Can you remember the day when you spoke your first word? If you can, you are unusual. Try to imagine what first few months of your life were like. I am sure you just spent most of your time eating, sleeping and crying. As you grow older, you were awake more of the time. It took your parents more time to play with you and talk to you. You watched and listened curiously. You began to know that people made certain sounds to go with certain things.
Then you began to try making the sounds you heard. And step by step you were able to make the right sound for one thing.On that day you came to understand the secret of language. The secret is that a certain sound means a certain thing. One sound might be as good as another. But it is no good as a word unless everybody agrees on its meaning. Only when a group of people use the same set of sounds of things, can they understand each other. Then, and only then do these people have a LANGUAGE.
After you found the secret of language, you learned words. Some of the words meant things, such as BOOKS, CHAIRS and SHOES. Some words meant doing things, such as GO and SWIM. And other words describe things, such as GOOD and DIRTY. Soon you learned to put words together to express one’s idea, such as “I want to go out and play with my friends.” This is language. By means of language people can communicate. So we say languages are means of communication.
【小题1】When you were a little baby, you_________.

1.We can learn from the passage that exchanges of tickets bought ________.

A. are free of charge                                  B. are not available until the last business day

C. will not be given a big cash discount              D. need to contact the box office directly

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Latecomers will not be permitted to enter the theatre.

B. There is a special area for children in the theatre.

C. The audience is not allowed to take photos in the theatre.

D. Children can talk in a low voice during the performance.

3. According to the passage, the audience ________.

A. can receive their tickets by mail                     B. can see the performance online

C. can’t take cell phones to the theatre         D. can’t return tickets in any case

阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给首字母的提示，在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。

A：Excuse me, sir, but I’m writing a report on what people prefer to do on holiday. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?

B：No, not at all. Please go (76)a_______.

A：How often do you go on holiday?

B：I generally have two weeks’ holiday a year.

A：And what do you prefer to do when you are on holiday?

B：Well, I don’t usually visit my family. We live quite(77) c_____ and I can see them any time. But I do like to visit museums, (78)e__________ if there is a special exhibition on. I don’t like to stay at home, though my parents do. (79)I________, I prefer to get away from the city and just (80)e________ the peace of the country. You know, just sit under a tree, listen to the birds in the morning, or maybe go walking over the hills.

A：Have you ever (81)t_________ abroad?

B：No, I haven’t .It’s too (82)e__________ for me. But my wife loves to visit the coast, so if the (83)w_________ is good we often go swimming in the sea, or maybe just lie on the (84)b________ and bathe in the sun.

A：OK. Well, thank you very much for your time.

B：You are (85)w_________.

单句改错。以下句子中共有10处错误，每个句子错误数已给出，请改正。（每处1分，共10分）
【小题1】 Traditional moon cakes are usually made by bean paste, but nowadays, there are many different kinds of moon cakes included fruit, coffee, chocolate.(2)
【小题2】 There is a special food for the Dragon Boat Festival, it is called zongzi, what is sticky rice in fresh bamboo leafs. (3)
【小题3】 In one story, lanterns were lighted to celebrate the power of light above darkness. (2)
【小题4】 I sat at the table in front of fire write a letter to Father Christmas told him about all the presents we wanted.(2)
【小题5】Over 2000 years ago, people were known as the Celts lived in Northern Europe. (1)

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is .It would be wonderful to see again , but a calamity (灾难)can do strange things to people .It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind . I believe in life now.I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply , otherwise. I don’t mean that would prefer to go without my eyes . I simply mean that Atlantic the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left .

Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me--a potential to live, you might call it--which I didn't see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.

The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate（错综复杂的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.

It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. "I can't use this." I said. "Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." The words stuck in my head. "Roll it around! "By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.

1.We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______

A. the author lost his sight because of a car crash.

B. the author wouldn't love life if the disaster didn't happen.

C. the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.

D. the disaster strengthened the author's desire to see.

2.What's the most difficult thing for the author?

A. How to adjust himself to reality.

B. Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.

C. Learning to manage his life alone.

D. How to invent a successful variation of baseball.

3.According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author __________

A. would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.

B. would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair.

C. would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.

D. would sit in a chair and stay at home.

4.According to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man _____

A. hurt the author's feeling.

B. gave the author a deep impression.

C. directly led to the invention of ground ball.

D. inspired the author.

5.What is the best title for the passage?

A. A Miserable Life

B. Struggle Against Difficulties

C. A Disaster Makes a Strong Person

D. An Unforgettable Experience