1. “ To have been caught a sandstorm was a terrible experience,” he said.

课文缩写

    Here is a story described by a college student from Inner Mongolia on sandstorms when he was a student of Senior High.

     As a student I had no 1 but to 2 to school every day. Although the night before,I got a warning from the local TV station 3 that a terrible sandstorm was coming. Early in the morning,I woke up. Sand and 4 could be seen everywhere. There were fewer people on the road,but the traffic moved slowly. It was very hard to breathe and see. It was the most 5 situation I had ever been in. It took me twice as much time to get to school as usual. And many students were 6 about the sandstorm.

    Why do sandstorms happen? 7 shows the sandstorms happen 8 climate changes and the poor natural 9 So it's 10 to take 11 to deal with the 12 by planting more trees,grass and so on.

      In a word,to be cycling in a sandstorm is 13 If you were unlucky to have been 14 in a sandstorm,you would hope you’d 15 , because everyone thought he was going to under the sand.

I.课文理解

（  ）1. What is the best description about a sandstorm according to the text?

   A. It is a major disaster for many Asian countries for centuries.

   B. It is strong wind carrying sand.

   C. It is a way to cause land to become desert.

   D. It is a kind of natural disaster that can't be treated.

（  ）2. What is the main reason for the increase of sandstorms in China recently?

   A. To be close to many deserts.

   B. The worsening of the weather in China.

   C. Desertification.

   D. Cutting down trees and digging up grass.

（  ）3. What effects are sandstorms bringing to people living in cities?

   A. The whole city is usually covered in a thick and brown-yellow dust.

   B. Traffic moves very slowly.

   C. People can't breathe well and the dust makes them ill.

   D. All of the above.

（  ）4. What is the best way to avoid the effects from the sandstorm?

   A. To live far away from deserts.

   B. To stay at home when a sandstorm happens.

   C. To wear a mask if you want to go out.

   D. To plant more trees.

（  ）5. Which of the following is NOT the element to make Central Asia,North America,Central Africa and Australia the four main places where there are sandstorms?

   A. The climate in these places is rather bad.

   B. They are all the places with big deserts.

   C. The natural environment in these places is worsening every year.

   D. The governments in these places pay little attention to the protection of nature.

 

Ⅵ. 书面表达

假设你是李华，于2014年6月3日搭乘国外某航 空公司航班(flight number BA793) 回国后，发现遗失 了一个行李箱(suitcase) 。现请用英文给该航空公司 写一封信，请他们帮你寻找。

信件要点包括：

1. 陈述写信原因；

2. 简要描述该行李；

3. 说明其重要性；

4. 期待回复并表示感谢。

V. 短文改错

      On the hot afternoon of last Saturday,Li Yue went downtown and walk from one store to another,look for the clothes we would wear in the singing contest. While rest of us were enjoying our leisure time in cool and comfortably rooms,she spent the whole afternoon searching and selecting. Finally she found the suitable clothes. Deeply moving by what she did,we tried our best but won the first prize in the contest. Li Yue is always cares about the class. She often devotes her spare time in helping others. She has set good example to us. Therefore,she deserves the honour and we should learn from him.

IV.阅读填空

There is an English saying “ 1 ” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now,however,doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. 2

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts,blood pressure,breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. 3 If laughter exercises the body,it must be beneficial.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programmes. The group that tolerated (忍耐) the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny programme. 4

5 They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing,making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

   A. Laughter can prolong one's life.

   B. As a result of these discoveries,some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics in which they       help to improve their patients* condition by encouraging them to laugh.

   C. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain     which diminish both stress and pain.

   D. It increases blood pressure,the heart beating and breathing;it also works several groups of muscles in the       face,the stomach and even the feet.

   E. Although laughter helps cure the disease,doctors still cannot put this theory into clinic practice.

   F. Laughter is the best medicine.

   G. They have found that laughter can really improve people's health.

15. “I am a teacher,” Jack said.

-Jack said.(转换成间接引语)

   A. that I am a teacher

   B. I was a teacher

   C. that he is a teacher

   D. he was a teacher

14. “Have you seen the film?” he asked me.

—He asked me .(转换成间接引语)

   A. had I seen the film

   B. have I seen the film

   C. if I have seen the film

   D. whether I had seen the film

13. He said,“Don’t do that again. ”

—He me that again.(转换成间

接引语)

   A. said to;not to do   B. said to;don't do   C. told;don't do   D. told;not to do