Tom was about to close the window_______ his attention was caught by a bird.

A. when             B. if                  C. and            D. till

--Would you like to watch TV at home or go for a walk along the river after dinner?

-- ________.

A. Don’t mention it                                B. I’d rather go for a walk 

C. It’s my pleasure                                D. It’s none of your business.

假设你叫李华，是一名高三的学生。你的美国朋友Tom给你写信询问你的近况以及你的暑假计划，并邀请你去美国玩，请你根据以下提示，给他写一封回信。词数：120--150。

提示：

1．感谢Tom的关心和问候。

2．你的暑假计划安排。

3．对Tom邀请的回复。

信的开头和结尾已经写好，但不计入总词数。

Dear Tom,

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    Best wishes!

Yours,

Li Hua

阅读下面的短文并回答问题，然后将答案定到答题卡相应的位置上（清注意问题后的词数要求）。

[1] The kids get home from school—tired, hungry and looking for entertainment. The last thing they want to do is to get on with their homework. However, at this very time, parents often remind the kids to do their homework by nagging（唠叨）and cajoling（哄骗）. If that doesn’t work, homework wars break out. But with some basic rules and good habits, they can be avoided.

[2] When it comes to preparing your kids for homework success, one of the first things to begin is the environment they are working in. Not all children will like working alone in their bedrooms. Come children might prefer to study at the kitchen table, and providing that location works for the family, there’s no reason to force them into another room.

[3] Try to keep the house relatively quiet and free of distractions. If you’re worried you can’t provide the right equipment or environment at home, see whether the local library could offer an alternative place to study. Also, some schools will offer homework clubs, where students can complete homework and seek help from a supervising teacher if needed.

[4] Once you’ve got the study environment sorted, think about when it is _____ for homework to be done. If children are old enough to make plans, it can be worth sitting down together and breaking projects into smaller tasks to be completed on different nights. This can stop kids form feeling overwhelmed（被压垮）and it also teaches them time management skills.

[5] If you follow the above rules, you can avoid homework wars down the track. And if tensions are rising at home around homework, remember that a little bit of kindness can go a long way.

76. What’s the main idea of the text? (no more than 12 words)  (3分)

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77. List two other ideal places for children to study in apart from a quiet room at home. (no more than 8 words)（2分）

① ___________________________________

② ___________________________________

78. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (no more than 5 words) （3 分）

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79 How do you avoid homework wars in your family except the rules listed in the passage? (no more than 30 words)（4分）

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80 Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 into Chinese. （3分）

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"It's this time of year when the weather starts warming up and frogs start breeding - but they haven't been breeding," says John Wilkinson, research and monitoring officer at the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust (ARC).

Amphibians (两栖动物) are just one of the groups of animals that nature observers fear may have problems reproducing this year, as groundwater levels are even lower now than in the infamously dry summer of 1976, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). According to the UK's Centre for Hydrology and Ecology the average rainfall so far this winter has been the lowest since 1972.

　 "If ponds dry up totally," says Mr. Wilkinson, "you could have lots of dead tadpoles." Drier and windier conditions could also make it more difficult for juvenile amphibians to survive their journeys between wet habitats.

　 But Peter Brotherton, the biodiversity manager for Natural England, says that "drought is part of nature's cycle", and, at present, a lot of animals, plants and insects are still in hibernation. This means that the population picture is unclear. "However, when we get extreme events, we get animals dying," he says. "And what is worrying is that normally at this time of year we expect soil to be near saturation（湿润）after winter."

　　 Charlie Kitchin, the RSPB's site manager of the Nene Washes in Cambridgeshire, says the 2,000-acre wetland and grassland area is now struggling following two winters with relatively little winter rain and no flooding. One species that could suffer, he says, is the black-tailed godwit（黑尾豫）. "There are only 50 breeding pairs in the country, and we have 40 of them, and everything is bone-dry," Mr Kitchin says.

　 But one bad nesting season, he says, is "not the end of the world". "One of the features of flood plains is that they're volatile anyway," he adds. "But if they fail to breed another year, the population is likely to dip again."

71. According to the passage animals may have problems reproducing this year mainly due to ________.

A. drought　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. hibernation　　　　

C. windier conditions 　　　　　　　　　　 D. extreme events

72. What really worries Peter Brotherton is that ________.

　 A. drought is part of nature’s cycle

　 B. animals are still in hibernation

　 C. soil at this time is far from saturation

　 D. the population of animals is still unclear

73. Which of the following is NOT true of Charlie Kitchin’s words?

　 A. Drought has so far continued for two winters.

　 B. Animals could survive one bad nesting season.

　 C. The black-tailed godwit is in danger of extinction.

　 D. 40 black-tailed godwits live in the Nene Washes.

74. The underlined word volatile in the last paragraph can be replaced by ________.

　 A. losing water 　　　　　　　　　　　 B. undergoing changes

　　 C. breeding animals 　　　　　　　　 D. suffering flood

75. It can be learnt from the text that ______________.

　 A. groundwater levels this summer are lower than those of 1976

B. the average rainfall this year has been the lowest since 1972

　 C. windier conditions could also cause some amphibians’ death

　 D. flooding plays no useful role in wetlands and grasslands

Eating a diet high in processed food increases the risk of depression, research suggests. What's more, people who ate plenty of vegetables, fruit and fish actually had a lower risk of depression, the University College London team found.

Data on diet among 3,500 middle-aged civil servants were compared with their emotional state five years later, a British journal reported. They split the participants into two types of diet--those who ate a diet largely based on whole food，which includes lots of fruit, vegetables and fish，and those who ate a mainly processed food diet, such as sweetened desserts, fried food, processed meat，refined grains and high fat dairy products After accounting for factors such as gender, age, education, physical activity, smoking habits and chronic(慢性的) diseases, they found a significant difference in the future depression risk with the different diets.

Those who ate the most wholefood had a 26% lower risk of future depression than those who ate the least wholefood. By contrast, people with a diet high in processed food had a 58％ higher risk of depression than those who ate a diet low in processed foods.

Study author Dr. Archana Singh Manoux pointed out there was a chance that the finding could be explained by lifestyle factor they had not accounted for. He also pointed in a paper that a Mediterranean diet was associated with a lower risk of depression, but the problem with that is if you live in Britain, the likelihood of you eating a Mediterranean diet is not very high.

Dr．Andrew McCulloeh, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said, this study adds to an existing body of solid research that shows the strong links between what we eat and our mental health.

He added people's diets were becoming increasingly unhealthy. The UK population is consuming less nutritious, fresh produce and more saturated fats and sugars.

66. The text is mainly about          .

A. the increasingly unhealthy diet of the UK population

B. the link between processed food and depression

C. the relationship between physical and mental health

D. the emotional state of the British People

67. What do we know about the participants?

A. They are of different ages from young to old.

B. They are from different walks of life.

C. They chose the diet they preferred.

D. Their state are also affected by other factors.

68. What can we learn from what Dr. Archana Singh Manoux said?

A. It is difficult for most British people to have a Mediterranean diet.

B. The Mediterranean diet is the most healthy in the world.

C. Many studies have been done on the Mediterranean diet before.

D. The Mediterranean diet is not good for depression.

69. Dr. Andrew McCulloch agrees that          .

A. our diets are closely related to our mental health

B. the present study needs more facts and other information

C. the UK population will become ill in the near future

D. more saturated fats and sugars should be taken in

70. Why might the author have written this text?

A. To tell people what a healthy diet actually is.

B. To prove people’s diets are increasingly unhealthy.

C. To encourage people to cut down on processed food.

D. To introduce some experts on the research team.

Brenda Bongos was a happy, artistic girl. She had one big ambition—to play the drums in a band. But one big obstacle lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to practice a lot, but she lived next-door to a lot of old people. Many of them are sick. She knew that the sound of beating drums would really get on their nerves. So, she had tried playing in the strangest places: a basement, a kitchen, and even in a shower. But there was always someone it would annoy.

    One day, while watching a science documentary on TV, she heard that sound cannot travel in space, because there's no air. At that moment, Brenda Bongos decided to become a sort of musical astronaut.

    With the help of a lot of time, books and work, Brenda built a space bubble. This was a big glass ball connected to a machine which sucked out all the air inside. All that would be left inside was a drum kit（成套设备） and a chair. Brenda got into the space suit she had made, entered the bubble, turned on the machine, and played those drums like a wild child.

    It wasn't long before Brenda Bongos came very famous. Many people came to see her play in her space bubble. Shortly afterwards she came out of the bubble and started giving concerts. Her fame spread so much that the government suggested that she be part of a unique space journey. Finally, Brenda was a real musical astronaut, and had gone far beyond her first ambition of playing drums in a band.

    Years later, when asked how she had achieved all this, she thought for a moment, and said: ''If those old people next – door hadn't mattered so much to me, I wouldn't have found a solution, and none of this would have ever happened.''

61. Why did Brenda try to play in the strangest places?

   A. Because she didn't want others to hear her play.

   B. Because she didn't mean to disturb others.

   C. Because she didn't have her own room.

   D. Because she didn’t like her neighbors.

62. Brenda started to give concerts _______.

   A. after she practiced in her space bubble

   B. when she became part of the unique space journey

   C. after she became a real musicalastronaut

   D. when people came to see her in the space bubble

63. Brenda became famous because _______.

   A. she was good at music and science

   B. she became a real musical astronaut

   C. she invented a special way of practice

   D. she played well and had a talent

64. Which of the following can be used to describe Brenda?

   A. Kind, hardworking andclever.

   B. Brave, kind and hardworking.

   C. Lovely, brave and kind.

   D. Nervous, kind and clever.

65. It can be inferred from the text that: " _______".

   A. He laughs best who laughs last

   B. It's never too old to learn

   C. Two heads are better than one

   D. One good turn deserves another

The website FarmersOnly.com calls itself an online dating and friendship finder. The idea started in the mind of a man, Jerry Miller in Ohio. He wondered how farmers could meet new people who understand the life of a farmer. Jerry Miller is not a farmer but he represents a lot of farmers.

As he tells it, the idea for the site was planted when a farmer told him one day that she was recently divorced and would like to date. But someone would invite her to meet for coffee at nine o’clock at night, when she had to start her day at five the next morning.

So, in 2005, Jerry Miller launched his website. “You don’t have to be a farmer to be on FarmersOnly.com, but you do have to have the good old-fashioned traditional values of America’s Heartland.”

You also have to live in the United States or Canada to be a member of the site. Some services are free, but a full membership costs fifty dollars for a year. As of last week the site listed more than 58,000 members. Many of them are farmers in the United States. Others are students or workers involved in some way with agriculture. Jerry Miller tells us about thirty marriages in the last year have resulted from his website.

Some farmers have also found love through a group, Singles in Agriculture, which was formed as a nonprofit organization in 1986. It organizes gatherings that usually end with a dance, but is not a dating service. The purpose is to support educational and social activities that offer people a chance for friendship. Its website, singlesinag.org, says there are more than 1,000 members across the nation and as far away as France.

56. Jerry Miller started singlesinag.org in order to     .

A. help farmers                                         B. support traditions

C. understand farmers                               D. represent farmers

57. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 indicate?

A. She dislikes city lifestyle.

B. She prefers late night coffee.

C. Country life isn’t well understood.

D. It’s tiring to get up early.

58. Which of the following is true of singlesinag.org?

A. Its services are free.

B. It provides dating services.

C. Only farmers can become its members.

D. Farmers in France can’t benefit from it.

59. The author of the text intends to     .

A. advertise for the two websites

B. introduce two websites

C. encourage social activities

D. urge readers to help farmers

60. It can be inferred from the text that     .

A. all farmers desire marriage

B. farmers are easy to meet new people

C. more farmers get divorced in the USA

D. the Internet helps improve farmers’ social life

It was a cold winter’s night when I stopped for gas on my way home from work. I was tired and had a slight 　36 .

I worked in a 　37 doctor’s office and this was one of those days when the unexpected happened, making the schedule run 　38 than usual. It seemed I was going to be late 　39 home and my husband, being the 　40 person, would be ready to pronounce me late once again. Maybe 　41 I hurried, I could still make it home.

I was heading inside to 　42 for my gas when I noticed an older couple at the counter. I heard them asking for 　43 to the local hospital. It was the same hospital that I had just 　44 a few minutes ago.

The young man at the counter was trying to be 　45 in explaining how to get there, with two other people making 　46 . One of them was 　47 trying to give them a whole different route back. It was then that I walked over to the couple and said, “Would you like to follow me to the 　48 ?”

A look of 　49 crossed the woman’s face.

“I’m going right by there,” I said, which wasn’t a(an) 　50 since I had just made up my mind to do 　51 that.

I got in my car and began the journey back. I was trying to watch to be sure they were right 　52 me. It took only fifteen minutes to get there as rush hour traffic was beginning to 　53 . I felt better than I had all day and my headache was nearly gone.

Later, as I arrived home, my husband 　54 , “So you aren’t ever late any more.”

I said, “Sometimes it’s 　55 to be late.”

36. A. break　　　　　　　　 B. fever　　　　　　　　　　　 C. cold　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. headache

37. A. foreign　　　　　　　 B. common　　　　　　　　　 C. busy　　　　　　　　　　　 D. noisy

38. A. earlier　　　　　　　　 B. later　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. easier　　　　　　　　　　　 D. simpler

39. A. getting　　　　　　　 B. cooking　　　　　　　　　 C. calling　　　　　　　　　　 D. working

40. A. tough　　　　　　　　 B. punctual　　　　　　　　　 C. generous　　　　　　　　 D. careful

41. A. as　　　　　　　　　　　 B. since　　　　　　　　　　　 C. while　　　　　　　　　　　 D. if

42. A. pay　　　　　　　　　　 B. change　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. wait　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. search

43. A. opinions　　　　　　 B. trouble　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. directions　　　　　　　　 D. money

44. A. reached　　　　　　　 B. visited　　　　　　　　　　 C. called　　　　　　　　　　　 D. left

45. A. skilled　　　　　　　　 B. helpful　　　　　　　 　 C. experienced　　　　　　　　　　 D. active

46. A. comments　　　　　 B. promises　　　　　　　　 C. jokes　　　　　　　　　　　 D. offers

47. A. only　　　　　　　　　 B. still　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. even　　　　　　　　　　　 D. ever

48. A. station　　　　　　　 B. office　　　　　　　　　　　 C. hospital　　　　　　　　　 D. hotel

49. A. panic　　　　　　　　 B. relief　　　　　　　　　　　 C. sadness　　　　　　　　　 D. peace

50. A. duty　　　　　 　　　 B. fact　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. reason　　　　　　　　　　 D. lie

51. A. partly　　　　　　　　 B. properly　　　　　　　　　 C. exactly　　　　　　　　　　 D. perfectly

52. A. across　　　　 　　　 B. before　　　　　　　　　　 C. beside　　　　　　　　　　 D. behind

53. A. go up　　　　　　　　 B. die down　　　　　　　　 C. speed up　　　　　　　　 D. turn down

54. A. teased　　　　　　　　 B. shouted　　　　　　　　　 C. burst　　　　　　　　　　　 D. laughed

55. A. possible　　　　　　 B. special　　　　　　　　　　 C. good　　　　　　　　　　　 D. safe

—I am late，for there is too much traffic on my way to school．

—Oh，　　 ．Don’t lie!

A．take your time 　B．come on 　 　　 　C．don’t worry 　　　 　　D．take it easy