1 . All my life I had wanted a dog. I had two cats that I adored like children, but I still wanted the company of a dog. Then unfortunately I lost my cats. Soon came another shock that my husband left me forever because of lung cancer. I felt I had just lost everything that ever mattered to me.

I voiced these feelings to a friend, who took me to a pet store. The store was holding an adoption day with shelters. I looked at and held several puppies, wondering which to choose. Then I met Maggie. She looked at me with the saddest eyes I had ever seen, then laid her head on my shoulder and slept. I immediately decided to save her!

Maggie adjusted well. I, however, was still adjusting. One night, thoughts of losing everything rushed through my head again. So depressed was I that I felt the only solution was to end my life. With a bottle of medicine in one hand and Maggie on my lap, I took the pills. Through my tear-filled eyes I looked down at Maggie to tell her I was sorry. The look on her face I will never be able to explain, as if her eyes said, “Don’t leave me; I need you just as you needed me.” It was then that 1 ran to the bathroom to vomit up the pills. The rest of the night I sat on the couch holding Maggie and thanking her for saving me.

Since that night 1 have had a love for her that I never knew possible. She never leaves my side when I am at home. She has taught me to smile and laugh. Together with Maggie, I feel I can get through anything.

1. The author got Maggie from ___________.

A．a friend

B．her husband

C．a pet store

D．an adoption center

2. The underlined phrase “vomit up” can be replaced by ____________.

A．throw up

B．take up

C．pick up

D．break up

3. The author feel depressed because __________.

A．her husband had taken her cats away.

B．she had lost everything important to her.

C．she couldn’t adjust to living with Maggie.

D．she couldn’t find any solution to her problem.

4. The best title for the text is “__________”.

A．My favourite pet dog	B．Love for life
C．What is love	D．Who saved who

2 . Lily是一名高一的学生，在新的学习环境中有很多学习、生活上的问题和苦恼想要和朋友交流，又不知道如何能交到值得她信赖的好朋友。因此她给电台的Talk show for teenagers栏目写了一封信，寻求帮助。假设你就是这个栏目的主持人Oprah，请给Lily写一封信，提出一些交朋友的建议。
要点：
1．每个人都需要朋友，如何交友极为重要。
2．要交朋友，首先对别人要友好。微笑是个很好的方法。设法记住别人的姓名。
3．让陌生人不管在何处，都能感到你的善意。要关心别人胜过关心自己。
4．与别人有分歧时，不要争吵，要商讨。
5．不要相信那些在朋友有难时离开的人，因为“患难之交才是真正的朋友”。(A friend in need is a friend indeed.)
注意：1.词数100左右；
2．信的开头与结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Lily，

I'm glad that you trust me and I'm very happy to share my feelings with you.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours truly，

Oprah

3 . Stress is very common in all walks of life and in all fields of work.     1     It can be related to work, an unhappy marriage, money problems or a whole host of things that cause people to become very unhappy with their lives.

People who suffer from this condition often cannot see anything good about their lives.    2    Teen stress is one of the leading causes of suicide among teenagers who are unable to cope with all the pressures that seem to come at them from all sides. Even a child as young as two or three years of age can feel stressed, when he/she is trying to live up to the parents expectations of being a good boy or girl.    3    

    4    New research suggests that exercising as a way of stress management helps people to improve their minds as well as their bodies because they become fit, giving them a whole new feeling about themselves.

You have to think about what is causing you to become stressed and if it is possible to avoid these things. If you feel stressed, because it seems that people are always taking up your private time, you need to learn to say “No” once in a while.    5    If your work stress is the cause of your illness and if you are experiencing problems with your heart, the doctor may need to send you for a stress test to determine whether or not there is a serious problem developing.

A．Using exercise as a form of stress relief has many benefits.

B．You do need to talk to someone who can help, such as your doctor.

C．As a result of that, people began to choose easy jobs.

D．Doctors also have pressures from their tiring work.

E．It can lead to suicide, heart attacks and cancer as research has shown.

F．School age children have pressures on them from schoolwork, parents and friends.

G．It is most dangerous because it can affect a person's health.

4 . Body language is a very powerful tool of a communication, not only between people but in the animal world as well. In many instances, we produce idioms which are all understandable by borrowing examples from animal communication. For example, we know that a frightened cat will arch（拱型）. From this starting-point we might hear the expression. “He gets my back up!” meaning “He makes me angry.”

In the same manner, we know that many animals, if challenged（挑战）by attackers, will not turn and run away because this will encourage the attackers to attack them more forcefully. Instead, they will move backwards slowly to get out of harm’s way, always facing their attacker. We call this action “backing off” and it can be used as well with humans as with animals.

In the case of humans, however, the back-off may not be physical but oral, as in using a kinder tone of voice and gentle words instead of fighting against the attackers.

1. When a cat arches its back high in a rigid curve, it shows that it is ________.

A．angry	B．pleased
C．frightened	D．defeated

2. In the article “back off” means ________.

A．to escape from the attackers

B．to get away quickly

C．to keep out the attackers

D．to avoid the attackers in words

3. Which of the following is wrong according to the article?

A．To learn knowledge, humans must learn from animals.

B．Both humans and animals have the body language.

C．Both humans and animals have ways of getting out of harm.

D．“Face your attackers” means to encourage yourself.

4. What is mentioned（提到）in this article belongs to study of English ________.

A．grammar	B．idioms
C．expression	D．communication

5 . A large number of people in the world eat fast food. Whenever you go into a fast food restaurant, you can see lots of people enjoying their meals there. But do you know in which country people like fast food best?

The English people are the world's biggest fans (粉丝) of fast food, while the French (法国人) are the least interested in quick meals, according to a survey (调查) done last year.

The survey of thirteen countries shows 45% of the English people say they can't give up fast food because it's delicious. And 44% of Americans and 37% of Canadians say the same.

The French, proud (自豪的) of their delicious and highclass cuisine, don't like fast food. 81% of them think it is unhealthy, followed by 75% of the Japanese.

How about the Chinese? How often do you have hamburgers or fried chicken? It doesn't matter whether you like Western fast food or Chinese food. The most important thing is to keep a balanced (平衡的) diet.

1. From the survey we know ________ like fast food best.

A．the Chinese	B．the French
C．the Japanese	D．the English

2. The survey shows ________ of Americans like fast food.

A．37%

B．44%

C．75%

D．81%

3. According to the survey, some people can't give up fast food because ________.

A．it's cheap	B．it's safe
C．it's delicious	D．it's healthy

6 . From a large elephant to a small mouse, animals live happily together in Disney's new movie Zootopia. Judy Hopps, the main character, becomes the first rabbit police officer in the city. While solving a mystery, she meets the smart fox, Nick, who helps her with her case, and some other animals like the lion mayor and a mouse called Flash. Here is something more about the movie.

There are 64 kinds of animals in the movie. All of them look like real ones except Judy, the first rabbit police officer. Its appearance is a bit different from real rabbits. Real rabbits actually have split lips, but the film makers decided to make Judy's lip all together to look nice.

Film makers learned that not all fur of animals is the same. In the movie, some of polar bears' fur is clear. It appears white because the light reflects off it. Part of a fox's fur is dark at the root, getting lighter till its red top. They did so to make sure that the animals in Zootopia were believable.

Moreover, a film maker, Nathan Warner with his partners also took a trip to Africa for researching animals. There they had a close watching of different animals. According to their discovery, these artists added leaves to animals' coats like the big sheep. They also made animals' tears run from the inside corners of eyes down to the outside of the mouths.

1. From the passage we know that Zootopia may be the name of a(n)________.

A．animal

B．mayor

C．zoo

D．city

2. Which of the names doesn't belong to the animals in the movie?

A．Flash.

B．Nathan Warner.

C．Nick.

D．Judy Hopps.

3. What does the underlined word “split” mean in Chinese?

A．裂开的

B．完美的

C．无缝的

D．光滑的

4. Which statement is not true according to the passage?

A．Nick is a smart fox and helps the police officer, Judy Hopps to solve a case.

B．In the movie, the animals look the same as the real ones including Judy.

C．Part of a fox's fur is dark at the root and gets lighter till its red top.

D．The artists added leaves to animals' coats to make them believable.

7 . Some kids dream of being superheroes that can save our planet from evil but believe it or not, even a small kid like YOU can help save our planet.

When I was a _________ , my mom and dad would push me in a baby jogger. We would pick up soda cans while my mom and dad ran. Before I could _________, whenever I saw a can I would point to it. It was fun picking up cans. We ran a lot miles and _________ up many cans.

When I was five, I went _________ with my mom, dad, and a friend at Bastrop State Park. The first night we went for a bike ride. I _________ on my dad's bike. There was so much _________ that the road did not look pretty. The second day, when we went for a _________ along the same road, we picked up all the cans—about one hundred of them. The road looked much _________ when we went home.

I am now too _________ for the baby jogger. But I still pick up cans wherever we go, and my mom and dad still bring back cans from their walks. We ____________ the cans behind and inside our garage. When I was very young, we would ____________ the cans to a can cruncher in a store park. It was fun____________ all the cans crunching(压碎), but it was untidy.

Now we store the cans ____________ we get a lot of them, then we take them on our friend's big truck to the recycling place. One time, I sold 410 pounds ____________.

I have sold over 1, 000 pounds of cans, and I am only nine years old. I ____________ the world by making the roads, the lakes, and the trails prettier, and because all my cans are recycled.

1.

A．baby

B．student

C．son

D．boy

2.

A．move

B．run

C．talk

D．cry

3.

A．picked

B．gave

C．looked

D．took

4.

A．camping

B．shopping

C．fishing

D．swimming

5.

A．insisted

B．rode

C．stood

D．turned

6.

A．grass

B．plastic

C．noise

D．waste

7.

A．visit

B．rest

C．walk

D．product

8.

A．farther

B．prettier

C．wider

D．longer

9.

A．big

B．tired

C．fat

D．dangerous

10.

A．hide

B．make

C．recycle

D．store

11.

A．throw

B．deliver

C．take

D．send

12.

A．feeling

B．keeping

C．hearing

D．preventing

13.

A．before

B．after

C．unless

D．until

14.

A．right away

B．at once

C．right now

D．once again

15.

A．arrange

B．love

C．help

D．clear