1 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Happy Birthday to You is a happy song,     1     the story behind it may not be known to all. Two sisters, Mildred Hill and Dr. Patty     2    (write) a song for children     3    (call) Good Morning to All. The song was sure to be     4     success due to    5    talents. The sisters published the song in 1893.

Thirty-one years later, a gentleman by the name of Robert H. Coleman published the song without the sisters     6    ( permit). And     7    (make) matters worse, he added a second verse, which was the familiar Happy Birthday to you.

Mr. Coleman's addition of the second verse     8    (popular) the song and eventually, Happy Birthday to You, the one and only birthday song totally replaced the sisters' Good Morning to All.

After Mildred died in 1916, Patty took Mr. Coleman to court. In court, she proved that she and her sister owned the melody. Because the family     9    (legal)owns the song, they are entitled to royalties from it whenever it is sung     10    commercial purposes.

2 . One afternoon, my son Robby came home and lay down. He slept for a long time, but ______ very sick. I was ______ and called my friend Bill. He told me to take Robby to the nearby clinic (诊所) and also told me the way to get there. We started out immediately.

The doctor there ______ Robby, and then said, “I’m afraid you’ll have to drive him to the ______. He needs a(n) ______ right away.” “But we have just moved here ______ I have no idea where the hospital exactly is!” I said. She just replied simply, “You can do it. There’s no ______ to waste.” Robby was feeling ______. I had to start off again though not exactly knowing where I was going.

I ______ in the direction (方向) which I thought was right , but soon getting ______. It was late at night and there was ______ on the street. We stopped at a red light. Then an old car pulled up next to us. The people _______ it looked rough (粗野). I felt nervous at first, but I had to ______ them. I rolled down the window. “We’re lost. Could you please help us find the hospital?” I said almost ______. “No problem, just follow us,” they replied.

I had no ______ but to follow them. After a ______ time and many turns, we ______ arrived at the hospital. I ______ Robby into the emergency room (急诊室). Several doctors examined Robby and ______ that he needed an operation at once.

To this day, I still remember those ______ people who helped us to find our way.

1.

A．held up

B．grew up

C．stood up

D．woke up

2.

A．bored

B．worried

C．excited

D．surprised

3.

A．noticed

B．discovered

C．examined

D．encouraged

4.

A．hospital

B．station

C．clinic

D．school

5.

A．rest

B．trip

C．operation

D．experiment

6.

A．yet

B．but

C．still

D．and

7.

A．food

B．money

C．medicine

D．time

8.

A．better

B．worse

C．happier

D．angrier

9.

A．walked

B．ran

C．drove

D．looked

10.

A．tired

B．lost

C．excited

D．curious

11.

A．nobody

B．somebody

C．anybody

D．everybody

12.

A．around

B．behind

C．inside

D．outside

13.

A．refuse

B．leave

C．invite

D．trust

14.

A．crying

B．smiling

C．shouting

D．laughing

15.

A．interest

B．choice

C．reason

D．experience

16.

A．long

B．short

C．easy

D．good

17.

A．quickly

B．suddenly

C．finally

D．easily

18.

A．rushed

B．begged

C．forced

D．ordered

19.

A．joked

B．disagreed

C．argued

D．agreed

20.

A．rough

B．kind

C．cold

D．honest

3 . Marie, an 85-year-old woman who had been bedridden (卧床不起的) for 10 years, was granted her biggest wish to look at the sea again with help from East Coast Radio and Netcare 911.

About 10 years ago, Marie had an unsuccessful back operation which left her bedridden. She then had to stay in an old age home and needed constant care. “The only time she could go outside was when she was taken to hospital over the years,” said Lucy, Marie’s daughter.

Lucy wrote an e-mail to East Coast Radio in April asking them to help her take her mother to the beach because it was her biggest wish. She told them that her mother just wanted to go and look at the sea and go back again to the home, that’s all. East Coast Radio did an interview with the family and agreed to make her wish come true.

Two weeks later, a team of Netcare 911 paramedics (医护人员) fetched Marie from the old age home and took her in a stretcher to Amanzimtoti Beach. One of the paramedics found a bucket and collected some sea water for her to put her hands in. She also got a chance to touch the sand.

Marie said, “Thanks to these kind people, I could get to the beach again, which may be the last time for me.”

1. Why did Marie become bedridden?

A．Because of her old age.	B．Because of a failed operation.
C．Because of a traffic accident.	D．Because of little medical care.

2. Who took Marie to see the sea?

A．Her family.	B．People from Amanzimtoti Beach.
C．East Coast Radio.	D．A team of Netcare 911 paramedics.

3. How did Marie probably feel when saying the words in the last paragraph?

A．Hopeful.	B．Embarrassed.
C．Thankful.	D．Disappointed.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．An old woman became bedridden because of bad luck.

B．Kind people helped a bedridden woman realize her wish.

C．East Coast Radio and Netcare 911 always help poor people.

D．Amanzimtoti Beach is a beautiful place people wish to visit.

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Chinese New Year red envelope (红包) is one of     1     most popular Chinese traditions for children on the Chinese New Year. They receive red envelopes with money inside! Little kids     2     (usual) learn the words “hong bao” in Mandarin (普通话) very quickly.

The red color     3     (stand) for good luck for the Chinese. Traditionally the envelopes are decorated with gold letters and messages of     4     (happy) or Chinese lucky symbols like the Chinese dragon, the phoenix, etc. Nowadays, in     5     (keep) up with the times, you can find anything from Mickey Mouse to Hello Kitty on the red envelopes.

Generally, kids     6       are unmarried all get red envelopes during the Chinese New Year from their grandparents, uncles, aunts and parents of course. Close     7     (friend ) also give red envelopes to children during the festival. Who gives money and how much money     8     (give) mainly depend on the personal relationship and the age of the kids. And     9       is quite common for an adult     10       (receive) a kid’s greeting for a red envelope during the Chinese New Year.

5 . 假定你是李华，外教Mr. Smith想让你这个星期天做他的向导 (guide)，带他去参观你们当地的生态园 (bio-park)。请你给他写封邮件，内容包括：
1、集合时间和地点(上午9点；学校门口)；
2、交通方式 (乘坐公交车)；
3、活动安排 (enjoying beautiful plants, boating, fishing, picking fruit ...)。
注意：1、词数100左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Mr. Smith,
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

6 . Growing up, your mom probably kept telling you that you should make your bed in the morning. But it’s time to put this little habit to rest. In fact, it could be better for your physical health to leave your bed unmade during the day, experts say.

What allows you to be extra lazy? Dust mites (尘螨). These little creatures live on our dead skin and produce allergens that you could breathe in while you are sleeping. And about 1.5 million dust mites are spending every night with you right now. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to get rid of them: Don’t make your bed in the morning.

Researchers at Kingston University have found that dust mites live well in warm and humid (潮湿的) environments but die in dry conditions, the BBC reports. Making your bed every morning produces a good place for these little creatures, but keeping your bed sheets open kills them off. Sometimes it pays to be a little lazy.

“Something as easy as leaving a bed unmade during the day can remove humidity from the bed sheets and mattress. If dust mites won’t be able to get enough water, they’ll finally die,” Dr Stephen Pretlove told the BBC.

Fewer dust mites means fewer health problems, too. However, not all experts agree; according to some, most homes are wet enough for dust mites to live on, no matter what we do. “I find it hard to believe that just not making your bed would have any effect on solving the problem,” Professor Andrew Wardlaw from Britain said.

1. What do experts suggest us doing in Paragraph 1?

A．Following our mothers’ advice.	B．Enjoying good physical health.
C．Keeping away from bad habits.	D．Leaving our bed unmade in the morning.

2. How can we kill dust mites of our beds according to Dr Stephen?

A．By keeping our beds dry.	B．By cleaning up our rooms.
C．By warming up our rooms.	D．By giving dust mites enough water.

3. What can we know from the last paragraph?

A．Not making the bed can make us lazier.

B．It’s easy to keep dust mites away from our home.

C．Dust mites have nothing to do with health problems.

D．Some experts have different ideas about making the bed.

4. In which part of a newspaper may this text appear?

A．Sports.	B．Advertisement.
C．Science.	D．Business.

7 . The Torch Festival (火把节) is a traditional festival which is celebrated among some ethnic groups in southwestern China, such as the Yi, Bai, Hani, Lisu, and Lahu, etc. It usually falls on the 24th or 25th of June, with three days of celebrations. The festival came from worship (崇拜) of fire by ancestors (祖先). For some ethnic groups, it’s a tradition in the festival for elders to share farming experience with young people and educate them about taking care of crops.

During the festival, big torches are made to stand in all villages, with small torches placed in front of the door of each house. When night falls, the torches are lit and the villages are bright. At the same time, people walk around the fields and houses, holding small torches and placing the torches in the field corners. Inside the villages, young people are singing and dancing around the big torches that keep burning throughout the night. Other activities like horse races are also held during the festival.

In a horse race of the Yi people in Yunnan, torches are used to form hurdles for riders to get through. The Hani people in Yunnan traditionally tie fruits to torches with strings. When the strings are broken after the torches are lit, people struggle for the fruits for good luck.

For the Lisu people in Sichuan, the festival is an occasion for holding torch parades. Big torches are carried by teams of people, which is like a fire dragon. If different teams meet, it’s a tradition to exchange the big torches with one another.

1. What can we know about the Torch Festival from the first paragraph?

A．It has nothing to do with farming.

B．Its celebrations usually last two days.

C．It is a traditional festival of all China.

D．It is a festival to show worship of fire.

2. What does the underlined word “them” in paragraph 1 refer to?

A．ancestors.	B．young people.
C．elders.	D．ethnic groups.

3. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

A．Why the festival is enjoyed.	B．Where the festival is celebrated.
C．How the festival is celebrated.	D．What torches are used for the festival.

4. Which is a way that Lisu people in Sichuan celebrate the festival according to the text?

A．Holding torch parades.	B．Tying fruits to torches with strings.
C．Struggling for fruits for good luck.	D．Using torches as hurdles for a horse race.

8 . When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks (挫折) to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.

Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.

Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.

She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”

Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.

1. The main idea of the passage is ________.

A．how Liz managed to enter Harvard University

B．how Liz struggled to change her life

C．why Liz loved her parents so much

D．the hard time Liz had in her childhood

2. In which order did the following things happen to Liz?
a. Her mother died of AIDS.
b. She worked at a petrol station.
c. She got admitted into Harvard.
d. The movie about her life was put on.
e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.

A．b, e, a, d, c

B．a, b, c, e, d

C．e, d, b, a, c

D．b, a, e, c, d

3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Both Liz’s father and mother are AIDS-infected patients.

B．Liz lived a hard time in her childhood.

C．Liz’s story is an inspiration to many people.

D．Liz hated her father because he got addicted to drugs.

4. What actually made her go towards her goal?

A．Envy and encouragement.	B．Willpower and determination.
C．Decisions and understanding.	D．Love and respect for her parents.

9 . My name is Matthew. I'm not someone who has many secrets，because I'm a terrible liar. But there is one huge secret that I kept for years- -I failed my driving test. I had never failed a test before, and had never even come close. Driving made me anxious , but my parents told me I had to. They signed me up for driving lessons. I had gotten a perfect score for my written permit exam , but getting behind the wheel was a different story.

But when October 30th rolled around ,my pride set in. I wanted to be like everyone else at my school , showing off the brand new license they'd gotten. Looking back on that special day,I can't remember if I was nervous. What I do remember is starting the test , pausing at a stop sign after a few seconds , and being asked by the instructor to pull over. I had received an auto-fail since my pause was indeed a pause and not a real stop. I wasn't upset that I was leaving without a license, but I was scared everyone would know that I had failed. So when I got to class, I told everyone I didn't want to take the test on my birthday.

One Friday a month later, I went to the test spot again and passed. Later that night I drove for the first time by myself, which brought to me an amazing feeling I've never experienced——but sill, I couldn't imagine ever telling anyone the truth. So I didn't. It wasn't until midway through college that I came clean. It turned out plenty of my college friends had failed too! And I gathered enough courage to speak the fact out. Yes ,I had also failed.

Now I realize failure and imperfection are two things everyone has to experience , without which one couldn't make a true man.

1. What can we learn about Matthew?

A．He was a slow learner of driving.	B．He relied heavily on his parents.
C．He was afraid of taking exams.	D．He was bored with telling lies.

2. Why did the instructor ask Matthew to pull over?

A．To put an end to his lest.	B．To check his parking skills.
C．To give him a second chance,	D．To show him a better way of driving.

3. W hat made Matthew feel extremely worried after his first attempt?

A．Failing to get a driving license.	B．Missing his birthday celebration.
C．Making his parents disappointed.	D．Losing face before his classmates.

4. W hat did Matthew learn from his own experience?

A．Honesty is the best policy.	B．Failure is a way to grow up.
C．Truth stands the test of time.	D．Imperfection is another form of perfection.

10 . Years ago when Sam was nine, a television advertisement caught his attention. Procter & Gamble started an advertisement campaign with “the Cheer Man”, a character who visited_________around the country. If he rang your doorbell and you had a box of Cheer or something like “Cheer” written on a piece of paper, you’d_________ten dollars.

Sam was_________that the Cheer Man would come to his home. Many parents considered his idea_________, but his mother helped him prepare for that_________.

Young Sam made a sign with the Cheer logo(标志) and_________it in his bedroom. When he was_________, he told his classmates his dream. They_________him, but his mother kept_________him to dream.

Time went by and the ad was not on____________.Sam stored the sign in his closet(壁橱)-but he____________believed the Cheer Man was coming.

The next summer when Sam was ten, he____________a neighborhood birthday party. While they were playing outside, they____________what sounded like someone shouting. As the noise got____________, they saw a car with a loudspeaker-and a man was yelling, “Cheer! Cheer! Cheer is here!”

Sam watched____________. The car was several blocks away, but he knew it was going to his house. Sam ran home, grabbed(抓住)his sign and____________outside holding it over his head. And just as he’d____________, the Cheer Man stopped in front of his house and said, “You get the ten dollars.”Sam’s joy was beyond____________.

Young Sam learned a valuable____________about believing in a dream He discovered that anything is possible. That knowledge paved the way for Sam Haskell’s____________as a television executive and producer in Hollywood.

1.

A．classrooms

B．companies

C．surroundings

D．neighborhoods

2.

A．raise

B．spend

C．receive

D．save

3.

A．convinced

B．pleased

C．doubted

D．accused

4.

A．informal

B．impossible

C．unexpected

D．unusual

5.

A．visit

B．advertisement

C．wait

D．party

6.

A．hung

B．threw

C．hid

D．spread

7.

A．curious

B．stressful

C．ready

D．puzzled

8.

A．believed in

B．relied on

C．laughed at

D．responded to

9.

A．inviting

B．encouraging

C．forcing

D．requiring

10.

A．newspaper

B．television

C．radio

D．book

11.

A．only

B．yet

C．already

D．still

12.

A．changed

B．ruined

C．celebrated

D．attended

13.

A．ignored

B．kept

C．heard

D．suggested

14.

A．closer

B．faster

C．nicer

D．better

15.

A．peacefully

B．excitedly

C．sadly

D．slowly

16.

A．whispered

B．begged

C．climbed

D．rushed

17.

A．dreamed

B．planned

C．organized

D．written

18.

A．combination

B．pace

C．description

D．manner

19.

A．speech

B．lesson

C．experience

D．conclusion

20.

A．birth

B．business

C．gift

D．future