The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th FIFA World Cup, an international association football tournament(比赛) that will take place in Brazil from June 12 to July 13, 2014.

This will be the second time the country has hosted the competition, the first being the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Brazil will become the fifth country to have hosted the FIFA World Cup twice, after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany. It will be the first World Cup to be held in South America since the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina(阿根廷), the first time two consecutive(连贯的) World Cups are staged outside Europe and the first time two consecutive World Cups are staged in the Southern Hemisphere(南半球) (the 2010 FIFA World Cup was held in South Africa).

On March 7, 2003, FIFA announced that the tournament would be held in South America for the first time since Argentina hosted the competition in 1978, in line with its policy of rotating(循环) the right to host the World Cup among different confederations. On June 3, 2003, the South American Football Confederation CONMEBOL announced that Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia wanted to host the 2014 World Cup finals. And Brazil won the right to host the event on October 30, 2007, as the only country to enter the bidding process.

1.The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the ______ FIFA World Cup.

A. first B. second

C. fifteenth D. twentieth

2. Brazil once hosted the FIFA World Cup in ______.

A. 1950 B. 1978 C. 2003 D. 2010

3. ______ once held the FIFA World Cup twice before Brazil.

A. Mexico, Italy, France and Germany

B. Mexico, Italy, England and Canada

C. Korea, Italy, France and the USA

D. South Africa, Italy, France and Germany

4. CONMEBOL is a confederation from ______.

A. Europe B. South America

C. North America D. Asia

5. Which of the following is NOT right?

A. The 2014 FIFA World Cup will last more than 30 days.

B. Argentina held the 1978 FIFA World Cup.

C. The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the first tournament held in South America.

D. Brazil didn’t become the only country to enter the bidding process until 2007.

Once there was a man who had two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was good-looking(看好) but the girl was not.

One day they found a mirror(镜子) for the first time and they saw what they looked like. The boy was very pleased(很高兴) and he said to his sister, "How handsome(英俊) I am! I look much nicer than you!" The girl did not like what her brother said and gave him a hard push(推). "Go away!" she said. Their father saw what was happening. He went up to them and said to the boy, "You must always BE good as well as LOOK good." Then to the girl he said, "My dear, if you help everyone and do your best to please him, everyone will love you. It does not matter that you are not as good-looking as your brother."

1.Once a man had ____.

A. a good-looking boy

B. an ugly(难看的) girl

C. two good-looking children

D. a boy and a girl

2.The boy saw what he looked like in the mirror and was pleased because he ____.

A. found a mirror

B. knew he looked as nice as his sister

C. and his sister were good-looking

D. was handsome

3.The girl gave the boy a hard push because ____.

A. she was stronger

B. what he said was wrong

C. she was not pleased with what he said

D. her father loved her

4. Father told the girl that ____.

A. it was important to be good-looking

B. it was a good thing to be ugly

C. if she did her best to help people, she would enjoy people's love

D. she was as good-looking as her brother

5.What can we learn from this story?

A. To be good to people is more important than to be good-looking.

B. To be good-looking is very important.

C. If you want to make yourself good-looking, you must be good to people.

D. If you often help people, you will become more and more beautiful.

Open today’s newspaper. What do you see? Ads! Turn on the TV. Still more ads! Everywhere you look, someone has something to sell.

Here are some ways ads get us to buy.

Some ads use famous people. Stars are paid to sell a product. Think about it. Do they really know about medicine? Do they know about soft drinks? These people may be famous. But they may not know about what they are selling.

Some ads make you think you’re getting the words of experts(专家). A man in a white coat comes on TV. He looks nice. “I use White and Black, ” he says. This man looks like a doctor. But he is an actor. He has been paid to sell this product.

Does soap(肥皂) have anything to do with a pretty child? Not much. But ads may show their products with something nice, such as the sun, the flowers and so on. Such an ad is about feelings rather than fact.

Ads are full of strong words like “new” and “power”(力量). They can help a product sell. The soap may be called “Spring Rain”. A car may be called “Tiger”. Strong words work on our feelings.

Some ads make promises(承诺). But can they keep them? No. Some ads use our fear of being too late. “Buy now! ” they say, “Selling ends soon. ” Check to see if this is true. Don’t hurry. Take time to think.

All ads hope we will buy something, do something, or think in a certain way. Know what ads are doing. Ask questions to yourself. Don’t let their words and pictures fool you.

uld not always believe the ads.

C. We should thi1.We can see ads ______.

A. on TV B. in magazines

C. in newspapers D. all the above

2. Some stars appear in the ads because ______.

A. they know every product well

B. they are famous

C. they are all experts

D. they all like white coats

3. According to the passage, we know that “Spring Rain” is the name of ______.

A. a kind of soap B. a kind of car

C. a kind of medicine D. a kind of flower

4.The writer thinks the words and pictures in the ads ______.

A. tell us a story B. always make us strong

C. sometimes fool us D. keep promises

5.What can we learn from the passage?

A. We should always believe the ads.

B. We sho nk about the ads after we buy something.

C. We can believe all the stars.

We are in a world full of competition. Our parents compete（竞争）with others in their offices，our brothers and sisters compete with others in their colleges，and we compete with our classmates in school. Many of us give up in the face of competition and will never be successful. ① can‘t，others，why，we，do，better，than .One important reason is that we have no self-confidence（自信）。

In fact，everyone is born equal. You can do what others do. Although your classmates may be better than you in some ways，you may be better than them in other subjects. So everyone has his or her own advantages. Don‘t look at things from a single（单个的）point of view. Try to discover your own advantages，and believe that you can do better than others in those ways.

Competition is not so terrible. Don‘t be afraid of it. And don‘t be afraid of those classmates who are better than you. ② Remember that self-confidence is the first step to success. Believe in yourselves，and you will be successful one day.

任务一Are we living in a world full of competition?

任务二： How can you improve yourself-confidence according to the passage?

任务三：将①处画线部分单词连成一个完整的特殊疑问句。

任务四：将②处画线部分译成中文。

任务五： What‘s the main idea of this passage?

书面表达。(共10分)

规划人生，成就未来，请以My Dream为题，描述你的梦想。文中不得出现真实的人名和校名。次数80--100. 参考词汇；be friendly to. help study hard, come true

John is honest boy and good at making airplane model.

A. an; the B. an; /

C. the; an D. an; an

There was _____ woman in the room, sitting and looking at me in the dark.

A. a 80-year-old B. an 80-year-old

C. a 80-years-old D. an 80-years-old

---What are these bottles ?

---Drinking water.

A. used by B. used to

C. used for D. used up

---Listen! Peter is singing in the classroom!

---It _____ be him. He has gone back to his hometown.

A. must B. mustn’t

C. may not D. can’t

---Don’t worry. Your brother is coming to help you.

---________ he doesn’t come?

A. What about B. Why not

C. What if D. What for