In today’s world, English is the most wildly used language. It is our duty to learn English in the new situation of the reform and opening (改革开放) to the outside world. How can we master the English language ? I’d like to give you some good advice.

First, get interested in it. I enjoy listening to foreign friends talking when I was a child. At the same time I watched the English programme Follow Me on TV. From then on, I kept on learning English. The more I learned, the more progress I made.

Second, practice makes perfect. Many people study English very hard, but they are very shy to speak it in public, for they are afraid of making mistakes. Remember you have to make a mistake before you can correct it. A native English speaker makes mistakes sometimes, too.

Third, the beginners should be encouraged to pay attention to idioms. The English language has many idioms. For example, you should say “ He is as strong as a cow.”

1.The writer wants to tell us ____________. 

2.If we want to learn English, we must first __________.

3.When we are learning English, ____________.

4.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 means “_______________.”

All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live longer.

Sports change with the season. People play different games in winter and summer.

Games and sports often grow out of people’s work and everyday activities. The Arab use horses or camels in much of their daily life; they use them in their sports, too.

Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers.

Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing, for example , has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game they often become good friends. Sports help to train a person’s character(性格品质). One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace（体面）.

1.According to this passage we know that ________.

2.According to the passage, which of the following isn’t true?______

3.The writer didn’t tell us in this passage that ______.

Mr. Backer is a kind-hearted man. Once he gave some food to a poor woman . Mr White, the boss of the restaurant, found it and became angry. He often gave the leftovers(剩饭菜) to  some poor workers. Mr. Backers lost his work for it. It was difficult for him to find work in the small country though he was an able cook. The war made all stop. Children couldn't go  to school, most shops were closed, even some farmers were  hungry. Some people were made to leave their houses and they had to find the safe places. It was an autumn night. Mr Backer  hadn't any food to eat and went to bed, but he couldn't fall asleep, because he was very hungry . suddenly he heard a noise in  his room. He saw a man looking for something useful there. He said nothing and watched it carefully. At last the man took a few old clothes out of a broken paper box and took them away. He got up from his bed quickly and followed him gently(文雅地), with his quilt on his back. The man didn't find him and went into a small and wet house. Mr. Backer also went in and saw there was nothing in the room. The thief(贼) saw him and was surprised. He asked, “What did you come here for?” “You have carried my things here,” said Mr. Backer. “I have to move here, too!”   

1.Mr White sent Mr. Backer away because            .

2.       , so the people in the small country got into trouble.

3.Mr. Backer couldn't go to sleep because               .

4.Mr. Backer said nothing when the thief went into his room because        .

5.The underlined word “quilt” in this story means               .

根据意思或首字母填词（注意词性和时态）（每空1分，共10分）

1.Failing in the examination again ___________ （使……不安）her a lot.

2.Either she didn’t see me or she _____________ (不理睬) me on purpose .

3.Parents noticed the ______________ (逐渐的) change in their children.

4.I am g______________(感激的) to you for helping me.

5.If you don’t know the way, you can ask a ________________ (本地人).

6.It is on the eighteenth floor. Let’s use the e____________.

7.The President was leaving for a four-day ____________（官方的）tour of China.

8.She speaks English f____________ though not very standard.

9.I ________________(认出) her although she wore a suit of new clothes.

10.He went _______________(直接地) to his friend to ask for help.

完成句子（注意词性和时态）(每空1分,共20分。)

1.我们现在都担心着她的安全。

Now, we ________ all ______________  __________ her safety.

2.我们听说正在遭受一种怪病的折磨。

We heard that he ________   ______________  _________ a strange disease

3.实际上，她是一个非常善良的人

_______  _________ , she is very kind.

4.在昨天的会议上计划被提出来。

The plan ___________  ______ at the meeting yesterday.

5.他刚刚从手术中恢复过来。

He has just ____________  __________ the opreation.

6.漆黑的夜晚，风雨交加，电闪雷鸣，我全然被这种力量镇住了。

The dark, raining evening, the wind, the thundering clouds _________ me _____________

in their _____________

7.她的母亲是一个很难相处的人。

Her mother is a woman hard to _______  ___________  ________ .

8.从国外回来后， 他们在上海定居下来。

After returning from abroad, they ___________  _________ Shanghai.

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1.upset 

2.persuade

3.concern

4.overcoat

5.loose 

It’s not    good idea to drive for four hours without    break.

Last Sunday, Mr. Green asked Lily    she had written to her mother    .

—I am going to America.

—how long    you    there?

John thought it wouldn’t be long       he was ready for his new job.