完型填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first people to climb the West Face of the Siula Grande in the Andes mountains. They reached the top , but on their way back conditions were very . Joe fell and broke his leg. They both knew that if Simon alone, he would probably get back . But Simon decided to risk his and try to lower Joe down the mountain on a rope(绳).

As they down, the weather got worse. Then another occurred. They couldn’t see or hear each other and, , Simon lowered his friend over the edge of a precipice（峭壁）. It was for Joe to climb back or for Simon to pull him up. Joe’s was pulling Simon slowly towards the precipice. , after more than an hour in the dark and the icy cold, Simon had to . In tears, he cut the rope. Joe into a large crevasse（裂缝）in the ice below. He had no food or water and he was in terrible pain. He couldn’t walk, but he in getting out of the crevasse and started to towards their camp, nearly ten kilometers .

Simon had the camp at the foot of the mountain. He thought that Joe must be , but he didn’t want to leave . Three days later, in the middle of the night, he heard Joe’s voice. He couldn’t it. Joe was there, a few meters from their tent, still alive.

1.A. hurriedly B. successfully C. carefully D. early

2.A. difficult B. similar C. special D. normal

3.A. climbed B. worked C. continued . D. rested

4.A. unwillingly B. safely C. slowly D. regretfully

5.A. life B. time C. health D. fortune

6.A. lay B. settled C. went D. looked

7.A. damage B. trouble C. change D. storm

8.A. by mistake B. by chance C. by accident D. by luck

9.A. unnecessary B. practical C. impossible D. important

10.A. height B. weight C. strength D. equipment

11.A. Finally B. Patiently C. Surely D. Quickly

12.A. stand back B. take a rest C. hold on D. make a decision

13.A. jumped B. fell C. escaped D. backed

14.A. succeeded B. planned C. waited D. hoped

15.A. run B. skate C. move D. rush

16.A. around B. above C. away D. along

17.A. headed for B. travelled C. left for D. returned to

18.A. dead B. hurt C. weak D. late

19.A. secretly B. tiredly C. immediately D. anxiously

20.A. find B. accept C. make D. believe

书面表达

请以“Friends and Friendship”为题，写一篇80词左右的英语短文，内容要包含下列要点：

1. 人人需要朋友，友谊在学习和生活中起重要作用；

2. 朋友之间应该互相帮助，互相信赖，分享快乐和悲伤；

3. 如果朋友遇到了麻烦，我们应该尽全力去帮助他，患难之交才是真朋友；

注意：可适当发挥，使文章通顺流畅。

阅读理解

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

They wear the latest fashions with the most up-to-date accessories(配饰). Yet these are not girls in their teens or twenties but women in their sixties and seventies. A generation which would once only wear old-fashioned clothes is now favouring the same high street looks worn by those half their age.

Professor Julia Twigg, a social policy expert, said, “Women over 75 are now shopping for clothes more frequently than they did when they were young in the 1960s. In the 1960s buying a coat for a woman was a serious matter. It was an expensive item that they would purchase only every three or four years — now you can pick one up at the supermarket whenever you wish to. Fashion is a lot cheaper and people get tired of things more quickly. ”

Professor Twigg analyzed family expending（支出）data and found that while the percentage of spending on clothes and shoes by women had stayed around the same—and 5 or 6 per cent of spending—the amount of clothes bought had risen sharply.

The professor said, “Clothes are now 70 percent cheaper than they were in the 1960s because of the huge expansion of production in the Far East. In the 1960s Leeds was the heart of the British fashion industry and that was where most of the clothes came from, but now almost all of our clothes are sourced elsewhere. Everyone is buying more clothes but in general we are not spending more money on them.”

Fashion designer Angela Barnard, who runs her own fashion business in London, said older women were much more affected by celebrity(名流) style than in previous years .

She said, “When people see stars such as Judi Dench and Helen Mirren looking attractive and fashionable in their sixties, they want to follow them. Older women are much more aware of celebrities. There’s also the boom in TV programmes showing people how they can change their look, and many of my older customers do yoga to stay in shape well in their fifties. When I started my business a few years ago, my older customers tended to be very rich, but now they are what I would call ordinary women. My own mother is 61 and she wears the latest fashions in a way she would never have done ten years ago.”

1.Professor Twigg found that, compared with the 1960s, _______.

A. the price of clothes has generally fallen by 70%

B. the spending on clothes has increased by 5% or 6%

C. people spend 30% less than they did on clothes

D. the amount of clothes bought has risen by 5% or 6%

2.What can we learn about old women in terms of fashion？

A. They are often ignored by fashion designers.

B. They are now more easily influenced by stars.

C. They are regarded as pioneers in the latest fashion.

D. They are more interested in clothes because of their old age.

3. It can be concluded that old women tend to wear the latest fashions today mainly because .

A. they get tired of things more quickly

B. TV shows teach them how to change their look

C. they are in much better shape now

D. clothes are much cheaper than before

4.Which is the best possible title of the passage?

A. Age Is No Barrier for Fashion Fans

B. The More Fashionable, the Less Expensive

C. Unexpected Changes in Fashion

D. Boom of the British Fashion Industry

短文填空

David: It’s a great art show, isn’t it? By the way, I’m David.

Lucy: Nice to meet you, David. My name is Lucy. The art show is very 1.(success). The paintings on exhibition are beautiful indeed and they have left me a deep 2. (impress).

David: Nice to meet you, too, Lucy. May I know where you are from?

Lucy: Actually, I was born in Paris, but I 3.(bring) up in London. How about you?

David: Oh, I’m a native American born in New York. I’m4. art teacher in New York University. This art show is held by my students.

Lucy: Really? I’m a student 5.(major) in piano performance at the same college. I 6.(hold) a piano party next Saturday night at the Silver Bar. Would you like to come?

David: I’d love to. Do you mind 7. I take my daughter with me?8.painting, she is fond of listening to music as well. She has an MP3 player, with 9.she can listen to some music when she feels10.(tire) with her lesson.

Lucy: That’s great. I will be very glad to see you and your daughter at my piano party next Saturday.

阅读理解

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

For those who make journeys across the world, the speed of travel today has turned the countries into a series of villages．Distances between them appear no greater to a modern traveler than those which once faced men as they walked from village to village. Jet planes fly people from one end of the earth to the other, allowing them a freedom of movement undreamt of a hundred years ago.

Yet some people wonder if the revolution in travel has gone too far. A price has been paid, they say, for the conquest (征服) of time and distance. Travel is something to be enjoyed, not endured .The boat offers leisure and time enough to appreciate the ever-changing sights and sounds of a journey. A journey by train also has a special charm about it. Lakes and forests and wild, open plains sweeping past your carriage window create a grand view in which time and distance mean nothing. On board a plane, however, there is just the blank blue of the sky filling the narrow window of the airplane. The soft lighting, in-flight films and gentle music make up the only world you know, and the hours progress slowly.

Then there is the time spent being “processed” at a modern airport. People are conveyed like robots along walkways; baggage is weighed, tickets produced, examined and produced yet again before the passengers move to another waiting area. Journeys by rail and sea take longer, yes, but the hours devoted to being “processed” at departure and arrival in airports are luckily absent. No wonder, then, that the modern high-speed trains are winning back passengers from the airlines.

Man, however, is now a world traveler and cannot turn his back on the airplane. The working lives of too many people depend upon it; whole new industries have been built around its design and operation. The holiday maker, too, with limited time to spend, patiently endures the busy airports and limited space of the flight to gain those extra hours and even days, relaxing in the sun. speed controls people’s lives; time saved, in work or play, is the important thing—or so we are tolD. Perhaps those first horsemen, riding free across the wild, open plains, were enjoying a better world than the one we know today. They could travel at will, and the clock was not their master.

1.What does the writer try to express in Paragraph 1?

A．Travel by plane has speeded up the growth of villages．

B．The speed of modern travel has made distances relatively short．

C．The freedom of movement has helped people realize their dreams．

D．Man has been fond of traveling rather than staying in one place．

2.How does the writer support the underlined statement in Paragraph 2?

A．By giving instructions．

B．By analyzing cause and effect．

C．By following the order of time．

D．By giving examples．

3.According to Paragraph 3, passengers are turning back to modern high-speed trains because______．

A．they pay less for the tickets

B．they feel safer during the travel

C．they can enjoy higher speed of travel

D．they don’t have to waste time being “processed”

4.What does the last sentence of the passage mean?

A．They could enjoy free and relaxing travel．

B．They needed the clock to tell the time．

C．They preferred traveling on horseback．

D．They could travel with their master．

最近来自加拿大的外教史密斯先生任你们班的口语老师。请你根据提示信息，用英语写一篇短文，介绍这位新老师。

参考词汇：中等身材 be of medium height

要求：l．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

2. 可根据提示适当发挥;

3. 词数：120左右。

阅读理解

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

Due to the increasing number of violence acts produced in schools all over the world, more and more parents prefer to have their children educated at home rather than at school. This way they can assure their safety and well-being, although teachers and school representatives are trying to improve the situation in schools by increasing the number of the persons in charge with the safety of the students.

The main reason for violence acts are the films and cartoons that fill the children’s time. They want to do everything. They watch on TV and never think at the consequences, and they may hurt a classmate or a teacher.

On the other hand, parents are not fully satisfied with the children’s results obtained in classes and they consider private classes would have better results.

When a teacher has to watch 30 students in class he can’t probably see what each of them is doing, how he is writing, or if he understands the explanations. At home the teacher can explain in details everything the child doesn’t understand as many times as he considers proper.

And many times. the child grows fond of the teacher at home, who becomes his best friend, and who helps him whenever he needs someone to talk to.

However, the best solution would be a mixture between the education received at school and that at home, because school makes children communicate and socialize. Keeping a child at home for fear there might happen something bad to him only makes the child’s character weak and prevents him from knowing what real life is. Staying in a crystal ball only does harm to the child.

All in all, schools have been created to help children, not to harm them, so it’s best to keep children in these special places, where they learn, laugh, have fun and make new friends.

1.The writer’s purpose in writing the text is to ______.

A. teach parents the ways to keep theft children safe

B. show solutions to developing children’s character

C. explain the main reason for violence acts in schools

D. analyze an education problem and give opinions

2. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A. Advantages and Disadvantages of Private Classes

B. Who is to Blame. Parents or Schools?

C. Which is Better, School Study or Home Study

D. The Relationship between Teachers and Children

3.Parents prefer to have their children educated at home because the following EXCEPT that

A. More and more violence acts occur in schools

B. Parents want to improve their children's grades

C. Parents are concerned about their children’s safety

D. The education system is far from satisfactory

4.What does“a crystal ball”in the passage refer to?

A. A toy that can be used for entertainment.

B. A safe and comfortable environment.

C. An object that is made of crystal.

D. A setback that is hard to overcome.

5.We call infer from the passage that ______.

A. violence TV programs have bad effects on children’s behavior

B. the teacher at home is more patient than the teacher at school

C. children today are weak from lack of sense of right and wrong

D. there are too many students in class for a teacher to teach

从方框内选择适当的短语并用其正确形式填空（其中有1个词组为多余选项）

1.These theories don’t ___________ English learning.

2.He said his country would continue to work to_____ international peace and security in its new role.

3.Mark tired to ___________ his seat without being noticed, but failed.

4.All Kevin wants to do now is ___________ preparing for the coming exam.

5.Many primary school students took brooms to the streets to ___________ the broken glasses.

6.The girl’s uncle ___________ her father to attend the parents’ meeting yesterday.

7.Increasingly, more sofa manufacturers are ________ the challenge of producing sofas with air leather.

8.If you really attach importance to English, you will always manage to ___________ some time for it.

9.Sometimes it’s very difficult to ___________ the things that one is looking for.

10.All the doctors hope that the new medicine could ___________ to the cancer.

阅读理解

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

A family story is like a puzzle. Each family member leaves some clues. Family members come together because they have a common tie with one another, sharing a name and special traditions. Exploring family roots and sharing past memories ensure each tradition lives on.

Ancestory.com has created customized (订做的) “Our Name is History” books to give your family a look into your history by learning about your last name. By visiting it, you can check if information is available for your last name. Ancestory.com researchers have collected more than 5 billion names from records such as passenger lists, immigration records and from birth, marriage and death records. The collected information is then used for each customized book.

“Our Name is History” books are available for nearly 200,000 last names, accounting form 85 percent of all the US homes. The collected information is a great start of learning about your family roots. This book will not only surprise your mother, but also become a precious memory to pass down through the generations. It can also be an inspiration for her to talk about all the special women in her life. So instead of just giving her flowers or jewelry, give her a special family name book and share your favorite memories with her.

After learning the general history of your last name, your might be inspired to continue your exploration. The “Our Name is History” books include a special software product for building, searching and sharing your family history.

To learn more about “Our Name is History” books, visit www. Ournameinhistory.com. The deadline to order in time for Mother’s Day is April 30.

1. The first paragraph mainly talks about _________.

A. the importance of exploring family root

B. what a family story really is

C. the importance of a family name

D. how to pass down a family’s traditions

2.What does the underlined word “it” refer to in Paragraph 2?

A. The “Our Name is History” book.

B. The website Ancestory.com.

C. The website www. ournameinhistory.com.

D. The family’s last name.

3.The “Our Name is History” books _________.

A. are very cheap compared with flowers or jewelry

B. can tell us where we should look to find out family history

C. cover the last names of all Americans

D. can tell us origins of our last names

4.What will mothers do if they get “Our Name is History” books?

A. They may be inspired to talk about some special women they remember.

B. They will collect information about their family roots.

C. They will learn how great their ancestors are.

D. They will share them with some other families.

5. What’s the purpose of the author in writing this passage?

A. To tell us how to explore family roots.

B. To help family traditions to live on.

C. To advertise “Our Name is History” books.

D. To tell us how to create our own family history.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last Friday, Just before the 66th National Day holiday, I conducted interview with James Watson, a famous American scientist, talk about how to become a successful scientist. On his opinion, to be a scientist, we needed to be very fond of science. What’s most, we have to keep practicing as well as learn from other successful scientist. If we want to be a successful one, besides hard-working, we are supposing to set up for a clear goal as well. James Watson also suggest that every child who is curiously about science should make your effort to realize the dream of becoming a scientist.