By choosing to let go of the past, we sweep out all the ashes that weigh us down and affect every aspect of our health, and our peace of mind.

  My friend Jean was divorced after a thirty-year marriage that produced three daughters, one son and eight grandchildren. Because she actually raised them single-handedly, Jean was hurt and angry that the children didn't take her part after the divorce. For months she refused to attend any family celebration to which her former husband Jim was invited. When I reasoned that her children’s understanding of the relationship with and between the parents was probably altogether different from hers, she stuck to the belief that she was right.

  One day Jean called in tears. “Saturday is my granddaughter's birthday, and I want to be with her, but I can’t bring myself to face my former husband.”  “Jim isn't the problem,” I said gently, “it's false pride. Instead of holding on to the painful past, which is over and done, let the feelings go and get on with your life. You're depriving yourself of the joy of sharing in these important occasions, while Jim feels free to experience them. Tell me, would you rather be right, or be happy?”

  That must have done the trick because when Saturday arrived, Jean appeared at her daughter's home carrying her famous chocolate-chip cookies and a beautiful birthday

cake.

How great it feels to let go! And the more we practice the art of letting go of all negativity, the better able we become to devote our thoughts, our time, and our energy to living joyfully in the present, what ever age we happen to be.

It can be inferred that ____.

   A. Jim did very little to bring up the children during their marriage.

   B. The writer thought Jean and Jim shouldn't have divorced.

   C. The children were on their father's side and didn't invite Jean to any family celebration.

   D. Jean had been too tough on Jim before they divorced.

The underlined phrase “depriving yourself of” is closest in meaning to ____ .

   A. persuading yourself to get              B. taking away from yourself

   C. taking false pride of yourself            D. talking yourself into showing

In the writer's opinion, ____.

A. Jean and Jim should be remarried

B. a broken family could live together in peace

C. to be happy is more meaningful than to be right

D. everyone should look into the future

情景对话(共5小题,每小题1分,满分5分) （请把此题的答案涂在答题卡相应的位置；E选项涂为A,B；F选项涂为A,C；G选项涂为A,D）

根据对话情景和内容,从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入每一空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑.选项中有两个为多余选项

Peter:   

Monica: Yes, but not here．   I don’t like eating standing up．

Peter: There is another restaurant over there．

Monica: Only the rich can afford to eat there．Besides,    I’m not going into a restaurant that doesn’t have a menu．

Peter: We just passed a café that does snakes．

Monica:   

Peter: You’re one of those people that are never satisfied, aren’t you?

A．Shall we have something to eat?

B．Do you come here very often?

C．I don’t like café without tables

D．It is expensive and charges very high prices．

E．Oh, I don’t like the look of it．

F．It serves very good coffee．

G．I can’t see a menu．

_______ many times, but he still couldn’t understand it..

A. Although he had been told                  B. He had been told 

C. Having been told                          D. Told

_______ from space, we can find 70% of the surface of the earth _______ by water.

     A. Seeing …... covering                           B. Seeing …... covered 

       C. Seen ...... covering                                     D. Seen …... covered

Jascha Richter once sang “don't need too much talking without saying anything” to reveal his lonely feeling in a crowd.

   Dad always told me never to ever reveal my true opinions towards other people if such opinions are negative. He said this is the “Chu Shi Zhe Xue”, the philosophy of dealing with social network.

   It seems that everybody here just follows this philosophy very, very well.

   Friends. I would say that if I were given true friendship I would definitely treasure it with my greatest care. If I really regard someone as my close friend, I would never leave her alone whenever she's in need, either financially or mentally. And I always believe, as long as I treat people with whole-hearted honesty, I would have some rewards—at least, just ONE true friend of the same gender（性别）.

    Sometimes I just miss my friends in China. Perhaps when we became friends, we were still young, too young to have been polluted by any dirt in the society. But here, it is simply different. It seems that all of us have learnt how to SURVIVE in a foreign land and such an experience actually makes us learn how to extract (榨取) the most benefits from the surroundings in order to survive.

   All are friends around me. I've looked through all the dark sides of their personalities and yet I have to pretend that I know nothing. THEY ARE GOOD. THEY ARE GOOD. AND WE ARE FRIENDS. And then I can make myself comfortable enough to talk to people I hate the most. And of course, they don't say any words truly from their hearts. Neither do I.

   But, sometimes I just feel unwilling to talk to these people. Sometimes, I just want to be alone, quietly, without being forced to listen to their gossip or other useless words.

   “Standing on a mountain high

Looking at the moon through a clear blue sky

I should go and see some friends         

But they don't really comprehend”

    Jascha Richter expresses my feelings also.

67. What do we know about the writer’s father according to this passage?

A. He is really a good philosopher.                          

B. He possibly gets on well with others.

C. He told the writer to reveal her true opinions.       

D. The passage doesn’t tell us at all.

68. What’s the most probable reason the writer mentions Jascha Richter’s song twice in the passage?

A. She likes Jascha Richter’s song.

B. Jascha Richter is one of her friends.

C. The song expresses her feelings.

D. She uses it to perfects her article.

69. Which of the following statements about the writer is TRUE?

  A. She is now living abroad but doesn’t enjoy the life there.

  B. She absolutely believes in her father’s philosophy.

  C. She shows a positive attitude towards her relationship with others.

  D. She thinks highly of her friends by repeating “They are good”.

70. The writer mostly expresses her ______ in this passage.

A. happiness      B. homesickness    C. sadness           D. loneliness 

开学初老师和家长都希望李华住校学习，他却喜欢每天回家，双方各持己见。假设你是李华，用英语给中学生英语报写一封100字左右的信，介绍这个情况并请求帮助和建议。

注意: 1. 信的开头已为你写好。 2. 参考词语: 住校 board (v.)

 Dear Sir,

  I’m a student of Senior 2. I am writing to tell you ____________________________ 

—Can you give me the right answer?

   —Sorry, I ________. Would you repeat that question?

       A. hadn’t listened   B. haven’t listened  C. don’t listen D. wasn’t listening

Eby is ____ a bad stage, always picking fights with his brother for no reason at all.

A. going over     B. going through      C. giving in         D. giving up

_____ being too large, the color and the style of the dress suit me well.

  A. Apart from        B. As well as      C. Besides         D. Instead of

 根据句子内容和汉语提示，用所给词的正确形式填空（一空一词，每题1.5分，共15分,请把正确的词写在答卷纸上）

71. John Snow wanted to face the _____________( 挑战 ) and solve this problem.

72. He found that it came from the river __________( 污染 )by the dirty water from London.

73. The southern part of Ireland was unwilling and _________(脱离) away to form its own government.

74. For convenience, it is divided _________( 大约 )into three zones.

75. At first my new ________(环境) were difficult to tolerate.

76.   These carriages float above the ground and by bending or _________(按，压) down in your seat.

77. We are __________(高兴的) you are coming to work with us.

78.   __________(与此同时) you have to prepare the next question depending on what the person says.

79. The functions of your skin are also very __________(复杂的).

80.   You can get burned by a _________(多样) of things: hot liquids, steam, fire, radiation ect.