Remembering names is an important social skill．Here are some ways to master it．

Recite and repeat in conversation．

When you hear a person's name，repeat it．Immediately say it to yourself several times without moving your lips．You could also repeat the name in a way that does not sound forced or artificial．

Ask the other person to recite and repeat．

You can let other people help you remember their names．After you've been introduced to someone，ask that person to spell the name and pronounce it correctly for you．Most people will be pleased by the effort you're making to learn their names．

Admit you don't know．

Admitting that you can't remember someone's name can actually make people relaxed．Most of them will feel sympathy if you say，"I'm working to remember names better．Yours is right on the tip of my tongue．What is it again？"

Use associations．

Link each person you meet with one thing you find interesting or unusual．For example，you could make a mental note："Vicki Cheng…tall，black hair．"To reinforce（加强） your associations，write them on a small card as soon as possible．

Limit the number of new names you learn at one time．

When meeting a group of people，concentrate on remembering just two or three names．Free yourself from remembering everyone．Few of the people in mass introductions expect you to remember their names．Another way is to limit yourself to learning just first names．Last names can come later．

Go early．

Consider going early to conferences，parties and classes．Sometimes just a few people show up on time．That's fewer names for you to remember．And as more people arrive，you can hear them being introduced to others-an automatic review for you．

1. If you can't remember someone's name，you may ______ ．

A．tell him the truth	B．tell him a white lie
C．ask him for pity	D．ask others to help you

2. When you meet a group of people，it is better to remember ______ ．

A．all their names	B．a couple of names first
C．just their last names	D．as many names as possible

3. What does the text mainly tell us？ ______

A．Tips on an important social skill．

B．Importance of attending parties．

C．How to make use of associations．

D．How to recite and repeat names．

It was a village in India. The people were poor. However, they were not unhappy. After all, their forefathers had lived in the same way for centuries.
Then one day, some visitors from the city arrived. They told the villagers there were some people elsewhere who liked to eat frog’s legs. However, they did not have enough frogs of their own, and so they wanted to buy frogs from other places.
This seemed like money for nothing. There were millions of frogs in the fields around, and they were no use to the villagers. All they had to do was catch them. Agreement was reached, and the children were sent into the fields to catch frogs. Every week a truck arrived to collect the catch and hand over the money. For the first time, the people were able to dream of a better future. But the dream didn’t last long.
The change was hardly noticed at first, but it seemed as if the crops were not doing so well. More worrying was that the children fell ill more often, and, there seemed to be more insects around lately.
The villagers decided that they couldn’t just wait to see the crops failing and the children have to use the money earned to buy pesticides(杀虫剂) and medicines. Soon there was no money left.
Then the people realized what was happening. It was the frog. They hadn’t been useless. They had been doing an important job—eating insects. Now with so many frogs killed, the insects were increasing more rapidly. They were damaging the crops and spreading diseases.
Now, the people are still poor. But in the evenings they sit in the village square and listen to sounds of insects and frogs. These sounds of the night now have a much deeper meaning.
4. From paragraph 1 we learn that the villagers __________.

A．worked very hard for centuries

B．were poor but somewhat content (满足的)

C．dreamed of having a better life

D．lived a different life from their forefathers

5. Why did the villagers agree to sell frogs ?

A．The frogs were easy money.

B．They needed money to buy medicine.

C．They wanted to please the visitors.

D．The frogs made too much noise.

6. What might be the cause of the children’s sickness?

A．The crops didn't do well.

B．There were too many insects.

C．The visitors brought in diseases.

D．The pesticides were overused.

7. What can we infer from the last sentence of the text ?

A．Happiness comes from peaceful life in the country.

B．Health is more important than money.

C．The harmony between man and nature is important

D．good old day will never be forgotten

The rising costs of health care have become a problem for many countries in the world. To deal with this problem, it is recommended that a big part of the government’s health budget（预算)be used for health education and disease prevention instead of treatment. Actually, many kinds of diseases are preventable in many ways and preventing a disease is usually much cheaper than treating it. For example, people could avoid catching a cold if they dressed warmly when the weather starts getting cold. But many people get sick because they fail to do so, and have to spend money seeing a doctor.

Daily habits like eating more healthy food would have kept millions of families from becoming bankrupt if the patients had taken measures for early prevention. For example, keeping a balanced diet, such as not consuming too much animal fat and insuring a steady intake of vegetables and fruits, seems to be quite important.

One very effective and costless way of prevention is regular exercise, which is necessary for a healthy mind and body. Regular exercise, such as running, walking, and playing sports is a good way to make people feel better or reduce stress.

In addition, health education plays a key role in improving people’s health. By giving people more information about health, countries could help people understand the importance of disease prevention and ways to achieve it. For example, knowing one’s family medical history is an effective way to help keep healthy. Information about health problems among close relatives will make them aware of what they should do to prevent certain diseases through lifestyle changes, which will work before it is too late.

However, stressing disease prevention does not mean medical treatment is unimportant. After all, prevention and treatment are just two different means toward the same effect. In conclusion, we could save money on health care and treat patients more successfully if our country spends more money on health prevention and education.

8. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Prevention or Education?	B．Prevention or Treatment?
C．Health or Illness?	D．Exercise or Illness?

9. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “bankrupt”?

A．Unable to be cured.

B．Unable to pay one’s debts.

C．Stronger than ever before.

D．More successful than ever before.

10. We learn from the passage that             .

A．dressing warmly can prevent diseases

B．a balanced diet is cheaper than regular exercise

C．It’s better to have more health education.

D．the government’s health budget should be increased

11. Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?
CP(Central Point) P(Point) S(Sub—point次要点)   C(Conclusion)

A．	B．
C．	D．

The Winner’s Guide to Success

Do you know what makes people successful? To find out the answers, an American scholar recently visited some of the most successful people around the world.     12    

Be responsible for yourself

Sometimes you may want to blame others for your failure to get ahead. In fact, when you say someone or something outside of yourself is stopping you from making success, you’re giving away your own power.     13    

Write a plan

It is very difficult to try to get what you want without a good plan. It is just like trying to drive through strange roads to a city far away.     14     Without this “map”, you may waste your time, money and also your energy; while with the “map” you’ll enjoy the “trip” and get what you want in the shortest possible time.

Be willing to pay the price

    15     So you must be ready to work hard — even harder than you have ever done. If you are not willing to pay the price, you won’t get anything valuable.

    16    

It seems to us that everyone knows this. But it is easier said than done. When you are doing something, you must tell yourself again and again: Giving up is worse than failure because failure can be the mother of success, but giving up means the death of hope.

A．Never give up.

B．Nothing is easy to get.

C．A good plan is like a map to you.

D．Here are some keys to success that they give.

E．Some people achieve success much later in life.

F．You’re saying, “You have more control over my life than I do.”

G．Someone else’s opinion of you doesn’t have to become your reality.

I believe in miracles (奇迹) because I’ve seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old. “There’s a ___________ in my upper jaw,” she said, “I told my own dentist it’s nothing, but he ___________ I come to see you.”

Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would ___________ to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the ___________ of her mouth. A careful examination later ___________ that it was a particularly bad sort of cancer.

During her next appointment, I explained to her the ___________ of the problem. She clasped my hand in hers and said, “I know you’re worried about me, but I’m just ___________.”

I thought otherwise. After considerable ___________ on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to ___________ me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon. She saw him, but as I expected, ____________ treatment.

About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and ____________.

“How are you?” I asked.

“I’m just fine, honey,” she responded ____________ high spirits. “When can I get started on fixing my dentures (假牙)?”

Surprised to see her at all, I answered ____________ “Let me take a look in your mouth and we’ll see about it.”

I couldn’t believe my eyes. The cancer that had ____________ nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone—only one small area of redness ____________.

I had read of such things happening, but had ____________ seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then I’ve seen many others, because they keep getting ____________ to see. In fact, miracles are daily events for me now. And people are in miracle, ____________ through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to ____________ the miracles of one another.

Since my first miracle, I’ve come to understand that the time and place for a miracle is ____________ we choose to find it.

17.

A．cut

B．pain

C．wound

D．cancer

18.

A．declared

B．suspected

C．promised

D．insisted

19.

A．refuse

B．continue

C．attempt

D．manage

20.

A．roof

B．corner

C．bottom

D．surface

21.

A．confirmed

B．convinced

C．considered

D．concluded

22.

A．possibility

B．importance

C．seriousness

D．resolution

23.

A．old

B．sick

C．fine

D．glad

24.

A．permission

B．support

C．approval

D．effort

25.

A．persuade

B．please

C．encourage

D．astonish

26.

A．declined

B．provided

C．received

D．required

27.

A．healthy

B．elegant

C．optimistic

D．humorous

28.

A．to

B．in

C．with

D．by

29.

A．worriedly

B．confusedly

C．patiently

D．confidently

30.

A．covered

B．reached

C．spread

D．grown

31.

A．cured

B．faded

C．expanded

D．remained

32.

A．ever

B．also

C．never

D．already

33.

A．easier

B．rarer

C．happier

D．closer

34.

A．or

B．so

C．yet

D．for

35.

A．read

B．make

C．keep

D．see

36.

A．whatever

B．wherever

C．whoever

D．whichever

请按要求在横线上写出下列单词的正确形式。
37. situate变形容词_______
38. permit变过去分词_______
39. fortunate变副词_______
40. poor变名词_______
41. success变动词__________
42. eat变现在分词_______
43. it变形容词性物主代词__________
44. thief变复数____________
45. include变介词_____________
46. few变最高级______________

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。

Have you ever     47     (stay) up late? If so, you know that not getting enough sleep can make you tired. Not sleeping enough can also make     48     hard to think clearly the next day.

Sleep scientists have long known that    49     (get) a good night’s sleep is of great

importance. It helps kids to be able to do their best during the day.

A recent study shows that sleep     50     (help) improve problem-solving skills and

    51    (create) thinking. For the study, two groups of students answered     52     math problem. The group that slept for eight hours solved the problem correctly     53    often) than the group that did not get enough sleep.

While you sleep at night, your brain is busy doing its “homework”. It sorts out (整理) the information     54     you get in the day. Getting enough sleep each night can improve your thinking ability. That will     55    (sure) help you do your best at school. Experts say that,     56    return, can lead to better grades.

57. 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）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：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Li Ming,

I have received your letter yesterday. Don’t worry about you. I’m getting along well with my research works in the lab. But, to my surprising, you say you will give up learn English. The reason are that you have not done well in it recently and you have lost interest.

I’m afraid I can’t agree with you. I know it is not easy to learn English, and English is widely used in the world today and it will be important tool in your future work. Besides, it is becoming more and more important at our daily life. If you study hardly, you will succeed. Do remember where there is a will, there is a way.

Li Hua

58. 第二节书面表达
假定你校将举行一个成人仪式，你将作为代表在仪式上发言。请你按以下内容要点准备一篇英文发言稿。
1.过去对成年的向往；
2.现在的感受和认识；
3.将来的目标及措施。
参考词汇：责任 responsibility
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯；
3.发言稿的开头与结束语已为你写好（不计入总词数）
Good morning，everyone！
The topic of my speech today is “thoughts on becoming a grown-up”.                  
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Thank you for listening.