Our school covers an area of 400 mu, which is _______ as yours.

A．twice as big                  B．twice bigger

C．twice the size                 D．twice the big

—What do you mean by saying that?

—I think you _______ what I said. I meant no harm.

A．understood                     B．misunderstood     

C．heard                          D．followed

—Some wine?

—Thank you. ______. I have to drive home.

A．With pleasure                 B．I’d rather not  

C．That would be nice           D．Just what I needed

 A young man was one day taking a walk with a professor. As they went along, they saw   36   in the path a pair of old shoes. They guessed the shoes belonged to a poor man who had   37   finished his day’s work in a field close by.

　　The student   38   the professor, saying, “Let’s play the man a(n)   39  : we will hide his shoes, and we stay behind those bushes to see his   40   when he cannot find them.”

　　“My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should never   41   ourselves in that way. You are   42  , and may give yourself a greater pleasure by helping the poor man. Perhaps we put a   43   into each shoe, and watch his reaction.”

　　The student did so, and they both   44   themselves behind the bushes. The poor man soon finished his work, and came   45   the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes. While   46   his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes; but feeling something   47  , he bent down to feel what it was, and found the coin.

He was   48  , and looked at the coin again and again. He then looked around   49   on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He now put the money into his pocket, and began to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was   50   on finding the other coin.

　　His feelings overcame him; he fell upon his   51  , looked up to heaven and preyed, He spoke of his wife, sick and   52  , and his children without bread. The timely giving, from some unknown hand, would   53   from dying.

　　The student was moved and his eyes filled with tears. “Now,” said the professor, “are you not much better pleased than if you had played your   54   trick?”

The youth replied, “Thank you! Sir! I feel now the   55   of those words, which I never understood before: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’

1.A．hanging         B．lying            C．sitting               D．hiding

2.A．nearly       B．seemingly      C．closely         D．equally

3.A．looked back      B．referred to      C．turned to        D．puzzled over

4.A．fun              B．amusement    C．entertainment    D．trick

5.A．opinion          B．reaction         C．emotion           D．reply

6.A．treat        B．dedicate         C．amuse         D．occupy

7.A．healthy          B．cool             C．mean              D．rich

8.A．coin         B．penny           C．dollar             D．pound

9.A．performed    B．placed       C．played        D．proved

10.A．around          B．across           C．into               D．toward

11.A．taking on   B．looking on       C．putting on        D．hanging on

12.A．hard        B．tight           C．soft                    D．loose

13.A．surprised       B．excited          C．joyful            D．satisfied

14.A．that            B．it               C．themselves    D．himself

15.A．decreased   B．accelerated      C．doubled           D．improved

16.A．hands       B．knees            C．feet             D．legs

17.A．beautiful   B．merciless        C．hopeful           D．helpless

18.A．support      B．learn           C．treat           D．save

19.A．intended    B．required         C．wanted        D．interested

20.A．faith       B．fact             C．truth             D．reliability

A large number of women in Western European countries wish that they were born men. The number is said as high as 60% in West Germany.

    “Women often wish that they had the same chance as men have, and believe it is still men’s world,” said Dr James Holden, one of the scientists who did the study.

    Anne Harper has a very good job for an international oil company. She also believes in “Women’ s Liberation(解放)”.

    “I don’t wish that I were a man,” she says, “and I don’t think many women do. But I do wish that people would stop looking down upon us women. At work, for example, we often do the work that men do but get paid less. There are still a lot of jobs that are usually the best ones and open only to men. If you’re a man, you have a much better chance of leading an exciting life. How many women pilots are there ... or engineers or scientists?”

1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A．60% women in West Germany wish that they were born men.

B．Most women in Western European countries wish that their babies were all boys.

C．60% Western European women wish that they were born men.           

D．60% Western European women who wish that they were born men are from West Germany.

2.“It is still men’s world.” means “______.”

A．There’re more men than women in the world

B．There’re more men scientists or engineers than women scientists or engineers in the world

C．Women have not been given the same chance as men

D．Women cannot live without men

3.Anne Harper considers that women should ______.

A．live a better life than men           B．be really liberated

C．be well paid                      D．get better jobs than men

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

A．Usually the best jobs are not open to women.

B．Women are less paid than men for the same job.

C．There’re more men pilots, engineers and scientists than women ones.

D．Women are looked down upon because they’re the second-class citizens

There is one language that is used in every country in the world. The people who use it are young and old, short and tall, thin and fat. It is everybody’s second language. It is easy to understand, although you can’t hear it. It is sign language.

    When you wave to a friend who is across the street, you are using sign language. When you smile at someone, you are saying, “I want to be friendly”, but you are not using speech. You are using sign language. When you raise your hand in class, you are saying, “Please ask me. I think I know the correct answer.”

    Babies who can’t talk can point at things. They are using sign language. A policeman who wants to stop traffic holds up his hands. He is using sign language.

    Many years ago, a French priest, Charles Michel de Epee, became interested in education for deaf people. He invented a finger alphabet (字母表). It is still in use. People can make the sign for letters and spell words with their hands, and deaf people can read and understand them. Soon there were schools for the deaf in many countries. The only university for the deaf is Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C.

    Today, in the United States, there are special TV news programs for deaf people. The newsreader tells the news in sign language. At the same time, the words appear on the TV screen.

    The actors in the Theatre of Deaf don’t spell every word. Sometimes they use hand signs. When they put two hands together, it means sandwich. They can make a roof with their hands when they want to show a house. One finger in front of an actor’s mouth can mean quiet. You can talk to people who are behind windows that are closed. And when you go swimming with your friends, you can have conversations under water.

How many hand signs do you use every day?

1.The passage is mainly about ______.

A．a famous priest in France            B．the importance of sign language

C．an introduction to sign language D．how to use sign language

2.If you want to express the idea that “I am very friendly” to someone, you will ______.

A．raise your hand            　 B．put one hand onto the other

C．make a roof with your hands     D．smile to the person

3.Which of the following about sign language is TRUE?

A．It is a special language used in a few countries in the world.

B．It is a way to express one’s ideas without words.

C．It is only used by the deaf.    

D．It can be heard.

Your friends might be in Australia or maybe just down the road, but they are all just a few clicks away. Life has changed for millions of young people across the world who now make friends online. Whether you use chat-rooms, QQ, MSN or ICQ, you are a member of this group.

“I don’t often talk with my parents or grandparents, but I talk a lot with my old friends on QQ,” said Fox’s Shadow, the online name used by a girl student in China. “Most of my classmates use QQ after school.”

QQ is the biggest messaging service in China. A record from Tencent, the company which developed QQ, shows that 4 million people used it one Saturday night in October.

And probably Fox’s Shadow was one of them. “I log in on Friday nights, and Saturdays or Sundays when I feel everything around me boring. I usually spend about ten hours chatting online every week,” she said. “But I never talk with strangers, especially boys or men.”

Even though she likes chatting, she is careful about making friends with strangers online. “You don’t know who you’re talking to. You should always be careful about whom you believe in online.”

Many people would like to meet offline when they feel they have known someone very well. Fox’s Shadow once met one of her online friends face to face. It was a girl who was a football fan like herself and they went to a football match together.

A 16-year-old Beijing boy, named Bart Simon online, dislikes QQ users. “I used to chat on QQ, but I found that most people were talking about foolish things,” he said. Now he chats online in English, using MSN. “I only chat online because I’ve got friends in Japan, the US and Singapore,” he said. “I want to learn more about foreign cultures.” But he spends little time chatting on QQ as he sees it as a waste of time and money.

 “If you are really addicted to it, sometimes you can’t give your mind to your lessons,” he said. “And friends in your real life are always more important than those so-called friends you meet online.”

1.From the passage, we know“…they are all just a few clicks away” means“     ”.

A．it is wonderful to see your friends by clicking

B．it is popular to make friends online

C．it is possible to live much closer to your friends

D．it is easy and fast to get in touch with your friends

2.Fox’s Shadow thinks QQ is      .

A．a good place to spend her time when bored

B．the biggest messaging service in China

C．a safe place to chat with strangers

D．the best place to make friends

3.Which of the following sentences is TRUE according to the passage?

A．All the people on QQ are talking about foolish things.

B．We should think more of our friends in real life.

C．We should be careful about boys or men online.

D．Chatting online is a waste of time and money.

4.The underlined phrase means      .

A．turn on the computer             B．enter in QQ

C．surf the internet                D．make friends

What is it that makes people laugh? More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher (哲学家) Aristotle defined (定义) jokes as the pleasure that results from a feeling of triumph by showing we’re better than someone else in a certain way. According to Aristotle and many other philosophers，all jokes depend mainly on showing inferiority in another person or group of persons — that is，putting it clearly，on showing that they are worse off than ourselves. Jokes raise our good opinion of ourselves at someone else’s expense.

    Showing how much better than other people we are is only one reason we like jokes. Someone may also use a joke to express their anger or their cruelty （残酷）or any other kind of action that is not acceptable to us. We feel free to laugh when we hear about someone sliding on a banana skin. The joke lets us express those attitudes which are usually unacceptable to society. This is probably the reason why some of the jokes，especially those involving cruelty，are so popular with certain people.

    Besides，all jokes depend on our enjoyment of laughing at something that is strange and out of place because it’s different from things which are happening around it. The same situation can be either sad or pleasant，depending entirely on how strange and out of place it is. If a girl in a bathing suit falls into a swimming pool，we don’t laugh because nothing unusual has happened. But if a man in a smart suit falls in，the situation is at once unusual in a pleasant way and we laugh. A good joke-teller will always try to build up a situation in which one thing is expected until something unexpected suddenly happens，and so we laugh.

1.The underlined word “inferiority” (in Paragraph 1) means ______.

A．someone that is better than someone else

B．something that is better than something else

C．someone that is as good as someone else

D．something that is not as good as something else

2.According to Aristotle, all jokes depend mainly on ______.

A．resulting in a sense of success

B．showing inferiority in another person or group

C．having a good opinion of other people

D．making people laugh unexpectedly

3.What’s the main idea of Paragraph 2?

A．To express those attitudes usually unacceptable to society is one of the reasons we like jokes.

B．When people are angry, they would like to hear jokes.

C．People who like jokes are usually cruel.

D．Showing we are better than other people is the only one reason we like jokes.

4.What will a good joke-teller always try to do? 

A．Make an unexpected thing happen in an expected situation

B．Make different things happen at the same time. 

C．Make a sad situation into a pleasant one.   

D．Make people laugh at something unusual and out of place.

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下面短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处，请你对其进行修改。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（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

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      2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Air travel has three advantage over train travel. First, it can save much time. We can fly from one place to other in a short time, but by train we have to spend more time. Second, air travel is more comfortable because the plane flies so smooth that we can have good rest during the trip. Third, the train is crowding sometimes and we have to sit for a long time, what makes us tired. But train travel also has it’s own advantages. For an example, traveling by train cost only a little money. Beside, we can enjoy the view out of the train’s windows.

假如你是李华，你和你的外籍老师Mrs. Brown约好明天下午要一起讨论你英语学习中遇到的问题，但是你不能赴约，请你给Mrs. Brown写一封道歉信。内容包括：

1. 对她表示歉意;

2. 说明原因：你的医生打电话给你，通知你明天下午去医院谈体检结果;

3. 你想与Mrs. Brown 另约时间在本周六。

要求：可适当增减内容，词数100左右（不包括已写好的部分）

Dear Mrs Brown,

I am terribly sorry to tell you that…

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