3. 汤姆是个如此可爱的小男孩，周围所有的人都喜欢他。

Tom was            that everyone in the neighbourhood likes him. (so + —.. +a/an +单数可数名词+ ...)

2. 每当我发表意见的时候，她总是反驳。

                ，she argues back,        (every time+时间状语从句)

1. 你早该去睡觉了，你今晚看上去太疲劳了。

            you went to bed,for you look so tired tonight.(虚拟语气)

假如你叫李华，是一名高中生。你和外国笔友Lucy 都是文学爱好者，你们尤其喜欢英语诗歌。最近丄ucy发来电子邮件，询问你最喜欢哪一首英语诗歌，作者是谁，你为什么喜欢它。请根据自己的亲身体会，给Lucy写一封电子邮件。注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 开头和结尾巳经给出，不计人总词数。

Dear Lucy,

I am glad to tell you about my favourite poem. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours,Li Hua

Failure is part of our life. Somebody has ever achieved great success without lots of failures. One expe?rience left lasting impression on me. I've been fond of pla?ying the piano since my childhood. Last year there was a piano competition for teenager in my city and I took a part in it. I couldn't wait to show off. The day finally came. However,when I was on the stage I was very nervous that I made several mistakes while playing. My perform?ance was a completely failure！

It was only after the competition when I realized my failure resulted in my lack of practice. From then on,I devoted more time to play the piano because I firmly be?lieve that practice make perfect.

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My father was a highly educated,intelligent gentle?man. He could debate or discuss for hours on almost any topic and hold your 32       in the process. I thought there was nothing he wasn't  33       to do.

A few days before my younger brother's 7       th birthday. Dad planned to assemble (装配) a new 34       as a special birthday surprise. After nearly an hour of35       the instructions. Dad was still unable to36       the new bike together. Later he37       the paper of instructions,38       up his tool box,and decided to take the bike back to the local toy store and pay extra 39      to have it correctly assembled there.40       an idea came to him,as he called out to Lovett,the quiet little man who cut our grassland.

"Lovett,have you ever assembled a boy's bicycle?" As Lovett walked towards the bike,Dad handed him the   41       . Lovett handed it back to him,saying, "No,thanks. I can't read. When you can't read,you have to 42        Less than 15 minutes later,the new bicycle was 43      ; assembled,with no 44      parts remaining. Dad shook Lovett's hand,patted him on the back,thanked him,and hid the bike.

On the night after my brother received his shiny new gift,Dad announced at the family dinner table what had happened several days earlier. He took great45      in telling it over and over again―he used it as an example of thinking.

He did not refer to illiteracy (文盲) ，but strongly taught us to use our 46       . The joke was on my father,47       he was able to turn it into a learning tool,and I liked him even more after that incident. I also gained a new 48       for Lovett. To me he had 49        been the old yard man who didn't50       much,but after that day,he seemed to smile51      ,even walk taller. It's amazing what a real nod of approval can do to lift people up.

32. A. belief   B. breath   C. view   D. attention

33. A. willing   B. able   C. lucky   D. capable

34. A. bicycle   B. toy   C. computer   D. boat

35. A. reviewing   B. reading   C. examining   D. searching

36. A. bring   B. get   C. work   D. put

37. A. looked through   B. folded up   C. turned to   D. devoted to

38. A. brought   B. added   C. picked   D. set

39. A. effort   B. tax

   C. service   D. money

40. A. Then   B. Thus

   C. Since   D. Though

41. A. tools   B. rotes   C. instructions   D. orders

42. A. exchange   B. think   C. learn   D. admit

43. A. partly   B. largely   C. hardly   D. fully

44. A. separate   B. different   C. major   D. spare

45. A. care   B. action   C. delight   D. risk

46. A. resources   B. heads   C. knowledge   D. hands

47. A. so   B. but   C. or   D. and

48. A. respect   B. reward   C. relief   D. regard

49. A. never   B. ever   C. always   D. often

50. A. say   B. show   C. care   D. earn

51. A. colder   B. weaker   C. broader   D. grayer

Five things to do in a traffic jam Tired of traffic jams? Here are some tips that can help you to calm down in a traffic jam. Listen to a CD audio book It's a good idea to keep several audio books in your car. 27       Listening to an exciting story is more inter?esting than sitting silently and being bored.

Sing loudly If you begin getting angry because of a long traffic jam,turn your CD player on or radio up. 28       Imagine you're a wonderful singer and the audience is listening to you in admiration. Your stress will disappear. 29       You can use the radio and play entertaining games while waiting. For example you can guess the song or the singer or see how quickly you can recognize a new song.

Have a snack (零食) Keeping a tasty snack in the car is especially good for waiting in traffic jams. Choose what you like most of all,so you will look forward to traffic jams to have a chance to eat the delicious snack. 30       In that case,time is the last thing to worry about.

Argue with the radio talk show host Find a station with a radio talk show. 31       If you disagree,you can show your anger. Don't be afraid to call their ideas stupid. Only make sure that the car windows are closed so no one may hear you.

Sitting in a traffic jam can be very stressful but next time you can use these simple tips,and you won't notice how long you have been waiting and soon you will be on your way.

   A. Play games

   B. Use the radio

   C. Enjoy every bite of it.

   D. Listen to their debates carefully.

   E. Loud singing can help to reduce stress.

   F. Begin to enjoy them as quickly as you can.

   G. The storyteller's voice can clear all your bad emo?tions.

I suppose that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our at?tention. And especially if it's given from the heart. When people are talking,there's no need to do anything but re?ceive them. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most time caring about it is even more important than un?derstanding it. Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this. It has taken me a long time to believe in the power of simply saying "I'm so sorry"? when someone is in pain.

One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted to tell her that they once had something just like that happening to them. Her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand,we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen,they know we care.

I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the hand?kerchiefs,until I realized that passing a person a handker-  chief may be just another way to shut him down,to take i them out of their experience of sadness. Now I just listen. i When they have cried all they need to cry,they find me there with them. , This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. It . certainly went against everything I had been taught since I¹ was very young.  I thought people listened only because they were too shy to speak or did not know the answer. But now I know that a loving silence often has far more power to heal than the kindest words.

23. What does the author value most in the communica?tion with each other?

   A. Deep understanding.

   B. Saying "I'm sorry."

   C. Attention from heart.

   D. Doing nothing.

24. The woman patient stopped telling her story to most people because         .

   A. she didn't get enough respect from others

   B. she was discouraged by being often interrupted

   C. people often told her their own opinions

   D. people couldn't understand her sad situation

 25.        If you hand a handkerchief to someone crying,you may         .

   A. hurt his feelings

   B. make him embarrassed

   C. encourage him to continue to cry

   D. stop him from letting out his sorrow

26. It can be inferred from the passage that while communicating,          .

   A. listening is a perfect way to respond to others

   B. people keep silent because they don't know the answer

   C. keeping silent means being too shy to speak

   D. it is easy to form the habit of listening silently

Cellphones are the new cigarettes When you get in your car,you reach for it. When you're at work,you take a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift,you play with it.

Cigarettes? Cup of coffee? No,it's the third most ad?dictive thing in modern life,the cellphone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their desire to hug it more tightly than most of their per?sonal relationships.

With its shiny surface,its smooth and satisfying touch,its air of complexity,the cellphone connects us to the world even as it disconnects us from people three feet away. In just the past couple of years,the cellphone has challenged individuals,employers,phone makers and counselors (顾问) in ways its inventors in the late 1940s never imagined.

The costs are becoming even more evident,and I don't mean just the monthly bill. Dr Chris Knippers,a counselor at the Betty Ford Centre in Southern California,reports that the overuse of cellphones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addic?tions; a barrier to one-on-one personal contact,and an es?cape from reality.

Sounds extreme,but we've all witnessed the evi?dence: the person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal,ignoring his kids around the ta?ble; the woman who talks on the phone in the car,igno?ring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school,avoiding contact with kids all around him.

Is it just rude,or is it a kind of unhealthiness? And pardon me,but how is this improving the quality of life?

Jim Williams? an industrial sociologist based in Mas?sachusetts,notes that cellphone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation. He points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. De?spite the growing use of phones* email and instant messa?ging,in other words? Williams says studies show that we don't have as many friends as our parents. "Just as more information has led to less wisdom,more acquaintances via the Internet and cellphones have produced fewer friends," he says.

If the cellphone has truly had these effects,it's be?cause it has become very widespread. Consider that in 1987,there were only 1 million cellphones in use. Today,something like 300 million Americans carry them. They far outnumber wired phones in the United States.

20. Which of the following best explains the title of the passage?

   A. Cellphone users smoke less than they used to.

   B. More people use cellphones than smoke ciga?rettes.

   C. Cellphones have become as addictive as ciga?rettes.

   D. Using cellphone is just as cool as smoking ciga?rettes.

21. The underlined word " curb" in Paragraph 2 means      

   A. control   B. ignore   C. develop   D. rescue

22. The example of a woman talking on the phone in the car supports the idea that       .

   A. women use cellphones more often than men

   B. talking on the phone while driving is dangerous

   C. cellphones make one-on-one personal contact easy

   D. cellphones do not necessarily bring people together

A No poem should ever be discussed or "analysed"? until it has been read aloud by someone,teacher or student.  Better still,perhaps,is the practice of reading it twice,once at the be?ginning of the discussion and once at the end,so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it.

All discussions of poetry are,in fact,preparations for reading it aloud,and the reading of the poem is,final?ly,the most telling " interpretation" of it,suggesting tone,rhythm,and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice,on records or on film,is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching cannot replace the student and teacher reading it or,best of all,reciting it.

I have come to think,in fact,that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than "analysing" it,if there isn't time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is "a criticism of life", and "a heightening (提升) of life". It is "an approach to the truth of feeling", and it "can save your life". It also deserves a place in the teaching of language and literature more central than it presently occupies.

I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. Those who don't like it should not be forced to put that dislike on anyone else. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature,about its sound as well as its sense,and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as think?ing about it.

16. To have a better understanding of a poem,one should      

   A. discuss it with others

   B. analyse it by oneself

   C. copy it down in a notebook

   D. practise reading it aloud

17. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a func?tion of poetry?

   A. Extending your life.

   B. Saving your life.

   C. Criticizing life.

   D. Heightening life.

18. According to the writer,one of the purposes of teach?ing English is to get students to      ,

   A. understand life

   B. enjoy poetry

   C. become teachers

   D. become poets

19. The underlined phrase "make room" in the last paragraph could be best replaced by"          ”. ！

   A. build a room i

   B. provide equipment

   C. leave a certain amount of time

   D. set aside enough space