I have a neighbour we call Happy. I have never seen her angry at anything and never heard her say a harsh(难听的) word to anyone or about anyone.

Happy and her husband Ben, 70, have a huge garden. They spent many happy hours together working on it. Most of the neighbours watched interestingly as Ben doubled the size of their garden. As the cost of food climbed faster than Ben's beans, we all wished we also had such a large garden. As the rest of us spent our dollars at the market, Happy could be seen picking beans in her backyard.

Last month, Happy and Ben invited most of the neighbourhood over for an “all?day food fest”. We were told to bring gloves and arrive very early in the morning. We didn't know what was about to take place.

By 9：00 am, there were nine of us in the garden picking tomatoes, beans, okra and squash. By 10：00 am, there was lots of laughter. We shared a lot of stories. By 5：00 pm, everyone was a little drunk from the wine and beer. After dinner, we played games. As we were leaving, Happy and Ben handed each of us a shopping bag filled with the bounty(大量给予之物) of the day, already packaged and frozen. What a delightful gift!

Well, the point wasn't so much about the food. The true gift was a day of friends enjoying one another's company. None of it would have happened if it had not been for Happy and Ben's garden. Now they have a blog about gardening in case we decide to plant a garden. And I am so proud of my tomato plants!

1. We can infer that Happy and her husband Ben________．

A. are a generous and warm?hearted couple

B. sometimes quarrel with each other

C. live on the food they grow in their garden

D. don't like spending time with others

2.According to Paragraph 2, people wished they also had a garden so that ________．

A. they didn't have to spend so much money on food

B. they could grow vegetables and sell them at the market

C. they could invite their neighbours and hold parties in it

D. they could spend happy hours together with their families in it

3. For what purpose did Happy and Ben invite the neighbours to their garden?

A. To ask them to attend a birthday party.

B. To help them get to know each other.

C. To ask them to share some interesting stories.

D. To let them enjoy what they grew in the garden.

4.What did the writer most probably think of the time he spent in the garden?

A. It was too long.

B. It was wonderful.

C. It was not as good as he thought.

D. It was too terrible.

LONDON --- A British judge on Thursday sentenced a businessman who sold fake(假冒的) bomb detectors(探测器) to 10 years in prison, saying the man hadn't cared about potentially deadly consequences.

It is believed that James McCormick got about $77.8 million from the sales of his detectors - which were based on a kind of golf ball finder - to countries including Iraq, Belgium and Saudi Arabia.

McCormick, 57, was convicted(判罪) of cheats last month and sentenced Thursday at the Old Bailey court in London.

"Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people," Judge Richard Hone told McCormick. "you have neither regret, nor shame, nor any sense of guilt."

The detectors, sold for up to $42,000 each, were said to be able to find such dangerous objects as bombs under water and from the air. But in fact they "lacked any grounding in science" and were of no use.

McCormick had told the court that he sold his detectors to the police in Kenya, the prison service in Hong Kong, the army in Egypt and the border control in Thailand.

"I never had any bad results from customers," he said.

1. Why was McCormick sentenced to prison?

A. He sold bombs. B. He caused death of people.

C. He made detectors. D. He cheated in business.

2.According to the judge, what McCormick had done _______.

A. increased the cost of safeguarding

B. lowered people's guard against danger

C. changed people's idea of social security

D. caused innocent people to commit crimes

3. Which of the following is true of the detectors?

A. They have not been sold to Africa

B. They have caused many serious problems.

C. They can find dangerous objects in water.

D. They don't function on the basis of science.

4. It can be inferred from the passage that McCormick _______.

A. sold the equipment at a low price

B. was well-known in most countries

C. did not think he had committed the crime

D. had not got such huge profit as mentioned in the text

Below is a selection from a popular science book.

If blood is red, why are veins (静脉) blue?

Actually, veins are not blue at all. They are more of a clear, yellowish color. Although blood looks red when it’s outside the body, when it’s sitting in a vein near the surface of the skin, it’s more of a dark reddish purple color. At the right depth, these blood-filled veins reflect less red light than the surrounding skin, making them look blue by comparison.

Which works harder, your heart or your brain?

That kind of depends on whether you’re busy thinking or busy exercising. Your heart works up to three times harder during exercise, and shifts enough blood over a lifetime to fill a supertanker（超级油轮）. But, in the long run, your brain probably tips it, because even when you’re sitting still your brain is using twice as much energy as your heart, and it takes four to five times as much blood to feed it.

Why do teeth fall out, and why don’t they grow back in grown-ups?

Baby (or “milk”) teeth do not last long; they fall out to make bigger room for bigger, stronger adult teeth later on. Adult teeth fall out when they become damaged, decayed（腐烂）and infected by bacteria. Once this second set of teeth has grown in, you’re done. When they’re gone, they are gone. This is because nature figures you’re set for life, and what controls regrowth of your teeth switches off.

Do old people shrink（收缩）as they age?

Yes and no. Many people do get shorter as they age. But, when they do, it isn’t because they’re shrinking all over. They simply lose height as their spine (脊柱) becomes shorter and more curved due to disuse and the effect of gravity (重力). Many (but not all) men and women do lose height as they get older. Men lose an average of 3-4 cm in height as they age, while women may lose 5 cm or more. If you live to be 200 years old, would you keep shrinking till you were, like 60 cm tall, like a little boy again? No, because old people don’t really shrink! It is not that they are growing backwards—their legs, arms and backbones getting shorter. When they do get shorter, it’s because the spine has shortened a little. Or, more often, become more bent and curved.

Why does spinning make you dizzy?

Because your brain gets confused between what you’re seeing and what you’re feeling. The brain senses that you’re spinning using special gravity-and-motion-sensing organs in your inner ear, which work together with your eyes to keep your vision balance stable. But when you suddenly stop spinning the system goes out of control, and your brain thinks you’re moving while you’re not.

Where do feelings and emotions come from?

Mostly from an ancient part of the brain called the limbic system（边缘系统）. All mammals have this brain area — from mice to dogs, cats, and humans. So all mammals feel basic emotions like fear, pain and pleasure. But since human feelings also involve other, newer bits of the brain, we feel more complex emotions than any other animal on this planet.

If exercise wears you out, how can it be good for you?

1.What is the color of blood in a vein near the surface of the skin?

A. Blue B. Light yellow

C. Red D. Dark reddish purple

2. Why do some old people look a little shrunken as they age?

A. Because their spine is in active use.

B. Because they are more easily affected by gravity.

C. Because they keep growing backwards.

D. Because their spine becomes more bent.

3.Which of the following statements about our brain is true?

A. In the long run, our brain probably works harder than our heart.

B. When our brain senses the spinning, we will feel dizzy.

C. The brains of the other mammals are as complex as those of humans.

D. Our feelings and emotions come from the most developed area in our brain.

4. What is the main purpose of the selection?

A. To give advice on how to stay healthy.

B. To provide information about our body.

C. To challenge new findings in medical research.

D. To report the latest discoveries in medical science.

“Indeed,” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, English had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.

Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, “to install (安装) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others’ conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant “to cheat”, and since the 1940s it has been annoying.

We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering ‘a bug’ in his invented record player.”

1. We learn from Paragraph 1 that ___________.

A. Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug

B. George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug

C. the word bug was still popularly used in English in the nineteenth century

D. both Englishmen and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century

2.What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph probably mean?

A. Explanation. B. Finding. C. Origin. D. Fault.(故障，毛病)

3. The passage is mainly concerned with__________.

A. the misunderstanding of the word bug

B. the development of the word bug

C. the public views of the word bug

D. the special characteristics of the word bug

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。

Health is the most important thing in the world. Nothing is more important than health. If we take away our money, houses, or even our clothes, we can still survive. 1. That is why we always try to eat in a healthy way and exercise regularly.

How can we keep healthy? In order to eat healthily, I usually avoid eating food high in fat, like French fries or cookies, which are junk food. 2. I eat a lot of vegetables and fresh fruits which are full of vitamins.

3. Taking exercise every day helps us build a strong body. Regular exercise is an important part of keeping me healthy.

What’ s more, I think friends are an important part of one’s health. 4. I always feel better when I am with friends than when I am alone. When I am with friends, I always laugh. Laughing is also an important part of health. It’s good to stay with my friends.

By eating properly and exercising regularly, I can keep my mind as well as my body happy. These things sound easy to do, but not many people can manage them. 5.

A. I only eat little meat.

B. On the other hand, doing exercise is very important.

C. Some people appear fat because they often eat too much.

D. I think a strong will is necessary if we want to keep healthy.

E. But if our health is taken away, it is certain that we would die.

F. There are some people who like staying alone, but they keep healthy.

G. Many studies show that people who have a wide range of social contact get sick less than those who don’t.

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The hospital I work in sits on a beautiful mountain. People often have to walk about 40 kilometres in order to see a ___________ .This is why home-based care comes in. A doctor and several nurses travel out to___________ sick people. Before I go out, I often buy some ___________ for the poor people we will meet as some of them might be hungry. I ___________ buy a bag of sweets for the children every time I go out.

One day, I ___________ at an orphanage(孤儿院).Inside I saw a beautiful little girl, Tanzile. I gave her a sweet from my bag with a(n) ___________ and she asked, “Can I have another one?”I gave her another one and ___________ ,“This little darling is so clever—she has taken two for ___________.”But after I asked her some questions, I was ___________ .Tanzile is 7 years old. Two years ago, both of her parents ___________ in a car accident. Her younger sister who was only three then was taken away by a couple. Ever since then, she has ___________ to accept what people give only to her ___________they give her two.

In fact, we found many things that she had been ___________to give to her sister one day.

I said to her, “You must ___________ it if someone gives you food or something else—even if it is only one piece ___________ two—for your own health.”It was so ___________ for me to fight back the tears as she___________ her head. Her hope and ___________ were all that she had. They ___________ more than anything else.

I hope that Tanzile and the other beautiful children like her will ___________ with their brothers and sisters again.

1.A.result B. doctor C. parent D.friend

2.A.help B. surprise C. encourage D. protect

3.A.clothes B. medicine C. food D. water

4.A.hardly B. still C.never D. also

5.A.stopped B. hid C. survived D. danced

6.A.wish B. smile C.plan D. idea

7.A.guessed B. believed C. thought D.imagined

8.A.myself B. yourself C. herself D.themselves

9.A.interested B. pleased C. scared D. surprised

10.A.died B. tried C. fought D. cried

11.A.pretended B. refused C. hoped D. dreamed

12.A.although B. if C. once D. unless

13.A.developing B. choosing C. collecting D. making

14.A.want B. check C. eat D.accept

15.A.more than B. together with C. except for D.instead of

16.A.hard B. sorry C. funny D. strange

17.A.shook B.hit C. touched D. pressed

18.A.honesty B. attitude C.love D. humour

19.A.cared B. mattered C. cost D. earned

20.A.show up B.get along C. get together D. go out

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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(一个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。把正确答案写在答卷上。
One day Mary was busy working in her office in London __1._________ she received an e-mail from her friend Joan. In Joan’s e-mail ,she persuaded Mary 2._________ (look)for a flat in London for her. As she had3._________ (little)money at her command than before, the flat had to be cheap, but it had to be modern, with elevators, gas lines. It had to be in the4._________ (east)part of London, with petrol and subway stations nearby. Though Mary found it difficult to find such a flat, she still went 5._________ (care)from one block(街区)to another, looking for a flat 6._________ would meet(满足) Joan’s requirements. Having tried too many times, Mary met her boss and politely asked him7._________ advice. It was the first time that she 8._________ (talk)with his boss about her personal problems. It happened that the boss just had such a flat for rent, so they quickly reached 9._________ agreement(协议). But to her surprise ,when she e-mailed Joan, telling her the good news, Joan said that she had changed10._________ mind—she was not returning to London.

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When the accident was happened, I was standing near a bus stop. There I saw an old lady waiting a bus with her umbrella. The bus soon arrived. There were too many passengers hurried to get on it that the old lady couldn’t get on. A driver closed the door without looking careful and drove away. Unluckily, the old lady’s umbrella was caught by the door. He shouted to the driver but he didn’t hear. The bus pulled her along the road. Finally, she fall to the ground. Several minutes late, the ambulance came and took her to hospital. I thought it was the driver should be responsible for the accident.

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五一小长假即将开始，请根据提示写一篇英语短文，谈谈你打算如何安排你的假期生 活。内容要点应包括：

*和同学一起野餐；*反思半学期以来的高中生活，确定新的学习目标，改进学习方

*补习弱科；*帮助家长做家务活。注意：

①短文的内容要连贯、完整。

②短文单词数:120—150词。

③参考词汇：去野餐go for a picnic反思reflect on学习方法studying method

④首句已经给出，不计入总词数。

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At thirteen, I was diagnosed（诊断）with kind of attention disorder. It made school difficult for me. When everyone else in the class was focusing on tasks, I could not.

In my first literature class, Mrs. Smith asked us to read a story and then write on it, all within 45 minutes. I raised my hand right away and said, “Mrs. Smith, you see, the doctor said I have attention problems. I might not be able to do it.”

She glanced down at me through her glasses, “you are no different from your classmates, young man.”

I tried, but I didn’t finish the reading when the bell rang. I had to take it home.

In the quietness of my bedroom, the story suddenly all became clear to me. It was about a blind person, Louis Braille. He lived in a time when the blind couldn’t get much education. But Louis didn’t give up. Instead, he invented a reading system of raised dots (点), which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.

Wasn’t I the “blind” in my class, being made to learn like the “sighted” students? My thoughts spilled out and my pen started to dance. I completed the task within 40 minutes. Indeed, I was no different from others; I just needed a quieter place. If Louis could find his way out of his problems, why should I ever give up?

I didn’t expect anything when I handed in my paper to Mrs. Smith, so it was quite a surprise when it came back to me the next day with an “A” on it. At the bottom of the paper were these words: “ See what you can do when you keep trying?”

1.The author didn’t finish the reading in class because .

A．He was new to the class

B．He was tired of literature

C．He had an attention disorder

D．He wanted to take the task home

2.What do we know about Louis Braille from the passage?

A．He made a great invention.

B．He had good sight.

C．He gave up reading.

D．He learned a lot from school.

3.What was Mrs. Smith’s attitude to the author at the end of the story?

A．Angry. B．Impatient.

C．Sympathetic. D．Encouraging.

4.What is the main idea of the passage?

A．The disabled should be treated with respect.

B．A teacher can open up a new world to students.

C．Everyone needs a hand when faced with challenges.

D．One can find his way out of difficulties with efforts.