1 . Skin-diving (潜泳) is a new sport today. This sport takes you into a wonderful new world. It is like a visit to the moon. When you are under water, it is easy for you to climb big rocks because you are no longer heavy.

Here, under water, everything is blue and green. During the day, there is plenty of light. When fish swim nearby, you can catch them with your hands.

When you have tanks (罐) of air on your back, you can stay in deep water for a long time. But you must be careful when you dive in deep water.

To catch fish is one of the most interesting parts of this sport. Besides, there are more uses for skin-diving. You can clean ships without taking them out of water. You can get many things from the deep sea.

Now you see that skin -diving is both useful and interesting.

1. Skin- diving is a new sport. It can take you to________.

A．the moon

B．a new world of land

C．the mountains

D．deep water

2. You can climb big rocks under water easily because________.

A．you are very heavy

B．you are as heavy as on the land

C．you are not as heavy as on the land

D．you have no weight at all

3. With tanks of air on your back, you can________.

A．catch fish very easily	B．stay under water for a long time
C．climb big rocks	D．have more fun

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．The only use of skin-diving is to have more fun.

B．Skin-diving is like visiting the moon.

C．Skin-diving is a new sport.

D．Skin-diving is not only interesting but useful.

2 . 假设你是李华。你的英国笔友John写信告诉你近日他由于沉迷于电脑游戏，健康受到很大影响。他十分焦虑。请你根据以下要点提示，给他写一封回信，建议他养成良好的生活习惯。要点如下：
1．限制玩游戏的时间，把精力逐渐转移到其他事情上；
2．规定起床和睡觉的时间，形成良好的作息习惯；
3．每天锻炼半小时，增强体质。
注意：1.词数120左右；2．开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear John，

I’m sorry to hear that you’re addicted to computer games which have had a bad influence on your health.

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

3 . All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.     1    They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins.

    2    Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy!     3    Think how many lovers to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada.

Some sports or game go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese Kungfu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet.     4    Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends.     5    One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace.

A．And think of people in cold countries.

B．Sports help to train a person’s character.

C．People aren’t inventing new sports or games.

D．Many people like to watch others play games.

E．People are inventing new sports or games all the time.

F．Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them.

G．Not a few people participate in different sports competitions themselves.

4 . There is an English saying that “Laughter is the best medicine.” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found that laughter can really improve people’s health.

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, makes the heart beat quicker and makes people breathe deeper; it also works on several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effects of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated（忍耐）the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemical in the brain which diminishes both stress and pain.

As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

1. According to the passage, which of the following statements is WRONG?

A．Laughter is good for health

B．Laughter can make you become old quickly

C．Laughter helps to reduce pain.

D．Laughter, just like physical exercise, is good for our body.

2. The underlined word “diminishes” in the third paragraph means “________”.

A．delays

B．prevents

C．increases

D．reduces

3. Why do some doctors hold laughter clinics?

A．Because they want to earn more money.

B．Because they think they will help the patients recover from illnesses.

C．Because they want to improve their patients’ condition.

D．Because they want their patients to practice how to laugh

4. What would be the best title for this passage?

A．Both laughter and physical exercise are good for health

B．Laughter clinics help patients improve their condition

C．Laughter can reduce the effects of pain

D．Laughter is the best medicine.

5 . 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。

One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he    1    (find)that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to his son, "Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much    2    too little. "

His son looked surprised. "I can understand why I shouldn't pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less,     3    not save a bit of money? "

"That would be a very    4    (reason)thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like ours," Nick said.

Nick's guests,     5    had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy sale more cheaply if they could. Nick replied, "The only reason a man would sell sale    6    a lower price would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect    7    the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it."

"But such a small thing couldn't    8    (possible)destroy a village."

"In the beginning, there was only    9    very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little, always    10    (think)that it was only small and not very important, and look where we have ended up today. "

6 . In Canada you can find dogs，cats，horses，etc. in almost every family. These are their pets. People love these pets and have them as their good friends. Before they keep them in their houses，they take them to animal hospitals to give them injections（注射）so that they won’t carry disease. They have special animal food stores， though they can get animal food in almost every kind of store. Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food. When you visit people’s houses，they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud of them. You will also find that almost every family has a bird feeder in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and go and nobody is allowed to kill any animal in Canada. They have a law against killing wild animals. If you killed an animal，you would be punished. If an animal happened to get run over by a car，people would be very sad about it.
People in Canada have many reasons to like animals. One of them might be：Their family ties are not as close as ours. When children grow up，they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely. But pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.
1. The passage mainly talks about ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ .

A．how to keep disease from pets

B．pets in Canada

C．how to take good care of pets

D．life of the old in Canada

2. In Canada，children leave their parents when they grow up because ＿＿＿.

A．they don’t love their parents any more

B．they can only find jobs far from their parents

C．their parents’ houses are too small

D．they wouldn’t depend on their parents any more

3. Which of the following is TRUE？

A．Peoplebuyanimal foodonlyattheanimalfood stores.

B．Pets eat better than people.

C．Almost every family has a birdcage in his house.

D．Any bird can come to the bird feeders to eat.

7 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间互相修改作文，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：在错的词下面划一横线，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1词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My brother Tom was very selfish when he was a little boy. He didn’t want share things with other people. For an example, when he bought a chocolate cake, he put them in a secret place. Then he eats it all by himself. He never helped other. He said he is busy. That is, a game of tennis making him very busy. He didn’t care if something he did made people angrily. For instance, on a cold night he played strong and loudly music till 4 o'clock in the morning. But he is difference now. He often helps Grandma with housework, Mom with cooking and his classmates with their lessons.

8 . I spent two months with an American family last year when I studied in America．It is said that “The best house is in the U.S.A．， the best wife is in Japan and the best food is in China．”So I took _______and pleasure to _______ “the best food” for my American family．Each day，regardless of my poor skill of cooking，I performed my play in_______ way：changing the dishes’colour，the meat’s type or the soup’s style．Thus，my American friends could discover the _______of eating Chinese food． Because of my“ _______” job，I was often rewarded by their_______of appreciation , such as “very tasty”，“excellent”etc．But the joke was here： yesterday， I cooked Sichuan－style_______for dinner．I was_______at my achievement．When all the family members arrived at the table，they first looked_______at the fish，then looked at me． “Why do all the fish have their________？” they asked，“It’s horrible！” Horrible or beautiful？ I don’t know． But I________know that fish heads are delicious. The________is the best part of fish； in________only the respectable guest can have the special________of enjoying it． Another__________________thing is：the American friends often said to me“________”as they________fruits or other things． According to Chinese tradition，I would simply smile in answer to their kindness________actually helping myself to any of the food. ________，I said “help yourself” to them whenever I brought home fruits．Dear me，no matter how much or how often I brought home food， as long as it was nice to their taste，they    21    hesitated to use their hands to “help themselves” until all was finished．1.

A．worry

B．attention

C．delight

D．pride

2.

A．buy

B．fetch

C．cook

D．leave

3.

A．their

B．a new

C．the same

D．a simple

4.

A．way

B．joy

C．trouble

D．importance

5.

A．hard

B．daily

C．good

D．new

6.

A．expressions

B．sentence

C．doing

D．smile

7.

A．meat

B．fish

C．soup

D．egg

8.

A．praised

B．pleased

C．bad

D．surprise

9.

A．pleasedly

B．excitedly

C．surprisedly

D．worriedly

10.

A．bones

B．flesh (人肉)

C．tails

D．heads

11.

A．do

B．will

C．want to

D．should

12.

A．tail

B．head

C．soup

D．flesh

13.

A．fact

B．China

C．USA

D．the West

14.

A．honour

B．seat

C．table

D．plate

15.

A．real

B．exciting

C．interesting

D．easy

16.

A．please help us

B．excuse me

C．help yourself

D．eat them please

17.

A．brought home

B．wanted

C．were buying

D．were eating

18.

A．not

B．but not

C．without

D．nor

19.

A．At last

B．Above all

C．After all

D．In return

20.

A．usual

B．often

C．never

D．had

9 . Now, we know that if we do not get enough vitamins, we are at risk of developing a number of diseases. As a result, vitamin supplements（补品）,though expensive, are popular with people who worry that they are not getting enough vitamins from the foods they eat. But contrary to what many people think, medical experts have found little evidence that most supplements do anything to improve health or protect against disease.

In fact, medical experts warn that taking too many of some vitamins can be harmful. For example, too much vitamin E can cause bleeding. People should discuss what vitamins they take with their doctors, as some vitamins can produce harmful side effects when mixed with medicines.

Experts, however, do say that sometimes vitamins can help prevent disease. People who know they lack a particular vitamin should take vitamin supplements. Some older adults, for example, may not have enough vitamin B-twelve. This is because, as people get older, their body loses its ability to take it from foods. Also, people who spend much time inside may need some extra vitamin D as the skin makes this vitamin from sunlight.

Different vitamins are found in different foods. Vitamin A is found in fish liver oil. It also is in the yellow part of eggs. Sweet potatoes, carrots and other darkly colored fruits and vegetables contain substances that the body can change into vitamin A. Vitamin B-twelve is found in green leafy vegetables and other foods, like fruits. Vitamin K can be found in pork products.

In fact, for most people, a balanced diet can ensure enough of the vitamins our bodies need. So, it is important for us to eat a mixture of foods every day to ensure that we get enough vitamins our bodies need.

1. Vitamin supplements are popular with people because ________.

A．people mistakenly think that they are good for their health

B．they contain more vitamins than the foods people eat

C．food does not provide enough vitamins people need

D．people fear that a lack of vitamins will lead to disease

2. From the passage, we can learn that medical experts advise people _________.

A．never to take any vitamin supplements

B．to depend only on food for their vitamins

C．not to take any vitamins together with medicines

D．to consult doctors before taking vitamin supplements

3. For people who lack Vitamin B-twelve, they can eat more from _______.

A．sweet potatoes

B．pork products

C．green leafy vegetables

D．eggs

4. What would be the best title of the passage?

A．Getting enough vitamins through a balanced diet.

B．Vitamin supplements do harm to our health.

C．Vitamins are important to our health.

D．Lacking vitamins can cause many diseases.