1 . When you are about to go to a boarding school (寄宿制学校) in England, there are many different questions that may come to mind. But once you look at them with some perspective (视角), you will certainly feel easy. Here is a normal boarding day.

Early Morning:

Usually boarders get up around 7:00 am and have around an hour to take a shower and put on their uniform before breakfast.

Lessons:

Classes start at 9: 00 am and every lesson lusts for 50 minutes. After two lessons, at 10: 40 am, you’ll have a short break. The next period of classics will include two more lessons.

Lunch:

Lunch is usually held around 12:30 pm at the dining hall, where you’ll join your friends to enjoy a hot dish. After an hour of lunch, you’ll have three or four more lessons to attend.

Dinner:

At 5:00 pm you will have finished your school lessons for the day. Most boarding schools in the UK offer their full boarders different kinds of hot meals to choose from.

Activities/ Sports:

All boarding schools in the UK provide many different kinds of activities for their boarders, such as football, swimming, golf or art.

Prep:

An important part of boarding school life is the supervised homework session known as “prop”. Although “prep” might sound stressful, it’s a great way for you to keep up with your studies.

Free time:

Once you have done all your classes and activities, it’s time to relax.

Bedtime:

In most boarding schools, the lights go out around 10:30 pm.

Being nervous just before you go to a boarding school is completely normal and understandable. Hopefully, knowing the usual routine (常规) can help you. Once you are there, you will also see how exciting life in a boarding school in England can be.

1. What can help you keep up with your studies in the boarding school?

A．Doing activitıes.	B．Having lessons.
C．Enjoying free time.	D．Supervised homework sessions.

2. What do we know about boarding schools in England from the text?

A．Classes usually start at 8:30 am.	B．Students can have a short break after four lessons.
C．They don’t give students any free time.	D．They turn off the lights around 10:30 pm.

3. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To help students know about boarders’ life.	B．To attract more students to boarding schools.
C．To introduce a new school life.	D．To advertise for boarding schools.

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。

I am taught by many teachers in my school. Every subject has a    1     (differ) teacher, but I like my math teacher    2     (well). Her name is Lakshmi but we usually call her Ma’am. She is our class teacher too.

Ma’am    3     (join) us last term. She is very kind and her way of teaching is so    4     (interest) and simple that we all can understand everything    5     is being taught and how it can be done. Most    6     (important) , Ma’am teaches math with lots of patience. If we do not understand a problem, she will spend extra time guiding us until we understand it. And we can go to ask her at any time during school hours for help.

She also helps us     7     activities at school. When there is some kind of programs, she will be there     8     (help) us to get ready for the show. Even when we go on picnics, she takes good care of     9     (we)．

To me, Ma’am is not only    10     good teacher, but also our best friend. I love Ma’am and I wish her a happy life.

3 . How similar are language and music?

Language is part of our daily lives, no matter where we live in the world.     1     Both language and music play a huge role in our culture and here are some of their similarities.

Both language and music have a writing system.

In English we record language using the alphabet, which is a collection of letters. Similarly, we use notes (音符) to keep a record of music. Musicians read notes and create meaning in the form of music.     2     By writing pieces of text or music, we are able to share experiences through time. We can read the ideas or hear the composition (作品) of someone who lived hundreds of years ago.

    3    

You can make a good guess at where someone is from by listening to the language he uses. In the same way, we know that styles of music are different around the world, giving us the opportunity to explore many different cultures through their music and providing us with music for every situation.

Both share emotion.

    4     Of course you may be able to see it in my face, but you will know for sure through my words. Similarly, music can sound angry, sad or happy. Music can show you exactly how the composer was or is feeling, and allows us to share that emotion. When you feel happy, you might want to sing and dance to a happy song to celebrate your happiness.     5     I think we have all used music to express or process our emotions, often combining it with language in the form of song lyrics (歌词).

A．Both are expressive.

B．Both vary with culture.

C．How do you know that I am angry?

D．We use language to express our thoughts.

E．Similarly, music is part of many people’s lives.

F．So just as you read English, you can read music.

G．In contrast, you probably also listen to sad music when you are feeling down.

4 .

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1. It’s Friday afternoon, you can go to ______.

A．read children’s stories	B．play basketball
C．play soccer	D．visit the museum

2. If you dial 66387901, you can ______.

A．order fast food in a restaurant	B．do some shopping
C．have a good story time	D．ask for some hotel information

3. You can not get any information about ______ from the two notices.

A．looking for a hotel	B．taking a taxi
C．eating fast food	D．doing eye exercises

5 . 万一这孩子出了什么事怎么办？
____ ____anything should happen to the child?

6 . 我现在渴望尽早回到工作岗位。
I now ____ ____ ______going back to work as soon as possible.

7 . 小孩子的注意力持续时间有限,不能长时间地专注于一个活动。
Young children have a limited attention span and can’t ____ ____one activity for very long.

8 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。

At noon that day, I drove back to my house after the performance. Just as I entered the living room, I heard a gentle sound coming from the bedroom upstairs—it was the sound of my favorite violin.

“Thief!”

I dashed upstairs. Sure enough, as expected, a boy of about 12 years old was petting my violin. The boy had messy hair and a thin face, his oversized coat seemingly filled with something. At first glance, I found a new pair of shoes missing. It seemed that he was surely a thief.

Then, I saw his eyes full of fear and despair. My anger was immediately replaced by a smile, I asked, “Are you Mr. Ram’s nephew, Michael? I’m his housekeeper. Two days ago, I heard his nephew living in the countryside will come. It must be you. You’re really like him!”

On hearing my words, the boy was first astonished, but then quickly said, “Has my uncle gone out? I think I’d better first go out for a walk and visit him again in a while.”

I nodded and asked the boy who was preparing to put down the violin, “Do you like to play the violin so much?”

“Yes, but I’m so poor that I can’t afford it,” the boy replied.

“Then, I give this violin to you.” The boy looked at me questioningly, but he picked up the violin. Going out to the living room, he suddenly saw on the wall my huge color photo I performed in the Sydney Opera House. He involuntarily trembled for a moment and ran out without looking back.

I was sure that the boy had understood what happened because no one would decorate the living room with the housekeeper’s photo.

Paragraph 1:

A few years later, I was invited to be a judge at a music competition of senior high school students.

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Paragraph 2:

After the competition, “Michael” ran to me, holding a violin box.

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9 . 新高考全国卷中题型变化很多，不少学生感到新作文题型——读后续写（continuation writing）很具挑战性。请你以高三学生李华的身份给外教Helen 写一封信，咨询她的建议。内容包括：
1. 写信原因；
2. 题型简介；
3. 你的困难。
注意：1. 写作词数应为 80 左右；
2. 请在答题卡的相应位置作答。

10 . When Mike Mushaw joined the national bone marrow (骨髓) registry three years ago, he never really gave it a second thought.

About six months after the sign-up, Mushaw did get a call that his bone marrow _______ a patient in Virginia. Mushaw didn’t know it at the time his donation would go to a five-month-old girl named Eleanor. Neither did he know whether his donation would _______. Eleanor, sick with a rare immuno deficiency disease, had seldom left her house _______ to travel to the hospital or the doctor. Her immune system was far too weak to risk even the most _______ human contact. Her mother, Jessica, told NBC, “The _______ were to either get a transplant or face death.” Still, there was no _______ of success.

Instead, after a few weeks, the doctors came back with _______ news: Eleanor’s condition hadn’t just improved — Mushaw’s bone marrow had _______ her. Mushaw says: it was more of a _______ and happy feeling than anything.

About six months after the procedure, Eleanor’s parents sent him an e-mail to thank him for saving her life. “When I was told it was a little girl, I ________,” Mushaw says.

But their surprising ________ was only beginning. Mushaw and Eleanor FaceTime ________ to check on her progress. In August, about a year after Eleanor’s ________ transplant, Mushaw invited her family to one of his games. Tiny shouts of “Mike! Mike!” could be heard as the little girl cheered on her very own hero: a six-foot-two, 225-pound football player with a very ________ heart.

In January, Mushaw ________ with Eleanor to celebrate her birthday. Two complete strangers now have become such a big part of each other’s lives.”

1.

A．fitted

B．equaled

C．matched

D．resembled

2.

A．count

B．impact

C．perform

D．work

3.

A．other than

B．rather than

C．more than

D．less than

4.

A．general

B．casual

C．ignorant

D．familiar

5.

A．conditions

B．options

C．consequences

D．strategies

6.

A．guarantee

B．hope

C．insurance

D．possibility

7.

A．relaxing

B．terrifying

C．amazing

D．satisfying

8.

A．failed

B．cured

C．bettered

D．lifted

9.

A．relief

B．grief

C．celebration

D．expectation

10.

A．picked up

B．broke up

C．cheered up

D．choked up

11.

A．improvement

B．affection

C．connection

D．attachment

12.

A．commonly

B．occasionally

C．regularly

D．scarcely

13.

A．problem-solving

B．life-changing

C．heart-warming

D．body-building

14.

A．considerate

B．generous

C．dedicated

D．passionate

15.

A．reunited

B．returned

C．recalled

D．reacted