4.People used to tell the time from the p_______________ of the sun.

3. With the d_________ of science and technology, our life is becoming more and more comfortable.

2.It is expected that in the future h _______ will be replaced by robots in some areas.

单词拼写

1.Many people in Africa die of h _______ every year because of lack of food.

Polar bears are suffering in a 35.  (warm) world than ever before.

Polar bears live in the environment too cold for

most animals. 36.     much of the year, they live and hunt on the frozen Arctic sea ice. Nature has prepared 37.   (they) for the cold conditions.

But nothing has prepared the bears for the danger that 38.   (threat) the only home they know.

The polar bears' world is melting. Studies show-that the polar ice has reduced by 9. 8% every 10 years 39.   1978. Now about 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears live in the Arctic. Polar bears depend on the sea ice for their 40.      (survive).  "The sea ice is more than just this platform that the bears walk over," says Andrew Derocher, 41.    scientist who studies   North   American   polar   bear populations. "42.   it, they can't exist."

Some melting and refreezing of the polar ice is natural. 43.    in a warmer world, these cycles speed up, and bears have less time to hunt. Normally,they have three months in the spring when they gain more weight. The extra fat is used later, 44.       the bears are not actively hunting.

Franklin: Wow ！ Look at all these books ！ I bet I 25.  find a book about anything here!

Librarian ： Sh ！ Please keep your voice 26.    .There are people reading and studying here.

Franklin: OK, I'm sorry.  Are you the librarian? Maybe you can help me. I 27.     (look) for a book.

Librarian; Yes, I am. You can check our online catalogue to search for the book you want 28.  (base) on the field, title 29.   if you know the author, I can point you towards the right direction.

Franklin:I am looking for a book 30.   hasnursery rhymes.

Librarian:That would be in our children's section, that bookshelf there on the right.

Franklin： OK, I would like to check out these books.

Librarian;Do you have 31.    library card?

Franklin;No. How do I get one?

Librarian;I just need to see your driver's licence or utility bill. 32.   is necessary to prove that you are a resident of this state.

Franklin; Here you go.

Librarian ： So you are all set. You can have these

books for two weeks. 33.      you need to have them 34.  (long) , you can bring them here to renew them.

Franklin;OK, thanks！

One October morning, the sky was clear and the sun was shining. Bethany Hamilton decided to go 5 with some friends in Hawaii.

As one of the best teenage surfers in the world, the 13-year-old American girl was planning to become a 6 surfer. Cheerfully, she was lying on her surf?board, waiting for the next big wave. Suddenly, a big shark 7 her left arm and shook her backwards and forwards. Bethany held onto her board and the shark eventually swam away—but it took her 8 away with it. 9 ， it attacked only once. It happened so fast that she didn't even 10 .

As Bethany started to swim back to the beach with one arm, her friends thought she was joking. But to her horror, they saw the  11  and rushed to help.

Having lost almost  half the  blood, Bethany's 12   was a miracle(奇迹)，according to doctors. But she wanted to do  13 survival.

"It never crossed my mind that I might never get on a surfboard again," she recalled later.  " I wondered whether I would actually be   14   to do it or not. But 15   I left hospital, I had decided that I was going to surf.

With the support of her family, Bethany 16 to get back on her board only one month after the attack. Her dad fixed a handle on her surfboard to help her pad-dle (划水)through and into waves.

When she returned to surfing at a competition in Hawaii, Bethany was 17 in dangerous waves that broke her surfboard. As a result, she gave away her re?maining boards and quit. She tried using an artificial arm, but it turned out to be  18   while surfing.

After 19 in Thailand in the 2004 earthquake and helping homeless survivors who had lost every?thing, Bethany 20 her decisions to give up the sport she loved and 21 to try professional surfing again. Less than a year after the accident, she won first place in a surfing competition in Hawaii. And all her struggles and efforts 22 when she won a world championship years later.

She also received several 23 ， including a spe?cial award for courage at the MTV Teen Choice Awards in 2004 and the Woman of the Year award from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 2006. Her 24 ， true story gained wider attention with the release(发行)of the film Soul Surfer.

5.    A.   swimming     B. boating

C.  sailing     D. surfing

6.    A.  professional    B. free

C.    dream     D.    special

7.    A.    touched   B.    struck

C.    bit   D.    took

8.    A.    arm  B.    surfboard

C.    friend      D.    hand

9.    A.    Strangely B.    Especially

C.    Surprisingly    D.    Fortunately

10.   A.    think       B.    fight

C.    scream    D.    escape

11.   A.    shark       B.    blood

C.    attack      D,    scene

12.   A.    survival   B.    courage

C.    accident   D.    injury

13.   A.    rather than      B.    more than

C.    better than      D.    other than

14.   A.   suitable  B. lucky

C.  strong      D. able

15.   A.  while      B. after

C.   before    D. until

16.   A.  hoped      B. managed

C.  agreed     D. offered

17.   A.  caught     B. noticed

C.  lost  D. driven

18.   A.   helpful  B. useless

C.  wonderful       D. meaningless

19.   A.   training B. settling

C.   travelling      D. volunteering

20.   A.   reconsidered  B. remembered

C.  recognized      D, recalled

21.   A.  refused    B. started

C.  decided    D. continued

22.   A.  paid out   B.  paid for

C.   paid in          D.   paid off

23.   A.  gifts B. honours

C.   rewards  D. praises

24.   A.   exciting B. dangerous

C.  inspiring  D. adventurous

书面表达

上周开始，父母要李明住校学习，而他却喜欢住在家里，双方各持己见。假设你是李明，请用英语把这个情况告诉《中学生英语报》某栏目组，请求主持人给予建议。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.书信的格式和开头已写好，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：住校board in the school Dear Sir,

I'm a student of Senior 1. I am writing to ask you for some advice.

Yours ， Li Ming

语法填空

   Far and away the most important holiday in China is the Spring Festival, also known 26.____________ the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as 27._____(importance) as Christmas to people in the West. The dates for this annual celebration 28.____(determine) by the lunar calendar rather than the solar calen-dar, 29.______the timing of the holiday varies from late January to early February.

   To the ordinary Chinese, the festival 30.______________(actual) begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and 31.______ on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.  But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival 32._______(mean) the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of the country.

The Spring Festival is the most important and popular festival in China. 33._____________   the Spring Festival, the people usually clean and decorate their hou?ses. And they go to the Flower Fairs to buy some flow?ers. During the Spring Festival, the 34. ― usu?ally give lucky money to children. People often get to?gether and have a big meal. Some people eat dumplings for dinner. It's really a festival for the whole nation 35.____..

26._________________       27. _________________

28. _________________      29._________________                         

30._________________       31._________________

32._________________       33._________________

34._________________       35._________________

Next time you hear a funny joke you'd better not laugh too hard. According to a paper published by the British Medical Journal ， laughter isn't always the best medicine. Sometimes it can even be harmful. Professor Robin Ferner from the University  of Birmingham, one of the authors of the study, found that bad things could happen to people who laughed too much. He says, "We found people with heartbeat problems which had stopped their hearts, we found people who had fainted (昏倒)，and we found people who'd dislocated their jaws or burst their lungs."

It seems that laughing can be no laughing matter. But it's not all doom and gloom. Professor Ferner says there are benefits to laughing when you want to lose weight, for example. Yes, that's right: laugh and be slimmer! Professor Ferner explains, " You use energy when you laugh, you move your diaphragm(横JH膜)， you expand your lungs, and both those things can be helpful.，，

According to the research, laughing for a quarter of an hour can burn up to 40 calories, and if you laugh all day you'll use up about 2， 000 calories, which is what most people consume in a day. But don't do that or you might end up with a painful jaw. Ouch! Or you might find people looking at you in a funny way.

But I don't want to finish this article leaving you feeling desperate. Laughter comes naturally for most of us. Babies begin to laugh at around 3〜6 months. So give in to your sense of humour and keep smiling. Life is short anyway.

1.    Laughing too much may cause the following harmfulresults EXCEPT     .

A.    heart stop

B.    diaphragm movement

C.    lung burst

D.    jaw dislocation

2.    The underlined phrase " doom and gloom" in Paragraph 2 probably means " 

A. hopeless     B. funny

C.  painful    D. nervous

3.    How many calories can you use if you laugh for half a day?

A.    About 40.

B.    About 1， 000.

C.    About 2, 000.

D.    About 2， 040.

4.    What is the author's attitude towards laughing in the last paragraph?

A, Uninterested.     B. Disapproving.

C.  Worried.  D. Favourable.