Scientists are trying to make the deserts ,which get very little rain, into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts，so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming desert all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the desert in time．

Why is more and more land becoming desert？Scientists think that people make deserts．People are doing bad things to the earth against the scientists’ wish．

Some places on the earth don’t get much rain. But they still don’t become deserts．This is because some green plants are growing there．Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places．Plants don’t let the sun make the earth even drier． Plants do not let the wind blow the dirt away．When a bit of rain falls，the plants hold the water. Without plants, the land can become desert more easily．

1.Deserts ____________ ．

2.More and more land is becoming desert  because____________．

3.Small green plants are very important to dry places because ________

4.After reading this passage, we learn that _____________ ．

A young woman carrying a three-year-old child got on a bus. The conductor(售票员) hurried to give her a warm welcome and then kindly asked the other passengers to make more room for the woman and her child. On seeing this, people began to talk. "You know this conductor used to be very rude. Now suddenly he has changed his bad behavior , "said a middle-aged man.

"Yes, he should be praised and we must write a letter to the company," said a second passenger. "That's right," another lady said, "I wish a newspaper reporter were here so that more people could learn from this conductor. "

Just then a gentleman who looked like a teacher turned to the conductor and said , "Excuse me, but can I know your name, please? Your excellent service must be praised..."

Before he could open his mouth, the three-year-old child sitting on the young woman's lap interrupted (打断谈话), "I know his name. I call him Dad."

1.The passengers were ________ to see the conductor's kindness to the woman and the child.

2.One passenger suggested writing a letter to the company to ______  .

3.What was the gentleman?

4.The word "he" in the last paragraph refers to _______.

The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of September 2, 1666. In four days it destroyed more than three-quarters of the old city, where most of the houses were wooden and close together. Over one hundred people became homeless, but only a few lost their lives .

　　The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King’s baker（面包师）in Pudding Lane. The baker, with his wife and family, was able to get out through a window into the roof. A strong wind blew the fire from the bakery（面包房）into a small hotel next door. Then it spread quickly into Thames Street. That was the beginning.

　　By eight o’clock three hundred houses were on fire. On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning along the River Thames. Tuesday was the worst day. The fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St Paul’s and the Guildhall among them .

　　Samuel Pepys , the famous writer, writer about the fire, “People threw their things into the river. Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment. Birds fell out of the air because of the heat .”

　　The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path（路径） of the fire.With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.

　　After the fire, Christopher Wren, the architect(建筑师), wanted a city with wider streets and fine new houses of stone．In fact, the streets are still narrow, but he did build more than fifty churches, among which was the new St Paul’s

　　The fire caused great pain and loss, but after it London was a better place: a city for the future and not just of the past.

1.The underlined word‘family’in the second paragraph probably means____.

2.It seems that the writer of the text was most sorry for the fact that　　 .

3.Why did the writer cite(引用)Samuel Pepys?

4.How was the fire put out according to the text?

During the summer holidays there will be a revised(修改过的)schedule of services for the students. Changes for dinning-room and library service hours and for bus schedules will be posted on the wall outside of the dining-hall．Weekly film and concert schedules,which are being arranged(安排), will be posted each Wednesday outside of the student club.

　　In the summer holidays, buses going to the town center will leave the main hall every hour on the half hour during the day．The dining-room will serve three meals a day from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm during the week and two meals from noon to 7:00 pm on weekends．The library will continue its usual hours during the week, but have shorter hours on Saturdays and Sundays．The weekend hours are from noon to5:00 pm.

　　All students who want to use the library borrowing services must have a new summer card．This announcement will also appear in the next week’s student newspaper.

1.The main purpose of this announcement is to　　 .

2.Times for films and concerts are not listed in this announcement because　　 .

3.At which of the following times will the bus leave the main hall?

4.In the summer holidays,the library will have　　 .

Will it matter if you don't take your breakfast? Recently a test was given in the United States. Those tested included people of different ages, from 12 to 83. During the experi­ment, these people were given all kinds of breakfasts, and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Special tests were set up to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast. The results show that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect than if he or she has no breakfast. This fact appears to be especially true if a person works with his brains. If a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with more attention to class.

Opposite to(与.....相反) what many people believe, if you don't eat breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch, and end up gaining weight instead of losing. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.

1.During the test, those who were tested were given ________.

2.The results of the test show that ________.

3.The passage mentions that many people believe that if you don't eat breakfast, you will _________.

4.Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

根据中文提示补全句子（每题1分， 共计10分）

1.After ___________  _______ the college, I worked in the school.(毕业于)

2.I was  ______________  _____ become a famous writer.(决心)

3.What’s your __________  _________ this idea?(对……的态度)

4.He won’t __________  ______   _______ the enemies.(向……屈服)

5.Miller is a ___________ man and I think you can rely on him.(可信赖的)

6.His mother was __________  _____  hear the news.(震惊)

7.They _________  ___________  ______ the burning building

yesterday.(被困在…中)

8.The suffering of the people was ______________.(极度的)

9.___________ from his look, he doesn’t think much of the plan.(判断)

10.I can’t ____________ how greatful I am to you .(表达)

假如你叫李明，你的一位美国笔友Peter要来厦门旅游，他想先请你 

向他简单地介绍一下厦门的大致情况。现在，请你给他发一封电子邮件，    

邮件必须包括如下内容：

1. 厦门位于福建东南方向, 是福建省第四大岛屿，是中国最干净的城市， 

有“海上花园”之称。

2. 厦门始建于1394年，宋朝初期，历史悠久。20世纪80年代初又被宣

布为经济特区。

3. 厦门气候宜人，冬暖夏凉，特色小吃众多

4. 著名的鼓浪屿岛、动物园、环岛路和南普陀寺等每年吸引着众多国内

外游客

注意： 1. 可适当增加细节，使文章连贯   2. 词数120左右

3. 文章开头已为你写好，不计入总词数

4. 文字内容书写不得超出框外

参考词汇：1.宋朝：Song dynasty 2.宣布：declare 3.经济特区：Special Economic Zone

4.鼓浪屿：Gulang island 5.环岛路Huandao Road 6.南普陀寺South Putuo Temple

The film ________ the World War II was made in Shanghai.

 I can not spend ________ money on the car which is ________ expensive for me.

Mr. Smith will ________ in the movement.