1 . 根据汉语提示或括号内单词的正确形式完成短文。

I, a senior high student,     1     (好奇世界的一切). I am outgoing, confident and never     2     (frighten) of failure. I work hard and you can always     3     (全神贯注听讲座). Additionally, so good at English am I that I have successfully organised several English parties,     4     (给我的老师和同学们留下了深刻的印象). At last, I am independent, so my parents do not need to be anxious for me.

    5     (我的目标是成为一名设计师), and     6     (我期待探索世界).

2 . 将下面5个句子使用恰当的过渡衔接词连句成篇。
(1)得知中国画展览需要一名志愿者，我不想错过这个机会。(分词短语作状语)
(2)我认为我能胜任这份工作。
(3)我从孩童期就学习中国画。
(4)我中英文流利，曾参加很多相关活动。
(5)我真诚地希望您能给我这个机会，期待您的回复。
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5 . 下面是Tom与新邻居Alice初次见面时的聊天。
Tom: Hello!
Alice: Oh, hi!
Tom: Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tom.
Alice:     1     My name is Alice. Did you just move in next door?
Tom: Yes, I did. Have you lived here long?
Alice: Me? I guess so. I’ve lived here for about six years now.     2    
Tom: No, not really. When I left Vietnam, I came to America and I lived with a cousin in Dallas for two years. Where do you work, Alice?
Alice:     3     What do you do?
Tom: I am an accountant at a company.
Alice: Well, Tom. It’s good to meet you. I have to go now. I am teaching a class this evening, and     4    
Tom: It’s nice meeting you too, Alice.
Alice: See you around!
Tom: Goodbye, Alice.
A. I teach mathematics at a college.
B. Pleased to meet you.
C. I need to get to the college.
D. Have you lived in America very long?

6 . 运用下列写作词汇,自己创设一个语境,形成一个小语段。
confident,graduate,stress,apply for,come up with,contribution,make a difference,challenge,all in all,voluntary
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7 . 阅读表达

He is more than six feet tall with a long body that is rather thin. His head is set forward on his shoulders and his neck is long, so that it seems to stick forward all the time when he is walking and talking. He has a full head of hair. His eyes and noses are small and his nose is regular in shape with slightly flaring nostrils (鼻孔). His mouth is well formed and his teeth are good; this gives him an expression of contentment and benevolence (仁慈). He has rather a long chin, but it is not pointed. A distinctive feature is that his arms and legs are unusually long; his hands and feet, and especially his wrists, are very large. The length of his limbs has a strange effect — when he sits down, his body seems short in contrast to his long arms and legs. He walks in an easy, swinging way, with none of the stiffness of the army officer; this, too, gives him the appearance of being very relaxed. His general appearance suggests an extraordinary degree of health, vitality, and spirit.

1. What type of description does the paragraph concentrate on?
2. Which of the following types of writing is it from?
a police report; a film star’s website; a letter to a friend; a novel; a biographical account of a politician.

9 . In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican record my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing.

It was my great-grandmother’s name and now it is mine. She was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse — which is supposed to be bad luck if you’re born female — but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don’t like their women strong.

My great-grandmother. I would’ve liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn’t marry. Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off. Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier. That’s the way he did it.

And the story goes, she never forgave him. She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow. I wonder if she made the best of what she got or was she sorry because she couldn’t be all the things she wanted to be. Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window.

At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. But in Spanish, my name is made out of a softer something, like silver, not quite as thick as my sister name — Magdalena — which is uglier than mine. Magdalena who at least can come home and become Nenny. But I am always Esperanza.

I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees. Esperanza as Lisandra or Maritza or Zeze the X. Yes. Something like Zeze the X will do.

1. In Spanish, Esperanza means______ .

A．Sadness

B．Number nine

C．A muddy color

D．Mexican song

2. Which of the following statements about the great-grandmother is WRONG?

A．Her name was inherited by the author.	B．She was born in the year of bad luck.
C．She wasn’t married yet.	D．She’s a strong and wild woman.

3. What’s the author’s attitude towards her great-grandmother’s life?

A．Neutral.

B．Sympathetic.

C．Rejected.

D．Acceptable.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．My Family

B．My School Life

C．My Name

D．My Struggle