【題目】During my high school years, the most important thing was what I was wearing to the Friday night dance and who I was taking. Although college was talked about, it was the least of my worries.

When I was graduating eighth grade and starting high school, my older brother was graduating twelfth grade and going onto college. For my graduation, he gave me a card in which he wrote, “Enjoy your four years…, they go by fast.” I remember not believing him then, but looking back…, he was right. Those four years shaped who I was as a person, pushed me to my limit and encouraged me to become an adult.

However, I was so completely absorbed in my junior and senior years of high school, that when someone spoke of college I brushed it off. I wasn't ready to leave my comfort zone of having all of my closest friends together and knowing what every single day was going to be like . Studying was something I did only AFTER I nailed my half-time dance performance. I knew my parents wanted me to go to college, so I told them I would go to community college and I didn’t worry about my SAT scores.

When my senior year passed and everyone graduated and went off to their own college ,I started to wish I had done the same. My friends were living away, meeting new people, discovering new places, and I was living at home and driving to and from class every day. It seemed exactly like high school. I hated it! I thought college was supposed to be different! Why didn’t I take more time to research colleges and do the same? I ended up loving college and wishing I had four years to enjoy the campus atmosphere instead of two.

My advice to anyone thinking about attending college is to think about it very seriously and look into all of your choices well ahead of time. Now I have graduated and I am working full time and I would do anything to go back to my high school days for a second chance!

【1】Why didn’t the author worry about his SAT scores?

A．He had a gift for dance..

B．He wanted to go to community college

C．He was well prepared for the exam.

D．He believed his brother would help him.

【2】When in high school, the author __________________ .

A．buried himself in his study all the time

B．lived in the school except on holidays

C．enjoyed talking about future college life

D．drove to and from class every day

【3】What did the author’s brother mean by “Enjoy your four years…, they go by fast.”?

A．He advised the author to value the years.

B．He encouraged the author to leave his comfort zone.

C．He wished the author to have more dance.

D．He suggested the author aim at a community college.

【4】Talking of his high school years, the author feels .

A．LonelyB． regretfulC．a(chǎn)ngryD．pleased

【題目】My husband Ollie had retired from teaching and we were making plans to travel together to Florida. Then he was terribly ill and became very weak, hardly able to speak. Weeks passed and it became clear that Ollie was near death, but I prayed day and night that he could get better.

One of us was always in Ollie's hospital room--either me, or our grown children, Bruce and Karen. One day, in his broken and weak speech, Ollie told Bruce, “Go home. You should be with Gwen.” Gwen was Bruce's wife. They had been married for six years and lived hundreds of miles away. Gwen was about to have a baby. We felt an extra sadness, knowing Ollie would never see his first grandchild.

“I don't want to leave you, dad, ” Bruce said. Ollie repeated, “You should be with Gwen. ” Reluctantly, Bruce left. “When the baby comes, ”he promised Ollie, “you will be the first to know. ” A few days later, around 2 p. m., Ollie awoke from a sleep. He turned and looked at me. I sat close to hear his weak words. “The baby is coming now. It's a boy, ” he said. For a moment his eyes were filled with tears. Then he went back to sleep again. Not long after that, Karen ran into the room. “Bruce called, ” she said, a smile lighting her face. “Gwen gave birth to a healthy baby boy around two o' clock. ”

Ollie smiled; he had been the first to know. That night, Ollie died in his sleep.

【1】Ollie didn't travel to Florida because __________________.

A. he could hardly be able to speak

B. he was too weak to travel

C. he could not afford the trip

D. he was waiting for his grandchild to be born

【2】Why did Ollie want Bruce to be with Gwen?

A. Ollie didn't want his son to be absent when his baby was born.

B. Ollie wanted Bruce to bring the baby along as soon as it was born.

C. Ollie thought it was too much trouble for Bruce to stay at hospital.

D. Ollie couldn't bear his son seeing him dying with a broken heart.

【3】The underlined word in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to__________.

A. Disappointedly B. Immediately

C. Excitedly D. Unwillingly

【4】What can we learn from the passage?

A. Ollie and his wife had planned to settle in Florida.

B. Ollie cared for his son more than his daughter.

C. Ollie died happy and in peace.

D. Ollie was sad about not being able to see his first grandchild.

【題目】Most essays are made up of a beginning, a middle and an end．The beginning arouses the reader’s interest to his attention to the subject of the essay or the necessary background information. The middle gives us clear and logical of the facts and ideas the writer intends to put forth. The end winds up the essay with a forceful statement to influence the reader’s impression and shows consequences of the argument.

To the writer the beginning is often the hardest part of an essay, because he has to decide from what point to , and in what direction to go. The end is important because it often gives the reader the deepest impression. It should be short, forceful and thought-provoking. No ideas should be introduced in a concluding paragraph.

Sometimes it is good to the concluding paragraph to the introduction. If, for instance, a question is raised in the beginning, an answer should be given in the end．

【1】A．support B．secure C．change D．follow

【2】A．provides B．proves C．confirms D．directs

【3】A．indication B．direction C．expectation D．presentation

【4】A．final B．good C．deep D．unique

【5】A．state B．deliver C．start D．practice

【6】A．ordinary B．general C．important D．new

【7】A．spread B．link C．lead D．contact

【題目】Time and how we experience it have always puzzled us. Physicists have created fascinating theories, but their time is measured by a pendulum（鐘擺）and is not psychological time, which leaps with little regard to the clock or calendar. As someone who understood the difference remarked, “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours it seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like two hours.”

Psychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter wings as we age. They also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to pass．For example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beach. Since most of us spend fewer days at the beach and more at the office as we age, an increase in structured tune could well be to blame for why time seems to speed up as we grow older．

Expectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidly. Almost all of us have had the experience of driving somewhere we’ve never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no real idea of when we’ll arrive, we experience the trip as lasting a long time. But the return trip, although exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The unfamiliarity of the journey has become routine. Thus taking a different route on occasion can often help slow the clock.

When days become as identical as beads（小珠子）on a string, they mix together, and even months become a single day. To fight this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your day—to stop time. Learning something new is one of the ways to slow the passage of time. One of the reasons the days of our youth seems so full and long is that these are the days of learning and discovery. For many of us, learning ends when we leave school, but this doesn’t have to be.

【1】The quotation（引用語(yǔ)） in the first paragraph is used to indicate ______.

A. physical time is different from psychological time

B. time should not be measured by a pendulum

C. psychological time is quite puzzling

D. physical theory has nothing to do with the true sense of time

【2】Why do units of time fly faster as we grow older?

A. Our sense of time changes.

B. We spend less time at the beach.

C. More time is structured and scheduled.

D. Time is structured with too many appointments.

【3】What is the main idea of the passage?

A. It gives various explanations about time.

B. It explains why time flies fast and how to slow it down psychologically.

C. It shows the different ideas of physicists and psychologists on time.

D. It describes how we experience time psychologically.

【題目】It’s a long time______ they separated,but it won’t be long_____ they meet again．

A．since; before B．a(chǎn)fter; when

C．since; when D．a(chǎn)fter; before

【題目】My sister studies hard．She always goes to school ______ she catches a cold．

A．even if B．a(chǎn)s if C．only if D．a(chǎn)s though

【題目】在繁重的課業(yè)負(fù)擔(dān)之下，中學(xué)生也應(yīng)該學(xué)會(huì)適度地自我放松。請(qǐng)你圍繞“Ways to get relaxed”這一話題，按照下列要點(diǎn)寫一篇100詞左右的英語(yǔ)短文：

1．自我放松的途徑：看電視、體育鍛煉、上網(wǎng)等；

2．我更喜歡的途徑及理由。

注意：1．在表達(dá)“我更喜歡的途徑及理由”時(shí)，請(qǐng)從要點(diǎn)1中選擇一項(xiàng)進(jìn)行闡述；

2．文章開(kāi)頭已給出，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)。

There are various ways to get relaxed for middle school students．

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【題目】There are moments in life 【1】 you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug （擁抱） them for real．

When the door of happiness closes, 【2】 opens, but often we look so long at the closed door 【3】 we don’t see the one which has been opened for us．

Don’t go for looks; they can deceive（欺騙）．Don’t go for wealth; even that fades（消退）away．Go for someone 【4】 makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day bright．

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be 【5】 you want to be．

The 【6】 （happy） of people don’t 【7】 （necessary）have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that 【8】 （come）along their way．The brightest future will always be based 【9】 a forgotten past．

When you were born, you were crying and everyone 【10】 you was smiling．

【題目】Wang Ling is always the first one ________ at school in our class.

A. to arrive B. arriving

C. arrives D. who arrive

【題目】 There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest （尋求）, , to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in winter, the second in spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in fall.

When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to what they had seen. The first son said that the tree wasugly, bent, and . The second son contradicted—it was covered with green buds and full of . The third son , saying it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful. It was the most graceful thing he had seen. The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.

The man then to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but one season in the tree’s life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are—the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life—can only be at the end, when all the seasons are up.

If you give up when it’s winter, you will the hope of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall. Don’t let the of one season destroy the joy of ll the rest. Don’t judge a life by one season.

【1】A．determine B．judge C．a(chǎn)nalyze D．explore

【2】A．by chance B．a(chǎn)s usual C．in turn D．for sure

【3】A．describe B．classify C．compare D．review

【4】A．twisted B．wounded C．woodened D．deserted

【5】A．delight B．pride C．faith D．promise

【6】A．a(chǎn)greed B．a(chǎn)pproved C．a(chǎn)rgued D．a(chǎn)nnounced

【7】A．never B．ever C．once D．later

【8】A．falling B．slipping C．going D．hanging

【9】A．excused B．sighed C．explained D．instructed

【10】A．measured B．considered C．a(chǎn)ffected D．committed

【11】A．change B．develop C．miss D．taste

【12】A．comfort B．pleasure C．regret D．pain

【13】A．difficult B．magic C．lonely D．light