---It’s weeks since he _______.

---_____! I would ask others to help us.

A．fell ill; So it is                  B．was ill ;So is it     

C．fell ill ;So did he                D．was ill ;So was he.

From poor beginnings to most expensive player

      ZINEDINE Zidane，who dreams of leading France to its second World Cup title in a row next month，has always preferred to express himself with a football rather than with words．

      Last Wednesday Zidane scored the decisive goal when Real Madrid of Spain won the Champions League final against Germany's Leverkusen 2一1．

      He became one of the world’s most expensive players when he joined Real Madrid from Italy's Juventus for US $ 66 million．And he has been a national hero since he scored twice in the 3-O defeat of Brazil in the 1998 World Cup Final．

      But despite his success，Zidane has always kept his feet on the ground．He leads a quite family life，there is hardly any gossip about him and he avoids putting his wife and two children in the spotlight．

      “Just because I'm a public figure it doesn't mean I have to express myself on everything．I don't like to discuss some personal matters publicly．”he said．

      Even as a child playing football in the slum area of Marseille，France，where he was raised by his Algerian parents，Zidane was shy．

      He loved football even as a little kid．“I realized football is a wonderful mixture of a sharp mind and hard training rather than just talking，”he said．

      Even when the match awards were just chocolate and bread，Zidane found that football made his poor childhood rich．

      Before he was 10 years old，it was obvious that he could become a great footballer．He was offered his first professional contract(合同)when he was just 20．Now，at the age of 29，he has already picked up two World Player  of the year awards．

      This quiet striker has not yet spoken of his hopes for the coming World Cup．But his fans across the world will be eagerly watching him to see what he'll do this time．

What did Zidane learn from his childhood football experience? He learned that_____________.

A．he could become a great footballer

B．he could become rich if he became a footballer

C．football is a mixture of a sharp mind and hard training but not just talking

D．football is a favorite sport in the future

According to the article，what are Zidane’s main characteristics?

A．He is a shy but successful man．

B．H e loves his wife and children．

C．He doesn't like to speak in public．

D．He is a quiet，down—to earth person of few words．

When the writer says“Zidane has always kept his feet on the ground”,he means_________.

A．Zidane spends more time standing than sitting most days

B．Zidane is a down-to earth person

C．Zidane has spent most of his time training on the pitch

D．Zidane likes standing when he succeeds

The sentence“Zidane found that football made his poor childhood rich”means___________．

A．football made Zidane's poor family wealthy when he was a child

B．Zidane knew that football could bring him fame and wealth even when he was a child

C．football brought happiness to Zidane when he was a child in a poor family

D．Zidane knew that if he wanted to be  rich he must play football from childhood

请认真阅读下面对话，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，在标有题号的右边横线上，写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。

M: Well, this is it! What do you think of it?

W: I can hardly believe it's real. I've (76)d        of seeing it ever since    1._________

 I saw it in books when I was a child. Just thinking of all this being built

 by hand more than 2,000 years ago! No (77)w       it's one of the    2._________

wonders of the world.

M: (78) A      the started building is more than 2,500 years ago when     3._________

 China was divided into (79)v      states. Three of the northern states        4._________

 built defensive walls along their borders to keep (80)o       the enemies.

5.._________

W. But I always thought the wall had been built by Qin Shihuang, the first

   (81) E       of China.                                                                                         6._________

M: Well, yes. In the way, you see, he united the(82)w      country in the7._________

 third century B. C. and one of the things he did was to join the (83)s    8._________

walls into one big wall and to build more walls from the east coast right

across the length of north China to the west.

W: It is certainly something any nation could be proud of. I hear this is the

 only human(84)c       on the earth that can be seen from the moon.         9._________

 By the way, how tall is the wall?

M: The average (85) h       is 7.8 meters; the average width is 6.5 meters10._________

 at the base and 4.5 meters at the top. Would you like to go up to the top?

W: Yes! I'd like to have a look from the top.

 

第一节: 单词拼写（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分）

根据下列句子，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式，每空一词。

I hate people speaking ill of me during my a ___________.

Having lost h____________ in one ear,he can’t tell the direction in which a voice comes.

The students were so b___________ that some of them fell asleep.

Her friend’s e___________ gave her the confidence to enter the competition.

He has been living abroad since he r_________ from his job. 

Without your a_______________, I couldn’t have succeeded. 

He had to pay more at the airport because his case was too o_____________.

The fire a________rang and everyone ran out of the building.

The thief was d________out of his hiding place and taken to the police station.

A v________is someone who does work without being paid for it, because they want to do it.

单词拼写（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分）

根据下列句子，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式，每空一词。

1.I hate people speaking ill of me during my a ___________.

2.Having lost h____________ in one ear,he can’t tell the direction in which a voice comes.

3.The students were so b___________ that some of them fell asleep.

4.Her friend’s e___________ gave her the confidence to enter the competition.

5.He has been living abroad since he r_________ from his job. 

6.Without your a_______________, I couldn’t have succeeded. 

7.He had to pay more at the airport because his case was too o_____________.

8.The fire a________rang and everyone ran out of the building.

9.The thief was d________out of his hiding place and taken to the police station.

10.A v________is someone who does work without being paid for it, because they want to do it.