【题目】Meeting people from another culture can be difficult. From the beginning, people may send the wrong signal. Or they may pay no attention to signals from another person who is trying to develop a relationship.

Different cultures emphasize (强调) the importance of relationship building to a greater or lesser degree. For example, business in some countries is not possible until there is a relationship of trust. Even with people at work, it is necessary to spend a lot of time in "small talk", usually over a glass of tea, before they do any job. In many European countries -- like the UK or France -- people find it easier to build up a lasting working relationship at restaurants or cafes rather than at the office.

Talk and silence may also be different in some cultures. I once made a speech in Thailand. I had expected my speech to be a success and start a lively discussion; instead there was an uncomfortable silence. The people present just stared at me and smiled. After getting to know their ways better, I realized that they thought I was talking too much. In my own culture, we express meaning mainly through words, but people there sometimes feel too many words are unnecessary.

Even within Northern Europe, cultural differences can cause serious problems. Certainly, English and German cultures share similar values; however, Germans prefer to get down to business more quickly. We think that they are rude. In fact, this is just because one culture starts discussions and makes decisions more quickly.

People from different parts of the world have different values, and sometimes these values are quite against each other. However, if we can understand them better, a multicultural (多元文化) environment will offer a wonderful chance for us to learn from each other.

【1】In some countries, eating together at restaurants may make it easier for people to _______.

A. develop closer relations

B. share the same culture

C. get to know each other

D. keep each other company

【2】The author mentions his experience in Thailand to show that _________.

A. the English prefer to make long speeches

B. too many words are of no use

C. people from Thailand are quiet and shy by nature

D. even talk and silence can be culturally different

【3】According to the text, how can people from different cultures understand each other better?

A. By sharing different ways of life.

B. By accepting different habits.

C. By recognizing different values.

D. By speaking each other' s languages.

【4】What would be the best title for the text?

A. Multicultural Environment.

B. Cross-Cultural Differences.

C. How to Understand Each Other.

D. How to Build Up a Relationship.

【题目】I was on my way to the Taiyetos Mountains. The sun was setting 【1】 my car broke down near a remote village. Cursing my 【2】 (fortune), I was wondering where I was going to spend the night when I realized that the villagers who had gathered around me 【3】 (argue) as to who should have the honour of receiving me 【4】 a guest in their house. Finally, I accepted the offer of 【5】 80-year-old peasant woman who lived alone in a little house. While she was getting me settled into a tiny but clean room, the head of the village was tying up his horse 【6】 my car to pull it to a small town some 20 kilometers away 【7】 there was a garage.

I had noticed three hens 【8】 (run) free in my hostess courtyard and that night one of them ended up in a dish on my table. Other villagers brought me goats cheese and honey. We drank together and talked 【9】 (merry) till far into the night.

When the time came for me to say goodbye to my friends in the village, I wanted to reward the old woman for the trouble I 【10】 (cause) her. But she refused.

【题目】假如你是李华，国际学校的教师Paul邀请你星期六参加该校举行的“中国文化日”活动。但你爷爷突然生病住院，你要和父母一起去医院探视，不得不谢绝他的邀请。请根据下列要点用英语给Paul写一封电子邮件。

要点：1.谢绝邀请；

2．说明理由；

3．预祝活动成功。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3．邮件开头和结尾已为你写好。

Dear Paul，

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Yours，

Li Hua

【题目】To forgive is a virtue, but no one has ever said it is easy. When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be extremely difficult to let go of your hate. However, forgiveness is possible, and it can be surprisingly beneficial to your physical and mental health. People who forgive show less sadness, anger and stress and more hopefulness, according to a recent research.

______【1】_____ Try the following steps:

Calm yourself. _____【2】______ You can take a couple of breaths and think of something that gives you pleasure: a beautiful scene in nature, or someone you love.

Don’t wait for an apology. Many times the person who hurt you does not intend to apologize. They may have wanted to hurt you or they just don’t see things the same way. ____【3】_____ Keep in mind that forgiveness does not necessarily mean becoming friends again with the person who upset you.

Take the control away from your offender(冒犯者). Rethinking about your hurt gives power to the person who causes you pain. Instead of focusing on your wounded feelings, learn to look for the love, beauty and kindness around you.

____【4】_____ If you understand your offender, you may realize that he or she was acting out of unawareness, fear, and even love. You may want to write a letter to yourself from your offender’s point of view.

Don’t forget to forgive yourself. _____【5】_____ But it can rob you of your self-confidence if you don’t do it.

A.Why should you forgive?

B.How should you start to forgive?

C.Recognize the benefits of forgiveness.

D.Try to see things from your offender’s angle.

E.For some people, forgiving themselves is the biggest challenge.

F.To make your anger die away, try a simple stress-management technique.

G.If you wait for people to apologize, you could be waiting an awfully long time.

【题目】 Indeed,” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.

Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, “to install an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others’ conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant “to cheat”, and since the 1940s it has been annoying.

We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering ‘a bug’ in his invented record player.”

【1】 We learn from Paragraph 1 that __________________.

A. Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug

B. George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug

C. the word bug was still popularly used in English in the nineteenth century

D. both Englishman and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century

【2】What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph probably mean?

A. Explanation. B. Finding.

C. Origin. D. Fault.

【3】The passage is mainly concerned with__________________.

A. the misunderstanding of the word bug

B. the development of the word bug

C. the public views of the word bug

D. the special characteristics of the word bug

【题目】短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

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：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\），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 Diary,

Here I am in the middle of a city, 350 miles far away from our farmhouse. Do you want to know why we move last week? Dad lost his job, and as Mom explained, He was lucky to find other one. His new job meant I had to say goodbye to my classmate, my school or just everything else I love in the world. To make matters bad, now I have to share a room with my younger sister, Maggie. Tomorrow is first day of school. I am awfully tiring, but I know I will never fall sleep.

Good night and remember, you, dear diary, is my only souvenir from my past life and my only friend.

Yours,

Rosemary

【题目】生活中充满了选择，学会自主选择有助于我们的成长。请以“An important choice I have made”为题，用英语写一篇120词的短文，记述一次对你影响深远的选择。

内容要点：

1.记述选择的经过；

2.结合此次经历，简要说明自主选择的重要性。

注意：文章的标题已给出，不计入词数。

An important choice I have made

____________________________________________________________________

【题目】 此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右

边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线（\）划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）, 在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

My brother Tom was very selfish when he was a little boy.

He did not want share things with other people. For example, when he bought a chocolate cake, he put them in a secret place where I couldn’t find. Then he ate it all by himself. He never helped other. He said he is busy. That is, a game of tennis making him very busy. He did not care if something he did made people angry. For instance, on one night he played strong and loudly music till four o’clock in the morning. But he is difference now. He often helps grandma with housework, helps mom with cooking and helps his classmates with their lessons.

【题目】Sitting on the bus I took the book out and was about to read but I was attracted by a young woman behind, who was speaking 【1】________ her cell phone.

She was talking to her brother. She wanted to know where he was, why he wasn't where he was supposed to be, why he had 【2】_________(撒谎) to their mother again and if he knew that their mum had broken down in【3】 t___________ that morning because of him.

She kept it quiet but she didn't have any mercy on him. She let him know exactly 【4】___________she thought of him but I could tell there was 【5】________ (爱) under all the disappointment. She tried so hard to get this boy to come to see his mother and make it all right, but I got the 【6】_________ (印象) she was fighting a losing battle.

When she left the bus, I got【7】_________ behind her. "Excuse me," I said. "Do me a favor, would you? 【8】T__________ this money and buy your mum a box of chocolates 【9】__________ a bunch of flowers. And tell her a stranger said that【10】 b_________ a mother is the hardest but most important job in the world."

【题目】语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式

God has blessed me with a lovely brother. He is 4 years younger than me. I still remember that day when he was born. He is 【1】 premature baby. When he was a little baby, he always used to cry for no reason and hardly slept. He never allowed me and my parents 【2】 (sleep) well.

As time went by, he【3】 (become) a little older. I used to get angry with 【4】 since he started snatching(抢) all my toys away from me. 【5】 , my parents taught me that he is my younger brother and I 【6】 make him learn to share things.

Now, 【7】 we still fight over things, we both love each other deeply. We share the same school and have the same 【8】 , like doing sports, singing and reading.

We do a lot of secret things without informing our parents and if 【9】 (catch), we will join hands to deal with the situation. Life is fun when we are together. As we are growing old day by day, we are becoming 【10】 (responsible) for our duties than before. And we know that no matter where we go in life, we both are always there for each other to face the hardships of life.