閱讀下面短文,掌握其大意, 從各題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中, 選出一個最佳答案。

Blake threw the toy across the room. It broke into pieces. “Blake!” his mom shouted. ”______ did you do that?” She took him to the corner of the room and made him face the wall. “You have to stay here for fifteen minutes and think about what you did. The broken pieces can ______ someone.”

When fifteen minutes had passed, he turned around and said sorry to his mom, and then he was ______ to go out to play. His mom walked over to the corner where Blake had faced and ______ her hands on the wall. “A frog,” she said in surprise. She smiled and ______ to do something surprising.

While he was gone, his mum got busy with her ______. The hours passed quickly and soon Blake was home again. It was supper time. His mom put the plates of food on the table. Blake just ______ his. “I don’t like salad. I hate it.” He wasn’t ______.

“Just try it. I didn’t give you much.”

“No, I don’t want salad.”

Mom was ______. “You go and stand in the corner for five minutes and think about how lucky you are to have ______.”

When Blake got to the corner, he started to smile. “Frogs!” He looked at the wall. His mom had ______ the green frogs on the wall, each sitting on a lily pad, their long tongues sticking out, trying to ______ flies. Blake laughed. When it was time for his coming back, he still stayed at the corner.

“Why hasn’t Blake come back to eat his supper?” Dad wondered.

“He must be ______ the frogs.” Mum laughed. “Go and look.”

They both got up and went into the other room. “He ______ to spend so much time these days facing the wall. I thought it might make it a little less ______ for him.”

“That’s a gift of love,” Dad said, smiling.

1.A. When B. How C. Why D. Where

2.A. kill B. hurt C. shoot D. pollute

3.A. allows B. invited C. refused D. reminded

4.A. cleaned B. waved C. rubbed D. reached

5.A. forget B. decided C. pretended D. meant

6.A. housework B. project C. exhibition D. business

7.A. waited for B. gave away C. ate up D. stared at

8.A. hungry B. serious C. polite D. pleased

9.A. silent B. nervous C. angry D. embarrassed

10.A. food B. fun C. clothes D. money

11.A. bought B. placed C. painted D. raised

12.A. touch B. protest C. taste D. catch

13.A. drawing B. enjoying C. counting D. feeding

14.A. prefers B. offers C. seems D. disagrees

15.A. boring B. interesting C. disappointing D. inspiring

A篇

1.In your judgement, the island belongs to .

A. UK B. USA C. Canada D. Australia

2.The above material has something to do with

A. traveling B. running C. training D. dining

3.If you want to take part in the event, you’ll have to .

A. rent a boat to the island B. book n room on the island

C. run to the island D. be at least 21 years

4.It's clear that there are organizations in partnership with the event.

A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

5.“Blue Cross Blue”in the material probably means .

A. from one end to the other B. the sky and the sea are blue

C. the clothes on people are blue D. the whole island is blue

There was once a professor of medicine, who was very strict with the students. Whenever he took the chair on the exam committee (委員會), the students would be in fear, for he was seldom pleased with the answers they gave. A student would be lucky enough if he or she could receive a good mark from him. At the end of the term, the students of medicine would take their exam again. Now a student entered the room and got seated before the committee. This student was a little nervous as he knew it would not be so easy to get through the exam at all.

The professor began to ask. The student was required to describe a certain illness, his description of which turned out to be OK.

Then the professor asked about the cure (治療) for illness, and the student also answered just as right.

“Good,” said the professor, “and how much will you give the patient?”

“A full spoon,” answered the student.

“Now you may go out and wait for what you can get,” said the professor. At the same time the committee discussed carefully the answers the student had given. Suddenly the student noticed that there was something wrong with his last answer. “A full spoon is too much,” he thought to himself. Anxiously, he opened the door of the room and cried, “Mr. Professor, I’ve made a mistake! A spoon is too much for the patient, He can take only five drops.”

“I’m sorry, sir,” said the professor coldly, “but it’s too late. Your patient has died.”

1.The passage is mainly about _________.

A. the student’s being poor at answering the questions

B. the professor’s rude behavior to the students

C. the professor’s strictness with the students

D. the committee’s hard questions for the students

2.The student who finished his answers was asked to go out _____.

A. to cure a patient B. to wait for his mark

C. to think over his answers D. to ask someone else to go in

3.We learn from the passage that ______.

A. very few students receive a good mark from the professor

B. one student’s careless mistake led to one patient’s death

C. the students were not clever enough for the questions

D. the exam at the end of the term was most difficult

4.According to the passage, ‘taking the chair’ probably refers to ______.

A. sitting down on the chair B. take a chair in front

C. asking the hardest questions D. controlling the exam

5.We can infer that the student who corrected his answer would ______.

A. get a good mark B. not get a good mark

C. be lucky enough to cure a patient D. have no chance to go on with the study

Policemen do cry. Movies and television show that policemen are tough and hard. But policemen do cry.

Ken Knapcik had been a policeman in Chicago for 20 years when one of his fellow policeman was shot during a drug arrest, and died. Shortly after, he returned home after work to find a note from his 15-year-old daughter on the dining table.

Dad

This poem came directly from heart. I love you so much. It scares me that you go out every day and risk everything to provide us with all that we have. I am also very proud of you. I wrote this to express how much I love you and how lost I’d be without you.

Laura

P.S. Hey, be careful out there.

Laura’s poem was called “The Best Policeman.” It was dedicated (獻(xiàn)給) “To all the policeman in the world who have daughters who love them with all their hearts, especially to my father had been shot. Part of the poem reads: “ Daddy, my Daddy, can you hear me? Oh, God, I need my Daddy. Please don’t let him die!”

Knapcik stood alone as he read the poem. “It took me several minutes.” he said. “ I’d got through part of it and have to stop before I could go on. I was weeping（哭泣）. She had never told me she was scared.” He took the poem to work the next day and showed it to his fellow officers. “I ‘ve never seen so many grown men cry. Some couldn’t even finishing reading it.”

Knapcik keeps Laura’s poem in the pocket of his police jacket. He takes it with him every time he leaves the house to go to work. “I don’t want to be out there without it,” he said. “I’ll probably carry it with me forever.”

1.According to the writer, the policemen in the movies and television __________.

A. seldom cry

B. pretended to cry

C. do cry when things are rough and hard

D. do cry but no tears in their eyes

2.What made Ken Knapcik’s daughter scared?

A. Her father’s coming home late

B. The news about a policeman being shot

C. Her father being a policeman for 20 years

D. The policeman’s hard life and work

3.Ken Knapcik brought the poem to work the next day because______.

A. he likes the poems so much

B. it would protect him from being harmed at work

C. he wanted the other policemen to share the love

D. the poem was written by his 15-year-old daughter

4.Ken Knapcik takes the poem with him to work in order that___________.

A. he won’t lose it at any time or any place

B. it can bring him good luck at work

C. he can show it to anyone he meets

D. it can remind him of the daughter’s love and care

5.The best title for the passage can be______.

A. The Best Policeman

B. Laura and her father

C. Poem for a Policeman

D. Policemen do Cry

仔細(xì)閱讀下面五個句子，然后用下面方框中所給的單詞或短語填空，使每個句子在結(jié)構(gòu)，句意和邏輯上正確。（提示：選項中有一個是多余的）

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1.The teacher can see in our eyes that we are____ for knowledge. She tells us that knowledge will give us wings to fly.

2.Jessica Wong sells her bags in a small shop，but she has also____an outline business to sell them.

3.Our teachers and parents will be____of us because we have grown up and can be responsible for ourselves.

4.Although you may not like to do chores，you should____your parents around the house.

5.We will____the junior high graduation ceremony tomorrow. It is a very special time for us.

六、閱讀理解填詞

It was already 7:30 and I was late again for the dinner out with my wife，Eleanor. We had agreed to meet at the r1.at seven o’clock. I felt a little a2., but to my relief(寬慰), I had a good excuse: A business meeting had run over and I had w3.no time getting to the dinner.

When I arrived, Eleanor was very angry. “I am sorry, I didn’t m4. to be late, but it was not available,” I said. Then I told her about the business meeting. However, my explanation seemed to make things even w5., which started to drive me mad as well.

Several weeks later, when I d6.these with my friend Ken Hardy. He smiled, “you made a classic mistake. You’re stuck in your own way of thinking. You didn’t want to be late. But that’s not the p7.. What is important is your communication is how your lateness affected Eleanor.” He said that I paid special attention to the intention(目的) while Eleanor to the r8.. Thus, both of us felt misunderstood and c9..

Thinking more about Ken’s words, I gradually got the real c10.of such disagreement. It’s what I did really matters!

假如你是李明，你的美國朋友Jack 聽說中國的中小學(xué)正在減輕學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)負(fù)擔(dān)，來信詢問有關(guān)情況。請你根據(jù)下列內(nèi)容，用英語寫一封回信，談一談減負(fù)給你的學(xué)習(xí)和生活帶來的變化。

內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)如下：

過去課后常常做很多作業(yè)，甚至周末會上課，睡得很晚；

現(xiàn)在有很多自由時間讀課外書，參觀博物館等；

周末不上課，可做自己想做的事情；

晚上有時間看新聞，不必再熬夜；

補(bǔ)充一兩點(diǎn)個人情況。

注意：

1.書信的開頭和結(jié)尾已給出，不計入總詞數(shù)； 2.詞數(shù)：60-80； 3.內(nèi)容要連貫得體。

參考詞匯： used to v.過去常常 free adj.自由的 museum n. 博物館

Dear Jack,

How nice to hear from you again!_

Lovely yours,

Li Ming

---Do you know anything about Chopin?

---Just a little. Chopin began to write _____ music at _______age of six.

A. the , / B. the, an C. / , the

---Where did you go?

--- The science museum. I ______ that the TV _____ after the car.

A. learn; is invented B. learned; was invented C. learn; was invented

---What did you say just now?

---I asked you ________ after Candy became famous.

A. how life was different B. how life different was C. how was life different