4、What happens when human beings are not allowed to sleep for long periods of time? To answer this question, a New Yorker, Peter Tripp, offered to stay awake 200 hours. During that time Tripp was observed by a group of doctors, who reported on his progress.

       After three days of staying awake, he began to show signs of his mental breakdown. He laughed at things that were not funny, and wept（哭泣） at things that were not sad. Complaining of pressure caused by a hat on his head, he tried repeatedly to take it off. Tripp, of course, was not wearing a hat.

On the fifth day he cried out that a doctor's jacket looked like crawling worms. Then he imagined he was in another city; he tried to run away from the building, insisting it was on fire; and he thought the 200-hour mark had been passed but that the doctors were still trying to keep the experiment going. After 200 hours without sleep, Tripp, said the doctors, was “suffering from mental illness.” He was nearly mad.

Hardly able to stand, Tripp was helped across the street to a room in a hotel. There, after being awake for 201 hours and thirteen minutes, he fell asleep. The doctors predicted（预言） he would sleep for twenty or thirty hours.  “Peter Tripp will sleep the deepest sleep in history”, said the doctors. Tripp slept all right----for nine hours and eleven minutes. When he awoke, his first words were: “I feel fine.” After a medical check, his greatly surprised watchers said that he was sound and well.

1．The best title for this passage is _______.

  A．Sleeplessness                  

  B．Danger to Health

  C．Test of Strength to Health of Body and Mind

  D．A Man Who Didn't Sleep for Over 200 Hours

2．What is the main idea of the passage?                                     

A．There is little danger when human beings are not allowed to sleep for long periods of time.

  B．Going without sleep for a long period will cause bad effects.

C．After 200 hours without sleep Tripp was suffering from “mental illness”.

D．The doctors predicted Tripp would sleep for twenty or thirty hours.

3．Tripp started to show signs of his mental breakdown ______.              

A．when his third day of staying awake came to an end

B．when he was not allowed to sleep for 5 days

C．at the end of the experiment

D．after 201 hours and 13 minutes without sleep

4．The doctors were greatly surprised because Tripp ______.    

    A．could not fall asleep                       B．slept the deepest in history

    C．slept for thirty hours                      D．slept for a relatively short time

5．From the passage we can draw the conclusion that long periods of sleeplessness ______.   

    A．may produce lasting harm to the brain                                

    B．may produce a loss of cheerfulness forever

    C．may not produce lasting damage      

       D．may produce some serious after-effects

3、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。选项中有两项为多余选项。

       Richard’s father died when he was five. Later on he lost his mother. An old woman felt sorry for the poor boy and often helped him. Of course he had no money to go to school. He had to work for a rich farmer. The man paid him nothing except food and clothes.   1    He found some old books near the school and taught himself to read and write.

            2      It connected the village and the town. One morning people found there was a big stone on it. It stopped them from going to town. They had to move it away, or they had to cross the mountain if they had something to do in the town. But the stone weighed thirty tons at least and the strongest young men couldn’t do that.     3    

       Richard looked at it carefully for a while and said, “I have a way to move it away.” But few men believed him.     4      Night fell and people went home. Only the boy stayed there.

       To their surprise, the villagers found the stone was gone the next morning. They didn’t know which spirit had moved it away.      5    

       “How could he? ”The rich farmer called out. “He’s only fifteen! He couldn’t move it at all!”

“He dug a big hole beside the stone”, said the old woman, “And then he could easily pull it into the hole!”

Looking at each other, the farmers couldn’t say a word.

       A．There seemed to be nothing strange in the village.

       B．The old woman said Richard had done it all.

       C．There was a narrow path between two mountains.

       D．But the boy didn’t lose heart.

       E．Some farmers even laughed at the boy.

       F．The boy hoped he could do something for the villagers some day.

G．They discussed for a long time, but nobody knew what to do.

2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分

Dear Sir/Madam,

   I’m middle school student of sixteen. I have a weight problem. Some boys often made fun of me and are unfriendly with me. They call me “Meat ball”, it makes me feel unhappily .I’m now worried about my weight. Although I am a bit fat, I feel quite well . I enjoy my meals .I love eating meat very much. But I like sweet foods, too. Now I am getting fatter and fatter. In the past two months, I have put on 5 kilos. I’ve got worrying about this, but I don’t know that how to lose weight quickly. Who can tell me the right way of lose weight? If you give me some advice, I’ll be grateful.                                               

yours,

                                                        Li Ming

1、《学英语》报拟在某期头版介绍英国语言专家 W · J · Waston, 请你就下面的简历写一篇介绍性的短文（词数 100 左右）

姓名： W · J · Waston        性别：男       国籍：英国

出生年月： 1967 年 6 月    职业：英语教师

工作单位：第一中学

简历： 1989 年大学毕业， 1992 年携妻子来到中国。

主要事迹：

1．热爱教育事业，工作认真负责，乐于帮助学生。

2．教学方法多样，课堂生动有趣，深受学生欢迎。

3．经常为中学生作如何学好英语的报告。

4．任本报顾问，提出了许多良好的建议。

生词：毕业 graduate ；顾问 adviser ；建议 advice

25、Mick’s new DVD player is only 20 cm        15 cm and weighs         2 kilos.

A．with ,in         B．by, about         C．with, for           D．between, over

24、—How much do the pencils cost?

—Three pounds        pencils.

A．by two dozen of                                         B．for two dozen of

C．by two dozen                              D．for two dozen

21、A person who has_______ final say in an international company is usually _______ influential one.

A．a; the        B．the; an          C．the; the           D．a; an