1. Mike went to the library ________ some books yesterday.

A．borrow	B．to borrow
C．borrows	D．borrowed

2. We are happy to see our city is developing ________ these years than before.

A．quickly	B．the most quickly
C．very quickly	D．more quickly

3. Three bridges ________ over the river five years ago.

A．built	B．build
C．were built	D．are built

4. Our mother earth gives us ________ we need in our daily life.

A．nobody	B．nothing
C．everybody	D．everything

5. Now, people regard drinking tea ________ a culture more than a habit.

A．as

B．by

C．of

D．with

6. We have friends to help us fight against pollution, and trees are one of ________.

A．themselves	B．they
C．their	D．them

7. Talk to your teacher and you will get help ________ you have a problem.

A．unless	B．if
C．until	D．so

8. It ________ about eight minutes for sunlight (阳光) to travel from the sun to the earth.

A．takes	B．spends
C．costs	D．pays

9. Turn off the water while you ________ your teeth or washing your hands.

A．were brushing	B．brush
C．are brushing	D．brushed

10. When you are swimming, ________ your ears. You can use earplugs (耳塞) to stop water getting into your ears.

A．take after	B．take part in
C．take off	D．take care of

11. — I’m sorry, sir. I can’t finish the work on time.
— Never mind. ________, the work is quite difficult.

A．At least	B．For instance
C．After all	D．First of all

12. After Mandela was free (自由的) in 1990, he chose to shake hands with the people ________ wanted to kill him.

A．whose

B．which

C．/

D．who

13. ________ delicious these beef noodles are!

A．What	B．How
C．What a	D．How a

14. — Your pencil case looks really beautiful.
— ________. But in fact, Gina’s looks better than mine.

A．Of course	B．Not at all
C．I’m afraid not	D．Thank you

15. — Dad, can you tell me ________ to the amusement park?
— The day after tomorrow.

A．when we are going	B．when we went
C．when are we going	D．when did we go

What will the car be like in the future? Maybe we can sit in a car that can drive itself.
About 40 years ago, scientists from the United States started to develop self-driving cars (无人驾驶汽车). The most famous recent one was made by Google in 2009. There are cameras and radars (雷达) on the top of the car. They allow the computer in the car to draw a 3D map of the environment. Chinese scientists have also successfully developed a self-driving car. The car made a trip from Changsha to Wuhan.
Is a self-driving car safe? A recent study shows that robots make safer drivers than humans. If only 10% of cars on the street are self-driving, they will save 1,000 lives (生命) every year. If 90% of vehicles (交通工具) are self-driving, 21,700 lives will be saved a year. However, a self-driving car is expensive and each costs about $100,000. So it is impossible to be very popular in the near future.
根据短文内容，判断下列句子正误。正确的用“A”表示，不正确的用“B”表示。
16. American scientists started to develop self-driving cars in 2009.
17. Cameras and computers are on the top of the self-driving car by Google.
18. In China, scientists have successfully developed a self-driving car.
19. The more self-driving cars there are on the street, the fewer traffic deaths there will be.
20. The self-driving cars will be very popular in the near future.

It is a cold and dry winter morning. When you wake up, you feel that your throat hurts. You begin to sneeze and later you may cough. You must have a cold! Wait a moment. Could it just be a common cold or the flu (流感) that’s been going around?
A cold gives you a runny nose and cough. But it’s usually easy to deal with. Some take medicine while others drink herbal tea or chicken soup. Usually you feel better after a week.
On the other hand, the flu can be much more dangerous. It usually gives you fever. Sometimes it can cause death. According to an American magazine, the worst flu killed about 50 million people from 1918 to 1919.
Don’t worry. If you get a flu vaccine (疫苗), it can stop you from getting the virus (病毒). Flu vaccines work by giving the body a small amount of flu viruses. This causes your body to develop antibodies (抗体). So next time you get the flu, the antibodies should help you.
The flu virus changes every few years. Therefore, there are so many types of flu, such as H1N1 and H5N1. The antibodies for one type of flu can’t help us against all types of flu. That’s why we need to get the vaccine every year.
However, good health habits may also help stop you developing a cold or flu. Washing your hands often helps stop you from getting viruses. It is also important to get regular exercise and eat healthy food. All these can help you strengthen your immune system (增强免疫系统).
21. If you have a common cold, usually you’ll feel better after ________.

A．a week	B．two weeks
C．ten days	D．twenty days

22. According to the passage, which is TRUE of the flu?

A．It first happened in 1919.

B．It usually doesn’t give you fever.

C．It is easy to deal with.

D．It can kill people sometimes.

23. If you get a flu vaccine, ________.

A．it can’t stop you from getting the flu virus

B．it won’t cause your body to develop antibodies

C．your body will develop antibodies

D．your body will get a large amount of flu viruses

24. We need to get a flu vaccine every year because ________.

A．we probably have a cold in winter

B．the flu virus changes every few years

C．the flu is very dangerous

D．you don’t need to take any medicine after that

25. The following ways can help stop the flu EXCEPT ________.

A．staying indoors	B．getting regular exercise
C．eating healthy food	D．washing our hands often

Having a cheetah as a pet in the house? Does it sound scary to you? But for a family in South Africa, one cheetah is treated as a VIP (Very Important Person) in the house.
The big cheetah is named Jolie, after the film star Angelina Jolie.       She can often be found eating from the kitchen table, taking a short sleep on the sofa, or even sleeping on Lucy and Jeff’s bed. The big cat also sleeps and plays with the Browns’ other pet, the more usual one — a sheepdog (牧羊犬).      
Having a cheetah as a pet is unusual. At first, Mrs Brown wasn’t willing to keep a cheetah as a pet. She said, “ But we are now happy that we did it — she is part of the family.”
Just like her name, four-year-old Jolie has achieved a celebrity status (名人地位) in the Browns’ hometown. Fans often come to their home to take pictures of her.      
However, a cheetah is always a cheetah.       “She makes a lot of mess in the house, urinating (小便) everywhere and chewing everything. It’s her wild instincts (本能),” said Mrs Brown.
There might be some problems of having a cheetah as a pet in the house, but some unusual fun must also be waiting ahead.

Do you know something about the Akuapem people? They live in eastern Ghana (加纳), where the sunshine hugs all the time. They are very friendly. Now let’s have a look at how the Akuapem people receive a visitor.

A visitor is often welcomed warmly in a family of Akuapem. After the visitor is welcomed into the house, he is offered a seat and water at the very beginning, for the host (主人) thinks that the visitor must have come from a very long trip and is in need of water. Then the host family greet the visitor by saying “Akwaaba.” More interestingly, if there is a group of visitors, the host will greet the visitors from right to left. And the host shakes only with his right hand, because the left hand is regarded dirty according to the Akuapem people.

Next, the visitor is asked how his trip was and why he has come. While the conversation is going on, the wife and children, especially girls, are cooking food for the visitor. The visitor can choose the food. After the visitor has finished eating, the host and the visitor continue their conversation. Usually this is a short one since the visitor is getting ready to say goodbye.

When the visitor is leaving, he is often given some food to take along. He is also accompanied (陪伴) by one of the children to the nearest station. The child who accompanies the visitor will not come back home until the visitor leaves safely.

No matter if he is a close friend or just a passer-by (过路人), this is always the way that the friendly Akuapem people receive a visitor.

根据短文内容回答下列问题：
31. What is the visitor offered at first by the family of Akuapem?
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32. Why does the host shake only with his right hand?
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33. Who are cooking food while the host is chatting with the visitor?
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34. When will the child who accompanies the visitor to the station come back home?
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35. What does the article mainly talk about?
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36. There are          (seventh) small apples in the bowl.
37. Mona also bought an alarm clock yesterday. I compared my alarm clock with          (her).
38. Everyone knows that          (library) are places for people to study.
39. Listen. Do you hear the sound of birds outside? Thanks to your ears, you can hear it         (clear).
40. It is said that          (tomorrow) sports meeting has been put off because of the bad weather.
41. His two daughters are very          (difference) from each other.
42. The          (win) of the photo competition was a 30-year-old man from Shanghai.
43. Mr Smith and his son used to smoke, but they          (like) smoking now because they think it’s unhealthy.

Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist, has saved people without any magic. His success on hybrid rice (杂交水稻) fed millions of people in hunger.

Yuan     44     (be) born on September 7, 1930. After graduating from the then Southwest Agriculture Institute (农业学院), he worked as a teacher at an agriculture school in Hunan.

About 50 years ago, some natural disasters (灾难) hit China. Yuan saw many people lose their lives because of hunger every day. Since then, he     45     (do) research on how to grow good quality rice. In 1964, he found a natural hybrid rice plant by accident. It had great advantages over others. Yuan was excited about what he discovered. He then decided     46     (study) this particular plant.

In 1973, he started to grow a type of hybrid rice. It     47     (produce) 20% more rice each unit than common ones. The next year he had a great success. This progress made China the world’s leader in rice production.

In China, most rice fields (稻田) grow Yuan’s hybrid rice. He     48     (call) the “Father of Hybrid Rice”.

Now he is 84 years old. He still     49     (have) a dream. He hopes hybrid rice     50     (grow) as tall as Chinese sorghum (高粱) one day!

Sometimes I really wonder whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy making money. They don’t act in the romantic ways that I read about in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too much to say.

One day, my mother was sewing a quilt (缝被子). I quietly sat down beside her and     51    her.

“Mom, I have a question for you,” I said, breaking the     52    .

“What?” she asked, still doing her work.

“Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very     53    voice.

She stopped her work and raised her head with surprise in her eyes. But then she bowed her head and continued to sew the quilt. I was very     54    then because I thought I had hurt her.

It seemed like a very long time before my mother started to speak again. “Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “look at this thread (线). Sometimes it     55    , but most of it disappears (消失) in the quilt. The thread makes the quilt strong and durable. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can     56    be seen anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there. Love is inside (在里面).”

I listened carefully but I didn’t understand     57    the next spring. My father had a stroke (中风) and     58    walk by himself anymore. After that, my mother     59    my father walk outside every day. Along the country road, there were many beautiful flowers and trees. The sun gently glistened through leaves. They two, hand in hand, walked slowly. To me, that was     60    picture in the world — that’s a picture of love.

They still don’t say “I love you” to each other. But I know they have deep love for each other. I used to think love meant flowers and sweet kisses. But actually, love is just a thread in the quilt.

61. 请以“My favorite teacher”为题，根据以下提示，用英语写一篇不少于60词的短文。标点符号不占格。
提示 (短文须包含下列要点)：
1. What subject does your favorite teacher teach?
2. What does he/she look like? And how about his/her personal traits(性格)?
3. Tell a story about how he/she helped you.
4. What do you want to say to him/her when you meet in the future?
注意：短文中, 老师的姓名请一律使用Mr Wang或Ms Wang，不得出现任何真实人名、校名及其它相关信息, 否则不予评分。
My favorite teacher
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