【1】Why did the son come back late?

A. He hurt his hands and knees.

B. He went to a pub with Linda.

C. He waited a long time for the bus.

【2】What was the old lady doing in the middle of the road?

A. Looking for something. B. Struggling to sand up. C. Trying to seek help.

【3】What happened to Linda?

A. She was fired. B. She got injured. C. She had an accident.

【4】Where was the witness?

A. Outside the pub. B. At a bus stop. C. In his car.

If sports are something that appeals to you, it stands to reason that you would do well in them. Here are some tips that can help you become a good player.

Set ambitious but realistic goals. If you want to be great at sports, you need to set your aims high. 【1】Instead, you should take a look at what you are, and figure out where you think you would like to be. Give yourself a suitable amount of time to achieve that goal.

Be patient.【2】Impatient athletes tend to make poor ones. If you're not patient, you'll try to jump into advanced techniques long before you're ready. You'll feel discouraged when you don't see immediate improvement.

Join a sports team. Most of the sports teams are free to join. If you go to school, you should go for team tryouts when they're happening.【3】

Accept criticism（批评）.When you play sports, you will unavoidably receive criticism, whether from a coach or other players.【4】Are they angry because you missed a pass, or do they sincerely want to help you improve? In a lot of cases, you can use criticism as motivation to get better.

【5】 A skill become mastered when you’re able to do it without thinking. Given enough time and practice, a skill will eventually fall under this category. When in a game, you won't have time to think everything through, so practice until it's all automatic.

A. You also need to be clear about what you are good at.

B. Practice until your skills become second nature.

C. If you're not in school, you can find a sports club online.

D. This does not mean being unrealistic.

E. Skills are often slow to build.

F. You need to take most of it with a grain of salt.

G. An important reason people join sports teams is to make friends.

【题目】假如你是李华。你看到美国留学生Sharon在网上发贴，希望有人能帮助她提高普通话(Mandarin)水平，她可以教英语作为回报。请根据以下提示用英语给她写一封电子邮件。
1）表达给她提供帮助的意愿；
2）说明你能胜任辅导的理由；
3）给出讲好普通话的两点建议；
4）提出你学习英语的具体需求。
注意：
1）词数100左右，开头语已为你写好；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
Hi Sharon,
This is Li Hua. I learned from your post that you want to improve your Mandarin. ……
Yours,
Li Hua

1、祝贺他获奖； 2、肯定他付出的努力； 3、询问何时方便，在网上切磋棋艺。

注意： 1. 字数 100 词左右。 2. 可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

3. 开头和结尾已为你写好，但不计入总词数。

Dear Smith,

I am writing to offer my sincere congratulations to you on your winning the first prize in the Chinese Chess Network Challenge.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

【题目】短文填空
I remember the occasion when mother sent me to the main road, about twenty yards away from our house, to invite a passing group of seasonal work－seekers for a meal. She(instruct) me to take a basket along and collect dry cow dung(牛粪) for making a fire. I was then to prepare the meal for the group of work－seekers.
thought of making an open fire outside at midday,and(cook)in a large three－legged pot in that intense heat, was sufficient to upset even an angel. I did not manage to hide my feelings from my mother and, after serving the group, she called me to the veranda(走廊) she usually sat to attend to her sewing and knitting.
straight into my eyes, she asked “Why did you get angry I requested you to prepare a meal for those poor people?” my attempt to deny her blame，using the heat of the fire and the sun as an excuse for my rude behavior, mother, she gave me a firm look，(say), “You cannot detect what trouble may lie ahead of you.”
I (sudden) realized that if I had refused to offer this group of people a meal,would be impossible that in my travels some time in the future,I would get these individuals' help.

We may agree that admitting our mistakes and behaving in a genuine and decent way is the right way to lead our lives but is there something in our human nature that makes us unscrupulous? For example, in some shops and car parks you can find an honesty box—a box where you pay for something by putting money in it. But it does provide a temptation(诱惑) to get away with not paying the full amount.

Philip Graves, a psychologist, suggests that this temptation is part of our evolution. He says: we have evolved with the ability to be dishonest. It's part of our evolutionary psychological make up—because if we can gain an advantage over the people around us, we have a greater chance of surviving.

So why do we place such importance on being honest if we benefit from being dishonest? It's because it is selfish behavior. If everybody acted selfishly and dishonestly all the time, the world would be a very unpleasant place. So, for societies to work together we need to trust each other and therefore we need to be honest.

Being trustworthy with money is of course extremely important for an economy to survive and there are laws to protect us from dishonest practices. But being honest with words is another matter; saying what we think to someone can be embarrassing. Is honest always the best policy?

【1】Which of the underlined words is similar to "dishonest" in meaning?

A. upstanding

B. decent

C. unscrupulous

D. trustworthy

【2】If there is an honesty box in a shop, what should a customer do?

A. Take some money out if in need.

B. Donate some money to the charities.

C. Get away without paying the right amount.

D. Put in the amount of money one should pay for his buying.

【3】What can we learn according to Philip Graves?

A. Men are born to be dishonest.

B. One will be criticized if he is dishonest.

C. Dishonesty is of some benefit to survival.

D. Breaking the balance is kind of dishonesty.

【4】The author may NOT agree that ________.

A. honesty is based on working together

B. not all social members accept dishonesty

C. dishonest economic behaviors will be punished

D. being dishonest with words sometimes is acceptable

【题目】阅读理解
Kathy Fletcher and David Simpson have a son named Santi. He had a friend who sometimes went to school hungry. So Santi invited him to occasionally eat and sleep at his house.
That friend had a friend and that friend had a friend, and now when you go to dinner at Kathy and David's house on Thursday night there might be 15 to 20 teenagers gathering around the table, and later there will be groups of them crashing in the basement or in the few small bedrooms upstairs. The kids who show up at Kathy and David's have suffered the pains of modern poverty: homelessness, hunger, abuse.
And yet by some miracle, hostile soil has produced beautiful flowers. Kids come from around the city. Spicy chicken and black rice are served. Cellphones are banned. The kids who call Kathy and David “Momma” and “Dad,” are polite and clear the dishes. Birthdays and graduations are celebrated. Songs are performed. Each meal we go around the table and everybody has to say something nobody else knows about them. Each meal the kids show their promise to care for one another.
The adults in this community give the kids the chance to present their gifts. “At my first dinner, Edd read a poem that I first thought was from Langston Hughes, but it turned out to be his own. Kesari has a voice that somehow appeared from New Orleans jazz from the 1920s. Madeline and Thalya practice friendship as if it were the highest art form.”
“They give us a gift — complete intolerance of social distance. When I first met Edd, I held out my hand to shake his. He looked at it and said, “We hug here,” and we've been hugging since.”
Bill Milliken, a veteran youth activist, is often asked which programs turn around kids' lives. “I still haven't seen one program change one kid's life,” he says. “What changes people is relationships. Somebody is willing to walk through the shadow of the valley of adolescence with them.” Souls are not saved in bundles. Love is the necessary force.
（1）Why do kids come to Kathy and David's house on Thursdays?
A.To help the homeless at first hand.
B.To experience the feeling of home.
C.To learn about the modern poverty.
D.To plant beautiful flowers in poor soil.
（2）Why isn't the use of cell phones allowed at Thursday dinners?
A.Kids need to tell stories about themselves.
B.Kids are expected to care more for each other.
C.Kids have to do house chores around the home.
D.Kids prepare songs for birthdays and graduations.
（3）What gift did the writer get at a Thursday dinner?
A.The practice of the art form.
B.The pleasure of enjoying jazz.
C.The chance to listen to poems.
D.The zero distance between souls.
（4）What does Bill mean in his words?
A.Love is the power to change a kid's life.
B.Money is needed to start programs for kids.
C.A program can change a group of kid's lives.
D.Kids change their relationships in a program.

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。

Which is more important, health and wealth? Not until I witnessed my uncle’s real life I realize that health is of great important.

Devoting to his business, my uncle, a successful businessman, worked from morning till night every day with no spare time to relax himself. He often says, “I must earn much money so that I can get whatever I want”. As the consequence, he was serious ill. Rich as he was, he could do nothing but to die in the hospital bed.

So I think health is more important than wealth. People can do nothing if they are always on poor health, let alone live happily. If we are rich or not, we cannot ignore the importance of health.

【题目】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。
Have you ever had a headache during a test? Have you ever been too worried about something that you have a headache or even can't sleep at night? If so, then you know that stress is.
Not all stress is bad for you. Some kinds of stress can help you get things do better, like when you are running towards the finishing line or when you are being asked to give a speech to your class. Stress sometimes can help push you to make full preparation for a test. However, too much stress can result in anger, depression and other related problems, which we need to take serious.
There are many things in our life what might cause stress ------ having too much homework, taking a difficult test, and having economic problems.
It's impossible to live in a life completely free of stress, so you should learn to deal with stress. The best way reduce stress is to have a balance life. If you get enough sleep, eat properly, take more exercise and have enough fun time, you'll probably feel less stressed.

【1】【1】Why do some people say they never have dreams according to Dr Garfield ?

A. They forget about their dreams. B. They don't want to tell the truth.

C. They have no bad experiences.

【2】【2】Why did Davis stop having dreams?

A. He got a serious heart attack. B. He was too sad about his brother's death

C. He was frightened by a terrible dream.

【3】【3】What is Dr Garfield s opinion about dreaming?

A. It is very useful. B. It makes things worse. C. It prevents the mind from working.

【4】【4】Why do some people turn off their dreams completely?

A. To sleep better. B. To recover from illnesses. C. To stay away from their problems.