Everybody was touched ______ words after they heard her moving story.

   A. beyond                       B. without

   C. of                           D. in

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從16--35各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)A、B、C、D中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

    To develop her students' spelling skills, Mrs Hardy held a spelling competition in her class．The two  16  spellers would compete in the school spelling competition with other 17  from the fourth, fifth and sixth grades．

   Spelling was Jasmine's  18  subject and books were her best friends． 19  would allow her to  20 into the sea, find buried treasure, 21  meet the mean man Mr Grandet（葛朗臺(tái)）．Fairy tales  22  her to dream of being a princess．

   The day came for Mrs Hardy to  23  the result of the competition．Jasmine sat in her seat．Finally Mrs Hardy announced that Reece Bradley and Jasmine Russell would  24  in the school final spelling competition．

Smiling  25  , Jasmine looked at Reece, but he  26  her by frowning（皺眉） as if he were 27  to take part in the competition．

  “Way to go, Jasmine,” Rashad, Jasmine's another classmate, said with a playful push to her arm．“Do you think you have a  28  of winning the competition?”

Jasmine 29  , “My Aunt Lucy says anything can be got by  30  hard．I'm going to study the word list till my  31  stop working!”

During the break, Jasmine, Rashad and Reece met on the basketball court for a game of Horse．Jasmine said, “Let's  32  for the competition by spelling bigger words!”

“Like what?” Rashad asked．Jasmine smiled．“Like antidisestablishmentarianism．” Reece rolled his eyes and asked．“Anti—what?”

   Jasmine  33  the word, trying not to laugh．“You made that  34  ,” Rashad said．“Anything can be got by working hard．This is__  35 everybody should believe in．

A．strong       B．a(chǎn)ctive             C．best         D．brave

A．competitors  B．monitors          C．ministers     D．a(chǎn)thletes

A．favorite       B．basic              C．obvious      D．fortunate

A．Parents      B．Teachers         C．Lessons          D．Books

A．enter        B．dive            C．fall                D．swim

A．but          B．than            C．or             D．so

A．reminded     B．inspired         C．permitted      D．intended

A．circulate      B．explain         C．deliver       D．a(chǎn)nnounce

A．compete      B．compare        C．host            D．win

A．sadly        B．Stiffly         C．kindly        D．happily

A．scared       B．pleased        C．surprised      D．satisfied

A．ready        B．unhappy       C．pleasant       D．content

A．chance       B．courage       C．help            D．power

A．a(chǎn)greed       B．greeted        C．a(chǎn)sked         D．nodded

A．thinking      B．working       C．playing       D．behaving

A．a(chǎn)rms        B．brains           C．ears          D．hands

A．explore        B．build       C．practise        D．organize

A．limited           B．tricked      C．described      D．repeated

A．into           B．out         C．up              D．over

A．what           B．that         C．why            D．Which

A Brown University sleep researcher has some advice for people who run high schools: Don’t start classes so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who nod off at their desks are lazy. And it may not be that their parents have failed to enforce (確保) bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically these sleepyhead students aren’t used to the early hour.

“Maybe these kids are being asked to rise at the wrong time for their bodies,” says Mary Carskadon, a professor looking at problem of adolescent  (青春期的) sleep at Brown’s School of Medicine.

Carskadon is trying to understand more about the effects of early school time in adolescents. And, at a more basic level. she and her team are trying to learn more about how the biological changes of adolescence affect sleep needs and patterns.

Carskadon says her work suggests that adolescents may need more sleep than they did at childhood, no less, as commonly thought.

Sleep patterns change during adolescence, as any parent of an adolescent can prove. Most adolescents prefer to stay up later at nigh and sleep later in the morning. But it’s not just a matter of choice –their bodies are going through a change of sleep patterns.

All of this makes the transfer from middle school to high school—which may start one hour earlier in the morning  ---- all the more difficult , Carskadon says. With their increased need for sleep and their biological clocks set on the “sleep late, rise late” pattern, adolescent are up against difficulties when it comes to trying to be up by 5 or 6 a.m. for a 7:30 a.m. first bell. A short sleep on a desktop may be their body’s way of saying. “I need a timeout.”

Carskadon suggests that high schools should not start classes so early in the morning because ________.

A. it is really tough for parents to enforce bedtime

B. it is biologically difficult for students to rise early

C. students work so late at night that they can’t get up early

D. students are so lazy that they don’t like to go to school early

The underlined phrase “nod off” most probably means “ _______”.

A. turn around    B. agree with others  C. fall asleep  D. refuse to work

What might be a reason for the hard transfer from middle school to high school?

A. Adolescents depend more on their parents.

B. Adolescents have to choose their sleep patterns.

C. Adolescents sleep better than they did at childhood.

D. Adolescents need more sleep than they used to.

What is the test mainly about?

A. Adolescent heath care.      B. Problems in adolescent learning.

C. Adolescent sleep difficulties.   D. Changes in adolescent sleep needs and patterns.

下面是某報(bào)社收到的一封讀者來信，請(qǐng)你以編輯Jim的身份給這位中學(xué)生寫封回信。

Dear editor,

I spend most of my time studying. I hardly talk to my classmates. Sometimes I don’t care much about others, but I do want to talk. I just don’t know what to talk about and how to begin a conversation.

I feel so lonely. How I wish I had a good friend! Could you give me some advice?

Yours,

Jin Jing

注意：1．回信的內(nèi)容要包括以下要點(diǎn)：

（1）要相信自己。你最大的問題是缺乏自信；(2）微笑面對(duì)同學(xué)，讓他們相信你是友好的；（3）先試著與一個(gè)和你同樣害羞的或和與你有同樣愛好的同學(xué)交談，可以問一些學(xué)習(xí)上的問題，談?wù)劰餐�的愛好；�?）幫助學(xué)習(xí)和生活上有困難的同學(xué)。

2．詞數(shù)120左右。信的開頭已寫好，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù),可適當(dāng)加入細(xì)節(jié)，使行文連貫。

3．參考詞匯：自信self-confidence (n.)     缺乏: lack  (vt.)

Dear Jin Jing,

Your problem is a common one among middle school students. Maybe the following advice can help you .

Yours

Jim

It is the fact _______ Jane doesn’t know Jolin is a popular singer ____ surprises us all.

A. which; which   B. which; that   C. that; that   D. that; which

John may phone tonight. I don’t want to go out ________ he phones.

   A. in case   B. in that case   C. so that    D. in time

I          when there came a knock at the door.

  A. about to go to bed            B. am going to bed

C. was just about to go to bed     D. have gone to bed

When we can see well, we do not think about our eyes often. It is only when we can not see perfectly that we come to see how important our eyes are.

People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing and reading, become nearsighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant things clearly.

People who are farsighted face just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses too.

Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts（白內(nèi)障）. Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.

When night falls, colors become fainter（不清楚） to the eyes and finally disappear. After your eyes have grown used to the dark, you can see better if you use the side of your eyes rather than the centers. Sometimes, after dark, you see a small thing to one side of you, which seems to disappear if you turn your head in its direction. This is because when you turn your head, you are looking at the thing too directly. Men on guard duty sometimes think they see something moving to one side of them. When they turn to look straight at it, they can not see it any more, and they believe they were mistaken. However, this mistake happens because the center of the eye, which is very sensitive in daylight, is not as sensitive as the sides of the eye after dark.

We don’t know that our eyes are of great importance until ________.

A. we think about our eyes           B. we cannot see clearly

C. we wear glasses                 D. we have to do much reading

According to the passage, a ________ is more likely to be nearsighted.

A. student    B. runner    C. guard    D. worker

People who are farsighted ________ .

A. cannot do a lot of close work without glasses

B. can only see things that are very close to their eyes

C. have difficulty reading a book if they hold it at arm’s length

D. have the same problem as the nearsighted people

To see a small thing at night, it is better to look ________ .

A. with wide open eyes             B. with half shut or narrowed eyes

C. straight at it                    D. in a slightly different direction

“The day is coming _____telegraph wires will be _____on to houses just like water or gas.” He said in his letter to his father.

A. that; lay      B. that; laid      C. when; laying    D. when; laid

We shouldn’t complain about________, because many families are much _____ in the mountainous area.

  A. being poor; worse off  B. being rich; better off

C. to be poor; badly off   D. to be rich; well off