An old woman lost her only son. The sad woman went to a clever man and asked, “Is there any way I can throw away my ______ ?”

The clever man said to her, “Go and bring ____ a seed (种子) from a home that

has never known sadness. I will ______ it to drive the sadness out of your life.” The woman went off at once to look _____ that magical seed.

First, she came to a beautiful house, knocked at the door, and asked ____ , “Excuse me, I am looking for a home that has never known sadness. Is this such a place? It is very important to me.”

They told her, “You’ve certainly come to the _____ place,” and began to describe all the sad things that had recently happened to them.

The woman said to herself, “Who is able to ____ these people that have had such sadness like me?” She stayed to cheer them up _____ she went on looking for a home that had never known sadness.

But wherever she went, whether in the homes of the poor or the rich, she found one sad ___ after another. She became so busy helping other people that she ____about looking for a seed that would magically end her own sadness. She even never realized that her helping others had driven the sadness out of her life.

1.A. happiness B. kindness C. sadness D. illness

2.A. me B. you C. her D. him

3.A. push B. use C. lend D. lose

4.A. at B. up C. for D. after

5.A. politely B. happily C. proudly D. angrily

6.A. right B. wrong C. clean D. dirty

7.A. catch B. order C. hide D. help

8.A. before B. after C. when D. while

9.A. man B. woman C. story D. trip

10.A. knew B. worried C. thought D. forgot

Welcome to Burger Master

1.You cannot order ___________ in Burger Master .

A. Coke B. grape juice C. milk shake D. tea

2.On the menu, the most expensive dessert is_______ and the cheapest salad is _______ .

A. a donut; fruit salad B. a donut; chicken salad

C. an apple pie; fruit salad D. an apple pie; garden salad

3.If you have only 3.5 dollars, what can you order?

A. A large cup of milk shake and two donuts. B. An ice cream and one large French fries.

C. A small hamburger and an ice cream. D. A regular cup of Coke and an apple pie.

4.Jeff should pay _____ if he wants to order a small king burger, a large cup of orange juice and eight chicken nuggets on Monday .

A. $8.5 B. $9 C. $10.5 D. $11

Hover Camera (无人相机)

Wang Mengqiu, the inventor of Hover Camera, was born in Hangzhou in 1982. He once studied at Stanford University in the United States. He became famous because of the invention.

Forget selfie sticks (自拍杆)! Compared to other cameras, Hover Camera has many advantages.

* It can fly and stay in mid-air, track your face and even follow you to make sure it gets the perfect picture.

* It can be controlled by using a smart phone(智能手机).

* It records movements with a 13MP camera and takes 4K video.

* It is the best choice for weddings, sports games and holidays.

Mr. Wang also said, “The main design consideration is easy and safe to take for the users. It’s very light and small. It can be folded in two, so it can be easily put into a bag. When the power is low, it can land on the ground safely on its own.” It’s said that the company has raised $25 million to produce it. As it is still being tested, Hover Camera can be bought later this year. The price has not yet been decided. But a spokesman says the company hopes to sell it for less than $600.

1.Hover Camera can _________.

A. swim in the river B. fly in the mid-air

C. change its weight D. be used as a phone

2.The underlined word “track” means ________.

A. Pull B. follow C. push D. show

3.According to the passage, why is Hover Camera easy and safe to take?

A. It’s light and small. B. It can be folded in three.

C. It doesn’t need power. D. Only a smart phone can make it land.

4.Which is not mentioned in the passage?

A. How can we control Hover Camera? B. When can we buy Hover Camera?

C. How much is Hover Camera? D. How popular will Hover Camera be?

Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plane. So airlines( 航 空 公 司 ) offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree?

To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don’t want to lose customers.

However, according to scientific research, part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude(海拔) we can not taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure(气压) reduces(降低) one third of the sensibility(感觉) of our taste buds ( 味 蕾 ). So our taste buds become senseless. The sad fact, however, is that our noses don’t know it.

All of these help explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. They also help explain why airlines choose to offer passengers salty and spicy(辛辣的) food. Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.

Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feeling about food taste.

Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can’t deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure(气压), making food taste good is still hard for them.

1.In Paragraph 2, this problem means________.

A. passengers stay long in the plane B. food on the plane tastes bad

C. passengers have no food to eat D. food on the plane is expensive

2.From Paragraph3, we know that________.

A. No one can find out the reasons

B. people can taste well anywhere and anytime

C. high altitude is part of the reason of plane food’s bad taste

D. our noses are not dry or wet on the plane all the time

3.Why do scientists feel it hard to make food on the plane taste good?

A. The volunteers don’t know about food taste.

B. The volunteers don’t understand them at all.

C. They can’t find enough volunteers to try it.

D. They can’t solve the special environment problem.

4.What is the best title of the passage?

A. Taste of Airplane Food. B. Airplane Travel.

C. Scientific Research on Noses. D. The Change in Air Pressure.

China is a great country with the largest population in the world. In order to solve the population problem, our government carried out one-child policy (政策)before. When it is carried out for some time, many people not only see its advantages but also disadvantages.

From 2016, two-child policy is put into effect. In my opinion, two-child policy is good. First of all, two-child policy is the gift for some only child. For some families, maybe the parents are only child and they also can have only child. Besides the loneliness of their child, when their child grows up and they grow older, their child marry an only child girl, the burden(负担)on their child and his wife is too heavy. Their child and his wife have to take care of two couples. Usually, a young couple looking after an old couple is a little difficult. But if their parents have two children, they can share the burden of taking care of their parents. It would be much better. Secondly, two-child policy can guarantee (保证) the number of Chinese population.

All in all, one-child policy has been out of date. And two-child policy is needed and necessary. It can solve the problems of nowadays and the future.

1.The underlined phrase“carried out” in Paragraph 1 means “______ ”in Chinese.

A. 携带 B. 取消 C. 禁止 D. 实行

2.Our government carried out one-child policy before in order to_______ .

A. solve the population problem B. take care of two old couples

C. share the burden of taking care of their parents D. argue that two-child policy should be put into effect

3.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. One-child policy has its advantages and disadvantages.

B. It’s easy for a young couple to look after an old couple.

C. China is a great country with the largest population in the world.

D. For some families, maybe the parents are only child and they also can have only child before 2016.

4.What’s the main idea of this passage?

A. Two-child policy is needed and necessary.

B. Our government carried out one-child policy.

C. Two-child policy is the gift for some only child.

D. Two-child policy can guarantee the number of Chinese population.

听一段独白，然后根据所听内容完成以下小题。短文听三遍。( 每空只写一词 )

根据汉语和首字母提示写出在空缺处单词的正确形式，使句子完整。

Susie and I are good friends and we study in the same school but d1. classes. I usually go to the library to increase my 2. (知识) of the world, unless I have my volleyball practice. Both of us have many 3. ( 爱好) . We enjoy swimming, reading and 4. ( 听) to music. On Saturdays, we will go for a walk or go to the 5. (科学) museum .

Last Sunday we went to a famous concert at the Victoria Concert Hall. Two girls sat 6. ( 后面) us. They began to talk loudly when the concert started. Even we could not hear the music clearly. The old man beside us turned around and looked at them7.(生气地). They stopped talking after that. Anyway I enjoyed 8. ( 我自己) a lot.

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容,回答下列各题 (每空词数不限)。

It’s often said that you can’t “ teach an old dog new skills”, but these three New Zealand dogs have changed the saying by learning a skill------driving a car.

To get their training started. 10-month-old Porter, 18-month-old Monty and one-year-old Cinny were chosen from seven dogs. And they were sent to Animal Q, a talent center that specialized ( 专攻 ) in teaching animals skills for movies and TV shows.

The three dogs were taught by the trainer Marke Vette. The two-month driving classes began with teaching the dogs some basic driving skills like turning the steering wheels ( 方向盘) . After that the dogs practiced everything they had learned. Finally, it was time for the big test------driving a real car.

As we know, human cars aren’t built for four-legged animals. The car that people drove had to be improved so that the dogs could easily reach the steering wheels with their paws( 爪子 ). A stick attached( 固定 ) to the accelerator(油门)and brake ( 刹车 ) helped start and stop the car. All the three dogs passed the test without human help. Monty was the best of the three.

It’s hoped that these pioneers will land their names in the Cuinness World Records as the world’s “First Driving Dogs”.

1.The three dogs were trained to ____________.

2.Animal Q specialized in ____________.

3.____________ was the oldest dog of the three.

4.The dogs’ driving classes lasted ____________.

5.The stick attached to the accelerator and brake could help dogs ___________________.

你是学生会主席。本周六学校将组织学生参观自然博物馆。请你以学生会的名义写一份通知，内容如下:

1.集合时间、地点:上午9点，学校操场

2.时间安排:乘大巴车前往；参观2小时；12点左右回到学校

3.活动内容:了解一些野生动物的情况，参观活动后将讨论最喜爱的动物，并写一篇参观日记。

4.注意事项:遵守博物馆参观须知(至少写出3项)；注意保管好个人物品；记住车号，按时返回

1.集合时间、地点:上午9点，学校操场

2.时间安排:乘大巴车前往；参观2小时；12点左右回到学校

3.活动内容:了解一些野生动物的情况，参观活动后将讨论最喜爱的动物，并写一篇参观日记。

4.注意事项:遵守博物馆参观须知(至少写出3项)；注意保管好个人物品；记住车号，按时返回

要求: 1.词数80个左右。开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

2.用上表格内所有的内容提示, 自由发挥的内容必须围绕主题。

3.文中不得出现真实的人名、校名等相关信息。

Notice

Our school will organize a trip to the Nature Museum this Saturday.

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Students’ Union

英语字母共有 个，其中元音字母有 个。

A. 48; 3 B. 48; 5 C. 26 ; 5