1 . John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.

Luckily, he had a strong-willed, caring mother. John remembers that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe. She told him not to be dependent on   others, including his mother. “You have to earn success,” said she. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”

These words came from a woman less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15, to Chicago.

Chicago in1933 was not the promised land (乐土、希望之地) that black southerners were looking for, John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But there John could go to school, and there he learned the power of words — as editor of the newspaper and yearbook of Du Stable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks.

While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him pawn (典当) her furniture to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.

It is natural the difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind. “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary.”

Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America — worth $150 million.

1. Why did John’s mother decide to move to Chicago? Because ________.

A．John’s father died in his hometown when he was very young

B．life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown, while life in Chicago would be better for blacks

C．there were no schools for blacks in their hometown

D．John needed more education and he could go to school there

2. What kind of woman was John’s mother? She was a ________.

A．woman with little school education but knew a lot about life

B．woman who would not do anything for her son

C．strong woman with much knowledge

D．woman who didn’t know how to encourage her son

3. The underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph means ________.

A．if you try, you will succeed in the end

B．a failure is difficult to beat, even if you try

C．a try is always followed by failure

D．nothing but a try can help you out of failure

4. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．How John H. Johnson became somebody.

B．The mental support John’s mother gave him.

C．The importance of a good education.

D．The key to success for blacks.

2 . 假如你是李华，将于今年12月参加中英中学生文化交流（the cultural exchange between Chinese and English middle school students）。你将寄宿在英国Mr. and Mrs. Smith家里，请你给他们发一份E-mail，内容是：
1. 简单介绍自己的情况年龄、家庭、所在学校、所学课程、兴趣爱好等；
2. 并请他们给你回信，简要介绍他们自己。
注意：1.词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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3 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：把缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I can still remember clearly the day after I had my first exam. I didn’t pass them. I was so scaring that I even don’t want to go to school any more. My parents looked at my test paper and said. “My children, we’re very glad you has finished half of it. You can do better next time. We never expect you to do the best at a very beginning. We hope you can make progress gradual.” What they said made me to feel I could do things well. From then, I concentrated more on my studies. Now I’m always filled with confident in my studies because I know my parents are always behind me.

4 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。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。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

The teenage year from 13 to 19 were the most difficult time for me. They were also the better and worst years in my life. At the first, I thought I knew everything and could make decisions by yourself. Therefore, my parents didn’t seem to think so. They always tell me what to do and how to do it. At one time, I even felt my parents couldn’t understand me so I hoped I could be freely from them. I showed them I was independent by wear strange clothes. Now I am leaving home college. At last, I will be on my own, but I still want to have my parents to turn to whatever I need help.

5 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. How many years is it since the couple got married?

A．Seven years.

B．Eight years.

C．A few years.

2. What did the man tell his friend?

A．The secret of his doing research work.

B．The secret of his happy married life.

C．The secret about how he keeps healthy.

3. How about the man’s wife according to the man’s words?

A．She is lazy.

B．She is able.

C．She is clever.

4. What can we infer from this passage?

A．The man decides nothing at home.

B．The man is an important official.

C．The man does more housework.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What might the relationship between the woman and her parents be?

A．Good.

B．Bad.

C．Hard to tell.

2. How old might the woman be?

A．15.

B．17.

C．18.

3. Which of the following is right?

A．The woman has no pocket money.

B．The woman has much freedom.

C．The woman wants to go on holidays with her parents.

7 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Parenting is challenging, especially when you’re new to it. One winter when our now grow-up daughter, Esther, was a baby, we took the advantage of the holiday to see her grandparents. In the ladies’room of a restaurant, I gave her instructions on how wash and dry her hands. An old lady stood in the corner but stared at us the entire time curious. After I helped Esther to wear a pair of glove, the woman gave me a warm smile and said, “You were a great mom.” Her words made me encourage for days. Now I’m the one who observes young mothers with her little kids. If a mom is patient for her kid, I say, “I have seen how kind you are to your child.”

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How many people were there on the train?

A．17.

B．18.

C．20.

2. Why did the bus lose control?

A．It had a fault.

B．It caught fire inside.

C．The road was wet.

3. What was the result of the car accident?

A．The car’s fuel tank exploded.

B．The car crashed into water.

C．Frane broke his arm.

9 . It takes a special person to see a life in danger and go out of his way to make a difference. But that’s exactly what Kole Devisscher did when he_______the thin ice of a river to save 10-year-old Chartrand from _______.

The young man was_______for his bravery by MP Joy Smith. Smith_______him with a certificate and said Devisscher would be nominated (提名) for the Governor General’s Medal of Bravery.

Describing the _______ , Devisscher said he thought it was something _______when he saw a blue jacket in the river. _______for Chartrand, the teenager decided to back up his truck and take another look.

When Devisscher realized somebody was_______in the cold water, he immediately took_______. “I got out of the truck and grabbed the tow strap (牵引绳) from the backseat.” explained Devisscher.

“He couldn’t quite grab onto the rope because his hands were already turning blue. Then I made a loop on the hook and got him to put it around his shoulders.”

Devisscher’s dad, Gerry, says his son remembered some of the________he learned while snowmobiling over the years. “He was listening. He just couldn’t refuse to________it. He wanted to help, ________at that time I was nervous he went out there.”

To honour Devisscher’s ________ and to thank him for saving her son, the mother of the boy gave Devisscher Nathaniel’s eagle feather.

“When he called, saying he________ someone, it didn’t sink in at first. Today’s the first time I’ve heard the whole________.”

“It’s just________that a young man like Kole stopped... He got him out of the river and he calmed him,” MP Smith said at the presentation ceremony.

“I think he is an outstanding young man, and all of Canada should be________of what he’s done.”

Devisscher said he just________ others would do the same. “It feels good, not everybody gets this ________. It’s pretty awesome,” said Devisscher. “I hope someone else would do that for me if I was under the same________.”

1.

A．braved

B．evaluated

C．assessed

D．transformed

2.

A．swelling

B．drowning

C．panicking

D．trembling

3.

A．appreciated

B．exchanged

C．rewarded

D．honored

4.

A．guaranteed

B．congratulated

C．presented

D．appointed

5.

A．consequence

B．dilemma

C．risk

D．incident

6.

A．floating by

B．coming about

C．going up

D．trying out

7.

A．Steadily

B．Fortunately

C．Accurately

D．Eventually

8.

A．arranging

B．screaming

C．struggling

D．appealing

9.

A．action

B．judgment

C．process

D．commitment

10.

A．professions

B．symptoms

C．emotions

D．lessons

11.

A．take notice of

B．result in

C．subscribe to

D．concentrate on

12.

A．since

B．unless

C．though

D．until

13.

A．achievements

B．efforts

C．reputation

D．encouragement

14.

A．informed

B．ignored

C．treated

D．rescued

15.

A．story

B．assistance

C．experience

D．state

16.

A．appropriate

B．flexible

C．amazing

D．annoying

17.

A．guilty

B．worthy

C．conscious

D．proud

18.

A．advocated

B．expected

C．approved

D．demanded

19.

A．comment

B．access

C．award

D．profit

20.

A．circumstance

B．case

C．trend

D．phenomenon

10 . 假定你是李华，寒假将至，你的外国朋友James送给你一本马克·吐温的书The Adventures of Tom Sawyer作假期读物，作为回赠你想送一本能体现中国文化的书。请你给James写一封电子邮件，内容包括：
1. 表达感谢和对这本书的喜爱；
2. 简单介绍你赠送的这本书；
3. 希望他了解中国文化。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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