●A 78-year-old grandmother whose education was cut short by the second world war celebrated an A-level with her 50-year-old daughter. Betty Allen and daughter Chris Branton of Sprotbrough, South Yorkshire, opened their results together on TV after completing the UK's only online English A-level course. Mrs Allen received a D and Ms Branton a C

●Actor Holly Grainger, 18, from East Didsbury, Manchester, achieved two As and two Bs. She is a regular face on television screens with roles in Terry Pratchett's Johnny and the Bomb and new legal drama New Street Law. She learned yesterday that she had landed a main part in a new school drama called Waterloo Road

●A teenage hockey star who hopes to play for England in the 2012 Olympic Games won three A-grades. Will Miles, 18, from Formby, Merseyside, who attends Merchant Taylors' school in Crosby, plans to study maths at Manchester University 

● Andrew Nowell, a student at Nottingham high school, got five grade As, including one of the top five marks in the country for his design and technology paper. He won the Young Engineers for Britain conwww..comtest this year with an invention he produced for his Design and Technology A-Level - a "remote control and security interface system". He is off to Cambridge to study engineering .  

● Jed McQueen Jones got A grades in chemistry, maths and physics, despite being diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2003 and being hospital for three months. Jed, a pupil at Richard Huish College in Taunton, restarted A-levels in September 2004 and continued chemotherapy(化疗)into that Christmas. He is going to Exeter University on a science scholarship to study physics.

How did Betty Allen learn English and complete the course?

   A. On TV     B. On the Internet      C. By herself    D. Through her daughter

The underlined word “landed” in Paragraph Two means_______.

   A. moved down   B. arrive at   C. catch up     D. got successfully

Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage?

   A. She and her daughter were invited to appear online to celebrate.

   B. Her daughter did worse than her in the English A-level course.

   C. They completed the English A-level course on the internet.

   D. Betty Allen’s education was stopped by the Second World War.

What really made Andrew Nowell prouder and more successful?

   A. getting five grade As.

   B. an invention.

   C. his study on engineering

   D. His job as an engineer

The best title of the passage is probably_________

   A. Super students and their achievements

   B. Super gifts account for great achievements

   C. Hard work results in success

   D. Star pupils and super students

第二节：语法填空（共10小题；每小题1分, 满分10分）
阅读下面短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求, 在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空, 并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31～40的相应位置上。
Autumn came again，and with it ___31____ (come)trouble and sorrow, A strange disease had broken out among the sealers．Betty Sparrow, who was Abraham Lincoln’s mother’s aunt，and her husband were the first to ___32___ (attack)by this terrible sickness．The narrow camp which was their home was ___33___cheerless place even at its best，and the disease did its work____34____ (quick)．
And then Abraham Lincoln’s mother was stricken down．Suffering from damp and cold in the camp had robbed her of her ___35____(strong)and made her easily  ____36___ (catch) the disease，
One morning，when the grey daylight was struggling ___37___ the gaps of the unfinished cabin，she reached out her arms and drew little Abraham before her, “My boy, you are going ___38____ live as I have taught you．” Then the end came．
____39___ only ten years old，Lincoln was no longer a child. He was ___40___ (determine) to be a man of the type his mother would praise and admire. Long afterward，when he had won honor and had a sure place among the great men of the world，he said，“All that I am，and all that I hope to be，I owe to my angle mother．”

VI. 短文改错
找出下面一段文章中的错处并改正。如该行缺一词，在文中缺词处标上“  ” ，并在相应的横线上写上正确的词语；如该行多一词，在文中用斜线划掉多余的词，并在相应的横线上写上该词，用斜线划去；如该行错一词，在文中用横线标出，再在相应的横线上写上正确的词语。如该行无错，在相应的横线上打上“  ” 。
示例：
Betty wants to be  nurse and works with sick people        a      
who need her helps.                                help     
Last summer Betty  had  broke her leg.                had    
The pain was very great and she couldn’t walk.                   
The telephone rang and I picked out the receiver(话筒). “Hello,”   69.____________
I said.  “Hello,” said the voice. “Bill here, is Betty there?”         70.____________
“I’m sorry,” I said, “You have got the wrong number.”             71.____________
A few seconds late, the telephone rang again. Just                 72.____________
as I expected he was Bill, “You have made a mistake again.”        73.____________
I explained. The telephone rang a third time. This made I           74.____________
angry. I speak in a big voice, “Hello, Bill, Betty here.”             75._____________
For a moment there was a dead silent. Then someone said,         76._____________
“What’s the wrong with you, Tom?” It was my mother.            77._____________
I could do anything but say sorry to my mother.                  78_____________

--- ______ Betty this morning?

　 --- Not yet, but she is sure to be here before noon.

A. Have you seen                        B. Will you see

C. Do you see                           D. Did you see?

Betty Skelton was often called “The First Lady of Firsts’’ because of the many records she set. She grew up in Pensacola, Florida, watching airplanes flying to and from a nearby navy base. As a child, she persuaded her parents to let her take flying lessons. By 12, Betty made her first flight alone, though not legally permitted to do so until she turned 16.
During the 1940s, female pilots were mostly prevented from commercial and military flying. So Betty Skelton decided to use her flight skills in aerobatics(特技飞行)，performing difficult turns, drops, and other exercises. She began performing and competing around the country.
She won the International Feminine Aerobatic Championship(IFAC)for three years in a row, starting in 1948. She and her little Pitts Special plane the “Little Stinker’’ became famous.
Dorothy Cochrane is an aviation expert who once studied and worked with Betty Skelton. “Betty was such a wonderful aerobatic pilot that she really set the bar high for other women to follow and she was a great role model for them. She really was as good as some of the men.”
Once Ms. Skelton had made her mark on flying, she moved on to racecars, becoming the first female test driver in the racecar industry. She set several land speed records. She also set a cross-country record, driving from New York to California in under 57 hours. And she became one of the top women advertising experts working with General Motors in support of the company’s Corvette car.
Ms. Skelton died in August, 2011, at the age of 85. Visitors to the Washington area can see her “little Stinker” plane at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The small red and white plane hangs high in the air above the entrance to the museum.
【小题1】What can we learn from the first paragraph?