1 . I still remember the day when I was driving to the supermarket I own. When I came out, I found a boy _________ my car with a brush. I went over and patted (轻拍) him_________ the shoulder, which surprised him very much. In no time he began to _________ at me. So I was sure he _________ some money. From the shoes he was wearing I could hardly imagine how _________ he was. So I offered him a $1,000 bill. To my great surprise, he _________ to take it. When I was wondering what he was doing, he said, “ I was waiting here for 4 hours, waiting for you. Your _________ is so beautiful and I like it, but I don’t need that.” I knew he was mentioning the _________.

As he had refused the money, I offered to drive him around the town. The boy became so _________ that he got into the car at once, “Would you please drive me__________? It is only about 3 miles.” I thought maybe the boy wanted to show off to his friends and his family. __________ I stopped, he jumped out and ran into an old building, telling me to wait there for some time. Very soon he came out, saying to a little girl on his back, “Look at this beautiful car. I will buy you __________ someday.”

I noticed his sister had a pale face. __________, her legs were too thin, and she was unable to __________.

After that day I went to his home several times. And I got to know more about him and his__________. Poor as they were, the boy__________ refused my money, and said, “I can__________money by myself, thank you.”

Soon I __________my manager of the supermarket that a boy would go to__________here the next day.

No matter how poor we are, we would__________give in to ourselves.

1.

A．repairing

B．cleaning

C．fixing

D．hitting

2.

A．over

B．Off

C．in

D．on

3.

A．shout

B．cry

C．smile

D．throw

4.

A．lost

B．got

C．received

D．needed

5.

A．rich

B．poor

C．handsome

D．brave

6.

A．begged

B．agreed

C．allowed

D．refused

7.

A．car

B．shoes

C．suitcase

D．clothes

8.

A．Box

B．wheel

C．paper

D．bill

9.

A．Unhappy

B．scared

C．excited

D．unfriendly

10.

A．yard

B．office

C．school

D．home

11.

A．As soon as

B．As long as

C．As well as

D．So far as

12.

A．one

B．it

C．this

D．that

13.

A．What’s more

B．In addition

C．What’s worse

D．In general

14.

A．run

B．jump

C．climb

D．walk

15.

A．brother

B．family

C．friend

D．boss

16.

A．no longer

B．at last

C．at first

D．once again

17.

A．spend

B．save

C．make

D．borrow

18.

A．told

B．asked

C．answered

D．warned

19.

A．shop

B．work

C．sleep

D．buy

20.

A．always

B．often

C．ever

D．never

2 . One day, 12-year old Sean Redden logged on to the Internet and went to a popular chat room. Just as he was about to sign off, he saw the name of someone he'd never seen there before, Susan. Her brief message was “Would someone help me?”

Sean typed back, “What's wrong?” A moment later he received this message, “I can't breathe. Help me! I can't feel my left side. I can't get out of my chair.”

At first, Sean thought pretending to be paralyzed (瘫痪) was a bad joke. Then he wondered what if she really was sick. “Hey, Mom,” he called. “There's a kid here who's sick or something.” Sharon looked at the computer screen. “It's not just some game, is it?” she asked.

The message was not a joke. “Susan” was actually a 20- year- old student, working late at night at a college library near Helsinki, Finland-almost 7, 000 miles away from Sean's home in Texas. While searching the Internet, she began to feel terrible pain all through her body. The library was silent and empty. The nearest phone was outside in the hallway. She couldn't move that far. Any movement caused the pain to get worse. Then she realized she might get help on the Internet.

“I don't think it's a joke, Mom,” Sean said. And he typed, “Where are you?” After a long pause (暂停), the letters appeared: “Finland.” Sean and Sharon couldn't believe it. Not knowing what else to do, Sharon called the local police.

Sharon explained the situation to Officer Amy Schmidt. Schmidt told Sharon to try to get the sick girl's phone number. Texas police called the international telephone operator and asked to be connected to the proper agency (机构) in Finland. The call was connected to a nearby rescue station. The Texas police gave Susan's address to the Finnish operator. When Sean heard that, he typed, “Help is on the way.”

In a few minutes, Susan heard people running down the hallway outside the door. Suddenly, the door opened. Emergency workers and three policemen ran in. Susan turned once more to the computer, “They are here. Thanks. Bye-bye. ”

Four days later, the police in Texas received message from officers in Finland: “Thanks to her Internet friend, Susan had received medical treatment she badly needed and is doing well.”

1. According to the text, Sean was about to sign off when __________.

A．he noticed an unfamiliar name

B．he came across a friend in the chat room

C．a boy started a conversation with him

D．he met with difficulty in sending messages

2. What was Sharon's first attitude toward the message for help?

A．Happy.	B．Doubtful.
C．Frightened.	D．Worried.

3. What happened to Susan?

A．A robber hit her on her left side.	B．She was locked in the library.
C．She left her phone in the hallway.	D．She was too sick to move.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Help on the Internet	B．Help on the Way
C．Making Friends Online	D．Police Officer's Act of Kindness

3 . “Don’t tell anyone”. We hear these words when someone tells a secret to us. But it can be hard to keep a secret. We often tend to “spill the beans”, even if we regret it later.

According to Asim Shah, professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, US, keeping a secret may well “become a burden”. This is because people often have an “obsessive and anxious urge to share it with someone”.

An earlier study, led by Anita E. Kelly, a scientist at the University of Notre Dame, US, suggested that keeping a secret could cause stress. People entrusted (受委托的) with secrets can suffer from depression, anxiety, and body aches, reported the Daily Mail.

But with secrets so often getting out, why do people share them at all?Shah explained that people often feel that it will help them keep a person as a friend. Another reason people share secrets is guilt over keeping it from someone close to them. A sense of distrust can develop when people who are close do not share it with each other. “Keeping or sharing secrets often puts people in a position of either gaining or losing the trust of someone,” according to Shah.

He added that talkative people could let secrets slip out (泄露). But this doesn’t mean that it is a good idea only to share secrets with quiet people. A quiet person may be someone who keeps everything inside. To tell such a person a secret may cause them stress, and make them talk about the secret.

Shah said that to judge whether to tell someone a secret, you’d better put yourself in their position. Think about how you would feel to be told that you mustn’t give the information away. Shah also recommended that if you accidentally give up someone’s secret you should come clean about it. Let the person know that their secret isn’t so secret anymore.

1. What does underlined words “spill the beans” mean?

A．Cut up beans.	B．Burst into laughter.
C．Let out the secret.	D．Keep the words.

2. What did researchers at the University of Notre Dame discover about secret-keeping?

A．It can help promote friendships between people.	B．It can result in mental and physical problems.
C．It can result in a sense of distrust between friends.	D．It can harm relationships between friends.

3. What is the main message of Paragraph 5?

A．It’s not a good idea to share your secrets with others.

B．It’s better to share your secrets with quiet people.

C．Quiet people suffer less stress from keeping secrets.

D．Talkative people are unlikely to keep secrets.

4. What does Shah suggest people do if they give away someone’s secret by accident?

A．Buy the person a gift as an apology.

B．Stay away from the person.

C．Exchange a new secret with the person.

D．Tell the affected person what happened.

5 . A recent study showed that the experiences children have in their first few years are important. These experiences affect the development of the brain. When children receive more attention, they often have higher IQs. Babies receive information when they see, hear and feel things, which makes connections between different parts of the brain. There are a hundred trillion connections in the brain o£ a three-year-old child.

Researcher Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at telling different sound patterns. The researchers produced images o£ the brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example₅one order was mu—ba—ba. This is the pattern "A -B— B”. Another order was mu—ba—ge. This is the pattern "A-B—C”. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during the "A—B-B” pattern. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive（敏感）to where it occurred in the order.

Gervain is excited by these findings because the order of sounds is the base of words and grammar, "Position is key to language," she says. "If something is at the beginning or at the end, it makes a big difference： 'John caught the bear' is very different from 'The bear caught John.

Researchers led by scientist Patricia Kuhl have found that language delivered by televisions, audio books, the Internet, or smartphones——no matter how educational—— doesn't appear to be enough for children's brain development. They carried out a study of nine-month-old American babies. They expected the first group who'd watched videos in Chinese to show the same kind of learning as the second group who were brought face-to- face with the same sounds. Instead they found a huge difference. The babies in the second group were able to distinguish （辨别）between similar Chinese sounds as well as native listeners. But the other babies-regardless of whether they had watched the video or listened to the audio-learned nothing.

1. Why are early experiences so important to children according to the study?

A．They can show connections in their brains.

B．They can increase new information of IQs.

C．They can offer children more attention,

D．They can help to develop their brains.

2. How was the research carried out?

A．By recognizing babies5 different appearances.

B．By producing images of new words for babies,

C．By testing how babies' brains learn to speak language.

D．By checking babies' brains to identify different sound patterns.

3. Why is Gervain excited about the findings?

A．Grammar is important in learning languages,

B．Different orders of sounds have different meanings.

C．The order of words comes from its grammar meaning.

D．Different languages have different grammar rules.

4. What is Patricia Kuhl most likely to agree?

A．Learning Chinese is of great benefit to babies' brains.

B．Babies are better than adults in learning a foreign language.

C．Face-to-face communication can improve babies' brains.

D．Babies learn a lot from television, audio books or the Internet.

6 . Every week in China, millions of people will sit in front of their TVs watching teenagers compete for the title Character Hero, which is a Chinese-style spelling bee. In this challenge, young competitors must write Chinese characters by hand. To prepare for the competition, the competitors usually spend months studying dictionaries.

Perhaps the show’s popularity should not be a surprise. Along with gunpowder and paper, many Chinese people consider the creation of Chinese calligraphy(书法) to be one of their primary contributions to civilization. Unfortunately, all over the country, Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language without computerized help. Software on smart phones and computers allows users to type in the basic sound of the word using the Latin alphabet. The correct character is chosen from a list. The result? It’s possible to recognize characters without remembering how to write them.

But there’s still hope for the paint brush. China’s Education Ministry wants children to spend more time learning how to write.

In one Beijing primary school we visited, students practice calligraphy every day inside a specially decorated classroom with traditional Chinese paintings hanging on the walls. Soft music plays as a group of six-year-olds dip brush pens into black ink. They look up at the blackboard often to study their teacher’s examples before carefully attempting to reproduce those characters on thin rice paper. “If adults can survive without using handwriting, why bother to teach it now?” we ask the calligraphy teacher, Shen Bin. “The ability to write characters is part of Chinese tradition and culture,” she reasons. “Students must learn now so they don’t forget when they grow up.” says the teacher.

1. What can we learn about the Character Hero?

A．It’s open to people of all ages and all walks.

B．It’s the most-viewed TV programs in China.

C．It aims to spread Chinese culture to the world.

D．It draws great public attention across the country.

2. Why are Chinese people forgetting how to write the characters?

A．Chinese people don’t refer to dictionaries very often.

B．Chinese people no longer use brush pens or practice calligraphy.

C．Chinese people are using the Latin alphabet instead of the characters.

D．Chinese people needn’t write by hand as often with the help of technology.

3. .According to Shen Bin, being able to write characters by hand is_________.

A．necessary for adults to survive in China

B．a requirement made by the Education Ministry

C．helpful to keep Chinese tradition and culture alive

D．an ability to be developed only when you are students

4. Where does this text probably come from?

A．A news report.	B．A science report.
C．An advertisement.	D．Children’s literature.

7 . The Forbidden City

The Forbidden City in Beijing, China, was completed in 1420 during the early Ming Dynasty. It is the largest ancient palatial （宫殿似的） building in the world and it’s open to tourists to allow them to have a look at ancient Chinese architecture.

The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid is a statue in Copenhagen, Denmark. It sits on a rock in the harbor. It was inspired by a performance of a ballet based on the fairy tale The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen. It was presented to the public on 23 August, 1913. And there are many tourists taking photos with the Little Mermaid every year.

The Taj Mahal

As one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Taj Mahal is the jewel of India. It is considered as the finest example of Mughal architecture, a mix of Indian, Persian and Islamic styles.

Niagara Falls State Park

America’s oldest state park, open year-round, brings you closer than you ever thought possible to the power of the Falls. The best viewing area for the American Falls and Rapids is the Prospect Point. It is also home to the Visitors Service Center, Niagara Adventure Theater, the Observation Tower and the Maid of the Mist.

1. What can you do when visiting the Little Mermaid?

A．Listen to a fairy tale.	B．Attend a performance.
C．Meet Hans Christian Andersen.	D．Take pictures with the statue.

2. Which is the best place to see the American Falls and Rapids?

A．The Prospect Point.	B．The Niagara Adventure Theater.
C．The Observation Tower.	D．The Maid of the Mist.

3. What can we learn from the text?

A．Tourists can only see the Forbidden City from outside.

B．The Little Mermaid statue was made by Hans Christian Andersen.

C．The Taj Mahal is the finest example of mixed styles of Mughal buildings.

D．Tourists must check the opening time before visiting the Niagara Falls State Park.

8 . Researchers found animals lovers exercise their pet twice a day for 24 minutes each time — a total of five hours and 36 minutes a week. On top of that, the average dog owner also takes part pet out to take three long walks each week adding another two hours and 33 minutes to the total. But those without a dog spend an average of just one hour and 20 minutes per week exercising by going to the gym or heading out for a walk or jog. And almost half of non-pet owners admit they take no exercise.

A spokesperson said the difference between the two was that going to the gym can feel like a boring task while dog-walking can be far more enjoyable. “Having a couple of short walks every day soon adds up and this research shows that it amounts to more time than people spend in the gym,” he said. And gym goers exercise inside an air-conditioned gym, while dog walkers are able to jog for miles and enjoy fresh air when admiring the Great British countryside.”

The study of 5,000 people, including 3,000 dog owners, showed that 57 percent of those considered walking the dog as their main form of exercise. More three quarters said they would rather take their dog for a walk than go to the gym. A total of 86 percent said they enjoyed taking their pet out each day, with just 22 percent saying they sometimes saw it as a boring task. But only 16 percent of respondent said they enjoyed exercising in the gym, while almost 70 percent considered it a boring task.

The survey shows that having a dog to walk actually encourages regular exercise, with 60 percent of pet owners saying they always go for a walk with their dog—even when time is precious(宝贵的).

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

A．People without a pet usually go to the gym

B．Pet owners spend no time exercising in the gym

C．Dog owners usually get more exercise than gym goers

D．People do exercise either by walking a dog or going to the gym

2. According to the study, on average each week dog owners walk their dog for _____.

A．one hour and 20 minutes	B．eight hours and 9 minutes
C．two hours and 36 minutes	D．five hours and 36 minutes

3. The writer mentioned what the spokesperson said in Paragraph 2 mainly to show that _____.

A．walking a dog can be tiring sometimes

B．taking exercise in the gym can be very comfortable

C．people prefer to exercise in the gym rather than walk a dog

D．walking a dog is more enjoyable than exercising in the gym

4. The underlined word “respondents” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to people who ____.

A．like walking their dogs	B．enjoy going to the gym
C．took part in the study	D．organized the study

9 . When I was a boy, I was always happy to see those little brown coins. After years I was still very happy to pick up pennies on the ground.

I usually saved them up. I usually bought a pack of gum or a bag of chips when it was enough. After growing up, I heard a story about coins. It was said that our loved people sometimes would leave pennies on the ground in front of us. People wanted to show us that we were loved and watched over kindly. I never doubted that story even as an adult. It is difficult for me to find a lot of money on the ground, but pennies are there all the time. Maybe that is why I still enjoy seeing them and picking them up, no matter how dirty or old they are.

A few months ago, I was walking to the local post office to mail a letter. As I entered the room, I saw not one, not two, but four pennies shining in the sunlight. I smiled and picked them up. I kept them in my hands as I walked in the post office. “Four is Ok,” an office said to a lady. The lady began searching her purse. Her face went red. I understood what had happened. I laughed to myself at this surprising moment. I placed my pennies on the desk before her. The smile I got in return was worth a thousand dollars.

The coins weren’t so valuable to me, but they did matter to her. I just performed a little kindness. I was happy.

1. What did the author use to pick up when he was young?

A．Funny toys.	B．Little brown coins.
C．Small things on the floor.	D．Money his parents put on desks.

2. What might the author probably buy when he saved enough pennies?

A．A set of storybooks.	B．A bag of sugar.
C．A box of chocolates.	D．A pack of chips.

3. When grown up, the author______.

A．saw some careless women lost coins

B．still believed the story about coins

C．thought rich people threw coins on purpose

D．found old people forget coins on the ground

4. What can we learn from this passage?

A．Doing small acts of kindness is good.

B．Every coin should be used to buy important things.

C．We should look for coins when we are walking.

D．Pay more attention to what you hear from now on.

10 . 假定你叫李华，最近，你的好友Bob来信说他升入高中以后感到不太适应，不知道如何结交新朋友。请你用英语给他回一封信，提出一些建议。
提示：
1、与人接触时要面带微笑、对别人友好。
2、关心同学、乐于助人。
3、学会倾听很重要，这样别人乐于和你相处。
4、积极参加班级活动并展示自己才能。
5、……（你的建议）。
才能：talent
注意：1.词数130左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。