Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹嘘) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.

    All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at computer results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.

    However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing, or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.

    There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.

1. The new products become more and more time-saving because       .

A. the manufacturers boast a lot            B. time is limited

C. the prices are increasingly high          D. our love of speed seems never-ending

2. What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Simple life in the past.                B. Imaginary life.

C. Times of inventions.                  D. Time for constant activity.

3.. What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology?

A. Critical.         B. Optimistic.      C. Objective.         D. Negative.

4.. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The present and past times.        B. Modern technology and its influence.

C. Imaginations and inventions.     D. Machinery and human beings.

根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑，选项中有两项为多余选项。

A: Good morning, Betty. You look so weak.     1   

B: It’s hard for me to breathe.     2   

A: How long have you been like this?

B: Since about two weeks ago.

A:    3  

B: There’s a chemical plant near our town, which produces such harmful gases that the air has been seriously polluted.

A:    4   Pollution has caused too many environmental problems recently. We’d better do something to prevent it from going like this.

B:    5   Shall we write a letter to the local government about the problem?

A: Good idea. Let’s put it into practice at once. But…now I suggest you go to see a doctor first.

B: Thank you. And maybe I’ll have to think about leaving this town and moving to a better place.

根据下列句子及所给汉语注释, 在答题卡相应的位置上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。(每空只写一词)

1... Of all the subjects, ________ (地理) is little John’s favorite.

2... When he was very young, the boy dreamed of becoming a ________ (飞行员).

3... Now more and more people are _______(开始) to understand the importance of good health.

4.. I have been ________ (深深地) impressed by a number of experiences in her life.

5.. When I entered the room, I found the old man ________ (坐) himself in the armchair.

6... It’s reported that several ________ (欧洲) countries have been involved in that country’s civil war.

7... Mr. Green managed to fasten the suitcase with ________ (钉子).

8... When you’re enthusiastic about something, you’re ________ (可能) to do whatever you can to get it.

9... Father suggested that Li Lei ________ (刮) off his beard immediately.

10... Many people now make it a rule to buy cards for their friends before ________ (圣诞节).

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾(√)；如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：

    此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

    此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

    此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

Dear Ms Smith,

   I’m Li Hua from the Student Union of Yucai Middle School.     

1...___________

We were organizing an art exhibition for high school students      

2..  ___________

in our city. It will be hold on the 9^th of June in the Exhibition       

3..  ___________

Hall of Beihai. More than 1,000 painting will be on show,          

4... ___________

but high school students and teachers from all the five districts      

5..  ___________

will come to the event. As you are very popularly with us        

6... ___________

Chinese high school students, we’d like to invite for you          

7..  ___________

to the exhibition. We would be grateful when you could           

8..  ___________

join them that day.                                          

9... ___________

    I am looking forward hearing from you soon.                 

10..  ___________                                  Yours,

                                   Li Hua

下面四幅图画从四个方面反映了某市公共场所存在的不良现象。请你简单描述四幅图画，对其中某一种现象陈述你的看法，可适当增加细节。词数100 字左右

参考词汇：乱写乱画scrabbles

With the development of society，more and more attention has been paid to appropriate manners.                                                                         

—-I’m sorry , but I’m afraid I must be off now.

   — ____ , Mr Smith. And have a nice day!

   A. So long           B. So much         C. So well      D. So far

— Bob isn’t feeling well. He has caught a cold.

   — Everybody seems to have ____ because of the changeable climate in spring here.

A. that             B.it            C. one                  D.another

This afternoon Mr Smith will give us a report on nuclear energy , which is well worth _____.

A. listening        B. listening to      C. being listened   D. being listened to 

Tom had made up his mind to give it up, but on ____ second thought he determined to have ____ third try.

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

Due to the violent nuclear leakage, the _____ of the electricity supplies put Japan’s northeastern cities in a sate of chaos.

A. failure            B. currency         C.variety           D.absence