【题目】 —Look, the paint is starting to come off ______ the wall is damp.

—Well, we’d better have the wall repainted some day.

A. when B. once

C. if D. where

【题目】 My mother is the only living person who has never communicated via email or text. She has never turned on a computer, registered an email account, used data storage media or searched the Internet. Since 1955, she has settled in Silicon Valley, married to an extremely technical specialist in applied physics and engineering, designing photometric systems for NASA. Only when Dad suffered from cancer could we convince her she needed a cell phone. Mom’s being separated from the information age is voluntary and deliberate.

Mom is still that farm girl, and she takes the most pride in it. She sees her neighbor and her community “real”. She shows no interest in the digital and virtual life. My mother saw Depression, World War II and the beginning of the Cold War before reaching voting age. She enjoyed country music on “The Sons of the Pioneers”, a Canadian broadcast. The battery was so precious a resource that radio was limited to the barn because Grandma thought it helped cows produce milk. In the age when Churchill moved millions for the first time with radio broadcasts, she only experienced live media monthly, if at all.

In her early twenties, Mom completed nurses’ training and worked in that field before marriage, family and church became her life’s concerns. She never really warmed up to television, though I think she appreciated a few of the series we watched, comedies like All in the Family. Computers, the Internet and mobile apps are simply not part of her experience.

Mom disagrees with the opinion that technology simplifies life. In her life, she sees online records, email and paperless systems as mysteries in which no written reference can assist her.

However, I can partly understand: I like such kind of experience and relationship one has with physical books. I am a child of television who only recently switched to online viewing. I’ve written down my awkward, love-hate relationship with my devices. Mom’s technophobia surely played a role here, but it works for her. She’s happiest as she is.

【1】The author’s mother began to use mobile phone when .

A. she found it hard to contact with her husband

B. she settled in Silicon Valley for fifty years

C. she got marred to a technical specialist

D. her husband suffered from cancer

【2】What is the author’s mother most proud of according to the passage?

A. Having so many close neighbors.

B. Experiencing too much all her life.

C. Living simply and in her own style.

D. Being involved in modern technology.

【3】What is the author’s attitude towards his mother’s such kind of experience?

A. Critical. B. Positive.

C. Neutral. D. Negative.

【4】It is implied in the underlined sentence that .

A. the author should make efforts to learn from his mother

B. the author prefers watching movies online to watching TV

C. Mom’s attitude towards technology has an effect on the author

D. Mom should also set down the relationship with physical books

【题目】 If Susan ______ for ten more minutes at the party last night, she might have met Johnny Depp, the famous Hollywood star.

A. stayed B. would stay

C. had stayed D. would have stayed

【题目】It is not doing the things we like, but liking the things we have to do ______ makes life happy.

A. which B. that C. what D. who

【题目】The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”

“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”

“I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”

I noticed every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I looked down on the computer and asked her, “What do all you people do?”

“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”

“So when it goes down, you go down with it.”

“That’s good, sir.”

“How long will the computer be down? I wanted to know.”

“I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down it won’t answer us.”

After the girl told me they had no backup computer, I said. “Let’s forget the computer—What about your planes? They are still flying, aren’t they?”

“I couldn’t tell without asking the computer.”

“Maybe I could, just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he is flying to Washington,” I suggested.

“I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket.”

“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”

“I wouldn’t know,” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only ‘IT’ knows. It can’t tell me.”

By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The words soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.

【1】Where do you often hear the frightening words “Our computer is down”?

A．at the airport. B．At the gate.

C．On business D．In the ticket office

【2】What could the girl in the ticket office do without asking the computer?

A．She could do nothing.

B．She could write out a ticket.

C．She could still sell a ticket.

D．She could answer passengers’ questions.

【3】What does the underlined word “down” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A．White B．Broken C．Black D．Dark

【4】We can learn from the last paragraph that .

A．a modern computer won’t be down

B．computers can take the place of human

C．there will be great changes in computers

D．sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people

【5】The best title for the article is .

A．Asking the Computer

B．When the Computer Is Down

C．The Computer of the Airport

D．The Most Frightening Words

【题目】 —Wow, you have a really good voice. I_____ you were good at singing.

—Thank you.

A. haven’t known B. hadn’t known

C. didn’t know D. don’t know

【题目】Going green seems to be fad （时尚）for a lot of people these days. Whether that is good or bad, we can’t really say, but for the two of us, going green is not a fad but a lifestyle.

On April 22, 2011, we decided to go green every single day for an entire year. This meant doing 365 different green things, and it also meant challenging ourselves to go green beyond easy things. Rather than recycle and reduce our energy, we had to think of 365 different green things to do and this was no easy task.

With the idea of going green every single day for a year, Our Green Year started. My wife and I decided to educate people about how they could go green in their lives and hoped we could show people all the green things that could be done to help the environment. We wanted to push the message that every little bit helps.

Over the course of Our Green Year, we completely changed our lifestyle. We now shop at organic（有机的）stores. We consume less meat, choosing green food. We have greatly reduced our buying we don’t need. We have given away half of what we owned through websites. Our home is kept clean by vinegar and lemon juice, with no chemical cleaners. We make our own butter, enjoying the smell of home-made fresh bread. In our home office anyone caught doing something ungreen might be punished.

Our minds have been changed by Our Green Year. We are grateful for the chance to have been able to go green and educate others. We believe that we do have the power to change things and help our planet.

【1】What might be the best title for the passage?

A．Going Green.

B．Protecting the Planet.

C．Keeping Open-Minded.

D．Celebrating Our Green Year.

【2】It was difficult for the couple to live a green life for the whole year because .

A．they were expected to follow others

B．they didn’t know how to educate other people

C．they were unwilling to reduce their energy

D．they needed to perform unusual green tasks

【3】What is the couple’s main reason for going green every day for a whole year?

A．To follow a green fad like many other people.

B．To completely change their unhealthy lifestyle.

C．to show people how to go green to help our planet.

D．to show they never do anything ungreen.

【4】What did the couple do over the course of their Green Year?

A．They sold their home-made food.

B．They ignore others’ ungreen behavior.

C．They tried to get out of their ungreen habits.

D．They chose better chemical cleaners.

【5】What can we infer form the last paragraph?

A．The government will give support to the green people.

B．The couple may continue their project in the future.

C．Some people disagree with the couple’s green ideas.

D．Our Green Year is becoming a national action.

【题目】Mrs. Obama spoke to the graduates of Martin Luther King Jr. High School on Saturday in her only high school commencement（毕业典礼）speech this year. The ceremony took place in the gymnasium of Tennessee State University.

The first lady told the 170 graduates that she spent too much of her time in college focusing on academic achievements. While her success in college and law school led to a good job, she said, she ended up focusing on public service. “My message to you today is that don’t waste a minute living someone else’s dream,” she said. “It takes a lot of real work to discover what brings you joy and you won’t find what you love simply by checking mailboxes or surfing the net.”

She said MLK reminded her of her own high school experience in Chicago. “My No.1 goal was to go to a high school that would push me and challenge me,” she said. “I wanted to go somewhere that would celebrate achievement. Unfortunately, schools like this don’t exist for every kid.” she said. “You are blessed.”

The first lady told graduates that failure may be a part of their college lives and careers, and that how they respond determines what they will become. “That’s when you find out what you’re really made of in those hard times,” she said. “But you can only do that if you’re willing to put yourself in a position where you might fail.” Overcoming difficulties has been the mark of many great people, she said, “Oprah was demoted（降职）from her first job as a news reporter, and now she doesn’t even need a last name,” she said of media giant Oprah Winfrey “And then there’s this guy Barack Obama, I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures. He lost his first race for Congress”, the first lady joked, “and now he gets to call himself my husband.”

【1】When choosing her high school, Mrs. Obama .

A．was willing to meet challenges

B．was pushed to make a choice

C．failed to find an ideal school

D．wanted to study law

【2】By mentioning Oprah’s example, Mrs. Obama wanted to tell graduates .

A．to start as a news reporter

B．to work hard to get promoted

C．to be brave enough to risk failing

D．not to waste time doing what they dislike

【3】What do we know about Mrs. Obama from the text?

A．This was the first time she gave a speech to graduates.

B．She complained about her school life in her speech.

C．She is a graduate of Tennessee State University.

D．She is enthusiastic about public service.

【4】Mrs. Osama’s speech is aimed to .

A．show how Mr. and Mrs. Obama overcame difficulties.

B．encourage graduates to face their future lives bravely.

C．tell graduates that failure is a part of their lives and careers.

D．to call on graduates to focus on public service.

【5】Where can you probably find this text?

A．On a news website. B．In a politics book

C．In a graduation paper. D．On Mrs. Osama’s blog.

【题目】 Today, in many high schools, teaching is now a technical miracle of computer labs, digital cameras, DVD players and laptops. Teachers can e-mail parents, post messages for students on online bulletin(公告，告示) boards, and take attendance with a quick movement of a mouse.

Even though we are now living in the digital age, the basic and most important element of education has not changed. Most students still need that one-on-one, teacher-student relationship to learn and to succeed. Teenagers need instruction in English, math or history, but they also want personal advice and encouragement. Kids talk with me about their families, their weekend plans, their favorite TV shows and their relationship problems. In my English and journalism classes, we talk about Shakespeare and persuasive(富有哲理的) essays, but we also discuss college basketball, the war in Iraq and career choices. Students show me pictures of their rebuilt cars, their family vacations, and their newborn baby brothers. This personal connection is the necessary link between teachers and students that no amount of technology can improve upon or replace.

A few years ago I had a student in sophomore English who was struggling with my class and with school in general. Although he was a humorous young man who liked to joke around, I knew his family life was far from ideal. Whenever I approached him about missing homework or low test grades, he always had the same reply, “It doesn't matter because I'm quitting school anyway.” Even though he always said this in a half-teasing way, I knew he needed to hear my different opinion and my “value of a high school education” lecture. He needed to hear this speech from me. After he left my class, he struggled through the next two years of school. But, he did finally graduate because we kept telling him to hang in there. We’d cared about him finishing school.

Recently, I saw this former student working at a local Italian restaurant. I told him again how proud I was of him. He said that he was hoping to go back to school to become a certified electrician. I encouraged him to get that training.

Students rely on compassionate teachers to guide, to tutor, to listen, to laugh and to cry with them. Teachers provide the most important link in the educational process—the human one.

【1】The first paragraph mainly talks about _____________.

A. the variety of modern teaching methods.

B. the wide use of modern technology in education

C. the importance of teacher-parent relationship.

D. the importance of using modern technology.

【2】The underlined word “ compassionate” in Para 5 means ____________.

A. ambitious B. knowledgeable

C. sympathetic D. selfish

【3】According to the text, the most important element in education is _________.

A. teachers’ good instruction

B. advanced technology

C. teachers’ encouragement

D. personal connection

【4】The author states his view of education by __________.

A. example B. description C. figure D. comparison

【题目】此题要求改正所给句子中的错误。

每句只有一个错误。若该句多一个词，把多余的词用（﹨）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并用斜线划掉。若该句缺一个词，在缺词处用一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。若该句错一个词，在错词的下面划一横线，在该行右边的横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：不要改动原句的意思。

【1】Berners-Lee made possible for everyone to use the Internet, not just the army.

【2】The more closer you are, the more you will see.

【3】My English teacher explains grammar so clearly that I feel I can make great progresses with her.

【4】This is the first time that Edward visited our hometown Mian Yang.

【5】You can shorten the words by taking out unimportant letters in them and use numbers instead of words when sending a text message.