根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。

1. You’d better not        (believe) all about your star sign.

2. Is your brother used to        (sleep) late at night?

3. We hope Nanjing will hold the 2014 Youth Olympic Games        (success).

4. While I       (wait) for the bus, I saw two robbers run away quickly.

5. If you visit the Forbidden City, you can experience its        (beautiful) and greatness.

根据括号中所给的汉语写出单词，使句子意思完整正确。

1. The baby has three        (牙齿) now.

2. When I was in Canada, I       (想念) my parents very much.

3. My father is getting        (肥胖) than before because he seldom does any sports.X kB1.cOM

4. I bought a toy car for my son’s        (第九) birthday.

5. The whole country was filled with        (悲伤) because of the heavy accident.

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Have you ever dreamed about sending a letter to yourself or your friends in the future? While express mail represents high speed, there is another type of mail appearing in China as a new business—future mail.

“The letter should be sent next ‘Mother’s Day’ and not a day earlier!” Lin Xiaofan, a senior high school student in Hefei, instructs one of the companies offering the service.

Lin Xiaofan wrote the letter to her mother in advance to express her love to her mother for next Mother’s Day.

“Offering this service makes people slow down and let them understand the meaning of ‘time’ in another way,” said Zheng Zhimin, manager at a “future mail” company in Hefei. Zheng thinks “future mail” letters are “reminders of care, friendship and love.”

While “future mail” is becoming more and more popular, some people are wondering what will happen if the postal address changes or if the company goes broken before the letters arrive.

Zheng said customers are glad to complete an acceptance form and make an assessment (评估) so they can be compensated (赔偿) if their letters or goods are lost or damaged.

Most of the business’ customers are college students and young white-collar workers. Psychologists said young Chinese might have a new way to express their feelings through this service.

“Most people put their hopes and wishes in the letter so they can experience the connection between the past and the present while they receive the letter. It can help people re-understand the meaning of ‘time’ ”, said Wang Kaiyu, a sociologist in Anhui Province.

1. Express mail is a(n)         way to send your letters.

A. slow                 B. fast                  C. impossible D. ancient

2.         are interested in future mail service now.

A. College students                            B. Blue-collar workers

C. Old people                                   D. Young children

3. Through the future mail service, people can        .

A. forget friendship                            B. show feelings

C. misunderstand “time”                     D. make an assessment

4. According to the passage, future mail is        .

A. dangerous         B. expensive         C. difficult      D. safe

5. You had better use future mail if you want to        .

A. save money from sending express mail

B. send a birthday gift to your friend quickly

C. talk with your e-friends about your life freely

D. express your wishes for your father’s next birthday

Water pollution happens when waste things from many areas are thrown into rivers, lakes and seas.

Agriculture

To get more food, farmers use large amounts of chemicals (化学制品). When the chemicals are not completely used by the plants, they are washed away by the rainwater into rivers, lakes and seas, which pollute both surface water and underground water.

Industry

Factories and industries often release poisonous chemicals into seas, rivers or lakes, which is quite bad for Mother Nature. An example of industrial sea pollution happened in Japan in the 1950s. A local factory had poured waste water with mercury (水银) into the Minamata Bay for 20 years. Tuna fish in the bay took in the mercury and people ate the tuna. Many children were born with birth deformities (畸形). As a result, people lost their hearing and sight, and thousands of people died in the end.

Sea transportation

When ships transporting oil get damaged on the way, oil spillage (溢出) happens. One major disaster was the Exxon Valdez oil spill. An oil tanker sank off Alaska in 1989 and leaked (泄漏) oil into the ocean. To save cost, some ships also poured unwanted oil from their engine rooms into the sea, thus polluting the oceans.

Home activities

If the waste from the washing of clothes and dishes are not treated and poured into the sea, they will do harm to the sea life. Some diseases may also spread. Sometimes, rubbish is dumped into the sea.

1. Farmers use large amounts of chemicals to         .

A. have more food                      B. release poison

C. save planting cost                          D. plant more crops

2. From the example in Paragraph 3, we learn that         .

A. eating tuna fish is sometimes a great danger

B. water pollution is a serious problem in Japan

C. factories and industries should be closed in Japan

D. water pollution can do great harm to people’s health

3. The underlined word “release” probably means         .

A. 释放               B. 吸收               C. 生产                     D. 运用

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Industrial water pollution        B. Agriculture water pollution

C. Reasons for water pollution           D. Ways to solve water pollution

“An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one,” wrote a famous British author, George Mikes. While this sounds funny, it’s a popular English stereotype (刻板印象). From the supermarket to the subway, queues are a common sight on the streets of Britain.

Here in China, queues are normal, too. It is a part of everyday life. People queue most of the time, from buying tickets in the cinema to waiting for seats at a restaurant. But in certain situations, you’ll find yourself in the middle of a rushing crowd, such as getting onto the subway. Even away from the busy subway platform, queues are different.

One day I was standing in line at the supermarket. I left a small space in front of me. Within seconds, a girl walked by and took her place in that small space. I was surprised at first, but later I found these experiences very interesting. It is with these small, everyday differences that I get to live and learn in a new culture.

Back in Britain, the person spends about six months of their life waiting in a queue, according to the auction site MadBid. To pass the time, maybe they tell themselves the famous proverb: Good things come to those who wait.

1. From the passage, we know that the English are famous for          .

A. being rude and loud         B. traveling on subways

C. forming an orderly queue             D. standing in line at the supermarket

2. How did the writer feel when the girl jumped the queue?

A. From annoyed to calm.                 B. From calm to angry.

C. From surprised to interested.  D. From shocked to angry.

3. The passage is mainly about         .

A. comparing queuing in two cultures

B. praising the English for good manners

C. calling on people in China to queue more

D. explaining why people rush in some situations

4. Where would you most probably read this passage?

A. Novel.       B. Poster.                    C. Newspaper.     D. Science magazine.

阅读理解，阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

1. What is LIFE WATER^® for?

A. Taking care of the sick in the hospital.

B. Making people feel better and fresher.

C. Helping children grow better and faster.

D. Keeping people away from heart problems.

2. Which is TRUE about LIFE WATER^®?

A. It’s not expensive.                                      

B. It’s also good for the stomach.

C. It can’t be sold without a doctor.                

D. It’s made from spring water in the mountains.

完形填空，阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Carnegie was born in 1888 to a poor farming family in the central United States. The boy didn’t see a train   1   he was 12 years old. In his teens, he had to get up at 3 am every day to milk the cows in his family.

When Carnegie first entered college, he felt   2   because of his clothes and ordinary looks. His mother   3   him: “Why not try to be better in other things instead of just dress and good   4  ?”

Carnegie tried to be more active in college. He joined the debate (辩论) team. But one after another, he lost 12 meets. The young man was very   5   in himself. He said later that he thought of killing himself after so many failures.   6   soon Carnegie was seen practicing public speaking on the riverside. Because of his hard work, he   7   at last. In 1906, Carnegie won a famous speech contest and became widely known. The young man made his own words come true, “Believe that you will succeed,   8   you will.”

In order to   9   his success, Carnegie opened schools and wrote books. His best-sellers include How to Win Friends, Influence People, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. More than 50 million   10   of his books have been printed in 38 languages. They are still helping people on the road to success.

1. A. when                   B. as                           C. until                        D. while

2. A. hopeless              B. tired                        C. happy                     D. useless

3. A. replied             B. ordered                  C. protected                D. encouraged

4. A. colleges        B. looks                      C. families                   D. speeches

5. A. interested            B. surprised                 C. disappointed           D. excited

6. A. Although             B. Then                       C. So                          D. But

7. A. succeeded           B. failed                       C. graduated               D. tried

8. A. or                    B. but                         C. and                         D. so

9. A. achieve           B. share                        C. realize                     D. show

10. A. schools             B. ones                        C. stories                     D. copies

—Could you please pass me my mobile phone?

—      .

A. Yes, I could       B. No, I couldn’t         C. With pleasure          D. My pleasure

—Do you know ?

—By underground.

A. when did your teacher come here B. when your teacher came here

C. how did your teacher come here D. how your teacher came here