【题目】My mother loves flowers. As soon as warm weather comes around, you will find her planting, watering and weeding over everything .For many years we lived next door to each other, and she spent as much time in my garden as she did her own. After the flowers became plentiful each summer, she would cut colorful bouquets(花束)to enjoy inside the house—both hers and mine . I would often come home from work and find a beautiful arrangement(布置)of fresh flowers on my coffee table.

Shortly before Christmas one year, a local flower shop offered a bouquet-a-month special. It seemed to be a great way to thank her for all of the flowers she had given me through the years.

After the holidays, in early January, I drove her to the flower shop to pick up her first month’s bouquet. the small fresh colorful bouquet would hardly fill a small vase(花瓶).

I was so embarrassed(尴尬的).However, after we returned home, she began to arrange the flowers she had received.“Mom, I’m sorry, ”I told her.“I can’t believe how skimpy that bouquet is.”She looked at me and smiled.“It’s okay,”she said“It allows me to better enjoy the beauty of each one.”

Mom’s words helped me to realize something bigger and more important—when we have too many good things, we often fail to enjoy the beauty of each one.

Thanks, Mom ,for helping me understand that less is sometimes more.

【1】According to paragraph 1 ,which of the following is TRUE?

A. The author’s mother put fresh flowers on the author’s coffee table.

B. The author used to buy some fresh flowers on her way home.

C. The author’s mother usually bought flowers for her daughter.

D. The author and her mother shared a beautiful garden.

【2】The author bought her mother flowers to_______.

A. celebrate the coming Christmas

B. express thanks for all her mother’s done

C. bring more flowers to her mother’s garden

D. arrange her mother’s new house

【3】The underlined word“skimpy”in Paragraph 4 means_______.

A. beautiful B. colorful C. cheap D. small

【4】What did the author learn from her mother?

A. How to grow flowers.

B. How to arrange flowers

C. Enjoying life if possible

D. Considering things in other ways.

【题目】Above one third of the population in Beijing and Shanghai __________ netizens, but in poor areas, only three or four percent __________ online.

A. is; is B. are; are

C. is; are D. are; is

【题目】假定你是李华，你所在的学校拟在下个月举办美国电影节(American Film Festival)。请你根据以下要点给你的美国朋友Peter写一封短信，邀请他给学生做一次讲座。信的主要内容包括：

1．讲座目的：使学生对美国电影有所了解；

2．讲座内容：简要介绍美国电影(制片)业的历史；

3．讲座时间：1小时30分钟左右。

注意：

1．可以适当增加细节，使结构完整；

2．词数：100左右。

Dear Peter，

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Yours，

Li Hua

【题目】第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

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，每句中最多有两赴，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（八），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限一词。

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last Monday, we were having our Chinese class while the teacher suddenly slip and fell. We were all worried about her. One of the boy carried her on the back, under the help of some others, to the clinic immediately. It turned out that her right leg was breaking and she had to stay in hospital. The following day, we went to visit her with flowers and fruit. Seeing her laying in bed with leg wrapped in bandages, we felt sorry for her and hoped that she would recover soon. Lucky enough, this Thursday she returned back to the class in a wheelchair to give us lessons. We were both deeply moved and proud of having such a responsible teacher.

【题目】【原创】How to Make Friends at School

Humans are social beings who thrive(兴旺) on feeling accepted by other people. This is not different for kids or adults. 【1】 There are so many cliques in school. So, what happens when a child is too shy to find a group of friends? 【2】

Build up confidence. Focus on what you are confident about, whether it would be math, science,track, or chess.Are there any clubs at school associated with these interests?

【3】 .People love to talk some questions about themselves. Just listen and remember points that they make, so you can bring them up at a later time.

Use friendly gestures. Try smiling and laughing a bit when talking to others. This will help loosen you up and make you feel more relaxed.

Give it time. As social skills start to develop in the early pre-teen years, you will find it easier to communicate with others. It will take its natural course.

Be picky (挑剔的). Don't make friends with the wrong group of people. You do not want to get mixed up with kids who like to gossip about others or put others down just to fit in.

Befriend another shy person. There is strength in numbers. 【4】

Be yourself. Trying to be just like someone else is hard work, especially if you are shy. Making friends is not about mimicking(模仿)to fit in, You want friends who like you just the way you are.

The whole point to helping your teens overcome shyness is that she will enjoy social situations much better and learn to relax and have fun. 【5】 She won't always have parents to counsel her, so take the time to do it while you can.

A. Ask questions.

B. It does not matter so much what clique they are associated with.

C. Why not make friend.s and the two of you can support each other?

D. It also builds the confidence she will need throughout her entire life.

E.You may ask what characteristics determine who will be accepted into a clique or not.

F.Here are some tips to help your teens develop confidence and make friends at school.

G.But, there is no doubt that the need to feel accepted is hardest during the adolescent

【题目】Are you facing a situation that looks impossible to fix?

In 1969, the pollution was terrible along the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio. It 【1】 (be) unimaginable that it could ever be cleaned up. The river was so polluted that it 【2】 (actual) caught fire and burned. Now, years later, this river is one of 【3】 most outstanding examples of environmental cleanup.

【4】 the river wasn’t changed in a few days or even a few months. It took years of work 【5】 (reduce) the industrial pollution and clean the water. Finally, that hard work paid off and now the water in the river is 【6】 (clean) than ever.

Maybe you are facing an impossible situation. Maybe you have a habit 【7】 is driving your family crazy. Possibly you drink too much or don’t know how to control your credit card use. When you face such an impossible situation, don’t you want a quick fix and something to change immediately?

While there are 【8】 (amaze) stories of instant transformation, for most of us the【9】 (change) are gradual and require a lot of effort and work, like cleaning up a polluted river. Just be【10】 (patience).

【题目】Healthy eating as well as regular exercise __________ a good way to keep healthy.

A. is B. was

C. are D. were

【题目】For second degree burns ,keep cloths cool by putting them back in a basin of cold water, 【1】 and placing them on the burned area 【2】 for about an hour until the pain is not so bad .Cover the burned area with a dry, clean bandage that will not stick to the skin . Hold the bandage 【3】 with tape.

My first assignment was as a(an) 【4】 to a famous fashion editor, who was going to take a photos of a model by the name of WangLi .I was【5】 as I was to assist him .We hadn’t gone far when our 【6】 called……She explained that as an 【7】 she expected all the photographs to 【8】 her before the deadline. My colleague 【9】 the situation and announced that as this was【10】 he would have to refer the matter to his editor .

【题目】One day, Amy is digging in the ground for a potato when along comes Tom. Seeing that there is no one in sight, Tom starts to scream. Tom’s angry mother rushes over and drives Amy away. Once his mum has gone, Tom helps himself to Amy’s potato.

We’ve all experienced similar annoying tricks when we were young—the brother who stole your ball and then got you into trouble by telling your parents you had hit him. But Amy and Tom are not humans. They’re African baboons(狒狒). __【1】___

Tom’s scream and his mother’s attack on Amy could have been a matter of chance, but Tom was later seen playing the same tricks on others. __【2】__

Studying behavior like this is complicated but scientists discovered apes(猿) clearly showed that they intended to cheat and knew when they themselves had been cheated. _【3】___ An ape was annoying him, so he tricked her into going away by pretending he had seen something interesting. When she found nothing, she “walked back, hit me over the head with her hand and ignored me for the rest of the day.”

Another way to decide whether an animal’s behavior is deliberate is to look for actions that are not normal for that animal. A zoo worker describes how an ape dealt with an enemy. “He slowly stole up behind the other ape, walking on tiptoe. When he got close to his enemy, he pushed him violently in the back, then ran indoors.” Wild apes do not normally walk on tiptoe. ___【4】___ But looking at the many cases of deliberate trickery in apes, it is impossible to explain them all as simple copying.

It seems that trickery does play an important part in ape societies. _【5】___ Studying the intelligence of our closest relative could be the way to understand the development of human intelligence.

A. An amusing example of this comes from a psychologist working in Tanzania.

B. And playing tricks is as much a part of monkey behavior as it is of human behavior.

C. So the psychologists asked his colleagues if they had noticed this kind of trickery.

D. Of course it’s possible that it could have learnt from humans that such behavior works, without understanding why.

E. This use of a third individual to achieve a goal is only one of the many tricks commonly

used by baboons.

F. The ability of animals to cheat may be a better measure of their intelligence than their use

of tools.

G. In most cases the animal probably doesn’t know it is cheating.

【题目】Either you or one of your students __________ to attend the meeting that is due tomorrow

A. are B. is

C. have D. be