It's over three years since I began to learn English. I am glad that I am getting on well with it.  I find English very interesting, but quite difficult. When I first started, I thought I had only to remember the new words and learn some grammar. I know little about English idioms(习语). I thought each English word had a word with the same meaning in Chinese. When I learned to say "I see a book on the desk", I thought the English word "see" was just like the Chinese word "kan". So one day when my teacher asked me, "What are you doing?" I answered, "I'm seeing a book." "That's wrong," the teacher said. "You don't see a book. You read a book. You can't use an English word like a Chinese one. Be sure not to make the same mistake again." 
After that I began to pay more attention to the differences between Chinese and English. For example, in English we say a "high mountain", but a "tall man". In Chinese we use the same word "gao" for both. Again in English we say "take part in the sports meeting", "attend a meeting" and "join the army", while in Chinese we can use "can jia" for all the three. It's interesting, isn't it? So to study English doesn't only mean hard work, it can be great fun, too! We not only have to pay attention to pronunciation, grammar, spelling and handwriting, we also have to understand English idioms. We can learn English well only in that way!
But all this is only a beginning and I still have a long way to go. I'll try my best and work even harder than before. I must speak and listen to English more both in and out of class. I must read and write more, too. I must learn English well so that I can work well when I grow up. 
小题1:When I first started learning English, I thought __________.

A．I couldn’t learn it well because it is quite difficult

B．I could learn it well if I had remembered the new words and learned some grammar

C．English is interesting and easy to learn

D．each English word couldn't find a Chinese word with the same meaning

小题2:Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the text?

A．To understand English idioms is a useful way to learn English.

B．To pay attention to pronunciation and grammar helps us learn English well.

C．To read and write more is helpful in learning English.

D．To study English only means working hard.

小题3:Which is the best topic of the passage? 

A．How to study English well

B．The importance of English

C．English idioms

D．Do more reading

Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem. Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.
I’ve seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors and shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I called round. Sprawling himself on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. “I don’t know what to do with him these days,” she said. “He’s forgotten all the manners we taught him.” He hasn’t forgotten them. He’s just decided that he’s not going to use them. She confessed(坦白) that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.
Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don’t like your dress; it’s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.
“Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.
小题1: This text is most probably written by ______.

A．A specialist in teenager studies.

B．a headmaster of a middle school

C．a parent with teenage children

D．a doctor for mental health problems

小题2:The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to ______.

A．the change from good to bad that’s seen in a child

B．the way that parents often blame themselves

C．the opinion that a child has of his parents

D．the advice that parents want their children to follow

小题3:The boy on the sofa would most probably be described as ______.

A．lazy

B．quiet

C．unusual

D．rude

小题4:From the second example we can infer that the parents of the two daughters ______.

A．pay no attention to them

B．are too busy to look after them

C．have come to hate them

D．feel helpless to do much about them

小题5:What is the author’s opinion about the sudden change in teenage children?

A．Parents have no choice but to try to accept it.

B．Parents should pay still more attention to the change.

C．Parents should work more closely with school teachers.

D．Parents are a fault for the change in their children.

WARNING: Holding a cell phone against your ear or putting it in your pocket may be bad for your health.   

This sentence is a warning that you’d better not put it close to you when a new phone is bought. Apple company, for example, doesn't want IPhones to come closer to you than 1.5 centimeters; Research In Motion, BlackBerry's producer, recommends 2.5 centimeters.
(1)If cell phone use can        health problems, the         will be very serious. Americans spend 2.26 trillion minutes chatting on cell phones every year, which brings $109 billion for the wireless businessmen.
Devra Davis, an epidemiologist(皮肤病专家) who has worked for the University of Pittsburgh, has published a book about mobile phone radiation（辐射）"Disconnect." Davis studies how often brain cancer happens during different age groups. She finds a big increase in brain cancer in the 20-to-29 age group and a drop for the older people.
Children are more easily hurt by radiation than grown-ups, Ms. Davis and other scientists point out. But no studies have yet been finished on cell phone radiation and children, she says.
Henry Lai, a research professor, began lab radiation studies in 1980 and found that mice exposed to(暴露在) radiofrequency（电波频率）radiation had destroyed DNA in their brains.
Ms. Davis recommends using wired earphones（有线耳机）or the phone's speaker. (2)Children should send text messages rather than call, she said, and pregnant（怀孕的） women should keep phones away from their bodies.
小题1:在（1）句空白处填入适当的词使句意完整、上下文通顺。
小题2:将（2）句翻译成中文。
小题3:回答问题：What kind of people with brain cancer are getting more and more?
小题4:找出同义句。
Scientists are still carrying on with the studies on cell phone radiation and children
小题5:找出或写出该短文的主题句。

Inventors are always looking for ways to make our lives easier, greener and more fun. Here are just a few examples of inventions.

	Crayons were invented by Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith. They had a paint company in New York City. The new crayons were made of wax（蜡）and different pigments（颜料）. In 1903,Binney and Smith put the first box of eight“Crayola Crayons”on the market. These new crayons were a great success.
	Remote control technology(遥控技术)has been used since the early 1930s. During World War1, Germans used remote control boats. The TV remote control was first put on the market in 1950. Zenith Radio Company created the first TV remote control, called the “lazy Bone”. It could turn the TV on and off and could change programs.
	Bow Lingual（犬语翻译机），named by the US Time Magazine as a “BEST invention of 2002”， has two parts. A microphone is tied to the dog’s neck and sends out sound information to the gadget（小挂件）held by the owner. Then the translation is done in the gadget with kinds of dog barks.
	Some students in South Korea have a new language teacher :an robot of English-teaching ：The robot is 157cm tall and speaks both Korea and English .It can make16 kinds of faces .The robot-teachers are helping to solve a shortage of English teachers there. Could robots replace human teachers one day?

小题1: The first box of crayons was put on the market ________ .

A．in 1900

B．in 1903

C．in 1950

D．in 2002

小题2:During World War1, Germans used remote control to control _________ .

A．trains

B．planes

C．boats

D．TVs

小题3:_________ is one of the greatest inventions of 2002 according to the US Time Magazine.

A．The crayon	B．Bow Lingual
C．The TV remote control	D．The English- teaching robot

小题4: The English- teaching robot can speak ________ .

A．English and Chinese	B．English and French
C．Korean and Japanese	D．English and Korean

小题5:Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Bow Lingual’s microphone is tied to the dog’s neck.

B．The English-teaching robot can make six faces in class.

C．Remote control technology has been used since early 1930.

D．The robot- teachers can help provide the USA with more English teachers.

In the USA, children start school when they are five years old. In some states(州) they must stay in school          they are sixteen. But most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they          secondary(中等的) schools. There are two kinds of schools in the USA: public schools and private(私立的) schools.        children go to public schools. Their parents don’t have to         their education because the school get         from the government（政府）.
If a child goes to a private school, his parents have to get enough money for his schooling. Some parents         like private schools though they are much more expensive.
Today about half of the high school students         in universities after they finish secondary schools. A student at a state university doesn’t have to pay very much         his parents live in that state. Many students         while they are studying at universities. In this way they get into         working habits(习惯) and live by their own hands.

小题1:	A．and B．so C．until D．since

小题2:	A．leave B．enter C．reach D．pass

小题3:	A．Several B．Most C．A few D．Few

小题4:	A．look up B．pay for C．ask for D．think over

小题5:	A．books B．teachers C．food D．money

小题6:	A．still B．never C．surely D．already

小题7:	A．play B．change C．study D．meet

小题8:	A．before B．because C．because of D．though

小题9:	A．smoke B．drink C．fight D．work

小题10:

A．good B．bad C．happy D．wrong

Light travels at a speed which is about a million times faster than the speed of sound. You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a race. If you stand some distance(距离) away from the starter, you can see smoke from his gun before the sound reaches your ears.
This great speed of light produces some strange facts. Sunlight(太阳光) takes about 8 minutes to reach us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember that the light rays left the moon 1.3 seconds before they reached you. The nearest star is so far away that the light that you can see from it tonight started to travel towards you four years ago at a speed of nearly 2 million km. per minute. In some cases, the light from one of tonight’s stars had started on its journey to you before you were born.
Thus, if we want to be honest, we can’t say, “The stars are shining tonight.” We have to say instead, “The stars look pretty. They were shining four years ago, but their light has only just reached the earth.”
小题1:Light speed is ______ sound speed.

A．as fast as

B．a million times slower than

C．about millions of times faster than

D．about a million times faster than

小题2: If you stand 200 meters away from a man who is firing a gun to start a race, you will find out that ______.

A．you can hear the sound before you see the smoke

B．the sound does not travel as fast as light

C．the sound will reach you before the man fires

D．sound travels about a million times faster than light

小题3:Sunlight obviously(显然的) ______ than the light of the moon.

A．has to travel a greater distance

B．moves less quickly

C．travels much more quickly

D．is less powerful

小题4: The scientific way of saying "The stars are shining tonight" should be ______.

A．the stars have been shining all the time

B．the stars seen tonight will shine four years later

C．the stars were shining long ago but seen tonight

D．the starlight seen today could be seen four years ago

The earth is our home. We must take care of it. Life today is easier than it was       years ago, but it has brought some new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution（污染）. We can see it, smell it, drink it and even      it. Man has polluted the        . The more people, the more pollution.Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so      people. When the land was used up (用光), the river was not clean in a place,man went to      place. Now man is slowly polluting the whole world      pollution is still the most serious, it’s bad for      things in the world.Many countries don’t le t people burn      for air in houses and factories in the city. Pollution by SO2 is now the most dangerous kind of      pollution. It’s caused by heavy traffic. People say it’s      to ride bikes. When you are      , there is no pollution. But even in developed countries, most people don’t go to work by bike. It’s not     bikes are expen sive or people are tired if they ride to work. It’s because the number of cars on the roads becomes larger. So more people      their bikes and go to work by cars,  then things are getting      . We should have special roads only for bikes and make it      difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bikes. 

小题1:	A．hundred B．hundredsof C．hundredof D．hundreds

小题2:	A．listen B．listento C．hearof D．hear

小题3:	A．moon B．star C．earth D．sun

小题4:	A．lot B．little C．many D．much

小题5:	A．others B．theothers C．theother D．another

小题6:	A．Air B．Food C．Water D．Noise

小题7:	A．life B．live C．living D．lives

小题8:	A．somethingbad B．badsomething C．somethinggood D．goodsomething

小题9:	A．water B．air C．noise D．white

小题10:

A．least B．best C．most D．worst

小题11:

A．driving B．biked C．riding D．ridden

小题12:

A．why B．because C．what D．how

小题13:

A．puton B．lookat C．putaway D．lookup

小题14:

A．betterandbetter B．moreandmore C．worseandworse D．biggerandbigger

小题15:

A．quite B．such C．very D．so

It is said that more than four million people die each year from smoking. That number is frightening.

Yet people around the world continue to smoke. In the United States, about forty-seven million adults smoke. This year, more than 430,000 Americans died of diseases which have something to do with smoking. The American Cancer Society(美国癌症协会)says smoking harms the body greatly. It warns that smoking even a number of cigarettes is dangerous.
It’s not easy to give up smoking. However, doctors say you probably will live longer if you do stop smoking. You will feel better and look better. You also will protect the health of family members who breathe your smoke.
There is not one right way to stop smoking, doctors say. Any way can help. You can take long walks or spend time in places where smoking is not allowed. Also, you can eat a small piece of fruit or vegetable instead of having a cigarette. The sooner you stop smoking, the more you’ll reduce your chances of getting cancer and other diseases.
Stop smoking before smoking stops you!
小题1:How many people die from smoking each year?
小题2:What does the American Cancer Society say about smoking?
小题3:Is it easy to give up smoking?
小题4:What will happen if you stop smoking sooner?
小题5:What is the best title of the article?

Reading comprehensionA. Choose the best answer. (12分)

Letter A

To the Editor: Why do our children have 11 weeks of summer vacation? Many years ago, 85 percent of Americans worked on farms. Children needed summer vacation because they helped with the farm work. Today only 3 percent of Americans work on farms. But our children still have long summer vacations. American students lose one or two months of learning during their summer vacations. Away from school for so many weeks students forget what they learned. Experts say that students lose maths skills and reading skills. At the beginning of school in September, teachers have to review last year’s studies for the first four to six weeks of school. Summer vacations are not great opportunities for learning. Most parents work outside of the home. They can’t be with their kids during the long summer months. Some families can pay for summer camps, but many can’t. Most children stay home and watch TV. They are bored. Most children do not learn new skills during the summer. James, Teacher

    Letter B

To the Editor: I am against a longer school year. I believe people learn everywhere, not just in school. I believe children gain experience in the world. Summer vacation is a great opportunity. Kids can discover the world outside of school. They can learn to do things they can’t learn in a classroom. They can learn to swim and ride bikes. They can travel or go to summer camps. They can take time to do things like cooking and art. Some can get summer jobs. They can get work experience or help people in the community. They can spend time with people of other ages. Basically, they can get more experience in the world. Long summer vacations give families time together. During the school year, everyone is busy. During summer vacations, we take time to do things together. Vacations are good for families. Linda, Parent

 
小题1:According to the chart, which two countries have the same number of school days?

A．England and Australia .	B．Singapore and Thailand.
C．Japan and the United States.	D．South Korea and China.

小题2:James says that, many years ago, most children used their vacation time to _______________.

A．study in school	B．go to summer camps
C．have new experiences	D．help on the farm

小题3:James says most parents _______________ during the summer months.

A．travel abroad	B．are with their children
C．are busy with their work	D．go to summer camps

小题4:Linda says children can get _______________ during the summer months.

A．no time to watch TV	B．more work experience
C．more classroom time	D．better reading skills

小题5:According to Linda, children do a lot of activities except that _______________.

A．they learn to swim and ride bikes	B．they go to summer camps
C．they do cooking	D．they improve maths skills

小题6:What is best title of the Letter B?

A．Yes to a Longer School Year	B．Vacations Are a Way of Experiencing
C．Adults Need More Vacation Time	D．Vacations Are Boring to Families

If you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a comet (彗星).
　　A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels.
If a comet isn’t a star, what is it then?
　   Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts (融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail.Many people perhaps have seen a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are. There may be millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.
　　An Englishman named Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep coming back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it would come back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halley’s Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it. You will probably be able to see Halley’s Comets when it comes near the earth again.
小题1:A comet is like ________.

A．sun

B．moon

C．sunlight

D．the earth

小题2:A large part of a comet is ______.

A．water and rock

B．water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron

C．ice, iron and rock dust

D．only a few big pieces of rock

小题3:Maybe many people _______.

A．haven’t seen any comets	B．have seen all comets
C．have seen a comet at daytime	D．have seen a comet

小题4:Some comets keep coming back ________.

A．at any time

B．at noon

C．at regular times

D．at daytime

小题5:Halley’s Comets came back _____.

A．in 1990

B．in 1980

C．in 1986

D．in 1989