1 . Children grow quickly, especially their feet. But many families cannot afford new shoes each time a child needs them. As a result, about 300 million children around the world go barefoot（赤脚的）. Those children risk picking up diseases from the soil. An American man may have a solution for those barefoot kids—a shoe that grows with the child.

Kenton Lee is the creator of The Shoe That Grows. He explains how the shoe works and how it’s able to last so long. “It grows in three places; the front, on the side, and on the back. It can last up to five years. The bottom is like tire rubber. The top is just high-quality leather.”

The shoe comes in two sizes: small that fits children aged 4 to 9 and large for children aged 9 to 14.

Lee got the idea for the shoe while working as a volunteer in Kenya. However, it was not easy to turn his idea into a reality. Finally, in 2009 Lee founded a non-profit organization called Because International. In the office, he kept a pair of his own shoes to help him remember his promise.

Because International works with several partner organizations. Together, they’re sent more than 50,000 pairs of shoes to 70 countries. Most are going to East Africa. And then also a lot of shoes go to Haiti, some of the Central American countries as well. Many of these areas do not have good sanitation（卫生设备）, and illness spreads easily.

A pair of shoes, he says, gives more than protection. It gives a child self-worth and more chances to succeed. Because it’s a small thing that really makes a big difference to keen them healthy and happy and having more chances to succeed. Kenton Lee adds that his goal is to help get The Shoe That Grows to as many children as he can around the world.

1. Why are so many children around the world barefoot?

A．They grow so quickly that their families can’t buy proper shoes.

B．Their families are too poor to buy them enough new shoes.

C．They don’t like wearing new shoes.

D．There are no shoes at all now.

2. We can know from the text that ________.

A．the shoes are designed for adults.

B．the shoes just grow in two places

C．Kenton Lee made great efforts to invent the shoes

D．Because International was founded to make much money

3. Kenton Lee kept a pair of his own shoes in the office to ________.

A．get himself to stick to his promise

B．let others know how hard he worked

C．encourage others to invent the shoes

D．make himself change shoes easily

4. According to Kenton Lee, ________.

A．it’s not necessary to improve sanitation in East Africa

B．Central America is the poorest place in the world

C．a small thing can really make a big difference

D．the shoes can make children succeed easily

2 . Larry was on another of his underwater expeditions(探险)but this time, it was different. He decided to take his daughter along with him. She was only ten years old. This would be her first trip with her father on what he had always been famous for.
Larry first began diving when he was his daughter’s age. Similarly, his father had taken him along on one of his expeditions. Since then, he had never looked back. Larry started out by renting diving suits from the small diving shop just along the             shore. He had hated them. They were either too big or too small. Then, there was the instructor. He gave him a short lesson before allowing him into the water with his father. He had made an exception. Larry would never have been able to go down             without at least five hours of theory and another similar number of hours on practical lessons with a guide. Children his age were not even allowed to dive.
After the first expedition, Larry’s later diving adventures only got better and better. There was never a dull moment. In his black and blue suit and with an oxygen tank fastened on his back, Larry dived from boats into the middle of the ocean. Dangerous             areas did not prevent him from continuing his search. Sometimes, he was limited to a cage underwater but that did not bother him. At least, he was still able to take photographs of the underwater creatures.
Larry’s first expedition without his father was in the Cayman Islands. There were numerous diving spots in the area and Larry was determined to visit all of them. Fortunately for him, a man offered to take him around the different Spots for free. Larry didn’t even know what the time was, how many spots he dived into or how many photographs he had taken. The diving spots afforded such a wide array of fish and sea creatures that Larry saw more than thirty varieties of creatures.
Larry looked at his daughter. She looked as excited as he had been when he was her age. He hoped she would be able to continue the family tradition. Already, she looked like she was much braver than had been then. This was the key to a successful             underwater expedition.
1. In what way was this expedition different for Larry?

A．His daughter had grown up.

B．He had become a famous diver.

C．His father would dive with him.

D．His daughter would dive with him.

2. What can be inferred from Paragraph2?

A．Larry had some privileges.

B．Larry liked the rented diving suits.

C．Divers had to buy diving equipment.

D．Ten-year-old children were permitted to dive.

3. Why did Larry have to stay in a cage underwater sometimes?

A．To protect himself from danger.

B．To dive into the deep water.

C．To admire the underwater view.

D．To take photo more conveniently.

4. What can be learned from the underlined sentence?

A．Larry didn’t wear a watch.

B．Larry was not good at math.

C．Larry had a poor memory.

D．Larry enjoyed the adventure.

5. What did Larry expect his daughter to do?

A．Become a successful diver.

B．Make a good diving guide.

C．Take a lot of photo underwater.

D．Have longer hours of training.

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: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。

I would like to have a smart robot that can do plenty of the things for me. For example, it can clean my room and make the bed, keeps everything in order. I hope it will be programmed to do homeworks without making mistakes. In that way, I can turn to it wherever I need help with my study. Beside, it can take care of my little brother, who often bothered me much. Then I can have more free time to do what I’m fond. It doesn’t matter much whether it is shaped like, but it must be able to communicate with me and understand its feelings. How wonderfully life will become with such a magic robot!

4 . 阅读下面的文章，并按要求用英语写一篇150词的作文。
I am so looking forward to my college life. I have pictured it thousands of times in my mind. The free lifestyle and lively parties are always appearing in my mind. The great expectation of campus life endows me a lot of passion to keep studying. After one year’s study I would find my lifestyle.
The first thing for me is to learn more knowledge. Most students find a way to release themselves and skip or sleep in the class. They think study is just the task, so they give up improving themselves and take part in all kinds of activities, which bring them great joy. The wrong conception about college stage makes most students miss the best time to equip themselves with skills. I know my own responsibilities and dare not to loosen study.
[写作内容]
1.用30 词概括上面的内容；
2.你的梦想是什么？阐述拥有梦想使你的生活变得不同；
3.你认为实现梦想需要什么。
[写作要求]
1.写作过程不能引用原文中语句;
2.作文中不能出现真实的姓名和学校名字。
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5 . Dream is strength. The strength can bring us wherever we want to get to and it can bring us a lot of wonders on our way to the place in our dreams.

Dream is beauty. Maybe you can see the things full of magic and maybe you will be moved by your own dream.    1    . But should we have our life without dreams? Of course not.

Everyone has his dreams and dreams are especially important to teenagers. As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize. Or they can be small,for example, you may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class.     2    , what do you do with it?Do you ever try to make your dream come true?

Andrew Matthews, an Australian writer, tells us that making our dreams come true is the biggest challenge in our life.     3    , or that it is impossible for you to become a writer.    4    . In fact, everyone can fulfill his dream. The first thing you must do is remember what your dream is.Don’t let it leave your heart.Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true earlier because a big dream is made up of many small dreams.

You must never give up your dreams.    5    . But the biggest one comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important and face all these difficulties bravely.

A．These kinds of thoughts stop you realizing your dream

B．There will be many difficulties on the road to your dreams

C．Once you find a dream

D．You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects

E．Both big dreams and small ones are very important to our lives

F．The world is so real that the dreams seem weak

G．Your talent is one of the most important factors in living your dreams

6 . I’11 never forget that“very important meeting”with a guidance counselor(咨询师)during   my senior year of high schoo1.I gladly _______ my dreams，and was looking forward to hearing   his   _______ advice on how best to achieve my academic and professional goals for the future.He told me that I was not college material and that“ _______ a nice secretarial school” would be   my _______ .His advice did change my life,_______ not in the way he expected—because I   didn’t follow it.I didn’t even _______ it.By trying to put limitation on my future，he made me   even more   _______ to pursue a college degree and a _______ of my choice.

At that moment in my eighteenth year，I started to be   _______ for my life.I decided what       kind of college I wanted to attend —one that was small，personal and would develop my       enthusiasm and ________ .I searched through many resources until I found the one for me：     Endicott Junior College，then a women-only college in Beverly，Massachusetts.When I visited Endicott，it felt like home，and my ________ was made.It was the only college I visited， ________ ，and was interviewed by.

I was ________ to Endicott for the fall term and immediately knew it was the ________ school for me.After studying subjects ________ from English to early childhood education to       psychology and art，I ________ with all associate degree in advertising.Then I went to one of the       state universities.I decided to acquire my Bachelor’s   ________ —and I did，while holding two       ________ jobs.Now，when my little girls tell me they want to do this or that，I always tell them that       I’ll be fight there for them，doing everything in my ________ to support them in making it happen，because I know dreams really do ________ .

1.

A．discussed

B．shared

C．showed

D．chose

2.

A．practical

B．delicate

C．elegant

D．different

3.

A．possibly

B．originally

C．equally

D．similarly

4.

A．image

B．dream

C．means

D．1evel

5.

A．if

B．unless

C．though

D．as

6.

A．adopt

B．understand

C．evaluate

D．consider

7.

A．patient

B．strict

C．determined

D．reliable

8.

A．subject

B．course

C．chance

D．career

9.

A．responsible

B．suitable

C．grateful

D．famous

10.

A．habit

B．interest

C．friendship

D．relationship

11.

A．mind

B．promise

C．wish

D．choice

12.

A．worked for

B．attended to

C．applied to

D．focused upon

13.

A．invited

B．welcomed

C．devoted

D．admitted

14.

A．unsuitable

B．right

C．personal

D．initial

15.

A．spreading

B．ranging

C．setting

D．existing

16.

A．stuck

B．ended

C．graduated

D．met

17.

A．degree

B．skill

C．ability

D．grade

18.

A．permanent

B．natural

C．rare

D．part-time

19.

A．field

B．power

C．1ife

D．delight

20.

A．work out

B．give away

C．come alive

D．come true

7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why doesn’t the boy want to be the president in the end?

A．He doesn’t want to get up early.

B．He doesn’t want to travel much.

C．He doesn’t want to be very busy.

2. What is the relationship between the speakers?

A．Mother and son.

B．Teacher and student.

C．Aunt and nephew.

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Where does the man dream about going?

A．To a desert.

B．To a big city.

C．To a quiet island.

2. How long would the man like to be away?

A．For around half a year.	B．For at least a whole year.
C．For about six years.

3. What did the young guy in the story do for work?

A．He was a travel agent.	B．He was a fisherman.
C．He ran his own Internet business.

4. What does the woman think about the young guy’s story?

A．She is impressed.	B．She isn’t interested at all.
C．She will do the same thing.

9 . Dear Max,

Your mother and I don’t yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future. Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. You’ve already given us a reason to reflect on the world we hope you live in.

Like all parents, we want you to grow up in a world better than ours today. While newspapers often focus on what’s wrong, in many ways the world is getting better. Health is improving. The number of poor families is decreasing. Knowledge is growing. People are connecting. Technological progress in every field means your life should be much better than ours today.

We will do our part to make this happen, not only because we love you, but also because we have a responsibility to all children in the next generation. We believe all lives have equal value. Our society has its duty to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here.

Today, most people die from five things — heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases — and we can make faster progress on these and other problems. Once we recognize that your generation and your children’s generation may not have to suffer from disease, we collectively have a responsibility to increase our investments (投资) a bit more towards the future to make this reality. Your mother and I want to do our part. Curing disease will take time. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like we’re making much of a difference. But over the long term, seeds planted now will grow, and one day, you or your children will see what we can only imagine: a world without suffering from disease.

There are so many opportunities just like this. If society focuses more of its energy on these great challenges, we will leave your generation a much better world. Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential (潜能) and equality. Our society must do this not only for justice or charity, but for the greatness of human progress.

Today your mother and I are devoted to spending our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I, Zuckerberg, will continue to serve as Facebook’s CEO for many, many years to come, but these things are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work.

We will give away 99% of our Facebook shares — now about $45 billion — during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these matters. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.

As we become parents and enter this next chapter（篇章）of our lives, we want to share our deep appreciation for everyone who makes this possible. We can make progress towards these opportunities only by standing on the shoulders of experts. And we can only focus on serving this community and this mission because we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazing colleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationships in your life too.

Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the world a better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us. We can’t wait to see what you bring to this world.

Love,

Mom and Dad

1. When might the letter be written?

A．When Zuckerberg got married.	B．When people suffered from diseases.
C．After Zuckerberg’s daughter was born.	D．After Zuckerberg increased his investment.

2. The world is getting better in many ways EXCEPT that _______.

A．people’s health is improving	B．poor families become fewer than before
C．technology makes progress in few fields	D．people communicate with others more

3. Why does Zuckerberg want to increase investments towards the future?

A．Because he is the CEO of Facebook company.	B．Because he is devoted to helping those who are poor.
C．Because he hopes that his daughter will live a rich life.	D．Because he hopes future generations won’t suffer from diseases.

4. The writer’s attitude towards life is _______.

A．positive

B．negative

C．objective

D．subjective

5. What can we infer from the article?

A．Zuckerberg and his wife have inspiring relationships in their life.

B．People can’t make much of a difference within 5 years.

C．Society is only responsible for those already in the world.

D．People have made faster progress on five main deadly diseases.

6. The purpose of the letter is to _______.

A．tell his baby that he will donate 99% shares of Facebook

B．call on people to make efforts to improve living conditions

C．tell people that he is willing to make contributions to the world

D．express love for his daughter and what he will do for the future

10 . 听第7段材料，回答小题。
1. What relation is Ms Leska to the woman?

A．Her roommate.

B．Her cousin.

C．Her workmate.

2. Who will probably meet Kevin at the bus station?

A．Claudia.

B．Tara.

C．Albee.

3. What will the woman do at 3:00 p.m.?

A．Meet the man.

B．Look after Ms Leska.

C．Teach a class.