--I think our school’s selective courses are of great use and I have learnt a lot from them.

--Yes _______.

A．No problem                           B．I couldn’t agree with you more

C．I don’t think so                        D．It doesn’t matter

One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It's like looking at the tiled(铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is 1. .

Once I heard a bald(秃头的) man said. “Whenever I enter a room,  2.  I see is hair." Once you've   3. what your missing tile is, explore whether getting it will   4.  make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different  5.  , or forget about it and  6.  the tiles in your life that are not missing.

We all know people who have had a relatively  7.  life, yet are often unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but  8.  remain happy.

The first  9.  is gratitude. All happy people are  10. . Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to  11.  , but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

The second secret, is 12. that happiness is a byproduct(副产品) of something else. The most obvious 13. are those pursuits(追求) that give our lives purpose—anything 14. studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are  15. to experience.

Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our  16.  has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We   17. a spiritual faith, or a philosophy of life. Whatever your philosophy, it should 18.  this truth: if you choose to find the 19. in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As with happiness itself, this is  20.   your decision to make.

21.               A．different       B．missing         C．short D．broken

22.               A．nothing        B．none          C．all    D．anything

23.               A．determined     B．predicted       C．assumed   D．imagined

24.               A．completely      B．naturally        C．hopefully  D．really

25.               A．tile            B．brick           C．ceiling D．house

26.               A．look on         B．focus on        C．count on  D．decide on

27.               A．peaceful        B．difficult         C．easy  D．ordinary

28.               A．certainly        B．merely         C．hardly D．generally

29.               A．secret         B．factor          C．rule  D．key

30.               A．wealthy        B．grateful        C．proud D．generous

31.               A．upset          B．quarrel         C．complain  D．depress

32.               A．admitted       B．assuming       C．proving   D．realizing

33.               A．sources        B．results         C．answers   D．goals

34.               A．among         B．from           C．through   D．for

35.               A．probable       B．possible        C．likely D．capable

36.               A．value          B．destination      C．survival   D．existence

37.               A．need          B．lack           C．demand   D．expect

38.               A．involve         B．include         C．absorb    D．mean

39.               A．worst          B．best           C．positive   D．negative

40.               A．absolutely      B．totally          C．exactly    D．Largely

Mark and his brother Jason both were looking at the shining new computer enviously, Jason was determined not to go against their father's wishes but Mark was more adventurous than his brother. He loved experimenting and his aim was to become a scientist like his father.

“Dad will be really mad if he finds out you've been playing with his new computer.” Jason said, “He told us not to touch it.”

“He won’t find out,” Mark said. “I'll just have a quick look and shut it down.”

Mark had been scolded before for touching his father's equipment. But his curiosity was difficult to control and this new computer really puzzled him.

It was a strange-looking machine — one his dad had brought home from the laboratory where he worked. “It’s an experimental model," his father had explained, “so don’t touch it under any circumstances.” But his father's warning only made Mark more curious. Without any further thought, Mark turned on the power switch. The computer burst into life and seconds later, the screen turned into colors, shifting and changing and then two big white words appeared in the centre of the screen: “SPACE TRANSPORTER.” “Yes!” Mark cried excitedly, “It's a computer game. I knew it! Dad's only been pretending to work. He's really been playing games instead.”A new message appeared on the screen: “

ENTER NAMES

VOYAGER 1:…

VOYAGER 2:…

Mark's fingers flew across the keyboard as he typed in both of their names.

“INPUT ACCEPTED. START TRANSPORT PROGRAM. AUTO-RETRIEVE INITIATED( 自动回收程序已启动).”The screen turned even brighter and a noise suddenly rose in volume. “I think we'd better shut it off, Mark,” Jason yelled, reaching for the power switch. He was really frightened.But his hand never reached the switch. A single beam of dazzling white light burst out of the computer screen, wrapping the boys in its glow(光芒) , until they themselves seemed to be glowing. Then it died down just as suddenly as it had burst into life. And the boys were no longer there. On the screen, the letters changed.

“TRANSPORT SUCCESSFUL. DESTINATION ( 目的地)：MARS.  RETRIEVE DATE: 2025.”

1.Why did Mark touch the computer against his father's warning?

A．He wanted to take a voyage.               B．He wanted to practice his skill.

C．He was so much attracted by it.             D．He was eager to do an experiment.

2. Where did the boys' father most likely work?

A．In an electronic factory.                  B．In a computer company.

C．In a scientific research center.              D．In an information processing center.

3.Mark thought “SPACE TRANSPORTER” on the screen was the name of______.

A．a computer game                       B．a company website

C．a software producer                     D．an astronomer

4.Why did Jason want to shut off the computer?

A．He was afraid of being scolded.

B．He didn't like the loud noise and light.

C．He didn't want to play games any more.

D．He was afraid something dangerous might happen.

5.What happened to the boys at the end of the story?

A．They were blown into the air.

B．They were sent to another planet.

C．They were hidden in the strong light.

D．They were carried away to another country.

Franz Kafka wrote that “a book must be the ax (斧子) for the frozen sea inside us. ”I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn’t seem to require any explanation.

We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying?” one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. “I am,” I told her, “and the funny thing is I’ve read it many times.”

But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I’ve taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel’s terrible logic—the giving way of dreams to fate (命运).

For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school—one that often attracts the literary-minded children of Manhattan’s upper classes—into a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital” could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph. Ds.

Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn’t always read from the expected point of view.   About The Red Pony, one student said, “it’s about being a man, it’s about manliness.”I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies (独白) read as raps (说唱), but both made sense; The interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck’s writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and they’re all white.” His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.

Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich (充实) the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.

1.The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to __________.

A．realize our dreams                      B．give support to our life

C．smooth away difficulties                  D．awake our emotions

2.Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men?

A．Because they spent much time reading it.

B．Because they had read the novel before.

C．Because they came from a public school.

D．Because they had similar life experiences.

3.The girl left the selective high school possibly because__________.

A．she was a literary-minded girl              B．her parents were immigrants

C．she couldn’t fit in with her class           D．her father was then in prison

4.To the author’s surprise, the students read the novels__________.

A．creatively         B．passively          C．repeatedly        D．carelessly

5.The author writes the passage mainly to__________.

A．introduce classic works of literature

B．advocate(倡导) teaching literature to touch the heart

C．argue for equality among high school students

D．defend the current testing system

Some people call her innovative, others say she’s simply a copycat--- a Chinese version of US singer Lady Gaga---or just an attention seeker who tries too hard. But whatever labels fans and critics pin on her, Shang Wenjie, whose English name is Laure, keeps herself cool.

As she sings in her song The way I am: “Whether you like it or not, it has nothing to do with me.”

Shang, 30, first rose to fame in 2006 as the champion of Hunan TV’s talent contest Supergirls. However, she didn’t enjoy much popularity until she changed her girl-next–door image into a more shocking style four years later. 

While her fashion taste caught public attention, criticism came just as quickly, with many saying her rebellious look was only meant to get more media exposure.

“My styling goes with the music,” Shang told Yancheng Evening News. “I don’t need to be known as the Chinese Lady Gaga. I just want to be known as Laure Shang.”

She’s recently made that a reality thanks to I’m a Singer, another talent show produced by Hunan TV, which gathers famous singers to compete and an audience of 500 to decide who goes to the next round,

The show gave Shang an opportunity to display her musical abilities. She tried out a wide range of styles including pop, hip-hop, rock’n’roll, punk and electro. The highlights of her time on the show were when she chose tunes which are lesser-known than other contestants’ choices. For example, she sang her own versions of American pop star Michael Jackson’s Man in the “Shang has shown an international flavor which is just as inspiring as her fashion sense,” commented Sina.com. “She has become a trail blazer on the Mandopop scene, creating a music style bearing her own mark.”

Shang was eliminated (淘汰) on March 8, but “thanks to the show, her popularity has grown rapidly,” People’s Daily wrote.

“I love Shang, the youngest singer on the show,” said 16-year-old Guo Chen, a Senior 1 student from Daqing Shiyan High School in Heilongjiang. “Shang is quite international. She not only introduces European and US fashion, but also creatively combines Western music with Mandopop.”

Shang owes her international style to her educational background. She graduated from Fudan University as a French major. “The advantage of learning foreign languages is intangible. For example, it helps me communicate well with foreign musicians and broaden my horizons of music styles,” she said.

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容用完整的句子回答问题。（请将答案写在答题卷上相应番号后的横线上）。（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

You will probably try harder to get more sleep once you see how much better you feel with even 30 minutes more sleep.

Getting more sleep is sometimes merely a matter of scheduling. In the next couple of weeks, try to get rid of one or two things from your morning and evening routine. If morning is your downfall, shift(转移) some of your morning routines to the night before or putting something off until your break at lunch. If late afternoon and night are your downfalls, do the same.

You don’t really need to watch the news. It’s depressing. If something important happens today, you will find out tomorrow at work. At least skip(略过) the weather. Right after dinner, go to a major search engine, and type in “national weather” and the name of your town. You will see a two-line weather report from the National Weather Service. This will save you several minutes of watching the weather on television.

If reading helps you, take a boring book or magazine to bed with you. Paperbacks(平装本) are not as heavy and are easier to read in bed. 

If you have a partner or roommate, maybe you can take turns with a neck and shoulder massage at night instead of television.

Make sure you are ready for sleep when you go to bed. __________ such as televisions, computers, and video games wake us up. Avoid them for at least an hour before you plan to go to bed. 

1.What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)

2.Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 5 words.)

3.Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

Often, sleeping more depends on how you manage your time.

4.Translate the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph into Chinese.

5.As a senior student, how can you make sure you get enough sleep?  (Please answer within  30 words.)

用方框内单词的适当形式填空。（请将答案写在答题卷上相应番号后的横线上）。

1.There was no evidence that he was_________ in any criminal activity.

2.I think education shouldn’t be ________ only by examination results.

3.This corner would make a good ________ for a gas station.

4.You see Afghanistan not as a place of war and ________, but as a country where children still play and life carries on.

5.I still find it _________ to find myself surrounded by large numbers of horses.

6.All the employees plan to _________ because the employer is too unreasonable. .

7.________ for me, she accepted my apology and I promised her not to think anything stupid when we were not together.

8.Our English teacher has repeatedly _________ the importance of handwriting.

9.The government will provide temporary _________ for up to three thousand homeless people.

10.This seems to be the most ________ organization that represents the interests of Jews in America.

句子翻译（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

1.扩大了的欧盟拥有五亿多人口， 该人口是美国的两倍。

The _________ European Union has a population of more than half a billion people, ________ ________ ________ as the population of the United States.

2.大坝将要生产相当于燃烧4,000万吨煤所产生的电量，但却不会造成那么严重的空气污染。

The dam will generate electricity _________ _________ about 40 million tons of coal _________ _________ so much air pollution.

3.平均来说，美国每年发生800次龙卷风，80人死亡、1,500 人受伤。

_________ _________, there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year, causing about 80 _________ and 1,500 _________.

4.孟子认为，人之所以不同于动物，是因为人性本善。

Mencius believed that the _________ _________ man is different from animals ________ _________ man is good.

5.英特网让全世界的人在任何时候的交流成为可能。

The Internet _________ _________ _________ for people in the world ________ communicate at any time.

书面表达（满分25分）（请将答案写在答卷上的规定位置。）

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注意：  1. 词数：120词左右；

内容要涵盖上面所列的几条；

不能逐词翻译。

Being able to afford ______ drink would be ______ comfort in those difficult times.

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