1 . There is an English saying：“    1    ” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body.      2    

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise.      3      If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated(忍耐) the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program.    4    

    5     They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

A．Laughter is the best medicine.

B．The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which diminish both  stress and pain.

C．Although laughter helps cure the disease, doctors still can not put  this theory into clinic practice.

D．Laughter can prolong one's life.

E．As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics in which they help to improve their  patients' condition by encouraging them to laugh.

F．They have found that laughter really can improve people's health.

G．It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing；it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet.

2 . Making Peace with Your Parents

As a teen, you’re going through big changes physically and mentally. Your interests are increasing.     1     Here is the challenge: Kids need to explore the world in new ways, and parents need to protect them from the dangers that are all out in that world. These conflicts can easily set off fireworks in otherwise calm houses. Sometimes conflicts can’t be avoided. But by paying attention to the building blocks of successful relationships, you can work towards making home a happy and healthy place for you and your parents.

For example, try to find a time to talk when your parents are not angry, tired, distracted or hungry. A good time to talk is when you’re all relaxed. Timing is everything. If the conversation begins to turn into an argument, you’d better calmly and coolly ask to stop the conversation for now.     2     Listen to what your parents are saying, and repeat it back to them. This shows them that you’re listening.     3     Respect is the building block of good communication. People who respect each other and care about each others’ feelings can disagree without getting things ugly.     4     How do you build trust? Trust comes by actually doing what you say you’re going to do. Some teens find that doing fun activities with their parents can improve their relationships. Sometimes we forget that parents are more than rule-maker—they’re interesting people who like to watch movies and go shopping—just like their teenagers!

What do you do if you are trying your best, but your relationship with your parents continues to be rocky?     5     You can find supportive adults, such as a teacher or a coach, who can lend an ear. Remember you can only change your own behavior. Your parents are the only ones who can change theirs.

A．You may consider seeking outside help.

B．And then you’ll be able to accept what your parents say.

C．You can pick it up again when everyone’s more relaxed.

D．Faced with the challenge, children don’t know what to do.

E．And your desire to take control of your own life is growing.

F．It also gives them a chance to clear things up if you’re not on the same page.

G．You are more likely to get along with your parents and have more independence if your parents believe in you.

3 . When 1 was a boy we used to live across the road from a big hill with huge oak trees growing out of it．When winter arrived，thick，heavy snow would fall，and my two brothers would grab their sleds heading over to the hill for a day of fun．I remember watching them with envy because 1 was still too small to go sledding．Finally，one winter 1 was considered big enough and joined my brothers as they carried their sleds up the long hill and prepared to ride down it．

The first few trips I rode with one of my brothers and had the time of my life．It was so exhilarating when the wind whipped across my face as I flew down the hillside on the wooden sled．Near the end of the day 1 was overjoyed too when my oldest brother decided to let me try riding the sled all by myself．I climbed on it full of excitement and lay on my stomach．Then with one big push my brother sent me down the snowy hillside．1 was doing pretty well too until I hit an old stump hidden by the snow and went off course，straight towards one of those big oak trees．My heart pounded in my chest and I could hear myself screaming．At the last possible second I rolled off and the sled crashed into the tree．I could hear my brothers running down the hill yelling，“You have to steer(操控)!You have to steer!”

Sadly，that wasn’t the last time I failed to steer when some obstacle knocked me off course in my life．Many times problems，troubles，and my own failures have sent me crashing into the trees of anger, frustration, and despair．I am still learning that life isn’t always safe sledding．I am still learning that it is up to me to steer myself back to love, back to kindness, back to goodness, and back to God．
Life is a trip，but no one ever said it was a smooth ride．Steer well then．Steer straight．Steer your soul towards the light and the love we are all meant for．
1. What do we know about the author when he was very young?

A．He lived on a big hill with huge oak trees on it．

B．He was frightened to go sledding with his brothers．

C．He longed to go sledding with his brothers．

D．He carried his brothers’sleds as they went sledding．

2. Which of the following can replace the underlined word“exhilarating”in Paragraph 2?

A．delightful	B．Terrifying
C．ordinary	D．violent

3. Why did the author fall off his sled?

A．Because his sled crashed in an oak tree．

B．Because he lost control of his sled．

C．Because his brother pushed it so hard．

D．Because the hillside was snowy．

4. What does the author mean to tell us?

A．Losing control of a sled can be dangerous．

B．Courage and determination can change one’s life．

C．Life can be controlled by one himself

D．Life is a mystery full of coincidences．

4 . 写作

My brother and I were alone at home because my parents had gone for a meeting and they had left me in charge. I was doing my homework while my younger brother was watching TV. Suddenly the doorbell rang. My younger brother rushed to the door thinking that our parents had come home, he unlocked the door and opened it.

Outside stood a tall man wearing a black raincoat and black rubber boots. He said he was a salesman and asked politely if out mother or father was at home.

Without thinking, my brother said: “No.” He asked if we would like to buy some comic books which he was selling. I quickly explained that we were not supposed to buy anything without our parent’s permission.

Then, as I was about to close the door, he forced his way into our house. He took out a knife and forced me to tie up my brother’s hands with some rope which he took out form his pocket. I tied up his hands but tied it in a special way so my brother could untie himself. The man then tied my hands up and locked both of us in the kitchen.

Soon, the went upstairs to search the bedroom for valuables. I managed to teach my brother to untie the rope on the his hands. He then untied me. I rushed to the telephone to call the police, but the line was dead. The doors were all locked from the outside and I did not have the keys to unlock them. Luckily, the robber forgot to lock the kitchen window. My brother managed to get out of the house through the window and I told him to go to the police station nearby and call for help.

注意：
1．所续写短文的词数应为150左右。
2．应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语。
3．续写部分分为两段。
4．续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

5 . Whenever I recall my childhood, there is one thing I remember clearly. My father used his _______ to let my mother _______ her parents who lived far away. There was just my younger brother and myself in the _______. One evening, our father came home and there was no _______, not even a piece of bread. My father had no money and he was as _______ as we were. My brother and I went to bed without having anything.

_______ I knew from the expressions on my father’s face that he could not _______ us be hungry for long. He left the house, and about two hours later he _______ and woke us up. He had two small potato pies in his hands. I didn’t know where he got the money for the food but somehow, he _______ to find a way. It was clear that he wanted to get his children ________.

My father did not eat and had ________ all day but he sat there and felt ________ at seeing us eat. This has always stuck in my ________. At that moment, I felt ________knowing that he tried his best not to let us ________, and he wanted us to know he was always there with us.

In ________ times, I think, it is important not to ________ weakness but strength. ________ the mother is the cement(黏合剂) that ________ a family together, then the father is the steel that strengthens that cement.

It is his values and ________ that have carried me forward and helped me deal with my own problems in life.

1.

A．car

B．ticket

C．savings

D．right

2.

A．call

B．visit

C．bring

D．invite

3.

A．classroom

B．office

C．house

D．farm

4.

A．food

B．drinks

C．electricity

D．gas

5.

A．poor

B．hungry

C．angry

D．sleepy

6.

A．So

B．Till

C．But

D．Since

7.

A．hear

B．let

C．remember

D．prevent

8.

A．lost

B．hid

C．found

D．returned

9.

A．managed

B．forgot

C．needed

D．refused

10.

A．something

B．nothing

C．anything

D．everything

11.

A．bargained

B．worked

C．searched

D．prepared

12.

A．lucky

B．sorry

C．pleased

D．regretful

13.

A．mouth

B．teeth

C．mind

D．chest

14.

A．excited

B．moved

C．surprised

D．frightened

15.

A．change

B．share

C．wait

D．suffer

16.

A．difficult

B．dangerous

C．interesting

D．comfortable

17.

A．admit

B．show

C．discuss

D．understand

18.

A．Unless

B．If

C．Though

D．Until

19.

A．designs

B．places

C．takes

D．holds

20.

A．permission

B．hobbies

C．actions

D．attitudes

6 . Friendship Day in India falls on the first Sunday of August every year. It is celebrated with many activities.
Young people in India spend the day with their closest friends and have fun together. Most youngsters in India plan a movie or have a meal with their friends. Many friends may go on a drive to tourist places or make a plan for camping. Some friends go to the supermarket to do some shopping. On Friendship Day, most stores offer discounted prices for customers and it is the perfect day to buy something for friends.
Some friends go to parties that are organized by many restaurants in order to attract youngsters. Such parties are very enjoyable. You can get food at a discounted price. Some friends just decide to meet up (碰头，相聚) at someone’s home and talk about their happy time. The time good friends spend sitting together and talking over a cup of coffee is precious and unforgettable.
Long-distance friends call up each other on this day and wish each other with warm feelings. Some of them even plan to meet up on this particular day. Yet some others plan _________ just to see their friend gasp (喘息) in shock!
In 2009, Friendship Day in India falls on August 2nd. So don’t forget to celebrate it with your friends.
1. When is Friendship Day celebrated in India?

A．On August 2nd every year.

B．On the third weekend of August every year.

C．On August 1st every year.

D．On the first weekend of August every year.

2. According to the text, which of the following is the most popular way that youngsters in India celebrate Friendship Day?

A．Traveling with friends.

B．Seeing a film with friends.

C．Dancing with friends.

D．Going shopping with friends.

3. How many ways are discussed in Paragraph 3 that friends spend Friendship Day together?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

4. The underlined phrase “a surprising visit” in Paragraph 4 refers to “________”.

A．a visit to a friend who hasn’t expected it

B．a visit to a friend who has dreamed of it for a long time

C．a visit to a friend who tries to avoid it

D．a visit to a friend who lives in a faraway place

7 . Four people in England back in 1953, stared at Photo 51,It wasn’t much—a picture showing a black X. But three of these people won the Nobel Prize for figuring out what the photo really showed –the shape of DNA The discovery brought fame and fortune to scientists James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins. The fourth, the one who actually made the picture, was left out.

Her name was Rosalind Franklin.” She should have been up there,” says historian（历史学家） Mary Bowden.” If her photos hadn’t been there, the others couldn’t have come up with the structure.” One reason Franklin was missing was that she had died of cancer four years before the Nobel decision. But now scholars（学者）doubt that Franklin was not only robbed of her life by disease but robbed of credit by her competitors

At Cambridge University in the 1950s, Watson and Click tried to make models by cutting up shapes of DNA’s parts and then putting them together. In the meantime, at King’s College in London, Franklin and Wilkins shone X-rays at the molecule(分子). The rays produced patterns reflection the shape.

But Wilkins and Franklin’s relationship was a lot rockier than the celebrated teamwork of Watson and Crick, Wilkins thought Franklin was hired to be his assistant .But the college actually employed her to take over the DNA project.

What she did was produce X-ray pictures that told Watson and Crick that one of their early models was inside out. And she was not shy about saying so. That angered Watson, who attacked her in return, “Mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend. Clearly she had to to go or be put in her place.”

As Franklin’s competitors, Wilkins, Watson   and Crick had much to gain by cutting her out of the little group of researchers, says historian Pnina Abir-Am. In 1962 at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony, Wilkins thanked 13 colleagues by name before he mentioned Franklin, Watson wrote his book laughing at her. Crick wrote in 1974 that   “Franklin was only two steps away from the solution.”

No, Franklin was the solution. “She contributed more than any other player to solving the structure of DNA . She must be considered a co-discoverer,” Abir-Am says. This was backed up by Aaron Klug, who worked with Franklin and later won a Nobel Prize himself. Once described as the “Dark Lady of DNA”, Franklin is finally coming into the light.

1. What is the text mainly about?

A．The disagreements among DNA researchers.

B．The unfair treatment of Franklin.

C．The process of discovering DNA.

D．The race between two teams of scientists.

2. Watson was angry with Franklin because she            .

A．took the lead in the competition

B．kept her results from him

C．proved some of his findings wrong

D．shared her data with other scientists

3. Why is Franklin described as “Dark Lady of DNA”?

A．She developed pictures in dark labs.

B．She discovered the black X-the shape of DNA.

C．Her name was forgotten after her death.

D．Her contribution was unknown to the public.

4. What is the writer’s attitude toward Wilkins, Watson and Crick?

A．Disapproving.	B．Respectful.
C．Admiring.	D．Doubtful.

8 . When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “ Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.
Liz Murray，a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “ What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself   that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they loved me all the time.”
Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.
1. The main idea of the passage is __________ .

A．how Liz managed to enter Harvard University

B．What a hard time Liz had in her childhood

C．why Liz loved her parents so much

D．how Liz struggled to change her life

2. In which order did the following things happen to Liz ?
a. Her mother died of AIDS.
b. She worked at a petrol station.
c. She got admission into Harvard University.
d. The movie about her life was put on.
e. She had trouble about finding a place to sleep.

A．b, a , e , c, d	B．a , b , c , e , d
C．e , d, b , a , c	D．b , e , a , d , c

3. What actually made her go towards her goal?

A．Envy and encouragement.

B．Willpower and determination .

C．Decisions and understanding.

D．Love and respect for her parents.

4. When she wrote “What drove me to live on … I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that __________ .

A．she had little experience of social life.

B．she could hardly understand the society.

C．she would do something for her own life.

D．she needed to travel more around the world.

9 . 语法填空

A man looking at his Smartphone while walking across a railway    1     (have) a close knock on Oct 22. He was so    2    (absorb) in his Smartphone that he didn't see a train approaching until it brushed past him,    3    (throw) him to the ground. This should serve    4    a warning that people should be aware of their surroundings, especially    5    crossing roads.    6    (lucky), the man survived, but the incident forced the driver     7    (stop) the train. An l8-minute delay followed the incident,    8    led to a break in the running of other trains on the route.

The Smartphone    9    (addict) has spread like an infectious disease. It's evident that it will do great harm to society. What's even    10    (bad),some addicts become impatient with relatives and friends. Some people blame the Smartphone for the sad story, yet in fact people's weakening self-control and self-discipline are to blame.

10 . 下面短文中共有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧）,并在该句下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Nowadays, some students would not like to live in a dormitory. Instead, they rented houses outside the school. There are advantages for them all. Living in a dormitory can increase friendship and cooperation among classmates, but of course it is safer. Besides, a dormitory is more like a society, where enables students to learn to get along with each other, thus preparing the social life later. As for renting houses to live lonely, it’s better for your study as you can feel freely in your own room without being interrupted by others. As a result, you can have a plenty of time to devote yourself to review your lessons wholeheartedly. But there may appear a few safety problem as you live outside the school. Anyhow as a student, I prefer living in a dormitory.