I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare ( 兔子) and the tortoise ( 乌龟 ). At the end I said, “ Son, remember: Be slow and steady ( 镇定的), and that will win the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”

Sonny opened his eyes wide, “ Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy, Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”

I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn’t wish that the hare would fall asleep!”

“He must have wished that,” Sonny said, “Otherwise how could he be so foolish as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”

“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted. “He won the race by perseverance ( 坚忍不拔的 ), by pushing on steadily.”

Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,” he said. “ He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he’d never have won the race. That’s for sure.” I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be.

1.The writer argued ( 辩论 )with his son because ______________.

A. he liked tortoises while his son liked hares

B. they disagreed about whether the tortoise was foolish

C. he tried to teach his son a moral ( 品德 )lesson but the son had totally different opinion

D. he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn’t.

2.Sonny believed that the tortoise ______________.

A. won the race by his own hard working

B. took a risk ( 冒险 )by agreeing to run a race

C. was not given a fair chance in the race

D. in fact did win the race luckily

3.Billy, Tony and Sandy must be_______________.

A. boys who were unknown to Sonny’s father

B. boys who Sonny has run races with before

C. boys who Sonny has never raced with before

D. boys who Sonny did not expect to race with again

4.The writer thinks that his generation ( 一代人 )______________.

A. are cleverer than Sonny’s generation

B. have the same ideas about life as Sonny’s generation

C. are more hopeful than Sonny’s generation

D. have different ideas about life from Sonny’s generation

Science, as we think, was born when the Greek(希腊) philosopher ( 哲学家 ) Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.) asked a difficult question: What makes up our universe?

No one had a ready answer, so Thales went on studying the earth around him, the sky and the stars. He saw so much water on earth and so much water falling from the sky as rain that he decided water must be the basic substance ( 物质 ) of the universe.

Other Greek thinkers became interested in this question. They suggested other answers. One said that because air lies around the earth, it must be air that makes up all things. Another said that fire, appearing in different forms, was the building block of the universe.

The Greek philosophers were feeling their way towards the ideas on which chemistry is based. Centuries later, scientists proved that the universe is made up of certain basic substances. But the list is much more complicated than the Greeks realized. We now know of 103 basic substances which we call “ elements ( 元素 )”.

1.Thales, the famous Greek philosopher, died when he was about _______________.

A. 94 years old B. 106years old

C. 40 years old D. 46 years old

2.The meaning of the underlined word “ complicated” in the last paragraph is “ ____________”.

A. not difficult B. not simple

C. not famous D. not different

3.On the whole, the passage tells about ______________.

A. early tries to understand the universe B. the famous Greek thinkers

C. water falling from the sky D. air lying all around the earth

4.After reading the passage, we can be sure that________________.

A. nothing ever changes in the universe

B. Thales decided that the basic substance of the universe was air

C. the universe is made up of four different substances

D. the early Greek thinkers did much valuable work for the progress of science

I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows（誓约）mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion（提升）, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure（空闲）, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.

1.The best title of this passage probably is _______.

A. Love your friends B. Live a real life

C. Don’t waste time D. Be a good mother and wife

2.How did the author form her view of life?

A. By working and social experience.

B. Learning from her friends.

C. Through an unlucky experience.

D. Because of her children and husband.

3.What’s the author’s attitude towards work?

A. Do it well to serve others.

B. To earn enough money to make life better.

C. Try our best to get higher position and pay.

D. Don’t let it affect your real life.

4.It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

A. the author is a success in personal life.

B. the author didn’t try her best to work well.

C. the author spent all her time caring for her children.

D. the author likes traveling very much.

A person had three friends, but he felt more attracted towards two of them. He did not bother much about the third and was rather ______ to him. Once he was in deep distress（不幸，悲痛）, he went to his first friend and told him, “I shall have to appear in court in ___ with a charge against me. I am in great _____. So can you please help me and accompany(陪同) me to court?” The friend’s _____ was very straight and hardly polite. He said, “What, going to court? I can’t go even a single step with you.” ____with this friend, he felt very sad and went to his_______friend. The second friend said, “You are in distress. So I shall go along with you for _____reasons. But I can’t help you inside the court and __ you in the case.” Feeling _____helpless, he went to his third friend _____ he usually did not take notice. He told him about the distress he was in and everything about his ____ . The third friend listened to him and not only went to court with him but produced such ____ proof(证据，证明) of his innocence as a(n) ____ in court that he was _____ . This person then felt that the friend whom he had so long _____had really given him the most ___ help at the time of his danger and distress.

Who are these three friends? They are Wealth, Relations and Virtuous deeds(道德行为). _____death, a man’s wealth (the first friend) will be _____ no avail (有用). The second friend (Relations) will ___ person only up to the burial ground. But the third friend is a real friend because he was a friend ____ . Anything but Virtuous deeds disappears with the body when a man dies.

1.A. unknown B. unconcerned C. undoubted D. unexpected

2.A. comparison B. accordance C. conflict D. connection

3.A. excitement B. anger C. difficulty D. order

4.A. response B. action C. way D. method

5.A. Disappointed B. Satisfied C. Frightened D. Astonished

6.A. first B. last C. second D. third

7.A. extent B. certain C. a D. what

8.A. prove B. charge C. scold D. assist

9.A. relatively B. absolutely C. obviously D. probably

10.A. for which B. of which C. for whom D. of whom

11.A. story B. distress C. friends D. relations

12.A. good B. negative C. positive D. new

13.A. proof B. witness C. evidence D. supporter

14.A. set free B. set off C. set out D. set down

15.A. ignored B. noticed C. connected D. cared

16.A. modest B. pleasant C. important D. sincere

17.A. Before B. Until C. After D. As

18.A. in B. of C. on D. at

19.A. lead B. accompany C. follow D. advise

20.A. in need B. in trouble C. in word D. in action

On December 19th,2006,a plane took off on time from the capital airport of Saudi Arabia.After about an hour’s flight,something strange happened in the plane.

The passengers 1.(enjoy)themselves when a small rat stole out from the bag of a young man,which made the young woman nearby 2.(alarm)with loud screaming.Then more and more rats came out of the bag. All the passengers became out of order,especially the women and the children.The steward(机长) managed to get in touch with 3.center on the ground.With the order from the ground,the plane 4.(succeed)landed at the nearest airport.

As soon as the plane was on the ground, all the passengers got off.Then seven specialists got on 5.(catch)these small creatures.Many 6.(mean )had been tried but 7.of them were good enough to catch the rats.

At last they tried to fill in the plane 8.carbon-dioxide(二氧化碳),9.poisoned all the eighty rats by the poisonous gas.

It10.(report) that the young man wanted to carry these rats to another city and sell them as pets but no one had expected that these small creatures succeed in escaping from the bag.

英语课上,老师要求同桌同学相互修改作文。假设以下短文为你同桌所写，请你对其进行修改。便条中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^）。并在其下面写出修改后的词。

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．每处错误及修改均仅限一词;

2．只允许修改10处,多者（从第11处起）不记分。

My sister saw a lovely cup when we are shopping the other day. She liked it at once. Then she bent down and picked up to look at a price on it. As she did this, lots of tea splashed on his T-shirt! I had to try hardly not to laugh at her shocked face! My sister wanted get out of the shop as fast as she could when a shop assistant came over to us. It was turned out to be her own cup, that she’d left on the shelf by mistake. The assistant was clearly as embarrassing as my sister, for I just thought it was funny!

假定你是一名中学生,名叫张华。一家英文报社来信邀请你调查一下中学生对网络使用的情况,并依据调查写一篇报道。请根据下表提供的信息，对你的调查作简要介绍，发给报社。

注意：词数：100左右 2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear editor,

I’m writing to tell you something about how the students use the Internet.

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Yours truly

Zhang Hua

The deal， next week，will allow Charney to make a great fortune in the stock market.

A. completed B. being completed

C. to be completed D. having been completed

Remembering 70 new words a week means remembering only 10 words a day .

A. below average B. above average

C. on average D. at average

—Wow，Beijing was selected as the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games!

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A. Give me five B. Congratulations

C. That’s all right D. Cheer up