We are often asked to make a speech in life. Most of us are afraid of it and don't do a good job. Here are some simple steps to make your speech a successful one. First of all, find out everything you can about your subject and at the same time find out as much as you can about your audience. Who are they? What do they know about your subject? Put yourself in their shoes as you prepare your speech. Then try to arrange your material so that your speech is clear and easy to follow. Use as many examples as possible. Never forget your audience. Don't talk over their heads or talk down to them. When you are giving your speech, speak slowly and clearly, look at your audience and pause for a few seconds from time to time to give your audience chances to think over what you've said. Just remember: be prepared, know your subject and your audience, say what you have to say and be yourself so that your ideas will bring you and your audience together.

1. During the course of a speech, it is not right for a speaker to ________.

A. give a lot of examples

B. speak in a clear voice

C. take a short stop at times

D. think nothing of the audience

2.What does the underlined word "pause" mean in the passage?

A. Listen B. Stop C. Choose D. Search

3."Put yourself in their shoes as you prepare your speech." means that while preparing your speech, you must________.

A. think more about the audience

B. put your shoes away and put on theirs

C. try on their shoes to see if they fit you

D. wear the shoes in the same size as theirs

4.Which title best gives the main idea of the passage?

A. How to Improve Your Speech

B. How to Remember the Audience

C. How to Pick out the Topic for a Speech

D. How to Prepare the Material for a Speech

Every morning, the newspaper chief editor（主编）holds a meeting with the reporters. They discuss the main events of the day. Reporters are then sent to cover the events.

As soon as the reporters know what to write about, they get down to work. They telephone people and fix a time for a face-to-face interview with them. Sometimes they do telephone interviews. Checking information is very important. They go to the newspaper’s own library to look up any information that they need. This is called “doing one’s homework”.

At the same time, the picture editor decides which photographs will be used for the next day’s paper. All the people who work on a newspaper must be able to work fast. Reporters have to stop working on one story and start working at once on the important new one. They must find out the new information as quickly as possible. Later in the day, everything is put together at the news desk. Reporters return, type their stories into the computer and hand them to the editor.

The chief editor decides which will be the most important story on the front page. Sometimes this will have to be changed if something more important happens late in the day. Other editors read the stories which the reporters have written and make any necessary changes.

Finally, there is no more time left for adding new stories, and the time for printing（印刷） the newspaper has come. This is done on fast-moving printing machines. The newspapers are then delivered（发送） by truck, plane or rail. Speed is important. People want to buy the latest newspaper; nobody wants to buy yesterday’s.

1.What is the work in a newspaper office like?

A．Interesting and confusing

B．Important and patient.

C．Particular and necessary.

D．Fast and busy.

2.According to the passage, the right order for a reporter’s work is ____________.

a. writing stories

b. doing interviews

c. joining in a discussion

d. doing homework

e. handing stories to the editor

A．c,b,a,d,e B．c,d,e,a,b

C．c,b,d,a,e D．c,a,d,b,e

3.The front page contents（内容） are decided by ___________.

A．the importance of the events

B．how well the stories are written

C．the knowledge of the chief editor

D．whether they are the latest

4. The best title for this passage is “____________”.

A．How a newspaper is produced

B．How newspapers are delivered

C．What kind of papers readers like

D．Whose work is more important

How would we travel without maps? It would be a bit adventurous (冒险的) to set off from Oxford University to go to London Bridge if there wasn't a map of the London Underground at each station. In fact, a lot of the early map-makers were adventurers and explorers, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries.

So what did people do before there were maps? Well, it was quite easy to use natural signs like mountains and rivers if you were travelling on foot or riding a horse. People took small boats down rivers and followed coastlines. And it was much more logical (合理的) to use time, not distance, to measure (计量) journeys: the next village is a three-hour ride, for example.

In fact, in the earliest maps, people didn't draw landmarks. They drew the stars. It was very easy to see the night sky and use it for navigation (航行). The sky was a lot clearer before the light pollution from cities that we have today. When towns and cities were built, people drew road maps which gave correct distances and directions.

The London Underground was opened in 1863 and it also used a road map style. But a man called Henry Beck realized that travelling by train wasn't the same as driving your car across London. Passengers only needed to know which stations to change at. His new design (设计) for the Underground map wasn't very popular with the train companies at first. But the passengers loved it and in 1933, 700,000 copies were printed.

These days, of course, you can ride a bike, drive a car or go through a forest and know where you are exactly, using a GPS. It's really difficult to get lost!

1.What was drawn in the earliest maps?

A. Stars. B. Landmarks.

C. Cities and towns, D. Mountains and rivers.

2.When did road maps come out?

A. Around 15th and 16th centuries.

B. When people began to travel by train.

C. When people began to travel by sea.

D. When cities and towns appeared.

3.Which of the following is true?

A. A GPS helped people to travel long time ago.

B. Ancient people could travel on a horse without maps.

C. The sky was polluted by light before cities were built.

D. Henry Beck's map wasn't popular with the passengers.

4.What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Maps have a long history.

B. We never get lost these days.

C. We can't travel without maps.

D. Henry Beck designed a new map.

1. Then we usually go to see a doctor. Doctors know a lot about what makes us ill. They may give us something to take. The medicine often makes us well again.

But sometimes the doctor’s medicine doesn’t work. A sick person does not get well.

2. This happened to one man. He was in hospital, but he wasn’t well. Then he found a new “doctor” inside himself. This “doctor” was his own sense of humor. He saw funny films. He read funny books. And something wonderful happened. 3. Then he was able to sleep and rest. His own happy feeling helped him to feel well again. And he told his story in a book. He said that laughing was his best “medicine”. His doctor thought so, too.

Another man was ill, and he had a terrible pain in his back. 4. So the man began to “picture” his pain. In his head he “drew” a picture of a dog. He imagined it as a real dog. And it was biting（咬） his back. It was hurting him. Then the man talked softly to the dog. He put his hand on the dog’s head. He made friends with the dog. And his pain went away.

5. But more and more people are getting well in this way. So call on the “doctor” inside your own head. And stay happy and well.

补全对话（5分）

请阅读下面的对话，根据对话内容补上所缺句子，使对话通顺、合理，意思完整。（每空一句，每句1分）

W: Hello! Leo! This is Jenny.

M: Oh, hi. 1.

W: Great! Thanks. Are you doing anything this weekend?

M: Nothing much. 2.

W: A famous art teacher will come to our school and give a talk. Would you like to come?

M: 3. When will it start?

W: 9:30 on Saturday morning.

M: 4.

W: In the second meeting hall. Don’t be late.

M: I won’t. 5.

W: See you.

书面表达（15分）

“谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦。”然而有不少同学在学校就餐时存在不同程度的浪费食物的现象。对此请你根据下面的思维导图要点提示，以“Don’t Waste Any More”为题写一篇英语短文，呼吁大家节约粮食，防止浪费

Don’t Waste Any More

1. Food is important to us

2.Waste much food. For example...

3.Lots of people are short of food in the world, die of hunger

4.Have a good habit

提示： 1. 内容必须包括所给的全部要点，可适当发挥；

2. 表达清楚，语句通顺，意思连贯，书写规范；

3. 词数不少于80。文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Don’t Waste Any More!

Food is very important to us. It’s everybody’s duty to save food.________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

— Millie, Here is ______ bridge ,what can you see across _____ bridge ?

— Oh, _______ elephant is standing over there .

A. a; the ; an B. a; a; the

C. the; a ;the D. the; the; an

— Lucy, do people in England celebrate Thanksgiving Day like Americans?

— No, we don’t. It is festival, not .

A. their; our B. their; ours

C. theirs; our D. theirs; ours

— Where is your school library ?

— Our school library is ___ the west of the school, ____ the south of my classroom.

A. to; to B. in; in C. on; to D. in; to

— How many students are there in your school?

—There are _______ students.

A. eight hundreds and fifty

B. eight hundred and fifty

C. eight hundreds fifty

D. eight hundred fifty