How do you know if your home is an easy aim for thefts(偷窃)? Around the holidays, many families don’t consider taking proper measures to prevent their homes from suffering holiday thefts. With just a few simple steps, you can better make sure of the safety of your home during all of the holiday celebrations. Here are a few tips for making it difficult to tell you are away from home.
● Either have a trusted neighbor pick up your mail and newspapers, or tell your mailperson to hold your mail until you return. Nothing says “Hey, we are not home!” like when your postbox is filled with all kinds of mails and you have many different newspapers in your driveway.
● Set several different lights in your house on random timers (随机定时器)。Don’t leave your outdoor lights on all the time. Instead, put your outside lights on timers to be on during the nights.  If an outdoor light remains on for days at a time, it means that nobody is home to turn it off.
● If you have pets that you are not taking with you on vacation, leave them with a friend, rather than having someone come into your house every day to take care of them. When thefts see a neighbor or friend entering your house every day, they will know you are not home.
● Close all your curtains when you leave town. This is effective to deter possible thefts, as no one can see what is in your house. If they don’t know what there is to take, then the risk is even greater for them to break in.
● This article just has suggested a few tips to help you keep your house safe while you are on holiday. Nothing can truly protect your home unless you have it monitored by a professional home security system.
【小题1】. What is the main idea of the passage?

I have no idea of what is in fashion nowadays, so my choice might be quite ??? ____?? .

A. abundant????????????? B. arbitrary????????????? C. considerate????????????? D. aggressive

Julio loves to visit his grandmother．He doesn’t get to visit her very often because his family lives in a city that is six hours away．His grandmother lives in a big wooden house on a farm .It is old and looks as if it has secret hiding places .

       On the third Sunday of June ,Julio’s parents took him to his grandmother’s .Since it was summer vacation ,he was going to stay at grandmother’s for a whole mother ! His cousins Mario and Linda would soon be arriving .They would also be staying at their grandmother’s this summer.

       A big porch（走廊）wraps around two sides of the house .Julio sat in the porch swing .He could see the trees that circle the house．They had been planted as a windbreak .They protect the house from the wind and blowing dirt .The house is in the middle of a large ,flat field.

       Julio watched the dirt road that leads to the house .He couldn’t wait for his cousins to get there !Mario was his age ,and Linda was a year younger .They had fun together .Last summer they spent one whole morning making a fort out of sacks of seed .Then Uncle Henry had taken them on  a tractor ride.

       Julio remembered another time with his cousins .They had gone out to explode the fields．Julio touched an electric fence and got a shock .Then they found an old snakeskin .Nothing like that ever happened at his own home!

       Julio could smell the dinner that his grandmother was cooking .It made him hungry.

       Finally he saw a cloud of dust coming up the road．“They ‘re here! There’re here!” He shouted.

The story tells about Julio and his cousins doing all of the following except_______．

       A．watching old movies       B．taking a tractor ride

       C．finding a snakeskin  D．making a fort from seed sacks

How do you think Julio felt when he saw his cousins arriving?

       A．He was worried       B．He was excited C．He was angry   D．He was sad.

After Julio’s cousins arrived ,what would probably happen next?______．

       A．They would build a fort on the hill.

       B．They would look for snake skins.

       C．They would climb the trees in their grandmother’s yard

       D．They would eat dinner at their grandmother’s house.

These boxes show events that happened in the story .What is in box 2?

       A．Julio’s cousins arrived at Grandmother’s house.

       B．Julio could smell dinner cooking.

       C．Julio sat in the porch swing.

       D．Julio saw a cloud of dust coming up the road.

六．单词拼写（每小题10 分，共10分）

66. The proud woman said she would rather s__________ than beg for food.

67. Kitty has been wondering what is in the box and finally, she opened it with c_____________.

68. The bank-note can’t be f__________. It must be genuine.

69. The robbers bit them v________. They couldn’t bear it any more and decided to fight back.

70. There are seven c____________ and four oceans in the world.

71. The whole family will _____________(聚集) for a big meal on the Eve of the New Year.

72. To have a ________________(平衡) diet is really important to everybody.

73. Slowly it turned its face and _________________ (盯着) straight at Mrs. Cousin.

74. There is no ghost in the world at all, and it only _______ (存在) in the minds of some people.

75. I was living in the _________ (附近的) town of Genzi , which is famous for Licthi (荔枝)。

Julio loves to visit his grandmother．He doesn’t get to visit her very often because his family lives in a city that is six hours away．His grandmother lives in a big wooden house on a farm .It is old and looks as if it has secret hiding places .

On the third Sunday of June ,Julio’s parents took him to his grandmother’s .Since it was summer vacation ,he was going to stay at grandmother’s for a whole mother ! His cousins Mario and Linda would soon be arriving .They would also be staying at their grandmother’s this summer.

A big porch（走廊）wraps around two sides of the house .Julio sat in the porch swing .He could see the trees that circle the house．They had been planted as a windbreak .They protect the house from the wind and blowing dirt .The house is in the middle of a large ,flat field.

Julio watched the dirt road that leads to the house .He couldn’t wait for his cousins to get there !Mario was his age ,and Linda was a year younger .They had fun together .Last summer they spent one whole morning making a fort out of sacks of seed .Then Uncle Henry had taken them on  a tractor ride.

Julio remembered another time with his cousins .They had gone out to explode the fields．Julio touched an electric fence and got a shock .Then they found an old snakeskin .Nothing like that ever happened at his own home!

Julio could smell the dinner that his grandmother was cooking .It made him hungry.

Finally he saw a cloud of dust coming up the road．“They ‘re here! There’re here!” He shouted.

1.The story tells about Julio and his cousins doing all of the following except_______．

2.How do you think Julio felt when he saw his cousins arriving?

3.After Julio’s cousins arrived ,what would probably happen next?______．

4.These boxes show events that happened in the story .What is in box 2?