It happened to be a beautiful summer afternoon, and Mr. Phillip was taking a walk in the downtown area of Paris, capital of France.

When he turned to a street corner, he heard the voice of a lovely French singer coming from a nearby restaurant. The sweet music attracted him, so he went into the restaurant to hear it better. Mr. Phillip sat down quietly at a table near the door. Noticing the waiter come over, he ordered a glass of French wine.

The waiter returned with the glass of wine and put it on the table. Mr. Phillip started drinking the wine slowly and watching other people in the restaurant. There were three customers sitting at a table near him. He could tell by their accents that one of them was an American, one an Englishman and the third man was a funny-looking stranger. The polite waiter served each of the three men a glass of beer. By chance, each glass had a fly in it.

Out of curiosity, Mr. Phillip watched carefully what they were going to do. To his amusement, he found that each of them took a quite different attitude. The American picked up his glass, took a hard look at the fly, and then poured the fly and half of his beer on the floor. The Englishman looked into the glass, noticed the fly and reached for a spoon, with which he took the fly out of the beer and drank the rest of it. And the stranger noticed the fly in the beer, picked it with his fingers, squeezed (挤压) it carefully in order to save every drop of beer, then drank it up.

1. Mr. Phillip went into the restaurant to _____.

A．have something to eat after the walk	B．wait for a friend there
C．meet his three friends there	D．enjoy the pleasant music

2. The restaurant where Mr. Phillip had a drink must be _____.

A．a first-class one	B．a rather dirty place
C．expensive and comfortable	D．a place where only beer was served

3. Of all the three customers at the table, _____.

A．the stranger drank the most from the glass

B．the Englishman wasted half of his beer

C．the stranger was the cleverest

D．the American liked the beer best

I wonder if my make-up is ok. What will I say to him? Carefully, I stepped out of my car as my date made his way over to me.

“I’ve got you something,” he greeted me with a huge smile on his face. “Something every girl secretly longs for (渴望).” Standing in front of me, he slid something into my hand. I looked down to find candy — but not just any candy — A Sugar Daddy!

I relaxed immediately. This was the funny man I had been talking to. Little did he know, my secret longing was really to make a good impression on him.

A good first impression is important. So, how do you, when you’re meeting someone for the first time, make certain he or she doesn’t get the wrong image of you?

A study concluded that the first 30 seconds make or break the connection between two people when they meet for the first time. Another study conducted by UCLA found that “people evaluate one another by using the three V’s: visual (appearance), vocal (voice) and verbal (what you say).”

Before you head out on your next date to meet someone new, let’s concentrate on these areas:

●How others will see you. (Visual) Are you dressed well? Do you look like this date is important to you? Did you take some time with your appearance? Watch your manners: people don’t like bad manners.

●How others will hear you. (Vocal) Is your voice too soft? You might come across as insecure. If you speak softly, make an effort to speak clearly — don’t make your date have to work to hear you.

●What others will hear you say. (Verbal) People have a natural desire to connect — let them know you’re interested in what they have to say by repeating it back to them. Don’t say the same thing everyone else is saying.

4. What would be the best title for the text?

A．Good measures to communicate with others

B．How to make friends with others

C．How to enjoy yourself in your life

D．The importance of a good first impression

5. According to the text, when you want to make friends with someone, ______.

A．you should try to master the first few seconds

B．you should talk as much as possible

C．you should wear strange clothes to give him or her a deep impression

D．there is no need for you to treat it seriously

6. Which of the following belongs to the description of “Vocal”?

A．Dress yourself very well.	B．Spend some time on your appearance.
C．Speak carefully and clearly.	D．Repeat the same thing several times.

Now，it’s time for some brief news items.

Teens Go Online

Some 13 million European children under 18 use the Internet for schoolwork，games and music according to a research done by Nielsen’s “Net­rating”．The study covered Britain，Germany，France，Italy and Spain. Experts advised parents to limit the time their kids spend online and keep them away from chat rooms.

Chat to the Magic Mum

British author J．K.Rowling，mother of the magic boy Harry Potter，will do an Internet interview with fans on June 26.Before the event，children are invited to send their questions about Harry Potter to the website.

School Soldiers

Russian school students will have to do basic military training in their final year of school，the government has decided. The lesson will include learning to fire guns，marching drills and learning how to deal with a chemical，nuclear or biological attack. The activity is seen as part of a drive toward the education of their love for their country.

Orlando

Is it hard for you to get up early and get ready for classes？Some students at Winter Park High School just roll out of bed in their pajamas (睡衣) and go to class in their own bedrooms.Of course，their teachers and classmates do not see them because all their class work is on the computer.

The Florida High School

The state’s only online school has 250 students who are taking classes at home by computer. Students in this first online program take classes in algebra，American government，chemistry，computer，economics，and web page design. They also have to go to regular school to attend other classes.

7. In the first news item，which country is NOT covered in the research?

A．Britain.

B．France.

C．Sweden.

D．Spain.

8. Why will Russian school students have basic military training?

A．To get ready for a military parade.	B．To learn to protect themselves.
C．To gain some military knowledge.	D．To develop their love for the country.

9. The news from Orlando can be given a title “________”．

A．Get Up Late

B．Online School

C．Magical Computers

D．No Teachers

10. About the Florida High School，which of these statements is TRUE?

A．Some of the students have to attend classes at home instead of in the school.

B．There are altogether 250 students who take classes in the classrooms.

C．As the state’s only online school，it has 250 students who take classes by computer.

D．Students can’t take classes in algebra，American government，chemistry，computer and so on.

11. What is the second news item mainly about?

A．J.K.Rowling will have an Internet interview.

B．Children will meet Harry Potter’s mother.

C．Fans won’t ask J．K.Rowling questions on the Internet.

D．J.K.Rowling will invite Children to her website.

Do you know that a fast reader can get the ideas better than a slow reader can? Of course, you save time by reading fast, but this is not the main reason for fast reading. The main reason is that you understand better what you are reading when you read fast.

As your eyes move along the line of print, they make fixations (固定) or pauses. It is important that you see several words at a fixation. It is also important that your eyes leave a group of words quickly and move on to another group. The number of letters or words that you see at a fixation is called your eye span. Pay more attention to improving your rate of reading. With practice you can learn to read faster than you usually read.

The way in which you read always depends on what you are reading and for what purpose. You should know the different ways of reading so that you can apply whatever method that is necessary. Here are four ways of reading:

(1) Skimming is an important kind of reading. This method can be used when you wish to review something that you have forgotten. You can skim to get the main points.

(2) Rapid first reading and then rereading certain parts carefully is important. You may use this type of reading to study a science lesson or a history lesson.

(3) You need to do careful reading and rereading sometimes. This type of reading is necessary for making an intensive (精深的) study of your school subjects, solving Maths problems or reading directions.

(4) Rapid reading is used when reading stories for enjoyment. you may also do rapid reading when reviewing material that you already know well.

12. The main reason for reading fast is that you can _______what you are fast reading.

A．get the ideas

B．save time

C．understand better

D．learn well

13. The way of reading always depends on _______.

A．the method that you like	B．your reading material
C．your reading purpose	D．both B and C

14. The underlined word "skimming" in the fourth paragraph means _______.

A．reading very fast

B．looking carefully

C．reading only the main points

D．reading some parts of the material

15. We can learn ________ from the passage.

A．We can use different ways of reading flexibly when we read different materials..

B．We can only use one reading skill when we read something..

C．Rapid reading is used when you solve Maths problems .

D．We must use all the ways of reading when we do some reading.

Building Trust in a Relationship Again

Trust is a learned behavior that we gain from past experiences.     16     Trust is a risk. But you can’t be successful when there’s a lack of trust in a relationship that results from an action where the wrongdoer takes no responsibility to fix the mistake.

Unfortunately, we’ve all been victims of betrayal. Whether we’ve been stolen from, lied to, misled, or cheated on, there are different levels of losing trust. Sometimes people simply can’t trust anymore.     17     It’s understandable, but if you’re willing to build trust in a relationship again, we have some steps you can take to get you there.

●    18     Having confidence in yourself will help you make better choices because you can see what the best outcome would be for your well­being.

●    19     If you’ve been betrayed, you are the victim of your circumstance. But there’s a difference between being a victim and living with a “victim mentality”. At some point in all of our lives, we’ll have our trust tested or violated.

●You didn’t lose “everything”. Once trust is lost, what is left? Instead of looking at the situation from this hopeless angle, look at everything you still have and be thankful for all of the good in your life.     20     Instead, it’s a healthy way to work through the experience to allow room for positive growth and forgiveness.

A．Learn to really trust yourself.

B．It is putting confidence in someone.

C．Stop regarding yourself as the victim.

D．Remember that you can expect the best in return.

E．They’ve been too badly hurt and they can’t bear to let it happen again.

F．This knowledge carries over in their attitude toward their future relationships.

G．Seeing the positive side of things doesn’t mean you’re ignoring what happened.

The day before Mother’s Day this year, police received a call from Doris, a heavy-hearted wife. Her husband Melvyn, who suffers Alzheimer's disease, had gone_______from the Little Rock, Arkansas home.

Police found Melvyn two blocks from their home, unable to tell officers where he _______．However, as to where he was going, he wasn’t _______ he was buying his _______ flowers for Mother's Day, as he had every year since she gave birth to their first child．

Melvyn’s condition has been slowly _______ since he was diagnosed with the disease three years ago. His wife has become her husband’s carer, watching _______ as the cruel disease _______her husband’s memories and personality away from him．

Officers intended to take the elderly man straight home—but Melvyn was having _______ of that.” He was pretty _______.” Officer Troy told CBS, “he wasn’t going home ____________ he got those flowers.” So the officers decided to lend him a ____________, secretly stopping in at a local supermarket and helping him ____________ a bunch of beautiful cream-colored roses．“I didn't have a __________；we had to get those flowers, ” Officer Troy says. The ____________ officers even secretly slipped the cashier some extra cash when Melvyn couldn’t ____________ the bill.

Doris was ____________ when she saw her husband of 60 years walking up their front stairs in the company of the police officers, but her relief turned to ____________when he presented her with the flowers．

“As he came up those steps, and I saw those roses and the smile on his face, I was touched ____________, “Dons told CBS, “I just said, thank you, thank you, because I saw his ____________.”

“It’s special, because even though his mind doesn’t remember everything, his heart ____________.”

21.

A．crazy

B．hungry

C．missing

D．wrong

22.

A．goes

B．shops

C．works

D．1ives

23.

A．excited

B．disappointed

C．confused

D．amazed

24.

A．mother

B．wife

C．daughter

D．niece

25.

A．worsening

B．improving

C．changing

D．moving

26.

A．aimlessly

B．fearlessly

C．carelessly

D．helplessly

27.

A．opens

B．steals

C．betters

D．keeps

28.

A．both

B．all

C．none

D．neither

29.

A．cruel

B．brave

C．proud

D．stubborn

30.

A．when

B．until

C．if

D．though

31.

A．car

B．flower

C．hand

D．phone

32.

A．select

B．grow

C．preserve

D．decorate

33.

A．customer

B．chance

C．choice

D．partner

34.

A．serious

B．strong

C．rude

D．kind

35.

A．cover

B．buy

C．find

D．deliver

36.

A．tired

B．relieved

C．puzzled

D．astonished

37.

A．sorrow

B．loss

C．anger

D．joy

38.

A．inside

B．outside

C．slightly

D．hardly

39.

A．present

B．condition

C．heart

D．smile

40.

A．sinks

B．beats

C．remembers

D．ignores

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

When we talked about NBA, many people will think of Yao Ming. There is no doubt that Yao Ming is a Chinese hero. On October 16, 2013, Yao Ming announcedhe    41    open the NBA Yao School. This was really    42    （excite）news!

    43    （look）at the name of the school, many people would think that the school is going to train NBA    44    （talent）. But the truth is not like    45    they expected. The NBA Yao School provides after-school basketball training and health programs. Its students include boys and girls over 16 years old     46     are very good at playing basketball. The school aims     47    （teach） the importance of teamwork, leadership(领导素养) and communication in a fun basketball environment.

Yao is quite glad to be a part of the school, because it has always been his dream to    48    （positive）influence young people’s life through sports.

Now, basketball fans in China are looking forward to getting basketball training, and the NBA Yao School is a great choice. In the school, students have chances to meet NBA stars. The stars can offer     49    （suggest）on how    50    （play） basketball well.

51. 文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线（___），并在该词下面写出修改的词。
注意:1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Alice,
I have just got a good news to tell you. I win a national prize for painting last week. My father was so pleasing that he suggested I went to England for a holiday. I’d like to staying there for half a month, visiting place of interest or practicing my English as well. We’ve been often dreamed of talking face to face with you. I imagine you’ll be at vacation by that time. Perhaps we could go out to do some sightseeing together.

Best,

Lily

52. 高中生活已经过去一半，在这过去的一年半里，你在获取知识的同时，你的身体，兴趣爱好，学习生活习惯等等都有了一定的改变吧！请你以How I Change为题，写一篇短文，告诉我们你的变化好吗？字数在100词左右。
温馨提示：
1.短文中请勿使用真实姓名或班级名称。
2.参考词汇:hobby, habit, used to, enjoy oneself
3.短文开头已经为你写好（字数不计入总数），请你接着往下写。
How I Change
Mylife has changed a lot in the past three years. ______________________
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