短文填词（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

In Grade Eight I took physics. In one test I get                     76．          

only 36 percent of the answers c    ．I failed the                   77．          

next one, too. I started to think that maybe I    not                  78．          

good at it. However , I was l    __ .enough to                         79．            

have a teacher     did not take my bad grades as a                     80．          

     (判断 ) of' my abilities, but simply as an indication         81．            

why I should study harder. He pulled me aside and t                 82．               

me that he knew I could do better, He p     me to retake           83．                 

the test, and I pulled my grade to an A. This is                       84．              

I discovered: That some        (科目)'are difficult to                  85．                  

learn does not m     you are not good at them.                       

单词拼写(就所给汉语及单词首字母写出空缺处单词的正确形式,每空一词,共10分）

1.He was _________(使残疾) in an accident and had to be looked after by others.

2.The government was urged to take______(措施) to combat the spread of AIDS.

3.Can you tell me about your _________ (态度) towards?

4.His new girlfriend has been a bad  _______ (影响) on him.

5.My uncle is a  _________ (内科医生) rather than a physicist or surgeon .

6.The British Isles are a group of islands that lie off the west coast of ____(欧洲).

7.I’m surprised she didn’t phone me back—she is usually very r_________.

8.As is known, Libai is one of the best-known Chinese p________.

9.When I first went to Jack’s house, he i___________ me to his parents.

10.A kind and friendly___________(气氛) can be felt throughout the conversation.

Time is very important in our lives. It organizes our everyday moments. However, time never had any importance in my life until I received a watch from my father.

I received this gift on a cloudy day. I had to go to the airport at 9:00 a.m. to meet my uncle and take him to my father’s house. However, I was late because I was staying with my friends. Later on that day, around 11:00 a.m., I remembered my uncle, but I was very late for him. He had left the airport and taken a taxi to my father’s house.

I got to my father’s house at 2:00 p.m. and felt ashamed of myself at that moment. After I said “hello” to my angry father and tired uncle, my father asked me to sit next to him and gave me this watch. Then he said, “Essa, did you have fun with your friends today?”

“Yes, Dad, and I’m sorry about not meeting my uncle at the airport.”

“I hope today you learned something important, and this watch will be a reminder (提醒物) for you.” He told me to take this watch and use it as an organizer of my life.

I learned a very important lesson from my father: To respect time and never be late to do something. This watch is important to me, not because of its price, but because of the lesson that I learned from it.

49. The writer’s uncle came to visit them ______.

A. by car B. by air  C. by boat      D. by taxi

50. Why did Essa’s father get angry when Essa got to his house?

A. Essa often spent a lot of time with friends.

B. Essa cared little about other people.

C. Essa wasted too much time.  

D. Essa forgot an important thing.

51. Why did the father give Essa a watch?

A. To punish Essa.  B. To comfort Essa.

C. To teach Essa.           D. To praise Essa.

52. What did Essa think of the watch?

A. It was a priceless gift.       B. It was an useless gift.

C. It was a common gift.       D. It was a strange gift.

单词拼写（根据首字母或中文意思写出单词，共10题，满分10分）
【小题1】The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me e_______ in their power.
【小题2】Later in the next century, people from England made v_______ to conquer other parts of the world.
【小题3】Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she p______me to buy one.
【小题4】These new settlers enriched the English language and especially its v_______.
【小题5】I don’t want to set down a s______ of facts in a diary as most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend.
【小题6】He ______ (忽视) all the “No Smoking” signs and lit up a cigarette.
【小题7】He used to work ______ (在户外) even in the middle of winter.
【小题8】A large number of people speak English fluently because English is an ____ (官方的) language there.
【小题9】The train arrived at ______ (确切地) 8 o’clock, neither earlier nor later.
【小题10】The play examines the problems and pressures facing ______ (青少年) today.

I was born in Mississippi in the 1960s. My disabilities were caused by lack of oxygen to my brain when I was a five-year-old boy. I grew up knowing I was different. The first time I felt hurt and left out was in Grade Five. The other fourth and fifth graders played together in gym class, while I was put in the second grade gym class. One day, a famous football player visited the fourth and fifth grade P.E. class. All the kids got his autograph except me because I was with the second graders playing games. Mom called the school to tell them it wasn’t fair, but the school scolded me for complaining too much.

In the 1980s, when my mom was giving birth to my sister, she had made a major stroke（中风）and died. My dad became even more distant. I was very sad and began using alcohol to ease the pain.

Dad got remarried in 1985. Everyone went to his wedding except me; he told me to stay at home and watch the house. When my high school ball came around, I wanted to go but wasn’t allowed. When I graduated, my dad and step-mom refused to hold a party for me. They put me in a group home after graduation.

My life changed when I became a local leader of the National Self-advocacy（自我辩护）Group. At first, I thought the group wasn’t for me, until I found out it was all about empowerment（授权）! My goal is to be the voice for people who haven’t been heard and to empower them. Many families, like mine, don’t believe their disabled families have a voice or mind of their own.

Looking back over my 16 years of leadership experience, I ’m proud that I ’ve helped disabled people. They should be encouraged to never give up and to follow their own path.

56. When the writer was in the fifth grade, he   .

A. was hurt by his classmates in school

B. felt left out for the first time in his life

C. studied with the second graders

D. often complained about the school

57. According to the passage, the writer     .

A. was born disabled           B. didn’t study well at school

C. was happy in his childhood   D. didn’t get along well with his father

58. From the passage we can know that the National Self-advocacy Group is     .

A. an organization that gives disabled people help

B. a club organized completely by disabled people

C. a hospital which only treats people with disabilities

D. a school that teaches parents how to deal with their disabled kids