My parents have always loved everything about India, so a year ago we went on holiday there. It’s a wonderful    15  with beautiful scenes and interesting people . However, I didn’t enjoy Indian  16  very much.
On the second day we planned to see an old palace. At the  17  they said. “If you go by train, it’ll take you only two hours to get there.” However, the hot   18  took over four hours. I was very  19  when we got there , so we had some rice and vegetables with bread in a small restaurant. We were  20  to find it was quite nice. I wasn’t full up though and I saw a man nearby eating some little meatballs.
I said to my dad, “I’ve been eating rice all week. Can I have some meatballs please?”
Well, they looked delicious so I ate the first one very  21  . I was just putting the second one in my mouth when I felt myself  22 —my mouth was on fire! I started to cough（咳嗽）and there were tears (泪水)in my eyes. I couldn’t  23  how spicy (辛辣的) it was!
I drank about ten glasses of water but the worst thing was everyone was laughing at me. You couldn’t make me eat another Indian meatball for all the   24   in the world!

小题1:	A．town B．city C．country D．restaurant

小题2:	A．food B．scenes C．people D．costumes

小题3:	A．palace B．hotel C．airport D．entrance

小题4:	A．sail B．walk C．drive D．ride

小题5:	A．hungry B．curious C．cheerful D．nervous

小题6:	A．shocked B．surprised C．bored D．tired

小题7:	A．quietly B．easily C．quickly D．gently

小题8:	A．burning B．watering C．crying D．smiling

小题9:	A．feel B．believe C．think D．know

小题10:

A．diet B．luck C．time D．money

My Year Abroad                                                           
This month in Travelers Corner there are three teenagers’ experiences in year-abroad programmes.
Mariko Okada – Tokyo
My year abroad in the United States was a fantastic experience. I’m not a shy person, and I was very comfortable speaking to everyone. So I got lots of speaking practice. I also learned lots of interesting things about American culture. When I got home, my friends all said that I had improved so much! I hope to go back again in the future.
Carla Fonseca – Rio de Janeiro
I spent last year studying English in London. I’m from a small town, and London is a very big city. Sometimes I felt it was too big. There were so many people to talk to, but I always felt bad about my English. I missed my family, and I really missed my two cats. My roommate was always using our telephone, so I hardly had the chance for a nice long talk with my parents. I think it was a good experience for me, but I’m glad to be home!
Alvin Chen – Hong Kong
Studying in New Zealand was a fun experience for me, but it was also lots of hard work! I had English classes six hours a day, five days a week——with lots of homework. I also kept a diary of my experience. I like to write, and I wrote two or three pages in my diary every day. On Saturdays, my homestay family took me to lots of interesting places and showed me so many wonderful things about the culture. I’m really glad I went!
小题1:All the three teenagers went abroad           .

A．to study English	B．to visit friends
C．to have a holiday	D．to find a job

小题2:Who didn’t really enjoy the stay in a foreign country very much?

A．Mariko.

B．Carla.

C．Alvin.

D．None of them.

小题3:Travelers Corner is most probably         .

A．a sports club newsletter	B．a science documentary
C．a travel magazine	D．a news website

“Never give up!” It is my law(法则) of my life. It has brought me   16  . I learned the law from my father’s   17  story.
My father was  18  in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, in China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, then   19  in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework   20  midnight. Life was hard, because they had no   21  !
At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold, the land where   22  people can become rich.
“   23   don’t I go to America?” he thought to himself, full of hope.
So , my father came to America. “ I had thought it was easy to   24  money in America,” he told me. “But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire（雇佣） me because I spoke   25  English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables,  26  dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was   27  for the first few years. I worked from 10a.m to 11p.m. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t  28   the schooling(学费).
My father   29  working hard, and reached his goal.
“Alan,” he often says to me, “If you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come   30  in life.” That is what I learned from my father.

小题1:	A．disaster B．loss C．success D．pity

小题2:	A．life B．fashion C．danger D．history

小题3:	A．famous B．lucky C．rich D．born

小题4:	A．taught B．worked C．studied D．slept

小题5:	A．until B．towards C．for D．during

小题6:	A．experience B．energy C．time D．money

小题7:	A．kind B．poor C．strong D．lazy

小题8:	A．What B．How C．Why D．When

小题9:	A．discover B．make C．collect D．spend

小题10:

A．little B．good C．much D．excellent

小题11:

A．giving B．running C．washing D．receiving

小题12:

A．comfortable B．cheerful C．nice D．hard

小题13:

A．borrow B．need C．afford D．pay

小题14:

A．kept B．finished C．minded D．stopped

小题15:

A．really B．easily C．quietly D．slowly

The class teacher thought that hobbies were important for children. So she encouraged all her students to have one, and sometimes she arranged hobby shows for their parents to see as a result.
One morning the teacher told the class to have a holiday and get their hobby things to school before 5p.m. A hobby show would be held the following afternoon.
So in the afternoon, the students with nothing to show did their lessons at school as usual, while the lucky ones had a holiday to go home for their hobby works.
When the afternoon lessons began, the teacher was surprised to see that Tommy was not there. “I don’t believe Tommy has a hobby,” she thought. However, at a quarter to five, Tommy arrived with a beautiful collection of butterflies in glass cases. The teacher liked the samples(标本) very much and put them on a desk in the classroom. But, to her surprise, Tommy picked them up again and began to leave.
“What are you doing, Tommy?” she asked. “Those things must stay here until tomorrow afternoon. That’s when the parents are coming to see them.”
“I know that,” answered Tommy, “and I will bring them back tomorrow, but my big brother doesn’t want them to be out of our house at night.”
“But, aren’t the butterflies yours?” asked the teacher.
“No,” answered Tommy. “They are my brother’s”
“But Tommy, you should show your own hobby here, not somebody else’s”
“I know that,” answered Tommy. What surprised her most was the answer, “My hobby is watching my brother collecting butterflies.”
小题1:What did the class teacher think of hobbies for children?

A．Unwelcome

B．Hopeless

C．Harmful

D．Important

小题2:What time did Tommy get back to school that afternoon?

小题3:What would NOT happen the following afternoon?

A．The parents would enjoy the show in the classroom

B．Tommy would bring the butterflies back

C．The teacher would encourage her students for hobbies

D．The butterflies would fly away

小题4:Which was the teacher’s greatest surprise?

A．Tommy was not at school as usual

B．Tommy picked the butterflies up again and began to leave

C．Tommy said his hobby was watching his brother collecting butterflies

D．Tommy came back to school before 5 that afternoon

小题5:What’s the best title for this passage?

A．Important Hobbies	B．Tommy’s Hobby
C．Different Hobbies	D．Collecting Butterflies

Dear Jenny,
How’s it going? Are you busy with your study these days?
I’ve been back at school   41  nearly four weeks. I’m very glad to tell you that great   42  have taken place in our school this term. First of all, we’re asked to “clear our plates” when having our meals and say   43  to wasting. Some of us used to order more than what we could eat. That was a big waste of food. Now we need to    44  the food we order. We should also stop wasting in some other ways. For example, we should turn off the lights when we    45  the classroom. And our school has opened up some fields for us to learn how to grow vegetables. Each class is given a small garden and our class has decided to grow some tomatoes and beans( 豆类) in our    46  time. I think that’ll be very interesting. Maybe I’ll be able to    47  you some beans we’ve grown by ourselves next time! What’s more, we have only two classes in the afternoon    48  we have more time for after-school activities. I’m one of the traffic safety volunteers in our school. After school, we take turns to  go to the streets near our school and ask people to    49  the traffic rules.
I think we are having a different school life now!
Please write back soon and tell   50  more about your school.
Yours,
Wang Wei

小题1:	A．in B．for C．on D．at

小题2:	A．changes B．things C．interests D．lessons

小题3:	A．yes B．hello C．no D．thanks

小题4:	A．clean B．pay C．cook D．finish

小题5:	A．leave B．reach C．open D．build

小题6:	A．busy B．free C．happy D．sad

小题7:	A．plant B．buy C．post D．lend

小题8:	A．because B．when C．before D．so

小题9:	A．follow B．make C．break D．think

小题10:

A．him B．her C．you D．me

San Francisco has many museums. You can visit one and learn something new. We have art, science, history and other special museums. Some museums are open every day. Some are only open on certain days. Many museums are expensive, and others are free. But some of the expensive ones have free days . Many museums have websites. The websites usually have information about the things you can see in the museums.
On a museum’s website you can get information about ticket prices and free days. You can also know where the museum is and when it is open. Sometimes the information is on the first page, and it’s very easy for you to find. But sometimes you have to click（点击） on the words like Visit Information, or About to find the information. That will be hard work for you.
小题1:San Francisco has many museums  for you visit and________.

A．learn something new	B．play computer games
C．watch the movies	D．click on Information

小题2:Some museums in San Francisco are open every day, but some are only open ________.

A．on weekdays	B．on weekends
C．on certain days	D．on holidays

小题3:Many museums have________ with information about the things you can see in them.

A．ticket prices	B．their websites
C．open hours	D．free days

Kindergartens( 幼儿园 ) may teach you very important things you need to know. Dancy, a 5-year-old boy, saved his father’s life with the skills he learned.
The boy’s father became seriously ill on the way home from a father-son shopping. He couldn’t speak and could hardly move, but he tried hard to stop the car safely. At that point, Dancy used his father’s phone to call his mother for help. The 5-year-old boy tried his best to give her useful information and he was able to tell where they were. Just as he had learned in the kindergarten, Dancy read the letters he saw on a nearby store sign: “F,U,R,N,I,T,U,R,E.” But that wasn’t enough for his mother to find them. Then he added that they were near a bridge. Finally, his mother understood he was talking about a store called Furniture 22 on New Jersey’s Route22.The mother called 911 and the father was saved in time.
“He just thought his dad needed help,” Dancy’s mother told the reporter. She also pointed out that her husband was a hero, too. “ It is surprising for him to get off  the highway ( 高速路 ) and get himself and his child to safety even when he was so sick,” she said.
Shine, head of the kindergarten, felt proud of his pupil. “ Dancy’s spelling skills helped him seize the moment,” he said. “And that’s the real value (价值  ) of education.”
小题1:When the father became seriously ill, he and his son were ________.

A．on the highway	B．at home
C．in a shopping center	D．in a hospital

小题2:Dancy called ________for help when his father couldn’t speak.

A．his mother

B．911

C．Shine

D．the reporter

小题3:The Chinese meaning of the word “seize” in this passage is probably“________”.

A．成功

B．抓住

C．救援

D．失去

小题4:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Dancy drove his father home.

B．The reporter was really a hero.

C．Shine sent Dancy’s father to hospital

D．Dancy saved his father with his spelling skills.

Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It was late, I was late, and I was driving 31_________.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was 32_________ on the road by now, but as I came near the light, it turned 33_________, and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right, and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, 34_________ there I sat, waiting for the light to 35_________, the only human being, for at least a mile in any 36_________.
I started wondering why I 37_________ to run the light. I was not afraid of being caught, because there was 38_________ no policeman anywhere around and there certainly would have been no 39_________ in going through it.
Much later that 40_________, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light 41_________ me. I think I stopped 42_________ it’s part of a contract(契约) we all have with each other. It’ s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have, and we trust each other to follow 43_________: we don’t go through red lights.
We do 44_________ we say we’ll do. We show up when we say we’ll show up.
I was so 45_________ of myself for stopping for that red light. And as no one would ever have known what a good person I was on the road from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, I had to tell s someone.

小题1:	A．fast B．slowly C．carefully D．hard

小题2:	A．late B．alone C．worried D．afraid

小题3:	A．green B．yellow C．red D．dark

小题4:	A．and B．or C．so D．but

小题5:	A．return B．change C．start D．continue

小题6:	A．attention B．background C．direction D．information

小题7:	A．refused B．decided C．prepared D．forgot

小题8:	A．hardly B．luckily C．usually D．clearly

小题9:	A．danger B．excuse C．space D．energy

小题10:

A．moment B．night C．afternoon D．morning

小题11:

A．depended on B．looked forward to C．stayed away from D．came back to

小题12:

A．though B．unless C．because D．until

小题13:

A．me B．it C．him D．us

小题14:

A．what B．how C．why D．that

小题15:

A．tired B．ready C．proud D．sorry

In the 1920s and 30s the airlines were just beginning. It was unusual for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers. Young men ,or “stewards” helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers’ luggage(行李)but they did not provide food and drinks. But then in 1930,a woman called Ellen Church invented the “stewardess”.
Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a different child. She didn’t want to work on a farm or marry a farmer —she wanted a more adventurous(冒险的)life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got her pilot’s license.
Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a man’s world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous, she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot .But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because. flying was still an unreliable(不可靠的) way to travel. There were often delays(延误),many crashes and the bad weathers made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and B.A.T. agreed.
The young woman from Iowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses.
At first pilots were unhappy because they did not want stewardesses on airplanes, but passengers loved the stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1000 of them working for different airlines. The early “stewardesses” had to be under twenty-five-year-old, single and slim. When a woman joined an airline, she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned ＄1 an hour.
In the 1970s, stewardesses were unhappy in their job and airlines had to make some changes. Since the 1970s, “stewardesses” have been called flight attendants. They are well paid and work fewer hours than in the past.
小题1:The last sentence of the first paragraph suggests that _________.

A．the word “stewardess” was made up by Ellen Church

B．Ellen Church was the first woman who flew a plane

C．Ellen Church was the first woman who worked on a plane

D．Ellen Church was the first woman passenger on a plane

小题2:From the second paragraph, we learn that ________.

A．Ellen did not behave in the same way as most as other girls

B．Ellen’s family was not rich enough to support her education

C．Ellen was fond of working as a nurse in the hospital

D．Ellen has an unhappy childhood that changed her completely

小题3:The main reason for Boeing Air Transport offering Ellen the job was ________.

A．her flying experience	B．her university education
C．her nursing experience	D．her life attitudes

小题4:According to the passage, in the 1940s a woman had to ________ if she wanted to be a stewardess.

A．be a nurse

B．be married

C．be a mother

D．be young

小题5:The passage mainly talks about _______.

A．the background of early flying pilots	B．the experience of flying passengers
C．the history of early flight attendants	D．the development of airplanes

任务型阅读。阅读短文，根据其内容，完成下列任务。（10分）
Andy was still traveling in Spain when he realized he had to confirm(确认) his   ① home with the airline company. He was visiting Spain in order to improve his Spanish. When he was speaking to people face to face, he had no difficulty understanding what they said. However, when he was speaking on the phone, he still had a problem. Andy called the airline. And the clerk confirmed that his plane was leaving at nine o’clock three days from that day. She also told Andy to be at the airport a little earlier in order to check in his luggage and get a seat.
Since he was leaving in three days, Andy didn’t lose any time. He visited as many places as he could. He thought that it would probably be a while before he had enough money again. He wished he could come back and spend a year in Spain.
Too quickly, the final day arrived. Andy left early for the airport before take-off. He hated to rush. When he went to the clerk to show his ticket, the clerk looked at the ticket in surprise , “Why, sir, but your flight was at nine o’clock in the morning, and now it is eight in the evening.”“But I confirmed my flight,”insisted Andy.“Will I have to pay for another ticket?”
“No, Sir. However, the next flight out will be three days from now.”
Andy’s   ②  of shock turned to smile as he realized that now he could go on with his vacation.
任务一：请根据短文内容，分别写出①、②处所缺单词。（每空限填一词）
小题1:①______________   ②______________
任务二：根据短文内容补全句子。（每空限填一词）
小题2:(A) He visited as many places as _____________.
(B)From the passage we know Andy could ____________ his holiday.
任务三：请把上文中画线的句子翻译成汉语。
小题3:_________________________________________________________
任务四：请根据短文内容回答下列问题。
小题4:Why did the clerk tell Andy to be at the airport a little earlier？
________________________________________________________
小题5:How long was Andy late for the plane that day?
_________________________________________________________