—I’d love to make friends with the boy _______ you think is easy to _______.

—OK. I’ll introduce you to him at the party.

A. who; get on with                           B. whom; get along with

C. whom; get on with him                   D. who; get along with him

The English language has many ways to talk about something that is funny. __16__ It is a basic human need. Physical humour, especially, can cross limits like nationality and language and bring people together from all different walks of life.

Humour comes in many forms. The most obvious and traditional way we use humour is in jokes. __17__This is when a person changes a word or uses it in a different context(上下文) for comic effect.

Another way people can use humour is through telling a funny story. Perhaps something bad happened to the person but they can laugh about it now. People also invent funny stories in order to make people laugh. The advantage of this is that the characters aren’t real. __18__

  Physical comedy usually divides opinions. For some, seeing someone fall down, whether it is planned or not, is one of the funniest things they can see. __19__ Some types of humour can also be harmful if someone is not in the mood for being made fun of！People’s senses of humour vary across the world, so what may be funny in your country might be incredibly harmful in another!

__20__ The British, for instance, are famous for their humour in English. However, people learning a foreign language face much difficulty when it comes to being funny in a second language.

A.       Humour is just one of the ways.

B.       Everyone needs to laugh once in a while.

C.       Other forms of humour are word play and puns(双关语).

D.       Therefore, you don’t have to feel bad for laughing at them!

E.       People of all ages and cultures have a strong sense of humour.

F.       Most people know how to use some form of humour in their native languages.

G.      For others, finding physical humour and non-serious accidents funny seems cruel. 

Before making my decision,      your family to find out which activities are the most important to you.

A. content    B. concern

C. consult    D. combine

Would you be          to pick me up at four o’clock and take me to the airport?

       A．available           B．convenient       C．accessible        D．possible

The Canadian red and white maple leaf flag is  61  ( office)called The National Flag of Canada.   62   Canadian flag is twice as long  63  it is wide.

The red and white   64  (use) in the National Flag of Canada were proclaimed the official colors of Canada in 1921 by King George V. In the early days ,the Royal Union flag, or the union Jack, was still flown in Canada. In 1925 and again in 1946,  Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King tried to get a   65  (nation) flag of Canada  66  failed. In 1964, Prime Minister Lester Pearson ordered a team of 15-member  67 (come) up with the design of a new flag for Canada. The team  68 (give) six weeks to complete its task.

 George Stanley, a professor at Royal Military College in Kingston brought forward a suggestion   69 a red and white single maple leaf should be added to the Canadian flag. After a heated_70 ___(discuss), they finally decided on his suggestion.

Three men traveling on a train began a conversation about the world’s greatest wonders.

“In my opinion,” the first man said, “ the Egyptian pyramids are the world’s greatest wonders. Although they were built thousands of years ago, they are still standing. And remember: the people who built them had only simple tools. They did not have the kind of machinery that builders and engineers have today.”

“I agree that the pyramids in Egypt are wonderful,” the second man said, “but I do not think they are the greatest wonders. I believe computers are more wonderful than the pyramids. They have taken people to the moon and brought them back safely. In seconds, they carry out mathematical calculations that would take a person a hundred years to do.”

He turned to the third man and asked, “ What do you think is the greatest wonder in the world?”

The third man thought for a long time, and then he said,” well, I agree that the pyramids are wonderful, and I agree that computers are wonderful, too. However, in my opinion, the most wonderful thing in the world is this thermos.”

And he took a thermos out of his bag and held it up.

The other two men were very surprised, “ A thermos?” they wondered, “But that’s a simple thing.”

“Oh, no, it’s not,” the third man said, “ In the winter you put in a hot drink and it stays hot. In the summer you put in a cold drink and it stays cold. How does the thermos know whether it’s winter or summer?”

71. The word “thermos” means “_______” in Chinese.

A.电冰箱        B.洗衣机         C.电风扇         D.保温瓶

72. The three men could not agree on what the world’s greatest wonder was because ______.

A.      they could not think of anything very wonderful

B.      they all had different ideas

C.     they could not prove that their opinions were right

D.     the journey ended too soon

73. The first man thought the pyramids were the most wonderful things in the world because ________.

A. they were very beautiful           B. they were Egyptian

C. they had been built with very simple tools

D. they could do mathematical calculations

74. The third man thought a thermos was the most wonderful thing in the world because _______.

A.. it lasted longer than the pyramids

B. it cost less than a computer

C. he thought it knew whether it was winter or summer

D. the other two men were surprised when he told them about it

75. The third man was not very clever because ________.

A.      he could not think of anything to say

B.      he did not understand how a thermos works

C.     he did not think the pyramids were wonderful

D.     he did not know anything about computers

本学期学校积极鼓励同学们创建属于我们学生自己的社团组织，其中包括文娱社团、体育社团、棋艺社团、书画社团、摄影社团、志愿者社团、文学社团、心理社团、科技创新社团。请同学们就此写一篇英语短文。

内容要点：1. 你准备参加哪个社团；

          2. 你参加该社团的原因；

          3. 你参加该社团想实现的目标。

要求：  1. 短文须写在答题卡的指定区域。     

        2. 短文词数不少于100（不含已写好的部分）。

        3. 内容充实，结构完整，语意连贯，详略得当。   

        4. 书写须清晰、工整。

参考词汇：

文娱社团 the entertainment club、体育社团 the PE club、棋艺社团 the chess club、书画社团 the drawing club、摄影社团 the photography club、志愿者社团 the volunteer club、文学社团 the literature club、心理社团 the psychology club 、科技创新社团 the science-technology creation club

    假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有l 0处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及单词的增加、删除或修改。

    增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号∧，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

    删除：把多余的词用斜线＼划掉。

    修改：在错词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：l、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

      2、只允许修改l0处，多者从第11处不计分。

   Failure is common in our life. No one can avoid them. When we fail to do something, we often feel very depressing. Sometimes failure can make us lose hearts. So no one are willing to fail. On a contrary, success can bring us a sense of pride. If one enjoys his continuous success in his career, he will have confidence to himself. Therefore, failure is the mother of success. A failure doesn’t mean one can never be successfully. Those who are always afraid of failure they will never succeed. In a word, as long as we can get some lessons and experiences from our failure, we’ll be sure to succeed.

61. I went back home ____________(庆祝)my grandfather’s birthday last week.

62. People usually begin_________ (为...准备)the celebration a week before the festival.

63. I’m afraid I’ve__________(迷路).could you tell me where I am.

64. Does this road __________(通向)the Great Wall?

65. _________(在古代)，when the enemy came,soldiers would make fires or smoke to send alarm signals from here.

 Please ______ these money and I’m sure they will ______ more than 10,000 yuan.

A. add; add up                   B. add up; add up to

C.  add up; add up          D. add; add up to

 Anyone        has finished the work will be allowed to go home.

A. that        B. who              C which                     D. whom

    Mr. Green is quiet and doesn't like talking with people. He likes reading newspapers and playing computer games. He never exercises. Sometimes he watches soccer or basketball games on TV. He likes milk very much and drinks it three times a day.

    Mrs. Green is a bank clerk.It's a busy but boring job. She works with people and money every day. So she is always tired after work. She likes to take a good rest and goes to bed early after dinner. Usually she goes to bed at 8:30 in the evening and gets up at 6:30 in the morning. Mr. Green is very happy with that. But Mrs. Green isn't, because Mr. Green always talks in her sleep.

    One morning, Mr. Green sat at table and had breakfast. Mrs. Green asked him,“Why do you always talk in your sleep?”Mr. Green said,“Because I have few chances to talk in the daytime ”

    The next morning after their children all went to school, Mrs. Green asked Mr. Green angrily,“Why did you scold(骂）me in your sleep last night?”“Because I'm afraid to do it when I'm awake（醒着的）.”

28．Mr. Green doesn't like ________.

   A .talking to people            B. playing computer games

   C. reading newspapers            D. watching TV

29 .Where does Mrs. Green work?

   A. In a computer company   B. In a bank  C. In a hotel    D. In a hospital

30．Mrs.Green usually sleeps____ _hours every night.

   A. ten        B. nine       C. eight       D. seven

31．Mrs.Green was angry with Mr. Green because he__________.

  A. went to work without breakfast

  B. didn't talk to her the night before

  C. didn't send their children to school

  D. scolded her in his sleep the night before

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号 （^），并在此符号下面写出改加的词。

   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：每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

61. I have some difficulty in speaking and write in English.

62. It was in 1949 when the war ended.

63. Great changes have taken place in our school since you leave.

64. Our geography teacher told us the earth went around the sun.

65. He didn’t go to school because his illness.

66. We could make the full use of our resources.

67. The number of guests invited are more than 500.

68. I prefer to study English rather than to study maths.

69. They insisted that he could be present at the ceremony..

70. The chair is comfortable to sit.

 The person changed his clothes and wore dark glasses to avoid __________

A. being recognized                 B. recognized    

C. to be recognized                  D. recognizing

A little girl was enjoying the beauty of the garden in her home. Her father had several precious plants. He grew them with great care.

The girl was amazed by a plant full of fine flowers. She went near the plant and enjoyed the beauty of its flowers. Suddenly she noticed that the plant was growing in a heap of filth (污垢). She could not stand the presence of dirt at the bottom of the plant with such beautiful flowers.

She worked out a plan to clean the plant. She pulled the plant with all her strength and uprooted it. She then carried it to the room and washed the roots in water till all traces of dirt were washed away. She then placed the plant on a clean stone and went away, thinking that she had done a great thing.

Later, her father came to the garden and saw the uprooted plant. Its flowers and leaves had withered (枯萎的) and the plant had almost died in the sun. His little daughter ran to him to show him her achievement. “I have cleaned it, Daddy,” she said happily. “It was planted in dirty soil. Now it is clean.”

The father showed her how her treatment had almost killed the plant. He told her that he had collected the filthy soil and used it to cover the plant’ s roots, as it was the best way to grow that plant. It could grow up healthily and produce fine flowers only if grown in filthy soil. So he put the plant into the dirt again. The girl was sad that the plant had suffered and withered by her cleaning.

29. How did the girl feel when she saw the dirt at the bottom of the plant?

   A. Surprised and happy.

   B. Sick and shocked.

   C. Fortunate and satisfied.

   D. Frightened and helpless.

30. How did the father respond to his daughter’s behavior?

   A. He criticized and punished her.

   B. He taught her how to protect plants.

   C. He explained to her what she had done was wrong.

   D. He told her to grow the same plant again.

31.Why did the girl feel sad?

   A. She should have followed her father’s advice.

   B. She shouldn’t have washed the dirty soil away.

   C. She should have helped her father collect the soil.

   D. She shouldn’t have been so careless.

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

   A. A Girl’s Great Achievement

   B. A Poor Father and His Daughter

   C. A Little Girl and The Plant

   D. A Dirty Plant

（1）We are _______(搞运动)for equal rights for women.

（2）Take some time and o_______ how you value yourself and what you do.

（3）The movie is i_______ for adults only.

（4）He________(递送)the checks to the bank.

（5）They s___________ through two years of the worst time.

（6）Heat ­­_________(使扩张)most metals

（7）If you f_________ the sun's rays on dry wood with a burning-glass, it will start burning. 

（8）We ­­­_________(出口) tractors from the East Coast to several African countries every year. 

（9）It rained and ____________( 所以) the football match was postponed..

（10）The young lady b__________ bravely in the face of danger. 

I find______difficult for us to understand old English today.

  A． it         B． that       C． there           D．this

A scanner is recently created by a group of professors. It is believed to predict the perfect job for anyone simply by reading their fingerprints. The group says that in the future, fingerprints could help tell a person’s key personalities.

To use the scanner, people place their fingers upon the fingerprint reader and computer technology connected with sensors (传感器) reads back what sort of job could suit the individual. The machine bases its results on a collection of a large amount of information in the computer about how fingerprint shapes connect with job selection.

Local companies help researchers from the city’s Kuban University of Physical Education and Sport to test the technology.

Twenty - one - year - old Oscar Galkin, a mathematics graduate, said: “I got the result from the scanner that I would suit a job in IT, which is exactly what I want to do. I don’t know if it is luck or if it can really read a person’s talents, but it worked for me.”

And Zara Tokareva, aged 20, who feels uncomfortable at the sight of blood, said: “I want to be a house designer but the machine said I should be a nurse. So, no, I don’t think it is as clever as expected.”

Though fingerprint identification has been widely used in crime discovering, it is still a science that has a lot of possibility of being used, say experts, from discovering drug misuse to personality analysis - exactly as hand readers have been saying to do for centuries.

“The basic idea is that although everybody’s fingerprints are completely different, there are obvious features that are common on the fingers of certain professionals working in certain jobs,” said researcher Ravil Yudin.

It’s not really a new idea because hand readers have been saying for hundreds of years that you can tell a person’s future by reading their hands. We want to match that by looking at fingerprints and trying to tell what career path people would choose.

33. From the text we know that the fingerprint scanner       .

A. matches fingerprints with jobs                                        B. tells people’s personality

C. helps collect job information                                    D. reads individual’s mind

34. What can we learn from what Ravil Yudin said?

A. The fingerprint scanner is based on a new idea.

B. Cerain people’s fingers actually have something in common.

C. Telling one’s future by reading his hands started a few years ago.

D. The technology of fingerprint identification can be used in many fields.

35. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Hand readers are widely used in life.

B. A fingerprint scanner could tell a person’s personality.

C. A fingerprint scanner could predict a person’s job.

D. A fingerprint scanner could be used in crime discovering.

Dick was a twenty-year-old man. His father was a teacher and taught chemistry in a middle school and his mother worked in a shop. They lived a happy life until his parents died one night when suddenly an earthquake broke out. All that happened on his sixth birthday. Luckily his sister who was two years senior to him took him to see their aunt in the city and they did not stay at home. Everything was destroyed in the earthquake and the two children got into trouble. Thanks to their aunt who was not rich enough, they grew up but they lived a hard life. His sister was so sad that she became a nun(修女). After he finished middle school, he was introduced to an owner of a hotel and began to work there.
　  One day the young man fell to the ground while he was cleaning a window on the second floor. He was sent to the hospital and the doctor looked him over. One of his legs was broken and he had to be in hospital. He said to the nurse, “I’m a poor man, madam. Arrange a third-class ward(病房) for me, please.”
“Can’t anybody help you?”
“No, madam,” answered Dick. “I have only a sister. She’s a nun and she’s poor, too.”
“I don’t think so,” the nurse said angrily. “Nuns usually marry God. And God is the richest in the world, you know!”
“Well, then, ” Dick said with a smile. “Please arrange a first-class ward for me and post the bill to my brother-in-law.”
51. How old was Dick’s sister when the earthquake happened? 
   A. 6      B. 8      C.10      D.12  
52. The sister and brother lived a hard life because ____________.
　 A. they lost all as a result of the earthquake   B. they were too young
　 C. they were hurt in the earthquake 　　　  D. they had to look after themselves
53. Dick asked the nurse not to arrange a first-class ward for him because __________.
   A. he used to live in a simple room　　　
   B. he wanted to save some money for his sister
   C. he liked to stay with the poor　　　　
   D. he hadn’t got enough money to pay for the bill
54. Which of the following is true?
   A. The nurse would arrange a third-class ward for Dick.
   B. The nurse would arrange a first-class ward for Dick.
   C. The nurse would post Dick’s bill to God.
   D. Dick had a rich brother-in-law.
55. From the story, we know that the boy is very           . 
   A. silly    B. kind      C. humorous   D. lucky

    Will it matter if you don't take your breakfast? Recently a test was given in the United States. Those tested included people of different ages, from 12 to 83. During the experiment, these people were given all kinds of breakfasts, and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Special tests were set up to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast. The results show that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect than if he or she has no breakfast. This fact appears to be especially true if a person works with his brains. If a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with more attention to class.

    Opposite to what many people believe, if you don't eat breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch, and end up gaining weight instead of losing. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.

5. During the test, those who were tested were given ________.

A. no breakfast at all

B. very rich breakfast

C. little food for breakfast

D. different breakfast or none

6. The results of the test show that ________.

A. breakfast has great effect on work and studies

B. breakfast has little to do with a  person's work

C. a person will work better if he has a simple breakfast

D. those working with brains should have much for breakfast

7. The passage mentions that many people believe that if you don't eat breakfast, you will _________.

A. lose weight        

B. not lose weight

C. be healthier         

D. gain a lot of weight

8. Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

A. Poor breakfasts affect those who work with brains.

B. Morning diet may cause one to get fatter.

C. Reducing lunch and supper is of less value in weight losing.

D. Eating less in lunch and supper may help to lose weight.