1. My mother is a teacher . _____ works hard every day.

A．She

B．He

C．I

D．We

2. Tom often goes to school        7:30 in the morning.

A．in

B．at

C．on

D．of

3. –         do you usually go to school?
– On foot. It’s good for my health.

A．How

B．When

C．Where

D．Why

4. –Rose, you look much          than last week.
–Yes, Dad. The final exam is coming.

A．busy

B．busier

C．busiest

D．the busiest

5. – Would you like to go to the movies with me this evening?
– I’d like to go with you,          I’m afraid I have no time.

A．and

B．or

C．so

D．but

6. I _____ go now ,or I will miss the first class.

A．can

B．may

C．must

D．could

7. Bill likes reading. He       picture books with his dad every evening.

A．read

B．reads

C．is reading

D．has read

8. My mother          for me at the table when I got home yesterday evening,

A．is waiting

B．will wait

C．was waiting

D．waited

9. – Ann, where are you going in the winter holiday?
– I________ the holiday in my grandparents’ small town.

A．spend

B．spent

C．have spent

D．am going to spend

10. Lisa and I are good friends. We          each other for ten years.

A．know

B．knew

C．will know

D．have known

11. Some new High Speed Railways ______ in our country last year.

A．build

B．were built

C．built

D．will be built

12. – Tim, can you tell me          now?
– I am cleaning my room.

A．what you are doing	B．what       are you doing
C．what did you do	D．what you did

I was now five, and still I showed no much interest in things except with my toes. My father took care of me. I could not look after myself, so I used to lie on my back all the time in the kitchen. I felt ____because I was imprisoned(监禁) in a world of my own, not able to communicate with others.

Then, suddenly it happened on the afternoon of a cold December day. All the family were gathered round the big kitchen fire. Mona and Paddy were drawing funny animals, using a bright piece of yellow chalk. It was the chalk that ____me so much because I had never seen anything like it before.

Suddenly, I wanted to do what my sister was doing. Then without thinking or knowing exactly what I was doing. I reached out and took the chalk out of my sister’s hand, with my left foot. It was a puzzle (迷惑 )to many people as well as to me. I held the ___ tightly between my toes and made a wild scribble(乱涂)with it on the board. Next moment I stopped not knowing what to do with the chalk next, hardly knowing how it got there. Then I looked up and realized that everyone was looking at me ____. My mother came in. Her eyes looked from my face down to my   ____ , then she took another piece of chalk from Mona and drew the single letter"A "on the floor in front of me. "Copy that, Christy. " She said. I tried to do the same action, but I   ____ ."Try again, Christy. " she whispered in my ear. I tried another two more times. I drew one side of the letter, then the other. It looked ugly, but I ____ to make it finally. I had done it! True! I couldn’t speak with my mouth, but now I would speak through something more lasting than spoken words. That one letter was my ___ to a new world, my key to mental(精神的) freedom.

13.

A．lonely

B．tired

C．happy

D．relaxed

14.

A．troubled

B．worried

C．helped

D．interested

15.

A．pencil

B．chalk

C．brush

D．stick

16.

A．angrily

B．sadly

C．silently

D．carefully

17.

A．hand

B．foot

C．neck

D．leg

18.

A．succeeded

B．forgot

C．fell

D．failed

19.

A．tried

B．managed

C．offered

D．decided

20.

A．road

B．dream

C．gift

D．tool

Help Needed

Are you good with children? We need two people to volunteer your time at Sunnyview Children’s Hospital. You need to be friendly and cheerful – the children are sick and you need to cheer them up. Your job is to set up a play group with fun games for the children. If you can spare an hour three times a week, come and join us! Please call Mrs. Chan at 555-9879. Thanks!

Are you interested in repairing things? We have set up a group, Home Love, to help older people who need to fix up their homes. If you have repair skills, join us for eight hours a month.    Call Home Love at 555- 4663.

Do you love clean beaches? We need people who are strong and can help clean up Blue Water Beach. We don’t want to put off this job until summer. We need your help to collect and carry garbage. If you are available for six hours this Saturday, call Al at 555-6668 or 555-6669.

21. If you’re good with children, you can go to _____.

A．Sunny view Children’s Hospital	B．Home Love
C．Blue Water Beach	D．Volunteer Help

22. You like repairing things, so you could call at _____.

A．555-9879	B．555-6669
C．555-6668	D．555-4663

23. On Blue Water Beach, you can _____.

A．cheer up sick children	B．clean up the beach
C．play games with others	D．fix up old buildings

It was often the most exciting for the children when the teacher gave every child a job in the class. The children would be responsible for the rest of that school year. Rita was a kind and quiet girl. Last year she did the best. She was the favorite to be given the best job---to look after the class dog. But this year there was a big surprise. Each child received one of the normal jobs, like preparing the books for the lessons, cleaning the blackboard or looking after one of the pets. But Rita's job was very different. She was given a little box with some sand and one ant. Although the teacher said that this ant was very special, Rita still felt disappointed.                                                                                        

"I will turn this little task into something great," Rita said to herself. She started to study everything about the little ant, gave it the best food and made the box perfect. The ant ended up growing quite a little bigger.

One day, the teacher announced(宣布）that Rita’s class was chosen to the tropical rainforest to study all kinds of insects in summer, because the class looked after the little ant well.                                                                                          

The class was filled with joy. Everyone thanked Rita for having been so patient and responsible. And children learned that you have to know how to be responsible for the given tasks even the smallest ones.

24. How did Rita feel when the teacher gave her the job this year?

A．Disappointed.

B．Interested.

C．Worried.

D．Sad.

25. The class was chosen to go to the tropical rainforest because______.

A．everyone did a good job	B．Rita looked after the ant well
C．Rita was given the best job	D．the children studied the ant

26. What did the children learn from the tasks ?

A．Being a good student will get praise and prizes.

B．Every teacher thanked Rita for being kind and quiet.

C．Studying insects can help people become more successful.

D．We should be responsible for the task even if it seems small.

Chinese are very generous(慷慨的，大方的） when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course ( 额外的课程 ) activities where they will either learn music or dance, or other classes that will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.

However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.

Parents can see that their children’s skills are different, maybe good in some areas ,but poor in others. Most parents fail to realize that today’s children are in need of self-respect and self-confidence.

The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever.

Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking requires patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence.

Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious (好奇的) and have interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.

27. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A．Parents care about their money. when educating their children.

B．Parents don’t often send their children to the best schools.

C．Parents seldom want their children to take extra-course activities.

D．Parents spend much money on the education without thinking.

28. Most Chinese parents don’t realize __________.

A．how much the best education is worth

B．when children should be educated

C．what children really need in later life

D．why school tests don’t satisfy children

29. The writer’s attitude(态度) to children’s education is that __________.

A．the cheaper an education is, the better it is

B．children today should learn different skills

C．practical skills are helpful to children’s growth

D．school education can’t meet parents’ expectations

Do you want to become better at making small talk with new people? Do you want to become better at networking with others? Nothing will improve your networking ability and your ability to make a successful conversation with other people rather than your curiosity(好奇心) about them.

When you are curious about other people, you will want to discover some of the interesting ways that they are similar to you. When you are curious about them, you’ll also be interested to discover the ways in which they think differently and live differently from you.

When you have curiosity about others, you will be much less self-conscious and your conversations will work a lot better. Instead of worrying yourself, “What can I say next that won’t sound stupid?”, you will be focused on learning more about the other person.

Making small talk with strangers can be tricky. We’ve all heard the advice that we should pick something out of our immediate environment and use that as a main point to start our small talk with the other person.

It’s true that this can be a great starting point for a conversation. However, when you focus too much on discussing things like the weather in your city, you can bring the conversation to a painful end very quickly. The other person will sense that you are trying to make a conversation, but that you have no interest in really getting to know him or her.

How can you keep small talk from becoming boring?

One way is to watch the other person for clues.(线索）.The clues they will give you about what is really interesting to them. When you get these clues, use them to start making the conversation a bit more about their life, their opinions, and their experiences.

After you have had a couple of minutes to break the ice, try looking for ways to make the conversation a little bit more personal. Ask the other person for his or her opinion about something that is a bit more personal but not extremely so. The first few minutes of talking to someone new will not be the best time to ask the other person his or her opinion on religious（宗教的） or political（政治的） matters. However, he or she might be happy to discuss his or her favorite team or musical band.

30. In Paragraph 1, the writer mainly wants to tell us that___________.

A．curiosity can help us make a good talk

B．it’s hard to make a talk with new people

C．curiosity helps us know new people quickly

D．it’s hard to make a successful talk with others

31. The underlined word “self-conscious” in Paragraph 3 probably means_____.

A．self-centered

B．self-controlled

C．serious

D．nervous

32. While carrying on a conversation, we should_____.

A．think about what won’t sound stupid

B．show our interests to the other person

C．try to learn more about the other person

D．discuss things like the weather in the city

33. What is the best title for the passage?

A．The way of starting small talk.

B．Improving our small talk with curiosity.

C．The importance of small talk in our life.

D．Improving our relationship through small talk.

About 800 years ago, a Chinese man named Wang Hu made the world's first rocket, but unluckily he lost his life with it. It was not until April 24, 1970 that China sent its first satellite Dongfanghong-1to space successfully.

To celebrate the first big success for the country's space development, April 24 is now China's Space Day, which started this year. While celebrating, China also announced(宣布）new plans to make a space station and go to Mars and further space.

A space station is like a home for astronauts in space. Astronauts live and work on a space station and spaceships can even park there. China plans to finish building its space station in 2022.

According to China’s top space scientist Zhou Jianping, by that time, becoming an astronaut will be a normal job. Astronauts are needed more than ever before. They need to be able to finish more tasks. So far, China has been choosing astronauts mainly from pilots. In the future astronauts will also be picked from engineers, doctors and space technology experts.

Another plan is about Mars. In order to search Mars, China will send a probe（探测器）first to Mars around 2020. It will land there and even bring back things from the Mars.

It's such a big plan! Only by doing this can China say it has truly started the exploration of deep space. And the exploration will help us understand how the universe changes.

34. Who made the world's first rocket?
_______________________________________________________
35. When is China’s Space Day?
_______________________________________________________
36. What does China plan to do in 2022?
_______________________________________________________
37. What will China do first to search the Mars?
_______________________________________________________
38. What does the passage mainly tell us?
_______________________________________________________

39. 假如你是李华，你们学校将要举办迎新年庆祝活动。你打算邀请你们班的交换生David和你们一起参加。请用英语写一封邮件，告诉他活动的时间和地点，庆祝活动时你们会做些什么，并就才艺展示给他提点建议。
提示词语：have a party, sing ,dance, play games, tell stories ,on time ,prepare
提示问题：
When and where are you going to have the party ?
What are you going to do in the party?
What do you advise David to prepare for the party?

Dear David, How is it going? I’m writing to tell you something about the party. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I’m looking forward to your early reply. Yours, Li Hua

40. 榜样的力量是无穷的。在我们身边有许许多多的榜样，勤劳的工人伯伯，辛勤的老师，热情的同学，慈爱的父母......。某英文网站正在开展以“我身边的榜样”为主题的征文活动。假如你是李华，请用英语写一篇短文投稿，谈谈你身边的榜样是谁，他（她）具有什么样的品质，你从他（她）身上学到了什么。
提示词语：kind, helpful, warm-hearted ,hard-working, set a good example
提示问题：
Who is your role model?
What traits(品质）does your role model have? Please give one or two examples.
What have you learned from him/her?
Everyone has a role model. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________