Sydney—Mobile phone has become a problem for middle schools. Some middle schools in Australia have banned（禁止）students from carrying mobile phones during school hours.

Mobile phone use among children has become a problem for the school this year. Several children have got mobile phones as Christmas gifts, and more students want them.

Mary Bluett, an official, said mobile phone use is a distraction（分心）to students during school hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms. Teachers were also saying that sometimes students might use phone messages to cheat during exams.

She said some schools had tried to ban mobile phones. Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t get in touch with their children.

Many teachers said students should not have mobile phones at school, but if there was a good reason, they could leave their phones at school offices. They also said there were many reasons why the students should not have mobile phones at school: they were easy to lose and were a distraction from studies.

Many people say that they understand why parents would want their children to have phones, but they think schools should let the students know when they can use their mobile phones.

Some middle schools in Australia have banned students from carrying mobile phones ____________.

   A. because they are students         B. when they are at school

   C. because they are young            D. when they are free

We know from the passage that some children get mobile phones from ____________.

   A. the makers and sellers           B. some other strangers

   C. their parents and friends             D. some mobile phone users

Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t        during school hours.

   A. get in touch with their children      B. leave their mobile phones

   C. help the teachers with their work     D. use their mobile phones                 

The underlined word “they” in the fifth paragraph refers to ____________.

   A. many teachers                 B. some messages

   C. mobile phones                     D. some students

The topic mainly talked about in the text is ____________.

   A. why the students should not use mobile phones in some Australian schools

   B. when the students of some Australian schools can use their mobile phones

   C. whether the Australian students can have mobile phones at school

   D. how some parents feel when their children should not carry mobile phones

书面表达：假如你是李华，你的美国朋友Jack来信,对你校高三学生周末的学习生活情况感兴趣。请根据 下图显示的信息，写一篇120词左右的英语回信。开头和结尾已经给出，不记入总词数。要点如下：

 1.简要描述图中的信息；

2说明原因（为了高效学习；锻炼身体；争分夺秒看书)；

3.谈谈你的看法。

Dear Jack

I'm glad that you're interested in our Senior Three students' life. Now I'll give you a brief introduction.

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Best wishes and welcome to our school!

Yours, Li Hua

——Do you have the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling in your shop? —Sorry, there is    left at the moment.

A. nothing  B. none C. no one   D. not one

As we know, Jean is a       investor（投资者）who studies the market before he buys things.

A. lucky                B. cautious         C. patient          D. generous

Teaching ___ child to cook will improve many of ___ skills that he or she will need later in life．

A．/; the           B．a; the               C．a ; /            D．the; a

Some teenagers think that parents ____ a full understanding of their children.

A. lack in        B. lacking of       C. lack of          D. lack

The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place

   Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet…We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically。

Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brains to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high—calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale(秤) instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.

On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero—calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.

The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients. Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemicals that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.

Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals .Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological and physical harm that comes from using them.

From Paragraph 1, we learn that __________.

   A. diet products are misleading people

B. people have difficulty in choosing diet products

   C. diet products fail to bring out people’s possibility

D. people are fed up with diet products

One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to ______.

   A. try out a variety of diet foods   B. watch their weight rather than their diet

C. pay attention to their own eating habits D. hesitate before they enjoy diet foods

In Paragraph 3, “gain comes without pain” probably means ________.

   A. diet products bring no pain   B. it costs a lot to lose weight

   C. losing weight is effortless   D. diet products are free from calories

Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ______.

   A. are over-consumed     B. provide too much energy

C. are short of chemicals   D. lack basic nutrients

Researches show what we already suspected: Three out of four babies who died of SIDS(婴儿猝死) involved co-sleeping. We’ll say it again. The safest course is not to sleep with babies.

We know the argument: Bad parenting, not co-sleeping, is to blame for the dozens of babies’ deaths. Some parents stick to co-sleeping because it helps them bond with their newborns. They say those who give co-sleeping a bad name either had been drinking, used drugs or were too tired to notice that they rolled over on their children.

But, most of the cases did not involve drugs or alcohol. There’s a “but” here, however. Submitting to a test for drugs or alcohol in these cases is voluntary, so it’s difficult to know with certainty.

Organizations like the Black Health Coalition and others have explained the safe way to co-sleep. While we understand those arguments, we also know that mistakes can happen and that it only takes one time for something to go terribly wrong. The risk outweighs the benefit.

In all likelihood, parents will continue to co-sleep, and some will do so without ever having an incident, but babies are too vulnerable(易受伤的) for parents to take such chances. Therefore, the best place for babies to sleep is in their own beds, on their backs, with no pillows, blankets or toys. No parent wants a tragedy(悲剧) to occur. The best way to make sure the tragedy doesn’t happen is to allow babies to sleep alone in their own cribs(摇篮).                                         

According to the author, most of the SIDS cases happened because of ________.

A. drugs

B. co-sleeping

C. drinking

D. bad parenting

Some parents think sleeping with their babies can ________.

A. keep the babies healthy

B. give co-sleeping a good name

C. prevent themselves from drinking

D. develop a good relation with their babies

The author holds the opinion that ________.

A. parents can sleep with babies, but cautiously

B. co-sleep helps to bring babies closer to parents

C. parents can’t take chances to sleep with their babies

D. accidents only happen to those careless parents

Which of the following best describes the structure of the text?

A.   ①                       B.  ①②                       C.   ①                    D.   ①

↙↘                                   ↓                    ↙↓↘              ↙↓↓↘

②③ ④                    ③④                   ②③④            ②③④⑤

↘ ↙                                  ↓                   ↘↓↙

⑤                              ⑤                    ⑤

— Sally, was ________ problem solved?

— We were trying to think of ________ way out, but it was hard to find one.

A. the; a                            B. a; a                 C. a; the                     D. the; the

____ to visit his parents, he went home ____.

  A. In an attempt; each two weeks      B. Make an attempt; every other week

  C. Make an attempt; every two weeks   D. In an attempt; every second week