1 . Life is full of beautiful moments. All you have to do is to _____your eyes and your heart to see them. I saw __ just the other day. The local __ had just let out, and I found myself behind a school bus as I was driving home.

The bus _____ by a house sitting on top of a hill. A little girl, no more than 7 years old ____ the bus and started running quickly to the _____ .The smile on her face was quite sweet. I ____ up the hill to see where she was going. I saw her dad waiting for her. As she got _____ , her dad smiled and knelt (下跪) down to _____ her. He wrapped his powerful _____ around her and gave her a huge hug, the moment she got to him.

My eyes __ a hit as I watched this scene. I ____ all the times my own children had run into my arms with ___faces and loving hearts. Every single hug from them was a treasure of_____ .Suddenly my trip down the memory lane was __ when 1 heard the car behind me honk its horn (鸣喇叭), I saw the school bus quickly pulling away, and started to ____ it again. However, this time I did so with a fuller heart than ever before. I took that ____ moment and stored it safely in my soul, where I knew it would remain forever.

One day, we all will leave this school of learning and love, and ____get to go home again, ______enjoy your day here al school then love and learn. But we know that one day you will be going home to where the hugs are eternal (永久)and the ______ never ends.

1.

A．clean

B．protect

C．open

D．shut

2.

A．it

B．that

C．one

D．another

3.

A．school

B．hospital

C．restaurant

D．market

4.

A．returned

B．turned

C．approached

D．stopped

5.

A．pointed at

B．got off

C．went through

D．broke into

6.

A．bus

B．man

C．end

D．house

7.

A．looked

B．took

C．climbed

D．showed

8.

A．warmer

B．older

C．closer

D．thinner

9.

A．blame

B．greet

C．touch

D．save

10.

A．head

B．foot

C．legs

D．arms

11.

A．watered

B．closed

C．rested

D．cheered

12.

A．remembered

B．appreciated

C．missed

D．preferred

13.

A．gentle

B．pretty

C．nervous

D．smiling

14.

A．wealth

B．joy

C．value

D．learning

15.

A．destroyed

B．canceled

C．interrupted

D．repeated

16.

A．fix

B．follow

C．call

D．catch

17.

A．quiet

B．beautiful

C．lost

D．embarrassing

18.

A．suddenly

B．equally

C．slowly

D．finally

19.

A．So

B．But

C．Though

D．If

20.

A．expectation

B．imagination

C．love

D．hope

2 . A new study suggests drinking coffee as soon as someone wakes up from a poor night's sleep greatly affects metabolism (新陈代谢) and blood sugar control.

In the study, published in the British Journal of Nutrition, UK researchers let 29 healthy men and women take part in three different overnight experiments. In the first two scenes, participants were given a sugary drink upon waking-first from a normal night's sleep, and then again after a poor night's sleep during which they were woken up for five minutes every hour. In the third, their sleep was similarly disrupted, but they were given a strong black coffee 30 minutes before consuming the sugary drink.

Blood samples from participants were taken following the sugary drink, which mirrored the calories of a typical breakfast, in each experiment. Results showed that one night of disrupted sleep did not worsen the participants' blood sugar responses at breakfast when compared to a normal night of sleep. However, strong black coffee consumed before breakfast in-creased the blood sugar response by around 50 percent.

By drinking such kind of drink after breakfast, UK researchers found that our bodies' ability to break down our food healthily is completely improved. Examining the effects of bro-ken sleep and. morning coffee across a range of different metabolic markers, scientists at the University of Bath found that, while one night of poor sleep had a limited effect on metabolism, drinking coffee before breakfast could have a negative effect on blood sugar control.

“We know that nearly half of us will wake in the morning and, before doing anything else, drink coffee—the more tired we feel, the stronger the coffee is. This study is important and has far-reaching health influences, and it indeed moves some coffee drinkers' heartstrings. As up to now we have had limited knowledge about what this is doing to our bodies, in particular for our metabolic and blood sugar control, so we have a long way to go.” said Professor James Betts, co-director of the Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism at the University of Bath.

1. How did UK researchers get the result of the experiment?

A．By assumption.	B．By making comparisons.
C．By questionnaire.	D．By consulting journals.

2. What can we learn from the experiment?

A．One night of poor sleep surely affects blood sugar.

B．Drinking coffee after breakfast does harm to health.

C．Having strong drinks has a good effect on metabolism.

D．Drinking coffee at different time has different effects on health.

3. What does James Betts think of the study?

A．It makes no sense.	B．It is limited and blind.
C．It remains to be continued.	D．It is particular and explicit.

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．How. Much Coffee to Drink Matters

B．Does Coffee Really Wake Up an Appetite?

C．Drinking Coffee before Breakfast Harms Metabolism

D．How Does Drinking Black Coffee Affect People's Sleep?

3 . I was the only new kid in the karate (空手道) class. Everyone else knew a lot of the moves and had yellow or orange _________, standing for their levels.

I had a total beginner’s white belt and felt extremely _______ the whole way through the class. I tried my hardest to _______ along, but everything was much _________ than I thought it would be. _________, as I was putting on my shoes, I was thinking, “There is no way I am ever coming back to karate!” And that’s when I _________ Elizabeth.

“You did great!” I said. “I was so stupid!”

“That’s how I _________ at first, too,” she said. “If you want, I can help you _________.”

I agreed and since then we’ve been amazing friends.

Not very long ago, Elizabeth had to _________. I felt very sad after I heard about the terrible ________. Elizabeth and I had to come up with a _________. We were actually pretty _________ with our solution. Here’s what we did.

First, we asked my mom to take a(n) __________ of us together and help us print it out regular size and tiny size. We put the regular photos in special frames (框架) that we __________ with “Friends Forever”. Then, we ________ the tiny picture of us in half and put the half with the other’s face in our own locket necklace (小盒式项链).

So __________ Elizabeth lives miles away and I only get to see her __________, our Friends Forever picture frames and locket necklaces really do ________ with the “missing-you” part.

Being __________ from your friend doesn’t have to be as bad as it seems right now. Photos, __________, phone calls, e-mails, and great memories can really and truly make a friend seem closer than he or she is.

1.

A．cloths

B．shoes

C．belts

D．trousers

2.

A．nervous

B．calm

C．excited

D．comfortable

3.

A．run

B．keep

C．arrive

D．follow

4.

A．harder

B．smoother

C．more

D．prettier

5.

A．However

B．Afterward

C．Still

D．Furthermore

6.

A．remembered

B．missed

C．met

D．called

7.

A．gained

B．disagreed

C．felt

D．requested

8.

A．fight

B．practice

C．struggle

D．win

9.

A．graduate

B．escape

C．hide

D．move

10.

A．news

B．event

C．information

D．notice

11.

A．difference

B．choice

C．plan

D．promise

12.

A．worried

B．pleased

C．disappointed

D．strict

13.

A．group

B．association

C．picture

D．drawing

14.

A．credited

B．begun

C．copied

D．decorated

15.

A．knocked

B．folded

C．cut

D．carved

16.

A．as if

B．even if

C．in case

D．now that

17.

A．occasionally

B．accidently

C．finally

D．shortly

18.

A．sense

B．reward

C．help

D．appear

19.

A．separated

B．differed

C．protected

D．sent

20.

A．cities

B．films

C．letters

D．newspapers

4 . Though it is not good for us to expose ourselves to sunlight for too long, allowing ourselves appropriate amount of exposure to sunlight gives us many benefits and affects us in a number of ways.

Without the sun, life would not have developed. It gives us energy and heats our world. The sun gives us light and thus in turn we are able to see the beautiful colors in our world. It makes us feel good when we feel the warmth of its rays on our shoulders. We store the energy from the sun to help build and heat our houses.

Without sunlight we would not be able to survive. Sunlight gives balance. All living things live in a food chain and at the beginning of the food chain comes the plant which absorbs sunlight and transforms light energy into chemical energy, which will then be absorbed by another life to be turned into a new kind of energy and so on.

One of the benefits that we can get from sunlight is that we can receive vitamin D from sunlight. It helps us to keep a healthy body, control the amount of minerals in the body, which is needed to help keep our bones and teeth in good condition and helps to keep a well-balanced mind.

Different places on the earth receive varying degrees of sunlight, which will decide the region’s climate. For example, the farther away it is from the equator (赤道), the sharper the angle (角度) of the sun’s rays that reach it, which means that sunlight coverage will be more spread out, and receive less heat than lower latitude areas nearer the equator.

1. Why does sunlight give balance?

A．It helps to pass energy.	B．It helps to absorb energy.
C．It helps to form new lives.	D．It helps to protect new lives.

2. Sunlight can assist people in____.

A．increasing the amount of minerals	B．obtaining a healthy nerve system
C．keeping their bones and teeth healthy	D．keeping a delighted mind

3. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．Which place is the hottest.	B．How sunlight affects the climate.
C．How to get more sunlight.	D．How much sunlight a place needs.

4. What would be the best title for the text?

A．Avoid being exposed to sunlight too long	B．Follow the researchers’ words
C．Good effects of sunlight on our lives	D．Making full use of sunlight

5 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Last year, our class paid a visit a local nursing home. After arrive there, we saw some elder doing Tai chi. They gave us an impression of being energetic but healthy. But there was also some old people seated in the wheelchairs. They were out of the shape, which made me a few sad. They must have experienced a hard life in the past. During that visit, we chat with the old and did some cleaning here. We had such a good time. This year, we plan to visit it again and hope more people care about the old so that they can be healthy, peace and happy for the rest of their life.

6 . Separate lives, similar dreams

As we know, some children live in the countryside, and some live in the city. Their lives are a little different, but they also have many of the same dreams.

	In the countryside	In the city
Travel to school	On foot	By bus or car
Classroom facilities (设施)	Recorders and radios.	Multimedia classrooms, VCD, DVD, TVs, recorders, radios, loud-speakers.
Ways of learning	Classes only, without many reference books.	Many extra classes, tutor, lots of reference books.
Eyesight	Less than 45% are near-sighted (近视的).	About 75% are near-sighted.
After-class activities	Playing with balls.	English corners and other school clubs.
Homework	Homework can usually be finished at school.	Homework never ends.
Chores to do	Washing, cleaning, farming, looking after younger sisters or brothers, cooking.	Usually no chores.
Family members	Big families with three generations.	Small families with three members.
Ideal jobs	Teachers, drivers, scientists, nurses, secretaries.	Scientists, professors, doctors, computer programmers, managers, university presidents, the UN chief.

1. The survey was done among the _________ between in the countryside and the city.

A．teachers.

B．students.

C．parents.

D．adults

2. About _________ of children in the countryside have good eyesight (视力 ), but only ________ of children in the city have good eyesight.

A．55%, 25%

B．55%, 75%

C．45%, 75%

D．45%, 25%

3. Which of the following is not included in the survey?

A．Ideal jobs.	B．After-class activities.
C．Results of tests.	D．Ways of learning.

4. Which of the following is WRONG according to the survey?

A．Children in the countryside often go to school on foot.

B．Children in the city often have too much homework to do.

C．Children in the countryside often have lots of chores to do.

D．Children in the city are difficult to find ideal jobs.

7 . John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.

Luckily, he had strong-willed (意志坚强的), caring mother. John remembers that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe. She told him not to be dependent on (依靠) others, including his mother. “You have to earn success,” said she. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”

These words came from a woman less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son—then 15—to Chicago.

Chicago in1933 was not the promised land (乐土、希望之地) that black southerners were looking for, John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But there John could go to school, and there he learned the power of words—as editor of the newspaper and yearbook of Du Stable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks.

While others discouraged (阻止、使气馁) him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him pawn (典当) her furniture (家具) to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.

It is natural the difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind. “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary.”

Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America—worth $150 million.

1. Why did John’s mother decide to move to Chicago? Because ________.

A．John’s father died in his hometown when he was very young

B．life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown, while life in Chicago would be better for blacks

C．there were no schools for blacks in their hometown

D．John needed more education and he could go to school there

2. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Chicago was the promised land for black southerners in 1933.

B．John’s mother worked hard as a writer to make their life better.

C．With the help of his mother, John got the money to start the Negro magazine.

D．Now John is the poorest man in America.

3. What kind of woman was John’s mother? She was a ________.

A．woman with little school education but knew a lot about life

B．woman who would not do anything for her son

C．strong woman with much knowledge

D．woman who didn’t know how to encourage her son

4. The underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph means ________.

A．if you try, you will succeed in the end

B．a failure is difficult to beat, even if you try

C．a try is always followed by failure

D．nothing but a try can help you out of failure

5. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．How John H. Johnson became somebody.

B．The mental support John’s mother gave him.

C．The importance of a good education.

D．The key to success for blacks.

8 . One day a factory owner entered a foreign supermarket, when lady gave a warm smile and welcomed him. He was very moved, felt ________, and was not able to forget the warmth in her smile. He was ________ her as he was shopping; she was giving the ________ smile to all the customers who ________ into the supermarket.

The factory owner started ________ if she was ever fed up with (厌倦) doing the same ________ again and again, so he walked up to ________ and asked, “My dear lady, are you ________ of doing this job, and how long have you been doing this?”

The lady ________ and said, “No, sir, have worked here for the last 10 years and I ________ my job. The factory owner was ________ and asked, “Why have you stayed here for ten years, and why do you like your ________?” The lady smiled again and said, “Sir, because I am ________ my country.” The factory owner found this ________ He said, “You are serving your ________ by smiling?”

The lady said, “Yes, sir. As most of our customers are ________, they spend foreign currency (外币) here. So our country has lot of money and becomes ________. People like you who are happy with our services will visit ________ often and spend money in our country.”

Amazed at her attitude, the factory owner ________ her and went back to his own country. He worked hard to show the same attitude ________ his workers, and today his company is one of the best companies in the world.

1.

A．sad

B．terrible

C．happy

D．nervous

2.

A．watching

B．missing

C．greeting

D．looking

3.

A．different

B．same

C．small

D．large

4.

A．ran

B．entered

C．arrived

D．walked

5.

A．wondering

B．asking

C．guessing

D．imagining

6.

A．cooking

B．drawing

C．thing

D．writing

7.

A．her

B．it

C．me

D．him

8.

A．fond

B．tired

C．proud

D．afraid

9.

A．angered

B．cried

C．smiled

D．sighed

10.

A．hate

B．find

C．lose

D．like

11.

A．worried

B．surprised

C．frightened

D．scared

12.

A．job

B．career

C．position

D．role

13.

A．rescuing

B．restoring

C．serving

D．representing

14.

A．interesting

B．dull

C．humorous

D．normal

15.

A．boss

B．country

C．family

D．shop

16.

A．newcomer

B．beggars

C．strangers

D．foreigners

17.

A．richer

B．larger

C．weaker

D．poorer

18.

A．much

B．little

C．less

D．more

19.

A．awarded

B．thanked

C．paid

D．punished

20.

A．with

B．about

C．towards

D．in

9 . Four girls went to school every day by taxi.

One day one of the girls said “There’s a test this morning. Let’s get to school late. Then we won’t have to take the test.”

“What can we say to the teacher?” one of the girls said. “He’ll be angry. We’ll need a good excuse.” The girls thought for several moments, then one of them said, “Let’s tell him that our taxi had flat tire (轮胎漏气).”

“That’s a good idea,” the other girls said. “We’ll tell him that. They arrived at school an hour later. The test was already finished.

“Why are you late?” the teacher asked. “You missed the test.” “Our taxi had a flat tire.” one of the girls said.

The teacher thought for a moment, then he said, “Sit down, one of you in each corner of the room.” The four girls did this. Then the teacher said, “Write on a piece of paper the answer to this question: Which tire was flat?”

1. How did the girls get to school every day?

A．on foot

B．by taxi

C．by train

D．by bus

2. Why did the girls want to be late for school?

A．They did not want to take a test.

B．They did not like school.

C．They had not done their homework.

D．They wanted to go shopping.

3. What was the girls’ excuse for being late?

A．They could not get a taxi.	B．They got up late.
C．Their taxi had flat tire.	D．They forgot the time.

10 . Darwin, the world-famous scientist, developed a habit in his later years that seldom changed, even when guests were present. The following shows his daily schedule during that time.

Time	Activities
7:00 a.m.	got up and took a short walk
7:45	a.m. had breakfast alone
8:00 a.m.—9:30 a.m.	worked in his study (He considered this period his best working time.)
9:30a.m.—10:30am.	went to the sitting room and read letters
12:00	had a walk, starting with a visit to the greenhouse, the number of times depending on his health, usually alone or with a dog
12:45 p.m.	had lunch with the family; read The Times and answered letters
3:00 p.m.	rested on the sofa in his bedroom and listened to a novel read by his wife
4:30 p.m.—5:30 p.m.	worked in his study, clearing up matters of the day
6:00 p.m.	rested again in the bedroom with his wife reading aloud
7:30 p.m.	had tea while the family were having dinner
10:00 p.m.	went to bed

1. According to Darwin, what was the best time to work?

A．8:00 a.m.—9:30 a.m.	B．9:30 a.m.—10:30 a.m.
C．10:30 a.m.—12:15 p.m.	D．4:30 p.m.—5:30 p.m.

2. How long did Darwin work in his study every day?

A．Four and a half hours.	B．Three hours.
C．Two and a half hours.	D．Two hours.

3. What can we learn about Darwin from this passage?

A．He was very ill.	B．He ate meals a day.
C．He disliked reading.	D．He lived regular (有规律的) life.