Have you ever wished that you could make your little sister’s teddy bear talk to her? Or have you ever wanted to bring a puppet (木偶) to life? If so, you may be interested in learning the art of ventriloquism (腹语术). A ventriloquist can make an ordinary object seem to be alive by giving it a personality, movement, and speech.

Your object can be a puppet, or a doll. Give your new “friend” a name, and then decide on the personality that he will have. The next step is to give your friend movements that agree with the personality you have chosen.

Now you can learn to make your “friend” talk. A ventriloquist will control his mouth and lips so that it will appear that his voice is coming from the object he is using. This will take practice, but you can do it.

First, decide on a voice that is different from your own. It could be higher or lower than yours, or could even have a special accent. Then, find a clean teaspoon and hold the handle between your front teeth. Now, using the voice you created for your friend and holding the handle of the teaspoon tightly between your teeth, look into a mirror and talk. Practicing with the spoon in your mouth will help you learn to keep your mouth from moving. Now try telling a joke in your normal voice and have your friend speak in his voice. Practice those words until you can say them without your lips moving at all.

Ventriloquism is fun. It also requires hard work to become good at it. The most important thing to do is practice. But if you are willing to take the time to give your friend an interesting personality, to practice lively movements, and to work on good mouth control, then you will be well on your way to becoming a ventriloquist!

1.According to the text, a ventriloquist           .

   A. is a person who can make puppets

   B. needs to work with another person

   C. can speak without using his mouth

   D. can make an object seem to speak

2.You need to hold the handle of a teaspoon between your front teeth so that           .

   A. your voice will change

   B. your mouth won’t move

   C. you can look humorous

   D. you can feel your mouth’s movements

3.If you want to be good at ventriloquism, you          .

   A. need to spend much time practicing

   B. must learn from famous ventriloquists

   C. should learn at least one special accent

   D. must have a great doll to practice with 

4.What would be the best title for the text?

A. How to tell jokes             

B. How to make puppets

C. Secrets of ventriloquism       

D. Tips on making friends

Weekend Miracles

Weekend Miracles give children aged 9 and older in the Children’s Center the opportunity to visit a host family who partners the child to find the child a permanent family. The host family arranges activities that the child will enjoy and introduces the child to their circle of friends—in order to develop a lasting connection with someone.

Organization: Kidsave International

Location: the United States

Duration: 2 days to 6 weeks

Web Designer Needed

We need the skills of a Web designer to help us redesign our website. The project will be fun and fulfilling, and give much needed visibility (能见性) to our grass-roots projects that are serving children and mothers in every corner of the world.

Organization: Children’s Fund

Location: the United States

Duration: 3 weeks to 2 months

Living Miracles

Doctors and dentists are needed as volunteers at Shechen Medical Clinic in Nepal for two months or longer. In Tibet, we need doctors for only 1-2 months. Dentists can come for one month or longer. Please understand that modern conveniences are not available here.

Organization: Dilgo Khyentse Fellowship

Location: Nepal

Duration: 21 days to 6 years

Teaching English to Children in India

The Salus Foundation, Inc. needs help from volunteers, teachers, college students or recent college graduates trained in ESL, or who are willing to be trained in ESL to teach English to the students at the Sulaxim School.

Organization: The Salus Foundation, Inc.

Location: India

Duration: 6 weeks to 9 months

Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Cameroon

In Defense of Animals in Africa needs help from highly motivated, mature volunteers who care about the conservation of great apes and are willing to live in an isolated, challenging, French-speaking environment for six months to benefit our future generation.

Organization: In Defense of Animals in Africa

Location: Cameroon

Duration: 6 months

1.We can infer from the passage that           .

   A. serving children in every corner of the world is the Web designer’s duty

B. volunteers going to Cameroon should be able to speak French

C. more dentists are needed than doctors in Nepal

D. the time you work in one of these places can be changed

2.Which of the following fields is NOT mentioned in the passage?

   A. Health        B. Education        C. Politics     D. Wildlife conservation

3.Which of the following is suitable for John, an American college student, who wants to learn about the lives of children in other countries?

A. Weekend Miracles        

B. Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Cameroon

C. Web Designer Needed         

D. Teaching English to Children in India

4.The purpose of Weekend Miracles is mainly to help children           .

   A. enlarge their circle of friends

B. learn more about the outside world

C. find a family who is willing to raise them

D. get chances to communicate with other children

In my opinion, there is only one legitimate (合法的) handgun sport and that is aim practice. It is practiced at objects which are properly monitored and usually quite safe. Only certain handguns are true “sporting weapons”, seen as such by the sport’s lovers.

On the other hand, shooting at tin cans and other small objects in one’s backyard is not and should not be considered a serious sport. When uncontrolled, it can be a very dangerous practice.

Some opponents (反对者) of handgun control have stated that we are out to stop all hunting and that controlling the handgun would severely affect hunting. That is simply untrue. Handgun control would in no way limit the freedom of the true hunter. Few if any hunters consider the handgun an effective hunting weapon.

There are a few hunters who do hunt with handguns, but most states place restrictions (限制) on the type of guns that can be used in hunting, the reason is that killing of game should be done in as humane (人道的) a way as possible. Some small handguns are more likely to wound the animal rather than kill it at once. Only long guns, rifles and shotguns are effective arms of hunting.

People must understand that handguns and hunters are separate matters. Because most of the hunters use a rifle or shotgun, there is no reason why their search for game and sport should be affected by handgun control. Mixing the anti-hunting matter with the handgun matter confuses the killing of animals with killing of people.

1.In the writer’s opinion, people should use handguns only when           .

A. hunters shoot at animals         

B. they aim at a criminal

C. objects are under control  

D. objects are only small tin cans in the backyard

2.According to the writer, hunting is not affected by handgun control because          .

A. hunters can use knives rather than guns to hunt animals

B. state government encourages hunters to use other guns

C. nobody cares what weapons are used to kill animals

D. most hunters use rifles rather than handguns

3.This passage mainly talks about           .

A. the relation between hunting and handgun control

B. the importance of aim practice

C. how handgun control affects hunting

D. different types of guns used in hunting

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。注意：涂卡时，如答题卡上没有E、F、G选项，请按如下方式填涂：选E涂AB；选F涂BC；选G涂CD。

Before going outside in the morning, many of us check a window thermometer (温度计) for the temperature. This helps us decide what to wear.    1     We want our food to be a certain coldness in the refrigerator. We want it a certain hotness in the oven. If we don’t feel well, we use a thermometer to see if we have a fever. We keep our rooms a certain warmth in the winter and a certain coolness in the summer.

   Not all the thermometers use the same system to measure temperature. We use a system called the Fahrenheit scale. But most other countries use the Centigrade scale.

   Both systems use the freezing and boiling points of water as their guide.     2     

   The most common kind of thermometer is made with mercury (水银) inside a clear glass tube. As mercury ( or any other liquid ) becomes hot, it expands. As it gets colder, it contracts (收缩) . That is why on hot days the mercury line is high in the glass tube.     3        

   First, take a clear glass juice bottle that has a cap; fill the bottle with colored water. Tap a hole in the center of the cap using a hammer and thick nail. Put the cap on the jar. Then stick a plastic straw (吸管) through the nail hole.

        4    

   Finally, place a white card on the outside of the bottle and behind the straw. Now you can see the water level easily.

        5     

   As the temperature goes down, the water will contract, and the level in the straw will come down. Perhaps you will want to keep a record of the water level in the straw each morning for a week.

A.       We use and depend on thermometers to measure the temperature of many other things in our daily lives.

B.       Thermometers measure temperature, by using materials that change in the same way when they are heated or cooled.

C.       Now that you know this rule you can make a thermometer of your own that will work.

D.       The water will rise in the straw. As the temperature of the air goes up, the water will expand and rise even higher.

E.       They label these in different ways. On the Fahrenheit scale water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. On the Celsius scale water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.

F.       Take wax ( you may use an old candle if you have one ) and melt some of it right where the straw is stuck into the cap to seal them together. 

G.       People use thermometers which are made by themselves when travelling around the world.

单词拼写 (共10小题; 每小题1分,满分10分)

1.Yet the _____ (大多数) of these employees have no voice, especially when it comes to their own safety.

2.The idea _____ (被想到) to him in a dream.

3.So if someone asks you out, never ______ (犹豫).

4.There are some obvious ______ (实际的) applications of the research.

5.She was shocked by the violent scenes she had _____ (目击).

6.The plan was so _____ (肤浅) that no serious attempt was ever made to realize it.

7.We received a letter of ______ (道歉).

8.The exhibition is held ______ (每年).

9.The bank is ______ (在…对面) the supermarket.

10.I had to join a _____ (队，行列) for the toilets.   

下面短文中有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（  ），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下面画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

      2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

There are different train ticket for people to choose from when traveled by train.

They may want to buy a single ticket and a return ticket. A single ticket allows them

enjoy more freedom at their destination while a return one not only is cheaper but

also save them the trouble of buying the ticket when they decide to return. Some

people prefer hard seats to soft one. Young people like to have hard seats because

enjoy the company of other passengers is what they need during a journey.

Businessmen would not like to have soft seats. They want to have a good rest. When

they get off the train, they were still energetic and can rapid go on to do their jobs.

假设你是高三学生李华，开学之初，你们新换了英语老师Ms Li。 她希望了解每位同学的英语学习情况，并征求教学建议。请按以下要点用英语给她写一封信。

1、对英语学习的认识;

　2、自己目前的英语水平;

3、自己英语学习存在的主要问题;

4、对英语教学的两点建议。

注意：

1、词数100左右;

2、信的开头和结尾已给出。

Dear Ms Li,

I’m very happy to have you as our English teacher.

------------------------------------------

Thank you!

 Li Hua

— Do you mind if I leave my car here for a minute?

    — ________．

    A． Great ! I love cars            

    B． Of course not. It’s not allowed here

    C． No, you can’t                                   

    D． I’d rather you didn’t, actually

—I have just received another message, telling me I have won a big prize.

—Don't jump on it. You ________.

A．should be cheated    B．are being cheated   

C．are cheating     D．must have cheated

In the 21^st century, all nations must take their ________of responsibility for the global safety.

    A. blame            B. charge           C. share            D. notice