2 . There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world.

But only a few of them are very ___ . English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U.S.A., but in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a ___   language. Many millions are trying to do so.

Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different ____ Have you ever ___ ads of this kind in the newspapers or magazines?

“Learn English in six month, or your _____ back ...” “Easy and funny? Our records and tapes _____ you master your English in a month. From the first day your _____ will be excellent. Just send...” Of course, it never _____ quite like this.

The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should remember that we all learned our own language well when we were _____. If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. _____ what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, and ____ in it all the time, just imagine how much _____ that gets!

So it is hard to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English _____ upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and _____ much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will ____. But they cannot do the student’s work for him.

1.

A．difficult

B．important

C．necessary

D．easy

2.

A．native

B．foreign

C．useful

D．mother

3.

A．questions

B．problems

C．ideas

D．answers

4.

A．found

B．watched

C．noticed

D．known

5.

A．knowledge

B．time

C．money

D．English

6.

A．make

B．help

C．let

D．allow

7.

A．spelling

B．grammar

C．English

D．pronunciation

8.

A．happens

B．knows

C．seems

D．feel

9.

A．students

B．children

C．babies

D．grown-ups

10.

A．Imagine

B．Mind

C．Do

D．Think of

11.

A．using

B．thinking

C．trying

D．practicing

12.

A．time

B．money

C．language

D．practice

13.

A．depends

B．tries

C．has

D．takes

14.

A．uses

B．takes

C．gets

D．costs

15.

A．do

B．work

C．help

D．master

3 . 语法填空

My friend Tony and I always walk hoe together after school. Last Monday, however, something happened     1     our way back.

We were walking that day when we heard     2     loud cry behind us. Looking around, we were     3     (surprise) to see a woman lying on the ground. It seemed that she was     4     (injure) badly. We hurried to her,    5     a man came over to stop us from     6     (help) the woman. Some     7     (girl) walking by even laughed at us. We got very angry with the people     8     were cold to the woman. Then the man     9     (ask) us to turn around to see a man carrying a video camera on     10     (he) shoulder. They were just making a film!

4 . Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants become annoyed and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country’s economy. It is important to think about the people of a destination country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance the wealth and happiness of local inhabitants.

　　Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country’s economy can suffer.
　　On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Businesses can also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, air terminals, first- class roads, and other support facilities(配套设施) needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel lose money.
　　Building a hotel is just a beginning. There must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers to handle waste, and water. All of these support facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost.
1. Which of the following do you think has been discussed in the part before this selection?

A．It is extremely important to develop tourism.

B．Building roads and hotels is essential.

C．Support facilities are highly necessary.

D．Planning is of great importance to tourism.

2. The underlined word “ inhabitants” (in Paragraph 1)probably means__________.

A．tourists

B．passengers

C．population

D．citizens

3. Too much tourism can cause all these problems EXCEPT ____________.

A．a bad effect on other industries	B．a change of tourists’ customs
C．over-crowdedness of places of interest	D．pressure on traffic

4. What is mentioned in the passage for a country to develop tourism?.

A．Large hotels, schools and hospitals	B．Factories, large hotels and airports
C．Large hotels, airports, first-class roads	D．Large houses, airports, railway stations

5. It can be inferred from the text that _____________ .

A．the author doesn’t like tourism developing so fast

B．local people will benefit from tourist attraction

C．other parts of a country’s economy won’t benefit from tourism much

D．we can’t build too many support facilities

5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

I have a fifteen-year-old son. He    1     (be) a perfect boy. I love my son with all my heart.

Last summer he worked to earn money for his new bicycle instead of     2     (ask) money from me. Then he spent hours and hours on it. Later I bought him a pair    3    glasses and gloves. My son rode the bicycle with the glasses and the gloves, and he looked so cool. He dreamed of taking part in a race and winning.

On November 10, my birthday, when I went to the kitchen to start the milk and bread in the morning, I     4     (notice) a beautiful guitar on the table, beside which was a card. It said, “Happy birthday to my    5     (wonder) mother, all my love, your son.” I was very    6    (surprise) and then began to sob (抽泣). I remembered once I joked to my family that I wished    7     (learn) to play the guitar to make my life more colorful. I had forgotten it, but my son remembered. He took it    8     (serious), and bought one for me as my birthday gift. When I wondered     9     my son could buy this expensive gift, I realized that my son sold his bicycle to get me     10     guitar.

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Chinese astronauts in Tiangong space station opened     1     science lecture on December 9th, 2021     2     they travelled around the Earth.

There     3     (be) a lecture and some inspiring activities     4     that exciting day. First, Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, all members of the Shenzhou Ⅷ mission crew, greeted students, teachers and so on as the lecture began.     5     (them) then showed viewers the place where they live and work. The astronauts carried out experiments     6     (show) interesting     7     (physics) phenomena in space, including “disappearing buoyancy (浮力)” and a “water ball”. At last, before the end of the live streamed activities, they     8     (happy) answered questions from students.     9     (million) of students across China watched the 60-minute televised (电视转播的) event, which was the first lecture of the Tiangong Class. China’s     10     (one) extraterrestrial (地球大气圈外的) lecture series to make students interested in space science.

7 . Xie Jun is a middle school student, studying in Grade 8 in a middle school in Changsha, Hunan. He has had lots of _________ since he was little. But as time goes by, there is only one dream still in his mind.

When he was a child, he heard of rockets and spaceships. _________, he didn’t know what they were. From his father, he started to know that scientists make _________ to carry people and things into space. From then on, he became very interested _________ space. Every time he sees beautiful stars and the moon in the sky at night, he gets very excited. He is always dreaming that he can fly to space to _________ the Earth one day.

Xie learned that the first man flew into space in 1961, and later, _________ astronauts made it successful to travel into space. Some even landed on the moon. He knows not _________ can travel into space. More importantly, _________ he can fly to space, he must be trained specially.

Xie knows it’s not easy to realize his dream, but he decides to try _________ best. He says, “I’ve had this dream for many years. It brings me a lot of __________ and always makes me study harder.”

1.

A．jobs

B．dreams

C．friends

D．teachers

2.

A．Such as

B．Of course

C．At first

D．At last

3.

A．trains

B．bikes

C．cars

D．rockets

4.

A．in

B．on

C．of

D．about

5.

A．take up

B．look up

C．arrive at

D．look at

6.

A．fewer

B．stronger

C．more

D．worse

7.

A．everyone

B．anyone

C．someone

D．none

8.

A．when

B．before

C．after

D．as

9.

A．her

B．his

C．my

D．their

10.

A．happiness

B．benefit

C．health

D．favour

8 . 请根据上下文内容，将文中划线部分译成汉语或者英语。

The day began like any other on Goldshore Beach. People were walking, running or simply sitting on the sandy beach, enjoying the warm sea air     1    and the soft wind that brushed their hair. Sabrina was one of the happy tourists     2    until she noticed something odd. “The water was like the bubbles on the top of a beer.” she later explained. “It wasn’t calm and it wasn’t going in and then out. It was just coming in and in and in.” Sabrina had just learnt about tsunamis in a Geography lesson． 她立刻想到了这一点     3    that these were signs of an approaching tsunami.

Sabrina was frightened，but she soon kept her head.她警告她的父母有危险,     4     though at first they just thought she was joking. However, Sabrina was certain that a terrible disaster was on its way     5    and kept asking her parents to talk to a safety officer, To her great relief, the officer immediately realized the coming danger. The beach was rapidly cleared of people, just before the huge waves crashed into the coast.