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Ⅰ.单项选择
1. High school is ____ time of discovery and learning, and it is also ____ very enjoyable and valuable experience for every one of us.
A. a, a B. a, / C. /, a D. a, the
2. There used to be a small river near our school, ____?
A. didn’t it B. did there C. usedn’t it D. didn’t there
3. The possibility that he killed the old lady has been ____ because he was staying with some of his friends at that time.
A. turned out B. ruled out C. put out D. kept out
4. ——Why didn’t you ask the teacher the question?
——She had left the office ____ I had time to do it.
A. as B. till C. after D. before
5. ——Hi, Tracy, you look tired.
——I am tired. I ____ the sitting room all day.
A. painted B. had painted
C. have painted D. have been painting
6. ——People have reported seeing a wild man-like creature in the Himalayas called a Yeti.
——Did you see ____ when you were traveling there?
A. it B. one C. that D. them
7. With snow-covered mountains, lakes and vast grasslands, Shangri-la is a heavenly world ____ people live in harmony with nature.
A. that B. in that C. where D. which
8. ——Shirley won the first prize in the English speech contest.
——Woo! ____ she has made since the beginning of this term!
A. What great progress B. How great progress
C. What a great progress D. How great a progress
9. ____ is certain, people’s living conditions in China have been improved a lot since the 1980s.
A. It B. As C. What D. Which
10. ——Have you ever been to Australia?
——Never, but I have been looking forward ____ such a chance for further study there.
A. to give B. to be given C. to giving D. to being given
11. I don’t know the ____ income of the family, but I do know it is very small.
A. true B. enough C. proper D. exact
12. Yang Liwei was picked from the 14 candidates for the Chinese space adventure and became China’s first astronaut ____ his great efforts.
A. according to B. as well as
C. due to D. together with
13. Wang Hong, ____ I went to the concert yesterday evening, enjoyed herself very much.
A. who B. whom C. with whom D. by whom
14. ——I hear that Amy is trying to lose weight by taking weight-loss pills.
——In my opinion, looking good is important, but ____, staying healthy is far more important.
A. after all B. in all C. at all D. above all
15. ——I’m afraid I failed in the contest.
——____. At least you tried.
A. No way B. Never mind
C. No problem D. I don’t believe it
Ⅱ.完形填空
There comes a time for every child when fantasies end and reality begins. Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny __1__ to be Mum and Dad, and heroes fade away. I don’t know if most people remember this __2__,but I know when it happened to me.
On an ordinary summer’s day, my grandfather told me one of his crazy stories. I __3__ out to find the Indians that Grandpa said lived in the woods. But after some hours’ searching without success I __4__. Tired and __5__, I went to ask Grandpa.
“How come none of your __6__ ever came true?”
“Well, sometimes you have to make them come true,” he answered. “I once had a friend named Huck Finn who made his own __7__.”
He started to tell me about his friend Huck, who __8__ down the Mississippi River on a raft. I sat listening to him and believing every word he said. When he finished, I went off to have my own adventure.
Two hours later I had a small and __9__ raft, I took it to the pond along with __10__ from a tree to use as an oar. I couldn’t swim and had been told many times to stay away from __11__. But today I had the raft, so with a big __12__, I pushed it out and jumped on top.
I was line for a total of four seconds; then I started to __13__. Frightened, I tried to use the branch to paddle __14__, but only pushed myself farther out. Knowing that I would drown, I did __15__ any other nine-year-old would do in a similar __16__: I screamed.
From the edge of the pond came my sister and cousins who easily __17__ me. As my raft sank, so did my __18__ in my grandpa. Although I never __19__ loving him, something changed in our relationship that day.
__20__ now, I can see that the change wasn’t in my grandfather, but in me. I was growing up.
1. A. pick out B. turn out C. come out D. find out
2. A. event B. accident C. affair D. matter
3. A. sailed B. flew C. headed D. drove
4. A. gave in B. gave out C. gave away D. gave up
5. A. angry B. dreams C. discouraged D. frightened
6. A. stories B. dreams C. plans D. wishes
7. A. differences B. attempts C. inspections D. adventures
8. A. swam B. floated C. flowed D. wandered
9. A. badly made B. well equipped C. good looking D. fast moving
10. A. a stick B. a pole C. a branch D. a post
11. A. the river B. the lake C. the sea D. the pond
12. A. pull B. shove C. force D. strength
13. A. sink B. move C. float D. run
14. A. back away B. back in C. forward in D. forward out
15. A. how B. what C. however D. whatever
16. A. condition B. situation C. position D. state
17. A. rescued B. found C. caught D. helped
18. A. understanding B. idea C. belief D. love
19. A. continued B. forgot C. remembered D. stopped
20. A. Looking back B. Looking forward
C. Calling up D. Calling back
Ⅲ.阅读理解
(A)
Laptop computers are popular all over the world. People use them on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotels. These laptops connect people to their workplace. In the United States today, laptops also connect students to their classrooms.
Westlake College in Virginia will start a laptop computer program that allows students to do schoolwork anywhere they want. Within five years, each of the 1,500 students at the college will receive a laptop. The laptops are part of a ＄10 million computer program at Westlake, a 110-year-old college. The students with laptops will also have access to the Internet. In addition, they will be able to use e-mail to “speak” with their teachers, their classmates, and their families. However, the most important part of the laptop program is that students will be able to use computers without going to computer labs. They can work with it at home, in a fast-food restaurant or under the trees—anywhere at all!
Because of the many changes in computer technology, laptop use in higher education, such as colleges and universities, is workable. As laptops become more powerful, they become more similar to desktop computers. In addition, the portable computers can connect students to not only the Internet, but also libraries and other resources. State higher-education officials are studying how laptops can help students. State officials are also testing laptop programs at other universities, too.
At Westlake College, more than 60 percent of the staff use computers. The laptops will allow all teachers to use computers in their lessons. As one Westlake teacher said, “Here we are in the middle of Virginia and we’re giving students a window on the world. They can see everything and do everything.”
1. The main purpose of the laptop program is to give each student a laptop to ____.
A. use for their schoolwork B. access the Internet
C. work at home D. connect them to libraries
2. Why is the word “speak” in the second paragraph in quotation marks(引号)? ____.
A. They don’t really talk
B. They use the computer language
C. Laptops have speakers
D. None of the above reasons is correct
3. Which of the following is true about Westlake College? ____.
A. All teachers use computers
B. 1,500 students have laptops
C. It is an old college in America
D. Students there can do everything
4. A window on the world in the last paragraph means that students can ____.
A. attend lectures on information technology
B. travel around the world
C. get information from around the world
D. have free laptops
5. What can we infer from the passage? ____.
A. The program is successful
B. The program is not workable
C. The program is too expensive
D. We don’t know the result yet
(B)
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those used around him. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learning to do all the other things: they learn to do without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle, compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them by himself. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answer, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine(常规) work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, and how to know what they know or do not know.
6. According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is by ____.
A. listening to skilled people’s advice
B. asking older people many questions
C. making mistakes and having them corrected
D. doing what other people do
7. Which of the following does the writer think teachers should NOT do? ____.
A. Give children correct answers
B. Allow children to make mistakes
C. Point out children’s mistakes to them
D. Let children mark their own work
8. According to the writer, teachers in school should ____.
A. allow children to learn from each other
B. point out children’s mistakes whenever found
C. give children more book knowledge
D. correct children’s mistakes as soon as possible
9. The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are ____.
A. different from learning other skills
B. the same as learning skills
C. more important than other skills
D. not really important skills
(C)
The following is a true story. It happened in the northern end of Queensland, Australia, where all kinds of animals live in the forest.
Lisa, a 33-year-old woman, went to prepare lunch in the kitchen, leaving Barney, her three-year-old son, playing by himself in the back garden.
Suddenly, a sharp cry of Barney came into the mother’s ears, and Lisa rushed into the backyard in a hurry and found a big snake entwining(缠绕) the little child with its terrible body and trying to eat the boy as its delicious dish!It was a boa(蟒)! Lisa was terrified and quite angry. She made up her mind to save her son from the snake’s mouth.
It was fearless mother love that made Lisa forget what she faced. She took up an old hoe from the ground and beat the boa with all her might.
One…two…With the hoe, Lisa beat the snake repeatedly, but useless. The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Lisa’s heart was broken and she got nearly mad.
Suddenly Lisa put away the hoe and threw herself to the boa, opened her mouth and bit into the boa’s back as if trying to eat a rare steak(牛排). Lisa was really mad!
Blood was spurting(喷射) out of the boa’s body and covered most of Lisa’s body. The boa was so badly wounded that it let go of Barney and moved back into the forest hurriedly. It had never known how a man had such terrible sharp teeth! On halfway home, the boa died.
It was fearless mother love that saved the little boy.
10. When she rushed into the back garden, Lisa found ____.
A. a boa eating her son
B. her son was playing with a big snake
C. her son in danger of losing his life
D. her son was fighting with a boa
11. Lisa failed in fighting against the boa at first just because ____.
A. she was bit by the boa
B. the boa was too strong
C. the hoe was not sharp enough
D. she was afraid that she would hurt her son
12. Lisa bit the snake because ____.
A. she was mad
B. she thought her teeth were much sharper than the boa
C. her son was entwined by the boa
D. she hadn’t got any other way to fight with the snake
13. The best title for this passage is ____.
A. Mother and Boa B. Fearless Mother Love
C. A Boa and a Boy D. Saving a Boy from a Boa
(D)
GUANGZHOU: Most residents surveyed in Guangzhou, capital of South China’s Guangdong Province, plan to hit the road for the upcoming National Day holiday but they won’t be going far.
The survey shows 71.1 per cent of the interviewees(受访者) intend to travel during the seven-day holiday, an increase of 1.2 per cent over the last year.
But 54.6 per cent of them prefer going to places around Guangzhou rather than traveling to other cities or going abroad, an increase of 1.8 per cent over last year.
“Lots of people have traveled outside during the summer vacation, and they want to escape the tourism peak also,” Wang Jian, the spokesman for the Guangdong China Travel Service Co. Ltd. (Guangdong CTS), told China Daily yesterday.
In cooperation with the Guangzhou Statistic Bureau, the Tourism Administration of Guangzhou Municipality interviewed 1,940 residents from 600 families about their plans for the National Day holiday.
“I will spend one or two days in the suburban(郊外的) areas of Guangzhou during the vacation,” said Ou Haipeng, a worker from the Guangzhou Ocean Shipping Company.
“I don’t think I can completely relax and appreciate the landscape among the huge crowds of people,” he said. “Moreover, the cost of traveling to local destinations is much cheaper.”
Even though most people prefer to stay in Guangzhou, the Guangdong CTS still saw an increase in its business, compared with the last National Day holiday.
“The newly-opened Hong Kong Disneyland made the SAR the hottest destination,” Wang said.
The survey found that about 10 per cent of the interviewees want to travel to Hong Kong and Macao during the holiday, an increase of 3 per cent over last year.
The survey also found that the hike in oil price has reduced people’s interest in traveling in their own cars.
Only 13.1 per cent of the people involved in the survey said that they would travel in their own cars, a decrease of 1.4 per cent over last year.
14. According to the survey, the hottest destination attracting the residents in Guangzhou is ____.
A. the suburban areas of Guangzhou
B. Hong Kong and Macao
C. other cities in foreign countries
D. the Hong Kong Disneyland
15. Which of the following has decreased compared with last year? ____.
A. People who want to travel to Hong Kong and Macao
B. People who intend to travel during the National Day holiday
C. People who would like to travel in their own cars
D. People who intend to go to places
16. The underlined word “hike” in the passage probably means ____.
A. a long walk in the country
B. a rise in the price
C. taking off from the ground
D. a flight in the air
17. Which of the following is NOT the reason why the residents choose to travel to local destinations? ____.
A. Few of them prefer to travel in their own cars
B. Many of them have traveled far during the summer vacation
C. They don’t want to meet up with the huge crowds of people
D. They want to reduce the cost of traveling
(E)
Language learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners. Most children will“obey” spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word “obey” is hardly exact as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation(合作) usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gestures and by making questioning noises.
Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies made to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It’s agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particular expression like delight, pain, friendliness and so on. But since these can’t be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation（自我模仿） leads out to deliberate（有意的） imitation of sounds or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.
It is a problem we need to get our teeth into it. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world. Thus the use, at seven months, of “mama” as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at another time for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new words.
18. Children who start speaking late ____.
A. may have problems with their listening
B. probably do not hear enough language spoken around them
C. usually pay close attention to what they hear
D. often take a long time in learning to listen properly
19. The problem of deciding at what point a baby’s imitation can be considered as speech ____.
A. is important because words have different meanings for different people
B. is not especially important because the change takes place gradually
C. is one that should be ignored(忽略) because children’s use of
words is often meaningless
D. is one that can never be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age
20. The writer implies that ____.
A. even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitation
B. children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly
C. children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak
D. parents can never hope to teach their children new sounds
Ⅳ.短文改错
I have had near ten years of education in Chinese 1.____
schools, in which I have used to the teacher-centered 2.____
classroom. It is the traditional way of teaching in Chinese 3.____
which is characterized by the one-man show and the absolute 4.____
authority of teachers. Students are supposing to listen, to take 5.____
notes, and complete timely all the work given by the teacher. 6.____
A good student would do whoever is told by the teacher and 7.____
usually have a little different opinion. On the other8.____
hands, a student with more independent thinking and rebellious spirit 9.____
is much more likely to win the favor of his/her teacher. 10.____
Ⅴ.书面表达
某英文报“读者来信”专栏正在就高中学生家长是否应该为孩子购置电脑这一话题开展讨论。有赞同的，也有反对的。请你向该报编辑写一封信发表你的观点（可赞同也可反对），信的开头已写好，你只需接着写。 （任选一个）
注意：
1．下面的提示可能会帮助你构思：
2．你不必根据上面的提示逐条进行写作，可自由发挥。
3．词数：80左右
Dear editor,
I’m a student of Senior One.I think my parents should buy me a computer now.
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
Yours
Li Hua
Dear editor,
I’m a student of Senior One. I don’t think my parents should buy me a computer now.
____________________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
Yours
Li Hua
Key(10)
1. High school is ____ time of discovery and learning, and it is also ____ very enjoyable and valuable experience for every one of us.
A. a, a B. a, / C. /, a D. a, the
2. There used to be a small river near our school, ____?
A. didn’t it B. did there C. usedn’t it D. didn’t there
3. The possibility that he killed the old lady has been ____ because he was staying with some of his friends at that time.
A. turned out B. ruled out C. put out D. kept out
4. ——Why didn’t you ask the teacher the question?
——She had left the office ____ I had time to do it.
A. as B. till C. after D. before
5. ——Hi, Tracy, you look tired.
——I am tired. I ____ the sitting room all day.
A. painted B. had painted
C. have painted D. have been painting
6. ——People have reported seeing a wild man-like creature in the Himalayas called a Yeti.
——Did you see ____ when you were traveling there?
A. it B. one C. that D. them
7. With snow-covered mountains, lakes and vast grasslands, Shangri-la is a heavenly world ____ people live in harmony with nature.
A. that B. in that C. where D. which
8. ——Shirley won the first prize in the English speech contest.
——Woo! ____ she has made since the beginning of this term!
A. What great progress B. How great progress
C. What a great progress D. How great a progress
9. ____ is certain, people’s living conditions in China have been improved a lot since the 1980s.
A. It B. As C. What D. Which
10. ——Have you ever been to Australia?
——Never, but I have been looking forward ____ such a chance for further study there.
A. to give B. to be given C. to giving D. to being given
11. I don’t know the ____ income of the family, but I do know it is very small.
A. true B. enough C. proper D. exact
12. Yang Liwei was picked from the 14 candidates for the Chinese space adventure and became China’s first astronaut ____ his great efforts.
A. according to B. as well as
C. due to D. together with
13. Wang Hong, ____ I went to the concert yesterday evening, enjoyed herself very much.
A. who B. whom C. with whom D. by whom
14. ——I hear that Amy is trying to lose weight by taking weight-loss pills.
——In my opinion, looking good is important, but ____, staying healthy is far more important.
A. after all B. in all C. at all D. above all
15. ——I’m afraid I failed in the contest.
——____. At least you tried.
A. No way B. Never mind
C. No problem D. I don’t believe it
Ⅱ.完形填空
There comes a time for every child when fantasies end and reality begins. Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny __1__ to be Mum and Dad, and heroes fade away. I don’t know if most people remember this __2__,but I know when it happened to me.
On an ordinary summer’s day, my grandfather told me one of his crazy stories. I __3__ out to find the Indians that Grandpa said lived in the woods. But after some hours’ searching without success I __4__. Tired and __5__, I went to ask Grandpa.
“How come none of your __6__ ever came true?”
“Well, sometimes you have to make them come true,” he answered. “I once had a friend named Huck Finn who made his own __7__.”
He started to tell me about his friend Huck, who __8__ down the Mississippi River on a raft. I sat listening to him and believing every word he said. When he finished, I went off to have my own adventure.
Two hours later I had a small and __9__ raft, I took it to the pond along with __10__ from a tree to use as an oar. I couldn’t swim and had been told many times to stay away from __11__. But today I had the raft, so with a big __12__, I pushed it out and jumped on top.
I was line for a total of four seconds; then I started to __13__. Frightened, I tried to use the branch to paddle __14__, but only pushed myself farther out. Knowing that I would drown, I did __15__ any other nine-year-old would do in a similar __16__: I screamed.
From the edge of the pond came my sister and cousins who easily __17__ me. As my raft sank, so did my __18__ in my grandpa. Although I never __19__ loving him, something changed in our relationship that day.
__20__ now, I can see that the change wasn’t in my grandfather, but in me. I was growing up.
1. A. pick out B. turn out C. come out D. find out
2. A. event B. accident C. affair D. matter
3. A. sailed B. flew C. headed D. drove
4. A. gave in B. gave out C. gave away D. gave up
5. A. angry B. dreams C. discouraged D. frightened
6. A. stories B. dreams C. plans D. wishes
7. A. differences B. attempts C. inspections D. adventures
8. A. swam B. floated C. flowed D. wandered
9. A. badly made B. well equipped C. good looking D. fast moving
10. A. a stick B. a pole C. a branch D. a post
11. A. the river B. the lake C. the sea D. the pond
12. A. pull B. shove C. force D. strength
13. A. sink B. move C. float D. run
14. A. back away B. back in C. forward in D. forward out
15. A. how B. what C. however D. whatever
16. A. condition B. situation C. position D. state
17. A. rescued B. found C. caught D. helped
18. A. understanding B. idea C. belief D. love
19. A. continued B. forgot C. remembered D. stopped
20. A. Looking back B. Looking forward
C. Calling up D. Calling back
Ⅲ.阅读理解
(A)
Laptop computers are popular all over the world. People use them on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotels. These laptops connect people to their workplace. In the United States today, laptops also connect students to their classrooms.
Westlake College in Virginia will start a laptop computer program that allows students to do schoolwork anywhere they want. Within five years, each of the 1,500 students at the college will receive a laptop. The laptops are part of a ＄10 million computer program at Westlake, a 110-year-old college. The students with laptops will also have access to the Internet. In addition, they will be able to use e-mail to “speak” with their teachers, their classmates, and their families. However, the most important part of the laptop program is that students will be able to use computers without going to computer labs. They can work with it at home, in a fast-food restaurant or under the trees—anywhere at all!
Because of the many changes in computer technology, laptop use in higher education, such as colleges and universities, is workable. As laptops become more powerful, they become more similar to desktop computers. In addition, the portable computers can connect students to not only the Internet, but also libraries and other resources. State higher-education officials are studying how laptops can help students. State officials are also testing laptop programs at other universities, too.
At Westlake College, more than 60 percent of the staff use computers. The laptops will allow all teachers to use computers in their lessons. As one Westlake teacher said, “Here we are in the middle of Virginia and we’re giving students a window on the world. They can see everything and do everything.”
1. The main purpose of the laptop program is to give each student a laptop to ____.
A. use for their schoolwork B. access the Internet
C. work at home D. connect them to libraries
2. Why is the word “speak” in the second paragraph in quotation marks(引号)? ____.
A. They don’t really talk
B. They use the computer language
C. Laptops have speakers
D. None of the above reasons is correct
3. Which of the following is true about Westlake College? ____.
A. All teachers use computers
B. 1,500 students have laptops
C. It is an old college in America
D. Students there can do everything
4. A window on the world in the last paragraph means that students can ____.
A. attend lectures on information technology
B. travel around the world
C. get information from around the world
D. have free laptops
5. What can we infer from the passage? ____.
A. The program is successful
B. The program is not workable
C. The program is too expensive
D. We don’t know the result yet
(B)
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those used around him. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learning to do all the other things: they learn to do without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle, compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them by himself. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answer, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine(常规) work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, and how to know what they know or do not know.
6. According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is by ____.
A. listening to skilled people’s advice
B. asking older people many questions
C. making mistakes and having them corrected
D. doing what other people do
7. Which of the following does the writer think teachers should NOT do? ____.
A. Give children correct answers
B. Allow children to make mistakes
C. Point out children’s mistakes to them
D. Let children mark their own work
8. According to the writer, teachers in school should ____.
A. allow children to learn from each other
B. point out children’s mistakes whenever found
C. give children more book knowledge
D. correct children’s mistakes as soon as possible
9. The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are ____.
A. different from learning other skills
B. the same as learning skills
C. more important than other skills
D. not really important skills
(C)
The following is a true story. It happened in the northern end of Queensland, Australia, where all kinds of animals live in the forest.
Lisa, a 33-year-old woman, went to prepare lunch in the kitchen, leaving Barney, her three-year-old son, playing by himself in the back garden.
Suddenly, a sharp cry of Barney came into the mother’s ears, and Lisa rushed into the backyard in a hurry and found a big snake entwining(缠绕) the little child with its terrible body and trying to eat the boy as its delicious dish!It was a boa(蟒)! Lisa was terrified and quite angry. She made up her mind to save her son from the snake’s mouth.
It was fearless mother love that made Lisa forget what she faced. She took up an old hoe from the ground and beat the boa with all her might.
One…two…With the hoe, Lisa beat the snake repeatedly, but useless. The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Lisa’s heart was broken and she got nearly mad.
Suddenly Lisa put away the hoe and threw herself to the boa, opened her mouth and bit into the boa’s back as if trying to eat a rare steak(牛排). Lisa was really mad!
Blood was spurting(喷射) out of the boa’s body and covered most of Lisa’s body. The boa was so badly wounded that it let go of Barney and moved back into the forest hurriedly. It had never known how a man had such terrible sharp teeth! On halfway home, the boa died.
It was fearless mother love that saved the little boy.
10. When she rushed into the back garden, Lisa found ____.
A. a boa eating her son
B. her son was playing with a big snake
C. her son in danger of losing his life
D. her son was fighting with a boa
11. Lisa failed in fighting against the boa at first just because ____.
A. she was bit by the boa
B. the boa was too strong
C. the hoe was not sharp enough
D. she was afraid that she would hurt her son
12. Lisa bit the snake because ____.
A. she was mad
B. she thought her teeth were much sharper than the boa
C. her son was entwined by the boa
D. she hadn’t got any other way to fight with the snake
13. The best title for this passage is ____.
A. Mother and Boa B. Fearless Mother Love
C. A Boa and a Boy D. Saving a Boy from a Boa
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GUANGZHOU: Most residents surveyed in Guangzhou, capital of South China’s Guangdong Province, plan to hit the road for the upcoming National Day holiday but they won’t be going far.
The survey shows 71.1 per cent of the interviewees(受访者) intend to travel during the seven-day holiday, an increase of 1.2 per cent over the last year.
But 54.6 per cent of them prefer going to places around Guangzhou rather than traveling to other cities or going abroad, an increase of 1.8 per cent over last year.
“Lots of people have traveled outside during the summer vacation, and they want to escape the tourism peak also,” Wang Jian, the spokesman for the Guangdong China Travel Service Co. Ltd. (Guangdong CTS), told China Daily yesterday.
In cooperation with the Guangzhou Statistic Bureau, the Tourism Administration of Guangzhou Municipality interviewed 1,940 residents from 600 families about their plans for the National Day holiday.
“I will spend one or two days in the suburban(郊外的) areas of Guangzhou during the vacation,” said Ou Haipeng, a worker from the Guangzhou Ocean Shipping Company.
“I don’t think I can completely relax and appreciate the landscape among the huge crowds of people,” he said. “Moreover, the cost of traveling to local destinations is much cheaper.”
Even though most people prefer to stay in Guangzhou, the Guangdong CTS still saw an increase in its business, compared with the last National Day holiday.
“The newly-opened Hong Kong Disneyland made the SAR the hottest destination,” Wang said.
The survey found that about 10 per cent of the interviewees want to travel to Hong Kong and Macao during the holiday, an increase of 3 per cent over last year.
The survey also found that the hike in oil price has reduced people’s interest in traveling in their own cars.
Only 13.1 per cent of the people involved in the survey said that they would travel in their own cars, a decrease of 1.4 per cent over last year.
14. According to the survey, the hottest destination attracting the residents in Guangzhou is ____.
A. the suburban areas of Guangzhou
B. Hong Kong and Macao
C. other cities in foreign countries
D. the Hong Kong Disneyland
15. Which of the following has decreased compared with last year? ____.
A. People who want to travel to Hong Kong and Macao
B. People who intend to travel during the National Day holiday
C. People who would like to travel in their own cars
D. People who intend to go to places
16. The underlined word “hike” in the passage probably means ____.
A. a long walk in the country
B. a rise in the price
C. taking off from the ground
D. a flight in the air
17. Which of the following is NOT the reason why the residents choose to travel to local destinations? ____.
A. Few of them prefer to travel in their own cars
B. Many of them have traveled far during the summer vacation
C. They don’t want to meet up with the huge crowds of people
D. They want to reduce the cost of traveling
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Language learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners. Most children will“obey” spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word “obey” is hardly exact as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation(合作) usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gestures and by making questioning noises.
Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies made to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It’s agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particular expression like delight, pain, friendliness and so on. But since these can’t be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation（自我模仿） leads out to deliberate（有意的） imitation of sounds or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.
It is a problem we need to get our teeth into it. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world. Thus the use, at seven months, of “mama” as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at another time for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new words.
18. Children who start speaking late ____.
A. may have problems with their listening
B. probably do not hear enough language spoken around them
C. usually pay close attention to what they hear
D. often take a long time in learning to listen properly
19. The problem of deciding at what point a baby’s imitation can be considered as speech ____.
A. is important because words have different meanings for different people
B. is not especially important because the change takes place gradually
C. is one that should be ignored(忽略) because children’s use of
words is often meaningless
D. is one that can never be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age
20. The writer implies that ____.
A. even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitation
B. children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly
C. children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak
D. parents can never hope to teach their children new sounds
Ⅳ.短文改错
I have had near ten years of education in Chinese 1.____
schools, in which I have used to the teacher-centered 2.____
classroom. It is the traditional way of teaching in Chinese 3.____
which is characterized by the one-man show and the absolute 4.____
authority of teachers. Students are supposing to listen, to take 5.____
notes, and complete timely all the work given by the teacher. 6.____
A good student would do whoever is told by the teacher and 7.____
usually have a little different opinion. On the other8.____
hands, a student with more independent thinking and rebellious spirit 9.____
is much more likely to win the favor of his/her teacher. 10.____
Ⅴ.书面表达
某英文报“读者来信”专栏正在就高中学生家长是否应该为孩子购置电脑这一话题开展讨论。有赞同的，也有反对的。请你向该报编辑写一封信发表你的观点（可赞同也可反对），信的开头已写好，你只需接着写。 （任选一个）
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Dear editor,
I’m a student of Senior One.I think my parents should buy me a computer now.
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Yours
Li Hua
Dear editor,
I’m a student of Senior One. I don’t think my parents should buy me a computer now.
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Yours
Li Hua
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