1 . I was looking at the menu, trying to decide what to feed my family that evening.

Just at that time an elderly woman came in. She was weak and_______ with the menu. After asking many questions and ordering her meal for a long time, she pulled out her coin purse to pay, only to find that she was _______ of money.

I told the shop owner to tell the elderly lady that her _______ was free and I would pay. She was surprised as he told her someone had _______ her to lunch. While they filled her order, I had them _______ a second meal, 2 desserts, a smile card, and a gift card to her bag without her _______.

She got her order and I carried it to the bike for her. She _______ told me her name and how her days had got worse and worse until the visit to Paris. Her husband was in hospital and Paris was always his favorite     _______ . But she had been struggling with the funds(资金) between household and _______ expenses. After a few minutes of ________ she was on her way back to her husband.

When I went back into Taco Cabana for my order, the manager ________ it to me and I left with my bag happily.

When I got home, I discovered an extra free dessert and an order of chips and cheese in my bag. ________ is spreading. When we give to others, the act in and of itself is to give to one another.

1.

A．famous

B．familiar

C．satisfied

D．confused

2.

A．eager

B．free

C．short

D．poor

3.

A．menu

B．order

C．money

D．change

4.

A．wanted

B．got

C．treated

D．prepared

5.

A．put

B．add

C．place

D．take

6.

A．begging

B．warning

C．remembering

D．knowing

7.

A．then

B．thus

C．ever

D．soon

8.

A．place

B．garden

C．school

D．restaurant

9.

A．educational

B．traffic

C．medical

D．total

10.

A．arguing

B．chatting

C．questioning

D．driving

11.

A．took

B．returned

C．handed

D．kept

12.

A．spending

B．giving

C．correcting

D．sharing

2 . Soon after you have your first child, the question of having a second one is raised by friends and family. However, as the pattern of having two children in a family is challenged by modern family units, there are a few reasons why it is not selfish to want only one child.

Today, the role of women has changed a lot. But nowadays, a wife has to help her husband earn the bread and butter as well as well as looking after her family. In demanding times like these, a woman has to put in more physical and emotional effort than any other member of the family.

Raising a child comes at a cost that remains only heard of, until you find yourself paying it. The good reality of double income with no kids suddenly comes crashing down when there is a child involved in the picture. When one parent (the mother) needs to take some time off to look after the newborn, only one person becomes the earning member. Of course, the expenses went up rapidly. According to Susan Newman, PhD, a social psychologist, the average cost of raising a child is $227,000 from birth to college.

Most young mothers also think that having one child would mean that there is more income for the child, and thus, better facilities can be provided. It is much easier to educate a single child at a good school, and give him/her better life with more resources at hand.

With several children in the house, it becomes increasingly difficult to find ways to spend time with all of them. Dividing your time with just one child means that you can devote a little more time to doing the things you want to. In a single child unit, there are less comparison and more chances for positive motivation to learn new things. A happy child, who deserves the rightful attention, love, care, and time from both the parents, always gets a meaningful childhood, for both the parents and the child.

1. What does the writer mainly want to tell us in the passage?

A．It is not selfish to have only one child in a family.

B．Raising a child costs a lot nowadays.

C．It is more difficult to raise several children in a family.

D．Women are playing a more important role in the family than before.

2. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．A family with several children can give parents a meaningful life.

B．The only child in a family can more easily get a wonderful childhood.

C．A family with only one child is surely better than a family with several children.

D．You can be more relaxed with several children.

3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage to support the writer’s opinion?

A．better education.	B．meaningful childhood.
C．less generation gap.	D．better care.

4. Which of the following is the right structure of the passage?

A．	B．
C．	D．

3 . 来自英国的Tom，上周参加了当地某旅行社组织的旅游服务，他很不满意。所以，他想就此事给该旅行社写一封投诉信。内容包括：
1.写信目的；       2. 不满之处          3. 表达期望。
注意: 1. 词数不少于80；
2. 开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear sir,

My name is Tom, who is a customer of your travel agency.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Tom

4 . U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and her family have just ended their one-week trip in China. The whole world has paid attention to the two elegant and beautiful first ladies who have made a difference in the relationship between China and the U.S.A.

Mrs. Obama has visited the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Terracotta Warriors, and the pandas. She has tasted Peking Duck and experienced some other Chinese traditional culture. It is hoped that this trip to China can bring a real understanding of our eastern world to the first family of the United States.

Today, the number of exchange students between China and the U.S. has reached more than 4 million every year. There are more than 11,000 people traveling to and from each side of the Pacific. If the two countries can increase the exchange in travel, language, cuisine, and cultural understanding, this will help a lot in improving the understanding between the two countries.

Education was an important theme of Mrs. Obama’s visit, and it is crucial to the development of Sino-US relationship. China has an ancient tradition of placing a high value on education, and the first lady herself is an outstanding example of a person who changed her own destiny through education. She took education as the key theme of her speech at Peking University, encouraging students from the two countries to learn more about and get wider experience of each other.

1. The whole world has paid attention to the two wonderful ladies because ________.

A．they are elegant and beautiful

B．they have made a difference in the relationship between China and the U.S.A.

C．they pay attention to education

D．they hope students can learn from each other

2. Mrs. Obama has visited the following places except________.

A．Terracotta Warriors	B．the Forbidden City
C．the Great Wall	D．the Summer Palace

3. The theme of Mrs. Obama’s speech at Peking University is_________.

A．education	B．understanding
C．Sino-US relationship	D．exchange students

4. What might be the best title of this passage?

A．China’s First Lady Welcome U.S First Lady	B．U.S First Lady Michal Obama visit China
C．The Two First Ladies Pay Attention to Education	D．Two First Ladies Meet Happily in Beijing

5 . When a child is told he is “uncool”, it can be very painful. He may say he doesn’t care, and even act in ways that are opposite of cool on purpose. But these are simple ways to handle sadness by pretending it’s not there.

Helping a child feel better in school had to be careful. If you say, “Why are you worried about what other children think about you? It doesn’t matter!” Children know that it does matter. Instead, an active way may be best. You could say, “I’m going to do a couple of things for you to help you feel better in school.”

If a boy is having trouble making friends, the teacher can help him. The teacher can arrange things so that he has chances to use his abilities to contribute to class projects. This is how the other children learn how to value his good qualities and to like him. A teacher can also raise a child’s popularity in the group by showing that he values that child. It even helps to put him in a seat next to a very popular child, or let him be a partner with that child in activities, etc.

There are things that parents can do at home, too. Be friendly when your child brings others home to play. Encourage him to invite friends to meals and then serve the dishes they consider “super”. When you plan trips, picnics, movies, and other shows, invite another child with whom your child wants to be friends.

What you can do is to give him a chance to join a group that may be shutting him out. Then, if he has good qualities, he can start to build real friendship of his own.

1. A child who has been informed of being “uncool” may ______.

A．care nothing about it	B．pretend to get hurt very much
C．develop a sense of anger	D．do something uncool on purpose

2. A teacher can help an unpopular child by ______.

A．seeing the child as the teacher’s favorite

B．offering the child chances to show his good qualities

C．forcing other children to make friends with the child

D．asking the child to do something for partners

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Inviting children’s friends to family activities is good for them to make friends.

B．It’s only teachers’ work to make children popular.

C．Parents should take their children out for picnic and shows more often.

D．Children don’t care others’ comments on them.

4. Which is the best title of the text?

A．Who Care About Unpopular Children

B．Why Some Children Are Unpopular

C．What Good Qualities Unpopular Children Have

D．How an Unpopular Child Can Be Helped

6 . Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted. Careless methods of production and lack of consumer demand (消费者需要) for environment friendly products have contributed to the pollution problem. One result is that millions of tons of glass, paper, plastic and metal container are produced, and these are difficult to get rid of.

However, today, more and more consumers are choosing “green” and demanding that the products they buy should be safe for the environment. Before they buy a product, they ask questions like these, “Will this shampoo damage the environment?” “Can this metal container be reused or can it only be used once?”

A recent study showed that two out of five adults now consider the environment safety of a product before they buy it. This means that companies must now change the way they make and sell their products to make sure that they are “green”, that is, friendly to the environment.

Only a few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in supermarkets, but now there are hundreds. Some supermarkets’ products carry labels (标签) to show that the product is green. Some companies have made producing of clean and safe products their main selling points and emphasize (强调) it in their advertising.

The concern for a safer and cleaner environment is making companies rethink how they do business. No longer will the public accept the old attitude of “Buy it, use it, throw it away, and forget it.” The public pressure is on, and gradually business is cleaning up its act.

1. It becomes clear from the passage that the driving force (动力) behind the green products is ______.

A．public caring for the environment	B．companies’ desire for bigger sales
C．new ways of doing business	D．rapid growth of supermarkets

2. Which of the statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Only the productive methods are the cause of the heavy pollution.

B．Manufactures made their products clean with cleaners.

C．In fact, it is the public who made the companies produce green products.

D．Not all the consumers would like green products.

3. The underlined word “it” in the fourth paragraph refers to ______.

A．a selling point	B．the company name
C．a great demand for health foods	D．the producing of green products

4. What would be the best title for the text?

A．Business and People	B．Business Goes Green
C．Shopping Habits Are Changing	D．Supermarkets and Green Products

7 . 请结合材料，按要求用英文写作。
When a mother is asked what shortcomings her son has, she says many without stop. But when asked about his strengths, she thinks of none.
要求：1. 根据上述内容谈谈你的感想；
2. 应紧扣材料，有明确的观点；
3. 词数不少于60；
4. 在答题卡上作答。
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8 . How do you know if your mother likes you or not? That is a question I have been struggling with a lot lately. My mother and I used to talk on the phone a few times a day. I saw her at least twice a week. Now she doesn’t answer when I call, and never calls me back. She doesn’t see me and then complains that I don’t see her enough.

It all started a few months ago, I started having a date with a man, and we became serious quickly. This is not the first boyfriend I have had. I know she isn’t mad at me for my finding love. The turn-in events happened when I moved from about 15 minutes away from my mom to 1.5 hours away from her. She encouraged it, she seemed happy, and she helped me pack. Since then, everything has changed.

I can’t tell if she cares about me and I don’t know if she is bitter. When I call her, she says she is busy and will call me back. Then the problem is that she never calls me back, I make plans with her, but she cancels. Then when I do see her, she gives me comments like “It’s been a while since you came to see me”. It seems like I haven’t tried. It’s very frustrating.

I don’t know what is wrong, and she won’t talk to me, so I can’t find out. Does anyone have any advice for what to do in a situation like this? Part of me wants to cry and stop trying. But not talking to her tears me apart. Please give me some advice below.

1. What’s the writer’s purpose of writing these passages?

A．To share her sad story.	B．To ask for some advice.
C．To let her mother know how she feels.	D．To find out whether her mother loves her.

2. We can infer that in the past the writer ______.

A．often disappointed her mother	B．didn’t know her mother quite well
C．had a close relationship with her mother	D．didn’t want to visit her mother

3. According to paragraphs 2 and 3, it seems that the writer’s mother ______.

A．was not satisfied with any of the writer’s boyfriend

B．wanted the writer to move away from her very much

C．was afraid the writer would be hurt by her boyfriend

D．was not happy that the writer moved further away from her

4. Now the writer doesn’t know ______.

A．whether her mother really cares about her

B．whether she should break up with her boyfriend

C．whether her mother is worth her love and respect

D．whether she should move back to live with her mother

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Pay to be offered

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1. One who gets the job will teach ______.

A．French	B．English
C．Chinese	D．German

2. We can learn from the passage that a Japanese ______.

A．can’t apply the job

B．can apply the job at any time

C．can get more benefits from the job

D．can get more medical insurance from the job

3. If you get the job and take the vacation for ten days, you will ______.

A．be fined	B．not get paid
C．be paid as usual	D．be paid with overtime pay

4. Where is the passage most probably taken from?

A．A newspaper.	B．A magazine.
C．A dictionary.	D．The Internet.

10 . Once, in a lovely garden lived the most beautiful butterfly in the world. She was so pretty, and had won so many beauty competitions that she had become very ______. One day, a naughty cockroach (蟑螂) couldn’t bear her showing off, and decided to teach her a ______.

She went to see the butterfly, and in front of everyone she told her that she wasn’t really that ____     and that the butterfly only won the competitions because the ______ had been paid. In reality, the cockroach was the most beautiful.

The butterfly was ______ and told the cockroach, “I will ______ you in a beauty competition, with whichever judges you yourself choose.”

“OK, I ______, see you on Saturday,” answered the cockroach, and left without waiting for a ______.

That Saturday everyone went to the beauty competition. The butterfly arrived completely ______ of victory until she saw who the judges were: cockroaches, worms, beetles. All of them preferred the ugliness and bad ______ of the cockroach.

The butterfly was left ______ and disappointed, deciding never to enter another beauty competition in her life. ______, the cockroach forgave the butterfly for her pride and they became friends.

1.

A．pleased

B．kind

C．proud

D．friendly

2.

A．lesson

B．class

C．message

D．text

3.

A．excellent

B．useful

C．wonderful

D．beautiful

4.

A．cockroaches

B．judges

C．worms

D．friends

5.

A．angry

B．disappointed

C．sad

D．sorry

6.

A．aid

B．beat

C．show

D．strike

7.

A．doubt

B．object

C．accept

D．know

8.

A．competition

B．word

C．reply

D．question

9.

A．nervous

B．confident

C．clear

D．afraid

10.

A．shape

B．taste

C．look

D．smell

11.

A．weeping

B．laughing

C．trembling

D．singing

12.

A．Certainly

B．Fortunately

C．Surprisingly

D．Immediately