Mark Twain was a great writer.He was born in 1835 in the USA.He was also a famous speaker.He was famous for his sense of humour.Many people liked to listen to his talk because he liked to tell some interesting stories to make people laugh all the time.
One day，Mark Twain was going to a small town because of his writing.Before he was going to leave，one of his friends said to him that there were always a lot of mosquitoes in the town and told him that he’d better not go there.Mark Twain waved his hands and said，“It doesn’t matter.The mosquitoes are no relatives of mine.I don’t think they will come to visit me.”
After he arrived at the town，Mark Twain stayed in a small hotel near the station.He went into his room，but when he was just about to have a rest，quite a few mosquitoes flew around him.The waiters felt very sorry about that.“I’m very sorry，Mr.Mark Twain.There are too many mosquitoes in our town，” one of them said to him.
Mark Twain，however，made a joke，saying to the waiter，“The mosquitoes are very clever.They know my room number.They didn’t come into the wrong room.” What he said made all the people present laugh heartily.
But that night Mark Twain slept well.Do you know why？That was because all the waiters in the hotel were driving the mosquitoes away for him during the whole night.
1.That day Mark Twain went to the town ________.
A．to see one of his friends
B．because he wanted to do something there for his writing
C．because he was told there were a lot of mosquitoes there
D．to see one of his relatives
2.All the people present laughed heartily because ________.
A．the mosquitoes were very clever and they didn’t come into the wrong room
B．the mosquitoes knew Mark Twain’s room number
C．Mark Twain gave the waiters some nice presents
D．Mark Twain made a joke
3.From the story we know ________.
A．no mosquitoes troubled Mark Twain in the night
B．the owner of the hotel told the waiters to look after Mark Twain well at night
C．Mark Twain didn’t have a good rest that night
D．there were not mosquitoes in the hotel any longer
4.Which of the following is NOT true?
A．Mark Twain liked to tell interesting stories to make people laugh.
B．Mark Twain went to the small town for his writing.
C．He slept well because the mosquitoes didn’t come into his room.
D．The waiters felt sorry，for there were many mosquitoes in Mark Twain’s room.
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“If we can set it up so you can’t unlock your phone unless you’ve got the right fingerprint(指纹),” Barack Obama asked last Tuesday, “why can’t we do the same thing for our guns?” For this reasonable-sounding question, the president was applauded throughout the media.
As it happens, though, there is a good answer to this question: there is no market for guns that work just some of the time. Guns are simple things designed to operate as easily and reliably as possible. The introduction of electronics eats away this simplicity, and to a degree that is absolutely unacceptable to the consumer. As President Obama well knows, the fingerprint software on his phone works rather erratically: Often it takes a user two or three tries to log in; occasionally, it falls asleep deeply and obeys the password. When this happens on an phone, the user is mildly inconvenienced. If this were to happen on a gun, the user would be dead. There is a reason that modern smartphones put the camera function outside of the authentication(认证) process.
How could we possibly think that guns are the same as other commercial products? It is true that, say, cars have become considerably safer over the last few decades; true, too, that “research” has contributed to this improvement. But it matters enormously that a car is not intended to hurt people, and that in a perfect world nobody would ever be injured by one. Can we say the same of guns? Of course not. Guns are killing machines, designed explicitly to do damage to living things. In fact, they have no other purpose. As such, the salient question before any free people is not “are guns dangerous?”, they are, but “who gets them, and why?”
This is not to say that nothing at all can be done to improve public safety. On an individual level, gun owners should do everything to ensure that their guns are kept away from children, and, where possible, they should train themselves in case they are ever called upon to shoot in anger. At the national level, the combination of better policing and economic growth can help to reduce crime—and, indeed, it has. In 1993, gun crime was more than twice as common as it is now, and there were many fewer guns in circulation. Ugly as it is in its own right, that we have reached the point at which two-thirds of all guns-related deaths are deliberately self-inflicted is a small victory.
How to address those deaths that remain? That is a tricky one. I do not know the answer, and nor, frankly, does anybody else. But selling fantasies to the ignorant is not going to cut it.
1.What does the writer mainly argue in this passage?
A. Gun crime has been greatly reduced.
B. The idea of smart guns is not realistic.
C. Gun control will not succeed in America.
D. Guns-related deaths deserve public attention.
2.The underlined word “erratically” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.
A. with effectiveness
B. with passion and energy
C. in an unpredictable manner
D. in a reasonable and fair way
3.The writer supports his ideas in Paragraphs 2 and 3 mainly by ________.
A. analyzing statistics
B. presenting problems and solutions
C. quoting the authorities
D. making comparisons and contrasts
4.Which of the following might the writer NOT agree with?
A. Few know how to deal with guns-related deaths.
B. Efforts to improve public safety have partly paid off.
C. The nature of guns distinguishes them from other products.
D. Guns using fingerprint software can risk the lives of the users.
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书面表达
假定你叫李华，你的美国笔友Mike写信询问你进入高中后的生活和学习情况，请按
以下内容要点给Mike写一封回信：
1. 刚进入高中时感觉很孤独，现在和同学们相处得很好；
2. 每两周回家一次，非常想念父母及家人；
3. 目前在英语学习上遇到了一些困难，恳请Mike给予英语学习的建议和帮助。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mike,
How time flies! It has been 4 months since I went to the senior high school. ___________
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Looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
Li Hua
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UFO stands for "unidentified flying object". Many people reported having seen UFOs in the sky. A lot of countries tried to research them and in 1952 they got the name of UFO.
There were several reports published in the 19th century which were related to UFOs. Denison Daily News in its report of 25th January, 1878 wrote that a farmer, Martin, saw a flying object in the sky and it was just like a plate. This was the first time that the word plate had been related to the UFOs.
The first reports on UFOs came during World War II. In 1947 pilot Kenneth Arnold said while he was flying near the Mount Rainer he saw a very bright object in the sky. He said that it was like a plate too. The information given by Kenneth got lots of attention from the media and people.
Several research organizations gave their reports on the UFOs. They showed direct or indirect physical evidence of the UFOs, and sometimes UFOs’ appearance was found on the radar (雷达) screen. Many people tried to take video tapes or photos of the UFOs as testimony. Most UFOs are in saucer shape while many UFOs are like a cigarette or a half ball.
Many films and TV shows are made about UFOs. There are two famous movies which are created on the theme of UFOs and aliens, War of the World and Star Wars. UFOs have created a new field in science which is known as Ufology (飞碟学).
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The UFOs Martin and Kenneth Arnold saw were in different shapes.
B. People named the flying object UFO in the 19th century.
C. Martin was the first person that described the flying object as a plate.
D. Kenneth Arnold was given little attention for his discovering UFO.
2.What does the underlined word " testimony " in the fourth paragraph mean?
A. Evidence. B. Research.
C. Mystery. D. Appearance.
3.The next paragraph following the passage might talk about ________.
A. famous movies on the UFOs
B. different UFOs’shapes
C. the effect of UFOs on humans
D. the new science —Ufology
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第一节：写出下列单词的正确形式
1.It was _____________(体贴的，考虑周到的) of you not to play the piano while I was asleep.
2.They have _____________(任命) a new head teacher at my daughter’s school.
3.The government is made up of men and women ___________(选举) by the people of the country.
4.The doctors ____________(分发)the medicines to the people in the flooded area yesterday.
5.The beauty of the peach blossom is beyond _______________(描述).
6.To be better, they need to learn modern management _______________(技巧).
7.Those who ____________(非法) hunt and kill rare and endangered wild animals should be punished by law.
8. What are you two ______________(低语) about over there?
9.He lives in a room ______________(配备有)with a desk and several chairs.
10.The more she tried to get out of the situation, the more _________(尴尬的) it became.
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
As the plane circled over the airport , everyone sensed that something was wrong . The plane was moving 1. (steady) through the air , and although the passengers 2. (fasten) their seat belts , they were suddenly thrown forward . At that moment , the air – hostess presented . She looked very pale , 3. was quite calm .Speaking quickly and almost in a whisper , she informed everyone that the pilot had fainted and asked if any of the 4. (passenger) knew anything about machines . After a moment’s hesitation , 5. man got up and followed the hostess into the pilot’s cabin . Moving the pilot aside , the man took his seat and listened carefully to the urgent instructions that 6. (send) by radio from the airport below . To everyone’s relief , the plane , 7. was dangerously close to the ground at the moment , soon began to climb . The man had to circle the airport several times to become familiar 8. the controls of the plane . The 9. (critically) moment came when he had to land . The man , 10. (follow) the instructions , guided the plane toward the airfield , and it landed safely after a long run along the runway .
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书面表达
某中学生英文论坛上，对残疾人乘坐公共交通工具的问题进行了讨论。有位网名叫Life-lover的网友的帖子引起了大家的关注。请你根据帖子的内容和写作要点写一封回帖。
Hi, everyone. When I take a bus, I often notice that it is very difficult for the disabled to get on or get off when they want to travel around by themselves. What should we do to help them?
要点：
1. 自己应主动帮助残疾人上下车；2. 呼吁大家共同帮助残疾人乘车；3. 建议改进公共交通设施以方便残疾人出行。注意：1. 词数100左右； 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 参考词汇：设施 facility
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One day, a poor man, who had only one piece of bread to eat, was walking past a restaurant. There was a large pot of soup on the table. The poor man held his bread over the soup, so the steam from the soup went into the bread, and gave it a good smell. Then he ate the bread.
The restaurant owner was very angry at this, and he asked the man for money, in exchange for the steam from the soup. The poor man had no money, so the restaurant owner took him to Nasreddin, who was a judge at that time. Nasreddin thought about the case for a little while.
Then he took some money from his pocket. He held the coins next to the restaurant owner’s ear, and shook them, so that they made a dingling（叮当声）noise.
“What was that?” asked the restaurant owner.
“That was payment for you,” answered Nasreddin.
“What do you mean? That was just the sound of coins!” protested (抗议) the restaurant owner.
“The sound of the coin is payment for the smell of the soup,” answered Nasreddin. “Now go back to your restaurant.”
1.The poor man held his bread over the soup to _______.
A. make it heated
B. warm his cold hands
C. avoid paying the restaurant owner
D. make it smell and taste a little better
2.Why did Nasreddin make a noise with the coins?
A. To make the poor man relaxed.
B. To pay for the smell of the soup.
C. To make the restaurant owner happy.
D. To show that he was a rich person.
3. Nasreddin thought that the smell of the soup ________.
A. was worthless B. should be paid
C. was pleasant D. could be sold
4.The writer’s purpose in telling the story is mainly to _________.
A. show the restaurant owner’s greed(贪婪)
B. describe the poor’s unhappy life
C. show Nasreddin’s cleverness and humour
D. prove the value of the sound of coins
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I believe the very nature of writing is to set the writer free, not to impress readers. I encourage my students to write freely. By now we taste the good of free writing and enjoy it very much. And I imagine you may have tons of questions about free writing. First, how to improve my logic? 1.The power of writing has to do with its emotion, and logic, and therefore we try extra hard to be logical — but this kind of forced logic is not something we can force on ourselves, or on our writings. When we let our emotional voice come out freely, our logical voice will also come out — that is the charm of free writing. Read your own free writings, you will find many free writings are quite logical indeed. You are not that illogical as you thought of yourself.
2.Yes, sometimes our ideas are boring, and sometimes we are boring people — so what? Who says we have to be amazing all the time? Let’s respect our human reality. The good thing we need to do is to continue to write patiently. Persistence wins the battle. Sometimes the idea may seem boring to us, but as we continue to write, something else will come up. 3.Our writing does not have to be immortal(不朽的) or amazing. Writing is just a way to express ourselves. Please don’t worship writing.
Now, what if my writing often shows my dark side that I don’t want to see at all?
4.As human beings, we all have our dark sides. What is the right way for us to become better people? To face them honestly or to hide them and pretend they never exist? Honesty is always the best policy. Our dark sides need to be expressed, and free writing is a perfect outlet. The miracle is, after you express yourself truthfully, you will have less negative emotions, be more at peace with yourself, and have more compassion(同情) for others. 5. Many of my students have experienced the healing effects of free writing. And I believe you will experience the same wonderful healing.
A. This is a very honest question.
B. Logic is only one aspect of writing.
C. Then, what if my ideas are boring?
D. And free writing is exactly the opposite.
E. We write to free ourselves, and also to free others.
F. Have you ever wondered why free writing sets us free?
G. Our goal is not to amaze people, but to express ourselves.
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