阅读短文还原句子（每小题2分，共8分）

阅读短文，根据上下文意思，将方框中的句子还原到短文中适当位置。其中有一个多余选项。

Tom has a strong and faithful（忠诚的）dog, Bruce. 1.. Sometimes he also follows Tom’s father to work

One morning when Tom’s father worked in the field, 2. . He turned to the dog and said, “Watch my coat, Bruce!”

Bruce sat down on the coat. Later Tom’s father remembered he had to buy some food. 3. . After shopping, he went home directly and forgot all about his coat and the dog.

Late in the evening Tom looked for his dog everywhere in the house, 4. . At this time Tom’s father suddenly remembered his coat and the dog. He went back to the tree at once. He found that Bruce was still sitting on the coat!

完成句子（每小题2分，共12分）

1.为什么不告诉他真相呢？_________________________________________ him the truth?

2.我建议你去和你的'朋友谈论影片和歌曲。

I _____________________________________________ the films and songs with your friends.

3.我的家乡以舒适宜人的天气而闻名。

My home town is ___________________________________ its comfortable weather.

4.你笑得越多，你感觉更幸福。 _______________ you smile, _______________ you will feel.

5.北京的空气变得越来越干净。The air in Beijing is ____________________________________.

6.我很害羞，害怕和外国人交谈。I am shy and I ________________________talk with foreigners.

阅读与表达 (每小题2分，共10分)

People all over the world eat rice. Millions of people in Asia, Africa and South America eat it every day of their lives. Some people eat almost nothing but rice.

Rice is a kind of grass. There are more than 7, 000 kinds of rice. Farmers grow rice in many countries, even in the southern part of the United States and in eastern Australia.

No one really knows where rice came from. Some scientists think that it started to grow in two places. They think that one kind of rice grew in southern Asia thousands of years ago. Someone in China wrote about it almost 5, 000 years ago. Another kind probably grew in west Africa. Other scientists think that rice came from India, and Indian travelers took it to other parts of the world.

There are two main ways to grow rice. Most rice grows in wet soil. People in many countries do all of the work of growing rice by hand. This is the same way farmers worked hundreds of years ago. In some countries, people now use machines on their rice farms.

People use every part of the rice plant. They make animal food and rice oil from it. They also make baskets, brooms and roofs for their houses. They burn dry rice plants in fires for cooking.

1.Do the people all over the world eat rice?

2.How many kinds of rice are there?

3.Where do scientists think rice came from?

4.How did farmers grow rice hundreds of years ago?

5.Which part of the rice plant can be used?

写作。（10分）

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提示词语：listen to, every morning, speak English in class, should

How to improve English Listening and speaking

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Xi’an is ancient city with long history.

A. a; a B. an; a

C. the; an D. /; the

— Did the young man climb to the top of the mountain in the end?

— Yes. But without his friends’ help, he couldn’t do that by ______.

A. himself B. herself

C. yourself D. themselves

My dad is quite busy these days. He has been working for two days without ______.

A. thinking B. resting

C. shouting D. knocking

— Every year, many African children ______ hunger (饥饿).

— What bad news! I think we should do some-thing to help them.

A. die in B. die by

C. die of D. die for

— Oh, it’s one of ______ speeches I’ve ever heard.

— I agree with you. Her pronunciation is simply terrible.

A. better B. the best

C. worse D. the worst

— Excuse me, how can I get to the local zoo?

— Sorry, I’m new here. You’d better ask ______.

A. someone else B. anyone else

C. everyone else D. nobody else