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。

Moving abroad can be a challenging experience. You leave your family, friends and everything you know behind. You enter a new culture where the customs and sometimes the languages are different. 1. . It’s a time to discover new things, make new friends and begin a new adventure.

So what are the best ways to involve yourself in the new culture while living abroad?

Live with a native speaker

__2. . First, you have a friend! Living alone can be a lonely experience, especially if you’re far from home. I’ve also had the opportunity to meet my housemate’s friends and socialize(交往) with them. 3. . In addition, you have someone to tell you about the cultural customs and interesting places in the area. 4. .

Socialize with the local people

5. The food in France is amazing and discovering new food is a fun experience. I’ve tried things that I’ve never tried before. My knowledge of the different bread and cheese types has grown greatly.

A. Try the local food.

B. But it’s also exciting.

C. I currently volunteer with homeless people

D. You can also speak the local language every day.

E. Improve my French vocabulary and understanding.

F. You can meet other people in the area by joining a club

G. There are many advantages to living with a native speaker

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假如你是李华，你的好友David在中学生英语歌咏比赛中荣获一等奖。请你根据以下内容，给他写一封祝贺信。内容包括：

1．向他表示祝贺；

2．请他介绍成功的经验；

3．希望有一天能像他一样取得成功。

注意：

1．词数100左右。

2．开头和结尾已为你写好，但不计入总词数。

3．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear David,

I hear that you have own first prize

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Yours,

Li Hua

How Learning Habits Influence On Learning Results. It’s useful and necessary to discuss learning habits. There is a famous saying “Good habits lead to good endings.”, 1.shows the importance of habits.

“An apple a day keeps doctor away .”also shows how a healthy everyday habit helps to build up our body.2., good learning habits can help us gain great learning results3.(include) high scores and abundant knowledge. At first, learning habits form our ways of thinking and attitudes4.the content of our learning. Obviously, a good habit can help us to speed up to reach our destinations.5.we can see, cultivating a good habit is so important 6.I would like to introduce one kind of good learning habits----keep a learning diary every day. We can start the habit by7.write) learning summary and remember to record something impressive and8.(mean). Keep it in mind, and gradually we can gain this good learning habit and benefit from it.

What’s more, I find out that I still have some bad learning habits as well. I can9. concentrate on reading for a short time and I10. ( conquer) this problem by spending more effort on concentration practice.

I believe that through my efforts, I can gain good learning results by having good habits.

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When Dekalb Walcott III was just 8 years old，his father，a Chicago fire chief，let him tag along on a call． Dekalb says a lot of kids idolized basketball player Michael Jordan when he was growing up in Chicago in the 1990s．Not him．

“I wanted to be like Dekalb Walcott Jr．，”he says of his father．

So when his dad asked if he wanted to go on that call with him when he was 8，Dekalb was excited． “I'm jumping up and down，saying，”Mom，can I go? Can I go?'

The experience changed Dekalb's life，he tells his dad on a visit to StoryCorps．“My eyes got big from the moment the alarm went off．”the younger Dekalb says．“This is the life that I want to live someday．”

Now 27，the younger Dekalb is living that life．He became a firefighter at 21 and went to work alongside his dad at the Chicago Fire Department．Before his father retired，the pair even went out on a call together — father supervising（监督） son．

“You know，it's everything for me to watch you grow，”his father says．But he also recalls worrying about one particular fire that his son faced．

“I received a phone call that night．And they said，'Well，your son was at this fire．' I said，'OK，which way is this conversation going to go?'”Dekalb Walcott Jr．recalls．

“And they said，'But he's OK．And he put it out all by himself．Everybody here was proud of him．'”

“And the word went around，'Who was out there managing that fire? Oh，that's Walcott! That's Walcott up there!' So，you know，moments like that，it's heaven on Earth for a dad． ”

Dekalb Walcott Jr．retired in 2009.The younger Dekalb says he's proud of being a second-generation firefighter．“You know，it makes me look forward to fatherhood as well，because I'm definitely looking forward to passing that torch down to my son．”

1.The underlined phrase tag along in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______．

A． put out fire

B． watch basketball

C． follow his father

D． ask his mother’s permission

2.Dekalb Walcott III determined to become a firefighter at the age of_________

A． 8 B． 21 C． 27 D． 35

3.What did Dekalb Walcott Jr want to do before he was told that the fire was put out?

A． Go on with the conversation

B． Put it out all by himself

C． Supervise his son

D． Go to the fire scene

4.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A． Dekalb Walcott Jr is proud to be a second-generation firefighter．

B． Dekalb Walcott III wants his son to become a firefighter too．

C． Dekalb Walcott Jr wants to pass the torch to Dekalb Walcott III．

D． Dekalb Walcott III is proud that his son has become an excellent firefighter．

5.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A． Passing The Torch: A Firefighter Dad's Legacy

B． Putting Out Fire: A Challenging Job for Father and son

C． Dekalb Walcott III：A Second-generation Firefighter

D． Dekalb Walcott Jr．：A Chicago Fire Chief

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

I am a single working mother and going to college for a better life for my three-year-old child and myself． I am taking a nurse course called “Urban Community（社区）”．We were asked to do a major project on problems in urban communities．I chose the topic “Homeless”．

Each day I would walk down the streets of the homeless and offer them something to drink and to eat． I know it’s tough to survive on the streets．Last night I ran into a group of 30 kids who were living on the streets in New York．My heart went out to them and I just wanted to cry． But I had to be strong．

I asked about their families and if they contacted them to let them know they were alive． Most of them said, “NO!” They all looked like a happy family and they took care of one another． I tried to persuade them to get help and to contact their families but they did not want to． I did not want to make them to do it as they had their own reasons．

All these kids were very respectful． None of them was high on drugs nor were they drinking．Some of them enjoyed reading and writing．Some of them enjoyed skateboarding, dancing and playing music．

One girl asked me if I could give her a hug and I did so．She started to cry and said, “Thank you for not treating us as freaks（怪人）like everyone else does．People don’t realize that we all have our own problems and some are worse than others．” She told me that her stepfather （继父） was extremely mean to her and her mother did not believe her．She ran away．Her street name was Little Mary．

They were good kids just trying to make ends meet．I told them that I didn’t have much to offer because I was a single mother just making ends meet．I had offered them sandwiches and drinks．They were so happy to have something to eat and told me that I couldn’t change the world but at least there was someone who really cared．

1.The author is _______．

A． a homeless mother with a three-year-old kid

B． a single mother who attends college in New York

C． a teacher who teaches the “Urban Community” course

D． a full-time housewife with a three-year-old kid

2.What does “My heart went out to them” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A． My heart was taken away by them．

B． I wanted to hug them

C． I felt sympathy for them

D． I fell in love with them

3.What kind of feeling did the author show when she failed to persuade the children to contact their families?

A． Sorrow B． Anxiety

C． Anger D． Understanding

4.Little Mary left home and became a wanderer because ________．

A． her stepfather didn’t want to live with her

B． her stepfather treated her so badly that she was injured

C． her mother treated her so badly that she felt hurt

D． her mother didn’t believe her and her stepfather treated her badly．

5.What’s the best title for this passage?

A． A Story of a Single Mother

B． Care for the Homeless Kids

C． An Urban Community

D． How to Survive on the Streets

假如你们学校要举行一场名为“诵读经典，热爱我校”的朗诵比赛，请你以学生会的名义，写一份通知。

参考词汇：朗诵比赛recital contest； 校园campus； 散文 prose

写作要求：只能用5个句子表达全部内容。

评分标准：句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章连贯。

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Every one of us gets so used to punctuation marks that not many of us give them a second thought． Actually, the ancient Greeks wrote this way． The lack of punctuation marks probably didn’t bother good readers, though． As they read, they just put pauses where they fit best． Also at this time, sentences switched directions． A sentence read from left to right． The next one read right to left, and then left to right again, etc． The ancient Romans sometimes punctuated like this: They put something that can separate words in a sentence． The word punctuation actually comes from this idea and the Latin word punctum, which means a dot.

When the 5th century arrived, there were just two punctuation marks: spaces and points． The spaces separated words while the points showed pauses in reading． Then in the 13th century, a printer named Aldus Manutius tried to standardize punctuation． He always used a period for a complete stop at the end of a sentence． He used a slash (/) to indicate a short pause． Over time, that slash was shortened and curled, and it became the modern comma (逗号).

Since that time, other marks have enlarged the punctuation family． The exclamation mark (感叹号) comes from the Latin word io． It means “exclamation of joy.” The question mark originally started out as the Latin word questio, meaning question． Eventually, scholars put it at the end of a sentence to show a question.

Punctuation even keeps changing nowadays． New marks are coming into existence, and old punctuation marks are used in new ways． Take for example the “interrobang”． This 1962 invention combines the question mark and exclamation mark for times when writers want both． For example, “She did what?” or “How much did you pay for that dress?” Obviously, the interrobang is not widely used or recognized yet, but its invention shows that English is not yet finished with its punctuation.

1.From the first paragraph, we can know that _______.

A． good readers had trouble reading without punctuation marks

B． a sentence always read from left to right in ancient Greece

C． ancient Greeks switched the direction of punctuation marks

D． the use of punctuation marks can date back to ancient times

2.The passage is developed _______.

A． by time B． by space

C． by comparison D． by importance

3.We can learn from the passage that _______.

A． ancient Romans didn’t use any punctuation marks

B． exclamation and question marks came from Latin

C． spaces and slashes were already used before the 5th century

D． Aldus Manutius first started to use commas

4.What can be concluded from the last paragraph?

A． The combination of two marks will not work.

B． It takes time for people to accept new punctuation marks.

C． Old punctuation marks need to be standardized.

D． Punctuation marks are still changing today.

Camels certainly like eating green grass, not dry grass． But 1.(strange), camels always keep looking for dry grass2.their stomachs are filled up.

A classmate of 3.(I) whose home is on the edge of Turpan Basin in Xinjiang told me his home has two camels; he said you could imagine a camel’s appetite, for it can slowly swallow dozens of kilograms of hay (干草)．I asked him 4.camels eat hay, not green grass． He said the camel is a kind of animal with 5.strong sense of suffering,6.(fear) its master letting it travel through the desert the next day, and the hay in its stomach is more hunger-resistant7.green grass.

The camel has the best tolerance． Unfortunately, many people can only see a camel’s outstanding performance, but few understand its 8. (prepare) made for it.

Life, 9. a camel traveling through the desert, 10.(need) the adequate accumulation, but not everyone can understand it.

近年来大城市交通拥堵严重，影响了人们的生活和经济发展，对此人们十分抱怨。假如你是李华，请根据以下要点用英语给报社写封信。

1.交通现状及影响；

2.提出改进建议；

3.希望建议被采纳。

注意：4.词数100左右；

5.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

6.开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear editor,

I am writing to you to talk about the heavy traffic．

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Around three forty-five on a rainy Saturday morning, I was woken up by the sound of my pager(呼机) beeping. As a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician, I can never count on a full night of sleep. I pulled myself out of bed and went toward the desk to grab my radio. Our crew was being sent to a nearby home where a man was in cardiac arrest (心脏骤停). We found the man lying on the kitchen floor with his wife beside him. We rushed the patient to the hospital, but despite our efforts, we were unable to save his life.

In my line of life, I rarely get any recognition from the patients we treat, or from their loved ones. But that night, a man’s wife approached us, and through her tears, whispered, “Thank you.” Then she hugged each of us. She knew we answered her late-night call for help, even though the ending was not positive.

There is something deeply rewarding about helping people in these circumstances. Sometimes, I’m able to make their worst day a bit better: like seeing the tears of an injured child turn into a smile when I gave him an interesting toy; or watching a terrified mother’s screams turn into tears of joy when she realized her baby was going to be fine.

Experiences like these allow me to see the impact my work has on others. At the same time, I also know the effect it has had on my own life. As a teenager, I felt awkward when my dad hugged me and said, “ I love you, my dear son.” I was equally uncomfortable and responded, “I love you.” But then I imagined him lying on the kitchen floor that rainy night and realized that my opportunity to say those three words could---at any moment---be taken away forever. Now, I extremely treasure the moment when my father says those three words to me. I’ve learned to appreciate every relationship I have, to tell people I care about them, and to never take anything in life for granted.

1. On that rainy Saturday morning, the author was woken to ____________.

A. meet his father for the last time

B. put out a really big fire

C. save a man’s life

D. do a scientific experiment

2.The author mentioned the injured child and the terrified mother to show that__________.

A. Life was not always pleasant

B. His help could bring people happiness

C. He saved a lot of people

D. They were very grateful to him

3. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refers to ___________.

A. a rainy Saturday morning

B. special love

C. others’ recognition

D. the author’s work

4.According to this passage, we know that ___________.

A. The author’s work greatly influenced him

B. The author’s father died several years ago

C. The author regretted treating his patients badly

D. The author never treasured every relation with others