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President Xi Jinping’s _______ (讲话) are of great importance and we all feel excited.

A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She didn’t know if she was going to make it and wanted to ________. She was tired of fighting and struggling(奋斗). It seemed that as one problem was solved, a new one ________.

Her father who is a good cook, took her to the ________. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In one he placed carrots, in the ________ he placed eggs, and in the last he placed coffee beans(咖啡豆). He let them boil, without ________ a word.

The daughter waited impatiently, wondering ________ he was doing. In about twenty minutes, he ________ the burners and put the carrots, the eggs and the coffee into different bowls. He asked, “Darling, what do you see?” “Carrots, eggs and coffee.” She ________.

He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She noticed that they were ________. He then asked her to take an egg and break ________. After pulling off the shell, She observed (观察) the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to taste the coffee. She enjoyed it and smiled.

“What does it mean, Father?” she asked.

He explained that each of them had faced the same situation, boiling water, but each reacted (反应) ________. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak ________ being boiled. The fragile (脆弱) eggs became hard after cooking. Coffee beans were the most ________ of the three. They turned the ________ into delicious coffee. “Which are you?” he asked his daughter.

When ________ knock on your door, how do you answer? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

1．

A．go on

B．give up

C．wake up

D．give away

2．

A．missed

B．appeared

C．invented

D．served

3．

A．kitchen

B．bedroom

C．living room

D．restroom

4．

A．other

B．first

C．second

D．third

5．

A．speaking

B．saying

C．talking

D．telling

6．

A．why

B．where

C．when

D．what

7．

A．turned on

B．turned down

C．turned off

D．turned up

8．

A．wondered

B．questioned

C．admired

D．replied

9．

A．hard

B．soft

C．sweet

D．bad

10．

A．one

B．ones

C．it

D．them

11．

A．differently

B．completely

C．silently

D．simply

12．

A．until

B．unless

C．before

D．after

13．

A．special

B．common

C．healthy

D．famous

14．

A．egg

B．water

C．bowl

D．carrot

15．

A．shyness

B．differences

C．difficulties

D．success

I hope ________ in the next World Cup.

A．her to play

B．she to play

C．her will play

D．she will play

The children are all in bed asleep. Mrs. Darling is sitting next to the fire and she is sewing(缝补). The fire makes the room warm and she falls asleep(睡着), too. While she is sleeping, the bedroom window blows(吹) open and a boy drops onto the floor. There’s a straight small light beside him. The light flies around the room like a very small animal. Mrs Darling wakes up suddenly and sees the boy. She knows at once that he is Peter Pan. He is a lovely boy and his clothes are made of leaves. But Peter isn’t glad to see a grown-up, and he growls(咆哮) at her. The door opens and Nana comes in. She growls and runs towards the boy. Peter jumps out of the window quickly. Nana closes it, but the window catches Peter’s shadow and it breaks off. Mrs. Darling takes the shadow and looks at it carefully. It’s just an ordinary shadow. She puts it in the top drawer of the chest of drawers and she doesn’t think about Peter again for a week. The following Friday Nana puts the children to bed while Mr. and Mrs. Daring are getting ready to go to a party.

—Taken from Peter Pan

1．The room is very ________ that night.

A．cold

B．warm

C．cool

D．hot

2．________ stays with children when Peter comes into the room.

A．Nana

B．Peter

C．Nobody

D．Mrs Daring

3．We can infer(推断) that ________ from the passage.

A．Mrs Darling likes lovely Peter very much.	B．Peter’s shadow will run away next morning.
C．Peter will come back to look for his shadow.	D．Without shadow, Peter will die soon.

4．Which is the right order of the story?
a.Peter’s shadow breaks off.
b.Mrs Darling puts Peter’s shadow in the top drawer.
c.Mrs Darling falls asleep.
d.The children are all in bed asleep.

A．a-d-c-b

B．c-d-a-b

C．d-c-b-a

D．d-c-a-b

5．What is the passage mainly about?

A．Peter’s light.	B．Losing(丢失)the shadow.
C．Mrs Darling and Peter.	D．Nana and Peter.

“It is never too late and you are never too old to start something new!” says Englishtown student Ellen Rema. Ellen began to learn English at the age of fifty, and in just a few years, she has made great progress!
Ellen chose to study on Englishtown because no evening classes were offered in the German countryside where she lives. On Englishtown, she has conversation classes online and speaks with native English-speaking teachers.
“Englishtown is a wonderful place for study,” she says. Ellen began with the first level (水平) of Englishtown and quickly progressed. “I spent hours and hours studying,” she said. “Maybe I wanted too much in a short time. I finished all my courses after 2 years, but I still had grammar difficulties.”
Instead of giving up, she chose to continue. After another two years on Englishtown, she’s still studying in the online classroom. “Studying online is never boring, but you need practice, practice, practice!”
Ellen says studying English isn’t all about hard work. It should also be fun. “I really like the online conversation classrooms,” she says. “I have learned so much about other cultures and traditions.”
Ellen has been able to put her English to use by visiting England five times! “I’m very thankful to Englishtown because my life has improved because of it,” Ellen says.
1．Ellen started to learn English .

A．50 years ago

B．in a city of Germany

C．when she was a high school student

D．when she was 50 years old

2．Why did Ellen study English on Englishtown?

A．She had no free time during the day.

B．She lived far away from school.

C．There were no evening classes near her home.

D．Englishtown was a famous website to learn English.

3．Ellen had trouble learning .

A．pronunciation	B．grammar
C．writing	D．listening

4．How long has Ellen learned English?

A．For 2 years.	B．For 4 years.
C．For 6 years.	D．For 15 years.

5．What’s the main idea of this passage?

A．You are never too old to learn something new.

B．Englishtown is a good place to visit.

C．The courses are good on Englishtown.

D．Studying English is not boring at all.

南丁格尔是一个心地善良、乐于助人的人，她终身奉献于护士事业，为纪念她，人们把她的生日5月12日定为国际护士节（International Nurses’ Day）。请你根据下面的信息，写一篇短文简要介绍她的生平。

要求：文章词数在80—100之间，可根据要点进行适当发挥。

1820	be born, in a rich family
1851	be trained
During the war	save soldiers’ lives, the front hospitals
After the war	become a national hero, open the world’s first nurse school
1910	die
1974	become, International Nurses’ Day

A famous British nurse—Florence Nightingale

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—I’ve kept a diary for a month, but there is little progress in my writing.
—Well, ________. Keep writing and you’ll be better at it some day in the future.

A．it takes time

B．take a break

C．it serves you right

D．count me in

Do you ever watch old movies? Maybe you will see one with Carole Lombard. She was a famous_____in the 1930s. She died when she was only 34. In her_____ life she made 70 movies!

Lombard’sreal name was Jane Alice Peters. In 1921, she was playing baseball in the _____near her home. A movie director_____her and decided to put her in amovie. She was only 13 at the time. The movie was one of the last silentmovies. She acted(表演) so well that she_____the hearts of some people. At 16, sheleft school to act.

In1925, she had an agreement with a _____studio, 20th Century Fox. The studio gave_____a new name, and she acted in several films. Then,at age 18, she was in a bad car accident. The accident left scars(伤疤) on herface. The studio broke the agreement, but she did not_____. She continuedto act.

It was Paramount Studio that made Lombard a _____. She made many movies forthe studio. She also married two of their stars. Lombard was married to actor WilliamPowell for only 23 months. _____seven years later, she married the greatlove of her life, actor Clark Gable. It was a great Hollywood love story.

1．

A．nurse

B．actress

C．doctor

D．teacher

2．

A．short

B．lazy

C．long

D．humorous

3．

A．kitchen

B．classroom

C．cinema

D．street

4．

A．forgot

B．saw

C．hurt

D．pushed

5．

A．broke

B．avoided

C．won

D．treated

6．

A．dance

B．film

C．music

D．school

7．

A．me

B．it

C．her

D．him

8．

A．give up

B．have a try

C．make sure

D．lift up

9．

A．scientist

B．writer

C．driver

D．star

10．

A．But

B．Before

C．Since

D．As

阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或所给单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个恰当的词，要求所填的词意义准确、形式正确，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

You speak, write a letter, or make a telephone. Your words carry a message. People communicate with words. But do you know people also communicate 1． words? A smile on your face 2． (show) you are happy or friendly. Tears in your eyes tell others that you are 3． .

When you put up your hands in class, the teacher knows you want to say something or ask questions. You 4． /ʃeɪk/ your head and people know you are saying “No”. You 5． and people know you are saying “Yes”. Other things can also carry messages. For example, a 6． /saɪn/ at the bus stop helps you to know which bus to take. A sign on the door tells you where to go in or out. Have you ever 7． (think) that there are a lot of signs around you and that you 8． /riˈsi:v/ messages from them all the time? People can communicate in many other ways. An 9． (art) can use his drawings to tell about beautiful mountains, the blue seas and many other things. Books are 10． (write) to tell you about all the wonderful things in the world and also about people and their ideas. Books, magazines, TV, radio and films all help us communicate with others. They can help us to know what is going on in the world and what other people are thinking about.

More than 3, 000 languages are spoken in the world. Of all these languages, English is the most widely used. When English is used, it has also ________ many new words from other languages. For example, Americans borrowed “cookbook” from German. They ________ borrowed “tofu” and “kowtow” from Chinese.

As we all know, there are ________ between western culture and Chinese culture. We can learn about those words by comparing how certain words are used. ________, “you are a lucky dog” means you are a lucky person. To describe a person who is ________, they say, “sick as a dog”. On the other hand, Chinese people love cats very much. But in western culture, “cat” is sometimes used to describe a woman that is ________ . The rose is considered as a symbol of love in both China and some western countries. People think the rose stands for love and ________.

China, a country with the largest population in the world, has ________ more people to learn English. By the 1990s, English learning has been very ________ with Chinese people. Many of them have done quite well in English.

Now students are required to learn English and people think the study of English is a very important industry in China ________ in the rest of the world. The English language has played an important part in our lives.

1．

A．taken in

B．taken out

C．taken off

2．

A．even

B．also

C．perhaps

3．

A．advantages

B．differences

C．effects

4．

A．In fact

B．As a result

C．For example

5．

A．ill

B．lazy

C．afraid

6．

A．kind - hearted

B．pretty

C．cruel

7．

A．sadness

B．friendship

C．disappointment

8．

A．encouraged

B．ordered

C．told

9．

A．interested

B．popular

C．enjoyed

10．

A．as long as

B．as much as

C．as well as