How fit are your teeth? Are you lazy about brushing them? Never fear: An inventor is on the case. An electric toothbrush senses （感覺） how long and how well you brush, and it lets you track（跟蹤） your performance on your phone.

The Kolibree toothbrush was exhibited at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. It senses how it is moved and can send the information to an Android phone or iPhone via a Bluetooth wireless （無線的） connection.

The toothbrush will be able to teach you to brush right (don’t forget the insides of the teeth!) and make sure you’re brushing long enough. “It’s kind of like having a dentist actually watch your brushing on a day-to-day basis,” says Thomas Serval, the French inventor.

The toothbrush will also be able to talk to other applications （設(shè)備）on your phone, so developers could, for example, create a game controlled by your toothbrush. You could score points for beating monsters among your teeth. “We try to make it smart and fun,” Serval says.

Serval says he was inspired by his experience as a father. He would come home from work and ask his kids if they had brushed their teeth. They said “yes,” but Serval would find their toothbrush heads dry. He decided he needed a brush that really told him how well his children brushed.

The company says the Kolibree will go on sale this summer, from $99 to $199, and the U.S. is the first target market. ( 目標(biāo)市場)

1.All of the following statements are wrong except ____________.

A. It can sense how users brush their teeth.

B. It can track users’ school performance.

C. It can check users’ fear of seeing a dentist.

D. It can help users find their phones.

2.What can we learn from Serval’s words in Paragraph 3?

A. You will find it enjoyable to see a dentist.

B. You should see your dentist on a day-to –day basis.

C. You can brush with the Kolibree as if guided by a dentist.

D. You’d like a dentist to watch you brush your teeth every day.

3.What can we infer about Serval’s children?

A. They were unwilling to brush their teeth

B. They often failed to clean their toothbrushes.

C. They preferred to use a toothbrush with a dry head.

D. They liked brushing their teeth after Serval came home.

You are the collector in the gallery of your life. You collect. You might not mean to but you do. One out of three people collects tangible（有形的）things such as cats, photos and noisy toys.

These are among some 40 collections that are being shown at “The Museum Of”—the first of several new museums which, over the next two years, will exhibit the objects accumulated （積累） by unknown collectors. In doing so, they will promote（推動） a popular culture of museums, not what museums normally represent （代表）.

Some of the collections are fairly common—records, model houses. Others are strangely beautiful—branches that have fallen from tree, for example. But they all reveal （顯露）a lot of things: ask someone what they collect and their answers will tell you who they are.

Others on the way include “The museum of Collectors” and “The Museum of Me.” These new ones, it is hoped, will build on the success of “The Museum Of.” The thinkers behind the project want to explore why people collect, and what it means to do so. They hope that visitors who may not have considered themselves collectors will begin to see they, too, collect.

Some collectors say they started or stopped making collections at important points: the beginning or end of adolescence ( 青春期 )—“it’s a growing-up thing; you stop when you grow up,” says one. Other painful times are mentioned, such as the end of a relationship.

1.How will the new museums promote a popular culture of museums?

A. By collecting more tangible things.

B. By showing what ordinary people have collected.

C. By correcting what museums normally represent.

D. By accumulating 40 collections two years from now.

2.What can be learned about collectors from their collections?

A. Who they are.

B. How old they are.

C. Where they were born.

D. Why they might not mean to collect.

3.Which of the following is an aim of the new museums?

A. To help people sell their collections.

B. To encourage more people to collect.

C. To study the importance of collecting.

D. To find out why people visit museums.

4.According to the last paragraph, people may stop collecting when they _______.

A. become adults

B. feel happy with life

C. are ready for a relationship

D. are in their childhood

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。有兩項為多余選項。

1.From 18－25, according to I．Q. scores；but you are wiser and more experienced with increasing age. You are smartest in your 20's; around 30, your memory begins to go down, particularly your ability to perform mathematical computations. 2.__ Your vocabulary at the age of 45, for example, is three times as great as when you graduated from college. At 60, your brain has almost four times as much information as it did at the age of 21. 3.You have the best physical sense of yourself from 15 to 24; the best professional sense from 40 to 49. Before the age of 24, we believe that our happiest years are yet to come；over 30，we believe that they are behind us. A National Health survey agrees: after the age of 30, we become more realistic and do not view happiness as a goal in itself. If we keep our health, achieve professional and emotional goals, happiness, we feel, will follow.

__4.__ Generally between 30 and 39，but the peak (頂峰) varies with different professions(職業(yè)). Mosart wrote a symphony (交響曲) and four sonatas by the age of 8, and Mendelssohn composed his best­known work A Midsummer Night's Dream at 17, but most of the great music was written by men between 33 and 39.

Though the peak in most fields comes early, most Nobel Prize winners did their top research in their late 20's and 30's—creative people continue to produce work with high quality(質(zhì)量) throughout their lives _5.__

A. When are you most creative (創(chuàng)造性的)?

B. When are you happiest?

C. When are you smartest?

D. Do you know what I．Q. refers to?

E. But your I．Q. for other tasks goes up.

F. Creative people usually produce a lot of works.

G. For the “well­conditioned mind”， there is no upper limit..（限制）

Zigfried, a little mouse, blew his breath on the frosty window of the farmhouse and rubbed it to see the outside. Still nobody came. Maybe today, he thought . It was only a few days before Christmas and he was watching for a miracle (奇跡).

This farmhouse had been ____too long. It needed a family. Zigfried’s made a noise. He realized that he hadn’t eaten anything since yesterday. He jumped from the windowsill (窗沿), took a from his home, and went next door to Farmer Mike’s.

Farmer Mike’s house had been a great place for the little mouse the farmer married a wife who had a cat. Zigfried trembled he thought of it. He looked around carefully as he into the room where grain was stored and was quite as he filled his bag with wheat. He was turning to leave when suddenly he a hot breath about his ear. His heart beat , and without thinking, he started to run and luckily the cat’s paws (爪子).

The next afternoon Zigfried heard some good news: a family would be moving into the farmhouse soon. Zigfried’s granny would arrive on Christmas Eve to with him. He hoped that the family would come before his granny came. Before long, a car came the road leading to the house, with butter sandwiches, cheese and chocolate.

Zigfried’s Christmas miracle did arrive!

The house came the next few days. Zigfried every single hour of them. , the day before Christmas when he was drinking hot chocolate with a smile at the door of his home, he heard the of the children of the family about what they might get for Christmas. What? A cat? The froze on his face; his mouth fell wide open. After a long while, he at last found his voice: “Hey! Whose Christmas miracle is this?”

1.A. carefully B. excitedly C. hopefully D. proudly

2.A. cathy B. noisy C. messy D. empty

3.A. mouth B. nose C. stomach D. throat

4.A. bag B. stick C. bowl D. coat

5.A. although B. until C. after D. unless

6.A. if B. because C. when D. unless

7.A. broke B. marched C. paced D. stole

8.A. curious B. nervous C. pitiful D. illegal

9.A. took B. held C. felt D. drew

10.A. strongly B. likely C. slowly D. wildly

11.A. escaped B. seized C. rubbed D. caught

12.A. close B. happy C. new D. young

13.A. celebrate B. communicate C. compete D. control

14.A. across B. from C. off D. up

15.A. alive B. loose C. open D. still

16.A. counted B. enjoyed C. missed D. wasted

17.A. However B. Instead C. Moreover D. Therefore

18.A. embarrassed B. forced C. disappointed D. satisfied

19.A. introduction B. discussion C. revision D. reduction

20.A. blood B. smile C. tears D. sweat

閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（不多于3個單詞）或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

Girl：Hey, that is a good portrait. It is so realistic. You’ve got the __1.__(express) right---- the look in the eyes.

Boy：Yes, I’m pleased with it. __2._ do you make of the mouth? Do you think I need to do more work on it?

Girl：No, you needn’t change anything. It is brilliant. The light__3.___(come) in through the window is amazing. You are a good painter!

Boy：Thanks for compliment! I am indeed fond ___4._ painting. Are you interested in it?

Girl：Yes, but I am half as good _5._ you. Painting is hard for me and I can’t ___6.__(possible) paint well. I think drawing is a lot _7.__ (easy). I do quite a lot of drawing.

Boy：I see. I find that practising teaches me __8.____( observe) things very carefully. Do you go to art galleries?

Girl：No, I don’t. But I should because I do love arts.

Boy：Well, how ___9.__ going to an art gallery next weekend? I am sure we can find something interesting.

Girl：I’d love to.

Boy：There is a pop art exhibition on at the moment.

Girl：Um….. I don’t like pop art.

Boy：__10.___ do I, really. So let’s go to the art gallery next weekend

短文改錯（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）

假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌寫的以下短信。信中共有10處錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。錯誤涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。請按照下列格式修改：

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏詞符號（∧），并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下畫一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1．每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2．只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計分。

Last Sunday I saw a worst storm in years. It came sudden and went on for over three hours. After lunch, I went into my room to have a rest. The air was hot, but all was quiet. Then a strong wind started to blow into my room. Pieces of paper on my desk flew high into the air and some flew out the open window. As I ran out to catch it, big drop of rain began to fall. When I come back into my house, it was raining more harder and harder. Then I heard a loud sound from the back of the house. When I ran out of my room to find out that had happened, a big tree had fallen down and broke the top of the backroom.

假設(shè)你叫李華，你的美國朋友John給你發(fā)了一封電子郵件，和你分享了他的寒假計劃，并詢問你的寒假打算。請你根據(jù)以下提示用英語給他回封電子郵件，詞數(shù)為60字左右。

你的寒假計劃：

1．好好復(fù)習(xí)所學(xué)知識；2。讀幾本好書；和朋友相聚；3。和家人歡度春節(jié)……

注意：文章的開頭已給出(100詞左右)；可以適當(dāng)增加細節(jié)。

參考詞匯：review，the Spring Festival

Dear John，

I’m so pleased to receive your e-mail about your holiday plan and glad to share mine with you.

Looking forward to hearing from you. Best wishes!

Yours，Li Hua

The kids were very happy as they could get tickets .

A. on free B. from free

C. for free D. with free

The student ____ can speak good English is my best friend.

A. whom B. whose C. who D. when

is not easy to find a best friend in a new place.

A. What B. Which C. When D. It