Professor Wang _______to give us a talk next week.

――Really ? That is good news .

A. will invite              B. is going to invite

C. will be invited           D. has invited

Did they _________the final game ?

Sorry , I have no idea .

A. beat   B. defeat   C.  win   D.  book

 Do you like NBA ?

Yes, I do. I saw NBA ______several  times last seasons.

A. to play   B.  played  C.  play     D. plays

----Why  do  you   look  so tired ?

   ----_______I  am writing a report for the newspaper.

A. When    B.  Because   C. Until   D.Although

Although I am not in my childhood. I still prefer reading fairy tales. They often make me think of some special experiences and feelings. This summer I have received this kind of tales ,The Little Prince .It was

Published in 1940 .It is the world-famous fairy tale by the Frenc h author Antoine.

I ,the narrator (講述者) of the story ,is a pilot . His plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara . The little prince lives on a small planet ,and he grows a flower called ROSE there . One day they have a quarrel (爭(zhēng)吵) ，so the little prince runs away . On his all alone journey, he meets different kinds of people . From these people he gets a conclusion (結(jié)論) that grow-ups are strange . And with the help of the man he meets , he descends in the Sahara .

  The book moved me a lot . It is not only a fairy tale for children and teenagers, but also for grow-ups .

  根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇正確答案。

1.The author loves fairy tales , because _________.

A. they are very interesting

B. they are not about real life

C. they make him or her think of special feelings

D. They often have a happy ending

2. The writer of The Little Pri nce is from __________.

A. France    B. China   C.  Canada   D.  America

3.The little prince runs away , because _______.

A. he does  not love his hometown

B. he is a naughty  boy and loves adventures

C. he has made mistakes

D. he has  quarreled  with ROSE

4.The underlined word descend means ______in this passage .

A. end   B. die   C. land   D. fly

5.The best title for this article is __________.

A. A fair tale 

B. My favourite fairy tale ---The Little Prince

C. How to choose the story

D. How I spent my childhood

There are many unusual hotels around the world .In Greenland ,there is a hotel made out of ice ,open between December and April every year .In Turkey ,there is a cave hotel with a television ,furniture ,and a bathroom in each room .And in Bolivia ,there is the Salt Palace Hotel .

Thousands of years ago ,the area has the Salt Palace Hotel was a large lake . But over time ,all the water disappeared . Today ,the area has only two small lakes and two salt deserts .

The larger of the two deserts the Uyuni salt desert ,is 12000 square kilometers .During the day ,the desert is bright white because of the salt .There are no roads across the Uyuni desert ,so local people must show guests the way to the hotel .

In the early 1900s ,a man named Juan Quesada built the hotel .He cut big blocks of salt from the desert and used the blocks to build it. Everything in the hotel is made out of salt ;the walls , the roof , the chairs , the tables ,the beds ,and the hotels bar .

The Sun heats the walls and the roof during the day . At night is very cold , but the rooms stay warm . The hotel has twelve rooms . A single room costs 40 dollars a night .and a double room costs 60 dollars .

A sign on the hotels wall tells guests ,Please do not lick ??the walls.

1.What is unique about the Salt palace hotel ?

A. Its long history

B. The  price  of the rooms.

C. The guests that stay there

D. What it is made of

2.Which sentences about the area around the Salt palace hotel  is  NOT true?

A. It was a lake many years ago .

B. It is white during the day .

C. There are several roads to the hotel.

D. It is more than 10,000 square kilome ters.

3.Who is Juan Quesada?

A. A hotel guest           B. A guide

C. The hotels owner        D. An expert .

4.who keeps the rooms warm at night ?

A. Heat from the walls.       B. The desert air ,

C. The sun.                 D. The furniture .

 Hemingway was one of the famous writers. He was born in America in 1889. His father was a doctor and loved sports very much, and his mother taught music .Among the six children in the family, Hemingway was the second oldest.

  Hemingway had written many books in his life. The old man and the sea is one of the most famous and also my favourite . It came out in 1952 .The main c haracter in the book is a fisherman. He is an old man and fishes alone. People think he is a man with bad luck , becau se he does not get a fish in eighty-four days .Every evening ,he comes home with his empty boat .But the old man believes himself . Then on the eighty-fifth day the man takes a big fish. Although he meets a lot of trouble, the old man never gives up.

選擇正確答案，

1.Hemingway’s father was a fan of __________.

A.books     B. sports   C.  music    D. art

2.The old man and the sea was published in __________.

A. 1852     B.1899     C.  1952     D. 1989

3.The old man does not get a fish until the _______day.

A. fifteenth             B. eightieth

C. eighty-fourth         D. eighty—fifth

4.What does the old man do when he can not get a fish?

A. He has to look for food somewhere.

B. He does not give up fishing.

C. He does not fish any more.

D. He has nothing to do .

5.What can we learn from the old man ?

A. When we in trouble , we should not give up.

B. When we want to fish , we can get a big fish .

C. We can do everything well because we are  young .

D. We can live a better life if we like fishing .

短文填空（10分）

Believe , family ,one day ,all , died , all , its , island  ,almost , and 

         Recently I have read another great book by Mark Twain. __1.___name is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .Huck and Tom Sawyer are best friends . They have had so many adventures . __2.____this book tells about Huck and another friends of his ,Jim .Huck lives with a rich __3._   after he finds a box of gold with Tom Sawyer in a cave . ___4.___Hucks real dad comes and takes him away from the family . Huck’s life in his dad’s small cabin (小木屋) is __5.__so he cuts a hole in the cabin . Then he manages to make people _6.__that someone has killed him .Huck runs away to a small _7.____.His friend Jim is on that island .He is very sad because he thinks that Huck has __8._____. Then they go on adventures together , They _9.______die in the wheels of a huge paddle boat and they live on a raft with two frauds 騙子.

Well, that is 10.____I  want to tell you here . It is really a good book . It has lots of adventures and Tom Sawyer will show up .

單詞拼寫(xiě)（20分）

1.I will do some __________(評(píng)論) about our favourite hands .

2.The sun ___________(升起) in the east every day .

3.Mark Twain is not known as a great ___________(思想家)like Confucius.

4.I would like a __________(每月的)article called “Great  Books “ ,

5.Tom is _________（聰明的）than  any other boy in his class .

6. We are ___________(高興的)to  see him alive .

7.Parents and teachers should be ____________（尊重）。

8.We were ___________(打敗)last time .

9.They have got no __________(機(jī)會(huì))to win this match .

10.I think it will be a ___________(艱苦的)match.

用所給動(dòng)詞的適當(dāng)形式填空（10分）

1.Linda ______(go) to watch the basketball match next Sunday .

2.The Kings __________(watch)TV last night .

3.My father ____________(be) to Beijing three times this year .

4.His plays ____________(know) by people all over the world .

5.Would you like __________(read ) the book ?

6. I’m very _________(please ) with my father’s decision .

7.Bikes ____________(make) in that factory .

8.He is very old ; he often gets ________ (lose) near his house .

9.First of all ， he’ll ____________(invite )to Jinan.

10.Cotton ___________(grow) in the northwest of China .