1 . Travelling has been popular with people for a long time. Many of today’s travellers are trying to find an unusual experience or adventure. Hiking may be a good choice.
Instead of spending your vacation on a bus, in a hotel or sitting on the beach, you may want to try hiking. Hiking is a great way to travel. You will get close to nature and take exercise at the same time. Hiking is easy to do and doesn’t have to be very expensive. You can hike close to home or travel to other places. The basic equipment you need for hiking is simple: good shoes, clothes and a backpack. You can hike in the mountain, in a forest or along a river. You can also go for a hike in the city.
Hiking is fun and exciting, but you shouldn’t forget safety. Here are some basic tips for successful hiking:
﹡Don’t hike alone.
﹡ bring water, a good map and a cellphone.
﹡Wear a hat to protect yourself from the sun.
1. Hiking is a good way to get close to nature.
2. Good shoes, clothes and a backpack are the basic equipment for hiking.
3. People can only hike in the mountain, in a forest or along a river.
4. Hiking is always fun, exciting and safe
5. You’d better go hiking with others.

2 . Failure is what often happens. It is everywhere in our life. Students may fail in exams, scientists may fail in their research work, and players may fail in competitions. (A) Although failure happens to everyone, but different people’s attitudes (态度) towards failure are different.

Some people don’t think that their failure is an important thing at all. So they pay no attention to it. As a result, they will have the (B)________
failure later. Some people think they themselves are fools and lose their hearts in everything after they get a failure. Then they (C)________ their time and energy on useless things. At last, they may really be fools as they have thought.

（D）Other people are quite different from these two kinds of people mentioned above. Instead of being hopeless and lost, they draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced. (E) they, after, will ,hard, in, work, be, the, successful, end. So we should draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced.

1. (A)处句中有一处错误，请找出并改正。（可用文字叙述）
_______________________
2. 在(B)、(C)处的横线上分别填上一个单词(B)________ (C)________
3. 将(D)处句子译成汉语：________
4. 将(E)处的单词连成句子：_______________________
5. 请从下面的选项中给短文选个标题，将答案标号填在此横线上：_______________________

A．Draw a lesson from every failure	B．The attitudes towards failure
C．Failure is everywhere in our life	D．Failure is very important

3 . Dear Mr. Heppell,
I am Sabrina Akhtar studying in a high school and I’ve noticed that forests are disappearing.
Forests are disappearing around the world each year. This is because of many different things such as farming and tourism pollution. If we stop doing these things, there will be a good future for people of tomorrow. Now I’m writing to ask you to help stop forests from disappearing. You can help by making shops stop selling paper made from trees and change to tree-free paper(paper not made from trees). This will help protect forests. There are many things we can do to help protect forests. If you would like to know more, please visit http://www.rainforestweb.org.   By changing the little things, we can make a big difference. If you would like to contact(联系) me, please e-mail me at shazadinol@hotmail.co.uk. Thank you for taking your time in reading this letter.
Yours sincerely,
Sabrina Akhtar
1. The writer of this letter is__________.

A．a student	B．a teacher
C．an officer	D．a driver

2. __________is one of the reasons why the forests are disappearing.
A. Raining     B. Tourism     C. Planting       C. Breathing
3. The writer advises Mr. Heppell to_________.

A．stop shops from using paper any more

B．use paper which is made from trees

C．stop shops from selling paper made from trees

D．plant more and more trees in the future

4. How can Mr. Heppell contact the writer?

A．By calling her.	B．By interviewing her.
C．By visiting her.	D．By e-mailing her.

5. What is the purpose of this letter?

A．To know more about Mr. Heppell.

B．To make friends with Mr. Heppell.

C．To ask Mr. Heppell to teach in the school.

D．To ask Mr. Heppell to help protect forests.

4 .        If you are not happy with China’s high Internet fees and slow speed, you are not alone.So is Premier Li Keqiang.On April 14, he said in a meeting that the government should speed up the Internet and lower the fees.

“The first question people ask at a new place is ‘Is there WI-FI’ because Internet service fees are so high,” said Premier Li.According to a recent survey by CCTV, the average cost of 1GB mobile Internet data per month in China is 100 Yuan, while it is only 60 Yuan in the US and 40 in Japan.

However, high prices don’t necessarily mean good service.The average Internet speed in China was 4.25Mbps（兆比特每秒）in late 2014.South Korea had the fastest average Internet speed-25.3 Mbps.People can download a 1 GB movie within 6 minutes in South Koreas, but in China it would take half an hour.

To improve Internet services, the key is to build more fiber(光纤) networks.Through them we can send text, pictures and videos globally in less than a second, which offer high speed Internet.Besides, the lack of market competition is another problems___________________________________________.

根据材料内容，选择最佳答案。
1. Why do people always ask for WI-FI at a new place in China?

A．Because they can’t use Internet without WI-FI.

B．Because they can communicate with their families.

C．Because they want to download movies.

D．Because Internet service fees are too high.

2. In late 2014, ______ had the fastest average Internet speed.

A．China

B．USA

C．Japan

D．South Korea

3. What is the key to improve Internet services?

A．To increase Internet service fees.

B．To build more fiber networks.

C．To learn from South Korea.

D．To make the government know the situation.

4. The underlined sentence in the passage infers that ______.

A．China’s high Internet fees are probably because there is no more market competition.

B．China has too many tele-communication companies.

C．China Unicom should lower the price.

D．China Telecom should lower the price.

5. What is the best title for the passage?

A．China’s Internet Economy.

B．Shopping Online.

C．China Wants Cheaper, Quicker Internet.

D．China Unicom and China Telecom

5 . People use money to buy food, books and lots of other things they need. When they work, they usually get paid in money.

Most of the money used today is made of metal or paper. But in the time long ago, people used to use all kinds of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells (贝壳).In China, cloth and knives were used as money. Elephant tusks (牙), monkey tails and salt were

used in some parts of the world. Rice was also a kind of money used by the

people in some islands. Some animals were used as money, too.

The first copper(铜) coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the center. Different countries have used different metals for their money. Later, some countries began to make coins of gold and silver(银). But gold and silver were heavy to carry when people needed a lot of coins to buy something expensive. The Chinese were the first to use paper money. The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another then the paper money is used today. Money has had an interesting story from the days of shell money till today.

1. What do people use money to do?

A．To play with.	B．To keep at home.
C．To buy something useless.	D．To buy things they need.

2. From the passage we know that______ weren’t used as money in the world.

A．trees	B．elephant tusks
C．monkey tails	D．salt

3. What problems did people have using gold and silver coins?

A．They didn’t have much.

B．They were too heavy to carry.

C．They didn’t like them.

D．People couldn’t found them.

4. In the world what kinds of money were first made by Chinese people?

A．Copper coins.	B．gold coins.
C．paper money.	D．both A and C.

5. How many things that were used as money are mentioned in this passage?

A．8.

B．9.

C．10.

D．7.

6 . Once there was a baby eagle living in a nest (巢)on a cliff(山崖).The baby eagle loved his nest. It was warm, soft and comfortable. And even better, he had all the food and love that his mother could give. Whenever the baby eagle was hungry, his mother would always come just in time with the delicious food he liked.
He was growing happily day after day. But suddenly his world changed. His mother stopped coming to the nest. He was full of sadness and fear. He thought he would die soon. He cried, but nobody heard him. Two days later his mother appeared with some nice food, the baby eagle was wild with joy. But his mother put the food at the top of the mountain and then looked down at her baby. The baby eagle cried out. “Mum, why did you do this to me? I’m hungry. Don’t you know I will die if I have nothing to eat?”
“Here is the last meal I give you. Come and get it by yourself.” his mother said. Then she flew down and pushed the baby eagle out of the nest. The baby eagle fell down, faster and faster. He looked up at his mum, “Why do you abandon me?” He looked down at the earth. The ground was much closer. Then something strange happened. The air caught behind his arms and he began to fly! He wasn’t moving to the ground any more. Instead, his eyes were pointed up at the sun.
“You are flying! You can make it!” His mother smiled.

1. According to the passage, the baby eagle’s nest was _____.

A．warm	B．comfortable
C．soft	D．above all

2. What did the baby eagle’s mother do when she came the last time?

A．She put some food in the nest.

B．She shouted at her baby eagle and flew away.

C．She just came to see him again.

D．She pushed her baby eagle out of the nest.

3. What was the baby eagle’s feeling when his mother didn’t come back?

A．He was full of sadness and fear	B．He was excited.
C．He was surprised.	D．He was with joy.

4. What does the word“abandon” mean?

A．歧视

B．保护

C．抛弃

D．拯救

5. We can infer(推断)from the story that_________.

A．The baby eagle lost his mother

B．The baby eagle could get food himself

C．The baby eagle fell down and died

D．The baby eagle was still angry with his mother

7 . What will the house of the future look like? Could it have gardens on its walls, or a pool with fish for dinner? Architects believe that they are all possibilities. The only thing for sure is that the houses will be as green as possible.
The tree house
Many architects in the world would like to build a “tree house.” Like a leaf, the surface of the house collects sunlight during the day. The energy can be used to heat water, produce electricity, and even create fresh air for the home. The “root” (根) of the house is deep under the ground. It uses the soil (土壤) to the home’s temperature.
The Lizard house
Like a lizard (蜥蜴), changing color with the weather is the most important design of a lizard house. When it’s in the bright sun, the cover of the house will turn dark to protect it from strong heat. During dark days, it turns white and takes in as much light and heat as possible to produce energy.
Meals at home
This design is perhaps as much about the future of food production as architecture (建筑风格). It has gardens on the outside wall of the house. People can plant tomatoes, carrots and green tea on them. So every day in the morning, you just need to walk outside and collect your meals.
Learning from the past
Looking to the future isn’t the only way to be green. Sometimes, ancient techniques (古老的技术) can also help cut down energy use. For example, a chimney (烟囱) can be a useful air conditioner because it is easier of hot air to flow out at the chimney.
根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最佳答案。
1. What is the best title (标题) of the passage?

A．Green house of the future.

B．The greener, the better.

C．How to build green houses.

D．Changes of the houses.

2. We can heat water, produce electricity or create fresh air for the home ________.

A．with the root of a leaf.

B．with the energy from sunlight.

C．with the soil under the ground

D．with gardens on its walls.

3. What will happen to the cover of the lizard house when it’s in the bright sun?

A．It will take in light.

B．It will produce energy.

C．It will turn dark.

D．It will turn white.

4. The passage seems to tell us that meals at home in the future           .

A．will be more delicious.

B．need more cooks.

C．cost as much as possible.

D．will be greener.

5. A chimney can be a useful air conditioner but it used to cause          .

A．pollution.	B．accident.
C．noise.	D．techniques.