1 . I was never very neat while my roommate Kate was extremely organized. Each of her objects had its place, but my always hid somewhere. She even labeled (贴标签) everything. I always looked for everything. Overtime, Kate got neater and I got my merriser. She moved to push my dirty clothing over and I would lay my books on her tidy desk. We both got tired of each other.

Who broke out one evening. Kate came into the room. Soon, I heard her screaming, “Take your shoes away! why under my bed!” Suddenly I saw my shoes flying at me. I jumped to my feet and started yelling. She yelled back louder.

The room was filled with anger. We could not have stayed together for a single minute but for a phone call. Kate answered it. From her end of the conversation, I could tell right away her grandma was seriously ill. When she hung up. She quickly crawled (爬) under her covers, crying. Obviously. that was something she could not go through alone. All of a sudden, a warm feeling of sympathy (同情) rose up in my heart.

Slowly, I collected the pencils, took back the books, made my bad. Cleaned the suckers and swept the floor even on her side. I got so absorbed into my work that I even didn’t notice Kate had sat up. She was watching. Her tears dried and her expression was such disbelief. Then, she reached out her hands to grasp mine. I looked up into her eyes. She smiled at me. “Thanks.”

Kate and I stayed roommates for the rest of the year. We didn’t always agree, but we learned the key to living together: giving in, cleaning up and holding on.

1. What made Kate so angry one evening?

A．She couldn’t find her books.

B．She heard the writer shouting loud.

C．She got the news that her grandma was ill.

D．She saw the writer’s shoes beneath her bed.

2. Why did the writer tidy up the room?

A．Because she was scared by Kate’s anger.

B．Because she hated herself for being so messy.

C．Because she wanted to show her care.

D．Because she was asked by Kate to do so.

3. How is paragraph 1 mainly developed?

A．By analyzing courses.

B．By showing differences.

C．By describing a process.

D．By following time order.

4. What might be the best title for the story?

A．My Friend Kate.

B．Hard Work Pays off.

C．How to Be Organized?

D．Learning to Be Roommates.

2 . National Geographic Exhibit "Titanic: The Untold Story"

The National Geographic Museum is always an interesting and educational place to visit. The admission isn't free but is definitely worthwhile for unique exhibits like this. We'll be taking a self-guided tour hut there may also he museum staff on hand.

About the exhibition

On this exhibition, you will be surprised to find that the sunken Titanic was discovered by Robert Ballard, who was then carrying out a top secret Cold War mission(任务). In 1985,Ballard’s mission was to dive to depths of 9,800 feet using a camera system called Argo to find and document the exploded remains of the submarine (潜艇) Scorpion. The objective of the mission was to gain evidence to determine what led to her loss. After concluding his successful investigations,Ballard used the final 12 days of his expedition to discover the remains of Titanic.

The exhibition — originally exhibited at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum — shows the history of the discovery from an entirely new angle. Not only are visitors exposed to the historical events that led to the ship’s finding, but they can hear the fascinating stories of some of the passengers on board the ship. In addition to items borrowed from families of the survivors that have not been reunited since the night the ship sank in 1912, the exhibition contains those from the rich collections of the National Archives and the 20th Century Fox Archives. There are also movie sets and clothes worn by actors from the 1997 movie Titanic.

Price

Regular:$15

Seniors/Students/Military : $ 12

Children 5—12 ( free under 5 ) : $ 10

1. Why did Ballard carry out the 1985 mission?

A．To determine the place of Titanic.

B．To save passengers during the Cold War.

C．To help find the reason for Scorpion s loss.

D．To experiment with a new camera system.

2. What can visitors see in the exhibition?

A．The survivors of Titanic.

B．The original design of Titanic.

C．The movie about the ship Titanic.

D．The possessions of the survivors.

3. If a retired couple takes their 4-year-old grandson to the exhibition, how much should they pay?

A．$24.

B．$30.

C．$34.

D．$40.

3 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

While driving, I sensed something wrong with my car. Pulling into the first parking lot I found, I stopped it and climbed out to assess the situation. My heart sank as I discovered that one of my rear(后面的) tires was flat.

I'd bought the secondhand car several months before, but it didn't include a spare tire. Although I knew I needed to purchase one, my schedule was so tight that I hadn't done it yet. Because I was working full-time in the emergency room at a local hospital and taking evening classes at a university fifty miles away.

Now here I was, alone forty miles from home. In those days, cell phones were a luxury. I had no way to call for assistance.

My spirits grew darker the minute I checked the place where I had pulled over. No one was around, except a rusty, red truck. It was getting dark. I had two options: stay in my car until morning or start walking in hopes of finding a convenience store with a pay phone. Neither option appealed to me.

I about to grab my purse and set off on foot when a man came out from what seemed to be a law office. Pulling a set of keys from his pocket, he locked the office door, and then turned and saw me standing next to my car. I must have looked scared and confused as he headed straight toward me.

"Can I help you with anything?" he asked.

Judging from his appearance, I decided I could trust him.

"I have a flat tire but don't have a spare," I said, relieved to see him.

"I can help you remove the flat and then drive you to a tire shop to get it fixed," he said.

I remembered the cautionary(告诫的) words my parents had drilled into my head: Never get in a car with a stranger.

"That's okay," I said. "Thanks anyway."

注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The man shrugged, walked to his truck and drove away.

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Half an hour later, he was back.

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4 . 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.

5 . If you want to be a volunteer, you have to answer the following typical questions. Do you want to work with people, animals or machines? Do you want to work indoors or outdoors, directly serve people in need or serve people behind the scenes? Every year, thousands of people in the west offer volunteer service. Volunteering greatly strengthens the community because it helps the old, the young, the weak, the sick, and the disabled and the injured to solve problems.

Volunteers usually help in many different ways. They may give people advice, offer friendship to the young, drive the elderly to church (if up to the driving age), advise kids against drugs, work as assistants in schools or nursing homes, raise funds, plant trees, help out in local libraries and do many other things. Volunteering can be a few hours a week or a few hours a month. Anybody who wants to serve people in need can become a volunteer.

In fact, the art of volunteering is a process of both giving and receiving. Volunteering allows volunteers to meet new people, make new friends and mix with people from all walks of life. Volunteering is an excellent way to experiment and try out new techniques and skills, discover your individual talents and explore career choice. Being a volunteer will take you on a wonderful journey and help you learn more than what you can get from books.

1. As a volunteer, only when you grow old enough can you _______.

A．plant trees on hills	B．give advice to others
C．drive the elderly to church	D．help out in local libraries

2. How is the second paragraph mainly developed?

A．By discussing.	B．By comparing.
C．By giving explanations.	D．By listing examples.

3. It can be inferred from the passage that to be a volunteer, _______.

A．you can do experiments	B．you can get something valuable
C．you need to work very long	D．you must be very strong

4. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Volunteer Service in the West	B．How to Hunt for Jobs
C．How to Make Friends	D．How to Work with Animals

6 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。

It was a moral lesson on Tuesday afternoon. Jodie hadn't really heard anything, maybe a whisper (低语), but when she turned around, the girls in the back row of the class were looking at her, trying to hide smiles. Mr Smith was talking about people's jobs. He also wanted to find out what his students wanted to do when they grew up. He called on Billy Mitzer first.

''My daddy works in a bank,'' Billy Mitzer said. ''I want to work in a bank too. There's lots of money in the bank.'' ''My parents have a grocery store,'' Emmy Disalvo said. ''But I want to be an airline pilot.''

Jodie liked it when Mr. Smith asked them questions like this. Mr. Smith was about to call on Jodie when the girls in the back row started laughing. Shirley Danes shouted, ''Jodie's daddy is a garbage man!''

Everybody in the class laughed out loud except Jodie. She felt embarrassed and her face turned bright red. She looked around the whole classroom. Everyone was laughing. Some kids were even holding their noses.

Mr Smith was angry. He seldom raised his voice, but at that time he did. ''Silence! I want everybody to be quiet,'' he shouted. The laughter stopped immediately. The sound of cars and people going by on the street came through the windows. ''You should feel sorry for yourselves,'' Mr Smith said. ''Being a garbage man is a difficult and greatly useful job. We should be grateful to Jodie's father. Where would we be without him?''

A few kids started laughing again. ''It's not funny,'' Mr Smith went on. ''Garbage is a serious matter. I think you all should say sorry to Jodie. And after that, you're all going to write Jodie's father a nice letter to tell him how much you appreciate what he does for all of us—in other words, keeping our city clean.''

Paragraph 1:

Everyone did as Mr Smith asked them to.

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Paragraph 2:

Jodie started crying out.

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7 . As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations- UNESCO and National Geographic among them –have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.
Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Center, Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, looking and raising a family in a village in Nepal.
Documenting the Tangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayans reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.
At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials- including photographs, films, tap recordings, and field notes- which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.
Now, through the two organizations that he has founded-the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project- Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, found in libraries and stores around the world, available not just to scholars but to the youngers.
Generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected.Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet. Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.
1. Many scholars are making efforts to ________.

A．promote global languages

B．rescue the disappearing languages

C．search for language communities

D．set up languages research organizations

2. What does “that tradition” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Having first records of the languages.

B．Writing books on language searching.

C．Telling stories about language users.

D．Linking with the native speakers.

3. What is Turin’s book based on?

A．The cultural statics in India.

B．The documents available at Yale.

C．His language research in Britain.

D．His personal experience in Nepal.

4. Which of the following best describe Turin’s Work?

A．Write sell and donate.

B．Record, repeat and reward.

C．Collect, protect and reconnect.

D．Design, experiment and report.

8 . If Albuquerque Police Officer Ryan Holets had his way, this story would never have got so much attention. CNN would not have learned that Holets, while on duty, had agreed to adopt a baby from a homeless drug addict.

Holets values his privacy and didn’t do it for the attention. He did it just because he knew it was the right thing to do.

On Sept. 23, Holets responded to a call about a possible theft from a convenience store in Albuquerque. By the time he arrived, the thief was no longer there, but Holets spotted a woman in a grassy area behind the store about to inject a needle into her companion’s arm. The woman, Crystal Champ, was eight months pregnant.

After a short conversation, he learned Champ longed for her child to go to a good family. Holets offered to do just that.

When Sergeant Jim Edison learned what Holets did, he was floored. In his 10 years as a police officer, he has seen many “heroic acts” but none like what Holets did, Edison said.

Edison awarded Holets for his outstanding service for the city, but felt that wasn’t enough. It’s his job to reward his officers and encourage them to do the right thing, so Edison signed Holets up to do an interview for CNN’s “Beyond the Call of Duty”series without telling him.

“Every day Edison calls me to ask for forgiveness.” Holets said laughing, “And I keep assuring him that we're fine. We didn’t quite realize it would get this response, and neither did he. But we all realize it’s a really good thing, and some really good things can come of it.”

One of Holets’s conditions when he agreed to CNN’s interview was that his superiors would not set up a GoFundMe page for his family. “We don’t want anybody to say we've used this occasion to enrich ourselves,” Holets said. He instead urges those who want to offer support to donate to a local drug recovery center or adoption organization.

1. What was Holets doing when he met Champ?

A．He was on his way home.

B．He was looking into a theft.

C．He was making a telephone call.

D．He was buying things in a store.

2. What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 7 refer to?

A．the encouragement	B．the telephone
C．the interview	D．the forgiveness

3. Why did Edison call Holets to ask for forgiveness?

A．He did wrong to Holets.

B．He didn’t keep his promise.

C．Holets didn’t get promoted as expected.

D．He made Holets become the focus of attention.

4. What did Holets expect people to do?

A．Raise money for families like his.

B．Support the police’s routine work.

C．Make donations to adoption organizations.

D．Set up an organization to help the homeless.

9 . 假定你是李华，你打算国庆节期间去武汉旅游．请你给来自新西兰的交换生Terry发邮件邀请他与你同游，内容包括：
1. 邀请Terry与你同游；
2. 你的旅游计划；
3. 邀请理由；
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯．
Dear Terry,
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Yours,

Li Hua

10 . A job vacancy (空缺) for a professor was advertised by University of Sanford. Hundreds of people applied for the position, but only fifteen applicants got the opportunity to be interviewed, of whom Sear was a lucky one. Located in a small town, the university had only one hotel around. When Sear arrived there, he found only a twin room was available. So he had to share it with a young man named Adam.

The next day the president of the university and a group of experts gave an interview to all the fifteen _______. They couldn’t _______ whom to choose between Sear and Adam. So they required the two interviewees to make a speech the following day. Sear took it seriously and prepared for it _______ until late into the night. Adam, on the other hand, _______ himself in the night club. The next morning, after the president _______ that the speech would be made in the alphabetical order of _______ names, Adam walked to the front _______ and began his speech fluently. To Sear’s _______, Adam was _______ exactly the same speech draft that he had carefully prepared. He didn’t find his draft was ________ by Adam until then. Next, it was Sear’s turn to give a speech. He was so nervous that the speech paused occasionally and was in ________ English.

After what seemed like a century, the president and experts came back from their discussion. The president said, “We have decided to ________ Sear.” Everyone was surprised. The president continued, “Adam did give a wonderful ________, but don’t forget that he was just reading his speech. Sear, ________, could repeat Adam’s every single word from ________. What we need is just such a talent!”

1.

A．applicants

B．teachers

C．professors

D．students

2.

A．desire

B．determine

C．consider

D．declare

3.

A．awfully

B．sharply

C．carefully

D．financially

4.

A．abandoned

B．relaxed

C．wounded

D．urged

5.

A．predicted

B．yelled

C．reflected

D．announced

6.

A．your

B．their

C．our

D．his

7.

A．confidently

B．proudly

C．vividly

D．successfully

8.

A．sorrow

B．astonishment

C．excitement

D．anger

9.

A．reciting

B．repeating

C．reading

D．writing

10.

A．seized

B．burnt

C．distributed

D．stolen

11.

A．broken

B．pure

C．standard

D．fluent

12.

A．employ

B．criticize

C．praise

D．fire

13.

A．talent

B．signal

C．affection

D．speech

14.

A．thus

B．meanwhile

C．however

D．additionally

15.

A．awareness

B．memory

C．recognition

D．imagination