2 . While high school does not generally encourage students to explore new aspects of life, college sets the stage for that exploration. I myself went through this _______ process and found something that has changed my experience at college for the better:I discovered ASL— American Sign Language (美式手语).

I never felt an urge to _______ any sign language before. My entire family is hearing, and so are all my friends. The _______ languages were enough in all my interactions (交往). Little did I know that I would discover my love for ASL.

The _______ began during my first week at college. I watched as the ASL Club _______ their translation of a song. Both the hand movements and the very _______ of communicating without speaking _______ me. What I saw was completely unlike anything I had experienced in the _______. This newness just left me wanting more.

After that, feeling the need to _______ further, I decided to drop in on one of ASL club’s meetings. I only learned how to ________ the alphabet that day. Yet instead of being discouraged by my slow progress, I was excited. I then made it a point to ________ those meetings and learn all I could.

The following term, I ________ an ASL class. The professor was deaf and any talking was ________. I soon realised that the silence was not unpleasant. ________, if there had been any talking, it would have caused us to learn less. Now, I appreciate the silence and the ________ way of communication it opens.

1.

A．searching

B．planning

C．natural

D．formal

2.

A．choose

B．read

C．learn

D．create

3.

A．official

B．foreign

C．body

D．spoken

4.

A．meeting

B．trip

C．story

D．task

5.

A．recorded

B．performed

C．recited

D．discussed

6.

A．idea

B．amount

C．dream

D．reason

7.

A．disturbed

B．supported

C．embarrassed

D．attracted

8.

A．end

B．past

C．course

D．distance

9.

A．exercise

B．explore

C．express

D．explain

10.

A．print

B．write

C．sign

D．count

11.

A．chair

B．sponsor

C．attend

D．organise

12.

A．missed

B．passed

C．gave up

D．registered for

13.

A．prohibited

B．welcomed

C．ignored

D．repeated

14.

A．Lastly

B．Thus

C．Instead

D．However

15.

A．easy

B．popular

C．quick

D．new

4 . 假如你是李华，你的英国笔友John来信说，他在自学英语时，发现汉字的读音很难掌握。请你给他回信，内容包括：
1.表示理解
2.提出建议
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear John,
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

5 . The world's richest man might seem to have it all, but Bill Gates has one regret. The self-made billionaire said he felt stupid for not knowing any foreign languages.

Speaking in his third Ask Me Anything question-and-answer session for online forum Reddit(红迪网), the Microsoft founder said that he wished he spoke French, Arabic or Chinese.

He said, "I took Latin and Greek in high school and got As and I guess it helps my vocabulary. I keep hoping to get time to study one of these—probably French because it is the easiest. I did Duolingo for a while but didn't keep it up."

Gates, who is worth $79.3 billion, praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for surprising an audience in Beijing when he spoke fluent Chinese. "Mark Zuckerberg amazingly learned Chinese and did a Q & A with Chinese students—unbelievable, isn't it?" he said.

This isn't the first time for Gates to admit his regret over language. He also showed his habits at home and personal insights.

Last February, Gates said he likes to do the dishes himself—to his own special standards every night and also told the interviewer that his wife, Melinda, would likely want Samuel L. Jackson to play her husband in a biopic(传记片).

He also admitted that he would pick up a $100 bill if he found it on the street.

As he took the top spot on Forbes(福布斯) 28th Annual Billionaires list last year for the fourth time, he said he is pretty basic when it comes to spending on clothes and food, but that he enjoys investing in shoes and rackets(球拍) when he plays tennis.

When asked a life lesson he had to learn the hard way, the billionaire said staying up too late is a habit he is still trying to break. "Don't stay up too late even if the book is really exciting. You will regret it in the morning. Pam is still working on this problem," he said.

1. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A．An Interview with Bill Gates	B．How Bill Gates Succeeded
C．Bill Gates' Regret	D．The Richest Billionaire

2. The underlined part in paragraph 8 may actually mean that _______.

A．it is important to lay a good foundation of life

B．food and clothing are basic needs for people's life

C．he never cares about buying food and clothing

D．he doesn't spend much money on food and clothes

3. What advice did Bill Gates give?

A．Do the dishes yourself at home.

B．Be a good language learner.

C．Avoid staying up too late.

D．Pick up the $100 bills in the streets.

4. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Bill Gates is also the founder of Facebook.

B．Bill Gates was good at learning languages in high school.

C．Bill Gates topped the list of Forbes 28 times.

D．Bill Gates' wife wants Samuel to play a game with Gates.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why did the man go to South America?

A．To study English.

B．To learn about local life.

C．To improve his Spanish.

2. What did the man do in South Africa?

A．Run a volunteer project.

B．Open up a restaurant.

C．Work on a local farm.

3. How did the man like the food there?

A．Strange.

B．Wonderful.

C．Simple.

7 . I boarded the airplane heading to Barcelona, frightened because in a matter of hours I’d be landing in a country populated by people who all spoke a language which was completely unknown to me. Not only that. I’d be _______ the next two weeks there.

All the butterflies I had in my _______ immediately flew away because as I arrived at the warm, colorful campus _______ I’d be living for the next fourteen days, I felt like I’d found myself a second _______. Counselors and other staff members welcomed us at the gate, introducing themselves and just being all round _______.

I made my _______ to my assigned room only to find a crying girl and two other girls   _______ her down. Little _______   I know how many memories I’d make _______ these three girls, how close we’d become over the next ____________ of weeks and how many times the camp director would have to come to our room at 3:00 a.m. and ____________ not to send us shopping if we didn’t go to bed ____________.

In the mornings we took Spanish classes and a guy ____________he learnt more Spanish over these two weeks than he did for the past year at ____________. During the day, I formed life-long relationships with people from all ____________ of the globe, and mostly visited the breathtaking Barcelonan beaches.

Speaking of breakfast, the meals were restaurant—worthy, the ____________were endless and people with special food needs were well ____________.

The staff always found some way or another to ____________ us, whether it was having a surprise water party at ten p.m. or having an unannounced watermelon — eating contest, they always had ____________ up their sleeves.

By the end of camp, everyone was so sad that they had to leave, there were enough ____________ to fill up an Olympic-sized pool.

1.

A．consuming

B．spending

C．wasting

D．requiring

2.

A．stomach

B．brain

C．heart

D．chest

3.

A．which

B．when

C．that

D．where

4.

A．chance

B．1ife

C．home

D．language

5.

A．nervous

B．friendly

C．awkward

D．silent

6.

A．way

B．head

C．step

D．walk

7.

A．1aying

B．striking

C．calming

D．attending

8.

A．would

B．do

C．will

D．did

9.

A．up

B．of

C．out

D．with

10.

A．dozen

B．couple

C．score

D．decade

11.

A．threaten

B．urge

C．promise

D．convince

12.

A．frequently

B．thoroughly

C．immediately

D．comfortably

13.

A．admitted

B．shouted

C．remembered

D．argued

14.

A．work

B．rest

C．peace

D．school

15.

A．sides

B．angles

C．squares

D．corners

16.

A．staff

B．choices

C．services

D．tables

17.

A．catered to

B．adopted to

C．dealt with

D．thought of

18.

A．encourage

B．motivate

C．surprise

D．awake

19.

A．nothing

B．something

C．anything

D．everything

20.

A．voices

B．cheers

C．tears

D．stories

8 . About 30 years ago, I left Cuba for the United States with my 4-year-old son. After getting ________finally in Brunswick, New Jersey, I enrolled（注册）my son in ________Several weeks later, my son’s teacher asked me to meet him at his ________.

In the teacher’s office, an exchange of ________was followed by his questions: “Is your son mentally retarded （弱智的）, Does he suffer from any kind of ________disability?”

Was he talking about my wonderful Scola? No, no it can’t be. What a ________. lonely moment! I told him that Scola was a quiet, sweet little boy, instead. I asked him why he was asking me all these questions.

My son could not ________the teacher’s directions, he told me, and ________. Scola was disrupting the class. Didn’t he know my son did not speak English yet?

He was ________; “Why hasn’t your son been taught to speak English? Don’t you speak English at home?”

No, I didn’t speak English at home, I ________, I was sure my son would learn English in a couple of months, and I didn’t want him to forget his ________language. Well, wrong answer! What kind of person would not speak in English to her son at home and at all time? “Are you one of those people who come to this country to save dollars and send them back to their country, ________wanting to be a part of this society?”

________, I tried to tell him I was not one of “those people”. Then he told me the ________was over, and I left.

As I had ________, my son learned to speak English ________before the school year was over. He went on to graduate from college and got a ________, earning close to six figures. He travels widely and leads a well-adjusted, contented life. And he has ________from being bilingual（双语的）.

Speaking more than one language allows people to ________with others; it teaches people about other ________and other places something very basic and obviously lacking in the “educator” I met in New Jersey.

1.

A．solved

B．settled

C．situated

D．involved

2.

A．school

B．company

C．community

D．kindergarten

3.

A．office

B．home

C．house

D．workshop

4.

A．questions

B．greetings

C．information

D．requests

5.

A．physical

B．emotional

C．educational

D．mental

6.

A．careless

B．helpless

C．useless

D．worthless

7.

A．hear

B．repeat

C．follow

D．explain

8.

A．thus

B．however

C．otherwise

D．though

9.

A．angry

B．calm

C．surprised

D．sad

10.

A．refused

B．replied

C．reminded

D．rewarded

11.

A．spoken

B．written

C．second

D．native

12.

A．often

B．never

C．seldom

D．once

13.

A．Needless to say

B．Beyond words

C．For no reason

D．To make matters worse

14.

A．instruction

B．blame

C．meeting

D．discussion

15.

A．planned

B．noted

C．suggested

D．expected

16.

A．easily

B．fluently

C．hardly

D．exactly

17.

A．job

B．degree

C．chance

D．scholarship

18.

A．suffered

B．benefited

C．learned

D．grown

19.

A．deal

B．stay

C．communicate

D．match

20.

A．languages

B．customs

C．traditions

D．cultures

9 . 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限一词;

2.只允许修改10处,多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last week,I attended a lecture by a teacher in his thirty. He was energetic and confidence. He spoke very fast and I could understand that he said. He mainly focused at how to learn the English well. In addition,he showed us how to write neatly, letter by letter. He kept telling us, “Slow down!” “Trusting yourself!” “Write carefully!”. To be honest, I never thought much of writing until today, when my heart touched. At the end of the lecture, all the people present break into cheers. The lecture was so interesting that I benefited a lot from them.

10 . Life became hard when I was 14. My mother and I moved to New York to ____my father, who’d moved there to find ____ work when I was three years old. He had a job at a restaurant and only visited us ____ every couple of years.
Before I moved, I knew that people in the US spoke English. But honestly, I didn’t stop to analyze the ____ when I was ____ to leave. Just like I assumed I could easily become a doctor or a lawyer. I assumed that I had the skills to learn English in a few weeks.
When I 41 in the US and started 8^th grade at Ditmas Middle School in Brooklyn, everyone was speaking a(n) 42 language I couldn’t understand. I ____ that life had subtitles, like in foreign movies. School was such a serious place here. Sometimes I felt like I was in a geek（呆子） class. The teachers were always ____ my moves so I couldn’t even throw a paper ball at a classmate’s head. And the worst thing was having to read ____
____ after almost seven months of complaining about everything, I realized that complaining didn’t change things. ____ just made my life worse. If I was going to _______________________ . I began to learn English by reading newspapers on my own ____school. After about four months, I started enjoying reading the crime and sports stories. After six months of studying, my teachers ____ my improvement and moved me into a more ____ English class. I could go to the store and ask for things that I wanted to buy without ____ frustration. For the first time I felt like I was living on earth again ____ .I didn’t hear foreign talk. I ____ understand people.1.

A．find

B．join

C．see

D．help

2.

A．good-looking

B．well-dressed

C．better-paying

D．highly-thought

3.

A．once

B．other

C．each

D．only

4.

A．case

B．condition

C．situation

D．state

5.

A．packing

B．trying

C．managing

D．arranging

6.

A．reached

B．entered

C．got

D．arrived

7.

A．strange

B．unusual

C．standard

D．foreign

8.

A．hoped

B．wished

C．expected

D．demanded

9.

A．staring

B．looking

C．checking

D．watching

10.

A．texts

B．newspapers

C．English

D．poems

11.

A．Although

B．Even if

C．But

D．Since

12.

A．It

B．They

C．I

D．Things

13.

A．live

B．study

C．survive

D．continue

14.

A．adapt

B．adopt

C．adore

D．admire

15.

A．for

B．in

C．after

D．at

16.

A．made

B．noticed

C．concerned

D．remember

17.

A．modern

B．advanced

C．difficult

D．convenient

18.

A．even

B．ever

C．some

D．any

19.

A．if

B．though

C．ever

D．because

20.

A．could

B．should

C．would

D．might