1 . 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.

2 . Not until he retired from teaching three years ago ________ having a holiday abroad.

A．had he considered	B．he had considered
C．he considered	D．did he consider

3 . 假如你是大学一年级新生李华。开学之初，你的英语老师Ms Li希望了解每位同学的英语学习情况，并征求教学建议。请按以下要点用英语给她写一封信。
1. 对英语学习的认识；
2. 自己目前的英语水平；
3. 自己英语学习存在的主要问题；
4. 对英语教学的两点建议。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 信的开头和结尾已给出。
Dear Ms Li,
I’m very happy to have you as our English teacher.                       
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                             
Thank you!

Li Hua

4 . It was from only a few supplies that she had brought in the village ____ the hostess cooked such a nice dinner.

A．where

B．when

C．that

D．which

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。错误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。
My brother Donald didn’t do well in math. When the day of the exam comes, Donald sat next to Brian, which was always good at math. Donald careful copied Brian’s answers. At end of the exam, the teacher collected the papers and graded it. Then she decided to give a prize to the student who got the high grade. But it was a bit of difficult for her to make a decision, because Donald and Brian got the same grade. The teacher thought about that and made on her mind to give the prize to Brian. Donald said it was unfair. “That’s true,” the teacher said. “Therefore, Brian’s answer to Question 18 was ‘I don’t know’. Your was ‘Neither do I’.”

6 . Never before ____________ seen anybody who can play tennis as well as Robert.

A．had she	B．she had
C．has she	D．she has

7 .         Almost all cultures celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another in some way. Different cultures celebrate the beginning of a new year in different ways, and at different times on the calendar.
        In Western countries, people usually celebrate New Year at midnight on January 1st. People may go to parties, dress in formal clothes -- like tuxedos (小礼服) and evening gowns, and drink champagne at midnight. During the first minutes of the New Year, people cheer and wish each other happiness for the year ahead. But some cultures prefer to celebrate the New Year by waking up early to watch the sun rise. They welcome the New Year with the first light of the sunrise.
        It is also a common Western custom to make a New Year’s promise, called a resolution. New Year’s resolutions usually include promises to try something new or change a bad habit in the new year.

Many cultures also do special things to get rid of bad luck at the beginning of a new year. For example, in Ecuador, families make a big doll from old clothes. The doll is filled with old newspapers and firecrackers. At midnight, these dolls are burned to show the bad things from the past year are gone and the new year can start afresh (again). Other common traditions to keep away bad luck in a new year include throwing things into rivers or the ocean, or saying special things on the first day of the new year.

       Other New Year traditions are followed to bring good luck is to eat grapes on New Year’s Day. The more grapes a person eats , the more good luck the person will have in the year. In France, people eat pancakes for good luck at New Year. In the United States, some people eat black-eyed peas (豇豆) for good luck -- but to get good luck for a whole year you have to eat 365 of them!
1. Which culture celebrates New Year in the morning?

A．The passage doesn’t say.	B．Spain.
C．France.	D．The United States.

2. What is a resolution?

A．Something you say.	B．Something you eat.
C．Something you burn.	D．Something you wear.

3. What is the topic of the fourth paragraph?

A．Bringing good luck.

B．Remembering the past.

C．Planning for the next year.

D．Keeping away from bad luck.

4. Which is probably true about eating black-eyed peas on New Year?

A．Black-eyed peas taste bad.

B．The peas are very difficult to cook.

C．One pea brings one day of luck.

D．It is bad luck to eat a lot of black-eyed peas.

8 . A recent experiment held in Japan shows that it is almost impossible for people to walk exactly straight for 60 metres. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology found 20 healthy men and asked them to walk as straight as possible to a target 60 metres away at normal speed. Each man had to walk on white paper fixed flat to the floor wearing wet colored socks. The footprints revealed（展现） that all walked in a winding rather than a straight line. Researchers found that people readjust（调整） the direction of walking every few seconds. The amount of the winding differed subject. This suggests that none of us can walk in a strictly straight line. We walk in a winding way mainly because of a slight structural or functional imbalance of our limbs (四肢). Although we may start walking in a straight line, several steps afterwards we have changed direction.
Eyesight helps us to correct the direction of walking and leads us to the target. Your ears also help you walk. After turning around a lot with your eyes closed, you can hardly stand still, let alone walk straight.
It’s all because your ears help you balance. Inside your inner ear there is a structure which contains liquids. On the sides of the organ are many tiny hair-like structures that move around as the liquid flows. When you spin (旋转) the liquid inside also spins. The difference is that when you stop, the liquid continues to spin for a while. Dizziness is the result of these nerves in your ear. When you open your eyes, although your eyesight tells you to walk in a straight line, your brain will trust your ears more, thus you walk in a curved line.
1. The experiment held in Japan proved that _______.

A．none of the participants finished the 60 metres

B．all the participants had a good sense of direction

C．the experiment was done in different ways

D．the participants kept readjusting（调整） their direction of walking

2. The underlined word “subject” in Para. 1 refers to ________.

A．a person with a functional imbalance

B．the subject one studies at school

C．a person chosen to be studied in an experiment

D．the direction of walking

3. The purpose of writing the article is to ________.

A．prove that ears and eyes help us to walk straight

B．point out the importance of noticing everyday science

C．explain why we can hardly walk in a strictly straight line

D．give background information about a latest study

9 . British singer Sarah Brightman began training for a 2015 flight to the International Space Station where she hopes to become the first professional musician to sing from space, the company arranging the trip said on Tuesday.
Brightman, a famed soprano (女高音) who starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber' s "Phantom of the Opera" , will pay about $ 52 million for a 10-day stay aboard the orbital outpost, Tom Shelley, president of privately owned Space Adventures, said.
Brightman, who will become the eighth privately funded space tourist, is scheduled to fly in September 2015. Her training to fly on a Russian Soyuz capsule began last fall.
Brightman has planned to be the first professional musician to sing from space. But she faces competition from Lady Gaga, who, according to media reports late last year, intends to be the first when she performs one song in space in early 2015 on a Virgin Galactic flight. Virgin Galactic, part of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, plans to offer suborbital(亚轨道的) space flights.
Brightman said in 2012 that she would travel to the space station, but her plans haven't been confirmed until now. So far. Space Adventures has arranged for nine private missions to the space station, a $ 100 billion research laboratory that flies about 260 miles above the earth. Microsoft co-founder Charles Simonyi made two trips.
Brightman will be the first private citizen to visit the station since Cirque du Soleil founder Guy   Lalibarte paid about $ 35 million for an 11-day stay in September 2009.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has an option to fly on the next available Soyuz seat after   Brightman, which most likely will be in 2017, Shelley told Reuters.
1. What is the purpose of the passage?

A．To praise Brightman.

B．To persuade the readers that Brightman is more famous than Lady Gaga.

C．To instruct the readers how to begin a space flight.

D．To give some information about Brightman.

2. When did Brightman start training for her space travel?

A．Last winter.	B．Last autumn.
C．Next spring.	D．Next summer.

3. The underlined word "she" in Paragraph 4 refers to ____.

A．Brightman	B．Lady Gaga
C．Andrew Lloyd Webber	D．Tom Shelley

4. The fifth paragraph is mainly carried out ____.

A．in time order	B．in space order
C．by giving examples	D．by comparison

10 . A new mother was anxious to see her newly-born baby. But she was ____when the baby was in her arms. The baby had been born without ears.
With time going on, it____that the baby' s hearing was perfect. It was only his ____that was damaged. When he rushed home from school one day and____himself into his mother' s arms, she sighed,____ that his life was to be misfortunate.
He grew up and became a____with his classmates. He might have been class president,____ that. The boy’s s father ____the family physician in secret if he could do____to help his son. "I believed I could____on a pair of outer ears, if they could be got," the doctor answered. So the____began for a person who would____ears.
Two years went by. Then the father said, "You are going to the hospital, son. Mother and I have someone who will give the ears you need____ it a s a secret," said the father. The operation was very ____, and a new person appeared. " But I must know!" he urged his father. " Who gave me ____? I could never do enough for him. " "I do not believe you could. " said the father.
The secret was ____for years till he stood with his father over his mother' s coffin. Slowly and ____, his father raised his mother' s thick brown hair to ____that his mother had no outer ears. "Mother said she was ____she never let her hair be cut," he whispered gently . "and nobody ever thought she was less ____did they?"1.

A．angiy

B．confused

C．astonished

D．curious

2.

A．turned out

B．turned over

C．took out

D．took over

3.

A．figure

B．face

C．ear

D．appearance

4.

A．threw

B．got

C．sent

D．took

5.

A．persuading

B．knowing

C．doubting

D．wondering

6.

A．enemy

B．favorite

C．stranger

D．friend

7.

A．ever since

B．even if

C．but for

D．as for

8.

A．asked

B．advised

C．ordered

D．convinced

9.

A．something

B．everything

C．anything

D．nothing

10.

A．transplant

B．operate

C．set

D．fix

11.

A．operation

B．interview

C．search

D．examination

12.

A．donate

B．operate

C．treat

D．recover

13.

A．So

B．And

C．But

D．Or

14.

A．normal

B．useful

C．difficult

D．successful

15.

A．so much

B．so many

C．too much

D．too many

16.

A．discussed

B．hidden

C．spread

D．kept

17.

A．desperately

B．tenderly

C．sadly

D．excitedly

18.

A．know

B．find

C．show

D．notice

19.

A．guilty

B．glad

C．worried

D．regretful

20.

A．beautiful

B．ugly

C．careful

D．Fashionable