— I went to the live concert yesterday and didn’t know what happened in the school.

— ____________ .

A. So did I B. Nor did I

C. So it was with me D. So I was

1.From Shackletoris Incredible Voyage, we know the main character ______.

A. is a writer for Time magazine

B. is a survival of one polar exploration

C. has left a lot of diaries and accounts

D. has formed a close friendship with Alfred Lansing

2.If you want to know more about teamwork, you can read ______.

A. Dogs Don't Tell Jokes B. Shackletoris Incredible Voyage

C. Winners Never Quit D. The Alchemist

3.What do we know about The Alchemist?

A. It has an everlasting influence on its readers.

B. It gives people magical power over their dreams.

C. It tells a story of how to find treasures.

D. It is mainly about the wisdom of listening to others.

Focus on what you are supposed to do every day and you __________ gradual progress.

A．make B．will make C．made D．would make

When I asked if __________ would help me，Tony was the first to volunteer.

A．everyone B．none C．anyone D．all

__________ ups and downs in the past four years，Bob finally succeeded in extending his business overseas.

A．Experienced B．To experience

C．Having experienced D．Experiencing

Winter _________， but children can’t wait to go skiing.

A．won’t arrive B．didn’t arrive

C．hadn’t arrived D．hasn’t arrived

Speaking Up

I never looked up when my friends were talking and joking about the ratarded (智障的) boy a few tables away. It didn’t even cross my mind that he might feel________when people whispered about him. So I just let them talk.

Then came the day when I learned my little brother Martin’s testing for autism (自闭症) came out positive (阳性). I had never thought about him like that. I broke ________ , crying.

Everything had just changer. He was no longer a(n) ________ little boy.

Over time, I was able to accept his________a little more. We had to ________ because Martin needed treatment. So Martin and I both started at a new school. One day, I was standing in the bus line waiting when a “ short ” bus (for the retarded) came and ________ up some kids. The children in the other line started making ________ about the “ retarded ” on that bus and I felt a ________ feeling in my heart. I said quietly that those comments weren’t very nice, ________ no one listened.

My family moved again. In the new school I got a________ to speak up pretty soon. That day, in a band class, my teacher ________ our playing to make some comments, “ …Guys, we’re playing like the kids on the short bus! Come on! ”

The entire room was laughing loudly. I felt very________ . Then, I raised my hand. I wasn’t sure what I was going to say but I wanted to be heard.

The whole class________ down. My mouth opened and this came out: “ I don’t think we should make fun of the short bus, because there are people on that bus who have a lot in common with us and have the same feelings as we do.” I could feel my ________ getting louder. “ So I would ________ it if you didn’t make fun of them.”

The room was very quiet and everyone stared at me. My teacher ________ for his words and then started the song again. At the end of the class, everyone was giving me strange looks. But I didn’t ________ , because I knew three things: I had spoken the ________ , I had taught everyone something, and while everyone in the classroom was being a follower, I had ________ to take a different path since I wanted to become a ________ and a role model.

1.A．amazed B．hurt C．uncertain D．cold

2.A．off B．in C．down D．away

3.A．normal B．noisy C．outstanding D．impressive

4.A．pain B．interest C．opinion D．illness

5.A．change B．move C．quit D．study

6.A．set B．took C．brought D．picked

7.A．jokes B．complaints C．choices D．discoveries

8.A．violent B．strange C．confusing D．clear

9.A．because B．if C．but D．so

10.A．chance B．position C．topic D．point

11.A．encouraged B．bothered C．enjoyed D．stopped

12.A．bad B．embarrassed C．tense D．guilty

13.A．sat B．slowed C．quieted D．looked

14.A．pace B．voice C．pulse D．breath

15.A．excuse B．appreciate C．stand D．permit

16.A．apologized B．fought C．allowed D．argued

17.A．understand B．notice C．return D．care

18.A．wisdom B．importance C．matter D．truth

19.A．helped B．decided C．agreed D．hoped

20.A．reporter B．thinker C．leader D．trainer

Time Travel

If you could travel in time, where would you go? Perhaps you would watch an originalperformance of a Shakespeare’s play in Elizabethan England?

What about hanging out with Laozi in the Spring and Autumn Period? Or maybe you’d voyage far ahead of the present day to see what the future holds.

The possibility of time travel is indeed appealing. Stories exploring the subject have been around for hundreds of years. Perhaps the best known example is science fiction novel The Time Machine, which was written by H.G.Wells and published in 1895 for the first time. It was adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term “time machine”, coined by

Wells, is now universally used to refer to a vehicle transporting people into the far future.

But could time travel actually be possible? Some scientists say yes, in theroy. They propose using cracks in time and space called“wormholes”,which could be used as shortcuts to other periods．Einstein's theory of relativity allows time travel in extreme circumstances．And British physicist Stephen Hawking says you could travel into the future with a really fast spaceship—going at nearly the speed of light．Though building such a spaceship would of course be no simple task．

Even if you could travel into the past, there is something called the “grandfather paradox”．It asks what would happen if a time traveler were to go back in time and have his own grandfather killed for some reason, and therefore prevent himself from being born．If the time traveler wasn't born, how would he travel back in time？

And would you really like to visit the future？In H．G．Wells' book,the main character travels into distant time where he arrives at a beach and is attacked by giant crabs．He then voyages 30 million years into the future where the only living thing is a black object with tentacles（触角）.

If that's what's in store, maybe we are better just living in the present day after all．

1.The novel The Time Machine mentioned in Paragraph 2 aims to show___________．

A．People's interest in time travel

B．the special feature of the book

C．the long history of time travel

D．the contribution of H．G．Wells

2.Einstein's and Hawking's theories_________．

A．have similarities in many ways

B．push the invention of the first spaceship

C．have proved wrong by some time travelers

D．suggest the possibility to invent the time machine

3.In Paragraph 4,“grandfather paradox”probably refers to the idea that__________．

A．the traveler is prevented from meeting his grandfather

B．the traveler goes back in time to seek for his grandfather

C．the grandfather's death makes the traveler's birth impossible

D．The reunion of the traveler and his grandfather brings happiness

4.According to the passage, what is probably the author's attitude towards time travel？

A．Unclear． B．Skeptical．

C．Supportive．D．Unconcerned．

假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。上个周末，为了给校的外籍学生营造学习中国文化的

氛围，你们班布置了一间“中国小屋”，做为他们日常学习和活动的教室。请根据以下四幅

图的先后顺序，介绍这一过程，并向校刊“英语园地”投稿。

注意：词数不少于60。

提示词：中国小屋 Chamber of China

On Sunday, August 24th, comic book lovers across the world held their breath to watch how much crazy collectors would pay for a rare Superman comic book. Though bids (出价) above the initial asking price of 1 million dollars had been coming in gradually since the copy was placed on the auction site (拍卖网站) eBay on July 14th, things really started to heat up during the final minutes when the price jumped from $2.5 to $2.6 and then $2.7 million, before shooting up to unbelievable 3,207,852 dollars!

This of course was no ordinary Superman comic book, but an edition of the extremely sought-after (很吃香地) No. 1 of Action Comics series — the first publication of the superhero that was born from the creative minds of teenagers Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel. Though Action Comics No. 1, which depicted a diaper-clad baby Superman lifting furniture, had a print run of 200,000 copies, only about 100 are known to exist today.

While the rarity is certainly a reason for the high price, Stephen Fisher, CEO of ComicConnect.com, thinks it also has a lot to do with the fact that Superman was the world’s first superhero! Even so, none of the copies have been able to fetch (售得) as much as the most recent one, simply because they have not been as well-preserved. Graded a rare 9 out of 10 by CGC, a third party grading service for comic books, the book is the highest rated copy of Action Comics No. 1 so far. According to CGC officials, the 76-year-old comic book looks and feels as though it has just come off the newsstand (报摊).

That is not surprising given that the original owner, a Virginian man who bought the book for only 10 cents in 1938, had carefully tucked it away (藏起来) in a wooden box for four decades. Fortunately, when he passed away, the book was bought by a string of collectors who all realized it was a rare treasure that needed to be looked after.

Before this, the highest price paid for an Action Comics No. 1 had been $2 million for a copy sold by Hollywood actor Nicholas Cage in 2011. Ironically, the two teenagers responsible for creating Superman received just 130 dollars when they sold the rights to the superhero to comic book publisher Detective Comics in 1938.

1.the Superman comic book was placed on eBay on July 14th, .

A. it attracted no attention at all

B. things started to heat up immediately

C. the bid price didn’t go up very quickly at first

D. people thought it was worth millions of dollars

2.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A. Why the comic book is well-preserved.

B. Why the comic book is well worth reading.

C. Why the comic book is worth so much money.

D. Why the comic book has drawn so much attention.

3.When the other collectors got the comic book after the Virginian man, they .

A. all took very good care of it

B. all liked reading it very much

C. didn’t believe it was worth a fortune

D. all kept it in the same way as that man

4.What do we know about the creators of Superman?

A. They didn’t want to sell the rights to a comic book publisher.

B. They knew all along Superman would be the most successful comic book.

C. They were professional comic book writers when they created Superman.

D. They didn’t make much money from creating Superman.