One day Trudy saw an advertisement in a magazine. It offered a packet of 100 mixed stamps for $10. Trudy wanted to start a stamp collection so she ordered the packet. One hundred mixed stamps seemed a good way to begin a collection. She sent a postal order to the stamp company with her order, and waited excitedly for the stamps arrived. Trudy checked the mail every day for four weeks but the stamps didn’t arrive. So Trudy decided to write to the company. “Dear Sir/Madam,” she wrote, “a month ago I sent you a postal order for $10 as payment for 100 mixed stamps. They haven’t arrived. Please send them by return of mail.” another month passed. The stamps still didn’t arrive and she didn’t receive any replay to her letter. She asked her father for advice. Her father said, “You must write a stronger letter. Make the stamp company worry that you will report them to the authorities.” “Dear Sir/Madam,” she wrote in her second letter. “I am writing to complain about your poor service. Two months ago I sent you a postal order for $10 as payment for 100 mixed stamps. I didn’t receive the stamps. A month ago I wrote to inform you of this. I still haven’t received the stamps, and you haven’t replied to my letter. If I do not receive the stamps within seven days. I shall report this matter to the authorities.” Two days later Trudy received the stamps in the mail.

1.Trudy ordered the stamps because _______.

A．it seemed a good way to start a stamp collection

B．she wanted to give them to her father

C．she need them to mail some letters

D．she thought they were cheap

2.Trudy paid for the stamps with ________.

A．cash             B．a check           C．the credit card     D．a postal order

3.Trudy checked the mail every day for ______.

A．4 months          B．a week            C．a month           D．for 3 weeks

4.In her second letter Trudy complained about how _______.

A．expensive the stamps were

B．boring the stamps were

C．poor the company’s service was

D．slow the postal service was

5.Trudy received the stamps ______ after she sent the second letter.

A．a week           B．a month           C．two months        D．two days

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Dear Dad,

I’m writing to you because it’s not easy to talk about it. I still   1  clearly how my uncle died two years ago. In fact, I seriously want to ask you to stop smoking. I’ve looked up a lot of information about smoking and I found out something   2 .

You know that smoking is bad for your  3  and can cause cancer. I’ve learnt that it causes many other   4  too. Do you know that over ten thousand people die from smoking every year in Britain?

When mum asks you to smoke   5 , you think she’s angry. Well, it’s true that she doesn’t like the   6  of smoke in the house. When you smoke, it’s also   7  for mum and me. In other words, when we   8  in your smoke, it’s like we’re smoking ourselves.   9 , we can also get disease. Doctors are finding that more and more   10  are falling ill because of the others’ smoking.

I know that it’s very   11  to stop smoking, but you must give it up. Please see the doctor and ask him   12  help. We will do anything we can to help you. You must try to   13  your own life. We don’t want to   14  you because you are so important to us.   15  you, who can help me with my maths homework or mend my bike? Please don’t smoke!

Your daughter,

Meimei

阅读某网站上学生的留言和老师的回复，并将它们配对，请把序号A——E填入66和70题。答案均写在对应的括号内。
【小题1】Mary: I have been taking piano lessons for a whole year. I practice playing the piano for two hours every day. I have tried my best but I still can’t play it well.
【小题2】Jane: I’m in the school art club. But I don’t like drawing at all. I really want to learn dancing.
【小题3】Tom: My parents never allow me to play computer games at all. They want me to study all day.
【小题4】William: I fight with my friends about just anything. We have arguments over sports, cars, games that we play, and much more.
【小题5】Jack: I want to take part in some after-school activities, but my parents think they are too dangerous.
You should give your friends and yourself some time to calm down in order to solve the problem.
Don’t worry. Even great piano players have to practice a lot. Hard work and lots of practice are the only ways of becoming a good piano player.
Tell your parents that many kids play computer games but they do well at school. Ask them to let you play computer games for a short time on weekends.
Some after-school activities are good for your studied and health. You can talk to your parents about the advantages of the activities.
At 8:30 pm on may 1^st, dance lovers will enjoy their favorite dance music and show their beautiful dance to everyone at the Central Square. Great dance teachers will teach you.

Every child has his own dream. Every child hopes to be an adult.  36 , is it really like what they imagine? As a boy  37 lives in modern times and in a modern city, I feel  38 

pressure (压力) on me with the city’s development. Although we  39 worry about money, we still have some  40 problems, such as competition among classmates and expectation (期望) from parents. These experiences are very  41 to our future. But  42 , they really give me a lot of pressure. I still clearly  43 the happiness of my childhood.  44 , we had to face the fact with time passing by. We began to  45 this invisible (无形的) pressure come upon us. We get up before sunrise and  46 after sunset. We work and study  47 an adult, even harder.

  48 we do is in order to get an excellent  49 . Growing up is very boring, but we  50 try to find happiness while growing up. I think friendship among our friends, the support from our parents and the encouragement from our teachers can help us. Why not enjoy the pleasure of growing up and its delicious taste?

1. A. However           B. And             C. So

2. A. which             B. who             C. whom

3. A. less              B. fewer               C. greater

4. A. always            B. often           C. seldom

5. A. other             B. another         C. others

6. A. helpful           B. happy           C. bad

7. A. at first              B. for example     C. in fact

8. A. think             B. remember        C. forget

9. A. Luckily           B. Unluckily       C. Impossibly

10.A. see            B. touch               C. feel

11. A. come out      B. come down       C. come back

12. A. as            B. like            C. alike

13.A. What               B. That            C. How

14. A. progress          B. mark            C. success

15.A. should         B. shouldn’t       C. mustn’t