阅读表达 ，阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。

In 1998, I wrote a letter for my future self with instructions not to open until my birthday 2010. It was now 2011, so I decided to open it. This is what it said:

Dear Sherri,

By the time you read this, you will be 30. At the age of 18 I had many hopes and dreams about you. Right now I hope you have traveled and seen everything you've always wanted to, both in Canada and abroad, maybe you have even settled (定居) down somewhere in France, and maybe you are working in the field of art. I hope you're married to Gwynn -- the man of your dreams. You'll probably have two children – a girl and a boy.

If everything goes okay, you'll be living in France in a big house in a small town with Gwynn and your two children. You are doing research in painting. Gwynn will be a computer programmer and you will be doing all right for yourselves.

However, if things don't go according to plan, I wish you love, happiness and joy.

Love,

Sherri "18"

When I read this, I was surprised. So much of what I wanted has come true.

I did travel to a few more places in Canada. I've traveled to the UK, Australia and Egypt. 3I have been living in France for nearly 4 years in a big house, in a small suburb (郊区), in a major city. I am an art teacher in a university. I have two lovely kids.

But not everything went as what I hoped. I married a man named Tom Rees, and he is an excellent artist. We are doing all right for ourselves.

4I find it cool how the dreams of a young girl can become a grown woman's reality (现实).

A. 根据短文内容简要回答问题。

1. How many hopes and dreams did the 18-year-old Sherri have?

________________________________________________________________________

2. Which of her hopes and dreams didn’t come true?

________________________________________________________________________

B．将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。

3.________________________________________________________________________

4. _______________________________________________________________________

C. 请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。

5. _______________________________________________________________________

综合填空，阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

I wrote my first poem when I was 5 years old. It was (1) f_______ Mother’s Day.

The poem was not my best work, but my mom kept it – just like she kept every other piece of writing and artwork I ever made. She (2) a________ kept my baby clothes and a piece of hair from my first haircut. Sometimes I feel like my mom runs a museum of (3) m_______ life, and she is the only visitor.

But it feels (4) n________ to be loved like that. Who else would care enough to keep all of my terrible drawings and silly poems? Only a (5) m_________.

(6) O________ Mother’s Day when I was little, I used to bring my mom breakfast in bed, (7) m________ her a card, give her kisses and tell her I loved her. I’d say to her: “You’re the (8) b________ mom in the whole world!”

I don’t get to see my mother very much these days. Now I live in China, 11,200 km from my parents’ home in the US. I’m too far away to bring my mom breakfast in bed or give her kisses. (9)B_______ when Mother’s Day comes, I’ll call my mom from China. Over the (10) p________, I’ll tell her I love her. No matter how far away I go, she’s always in my heart.

动词填空，阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空 (必要时可加情态动词或助动词)。

Afel was only a small boy when he first saw snow in a picture book. In the pictures he saw a lot of children (1) ______ (play) in the snow.

Afel didn’t understand what snow was. But he dreamed about snow all the time. He dreamed of being able (2) ______ (fly) across the snow.

One day when he was twelve, Afel (3) ______ (watch) TV at his uncle’s house. The program was full of snow. Not only snow – there were people flying across the snow.

“Look! They (4) ______ (fly)!” he shouted excitedly.

The snow, and the people… It was just like one of his dreams.

“They’re skiing. It needs snow,” said his uncle, “it’s the Winter Olympics. It (5) ______ (hold) every four years.”

Afel (6)_________ （find）out that the next Winter Olympics would be in Sochi, Russia in 2014.

“Perfect,” he thought. “Enough time for me to become a good skier. I (7) ______ (go) to the Winter Olympics, and win the gold medal for skiing.”

“But there’s no snow here!” people told him. “Where are you going to ski?”

Afel made himself a pair of skis and skied across the sand. At first he couldn’t move, but he practised and practised until he could move quite quickly.

“How will you go to the Winter Olympics?” people asked him. “Our country (8) ______ (not, have) a team at all. Why (9) ______ (not, do) athletics (田径) instead? We have lots of good runners. And we (10) ______ (win) lots of medals at the Olympics.”

Now Afel is practising skiing down sand dunes (沙丘). He dreams that the yellow sand and brown earth of the desert (沙漠) is the white snow.

Here's one very simple but lifechanging advice that I first heard from Brian Tracy. Cut down on the TV at night by just one hour. Instead, use that hour to read books that could improve your life.

If you're a salesman, google for the best and most useful books on improving your sales.

This applies (适用) to all fields, not just the work-related (与工作相关的) ones. Maybe you want to improve your health, become a more energetic person. Or maybe you want to improve your study, your relations or perhaps do some personal development.

One hour a day is not much. But if you read for one hour a day on weekdays, that's about 260 hours a year. That's a large number of books and a lot of useful advice.

If you follow the ideas, who knows what great things and feelings could come into your life. Also, all that information and advice will start to open up your mind. You will start to see more chances in your life.

Now, you might think something like this:

1. I really don't have the money...

Answer: Visit your public library or search the database (数据库). Or look for books that are used in places like amazon.com.

2. I really don't have the time...

Answer: Buy audiobooks and listen to them in the car while driving to and from work. Or copy them to your MP3-player and listen while riding your bike /bus to work or school. Recently selling audiobooks through MP3-downloads has become popular...

Shut off the TV a little earlier and start reading.

1. What is Brian Tracy’s lifechanging advice about？

A. Watching TV.                                         B. Listening to MP3.

C. Surfing the internet.                                D. Reading helpful books.

2. If you’d like to improve your work, you should_______ according to the writer.

A. read work-related books                          B. become more energetic

C. improve your study                              D. improve your relations

3. Which is NOT true about reading an hour a day？

A. It will open up your mind.

B. You will have about 260 hours a year to read.

C. You will read lots of books and get much useful advice.

D. It will probably bring great things and feelings into your life.

4. What should you do if you really don't have the money to read?

A. To buy some books from amazon.com.    B. To download MP3 free.

C. To visit the public library.                D. To borrow audiobooks and listen to them.

5. What is the writer’s idea about audiobooks?

A. They are more useful.

B. Listening to audiobooks is easier than reading books.             

C. It’s dangerous to listen to audiobooks while driving or riding.

D. Audiobooks are a good solution to the problem of having no time to read.

My 10-year-old Donna said, “Mom, I made a new friend at school today. Can she come over tomorrow?” Donna was a shy girl and I wanted her to make some friends to bring her out of her shell.

“Sure, honey, that sounds great.” I said, thinking back to my own best friend, Lillian. We lived across the street from each other in Washington Heights, New York. We met at the age of 10, too. Like my daughter, I was shy, but Lillian drew me out. She was one of the friendliest people in school, with shiny black hair and a mile-wide smile.

In senior high school, Lillian went on a trip to Florida. This was the first time we had to be away from each other for a few days. “I’ll be back soon.” she told me. But three days later, Lillian’s sister told me that she had fallen into a river and hadn’t come out any more. Soon, my family moved to New Jersey. Whenever I thought of her, tears came into my eyes.

The next day Donna brought her new friend home. “Hi, Mrs. Loggia.” the little girl said. Her hair was so shiny and black and she shot me a big smile. “My name is Laura.”

My daughter’s new friend was so much like Lillian. I was still puzzled (迷惑) when Laura’s mom came to pick her up later that afternoon. I opened the door to let her in. “Judy!” she cried. “It’s me, Lillian’s sister, from Washington Heights.” Yes, my daughter’s friend looked familiar. She was Lillian’s niece.

1. The underlined words in the first paragraph “to bring her out of her shell” mean ___________.

A. to help her become less shy B. to help her become smart

C. to help her live happily D. to help her walk out of her house

2. Laura looked familiar to the writer because she ______________.

A. was Lillian’s niece

B. was as old as her daughter

C. was from Washington Heights

D. had shiny black hair and a big smile, too

3. Why did the writer lose her best friend? Because ____________________.

A. she moved to New Jersey

B. they were different from each other

C. her best friend travelled to Florida

D. her best friend lost her life on a trip

4. “I knew we would be best friends forever.” is a sentence from the passage and should be put at the end of _______．

A. Paragraph 2 B. Paragraph 3 C. Paragraph 4 D. Paragraph 5

5. We can infer (推断) from the passage that______.

A. Laura is outgoing

B. Laura helps Donna a lot

C. Laura and Donna are of the same age

D. Judy moved to New Jersey because of Lillian’s death

Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is the color of most growing plants, too.

Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet finished or plants that are not ripe.

For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in war (战争). By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today--a person who is new in a job.

About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west. Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities in the east. The greenhorn didn’t have the skills that he would need to live in the hard, rough country.

Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early nineteen hundreds.

A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

The Green Revolution (革命) is the name which was given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural (农业的) scientists who had green thumbs.

1. According to the passage, a greenhorn means________ now.

A. a young cow or ox whose horns have not yet developed   

B. a soldier who has not had any experience in war  

C. a person who is new in a job  

D. a man who doesn’t have the skills to live in the country

2. The meaning of the underlined word “ripe” in the second paragraph is ________.

A.未完成的      B. 成熟的     C. 青涩的      D. 老练的

3. Which of the following about the Green Revolution is NOT right?

   A. If there weren’t the Green Revolution, we would have no rice to eat.

   B. The expression “the Green Revolution” appeared several years ago.  

C. Because of the Green Revolution, we have more kinds of rice and other grains.

D. Agricultural scientists with green thumbs started the Green Revolution.

4. We can know from the passage that _______.

A. all growing plants is green

B. green is the most important color in nature

C. a person with a green thumb can make plants grow well

D. the expression “a green thumb” has a history of two hundred years

5. The main idea of the passage is ________.

A. a greenhorn              B. a green thumb

C. the Green Revolution      D. the word “green” and its story

阅读理解，阅读下列短文，然后从每小题A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

If you go to Brisbane, Australia, you can easily get a small book called “Discover Brisbane” free. The book tells you almost everything in Brisbane: the restaurants, the shops, the cinemas, the streets, the buses, the trains, the banks, etc. Here is something about on page 49:

ANZ Banking Group

Corner of Greek & Queen Streets…………………………………228 3228

Bank of New Zealand

410 Queen Street…………………………………………………221 0411

Bank of Queensland

229 Elizabeth Street………………………………………………229 3122

Commonwealth Banking Group

240 Queen Street…………………………………………………237 3111

National Australia Bank Ltd.

225 Adelaide Street………………………………………………221 6422

Westpac Banking Corp.

260 Queen Street…………………………………………………227 2666

Banking Hours:

Mon.--Thurs. 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Fri.9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

All banks close Sat. Sun. & Public Holidays.

1. From the material, we can know __________.

A. Brisbane is a city in Australia

B. “Discover Brisbane” is expensive

C. “Discover Brisbane” has about 49 pages

D. “Discover Brisbane” tells you everything in Brisbane

2. You can find Bank of Queensland on       .

   A. Queen Street                        B. Elizabeth Street

   C. Adelaide Street                   D. the corner of Greek Street and Queen Street

3.        seems to be the banking center in Brisbane.

   A. Greek Street                    B. Elizabeth Street

   C. Queen Street                    D. Adelaide Street

4. At 5:30 p.m., you can go to         to put your money in or take your money out.

   A. no banks                            B. ANZ Banking Group

   C. National Australia Bank Ltd.     D. Commonwealth Banking Group

5. In Australia, the banks have their longest service hours on    .

   A. Fridays    B. Mondays and Thursdays    C. weekends    D. public holidays

– Excuse me, can I interview Mr. Miller this afternoon?

-- A moment, please. Let me check .

A. if Mr. Miller will be free B. when will Mr. Miller have time

C. if Mr. Miller had an appointment D. when does Mr. Miller come back

There            a football match and a concert this weekend. Which one would you like to go?

  A. is                         B. are                           C. will be                     D. will have

At present, blogs are              traditional diaries (日记) among young people.

A. very popular    B. as popular as   C. not so popular as    D. much more popular than