根據(jù)對話內(nèi)容，在每個標有題號的空白處填入一個適當?shù)木渥�，使對話完整，合乎情景�?/p>

    W：Hi，Peter! It has been several days since I saw you last time．

    M：Well, I have been away for a few days．

    W：0h?    1     

M：1 went to London with my father．

W：Did you go there for a holiday?

M：No．My aunt was ill．We went to see her．

W：    2       How is she now?

M：She’d much better．I think she will recover soon．

W：That’s good．      3     

M：By train．It’s fast and cheap．

W：    4       

M：It’s cool at this time of year．Sometimes it rains．I think it’s OK．

W：That’s great! I’m going there in three days for my summer holiday with my family．

M：    5   

W：Thank you．

A rabbit is running into his hole. You may ask, “What happened?”
Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they ran, too. They know there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee finds some food, it goes back to his home. It can’t tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.
But animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for examples, when a stranger comes near. A cat purrs(發(fā)出呼嚕呼嚕的聲音) when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning.
But human beings have something that no animals have---- a large number of words about things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things that have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of language.
No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.
People in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for examples, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we don’t know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we met a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the most useful book.
【小題1】What’s the meaning of the underlined word?

A．標語

B．信號

C．唱片

D．圖像

【小題2】A dog can tell something__________.

A．by giving signals	B．by making different sounds
C．by purring	D．by barking

【小題3】It has been proved that no animals are able to_________.

A．give the others information

B．express their actions and feelings with words

C．tell others how they feel

D．make different sounds, each with its own meaning.

【小題4】Generally speaking, what we mean by “vocabulary” is_______.

A．a(chǎn)ll the words that we know	B．more and more words we use
C．a(chǎn)ll the words we need	D．the dictionary which contains thousands of words

【小題5】What must we do in order to make our vocabulary larger?

A．Make more and more new words

B．look up some new words in a dictionary

C．learn more language

D．Try to read as many books as possible

用所給動詞的適當形式填空：（15分）

1.She ought_____________(not catch) that bus because it’s often late.

2.His action attracted the famous __________(France) writer’s attention.

3.The war has led to _____________(lose) of many people’s lives.

4.“It has been the __________(nine) take!” The director shouted angrily.

5.Zhou Xun ___________(win) several awards for the Best Actress over the past few years.

6.Which is ____________(far) place you have been to?

7.By the time we got to the airport, the plane_____________(take )off.

8.________________(make) greater progress, working hard is the key.

9.The old scientist devoted all her time she had to ___________(develop) the western parts of China.

10.Who draws _____________(bad),Tom, you or Jim?

11.Rubbish had better_________________(not throw) here and there.

12.At the scene of the crime, no one wants to say anything to break the __________(silent).

13.While she was doing her homework, her parents ___________(quarrel) with each other.

14.Young girls should learn to protect ___________(they) from all kind of danger.

15.Today, holding the Olympic Games ____________(consider) as a rich prize for a country.

 

閱讀短文, 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答問題。(共10分，每小題2分)

It's March, 2050.

Frank and Mary Smith wake up in their comfortable house in the morning and switch on the bedroom computer to get the latest news. They used to read the Times, but changed to electronic newspapers many years ago.                                                

There is the usual news about space: another space flight has returned from Mars and scientists have discovered a new planet. Then they turn to business news: the US dollar has risen greatly in Shanghai, one of the world's leading business centers. Mary tells the computer to buy 5,000 dollars, and there is a quick response that it has been done.

As they watch the screen, Mary orders one of the household robots to make coffee for them. Frank disappears into the study to join a video conference with his partners around the world. He is a computer engineer, working for several companies. This is his third job: he used to be in marketing and then television.

Mary has a quick look at the shopping channels - the usual selection of electric cars, household robots and cheap travel offers - before picking up the video phone to talk to her assistant. She also has a job and she is doing medical research. Both she and Frank used to have an office desk in London, but in 2014 they decided to move to the seaside and work from home.

Frank and Mary have one daughter, Louise, who also has her own workstation at home. She goes to school only one day a week, mainly to play with other students. Classrooms disappeared in 2030 because there was no longer any need for them: communications systems have made it much easier to learn at home.

Louise, now thirteen, is studying Chinese at present, which has become a world language as

important as English. Louise has many Chinese friends. They communicate by computer.

According to the family doctor, Louise will live to at least 130. Her wish is to work for a

few decades (十年) and then spend her time on music and painting.

1.Do Frank and Mary get the latest news on the computer in the morning?

2.Who makes coffee for Mary and Frank?

3.What does Frank do?

4.What are the two world languages in 2050?

5.What do you think of Louise's life in 2050? Why?

 

News one: As the pace of life in big cities is getting faster, people are looking for more ways to relax. Let’s take a look at one way people are reducing stress in Beijing. The game is “Room Escape”. “Room Escape” was originally a computer game. In recent years, it has been adapted to a real life game. There are more than 10 places in Beijing where people can play this game.
According to the rules, the players are first taken to a house with several iron doors. They then need to find a way out of the house in one hour. Different houses have different ways of escaping, all of which require players’ bold(大膽的), careful thought, and teamwork.
News two: The Chinese government has published a list of 24 guidelines(指南) on how to take better care of parents. They are a modern update to 24 old stories about respectful children from the Yuan Dynasty.
The guidelines list 24 things to do with parents, including giving them a call every week, teaching them to use the internet, and supporting single parents’ remarriage. The guidelines stem from a Yuan Dynasty book, about 24 filial-hearted children who treated their parents very well. It is a value younger generations should never forget.
【小題1】Why do people play “Room Escape”?

A．They play it for fun	B．They want to know how clever they are.
C．They want to find out different ways of escaping.	D．To relax themselves.

【小題2】They must escape from the house__________.

A．in an hour

B．in two hours

C．in several hours

D．in at least an hour

【小題3】To escape from the house, they don’t need___________.

A．a(chǎn) strong body

B．to act fearfully

C．to think carefully

D．to work together

【小題4】What should we not do to our parents?

A．Teach them to get online	B．Often talk with them
C．Ask them to marry again	D．Treat them carefully

【小題5】What does News Two tell us?

A．It asks us to read books from Yuan Dynasty.

B．It asks us to give our parents money.

C．It asks us to respect our parents.

D．It asks us to give them a call.