As soon as she entered her own room, she caught sight of the gift _____ by her father.

A. buying              B. bought       C. was bought              D. being bought

       Don’t say any more; we all believe the facts than your words. What you have explained doesn’t make _____.

A. sense      B. fun    C. use         D. meaning

假如你是高一学生王刚，通过半年的学习，你对高中的英语教与学有了一定的了解，也有不少问题想和你的英语老师Mrs. Chen探讨和沟通，同时也想给你的英语老师提些建议，所以在放假之前你写一封信给Mrs. Chen。信的内容应包括以下几个方面：

           1） 感谢英语老师半年来的辛勤工作；

              2） 自己在学习中的几个问题，如单词记不住，语法怎么学等；

              3） 给老师的教学建议，如尽可能用英语授课，作业布置适量等；

注意：

              1）不要逐条翻译，应适当发挥；

2）字数为120左右；                  3）不得使用真实姓名；

Dear Mrs. Chen,

How time flies! I have been your student for nearly half a year. To begin with, I want to _______

Best wishes to you and your family!

                                                          Yours,

                                                                              Wang Gang

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

      2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Today I visited Smiths—my first visit to a American family. They live in a small

town. It was very kind for them to meet me at the railway station and drove me to

their home. The Smiths did his best to make me felt at home. They offered me coffee

and other drinks. We have a good time talking and laughing together. They eager to

know everything about China and asked me lots of question. In fact, they are planning

to visit China in next year.    

阅读下列材料，并从所给的六个选项（A、B、C、D、E和F ）中选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。

If you want to keep fit, please refer to the following:

Move More

Make it a daily to find ways to move your body.   61   Climb stairs instead of taking the elevator. Walk your dog; play with your kids. It doesn’t have to be an hour in the gym or a 45-minute dance class. But that’s great when you’re up to it. At the same time, move more.

Quit Smoking

Ever since 1960 when it was announced that smoking was harmful to health, Americans have been reducing their use of tobacco products. Just recently, we’ve seen more and more teens smoking. Could it be the Hollywood influence?   62   Take care! Warn your children against smoking.

  63  

While recent studies show a glass of wine or one drink a day can help protect against heart disease, more than that can cause other health problems such as liver and kidney(肝肾) disease and cancer.

Reduce Stress

Easier said than done, stress comes in many ways.   64   Spend 30 minutes a day doing something you like such as walk on the beach or in a park, read a good book, visit a friend, listen to relaxing music, and watch a funny movie.

Protect Yourself from Pollution

If you can’t live in a smog-free environment, at least avoid smoke-filled rooms.   65  Exercise indoors in air conditioning when air quality is good.

A. Avoid Excessive Drinking

B. There are many things you can do to move your arms and legs.

C. Keep a good mood

D. Exercise outside when the smog rating(等级) is low.

E. It seems that the stars in every movie smoke cigarettes.

F. Some techniques given by experts are to think positive(积极的) thoughts.

Jack London had endured more hardships by the age of twenty-one than most people experience in a lifetime. His struggles developed in him sympathy for the working class and a lasting dislike of hard work and provided inspiration for his career as a writer.

London grew up in San Francisco in extreme poverty. At an early age, he left school and supported himself through a succession of unskilled jobs --- working as a paper boy, in bowling alleys, on ice wagons, and in canneries and mills. Despite working long hours at these jobs, London was able to read constantly, borrowing travel and adventure books from the library.

The books London read inspired him to travel, and his job experiences led him to become active in fighting for the fights of workers. He sailed to Japan on a journey aiming at catching seals and joined a cross-country protest march with a group of unemployed workers. After being arrested for vagrancy (流浪) near Buffalo, New York, London decided to educate himself and reshape his life. He quickly completed high school and entered the University of California.

After only one term, however, the appeal of fortune and adventure proved uncontrollable. London gave up his studies and traveled to the Alaskan Yukon in 1897 in search of gold. Jack London was among the first of these miners. He may have searched for more than gold, however. London once commented, “ True, the new region was mostly poor; but its several hundred thousand square miles of coldness at least gave breathing space to those who else would have choked at home.” Although he was unsuccessful as a miner, London’s experiences in Alaska taught him about the human desire for wealth and power and about humankind’s inability to control the forces of nature. While in Alaska, London also absorbed memories and stories that would make him known one hundred years later.

Once back in California, London became determined to earn a living as a writer. He rented a typewriter and worked up to fifteen hours a day, spinning his Alaskan adventures into short stories and novels.

According to legend, London’s piles of rejection slips from publishers grew to five feet in height!

    Even so, London preserved. In 1903, he earned national fame when he published the popular novel The Call of the Wild. He soon became the highest paid and most industrious writer in the country. During his career, he produced more than fifty books and earned more than a million dollars. Several of his novels, including The Call of the Wild (1903),the Sea-Wolf (1904),the White Fang (1906), have become American classics. In fact, he was a creative writer whose fiction explored several regions and their cultures: the Yukon, California, Hawaii, and the Solomon Islands. He experimented with many literary forms, from traditional love stories and dystopias (反面乌托邦小说) to science fantasy. His noted journalism included war communication, boxing stories, and the life of Molokai lepers (麻风病患者). He was among the most influential figures of his day, who understood how to create a public persona and use the media to market his self-created image of poor-boy-turned-success. London's great passion was agriculture, and he was well on the way of creating a new model for spreading through his Beauty Ranch when he died of kidney disease at age 40. He left over fifty books of novels, stories, journalism, and essays, many of which have been translated and continue to be read around the world. His best works describe a person’s struggle for survival against the powerful forces of nature. “To Build a Fire”, for example, tells the story of a man’s fight to survive the harsh cold of the Alaskan winter.

55. _________made Jack London reconsider his life in the future.

A. His job experience                                     B. The books he read           

C. His being arrested                                     D. Long-hour work

56. What is TRUE about Jack London?

A. Jack London was poor all his life.

B. Jack London got enough money while in the search of gold.            

C. The books Jack London read inspired him to travel and become active.          

  D. The experience of gold searching made Jack London determined to write novels about Alaska adventures.

57. After the experience in Alaska, Jack London _________.

A. realized the nature of human beings.

B. knew people could control nature finally.

C. regretted being there.

D. thought highly of himself.

58. In paragraph 4, the sentence “True, the new region was mostly poor; but its several hundred

thousand square miles of coldness at least gave breathing space to those who else would have

choked at home.” implies _______.

A. Jack London regarded Alaska a poor place as he never got any gold there.

B. people would have been ill at home if they had never been to Alaska.

C. People searching for gold there still have chance to win.

D. Alaska was a poor but large region.

59. Which one of following works doesn’t belong to Jack London according to the passage?

A. love stories                  B. poetry               C. journalism                D. essays

60. What CANNOT be learned from Jack London’s final success?

A. Failure is the mother of success.                B. Practice makes perfect.

C. Knowledge is powerful.                            D. Don't cry over spilt milk.

As computers become all the more popular in China, Chinese people are increasingly depending on computer keyboards to input Chinese characters. But if they use the computer too much, they may end up forgetting the exact strokes（笔画）of each Chinese character when writing on paper. Experts suggest people, especially students, write by hand more.

Do you write by hand more or type more? In Beijing, students start using a computer as early as primary school. And computer dependence is more wide-spread among university students. Almost all their homework and essays are typed on a computer.

All the students interviewed say they usually use a computer.

It's faster and easier to correct if using a computer. And that's why computers are being applied more and more often to modern education. But when people are taking stock in computers increasingly, problems appear.

"When I'm writing with a pen, I find I often can't remember how to write a character, though I feel I’m familiar with it."

"I'm not in the mood to write when faced with a pen and paper."

Many students don't feel this is something to worry about. Now that it's more convenient and quick to write on a computer, why bother to handwrite?

51.The students interviewed prefer to write using a computer mainly because______.

A. they are usually asked to e-mail their homework and Essays

B. they can correct the mistakes they make quickly and conveniently 

C. they find it not easy to remember how to write a character

D. computers have become popular in China.

52. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE of the advantages of handwriting?

A. Handwriting contains the writer's emotion.

B. The writer’s thinking and personality are shown in his or her handwriting,

C. Handwriting can impress people well and build up one’s self-confidence

D. Chinese characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic value.

53. The underlined expression “taking stock in”(Paragraph 4) probably means_____.

A. getting bored with         B. getting dependent on 

C. becoming crazy about      D. getting curious about

54.We can draw the conclusion from the passage that_______.

A. more and more students will give up writing on a computer

B. writing by hand will give way to typing by computer one day

C. more and more students will pay attention to handwriting

D. the typing article better expresses one’s emotion and quality

Now let us look at how we read. When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a page in short, jerky movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when they fixate (注视). Each time they fixate, we see a group of words. This is known as the recognition span or the visual span. The length of time for which the eyes stop --- the duration of the fixation --- varies considerably from person to person. It also varies within any one person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. Furthermore, it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.
　　Unfortunately, in the past, many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a second. One of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point, taking in the words on either side. Such word patterns are often constructed in the shape of rather steep (陡峭的) pyramids so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive fixation. All these exercises are very clever, but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently. Reading requires the ability to understand the relationship between words. Consequently, for these reasons, many experts have now begun to question the usefulness of eye training, especially since any approach which trains a person to read isolated words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.

46. The time of the recognition span can be affected by the following facts except ________ .

　A. one’s familiarity with the text                     B. one’s purpose in reading

　C. the length of a group of words                   D. lighting and tiredness

47. The author may believe that reading ______.

　A. requires a reader to take in more words at each fixation

　B. requires a reader to see words more quickly

　C. demands an deeply-participating mind

　D. demands more mind than eyes

48. What does the author mean by saying “but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words  

and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently.” in the second parapraph?

A. The ability to see words is not needed when an efficient reading is conducted.

B. The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve both the ability to see and to comprehend 

words.

C. The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve an efficient reading.

 D. The reading exercises mentioned has done a great job to improve one’s ability to see words.

49. Which of the following is NOT true?

 A. The visual span is a word or a group of words we see each time.

 B. Many experts began to question the efficiency of eye training.

 C. The emphasis on the purely visual aspects is misleading.

 D.The eye training will help readers in reading a continuous text.

50. The tune of the author in writing this article is ________.

A. critical                 B. neutral                      C. pessimistic               D optimistic

Trip 1  Black Bear Count

There have been fires in this area in the last few years and the Office of the National Park is not sure how many black bears are still living. Some bears have been seen since the fires, and the Office has asked for young people to help count them. The entire trip will last three hours. Bookings necessary.

Cost: Free                                                       When: May 8

Trip 2  Garland Valley

Bring your drink and lunch for this walk in a beautiful area of the Blue Mountains. Garland Valley is close to the town of Garland but is part of the National Park. Many wild animals live in this area, including many rare birds. This is a great walk for bird-lovers. The trip lasts four hours. Bookings necessary.

Cost: $ 15                                                      When: May 8, May 15

Trip 3   Flashlight Adventure

Put on your warm clothes, bring a flashlight（手电筒） and a pair of glasses, and come for a night walk along the Dungog Valley. A guide will lead the tour. Many of the animals you will see on this trip can only be seen at night. The guide will tell you about the lives of the animals you see. Numbers are strictly limited on night trips, so be sure to book early. This walk lasts two and a half hours.

Cost: $ 12                                                      When: May 8, May 15, May22

Equipment to be needed:

•   Please bring enough water and food for all walks.

•   Wear good walking shoes—no high heels.

•   Wear a hat for day walks.

•   Dress warmly for night walks.

•   Children must be with an adult.

•   Make sure your flashlight works well and bring extra batteries for night walks.

•   Follow all instructions from guides during the walks. The mountains are a dangerous place.

Bookings:

•   Bookings for the above trips can be traded by telephone (893 — 4847) or on the Internet at www. Bluemountaintour. com

41. Where are these trips?

  A. In a large city.                                                        B. In a park in the mountains.

  C. In a special kind of zoo.                                          D. In three different countries.

42. On which trip(s) had you better wear a hat?

  A. Trip 1         B. Trip 2                        C. Trip 1&2              D. Trip 3

43.  On which trip might you see animals that sleep during the day?

  A. Black Bear Count.                                            B. Garland Valley.

  C. Flashlight Adventure.                                  D. None of the trips.

44.  Which of the following is not necessary for the three trips?

  A. Good walking shoes.                                        B. A pair of glasses.

  C. Food and water.                                              D. A sleeping-bag.

45.  What is the best title for the passage?

  A. Adventure Travel in America          B. Hunting around the Great Mountains

  C. Interesting Trips in the East of the USA  D. Discovery Trips in the Blue Mountains

Are you a man or a mouse? When people ask this question they want to know  21  you think you are a  22  person or a coward(懦夫). But you will never really know the answer to this question  23  you are tested in real life. Some people  24  they are brave but when they come face to face with real  25  , they act like cowards. Others think of themselves as cowards, but when they meet danger, they act like  26  .

Lenny had always thought of himself as a  27  person. He got worried before examinations. He worried about his job and his health. All he wanted in life was to be safe and healthy.  28  , on January 15th, 2002, a plane crashed into the Potomac River in Washington. Lenny went to the river to see what was happening. He saw a woman in the  29  water. Lenny did not feel afraid. He kept very  30  and did a very courageous thing. He jumped into Potomac,   31  to the woman, and kept her head  32  the water. Seventy-eight people died that day. Thanks to Lenny, it was not  33  .

When you are in a very  34  situation and feel afraid, the body automatically produces a chemical in the blood. This chemical is called adrenalin(肾上激素).  35  adrenalin in the blood system, you actually feel stronger and stronger and are  36  to fight or run away. However, when you are absolutely frightened, the body can produce too much adrenalin. When this  37  , the muscles become very hard and you find you  38  move at all. You are paralyzed(使无能为力) with fear. That is  39  when we are very frightened, we sometimes say we are ‘petrified’; this word comes from a Greek word ‘petros’, which means ‘stone’. We are  40  frightened that we become stonelike.

21. A. how                 B. neither                  C. whether              D. either

22. A. brave                B. real                   C. hard                   D. certain

23. A. when                B. until                  C. after                   D. once

24. A. realize            B. find                   C. think                  D. agree

25. A. life                       B. question             C. mouse                D. danger

26. A. soldiers          B. mice                  C. heroes             D. cowards

27. A. useful            B. brave                 C. nervous              D. terrible

28. A. So                 B. Therefore          C. Then                      D. Besides

29. A. fresh                B. poisonous          C. warm                        D. ice-cold

30. A. nervous                B. calm                  C. frightened           D. excited

31. A. went                B. helped                  C. spoke                 D. swam

32. A. in                  B. under                       C. above                 D. from

33. A. an accident       B. a mistake           C. seventy-eight      D. seventy-nine

34. A. dangerous           B. comfortable          C. different             D. favorable

35. A. With                 B. Without             C. For                    D. Like

36. A. afraid               B. unable                  C. ready                        D. anxious

37. A. gets                  B. disappears          C. happens              D. goes

38. A. needn’t          B. can’t                 C. mustn’t              D. shouldn’t

39. A. where            B. how                  C. because              D. why

40. A. really                B. very                  C. such                  D. so