Many children would start school hungry without breakfast clubs, teachers have claimed. A new survey suggests these clubs are the only way many students can get a meal before lessons.

???? About 54% of the 552 school staff questioned by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers(ATL)said their school provides a breakfast club for pupils. The biggest reason for them to attend these clubs is that their parents or carer goes to work early, cited by 76.8% of those questioned.

???? About 22.6% said children attended due to lack of money at home because parents or carers are unemployed and 15.2% said lack of money at home due to changes or cuts to benefits.

About 17.6% said pupils mainly attend breakfast clubs to socialize.

??? The survey found that teachers believe that offering breakfast to pupils often helps improve their concentration and ability to learn. One primary school teacher said: “Although there is a charge for our breakfast club, we have accessed funding for those pupils on free school meals and the breakfast club had an effect on their attendance, concentration and being in school for the start of lessons.

???? ATL general secretary Dr Roper said a nutritious meal at the start of the day has a huge impact on pupils’ ability to learn. “Many schools do everything they can to ensure children eat well during school term-time. But there are many children living in poverty, who we fear won’t be getting a decent meal a day in the holidays and this is something the government needs to address,” she said.

???? A Department for Education spokesman said: “We know how important it is for children to

have a good breakfast. We want schools and local authorities to use their budgets to best meet the needs of their children. Many provide breakfast clubs which offer a free meal to children from poorer families. The Pupil Premium, which will double to ￡ 2.5 billion in 2014-2015, targets extra money to help schools to provide support such as this to the most disadvantaged children. The free school meal scheme also ensures that these children have access to a nutritious lunch every day.

1.How many factors are mentioned which can account for the popularity of breakfast clubs?

A. Two.???????? ????????????? ????????????? B. Three.???? ????????????? ????????????? C. Four.???????? ????????????? D. Five.

2.By getting breakfast offered by breakfast clubs, pupils can______.

A. perform better in their study????????

B. know how they can save money

C. eat better for their lunch and supper??

D. make more friends with their classmates

3.The pupil Premium and the free school meal scheme are mentioned in order to show_____.

A. every child should get access to a nutritious meal

B. breakfast clubs play a key role in children’s growth

C. many efforts are made to provide a good and free meal

D. many schools can’t offer a good and free meal to children

4.In which part of a magazine can we probably read this passage?

A. Entertainment.?????? B. Education.?????? C. Culture.??????? D. Health.

Martin was grown-up, and for his birthday that year his father gave him a   36  without any pictures in it!

Martin’s father found he was not   37  about it, and told him, “Son, this isn’t just any   38  book; it’s a magic (有魔力的) book. But to discover its magic you’ll have to   39  it.”

Well, that was better. Martin liked   40  to do with magic. He started reading it,  41  he wasn’t very willing to.

The next morning, his   42  asked him, “Have you found the magic   43  ? ”

So… there was a key to find! Martin flicked through (快速翻阅) the book, but there was no   44  of the key.

And then his father   45  him, “You won’t find it like that . You have to read the book.”

Martin didn’t have much patience (耐心), thinking his father just told a   46  . A little later, his little sister, Angela, asked him   47  the book. After several days, she   48  shouted, “I’ve found the key!” And she wouldn’t stop   49  all the places she had visited using the magic key.

This made Martin read the book again. At first it was a   50 ; there wasn’t even one single   51  in the book. But, gradually, Martin became   52  the adventurous (冒险的) prince’s life. Then, suddenly, he was there.

The book   53   was the key!

It was true that every time he   54  it, he felt going to its valleys and seas, and he lived the adventures of the prince.

From then on, with every new book, Martin never   55  being attracted by the letters and words inside.

1.                A．box            B．diary           C．book D．bag

2.                A．sad            B．happy          C．surprised D．angry

3.                A．special         B．new           C．famous   D．ordinary

4.                A．keep           B．read           C．take D．value

5.                A．somebody      B．nothing         C．everything D．anybody

6.                A．so             B．and            C．though   D．or

7.                A．uncle          B．mother         C．father    D．aunt

8.                A．page           B．word           C．stick D．key

9.                A．mark           B．sign            C．signal D．way

10.               A．asked          B．praised         C．followed   D．told

11.               A．lie            B．story           C．joke  D．will

12.               A．of             B．for            C．to    D．back

13.               A．happily         B．badly          C．quickly    D．slowly

14.               A．working out     B．talking about     C．turning down   D．looking for

15.               A．pity           B．pleasure        C．pain  D．success

16.               A．picture         B．note           C．text  D．title

17.               A．busy with       B．tired of         C．interested in   D．good at

18.               A．it             B．yourself        C．himself    D．itself

19.               A．opened        B．put            C．threw D．covered

20.               A．tried           B．felt            C．stopped   D．began

第三部分：写作（共三节，满分55分）
第一节：单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
根据下列各句句意和空白之后的汉语提示词，在答题卡指定区域的横线上写出对应单词的正确形式，每空只写一词。
66．They ordered Chinese food, and when it arrived they ate ________ （饥饿地）．
67. The smell is very __________(熟悉的)to everyone who lives near a bakery.
68. In the _________ (二十) century, country music became more and more popular in America.
69. A small child has to learn to keep his ____________(平衡) before he can walk far.
70．The tablets should be taken ____________（两次） a day．
71.He looked at us in____________(惊讶地) .
72. ____________(基本上)， I agree with your plans, but there are a few small points I’d like to discuss.
73. I’ve never  __________ (品尝) the figs(无花果), but I’ve heard they’re nice.
74.His style of writing is rather ______________(独特的).
75. Finally the Red Army finished the world-famous Long March by ___________（克服）countless difficulties.

Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity (名人) chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University.

 ??? The effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cooking a more manly picture, has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality and men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.

According to the research by Prof. Jonatahn Gershuny, who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford, men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking, up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961.

Prof. Gershuny said, “The man in the kitchen is part of a much wider social trend. There has been 40 years of sexual equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come.”

Women, who a generation ago spent nearly two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutes—a great fall, but they still spend far more time in the kitchen than men.

Some experts have named these men in aprons as “Gastrosexuals (men using cooking skills to impress friends)”, who have been inspired to pick up a kitchen knife by the success of Ramsay, Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.

 ??? “I was married in 1974. When my father came to visit me a few weeks later, I was wearing an apron when I opened the door. He laughed,” said Prof. Gershuny. “That would never happen now.”

Two-thirds of adults say that they come together to share at least three times a week, even if it is not necessarily around a kitchen or dining room table. Prof. Gershuny pointed out that the family meal was now rarely eaten by all of its members around a table—with many “family meals” in fact taken on the sofa in the sitting room, and shared by family members. “The family meal has changed a lot, and few of us eat—as I did when I was a child—at least two meals a day together as a family. But it has survived in a different format.”?

1.What is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before?

A. The improvement of cooks’ status.

B. The influence of popular female chefs.

C. The change of female’s view on cooking.

D. The development of sexual equality campaign.

2.What does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking?

A. Men spend more time cooking than women nowadays.

B. Women spend much less time on cooking than before.

C. It will take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women.

D. There is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961.

3.How did Prof. Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?

A. It has become a thing of the past.

B. It is very different from what it used to be.

C. It shouldn’t be advocated in modern times.

D. It is beneficial to the stability of the family.

4.Which is the best title for the passage?

A. The Changes of Family Meals

B. Equality between Men and Women

C. Cooking into a New Trend for Men

D. Cooking—a Thing of the Past for Women

Ever since I was little, my favorite season was winter. I loved to play in the snow and enjoy the hot chocolate.

____36_____, winter never gave me the special gift of snow on my birthday. I would ask my grandmother ____37____ it didn’t snow on my birthday. She would laugh and tell me I asked too many questions. ___38____one day, she promised that she would make it snow on my next birthday.

That year, ____39____ my birthday, my grandmother died.  I was sad but angry because she had promised to make it snow. The day of my sixth birthday, I woke up and ran to the window, hoping to see just one snowflake. But there was no snow. I felt mad at my grandmother. She had broken a promise.

But my sixteenth birthday, I had lost all hope of getting my snow, even though I still wished for ___40____. During my party, I stayed with my friends and family and was truly happy. I ___41___ the best time ever! Then I saw the white snow ____42___down all around. I was so excited that I ran around screaming and laughing. My friends all laughed ____43___me, but I didn’t care.

When I ___44____home, my grandpa said he had a gift for me. I was ___45___ because he had given me a gift. It was a small white box, which looked old. I opened it. There was a crystal snowflake(水晶雪花) with a card that said, “Happy Birthday.”

How could this be? My grandpa said it was my grandmother’s final ___46____ on my “sweet sixteenth”. I cried.

I was ___47_____ that my smiling grandmother angel was and had been watching over me.

1.                A．Certainly        B．Unfortunately    C．Importantly    D．Luckily

2.                A．when          B．how           C．whether  D．why

3.                A．But            B．Or             C．Then D．So

4.                A．on            B．after           C．before   D．in

5.                A．it             B．her            C．him  D．me

6.                A．had            B．was            C．played   D．feared

7.                A．fell            B．to fall          C．fallen D．falling

8.                A．with           B．at             C．from D．off

9.                A．arrived at       B．remained       C．got  D．entered

10.               A．excited         B．confused       C．pleased   D．frustrated

11.               A．order          B．mistake         C．wish  D．decision

12.               A．certain         B．angry          C．sad   D．anxious