Look at the notice from the Students’ Union. It’s a description of students’ activities for the coming winter vacation.

1.The notice is about .

A. free tickets B. students’ activities

C. the West Hill D. poor children

2.Betty likes music and wants to go to the concert, so she must arrive at the school hall before on January 30th, 2014.

A. 2:00 pm B. 7:00 am C. 6:00 am D. 5:00 pm

3.If you are a volunteer, you will go to a mountain village .

A. on January 30th B. on February 6th

C. on February 13th D. on January 28th

4.If you want to take part in a party for poor students, you should go to on January 28th.

A. the school hall B. the West Hill

C. a mountain village D. the reading room

5.How much will Tom, a member of the Hiking Club, pay if he wants to go hiking around the West Hill?

A. 2 yuan. B. 50 yuan. C. 40 yuan. D. Nothing.

Last week Lu visited England. He stayed with my grandmother. He found it was strange.

‘I don’t know why, but I frightened your grandmother a lot. When I arrived, I gave her a purse from Dongtai. She looked in it and asked me to take it back. Then I saw a red spider (蜘蛛) on the table, and I killed it for her. She seemed very unhappy. Do English people like spiders?

‘Later we went shopping. Someone was painting a shop front, so there was a ladder. Grandmother stopped me from walking under it and said I must walk around it. I liked the shops and bought some lovely rose soap for my mother, a smart umbrella for my father and some new shoes for myself. When we got back, I put the shoes on the table and opened the umbrella to check if it was all right. Your grandmother came in and screamed!

‘Then I broke a small mirror in the bathroom. Your grandmother’s face went white. I felt very sorry. When I left, I gave your grandmother some flowers. She counted and there were 13. She didn’t like them.’

I explained to Lu, ‘My grandmother follows the old customs. You must not give someone an empty purse, or they will have no money. You must not kill a “money spider”, or the same will happen. Also it is very unlucky to walk under a ladder or put new shoes on the table. An open umbrella in a house means someone will die. Breaking a mirror brings seven years’ bad luck, and 13 is also a very unlucky number. You were really making my grandmother very afraid.’

1.Why did Lu frighten the writer’s grandmother?

A. Because he could not speak English.

B. Because he did many unlucky things.

C. Because he understood British customs.

D. Because he went shopping in England.

2.What do many British people think of spiders?

A. They are afraid of them.

B. They keep spiders as pets.

C. They hope to see every kind of spiders in their houses.

D. They think some kinds of spiders are lucky.

3.What did the writer’s grandmother feel when she saw the umbrella?

A. Excited. B. Satisfied. C. Afraid. D. Happy.

4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Thirteen is an unlucky number in England.

B. It is very unlucky to walk under a ladder or put new shoes on the table in England.

C. For most British people, breaking a mirror means bad luck.

D. People never give purses as presents in England.

5.How many wrong things did Lu do altogether?

A. 5. B. 6. C. 8. D. 10.

Do you believe that you aren’t smarter than 3-year-old Alexis Martin, one of the youngest members of the high IQ club Mensa?

Preschooler (學齡前的) Alexis’ IQ is 159, which is only one point lower than Stephen Hawking’s. Doctors say the average IQ of a person is about 100.

She learned to read at the age of 2. She reads at a fifth grade level and has taught herself Spanish on her parents’ iPad!

Now, she is a member of the Mensa Club, which only accepts people with an IQ within the top two per cent of people in the world!

Alexis’ father, Ian Martin, said he first realized Alexis was special when she was 12 months old. She could recite (背誦) bedtime stories. “We’d be driving around in the car and she would recite her bedtime stories from the night before. She didn’t just recite them, and she recited them exactly.”

Alexis’ father would try to trick her and say that her story went a different way, but she always corrected him.

Most 12-month-old children take their first steps on their own and most 18-month-olds can only name a small number of objects and body parts, and follow simple two-step questions.

Even though Alexis is a genius (天才), her parents are faced with lots of challenges like how to teach her to make friends of her own age.

“Will she go into kindergarten early? We are kind of hesitant (遲疑的) because we do want her to get to that social world,” Ian said.

1.Alexis Martin is a girl who .

A. has many hobbies B. has a high IQ

C. is good at telling stories D. likes reading

2.According to the report, Stephen Hawking’s IQ is as high as .

A. 158 B. 159 C. 160 D. 101

3.Alexis Martin could recite bedtime stories at .

A. the age of 2 B. the age of 1

C. one and a half years old D. the age of 3

4.What would Alexis do when her father said her bedtime stories went a different way?

A. She would refuse to listen.

B. She would try to recite it.

C. She would correct him.

D. She would laugh at it.

5.Which of the following statements about Alexis is NOT true?

A. She is accepted by the Mensa Club.

B. She has made a lot of friends.

C. She learned to read at the age of 2.

D. She learned a foreign language by herself.

任務型閱讀 閱讀下面的短文，根據(jù)短文內容完成下面表格。

Celebrating New Year’s Day is one of the oldest and most exciting traditions around the world. Since this festival marks the beginning of the year, New Year’s Day is thought of as a perfect time for a “clean start”. People in the world decide to act better in the year just beginning than the year just ended.

No day has ever been celebrated in so many different ways. All over the world, countries have their own special beliefs about what the New Year means to them.

In Scotland, the New Year is called Hogmanay. In the villages of Scotland, barrels of tar (瀝青) are set on fire. It represents that the old year is burned up and the new one is allowed to enter.

New Year’s Day is also the Festival of Saint Basil in Canada. Children leave their shoes by the fireside on New Year’s Day with the hope that Saint Basil, who is famous for his kindness, will come and fill their shoes with gifts.

The Jewish New Year is called Rosh Hashanah. It is an important time when Jews promise to do better in the future. Special services are held in the church, children are given new clothes and New Year bread is cooked to remind people of harvest time.

On New Year’s Day in Japan, everyone gets dressed in their new clothes and homes are decorated (裝飾) with bamboos—symbols of long life.

In European countries such as Germany, France and Belgium, families start the New Year by first attending church services. Afterwards, they visit friends and relatives. In France, boys and girls receive gifts of money on New Year’s Day.

New Year celebrations around the 1.

根據(jù)句意和漢語提示寫出單詞，完成句子。

1.There is too much sugar in the (廚房), I never use it.

2.They want to be ___________(模特) when they grow up.

3.We always have a party to ______________ (慶祝) the Chinese New Year.

4.Leather feels soft and ______________(光滑的).

5.His rich experience is a great ______________ (優(yōu)勢) over the others in his office.

根據(jù)句意，用所給單詞的適當形式填空。

1.These stickers are expensive. Do you have ______________ (cheap) ones?

2.Before we have the meal, let’s have some _______________ (tomato) soup first.

3.Look out! The car is ______________ (complete) out of control.

4.The great swimmer Sun Yang is the ______________ (proud) of not only China, but also Asia.

5.The clothes they wear are like these_______ (hero).

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If you lose 12 times in a row (連續(xù)地), will you just give up? Dale Carnegie, a pioneer in public speaking and self-development, kept trying. And he became famous by showing people how to be successful.

Carnegie was born into a poor family in the United States. The boy didn’t see a train until he was 12 years old. In his teens, he had to get up at 3 am every day to milk the cows for his family.

When Carnegie first entered college, he felt upset because of his ragged (破舊的) clothes and ordinary(平凡的) looks. His mother encouraged him, “Why not try to be better in other things instead of just dress and good looks?”

Carnegie tried to be more active in college. He joined the debate (辯論) team. But one after another, he lost 12 competitions. The young man was very disappointed with himself. He said later that he thought of killing himself after failing so many times. But soon Carnegie was seen practicing public speaking on the riverside. His hard work paid off at last. In 1906, Carnegie won a famous speech contest and became well-known. “Believe that you will succeed, and you will,” he said.

In order to share his success, Carnegie opened schools and wrote books. His best-sellers(暢銷書) include How to Win Friends and Influence People and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. More than 50 million copies of his books have been translated in 38 languages. They are still helping people on the road to success.

1.What did Carnegie have to do every morning in his teens?

_______________________________________________________

2.Why did Carnegie feel upset when he first entered college?

_______________________________________________________

3.What did Carnegie do to be more active in college?

_______________________________________________________

4.How did Carnegie share his success?

_______________________________________________________

5.What should we do if we fail so many times?（至少2點）

______________________________________________________

根據(jù)短文內容及首字母提示，填寫所缺單詞，使短文意思完整，每空一詞。（注意：請在答題卡上寫出包含首字母的完整單詞�。�

As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as w 1. the Nobel Prize. Or they can be small. You just want to become one of the top ten students in your class. Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream r 2. ?

Follow Your Heart by Australian writer Andrew Matthews tells us that making our dreams real is our l 3. biggest challenge (挑戰(zhàn)).

You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that it is i 4. for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts p 5.you from reaching your dream, the book says.

In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember the dream in your m 6. .Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself w 7. you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster b 8. a big dream is made up of many small o 9. . Please never give them up.

There will be difficulties on the road to your dreams. But the biggest comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will l 10.to better exam results, while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book..

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學校英語校報開辟專欄討論學生學習生活，Helen想要投稿參與討論。假如你是Helen, 請根據(jù)表格所給提示，并作合理發(fā)揮，寫一篇80詞左右的英語短文。

提示詞：垃圾食品 junk food

注意：

1. 表達中必須包含所給要點，可以適當發(fā)揮，不要簡單翻譯。

2. 表達中請勿提及真實校名及姓名。詞數(shù)90左右。

As teenagers, we face many chances, but also have problems. Sometimes we wonder when to study and when to play. Some of us______________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

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I think it’s important to have a healthy life style. We should

_____________________________________________________________________________

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John is ______ honest boy. He has______ useful book.

A. an; an B. a; a

C. a; an D.an; a