What is your favorite color? Do you like yellow, orange and red? 1.Do you prefer greys and blues? Then you are probably quiet, shy, and you would rather follow than lead. You tend to be a pessimist. At least, this is what psychologists tell us, and they should know, because they have been seriously studying the meaning of color preference as well as the effect that colors have on human beings. 2. If you happen to love brown, you did so, as soon as you opened your eyes, or at least as soon as you could see clearly.

3. A yellow room makes most people more cheerful and more relaxed than a dark green one. And a red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. 4. A black bridge over the Thames River near London, used to be the scene of more suicides (自杀) than any other bridge in the area—until it was repainted green. The number of suicide attempts fell sharply. Perhaps it would have fallen even more if the bridge had been done in pink or baby blue.

5. it is an established fact that factory workers work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines are painted orange rather than black or grey.

A. On the other hand, black is depressing.

B. They tell us, among those facts, that we don’t choose our favorite color as we grow up—we are born with our preference.

C. The rooms are painted in different colours as you like.

D. If you do, you must be an optimist, a leader, an active person who enjoys life, people and excitement.

E. Light and bright colors make people not only happier but more active.

F. Life is like a picture or a poem, full of different colours.

G. Colors do influence our moods. There is no doubt about it.

Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact ______ she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished ______ a driving offence (犯规,犯法).

Then one day she nearly ______ her record. A police car ______ her, and the policemen in it saw her ______ a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed __ that she would be punished. ______ Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was ______ old to drive a car, and that the ______ why she had not stopped at the red ______ was most probably that her eyes had become weak ______ old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge finished what he was _____, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was ______ and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she _______ a needle (针) with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.

When she had ______ done this, she took the thread (线) out of the needle again and handed _______ the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your ______. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”

The judge took the _______ and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he still didn’t succeed. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was ______, and her record _____ unbroken.

1.A. which B. when C. that D. this

2.A. about B. on C. to D. for

3.A. kept B. won C. missed D. lost

4.A. watched B. saw C. followed D. stopped

5.A. race B. go C. run D. rush

6.A. sure B. indeed C. certain D. perhaps

7.A. Before B. While C. Until D. When

8.A. so B. very C. too D. quite

9.A. cause B. reason C. matter D. trouble

10.A. light B. lamp C. sign D. one

11.A. with B. because C. as D. of

12.A. speaking B. saying C. talking D. telling

13.A. holding B. getting C. carrying D. bringing

14.A. took B. brought C. fetched D. chose

15.A. angrily B. luckily C. successfully D. slowly

16.A. both B. all C. neither D. either

17.A. time B. turn C. chance D. job

18.A. thread B. glasses C. sewing D. needle

19.A. dismissed B. passed C. settled D. studied

20.A. was B. held C. seemed D. remained

The United States is full of cars. There are still many families without cars, 1. some families have two or more. However, cars are used for more than 2. (please). They are a necessary part of life.

Cars are used 3. business. They are driven to offices and 4.(factory) by workers 5. have no other way to get to their jobs. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies. Sometimes small children must be driven to school. 6. some cities, school buses are used only when children live more than a mile away from the school. When the children are too young to walk too far, their mothers take 7.(turn) driving them to school. One mother drives on Mondays taking her own children and the neighbors’ children 8.well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesday, and so on. This is 9.(call) forming a car pool. Men also form car pools, with three or four men in turn driving to the place where they all work.

More car pools should be formed in order to put 10.(few) cars on the road and use less gas. Parking is a great problem and so is the traffic in and around cities. Something will have to be done about the use of cars.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，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（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

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. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改 10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Wang Mei,

I’m sorry to hear about your problem. Don’t be too concerning about it. Now I’d like to give you some advice. Firstly, you may have the heart-to-heart talk with your roommates. Perhaps they will realize their mistakes or correct them. Secondly, if you find hard to have a good talk with them, you may write a letter about them. Lastly, if these ways don’t work, you’d better to report it to your teacher, whom will help solve the problem. Good communication is the key to deal with the relationship with others. Maybe someday you should become good friends. I hope my advice will be of greatly help to you.

Best wishes!

Yours,

Li Hua

假定你是李华,某中学生杂志英语习作专栏正在开展主题为“Why should we learn English?”的征文活动。请你根据所给要点写一篇征文稿。

1.提高学习语言的能力；

2.有助于了解异国文化；

3.能够结识更多的朋友。

注意：1.词数100个左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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—We ________that you would fix the TV set last week.

—I am sorry.I ________to fix it，but I have been too busy.

A. had expected；had intended B. are expecting；had intended

C. expect；intend D. expected；intend

—Let's go home.Shopping all morning is extremely ________.

—OK.I feel very ________too.

A. tiring；tiring B. tired；tiring

C. tired；tired D. tiring；tired

________it was a waste of time and energy，but she didn't accept my advice.

A. In my mind B. In my place

C. In my view D. In my heart

You'll get a fine ________across the valley from the top of the mountain.

A. view B. sight

C. scenery D. scene

He was hit by a falling tree and died on the ________.

A. spot B. point

C. track D. trace