Like a backward tape, time returns to my mom's teens．She is waiting for admission results from a famous high school．She has studied for the test but with joy, since she feels no suffering in learning．Suddenly I spy her jumping and laughing, waving a paper in her hand while her family stands nearby, more shocked than happy．No one else from their village has ever passed the test．

    Later, at her new high school, I proudly watch as she continues to rise to the top．Many of her essays are published in newspapers, and her classmates seek her advice when a test is approaching． She never refuses them, and I feel honored to be related to such an intelligent person．

    As I walk with her through her journey, I finally come to the point I have been looking forward to most: her life in America． After passing several tests and finding a kind boss to sponsor her, she becomes a college student at University of California, Los Angeles． At first, I sense her loneliness and panic as she tries to adapt to her new surroundings．Though her English is broken and she knows little about American culture, I can tell she is more than grateful to be here． Here she has access to electricity and running water, and most importantly, better schools． At UCLA, she has so many opportunities to grow and advance in her field．

    Her journey to America was for just one reason: education．Though having an education will better her life, I know she doesn't do it for herself．My mom wants her children to have an easier life that will not require hard labor．I see what my mom goes through, and I'm filled with gratitude that she has made the brave choice to move here．

50．According to the first paragraph, the writer's mother considers learning to be         .

    A． easy and joyful                             B． bitter but rewarding

    C． costly and boring                      D． exciting but fruitless

51．Which of the following does the writer's mother do at high school?

     A．Working as a newspaper deliverer．

    B．Feeling proud of her intelligence．

    C．Working hard to be honored and awarded．

    D．Giving her classmates advice before tests．

52．How does the writer's mother pay for her college education?

     A． By doing a part-time job．

    B． By asking her parents for support．

    C． With the financial support from a kind boss．

    D． With the help from her teachers and classmates．

53．What is the final aim of the writer's mother's going to America?

    A． To accumulate wealth．

       B． To benefit her children．

       C． To make her parents live better．

       D． To become famous in her field of study．

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34. What makes TV Ears different from other headsets ?

A. It can easily set TV on mute                   B. Its headset volume is adjustable

C. It has a new noise reduction ear tip              D. It applies special wireless technology

35.This advertisement is made more believable by ______.

A. using recommendations                B. offering reasons for this invention

C. providing statistics                    D. showing the results of experiments 

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整的写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。

I Believe I Can Fly is a song that tells us confidence is important.

As my granny p       it, one will make it whenever he believes                    76______________

in himself. Dreams and confidence are         keep us going               77______________

on. Three years ago I was        (接纳) to the present school. However,                  78______________

I was not used to the new school life so that I did b       in exams.                    79______________

      was my friends who got me to understand I would fly high                  80______________

as long as I had confidence. After several        (月) of hard work,                    81______________

I made great progress.   Now I am firmly       (相信) that our dreams               82______________

will come true if we try our best. W       old or young, lucky or                 83______________

not, never give up when faced         difficulties. Remember                     84______________

confidence is the key to       (成功).                                                               85______________

 Many people believe that money brings happiness, because if they can pay and _____ all their 

desires they imagine that they will be happy forever. 

A. acquire                             B. highlight                  C. fulfil          D. reveal

Maurice Mountain is a retired lawyer in Washington, D.C. He developed a prototype(原型机) for a device he calls the Presto Emergency Boat Ladder. His invention is a small folding ladder that attaches to the side of a boat to help people who fall into the water. Mr. Mountain plans to mass-produce his boat ladder.

He created his invention at a workshop called TechShop. Mr. Mountain says, “I think it encourages innovation. I think people who probably have had ideas rolling around in the back of their minds for years but have never had the opportunity to actually put them into production or even experiment with them would find this place wonderful. Members of TechShop use high-tech equipment to develop and produce ideas they have for inventions.” Isabella Musachio manages a TechShop in Arlington, Virginia. She says the shop has many different kinds of equipment.

“TechShop is a do-it-yourself maker space. So when you come in we have all these different areas of the shop, and we have a metal shop, wood shop, lasers, 3D printers, electronics. I mean, we have so many different areas and we have all the equipment that is availahle to anybody above the age of 12.”

Membership costs for TechShop start at just over $ 100 per month. Members are able to use costly machines including 3D modeling tools and laser cutters. Isabella Musachio says TechShop helps its members build their dreams.

“Our motto is ‘build your dreams here’ because you can really come in with just an idea, and then with the help of TechShop make that leap from an idea to building your project o, your prototype or even your business.”

Jim Newton is the founder of TechShop. He first introduced the idea for the technology workshops at an arts and sciences event called Maker Faire in San Mateo, California in 2006. His idea attracted hundreds of members during that event, Now, there are eight TechShop locations in the U. S. In all, there are more than 6,000 members. Two more-TechShop locations in the cities of St. Louis and Look Angeles will be set up.

28. The invention Mr. Mountain invented will be used to____ .

A save the drowning people    B. help people climb the ladder

C. make the boat safer     D. let the boat float safely

29. What can be inferred from what Mr. Mountain says in Paragraph 2?.

A. People with imagination can achieve their dreams.

B. TechShop can help turn some people’s ideas into reality.

C. TechShop is a place where people can put forward their new ideas.

D. It's hard for people to put their ideas into practice.

30. From the last paragraph, we can know _____.

A. Jim Newton is a very great invention  

B. people didn't like TechShop at first

C. TechShop will become more and more popular

D. TechShop greeted with bad reviews in 2006

31. What can we know about TechShop from the passage?

A. TechShop is founded by Maurice Mountain.

B. TechShop puts high-tech dreams within reach.

C. TechShop is a non-profit organization.

D. TechShop offers its members more ideas.

Why not try your luck in the library? That’s ________ the American classical books are kept.

A. how                        B. why                         C. when               D. where

 “I was shocked and _________ at that time, but at the same time it made me cherish my sporting life even more. I will take it as a lesson and be more careful in the future.” The famous sports star Sun Yang said.

A. excited                B. admired                        C. depressed              D. contented

 A very agreeable situation is located within two small hills, in the midst of which ______.

A. a great river flows   B. does a great river flow  C. flows a great river         D. is flowing a great river

It is a common belief that of all the wonderful gifts that we’ve been given, one of the greatest is freedom. That is why so many of us try to gain freedom at any cost. But are all kinds of freedom worth seeking?

One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds moving and dancing. As the strong winds blew against the kites, a string kept them in check.

Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the restraining (约束) string and the tail kept them being pulled along, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They flew beautifully even as they fought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.”

Yet freedom from restraint, simply put, is at the mercy of an unsympathetic soft wind. It soon fell to the ground and landed in a mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last” free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to get stuck lifeless against the first obstruction (障碍物).

How much like kites we sometimes are. The Heaven gives us misfortunes and restrictions, rules to follow from which we can grow and gain strength. Restraint is a necessary match for the winds of opposition. Some of us fought at the rules so hard that we never fly to reach the heights we might have obtained. We keep part of the rules or laws and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

Let us each rise to the great heights, recognizing that some of the restraints that we may feel annoyed about are actually the steady force that helps us go up and achieve.

68. The kites struggled and trembled against the string because they ________.

A. was restrained by the wind                            B. tried to gain absolute freedom

C. wanted to dance like birds                            D. were at the mercy of the wind

69. What can we learn from the result of the kite that broke loose?

A. Freedom prevents us from flying.                   B. It is restraints that stop us rising.

C. Without restraint without freedom.            D. There is no justice without freedom.

70. What does the underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph mean?

A. If we want to fly higher, we should fight hard at rules.

B. People shouldn’t obey rules because it’s hard to follow.

C. Rules are necessary for us to reach a higher level.

D. Some rules are too strict for people to obey.

71. In the author’s opinion, some of the restraints ________.

A. are wonderful gifts given by the God              B. should be ended right away

C. are something that we are upset about     D. can give us power to fly higher

Trapped on the 37^th Floor

Melinda Skaar wasn’t expecting any phone calls. Skaar was working late in her office at the First Internet bank of California. By 10:45 that night she was almost ready to go home when the phone rang.

Picking it up, she heard a guard shouting. There is a fire! Get out of there.

Skaar didn’t panic. She figured that it was just a small fire. Her office building was huge. There were 62 floors and her desk was on the 37^th floor.

Skaar called out to office mate Stephen Oksas, who also stayed late to work. But when they got out to the hallway, they were met by a cloud of black smoke. Rushing back, Skaar shut the door and filled the space at the bottom of the door with her jacket to keep the smoke out.

Then they called 911. before they could call their families, however, the line went dead. That meant that they were completely cut off from the outside world. All they could do was wait and hope someone would come to rescue them.

Minutes ticked by. Smoke began to float into the office. Soon it became hard for them to breathe.

Looking around, Skaar noticed a small workroom. It seemed to have cleaner air. So they crowed there. That helped for a while, but in time even the workroom was filled with deadly smoke.

Hopeless, they tried to break the windows, but the glass was not breakable. Everything they threw at just bounced back.

Defeated, they struggled back to the workroom. They felt weak and dizzy. Soon Skaar found Oksas had passed out.

Skaar and Oksas knew they were lucky to be alive. Sunday is my birthday, Skaar told a reporter. She would be turning 29. but she knew she had already got the best present possible----the gift of life.

47. What did Skaar and Oksas do where were stopped by the fire?

A. They called their families.

B. They waited where they were.

C.They tried to run down the stairs.

D.They rushed back and shut the door.

48. The first sentence of the passage is to__________.

A. introduce Skaar  

B. get the reader’s attention

C. explain the cause of the event  

D. tell the background information

49. The following helped Skaar and Oksas survive the fire except_________.

A. calling 911 for help

B. breaking the windows to get some fresh air

C. crowding in a small workroom for clean air

D. shutting the door and keeping the smoke out with a jacket

50. What can we conclude from Skaar’s action in the fire?

A. She is cleverer than Oksas.

B. She was trained as a firefighter.

C. She remained calm in the face of danger.

D. She had had the experience of being caught in fire. .

 -----Why do graduates like to work in the eastern part of China?

   ------ Because the economy there is _________ stronger and there are more chances.

  A. commonly           B. slightly        C. comparatively   D. necessarily

假设你是红星中学学生会主席李华，你校交换生Jim在给你的email中提到他对学生会组织的活动感兴趣，并希望你给他提供一项适合他参加的活动。请你给Jim回邮件，内容包括：

1. 活动名称及意图；

2. 活动具体安排；

3. 邀请他参加。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

3. 学生会the Students’ Union

Dear Jim,...

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Yours,

Li Hua

      The ________ of the supermarket opening last Saturday are handing out the leaflets on their discount products at the entrance.

      A. chief                               B. volunteer                  C. saleswoman       D. staff

  — Do you think I really _____ the bad handwriting in your composition at yesterday’ s                meeting?

    —Sure, Why _____ you always pick holes in everything I write?

    A. wouldn’t have mentioned; can                   B. mustn’t mention; should

C. shouldn’t have mentioned; must                 D. couldn’t mention; would

Jean-Francois Millet （October 4, IBM—January 20, 1875） was a

French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon School in rural

France．Born．of a peasant family? Millet was encouraged by his father to

study art in Cherbourg, France．He can be categorized as part of the

movement called "naturalism" （自然主义）．Besides, Millet is also considered as an advocate of the movement " realism” （现实主义）．His understanding of the peasants' hard life was perfectly, expressed in his choice of subject and natural preference for powerful but simple drawing and coloring．

One of the most well-known of Millet's paintings．The Gleaners （《拾穗者》）, first came in a vertical composition （垂直式构图） painted in 1854,．and then there came the horizontal version in 1856, which is now preserved in the Musee d'Orsay．It depicts women bending over in the fields to collect the leftovers from the harvest, and it is a monumental composition devoted to the working class．

Previously, servants were depicted in paintings as obedient to a noble or a kings and picking up what was left of the harvest was regarded as one of the lowest jobs in Millet's times．However, Millet offered these women as the heroic focus of the picture．Besides, in the painting, light lights up the women's shoulders as they carry out their work．Behind them, the field that stretches into the distance is bathed in golden light, -under a wide, magnificent sky．The forms  of the three figures, standing against the lighter field, show balance and harmony．

56．According to the passage, we can know that Millet ___    __．

       A．was born in rural France

       B．belongs to neither naturalism nor realism

       C．became famous for his love of the countryside

       D．received his high school education in Barbizon

57．As for the painting The Gleaners, _____．

       A．it is Originally a horizontal composition

       B．it is based on the effort of Musee d'Orsay

       C．it presents women in the field as the chief focus

       D．it shows how women are stopped from working in the field

58．In the painting, the viewer can appreciate Millet's _____．

       A．crazy interest in blue color             B．strong focus on the city life

       C．absolute respect for the king           D．particular choice of -main characters

59．In which of the following books can we probably find this passage?

       A．Kings and Nobles in France．              B．A Guide to French Painting．

       C．French Agricultural History．               D．The Founder of Musee d'Orsay．

 We are in great need of a more capable manager,         with straightforward personality as well as good humor.

A. the one       B. who     C. which         D. one