2 . 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 Amber Room, the gift from Frederick William I to Peter the Great with    1    amazing history, was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. It was also a treasure    2    (decorate) with gold and jewels,     3    took the country’s best artists about ten years to make.    4    return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room     5    (move) to a palace outside St. Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details to    6    . Sadly,     7    the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now missing. In September 1941, Germany and Russia were at war. There was not enough time for     8    (Russia) to remove the Amber Room. However, some of the Nazis secretly stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven     9    (wood) boxes. There is    10    doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for a German city.

3 . My First Day at Senior High

My name is Li Kang. I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing. It is the capital city of Hebei Province. Today is my first day at Senior High school and I’m writing down my thoughts about it.

My new school is very good and I can see why. The teachers are very enthusiastic and friendly and the classrooms are amazing. Every room has a computer with a special screen, almost as big as a cinema screen. The teachers write on the computer, and their words appear on the screen behind them. The screens also show photographs, text and information from websites. They’re brilliant!

The English class is really interesting. The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen. We’re using a new textbook and Ms Shen’s method of teaching is nothing like that of the teachers at my Junior High school. She think that reading comprehension is important, but we speak a lot in class, too. And we have fun. I don’t think I will be bored in Ms Shen’s class!

Today we introduced ourselves to each other. We did this in groups. Some students were embarrassed at first but everyone was very friendly and it was really nice. Ms Shen gave us instructions and then we worked by ourselves.

Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting. We do this in a fun way, with spelling games and other activities. I like her attitude very much, and the behaviour of the other student shows that they like her, too.

There are sixty-five students in my class—more than my previous class in Junior High. Forty-nine of them are girls. In other words, there are three times as many girls as boys. They say that girls are usually more hard-working than boys. But in this class, everyone is hard-working. For our homework tonight, we have to write a description of the street where we live. I’m looking forward to doing it!

1. All of the following are reasons why we like Ms Shen except that________.

A．She is a very enthusiastic woman with a new teaching method.

B．We speak a lot and have fun in her English class .

C．She helps us improve our spelling and handwriting in a fun way.

D．She is beautiful and often plays games with us.

2. Which of the following statements about the class is not true?

A．There are more girls than boys in the class.

B．There is a computer with a special screen in the classroom.

C．We can watch TV in the classroom.

D．All the students are hard-working.

3. On the first day at Senior High school, how did the author feel?

A．Excited and nervous.	B．Anxious and frightened.
C．Interested and cheerful.	D．Disappointed and uneasy.