1 . 阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

One morning, I was waiting at the bus stop, worried about     1     (be) late for school. There were many people waiting at the bus stop,     2     some of them looked very anxious and     3    (disappoint) . When the bus finally came, we all hurried on board. I got a place next     4     the window, so I had a good view of the sidewalk. A boy on a bike     5     (catch ) my attention. He was riding beside the bus and waving his arms. I heard a passenger behind me shouting to the driver, but he refused     6     (stop) until we reached the next stop. Still, the boy kept     7    (ride). He was carrying something over his shoulder and shouting. Finally, when we came to the next stop, the boy ran up the door of the bus. I heard an excited conversation. Then the driver stood up and asked,“    8     anyone lose a suitcase at the last stop?” A woman on the bus shouted, “Oh, dear! It s     9     (I )”. She pushed her way to the driver and took the suitcase thankfully, Five others on the bus began talking about what the boy had done and the crowd of strangers         10    (sudden) became friendly to one another.

2 . A recent experiment held in Japan shows that it is almost impossible for people to walk exactly straight for 60 metres. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology found 20 healthy men and asked them to walk as straight as possible to a target 60 metres away at normal speed. Each man had to walk on white paper fixed flat to the floor wearing wet colored socks. The footprints revealed（展现） that all walked in a winding rather than a straight line. Researchers found that people readjust（调整） the direction of walking every few seconds. The amount of the winding differed subject. This suggests that none of us can walk in a strictly straight line. We walk in a winding way mainly because of a slight structural or functional imbalance of our limbs (四肢). Although we may start walking in a straight line, several steps afterwards we have changed direction.
Eyesight helps us to correct the direction of walking and leads us to the target. Your ears also help you walk. After turning around a lot with your eyes closed, you can hardly stand still, let alone walk straight.
It’s all because your ears help you balance. Inside your inner ear there is a structure which contains liquids. On the sides of the organ are many tiny hair-like structures that move around as the liquid flows. When you spin (旋转) the liquid inside also spins. The difference is that when you stop, the liquid continues to spin for a while. Dizziness is the result of these nerves in your ear. When you open your eyes, although your eyesight tells you to walk in a straight line, your brain will trust your ears more, thus you walk in a curved line.
1. The experiment held in Japan proved that _______.

A．none of the participants finished the 60 metres

B．all the participants had a good sense of direction

C．the experiment was done in different ways

D．the participants kept readjusting（调整） their direction of walking

2. The underlined word “subject” in Para. 1 refers to ________.

A．a person with a functional imbalance

B．the subject one studies at school

C．a person chosen to be studied in an experiment

D．the direction of walking

3. The purpose of writing the article is to ________.

A．prove that ears and eyes help us to walk straight

B．point out the importance of noticing everyday science

C．explain why we can hardly walk in a strictly straight line

D．give background information about a latest study

3 .         Almost all cultures celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another in some way. Different cultures celebrate the beginning of a new year in different ways, and at different times on the calendar.
        In Western countries, people usually celebrate New Year at midnight on January 1st. People may go to parties, dress in formal clothes -- like tuxedos (小礼服) and evening gowns, and drink champagne at midnight. During the first minutes of the New Year, people cheer and wish each other happiness for the year ahead. But some cultures prefer to celebrate the New Year by waking up early to watch the sun rise. They welcome the New Year with the first light of the sunrise.
        It is also a common Western custom to make a New Year’s promise, called a resolution. New Year’s resolutions usually include promises to try something new or change a bad habit in the new year.

Many cultures also do special things to get rid of bad luck at the beginning of a new year. For example, in Ecuador, families make a big doll from old clothes. The doll is filled with old newspapers and firecrackers. At midnight, these dolls are burned to show the bad things from the past year are gone and the new year can start afresh (again). Other common traditions to keep away bad luck in a new year include throwing things into rivers or the ocean, or saying special things on the first day of the new year.

       Other New Year traditions are followed to bring good luck is to eat grapes on New Year’s Day. The more grapes a person eats , the more good luck the person will have in the year. In France, people eat pancakes for good luck at New Year. In the United States, some people eat black-eyed peas (豇豆) for good luck -- but to get good luck for a whole year you have to eat 365 of them!
1. Which culture celebrates New Year in the morning?

A．The passage doesn’t say.	B．Spain.
C．France.	D．The United States.

2. What is a resolution?

A．Something you say.	B．Something you eat.
C．Something you burn.	D．Something you wear.

3. What is the topic of the fourth paragraph?

A．Bringing good luck.

B．Remembering the past.

C．Planning for the next year.

D．Keeping away from bad luck.

4. Which is probably true about eating black-eyed peas on New Year?

A．Black-eyed peas taste bad.

B．The peas are very difficult to cook.

C．One pea brings one day of luck.

D．It is bad luck to eat a lot of black-eyed peas.

4 . A new mother was anxious to see her newly-born baby. But she was ____when the baby was in her arms. The baby had been born without ears.
With time going on, it____that the baby' s hearing was perfect. It was only his ____that was damaged. When he rushed home from school one day and____himself into his mother' s arms, she sighed,____ that his life was to be misfortunate.
He grew up and became a____with his classmates. He might have been class president,____ that. The boy’s s father ____the family physician in secret if he could do____to help his son. "I believed I could____on a pair of outer ears, if they could be got," the doctor answered. So the____began for a person who would____ears.
Two years went by. Then the father said, "You are going to the hospital, son. Mother and I have someone who will give the ears you need____ it a s a secret," said the father. The operation was very ____, and a new person appeared. " But I must know!" he urged his father. " Who gave me ____? I could never do enough for him. " "I do not believe you could. " said the father.
The secret was ____for years till he stood with his father over his mother' s coffin. Slowly and ____, his father raised his mother' s thick brown hair to ____that his mother had no outer ears. "Mother said she was ____she never let her hair be cut," he whispered gently . "and nobody ever thought she was less ____did they?"1.

A．angiy

B．confused

C．astonished

D．curious

2.

A．turned out

B．turned over

C．took out

D．took over

3.

A．figure

B．face

C．ear

D．appearance

4.

A．threw

B．got

C．sent

D．took

5.

A．persuading

B．knowing

C．doubting

D．wondering

6.

A．enemy

B．favorite

C．stranger

D．friend

7.

A．ever since

B．even if

C．but for

D．as for

8.

A．asked

B．advised

C．ordered

D．convinced

9.

A．something

B．everything

C．anything

D．nothing

10.

A．transplant

B．operate

C．set

D．fix

11.

A．operation

B．interview

C．search

D．examination

12.

A．donate

B．operate

C．treat

D．recover

13.

A．So

B．And

C．But

D．Or

14.

A．normal

B．useful

C．difficult

D．successful

15.

A．so much

B．so many

C．too much

D．too many

16.

A．discussed

B．hidden

C．spread

D．kept

17.

A．desperately

B．tenderly

C．sadly

D．excitedly

18.

A．know

B．find

C．show

D．notice

19.

A．guilty

B．glad

C．worried

D．regretful

20.

A．beautiful

B．ugly

C．careful

D．Fashionable

5 . British singer Sarah Brightman began training for a 2015 flight to the International Space Station where she hopes to become the first professional musician to sing from space, the company arranging the trip said on Tuesday.
Brightman, a famed soprano (女高音) who starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber' s "Phantom of the Opera" , will pay about $ 52 million for a 10-day stay aboard the orbital outpost, Tom Shelley, president of privately owned Space Adventures, said.
Brightman, who will become the eighth privately funded space tourist, is scheduled to fly in September 2015. Her training to fly on a Russian Soyuz capsule began last fall.
Brightman has planned to be the first professional musician to sing from space. But she faces competition from Lady Gaga, who, according to media reports late last year, intends to be the first when she performs one song in space in early 2015 on a Virgin Galactic flight. Virgin Galactic, part of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, plans to offer suborbital(亚轨道的) space flights.
Brightman said in 2012 that she would travel to the space station, but her plans haven't been confirmed until now. So far. Space Adventures has arranged for nine private missions to the space station, a $ 100 billion research laboratory that flies about 260 miles above the earth. Microsoft co-founder Charles Simonyi made two trips.
Brightman will be the first private citizen to visit the station since Cirque du Soleil founder Guy   Lalibarte paid about $ 35 million for an 11-day stay in September 2009.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has an option to fly on the next available Soyuz seat after   Brightman, which most likely will be in 2017, Shelley told Reuters.
1. What is the purpose of the passage?

A．To praise Brightman.

B．To persuade the readers that Brightman is more famous than Lady Gaga.

C．To instruct the readers how to begin a space flight.

D．To give some information about Brightman.

2. When did Brightman start training for her space travel?

A．Last winter.	B．Last autumn.
C．Next spring.	D．Next summer.

3. The underlined word "she" in Paragraph 4 refers to ____.

A．Brightman	B．Lady Gaga
C．Andrew Lloyd Webber	D．Tom Shelley

4. The fifth paragraph is mainly carried out ____.

A．in time order	B．in space order
C．by giving examples	D．by comparison

6 . I drove to a local supermarket the other day. My shopping list was ____ and my wallet was light. Still, I needed to get a week’s worth of groceries for my family. I parked my car, looked down at my list, and hoped I could ____it all.
As I ____ the door, I saw a man with kind eyes and a gentle ____ He said he was collecting for a local food bank that helped to____the hungry in my area. He handed me a second shopping list of things they could use and asked me to ____if I could. I smiled back, took the ____ and walked into the store. I really wanted to help, but wasn’t sure if I could this time.
I walked through the store, picking up vegetables, soup, spaghetti, bread, milk, cereal, macaroni, bananas, and a dozen other things. I slowly ____ each item off my list until I was done. When I looked down at my full cart I____again if I even had enough to pay for it all. Then, as I put my own list back into my pocket, I saw the food ____ list under it. I smiled and decided to trust my heart.
With the food bank in mind, I went over and ____two of the biggest boxes of rice the store had and put them in my cart. It took ____six dollars out of my wallet to pay for them, ____ my heart felt six times larger when I did. And when everything was ____, I had just enough to pay for it all.
It ____so little to make our world a better place. A few dollars can help to fill a child’s ____belly(肚子). A smile and hug can help to ____ a hurting heart. An encouraging word can inspire someone else to live and to love. A random ____ of kindness can change another’s day and life. It is up to us, ____ If we can ____a few dollars on rice , then we can share a love that will last forever.1.

A．heavy

B．short

C．frequent

D．long

2.

A．afford

B．offer

C．exchange

D．accept

3.

A．painted

B．approached

C．cleaned

D．left

4.

A．attitude

B．smile

C．anger

D．manner

5.

A．share

B．train

C．protect

D．feed

6.

A．help

B．write

C．advertise

D．search

7.

A．list

B．name

C．project

D．budget

8.

A．signed

B．rid

C．marked

D．separated

9.

A．wondered

B．wandered

C．fancied

D．amazed

10.

A．store

B．cart

C．bank

D．nutrition

11.

A．picked out

B．picked up

C．lifted up

D．folded up

12.

A．another

B．other

C．others

D．more

13.

A．so

B．and

C．but

D．since

14.

A．ordered

B．replaced

C．packed

D．totaled

15.

A．spends

B．takes

C．pays

D．wastes

16.

A．hungry

B．adequate

C．anxious

D．full

17.

A．treat

B．cure

C．recover

D．heal

18.

A．ability

B．act

C．appreciation

D．allowance

19.

A．still

B．yet

C．although

D．though

20.

A．rescue

B．save

C．accumulate

D．reserve

7 . One of the most traditional features of American culture is to respect the self-made man — the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.
This attitude toward manual(体力的) labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously (豪华地) furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward, furthermore the dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional man may talk about washing the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may ______ and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education.
1. From the second paragraph of this passage we can find that _______.

A．Hagner busies herself by following a trend

B．Hagner doesn't spend much time on her full-time job

C．Hagner is interested in sports and music

D．Hagner wastes much time helping her children's lessons

2. British parents, as the writer described in this passage, _______.

A．treat their children as sports players

B．give their children little time to develop freely

C．bring up their children in a simple way

D．pay no attention to their children's lessons

3. The writer's opinion about after-school clubs is that ________.

A．activities in the country are too competitive

B．children should attend four clubs at a time

C．clubs should have more subjects for school children

D．some clubs result in competitive pressures

4. The last paragraph tells us that in Britain _______.

A．parents used to take their children to every club

B．parents have all benefited from children’s clubs

C．parents used to be wise on how to raise children

D．parents have come to know the standard of education

8 . 完形填空,阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题中所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

What a busy day! The three boys were fed, bathed and changed into their nightclothes. Mary had _______ them a story and finally they were asleep. “Babysitting (照看) the three boys aged eight, six and four is extremely _______,” she thought.

“Sleep,” she considered, “if only I could!” But she had difficult homework to complete. Leaning back, she _______ her feet onto the sofa to get comfortable. Whoever said babysitting was a(an) _______ way to make money obviously hadn’t met the three boys, she thought. The television was on, the room was warm, and the lights were dim. Mary’s _______ felt heavier and heavier. I mustn’t sleep, she thought — which was _______ what she did, of course.

Strangely enough, she soon _______ that she was a world-famous chef (主厨). She made a _______ and wore diamonds and designer clothes. Most days she relaxed by the pool, meeting the rich and famous or _______ — her favorite hobby. She ________ took the leading role in her own TV show.

That is, until she became too ________. “I am definitely the best in the world,” she thought, as she prepared a tasty chicken dish. But ________ seemed to go right. She spilt the flour, she dropped an egg and she cut her finger. Despite all the troubles, she ________ to get the chicken into the stove. Soon, smoke blanketed the room. The chicken was on fire. ________ set in, but Mary could not run — she was ________to the spot. She tried hard to move, but could not, ________ a sharp sound awoke her.

She got shocked and confused — ________ was pouring from the kitchen. Rushing to investigate, she was met by three ________little faces and some very burnt bread. “Sorry, we were hungry and you were ________, so we tried to make some bread,” explained a boy. Relieved, Mary made them a snack and sent them back to bed. She________ them never to fall asleep on the job again!

1.

A．given

B．written

C．told

D．taught

2.

A．successful

B．helpful

C．tiring

D．surprising

3.

A．shook

B．put

C．bent

D．kept

4.

A．difficult

B．boring

C．important

D．easy

5.

A．eyes

B．mind

C．heart

D．legs

6.

A．nicely

B．exactly

C．curiously

D．carelessly

7.

A．realized

B．reminded

C．learnt

D．dreamt

8.

A．decision

B．fortune

C．business

D．plan

9.

A．cooking

B．reading

C．running

D．babysitting

10.

A．just

B．ever

C．even

D．only

11.

A．selfish

B．proud

C．stubborn

D．sensitive

12.

A．everything

B．something

C．anything

D．nothing

13.

A．tried

B．arranged

C．managed

D．prepared

14.

A．Panic

B．Pain

C．Noise

D．Stress

15.

A．frozen

B．dragged

C．pushed

D．brought

16.

A．because

B．until

C．as

D．unless

17.

A．smoke

B．light

C．water

D．fire

18.

A．cheerful

B．strange

C．guilty

D．confident

19.

A．busy

B．hungry

C．worried

D．asleep

20.

A．promised

B．allowed

C．expected

D．persuaded

9 . Not all bodies of water are so evidently alive as the Atlantic Ocean, an S-shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles. The Atlantic Ocean, in a sense, replaced the Mediterranean as the inland sea of Western civilization. Unlike real inland seas, which seem strangely still, the Atlantic Ocean is rich in oceanic liveliness all the time. It is perhaps not surprising that its vitality has been much written about by ancient poets.
“Storm at Sea”, a short poem written around 700, is generally regarded as one of mankind’s earliest artistic representations of the Atlantic Ocean.
When the wind is from the west
All the waves that cannot rest
To the east must thunder on
Where the bright tree of the sun
Is rooted in the ocean’s breast.
As the poem suggests, the Atlantic Ocean is never dead and dull. It is an ocean that moves, impressively and endlessly. It makes all kinds of noise---it is forever thundering, boiling, crashing and whistling.
It is easy to imagine the Atlantic Ocean trying to draw breath----perhaps not so noticeably out in mid-ocean, but where it meets land, its waters bathing up and down a sandy beach. It imitates nearly perfectly the steady breathing of a living creature. It is filled with co-living existences, too: unimaginable quantities of creatures, little and large alike, mix within its depths in a kind of oceanic harmony, giving to the waters a feeling of heartbeat, a kind of sub-ocean vitality. And it has a psychology. It has personalities: sometimes peaceful and pleasant, on rare occasions rough and wild; always it is strong and striking.
1. Unlike real inland seas, the Atlantic Ocean is __________.

A．always energetic	B．lacking in liveliness
C．shaped like a square	D．favored by ancient poets.

2. The writer uses the poem “Storm at Sea” for the purpose of ___________.

A．describing the movement of the waves

B．showing the strength of the storm

C．presenting the power of the ocean

D．proving the vastness of the sea

3. In the last paragraph, the Atlantic Ocean is compared to ___________.

A．a beautiful and poetic place	B．a person of blood and flesh
C．a world of interest and wonder	D．a lovely animal

10 . People often say you never get a second chance to make a first impression, and that's actually quite true.     1    After all, making a good first impression is all about making others feel good when spending time with them. The following tips will help you make a positive impression every time．

Dress appropriately

    2    That means dressing up or putting on nice, clean, situation-appropriate clothes for social situations. It isn't difficult and it doesn't have to cost you much, either．

Be aware of your body language

Words express very little of what you say．Body language can tell someone a lot about your mood and confidence level.    3     Eye contact is an easy way to make others feel comfortable, important and special．Nervous body language can make others uncomfortable and anxious．Try to be aware of your body language when communicating with others．

Respect the opinions of others

Not everyone will have the same opinion with you, and friendly disagreements can be a gateway to a great conversation．Respect other people's right to have their own opinion．Respect the opinions of others even if you disagree with them．    4    

    5    People love talking about themselves, but generally, you want to be careful of taking over the conversation．By listening carefully to what others are saying, you are not only making them feel important, but you can gather cues you need to keep the conversation going and bridge to new topics．

A．Be a careful listener.

B．Show an interest in every person you meet.

C．Smile especially when first meeting someone.

D．Make sure you look nice whenever you meet someone new.

E．Meeting new people and starting conversations is often challenging.

F．Others will want to be with you and help you make a good impression.

G．Don't force others to believe what you believe or to see things only as you see them.