---How wonderful a performance the children are giving at the party！

--- Great! They __________ hard in the past two months.

A. practiced             B. had practiced      C. have been practicing         D. will practice

Read the following advertisement and answer the questions below according to the table.

（P/T.=part time; Steno=stenographer速记员；exp=experienced；req'd=required）

5. If you want to get a position of a secretary as a part-time job，please dial the number_______.

A. 355-5743          B. 849-8760            C. 7550-2040        D. 684-2500

6. If you want to get a job as a secretary in the small midtown law firm，_______.

A. you must have very good skills and legal experiences

B. it is necessary for you to have legal experiences

C. you must have very good skills，but you don't have to be experienced in law

D. you must have excellent skills or good experience in law

7. We can't find any information about _______ in each unit's advertisement.

A. the title of position

B. the way of contact（联系）

C. salary

D. qualifications of candidates（应聘者的资格）

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。

Dear Jim,

I am so exciting that you will come to China. I will free from December 18 and will have a plenty of time to be together with you. I’ll meet you at the airport and then you can take No. 8 Bus to my home. You worry about the weather here in your email. In fact, the weather here is quite different from it in your city. It isn’t very cold, but you needn’t bring many clothes with you. During your stay here, I’ll take you to some places of interests and you can taste some local snacks. I am sure we will have greatly fun together.

I’m look forward to meeting you soon.

                                                            Yours,

                                                             John

    In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear  61 spoken.Secondly, we must be able to speak it correctly with confidence and without hesitation.  62  ,we must be able to read the language,and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.
    There is no easy way to success  63  language learning.  64  good memory is of great help, but it is not enough only  65  (memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long list of words and  66  meaning, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language.  67  we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of  68  (advise) for those  69  are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practice speaking and  70  (write) the language whenever we can.

 The wolf said in a_____ voice and the scholar felt______.
   A. frightening; frightened     B. frightened; frightened  

  C. frighten; frightening       D. frightening; frightening

你校正在进行“英语论坛周”活动，请以“To Be a Popular Student”为题，就以下三方面提出要成为一名受欢迎学生应具备的素质，用英语写一篇100~120词的短文参加该主题的讨论。

1. 对待集体；

2. 对待他人；

3. 对待自己。

注意：短文的开头已给出（不计词数）。

To Be a Popular Student

To Be a Popular Student, we should be equipped with the following qualities.                

 A number of graduates prefer to work in big cities, where there are a lot of  ________ , like convenient transportation, more opportunities and better equipment.

   A. amusements               B. attractions         C. challenges                D. achievements

   假设你是李华，你校的英文报纸最近开设了“我最喜欢的校园活动(My Favorite Campus Activity)”专栏，请你给你的美国朋友Tom写一封电子邮件，向他约稿，介绍他最喜欢的校园活动。要点如下：

1．专栏内容介绍

2．向Tom约稿

参考词汇：专栏column

注意：(1)词数100左右；

(2)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

---The novel Gone With The Wind is said _____ into several language.

    A. to translate                B. being translated 

    C. having been translated       D. to have been translated

__________is often the case with children, Amy was better by the time the doctor arrived.

A. It                     B. That                      C. What                    D. As

    California condors are North America’s largest birds, with wind-length of up to 3 meters. In the 1980s, electrical lines and lead poisoning(铅中毒) nearly drove them to dying out. Now, electric shock training and medical treatment are helping to rescue these big birds.

In the late 1980s, the last few condors were taken from the wild, and there are now more than 150 flying over California and nearby Arizona, Utah and Baja in Mexico.

    Electrical lines have been killing them off. “As they go in to rest for the night, they just don’t see the power lines,” says Bruce Rideout of San Diego Zoo. Their wings can bridge the gap between lines, resulting in electrocution(电死) if they touch two lines at once.

So scientists have come up with a shocking idea. Tall poles, placed in large training areas teach the birds to stay clear of electrical lines by giving them a painful but undeadly electric shock. Before the training was introduced, 66% of set-freed condors died of electrocution. This has now dropped to 18%.

Lead poisonous has proved more difficult to deal with. When condors eat dead bodies of other animals containing lead, they absorb large quantities of lead. This affects their nervous systems and ability to produce baby birds, and can lead to kidney(肾) failures and death. So condors with high levels of lead are sent to Los Angeles Zoo, where they are treated with calcium EDTA, a chemical that removes lead from the blood over several days. This work is starting to pay off. The annual death rate for adult condors has dropped from 38% in 2000 to 5. 4% in 2011.

Rideout’s team thinks that the California condors’ average survival time in the wild is now just under eight years. “Although these measures are not effective forever, they are vital for now,” he says. “They are truly good birds that are worth every effort we put into recovering them. ”

28.California condors attract researchers’ interest because they_________        

.A. are active at night          B. had to be bred in the wild

C. are found on in California    D.almost died out in the 1980s

29. Researchers have found electrical lines are_________       .

A. blocking condors’ journey home  B.big killers of California condors

C. rest places for condors at night      D. used to keep condors away

30.. According to Paragraph 5, lead poisoning_________       .

A. makes condors too nervous to fly      B. has little effect on condors’ kidneys

C. can hardly be gotten rid of form condors’ blood

D.makes it difficult for condors to produce baby birds

31.The passage shows that_________       .

A. the average survival time of condors is satisfactory

B. Rideout’s research interest lies in electric engineering

C.the efforts to protect condors have brought good results

D. researchers have found the final answers to the problem

Sheraton

HOTELS& RESORTS   135-20 39^th A      venue, Flushing, NY 11354, United States

45. Who might be most interested in the passage?

A.  Hotel managers         B. International travelers

C.  Airport shuttle drivers    D. Public traffic directors

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

A. It cost $20 for passengers to leave their cars at the hotel overnight.

B. If you take the Whitestone Expressway South, make a left turn at each crossroad.

C. You can get on a LaGuardia airport shuttle on the early morning around 3:00 a.m.

D. Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel provides around the clock taxi service.

47. According to the passage, you can pay less but enjoy the stay at the hotel by        .

A. booking LaGuardia Airport Parking Package

B. making the reservations online

C. following the general directions to the hotel

D. calling the hotel when arriving at the airport

下面短文中共有10处错误，错误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。

When I was young, most of my friend had bikes. I hoped I could also have it. One day I saw a second-hand bike, that was only one hundred yuan. I asked my father the money. But he said he could only give me half of the money. He should find the other half myself. So I went to sell newspapers after the school. My father was pleasing when I showed him the money a month after. He give me the other fifty. You can imagine how much happy I was when I rode to school on my own bike.

 — What  happened to your shoes?  

    — They want

    A.to mend   B. being mended  C. mending  D. mended

    My kids and I were heading into the supermarket over the weekend. On the way ,we spotted a man holding a piece of paper that said, “ __41__ my job. Family to Feed.”

At this store, a __42___ like this is not normal. My 10-year-old noticed him and made a ___43___ on how bad it must be to have to stand ___44___ in the cold wind.

In the store, I asked each of my kids to __45___ something they thought our “friend” there would ___46___. They got apples, a sandwich and a bottle of juice. Then my 17-year-old suggested giving him a ___47___. I thought about it. We were ___48__ on cash ourselves, but… well, sometimes __49___ from our need instead of our abundance is __50___ what we need to do! All the kids ___51___ something they could do away with (去掉) for the week.
    When we handed him the bag of __52__, he lit up and thanked us with __53___ eyes. When I handed him the gift card, saying he could use it for ___54___his family might need, he burst into tears.

This has been a wonderful __55___ for our family. For days the kids have been looking for others we can __56___! Things would have played out so ___57___ if I had simply said, “No, we really don’t have __58___ to give more.” Stepping out not only helped a brother in __59___, it also gave my kids the ___60___ taste of helping others. It’ll go a long way with them.

 根据下列要点，请写一篇文章，介绍居里夫人。

1. 出生于1876年。

2. 父亲在波兰当教师期间，与父亲一起生活。家境贫寒，自己打工挣学费。

3. 在巴黎遇到丈夫Pierre Curie (一位知名的年轻科学家)并结婚。一起在小木屋里做实验，发现了镭 (radium)。因为该发现，居里夫妇被授予诺贝尔奖。

4. 1911年再次被授予诺贝尔奖，该奖项历史上首次两度授予同一个人。

5. 她把荣誉看得很淡，这也是她成为一名伟大科学家的秘诀。

6. 她成为了当时最著名的女科学家。

词数：120～150

       Towards the end of Middle English, a sudden change in pronunciation started, with vowels (元音) being pronounced shorter and shorter. From the 16th century the British had contact (接触) with many people from around the world. This meant that lots of new vocabulary entered the language. The invention of printing also meant that there was now a common language in print. Books became cheaper and more people learned to read. Spelling and grammar became fixed, and the dialect of London became the standard. In 1604 the first English dictionary came out.

       Early Modern English and Late Modern English are mostly different in the number of words. Late Modern English has many more words, mainly because of the following two reasons: First, the Industrial Revolution (工业革命) led to the need for new words. Second, the British Empire covered one quarter of the earth’s surface, and the English language took in foreign words from many countries.

       From around 1600, the English colonization (殖民地化) of North America led to American English. Some English pronunciations and words “froze” when they reached America. In some ways, American English is more like the English of Shakespeare than modern British English. Some expressions that are called “American English” are in fact from British expressions. They were kept in the colonies while lost for a time in Britain. Spanish also had an influence (影响) on American English. For example, words like canyon, ranch, stampede and vigilante are from Spanish. They entered English by the people of Spain who settled in the American West. French words and West African words also influenced American English.

       Today, American English has a greater influence, because of the USA’s movies, television, popular music, trade and technology.

31. The main difference between Early and Late Modern English lies in _____.

A. vocabulary                  B. pronunciation         C. spelling      D. grammar

32. What helped to increase the vocabulary of Late Modern English?

a. the invention of printing

b. the Industrial Revolution

c. the colonization

d. the contact with other countries

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

33. From the passage, we can learn the word “canyon” is from _____.

A. American dialect       B. African dialect     C. Spanish        D. French

34. The third paragraph mainly talks about _____.

A. English colonies in North America

B. the development of American English

C. other languages’ influence on American English

D. the difference between American English and British English

35. The underlined word “froze” can best be replaced by _____.

A. remained unchanged      B. disappeared     C. improved    D. kept active

Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg，distance of about eighty miles. It was late. Several times I got stuck behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left, and I became increasingly impatient.

At one point along an open road, I came to a crossing with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but as I drove near the light, it turned red and I made a stop. I looked left, right and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of car lamps, but there I sat, waiting for the light to change, the only human being for at least a mile in any direction.

I started wondering why I refused to run the light. I was not afraid of being caught, because there was clearly no policeman around, and there certainly would have been no danger in going through it.

Much later that night, the question of why I'd stopped for that light came back to me. I think I stopped because it's part of a contract(契约)we all have with each other. It's not only the law, but it is an agreement we have, and we trust each other to honor it: we don't go through red lights.

Trust is our first inclination(倾向). Doubting others does not seem to be natural to us. The whole construction of our society depends on mutual(相互的)trust, not distrust. We do what we say we'll do; we show up when we say we'll show up; and we pay when we say we'll pay. We trust each other in these matters, and we're angry or disappointed with the person or organization that breaks the trust we have in them.

I was so proud of myself for stopping for the red light that night.

38. Why did the author get impatient while driving?

      A.  He was lonely on the road. 

  B.  He was slowed down by a truck.

 C.  He got tired of driving too long. 

 D.  He came across too many traffic lights.

39. What was the author's immediate action when the traffic light turned red?

      A．Stopping still.          

      B.  Driving through it.

   C．Looking around for other cars.            

   D.  Checking out for traffic police.

40. The event made the author strongly believe that _________.      

  A.  traffic rules may be unnecessary 

  B.  doubting others is human nature

  C.  patience is important to drivers  

  D.  a society needs mutual trust

41. Why was the author proud of himself?

  A.  He kept his promise.               B.  He held back his anger.

  C.  He followed his inclination.          D.  He made a right decision.

    When we were kids, my little sister Madison and I were the M&Ms—my parents' two daughters. ____36____ So it was quite a surprise when my mom and dad sat us down to let us know that baby number three was on the way when I was 10 years old. However, as soon as my brother Mac was born, he completely stole my heart and I have learned many things from having a young brother.

●  ____37____

    Having a baby in your life means watching your parents endlessly change diapers (尿布), make bottles, and wipe spit-ups every once in a while. I was allowed to do those things and I learned just how important it was to take care of this little life before I even hit middle school.

●  You watch a child grow up.

    ____38____ I remember how excited my family was when we discovered how fast of a reader he was in kindergarten. I'll never forget telling him bedtime stories before he went to sleep at night. It's cool to think about the entirety of his life and how far he has come.●  You teach your brother life lessons.

    From a young age, my brother watched my sister and me overcome personal challenges, go to high school, and, worst of all, get our hearts broken. ____39____ Watching his sisters go through life's difficulties has taught him how he should act when he gets older.

    Now Mac is 11 years old. I have no shame in telling people that one of my best friends is an 11-year-old boy. In fact, our family without him is unimaginable. ____40____

A．You stay in the know.

B．You learn about responsibility early on.

C．We received a lot of attention, and we liked it that way.

D．All I can say is that my family wouldn't be happy without Mac.

E．I remember the first time Mac crawled, walked, and said my name.

F．Thanks, Morn and Dad, for turning the M&Ms into the Three Musketeers.

G．Nothing makes Mac more upset than a mean guy who hurts a girl's feelings.

Ellis Island is located in New York Harbor. Ellis Island is open daily year round from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended hours during summer. It is closed December 25. There is no admission charge to Ellis Island; but donations are gratefully accepted.

At Your Fingertips

Park information (212) 363-7620

Emergencies (212) 363-3260

Ferryboat information (212) 269-5755

Lost and found (212)363-7620

Dining, gifts & audio tour 344-0996

Transportation

Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Ferry; Boats leave from Battery Park, Manhattan, and from Liberty State Park, New Jersey. They run about every 30 to 45 minutes beginning at 9:15 a.m.

(The time for ferry is changeable)

Hours: May vary; call the number above

Closed: December 25

Ferry fees (includes Liberty and Islands) adults, $7; senior citizens, $6; Children (age 3~17), $5. (Group rates are available for 25 or more adults.)

64. In summer, visitors will have ______ to visit Ellis Island.

       A. a limited time                         B. a longer time 

C. a shorter time                          D. a wonderful time

65. Which number would you call if your friends were suddenly ill?

A. (212)344-0996                         B. (212)363-7620     

C. (212) 363-3260                       D.(212) 269-5755 

66. We may infer from the passage that______.

A. visitors prefer to go to Ellis Island by boat 

B. there are more visitors in winter

C. Ellis Island is open every day       

D. Boat is the only transportation to Ellis Island