---You forgot your purse when you went out.

----Good heavens, ________.

1．            graduating from college, we got the chance to travel abroad.

2.When the war in Iraq broke out, they were concerned about their son          

  was working there.

3．Earthquake is one of the most terrible              (disaster).

4．A           (determine)person always tries to finish the job, no matter how hard   

   it is.

5．Do you know how many provinces the Yellow River           (flow)through?

6.   The time               I arrived was late at night.

7．I hope that the problem will              (settle) in a peaceful way.

8．The United States of America                (found)on July 4, 1776.

9．I prefer swimming to         (run)because staying in cool water is much more

   fun.

10．There was a hot            (discuss)because they each had different opinion.

Every _______ metres, there is a tall tree on either side of the street.

A. a few              B. another           C. few               D. other

 English words don’t stay the same. People need new words for new ideas and new inventions. Some new words come into use, and some old words are used in a new way.

      English can change by borrowing words from other languages. The word “tomato” was borrowed from Mexico, and “tea” came from China, and so on. Now a great many new space and science words are being borrowed from other countries, too. New words can be created in other ways. For example, some can be created by adding two words together. “Weekend” and “cookbook” are made up of two parts. Sometimes new words are shorter forms of old words. The word “photo” was made from “photograph” by cutting off the end of the longer word. “Plane” was made by cutting off the front part of “airplane”. The names of people and products can become new words. Our “sandwich” was named after a man named Sandwich and “sello(透明胶带)” was a name given by the company that first made the product.

 24. New English words are needed because       .

     A. people use old words in a new way.     B. people need a new way to speak

     C. the world is changing in a different way  D. new ideas and new inventions come about

 25. What can we know from the passage?

     A. New science words are shorter than the old ones.

     B. The best way to make a new word is adding words together.

     C. Some new English words are borrowed from other languages.

     D. Most new English words are the name of a person or a product.

 26. The main idea of the passage is that        .

     A. the English language is always changing     B. there are new ideas in English today

     C. people name new products and inventions    D. the change of languages goes on in the world

  27. This passage may most probably be taken from        .

     A. a story book  B. a science magazine  C. a business report  D. a TV advertisement

假如你叫王平，根据图表提示，给你的加拿大网友Smith 写一封信，介绍你的寒假生活（共20天），可根据自己的实际情况添加细节。

注意：1．词数：100左右； 2．开头已经给出，不计入总词数。

A boy called Mario loved to have many friends. He showed off （炫耀）a lot, always talking about how many friends he had at school. One day his grandpa said to him, “Mario, I bet you don’t have as many friends as you think. I am sure many of them are just acquaintances (泛泛之交).”

Mario disagreed with his grandpa. However, he wasn’t sure how he could test whether or not his schoolmates were real friends. Now his grandpa had something in his hand, but Mario could see nothing there. “Take it. It’s a very special chair. Because it’s unseen, it’s rather difficult to sit on. But if you take it to school and manage to sit on it, you’ll believe its magic (魔力) and be able to tell who your real friends are.”

Mario took the strange chair and set off for school. At break time he asked everyone to form a circle（圈）and put himself in the middle with his chair. Then Mario tried to sit on the chair but always missed and fell. Everyone had a pretty good laugh. He kept trying to sit on the magic chair, but kept falling to the ground. Suddenly, he tried again and didn’t fall. It was then that he finally experienced the magic. Looking around, Mario saw George, Lucas, and Diana holding him up so he wouldn’t fall. Meanwhile, many others he had thought of as friends had done nothing but laugh at him, enjoying each and every fall.

32.Mario disagreed with his grandpa because he       . 

     A. didn’t like his grandpa                  B. had many friends at school

     C. didn’t believe his grandpa’s words     D. liked to have friends and show off

33.Mario used the special chair to       .

     A. find his true friends                    B. make more new friends

     C. let his friends see his special ability   D. prove his grandpa was wrong 

34.What can we learn from Paragraph 3?

     A. George, Lucas, and Diana were tricked.

     B. George, Lucas, and Diana were Mario’s real friends.

     C. George, Lucas, and Diana would be ignored by others.

     D. George, Lucas, and Diana were able to see the magic chair.

35.The story mainly tells us that       .

     A. the elderly are really wise

B. laughing at a friend is impolite

     C. an unseen chair is really powerful

     D. true friends are those who care for us

   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。

(试题内容如下)

Dear Jeremy and Alice，

Although we've been delighted to have you as neighbors, we're hoping to settle

something that troubles to us. In a word, your dog—Cleo.

We've called several time about Cleo's early morning barking. It is difficult to

understanding why she barks every minute she's outside. The early morning barking

have been disturbing us as we are often up all night with the baby. Beside, Cleo tends to

bark a average of six hours a day. This morning she starts barking even before 5

o'clock. That is too much for us, considering how closely the houses are.

We appreciate our apologies and goodwill, but we hope that you can figure a

good way of settling the matter.

Sincerely,      

Jack and Rose 

Edwin Hubble made his most important discoveries in the 1920s. Today, other astronomers continue the work he began. Many of them are using the Hubble Space Telescope that is named after him.

Edwin Powell Hubble was born in 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri. He spent his early years in the state of Kentucky. Then he moved with his family to Chicago, in Louisville. He attended the University of Chicago. He studied mathematics and astronomy. Hubble was a good student. He was a good athlete, too. He was a member of the University of Chicago championship basketball team in 1909. He also was an excellent boxer. Several people urged him to train for the world heavyweight boxing championship after college. Instead, he decided to continue his studies. He went to Queen’s College at Oxford, England.

At Oxford, Hubble studied law. He was interested in British Common Law, because his family had come to America from England many years before. He spent three years at Oxford. In 1913, Hubble returned to the United States. He opened a law office in Louisville, Kentucky. After a short time, however, he decided he did not want to be a lawyer. He returned to the University of Chicago. There, once again, he studied astronomy. Edwin Hubble was the first person to use the Hale Telescope. He died in 1953 while preparing to spend four nights looking through the telescope at the sky.

Hubble’s work led to new researches on the birth of the universe. One astronomer said scientists have been filling in the details ever since. And, he said, there is a long way to go.

71．What would be the best title for this passage?

A．Edwin Hubble’s Life

B．Edwin Hubble’s Discoveries

C．The Hubble Space Telescope

D．Edwin Hubble—a Famous Lawyer

72．According to this passage Edwin Hubble was most interested in ________.

A．sports         B．law          C．astronomy        D．mathematics

73．Edwin Hubble returned to the University of Chicago because ________.

A．he was interested in British Common Law

B．he was eager to be a famous judge in future

C．his parents had been to Britain a few years before

D．he wanted to go on with the study of astronomy

74．Which of the following is the right order according to this passage?

a．He joined the University of Chicago championship basketball team.

b．He studied astronomy at the University of Chicago once again.

c．He moved to Louisville with his family.

d．He used the Hale Telescope to look at the sky.

e．He became a lawyer in Louisville for a short period of time.

A．c，a，b，d，e                 B．a，c，b，e，d

C．c，a，e，b，d                 D．a，b，d，e，c

75．From this passage we can know that ________.

A．The Hubble Space Telescope was made by Hubble himself

B．Edwin Powell Hubble went to Oxford, England in 1910

C．Edwin Powell Hubble grew up in Marshfield, Missouri

D．Hubble died while he was looking at the sky

    American high school students are terrible writers, and one education reform group thinks it has an answer: robots. Or, more accurately, robot-readers-computers programmed to scan student essays and spit out a grade.

 Mark Shermis, professor of the College of Education at the University of Akron, is helping to hold a contest, set up by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ( WFHF), which promises $ 100,000 in prize money to programmers who write the best automated grading software. "If you're a high school teacher and you give a writing task, you're walking home with 150 essays, " Shermis said, "You're going to need some help. "

Automated essay grading was first proposed in the 1960s, but computers back then were not up to the task. In the late 1990s, as technology improved, several textbook and testing companies jumped into the field. Today, computers are used to grade essays on South Dakota's student writing assessments and a handful of other exams, including the TOEFL test of English fluency, taken by foreign students.

The Hewlett contest aims to show that computers can grade as well as English teachers---- only much more quickly and without all that depressing red ink. Automated essay scoring is "objective," Shermis said, " And it can be done immediately. If students finish an essay at l0 pm, they get a result at 10 :00 pm . "

Take, for instance, the Intelligent Essay Assessor, a web-based tool marketed by Pearson Education, Inc. Within seconds it can analyze an essay for spelling, grammar, organization, and help students to make revisions. The program scans for key words and analyzes semantic (语义的) patterns , and Pearson claims that it can understand the meaning of text much the same as a human reader.

33.  The text is written to introduce________.

A. Hewlett contest                       B. education reform in America

C. robot-readers                         D. William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

34. What does the underlined phrase "spit out "in Paragraph I probably mean?

A. Analyze.              B. Organize.       C. Give.           D. Check.

35.  What does Paragraph 4 focus on?

A. The application of automated essay scoring.

B. The advantages of automated essay scoring.

C. The prize of Hewlett contest.

D. Teachers' opinions about Hewlett contest.

At the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris，the sport of canoe (划船) racing 61.________(add) to the list of international competition.

As the time for the Olympics neared，it became clear that Bill's wife would give birth to their first child when the US. canoe team would be competing 62.________ the Paris games. Bill was one member of that team and he found 63.________ in a dilemma. Should he go to Paris and risk not being at his wife's side when their baby was born? 64.________ should he withdraw from the team and remain with his family? Finally he decided to remain home，where he could support his wife when the child arrived.

65._______ it turned out，the United States canoe team won the gold medal in Paris. And Bill's wife was late in 66.________ (give) birth to their child. She was so late that Bill could have competed in the event. People said，“What 67.________ shame！”But Bill said he had no regret. Not everybody has the 68.________ (strong) to say no to something he or she truly wants in order 69.________ (say) yes to something that truly matters. But for Bill，he acted on what he believed was 70.________ (good)．

The villagers went out to the mountain                     the missing child.

A.in a search of                           B. looking after

C. searched for                           D. in search of

 “I’m at peace with it. I have no regrets.” Li Na posted this bittersweet statement about her retirement from professional tennis last Friday. During Sunday’s farewell news conference, she wiped tears from her face, revealing just how hard it was for her to come to this decision.

       The two-time Grand Slam champion, 32, has not played in a professional tournament since her third-round loss to the Czech Republic’s Barbora at Wimbledon 2014. In July, Li underwent a fourth surgery on her knee and said she hoped to be back for the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open, to be held in her hometown, but was unable to recover from her injuries.

       At the age of 17, Li went professional and began training in the state sports system. After the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, she made the life-changing decision to leave the national team.

       The aggressive player has since become one of the region’s biggest stars and the poster girl for the Women’s Tennis Association. After her win at the 2011 French Open, Li became the first player from Asia to win a Grand Slam singles title. She went on to claim another Grand Slam title at the Australian Open this past January. At the height of her career, she was ranked the world’s No.2 player behind Serena Williams from the US.

       Despite her tough performance on the court, Li won millions of admirers with her warm and charming personality outside the arena. Her frequent joking in courtside interviews about life with Jiang Shan, 34, her former coach and husband of eight years, helped her become a global icon.

       Li’s biggest accomplishment, however, is her contribution to the rise of tennis in China. Just a few years ago, the sport was still in its infancy. The number of female tennis events in China has shot up from 2 to 10 over the course of the past decade.

Li is more than a sports superstar. She’s an inspiration to millions. In that sense, she’s achieved more in her professional life than most can ever dream.

56. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

  A. The Best Tennis Player.    

  B. An Introduction to Li Na.

  C. A Legend Says “Goodbye”.

  D. Li Na Contributes a Lot to China.

57. Li Na’s biggest achievement is __________.

  A. to win a Grand Slam singles title.

  B. to promote tennis in China.

  C. to rank the world’s No.2 player.

  D. to become Asia’s biggest star.

58. We can learn from the passage that Li Na __________.

  A. took part in the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open and won at last.

  B. left the national team before the Beijing Olympic Games.

  C. won three-time Grand Slam championships.

  D. was admired by millions for her enthusiastic and appealing character.

59. What do the underlined words “shot up” in Para.6 probably mean?

A. Improved greatly.                     B. Rose dramatically.                

C. Appeared quickly.                    D. Occurred suddenly.

Though they are brothers,they have nothing         .

A.in fact       B.at present        C.in common         D.in touch

   I grew up in an area where the natural disaster I was really concerned about was earthquakes. Besides the fire drills(演习) we had each year at school, we also had earthquakes drills. Luckily, there are a few things we can do to prepare for an earthquake.

   At home, I think we can fasten heavy objects to our walls. We can buy hooks at our local hardware store. When we fasten them to the walks, we should make sure we follow the instructions.

   When we put objects on shelves, we should make sure they are not heavy or that they cannot hurt somebody when they fall off. This is especially important in bedrooms, as when we are awakened due to an earthquake, our reaction time may be slow. We will want to make sure that we don’t have objects that will fall directly on to the bed.

   For homes with children, I think parents should teach them what to do during an earthquake. Parents should show them how to get under a table during a quake. Another safe place is an inside doorframe. Parents should teach their children not to go near glass or other unsafe area during the quake. I think they should also teach children what to do if they are ever trapped after an earthquake.

   If we are in a structure, which has suffered considerable damage, I think we should try to move outside after the quake. As we go outside, we should make sure that we are aware of fallen power lines and other dangers. Broken gas mains are another serious danger after a quake.

   This is an emergency where it is important to have a family’s emergency action plan in place. Most likely a family will not be together during an earthquake. If each one can remember what they are supposed to do in this situation, then they will have an easier time finding and picking up each other.

24. We learn that in the area where the author grew up, __________.

   A. wild fries break out frequently

   B. people are not afraid of earthquakes

   C. earthquakes are very likely to occur

   D. many kinds of natural disasters take place

25. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the text?

   A. Fastening heavy objects to the walls

   B. Building strong houses for earthquakes

   C. Avoiding putting heavy things on shelves

   D. Getting out of a damaged building quickly

26. What does the author think of staying inside a doorframe during an earthquake?

   A. It’s challenging          B. It’s deadly

   C. It’s safe                D. It’s a bi risky

27. The last paragraph mainly shows the importance of ___________.

   A. staying together as a family in an earthquake

   B. having a family’s emergency action plan in place

   C. finding and picking up each other after an earthquake

   D. staying calm and knowing what to do in an earthquake

1.      I didn’t leave until he came.

It was ______  ________ he came that I left.

2.      Come here at once when you finish the work.

Come here ______ ______ ______ you finish the work.

3.      I spent an hour walking there.

______ ______ ______ an hour to walk there.

4.      Their conversation was full of humour.

Their conversation ______ ______ ______ humour.

5.      We started early in order to get there on time.

We started early ______ ______ we could get there on time.

    Today I kept a promise and had lunch with a friend I had not seen for a while. I was extremely tired  61  school, work and my 5-hour art lab I had just come from and I  62  (real) wanted to go home after a long day. But I kept my promise not   63  (upset) my friend this evening.

    As it turned out, we had such a good time that I stayed   64  (long) than I had planned and saw how much the occasion   65  (mean) to my friend. We usually have been busy with our own daily life, and it felt as if we had never had such  66  long break.

     I extremely wanted to go home and hide under the covers today But in  67  (keep) my promise to meet with a friend, I not only was kind to another person,  68   was also kind to myself.

    I got some much  69  (need) self-care out of the occasion and was able to make the day of another person meaningful-someone who had just been as busy as me and still kept his promise to have dinner with  70  (I).

—I just can't stop worrying about the result of the job interview.

    —________.There's nothing you can do now but wait.

A．Relax  B．Go ahead  C．Go for it  D．Good luck

  There are altogether 6 people in the room, the baby________.

A. include           B. including     C. included       D. to include

 Only after talking to two students _____ that having strong motivation is one of the biggest factors in reaching goals.
   A.I did discover                                   B.did I discover
   C.I discovered                              D.discovered I

Christmas Eve was tomorrow. I hoped one of the packages that held a camera had already been placed under the Christmas tree. It was the only thing I wanted. I had been dropping hints to my parents. I love taking photos. My bedroom walls are covered with photos I had taken with my mom’s old camera. I’m always trying to capture (捕捉) those perfect moments in which you can hear the laughter or touch the beautiful scene, but my camera has always seemed to fall short. 

I knew Mom had put a few presents under the tree this morning, so I went on a hunt in my mom’s room. I opened the door and found my Christmas present was lying unwrapped on the floor — a big pink cat. I felt so disappointed.

Mom seemed to notice that, and she tried to cheer me up. “Stacy, I got your present today. I am so excited to surprise you!” “I can’t wait,” I said. The next day I couldn’t wait any longer. I needed to tell her.

 “Mom, may I talk to you for a second?” 

“Sure, dear. What do you need to talk about?” she asked.

And so it came — how upset I was that I was getting a cat. 

“Stacy, that cat is for your sister Julia!” she said with a smile.

“Then what am I getting?” I asked.

She just smiled. “You’ll have to wait and see.” 

Next morning, I happily got into the living room and sat next to the tree. I pulled out the box with my name on it and opened the wrapping paper to find ...

   My camera! “Thank you!” I said to both Dad and Mom.

 Dad picked up the camera and took a picture of Julia, Mom and me. It has become one of my favorite pictures. Just on that Christmas morning, I took lots of photos with my camera — my little sister making a face, my parents giving me a soft smile — and all of these photos have come to mean one thing to me: love.

25. The underlined phrase “dropping hints” in Para-graph 1 means _____.

A. talking often        B. suggesting indirectly

C. sending presents     D. taking pictures

26. Why did Stacy feel disappointed at first?

A. Her mother couldn’t understand her at all.

B. Her mother didn’t buy her any Christmas gift.

C. She mistook her sister’s Christmas gift for hers.

D. She didn’t find her present in her mom’s room.

27. We can learn from the passage that _____.

A. her mother bought Stacy a camera after discovering her disappointment

B. her mother knew what gift Stacy wanted for Christmas

C. Stacy thought it’s OK to have an old camera

D. Stacy finally got her gift on Christmas Eve

28. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. A Christmas gift as wished     B. Love is more important than gifts

C. A wonderful Christmas.       D. Love can not be bought