1 . Cathy looks ________, because she will go to Jim’s birthday party.

A．tired

B．bored

C．excited

2 . 你将听到一篇短文，请根据短文内容，将所缺信息填入答题卡对应的横线上，每空一词。短文读三遍。

A Reading Activity
When.	It will be held at     1     o’clock on this Wednesday morning.
Where	In the Student Center in our school.
What	* At the beginning, each student will     2     a book. * Then we will have a discussion and     3     our fantastic ideas about it. * The most interesting part is that some     4     will give us a role-play show. * Next, our teachers will show us how to act out a story. * In the end, we will take photos together.
Who	5     in our reading club is welcome to attend the activity.

3 . 你将听到五个句子，请选出与所听句子内容相符的图片，有一幅图是多余的。每个句子读两遍。

A.     B.     C.     D.     E.     F.

1. ________2. ________3. ________4. ________5. ________

4 .

Part-time Cleaning Help Are you looking for a vacation job? Can you clean the house and cook? Then, I need you. The cleaner’s work is boring, but the pay is $ 5 a day. I need you from 2:00 pm—5:00 pm, Monday to Saturday. Please come to the cleaning center or call Mrs. Johnson at 544-9968.

A Sports Camp For Overweight Kids Are you too fat? Can you run as fast as your classmates? Didn’t you pass your P. E examination? Our sports camp can help you lose weight and get fit again. Activities: swimming, hiking, mountain biking, rock climbing Price: $ 100 a week; $ 180 two weeks

Next Wave Music Store After 10 years of teaching the piano, David Smith has made his first CD! Come and meet him this weekend. Special presents for the first 50 people. Time: Sat. 7: 00 p. m. Call Marsha at 873-2059.

根据语篇内容，选择最佳选项。
1. The cleaner will work ________ hours a week?

A．12

B．18

C．15

2. If you want to work as a cleaner, you should be good at ________.

A．shopping

B．studying

C．cleaning and cooking

3. In the sports camp, you can ________.

A．clean the house

B．lose weight

C．meet David Smith

4. The sports camp’s activities don’t include ________.

A．swimming

B．hiking

C．mountain climbing

5. David Smith may be ________ before his first CD came out.

A．a music star

B．a writer

C．a piano teacher

5 . 假设你是 Mary，在家里你的父母对你非常严格，你是否感到厌烦？你是怎样解决的？请你以“Learn to communicate”为题，根据表格信息，用英语写一篇短文。

内容要点：

父母的要求	按时完成作业；……
你的看法	理解父母；……
你的解决方式	与父母多交流；分担家务；……

注意：
1.内容必须包括表格中的所有信息；
2.可适当增减细节，以使行文连贯；
3.文中不得透露个人信息；
4.词数80左右 (短文首句已给出，不计入总词数)。
参考词汇：understand(理解)，communicate (交流，沟通)，do housework (做家务)

Learn to Communicate

My name is Mary. My parents are very strict with me. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6 . 阅读下面语篇，从各小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出最佳选项。

“When I was your age, none of these buildings were here. The area of those houses used to be forests.”

Have the elders in your family ever said such things when walking around your hometown with you? I ________ hear my family talking about these things. I find it ________ to hear stories of my hometown. The old stories help me to better ________ what my hometown used to look like.

I lived in a small town ________ I went to college. My college was in Shanghai. Since then, I have lived in the city far from my hometown. But I visit my hometown once a ________. Every time I come back, I am surprised that things in the town have ________ so much in just one year. A clothing store on the main street used to be a restaurant. People have built several new roads. Some neighbors have moved, and there are so many ________ faces.

The changes make me feel surprised. I then realize that things are always changing whether 1 am there or not. I also understand why ________ in my family like to talk about things of the past. That’s because they also realize that everything is changing ________. Of course, no matter (无论) what changes, we will always love ________ hometown. We hope that it can get better.

1.

A．often

B．never

C．only

2.

A．scared

B．interesting

C．dangerous

3.

A．make up

B．look through

C．know about

4.

A．though

B．until

C．since

5.

A．week

B．month

C．year

6.

A．moved

B．used

C．changed

7.

A．famous

B．new

C．beautiful

8.

A．the children

B．the young

C．the elders

9.

A．quickly

B．slowly

C．early

10.

A．his

B．their

C．our

7 . 根据语篇内容，从方框中选择恰当的单词，并用其正确形式填空。将单词填写在答题卡对应的横线上。每个单词只能用一次。

popular   fun   wear   music   from   start   quiet   friend   because   usual

Country music, also called country and western music, is a kind of American popular music. It     1     from the west and the south of America in the early 1920s.

In the American West, cowboys (牛仔) had to watch the cattle (牛) all day long     2     they sometimes ran away. When the cowboys were alone with the cattle, they drank strong coffee to stay awake and sang to make the cattle     3    . The cowboys also sang to relax and have     4    . They sang about the stars and the moon, their family and their     5    . Sometimes they play the guitar, the violin or other instruments (乐器).

In the American South, many people came     6     Ireland, Scotland, and England. They enjoyed their own kind of     7    . They used instruments like the guitar and violin, too. When they visited their family and friends on holidays, they     8     sang and played music together.

Country music has been     9     for about 100 years. One important reason is that it describes life. It talks about love, jobs, home, and so on. Many fans of the music like to     10     cowboy clothes and dance together. Many bands all over the world now play the country music.,

8 . A person comes to you and says “hi”. But you have no idea who he or she is. If you often meet this, you may have face blindness (脸盲).

A new study shows that face blindness may be more common than we think. One in 33 people (3.08%) may have it. Some have serious problems. They cannot even recognize friends or families.They spend a long time remembering faces.

In the past, people didn’t have lots of studies about this. The studies on face blindness only began in the 1990s. Today, more scientists are working to tell more people about face blindness and its effects (影响) on our life. According to Joseph DeGutis, a writer of the study, people with it may have a bad social life. They have a hard time making friends and are even afraid to make friends.

What should we do? Don’t worry about the face blindness. Accept your face blindness and tell yourself: this doesn’t mean you don’t care about others. You’ve just got a small problem. Tell others when you first meet them that you may not be able to recognize them next time, so they don’t think you’re “blanking (冷落)” them. Try to use other ways to remember people, such as their voices.

根据语篇内容，选择最佳选项。
1. How does the writer explain the face blindness in paragraph 1?

A．By giving an example.

B．By asking some questions.

C．By showing some number.

2. What does “recognize” in paragraph 2 mean in Chinese?

A．帮助

B．认出

C．考虑

3. According to Joseph DeGutis, why do people with the face blindness may have a bad social life?

A．Because it’s hard to live with others.

B．Because it’s hard to make friends.

C．Because it’s hard to care about others.

4. What is the correct (正确的) order when facing face blindness in the paragraph 4?
①Accept your face blindness.
②Use other ways to remember people.
③Tell others your problem.

A．①②③

B．③①②

C．①③②

5. Where can we probably read this passage in a newspaper?

A．Science Study

B．Sports World

C．School Life

9 . In a restaurant, a 10-month-old baby choked (窒息) on a piece of pancake. His parents hit him on the back first. However, nothing was working.

His parents quickly realized how serious it was. They began calling for help. Suddenly, a man said he knew what to do. But instead of running to the baby, he ran to his car to get a machine called LifeVac. “The moment (时刻) was scary for me as well. The baby looked really bad. The mother trusted me, like the last hope.” he said.

LifeVac is an airway-clearing (气道清除) machine. The man kept the machine in his car for almost five years and never needed it before. He used it to try to get the pancake out of the baby’s mouth. Luckily, after several tries, he made it. And he saved a life that day.

根据语篇内容，判断下列句子正误，正确的在答题卡上将“T”涂黑，错误的在答题卡上将“F”涂黑。
1. The parents hit their baby on the back at first to help him.
2. The man ran to his car to get a machine called LifeVac.
3. The man felt excited when he was trying to save the baby.
4. The man often used LifeVac to help others.
5. The man saved the baby in the end.

10 . Where was Alex when it was raining heavily last night?

A．At home.

B．At the school library.

C．In a hospital.