---What about your self-drive trip yesterday?

---Tiring! The road is being widened, and we ____ a rough time.

  A. have                 B. had                       C. would have           D. have had

The shot was well ________ of the goal keeper, _______ the player a chance.

      A. within reach; to give               B. beyond reach; giving

      C. beyond the reach; giving      D. out the reach; to give

 She admitted _______ trouble ________ her studies and playing basketball.

  A. to have ; balancing               B. having ; to balance 

C. to have ; to balance             D. having ; balancing

New iPhone goes on sale on Friday with ________ bigger screen and 4G wireless technology, as ________ company seeks to keep its competitiveness.

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

请据内容提示，假如你是李华，你的加拿大好友Connie来信说她近来因减肥而烦恼。请你根据下列提示给她发一封邮件安慰她。

要求：1．行文应连贯流畅, 内容要充实完整，并可适当发挥。

2．词数：100词左右。邮件的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入词数，不用抄在答题卡上。

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Dear Connie,

How are you going now? I’m sorry to hear that you feel ashamed of your figure. Here is some advice I want to give you.

阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上相应的题号后。

71. ____________________a burning building, you should send for help. (trap)

如果被困在了着火的大楼里，你应该向外求救。

72. Only yesterday _______________ him the truth, which was a big surprise to him. （tell）

    昨天他父亲才把真相告诉他，这对他来说真是个令人吃惊的消息。

73. We ______ very early so we packed the night before.（leave）

因为第二天我们要早早出发所以头天晚上就打好包了。

74. The museum will open in the spring with an exhibition and a viewing platform_________ the big glasshouses being built.(watch)

这家博物馆将在春天开放，有一个展览和一个观看平台，在这个平台上参观者可以看到正在建造一个大玻璃屋。

75.  Mother asked her whether she was very hot _____________. (with)

妈妈问她穿这么多衣服是不是很热。

76.  He commanded that the students ____________the classroom before he returned. （leave）

他命令学生们在他回来之前不得离开。

77. Stella __________________ her families after such a long and tiring journey. (wait)

经过这次漫长而又疲惫的旅行，斯黛拉迫不及待地想看到她的家人。

78. It was in the village _______________ that he got his junior education, (live)

他的初中正是在他曾经住过的村子里读的。

79. The reason ______________ to the party was that there was something wrong with her mother.（come）

她没来参加晚会的理由是她母亲病了。

80. The number of people who were killed in the earthquake ________________.(increase)

在地震中丧生的人数还在增加。

Below is a selection from a popular science book.

67. What is the colour of blood in a vein near the surface of the skin?

A. Blue.                       B. Dark reddish purple.

C. Red.                        D. Light yellow.

68. Why do some old people look a little shrunken as they age?

A. Because they are more easily affected by gravity.

B. Because their spine is in active use.

C. Because their spine becomes more bent.

D. Because they keep growing backwards.

69. Which of the following statements about our brain is true?

A. In the long run, our brain probably works harder than our heart.

B. When our brain senses the spinning, we will fell dizzy.

C. The brains of the other mammals are as complex as those of humans.

D. Our feelings and emotions come from the most developed area in our brain.

70. What is the main purpose of the selection?

A. To give advice on how to stay healthy.

B. To challenge new findings in medical research.

C. To report the latest discoveries in medical science.

D. To provide information about our body.

Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life.

In some modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all whether rich or poor, clever or stupid, one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough: we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees; they refuse to do what they think “low” work; and in fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor; we can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we would get terrible diseases in our towns.

In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we are educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability, and secondly, that we realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that it is very bad to be ashamed of one’s work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.

63. The writer of this passage thinks that________.

A. free education for all probably leads to a perfect world

B. free education can solve all of the world’s problems

C. free education won’t help to solve social problems

D. all the social problems can’t be solved by free education

64. The writer wants to prove that ___________.

A. a farmer is more important than a professor   

B. our society needs all kinds of jobs 

C. our society needs free education for all

D. people with university degrees earn more money

65. According to the passage, ____________.

A. work with hands is low work

B. work with hands is dirty and shameful   

C. work with hands is the most important   

D. we can’t regard work with hands as low work

66. The purpose of education is ___________.

A. to prepare children for their future life         

B. to let everyone receive education

C. to choose a system of education

D. to prepare children for well-paid jobs

When I was 12, all I wanted was a signet (图章) ring. They were the "in" thing and it seemed every girl except me had one. On my 13th birthday, my Mum gave me a signet ring with my initials (姓名首字母) carved into it. I was in heaven.

What made it even more special was that it was about the only thing that wasn't being "replaced". We'd been burnt out in fires that swept through our area earlier that year and had lost everything—so most of the “new" stuff (东西) we got was really just to replace what we'd lost. But not my ring. My ring was new.

Then, only one month later, I lost it. I took it off before bed and it was missing in the morning. I was sad and searched everywhere for it. But it seemed to have disappeared. Eventually, I gave up and stopped looking for it. And two years later, we sold the house and moved away.

Years passed, and a couple of moves later, I was visiting my parents' when Mum told me that she had something for me. It wasn't my birthday, nor was it Easter or Christmas or any other gift-giving occasion. Mum noticed my questioning look. “You’ll recognize this one," she said, smiling.

Then she handed me a small ring box. I took it from her and opened it to find my beautiful signet ring inside. The family who had bought our house 13 years earlier had recently decided to do some redecorations, which included replacing the carpets. When they pulled the carpet up in my old bedroom, they found the ring. As it had my initials carved into it, they realized who owned the ring. They'd had it professionally cleaned up by a jeweler before sending it to my mother. And it still fits me.

59.   The underlined word "in" in the first paragraph probably means "_____".

A. practical      B. available      C. fashionable        D. renewable

60.   When she got the ring back, the writer was about _____.

A. 13 years old           B. 15 years old

C. 26 years old           D. 28 years old

61.   Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The writer's family moved several times.

B. The writer never stopped looking for her ring.

C. The writer lost her ring in the morning when she took it off.

D. The writer's ring was cleaned up by the new house owner.

62.   What would be the best title for the passage?

A. My New Ring                B. Lost and Replaced  

C. Lost and Found       D. An Expensive Ring

Almost every machine with moving parts has wheels, yet no one knows exactly when the first wheel was invented or what it was used for. We do know, however, that they existed over 5,500 years ago in ancient Asia.

The oldest known transport wheel was discovered in 2002 in Slovenia. It is over 5,100 years old. Evidence suggests that wheels for transport didn't become popular for a while, though. This could be because animals did a perfectly good job of carrying farming tools and humans around.

But it could also be because of a difficult situation. While wheels need to roll on smooth surfaces, roads with smooth surfaces weren't going to be constructed until there was plenty of demand for them. Eventually, road surfaces did become smoother, but this difficult situation appeared again a few centuries later. There had been no important changes in wheel and vehicle design before the arrival of modem road design.

In the mid-1700s, a Frenchman came up with a new design of road—a base layer (层) of large stones covered with a thin layer of smaller stones. A Scotsman improved on this design in the 1820s and a strong, lasting road surface became a reality. At around the same lime, metal hubs (the central part of a wheel) came into being, followed by the pneumatic tyre(充气轮胎) in 1846. Alloy wheels were invented in 1967, sixty years after the appearance of tarmac roads (柏油路). As wheel design took off, vehicles got faster and faster.

55. What might explain why transport wheels didn't become popular for some time?

A. The existence of transport wheels was not known.

B. Humans carried farming tools just as well.

C. Animals were a good means of transport.

D. Few knew how to use transport wheels.

56. What do we know about road design from the passage?

A. It provided conditions for wheel design to develop.

B. It was easier than wheel design.

C. It was promoted by fast-moving vehicles.

D. It improved after big changes in vehicle design.

57. How is the last paragraph mainly developed?

A. By giving examples.

B. By making comparisons.

C. By following time order.

D. By making classifications.

58. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The beginning of road design.

B. The history of public transport.

C. His invention of fast-moving vehicles.

D. The development of transport wheels.