1 . 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。

In ancient times, our ancestors relied on stars to guide them       1    a clear night. Today,with the help of Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS),     2    is entirely built by Chinese engineers, we Chinese can easily find our way.

The BDS is one of four global navigation     3    (network),along with the United States' GPS,Russia's GLONASS and the European Union's Galileo. With the last satellite launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on June 23, the global network of 59 satellites     4    (complete) since then. On July 31,Beidou started providing full-scale global services. It's difficult to imagine the great effect which those satellites have on our daily lives. This year, Hellobike, a popular bike-sharing company came out with two new bike models     5    （equip) with the positioning service.Users can find shared bikes more accurately thanks to Beidou's global positioning accuracy of 2.34 meters.

As the     6    (large) space-based system in China,Beidou adopts a unique two-way communication system, including its ability     7    (receive) messages sent by people from areas with poor signals.     8     (obvious), this exclusive function isn't designed for users to chat online. Instead,it plays     9     important role when terrible disasters occur and ground-based communications are blocked. As Sun Jiadong,former chief designer of the BDS,put it:" The application of Beidou is only limited by     10    （imagine)."

2 . At some point when you were a child,a trusted adult likely told you that if you held a seashell up to your ear, you'd hear the ocean.    1    Seashells are not special capsules that have stored the sounds of their native homes.

But what exactly is that rushing sound you're hearing?    2     “The sound of an empty shell held up to the ear is created by echoes(回声）from sounds made in the environment.”Geerat J. Vermeil, a distinguished professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California,told us.

    3    Other structures with openings, like empty bowls or bottles, can produce similar sounds. “When the noise around us hits the internal surface of this hard seashell, multiple reflection occurs,” said Vermeil. “Whether you hold a seashell or the mouth of an empty bowl around your ear, you experience the ocean-like sound quality as a result of a phenomenon called “resonance.”

    4     It says that you're hearing the sound of your own rushing blood in your body. But scientists also clarify that it doesn't change with variation of pulse or blood pressure. “All this is perhaps a bit unimportant, but a more interesting question is what controls the frequencies of echoes" Vermeil added,indicating that there's a need for further research into shape, volume and shell thickness in relation to pitch.     5     Actually, if you put a shell to your ear on the beach, the sounds you hear will include partly some ocean noises.

A．The same goes for shells.

B．The answer is less mystical.

C．This effect is not limited to shells.

D．Now you probably know that this is not true.

E．Scientists are working hard to find the answer.

F．Maybe the original myth is not completely false.

G．There's another explanation for the rushing sound in a seashell.

3 . He decided to leave school for __________ (vary) reasons. （用单词适当形式填空）

4 . 用以下短语的正确形式填空。（有四个多余选项）

1. Being afraid of snakes, she always _____________ a scream when seeing one.
2. I would like to thank Mr Smith ________________ the school for his work as a scholar, an engineer and an educator.
3. In recent years, the winter temperature in this region tends to ___________, and one of the main reasons which have resulted in this increase is the air pollution.
4. ______________ the cold, he jumped into the river and pulled the fallen boy out of the water.
5. Many scientists believe that global warming has _______________ through the burning of fossil fuels.

5 . 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。

I dream to be     1    popular teacher in the future because I hope I can bring knowledge and     2    (happy) to children. With time passing by，my wonderful middle school life is coming to the end. Just   when I entered Sunshine School，I was a childish boy     3    liked playing computer games. I still remembered my first midterm exam. I failed many subjects. I even thought about     4    (give) up. It was Ms Zhang who encouraged me     5    (face)the difficulties bravely.     6     the help of my teacher，I redoubled my efforts. Nowadays，I     7    (overcome) difficulties and always do well in the school subjects.Thanks to Ms Zhang，I have gained a lot both in my study       8     in my life. I hope I can be as     9     (excellently) as my teacher.

All in all，I will learn harder to get more knowledge so as to lay a good foundation for my future. I will make full use of my every second and make my dream come true. I believe I can     10    (success)!

6 . 假定英语课上英语老师要求同桌之间互相修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。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。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该词下面写出该加的词。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及修改均仅限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。
Dear Helen,

Thank you so much for your party at Christmas Eve. All of them enjoyed it very much. We liked the dishes you had cooked but we were happy to learn the English songs you taught us. We hope you’ll teach us a lot much songs in the future. We’re leaving from our hometowns to spend the winter vacations. It seemed that many of us are homesick after being away from home for such a long time. What are your plans? Will you join in the tourist group organized by our school? We are busy prepare for our trips. Please excuse us for not able to say goodbye to you. We hope you’ll have a good time.

Yours,

Xiao Hua

7 . 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。

It was a sunny day. A little boy’s father was sitting on the couch, drinking a beer while watching     1     basketball match. Seeing this, the boy rushed to his father and shouted. “Daddy, show we how to play catch.” The father, staring     2     the television screen, replies, “Let me finish watching the match. Play outside and come back in five minutes.”

“Okay, Daddy,” said the boy, running out of the room. Five minutes later, the boy returned,     3    (scream), “Daddy, let’s play catch now!”

By this time, the father had opened another cold beer and another match was beginning. Impatient    4     the boy’s interruption, the dad brought a magazine to his son. On the cover of the magazine was a large picture of the world. The father, who was angry and     5    (bother), began tearing the magazine cover into small     6    . Then, the father turned to his boy and said, “Son, once you put this picture back together, we can play catch, but do not interrupt me again     7     you finish.”

A few minutes later, the boy     8     (return) and said, “Daddy! Can we play catch now?”     9    (surprise), the father glanced towards his child, and there lay the magazine with the world pieced perfectly together in his small hands. The dad asked his child how he put the world together so quickly.

“    10     was simple,” said the boy. “On the back of the world was the picture of a person, and once I put the person together, that’s when the world came together.”

8 . When it comes to helping developing countries, we often think about offering money in order that they can build schools and hospitals, buy food and medicine, or find clean water supplies. These seem to be the most important basic needs in their lives. However, it's far from enough. We have to come up with better ideas.

A man called Nicholas Negroponte invented a cheap laptop computer, which he decided to invent after he visited a school in Cambodia. The laptop which Mr. Negroponte has designed is not the same as the normal one that you can buy in the shops. One difference is that it will be covered in rubber so that it is strong and won't be damaged easily. As an electricity supply can be a problem in developing countries, the computer also has a special handle in order that children can wind the computer up to give it extra power just as easy as setting a clock.

This special laptop computer will cost less than 100 US dollars and Mr. Negroponte wants to produce as many as 15 million laptop computers in the first year. The idea is that these computers will help the children’s education as they will be able to access the Internet. These computers might not benefit the people in developing countries immediately, but by improving children’s education they should help people to find their own solutions to their problems in the long term.

Another idea to help children in developing countries is to recycle old mobile phones so that they can be used again in the UK and probably in many other countries too, millions of mobile phones are thrown away every year. The waste crested by throwing away these old phones is very bad for the environment, so it seems to be an excellent idea to achieve two important goals at the same time. We will reduce the waste we produce and help others, in other words, we will be able to “kill two birds with one stone” and that is always a good thing.

1. The underlined phrase “wind up” in paragraph 2 means      .

A．吹风

B．给……上紧发条

C．拆开

D．带走

2. The laptop computer that Mr. Negroponte has designed       .

A．will be damaged much easier than the normal one

B．has a special handle to access the Internet

C．is cheap and can run with extra power

D．can be helpful to find the people’s own solutions

3. Mr. Negroponte’s cheap computer is mentioned in the passage to        .

A．illustrate the kindness of people in the developed countries

B．tell us what high technology can help people

C．show how to find business opportunities in developing countries

D．give an example of how to help developing countries

4. Which is the best idea the author gives us to help the developing countries?

A．We need to think about more ways to help people in developing countries，not just throw money at the problem.

B．We should spend much money helping people in developing countries build more schools and hospitals.

C．We should think about giving help to developing countries by giving them all we have.

D．We should help the people in developing countries by improving children's education immediately.

9 . Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.

“I think we are knocking at the door of immortality(永生),” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will see it and that’s a conservative estimate(保守的估计).”

At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology(纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what was possible in the past. “There is a great effort so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”

However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.

Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. “At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”

1. By saying“we are knocking at the door of immortality”,Michael Zey means_________.

A．they have got some ideas about living forever

B．they believe that there is no limit of living

C．they are able to make people live past the present life span

D．they are sure to find the truth about long living

2. Donald Louria’s attitude towards long living is that________.

A．the human body is designed to last past about 120 years

B．it is possible for humans to live longer in the future

C．it is still doubtful how long humans can live

D．people can live from 120 to 180

3. The underlined word“it”(in Paragraph 4)refers to________.

A．a great effort

B．the conservative estimate

C．the idea of living from 200 to 300 years

D．the idea of living beyond the present life span

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

A．No Limit for Human Life

B．Living Longer or not

C．Science,Technology and Long Living

D．Healthy Lifestyle and Long Living

10 . 假如你是李华，你现在有一百万英镑，你打算用这些钱做一些有意义的事，例如：
1. 捐给自己的学校，建一座图书馆；
2. 送弟弟出国深造。
注意：1. 100词左右；2. 适当发挥，使文章连贯。