请仔细阅读56—60小题及下面六个网站介绍(A、B、C、D、E和F)，选出符合Thomas、Melanie、Arthur、Darrel、David五人各自需求的最佳选项，其中有一选项为多余。

1.Thomas is a student from Japan, studying in Eastland High School. He has some problems with some English words and expressions. So he turns to some proper website for help.

2.Melanie is a high school student and wants to learn some hot technology news by reading some books in this field during the coming summer vacation. She wants to know where to get such books.

3.Arthur is a young school teacher and wants to take a long journey to Germany with his family by air. He hopes to get low-priced airline tickets and deeply discounted hotel rooms. In order to do this, he draws his attention to the websites.

4.Darrel’s father is a successful businessman. He is excited about his father’s job and decides to follow him. So he’d like to make good use of time in the summer holiday to learn some practical business English. How can he find a place where his dream can come true?

5.David is a student of English coming from Africa and used to have many difficulties in his English study. He decided that he would get some free English learning materials to read and with the help of his friends, he wanted to find a website for his purpose.

Probably you have seen someone reading a book on an electronic reading device. Over the past few years, these small computers have become more popular. For that reason, more companies that make 1. paper books are now making electronic books (e-books). Most e-books are the same as paper books, 2. people download a file into a reading device rather than 3. the paper book. This way they can 4. many books.

Books companies are adding special features 5. some e-books. These extra features might include sound files, picture files, or video files. When the readers click on these files they learn more about the book, the story, or the writer.

The latest electronic readers are smaller and 6. , but they are also much more powerful. They can store much more information, so writers and book companies can do more with 7. e-books. They do not want to just add files to 8. completed book. They are making the sound, picture, and video files part of the story. Readers need these files to understand the whole story. Readers can 9. change the story.

Readers already have a lot of books to 10. from. If they can change the way stories end, they will have more choices!

单词拼写 (共10小题，计10分)

1.She always puts her children f_____ and puts herself last.

2.Bruce can’t work out the math problem w your help.

3.My father often listens to the news over the r_______ every morning.

4.The new book has c_______ the interest of many readers.

5.Uncle Tom was so busy that he h noticed the days pass by fast.

6.The pants are too big, so I’d like to try a________ pair.

7.We should stand in others’ s_____, it means we should think about others.

8.Daddy’s suggestion was really h for me to make a right decision.

9.W you may say, I’ll hold on my plan to study abroad.

10.It was raining at the beginning, but l______ the sun goes out.

Ellen 中学毕业后要去澳大利亚读高中，但她担心在陌生的环境里难以交到朋友。因此她给澳大利亚的笔友Andy写信，向他倾诉烦恼。请根据下面这封邮件，以Andy的名义给Ellen回信。

Dear Andy,

How is everything going? I’m excited to tell you that I’m going to study in Australia this September. But I’m a shy girl and don’t know how to make new friends there. What shall I do? Could you give me some advice?

Ellen.

参考词汇：be friendly to, the same hobbies, a good listener, smiling

要求：1. 可适当发挥，但必须包含表格所提供的信息；

2. 词数80~100（短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数）；

3. 文中不得出现真实的人名、校名与地名。

Dear Ellen,

I’m glad that you are coming to study in Australia.

Andy

_______ girl in pink is my good friend. She is _________ outgoing girl.

A. A , anB. An, aC. The, aD. The, an

The car accident happened ______ a cold winter morning.

A. inB. onC. atD. of

The fruit should be well ______ during summer

A. keptB. keepingC. keepD. to keep

If Nancy __________ the exam, she will go to the USA for English study.

A. passesB. pastC. passD. pasts

Listen! Can you hear them _______ in the next room?

A. practising to singB. practising singing

C. practise singingD. to practise sing

The traffic was busy on our way to the train station, _____ we caught the train on time at last.

A. althoughB. soC. butD. because