1 . School will be back in session by midAugust. The good news, kids and parents？There’s still time to enjoy yourself. From sports to movies, here’s a selection of familyfriendly activities we found, including some deals to make it easier on the wallet.

Free Golfing for Kids

Tired of your kids being in the house all summer？Get them outside, physically active and possibly interested in a new sport. Kids 5 to 15 can leave their electronic devices and onto the golf course with one free bucket of range balls and free golfing with one paid adult. 7:00 am－6:30 pm daily through Aug. 31. Plantation Palms Golf Club, 23253 Plantation Blvd. , Land O’Lakes. (813) 9967122. plantationpalms. net.

Family Movies in Historic Theatres

Families can experience a bit of Tampa Bay history as they watch movies in two renovated(翻新的) area landmarks(地标).

As part of the summer Hollywood Classic Series, Tampa Theatre invites you to 1939’s The Wizard of Oz(Aug. 26). (You can remind the kids that Tampa Theatre is old enough to have showed The Wizard of Oz on its first run.) $10. 711 N Franklin St. , Tampa. (813)2748982. tampatheatre. org.

Together with Ruth Eckerd Hall’s 201819 Broadway Season, the historic Capitol Theatre presents movie versions of the Broadway musicals. Next up is The Lion King(Aug.11). $5. Upgrade to $9 for unlimited fountain drinks and popcorn. 3pm 405 Cleveland St., Clearwater. (727) 7917400. rutheckerdhall. com.

Summer Series

Curtis Hixon Park has turned into a 12, 000squarefoot play wonderland focused on fitness and adventures. Free. Rotating(循环的) daily activities include live animals and animal education by Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park(Aug. 6), kids fitness classes by the YMCA(Aug.11),        kidfriendly recipes by Salt Block Catering(Aug. 7) and craft activities by the Hillsborough County Library(Aug. 8). Curtis Hixon Park, 600 N Ashley Drive, Tampa. (262) 9399908. tampasdowntown. com.

1. Which number should you call if you want to go golfing?

A．(262)9399908.	B．(727)7917400.
C．(813)2748982.	D．(813)9967122.

2. What do Tampa Theatre and Capitol Theatre have in common?

A．They have been rebuilt many times.

B．They were built about eighty years ago.

C．They are famous in the Tampa Bay area.

D．They have turned into a play wonderland.

3. Where can you learn something about animals?

A．At the YMCA.	B．At Lowry Park.
C．At Salt Block Catering.	D．At the Hillsborough County Library.

2 . It’s 1944, in occupied Paris. Four friends spend their days in an arrow room atop a Left Bank apartment building. The neighbors think they’re painters — a cover story to explain the chemical smell. In fact, the friends are members of a Jewish resistance cell. They’re operating a secret laboratory to make false passports for children and families about to be deported to concentration camps (集中营). The youngest member of the group, the lab’s technical director, is practically a child himself. Adolfo Kaminsky, age 18.

In the summer of 1943, he and his family were arrested and sent to Drancy, the internment camp for Jews near Paris that was the last stop before the death camps. This time, their passports saved them. Argentina’s government protested the family’s detention, so they stayed at Drancy for three months, while thousands of others were swiftly sent on to die. The Kaminskys were eventually freed, but they weren’t safe in Paris, where Jews were under constant threat of arrest.

To survive they would have to go underground. Kaminsky’s father arranged to get false papers from a Jewish resistance group, and sent Kaminsky to pick them up. When the agent told Kaminsky that they were struggling to erase a certain blue ink from the documents, he advised using lactic acid, a trick he’d learned at the dairy. It worked, and he was invited to join the resistance. Kaminsky’s cell was one of many. Historians estimated that France’s Jewish resistance networks together saved 7,000 to 10,000 children.

Kaminsky never took a penny form forging. He thought the money would ruin his belief. He made a living by taking some commercial photos. To this day, 94-year-old Kaminsky feels guilty he survived the Holocaust, in despite of the fact that his remarkable work as a forger during World War II saved the lives of thousands of Jews. “I saved lives because I can’t deal with unnecessary deaths — I just can’t. All humans are equal, whatever their origins, their beliefs, their skin color.”

1. What is the main duty of the Jewish resistance cell?

A．To provide an apartment building for painters.

B．To protect Jewish people from being killed.

C．To make fake identities for all families.

D．To train students to operate laboratories.

2. What happened to Kaminsky in 1943?

A．He was sent to a concentration camp.	B．He moved to live in Argentina.
C．He was swiftly sent on to die.	D．He protested his family’s detention

3. Which of the following words can best describe Kaminsky?

A．Enthusiastic and gentle.	B．Expressive and humble.
C．Disciplined and modest.	D．Courageous and helpful.

4. What does the story intend to tell us?

A．Don’t raise the white flag quite yet.

B．You want to get rough, we can get rough.

C．There is always a bit of light even in the darkness.

D．No-one hits the bull’s-eye with the first arrow.

3 . 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。

This summer I took part in a really interesting project. It’s called One-Day Clean-up, which aim is to clear rubbish. I heard about it from my neighbor who used to taking part several years before. I thought it would be a fun. Most of the people there are teenagers. We picked up all the rubbish that we could find by the seaside. It made me realize what important it was to increase people’s awareness on protecting the environment. I’m determined now to get my family recycle as many as possible. It will be worth it if we can make our seas safe for all sea animal.

4 . 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。

The world     1     (celebrate) Earth Day every year on April 22. It is a day     2     (think) seriously about how our lifestyles and daily habits influence the earth.

In English there are many expressions with the word “earth”. So, let’s start     3     the simple and common expression “on earth”. We use “on earth” to express strong     4     (feel) like surprise and anger. Here are some     5     (practice) examples. “Why on earth didn’t you come to the party? It was great.” And “I did not know     6     on earth she was talking about.”

The word “earth” sometimes comes up when a person wants to make big promises to someone they care about. When you say you will “go to the ends of the earth for someone”, it means you will do as much as possible to help     7     (they). For example, when the wife became sick, the husband went to the ends of the earth to find     8     best doctor for her.

Down-to-earth people are the people whom you can depend on. Flighty people are the opposite. They change their minds     9     (easy).

The expression “the salt of the earth” comes from the Bible. It describes a very good person. For example, my neighbors never stop     10     (help) people in need. I can call them the-salt-of-the-earth type people.

5 . When my friends volunteered to help with a service project in my town, I had no idea what it was about. I was always ____ to be a volunteer and because of that I had been greatly honored. I ____ my friends thinking that I would also win honor through the volunteer work. _____, after knowing that there wouldn’t be any kind of honor and they might gather to help ____one family’s garden on Saturdays for more than 10 hours. I felt bored.

When I arrived at the house, I was ____ to see that many people were there, working happily to make the garden more beautiful. The house was ____ by an elderly lady, Mrs. Johnson, who was very thankful for our help and tried to do anything to ____ us.

I was getting ready to plant flowers in the garden ____ I heard the house owner, Johnson, said, “Honey, could I help you with it?” I nodded gratefully and we _____ together for a while. During the ____, I sat on a stone to rest and looked around, seeing the volunteers chatting ____ with their faces covered with sweat. I was deeply ____ and cried, feeling sorry for what I had ____ about helping before. Mrs. Johnson saw my ____ and asked. “Are you OK? I know there are ____ things you could do on a Saturday.”

I ____ her the reasons why I had come were to stay together with my ____ and win honor. After watching all these generous volunteers, I learned that every one of them was ready to ____ without thinking what they could get. I came to realize that receiving isn’t ____ but helping someone out is always a ____ thing!

1.

A．serious

B．afraid

C．slow

D．willing

2.

A．thanked

B．remembered

C．left

D．joined

3.

A．Therefore

B．However

C．Moreover

D．Instead

4.

A．build

B．remove

C．improve

D．repair

5.

A．surprised

B．guilty

C．eager

D．delighted

6.

A．owned

B．swept

C．offered

D．built

7.

A．praise

B．follow

C．encourage

D．assist

8.

A．after

B．when

C．since

D．until

9.

A．played

B．discussed

C．worked

D．learned

10.

A．planting

B．break

C．gathering

D．talk

11.

A．slowly

B．excitedly

C．bitterly

D．tiredly

12.

A．attracted

B．hurt

C．knocked

D．touched

13.

A．talked

B．read

C．thought

D．complained

14.

A．tears

B．smile

C．sweat

D．hands

15.

A．worse

B．better

C．harder

D．easier

16.

A．told

B．asked

C．found

D．reminded

17.

A．friends

B．family

C．relatives

D．classmates

18.

A．rest

B．donate

C．help

D．receive

19.

A．something

B．anything

C．nothing

D．everything

20.

A．difficult

B．great

C．new

D．rare

6 . High school is an important period of your life, so you need to learn to spend your high school time wisely. Here are some ideas that can lend you a hand.

Studies come first. Make sure that you understand everything your teachers teach.     1     Take notes if you think your teacher is teaching something important. Also, have a plan for what you’re going to study. It is best if you could deal with every subject every day.

    2     Don’t delay (推迟) today’s homework until tomorrow. If you happen to be sick, call or e-mail a friend to see if they can come and give you the homework. Being sick isn’t an excuse for not doing homework unless you’re very sick.

Develop good relationships. High school is also a time for you to enjoy with your friends.     3     Choose to get along with those who like you for who you are. What’s more, you should try to make friends with teachers.

Develop self-discipline (自律). Behave yourself at school.     4     While your teacher is teaching, keep quiet unless he or she is asking for answers. If your friends want to talk to you in class, ask them to wait until later.

Be active! Take an active part in after-class activities.     5     Join school clubs which will help you develop them.

A．Finish your homework on time.

B．Find hobbies that you’re good at.

C．Always be on time for every class.

D．Set down your homework carefully.

E．You’ll make more friends if you try this.

F．Ask for help if you don’t understand something.

G．Smile at people to make them see you are nice and happy.

7 . Have you ever wondered what the longest word in the English language is? Believe it or not, there’s no simple answer to the question. You might think it would be as easy as opening a dictionary and looking for the longest word. However, it’ s far more complicated than that.

Over time, many people have suggested many different words for the title of the longest word in English. How can that be? That’s because the first thing that people have different opinions on is what should be considered a word. Some of the words were simply made up to be the longest! For example, there is one really famous long word that most kids know. It comes from Disney’s movie Mary Poppins: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, which means wonderful. But since that 34-letter word was made up simply to be sung as a song in a movie, should it count?

How about long words that actually describe something in the world? Scientists have come up with several possible choices. The name of a virus totals 1, 185 letters. There’s also a protein whose name totals 1, 909 letters. Should these win the title? “Not so fast!” say some people. Are these words ever actually used? Can they even be pronounced? And are they meaningful just because they are made up to be long?

If you’re wondering about some long words in common English, here are some examples. Those words include uncharacteristically (20 letters), deinstitutionalization (22 letters) and counterrevolutionaries (also 22 letters). Or perhaps the word “smiles” is the longest word in English. Sure, it has only six letters, but there is a “mile” between the first and the last letters!

1. What is the first thing to consider when we decide the longest word?

A．Whether it is a real word.	B．Whether it can be pronounced.
C．Whether it is used in daily life.	D．Whether it can be understood.

2. Why does the author mention the underlined questions in paragraph 3?

A．To express the writer’s concern.	B．To compare different ideas.
C．To amuse readers.	D．To show people’s doubt.

3. How does the author sound in the last paragraph?

A．Proud.	B．Humorous.
C．Excited.	D．Surprised.

4. The text is mainly about _________________________.

A．English words change a lot as time goes by

B．it is hard to decide what the longest word is

C．long words are often used in scientific fields

D．why we can’t understand some English words

8 . She’s ________ our best player, but she needs to practice much harder.

A．extremely

B．potentially

C．particularly

D．fluently

9 . More and more high school students apply to a vocational college, ______ can ensure them certain skills for the future job.

A．that

B．where

C．which

D．who

10 . The Rock & Roll Club was ______ to develop and demonstrate the students’ talent for music.

A．set off

B．set up

C．set down

D．set out