I shook hands with my father in the truck, and for a long time he looked straight ahead and didn't say a word．But I knew he was going to say a little to me．"I can't tell anything．" he finally said．“I never went to college, and none of your brothers went to college．I can't say don't do this and do that, because everything is different and I don't know what is going to come up．I can't help much with money either, but I think things will work out．”

He gave me a new check-book（支票簿）．“If things get pushing, write a small check．But when you write one, send me a letter and let me know how much．There are some things we can always sell．” In four years all the checks I wrote were less than a thousand dollars．My part-time jobs such as reading to the blind student and sitting with the teachers' kids filled in the financial gaps．

"You know what you want to be, and they'll tell you what to take," my father went on．“When you get a job, be sure it's honest, and work hard．” I knew that soon I would be alone in the big town, and I would be missing the cool winds and a life where your thinking was done for you．

Then my dad reached down beside his seat and brought the old, broken Bible（圣经）that he had read so often, the one he used when he wanted to look something up in a friendly quarrel with one of the neighbours．I knew he would miss it．I knew, though, that I must take it．

He didn't say read this every morning．He just said," This can help you if you will let it．”

Did it help? I got through college without being a burden（负担） on the family．I have been able to make money since．

1.What is the writer's main purpose（目的）in writing this passage？

A．To tell the readers his life story．

B．To tell people what kind of person his father was．

C．To let people know how poor he was．

D．To tell the readers what present he got from his father．

2.Why did the father not ask his son not to do this and do that？

A．Because he felt quite confident of his son．

B．Because he was born from a poor family．

C．Because he was a man of few words．

D．Because he didn't want to be much too strict with his son．

3.What would someone learn from this passage？

A．How to live by oneself．

B．How to stand on one's own feet．

C．What a good father should do．

D．What the self-important is like．

4.What may be the proper Chinese for the underlined part in the passage？

A．闲暇时光 B．学费

C．经济不足 D．精神空虚

5.What kind of book did the Bible seem to be to the writer's father？

A．It was a book which told you how you should get on well with others．

B．There were many good examples for you to copy in it．

C．It was a book that told you how to get a good job and a good future．

D．It was a good book that could help you when you were in trouble．

Strange things happen when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty-four zones （时区）．The time difference between two zones is one hour．You can have days with more than twenty-four hours and days with fewer than twenty- four hours．You can have weeks with more than seven days and weeks with fewer than seven days．

If you make a five-day trip （旅行） across the Atlantic Ocean （大西洋） , your ship come into a different time zone every day．As you come into each zone, the time changes one hour．If you travel west, you set your watch back．If you travel east, you set it ahead （向前）．Each day of your trip has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours．

If you make a trip by ship across the Pacific Ocean （太平洋） , you cross the International Date Line（国际日期变更线）．This is the point where a new day begins when you cross the line, you change one full day．If you travel east, today becomes yesterday, if you travel west it is tomorrow．

1.Something interesting will happen to the time if you travel because_____．

A．a day has always fewer than twenty-four hours

B．a day has always more than twenty- four hours

C．a day has more or f ewer than twenty-four hours

D．some time zones are large and some time zones are small

2.The time difference between two time zones is_______．

A．twenty-four hours B．one hour

C．two hours D．twenty-three hours

3.If we crossthe Atlantic Ocean, we_______．

A．change one full day

B．set our watch back

C．set our watch ahead

D．set our watch back or ahead

4.If we travel east across the International Date Line on July 5th, the date becomes July______．

A．3rd B．4th C．5th D．6th

5.The Atlantic Ocean________．

A．is in one time zone

B．is divided into twenty-four zones

C．is divided into five time zones

D．can not be crossed in five days

单词拼写（共5小题，每小题1分；满分5分）

根据首字母及汉语提示，完成下列单词的拼写，使句意明确，语言通顺

1.If you want to use the bag, you should e_________（倒空）it first．

2.Do you know what your p_________（父母的） favorite colors are?

3.Our teachers are always p__________（耐心的） when we make mistakes．

4.My friend Tom never eats junk food．And he is h__________（健康的）than me．

5.Dad got his watch r_________（修理） yesterday afternoon．

书面表达（共1小题；满分20分）

假如你是Amy，请你给Mr. Smith写一封信，向他请教一些问题，内容包括：

1、你平时疯狂于流行音乐和流行歌手。

2、你经常花很多时间听音乐，花很多钱买CD。

3、由于你不能准时完成作业，父母和老师都不喜欢你，他们要你放弃这个爱好。

4、请他给你一些建议。

要求：语义连贯，条理清楚，包含要点。字数80-100词。书信格式已给出。

Dear sir,

---- Is it far from here to the bank?

---- Not very, only________．

A．20 minute’s walk B．20 minutes’ walk

C．20 minutes walk D．20 minutes’ walks

There is ________ 800-metre-long road behind ________ hospital．

A．an; an B．a; a C．an; the D．a; the

---- Could you tell me ______? I must find him．

---- Sorry．I don’t know．But he was here just now．

A．where Tom was B．where has Tom gone

C．where Tom is D．where can I find Tom

We don’t have enough nurses to look after patients．At least ___ nurses are needed．

A．ten another B．more ten C．other ten D．another ten

---- We will build an underground in Xuzhou before 2015．

---- Wow, _______! Will it pass our place?

A．what an excited news B．how excited the news is

C．what exciting news D．how exciting news

---- Jack, I haven’t seen your brother for a long time．

---- He ________Shanghai on business for two months．

A．went to B．has gone to

C．has been in D．has been to