C. traffic controlling D. public transportation

5.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Digital technologies help improve city planning.

B. Smart cities will make our future life better and smarter.

C. Smart cities are very common in both Dubuque and Santander.

D. Spain and the US take the leading position in building smart cities.

六、阅读理解填词

Mo Yan was born into a farming family in a village in Shangdong province. He g1. up listening to folk stories about gods, spirits and foxes. Those stories l 2. became the inspiration(灵感) for Mo’s writing. Mo left school at the age of 12 and started to work in the fields. Although he was tired after his daily hard work, Mo was always h 3. for books. However, there were very f 4.in the village. He r 5.his older brother's textbook and even dictionaries. He helped o6.with farm work in exchange for books. "When I finished reading all the books around, I thought I was the m 7.knowledgeable man in the world, "he told Xinhua. After Mo left his hometown and j 8.the army in 1976, he began to read widely, including works by Lu Xun and many other famous w9.. He studied from them but did not copy them. Instead, he developed his o 10. style.

春节晚会上，很多人加入了抢红包游戏活动，但也有人表示担忧。假如你叫李华，你班最近开展了一个有关抢红包游戏活动的调查。请你用英文给学校校刊《英语园地》写一峰信息，介绍此次调查的结果并谈谈你的观点。

要求: 1) 表达清楚，语法正确，上下文连贯；

2) 必须包括表格中所有的相关信息，并适当发挥；

3) 词数：80词左右（短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数）

4) 不得使用真实姓名、校名和地名等。

参考词汇: 抢红包 grabbing red packets 屏幕screen 对......有害 be harmful for......

Dear Editor,

I am writing to tell you about the survey on the activity of “Grabbing red packets”______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

一、单词辨音

1.A. design B. below C. elder D. college

2.A. postcard B. large C. artist D. forward

3.A. machine B. beach C. check D. watch

4.A. Russia B. hundred C. community D. study

5.A. town B. shower C. down D. below

6.A. double B. enough C. sound D. country

7.A. lamp B. anyone C. manager D. shall

8.A. opera B. job C. zero D. popular

9.A. eighth B. bathroom C. something D. thousand

10.A. fridge B. mile C. video D. skill

Next year Tom will go to _____school. He wants to be ____ engineer like his father.

A. a; a B. The; an C. / ; an D. / ; a

There are of students in our school and three of them live nearby.

A. thousands，hundred B. thousand, hundreds

C. thousands，hundreds D. thousand，hundred

— What kind of home do you _____? — A flat _____ three bedrooms.

A. live; has B. live; with C. live in; has D. live in; with