In a faraway country, there were two carpenters(木匠)who were both so good at their job that no one could tell who was better.

One day, the country's king thought of a way to _______ which one was better. He would have them compete against each other in a contest. The carpenters were given three days to carve(雕刻)a wooden_______.Whoever carved the most lifelike one would be the winner.

The first carpenter carved a fine mouse with lifelike feature. The second carpenter's mouse, however, looked quite_______.In fact, it hardly even looked like a mouse at all. The king and his ministers(大臣)_______that the first carpenter was the winner.

The second carpenter said, “This judgment is_______.We should ask a cat which mouse looks the most realistic. Cats can recognize mice much better than _______ , after all.” The king thought this was a_______idea. He ordered his ministers to catch several cats and bring them to_______the carpenters’ mice.

_________, all of the cats were more attracted to the second carpenter's mouse. The king asked the second carpenter, “How did you make the cats believe that your mouse looked more real?” The carpenter said, “Your Majesty, if you look closely, you can see that I carved a mouse holding a fishbone! The cats care not about how real it looks, but how__________it might taste."

1.

A．find out

B．look out

C．take out

D．come out

2.

A．cat

B．dog

C．mouse

D．bird

3.

A．beautiful

B．wonderful

C．cruel

D．rough

4.

A．wondered

B．agreed

C．pronounced

D．noticed

5.

A．unclear

B．unfair

C．unusual

D．unreal

6.

A．the king

B．his ministers

C．humans

D．the carpenters

7.

A．reasonable

B．dangerous

C．boring

D．different

8.

A．search

B．kill

C．play

D．judge

9.

A．Carefully

B．Hopefully

C．Surprisingly

D．Thankfully

10.

A．delicious

B．interesting

C．popular

D．special

Need good and long lasting friends

I am very interested in meeting good friends from France, the UK and other European countries.

I am a loving, caring, understanding and outgoing guy and I hope to get to know people, cultures and languages in other countries. I check mails often and I am good at English and French. So I will welcome all emails.

nibangwa@ yahoo. com

Thanks for stopping by.

Tracy
Looking for a Japanese penfriend for my language classes

I am a Japanese teacher in Australia, looking for a penfriend for my classes in Japan. I have 2 classes of 26 students, so 52 in total, who I would like to find a pen- friend for.

Please contact me if you can help.

Love 123 @ sina. com

Thanks.

Simon
Looking for a kind friend from the USA
Hi all,

My name is Li Fang. I am a lady aged 22, loving, caring, sporty and musical. I am planning to go for my studies in the United States so I need someone who can show me the way and how to do things and be a friend when I am there.

I am Chinese and hope to hear from you.

Thank you so much.

jelbit@ yahoo.com

Searching for secondary school penfriends

Hello, we are from Spain, near Barcelona city.

Our students are 12 〜16 years old and they would like to build friendships with a school with similar age characteristics.

They need to practice English. They speak Spanish and Catalan as mother languages.

We are expecting to hear from you.

Foreign Languages Department Tel：13912371550

Branka
11. According to the information above, we know__________ can speak French.

A．Tracy

B．Li Fang

C．Branka

D．Simon

12. _______are looking for penfriends for their students.

A．Tracy and Simon	B．Simon and Branka
C．Tracy and Branka	D．Li Fang and Simon

13. If you are an American and you need a Chinese penfriend, you can contact_____________.

A．nibangwa@ yahoo.com

B．Love 123 @ sina. com

C．jelbit@ yahoo.com

D．13912371550

14. We know from the passage that __________.

A．Tracy is planning to go for studies in the USA

B．Li Fang is going to Australia to be a teacher

C．Branka wants to find some adult penfriends

D．Simon has two classes with 52 students in total

15. You may see the information above___________.

A．in a film	B．on a website
C．in a play	D．on a map

Sports can help you keep fit and get in touch with nature. However, whether you are in the mountains, in the waves, or on the grassland, you should be aware that your choice of sports might have great influence on the environment.

Some sports are resource-hungry (资源饥渴). Golf, as you may know, eats up not only large areas of countryside, but also tons of water. Besides, all sorts of chemicals and huge amounts of energy are used to keep its courses in good condition. This causes major environment effects. For example, in the dry regions of Portugal and Spain, golf is often held responsible for serious water shortage in some local areas.

There are many environment-friendly sports. Power walking is one of them that you can take up today.

You don't need any special equipment except a good pair of shoes and you don't have to worry about resources and your purse. Simple and free, power walking can also keep you fit. If you walk regularly, it will be good for your heart and bones. Experts say that 20 minutes of power walking daily can make you feel less anxious, sleep well and have better weight control.

Whatever sports you take up, you can make it greener by using environment-friendly equipment and buying products made from recycled materials. But the final goal should be "green gyms". They are better replacement for traditional health clubs and modern sports stadiums. Members of green gyms play sports outdoors, in the countryside or other open spaces. There is no special requirement for you to start your membership. And best of all, it's free.

21. Which of the following does the author most probably like?

A．Cycling around a lake.	B．Driving a car on the street.
C．Playing basketball in a gym.	D．Swimming in a sports centre.

22. What do you know about golf from Paragraph 2?

A．It is unpopular in Portugal and Spain.	B．It causes water shortage around the world.	C．It protects the earth from chemicals and waste.
D．It needs water and energy to keep its courses green.

23. What does the underlined word "them" in the Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Resource-hungry sports.	B．Outdoors sports.
C．Environment-friendly sports.	D．Indoors sports.

24. The author uses power walking as an example mainly because_________.

A．it is an outdoor sport	B．it improves our health
C．it uses fewer resources	D．it is recommended by friends

25. The author writes the passage to__________.

A．show us the function of major sports

B．encourage us to go in for green sports

C．discuss the major influence of popular sports

D．introduce different types of environment-friendly sports

根据短文内容，从短文后的A～F选项中，选出5个适当的选项补全短文，答题卡上只需填涂选项的编号字母。

Who is Li Ziqi? For 7 million YouTube audiences and 20 million Weibo users, that’s an easy question to answer. The 29-year-old girl’s videos about her country life recently have become famous. Her fans call her “the goddess of nature”.     26     Cooking, painting, farming...she is a master of many kinds of skills.

“She performs the work of a farmer like a fairy (仙子),” the South China Morning Post said. In her video, Li wears hanfu that she made herself. She even raises silkworms (蚕) in order to make quilts. Li grows plants as well.     27     She eats seasonal food.

    28     When she was 14, she went to the city to work, but returned to the countryside in 2012 to take care of her sick grandmother. To make a living, Li runs an online store.     29    

But the simple pleasures she presented quickly won her many fans. “In such a tech-driven age, where everything comes so quickly, it’s beautiful to watch such a slow perform without any pressure,” one of her fans said online.

For her foreign audience, what is even more interesting is Li’s deep knowledge of food, nature and Chinese culture. “ I can see how good Chinese people are at cooking! I never thought of keeping meat like that!” one foreign fan wrote on YouTube. As China Daily said, Li shows that Chinese people love good food and are good at making art out of the simplest materials.     30    

A．She is often seen preparing meals with vegetables picked from her field.

B．Li Ziqi is gaining millions of fans around the world with her videos.

C．With her videos, she has spread Chinese culture to the world.

D．At first, she just used her videos to sell her products.

E．Li was raised by her grandparents in a small village in Sichuan province.

F．She is worthy of this title.

右栏A-F分别给出了六个中华成语故事，请根据左栏五个学生英语学习中常见的问题，帮助他们选出对应的成语故事，并将其标号填入题前横线上。

31     “Because” and “so” shouldn’t be put together. But some students often add “so” to the sentence with “because”.     32     Some students may be lucky to get the right answers. But if they depend only on luck failure may come.     33     Some students pretend that they know the grammar rules but in fact, they don’t.     34     Students need to learn a lesson from mistakes so that they won’t make them next time.     35     Some students seem to be able to recite(背诵) the English texts in groups. But if they asked to do it alone, they can’t.

A. The old emperor liked group music. A man knew this and joined the musical team. But the new emperor enjoyed the music played by every single musician. The man without any music ability was afraid and ran away. B. Several men were drawing snakes on the floor. One man was the first to finish a snake but he didn’t win because he added feet to his snake. C. One day, a rabbit knocked itself into a tree and fell dead. A farmer nearby enjoyed the rabbit for dinner and waited for more at the same place every day. However, no rabbits came and his fields went worse. D. A man wanted to steal a big bell next door. However, he had to make a lot of noise so he covered his ears with pieces of clothes, thinking if he couldn’t hear the noise, neither could others. E. A sheep keeper found a sheep was gone and he discovered there was a hole in the sheep hold(羊圈). So he fixed it right away. As a result, the rest of the sheep were safe. F. A hard-working young man was so poor that he had to make a small hole in the wall to get light from next door at night. He read a lot of books and became an important officer for the emperor.

46. 书面表达
76. 减负之后，同学们有了更多的课余时间。某校英语角就“如何让课余生活更有意义？”展开了讨论，大家各抒己见。请你根据下图提示，以“How To Make Our Spare Time More
Meaningful?”为题，用英语写一篇短文。

注意： (1)短文应包括所给内容要点，可适当发挥，使文章连贯;
(2)词数90左右，短文开头已给出，不计入总词数;
(3)短文中不得出现考生的真实姓名、校名等信息。
(4)参考词汇：提升素养promote literacy
How To Make Our Spare Time More Meaningful?
Nowadays, we students have much more spare time than ever before, but how to make our spare time more meaningful?
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