She is quiet, soft-spoken and has a kind face and a strong heart. She is my mom, Lili.

When I was nine, Lili quitted her job and started her own business. She said she didn’t want to stay at home and work as a housewife: “It’s a waste of life.” Lili became so busy that she spent less and less time with me. She didn’t help me with my schoolwork. It was, in her words, “so that you can develop your independence”. We quarreled because she rarely showed up at parents’ meetings.

Like mother, like daughter. I have many things in common with Lili. I want everything to be under control. I want to be perfect and I don’t expect other people to help me. I push myself hard to achieve my goals.

After I started to go to high school, Lili and I were too busy to communicate much with each other.

In biology class I began to be depressed. When the teacher showed us a picture of a butterfly, I was scared and screamed. I had a vision of thousands of butterflies flying toward me.

That night I told Lili about it. The next morning, I saw that she had red eyes with black circles around them.

She took me to see a therapist (治疗师). Three hours later, the therapist told Lili that my life was like a wheel spinning (旋转) faster and faster and that was the reason for what had happened to me. I only realized it when my body couldn’t stand the pressure anymore. At these words, Lili burst into tears. “It’s all my fault, she’s just a kid and I didn’t have time to take care of her….”  To be honest, I had never seen Lili cry before.

After that, Lili began to spend more time at home, cooking and dragging me to do sports. I realized she was the one who would always be there when I was in real trouble. No mom is perfect, but she is the one who really cares about her kid.

1.Lili quitted her job and started her own business because _________.

2. We quarreled because __________.

3.What can we learn from the passage?

4. Which of the following statements is WRONG?

5. What is the best title for the passage?

People in the United States honor their parents with two special days: Mother’s Day, on the second Sunday in May, and Father’s Day, on the third Sunday in June.

Mother’s Day was proclaimed a day for national observance by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915. Ann Jarvis from Grafton, West Virginia, had started the idea to have a day to honor mothers. She was the one who chose the second Sunday in May and also began the custom of wearing a carnation.

In 1909, Mrs. Dodd from Spokane, Washington, thought of the idea of a day to honor fathers. She wanted to honor her own father, William Smart. After her mother died, he had the responsibility of raising a family of five sons and a daughter. In 1910, the first Father’s Day was observed in Spokane. Senator Margaret Chase Smith helped to establish Father’s Day as a national commemorative day in 1972.

These days are set aside to show love and respect for parents. They raise their children and educate them to be responsible citizens. They give love and care.

These two special days are celebrated in many different ways. On Mother’s Day people wear carnations. A red one symbolizes a living mother. A white one shows that the mother is dead．Many people attend religious services to honor parents. It is also a day when people whose parents are dead visit the cemetery. On these days families get together at home, as well as in restaurants. They often have outdoor barbecues for Father’s Day. These are days of fun and good feelings and memories.

1.According to the passage, which of the following about the second Sunday in May is

NOT true?

2.Choose the right time order of the following events.

a. The first Father’s Day was observed.

b. Mother’s Day was proclaimed a day for national observance

c. Father’s Day became a day for national observance. 

d. The idea of honoring fathers was brought up

3.Who plays the most important role in Father’s Day becoming a national commemorative day?

4.From the passage, we know in the U.S. ________________.

5.The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to __________

A new generation addiction is quickly spreading all over the world. Weboholism, a twentieth century disease, affects people from different ages.They surf the net, use e-mail and speak in chat rooms. They spend many hours on the computer, and it becomes a compulsive habit. They cannot stop, and it affects their lives. 

Ten years ago, no one thought that using computers could become a compulsive

behavior that could affect the social and physical life of computer users. This obsessive behavior has affected teenagers and college students. They are likely to log on computers and spend long hours at different websites.

They become hooked on computers and gradually their social and school life is

affected by this situation. They spend all free time surfing and don't concentrate on homework, so this addiction influences their grades, and success at schools. Because they can find everything on the websites, they hang out there. Moreover, this addiction to websites influences their social life.

They spend more time in front of computers than with their friends. The relation with their friends changes. The virtual life becomes more important than their real life. They have a new language that they speak in the chat rooms and it causes cultural changes in society,

Because of the change in their behavior, they begin to isolate themselves from the society and live with their virtual friends. They share their emotions and feelings with friends who they have never met in their life.Although they feel confident on the computer, they are not confident with real life friends they have known all their life. lt is a problem for the future. This addictive behavior is beginning to affect the whole world.

1. The passage is about               

2. The underlined word"obsessive" in the second paragraph most probably means    

3. We can learn from the passage that                .

4.Which of the following is NOT true of weboholism?

5.The author's attitude towards weboholism is that of being         

阅读下列应用文及相关信息， 并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

请阅读某书店各书架的相关信息：

A. Section One: Education---Has a huge range of textbooks and supplementary material covering all the major high school and university subjects. Buyers showing their student cards receive a 15% discount on all purchases from this section.

B.  Section Three: Humor Section --- A great selection of joke books, funny stories and wonderful real life adventures that are sure to keep the reader laughing for days.

C. Section Five: Biography --- Find out about the lives of your favorite sports stars, singers, actors and other famous people from today and the past. Learn what they had to go through to become successful and the effect it had on their lives.

D. Section One: Do-It-Yourself Section -- On these shelves customers can find the latest manuals on how to do everything from building a computer to constructing your own home.

E. Section Two: Sports & Leisure Section --- Stocks a large range of the latest books on your favorite sporting teams and events. Pick up the perfect Father's Day present here.

F. Section Four: Business & Finance --- Students, business people or anyone interested in the world of commerce are certain to find the book they are after here. We have special subsection for international trade and e-commerce.

阅读下列关于各书籍的信息，匹配书籍与其所应放置的书架：

1. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron --- by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind --- As the title suggests the authors cover the rise of the American electricity company to become one of the 10 richest companies in the world and its spectacular fall into dishonour and bankruptcy. A perfect guide on what not to do in business.

2.The Delighted Eye --- by Prof. John Nash --- The 1994 Nobel Prize Winner for Economics, whose ideas have influenced a generation of the world's greatest economic minds, tells his life story: growing up in a small town in America, becomin g one of America's most influential mathematicians and his battles with mental illness.

3. Ready Made--- How to Make (Almost) Everything --- by Shoshanna Berger and Grace Hawthorne --- beautifully written with great factual information. The theme behind this book is re-use, re-claim, re-cycle and there are many detailed easy-to-do projects for the reader to try such as making a photo frame from a book cover or a pot for your plants from plastic shopping bags.

4.Mother Tongue: The English Language --- by Bill Bryson --- Bryson's book is a journey through the history and different aspects of the English language , one that is both informative and hugely entertaining. As with most of Bryson's books, fun comes before facts and readers will be left with a smile on their faces.

5.Into Thin Air --- by John Krakauer --- is a riveting first-hand account of a disastrous race to the top of Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and experienced climber John Krakauer to join the team led by the famous Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of the race eight people were dead.

翻译（共15空，每空一分，满分15分）

1.接下来发生了什么？

________  ________  ________  that?

2.电影票是免费的吗？

________  all the film tickets free ________  ________  ?

3.他们结婚多久了？

________  ________  have they been ________  ?

4.这场事故导致了两名乘客死亡，是吗？

________  the accident ________  in the ________  of two passengers?

5.谁应该受到惩罚？

________  ________  to be ________  ?

基础写作 (共1小题，满分15分)

［写作内容］

现在越来越多人选择在网上找工作。请你就此现象以“Hunting for A job on the Internet”为题，写一篇英语短文，发表自己的看法。内容包括：

1. 人们宁愿网上找工作而不愿选择传统的方法。

2. 网上找工作的原因

1）方便

2）简单

3）失败也不会难堪

3. 你对网上找工作的看法：……

［写作要求］

1． 只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。

2． 可适当增加细节，使其连贯完整。

【评分标准】

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯

Hunting for A job on the Internet

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阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

If you like to break things when you are unhappy, the Nanjing Zhonghua Middle School is the school for you. This term, Nanjing Honghua Midlde School will build a "stress wall" to help students who feel unhappy because of schoolwork or for other reasons.

Tao Dehua, a leader at the school said the idea of a stress wall started when footprints were found on some newly painted walls and some school windows were broken.

"These things happen because some students feel lots of pressure from their studies or because they don't get along well with other students. When under stress, the body get ready to either run or fight and becomes very nervous. Hitting the wall can help relax the body and take away stress," Tao said.

"Tests and homework make me Sad," said Lu Yan, a junior girl."I can't wait to hit the wall. It will help me a lot with my problems."     

Another girl student who wouldn't give her name said that the wall won't help."Mainly because it can't talk," she said. "I need to talk to someone when I'm sad."

【写作内容】

1、以约30个词概括这段短文内容；

2、然后以约120个词就“Should the stress wall be built"这个主题发表你的看法，并

包括以下要点：

(1)学生的压力来源；

(2)是否该建此墙；

(3)提供一些其他有效的减压方法。

【写作要求】

l、可以参照阅读材料但不得直接引用原文的句子；

2、作文中不得出现真实的姓名和学校名称。

【评分标准】

概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

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One cold night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco．There I was walking home around one o’clock in the morning after a  1  practice at the theatre. With the opening night only a week away, I was still learning my lines by heart. I was having   2  handling my part-time job at the bank in the daytime and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about  3  both acting and San Francisco. I had  4  too much of city life.

    As I walked down the  5  streets under the tall buildings, I felt very small and cold, so I began  6  both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were still out except a few homeless people under blankets.

    About a block from my  7  , I heard a sound behind me. I   8   quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me  9  ，so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I   10  what the noise had been. It had been my wallet  11  to the sidewalk.

    Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk   12  for 15 minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.

    Just as I was about to quit the  13  , I heard the garbage truck stop to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice came from the inside, “Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened and out jumped a small blonde man with an  14  look in his eyes. “Is this what you’re looking for?” He asked, holding up a wallet.

    It was already 3 a.m. by the time I got into bed. I couldn’t get much sleep, but I had got my wallet back. I also had got back some  15  of city life. I realized the city couldn’t be a bad place as long as people were willing to help each other.

1．A．comfortable       B．serious          C．tiresome         D．fortunate

2．A．comfort           B．desire           C．pain             D．trouble

3．A．setting up        B．giving up        C．holding up       D．picking up

4．A．expected          B．changed          C．controlled       D．possessed

5．A．deserted          B．crowded          C．busy             D．wild

6．A．running           B．jumping          C．moving           D．marching

7．A．bank              B．theatre          C．apartment        D．office

8．A．stood             B．walked           C．turned           D．left

9．A．satisfied         B．confused         C．frightened       D．annoyed

10. A．turn out         B．figure out       C．give out         D．pull out

11. A．belonging        B．adding           C．sticking         D．falling

12. A．aimlessly        B．anxiously        C．skillfully       D．delightedly

13. A．discovery        B．research         C．hunt             D．finding

14. A．amused           B．unpleasant       C．uneasy           D．embarrassed

15. A．production   B．judgment C．friendship   D．appreciation

语法填空 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

　　阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡括号为16—25的相应位置上。

BEIJING---World-renowned Oxford and Cambridge have come to China   16   (attract) top-rank postgraduate students in cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.

Oxford made its first   17   (appear) at the China Scholarship Council's annual International Graduate Scholarship Fair,   18   opened on Saturday in Beijing. The school wants to encourage excellent Chinese students to consider   19   Oxford can offer for   20   academic and professional careers.

"The students came well-prepared with specific questions and were serious about the chance," said Sherwood, director of graduate admissions and funding at Oxford, who will make   21   two stops for the fair in Wuhan and Shanghai.

The University of Cambridge   22   (attend) the fair since its first session in 2009, and stresses that it would continue to invest to train students to be problem-solvers.

  23   Cambridge and Oxford present at the fair in competition for   24   best and brightest, Osterfield and Sherwood agree that the two universities usually have more interest in cooperation   25   competition, except in their traditional annual boat race.

It is obvious that doctors recognize obesity as a health problem. So why is it so hard for them to talk to their patients about it?

    The results of two surveys, one of primary care physicians and the other of patients, found that while most doctors want to help patients lose weight and think it is their responsibility to do so, they often don’t know what to say.

    “So while doctors may tell patients they are overweight, the conversation often ends there,” said Christine C. Ferguson, director of the Stop Obesity Alliance. “Patients are not told about the possibility of diabetes (糖尿病),” she said. “And doctors don’t feel they have good information to give. They felt that they didn’t have adequate tools to address this problem.

    The lack of dialogue hurts patients, too. The patient survey, of over 1,000 adults, found that most overweight patients don’t even know that they’re too heavy. Only 39 percent of overweight people surveyed had ever been told by a health care provider that they were overweight.

Of those who were told they were obese, 90 percent were also told by their doctors to lose weight, the survey found. In fact most have tried to lose weight and may have been successful in the past—and many are still trying, the survey found. And many understand that losing even a small amount of weight can have a positive impact on their health and reduce their risk of obesity­related diseases like hypertension and diabetes.

Dr. William Bestermann Jr., medical director of Holston Medical Group, in Kingsport, Tenn. , which ranks the 10th in obesity among metropolitan areas in the United States, said the dialogue had to be an ongoing one and could not be dropped after just one mention of the problem. “If you’re to be successful with helping your patients lose weight, you have to talk to them at actually every visit about their progress, and find something to encourage them and coach them,” he said.

He acknowledged that many doctors tend to be not optimistic.

“Part of this is that there's this common belief, and doctors are burdened by it, too, that overweight people are weak-willed and just don’t have any willpower and are self­indulgent and all that business,” he said. “If you think that way, you’re not going to spend time having a productive conversation.”

1.What is the Stop Obesity Alliance most probably in Paragraph 3?

A. An organization of doctors suffering from obesity.

B. An organization of patients suffering from obesity.

C. A research group that conducts special surveys about overweight people.

D. A research group dealing with doctor-patient relationship.

2.How many of the patients surveyed have been advised by their doctors to lose weight?

A. About 350.                           B. About 390.

C. About 900.                           D. About 1,000.

3.What can be inferred about obesity patients in Paragraph 5?

    A. They are not as hopeless as doctors think they are.

    B. Most of them have tried hard to lose weight, but in vain.

C. Without their doctors’ constant coaching, there is little chance of their succeeding in losing weight.

    D. Most of them have just given up their hope of becoming less heavy.

4.According to the passage, which factor contributes to the lack of dialogue between doctors and patients?

    A. Most doctors never think of warning their patients about their weight problem.

    B. Many doctors find it difficult to persuade overweight people to lose weight.

    C. Most patients are too weak-willed to do anything about their weight.

    D. Many patients tend not to trust their doctors about their weight problem.

5.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

    A. Obesity in the U. S.                

B. Trouble of overweight Americans.

    C. Talk more, help better.             

D. Doctors or patients---who to bear more blame?[