A few days ago my wife sent me out to buy something. When I came home, I handed(交给) her a paper bag and said, “Here are the apples you wanted.” She looked in the bag, and then she looked at me. “I told you,” she said slowly, “to buy some eggs.”

I felt worried about my absent-mindedness, so I went to see a doctor. He was a very kind man. “I have seen many people like you. It’s nothing to worry about,” he said. “If you know you are absent-minded, you are all right. But if you do not know you’re absent-minded, you may be really in trouble.”

“Many famous people were absent-minded,” the doctor told me. “Thomas Edison(爱迪生)was standing in line(排队) one day to pay his taxes(税). When he arrived at the window, he found that he had forgotten his own name. He had to ask the man who was behind him to tell him who he was.”

I felt much better and got up to leave. “Thank you, doctor,” I said. “How much do I have to pay you?”

“Ten dollars for the check-up(检查),” the doctor said.

“But doctor, I did not have a check-up!”

For a moment the doctor looked puzzled. Then he said, “Oh, yes, it was the patient before you who had a check-up. How absent-minded I am!”

1.It can be inferred from Paragraph 1 that when the author’s wife heard what her husband told her, she was ______.

A. excited           B. surprised           C. sad                  D. proud

2.The doctor took Edison’s story for example ______.

A. to show absent-mindedness is common among people

B. because he liked telling stories

C. to make the author laugh    

D. to make fun of Edison

3.The underlined word “absent-mindedness” in the second paragraph probably means ______.

A. a feeling of anger            

B. a feeling of sadness  

C. an emotion (情绪) of excitement  

D. a trouble in which people often forget this or that

4.According to the passage, who was (were) absent-minded?

A. Only the author.                  B. The author’s wife.

C. The author and the doctor.         D. The doctor alone.

根据短文内容，从下框的A – F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一个多余选项。

The personal Qualities of a Teacher: What personal qualities should a teacher have? I think the following would be accepted by most of us.

First, a teacher should be pleasantly live and attractive. It does not mean that the teacher should be good-looking, because teachers who are not good-looking might also have their personal charm. Anyway, they should not be boring.

Secondly, it is basic for a teacher to be sympathetic----to understand the minds and feelings of other people. Closely related with this is the capacity to be tolerant (宽容) - indeed not of what is wrong, but of the weakness of human beings which make people, especially children, make mistakes.

Thirdly, a teacher should be a bit of an actor. That is part of the skill of teaching, which means that every now and then a teacher should put on an act(装样子) to make his lesson interesting and vivid.

Fourthly, a teacher must sometimes show great patience. This is mainly a matter of self-training. None of us are born like that. Teaching requires great effort and a teacher should be able to deal with problem children.

Finally, a teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go on learning. Teaching is a job in which a teacher will never be perfect. There is always something more to learn. There are three main subjects of study: the subjects which the teacher is teaching; the methods the teacher is using; the students whom the teacher is teaching. The two main rules of education today are that education is education of the whole person, and that it needs full and active cooperation between two persons — the teacher and the student.

根据下列各句句意和空白处之后的汉语提示词，在空白处指定区域的横线上写出对应单词的正确形式，每空写一词。

1..At the railway station we had a long wait but we thought it was ____ (值得的) since we got the tickets.

2..Much to her ____ (满意), her boss agreed to her suggestion.

3..The scientists are searching for a way to increase grain harvests without ____(扩大) the area of the fields.

4..Professor Li, can you make a(n) ____(评论) upon this movie.

5..You can ____ (参考) to this book if you want to know more about stars.

6..The American president Barack Obama ____ (发表) a speech on the issue of nuclear power last week.

7..It is well known that Madam Curie won two Nobel Prizes for her ____ (成就).

8..I ____ (尊重) his views, although I do not agree with them.

9..The work is being performed smoothly; ____ (因此), we can expect to finish it on time.

10..Recently a great amount of wheat grown in that country has been ____ (出口) to many other countries.

下列短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

    增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下边写出该加的词；

    删除：把多余的词用（／）划掉；

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下边写出修改后的词。

注意：1、每处错误及修改均仅限一词；

      2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Li Ling is the only one of the student in our class who have ever been to England. Last summer she is lucky enough to be sent there to study for three months. When she arrived in England by plane, she was picking up at the airport by the Johnson family, she would live with for the next few months. The family does everything they could do to make Li Ling to feel at home. Li Ling began her study abroad at a middle school, where she met friends from all over world. She made fully use of every minute to practice her

spoken English and was better thought of by all the people around her.

4月22日是世界地球日，你们学校组织了各种活动纪念这一天。请根据图画内容记述你们在这一天的活动。

  1.  短文必须包括所有图画的内容，可以适当增加细节，使短文连贯流畅。

  2.  词数100左右。开头已为你写好。

  3.  生词：

      濒危的：endangered      

April 22nd, 2005            Sunny

Today is April 22nd, the earth day.

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He has worked         the maths problem for nearly an hour but he simply can’t work it      .

We have every reason to believe that         2008 Beijing Olympic Games will be   success.

As soon as we went       the ship, it left port.

While he         in Europe, he        some photographs of many universities.

–Why don’t you stay at the Baotuquan Hotel? 

--You      ! Do you know how expensive that place is?