【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Long, long ago people couldn’t write and they had no books. But they had stories. People learned the stories by heart and taught new ones to one another. Sometimes it was hard to remember them all. __【1】______

The ancient Egyptians wrote their stories on something made from papyrus (纸沙草) plants. People in other places learned to use papyrus from the Egyptians. _____【2】____ So, parchment (羊皮纸), made from goatskin, later took its place.

In ancient China books looked a little different. People there used ink to write on bamboo or silk. And then they invented paper. Made of trees, paper was easier and cheaper to make than papyrus or parchment. ______【3】______ Papermaking later spread to the West, but there was a big problem with these early books. Every single one had to be copied and written by hand.

______【4】____ They carved (雕刻) a page of words into a piece of wood or stone. They could then print the page by spreading ink on the wood or stone and putting it against paper. But it wasn’t until a German printer invented movable, metal letters that books became fast and easy to make. The letters could be used to print copy after copy, and the letters put together again and again to print different pages of words.

______【5】____ Once a luxury (奢侈品) only the rich could buy, they soon became a treasure everyone could enjoy.

A. But papyrus grew mainly in Egypt.

B. It took years to finish making just one book.

C. Finally books could be printed by the thousands.

D. Things grew a little easier when writing was invented.

E. Its surface was smoother and better for writing on too.

F. Books in the West didn’t change for a long time after that.

G. The Chinese were the first to think of a way to speed things up a little.

【题目】书面表达

假定你是李华。你的笔友晓东是某学校一名高一学生。最近他来信说不知道如何学好高中英语，感到苦恼。请你给他写一封回信，提出你的建议。建议内容如下:

1 尽力用英语交流，不要怕犯错误。

2 坚持每天早晚朗读英语。

3 多读英文报纸，看英文电影。

注意: 1 词数100左右； 2 可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯；

3 开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。

Dear Xiao Dong,

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I hope you will find these ideas useful.

Yours,

Li Hua

【题目】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Robert is fourteen 【1】 (year) old and in the ninth grade at a middle school near his home. Life is hard for his family. His father, 【2】 was once a doctor, is now ill in bed. Every morning, after finishing delivering (递送) the newspapers, he 【3】 (hurry) to school. The school begins 【4】 8 o’clock every morning. He 【5】 (usual) earns about 80 dollars a month and 【6】 (much) during his holidays. He wants to buy a new bike, but he has to spend some of the money 【7】 ( buy) books and clothes for himself, and he has to spend some of his money on food for his family. He saves the rest 【8】__ (pay) for his college fees. He 【9】 (do) hope to go to college after he graduates from middle school and find a good job 【10】 he graduates from college. He hopes to earn much more money to support his poor family in the future.

【题目】单词拼写（共1小题）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Tu Yoyo，84，was 【1】 ________ (honor)with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct 5．She was the first Chinese citizen 【2】 _______ win a Nobel Prize in science．Tu 【3】 _______ (share)the prize with the Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan．

Tu 【4】 _______ (be)a researcher at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine now．She was given the prize for developing artemisinin(青蒿素)，a new drug therapy against malaria(疟疾)，【5】 _______ has saved millions of lives worldwide，especially in developing countries．

Tu and her colleagues joined a government project to find a new malaria drug 【6】 _______the late 1960s．They made 380 herbal extracts from two thousand recipes from traditional Chinese medical books．In 1971，after nearly two hundred 【7】 _______ (failure)，Tu’s team【8】 _______ (find)found an extract that was 100％effective against the malaria parasites—artemisinin．In 2001．the World Health Organization made artemisinin 【9】 _______ (it)first choice in the treatment of malaria．

“The discovery of artemisinin is a gift to mankind from traditional Chinese medicine．It’s the collective achievement of the research team. 【10】 _______ (win)the prize is an honor for Chinese science and traditional Chinese medicine，”Tu said．

【题目】That woman carried a new blanket over her arm. Wordlessly, she gave it to me.

“Is it finished?” I asked.

She shook her head. “No. It is ready,” she replied. I handed her the money and took the blanket.

“It is beautiful, so skillfully woven,” I said to my mother. “But what did she mean when she said it was not finished? How can it be ready if it is not finished?”

“I will tell you later,” my mother said, “but first I will take you to the Navajo village.”

We went down to the village. A group of young men were making sand pictures. We walked through the whole village, watching the different things the people were doing.

It was not until that evening that my mother finally explained the Navajo woman’s words.

“Did you notice anything about the things the people were making?” My mother asked.

“What should I have noticed?” I looked at her and asked.

“Each thing the Navajo make has one small part that is not complete. The design in their sand pictures are often not perfectly done, for example---the line of a circle may not quite close. If you look carefully at your blanket, you will probably find a stitch(一针) missing.”

I took the blanket off, but it looked as perfect as any design could be. Then suddenly, I noticed that sure enough a stitch was missing!

“They believe that when anything is completed or finished, it means the end has come--- it will not be perfect until then. Then too, with a circle, they believe that they must leave a pathway for the bad spirits to run away and the good spirits to come in. So, often, they do not make the line close.

【1】The blanket the author received ______.

A. was poorly woven

B. made her think a lot

C. cost her a lot of money

D. was finished, but not ready

【2】Why was the author shown around the village?

A. To buy more things made by the Navajo.

B. To make friends with some of the Navajo.

C. To have a deeper understanding of the Navajo.

D. To look for the woman who sold her the blanket.

【3】Which of the following may the Navajo believe?

A. A stitch in time is very important.

B. Life only becomes perfect when you die.

C. He who makes no mistake is a perfect man.

D. You must always try to make your life complete.

【4】What’s the main idea of the text?

A. The Navajo are good at making things

B. The Navajo are brave and hard-working.

C. Skills are needed to do business with the Navajo.

D. A blanket tells a lot about the Navajo culture.

【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有多余选项。

It is said that there are about 40,000 different kinds of jobs in the world. 【1】

“Finding a job” is not the same as “choosing a job”. Many young people end up in a job which they are not suitable for. 【2】 Here are a few steps to help you think about jobs which you might enjoy doing after school or university.

First, it is important to realize what kind of person you are, which special qualities make you different from everyone else and what you are interested in. 【3】 If you like art and enjoy looking at pictures, that is an interest. But if you can draw a horse that looks like a horse instead of a big dog, that is a skill.

Then ask yourself this question: in the following three areas ― skills with people, skills with information and skills with things ― which are your best skills?

After examining your skills, the next step is research. To find out as many different kinds of jobs as possible, go to the library and read books, magazines and newspapers. 【4】

Finally, trust your own ideas and your own thinking! 【5】

A. It is your own life, so find something that you enjoy doing.

B. Choosing the right one itself is a difficult job.

C. We must know what our ideal jobs are.

D. There is a difference between an interest and a skill.

E. Ask your friends about the work they do.

F. “Chance” may play a more important part than “decision”.

G. Yourspan> parents may also give you some useful advice.

【题目】短文改错

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。每处错误仅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。

Ladies and gentlemen,

Welcome to our English Corner. This Corner was set up three years before. Every Sunday morning, students from different schools and some foreigners often took part. Gather around here, we practise spoken English by talking about everything we are interested. We also exchange my experience in English study. We all have a good time here. Thousands of people have been here when it was set up.

We think that they have learned a lot by taking part in activity here. It is a really supplement to our English class and it is welcomed by students, their parents and teachers. They all think it is of helpful. If you want to know much about the corner, you may talk to the students here.

【题目】Mr. Baker lived in an old and low house. His wife was blind in both eyes and the two children were very young. All his family often went hungry(挨饿). He had nothing but a small piece of field. One autumn he grew some wheat in his field. He hoped it would do well because all family would depend on it. The whole winter it often snowed. And the next spring the wheat was doing well. Mr. Baker was happy. One day Mr. Baker went to watch his wheat. To his surprise, a lot of crops were eaten up by a horse. He became angry but could not find out whose horse had eaten them. He thought the horse would go there again. So he decided to stay in his field and tried to catch the horse.

A few days later a yellow horse came in his field again and began to eat the wheat. Mr. Baker ran after it quickly, with a stick in his hand. But the beast ran much faster than he. He tried his best, but could not catch up with it. The next morning, when Mr. Baker was working in his field, he saw the yellow horse pulling carriage on the road. He picked up a stick at once, ran closer to the horse and began to beat it up.

The driver was surprised and stopped him. He asked, “Why are you beating my horse?”

“It has nothing to do with you,” Mr. Baker said angrily. “The beast knows why I’m beating him!”

【1】What was Mr. Baker?

A. A farmer B. A doctor

C. A keeper D. A driver

【2】Why was Mr. Baker happy at first?

A. Because he found out the beast that ate up his wheat.

B. Because he would soon get a good harvest.

C. Because wheat was doing well.

D. Because his family would not grow any more wheat.

【3】Mr. Baker tried his best to catch the horse to ____________.

A. sell it for some money

B. find out the owner of the horse

C. make it work for him

D. beat it up (痛打)

【4】Which of the following is true？

A. The horse knew that it had done wrong.

B. The horse had nothing to do with the driver.

C. The horse knew whose wheat it had eaten up.

D. The horse belonged to the driver.

【题目】书面表达

假如你是李华，你在某英文报纸上看到一个去山里植树的活动的英文广告，你想加入该活动，请根据以下提示用英语给主办方写信询问相关信息：

1. 年龄要求；

2. 住宿问题；

3. 如何到达目的地；

4. 活动的日期及持续时间。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 信的开头语已为你写好；

4. 参考词汇：log cabin 小木屋。

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to inquire the information about the “Caring for Our Forests” environmental programme.

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Yours faithfully,

Li Hua

【题目】阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下连贯的要求，填入适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。并将答案填入下方答题卡中。

One day Mark Twain was going to a small town because _【1】__ his writing. Before he was going to leave，one of his friends __【2】__ (say) to him that there were always a lot of mosquitoes in the town and told him that he'd better not go there. Mark Twain waved his hand and said，“_【3】__ doesn't matter. The mosquitoes are not relatives of mine. I don't think they will come __【4】__ (visit)me.”

After he arrived at the town, Mark Twain stayed in __【5】__ small hotel near the station. He went into a room, but 【6】__ he was just about to have a rest, quite __【7】__ few mosquitoes flew about him. The waiters felt very sorry about that. “I'm very sorry, Mr Mark Twain. There are too many mosquitoes in our town，” one of them said __【8】__ him.

Mark Twain，however, made a joke, _【9】__ (say) to the waiter, “The mosquitoes are very clever. They know my room number. They don't come into the wrong room.” What he said made all the people present laugh heartily.

But that night Mark Twain slept well. Did you know why? That was _【10】__ all the waiters in the hotel were driving mosquitoes away for him during the whole night.