| A．and | B．but | C．or | D．so |
| A．on | B．of | C．at | D．to |
—______ It’s a good idea.
| A．Why not? | B．No way! | C．So what? | D．Pardon? |
1. 活动时间：每天下午3：20 — 4：20；
2. 活动内容（如：阅读、运动、唱歌、计算机等）；
3. 表达你的愿望（如：减少作业，增加活动时间，多组织参观，旅游活动等）。
注意：1. 词数不少于100词；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使内容充实、行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Boys and girls,
Welcome the friends from New York City Greenwood High School to our school!
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Thank you.
When I was a kid, my parents were busy working so they enrolled (登记) me in the Spartak Tennis Club in Moscow. Every day after school my parents would take me to Spartak and I would be there until maybe nine o'clock. All we did was play tennis, eat, do homework, have fun and hang out. It was basically my second family.
In that second family was a woman who was like a mother to me, my first coach, Larissa. I still refer to her as my second mother. She taught me everything I know about how to play tennis, but she’s also a wonderful person. She’s kind and patient, which is not what you expect from one of the top tennis coaches in Russia.
Her program when I was little was based on tricking us into doing our exercises. She would put a candy under the cones (锥形物), and we would try to hit the targets with balls, you got to have an ice cream.
Of course we worked hard and I didn’t let her down.
My second-ever tournament was the Moscow Championships, and I won. Afterwards Larissa came up to me and said, “Congratulations, Enjoy today because tomorrow it’s back to work.” She was always telling us to celebrate and have fun with any particular achievement but to always remember there is something more you can do, something more you can achieve.
Now every time I go back to Russia I go to Spartak to see Larissa. We look at all the pictures from all the birthday parties and tournament and celebrations. It is really cool to have someone like her in my life. Larissa is still coaching, but we don’t talk much about tennis any more. We just talk.
1. Why did the author go to Spartak every day? (no more than 15 words)2. What does the author think of his coach? (no more than 10 words)
3. What’s Paragraph 3 mainly about? (no more than 10 words)
4. What does the underlined phrase “let her down” in Paragraph 4 mean? (no more than 5 words)
5. What can you learn from Larissa? (no more than 25 words)
| combine, lack, emotion, eventually, lose all interest in… |
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4. Our facial expressions convey our
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7 . Animals might not be able to speak or master advanced language techniques, but they certainly have other ways of communicating. Whale song, wolf howls, frog cries — even the fast dance of the honeybee or the friendly waves of a dog’s tail — are among so many ways animals pass on information to each other and to other living things of the animal kingdom.
When it comes to hearing communication, not every member of a species is just alike. Animals in different places have often been sounding off in different dialects. For example, one study shows that blue whales produce different types of sounds depending on where they are from. Some bird species are the same way. And what about those birds that live on the border between territories (领地) of different songbirds? They are often able to communicate in a way accepted by each of their groups of neighbors.
Communication between different species can play important roles as well. One study shows that iguanas (鬣蜥蜴) do not communicate by making sound, but their well-developed ears help them hear well the warning calls of the flycatcher (a type of small bird). The two species have nothing in common except for the fact that they share a general habitat and enemies. So when an iguana hears a bird make a signal of danger for other birds, it probably knows to be watchful for arriving enemies, too.
However, as noise pollution has become a serious problem all across the globe, many animals are now under fire. Increased shipping traffic over the last century has greatly affected the spread of whale song around the ocean basin. Studies have found that songbirds, too, suffer from noisy city surroundings. Some species have had to change their singing styles, producing songs that sound louder, in order to be heard above the noise. Their new voices usually lead to stranger and somewhat worse styles of singing that female birds find decidedly less sexy.
1. What does the author mainly tell us in Paragraph 2?| A．Various dialects can also happen to the same animals. |
| B．Animals communicate with each other in different ways. |
| C．Different animals have different ways of communicating. |
| D．Animals from different places may make the same sound. |
| A．They communicate by singing. |
| B．They are born with poor hearing. |
| C．They often bring bad luck to humans. |
| D．They get along well with flycatchers. |
| A．they refuse to communicate with others |
| B．they cannot communicate effectively |
| C．they are now in danger of dying out |
| D．they don’t make a sound any more |
| A．find it hard to attract the opposite sex |
| B．produce more songs that sound sad |
| C．begin to communicate by dancing |
| D．can not find food easily any more |
| A．by raising questions |
| B．by following time order |
| C．by providing examples |
| D．by analyzing the data |
8 . My best friend, Mitch Shapiro, is a person who makes me feel that no matter what kind of situation you are going through, you can still make yourself needed and useful. Words cannot describe the spirit of kindness and good will that Mitch Shapiro has shown.
Ten years ago Mitch started the Foundation for Sight and Sound after having been with the Foundation Fighting Blindness for a number of years. Mitch, who began wearing hearing aids at a very young age and now has two cochlear implants (耳蜗植入), has Usher Syndrome which is also called deaf-blindness; he is also going blind.
Mitch is the most capable person I know! He runs the Foundation for Sight and Sound, which is not a profitable organization whose task is to improve the quality of life for men, women and children with vision and/or hearing damage.
What makes Mitch my hero is his heart. It would be easy for Mitch to be angry at the world for the extremely difficult circumstances he deals with in his day to day life; but that’s not who Mitch is. He greets every day and every one with a smile and positive attitude. I can’t count the number of times I’ve come to Mitch with one of my “problems”; he is always there for me with compassion and inspiration.
Listening to him offering his ideas and plans to others as an audience is inspiration. Mitch is also a skilled cook, gardener, outdoorsman and stand-up comic!
Mitch devotes his life to helping improve the quality of life for others. Whether through his tireless work and fundraising efforts at the Foundation for Sight and Sound, or the cheerful way Mitch greets the world, or the way, no matter what else is going on in his life － Mitch makes time for people. He makes you feel valued.
1. According to the passage, Mitch has been suffering from ________.| A．blindness | B．hearing problems |
| C．poor living conditions | D．a deadly disease |
| A．support his huge family |
| B．help people with vision and/or hearing problems |
| C．raise money to help those who need help |
| D．make his life more colorful |
| A．runs the foundation together with Mitch |
| B．is suffering from a serious disease too |
| C．is very grateful to Mitch for his help |
| D．helped lots of people with hearing problems |
| A．wants to change the world |
| B．is good at running a company |
| C．likes to help managers in need |
| D．does well in cheering others up |
| A．spare his time to meet a person in need |
| B．make it available to talk with the author |
| C．spend some time with his family every day |
| D．raise money for the Foundation for Sight and Sound |
| A．break off | B．break in | C．break down | D．break out |
| A．In addition | B．On the other hand | C．On this occasion | D．On the contrary |
