“Who does the cooking in your home?” I’m often asked by my colleagues. “My wife and I share it 50/50,” I usually say without hesitation.

It’s a lie, of course. We’re pretty much even（相等的）when it comes to the children and the elderly. But the paying of bills isn’t 50/50-my wife pays all sorts of household expenses, so I never even have to set eyes on them. And the cooking isn’t 50/50, either.

The truth is that I am the cook. On my recent 40th birthday, I received the following gifts from my children: a new pot, two mini bottles of truffle oil, a decorative salad-dressing pourer, and a juice-making machine. For a moment I longed for something more manly, a cricket bat, perhaps, and then had to admit that all these things would be useful for me.

It’s not that my wife can’t or doesn’t like to cook (she makes delicious Welsh cakes). Nor has it always been this way. In the early years of our marriage I’d be relaxing with a glass of wine while my wife prepared for dinner after work.

But at some point that changed and I became the cook. Ten years with my wife gave me the rewards-I can throw together a roast, and I can make much foreign food. But I have truly become a monster(怪物) in the kitchen, unable to keep myself away from cooking. “You have to add Dijon to the sauce; it brings out the taste of the cheese,” I volunteer, as my wife is cooking. “Quick, stir in the butter so the dish becomes delicious.”

Is it any wonder that my wife has given up coming into the kitchen while I find the whole process of chopping, mixing, and adding things deeply satisfying?

1.What do the writer and his wife probably share evenly at home?

a. Cooking in the kitchen.

b. Taking care of the children.

c. Paying household expenses.

d. Taking care of the elderly at home.

A. ab B. bc C. bd D. ac

2.The gifts that the writer received on his 40th birthday show that .

A. his children don’t know him at all

B. he is in charge of the cooking at home

C. he doesn’t get along well with his children

D. his children have made wrong choices

3.What do we know about the writer’s wife?

A. She can’t cook.

B. She doesn’t like cooking.

C. She used to cook for the family.

D. She only knows how to make Welsh cakes.

4.From Paragraph 5 we learn that the writer .

A. likes sticking his nose into other people’s business

B. doesn’t think his wife is good at cooking

C. studies very hard in order to cook well

D. enjoys cooking in the kitchen

India has a very vast history and heritage(遺產(chǎn)). The country has witnessed some of the most important events in the past and every event has an effect of its own on the culture, religion, lifestyle, and economy of the country. This is one of the leading reasons why tourists prefer India to travel and explore. Historical tours in India provide everything that a traveler expects from his/her journey. These historical tours give an opportunity to study and explore Indian history.

Historical tours of India generally consisted of four phases: ancient, medieval(中世紀(jì)的), modern India and contemporary（當(dāng)代的）India. Some of the historical travel packages are:

Forts and Palaces

The rich cultural past of India is reflected in the countless(無(wú)數(shù)的) forts and palaces across the country. Most of the forts were constructed as a defense device to keep the enemy away and palaces were made on the names of the kings and queens. Some of the famous forts and palaces are: Agra Fort (Agra), Fatehpur Sikri (Agra), Hawa Mahal (Jaipur), Amber Fort (Jaipur), City Palace (Jaipur), Gwalior Fort (Gwalior), Mysore Palace (Mysore), Red Fort (Delhi), etc.

India Heritage Tours

The main purpose of India Heritage tours is to make Indians as well as tourists familiar with the rich Indian legacy(遺產(chǎn)). The heritage of the country is at least 5000 years. Some of the heritage tours are: medieval heritage, Rajput heritage, Golden Triangle, splendid Gujarat, etc.

South India Historical Tours

The Southern India is known for its diversity and there are many places, whic(景區(qū)) in South India include Goa, Cochin, Kerala, Munnar, Periyar, Kottayam and the list goes on and on.

1.The main purpose of this passage is .

A. to report some important events in the history of India

B. to introduce some tours that can explore the history of India

C. to help study the culture and history of India

D. to tell us how to explore the history of India

2.Many tourists prefer to travel to and explore because .

A. modern India has little to study

B. Indian people have an interesting lifestyle

C. its culture is greatly influenced by its history

D. India’s history is longer than that of any other country

3.Most forts were built in order to .

A. honor the kings B. act as a palace for queens

C. keep enemies away D. attract tourists

4.According to the passage, Rajput heritage .

A. is a famous fort in India

B. is one of the heritages in India

C. has a history of no more than 200 years

D. lies in South India

If you will be cycling, you will need to know what these traffic signs and signals mean.

A sign like this one means that there is a bike lane(道). If there is a bike lane, you are required to use it. If there is not a bike lane, you should ride with traffic as far to the right side of the road as possible.

When the signal light turns green, cars go. When you cross the street at a signal light, you should wait for the walk signal. Be sure to look carefully to the left, right and left again, before crossing the street.

When the signal light turns yellow, car drivers should slow down and prepare to stop. You should not cross if the light is yellow. The light is about to turn red, and cars will enter the intersection(十字路口).

This signal is the WALK sign. It has a picture of a person walking instead of using the word WALK.

This signal is the DON’T WALK sign. It is part of the signal with the picture of a person walking. This is a picture of a red hand, meaning you should stop. You should wait to cross the street until the green picture of the person walking is showing.

Car drivers and bikers must come to a complete stop at STOP signs.

A yield sign means to slow down and be ready to stop. If there are pedestrians（行人）or vehicles in or nearing the intersection, you must stop. If there is no traffic in or nearing the intersection and it is safe, you may go through.

This sign means you are coming to a crosswalk. Car drivers and bikers must stop to allow people in the crosswalk to cross the street.

1.The passage is intended for .

A. car drivers B. skaters

C. bikers D. pedestrians

2.If you see the sign while riding a bike, you are required to .

A. take the bike lane

B. stop your bike

C. ride close to the right side of the road

D. ride in the middle of the road

3.Which of the following signs has the same meaning as the sign?

A. B. C. D.

4.When the signal light turns yellow, cyclists .

A. can cross the road B. should walk across the road

C. should wait D. can enter the intersection

Energy goes from one plant or animal to another. A food chain shows how this energy moves. Each time an animal gets eaten, its energy is passed onto the animal that eats it. The food chain is very important because it keeps the balance of nature. If one part of the food chain disappears, it can affect all the other plants and animals. Any threat to the food chain is a threat to the environment’s biodiversit(生物多樣性). The food chain helps keep animal populations in balance. However, if something happens to increase or decrease one of the links in the food chain, that balance is broken. If one animal becomes endangered, it puts all the animals above it at risk.

Some of the threats are natural, such as wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, floods and so on. But the biggest threats to the food chain come from you and me. These threats include overhunting, overfishing, logging, farming, development, pollution, etc. The food chain is endangered anywhere humans have had an effect on the natural environment.

A recent study shows that the overfishing of large sharks is damaging the food chain along the US Atlantic coast. Canadian and American scientists say sharks are being killed in great numbers for their meat and fins(鰭). Now, not enough sharks are around to eat the cownose(牛鼻) ray. The ray’s population has increased and they have eaten up the shellfish to the point where it has hurt commercial(商業(yè)的) fishing.

Many of us disturb the natural environment in our own backyards. It’s up to us to take care of the environment and try not to disrupt the natural food chain. If we don’t act responsibly, animals will start disappearing.

1.What can we learn from Paragraph 1?

A. The food chain is not easy to be broken.

B. The energy of an animal usually disappears when it dies.

C. Increasing the links will not break the balance of nature.

D. Breaking the food chain is bad for the biodiversity of the environment.

2.The study mentioned in Paragraph 3 proves that .

A. human activities can be a big threat to the food chain

B. we are all responsible for the breaking of the food chain

C. natural disasters are hard to break the food chain

D. hunting large sharks for meat is beneficial

3.We can infer that the writer wrote this passage mainly to .

A. explain what the food chain is

B. tell us something interesting about Nature

C. suggest that we stop eating meat to save animals

D. suggest that we not disrupt the natural food chain

Everything you do to protect the planet helps all living things, including humpbacks(座頭鯨) and other species of whales that live in oceans worldwide. And yes--just one kid, like you, can make a difference. 1. .

Don’t litter. Rubbish thrown away carelessly outside often washes into storm drains（排水溝）, which empty into rivers and eventually flow to the oceans. 2. , including whales.

Say, “No bag, thank you.” Whether you’re buying toys, snacks, or clothes, tell the checkout person you don’t need a bag. 3. , you’ll help reduce the 100 million plastic bags that each year block sewers(下水道), and get swallowed by whales, sea turtles, and other wild life.

Plant a tree. 4. . They produce oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide（二氧化碳）, a gas that animals, including humans, produce naturally as they breathe. But because carbon dioxide also comes from cars and factories, there is too much of it in the atmosphere, which is contributing to global warming. If everyone planted one tree, those trees would remove a large amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

5. . Every time you leave a room for more than a minute, turn off the light you’re using. In this way, you save energy and keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

Try the family challenge! Many streams and rivers are polluted and littered with rubbish. You and your family can help preserve the waterways by joining others in your community to pick up rubbish.

A. Trees help clean the air we breathe

B. Turn off the light

C. Avoid driving cars

D. By carrying your own reusable bag

E. Treat them like friends

F. Here are ideas for easy, small things you can do

G. Pollution is a growing problem for all the Earth’s oceans and its wildlife

Once an old villager was reading the Ramayana(羅摩傳) while sitting in a railway station waiting for the train to come.

A young man with his was standing nearby and said to the old man, “You old fashioned people read only the Ramayana all the time. Do you not have any other book to ? What is so great in the Ramayana?”

The old man continued to read and smiled without any to the young man. Soon, the train . Everyone, in a hurry, rushed in to get a seat. It that the old man and the young man were next to each other in the train. And the old man to read the Ramayana.

Suddenly the young man that his wife was missing! He shouted anxiously, “My wife! is she? I think she has been left behind on the platform!”

The old man said to him , “If you had read the Ramayana, you would never have made this .”

“What?” said the young man.

The old man :

“It is said in the Ramayana that when Ram Chandra, Sita and Lakshmana were standing on the of the Ganga（恒河）and the boat man came with the , Ram Chandra asked Sita to get in the boat first and only after that did he the boat himself!

“So why are you me what is good about the Ramayana when you do not even know enough to your own wife and see that she gets onto the train first?

“You see, the Ramayana tells you even this!”

True enough, any time you are and cannot decide what your duty is, just read the Ramayana and you will find the to all your doubts!

Treat with respect all the things held sacred（神圣的）to others, you understand these things or not.

1.A. wife B. son C. friend D. mother

2.A. read B. see C. hear D. write

3.A. key B. reply C. attention D. feeling

4.A. reached B. arrived C. got D. entered

5.A. turned on B. turned up C. turned out D. turned off

6.A. visited B. divided C. waken D. seated

7.A. continued B. decided C. wanted D. refused

8.A. felt B. experienced C. understood D. realized

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

10.A. luckily B. sadly C. happily D. calmly

11.A. mistake B. plan C. face D. progress

12.A. answered B. explained C. introduced D. showed

13.A. middle B. bank C. coast D. land

14.A. fish B. ropes C. boat D. goods

15.A. get up B. get off C. get on D. get in

16.A. advising B. asking C. telling D. begging

17.A. take charge of B. take hold of C. take care of D. take advantage of

18.A. confused B. surprised C. satisfied D. delighted

19.A. reasons B. stories C. answers D. aims

20.A. unless B. once C. though D. whether

There was a farm in a small country. The farmer’s daughter had to carry fresh milk to customers in various villages, one of 1. was a priest(牧師). 2. （reach）his house, the milkmaid had to cross a stream. People crossed it by raft(竹筏).

One day the priest, finding it arrived very late, 3. (scold) the poor girl. “What can I do?” she said. “I started out early from my house, 4. I had to wait a long time for the boatman to come.”

Then the priest said, “What! people have even walked across the ocean by 5. (repeat) the name of God, but you can’t cross this little river.” This milkmaid took his words very seriously.

6. then on, she brought the priest’s milk punctually(準(zhǔn)時(shí)地) every morning. He became curious about it and asked her how it was 7. she was never late any more.

“I crossed the river repeating the name of God, just as you had told me to do, 8. waiting for the raft,” she replied. The priest didn’t believe her, so they went together to the water and the milkmaid began to walk over 9. . Looking back, the milkmaid saw the priest floundering(踉蹌) in the water.

“Sir!”she cried. “You are uttering the name of God, but all 10. while you are holding up your clothes from getting wet. That is not trusting in God.”

假定英語(yǔ)課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請(qǐng)你修改你同學(xué)寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤，每句中最多有兩處。錯(cuò)誤涉及一個(gè)單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（∧），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(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1. 每處錯(cuò)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(jì)分。

I sometimes just wanted to sit in the dark. I hate to admit this, or sometimes when I’m feeling bad, I’ll lock myself in the bathroom, turn away the lights and just sit on the floor. I don’t know what. Maybe I feel comfortable and relaxed in totally darkness. Sometimes, I just stare into the darkness without think of anything. Maybe I’m sitting there waiting for someone show up. I also think of all kind of things sometimes. I will not only think of the things that they happened in the past, but imagine what will happen in a future. It really helps as I will be happier after that.

目前，學(xué)校存在少數(shù)考生考試作弊現(xiàn)象。某英文雜志社擬對(duì)此現(xiàn)象向中學(xué)生征文，標(biāo)題是“My Opinion on Cheating in Examinations”。請(qǐng)根據(jù)下列提示用英語(yǔ)寫一篇征文稿。內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)如下：

注意：

1. 短文必須包括所有內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)，可適當(dāng)發(fā)揮；

2. 詞數(shù)：100左右；

3. 參考詞匯：作弊 cheat (v.)

You know how wonderful you are, and you know that others know how wonderful you are, but what do you do when admiration crosses over the line into jealousy？For most teens there will come a day when you realize that one of your friends is jealous and that this jealousy is hurting your friendship. When this happens it can seem like there is nothing that you can do, but the good news is that there is. Don’t let jealousy spoil your relationships. Tackle it head on and you might be back to normal much sooner than you think.

It can be hard to walk up to a friend and ask them what the problem is, but if you want to save your friendship you’ll have to do just that. Don’t approach them and ask why they are jealous of you (unless of course you want to appear totally conceited), just take some time alone with them and let them know that you’ve been feeling like there’s been something coming between you. If they refuse to respond, then use the opportunity to explain how you have been feeling. Chances are that something you say will strike a nerve and your friend will open up as well.

When you figure out what is annoying your friend，ask him or her what (s)he thinks would make the situation better. If ,for example, (s)he says that (s)he feels like (s)he doesn't get to spend any time with you because of your being off with your new friends from the swim team then maybe you could invite her along the next time or block off one day a week for just the two of you. Remember, though, that whatever solution you decide on should be a compromise. Don’t limit your own talents or opportunities simply because your friend is unhappy. Try instead to include him or her in your new life and see how that works out.

Even the best of friendships can be tinged by jealousy. This destructive emotion is rarely productive and can turn best friends into worst enemies. Before taking extreme action, chat with your jealous friend to see if the two of you can work out a compromise. If you can’t, be prepared to know exactly how far you will go to keep your friend and how far you won't.

1.According to the author，the jealousy emotion is ________.

A. normal B. productive C. destructive D. extreme

2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way to confront your friend when jealousy happens?

A. Walking up to him/her and asking him/her why he/she is jealous of you.

B. Walking up to him/her and asking him/her what the problem is.

C. Spending some time with him/her and letting him/her know how you feel.

D. Spending some time with him/her and letting him/her know you think there’s something coming between you.

3.What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?

A. There's always a solution to solve the problem of jealousy.

B. Jealousy can turn best friends into worst enemies.

C. You may lose a friend to keep your own gifts，chances or self-development.

D. You should go a long way with your friend to work out a solution

4.The purpose of the passage is ________.

A. to explain what causes jealousy

B. to offer some advice on making friends

C. to introduce the way to cope with a jealous friend

D. to explain how destructive the jealous emotion is