Besides the others, there was still      third one who said he was        second to reach the end.

       A．a(chǎn); a                     B．a(chǎn); the                  C．the; the               D．the; a

       請根據(jù)下面提示，寫一篇短文。詞數(shù)不少于50。

       In your English class, your teacher shows you the following picture. You are asked to describe the picture and explain how you understand it.

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假如你是紅星中學(xué)業(yè)高三一班的學(xué)生李華，為校刊英語園地寫一篇題為“A Volunteer Day” 的英文稿件。請根據(jù)以下四幅圖所提供的情景，敘述去年12月5日（The International Volunteer Day）你班志愿者日活動的完整過程。

       注意：

       1．短文的開頭已為你寫好。

       2．詞數(shù)不少于60。

       提示詞語：patrol vt.巡視   trim vt.修整

       Last December 5^th our class organized an activity to celebrate the International Volunteer Day. We decided to spend the day doing something for our school instead of having classes.

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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。選項中有兩項為多余選項。

We had been living our valley for sixteen months when we first realized the dangers that could exist. It was the year when the storms came early, before the calendar even hinted at winter, even before November was out.   71 

Soon snow began to fall. Within a day it lay some 15 centimeters deep. It almost completely blocked our lane and made the streamside path slippery and dangerous. But on the neighboring heights the snow was much deeper and stayed for longer. Up there the wind blasted fiercely. Deeply in our valley we felt only sudden gusts of wind trees swayed but the branches held firm.

And yet we knew that there was reason for us to worry. The snow and wind were certainly inconvenient but they did not really trouble us greatly.   72   It reminded us of what could have occurred if circumstances had been different, if the flow of water from the hills had not, many years before, been controlled, held back by a series of dams.

  73  Day after day, we watched furious clouds pile up high over the hills to the west. Sinister grey clouds extended over the valleys. They twisted and turned, rising eastwards and upwards, warning of what was to come. We had seen enough of the sky; now we began to watch the river, which every day was becoming fuller and wilder.

The river seemed maddened as the waters poured almost horizontally down to its lower stretches.   74  

It was far deeper than we’d ever seen it so near our home, lunging furiously at its banks. For three days we prayed that it would stay below its wall.   75 

       A．It was the river, the Ryburn, which normally flowed so gently, that threatened us most.

       B．The great power of all this water prevents us from believing ourselves to be completely safe in our home.

       C．In a short time the snow started to melt.

       D．Just a couple of meters from our cottage, the stream seemed wild beneath the bridge.

       E．Our prayer were answered as the dam held and the waters began to subside.

       F．They grew so strong that we couldn’t control it.

       G．Until then, we had felt safe and sheltered in our valley.

    There are still many things that Peter Cooke would like to try his hand at－ paper – making and feather – work are on his list. For the moment though, he will stick to the skill he has been delighted to perfect over the past ten years；making delicate and unusual objects out of shells.

   As he leads me round his apartment showing me his work, he points to a pair of shell-covered ornaments(裝飾品) above a fireplace. ‘I shan’t be at all bothered if people don’t buy them because I have got so used to them, and to me they’re adorable. I never meant to sell my work commercially. Some friends came to see me about five years ago and said, “You must have an exhibition-people ought to see these. We’ll talk to a man who owns an art gallery”.’ The result was an exhibition in London, at which 70 percent of the objects were sold. His second exhibition opened at the gallery yesterday. Considering the enormous prices the pieces command-around ￡2,000 for the ornaments-an empty space above the fireplace would seem a small sacrifice for Cooke to make.

“I do wish, though,” says Cooke, ‘that I’d taken this up a lot earlier, because then I would have been able to produce really wonderful things-at least the potential would have been there. Although the ideas are still there and I’m doing the best I can now, I’m more limited physically than I was when I started. Still, the work that he has managed to produce is a long way from the common shell constructions that can be found in seaside shops. ‘I have a miniature(微型的)mind’ he says, and this has resulted in boxes covered in thousands of tiny shells, little shaded pictures made from shells and baskets of astonishingly realistic flowers.

Cooke’s quest for beautiful, and especially tiny, shells has taken him further than his Norfolk shore: to France, Thailand, Mexico, South Africa and the Philippines, to name but a few of the beaches where he has lain on his stomach and looked for beauties to bring home.

67．What does the reader learn about Peter Cooke in the first paragraph?

      A．He has produced hand-made objects in different materials.

      B．He hopes to work with other materials in the future.

      C．He has written about his love of making shell objects.

       D．He was praised for his shell objects many years ago.

68．When looking round his apartment, the wrier__________.

      A．is attracted by Cooke’s personality

      B．realizes he doesn’t like Cooke’s work at all

      C．feels uncertain about giving Cooke his opinion

      D．senses that Cooke wants his products to be admired

69．The ‘small sacrifice’ in Paragraph 2 refers to _________.

      A．the loss of Cooke’s ornaments

      B．the display of Cooke’s ornaments

      C．the cost of keeping Cooke’s ornaments

      D．the space required to store Cooke’s ornaments

70．What does Cooke regret about his work?

      A．He is not as famous as he should have been.

      B．He makes less money than he should make.

      C．He is less imaginative than he used to be.

      D．He is not as skillful as he used to be.

    Technology today has stolen away our voices and robbed our children of memories. I’ve been keeping count of how often people sing around the house these days. The fact is, they don’t.

My earliest memories are of my mother crooning lullabies(催眠曲) in a gentle low voice as she rocked each infant in turn. She said she “didn’t have a singing voice,” but her low, wavering alto will always mean comfort to me. Every time I have sat through the night with a feverish body or held a pre – schooler through a nightmare, the melodies returned, words appearing and disappearing like fragments of a dream but held together by the hum (低聲吟唱)of love.

Today, young mothers are routinely presented with lullaby tapes at the baby shower. When baby cries, the idea goes, they will be able to switch on the high-tech audio system and the little one will drift off with the voices of strangers in his ears, perfectly on pitch. If I had my way, new parents would learn the songs themselves, throw out their stereos, and give their child the gift of their own sleepy voices through the midnight hours.

These days, when we go on a trip, my daughters take along tiny personal stereos and headphones. They are lost in their private worlds, and I can’t help wishing that at least here, in the car my girls would be forced to listen to their mother’s voice raised in lost – the – words again, sure I’m out－of－tune songs that they might then pass down to another generation. Those sophisticated earphones have robbed them of something I think every kid should carry from childhood car trips into adulthood.

I drove away from that party humming, and all the way home the good old songs kept tumbling out. Dammit (該死), I thought, why did I ever stop singing in the car and start turning on the radio instead? Why don’t I sign anymore while I’m doing the dishes? I’m going to yank those stereo wires right out of the wall when I get home. We’re going to sing grace before meals, sing coals around the piano, sing in the shower instead of switching on that waterproof radio that stol away our voices and our souls.

63．The author hates today’s technology because         .

      A．driving a car requires high concentration

       B．children are learning pop songs from tapes

       C．children have lost touch with good old songs

       D．high – tech systems do not record the voices of aged people

64．The underlined sentence “the little one will drift off” in Paragraph 3 means that “        ”.

       A．the play of the high – tech system is of little use

       B．the high – tech system will play on and on

       C．the low voice will delight the baby

       D．the baby will slowly go to sleep

65．To the author, the voices of strangers        .

       A．a(chǎn)re not familiar to the baby                   B．lack the motherly love the baby needs

       C．work better to stop the baby’s cry         D．surely sound more pleasant

66．What the author wishes to make her girls do is to          .

       A．help memorize the words while she is singing

       B．take off their well – designed earphones

       C．listen and learn the old songs from her

       D．remember their childhood car trips

Last spring, members of Alaska’s Troop 34, based in Fairbanks, trudged (跋涉) out into the snowy wilderness to take part in their state’s Take a Kid Trapping program. In many parts of the state, beavers （海貍）are pests and need to be controlled.

The 10－to－12－year－old girls found out where beavers lived, set traps, and skinned the two animals they caught. The girls hope to catch ten more beavers so that the entire troop can make mittens and hats with the fur. They also want to cook beaver meat.

Troop leaders and members say the Scouts are doing a good deed by helping control the state’s beaver population. But animal－rights activists say trapping is cruel. They want the Girl Scouts to stop in their tracks.

Beavers aren’t only causing a problem in Alaska. Residents in Sampson County, N.C. , have turned to a local committee to help them battle the growing beaver population there.

 County landowners are frustrated after the county spent more than $ 50,000 in eight years trying to reduce the beaver population through a government program. The joint state and federal program included paying money to trappers for every beaver carcass they trapped.

Many local residents say that the program didn’t work because there were too few trappers. That’s why the county set up its own committee to investigate other ways to control the area’s beaver population.

The county will rely on its own beaver－trapping program. It has hired a trapper to set traps in various areas. The county will pay $10 for every beaver carcass.

Why do many people say that beavers are a nuisance? For beavers to survive, they need lots of water. Water provides the large rodent （嚙齒動物）with a place to hide from meat – eating animals. Beavers also store food underwater for the winter. When there’s not enough water in a particular area, beavers get busy building dams.

Beaver dams can cause major flooding and damage to the surrounding countryside as the animals cut down trees to use in their construction projects. Beavers build canals to transport heavy objects.

59．What is Alaska’s Troop 34?

       A．A team of the Boy Scouts.                   B．An army.

       C．A team of the Girl Scouts.                    D．A sports team.

60．Why does the troop hope to catch ten more beavers?

       A．To fulfill their task.                              B．To sell them for money.

       C．To get enough fur.                              D．To exchange them for mittens and hats.

61．Which of the following statements is true?

       A．Sampson County has to find a new way to control the beaver population there.

       B．The government program in Sampson County has proved to be a success.

       C．The local government has controlled the number of beavers in the County.

       D．More and more trappers now start to set traps in Sampson County.

62．Local residents hate beavers because they can ___________.

       A．cause damage to dams

       B．block up canals with heavy objects.

       C．do great harm to construction projects.

       D．badly damage the environment and cause floods.

Learning new words is learning new ideas: High school students can take control of their

learning by always looking up new words and finding out what they mean. They should keep a dictionary and a thesaurus close at hand.

Make clear lists: Students should make a list of everything that they need to get done. They should check off assignments （作業(yè)）once completed. They should include clear due dates.

Make a commitment: Active learners will resolve to keep up –to-date from the start. They will avoid procrastinating (delay doing something). They will complete most of their work as early as possible.

Independent work is best: Students will so all assignments independently—they will never copy! Students who copy are passive learners. Passive learners do not give their mind a chance to think on its own.

Organization is key: Students should keep an excellent folder and notebook. All problems should be clearly stated and solutions given. All tests and quizzes should be corrected and used as study guides for exams and finals.

All actions without solutions are dead: Active learners will always show their work needed to solve a problem. Active learners will never turn in a list of answers without giving an explanation or a solution.

Advanced reading: Students should do any required reading for the topic before class. They should write an outline of the section or chapter. They should actively take notes as they read to help them remember.

56．If you want to be successful in exams and finals you should        .

      A．give your mind a chance to think on its own

       B．check off your papers once completed

       C．keep an excellent folder and notebook

       D．hand in your homework on time

57．If you want to be an active learner you           .

       A．shouldn’t copy others assignments

       B．shouldn’t write an outline before class

       C．needn’t correct mistakes in the tests

       D．needn’t kept a dictionary at hand

58．The best title of the passage is “         ”.

       A．How to Be an Effective Reader              B．How to Get Good Scores in Tests

       C．How to Collect Academic Information    D．How to Actively Study in High School

Mum keeps telling me “Turn the radio down!” or “Can’t you listen to anything else” or “I don’t know how you can  36  with all noises.” Even my friends at school don’t appreciate the  37  I love, and my best friend told me I am a ‘radio junkie.’

I thought about the music that  38  me each day. It represented a wide range of music  39  ——I certainly wasn’t narrow—minded. I don’t only listen to hard roc, but also to music from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, and it isn’t really that  40  . Perhaps my mum and dad aren’t as square as I thought they were, if that’s the sort of music they  41  .

While music is the most important  42  I listen to my radio, it’s not the only one. my favorite station has many  43  presenters, from the wake—up show to the latest night ‘stop—outs’, and with all sorts of up —beat variations in between. My ‘must—listen—to’  44  is the top 40 countdown where I get to   45  all the latest and very best music selections.

Do I learn anything form the  46  I listen to? Of course I do! If you listen   47  to the lyrics of most songs, they have something to  48  about every aspect of life. People who are sad, mad, glad or bad, all  49  their feelings in the songs they sing or in the music they play. You see, I’m learning  50  other people cope with these feelings, and in some small way, it’s helping me too.

Competitions, talk—back programs and the dreaded ‘a(chǎn)ds’, are all  51  of radio, but it’s the music that attracts me most. I’ve   52  learned to do all sorts of things while listening to the music on the radio. I can do my homework, play sport, have a shower, get dressed,   53  while listening to the radio!

I’d rather not be  54  radio junkie, but if that’s the word that describes my radio listening  55  most exactly, then I guess I’ll have to live with it. my music suits me and I suit my music.

36．A．talk                     B．think                   C．listen                   D．deal

37．A．noise                   B．radio                   C．music                 D．thing

38．A．surrounds            B．encourages          C．educates              D．touches

39．A．lovers                 B．boxes                  C．lessons                D．styles

40．A．new                    B．bad                     C．perfect                D．particular

41．A．repeated              B．played                 C．enjoyed               D．wrote

42．A．reason                 B．thing                   C．excuse                D．subject

43．A．experienced         B．different              C．popular               D．excellent

44．A．performance        B．record                 C．edition                 D．favorite

45．A．collect                 B．see                      C．hear                    D．buy

46．A． songs                B．concerts              C．bands                  D．programs

47．A．exactly                B．carefully              C．immediately         D．constantly

48．A．worry                 B．a(chǎn)rgue                  C．care                    D．say

49．A．express               B．understand           C．share                  D．describe

50．A．whether              B．that                     C．how                    D．why

51．A．topics                 B．sorts                   C．value                   D．part

52．A．even                   B．ever                    C．a(chǎn)lready                D．just

53．A．those                  B．a(chǎn)ll                       C．ones                   D．everything

54．A．regarded              B．elected                C．called                  D．named

55．A．stations               B．hobbies               C．selections            D．habits

They moved to England in 2007 and lived in a big house,     to the south.

       A．the windows of which opened              B．the windows of it opened

       C．its windows opened                             D．the windows of which opening