When first entered, Vanak Restaurant does not look like much of a restaurant, but once the pleasant smells of kabob （烤肉串）hit the senses, you are incapable of calling it anything less.

Owned by a local couple, this Persian restaurant has an inviting, homelike atmosphere that many restaurants lack.

The space is small with only a few dining tables and nearly no decoration, but the environment is truly charming.

Lying in a hardly noticeable street corner, the restaurant still attracts all customer especially those experienced in the delights of Middle Easrern cooking.

A common sight is that of old Persian men sitting in the corner talking loudly about world topics, watching news events on TV, drinking a black tea known as Persian chai, an reading local Persian newspapers all the while trying to finish off their plates piled wit food.

The variety of food at the restaurant is limited, but the amount of each dish is fairly large. Most of the meals can serve two people and are under $10, so not only is it affordably but practical as well.

The food, especially appeals to health-conscious eaters because each dish is very healthy, made with limited fat and oil and served straight off the grill（烤肉架）.

The main dish that the restaurant is popular for is its kabobs, which are different style of grilled meat.

One delicious and extremely healthy dish is the Jooieh Kabob, which is made of grille chicken picccs served with either rice or bread. Another great kabob is the Chelo Kabob, kabob consisting of grilled beef.

Although the restaurant is small, the atmosphere and the food is delicious. It is a plan that should not be overlooked.

1.When first entering the restaurant ,one can find that it       .

A．is splendidly decorated.                  B．has pleasant smells of kabobs.

C．is crowded with dining table.               D．looks like a common restaurant.

2.What activity is also mentioned apart from dining in the restaurant?

A．Watching news events on TV.              B．Drinking a kind of black coffee.

C．Reading local English newspaper.            D．Discussing world topics in loe voices.

3.The food of the restaurant       .

A．is served in small amounts.                B．is rather expensive.

C．is rich in verity.                         D．is very healthy

4.What is the dish Joojeh Kabob mainly made of？

A．Rice             B．Chicken           C．Bread            D．Beef

5.It can be inferred from the passage that restaurant        .

A．occupies

B．owns a favorable location

C．is popular for its special food

D．has a quiet environment inside

●Ms Tan, you’ve referred to your new novel as your eighth book.

That’s because it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I started and completed this one.

●Why do you think you had so many false starts?

I would say that my reasons were wrong. I was trying to prove that I wasn’t just a mother-daughter storyteller, or I was trying to prove that I didn’t just have to write about things that were strictly Chinese or Chinese-American. Those were never the right reasons for writing those early stories. And I could never come up with other better reasons for continuing them.

●What kept you going on this book?

This book was different because it was based on my mother’s real life. The reason for writing it became more personal and emotional. After The Joy Luck Club came out, my mother was always explaining to people that she wasn’t any of the mothers in that book. And at one point she said to me, “Next book tells my true story.” And then she started telling me things I never knew before. She also told me many, many stories, because my mother doesn’t generalize(笼统地表达). The book really grew out of that.

●Have you ever visited China?

Yes. I’ve been there twice: about three years ago and then again last November, both times with my mother and my husband.

●Was it difficult to understand the Chinese-American dialect(方言) without sounding like a parody(拙劣的模仿)?

No, because it’s the language I’ve heard all my life from my mother. She speaks English as it’s direct translation from Chinese. But it’s more than that. Her language also has more imagery than English.

●Can you think of an example?

Somebody might say to me, “Don’t work so hard. You’ll kill yourself.” My mother will say to me，“Why do you press all your brains out on this page for someone else？” So it’s very vivid. That’s the way she talks.

●Have many readers told you that the Chinese mother in your book reminded them of the typical Jewish (有癖好的) mother?

Many people have told me that. I think the mother-daughter relationship is very intense(紧张) in both cases. Culturally there is an acceptance that mothers have the power to tell their children, especially their daughters, how to conduct their lives --- not simply up until the time they are 18, but for the rest of their lives. However, when children grow up in a different culture from their parents’，they tend to keep more secrets from their parents. The children think, “They just wouldn’t understand that I had to do this.” And that can really create a gap, and it can grow as the number of secrets grows.

1.Based on the questions in this interview, what do you think Ms Tan’ s profession is?

A．A journalist.        B．A story-writer.      C．An interviewer.     D．An interviewee.

2.What’ s TRUE about Tan’ s second book?

A．It’ s about her real life in America.

B．The name of the book is The Joy Luck Club.

C．It is the result of many times of carefull thought.

D．It includes many works of her mother.

3.Which question is NOT answered in the interview?

A．How does she think of her mother’ s language?

B．How many books does she plan to write?

C．When did she visit China?

D．How is generation gap created?

4.We can infer that________.

A．Tan’ s mother is a good storyteller

B．Tan plans to write another book about her mother

C．Tan plans to return to China

D．Tan’ s mother is hard to communicate with because of personality

5.The last paragraph mainly talks about________.

A．how to keep secrets from parents

B．how to deal with the mother-daughter relationship

C．how to conduct the lives

D．how the generation gap comes about

Everyone can experience anger sometimes, but not everyone can control it properly. To some people, controlling anger seems like the hardest thing in the world to do.

When it comes to anger control, there are lots of tools and things that you can do. The first technique you can use is to recognize stress when it occurs. This is extremely important as you need to understand what causes this pressure and attempt to reduce this stress before it transforms quickly into anger.

Developing empathy (移情) is another anger control skill you can learn. You can teach yourself how to reduce or eliminate (消除)anger completely by seeing things from other people’s perspective.

You need to learn how to respond to situations rather than react. Think about your response and calmly approach this rather than reacting suddenly when stress and pressure are triggered.

When you experience unwanted feelings, control these by talking to yourself in your own mind and enable yourself to deal with those feelings effectively before acting on them. By talking it over in your own head you can work out how you will best deal with the situation instead of acting on impulse (冲动), which can be destructive.

Anger control can also be achieved with the skill of being able to communicate with others with honesty. You can effectively train yourself to respond to situations without getting annoyed about things.

These feelings can quite regularly be set off by a difference in what we expect and what actually get in life. Often if things do not go our way or we feel we have been harshly treated, we will find it hard to control our anger. If you adjust your expectations, then you should be able to handle difficult situations and cope with them much better.

Finally it is vitally important to step back and think about things that are happening rather than acting too quickly. It can sometimes be very hard not to wade in (介入)and start acting before thinking about things first.

Therefore, it is important to remember that everyone has the capacity to lose their temper and controlling it is the real challenge.

Directions: Read the following passage.Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit.

Many people pursue goals that they hope will make them happy, but happiness is not always the final result. So how does one determine and establish which goals will end in personal happiness and which will not ? what are the things in life that are correlated with personal happiness?

The most important thing is people’s attitude toward life, which can greatly impact their personal levels of happiness and satisfaction with life overall.

Psychologists have known for some time that optimism is a good defense against unhappiness. It’s probably no secret that optimistic people are considered to be much more happier people than pessimists. There are specific characteristic features optimists have (pleasant ways of thinking), that bring them more success, greater health, increased life satisfaction, and other good things. If you became an optimist, it can mean that you became a very happy person, despite your circumstances, and it can actually bring more things into your life to be happy about. “If you are optimistic and you think life is going to get better, it will become a self-fulfilling prediction”, says one of the scientists. “Happy people manage to look on the bright side, even if they encounter big problems on their way.”

Positive psychologists believe that people can learn how to become happy, that everyone can teach themselves to see a half-empty glass as half-full. All they have to do is to spend time thinking about all the things that have gone right for them, rather than complaining what has gone badly. Study on depression shows that one of the biggest causes of depression is thinking and worrying about something that went wrong in the past.

1.According to the passage, what can affect people’s personal levels of happiness? (No more than 5 words ) (2 marks)

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2.Why are some people depressed according to the study? (No more than 13 words )  (2 marks)

_____________________________________________________________.

3.How do people learn to be happy according to the psychologist ? (No more than 15 words )  (3 marks)

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4.What is the main idea of the passage? (No more than 10 words )   (3 marks)

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英语中有一句谚语“A friend in need is a friend in indeed.”你班正在举行以”交友之道”为主题的英语演讲比赛，请以此为题并根据下面的提示写一篇120词左右的演讲稿。开头已给出，不计入总词数。

提示：1.对人要友善，用微笑吸引人；

2.要善解人意，设身处地地为别人着想。

3.不要吵架，遇事要商量

4.关心别人要胜过关心自己

5.不要相信那些在危机时刻背离朋友的人。

6.根据你对交友之道的理解，进行适当的补充，并发表自己的看法。

How to make friends

Good morning,everyone!

The topic of my speech today is “How to make friends”.

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Thank you for listening.

Yang Liwei was a student at this flight school from 1983 to 1987,      he studied very hard and was made chairman of the Students’ Union.

A．during which time                       B．for which time

C．during whose time                      D．by that time

George Gould, a friend of Carnarvon’s, went to Egypt after hearing of his strange death and visited the tomb, only ______a high fever the next day.

A．catching          B．to catch           C．caught            D．catch

Although medical science________ control over several dangerous diseases, what worries us is that some of them are returning.?

A．achieved                              B．has achieved

C．will achieve                            D．had achieved

----The train will arrive at the station in half an hour. Who ______for us? 

----I am sure Dad will be standing there when we get off the train.

A．will be waiting                          B．was to wait

C．wait                                  D．was about to wait

---- What were you doing when Tony phoned you?

---- I had just finished my work and _____to take a shower.

A．had started        B．started            C．have started       D．was starting