This book ______ Tom’s father’s, because his name is on the book.

　　A. maybe B. may be C. must be

选择填空：从A、B、C中，选出一个最佳答案完成句子。

　　_____do you improve your listening?

　　——I improve it ______ listening to tapes.

　　A. How; with B. What; with C. How; by

书面表达

　　地球是我们的家园，我们作为地球的主人， 就应该好好保护地球。 现在正在倡导“低碳”生活， 只要我们不污染环境，不浪费能源，就能够让我们周围变得更洁净， 生活变得更美好。 作为中学生， 我们应该怎样做呢?谈谈你的想法。要求：短文中不得出现真实的校名和人名;80词左右。

　　提示词： lowcarbon lifestyle 低碳生活方式

　　How to make our earth turn better

汉译英 (用括号内所给的短语，将下列句子译成英语)

　　1.这箱子太重，这个小男孩搬不动。(too…to…)

　　____________________________________________________________________________

　　2.学生们放风筝玩得很开心。(have fun doing )

　　____________________________________________________________________________

　　3.直到母亲回来他才睡觉。(not… until..) ____________________________________________________________________________

　　4.众所周知， 废水对环境有害。(do harm to )

　　____________________________________________________________________________

阅读表达

　　American schools are quite different from those in China. In America, at the beginning of the term, students must select their courses and teachers first. While in China students usually have no chances to select their courses and teachers.

　　Selecting is very important for your grades in America. So at the first term, don’t select too many courses, ,4. Or you’ll feel very nervous and it may influence your study. Then you have to ask for some teaching plans. There is some information about subjects, time arranging, marks and textbooks. At the some time, you must choose the teachers. Different teachers have different teaching methods. If the teacher is called “killer” by the last grade, many students will give up choosing him. Because this kind of teacher will leave too much homework, too many exams and give too low grades.

　　There is another thing after you select the course and the teacher. How to buy textbooks makes each student feel hard. The textbooks in America are very expensive. Each copy is about $30-50. In order to save money, many students buy some used textbooks, and some students usually borrow textbooks from the school library. You must get enough ready before class. In class, discussing is very important. 5老师鼓励你提出问题或展示你自己的观点。They don’t usually ask you to sit well. Instead they allow you to sit or stand everywhere you like. They don’t give you much homework to do . You can learn some knowledge and do exercises by yourself. So in American schools, you must do almost all things yourself.

　　根据文章内容， 补全1, 2句中所缺单词、短语或句子。

　　1.At the beginning of the new term, American students have to ask for some teaching plans and get their textbooks ready besides__________.

　　2.The teacher ________________________ will always leave too much homework, too many exams and give too low grades.

　　3.根据文章内容回答问题

　　Why do many students in America buy used textbooks?

　　___________________________________________________________________________

　　4.请将文中黑体字译成汉语

　　___________________________________________________________________________

　　5.请将划线句子译成英语

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词汇综合运用：阅读短文，用括号内所给词的适当形式填空，必要时可加助动词。

　　It was Sunday. I had one last patient to see. I went to her room in a hurry and stood at the door. She was an old woman, 1 (sit) by the bed, trying to put socks on her 2 (foot).

　　She asked if I 3 (can)help put on her socks. Instead, I said something like this, “How are you ____4_____(feel)? Your blood pressure was high, but it’s ___5_____(good) today…”

　　She _____6____(stop)me, “Sit down, Doctor. This is my story, not your story.”

　　I was 7 (surprise) and then I sat down. She began to tell me that her only son lived around the corner from her, but she 8 (not see) him for five years. She believed that this was the main reason for her health problems. After 9 (hear) her story, I asked if there was anything else I could do for her. She said no and smiled. All she wanted me to do was to 10 (listen).

　　Each story is different. Some are true, others not. Yet that does not 11 (real) matter. What matters to the storyteller is that the story is heard. From the old lady I learned that listening to 12 (someone) story does not cost a lot of money, but it is much better than expensive medicine.

　　Do animals have a culture? What do we mean by “culture?” Lately social scientists have begun to ask if culture is found just in humans, or if some animals have culture too. When we speak of culture, we mean a way of life a group of people have in common. Culture includes the beliefs and attitudes we learn. It is the patterns( 样式 ) of behavior that help people to live together. It is also the patterns of behavior that make one group of people different from another group.

　　Our culture lets us make up for having lost our strength, claws, long teeth, and other defenses. Instead we use tools, cooperate with one another, and communicate ( 交流 ) with language. But these aspects of human behavior, or “culture,” can also be found in the lives of certain animals. Animals can make tools, for example. We used to think that the ability to use tools was the dividing line between human beings and other animals. Lately, however, we have found that this is not the case. Chimpanzees( 黑猩猩 ) can not only use tools but actually make tools themselves. Animals can also share knowledge with each other and use their own language to know that the line dividing(区分 ) us from animals is not as clear as we used to think.

　　1.When we talk about “culture”, we mean________.

　　A. book language of behavior we learn B. the patterns of behavior we learn

　　C. traditional ideas D. people’s habits

　　2.We thought ____________ was the biggest difference between human beings and other animals.

　　A. cooperating with one another B. communicating with language

　　C. using tools D. losing long teeth

　　3.It’s ___________ that animals have a culture too.

　　A. sure B. unbelievable C. possible D. important

　　4. The main idea of the passage is ___________.

　　A. chimpanzees can learn to use sign language to make sentences

　　B. other animals can invent tools.

　　C. knowledge and communication are no longer signs

　　D. the line dividing human culture from animal culture is not as clear as we might think

　When the earthquake hit Japan on March 11, workers in a supermarket in Japan didn’t run away when they felt the shaking. Instead, they held on to the shelves and tried to stop the goods (货物)from falling down.

　　Reporters from NHK, the country’s largest TV station, stayed calm in front of cameras during the earthquake, even though some were facing real danger.

　　The earthquake was the most powerful one to hit Japan in the country’s history. But Japan’s reaction( 反应 ) to the accident has shown that it is the most earthquake-prepared country in the world. The calm the Japanese showed during and after the quake has impressed the world.

　　This is because Japan has “an earthquake culture”. Japanese people are taught how to prepare for and react to earthquakes from a young age.

　　Schools in Japan organize earthquake practices every month. They make students become familiar with being in an earthquake.

　　Japan also has a good earthquake warning system(警报系统 ). Warning were broadcast on television, radio and mobile phones nine seconds after experts( 专家 ) first knew about the quake on March 11.

　　The warning system is unable to predict earthquakes. But it can usually alert people about 15 seconds before they feel the effects. Even 15 or 20 seconds can be enough time to save people’s lives.

　　1.How did Japanese people react when the big earthquake hit Japan on March 11?

　　A. The felt angry B. They were scared C. They stayed calm D. They were frustrated.

　　2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

　　A. Japan’s reaction to the earthquake impressed the world.

　　B. Japanese schools organize earthquake practice every day.

　　C. Japan has a warning system that can predict earthquakes

　　D. Japanese people learn about earthquake safety only from universities.

　　3.What does the underlined word “alert” mean in Chinese?

　　A. 改善 B. 提高C.提醒 D.改变

　　4. What does the story mainly tell us about?

　　A. Japan’s earthquake culture.

　　B. The bad results caused by the earthquake

　　C. Japanese people were scared after the earthquake.

　　D. Japanese people were homeless after the earthquake.

　　Charles Chaplin was born in London on April 16.1889. His patents were music hall actors. The Chaplin family were very poor, and life was difficult in London. Charlie, as he was called , used to do his mother’s job in the theatre when she was ill.

　　When he was only 17 years old, Chaplin got his first real job as an actor. What he did was to do silly things to make people laugh in the theatre. Seven years later he went to the USA. And over the next four years, he formed his own way of art. He developed the character( 角色 ) of a homeless gentleman which became very popular.

　　From the 1920s to the 1950s, Chaplin made his most famous films. The film Modern Times(1936) shows his care about the modern industry workers. Many of his films describe the poor life and hard time of the working people during that period.

　　Although Charlie Chaplin was British, he lived in the USA until 1953. But he never got US nationality. Then Chaplin, his wife and his five children had to move to Switzerland where he lived until he died. When he was 83 years old, he won his only Oscar for the music he wrote for the film Limelight. He was named Sir Charles Chaplin at the age of 85. Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland on December 25th, 1975.

　　1.Chaplin used to __________ when his mother was ill.

　　A. look after her B. do the housework C. do his mothers’ job D. do his father’s job

　　2.From Paragraph2, we can know that____________.

　　A. Chaplin went to the USA when he was 24 years old.

　　B. Chaplin became famous when he was 17 years old.

　　C. people liked Chaplin because he was a homeless gentleman

　　D. Chaplin did many silly things to make people laugh in the street

　　3.We can infer from the passage that Chaplin left the USA because of ________.

　　A. his family B. his work C. the US government D. the Swiss government

　　4.Chaplin won the Oscar for_____ _when he was 83 years old.

　　A. the acting B. the art C. the film D. the music

阅读理解

　　　How do you feel when you stay in hospital alone? Jenny, 13, a US student, feels bored. She knows the feeling because she has been in hospital many times herself. One day, she thought of an idea ---If patients could get some books to read, they would feel better. So, from May, she and many of her friends began to collect books for hospital patients.

　　In six months the students collected 1,250 books at school. They decided to donate the books to the North Shore Medical Centre, a children’s hospital next door to their school. “There are books for kids of all ages, from babies up to high school level.” Said Jenny.

　　The students put the books into “early readers”, “middle readers” and “advanced readers”.

　　Then they wrote their best wishes to patients on bookmarks(书签 ) and letters, put the books in big boxes and donated them to the hospital.

　　“We wrote things like,‘Keep on reading!’ and ‘ Hope you feel better!’” said John, 14, Jenny’s brother. “And we also wrote some funny things to make them laugh.”

　　Frank, 12, and Steven, 14, helped carry 16 large boxes of books into a car. “ I think these books will make a lot of patients feel happy.” Said Frank. Steven shared his opinion. “It is really the most meaningful thing that I have ever done in my life.”

　　1. From the article, we can learn that __________.

　　A. in half a year Jenny and her friends bought 1,250 books

　　B. the North Shore Medical Centre is far from Jenny’s school.

　　C. Jenny and her friends were willing to help bored patients

　　D. Steven had a different opinion from Frank and John.

　　2.The best title for the article might be “______”.

　　A. Collecting books for bored patients B. Writing a letter to a medical centre

　　C. Donating books to poor students. D. Reading books for hospital patients

　　3.Which of the following words can be used to describe those students?

　　A. Polite and hard-working B. Lazy and stubborn

　　C. Selfish and proud D. Thoughtful and helpful