1 . 根据表格内提供的信息，描述昨晚八点停电时以下四人的情况，内容可以适当发挥。

Mr. Zhang	Sally	Tom	Mrs. Wang
watch a basketball match；listen to the radio later	play the piano；stop to have a rest	do some reading；go to bed later	in the lift (电梯)；can’t get out

注意：
1. 内容必须包含表格中的所有信息；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 文中不得透露个人信息；
4. 词数80左右（短文首句已给出，不计入总词数）。

When the light went out at eight o’clock yesterday evening, Mr. Zhang was___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2 . Storytelling has caught the human imagination for thousands of years. People everywhere have told stories to amuse, to teach, to remember, and just to pass the time. People started telling stories long before writing was invented.     1     But people all over the world still tell one another stories out loud. A person who can tell a good story nearly always finds listeners.

Before people developed writing, storytelling was the most important way to pass along information. Anything a culture wanted to protect—its beliefs, its history, and its traditions—had to be told out loud. Each generation would tell the culture’s stories to the next     2     Knowledge passed on in this method is called the spoken tradition. Even cultures that know how to write still pass along some information in this way.

    3     In other cultures only special storytellers were trusted to do this important job. A culture's best storytellers had good memories. They could also make the stories very interesting, so people would listen and remember them. Sometimes people would sing the stories or tell them in the form of poems.     4    

However, stories told aloud change over time as different people tell them. A storyteller might change a story in order to make it better. Or a teller may simply not remember all the details of a story. Unlike written stories, the spoken tradition is not created by any one person.     5     Sometimes the stories are collected and written down long after they have been created.

A．In this way the stories were passed along.

B．In some cultures everyone would pass along the stories.

C．Songs and poems can both make stories easier to remember.

D．Instead, a whole culture helps shape the changing stories throughout history.

E．Today stories are also written down in books and acted out in movies, TV shows, and plays.

3 . 今天的英语课上，班级进行了题为“我送过的一份珍贵礼物”的主题分享。请你写一篇英语短文，汇报你们四人小组的分享内容，需包括以下要点。

From	Bob	Kate	Lily	You
To	parents	good friend	foreign teacher	（请补充）
What	soup	photo album	paper cutting	（请补充）
Why	thanks and love	friendship	culture	（请补充）

注意：
1. 词数 80 词左右（短文的开头已给出，不计入词数）；
2. 不得透露学校、姓名等任何个人信息，否则不予评分。

In today’s English class, we had a discussion on “A valuable gift I gave”. Here is what we shared in our group...

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4 .

What will astronauts (宇航员) eat when a space trip takes years?

“Lots of fresh vegetables,” says Dr. Janet Williams, whose team has spent the last 10 years learning how to grow plants in a space station. And it’s a good thing that she has already started her work, because space gardening can be really hard.

As usual, astronaut George White looked into the closed plant room. He had planted Dr. Williams’s quick-growing seedlings in it, but none of the stems were showing. He opened the room to check and found the problem. The stems weren’t growing upward and the roots weren’t growing downward. On Earth, gravity (重力) helps a plant’s stems and roots to find “up” and “down”. However, in the space station, there was almost no gravity.

Dr. Williams suggested a solution: give the plants more light, as plants also use sunlight to find their way. And it worked. When the plants had more light, the stems turned up and the roots went down.

Now Dr. Williams was free to worry about the next problem: Would her baby plants live to flower? Can we grow food on a space journey?

Many plants died in the space station. Dr. Williams thought she knew why: the space plants were hungry for air. Plants live by taking up CO₂ from the air. Since a plant uses it up in the air around, the plant needs moving air to bring more CO₂ close to its surface. On Earth, the air is always moving. Gravity pulls down cold air, and warm air rises. And with these air movements, plants get enough CO_2.

Many earlier experiments with plants in space had used closed rooms. Dr. Williams tried a new greenhouse that had a fan to keep the air move. The plants loved it. They flowered and even produced more seeds. Using Dr. Williams’s method, astronaut George completed the first seed-to-seed experiment in space, and moved one plant closer to a garden in space.

“And this,” says Dr. Williams, “is good news for long-term space travel.”

1. Why have Dr. Williams’s team tried to grow plants in space?

A．To produce fresh air for astronauts.

B．To help astronauts relax themselves.

C．To provide food for long space journeys.

D．To make the space garden more beautiful.

2. How did light help solve the problem mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A．It caused the gravity to change.

B．It encouraged the plants to grow faster.

C．It helped the plants to grow in the right direction.

D．It showed the astronauts where to plant vegetables.

3. Why did many plants die in the space station?

A．The light was too strong.	B．There was too much CO2.
C．There was not enough room to grow.	D．The air condition was not good enough.

4. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 7 refers to ________.

A．the moving air	B．the closed room
C．the space journey	D．the space garden

5. What can we learn about Dr. Williams’s team from the passage?

A．They mainly live on fresh vegetables.

B．They have successfully built a space garden.

C．They invented a special fan for their greenhouse.

D．They have worked on space gardening for many years.

5 .

Our most unusual sports from around the world Every country has a national sport and some popular sports are now played across the world. However, in most countries, people also play unusual sports, with strange or interesting rules. Here are our top five unusual sports from around the planet. Man vs. Horse Marathon This race takes place in a small town in Wales, about 200 miles from London. It’s called a marathon (马拉松), but it’s actually 35.4 km, not 42.2 km like a usual marathon. People race against horses across the hills and mountains. It started in 1981, but a human did not win until 2004. Camel Wrestling In Turkey, camel (骆驼) wrestling is a very old sport. The largest camel wrestling competition takes place every year and thousands of people come. In the sport, two camels fight against each other. Sometimes the camels do not want to fight and they run through the crowds, which can be dangerous. Dragon Boat Racing Every year in China, thousands of people watch dragon boat races. A dragon boat is a traditional Chinese boat with a painted dragon’s head on one end. There can be up to 36 people or more racing in each boat in the water. Dragon boat racing is also popular in some other Asian countries. Caber Toss In this sport, players compete to throw a large piece of wood called a caber as far as they can. There is no rule about the size of the caber, but it’s usually the size of a small tree. It’s an ancient Scottish sport. Visitors to the UK can check it out. Chess Boxing A good chess boxer needs to be both strong and smart. Players play a round of chess, followed by a round of boxing. There are eleven rounds in total. Chess boxing was invented in 1992 by an English comic book writer. The sport is more popular in England and Germany.

1. What can we learn about Man vs. Horse Marathon?

A．It is an outdoor sport.

B．It first appeared 16 years ago.

C．No human has ever won the game.

D．It follows the rules of a usual marathon.

2. Which of the following is mentioned about Camel Wrestling?

A．It should be stopped.	B．It’s worth seeing.
C．It’s unfair to the animals.	D．It’s sometimes dangerous to watch.

3. Which picture best describes Caber Toss?

A．

B．

C．

D．

4. Which sport is popular in Asia?

A．Man vs. Horse Marathon.	B．Dragon Boat Racing.
C．Caber Toss.	D．Chess Boxing.

5. How many sports have animals as players?

A．1.

B．2.

C．3.

D．4.

6 . “Amy! Milk!” Mama called.

Milk. It was Amy’s turn to get it. Amy sighed and shut her first-aid (急救) book.

Amy tied the cow close to a tree. Somewhere down the mountain, some volunteer doctors were teaching medical skills to village nurses. Amy heard Betty drive off hours ago. “She should have taken me with her. She thinks I’m too young,” Amy thought. “But she’s wrong. I am already 15!”

Amy carried the milk back to Mama, then wandered up the road. Roy, a village boy, was trying to stand on a horse’s back. “No wonder they don’t trust kids with anything important,” Amy thought.

She had just turned away when she heard a heavy fall and a few cries. Roy was on the ground.

“Roy!” The kids nearby ran towards him. “Get Betty,” one said. Amy shook her head. “Betty’s gone to the city.”

The kids didn’t know what to do. Amy ran to Roy and saw one of his legs out of shape. A broken leg! She remembered what the first-aid book said about it.

“Victor!” Amy called to one of the boys. “Go and get Roy’s mama, and find someone with a truck.” She turned to the others. “Give me your shirts. We need something to tie his leg with.”

Amy then found a strong, straight stick. She carefully wrapped the shirts around Roy’s leg and the stick. Roy cried out in pain. “I know it hurts,” Amy said softly. “But this will hold it still until you get to the hospital.”

When Amy was done, she looked up and saw Roy’s mama and a man watching beside a truck. “Thank you, Amy,” Roy’s mama said, Amy helped them lift Roy into the truck, then they drove down the hillside towards the hospital.

The next day, Betty came to Amy’s home. “I heard what you did,” Betty said. “You kept your head in an emergency. That’s an important skill.”

Amy’s face turned red. “I was afraid...”

Betty shook her head. “It’s OK for a nurse to be afraid, as long as she has a clear head. The volunteer doctors are coming tomorrow with vaccines. We need some more hands. Can you help?”

“I’d love to.” Amy replied at once.

“Come early, then. There is a lot to learn.”

Amy smiled. “I’ll bring my first-aid book.”

1. Why didn’t Betty take Amy with her to the medical training?

A．Amy was busy reading.	B．Amy had to milk the cow.
C．Betty left too early in the morning.	D．Betty thought Amy wasn’t old enough.

2. What happened to Roy?

A．He fell off the horseback.	B．He was kicked by the horse.
C．He successfully stood on the horseback.	D．He was pulled off the horseback by the kids.

3. What is the correct order of Amy’s first-aid actions?
a. She found a proper stick.                       b. She helped lift Roy into the truck.
c. She asked the boys for some shirts.          d. She tied the shirts around the broken leg.
e. She sent someone to get Roy’s mum and a truck.

A．c-e-a-b-d

B．a-c-e-d-b

C．e-c-a-d-b

D．e-c-a-b-d

4. Why did Betty invite Amy to help the doctors in the end?

A．Amy had similar experiences before.

B．Amy was cool-headed when giving first aid.

C．Betty regretted not taking Amy to the training.

D．Betty realized that Amy had become a good doctor.

5. Which sentence best describes a lesson from the story?

A．Only trained doctors and nurses can provide first-aid.

B．Knowledge from books can help solve real-life problems.

C．Children need enough practice before they can be helpful.

D．Helping with housework is important to children’s health.

7 . One sunny morning, when Zebra (斑马) visited the river for a cool drink, he heard a tiny voice. “Help me, Zebra!”

Zebra looked around and found Wasp (黄蜂) _______ in a spider web in a thorn bush (荆棘丛).

Carefully, Zebra reached into it, but the thorns _______ him. “Ouch!” Zebra stepped back and was leaving.

“Please help me,” said Wasp. “One day I will _______ your help.”

Zebra laughed. “I’m fast and strong. Besides, I have a big family. Why would I need help from a _______ wasp?”

“Please try one more time,” Wasp said. Zebra knocked at the web again. _______, this time it was enough to free Wasp. “Try to stay out of trouble,” Zebra said. “I might not be nearby the next time a spider gets _______.” Then he left.

All day, Zebra stayed with his family until he noticed his favourite fruit—some berries! The hungry Zebra ran to _______ the berries.

Wasp was resting in the bushes when she saw Zebra. She also found Lion hiding quietly ahead. If Zebra got too close to Lion...

Thinking quickly, Wasp flew down and gave Lion a sudden sting. The _______ lion cried.

“Roooooar!” Zebra heard the loud cry. In a second, he turned around and ran back to his _______.

A moment later, Wasp flew around Zebra’s head. “Try to stay out of trouble,” Wasp said with a ________. “I might not be nearby the next time a lion gets hungry.”

1.

A．resting

B．playing

C．caught

D．hidden

2.

A．hurt

B．hit

C．refused

D．killed

3.

A．remember

B．return

C．repeat

D．report

4.

A．noisy

B．lazy

C．shy

D．little

5.

A．Sadly

B．Suddenly

C．Luckily

D．Strangely

6.

A．sleepy

B．angry

C．thirsty

D．hungry

7.

A．smell

B．taste

C．touch

D．watch

8.

A．surprised

B．excited

C．interested

D．bored

9.

A．friend

B．family

C．river

D．fruit

10.

A．laugh

B．shout

C．wish

D．promise

8 . 通读全文，掌握大意，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案，并将其标号填涂在答题卡的相应位置。

Zhang Lei is a highly skilled doctor. He was born in a lonely ________ village. The people there lived a hard life. They seldom walked out of the mountain. They could ________ get good education. However, Zhang Lei was ________, for he not only went to college, but he also became an excellent doctor. Then what made him lucky? A volunteer teacher called Han Xue encouraged him, and ________ his life.

When Han Xue first entered Zhang Lei’s school, she couldn’t ________ her eyes. She was shocked by the sights (情景) in front of her: broken windows, small old desks and chairs. Even worse, students of different ages were in the ________ classroom. It was the only class in the school. Han Xue realized ________ poor the people there were in education. She planned to ________ as many ways as she could to help them. One day when Han Xue was giving a class, Zhang Lei ________ some noise for fun. Other kids laughed. At that time Han Xue decided to make good use of the ________ to help him. She walked towards Zhang Lei and asked him to put out his hands. Looking at them ________, Han Xue said with a kind smile, “As soon as I see your little ________, I know you will become a highly skilled doctor in the future. Come on!” Hearing this, Zhang Lei was surprised because almost ________ said such words this way. Zhang Lei couldn’t believe that completely, but he remembered what the teacher said in his heart.

After that, Zhang Lei studied harder and then made more ________ continuously (持续地). Later, Zhang Lei went to college. After many years, he became a famous doctor, saving many lives. ________ Zhang Lei talks about his life, he always expresses thanks to his volunteer teacher. Her encouraging words have made what he is.

1.

A．forest

B．sea

C．mountain

D．river

2.

A．hardly

B．usually

C．always

D．ever

3.

A．simple

B．lucky

C．popular

D．common

4.

A．worried

B．understood

C．changed

D．caught

5.

A．cover

B．close

C．open

D．believe

6.

A．bright

B．new

C．same

D．enjoyable

7.

A．how

B．when

C．where

D．what

8.

A．hand out

B．find out

C．hang out

D．come out

9.

A．said

B．put

C．played

D．made

10.

A．chance

B．change

C．example

D．action

11.

A．angrily

B．sadly

C．nervously

D．carefully

12.

A．fingers

B．head

C．eyes

D．ears

13.

A．everybody

B．anybody

C．nobody

D．somebody

14.

A．decisions

B．progress

C．discussions

D．plans

15.

A．Whatever

B．Whenever

C．Whoever

D．However

9 . All students have bad times. What do they usually do when they get into trouble?

My mom is like my friend. I talk about everything to her. Whenever I have some trouble, I can get good advice from her. I have another good friend — my diary. It knows all my secrets. Talking with my two friends always makes me feel better.

                                                                                             —— Linda

Laughing helps me when I’m upset. I usually watch funny movies and TV shows. I also love spending my hard time with my best friend Dave. He is humorous and always makes me laugh.

                                                                                               —— Peter

Every time I feel bad, I go climbing alone. The study says exercising can help cheer one up. And the beautiful view at the top of the mountain makes me forget all my troubles. Sometimes I shout at the mountain top. It feels fantastic.

                                                                                                 —— John

1. Linda’s ________ knows all her secrets.

A．sister

B．teacher

C．diary

D．computer

2. The underlined word “humorous” probably means “________”.

A．quiet

B．funny

C．careful

D．serious

3. John always ________ when he feels bad.

A．goes climbing	B．watches movies
C．talks with his friends	D．reads books

4. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Linda often asks her teacher for advice.

B．Dave often helps Peter with his homework.

C．John likes climbing mountains with his friends.

D．Exercising can help people feel good.

5. What is the passage mainly talking about?

A．Ways to get out of trouble.	B．Advice on making friends.
C．Ways to get on with parents.	D．Advice on forgetting trouble.

10 . Scientists think that there _______ life on the earth for hundreds of millions of years. However, we have not found life on any other planets _______.

The earth is a planet and it _______ around the sun. Seven other planets also go around the sun. _______ of them has an environment like that of the earth, so scientists do not think they will find life on them. The sun and the objects that orbit it are called the solar system, and our solar system is a small part of a much larger group of stars and planets, _______ the Galaxy or the Milky Way. There are billions of stars in the Galaxy, and our sun is only one of them.

Scientists have also discovered many other galaxies in the universe. They are very far away and their light has to travel for many years to reach us. So _______ is the universe? It is impossible to imagine.

Scientists have sent spaceships to the planet Mars _______. They have even sent spaceships to travel outside the solar system. However, no spaceship has travelled _______ to reach other stars in our Galaxy.

Scientists have always asked the questions: with so many stars in the universe, are we _______, or is there life out there in space? Have there been visitors to the earth from other planets? Why has _______ communicated with us? We do not know the answers yet.

1.

A．have been

B．has been

C．is

D．are

2.

A．yet

B．already

C．just

D．ever

3.

A．go

B．went

C．goes

D．going

4.

A．No one

B．Neither

C．Either

D．None

5.

A．called

B．call

C．to call

D．calls

6.

A．what large

B．how small

C．how large

D．how long

7.

A．to take photos

B．take photos

C．taking photos

D．takes photos

8.

A．enough far

B．enough near

C．far enough

D．near enough

9.

A．lonely

B．alone

C．along

D．long

10.

A．someone

B．anyone

C．somebody

D．no one