No matter where you are, all big cities around the world have traffic jams these days. But although they all have their problems, many cities also have a type of transport that has become a cultural icon (文化标识)．

In London to avoid the traffic above ground, people use the “underground”，also called the “tube”. The city has the oldest and most complicated underground railway system in the world and is the pride of many Londoners. With 12 lines and 275 stations across the city, the tube, is normally the quickest and easiest way of getting around London. In London, you are never far from a tube station.

New York is famous for its yellow cabs. They serve as a quick and easy way of getting across Manhattan, where the subway doesn't take you everywhere. Stopping a cab is easy; just stick out your arm like you do in any city. But，with over 12,000 yellow cabs in the Big Apple, they also cause traffic jams.

Since 1873 when the first cable car started public service, the slow and noisy vehicle has been a symbol of San Francisco. Although once damaged by a serious earthquake and challenged (挑战) by cars, it is never caught in traffic jams and provides better views than the subway.

But there are no such symbols in Los Angeles. If you visit you'd better rent a car. The city's public transportation is terrible. It can take hours to get across town by bus. The subway covers just a small part of the city center. The light rail line only runs between the Long Beach hotel area and the city center. That's why Angelenos love their private cars more than any other people in the world.

【1】If you have a chance to London and want to avoid the traffic jams, you'd better ________.

A. ride vehicle B. take a taxi

C. use underground D. rent a car

【2】People in Los Angeles like their private cars because of the following EXCEPT that ________.

A. the public transportation is terrible

B. it is not expensive to take a private car

C. the underground railway covers a small part of the city center

D. people have to spend hours getting across the Los Angeles by bus

【3】The passage mainly tells us ________.

A. how big cities in the foreign countries keep on moving

B. how people in the city avoid the traffic jams

C. why London has the oldest and complicated subway

D. why people call New York the Big Apple

A. were invited B. was invited

C. have been invited D. has been invited

Suppose you will go blind 3 days later? How would you spend those 3 precious days? What would you see before going into darkness forever?

I should want 【1】 (much) to see the things which have become dear to me through my years of darkness. I should want to see the people whose 【2】 (kind) and company have made my life worth 【3】 (live). First I should like to stare long【4】 the face of my teacher, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, who came to me when I was a child and 【5】 (open) the outer world to me. I should want not merely to see the outline of her face, so that I could cherish 【6】 in my memory, but to study that face and from it find the evidence of the love and patience with 【7】 she accomplished the difficult task of my education. I should like to see in her eyes that strength of character which has enabled her to act 【8】 (brave) in the face of difficulties, and that sympathy for all humankind 【9】 (show) to me so often.

Oh, those things above would be the things that I should see if I 【10】 (have) the power of sight for just 3 days!

【1】Alice gets to school _______ am.

A. at 8:15 B. at 7:45 C. at 7:40

【2】What does Alice often do on Sundays

She often ________.

A. has dinner with me B. goes to the restaurant C. comes to see me

【3】Which of the following is NOT true

A. Alice lives in China now.

B. Alice likes Coke best.

C. Alice gets home at 5:00 in the afternoon.

【写作内容】

几天前，学校领导和教师因为担心同学们浏览不健康的网站，关闭了教室内的网络浏览功能，你们感到很难过。你想劝校长重新开通教室内的网络。原因如下：

1．有利于查找资料；

2．浏览新闻,了解信息；

3．作为高中生，我们正在形成自己的判断能力（judging ability）

【写作要求】

1.信的开头和结尾已给出；

2.可以适当增加细节，使内容连贯；

3.100词左右。

Dear headmaster，

I am writing to you to apply to reopen the Internet in the classroom.________________________________

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Best regards！

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

A. would stay B. has stayed

C. stayed D. stay

Having bad feeling about world? “Cheer up.” says science writer Matt Ridley. “The world has never been a better place to live in, and it will keep on getting better both for humans and for nature.” 【1】

1 ) 【2】

It is reported that there are more than ten billion different products for sale in London alone. Even allowing for the many people who still live in poverty, our own generation has access to more nutritious food, more convenient transport, bigger houses, and better cars. 【3】 This will continue as long as we use these things to make other things. The more we specialize and exchange, the better off we'll be.

2)Brilliant advances

One reason we are richer, healthier, taller, cleverer, longer lived and freer than ever before is that the four most basic human needs—food, clothing, fuel and shelter—have grown a lot cheaper. Take one example. In 1800 a candle providing one hour's light cost six hours' work. In the 1880s the same light from an oil lamp took 15 minutes' work to pay for. 【4】 Today it's half second.

3 )Let's not kill ourselves for climate change

【5】 A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village, where the use of fossil-fuel (化石燃料) electricity is forbidden by well-meaning members of green political movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that dies in a flood caused by climate change. If climate change proves to be mild, but cutting carbon causes real pain, we may well find that we have stopped a nose-bleed by putting a tourniquet (止血带) around our necks.

A. Ridley calls himself a rational optimist—rational, because he's carefully weighed the evidence.

B. Overreaction to climate change could prove just as damaging to human welfare as climate change itself.

C. Shopping fuels invention.

D. And, of course, we earn more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us.

E. In 1950 it was eight seconds.

F. It’s high time that we took immediate action to fight climate change.

G. Here's how he explains his views.

New Year’s Day is also important in Thailand. Brown eggs are boiled and then cooked in soy sauce, sugar, fish sauce and five spices. These eggs represent good life in the coming year. The Thai will also eat special egg rolls, dipped in namplaprig, a sweet and sour sauce. Decorations for the New Year include fruit like bananas, coconuts, pineapples and papayas.

Songkran is a three-day water festival that comes in April. For this holiday, people douse each other and everything they have with water in thanks for rain and in the hope of good luck. April is the hottest month in Thailand, so this festival is refreshing and fun. The celebrations also include a big dinner, at which curries, usually yellow ones, and long noodles are eaten. These noodles symbolize long life.

Loy Krathong is a November holiday that involves making bamboo boats and putting lighted candles into them. As these little boats float down the river, they are supposed to carry away sin and pay honor to the spitits of the water. After watching the boats, people eat a large meal that includes grilled chicken, fish, coconut and egg yolks. No matter what they are celebrating, Thai holidays always include family and good food.

【1】What would be the best title for this passage?

A. Songkran and Loy Krathong in the coming Year.

B. How the King Celebtates His Birthday

C. Special Acitivities on Holidays

D. Festivals in Thailand

【2】What can be seen on King’s Birthday?

A. Roasted pig’s head and grilled chicken

B. Long noodles served with dipping sauce

C. Towns decorated with colored lights.

D. Dinner tables filled with traditional eggs.

【3】What do brown eggs stand for?

A. Long life. B. A good life in the coming year.

C. Bad deeds carried away. D. Decorated tables with kinds of fruit.

【4】People douse(泼水) each other with water during_______.

A. Songkran B. Loy Krathong

C. King’s Birthday D. New Year’s Day

【5】When do people make small bamboo boats with lighted candles inside them?

A. In April B. In November

C. On the King’s birthday. D. After people enjoy a large meal.

Li Jiang，a high school student，is invited to vote in the “Best Police Officer” competition，organized by the local government to let the public have a better understanding of police officers' daily work.Li Jiang visits the website and reads all the stories.He is deeply moved by their glorious deeds.He is already thinking of becoming a policeman himself in the future.

Su Hua is invited by his uncle to vote for his cousin in the “Future Singer” competition.He has already received three similar invitations this week.His uncle tells him that if his cousin wins the competition，the family will win an overseas tour for free.Su Hua likes his cousin very much，but he finds other singers perform even better.To vote，or not to vote? This is a question that troubles him very much.

【写作内容】

1．用约30个单词写出上文概要；

2．用约120个单词阐述你对网络投票的看法，并用2～3个理由或论据支撑你的看法。

【写作要求】

1．写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；

2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3．不必写标题。

【评分标准】

内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

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Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.

Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.

For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!

【1】The writer of this passage must be ______________.

A. an American B. a Chinese

C. a professor D. a student

【2】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.

B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.

C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.

D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.

【3】From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be ______________.

A. warmly welcomed at the airport B. offered a ride to his home

C. treated hospitably at his home D. treated to dinner in a restaurant

【4】The underlined words “generous with our time” in Paragraph 3 probably mean __.

A. strict with time B. serious with time

C. careful with time D. willing to spend time

【5】This passage is mainly talking about “______________”.

A. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships

B. Americans’ hospitality

C. Friendships between Americans

D. Friendships between Chinese