– I wonder if you could go with me to the cinema.

   --- Don’t disturb me. I ______ a composition all the morning and haven’t finished it yet.

  A. write             B. was writing       C. have written             D. have been writing

Planning a September trip to France

    September is one of the very best months to visit France．Not only will you enjoy plenty of sunshine and warm weather, but the tourist season is beginning to wind down-which means cheaper airfares, lower prices at hotels, and fewer crowds．36   

    ●Go wine tasting

    37  And there are plenty of wine-related events and festivals around the country．So September is a great time to visit the vineyards around the country and go wine tasting．The Bordeaux, Loire and Burgundy regions are all lovely and great places to visit vineyards．Besides that, going to the castles of the Loire region in between visiting vineyards on such warm and Sunny days is also very enjoyable．

    ●  38

    The temperatures are slightly lower，but plenty of sunshine makes for perfect conditions to enjoy a barge cruise on the canals of France．With such comfortable weather and beautiful scenery at this time of year, nothing equals hanging out on the deck of a barge．

   ●Visit the museums

   Many museums in France have extended opening hours during the summer to accommodate the extra tourists and locals. And some museums also have extended opening hours into September．Wandering around the Louvre will take you into a wonder world，where you can enjoy the world-famous art．  39

   Besides the above，riding a bike through France’s villages is also a welcome activity for young visitors in September．You call shop for the most fashionable clothes or goods here．You can see the beautiful and fantastic scenery along the road．  40

A．Take a barge cruise.

 B．Enjoy the music concerts.

C．So, don’t hesitate and start to plan your September trip to France flow!

D．France is a beautiful country．

E．September is the beginning of the grape harvest season in France．

F．Going out of the Louvre, you can walk to the modern and fashionable Champs Elysees to do some shopping．

G．If this is your first trip to France, here is some handy information to help you get started planning your vacation!

Do you have a hobby? Something you look forward to spending your time with? Something you love to do?   36   Or making useful things out of waste materials. It could be a musical instrument(乐器) that you love playing. Or singing and dancing.

There are many things that a hobby can give you, in addition to an enjoyable time. Tom was a shy boy but through his interest in model airplanes he learned the value of sticking to a task until it was finished.   37   His model airplane club brought him to get into touch with similar persons.

Having a hobby helps you relax and get away from the routines of school.   38   It gives you focus, self-dependence, confidence and builds your personality and this is an opportunity to lose yourself in an interesting activity, away from the pressure of school, so at the end of it, you feel relaxed and mentally charged.

Your hobby defines(确定; 解释) you.   39   And it also shows you what you are good at, and how far you can go, when you devote yourself to it.

  40   A hobby is:

Happiness: something which you look forward to doing. Opportunity: to develop your special and unique skills and celebrate them. Belief in yourself: makes you understand your strong advantages and improves your confidence. Best in you: brings out your best – for in each one of us there is a best that is only ours.

A. It could be collecting something.

B. It proves your ability.

C. He learned to make friends for the first time.

D. So go ahead and develop a hobby.

E. It gives you a break.

F. Hobbies show your character.

G. It shows your special skills.

     Almost all of us have been there: A sense of unease(不安) strikes us when we see the battery

running low on the smartphone. It can sometimes turn out to be a nightmare (噩梦) as the gadget

suddenly gives up in the middle of a conversation or when we are halfway through the route we are

navigating(导航)。

     While today's smartphones enable us to surf the Internet, take pictures and play music, their

limited, sometimes annoyingly short battery life has started to make people nostalgic about early

models.  "My favorite phone of all time was a sliver Nokia 6310i from the early 2000s. It may be

primitive by today's standards, but it could run for 17days on a single charge," wrote Daily Mail

columnist David Derbyshire.

     But scientists spend no time thinking about the past. They have built an aluminium(铝) battery

which "could be cheap, fast- charging alternative to current designs," reported the BBC on April 17.

You can flex(弯曲), squeeze, and practically bend it in half without breaking the packet. According

to the Daily Mail, it is more environmentally friendly than alkaline (碱性的) batteries-it won't

catch fire  "even if you drill (钻孔) through it", as Hongjie Dai of Stanford University told The

Telegraph. The battery is the work of a team led by Dai. And the best part is that, according to The

Telegraph, it has a recharge time of around one minute.

     Their findings have been published in the UK journal Nature.

    However, at present, the only problem is that it produces just half the voltage(电压) of a typical

lithium(锂) battery, the study said. But Dai explained that by improving the cathode(负极) material

they could  "eventually increase the voltage and energy density". Our battery has everything else

you'd dream that a battery should have. I see this as a new battery in its early days," he told The

Telegraph.

28. What is the article mainly about?

     A. A popular smartphone app.

     B. A new trend in the smartphone market.

      C. The invention of a new smartphone battery.

      D. Tips on how to lengthen smartphone battery.

29. The underlined words " nostalgic about" in Paragraph 2 are closet in meaning to _     

     A. full of memories of   B. curious about         C. proud of              D. confused by

30. What are the advantages of the aluminium battery according to the article?

     a. safer  b. cheaper  c. faster changing   d. more environmentally- friendly

     A. a,b,c                B. b,c,d                C. a,c,d                D. a,b,c,d

31.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?

     A. The aluminium battery catch fires easily if it is drilled.

      B. Compared with alkaline batteries, the aluminium battery is larger in size.

      C. The aluminium batter still needs improving before it can be widely used.

      D. Scientists find it a real challenge to change the voltage of the aluminium battery.

Practicing Chinese kongfu can not only ______ one’s strength, but also develop one’s character．

A．bring up        B．take up         C．build up        D．pull up

The relationship between parents and teachers is important in the development of a child. The good communication between them is communication that says, “I care about my child, and I also value school.” The best way a parent can show how much he or she values learning is by sending a prepared child to school every day.   36． Thus, a child could get behind in class, catching up can be difficult.

Parents and teachers are partners in student development. A school community is built on relationships established(确立)among children, teachers, and children’s families.

Here are tips for creating a positive relationship with your child’s teacher.

Meet with your child’s teacher at the beginning of a term.    37   —his or her special needs, outside activities, health, and home study habits.

Look for the positive.  38  . Share with your child’s teacher something you particularly appreciated about the teacher’s role in the academic or social development of your child.

   39   . You can send a note of thanks when something special takes place in the classroom and your child is involved.

Be willing to participate in or set up a conference when you or your child’s teacher feel a special meeting is needed, such as

•     40  .

•  Your child seems to be deeply upset about something that happened at school.

A.  This is a good time for the teacher to learn more about your child

B.  Phone your child’s teacher if necessary

C.  The teachers need to feel rewarding for the job they do

D.  When a child is absent from school, important lessons may be missed

E.  Express your appreciation to the teacher

F.  The beginning of every term is very important

G.  There is a dramatic drop in your child’s grades

 He was busy writing a story, only ______ once in a while to smoke a cigarette.

A. to stop          B. stopping         C. to have stopped      D. having stopped

When people ask me what Down Syndrome(唐氏综合症) is, I tell them it’s an extra chromosome(染色体). A doctor would tell you the extra chromosome causes an intellectual disability that makes it harder for me to learn things.

Even though I have Down Syndrome, my life is a lot like yours. I read books and watch TV. I listen to music with my friends. I’m on the swim team and in chorus at school. I think about the future, and I like the one who I’ll marry. And I get along with my sisters---except when they take CDs without asking! I’m a hard worker, a good person, and I care about my friends.

Some of my classes are with typical kids, and some are with kids with learning disabilities. I have an aid who goes with me to my harder classes, like math and biology. She helps me take notes and gives me tips on how I should study for tests. It really helps, but I also challenge myself to do well. For instance, my goal was to be in a typical English class by 12^th grade. That’s exactly what happened this year!

It’s true that I don’t learn some things as fast as other people do. But that won’t stop me from trying. I just know that if I work really hard and by myself I can do almost anything.

I can’t change the fact that I have Down Syndrome, but one thing I would change is what people think of me. I’d tell them, “Judge me as a whole person, not just the person you see. Treat me with respect, and accept me for who I am. The most important---just be my friend.”

28. A person with Down Syndrome ____________according to the passage.

A. can learn things almost as fast as normal people do

B. has one more chromosome than normal people

C. is hard to get along with

D. is easy to get along with

29. The writer tries to picture himself as a __________teenager.

A. normal    B. perfect    C. lovely    D. special

30. The writer feels ________about his life.

A. confused    B. hopeful    C. unhappy    D. curious

31. What is the purpose of the passage?

A. To prove people with Down Syndrome are a lot like healthy ones

B. To show the writer’s honesty and optimism

C. To change people’s attitude towards people with Down Syndrome

D. To describe the life of a student with learning disabilities

She felt rather _______that she should drive the car at such a___________ speed.

A. frightening, frightening                                    B. frightened, frightened

C. frightening, frightened                                  D. frightened, frightening

On January 5th, students in our school visited Robot World, which we saw a great diversity of robot. It was amazed to find those robots could do a great number of things just like real people, included playing chess, playing the piano and drawing pictures. What’s more, the robots were in different kinds and shapes, which made us enjoyable. In addition, that excited me most is the show given by a group of robots. They danced just as if they were dancers on the stage. By visiting Robot World, I have learned a lot of about robots , especial about their functions and shapes. The great human wisdom is so powerful that it make us feel more comfortable live in the world.

 Mr. Johnson was so much afraid of losing his job that he had to _______ his pride when the boss called him names in public.

A. abuse             B. clarify             C. decline             D. swallow

It’s an ordinary morning，like all the others．But instead of being woken up by the buzzing of an alarm clock, you’ll be roused by the smell of freshly made coffee，light entering your room as the curtains open automatically，and a gentle back massage（按摩）provided by your high-tech bed.

This is what a typical(典型的) person's life will be like two decades from now，according to The Guardian. Want to know more?

After you get up, your apartment will be like an electronic orchestra with you as the conductor. With simple moves of your hand and spoken instructions, you’ll be able to control your apartment’s temperature, humidity, music and lighting. You’ll be able to look through the day’s news on translucent screens while your breakfast waits for you in the automatic oven.

As you move into your kitchen, you might accidentally hit your toe on a cupboard. If you do, you’ll grab your cell phone and open the diagnostics(诊断) app. Inside your phone there will be a tiny microchip(芯片) that uses X-ray waves to scan your body. The scan will tell whether your toe is bruised or broken.

After breakfast, your driverless car will take you to work. While you “drive”, your central computer system will suggest a list of chores(家务事)that your housekeeping robots can do that day and it will also remind you to buy a gift for your mother’s upcoming birthday.

As you can see, with the help of advanced technology, our lives will be more efficient(有效率的). Technology will mitigate our forgetfulness and free us of many small burdens that distract us, such as buying a ticket. Our brain will therefore be able to focus on more important things like preparing for a presentation or doing “deep thinking”.

However, the development of technology might have some disadvantages as well. By 2036, we’ll be relying heavily on the virtual(虚拟的) world, which will mean that all of our data will be stored in the cloud，a remote digital storage system with near limitless capacity(容量). That will increase the possibility of someone else accessing, sharing or manipulating(操控) our personal information.

33. What might be the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A. To stress the importance of developing technology.

B. To remind people not to depend too much on computers．

C. To introduce one new invention that will benefit our future lives.

D. To describe how advanced technologies will affect our future lives.

34. According to the text, in two decades,       .

A. you’ll be able to rely on an electronic orchestra to wake you up instead of an alarm clock

B. a tiny microchip in your phone will treat you when you are sick

C. you will be able to adjust the conditions of your apartment via oral instructions or simple hand gestures

D. technology will be smart enough to help us with important things like preparing for a presentation

35. What does the underlined word “mitigate” in Paragraph 6 mean?

A. Make up for.  B. Worsen.     C. Cure.        D. Take advantage of.

   Trust has been considered as the basis of any relationship, including friendship. No relationship can last long with a lack of trust. Not many of your friends will have real faith in you as you would like to believe. ___36___ Sometimes, it takes years, even a complete lifetime, to trust someone. However, how do we know if our friends have faith in us?

__37___ With whom will you share things that you don’t want everyone to know? It would be with a close friend, whom you trust as much as you trust yourself. While a few of your friends may be fiercely protective of their privacy and may not tell their secrets to anyone, whose who do, surely find you trustworthy and reliable.

Whom do you look up to for advice when you need it the most? It has to be either your parents or your friends. ___38___ This is a shining example of trust. You only seek advice from people you hold in high regard and find dependable. The friends who trust you will never forget to include you in the important decisions of their life.

Arguments and heated discussions are a part of every relationship, and this is also true for friendship. ___39___ While some people find it difficult to forgive and forget, your friends will never have problems moving on. It is because they trust you and believe that you will never cause any pain to them on purpose.

There are times in life when you find yourself a lonely soldier. ___40___ Your friends will never let you down and will strongly stand by you when you need encouragement. You can determine that they trust you and believe in your beliefs, if they side with you when you need the most.

A.     People can be extraordinarily jealous sometimes.

B.     You know they will never pass on wrong suggestion.

C.     In fact, winning trust is, by far, the most challenging aspect of relationships.

D.     Two people cannot have identical reactions to a situation and different opinions do exist.

E.     No matter how close you are to your friends, you cannot take that comfort level for granted.

F.     If your friends share their secrets, there’s a good possibility that they have much faith in you.

G.     However, people who are fortunate to have been blessed with true friends are never alone in any battle.

    There are two main reasons    71    the temperature of the air is always    72    (change). One reason is    73    the air around you moves in from somewhere else. Air usually moves in large bodies    74    (call) air masses. Some air masses move in from the north. These air masses usually have cold air that causes the temperature    75    (drop). Air masses also move in from the south. They usually have warmer air that causes the temperature to rise.

    Temperature changes during the day or night can be great    76    small. This depends partly   77    how many clouds are in the sky.    78    there are many clouds during the night, they act like covers on your bed. They blanket the earth and keep the air from    79    (lose) much of its    heat. The temperature usually does not drop much during such a night. When there are many clouds during    80    day, some of the sun’s energy will not reach the earth. The temperature usually does not rise much on such a day.                                                        

1.A pilot noticed a balloon which seemed 61 (make) for a Royal Air Force Station nearby. He informed the station at once, but no one there was able to explain the mystery. The officer in the control tower was very angry 62 he heard the news , because balloons can be a great danger to aircraft. He said that someone might 63(spy) on the station and the pilot was ordered to keep track 64 the strange object. The pilot managed to circle the balloon for some time. He could make out three men in a basket under it and one of 65 was holding a pair of binoculars .

2. P:Maria, let’s go to watch the tennis match this Friday night.

  M:I called the ticket office yesterday, only to be told that all the tickets 66 (sell) out.

 P:I know , but there will surely be some people hanging 

around the stadium 67(try) to sell tickets. 

M:But the prices will be really 68. 

P:Dont worry. We can buy the cheapest ones and still enjoy the match. 

M:But who knows 69 or not the tickets will be real. 

P: That’s easy. We can go to the gate to have them 70(check) before paying. 

M:Good! Let’s meet at the school gate at 7 clock this Friday evening.71 the way, what should I take with me?

P: You’d better 72 (take)some warm clothes. You know, it’s autumn now. 73 it’s warm in the day time ,it gets pretty cold at night. 74 , I think we should also take an umbrella with us in case it rains.

M: How will we come back after the game?

P:We can take a bus . There is a bus station near the stadium. There is regular bus service and it runs 75 10 minutes. 

In America, drives' education is part of the regular high school curriculum（课程). Every student in his or her second year of high school is required to take a class driver's education. However, unlike other courses, it is not given during the regular school year. Instead it is a summer course.

The course is divided into two parts, class time for learning laws and regulation and driving time to practice driving. class time is not unlike any other class. The students have a text from which they study the basic laws they must know to pass the written driving test that is given to anyone wanting to get a driver's permit.

Driving time is a chance for the students to get behind the wheel( steering wheel) and practice staring, steering（驾驶), backing up, parking, switching lanes, turning corners, and all the other skills required to drive a car Fach students is required to drive a total of six hours. The students and the instructor go out driving for two-hour blocks of time. Thus, each student gets half an hour driving time per outing. The instructor and "driver" sit in the front seats and the other three students sit in the back.

Driver's Ed cars are unlike other cars in which they have two sets of brakes, one on the driver's side and one on the other side where the instructor sits. Thus, if the student driver should run into difficulties the instructor can take over. The car also has another special feature. On the top of the car is a sign that reads " Student Driver" That jets nearby drivers know that they should use extra caution because the student drive is a beginning drive, not very experienced and prone to driving slowly.

After the student has passed the driver's education course and reached the appropriate age to drive( this age differs in every state but in most cases the person must be 16 years old), they can go to a designated state office to take their driver's test, which is made up an eye examination, a written test, and a road test. The person must pass all the there teats in order to given a driver's license. If the person did well in his or her driver's education class, he or she will pass the test with flying colors and get a driver's permit.

28. In America, the driver's course mentioned above is_____

A. considered as part of the advanced education

B. given to anyone wanting to get a driver's permit

C. carried on the same time as other course

D. required of all the students of Grade 2 in high schools

29. To prevent accidents, a driver's ED car_____

A．has a sign inside it

B．has two sets of brakes

C．is big enough to hold five persons

D．can’t run very fast

30．We can infer that the students are required to         in their whole driving practice.

A．go out driving for twelve times

B．spend at least six hours driving

C．drive for two-hour blocks of time

D．get half an hour driving

31．Which of the following does not agree with the requirements for the students wanting to get their driver’s permit?

A．They must be 16 years of age

B．They should go to have their driver’s course

C．They must have their eyes examined

D．They ought to do well in their driver’s course

      Sailors long ago were often afraid that if they sailed too far from home they would fall off the   31  of the flat ocean. In the   32 ，many people had to trust the words of   33  or they has no way to gather  34  for themselves. Today, we can fly in airplanes high over the  35 and see the curve(曲线) that is proof its roundness. Astronauts flying miles high can send us  36  that support our beliefs. Most people now  37  the fact that the earth is certainly not flat.  38   many of them don't realize that it's not exactly   39  either.
      A mathematician, Ann Excels Baillie, used computers to gather information to  40  in planning space flights. During   41  work of tracking the second U.S. satellite, Vanguard I, she discovered some facts that didn't  42  to make sense. It appeared that the perigee(point nearest to the earth)satellite orbit(轨道)measured a different  43  from the northern hemisphere(半球)of our earth than from the  44   hemisphere. At first, she thought this strange  45 were because of some mathematical mistakes. But Baillie wouldn't   46  the idea that important new information had been   47  . She and other scientists discussed the   48  of the earth again and again.   49  research finally proved that Baillie's   50  finding was correct.
31. A. bottom    B. edge（边缘）    C. top             D. water
22. A. end        B. future           C. beginning       D. past
33. A. others     B. gods            C. anybody        D. their
34. A. advice     B. help            C. information      D. announcement
35. A. earth      B. star            C. moon           D. universe
36. A. news      B. sounds          C. gifts            D. pictures
37. A. refuse     B. prove           C. accept          D. find
38. A. But        B. And           C. So              D. Therefore
39. A. smooth     B. natural        C. round           D. still
40. A. sell        B. use            C. enjoy            D. store
41. A. her        B. his            C. its               D. our
42. A. want       B. like           C. seem             D. help
43. A. distance    B. size           C. weight            D. length
44. A. any        B. another        C. eastern           D. southern
45. A. material（材料）  B. figures （数字C. problems   D. answers
46. A. go over      B. get in         C. give up           D. put up
47. A. discovered    B. invented      C. formed          D. received
48. A. history       B. position       C. route           D. shape
49. A. No more     B. Further       C. Happy           D. Difficult
50. A. useless       B. frightening    C. accidental        D. usual

New Zealand Education

Compulsory Education

Compulsory education starts at age 5 and ends at age 16.

Class Size

The number of students in a class is 30 students.

Classrooms

Students from Years 5-8 stay in the same classroom for most subjects and move to other classrooms only for specific subjects. In Year 9, students take some courses With their homeroom class and some optional classes with students from different classes. Starting from Year 10, students no longer stay in the same classroom most of the time. They go to different classes according to their own choices and abilities.

Term Dates

A school year starts in January and ends in December. There are four terms in a year. Each term is about 10 weeks.

Class Schedule

School starts at around 8:30 and ends at 15:15. There are only five periods a day and a period is about an hour long. In the morning, around 10:30, there will be a 20-minute break when students usually have some snacks during this time. There is a lunch period at around 12:40 for about an hour.

Teachers

Teachers have to teach students of different year level at the same time. Most teachers teach students from at least three to four different year levels. Besides, quite a number of teachers teach more than one subject. This is because the fact that many courses are optional.

28. This passage is most probably taken from                  .

A. an educational book                  B. a sport magazine

C. a traveling guide                    D. a film website

29. When you are in your 10th school year, you may                  .

A. choose and take some optional courses with your homeroom class

B. stay with your classmates in the same classroom for all the subjects

C. have both required and optional classes with the same classmates

D. choose different classes according to your own choices and abilities

30. The meaning of the underlined word "optional" in Paragraph 3 is close to "       ".

A. limited           B. selective            C. sensitive            D. typical

31. According to the passage, why can many teachers teach more than one subject?

A. Because many courses are optional.        

B. Because there are not enough classrooms.

C. Because many of the subjects are too easy.  

D. Because the teachers are more than enough.

On a stormy day last August, Tim heard some shouting. Looking out to the sea carefully, he saw a couple of kids in a rowboat were being pulled out to sea.

Two 12-year-old boys, Christian and Jack, rowed out a boat to search a football. Once they’d rowed beyond the calm waters, a beach umbrella tied to the boat caught the wind and pulled the boat into open water. The pair panicked and tried to row back to shore. But they were no match for it and the boat was out of control.

Tim knew it would soon be swallowed by the waves.

“Everything went quiet in my head,” Tim recalls（回忆）. “I’m trying to figure out how to swim to the boys in a straight line.”

Tim took off his clothes and jumped into the water. Every 500 yards or so, he raised his head to judge his progress. “At one point, I considered turning back,” he says. “I wondered if I was putting my life at risk.” After 30 minutes of struggling, he was close enough to yell to the boys, “Take down the umbrella!” “Let’s aim for the pier（码头）,” Jack said. Tim turned the boat toward it. Soon afterward, waves crashed over the boat, and it began to sink. “Can you guys swim?” he cried. “A little bit,” the boys said.

Once they were in the water, Tim decided it would be safer and faster for him to pull the boys toward the pier. Christian and Jack were wearing life jackets and floated on their backs. Tim swam toward land as water washed over the boys’ faces.

“Are we almost there?” they asked again and again. “Yes,” Tim told them each time.

After 30 minutes, they reached the pier.

9.Why did the two boys go to the sea?

A. To go boat rowing.

B. To get back their football.

C. To swim in the open water.

D. To test the umbrella as a sail.  

10. What does “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

   A. The beach         B. The water          C. The boat         D. The wind

11.Why did Tim raise his head regularly?

A. To take in enough fresh air.

B. To consider turning back or not.

C. To check his distance from the boys.

D. To ask the boys to take down the umbrella.

12.How can the two boys finally reach the pier?

A. They were dragged to the pier by Tim.

B. They swam to the pier all by themselves.

C. They were washed to the pier by the waves.

D. They were carried to the pier by Tim on his back.

你身边很多同学视力低下，需戴近视眼镜。请就这一现象写一篇英语课前演讲稿，内容包括以下方面：1. 目前同学的视力状况    2. 青少年视力低下的主要原因     3. 保护视力的建议

注意：

    1. 词数120左右，开头和结尾已为你写好（不计入总词数）

    2. 可根据内容要点适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

参考词汇： vision视力        short-sighted 近视眼（的）

    Dear classmates, have you noticed the phenomenon that                                  ___________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________

    Thank you for listening!