1 . One day, I was told that I had a baby sister. I had a selfish thought—the kind all kids have when a new baby is born: Mum and Dad are going to be with the baby all the time and buy her all kinds of toys. The next day my dad told me that my sister had hearing loss.

I didn’t think much about communicating with my sister that first year because she was a baby and babies don’t do much talking. My family and I went to a good hearing-center for several times. But the treatment didn’t work. So my family began learning sign language. But I didn’t like it, so I did my own things. My parents spent hours with my sister teaching her and themselves by playing sign language games.

Years passed. One day my mother asked me to sign something, and I failed. My mum was almost in tears. She was very sad that I didn’t care enough about my sister. This hit me deeply, knowing how selfish I had been. I needed to talk to my sister, but I couldn’t even sign basic phrases like, “Where are you?”. My family and I started attending sign language classes at my sister’s school. We sat down as a family watching sign language movies and playing sign language games.

Today I can communicate very well with my sister. It brings a smile to my face when my sister signs something to me. I have realized it was no fun not knowing what my family was saying. So if you have a family member with special needs, put this person on your mind first.

1. Did the writer feel happy when he was told he had a new baby sister?
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2. Why didn’t the writer talk a lot with his baby sister the first year?
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3. When did the writer’s family begin learning sign language?
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4. Where did the writer and his family learn sign language?
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5. What can we learn from the underlined sentence?
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2 . —What were you doing at this time last night?
—I __________ a phone call.

A．made

B．will make

C．have made

D．was making

3 . 根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50词的文段写作，所给提示词语仅供选用，请不要写出你的校名和姓名。

假如你叫李明，你的美国朋友Betty想了解你对英语学习的看法，在英语学习中存在什么问题，你通过什么方法解决问题的。

提示问题：
1. What do you think of learning English?
2. What problem(s) do you have in learning English?
3. What do you do to improve your English?
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4 . 阅读下面一篇短文，理解大意，然后从各小题的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，使短文连贯完整。

How would you use a radio or a telephone if you had no electricity or batteries? These ________ bothered (烦扰) British inventor Trevor Baylis. So in 1996 he ________ a wind-up (装有发条的) radio. It doesn’t need electricity or batteries. You wind it up ________ hand. It plays for about an hour. Then, you wind it up ________. Today it’s made in South Africa.

Then in 1999, Baylis invented a mobile telephone that is powered by ________. The shoes contain (含有) a small battery that is powered when you ________. This battery is connected to a mobile phone. These two simple inventions can bring modern ________ to all parts of the world.

Baylis doesn’t have a university degree in engineering. In ________, he has left high school before graduating (毕业). He just loves ________ things to help people. He never knows ________ ideas will come to him. The idea for the telephone came to him in a dream.

1.

A．dreams

B．problems

C．wonders

D．wishes

2.

A．invented

B．improved

C．borrowed

D．copied

3.

A．in

B．at

C．on

D．by

4.

A．then

B．slowly

C．again

D．finally

5.

A．sun

B．shoes

C．caps

D．wind

6.

A．sleep

B．walk

C．rest

D．chat

7.

A．communications

B．conversations

C．suggestions

D．instructions

8.

A．fact

B．order

C．need

D．time

9.

A．buying

B．selling

C．making

D．collecting

10.

A．while

B．because

C．unless

D．when

5 . A _______ _______ _______ (clean) the street now.

6 . ________it often_______(rain) here in summer?

7 . —How is the weather in Chongqing?
—It ___________(rain) now.

8 . Linda helps her mum with housework every day. (用at 10 o’clock yesterday morning 替换时间状语，改写句子)
Linda ________ _________ her mum with housework at 10 o’clock yesterday morning.

9 . The bees collect honey from the flowers. (改为被动语态)
Honey ________ ________ from the flowers by the bees.