It is        challenge for graduates to get      job as unemployment is high nowadays.

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

 —I’m sorry I’ve spilt some tea on the table­­-cloth.

—                   , it will wash out.

A. Never mind                B. Come on       C. All right            D. Go ahead

假设你是李萍，你的笔友王强最近沉迷于电脑游戏，严重影响了学习和身心健康。请你给他写一封书信，劝说他戒掉这个不良习惯，并对他的学习生活给出自己的建议。

注意：1.次数120~150；

      2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

要点词汇：

1.       迷上be addicted to  2. 首先to begin with  3. 此外in addition  4. 暴力violence

5. 脱离，放弃bread away from  6. 开阔某人的眼界broaden/expand one’s horizons

Would you like spend your holiday traveling by balloon? Now thousands of people are interesting in the game. The first balloon trip took place in France at 1783. About a year later, an American decide to cross the channel between French and England by balloon .Over the channel, he discovered a hole on the balloon and it became bigger and bigger. The gas kept the balloon up was being running away. He threw all his belongings into water to make the balloon heavier. It worked. The balloon rose again. At last he manages to land on the opposite shore.

根据首字母或中文提示填写英语单词。

1. It is Mary rather you who is to b_________for the accident.

2. A_____________the conference is a great honour to him.

3. She turned the _________ （把手）， opened the door and went in.

4. The river is seriously __________（污染） and no fish live in it.

5. He won the game easily, to the d__________（ 高兴）of all his fans

6. The old couple got married thirty years ago. Yesterday was their 30^th w_________ anniversary.

7. It took the firemen ten hours to bring the fire under c_____________.

8. The hurricane lasted a week, causing millions of d__________（死亡）

9. This is the first time that our team has been _________ ( 打败)at basketball match.

10. Please ________（折叠） down the blanket and put it into the closet.

In today's Ireland, it seems hard to imagine the grim days of the 19^th century when so many of the population starved, or that, in those days, many poor people had no clue how to prepare any food other than boil a potato. Nowadays, it is quite possible to eat both well and heartily all over the island.

Tourism has made a vast difference to the standards of cooking in Ireland. Until recently there was hardly any tradition of eating out in many districts, except perhaps on very few occasions at a local hotel. Patterns of diet were old-styled, based firmly on 'meat and two vegetables' (somewhat overcooked), potatoes (of course) and large quantities of dairy produce. Now things are very different. Tourist demands for predictable, inexpensive fast-food are met, as everywhere, with hamburgers and pizzas - a better bet being fish and chips. But more sophisticated tastes have introduced whole foods and vegetarian restaurants (almost unheard of before), and a vast number of new restaurants, often French in style, have opened in the main tourist centers. Food 'events' such as Kinsale's Gourmet festival or Galway's Oyster Festival attract large numbers of visitors and reflect the new interest in food.

Whatever Irish cooking lacks in finesse（精细）, it nearly always makes up for in plenty, and ingredients(成分) are of a high quality. Home-grown produce includes rich dairy foods, beef, lamb and pork, and a great variety of seafood. One of its great specialties is soda bread. It is made with buttermilk and is served fresh and warm with every meal. Recently there has been a return to simple Irish foods such as stews（炖菜）and potato dishes.

One of the best-value meals in Ireland is breakfast. A 'traditional Irish breakfast' is a plateful of bacon and eggs with soda and potato breads. Accommodation rates are nearly always quoted with a full breakfast included, so you might as well eat enough to keep you going all day and get your money's worth!

71 What was Irish food like until quite recently?

A. It was very conservative and uninteresting. 

B. It was influenced by French cooking.

C. It was very unhealthy.                 

D. It was plentiful

72  How has Irish food improved in recent years?

A. There are more French restaurants.   B. Food produce is fresher.

C. There is more kinds.                     D. Food is more expensive

73．What is the main reason for this improvement?

A. People have more money to spend.    B. The development of tourism.

C. People have more tastes today.       D. Young people dislike traditional food

74． How does the passage describe Irish cooking today?

A. It is exciting and interesting.    B. It is boring and overcooked.

C. It is plentiful and simple.       D. It is good-looking and tastes bad

75  Which of the following statements is true according to the text?

A. Eating out at weekends is traditional in most parts of Ireland.

B. Today most Irish people prefer fast-foods to the traditional Irish cooking.

C. Nowadays French-style restaurants are quite common in tourist centers.

D. Many Irish people are vegetarians and grow their own vegetables.

　I used to watch her from my kitchen window. She seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during break. I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball. I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her but no one could. I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone.

One day I asked her why she practiced so much. Without a moment of hesitation she said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.” Well, I had to give it to her—she was determined. I watched her through those junior high years and into high school. Every week, she led her school team to victory.

One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head in her arms. I walked across the street and sat down in the cool grass beside her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. “Oh, nothing,” came a soft reply, “I am just too short.” The coach told her that at 5’5” she would probably never get to play for a top ranked team—much less offered a scholarship—so she should stop dreaming about college. She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just did not understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she truly wanted a scholarship and that nothing could stop her except one thing — her own attitude.

The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was offered a scholarship and on the college team. She was going to get the college education that she had dreamed of.

66. The author was probably the girl’s______.

A. brother or sister          B. friend       

C．mother                D．teacher

67.   Why was the girl heartbroken?

A. She was considered too short to be a top player.

B. Her coach stopped her training because of her height.

C. She couldn’t be on a college basketball team.

D. She wouldn’t be admitted by an ideal college.

68.   We can learn from the passage that.

A. her family wouldn’t like to pay her college fee

B. her father forced her to play basketball in collage

C. being a top basketball player can win you a scholarship for college

D. she wouldn’t like to turn to his father for help when in difficulty

69.   Which word can best describe her father?

A. Encouraging.   B. Optimistic.     C. Stubborn.     D. Cruel.

70.   Which proverb best matches the story?

A. Practice makes perfect.             B. Rome was not built in a day.

C. Where there is a will, there is a way.  D. Pride comes before a fall.

Little Tom down the street calls our dog "The keep dog".Zip is a sheep dog. But when Tom tries to say" Seep", it comes out "keep". And in a way Tom is right. Zip is always bringing things home for us to keep! I'll tell you about some of them.

Zip's first present was a shoe. It was made of green silk.

We didn't know how Zip found the shoe. But after a moment Mary, my big sister, told me the shoe had a strange smell. I nodded(点头)and held my nose. "What do you think it is?"

"It smells like something for cleaning. I think someone tried to clean a spot (污点) off the shoe. Then he put it at the door to dry."

"Along came Zip. And good-bye shoe!" I said."We should take it back."

"We can't ".said my sistter.

"Maybe little Tom is right," Mary said. "Maybe Zip is a keep dog!"

61.The writer and Mary didn't know______.

A. what Zip's first present was          B. how Zip carried its first present home

C. who owned Zip's first present        D. what Zip's first present was made of

62.Tom calls Zip "the keep dog" because ______.

A. the dog likes keeping things      B. the dog likes playing with shoes

C. he doesn't know the dog's name   D. he can't pronounce the word " sheep" well

63.What made the shoe strange was ______.

A. its colour        B. its smell     C. its size          D. that it was a silk one

64.The word "keep" in the last sentence means "_____"

A. keeping things for itself             B. bringing things for other to keep

C. not letting it run about              D. taking care of a small child

65.We can know from the reading that the dog _____.

A. likes to give presents to people       B. has been kept in at the writer's home

C. has brought some trouble            D. likes to be called "the keep dog"

　The British isles is made up of two large islands: One is called Ireland and the other   41  , or Great Britain, is the larger of these two islands, and it is  42  into three parts: Scotland , Wales and England.

　　The United Kingdom is that  43  of the British isles ruled over by the Queen. It is made up of Scotland, Wales and England, that is, the  44  of Britain, and also about one sixth of Ireland, the Northern part. The  45  of Ireland is self-governing. The  46  name of the United Kingdom is  47 “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”.

　　48  is larger and richer than Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and has the most  49  of the United Kingdom, so people often use the  50 “England” and “English” when they  51  “Britain” and “British”. This sometimes makes the Scots and the Welsh a little  52  . The Scots in particular are very  53  of their separate nationality. The Welsh too do not regard  54  as English, and have a culture and even a  55  of their own.

　　Ireland became part of the United Kingdom in 1801, but for forty years the “Irish 56 ”  was the greatest headache of the United Kingdom. 5 7 , Ireland is divided into two: Northern Ireland still  5 8  to the United Kingdom, and in 1922 the rest of Ireland  59  to found an Irish Free State, later called Eire and now the Republic of Ireland.

　　The Republic of Ireland does not regard itself as part of Britain, and is not now even a supporter of the Commonwealth of Nations (英联邦). Unlike the major Commonwealth countries it did not lift a finger to  60  British in the Second World War and now wants the whole of Ireland to be a republic.

41. A. Wales           B. Britain                      C. England                  D. Scotland

42. A. divided         B. cut                          C. broken                   D. separated

43. A. piece            B. island                      C. country                   D. part

44. A. south           B. north                        C. part                        D. whole

45. A. smaller         B. larger                       C. rest                         D. island

46. A. correct         B. true                         C. full                         D. complete

47. A. also              B. therefore                  C. likely                       D. perhaps

48. A. The UK        B. The British isles         C. Great Britain            D. England

49. A. colleges        B. officials                    C. cities                       D. population

50. A. words          B. names                      C. spellings                  D. pronunciations

51. A. call              B. forget                       C. speak                      D. write

52. A. angry           B. difficult                    C. tired                        D. lonely

53. A. proud           B. fond                        C. full                         D. kind

54. A. it                 B. Wales                       C. them                       D. themselves

55. A. capital          B. language                   C. history                    D. programmers

56. A. Country        B. Question                   C. Disease                   D. Republic

57. A. At last          B. So                           C. Meanwhile               D. Also

58. A. returns         B. belongs                    C. gets                        D. speaks

59. A. hoped           B. refused                     C. broke away             D. used

60. A. feel              B. touch                       C. fight                       D. help

 scientists are convinced ______the positive effect of laughter ______physical and mental health.

A. of; at          B. by; in        C. of; on         D. on; at