根据对话内容，从对话后方框的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使对话意思完整，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置。选项中有两项为多余选项。
补全对话
Ling ling: I’m going to England as an exchange student.
Mary: Great!
Ling ling: But I don’t know much of the customs and manners in England. __36____
Mary: Sure.
Ling ling: ________37__________
Mary: Well, they think it’s important to be on time when you’re invited to dinner. _____38___ .As it is usually planned to have the meal at the exact hour given in the invitation.
Ling ling: Then how long may I stay there?
Mary :___39_ .Or you seem to have come only for the meal .An evening dinner invitation usually implied (暗示)that ___40__. The hostess often plans some after—dinner entertainment .

My teachers suggested that I see a speech specialist (专家) in school.

I never really gave much thought to my speech. If other people understood what I was saying, then that was good enough. I didn’t mind repeating myself many times.

Before testing me, the speech specialist asked me what I thought of having good speech. I told her I thought it was not important.

“Well, when you are in an interview for a job, and they don’t know what you are saying, what are they going to say to you? Nice meeting you, bye,” she said.

Maybe good speech was important. I took part in 20-minute classes each week with the specialist.

After she tested me, she told me that I spoke too fast, and didn’t give enough eye contact (眼神交流). I learned that when I made eye contact with someone, it meant that I was talking to that person, and I could also see what he or she thought about what I was saying.

When my first speech class started, I found that I had been speaking too fast to be understood. Every time I spoke too fast, the specialist stopped me and told me to start again. At first, I got stopped after almost every other sentence. After a while, I felt my speech slow down. I wasn’t sure if people could understand me better, but my friends stopped asking me to repeat myself.

Speech is an important skill to have. If you do have good speech, that’s a good thing, but if you don’t have it, it is never too late to improve.

1.The article is probably taken from       .

 A. a newspaper    B. an advertisement  C. a detective story    D. a science book

2.What did the writer think of having good speech before the classes?

A. It was very useful.

B. It was nothing important.

C. It was impossible.

D. It was good for interviewing.

3. What were the writer’s problems when he was speaking?

a. He spoke too quickly.                 b. He never stopped once he started talking.

c. He seldom kept eye contact with people.  d. He didn’t give others time to ask questions.

A. a, b            B. b, c             C. a, c              D. b, d

4. From the sentence “but my friends stopped asking me to repeat myself,” we know that _____.

A. the writer’s friends couldn’t understand him

B. the writer still couldn’t make eye contact

C. the writer improved a lot

D. the writer didn’t slow down

5.Through the passage, the writer wants to tell us that _____.

A. seeing a speech specialist is necessary

B. speech is an important skill to have

C. good speech can help you make friends

D. good speech gets good affect

任务型阅读 阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容完成相关任务。

There is a family of ants close to my house, but I don't know when they came here.

They work hard all day long cleaning their house and looking for food outside. There is not a lazy one in their family. They are friendly to each other and help each other. I like them very much and often go to see them.

One day I went to see the ants just before a heavy rain. They were busy carrying earth in their mouths to stop up the door of their house. Just then the rain came down. I ran back into the house. I thought,“The ants will be in danger. How heavy the rain is!”

When the rain stopped, I went out to see the ants. The earth at the door kept the rain out. They were busy carrying it away.

It was late, and the people all went home. I thought that the ants must be tired.I went to see them again with the help of the lamp. They were still working quietly. What good, hard-working neighbours they are!

1.Who is the writer's neighbour?

2.What did they do all day long?

3.They aren't very kind to each other, are they?

4.What did they use to keep the rain out?

5.Do they go to sleep just as the people do in the evening?

选择填空 (共10小题, 每小题1分)
In Singapore, many middle school students spend a lot of time on their studies. Many of them try their best   1  good marks in the exams. They have a lot of homework every day, and the exam is a big headache. In their mind, good   2  is the ticket to success in the future.
Singaporean students study hard, but they have a lot of fun after class. Do you want to know what   3  they like to do after class? They can   4  all kinds of sports and games, music and dance, hiking and rock-climbing. They are also very active in community service.
In their free time, most students like to listen to pop music. Hollywood movies are very popular with them. They also like movies   5  in Hong Kong and Singapore because they understand them very well. Some students   6  their free time surfing the Internet,   7  e-mails to their friends and playing computer games.   8  they also go to shopping centers and big bookstores. They are really good places to   9  . So as a middle school student, living in Singapore is not easy, but it is  10  .
Dear students, what about your school life? Please write something about it.

选择填空 (共10小题, 每小题1分)

In Singapore, many middle school students spend a lot of time on their studies. Many of them try their best   1  good marks in the exams. They have a lot of homework every day, and the exam is a big headache. In their mind, good   2  is the ticket to success in the future.

Singaporean students study hard, but they have a lot of fun after class. Do you want to know what   3  they like to do after class? They can   4  all kinds of sports and games, music and dance, hiking and rock-climbing. They are also very active in community service.

In their free time, most students like to listen to pop music. Hollywood movies are very popular with them. They also like movies   5  in Hong Kong and Singapore because they understand them very well. Some students   6  their free time surfing the Internet,   7  e-mails to their friends and playing computer games.   8  they also go to shopping centers and big bookstores. They are really good places to   9  . So as a middle school student, living in Singapore is not easy, but it is  10  .

Dear students, what about your school life? Please write something about it.

1.                A．getting         B．get            C．to get    D．gets

2.                A．memory        B．health          C．friend    D．education

3.                A．jobs           B．activities        C．choices   D．abilities

4.                A．join            B．take part        C．attend    D．take part in

5.                A．make          B．making         C．made D．to make

6.                A．pay            B．spend          C．cost D．take

7.                A．sending        B．receiving        C．playing   D．getting

8.                A．Never          B．Sometimes      C．Hardly    D．Seldom

9.                A．relax           B．stop           C．travel    D．walk

10.               A．boring         B．difficult         C．colorful   D．hard