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When you are little, the whole world feels like a big playground．I was living in Conyers, Georgia the summer it all happened．I was a second grader, but my best friend Stephanie was only in the first grade．Both of our parents were at work and most of the time they let us go our own way．

It was a hot afternoon and we decided to have an adventure in Stephanie’s basement．As I opened the basement door, before us lay the biggest room, full of amazing things like guns, dolls, and old clothes．I ran downstairs, and spotted a red steel can．It was paint．I looked beyond it and there lay even more paint in bright colors like purple, orange, blue and green．

“Stephanie, I just found us a project for the day. Get some paintbrushes．We are fixing to paint．” She screamed with excitement as I told her of my secret plans and immediately we got to work．We gathered all the brushes we could find and moved all of our materials to my yard．There on the road in front of my house, we painted bit stripes (条纹) of colors across the pavement．Stripe by stripe, our colors turned into a beautiful rainbow．It was fantastic!

The sun was starting to sink．I saw a car in the distance and jumped up as I recognized the car．It was my mother．I couldn’t wait to show her my masterpiece．The car pulled slowly into the driveway and from the look on my mother’s face, I could tell that I was in deep trouble．

My mother shut the car door and walked towards me．Her eyes glaring, she shouted, “What in the world were you thinking? I understood when you made castles out of leaves, and climbed the neighbors’ trees, but this! Come inside right now!” I stood there glaring back at her for a minute, angry because she had insulted (侮辱) my art．

“Now go clean it up!” Mother and I began cleaning the road．Tears ran down my checks as I saw my beautiful rainbow turn into black cement (水泥)．

Though years have now passed, I still wonder where my rainbow has gone．I wonder if, maybe when I get older, I can find my rainbow and never have to brush it away．I guess we all need sort of rainbow to brighten our lives from time to time and to keep our hopes and dreams colorful．

1.What did the writer want to do when his mother came home?

A．To introduce Stephanie to her．

B．To prevent her from seeing his painting．

C．To put the material back in the yard．

D．To show his artwork to her．

2.In his mother’s eyes, the writer_______．

A．was a born artist

B．always caused trouble

C．was a problem solver

D．worked very hard

3.The underlined word “rainbow” in the last paragraph refers to ______．

A．the rainbow in the sky

B．the stripes on the pavement

C．something imaginative and fun

D．important lessons learned in childhood

4.It can be learned from the passage that parents should ________．

A．encourage children to paint

B．value friendship among children

C．discover the hidden talent in children

D．protect rather than destroy children’s dreams

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Decreasing grain prices along with growing costs of production means Chinese farmers are unlikely to see a significant rise in income next year.

China’s economic planning chief Ma Kai expressed the concern as the government undertakes an ambitious program to improve rural people’s lives.

Grain prices have been dropping since April; and prices of wheat, corn and rice fell 5 per cent from August to October compared with the same period last year, Ma, minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, told an annual meeting on development and reform held over the weekend.

Meanwhile, prices of production materials rose 9.1 per cent year on year during the first 10 months.

The situation makes it difficult to achieve a “new socialist countryside,” which was last week highlighted（引起注意）as a new concept and “common action” of the whole Party and nation.

Vice-Minister of Agriculture Yin Chengjie also said China’s entry to the World Trade Organization also creates hurdles for income rises for the country’s 780 million farmers.

Farmers’ income is expected to increase by 5 per cent this year, hitting the target set by the central government at the beginning of this year.

Last year, per capita net income（个人平均纯收入）of Chinese farmers reached 2,936 yuan (US$362), up 6.8 per cent year on year, and the highest increase since 1997.

Ma also said China would continue to seek fast, steady economic growth in 2012 but more efforts will be made to deal with the challenges brought about by overheating in some industrial sectors (区域).

(from China Daily, December 5, 2011)

1.The writer thinks it difficult to achieve a “new socialist countryside” because _____.

A. grain prices decrease and production costs grow

B. “new socialist countryside” is a new concept

C. prices of production materials rose 9.1 percent

D. many farmers are working in industrial sectors

2.The underlined word “hurdles” in Paragraph 6 means _____ .

A. promotion B. fear

C. difficulties D. possibility

3.From1997 to 2011, the highest increase in farmers’ income was achieved in _____.

A. 2009 B. 2010 C. 2011 D. 2008

Recently some articles claims the word ‘‘selfie” as one of the most annoying words. But I’d like to offer that maybe it is not so bad.

The “selfie” is used to describe the self-taken photo, often from a smart phone. Women and men decorate their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts with these pictures, sometimes with puckered (翘起) lips or large smiles. In fact, the selfie has become so widely known that over 31 million photos on Instagram are taken with the selfie.

Let’s think about it. Someone takes about 10 selfies each time they do, and they only end up posting one or two of those. They pick the one that they feel makes them look the best. Isn’t that beautiful? In that one picture, someone has given himself or herself confidence. Self-image is important. In society today, we are often so consumed with the feeling that what society tells us is perfect. But maybe, with that one selfie, we feel that we fit that bill. We feel handsome, beautiful, confident, smart, happy and content. For that moment, everything bad or terrible that has ever happened to us is erased (消除), because that smile or that pucker is what gives us the determination to love ourselves.

I saw a spoken word poem recently and the young man said: If I ask you what you love, the answers will most likely roll off your tongue. You love to read. You love to write. You love birds, music, your mom, your brother, your sister, your daughter, your best friend, your dog. How long do you think you can go on and on before you say “I love myself”.

That statement hit me like a ton of bricks. I’ve struggled with confidence all of my life. I still do. And in no way am I saying that taking a selfie is a gateway to that confidence. However, the selfie does deserve some credit for allowing individuals to express themselves. Pamela Rutledge agrees, stating, “There are many more photographs available now of real people than models.”

1. According to the author, selfie ______.

A. is an annoying habit for people

B. becomes a fashion among teenagers

C. makes a person become self-centered

D. gives a person a sense of confidence

2. According to the writer, we live in a society where ______.

A. being perfect is highly valued

B. people judge others by their appearance

C. confidence is based on one’s self-images

D. beauty almost decides everything

3.The author mentions a poem in the passage to stress ______.

A. the power of true love

B. the need to love ourselves

C. the kinds of love we have

D. the endless love we get

4. The best title for the passage is ______.

A. The Meaning of Selfie

B. A Fashion of Selfie

C. A Praise of Selfie

D. The Criticism of Selfie

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

1. We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning. We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers. 2. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor.

Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. 3.

4. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.

5. A statement of opinion by one writer may be restated as a fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.

A. Typically, the original message has changed.

B. Finally everybody gets the meaning.

C. Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem.

D. Knowledge is passed down from generation to generation.

E. That’s what happens in daily life.

F. This process is also found among scholars and authors.

G. We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg just had a baby girl named Max, and to honor the occasion, he’s giving away the majority of his wealth．In the letter 1. (write) by Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to 2. (they) new baby girl, he announced the birth of his first child and the 3. (create) of the Chan Zuckerberg Fund, 4. will focus on curing disease, connecting people and 5. (build) strong communities．

“For your generation to live in 6. better world, there is so much more our generation can do,” Zuckerberg wrote．“Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges．” The couple 7. (donate) nearly all of their Facebook stock to the cause．“We will give 99% of our Facebook shares － currently about $45 billion － to advance this 8. (value) mission,” he wrote．“We know this is a small contribution compared 9. all the resources and talents already working on these issues．But we want to do 10. we can, working along with many others．

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

About five years ago my family moved to Iowa and I started going to a new school. I was a little ________, but I worried I would never ________ with the other eleventh graders. Lucy, a girl in my class was not ________ for the change. I thought she didn’t ________ me from the start. In fact, I was ________ that she hated me. When I asked her a ________, she answered me impatiently as if I was a total ________. My teacher made us ________ next to each other in the last semester. Lucy didn’t like that ________.I didn’t wear make-up (化妆), and I didn’t ________ those awesome (可怕的) jeans everyone else was wearing. I didn’t exactly ________ the coolest girl. However, I kept smiling at her, ________ she rolled her eyes at me (翻白眼). I kept telling her she looked ________, even if she was angry. ________, Lucy let me talk to her, even ________ her "cool" friends. She started ________ me how beautiful I looked. I still remember the first time when she ________ at me saying that, and I smiled right back, telling her a joke. Lucy ________ me to her house for parties, and talked to me all the time. Lucy, the girl who had ________ me, called me her best friend. I will never forget a ________ written by Abraham Lincoln: "Am I not destroying (消灭) my enemies when I make friends of them?"

1.A. surprisedB. nervousC. excitedD. sad

2.A. take upB. fit inC. get upD. wait for

3.A. readyB. quietC. thankfulD. blind

4.A. seeB. helpC. moveD. like

5.A. sureB. sorryC. afraidD. glad

6.A. reasonB. leaveC. questionD. favour

7.A. studentB. foolC. winnerD. stranger

8.A. talkB. walkC. standD. sit

9.A. ideaB. informationC. wayD. style

10.A. put onB. try onC. dressD. wear

11.A. look forB. look afterC. look atD. look like

12.A. becauseB. sinceC. thoughD. as

13.A. beautifulB. uglyC. fatD. young

14.A. HappilyB. CarefullyC. FinallyD. Helplessly

15.A. withB. in front ofC. atD. next to

16.A. tellingB. askingC. questioningD. watching

17.A. pointedB. shoutedC. smiledD. laughed

18.A. pushedB. beggedC. expectedD. invited

19.A. forgottenB. hatedC. beatenD. missed

20.A. letterB. warningC. bookD. sentence

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(﹨)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

When I was a child, I hope to live in the city. I thought I would be happy there. Now I am living in a city, but I miss my home in countryside. There the air is clean or the mountains are green. Unfortunate, as industrialization develops, the environment has been polluted. Lots of studies have been shown that global warming has already become a seriously problem. The airs we breathe in is getting dirtier and dirtier. Much rare animals are dying out. They must found ways to protect our environment. If we fail to do so, we’ll live to regret it.

—I’ve nothing on me except this ten yuan to donate, I’m afraid.

—Never mind. ________. We really appreciate your assistance.

A. Every little helps

B. The more, the better

C. It’s better to give than to receive

D. No one is perfect

Pocket Tape-Recorders “Family and Home Magazine” test what’s on the market now.

1）Pearlcorder S702 $64

This simple model at the bottom of the Olympus range scored the most points for its excellent quality of recording. Background noise hardly affects the sound and recording from a pocket is perfectly possible, but it doesn’t turn off automatically.

Tape length: 30 minutes per side. Weight:240g.

2）Sony M9 $49.95

Small and very good looking, sony’s latest offering scored most for appearance. Sounds clear, but there is slight machine noise. The big control buttons are a great improvement on some of the complicated little controls on other tape-recorders. Doesn’t switch off automatically but a red light shows if the machine is still running.

Tape length: 60 minutes per side. Weight: 195g.

3）Sony M400 $115

Lots of little control buttons that make a noise and are difficult to use . Recording was good but machine noise lost points. Tape counter and automatic switch-off when tape has finished recording or rewinding are useful Tape length: 60 minutes per side. Weight: 230g.

4）Imperial OEM. MC $29.95

Cheap and simple compared with the rest, but recording was good as long as there was no background noise. Use only its own make of cassette. No light to show it is on; no fast forward button and the record button makes a loud noise.

Tape length: 30 minutes per side. Weight: 285g.

5）Philips 585 $80

Handsome and simple to use, but recording is very poor at more than the recommended distance of 5 cm-designed for dictation. No recording light. Tape length: 15 minutes per side. Weight: 220g.

1.The machine that produces the best recording with the least unwanted noise is the .

A．Pearlcorder S702 B．Sony M9

C．Sony M400 D．Imperial OEM MC7

2.Which machine is unsuitable for general use?

A．Pearlcorder S702 B．Imperial OEM MC7

C．Sony M400 D．Philips 585

3.What disadvantage does only the Imperial OEM MC have?

A．No light shows when it is on

B．It requires a special cassette.

C．It picks up background noise.

D．The record button makes a noise.

Pocket Tape-Recorders”Family and Home Magazine” test what’s on the market now.

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