When an ant dies, other ants take it out of the nest, often within an hour after its death. This behavior interests scientists and they wonder how ants know for sure—and so soon—that another ant is dead.

One scientist recently came up with a way to explain this ant behavior. Dong-Hwan Choe is a biologist, a scientist who studies animals and plants. He found that ants have a chemical on the outside of their bodies that signals to other ants, “I'm dead—take me away” when it is dead.

But there's a question to answer: As we know, if an ant is dead, it stops moving. But when an ant is sleeping or knocked unconscious, it is also not moving. However, other ants don't move the living ant out of the nest. How do they know this ant is not dead? Choe found that ants have another chemical on their bodies, which tells nearby ants something like, “Wait—I'm not dead yet” when it is not dead. Choe suspects that when an ant dies, the chemical that says, “Wait I'm not dead yet” quickly goes away. When other ants detect the “dead” chemical without the “not dead yet” chemical, they move away the body.

To test his theory, Choe and his team put different chemicals on ants. When the scientists used the “I'm dead” chemical, other ants quickly moved the treated ant away. When the scientists used the “Wait—I'm not dead yet” chemical, other ants left the treated ant alone. Choe believes this behavior shows that the “not dead yet” chemical overrides the “dead” chemical when picked up by other ants. And that when an ant dies, the “not dead yet” chemical fades away. Other nearby ants then detect the remaining “dead” chemical and remove the body from the nest.

Understanding this behavior can help scientists figure out how to stop ants from invading new places and causing problems.

1.What is the function of the first paragraph?

A. Leading the following paragraphs.

B. Showing the main idea of the passage.

C. Introducing the background of the passage.

D. Giving a summary of the passage.

2.Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “overrides” in the fourth paragraph?

A. is weaker than B. is stronger than

C. is better than D. is worse than

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Living ants can also be taken away when they are not moving.

B. When an ant dies, it can tell others using a certain chemical.

C. A living ant can pretend to be dead using a special chemical.

D. Ants often use chemicals to communicate with each other.

4.Which of the following descriptions about Dong-Hwan Choe is right?

A. Choe did this study in order to stop ants from invading new places.

B. Choe is a biologist who is only interested in animals, especially in ants.

C. Choe first came up with an idea to explain this ant behavior，and then did some tests to prove his theory.

D. Choe did the research on this ant behavior on his own

5.What is mainly discussed in the passage?

A. How to decide whether an ant is dead or not.

B. Why ants have special chemicals on their bodies.

C. reasons for the removable behavior of ants.

D. How ants manage to keep their nests clean.

“Long time no see” is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend’s email, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect example of Chinglish.

Obviously, it is a word-by-word literal translation of the Chinese greetings with a ruled English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American greeting. I was too thrilled to believe her. Her words could not convince me at all. So I did a research on google.com. To my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages containing “Long time no see.” This sentence has been widely used in emails, letters, newspapers, movies, books, or any other possible places. Though it is sort of informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily. Ironically, if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word, the software will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected.

Nobody knows the origin of this Chinglish sentence. Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan’s movies. In the 1930s, Hollywood moviemakers successfully created a world wide famous Chinese detective named “Charlie Chan” on wide screens. Detective Chan likes to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom by quoting Confucius. “Long time no see” was his trademark. Soon after Charlie Chan, “Long time no see” became a popular phrase in the real world with thanks to the popularity of these movies.

Some scholars refer to America as a huge pot of stew. All kinds of culture are mixed in the stew together, and they change the color and taste of each other. American Chinese, though a minority ethnic(少數(shù)民族的成員) group in the United States, is also contributing some changes to the stew! Language is usually the first thing to be influenced in the mixed stew.

You can have some other examples besides adoptions from Chinese, such as pizza from Italian, sushi from Japanese, and déjà vu from French etc. There is a long list! Americans do not just simply borrow something from others. They will modify it and make it their own, so you would not be surprised to find a tofu and peanut butter hamburger in a restaurant, or to buy a bottle of iced Chinese green tea with honey in a grocery store. Since Americans appreciate Chinese culture more and more nowadays, I believe more Chinese words will become American English in the future. In this way the American stew keeps adding richness and flavor.

1.The writer himself felt surprised at ______.

A. the Chinglish expression “Long time no see”

B. “Long time no see” used as standard American English

C. so many literal translation of the expressions used in America

D. finding out Americans use the expression every day

2.The word “stew” in the 4th paragraph probably means ______.

A. mixture literature B. Confucius’ words

C. a kind of cooked dish D. American changing cultures

3.According to the passage, it can be inferred that ______.

A. detectives translate the phrase “Long time no see”

B. Hollywood made “Long time no see” popular

C. the huge pot of stew greatly affects all kinds of languages

D. cultures can be changed in the huge pot of stew

4.The main idea of the passage is that ______.

A. some Chinese expressions are introduced into English

B. you’ll not be surprised at a tofu in a restaurant in America

C. some American expressions can be used in China

D. American English keep being enriched from different cultures

5.According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true?

A. Informal language sometimes doesn’t go with grammar and structure.

B. Languages are always ruled by grammar and structure.

C. Long time no see” has been used in at least four media mentioned in the passage.

D. There are four languages mentioned to be adopted in the American stew.

根據(jù)所學(xué)課文內(nèi)容和句子中首字母或漢語提示，寫出單詞的正確形式。

1.I am only able to look at nature through dirty c____________ hanging before very

d____________ windows.

2.It was b____________ more on German than the English we speak at p____________.

3.A____________ many Americans move a lot, they still r____________ and

understand each other’s dialects.

4.Two years ago, Wang Wei bought an expensive mountain bike and then she p____________ me to buy one. Now she is planning our s____________ for the trip. When I told her our j____________ would begin at an a____________ of more than 5, 000 metres, she seemed to be excited about it.

5.All hope was not lost. Soon after the q____________, the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to help the rescue workers. The army organized teams to d____________ out those who were trapped or to b____________ the dead. To the north of the city, most of the 10,000 m____________ were rescued from local m____________ there. Workers built s____________ for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.

根據(jù)漢語提示，選用所學(xué)短語補(bǔ)全下面的句子，每空限填一詞。

1.Do you _______ _______ _______ _______ (相處好) your new partners?

2.To our surprise, she _____ _____ ______ _____(喜歡上) sculpture(雕塑).

3.______ ______ (超過)a quarter of the students never finished their courses.

4.He walked slowly _____ _____(因?yàn)?his bad leg.

5.Finally, she _____ _____(屈服)to me.

6.The castle is now_____ ____(廢墟)but it is still worth visiting.

7.Ever since middle school, we have _______ _____(夢(mèng)想)visiting Beijing.

第一節(jié) 閱讀表達(dá)（共5小題，每題3分，滿分15分）

Jiuzhaigou is a very beautiful place. It is in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Region in Sichuan Province. Jiuzhaigou is a valley. It is more than 40 kilometers long. The green and golden trees, the lofty and multi-shaped mountains and the clear and colorful waters form the unique beauty of Jiuzhaogou. The water of Jiuzhaigou is the soul of the beauty. There are more than 100 lakes of different shapes in the valley. These lakes have wonderful colors. They are called “haizi”, which means son of the sea. It is these beautiful lakes that make Jiuzhaigou a fantastic place. Between the forests and the lakes, there are nine Tibetan villages. The name Jiuzhaigou means Nine Village Valley.

Jiuzhaigou was discovered because of a panda rescue program. The pandas were once endangered because the bamboo there was blooming. When people came to rescue the pandas, they were surprised by the beauty of Jiuzhaigou. After that, Jiuzhaigou became a protected scenic area.

In China, there is a saying which goes like this: No mountain is worth seeing after you have seen Mount Huang and no other body of water will attract you after you have visited Jiuzhaigou. The beauty of Jiuzhaigou cannot be described with mere words. The best way to enjoy this fairyland is to go there. See you in Jiuzhaigou.

1.What is the best title for the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)

_________________________________________________________________

2.Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following?

These beautiful lakes make Jiuzhaigou a fantastic place.

__________________________________________________________________

3.Translate the underlined sentence in the passage into Chinese.

__________________________________________________________________

4.How was the Jiuzhaigou Valley discovered? (Please answer within 15 words.)

__________________________________________________________________

5.What does the name Jiuzhaigou mean? (Please answer within 15 words.)

假設(shè)你是Li Hua，初中階段的學(xué)習(xí)已經(jīng)結(jié)束，回想自己在師長(zhǎng)的關(guān)愛和幫助下的成長(zhǎng)過程，心中充滿感激之情。請(qǐng)用英語給初中的老師寫一封100詞左右的信表示感謝。

Dear Miss/Mr….，

Yours,

Li Hua

— What do you think of Mary?

— There are some things that are not easy to _____, and her carelessness is one.

A. put aside B. put forward C. put away D. put up with

Can you tell me something about the new hospital that the mayor is eager to have ____ next month?

A. constructed B. constructing C. to construct D. been constructed

After a heated discussion, the chairman came to the conclusion _______ a better way to settle the argument would be found soon.

A. what B. whether C. that D. /

____, I have never seen a person as warm-hearted and patient as Jack.

A. As long as I have traveled

B. Now that I have traveled so much

C. Much as I have traveled

D. As I have traveled so much