What makes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? These are very old questions and the answers to them are still not clear.

We know, however, that just being born with a good mind is not enough. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle. It needs exercise. Mental (done with the mind) exercise is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists (心理学家) think that parents should play with their children more often and give them problems to think about. The children are then more likely to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent.

Parents should also be careful with what they say to young children. According to some psychologists, if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot, then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive things to their children, such as “That was a very clever thing you did” or “You are such a smart child”.

36. The words “intelligent” and “brilliant” in the first paragraph probably mean_______ while “dull” in the second paragraph means _______.

A. bright and splendid; slow in thinking and understanding   B. pretty and handsome; ordinary-looking

C. great and important; common                        D. hopeful and helpful; careless　

37. According to the context we can guess that a genius is ______ while an idiot is _______.

A. a normal person; a funny person                         

B. a strong person; a weak person

C. a highly intelligent person; a foolish or weak-minded person  

D. a famous person; an ordinary person　

38. A person ________ is more likely to become a genius.

A. whose parents are clever                 B. often thinking about difficult problems

C. often helped by his parents and teachers     D. born with a good brain and putting it into active use　

39. It is better for parents ________.

A. to praise and encourage their children more often

B. to be hard on their children

C. to leave their children alone with nothing to do

D. to give their children as much help as possible　

40. Which of the following is NOT true according to the article?

A. Parents play an important part in their children’s growth.

B. The less you use your mind the duller you may become.

C. Intelligence is obviously the result of where and how you live.

D. What makes a person bright or stupid is still under discussion.

 Have you eaten too much over the holidays? You should try fidgeting for a while. Those around you might not like it, but scratching (moving your nails against a part of your body) and twitching (moving suddenly and quickly when you don’t want to) is an important way of burning up calories .

 American researchers have found that some people’s squirming (continuously turn your body when nervous) and wigging (move in small movements, especially from side to side) equals several miles of slow running each day.

 The scientists, based at the National Institute of Health’s laboratory in Phenix, Arizona, are studying why some people get fat and other stay slim.

  In one study 177 people each spent 24 hours in a room in the institute where the amount of energy is measured by their oxygen and carbon dioxide levels. By the end of the day, some people had burned up 800 calories in toe-tapping, (moving the front part of your foot up and down) finger-drumming (hitting your fingers continuously and lightly against something hard) and other nervous habits. However, others had burned up only 100 calories.

  The researchers found that slim women fidget more than fat women, but there was no significant difference in men. Heavy people burn up more energy when they fidget than thin people do.

31. Which of the following can be used to explain the meaning of “fidgeting”?

A. scratching and twitching                B. squirming and wigging

C. slow running                              D. moving one’s body nervously

32. According to the scientists, the reason why some people get fat and other people stay slim is that ____ .

A. thin people burn up less calories than fat people

B. fat people burn up more calories than thin people

C. those who burn up more calories than others will be thinner

D. those who fidget more than others will be thinner

33. Scientists found in the experiment that _________ .

A. the energy burned up by fat people when they fidget was more than that burned up by thin people

when they fidget

B. some people’s fidgeting burned up more than 800 calories, but some people’s fidgeting burned up less

than 100 calories

C. slim women fidget more than fat women but fat men fidget more than thin men

D. thin men fidget more than fat men

34. If someone is thin in a pleasant way, we say they are __________.

A. skinny      B. bony        C. slim          D. underweight

35. Scientists think a fidget habit to be ___________.

A. a way to lose fat                     B. a nervous habit annoying the people around

C. a better exercise than slow running      D. a habit of thin people

 Angela Chang didn’t know it would be so hard to turn her singing hobby into a career. Her agent used to take her to lots of auditions（试唱）at different recording studios but the Taiwanese girl was always turned down for looking too young and small.

Chang’ s talent was at last recognized in 2002 by the Decca Record Company. When she was offered a contract she burst into tears. Two years later Chang, 21, is a star. With the release of her debut album “Over the Rainbow” this year, she won the “Most Promising New Artist in Taiwan” at the CCTV-MTV Music Awards in July. In September she won the “Best New Artist” in the Fourth Chinese Music Billboard Awards.

“You just can’t believe that such an amazingly powerful voice comes from such a small body,” said musicians after hearing Chang sing “Over the Rainbow.” “It’s such a special voice. You cannot forget it.” Chang can hit very high motes（高音）clearly and beautifully.

Her tunes make Chang stand out from the numerous newcomers in the music world. But mainland fans also know her for her girl-next-door performances in Taiwanese TV dramas, “My MVP Valentine” and “At Dolphin Bay”.

But few people know that while filming her first TV series, Chang acted so badly that the director wanted to fire her. At one time it took her a record of 27 attempts to shoot one scene.

“I cried my heart out when I went back home.” Change said, “But I know that defeat is often a temporary condition. By giving up you remain defeated.”

Though she looks very girlish, Chang said she has a boy’s personality. “The way I release pressure is to have a sound sleep. When I wake up, everything is new.”

26. The first paragraph mainly tells us               .

A. Chang’s hard way to success            B. Chang’s appearance

C. Chang was looked down upon           D. Chang has no talent in singing

27. When Chang’s talent was recognized, she               .

A. felt doubtful                          B. was too astonished

C. was full of sadness                D. was mixed with various feelings

28. What musicians said shows               .

A. Chang has a common voice        B. Chang isn’t suitable to sing

C. they think highly of Chang          D. they will give Chang some direction

29. The author thinks Chang               .

A. should take up singing instead of acting

B. begins to be familiar to audience in the mainland by her performances

C. has made some achievements in acting

D. takes pride in her talent in singing and acting

30. The underlined sentence shows Chang               .

A. had some pleasure on the way to acting         B. made the director disappointed

C. worked hard                             D. based her success on continuous efforts

阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号为16—25的相应位置。

In recent years, with the development of the Internet, more and more people would like to use Web Language in writing and communication. Some people even speak Chinese mixed   16   English letters，so our class have had a discussion about   17   we should use Web Language. 40 % of the students hold the view  18  it is kind of ridiculous and hard to understand and in their opinion, using Web Language not only has bad effects   19  

learning English, but also   20   (make) the Chinese language less standard and pure,    21  (final) ruining our mother tongue. However, the   22  ，60 % of our class, are fond of the Web Language for the reason that it is simple, convenient and helpful in expressing   23  and what’s more, it makes the language more interesting. In my opinion, it’s not   24  good habit to use the Web Language. It may be popular as some people think, but you may also make yourself  25  (misunderstand).

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 1～15各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Practice, practice, and practice! That’s how Tiger Woods became a champion golfer.

Tiger Woods   1   golf when he was very young.   2   with other children of his age, he showed special interest in golf. Finding that his son had a    3   for this game, Tiger’s father decided to train him on his own. To his father’s surprise, Tiger was a (n)   4   golfer even at the age of 6.

However, being a child, Tiger couldn’t focus all the time, but he never gave up. Tiger listened to soft music to improve his   5   . His father helped him learn to focus in spite of the   6   . Sometimes his father stood in front of Tiger and said, “I’m a tree in your way. ” He would have to hit the ball over his father. Sometimes his father would dance and sing when it was Tiger’s turn to hit and Tiger had to focus on the   7   .

The training helped him. Once a   8   made a loud noise while Tiger was playing. He said he never heard the broadcast because he was so  9  on the game. Tiger cannot stand losing. If he loses, he will go out and  10 

even harder in order not to make the same mistake.

In the year 2000, when he was 24 years old, he  11  four major golf competitions—the US Open, the US Amateur, the British Open and the British Amateur. But during the 2008 season it became clear that Tiger was  12   pain in his knee. In April his left knee was operated on and he  13  the PGA tour season. After an eight-month period of  14  he returned to play again in February 2009. He didn’t make his fans  15  . He won again.

He is so much better than the other golfers that some say he is the greatest golfer to ever play the game.

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

     You may think birthdays mean only cake, presents, and a sweet song—”Happy Birthday”.

However, there are many varieties of birthday celebrations. In the West, many birthday traditions come from an ancient belief that bad spirits showed up on a person’s birthday. To drive troublemaking spirits away, friends would visit each other on their birthdays. Today, people still get together for birthday parties. But around the world, birthdays are celebrated in many different ways.

In eastern Canada, children get their noses covered with butter on their birthdays. The butter is supposed to make children too slippery for bad luck to stick to them. Irish people lift birthday children upside down and hit them lightly on the floor for every year of their age. Mexico also has a unique birthday tradition. A paper-made animal is filled with candy and toys and hung from the ceiling. The birthday child with his eyes covered then tries to hit the animal with a stick until it bursts open.

[写作内容] 

1) 请用30个词概括短文的要点：(已给出部分，完成句子----5分) 

2) 然后以约120个词写一篇记叙文，描写你或你朋友的一次生日经历，并包括以下要点：（20分）

①你或你朋友通常怎样庆祝生日； 

②介绍一次令你或你朋友难忘的生日经历。

 [写作要求] 

 可以参照阅读材料的篇章结构，组织故事，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

 [评分标准] 

   概括准确、语言规范、内容合适，篇章连贯。

假设你是李明，本周班会上， 将代表老师用英语通知学生参加一次敬老院的公益活动。

要点如下：

1. 星期天早上8：30在校门口集合，乘公共汽车前往；

2. 给老人们赠送班级礼物；

3. 打扫卫生，整理（tidy）房间；

4. 唱歌、跳舞、讲故事、聊天（chat），给老人们带去快乐；

5. 活动（activity）很有意义，希望积极参与(take part in)；

【写作要求】  只能使用5个句子表达全部内容；将5个句子组织成连贯的短文.

(文章请写在答题卡里)

Fellow students:

We will pay a visit to the old people’s home this Sunday.  ___________________________________________________________________________                                                                            

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________That’s all. Thank you!

根据中文完成句子 （共6题；每空1分，共15分.部分实词首字母已给出.）

51.成功与否要依靠你的努力和能力。

Success d______  ______ your effort and ability.

52他们把我作为家庭成员看待,他们真是太好了.

They t______ me ______ one of the family, which was very kind of them.

53. 我想申请一张信用卡.

I'd like _____  a________  ________ a credit card.

54. 大量的问题已经出现了

_____  n_________   _______ problems have arisen.

55.什么都不能阻止他前往。

Nothing can p_________ him _________  going..

56. 由于压力大,很多人得病.

Many people f________ _______ because of heavy p__________.

请阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请将答案填写在相应位置上。

     下面是一篇应用文及其应用场合的信息，请阅读下列应用文和相关信息。

46.  Mary: I never used to like stamp collecting. I read almost everything I can: books, magazines, newspapers. I go to the public library abut twice a week. If you’d like to send me something, maybe books are my favorite.

47.  Tom: My wife says I should take up gardening. We have a big garden and she loves working in it. But the truth is, it bores me. My friends and my wife think I’m really boring, because I’m always listening to music. I go to concerts all the time. I love Mozart and all that classical staff.

48.  Mike: I don’t really like video games and that sort of things. I prefer being outdoors, hiking or playing sports. I always go out with my family playing baseball and stuff all the time. I think most sports are pretty interesting.

49.  Lisa: I’m a free writer, and a lot of people think my job is easier because I don’t have to go to the office everyday. And I don’t have to deal with office politics. But, you know, my job is very hard. I have to be very organized and much disciplined. And pretty self-motivated. And when I have a problem, there is no one around to help me.

50.  Victor: My life is very stressful. In my working place, everyone is in a hurry and under tremendous pressure. The doctors are demanding, and there is always too much to do to save a dying patient.

 请阅读以下相关的职业或兴趣爱好，然后匹配和相关的个人。

A． The person works in a hospital emergency room. His/her job is to assist doctors to rescue patients who are seriously ill.

B． The person likes sports activities the most. For him/her, having sports activities is very interesting.

C． The person works for himself/herself at home. He/She writes for others.

D．The person doesn’t like other things such as gardening. But he/she really likes music, especially classical music.

E． The person likes collecting all kinds of things, such as baseball cards and stamps.

F． Many people may like collecting things, such as collecting cards or stamps. But he/she likes reading very much.

I had the meanest mother in the world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal, eggs and toast. Others had cokes and candy for lunch, while we had to eat a sandwich. As you can guess, my supper was different than the other kids'. But at least I was not alone in my suffering. My sister and two brothers had the same mean mother as I did.

My mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times. She had to know who our friends were and what we were doing. We had to wear clean clothes every day. Other kids always wore their clothes for days. We reached the height of disgrace(丢脸) because she made our clothes herself, just to save money.

The worst is yet to come. We had to be in bed by 9：00 each night and up at 7：45 the next morning. So while my friends slept, my mother actually had the courage to break Child Labor Law(儿童劳动法). She made us work. I believed she lay awake all night thinking up mean things to do to us. Through the years, our friends' report cards had beautiful colors on them, black for passing, red for failing. My mother, however, would merely be content with black marks. None of us was allowed the pleasure of being a dropout.

She forced us to grow up into educated and honest adults. Using this as a background(背景), I'm now trying to bring up my three children. I'm filled with pride when my children think I am mean because now I thank God every day for giving me the meanest mother in the world.

41．From the passage we can learn that the writer's mother was ________.

A．not generous at all                  B．very strict with her children

C．very mean with money matters        D．very cruel to her children

42．Which of the following things did the writer hate to do most?

A．Eating differently from other kids.       B．Wearing clean clothes made by mother.

C．Going to bed early and getting up early.   D．Letting mother know where they were.

43．It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A．the writer worked hard and usually got good grades in studies

B．mother was punished for breaking the Labor Law

C．all the other kids studied better than the writer

D．the writer's family lived a miserable life

44．Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Mother practised economy in running her home.

B．The writer is very thankful for her mother.

C．The writer is severe with her children when bringing them up.

D．The wrier has a deep hatred for her mother.

45．The passage was written in a way of ________ tone.

A．humorous   B．hateful(痛恨的)    C．ridiculous(可笑的)   D．critical(批评的)