We each have a memory. That’s why we can still remember things after a long time. Some people have very good memories and they can easily learn many things by heart, but some people can only remember things when they say or do them again and again. Many of the great men of the world have got surprising memories.

A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his mother language when he is a small child. He hears the sounds, remembers them and then he learns to speak. Some children are living with their parents in foreign countries. They can learn two languages as easily as one because they hear, remember and speak two languages every day. In school it is not so easy to learn a foreign language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects, too.

But your memory will become better and better when you do more and more exercises.

1.Some people can easily learn many things by heart because .

A．they always sleep very well

B．they often eat good food

C．they have very good memories

D．they read a lot of books

2.In school the pupils can’t learn a foreign language well because .

A．they have no good memories

B．they have no recorders

C．they have too much time for it

D．they are busy with other subjects

3.Your memory will become better and better .

A．if you do more and more exercises

B．if you have plenty of good food

C．if you do morning exercises every day

D．if you get up early

About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman!

There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shadows of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green － a strange world indeed.

Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”. These help us to see in a bright light and to tell difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods”, but these are used for seeing when it is near dark. They show us shape but no color.

Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes prefer blue to yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible colors around us.

1. The passage is mainly about _____________.

A. color blindness

B. women being luckier than men

C. danger caused by color blindness

D. color and its surprising effects.

2.According to the passage, with the help of the “cones”, we can_______________.

A. tell different shapes

B. tell orange from yellow

C. kill mosquitoes

D. see in a weak light

3.Why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?

A. Women are more careful.

B. There are fewer color-blind women

C. Women are fonder of driving than men.

D. Women are weaker but quicker in thinking.

4.Which of the statements about the color- blind is true?

A. All of them see everything in shades of green.

B. None of them can see deep red.

C. None of them can tell the difference between blue and green.

D. Not all of them have the same problem in recognizing color.

Many people go to school for a good education. They learn languages, history, maths and other lessons. School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. No matter how much a teacher knows, he cannot teach his students everything they want to know. His work is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves. It is always more important to know how to study by oneself. It is quite easy to learn something in a language or a formula（公式） in maths，but it is difficult to use a formula in finding the answer to a maths problem . Great inventors do not get everything from school but they can invent many things and change the world a lot. Though Thomas Edison invented many things he didn’t have much school education. How do they do all these? Because they know how to study. A lot of things are not taught in the classroom. They get knowledge from books outside school. They work hard all their lives, and the most important thing is that they know how to use their head.

1.What do many people go to school for?

A. To make friends B. To get everything

C. To study by themselves D. To get a good education

2.What should a student learn to do from school?

A. Try to remember more knowledge and formulas.

B. Try to learn how to read and how to think.

C. Try to remember what the teachers teach.

D. Try to invent the world.

3.How can an inventor invent things? The most important thing is how to:

A. be a great inventor

B. study by himself

C. use his head well

D. remember what he’s been taught

4.What is the main idea of this passage?

A. School education is important for a person.

B. A student should learn how to remember a formula.

C. A student can not learn everything from school.

D. Inventors can invent things and change the world a lot.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。其中两项为多余选项

The Winner’s Guide to Success

How do successful people think? What helps them to make success? To find out the answers, an American scholar recently visited some of the most successful people in America. 1.

Be responsible for yourself

Sometimes you may want to blame others for your failure to get ahead. 2. You’re saying, “You have more control over my life than I do.”

Live life “on purpose”

Almost all successful people live life “on purpose”— they are doing what they believe they should and want to do. When you live your life on purpose, you’ll try your best to do your job or study as well as you can. You love what you do and you can find pleasure in what you do.

Write a plan

It is very difficult trying to get what you want without a good plan. 3. A good plan is like a map to you. Without this “map”, you may waste your time, money and also your energy; while with the “map” you’ll enjoy the “trip” and get what you want in the shortest possible time.

Be willing to pay the price

Nothing great is easy to get. So you must be ready to work hard — even harder than you have ever done. If you are not willing to pay the price, you won’t get anything valuable.

Never give up

4. When you are doing something, you must tell yourself again and again: Giving up is worse than failure because failure can be the mother of success, but giving up means the death of hope.

5.

Once an American writer was writing a novel. He could not have a good ending for his book until one night when he had a very good idea. He was so excited that he made a phone call to one of his best friends. “I’ve got a perfect idea,” he said, “I’ll put it down later and show it to you.” But he never did, because he died that night. His book was left without a perfect ending. So remember, do what you can right away. Never delay at all.

A. It is just like trying to drive through strange roads to a city far away.

B. It seems to us that everyone knows this. But it is easier said than done.

C. Some people achieve success much later in life because they fail to realize earlier the importance of hard work.

D. In fact, when you say someone or something outside of yourself is stopping you from making success, you’re giving away your own power.

E. Someone else’s opinion of you doesn’t have to become your reality.

F. Don’t delay

G. Here are some keys to success that they give.

完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A girl complained to her father about her hard life. She didn’t know what she could do and wanted to ________ . She was tired of fighting and fighting. One problem had been settled, but ________ appeared.

Her father, a cook, took her into the ________ . He poured water into three pots and boiled it. After the water came to a boil, he put some ________ in the first pot, eggs in the second and coffee in the last. He waited for them for a few minutes ________ any words.

The girl closed her mouth and waited, impatient and ________ by what her father was doing. After about 20 minutes, her father ______ the stove, took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. He took the eggs and put them in another bowl. After that he ________ the coffee into a cup. Turning back to his ________ , he asked, “Sweetheart, what do you see?”

“Carrots, eggs and coffee,” she replied.

Her father asked her to ________ the carrots. She did and felt that the carrots were ________.

________ he asked her to take the eggs and break them. After peeling them, she felt the eggs were hard.

Last, her father asked her to smell the coffee.

She asked, “What does this ________ , Father?”

He ________ that each of the things had felt the same unfortunate fate. They were all boiled in ________ , but with a ________ result. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after being boiled. The fragile eggs became________ after cooking. Coffee grounds were very unique. They could change the water.

“________ one are you?” asked her father, “When calamity（不幸的事） ________ on your door, what will your ________ be? Are you carrots, eggs of coffee?”

1.A. give inB. go onC. give upD. carry on

2.A. the otherB. the restC. anotherD. the second

3.A. bedroomB. storeroomC. backyardD. kitchen

4.A. potatoesB. carrotsC. tomatoesD. apples

5.A. withoutB. overC. beyondD. with

6.A. confusedB. excitedC. surprisedD. relaxed

7.A. turned onB. turned downC. turned outD. turned off

8.A. putB. pouredC. flewD. picked

9.A. sonB. potC. kitchenD. daughter

10.A. tasteB. eatC. smellD. touch

11.A. strongB. heavyC. softD.light

12.A. Now thatB. Since thenC. After thatD.Once again

13.A. thinkB. sayC. referD. mean

14.A. questionedB. explainedC. requiredD. suggested

15.A. waterB. potC. stoveD. fire

16.A. similarB. sameC.wonderfulD. different

17.A. hardB. calmC. deliciousD. broken

18.A. WhatB. WhicheverC. WhichD. Whose

19.A. looksB. touchesC. knocksD. waits

20.A.impressionB. reactionC. answerD.responsibility

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

A motto is a sentence or a phrase 1. can inspire us especially when we are 2. (face) with difficulties. Many of us have our mottoes, such as “Where there is a will, there is a way.” Or “Nothing is difficult if you put your heart into it.”, and so on. My motto is “God helps those who help 3. .” Sometimes I am lazy and don’t want to make efforts 4. ( work) hard, 5. the moment I think of my motto I will get energetic again and devote myself 6. what I am doing. I write my motto 7. I can see it easily. Every time I fail in my exam and begin to lose heart, the sight of my motto inspires me with much 8. (confident). My motto also makes me become 9. independent person. That is to say, I won’t rely on others easily.

My friends, what is your motto? If you still haven’t got a motto, please choose 10. because a motto can have a great effect on you.

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What should you do when your parents become angrily？If your parents got mad，try to have a conversation with them about it.Remembering not to shout at them.They usually will try to change.But they will take some times to change because they always get angry，and that is all they know.You might have to change for your method a couple of times.Do any nice things for your parents that they don't expect—like cooking，doing the dishes，washing clothes，or clean the floors.If this doesn't work，bring in friend that you feel comfortable，and have him or her help you.

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在世界环保日到来前夕，联合国教科文组织就如何处理垃圾问题向全世界中学生征文。请你以Saving Our City为题，写一篇110词左右的短文

。文章的第一句已给出，但不计入总词数。

提示：(不要逐条译成英文, 请注意文章结构, 和行文流畅)

1. 城市垃圾的危害：①污染环境；②有害健康。 ．．．

2. 处理垃圾的措施有：①垃圾分类；②报纸、玻璃的再利用；③有害垃圾的处理；④废水处理；⑤制定法律。 ．．．

Saving Our City

It is very important to deal with the rubbish in cities.

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Yours sincerely,

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You’ve heard it repeatedly: Make sure you drink at least eight glasses of water per day. The key words are "at least", because, unless you are a child, you need more water than that. The rule is, for every 50 pounds of body weight you carry, drink one quart of bottled or filtered (过滤的) water per day. The average person weighs 150 pounds, so they should drink three quarts per day. A 200 pounds person should drink a full gallon per day. Athletes should drink even more than that. Follow these and you’ve adopted one of the most important health habits.

Our bodies are mostly water, and water is essential to our every function. Drink the appropriate amount, and everything is much more likely to function at the best levels. If you don’t drink enough water, over the short term you will experience tiredness, dry skin, headaches and constipation (便秘); over the longer term, every body function will degrade more quickly. It really is as simple as that.

Things get a bit more complicated in what type of water to drink. Bottled water and filtered water are both good options. Do not drink tap water or distilled water (蒸馏水).Bottled water should be bottled in clear glass containers, not the plastic containers that transfer far too many chemicals into the water. Filtered water can be obtained through low-cost filters.

Tap water should be avoided because it contains chlorine (氯) and may contain fluoride (氟化物), which is poisonous and can have terrible consequences for the body. Distilled water should also be avoided because it can burn up your body of necessary minerals. It has been tied to hair loss, which is often associated with certain mineral lack.

Finally, drink water at room temperature if possible, as ice-cold water can harm your stomach.

1.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “degrade”?

A. Improve. B. Reduce.

C. Strengthen D. Recover.

2.What kinds of water are proper for drinking?

A. Tap water and bottled water.

B. Tap water and distilled water.

C. Bottled water and filtered water.

D. Distilled water and filtered water.

3.What’s the main reason that distilled water isn’t recommended to drink?

A. It leads the body to lack certain minerals.

B. It isn’t clean enough to drink.

C. It contains too many chemicals.

D. It contains fluoride.

4.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. It is harmful to drink plenty of icy water.

B. One may feel tired due to lack of water for a short time.

C. The water with chlorine is not suitable to drink.

D. The water in plastic containers is safe to drink.

“Dutch” expressions heard in American English were first used in the 17th century. That was a time of fierce competition between England and Holland. At that time, the British used “Dutch” as a word for something bad, or false.

A Dutch agreement was one made between men who had drunk too much alcohol. Dutch leave was what a soldier took when he left his base without permission.

Some of these old expressions are still used today with a little different meaning. Long ago, a Dutch treat or to go Dutch was a dinner at which the invited guests were expected to pay for their own share of food and drink. Now, Dutch treat means that when friends go out to have fun, each person pays his own share.

Another common expression heard a few years ago was “In Dutch”. If someone told you that you were in Dutch, they meant that you were in trouble.

Some of the Dutch expressions heard in American English have nothing to do with the Dutch people at all. In the seventeen hundreds, Germans who moved to the United States often were called Dutch. During the American Civil War, supporters of the northern side in the central state of Missouri were called Dutch, because many of them were German settlers. President Theodore Roosevelt once noted that anything foreign and non-English was called Dutch.

1.If one of your friends collects 60 yuan from you to go to have a meal together, you can use “_____”.

A. Go Dutch B. A Dutch C. In Dutch D. Dutch leave

2.Why does the word “Dutch” often have a negative (not good) meaning in English?

A. Because in the 17th century, the Dutch were timid (胆小的)

B. Because in the 17th century, the Dutch often drank a lot of alcohol.

C. Because in the 17th century, the Dutch often fought with the British.

D. Because in the 17th century, the Dutch didn’t like to pay for others.

3.Which of the following statements is true?

A. The original meaning of “Dutch” refers to the people in the British.

B. “Dutch” sometimes means all that is non-English in American English.

C. The Dutch uncles are often very severe.

D. “Dutch” expressions in English didn’t come from the Dutch at all.

4.What’s the passage mainly about?

A. Telling us that “Dutch” is not a good word.

B. Showing that “Dutch” means differently between the British and the American

C. Telling us there was fierce competition between England and Holland.

D. Helping us enlarge the knowledge about the word “Dutch”.