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Without plants, people couldn’t live. We eat plants. ____1.___. And we need plants for another reason: We need them because they are beautiful.

_____2._____.Imagine no flowers with their sweet smells, their beautiful colours and their lovely shapes. Imagine, when the wind blows, we are not able to hear the leaves of the trees or watch the branches swing from side to side.

_____3.____.That is why we have parks full of trees and flowers. That is why people always like houses with room for some grass and a garden.

Do you talk to your plants? _____4.___Perter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, writers of a book called The Secret of Plants, tell of an experiment in which two seeds were plants in different places. While the plants were growing, one plant was given love and hopeful ideas. ___5.____Under the earth it had more and longer roots; above the earth, it had a thicker stem and more leaves.

A. Plants get energy from the sun.

B.After six months, the deserted plant faded away.

C. After six months, the beloved plant was bigger

D. We take in oxygen that plants make.

E. Everywhere people need beautiful plants.

F. Imagine a world with no plants.

G. Do you give them love and take good care of them?

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Learn and Earn

Charlie and Jackie joined a wholesale company together just after graduation. They both worked very hard. After several years, the boss made Jackie sales manager but Charlie _________ a salesman. One day Charlie could not ________ it any more. He handed in his resignation letter (辞职信) to the boss and complained that the boss did not _________ hard-working employees, but only raised those who tried to please him. He thought that it was really _________ .

The boss knew that Charlie had spared no _________ for the company all these years, but in order to help Charlie to realize the _________ between him and Jackie, the boss asked Charlie to do the following. “Go and _________ if there is anyone selling watermelons in the market.” Charlie went, returned and _________ said, “Yes.” The boss asked, “How much per kilogram?” Charlie went back to the market to ask and returned to _________ , “$ 12 per kg.”

The boss told Charlie that he would ask Jackie the _________ question. Jackie went, returned and said, “Boss, only one person selling watermelons. $ 12 per kg, $ 100 for 10 kg. He has a _________ of 340 melons. On the table are 58 melons, and every melon weighs about 15 kg, _________ from the South two days ago. They are fresh, red, and of good _________ .”

Charlie was _________ and he realized the difference between himself and Jackie. He decided not to _________but to learn from Jackie.

My dear friends, you know, a more _________ person is more observant, thinks more and understands in _________ . For the same matter, he sees several years ahead, _________ you see only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365 times, so how could you _________ ?

Think: how far have you seen ahead in your life? How _________ are you?

1.A. made B. became C. kept D.remained

2.A. do B. tolerate C. get D. put

3.A.value B. meet C. repay D.enjoy

4.A. unusual B. careless C.unfair D. selfless

5.A.effort B. trouble C. effect D.rest

6.A. competition B. relationship C.distance D.difference

7.A. carry out B.find out C. look out D. pick out

8.A.only B. again C. even D.still

9.A. offer B. remind C. answer D. repeat

10.A.difficult B.familiar C.simple D.same

11.A. lot B.total C. few D.number

12.A. taken B. come C. heard D.bought

13.A. value B. condition C.quality D. shape

14.A. moved B.struck C. puzzled D.encouraged

15.A.leave B. stop C. work D.stay

16.A.important B. intelligent C.hardworking D.successful

17.A. time B. need C.depth D. common

18.A. Though B.while C. unless D. since

19.A.win B.think C.know D.see

20.A.hopeful B.helpful C.thoughtful D. meaningful

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多余三个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式填空.

It was raining lightly when I 1.______ (arrive) in Yangshuo just before dawn. But I didn’t care. A few hours2.________, I’d been at home in Hong Kong, with 3._____ (it) choking(窒息的) fog. Here, the air was clean and fresh, even with the rain.

I’d skipped nearby Guilin, a dream place for tourists seeking the limestone mountain tops and dark waters of the Li River4.______ are pictured by artists in so many Chinese 5._______(painting). Instead, I’d go straight to Yangshuo. For those who fly to Guilin, it’s only an hour away 6.______ car and offers all the scenery of the better-known city.

Yangshuo 7._______ (be) really beautiful. A study of travelers 8._______ (conduct) by the website Trip Advisor considers Yangshuo as one of the top 10 destinations in the world. And the town is fast becoming a popular weekend destination for people in Asia. Abercrombie & Kent, a travel company in Hong Kong, says it 9._______(regular) arranges quick holidays here for people 10.________ (live) in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

短文改错

本文中共有10处语言错误,每句最多有两处.错误涉及一个单词的增加,删除和修改.增加:把缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该词.删除:把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉.修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词. 注意: 1.每处错误极其修改均限一词.2.只允许修改10处,多者从第11处不记分.

Mr. Smith had a 8-year-old son named Tony, who enjoyed listening to music very much. So he bought a piano to Tony, hoping that he can become a famous pianist one day. The little boy put her heart into practising the piano day after day and seemed enjoy every minute of it. However, half a year later, he told his father that he was tiring of practising the piano. Heard this, Mr. Smith said, “Tony, it is one thing to be fond of listen to music, but it is another thing to perform skillful by yourself. You can never play the piano well even if you don’t practise more.”

书面表达五一小长假即将来临， 你班同学就五一假期计划进行讨论，提出了不同看法，请根据提示写一篇短文，并谈谈你的看法。

注意：

1 .词数100左右（不含已写好部分）。

2. 短文必须包括表中所列要点，可根据内容分段表述。

3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。参考词汇：眼界horizon (view)

The May Day is coming. Our class has a discussion about what to do during the holiday.______

1. The card above is_________

A. a ticket B. an invitation

C. a postcard D. an advertisement

2.The party is for_________

A. a birthday B. the Queen

C. bee watching D. the National Day

3.According to the card, if you are unable to go, you can .

A. return the card B. visit the Museum

C. contact Alice’s mother D. ignore the message

4.The card is written in a _______ way.

A. urgent B. annoyed C. humorous D. concerned

In 1943, when I was 4, my parents moved from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to Fairbanks, Alaska, where adventure was never very far away.

We arrived in the summer, just in time to enjoy the midnight sun. All that sunlight was fantastic for Mom's vegetable garden. Working in the garden at midnight tended to throw her timing off, so she didn't care much about my bedtime.

Dad was a Railway Express agent and Mom was his clerk. That left me in a mess. I usually managed to find some trouble to get into. Once I had a little fire going in the dirt basement of a hotel. I had tried to light a barrel (桶) of paint but couldn't really get a good fire going. The smoke got pretty bad, though, and when I made my exit, a crowd and the police were there to greet me. The policemen took my matches and drove me home.

Mom and Dad were occupied/busy in the garden and Dad told the police to keep me, and they did! I had a tour of the prison before Mom rescued me. 1 hadn't turned 5 yet.

As I entered kindergarten, the serious cold began to set in. Would it surprise you to know that I soon left part of my tongue on a metal handrail(栏杆) at school?

As for Leonhard Seppala, famous as a dog sledder (驾雪橇者), I think I knew him well because I was taken for a ride with his white dog team one Sunday. At the time I didn't realize what a superstar he was, but I do remember the ride well. I was wrapped heavily and well sheltered (保护) from the freezing and blowing weather.

In 1950, we moved back to Coeur d'Alene, but we got one more Alaskan adventure when Leonhard invited us eight years later by paying a visit to Idaho to attend a gathering of former neighbors of Alaska.

1. What can be inferred about the author's family?

A. His father was a cruel man.

B. His parents didn't love him.

C. His mother didn't have any jobs.

D. His parents used to be very busy.

2.What happened when the author was 4?

A. He learned to smoke.

B. He was locked in a basement.

C. He was arrested（拘捕） by the police.

D. He nearly caused a fire accident.

3.Which of the following is true?

A. Leonhard was good at driving dog sleds.

B. The author spent his whole childhood in Alaska.

C. Leonhard often visited the author's family after 1950.

D. The author suffered a lot while taking the dog sled in Alaska.

4.What is the author's purpose of writing the text?

A. To describe the extreme weather of Alaska.

B. To look back on his childhood with adventures.

C. To express how much he misses Leonhard.

D. To show off his pride in making trouble.

How fit are your teeth? Are you lazy about brushing them? Never fear: An inventor is on the case. An electric toothbrush senses how long and how well you brush, and it lets you track（跟踪） your performance on your phone.

The Kolibree toothbrush was exhibited at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. It senses how it is moved and can send the information to an Android phone or iPhone via a Bluetooth wireless connection.

The toothbrush will be able to teach you to brush right (don’t forget the insides of the teeth!) and make sure you’re brushing long enough. “It’s kind of like having a dentist actually watch your brushing on a day-to-day basis,” says Thomas Serval, the French inventor.

The toothbrush will also be able to talk to other applications on your phone, so developers could, for example, create a game controlled by your toothbrush. You could score points for beating monsters among your teeth. “We try to make it smart and fun,” Serval says.

Serval says he was inspired by his experience as a father. He would come home from work and ask his kids if they had brushed their teeth. They said “yes,” but Serval would find their toothbrush heads dry. He decided he needed a brush that really told him how well his children brushed.

The company says the Kolibree will go on sale this summer, from $99 to $199, and the U.S. is the first target market.

1.All of the following statements are wrong except ____________.

A.It can track users’ school performance.

B. It can sense how users brush their teeth.

C. It can check users’ fear of seeing a dentist.

D. It can help users find their phones.

2.What can we learn from Serval’s words in Paragraph 3?

A. You will find it enjoyable to see a dentist.

B. You should see your dentist on a day-to –day basis.

C. You’d like a dentist to watch you brush your teeth every day.

D. You can brush with the Kolibree as if guided by a dentist.

3.What can we infer about Serval’s children?

A. They were unwilling to brush their teeth

B. They often failed to clean their toothbrushes.

C. They preferred to use a toothbrush with a dry head.

D. They liked brushing their teeth after Serval came home.

You are the collector in the gallery of your life. You collect. You might not mean to but you do. One out of three people collects tangible things such as cats, photos and noisy toys.

These are among some 40 collections that are being shown at “The Museum Of”—the first of several new museums which, over the next two years, will exhibit the objects accumulated（积累）by unknown collectors. In doing so, they will promote（推动）a popular culture of museums, not what museums normally represent(代表).

Some of the collections are fairly common—records, model houses. Others are strangely beautiful—branches that have fallen from tree, for example. But they all reveal （显露）a lot of things: ask someone what they collect and their answers will tell you who they are.

Others on the way include “The museum of Collectors” and “The Museum of Me.” These new ones, it is hoped, will build on the success of “The Museum Of.” The thinkers behind the project want to explore why people collect, and what it means to do so. They hope that visitors who may not have considered themselves collectors will begin to see they, too, collect.

Some collectors say they started or stopped making collections at important points: the beginning or end of adolescence ( 青春期 )—“it’s a growing-up thing; you stop when you grow up,” says one. Other painful times are mentioned, such as the end of a relationship.

1.How will the new museums promote a popular culture of museums?

A. By collecting more tangible things.

B. By correcting what museums normally represent.

C. By showing what ordinary people have collected.

D. By accumulating 40 collections two years from now.

2.What can be learned about collectors from their collections?

A. Who they are.

B. How old they are.

C. Where they were born.

D. Why they might not mean to collect.

3. Which of the following is an aim of the new museums?

A. To help people sell their collections.

B. To encourage more people to collect.

C. To study the importance of collecting.

D. To find out why people visit museums.

4.According to the last paragraph, people may stop collecting when they _______.

A.are in their childhood

B. feel happy with life

C. are ready for a relationship

D. become adults

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1. From 18－25, according to I.Q. scores；but you are wiser and more experienced with increasing age. You are smartest in your 20's; around 30, your memory begins to go down, particularly your ability to perform mathematical computations(数学计算). 2. Your vocabulary at the age of 45, for example, is three times as great as when you graduated from college. At 60, your brain has almost four times as much information as it did at the age of 21.

3. You have the best physical sense of yourself from 15 to 24; the best professional sense from 40 to 49. Before the age of 24, we believe that our happiest years are yet to come；over 30，we believe that they are behind us. A National Health survey agrees: after the age of 30, we become more realistic and do not view happiness as a goal in itself. If we keep our health, achieve professional and emotional goals, happiness, we feel, will follow.

4. Generally between 30 and 39, but the peak (顶峰)varies with different professions(职业). Mozart wrote a symphony and four sonatas by the age of 8, and Mendelssohn composed his best?known work A Midsummer Night's Dream at 17, but most of the great music was written by men between 33 and 39.

Though the peak in most fields comes early, most Nobel Prize winners did their top research in their late 20's and 30's—creative people continue to produce work with high quality(质量) throughout their lives. 5.

A. When are you most creative ?

B. When are you happiest?

C. When are you smartest?

D. Do you know what I.Q. refers to?

E. But your I.Q. for other tasks goes up.

F. Creative people usually produce a lot of works.

G. For the “well?conditioned mind”, there is no upper limit.（限制）