1 . 听下面一段长对话， 回答下列各题。
1. What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?

A．Friends.

B．Teacher and student.

C．Customer and salesman.

2. Why is the woman interested in the book with a note?

A．It’s about poetry.

B．It’s written by Shakespeare.

C．It may be very valuable.

3 . 为了解学生在课外阅读英语名著、报纸和杂志少的原因，学校开展了相关调查活动，请你为校英文报写一篇报道，内容包括：
(1) 活动目的；
(2) 调查结果；
(3) 你的建议。
注意：
(1) 写作词数应为80左右；
(2) 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Reading English Beyond the Classroom

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6 . Here are some books that are carefully picked for your kids.

Corduroy

It’s about a little bear, Corduroy, in a toy shop. He has lost one of his buttons. This makes him very sad because he wants to be taken home by a kid. So he decides to find a new button. Corduroy contains some hard words. So you’d better use a dictionary while reading it.

Price: $18; a 10% discount on Sunday

Curious George

Curious George, a monkey, is a little too interested in everything, which causes humans to bring him from the forest to a big city. However, there he calls the fire department, is sent to prison, escapes from prison and is carried into the sky by balloons. Though the book uses a lot of short and simple sentences, some of its words are not simple.

Price: $20; a 20% discount on Sunday

The Story of Ferdinand

Ferdinand, a bull, loves to smell the flowers in the grasslands. One day people come to pick a male cow for bullfights. Ferdinand doesn’t want to be chosen, but a bee stings (蜇) him. It causes him to jump around crazily, so he’s picked. In Ferdinand’s first fight, he lies down to smell the flowers instead of fighting. So he is sent back to the grassland. The book has many similar stories that bring laughter. And it has everything that makes a children’s book great for English learners—simple and hard words.

Price: $16; a 10% discount on Sunday

Green Eggs and Ham

In this book, a cat named Sam really likes green eggs and meat. So he offers them to a friend. Read the book to see if his friend likes the meal or not. This book is a poem. Despite the simple vocabulary, the words are used in a way that feels smart.

Price: $15; a 5% discount on Sunday

1. Which book is about a small toy bear?

A．Curious George.	B．Corduroy.
C．Green Eggs and Ham.	D．The Story of Ferdinand.

2. Why is Ferdinand sent back to the grassland?

A．He lies to the audience.	B．He jumps around crazily.
C．He refuses to fight.	D．A bee stings him.

3. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To help.

B．To advertise.

C．To comment.

D．To educate.

7 . Emily Bhatnagar is a shy girl who has always loved reading. She says, “The books sort of became my best friends when I didn’t have one.”

When Bhatnagar was 16, her father was diagnosed (诊断) with cancer. The news was________for the family. Books became an even bigger ________, and she started thinking about families in similar situations. When her father recovered, she ________a plan to help others. “The idea came from not just great thanks that the doctors were able to ________such a miracle (奇迹),”she said, “but also a little of ________ that there were kids who were ________ the same battle.”

Bhatnagar started a ________ in her hometown. The goal was to collect books and give them to kids being ________ for cancer in local hospitals. Since the start of the book drive, which she called For Love & Buttercup, Bhatnagar has ________ more than 10,000 books.

Bhatnagar had no idea how much ________ her work would get. She started by posting on social media, asking people in her area to donate. “I was expecting maybe two or three ________ from neighbors,” she said. But it ended up blowing up, ________ when news stations began reporting it. “The public response has been super great,” her father said.

Bhatnagar continues to run the book drive, with a little help from her parents. She hopes to expand the project to ________ more kids one day. The memory of the first time she visited those children who’d ________ her books sticks with her. “It was the best ________ of my life,” she said. “I realized I wanted to do this type of work forever.”

1.

A．shameful

B．exciting

C．difficult

D．disappointing

2.

A．tendency

B．proof

C．market

D．comfort

3.

A．caught up with

B．came up with

C．got in touch with

D．joined in

4.

A．create

B．gain

C．expose

D．support

5.

A．sadness

B．shock

C．expectation

D．surprise

6.

A．celebrating

B．fighting

C．enjoying

D．cheering

7.

A．community hospital

B．family party

C．public library

D．book drive

8.

A．rewarded

B．taught

C．treated

D．kept

9.

A．sold

B．written

C．bought

D．collected

10.

A．attention

B．money

C．cooperation

D．blame

11.

A．questions

B．responses

C．conclusions

D．highlights

12.

A．obviously

B．surely

C．usually

D．especially

13.

A．move

B．reach

C．challenge

D．protect

14.

A．shared

B．opened

C．received

D．examined

15.

A．day

B．book

C．chance

D．business

8 . What does the woman mean?

A．The man needs to finish the book.

B．The book is boring.

C．The man should check with his professor.

9 . I turned 8 years old the day I skipped school for the first time. It was easily done: Both my parents left for work before my school bus arrived on weekdays, so when it showed up at my house on that cold winter morning, I simply did not get on. The perfect crime!

And what did I do with myself on that glorious stolen day, with no adult in charge and no limits on my activities? Did I get high? Hit the mall for a shoplifting extravaganza (狂欢)?

Nope. I built a warm fire in the wood stove, prepared a bowl of popcorn, grabbed a blanket, and read. I was trilled and transported by a book — it was Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises — and I just needed to be alone with it for a little while. I ached to know what would happen to Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley and Robert Cohn. I couldn’t bear the thought of siting in a classroom taking another exam when I could be traveling through Spain in the 1920s with a bunch of expatriates (异乡客).

I spent that day lost in words. Time fell away, as the room around me turned to mist, and my role — as a daughter, sister, teenager, and student — in the world no longer had any meaning. I had accidentally come across the key to perfect happiness: I had become completely absorbed by something I loved.

Looking back on it now, I can see that some subtle things were happening to my mind and to my life while I was in that state of absorption. Hemingway’s language was quietly braiding itself into my imagination. I was downloading information about how to create simple and elegant sentences, a good and solid plot. In other words, I was learning how to write. Without realizing it, I was hot on the trail of my own fate. Writing now absorbs me the way reading once did and happiness is their generous side effect.

1. Why did the author skip school on that day?

A．Because she’s fascinated by a novel.	B．Because it’s a biting cold winter morning.
C．Because her parents left home early.	D．Because she’s anxious to take the exam.

2. What did the author think is the source of true joy?

A．Reading a fiction by the fire.	B．Travelling with a bunch of expatriates.
C．Being occupied by one’s passion.	D．Breaking the rules and regulations.

3. Which can best replace the underlined phrase “braiding itself into” in the last paragraph?

A．Mending.

B．Destroying.

C．Entering.

D．Blocking.

4. What can we infer from the passage?

A．The author was tired of his roles in the real-life.

B．Becoming a writer is the author’s childhood dream.

C．The author skipped school when he was 8 years old.

D．Writing has a horrible effect on the author’s life now.

10 . 在“世界读书日(World Book Day)”到来之际，你想以此为话题给校英语广播站写一篇广播稿，内容包括：
1. 读书的益处;
2. 推荐图书类型;
3. 号召大家读书。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右;2. 请按如下格式作答。
Dear boys and girls,
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Li Hua