完形填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

For middle school students in China, it's really easy to spend money.There are so___1__ things,such as the latest clothes, video games, expensive handbags.

The habit of spending money like most bad habits, is ___2____ to break. When I was a middle school student, I __3___ lots of money on things. I _4__ I was very cool at that time. But now I feel very sorry because I ___5__ so much money.

When something is the latest and greatest, you want it at once because it’s new and you don’t want to wait ___6__ it’s old. The __7___ is that the latest things usually cost a lot of money. But once you own the things, they go out of fashion very__8__. How many things do you have in your bedroom? How often do you __9__ them?

The expensive things are not the coolest ones at all. It’s not necessary __10____ them.

1.A. little       B. much           C. many

2.A. easy         B. good           C. hard

3.A. cost        B.spent           C. took

4.A. realized     B. thought         C. wondered

5.A. wasted       B. saved           C. paid

6.A. as          B. before         C. till

7.A. reason       B. happiness       C. problem

8.A. quickly      B.difficultly      C. slowly

9.A. watch       B. use            C. move

10.A. to buy      B. buy             C.buying

Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Do you sometimes think your studies are not   1  enough? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you   2   the world with your warm heart, you’ll find that the whole world smiles to you.
While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed   3  happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine. Just  4  you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concert   5  the nature offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest.
Although everyone wants to succeed in  6  he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t   7  . I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up  8 . When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best    9  what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”
Attitude means 10 . Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.

补全对话 （有两项多余选项）(5分)

David (D) and Tina(T) are talking about what they are going to do in the future.

T: What are you going to do after leaving school?

D: ___1.____ I would like to explore strange things.

T:__2.______.

D: Of course, I do. I like to visit different places.

T: That’s good. You seem to be good at spoken English.__3.____

D: It’s just so-so. I’ll try to learn it better._4._______.

T: Maybe I’ll be a P.E. teacher. I feel like playing all kinds of games with children.

D:___5.______.

T: I hope my students would like me and enjoy themselves,too.

D: Good luck！

A.What do you want to be?

B.Do you like traveling?

C.Is that right?

D.It seems that you’ll enjoy yourself  at work

E.Are you going to be a teacher?

F.I am thinking about becoming a guide.

G.Great. Being a teacher is proud.         

Thousands of years ago, people didn’t know that the Earth moved. They thought the sun really did move across the sky. The Greek god Helios was said to drive the sun around the sky with his chariot（战车）. But now, these ideas have all changed. Nowadays, it is the sun that drives our “chariot” around the sky.

So what does all this mean? Well, quite simply, there is now a plane （or “chariot”） that is powered by the sun. It has special parts in its wings. These parts absorb power from the sun. They absorb so much power that they can carry on flying at night. In the Greek myths（希腊神话）, Helios had to take a break at night. It seems we’re finally even more efficient than the gods themselves.

This plane is called Solar Impulse （“太阳驱动”号）. It will fly across the US in May. This is very important for the future of the world.

So why is solar energy so good for us? Well, other kinds of energy cause a few problems. If you live in China, you’ve probably noticed the pollution. This is caused by burning coal or gas to make energy. The heat and chemicals（化学制品）from this make things work. But if we use the heat from the sun, we don’t have to burn anything, and there’s no pollution.

Solar energy is not all there yet. It needs to be improved. But the best thing about it is that, unlike coal and gas, it doesn’t run out. Solar Impulse could keep flying forever. Well, actually, the sun will run out too, one day, but not for another 5 billion years. That’s a pretty long flight.

1.What does “chariot” really refer to in the last sentence of Paragraph 1?

A．The Earth.         B．The Greek god.     C．Solar Impulse.      D．Birds.

2.Which of the following is TRUE of Solar Impulse?

A．It can only fly at night.                    B．It has already flown across the US.

C．It is powered by the sun.                  D．It needs gas to work.

3.In the passage, what is mentioned as the cause of pollution in China?

A．Overpopulation.                        B．Burning coal or gas.

C．Using solar energy.                      D．Heavy traffic.

4.What does the writer mean by “That’s a pretty long flight”?

A．It takes a lot of time to get Solar Impulse going.

B．Solar Impulse moves very slowly.

C．Solar Impulse will be in use for a long time.

D．Solar Impulse has a long way to go to take the place of the sun.

5.The passage is most probably taken from___________.

A．a Greek myth      B．a science fiction     C．a story-book       D．a science magazine