阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Darren and Tim are good friends. They like ________. Last summer they had a seven-day holiday. They were on vacation on the ________. They wanted to cross the sea in a ________ for a week.

They saw many blue whales (鲸) during the trip. These blue whales were large. They ________ the small sea animals. At first Darren and Tim were very excited because they ________ saw so large ones. But soon something terrible happened. They were watching them ________ the whales hit the boat. Suddenly, ________ started coming into the boat and they were in trouble. They had to jump into their lifeboats (救生艇) ________ before the boat went down into the sea. ________ terrible!

They were lucky. The blue whales left them. They were ________. They had enough food and water for about twenty days. They also ________ a small machine (机器). The machine could change seawater into drinking water. They also had a fishing line. These two things could help them to ________.

They ________ fish and ate them for the next sixteen days. They saw some ships during those days. They ________ when they were passing, but no one heard. Just when they were ________, the persons in a fishing boat found them and saved them.

No matter what difficulty we meet, face it bravely and never give up.

1.

A．receiving

B．feeling

C．smelling

D．travelling

2.

A．sea

B．countryside

C．village

D．hill

3.

A．plane

B．boat

C．ship

D．bus

4.

A．called on

B．came on

C．fed on

D．got on

5.

A．never

B．always

C．often

D．usually

6.

A．before

B．after

C．when

D．until

7.

A．whales

B．food

C．fish

D．water

8.

A．sincerely

B．quickly

C．happily

D．widely

9.

A．How

B．Why

C．What

D．Where

10.

A．in danger

B．out of danger

C．in seconds

D．die out

11.

A．lost

B．drew

C．had

D．pushed

12.

A．deal

B．live

C．fill

D．slow

13.

A．blew

B．found

C．drank

D．caught

14.

A．gave

B．shouted

C．brought

D．sat

15.

A．disappointed

B．interested

C．lovely

D．proud

Spring Activities Spring is coming. Would you like to enjoy it outdoors? Just join our club! Member: Children aged from 8 to 12 Time: Begin at 8:00 a.m. this Sunday Place: On Purple Hill Riding horses, going cycling, flying kites and having a picnic by the river You should pay 20 yuan if you want to join us! Tel: 83090099

Babysitter Wanted Do you like children? Do you have free time in the afternoon? We need a babysitter for our son, Jack. He is six years old. Work time: Monday to Friday: 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday to Sunday: 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. You have to: • Take care of Jack. • Read stories to him. • Play with him. You can get five dollars an hour. Tel: 29564938 E-mail: cindy345@126.com Add.: No.33, Big Building Street

16. Children can do all the following things on Purple Hill except ________.

A．riding horses	B．having a picnic
C．flying kites	D．playing with a dog

17. You will be working at ________ p.m. on Thursday if you are Jack’s babysitter.

A．1:00

B．4:00

C．7:00

D．8:00

18. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Students under 8 cannot join the Spring Activities.

B．You should pay money if you want to join the Spring Activities.

C．A babysitter has to sing songs for Jack at home.

D．If you want to be a babysitter, you can call 29564938.

Linda, 14. My mother does most of the housework like cooking and folding the clothes. My father can only do the washing, sweep the floor and take out the rubbish. He really needs to learn how to do the housework.

Celina, 13. My mother and my father do 50% of the housework each. My mother does the washing and cleans the living room. My father makes the bed and drives me to school.

Paul, 16. My father doesn’t do a lot but he tries to help. He hangs up the clothes after my mother washes them and my mother is happy that he always gives her a hand.

Bill, 15. My mother is a doctor. She is busy with her work every day, so she has little time to do the housework. In fact, she is not good at doing it. So my father has to do most of it. Sometimes my grandmother comes to help.

19. How does Celina go to school?

A．By bike.

B．By bus.

C．By car.

D．By subway.

20. The underlined phrase “hangs up” means “________” in Chinese.

A．闲逛

B．晾晒

C．熨烫

D．清洗

21. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Bill’s grandmother helps Bill with his schoolwork.

B．Celina’s father needs to learn how to do the housework.

C．Linda is one year older than Celina but one year younger than Bill.

D．Paul’s mother is angry with his father because he never helps with the housework.

Do you often feel cold in winter? When you feel cold, what do you do to warm yourself up? Do you put on more clothes? When it’s cold, how do you sense that?

I like to take a bath. I like the way the warm water feels on my skin. I do not like to get out of the bathtub (浴缸). When I get out of the bathtub, I get really cold. Sometimes I am so cold that my teeth begin shaking, and I start to shiver (颤抖). Why do we shiver when we are cold?

Shivering is a reflex (反射). We don’t have to think about a reflex in order to make it happen. When the air around us suddenly becomes cooler, the nerves (神经) in our skin sense that we are cold. These nerves then send messages to our brain. The brain sends messages back that race through our bodies. These messages tell all of our muscles (肌肉) to start warming up.

Our muscles then start tightening (绷紧) and relaxing. They do this very quickly over and over again. These quick actions are the shivers. These shivers help to warm us up. So the next time you start to shiver, thank your nerves. They’re working to warm you up before you even have the chance to shout, “Mom, I’m c-c-c-old!”

22. When ______, we often shiver.

A．we feel cold

B．we get out of the bathtub

C．we take a bath

D．our teeth begin shaking

23. Why do we shiver?

A．To help us warm up when we are cold.

B．To help us to become brave.

C．To help us think about something.

D．To help send messages to our brain.

24. The writer writes this passage to ______.

A．encourage you to take more baths

B．show the best way to stay warm

C．tell you how and why your body shivers

D．tell you how to stop shivering

25. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．Shiver Me!

B．Shivering: What a Strange Way to Warm Up!

C．How to Stop Shivering

D．Shivering is Not for the Weak

阅读短文，并完成下面小题。

People usually read e-books on personal computers. Some people like to read e-books on their mobile phones.

At first, e-books were just for a certain group of readers and most of them were about only a few subjects. With the development of the Internet, knowledge and answers to a lot of questions mainly come from e-books. This is why the e-book business is rising quickly.

E-books have many advantages. First of all, they save time. We don’t need to go to a bookstore to buy books. We can find the topic we want to know about on the Internet, and then we can quickly get many e-books on this topic. Second, e-books save money. Some e-books cost us little money, and there are many thousands of e-books on the Internet. Besides, because of e-books, we don’t need so many trees to make paper books. Also, e-books make reading more convenient. You can carry a whole library of hundreds of books with you in a small computer or any e-book reader, without worrying about their weight.

But e-books have certain disadvantages. They need a personal computer or an e-book reader, and the information can be lost if the reader’s computer doesn’t support its file format (文件格式).

However, e-books give us a new way of reading. That is really good.

1题完成句子；2、3、4题简略回答问题；5题将画线句子译成汉语。
26. E-books save ______ and ______.
27. Who were e-books for at first?
________________________________________________________________________
28. What are the disadvantages of e-books? (至少写出文中提到的一个方面)
________________________________________________________________________
29. Do you like to read e-books? Why?
________________________________________________________________________
30. ______________________________________________________________________

根据下面对话中的情境，在每个空白处填入一个适当的语句，使对话恢复完整。
A: Hi, John! The weekend is coming. Would you like to go on a trip with me?
B:     31    . Where shall we go?
A: Let’s go to visit Shaanxi History Museum.
B: Wow, I have been looking forward to visiting Shaanxi History Museum since I came to China.     32    ?
A: We can see great works of art there. And we can also learn a lot about the history of China.
B: That sounds great.     33    ?
A: We can take a bus there. It only takes 20 minutes.
B: All right.     34    ?
A: Yes. There is a bus station near my home, and it’s about 500 meters away from my home.
B: OK. See you!
A:     35    .

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词（有提示词的，填入所给单词的正确形式）。

Planting flowers is my favourite hobby. I can learn something new from it. Last week I bought     36     flower pot and some flower seeds in the market. Then I     37     (plant) some seeds in the pot. After a few days, nothing happened,     38     I didn’t give up watering. Another ten days     39     (late), I saw some young plants come out. I felt very     40     (excite) because I could grow something.

Just like growing flowers, we can also plant happiness. Our life     41     (be) just like a pot with nothing in it. We have lots of things to do, but sometimes we don’t do     42     (they). We may miss many important chances. That     43     (mean) we lose many things.     44     are the lost things? They’re the seeds of hope, love and dreams.

What should we plant in life? If we plant negative thoughts (消极的思想) inside our hearts, we will feel sad in the future     45     (day). If we plant seeds of hope, we will get happiness.

46. 假如你是李华，你的生日即将到来，你想向爸爸要一只小狗作为生日礼物，但爸爸担心你不能照顾好它或者它会影响你的学习。请根据以下提示，用英语给爸爸写一封信，谈谈你的想法。

提示：
(1) Why would you like to have a dog?
(2) What will you do if you can get a dog?
注意：
(1)短文须包括提示中的两个要点，可适当发挥。
(2)文中不得出现真实的地名、校名和人名。
(3)词数70个左右（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）。
Dear dad,

I would like to have a dog as my birthday present. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua