1 . Justin Bieber may have millions of fans worldwide, but Russia’s bears don’t appear to admire the pop singer’s music --- which proved fortunate for one lucky fisherman.
Igor Vorozhbitsyn had his life saved by a Justin Bieber ringtone, when his mobile phone went off during a dangerous attack by a brown bear.
The 42-year-old was attacked as he was walking to a favourite fishing spot in northern Russia’s Yakutia Republic and firmly believed that he was going to be killed.
Wildlife experts believe the ringtone must have frightened the bear into stopping its attack.
‘Sometimes a sharp shock can stop an angry bear in its attack and that ringtone would be a very unexpected sound for a bear,’ explained one．
Mr Vorozhbitsyn suffered from cuts and severe wounds and was rescued when he was found by other fishermen after using the phone to call for help.
Mr Vorozhbitsyn ---now recovering from his wounds---explained: ‘I had parked my car and was walking towards the spot I’d marked out when there was a tremendous impact on my back and the bear was on top of me.’
‘I couldn’t believe my luck when the phone went off and it run away.’
‘I know that sort of ringtone isn’t to everyone’s taste but my granddaughter loaded it onto my phone for a joke,’ he added.
Adult brown bears can weigh as much as 600kg and have been known to kill wolves and even Siberian tigers.
Finally, this is a proof that Justin Bieber is unbearable
1. Igor Vorozhbitsyn was attacked when____.

A．he was fishing at his favourite fishing spot.

B．he was walking towards his favourite fishing spot.

C．he was phoning his granddaughter.

D．he was driving to his favourite fishing spot.

2. The bear stopped attacking because___.

A．Justin Bieber came to rescue Igor Vorozhbitsyn.

B．Justin Bieber sang to it.

C．Justin Bieber’s ringtone was a sudden fright to it.

D．Igor Vorozhbitsyn’s mobile phone was a sudden fright to it.

3. What is the writer’s attitude towards Justin Bieber?

A．positive

B．negative

C．neutral (中立的)

D．not mentioned

4. What does the last paragraph imply?

A．Justin Bieber’s music is popular all over the world.

B．Justin Bieber’s music is life-saving.

C．Justin Bieber’s music is threatening.

D．Even bears cannot stand Justin Bieber’s music.

2 . Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact ____ she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished ____ a driving offence (犯规，犯法). Then one day she nearly ____ her record. A police car ____ her, and the policemen in it saw her ____a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed ____ that she would be punished____Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was ____ old to drive a car, and that the ____why she had not stopped at the red ____ was most probably that her eyes had become weak ____ old age, so that she had simply not seen it. When the judge had finished what he was ____, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was ____ and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she ____ a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt. When she had ____ done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was dismissed, and her record remained unbroken.1.

A．which

B．when

C．that

D．this

2.

A．about

B．on

C．to

D．for

3.

A．kept

B．won

C．missed

D．lost

4.

A．watched

B．after

C．followed

D．ran after

5.

A．pass

B．go

C．run

D．rush

6.

A．sure

B．indeed

C．certain

D．perhaps

7.

A．Before

B．While

C．Until

D．When

8.

A．so

B．very

C．too

D．quite

9.

A．cause

B．reason

C．matter

D．trouble

10.

A．light

B．lamp

C．sign

D．one

11.

A．with

B．because

C．for

D．of

12.

A．speaking

B．saying

C．talking

D．telling

13.

A．holding

B．getting

C．carrying

D．bringing

14.

A．took

B．brought

C．picked

D．chose

15.

A．almost

B．hardly

C．successfully

D．successful

3 . The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California, US. “____station? A train for Santa Fe collided (相撞) a ____at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please come here at once. With an ambulance, too. A man is badly wounded,” said an anxious voice of a young woman.
“OK. We’ll come soon. Please stay there and wait.” Replied the policeman.
Within a minute, a police car and an ambulance____off. Soon they got to the crossing, but only to find everything was fine. No collision, no wounded man.
“What a dirty____!” said the policeman angrily. “ We must find out that woman and…”
They had not been able to say anything about a____when they heard the whistle of a train was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden, a truck appeared. It came____towards them, too. When it was passing the crossing, it suddenly____to move on. Right then and there, before the eyes of all the people present, the train collided with the truck heavily and struck it dozens of metres away.
When Randolph Bruce, the driver, was helped out of the damaged truck, he was badly wounded just as the young woman had predicted on the phone. As he was taken to hospital in time, he was____at last. Later the police did whatever they could to____the woman who had____them, but failed.
It is really ____that a prediction should agree with the fact so____1.

A．Weather

B．Railway

C．Fire

D．Police

2.

A．bus

B．truck

C．taxi

D．train

3.

A．turned

B．took

C．set

D．walked

4.

A．call

B．signal

C．trick

D．arrangement

5.

A．reward

B．praise

C．thanks

D．punishment

6.

A．turning

B．running

C．starting

D．passing

7.

A．continued

B．refused

C．began

D．stopped

8.

A．saved

B．dead

C．awake

D．alive

9.

A．find

B．attack

C．award

D．thank

10.

A．laughed

B．visited

C．repeated

D．telephoned

11.

A．exciting

B．pleasing

C．surprising

D．interesting

12.

A．equally

B．truly

C．exactly

D．carefully

4 .      No one knows yet the accurate number of lives which have been lost in this terrible fire. But reports suggest that it is more than one hundred.
     A wall of flames fifty feet high and at least one hundred and fifty miles wide is now racing towards the forests and rich farmlands of southern Victoria . Towns less than one hundred miles from Melbourne will be in danger unless the wind changes . People are rushing excitedly into the streets . The police have warned them not to see the fire but many people are doing so .
     The cause of the fire is unknown . No rain has fallen in this part of Australia for three months , and the hot , north-west wind from the great central desert is blowing at more than thirty miles an hour .
     The firefighters are travelling to the fire by road , rail and air . But it is not easy to get there . Flames and fallen trees have cut off or blocked roads and railway lines . The thick smoke often prevents them from finding the air strips (飞机跑道).
     It is said that the fire has brought the greater danger to the country since the Second World War .
1. By the time the article was written , the fire        .

A．had just broken out	B．had been put out
C．was spreading violently	D．was coming to an end

2. The writer wrote this article mainly to tell people        .

A．the fire was terrible and dangerous

B．it was impossible to put out the fire

C．more than one hundred people died of the fire

D．to join in the fight against the fire

3. In the 4th paragraph , the writer suggested that        .

A．the fire would soon be controlled by the firefighters

B．it would be very difficult to put out the fire

C．the government was paying great attention to the fire

D．the fire had caused great losses and the airport was in ganger

4. The underlined word “ accurate” in the first sentence has the same meaning as        .

A．recent

B．whole

C．rough

D．exact

5 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌中间交换修改作文，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。

It was 7:15 in the morning of February 8, 2007. I was walking along Park Road towards the east while an old man came out of the park on the other sides of the street. Then I saw a yellow car drive up Third Street and made a right turn into Park Road. The next moment the car hit the man while she was crossing the road. He fell with a cry. The car didn’t stop and drive off at full speed heading west. I noticed the driver was young woman wore a pair of glasses and the plate number was AC864. After two minutes later, I stopped a passed car and took the old man to the nearest hospital.

6 . A teenage girl is fighting for her life today after being struck by lightning as severe thunderstorms swept across Britain. The girl was one of four teenage girls from London who were hit by lightning in the Parade Ground area of Hyde Park during a storm. Earlier, Joseph Wharton, 14, died as he was struck by lightning while camping in his friend’s backyard in the West Midlands.

A spokesman for Scotland Yard said the girl remained in serious condition at St. Mary’s Hospital in Paddington. She had stopped breathing by the time the first paramedic(护理人员) arrived on the scene just two minutes after the strike at 5:40 p.m. yesterday.

The other three girls hit by the bolt all had injuries, and were taken to University College Hospital. Their conditions were not serious, the spokesman added.

The strike lifted the girls into the air and then dropped them to the ground, a witness reported.

A spokesman for the London Ambulance Service said paramedics risked their lives to treat the girls. “The storm was still overhead and lightning was still coming down while they were treating the patients,” he said. “All staff involved acted very professionally in providing fast treatment to these patients in very difficult circumstances.” Scotland Yard said the incident was being looked into by officers from the Royal Parks’ Operational Command Unit.

Joseph Wharton of Byland Way, Bloxwich, was hit during the extended thunderstorm which struck the region yesterday morning. He was pronounced dead at Walsall Manor Hospital.

He had been sleeping in a tent while staying with school friend Michael Lees at a house on nearby Cresswell Crescent.

West Midlands Ambulance Service said paramedics were called at 7:50 a.m. and unsuccessful attempts were made to revive(使苏醒) the sports-mad teenager. A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said four or five people die each year as a result of lightning strikes in the UK.

1. All four girls________.

A．were killed by the lightning	B．were seriously injured
C．were being treated at the same hospital	D．were lifted up and dropped to the ground

2. The underlined word “bolt” probably means “________”.

A．thunder	B．rain
C．storm	D．lightning

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The boy was killed after the four girls had been hit.

B．The paramedics began to treat the girls after taking them to the hospital.

C．First-aid was given to the girls during the storm.

D．The boy was hit by lightning in the Parade Ground area of Hyde Park.

4. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A．many British people die from lightning strikes every year

B．the writer blames the government for the accident

C．the paramedics could also have been hit by lightning while aiding the girls

D．Joseph had been playing in the open air before the strike

5. This passage is probably taken from a ________.

A．magazine	B．newspaper
C．science fiction	D．weather report