The holidays are a time to give. These organizations are looking for volunteers and donations (捐赠). Read on to learn more about them. Then, find out how you can help.

American Red Cross

This holiday season, your donation can make a difference at home and abroad. The American Red Cross is making it easy to help people who have experienced natural disasters (灾害), members of the U.S. armed forces, and children all over the world. With just one click (点击), you can give the gift of caring.

National Military Family Association

Each year hundreds of Americans serve both at home and abroad to keep our country safe. This holiday season, we can help serve them. Through donations, National Military Family Association helps to provide military members and their families with scholarships, family retreats, camp programs for kids, and more.

Network for Good

This website allows its users to donate to organizations and discover volunteer chances. After natural disasters, the Network for Good provides a system of help and support for those in need. The website also offers tips to kids who want to give. Visit the website to find out how you can help make someone’s holiday season shine bright.

Make-A-Wish Foundation

Sometimes all it takes is one wish made come true to make someone smile. The work of Make-A-Wish Foundation is to make the wishes come true. Through support and donations, the foundation has made dreams come true for hundreds of thousands of children with serious illnesses.

If you want to help others, don’t wait for a better time. Help now! Your help will be valued highly.

1. What do we know about the American Red Cross?

A．It serves members of armed forces all over the world.

B．It mainly supports people in natural disasters.

C．It helps children at home and abroad.

D．It doesn’t often ask for donations.

2. To help American soldiers’ parents, which organization will you donate things to?

A．Network for Good.

B．American Red Cross.

C．Make-A-Wish Foundation.

D．National Military Family Association.

3. Who would most probably visit Network for Good?

A．People who want to learn about natural disasters.

B．People who have volunteering experiences.

C．People who want to volunteer.

D．People who want to offer tips.

It was Monday. Mrs Smith's dog was hungry, but there was not any meat in the house.

Considering that there was no better way, Mrs Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote the following words on it: "Give my dog half a pound of meat. " Then she gave the paper to her dog and said gently."Take this to the butcher（屠夫）and he's going to give you your lunch today.”

Holding the piece of paper in its mouth, the dog ran to the butcher's. It gave the paper to the butcher. The butcher read it carefully, recognized that it was really the lady's handwriting and soon did it as he was asked to. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up at once.

At noon, the dog came to the shop again. It gave the butcher a piece of paper again. After reading it, he gave it half a pound of meat once more.

The next day, the dog came again exactly at noon. And as usual, it brought a piece of paper in the mouth. This time, the butcher did not take a look at the paper, and gave the dog is meat, for he had regarded the dog as one of his customers. But, the dog came again at four o'clock. And the same thing happened once again. To the butcher's more surprise, it came for the third time at six o'clock, and brought with it a third piece of paper. The butcher felt a bit puzzled. He said to himself, "This is a small dog. Why does Mrs Smith give it so much meat to eat today?"

Looking at the piece of paper, he found that there were not any words on it!

4. It seemed that the dog knew well that the paper Mrs Smith gave it            .

A．could do it much good	B．might do it much harm
C．would help the butcher	D．was worth many pounds

5. From its experience, the dog found that            .

A．only the paper with Mrs Smith's words on it could bring it meat

B．the butcher would give meat to it whenever he saw it

C．a piece of paper could bring it half a pound of meat

D．Mrs Smith would pay for the meat it got from the butcher

6. At the end of the story, you'll find that            .

A．the dog was clever enough to write on the paper

B．the dog dared not go to the butcher's any more

C．the butcher found himself cheated by the clever animal

D．the butcher was told not to give any meat to the dog

When I was 16 years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn’t the first time I had been abroad. Like most English children I learned French at school and I had often been to France, so I was used to speaking a foreign language to people who didn’t understand English. But when I went to America I was really looking forward to having a nice easy holiday without any language problems.

How wrong I was! The misunderstanding began at the airport. I was looking for a public telephone to give my American friend Danny a ring and tell her that I had arrived. A friendly old man saw me looking like being lost and asked if he could help me.

“Yes,” I said. “I want to give my friend a ring.”

“Well, that’s nice,” he said. “Are you getting married? But aren’t you a bit young?”

“Who is talking about marriage?” I replied. “I just want to give my friend a ring to tell her I’ve arrived. Can you tell me where there’s a phone box?”

“Oh!” he said. “There’s a phone downstairs.”

When at last we did meet up, Danny explained the misunderstanding to me.

“Don’t worry,” she said to me. “I had many difficulties at first. There are lots of words which the Americans use differently in meaning from us British. You’ll soon get used to all the funny things they say. But most of the time British and American people can understand each other!”

7. Where was the writer from?

A．He was from America	B．He was from France
C．He was from England	D．He was from China

8. The writer thought _________ in America.

A．he wouldn’t have any language difficulties

B．he would not understand the Americans

C．the Americans might not understand him

D．he would have difficulties at the airport

9. The writer wanted ________.

A．to buy a ring for his friend

B．to make a call to his friend

C．to go to the telephone company

D．his friend to see him off

10. From the passage we can see that “give somebody a ring”____________.

A．means the same in America as in England

B．means “call somebody’ to the old man

C．means “be going to get married”

D．has different meaning in America and in England

Every person wants to achieve the goals set at the beginning of a new school year. The following are some ways to help you achieve your goals.

●    11    When it comes to choosing your goal, ensure that it states precisely what it is that you want to achieve. Don’t generalize. Your goal should involve both what you want to achieve and the effort that you will put in to achieve it.

●    12    Having a copy of your goal makes it real. You can write you goal in a journal you’ll be keeping all year, or you can write it on a poster and stick it on your desk so that you can look at it each day. Every time you remind yourself of your goal, you’re training your brain to accept the effort needed to make the goal happen.

●Try various methods. One may not work while another may be just right for you.     13    Some people learn best through writing, some through listening and reading, and some through talking it through. Once you realize which way works for you, you can work better and achieve your goal easily.

●Think positive.       14    Negative thoughts are unhelpful and they became roadblocks. Stop telling yourself you can’t and start telling yourself you can, and talk about you are doing rather than hoping you can do something. Always believe that you’re capable, even if you have difficulty along the way.

●Reward yourself along the way.     15    Occasionally, when you’ve achieved certain “milestones” in your goal plan, take a break and reward yourself. Watch a movie, visit a friend who lives across town, go to the ice cream shop with your friends or buy yourself something new.

A．Write down your goal.

B．Choose specific and realistic goals

C．Be aware of the way you learn best

D．Remember that everyone makes mistakes

E．Set aside some time each week for exercise

F．All study and no reward can break your spirit

G．If you’re not in the right state of mind, you won’t be able to succeed.

What would your life be like without phones?

In one of my classes today we discussed the question of how our lives would be without a mobile phone. I actually felt quite sad to hear how some kids cannot ______ without their phones these days. ______, I think nowadays we are controlled and ______ by our technology to keep up. So let’s see some of the points that ______ in the debate and see if our generation really is addicted(上瘾的) to electronic connections ______ true communication.

It is true that everything ______ at a fast pace these days. For example, you can contact someone who lives on the other side of the world within ______. This is great if you think about how connected we can stay to the ______ who are far away from us. However, on the contrary, can we be too connected to the people who are ______ to us? An argument arose about the ______ that it is easier to message someone from your sofa than to meet them ______ and talk. Social skills are ______ to have and if you are not going to put effort into real-life ______, then you are not going to ______ in this ability.

Another point was that phones are very handy for ______ something that you are wondering about. For example, if you don’t know a word in another language, you can ______ and simply use an on-line translator to help you out. This can be very ______ in many situations, but it can also make a person dependent on the ______.

All in all, this question is very interesting to ______ as we become day by day more dependent on technology. We should realize how much we really need to be connected with our phones while considering the ______ and damage it can cause us.

16.

A．affect

B．survive

C．succeed

D．perform

17.

A．Personally

B．Specially

C．Entirely

D．Gradually

18.

A．suffered

B．commanded

C．forced

D．advised

19.

A．came up

B．came across

C．came down

D．came to

20.

A．more than

B．less than

C．other than

D．rather than

21.

A．appears

B．falls

C．works

D．grows

22.

A．seconds

B．hours

C．days

D．months

23.

A．customers

B．teachers

C．students

D．people

24.

A．direction

B．close

C．necessary

D．kind

25.

A．distant

B．wish

C．fact

D．suggestions

26.

A．in person

B．in advance

C．with surprise

D．with joy

27.

A．extreme

B．active

C．fair

D．important

28.

A．style

B．communication

C．expression

D．argument

29.

A．progress

B．compete

C．arise

D．settle

30.

A．looking after

B．looking back

C．looking up

D．looking out

31.

A．selflessly

B．quickly

C．hardly

D．slowly

32.

A．grateful

B．peaceful

C．painful

D．helpful

33.

A．textbook

B．dictionary

C．Internet

D．newspaper

34.

A．forecast

B．consider

C．judge

D．select

35.

A．benefits

B．skills

C．doubts

D．evidence

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Feeling Left-out

After graduating from Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute ,Chen Liang     36    (success) passed his TOEFL Test and got a scholarship from a university in Boston for     37    MA programme. Soon after the programme     38     (begin) he made friends with some of the American students     39     (study) for the same course. One day after class, his American friend, Dick, asked him to go to the university cafeteria and Chen Liang was glad to go with him. On their way they happened     40     (run) across Dick's girlfriend, Lisa.    41    was on her way to a lecture. Dick and Lisa walked shoulder to shoulder and talked a lot as if they hadn't seen each other for ages. Meanwhile, Chen Liang     42     (walk)behind them,    43    (obvious) left out in the cold. When they were near the cafeteria Lisa said that she had to go to the lecture, so Dick embraced her and gave her a long kiss. Seeing that, Chen Liang turned away and then walked off towards the cafeteria. When Dick looked up, he saw Chen Liang walking into the cafeteria. Dick was     44     (puzzle), shrugged his shoulders and didn't know     45    Chen Liang didn't wait for him and went to the cafeteria alone.

46. 对于中学生上网人们有不同的看法。请你以"Going Online"为题，根据下表所提供的信息，用英语写一篇80词左右的短文.谈谈自己的看法。

利	弊
能增长知识，了解国内外大事，紧跟时代，有利于学习英语；能结交很多朋友	有上网玩游戏影响学习；对视力有害；易受不良信   息的影响
建议：适度上网；要把学习、健康和安全放在首位等

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47. 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

One autumn I went to stay for the hunting season with some friends in a castle in Picardy.

My friends were fond of practical joking, as all my friends are. I do not care to know any other sort of people.

When I arrived, they gave me a princely reception（招待）, which at once aroused distrust in my breast. We had some capital shooting. They embraced me, and they cheated me，as if they expected to have great fun at my expense.

I said to myself, "Look out, old ferret（雪貂）! They have something in preparation for you."

During the dinner, the joy was too much, far too great, in fact. I thought," Here are people who take a double share of amusement apparently without reason. They must be looking out in their own minds for a good bit of fun. Actually 1 am to be the victim of the joke. Attention!"

During the entire evening, everyone laughed in an enlarged fashion. I smelled a practical joke in the air , as a dog smells game. But what was it? I was watchful, and restless. I did not let a word or a meaning or a gesture escape from me. Everyone seemed to me an object of suspicion, and I even looked distrustfully at the faces of the servants.

The clock rang for going to bed, and the whole household came to accompany me to my room. Why? They called to me, "Good night”. I entered the flat, shut the door , and remained standing, without moving a single step, holding the wax candle in my hand.

I heard laughter and whispering in the corridor（走廊）. Without doubt they were spying on me. I cast a glance around the walls, the furniture, the ceiling, the hangings, and the floor. I saw nothing to prove suspicion. I heard persons moving about outside my door. I had no doubt that they were looking through the keyhole.

An idea came into my head:" My candle may suddenly go out , and leave me in darkness.”

注意：
1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:

I hid behind the door to see what would happen next.

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Paragraph 2:

Suddenly an idea occurred to me that

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