Despite __________, they aren’t happy.

A. rich                B. being rich            C. they are rich          D. be rich

 __________ young criminals to do community service, like picking up litter and helping senior people, __________ the best punishment.

A. Getting; are            B. Getting; is            C. Get; are                     D. Get; is

 __________ the old stores and houses will be destroyed to __________ for the highway.

A. Many; make rooms                                      B. Many of; make rooms

C. Many; make room                                D. Many of; make room

 The city says these trees have to be taken down to make way for a __________playground. Why do you __________ that?

A. children’; against                                B. children’; oppose

C. children’s; against                               D. children’s; oppose

 The cell phone is __________ useful invention of the last 50 years, however, some scientists __________ the disappearance of bees.

A. a; blame it for                                    B. an; blame it for

C. a; are blamed it for                                D. an; are blamed it for

  假如你叫李华，是青岛市某中学学生。最近你校在为一批来自加拿大的学生征询寄宿家庭，你有意申请。请根据提供的信息和自身条件用英语给加拿大Montreal 中学校长写封信，说明你申请的理由（如住房条件，语言优势，接待经验等）。

注意：

1.   文章必须包括所有要点；

2.   词数120-150，信的开头与结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数；

3.  可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear sir,

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Yours，

Li Hua

阅读下面的短文并用英语回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（请注意问题后的词数要求）。

〔1〕My mother always told us there is no use crying over spilled milk. That means you should not get angry when something bad happens and cannot be changed. She also told us you have to break some eggs to make an omelet（煎蛋卷）. This means you have to do what is necessary to move forward.

〔2〕My mother believed you are what you eat. A good diet is important for good health. She would always give us nutritious food. She liked serving us meat and potatoes for dinner. Meat and potatoes can also mean the most important part of something. It describes someone who likes simple things.

〔3〕My father was also a good and honest person. People said he was the salt of the earth， because he would never pour salt on a wound, or make someone feel worse about something that was already a painful experience. However, sometimes he told us a story that seemed bigger than life. So we had to take it with a grain of salt. That is, we could not believe everything he told us.

〔4〕My manager at work does not always know what is going on in our office. Yet she is right about one thing: there is no such thing as a free lunch. Something may appear to be _________, but there may be a hidden cost. When we fail to see problems at work, my manager tells us to wake up and smell the coffee. We need to pay more attention and fix the problem. I once made a big mistake at the office and felt foolish. I had egg on my face.

〔5〕Over the weekend, my friend invited me to watch a football game on television. But I do not like football. It is not my cup of tea.

〔6〕I hope I have given you food for thought, that is, something to think about.

66. What is the main idea of the whole passage? (no more than 15 words)

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67. What would the author’s mother tell them to do when problems came up?

(no more than 10 words)

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68. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words.( no more than five words)

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69. What can you say if your face turns red because of a foolish mistake according to the passage?

( no more than 10 words)

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70. Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5. (no more than 8 words)

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Nuclear power’s danger to health, safety, and even life itself can be summed up in one word: radiation.

Nuclear radiation has a certain mystery about it, partly because it cannot be detected by human senses. It can’t be seen or heard, or touched or tasted, even though it may be all around us. There are other things like that. For example, radio waves are all around us but we can’t detect them, sense them, without a radio receiver. Similarly, we can’t sense radioactivity without a radiation detector. But unlike common radio waves, nuclear radiation is not harmless to human beings and other living things.

At very high levels, radiation can kill an animal or human being immediately by killing masses of cells in vital organs. But even the lowest levels can do serious damage. There is no levels of radiation that is completely safe. If the radiation does not hit anything important, the damage may not be serious. This is the case when only a few cells are hit, and if they are killed immediately. Your body will replace the dead cells with healthy ones. But if the few cells are only damaged, and if they reproduce themselves, you may be in trouble. They can grow into cancer. Sometimes this does not show up for many years.

 This is another reason for some of the mystery about nuclear radiation. Serious damage can be done without the victim being aware at the time that damage has occurred. A person can be irradiated（辐射）and feel fine, then die for cancer five, ten, or twenty years later as a result. Or a child can be born weak as a result of radiation absorbed by its grandparents.

 Radiation can hurt us. We must know the truth.

61. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. How to detect nuclear radiation.

B. How radiation kill a man.

C. The mystery about nuclear radiation.

D. Serious damage caused by nuclear radiation.

62. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Nuclear radiation can cause cancer to human beings.

B. Nuclear radiation can be safe to human beings if its level is low.

C. Nuclear radiation can be detected by human senses.

D. Nuclear radiation is just like common radio waves.

63. How can nuclear radiation kill an animal?

A. By damaging its heart.                                   B. By killing a few cells.

C. By killing many cells in important organs.         D. By hitting any place in its body.

64. What is not the reason why nuclear radiation has a certain mystery?

A. The hurt cells can stay in the body many years and then grow into cancer.

B. It can do harm to a person while the victim isn't aware the damage has occurred.

C. Nuclear radiation can kill a person very easily.

D. Radiation can seldom kill a person immediately.

65. If a human being is hit by nuclear radiation, he may _______.

A. die of cancer after many years                               B. die immediately

C. have a child who may be born weak                D. all of the above

During the last fifteen years of my mother's life she suffered with Alzheimer's disease (老年痴呆). Until then she had been a bright, cheerful woman deeply interested and involved in the world around her. I would go home to visit her in Virginia and she would look at me in a puzzled way and ask, “Who are you?”  I would answer, “I'm your son.”  “Where do you live?”  She would ask. “In California”, I would tell her. “Isn't that interesting,”  she would say, “I have a son in California.”
    She seemed simply forgetful and confused at the beginning of the disease, but later on she would go through periods of intense anxiety. She would pace through the house she had lived in most of her life crying uneasily that she wanted to go home. Or she would leave home and wander away if she were unattended for a short time.   

Hoping to please her and put her mind at ease I would take her for a drive, visiting sites where she had lived as a child. In the yard of the hillside house in Shipman I sat in the car and admired the view of the old oaks and long green lawn. I pictured my mother there was a little girl playing with the pet lamb she had been so fond of. I looked to her for some response. She shook her head and said, “I want to go home.”
    Over the years I have decided that what my mother was calling home was not a place, but a time. I suspect it was a time when she was much younger, when her children were still underfoot, when her husband was still vigorous and attentive.

Watching my mother's suffering set me wondering where I would have in mind if someday I couldn’t find home and wanted to go there. In this family we tend to be long-lived and we grow fuzzy (糊涂的) minded as the years go by. At eighty I have already noticed some alarming symptoms. My doctor says the forgetfulness is only natural and that it comes with age. Still the fear of Alzheimer's is haunting there. Someday if and when I become even more cloudy minded than I am now, unable to drive and unable to tell you where "home" is, my dear son, I expect I will ask you to take me home, I know you will do your best to find the place I need to be. I leave these notes for your guidance.

56. What's the main idea of the first two paragraphs?

   A. The author’s mother suffered with serious Alzheimer's disease.

   B. The author’s mother forgot who’s his son.

   C. The author didn’t know how to cure his mother.

   D. The author’s mother couldn’t find her home.

57. What is not the symptom of the author’s mother ?      

   A. cheerful            B. confused              C. forgetful                D. uneasy

58. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “picture”?

   A. photograph       B. appear                  C. describe               D. paint

59. What can you infer from the third paragraph?

   A. The author care much about his mother.

   B. The author’s mother was fond of pet lambs.

   C. The author saw a little girl playing with a pet lamb.

   D. The author’s mother didn’t like her usual home.

60. What’s the best title of the passage?

   A. Take Mother Home.

   B. Everyone will suffer with Alzheimer's disease.

   C. A story about a son and a mother.

   D. Where Is Home?

An eighteen-year-old high school student from Utah won the top prize in the Intel Science Talent Search in the United States. The winner received a computer and a scholarship for a college education.

More than 1,500 students from across the country entered projects in the competition this year. Their research included chemistry, medicine, physics, mathematics, engineering, and computer science—almost every area of science.

Forty students were invited to Washington, D.C．for the final judging. A group of scientists judged them on their research abilities, Critical thinking skills and creativity. The judges also questioned the students about scientific problems before deciding on the winners.

The top winner received 100,000 dollars for college. Shannon Babb of American Fork High School studied the water quality of tile Spanish Fork River in Utah for six years. She found that people have a harmful effect on the river through human activity, including agriculture. And she suggested ways to improve the water quality in the future. These include educating the public not to put household chemicals down the drains（下水道）, which lead to the river eventually.

Seventeen-year-old Yi Sun of the Hanker School in San Jose, California, earned the second place. He won a 75,000 dollar scholarship for new discoveries about a mathematical theory known as random walks. His work could help computer scientists and chemists. Yi Sun was born in China.

    The third-place winner was also seventeen and born in China. Yuan “Chelsea” Zhang of Montgomery Blair High School in Rockville, Maryland, won a 50,000 dollar scholarship. She researched the molecular genetics（分子遗传学）of heart disease. Her findings could aid the development of new medicines.

    The Intel Science Talent Search is the oldest science competition for high school students in the United States. It is 65 years old this year. Past winners have gone on to receive six Nobel prizes and other top honors in science and math.

51. What do we know about the talent search project?

A. Most of its winners have received Nobel prizes.

   B. The project includes researches in every area of science.

   C. Only a small part of the students can attend the final judging.

   D. Most of the winners come from Asian countries.

52. According to the text,         .

   A. water quality in Utah will be better than that in the other states

   B. the river was polluted only by those living near it

   C. Shannon Babb suggested more than one way to improve the water quality

   D. household chemicals should be kept in the drains forever

53. Which of the following about the girl from Maryland is NOT true? 

   A. The scholarship she received was half as many as Shannon Babb.

   B. Her discovery is of great help to Chinese medicine.

   C. Her research will contribute to the cure of heart disease.

   D. She and the second-place winner Yi Sun have something in common.

54. What is the text mainly about?  

   A. Three winners' contributions to science and math.

   B. Three Chinese students won the Science Talent Search.

   C. Great rewards were given to winners in the competition.

   D. Winners of the Intel Science Talent Search in the US.

55. Where are you most likely to find this text?  

   A. In a newspaper.                                   B. In a handbook.

C. In a textbook.                                  D. In a medical magazine.