My hometown is a pretty city, so people there are                                 76．                 

kind and polite. With coming of spring, grass and                                         77．                   

trees turn green, and flowers grew in many colors.                                       78．                    

In summer, the sea under the blue skies is even more                                    79．                  

beautiful. After autumn arrives, the city looks as an                                       80．                  

old man with leaves fallen from the trees. In winter,                                      81．                   

a lot of white birds come to my city for food. I can                                      82．                   

wait more patiently above the sea for quite a long                                          83．                  

time. While they find fish come to the surface, they                                      84．                  

fly down immediate and catch them without delay.                                        85．                   

That is my city, and I love it so much.

（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

    I feel very happy to receive your letter and here I’d like to give you

some a       on how to learn English. Above all, don’t lose 76. ____________

heart. Many students find it _______ to learn English, especially

   77. ____________

_______ write good English compositions. In my opinion, if you

            78. ____________

want to _______(改善) your writing, you should learn by heart

                79. ____________

as many English expressions and sentence p        as possible.

            80. ____________

And at the same time try to use _______ in your compositions. I

                81. ____________

think just r       grammar rules is no use. And only by reading and

        82. ____________

writing a lot _______ you be able to learn English well in an effective

        83. ____________

way. I definitely _______(相信) the most important thing is that you

            84. ____________

should _______(继续) writing every day and never give up.

                85. ____________

短文填词（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

In Grade Eight I took physics. In one test I get                     76．          

only 36 percent of the answers c    ．I failed the                   77．          

next one, too. I started to think that maybe I    not                  78．          

good at it. However , I was l    __ .enough to                         79．            

have a teacher     did not take my bad grades as a                     80．          

     (判断 ) of' my abilities, but simply as an indication         81．            

why I should study harder. He pulled me aside and t                 82．               

me that he knew I could do better, He p     me to retake           83．                 

the test, and I pulled my grade to an A. This is                       84．              

I discovered: That some        (科目)'are difficult to                  85．                  

learn does not m     you are not good at them.                       

按课文内容填空，一空一词（共15空，每空1分，满分15分）

1.报告显示：我们正在进步，但是我们必须作出更大的努力。

The report shows that we are making some________ but         we need to make greater _______.

2.扩大后的欧盟有五亿多人口，是美国人口的两倍。

The        European Union has a population of more than half a billion people, _______as ______as the population of the United States.

3.在美国，平均每年有800次龙卷风，造成大约80人死亡，1500 人受伤。

                , there are 800 tornados in the US each year,        about 80 deaths and 1500 injuries.  

4.巴黎位于塞纳河畔，是法国的首都和最大城市。

Paris is the     and largest city of France,                  the River Seine.

5.到它结束时，已有700多人受伤。

By the time it ended, more than 700 people                      .

（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
I feel very happy to receive your letter and here I’d like to give you
some a      on how to learn English. Above all, don’t lose 76. ____________
heart. Many students find it _______ to learn English, especially
77. ____________
_______ write good English compositions. In my opinion, if you
78. ____________
want to _______(改善) your writing, you should learn by heart
79. ____________
as many English expressions and sentence p       as possible.
80. ____________
And at the same time try to use _______ in your compositions. I
81. ____________
think just r      grammar rules is no use. And only by reading and
82. ____________
writing a lot _______ you be able to learn English well in an effective
83. ____________
way. I definitely _______(相信) the most important thing is that you
84. ____________
should _______(继续) writing every day and never give up.
85. ____________