根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Books can be your best friends. 1. . They can introduce you the things you may never see... But do you know how to read them in order to get the fullest enjoyment possible? The following tips should help.

1. Find a book. Look in the library or in one of the large bookstores. You could also ask friends if you could have a book at their book shelves. Search the selves until you find a book that looks good. Read the first page to see how it reads, and the cover text on the back of the book, if it has any. 2.

2. Buy or borrow it and take it home. Do not start to read it until you have the time. 3. And set aside time to do nothing else but read, as it can be, at times, suspenseful(悬疑的), exciting and relaxing.

3. Get comfortable on the couch. Have a lamp behind you, lighting the area where you are reading. Make sure the television is off and that anything else that could distract you has been attended to. 4.

4. Start the book by turning the pages and really enjoy it. Do not think about anything else but what you are reading. Put yourself into the action or location in the story. Once you concentrate completely, it will be difficult to put the book down. And remember that reading is not running your eyes over a book. 5. However, if you need to read the book quickly, then you do not need to pay attention to every word.

A. Otherwise, you will miss it.

B. Try to imagine the story in your head.

C. You should read it actively and enjoy it completely.

D. They can take you to places that you may never go.

E. If you are already concentrating, then buy it or borrow it.

F. Get warm if you are going to be sitting still for a few hours.

G. If you are busy doing other things, you should wait until you have finished them.

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。

It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small house I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey _________the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in _________ clothes and thin little sandals(凉鞋), staying together at the door on the top step.

“Any old _________， lady?” asked one of them.

I was _________ . I wanted to say “no” until my eye _________their sandals, which were wet with heavy snow.

“ _________and I’ll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”

They walked _________ and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks on the _________ . I served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight _________ the freezing cold outside. _________ I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget for Thanksgiving Day.

The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a _________ voice，“Lady, are you _________ ?” “Am I rich? Pity. No!”

I looked at my old sofa covers. The girl put her cup back in its saucer(托盘) _________ and said, “Your cups match your saucers.” Her voice was flat with a need that no amount of food could supply. They left after that， _________ their papers against the wind. They hadn’t said “Thank you.” They didn’t need to. They had _________ me that I had so much to be grateful for. Plain blue China cups and saucers were _________worth five pence. But they matched.

I tasted the potatoes and the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a good and steady job—these _________，too.

I moved the chairs back from the fire and _________ the living room. The muddy(沾上泥的) _________ of small sandals were still wet on my floor. Let them remain for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to _________ how rich I am.

1.A. beforeB. whileC. asD. when

2.A. raggedB. strangeC. ordinaryD. smart

3.A. clothesB. papersC. cupsD. shoes

4.A. sadB. nervousC. busyD. pleased

5.A. fell onB. came atC. went throughD. got into

6.A. Come overB. Come backC. Come outD. Come in

7.A. overB. outC. onD. off

8.A. doorB. floorC. groundD. wall

9.A. aboutB. againstC. forD. in

10.A. ThusB. ButC. ThenD. So

11.A. curiousB. carefulC. hopefulD. silent

12.A. helpfulB. kindC. richD. healthy

13.A. carefullyB. pleasantlyC. deeplyD. coldly

14.A. turningB. handingC. pushingD. holding

15.A. remindedB. promisedC. persuadedD. told

16.A. reallyB. evenC. wellD. only

17.A. matchedB. workedC. mixedD. agreed

18.A. decoratedB. equippedC. emptiedD. cleaned

19.A. linesB. marksC. signalsD. steps

20.A. realizeB. doubtC. forgetD. prove

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Everyone needs good friends, because friendship is ___1.____ important relationship for human beings. Good friendship has many benefits, and they can make us open-minded and caring. Our friends will _____2._______(comfortable) us when we are in need. __3.___, it is not easy for us to make good friends. So, ____4._______ should we do to deal with it? First, we should communicate with others bravely, which will make us__5.________(know) by others. Second, the best friendships are the ones that grow naturally, so we should spare time to keep in touch ______6._____ our friends. ____7.____(final), allowing the friends to be themselves is the best way ____8.______(enjoy) the friendship. In__9.___ opinion, making good friends is not difficult for us, only if we go on ___10._______ (step) towards it.

短文改错

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。作文中共有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：在缺词处加一个漏子符号（∧）并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：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。

When asking about happiness, we often think of something unusual, that seems to be hard to get as we grow older. Sometimes, the more we can enjoy what we have, the happy we are. It’s easy to overlook the pleasure we get from the company of friend, the freedom to live in where we please, and even good health. So happiness isn’t about something that happens to us, it’s about how we see it in the reasonable way. Generally speaking, we were willing to hold a positive attitude towards things around us, and we should not look forward what we don’t have, but enjoy what they do have.

书面表达

假定你是李华，你的笔友Jane 最近总是感觉身体不适，因此写信向你询问如何保持健康。请你根据以下要点提示给她回信。

要点提示：1.合理饮食；2. 锻炼身体；3. 保证充足睡眠，不要熬夜。

注意：1. 词数不少于120个（信的开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）；

2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Jane,

I’m sorry to hear that you are not very well these days.

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Best wishes.

Yours sincerely.

Lihua

He met her at a party. She was outstanding while he was so normal. After the party, he invited her for coffee. She was surprised but being polite, she agreed.

As they sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything and she felt uncomfortable. Suddenly, he asked the waiter, “Could you please give me some salt? I’d like to put it in my coffee. ” Everyone stared at him. He turned red, but when the salt came, he put it in his coffee and drank. Curious, she asked, “Why salt with coffee? ” He explained, “ When I was a little boy, I lived near the sea. I liked playing on the sea. I could feel the taste of sea, just like this salty coffee. ”

That was a really nice talk, also a good beginning of their story. They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who met all her demands. Then the story was just like every beautiful love story: they got married and lived a happy life.

After 40 years, he passed away and left her a letter which said: My dearest, please forgive my life-long lie. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous that I asked for salt instead of sugar. It was hard for me to ask for a change, so I just went ahead. I never thought that could be the start of our conversation. I tried to tell you the truth, but I was afraid that it would ruin everything. I don’t like the salty coffee. But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life just because I love you!

Her tears made the letter totally wet. Someday, someone asked her, “What’s the taste of salty coffee?” She replied, “It’s sweet.”

1.She accepted his invitation after the party because ________.

A. she was pretty B. he met all her demands

C. he was humorous D. she was well-mannered

2.How do you understand the last paragraph?

A. The taste of salty coffee is special.

B. Her husband’s love to her is sweet.

C. Her memory about her life is great.

D. She is used to the taste of the salty coffee.

3.The best title for this passage is ________.

A. The Great Love B. The Salty Coffee

C. A Special Dating D. A Lifelong Lie

Not only fashion and music are making a return—houses built in 1970s have proven to be better at cutting energy waste than those built today. The “tea cosy (茶壶套)” design, created in the mid-1970s and built in the early 1980s for low-income people, could provide a blueprint for meeting the Government aims of producing less CO2 from homes.

The 200 houses were designed to provide low-energy housing, and depend on an inner concrete (水泥) structure that holds in heat, protected by highly insulated (隔热的) setting which produces a “tea cosy” effect. The ordinary-looking houses also depend on more windows on south-facing sides, with northerly facing doors protected by porches (门廊).

A study found the houses are 50 percent more energy efficient than the average home and use a quarter of the average energy for space heating. According to researchers, they use less than two-thirds of the power of homes built to meet 2010 building demands. And they will still be 25 percent more efficient than houses built to even more strict proposed demands for 2013. The design is one of the few that will be able to meet 2016 demands for zero-carbon homes.

They were in the beginning fixed with just one or two gas heaters per home, although most now have central heating, depending on the heat from the sun and high insulation to keep steady temperatures inside the house. To be comfortable, they only need to use heating for three to four months a year, compared with seven months for UK home on average, and can be lived with no heating at all.

With many house builders at present worrying that new homes are going to be much more expensive to build in order to meet the Government’s ambitious targets, the“tea cosy”model meets this need perfectly.

1.The underlined word“blueprint”is closest in meaning to _________.

A. photo B. model C. service D. map

2.The writer develops Paragraph 3 mainly by_________.

A. analyzing data

B. giving examples

C. presenting reasons

D. making comparisons

3.According to the passage, “tea cosy” houses are better at __________.

A. saving heat for energy efficiency

B. producing solar energy at home

C. designing and building materials

D. saving building materials and energy

One of the Queen’s closest relatives and oldest friends was allowed to give a deep description into the family life of the Royals. Although there have been hundreds of other books declaring to offer a quick look behind the Palace doors, this is the first written by someone who is closely related to the Royal Family and has shared their lives—not only throughout the Queen’s reign (统治) but also through that of her father, King George VI.

The Final Curtsey was written by her Majesty’s cousin and childhood playmate the Honorable Margaret Rhodes. It tells in details the story of Mrs. Rhodes’s relationship with the Royal family over eight decades. The book, with delightfully informal and never-before-seen pictures, has been written with the full knowledge of the Queen, who has read and approved parts of it.

Born in 1925, the Honorable Margaret Rhodes has led an extraordinary life. She was the childhood playmate of her cousin, the Queen; a wartime M16 spy; and she was a lady-in- waiting (宫女) to her aunt, the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, from 1991 until the latter’s death in 2002. At the Queen’s 80th birthday in April 2006, Margaret gave an interview to the BBC which she proved that, in her own opinion and despite several false reports, the Queen would not abdicate(退位).

In this charming autobiography (自传)，she told how she was offered a house to live in the Royal farm in Windsor Great Park unexpectedly. One day when she and the Queen were out riding outside, she suddenly returned and said, “Could you bear to live in the suburb?” “I think it should be OK.” Therefore Mrs. Rhodes is now still living there.

1.Compared with other books about the Royal Family, the biggest advantage of The Final Curtsey is that _______.

A. its author is very famous

B. its author knows the Queen well

C. it presents reader a very different Queen

D. it has pictures that have never been seen

2.When Mrs. Rhodes was offered to live in the Royal farm, she was _______.

A. unhappy B. surprised

C. sad D. disappointed

3.We can learn from Paragraph 3 that Mrs. Rhodes ________.

A. has lived quite a long life

B. was so famous that BBC interviewed her

C. has a close relationship with the royal family

D. has been very busy and kept on changing jobs

4.The passage is mainly about________.

A. a book about royal family

B. the Queen’s life

C. the life of Margaret Rhodes

D. the Queen’s abdication

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项是多余选项。

Are you addicted to computer games? Do you stay up all night playing them? 1. But should we worry about their effects on our health?

Choices are various when it comes to gaming: 2. And there are shooting games where you can let out your anger and frustration in violent situations where you kill people with guns.

3. Popular games like Grand Theft Auto have been blamed for everything from falling results at school to provoking(激起) acts of extreme violence. Internet safety advisor, Alan MacKenzie, thinks “many people understandably will just think that a game is just a game and not realising the obvious content that’s in there”.

4. There is evidence that playing video games could actually be good for us. Studies have also shown that the skills used in playing games can cause growth in certain areas of the brain, the ability to think in 3D and even improve our eyesight.

Video gamers are also no longer just creatures playing alone. For some, gaming is having a positive effect on their social lives with games like Halo often being played in groups. 5. So it seems today, gaming, if used in moderation(有节制地), we can all take part.

A. Can these kinds of games really be fun and can being absorbed in virtual reality be good for us?

B. When your group works together to win the game, your sense of achievement is higher than when winning by yourself.

C. There’s no doubt that the excitement and sophistication of games these days makes them hard to put down.

D. It is widely accepted that playing games does harm to growing teens.

E. You can role play – creating your own fantasy characters and stories, giving you a chance to step out of everyday life into an imaginary world.

F. You might play games so as to get rid of the might academic pressure.

G. Others will argue that gaming is a harmless form of entertainment.

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，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。

This spring, he has become the new poster boy. Thanks to the _________ popular South Korean TV series _________ Descendants of the Sun, the _________ of its male lead, known as “Song Joong-ki Syndrome (综合症)”, has swept _________ Asia.

Song, 31, _________ the handsome Captain, the leader of a peacekeeping unit because of military _________ . The captain has to make life-or-death decisions, _________ he is falling in love with a doctor.

It is the actor’s first role after his two-year mandatory (义务的)military _________. “It did prepare me for the role _________ an army officer,” Song said. Despite his _________ success in the character, some who know him for long have doubted _________ he is macho (有男子气概的) enough or not. But Song has already proven everything. Insisting on shooting his own stunts (特技), the actor broke his right wrist and got a _________ knee injury that took at least eight weeks to _________ from. Surprisingly, Song went back and started _________ non-fighting scenes soon.

He was shy and didn’t feel at ease in front of cameras. So he created a friendly filming environment by _________ remembering the names of all the staff (员工). Therefore, his _________ was reduced. He was once a short-track speed skater. Unfortunately, a serious injury _________ Song to give up his dream of being a /an_________ athlete.

Like his skater dream ended in failure, many stars can’t escape their_________ popularity. “If now is the peak of my career, I must find something else and climb to the peak again,” he told the website. “I want to be an actor who can quickly_________ his feet after a fall.”

1.A. wildly B. widely C. specially D. simply

2.A. naming B. being named C. named D. having named

3.A. admiration B. support C. Popularity D. respect

4.A. through B. over C. on D. across

5.A. performs B. experiences C. plays D. develop

6.A. conflicts B. work C. action D. movement

7.A. even then B. as if C. even though D. as though

8.A. service B. guidance C. order D. fighting

9.A. like B. as C. for D. with

10.A. current B. constant C. tight D. earlier

11.A. that B. if C. whether D. why

12.A. sour B. mild C. severe D. wild

13.A. recover B. suffer C. tolerate D. protect

14.A. shooting B. playing C. acting D. showing

15.A. surprisingly B. delightedly C. eagerly D. deliberately

16.A. anxiety B. fear C. pessimism D. confusion

17.A. refused B. made C. forced D. let

18.A. amateur B. senior C. educational D. professional

19.A. Falling B. failing C. fading D. flying

20.A. get along with B. get back on C. get close to D. get down to