_______ did the writer feel?  Angry .

A. Why         B. How        C. When       D. Where

  He looked the man and the woman angrily. He looked at ________ angrily.

A. them         B. they        C. their        D. us

  假如你是高二学生李越，你发现部分同学每次遇到重要考试都会出现一些焦虑症状。请你用英语写一封信，向某学生英文报编辑反映该问题。信的内容包括下列要点:

注意： 1. 对所有要点不要简单翻译，要适当发挥

       2. 词数100—120左右，文章开头已给出（不计次数）

       3. 参考词汇    焦虑anxiety  症状symptom  头晕的dizzy  食欲 appetite

Dear editor,

   I’m Li Yue of Senior Two. I’m writing to ______________________________________

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____________________________________________________________________________ Yours,

                                                                 Li Yue 

My summer travel started terribly. I was at the Shanghai Railway Station buy a ticket to Hangzhou. I was going to visit a friend here and after that I would go to Xiamen for long holiday. I bought my ticket but turned around to pick up my bag from the floor and then realized that someone had stolen it. Luckily I had all my money on my pocket, but the only clothes I had was those I had on. It felt very strange to travel without any luggages. When I finally arrived at my friend he lent to me lots of clothes. I feel very happy that I could change my clothes at last.       

1. It is reported that the capital was s_______________ polluted by haze yesterday.

2. Our class is d____________ into four groups during the heated discussion.

3. The new railway is still under c_____________. It will be completed next year.

4. He f_____________ the letter and put it into the envelope.

5. Boys and girls, be quiet! I have an a__________________ to make.
6. Water and salt are a_____________ into our blood stream every day.
7. Would it be c___________ for you to pick me up at four o’clock and take me to the airport?

8. He q_____________ with his wife over housework last night.

9. Soldiers, policemen, nurses and students wear different u______________.

10. Can you tell me the name of a country c_______________ of many islands?

Sam Trafton was my violin teacher and what he said during one of my lessons often came back to me years later.

One day he asked me how much I practiced, I said three or four hours a day.

“Do you practice in long stretches, an hour at a time?’’

“I try to.’’

“Well, don’t,’’ he shouted. “When you grow up, time won’t come in long stretches. Practice in minutes, whenever you can find them five or ten before school, after lunch, between household tasks. Spread the practice through the day.’’

When I was teaching at Boston, I wanted to write a novel, but for two years I got practically nothing down on paper, and my excuse was that I had no time .Then I remembered what Sam had said. During the next week I did an experiment. Whenever I had five minutes unoccupied, I sat down and wrote a hundred words or so. To my surprise, at the end of the week I had finished a chapter. Later on I continued my novels by the same piecemeal method. Though my teaching schedule had become heavier than ever, every day there were unoccupied moments that could be caught and put to use.

   However, you must get into your work quickly. If you have only five minutes for writing, you can’t afford to waste four chewing your pencil .You must make your mental preparations beforehand, and concentrate on your task almost instantly when the time comes. Fortunately, rapid concentration is easier than most of us realize Sam Trafton has had a great influence on my life. He let me know that life can be counted on to supply you short moments and even every short periods of time can add up to all useful hours you need, if you start without delay.

77. The underlined part “counted on’’ can probably be replaced by_____________.

   A. expected                B. added up to          C. concentrated on                D. enriched

78. Which of the following statement is TRUE?

   A. The writer owes great thanks to Sam for teaching him how to use free time.

   B. Sam has had a great influence on the writer’s study.

   C. The writer didn’t take the teachers words to heart at first.

   D Rapid concentration is actually more difficult than most people imagine.

79. We can infer that the writer______________.

   A. has new books published each year however busy his teaching is

   B. can always find enough time for mental preparations beforehand

   C. has formed a bad habit of chewing a pencil while writing his novels

   D. is always tired of life because his teaching schedule is always heavy

80. What is the best title for this passage?

   A. A Little Time at a Time               B. How I Became a Writer

   C. Concentrate on Your Work           D. My Violin Teacher

Boys need friends, suffer when they don’t believe they have any, and worry over the ups and downs of relationships. Many adults believe that somehow boys need friends less than girls do, in truth, though, no boy is an island; boys value their friends throughout childhood and adolescence and are happier and healthier when they have solid relationships with peers.

Despite the common belief that girls are better at relationships, most boys consider their friends a very important part of their lives and boys may actually be better at keeping friendships than girls are. A recent study of 10 to 15-year-old boys and girls found that girls’ friendships are actually more fragile（脆弱）. Girls tend to say and do hurtful things to each other more frequently than boys, and girls are more hurt by the end of a friendship.

Boys are the living definition of the phrase “peer group”; they love games with rules, competition, and doing things together. Boys seem to enjoy, even need the opportunity to test themselves against others, and many lasting friendships begin in karate（空手道）class or on the basketball court. Competence and skill are widely respected; being picked last for a team or left out altogether is an experience that can haunt（萦绕心头）a boy for years.

As boys mature（成熟）, the friendship becomes even more important, and it frequently widens to include girls. During the teen years, friends can become the most important part of a boy’s life — and a part in which his parents are not included. The confusion of being a teenager leads boys to form close bonds with friends. There is the sense for many boys that a friend is someone who is “always there for me”, someone he can trust. They may be partners in crime or partners in study, but the friendship of adolescent boys can run surprisingly deep.

73. The common belief of adults is that boys _________ .

A. don’t care about others as much as girls      B. don’t value friendship as much as girls

C. have the same friendship as girls                  D. have healthier friendship than girls

74. According to the text, _________.

A. boys usually build friendship by playing competitive games

B. boys like to have small groups of friends

C. boys’ friendship seldom result in anyone being hurt

D. boys’ friendship can hardly end in failure

75. The author mentions the study in Para. 2 to prove _________.

A. girls value relationships more than boys  

B. most boys consider their friends very important

C. boys may be better at keeping friendship than girls  

D. boys may be more active in a friendship

76. As a boy gets older, he tends to __________.

A. widen his circle of friends to include his parents. 

B. shift his focus from his friends to himself.

C. be confused about what a friendship is.      
D. leave his parents out of his friends.

Dear Editor,

Brockingham is run by people who are more interested in tourists than its residents. The problem is that the people running the government refuse to accept new ideas. By banning (禁止) all fast-food restaurants and discount stores, they take away all the places kids can afford to shop.

These people forget that when they were young, they could go to the South Street Soda Fountain and get an ice-cream soda for 25 cents. Today you can’t find an ice-cream soda anywhere in Brockingham for less than $2! Where can kids go for a snack?

There is not a single restaurant in Brockingham where a family of four can eat dinner for less than $100. Add a 15% tip and sales tax and you have spent nearly $125 to eat a meal you could prepare at home for about $12. Have you noticed that Brockingham families never dine in Brockingham?

Fast-food restaurants are also a good place for school kids to get an after-school job. Fast-food restaurants are busiest during the early supper hours when students are able to work, whereas the fancy food restaurants cater to late-night diners. Working in one of these establishments requires working shifts that are too late for most students.

The City Council claims that local businessmen, rather than national chains, should benefit from the tourist business. I agree that it is important to support local businesses, but I think the fast-food restaurants would encourage more people to shop in Brockingham.

Another thing that disturbs me is that we must travel 25 miles to the nearest discount store. If I need a tire for my bike, I have a choice of buying one at Surf and Peddle Sport Shop for $15 or driving to Parkersburg Discount Center where I can buy the same kind of tire for $9. Again, I think the ban on all food chains and discount houses is counterproductive for our city.
                          Wes Woodrow 9th-Grade Student at Brockingham High School

69. Why does Wes Woodrow write this letter to the editor?

A. Because the government bans all fast-food restaurants and discount stores in Brockingham.

B.  Because the writer can’t find an ice-cream soda anywhere in Brockingham for less than $2.

C. Because a family of four can’t find a restaurant in Brockingham to eat dinner for less than $100.

D.  Because the writer has to travel 25 miles to the nearest discount store.

70. From the letter we can infer that _________.

A. the writer used to buy a lot of ice-cream soda 

B. the students refuse to work in fancy food restaurants

C. the government’s ban benefits local businessmen much

D. discount stores usually offer a discount of 40%

71. The underlined word “counterproductive” in paragraph 6 of the letter probably means ______________.

A. cheap, not expensive                               B. surprising, not expected

C. harmful, not helpful                                  D. doubtful, not sure

72. One way the writer of this letter tries to convince the reader is by _________.

A. complaining that someone has to drive him to Parkersburg

B. getting an after-school job in fast-food restaurant himself

C. suggesting that many businessmen have the same opinion

D. giving specific examples of the high costs in Brockingham

Anyone who reads a book and then goes to see a movie based on that book generally leaves the movie feeling a little disappointed. Why might this be? Both books and movies serve the purpose of entertainment. Both books and movies offer characters and plots. And, both books and movies provide a setting for a story. Books, however, offer a more attractive and complex form of entertainment than movies.

   Although movies are entertaining to watch, books have advantages over them. First, books, in comparison to movies, can more easily seize the depths of characters and create a complex setting through the use of rich description. Books leave it up to the reader to interpret, imagine, and recreate the story in his or her own mind. However, movies are action—packed and provide lots of visual stimuli（视觉刺激）, still, it is the movie not the viewer that interprets the characters, plot and setting. Second, books are not limited to time. A writer can write as much or as little as necessary in order to create and tell a story. Movies, on the other hand, are limited to an hour and a half to two hours of entertaining time before the audience begins to get restless. Last, reading is an intellectual form of entertainment. Readers can improve their level of reading and vocabulary in a harmless, healthy, and pleasurable way. Movies, on the other hand, are not as complex and entertaining as books, and they leave nothing to interpret. Therefore, the advantages and entertainment value of books outweigh（胜过）those of a movie.

To conclude, books, through interpretation, help the reader develop a sense of relationship to the characters and the story itself, but a movie strictly entertains. Books are a better form of entertainment than movies.

65. According to the author, ____________.

  A. movies often make people disappointed  B. more and more people prefer books to movies

  C. books have many advantages over movies   D. both books and movies strictly entertain

66. The underlined word “intellectual” in the second paragraph may relate to __________.

  A. training             B. learning          C. translation            D. memory

67. We learn from the text that ___________.

A. movies can easily seize the depths of characters

B. books provide more visual stimuli than movies

  C. books leave readers nothing to interpret and imagine

  D. movies are usually time limited compared with books

68. Which of following would be the best title for the text?

  A. Movies: Easy Form of Entertainment         B. Books: Better Form of Entertainment

C. How to Produce Movies Based on Books      D. Why Are We Disappointed at Movies

My grandfather worked as a carpenter. On this particular day, he was building some crates（木箱）for the clothes his church was sending to an orphanage（孤儿院）in Brazil. On his way home, he found his glasses were gone. When he mentally replayed his earlier actions, he realized what happened. The glasses had slipped out of his pocket and fallen into one of the crates. His new glasses were heading for Brazil! 

  The Great Depression was at its height, and Grandpa had six children. He had spent twenty dollars for those glasses that very morning. 

       “It’s not fair,” he thought as he walked home angrily. “I’ve been very faithful in giving my time and money to my work, and now this.” 

Several months later, the director of the orphanage came to the United States. He wanted to visit all the churches that supported him, so he came to my grandfather’s small church in Chicago.

He began by thanking the people for their kindness in supporting the orphanage. “But most of all, he said,” I must thank you for the glasses you sent last year. You see, some people had just come to the orphanage, destroying everything, including my glasses. I was desperate. Even if I had the money, there was simply no way of replacing those glasses. Along with not being able to see well, I experienced headaches every day, so my coworkers and I were very worried about this. Then your crates arrived. When I removed the covers, I found a pair of glasses lying on top.” 

He paused long enough to let his words sink in. Then, he continued: “When I tried on the glasses, it was as though they had been made just for me! I want to thank you for being a part of that!” 

The people listened, happy for the miraculous glasses. But they thought it was strange because there were no glasses on their list of items to be sent overseas. 

Sitting quietly in the back, with tears streaming down his face, my grandfather, an ordinary carpenter realized his glasses had found a good place to go. 

61. We know from the text that          .

A. the author’s grandfather got his glasses back from the director of the orphanage

B. the author’s grandfather found that his glasses were at home at last

C. the author’s grandfather’s burden of supporting his family was very heavy

D. the author’s grandfather worked as a carpenter in a school in Chicago

62. From the text we can infer that the author’s grandfather was very         after hearing what the director of the orphanage had said.

A. surprised              B. disappointed          C. pitiful                  D. proud

63. The underlined word “miraculous”（Paragraph 7）can be replaced by        .

A. practical               B. wonderful               C. necessary            D. important

64. What would be the best title for the text?

A. The Perfect Mistake                            B. An Ordinary Carpenter

C. A Careless Old Man                    D. A Pair of Glasses