I can still remember the first day when I met my best friend. She had just moved into the neighborhood and her grandmother brought her down to meet me. I hid behind my mother and she hid behind her grandmother, scared to look at each other.

Soon, we lost the shyness and started playing with each other, bike riding to each other’s house and having sleepovers. In 7^th grade she was going through family problems. However, every summer we would always sit at each other’s house and watch movies on TV and talk about all the boys we liked.

It was last year when I noticed the problem. She suffered from clinical depression（抑郁症）, and had to go to a hospital during the day. I was very sorry for her at first. But with the late night calls, and meeting each other halfway up the street at midnight, we still stayed in touch. I wanted to be there for her since her new best friend left her, and I knew I still cared about her like a sister.

Yesterday she came to me and said this. “I never knew what a best friend was until you were the only person that would stop me from cutting myself; the only person that ever made me feel better about myself and my problems. You didn’t know this but I was trying to kill myself that very night you called me and I was crying. I owe you so much, and you didn’t even know you were helping me. ”

We both cried. And I guess a kind of lesson from my life so far is to never give up your friends. Even if they aren’t as cool as others, or people think they are crazy, they need someone there. If you leave them, you will only be very sorry. So if friends need you, and you care for them, you should be always there for them.

1.Why did the two girls hide behind their family members when they first met?

A．Because they were playing a game.

B．Because they didn’t like each other.

C．Because they quarreled before.

D．Because they were both shy.

2.What would have happened to her friend if the author had not cared about her?

A．She would have lost her new best friend.

B．She would have killed herself that night.

C．She would have run away from her family.

D．She would have stayed in hospital for a long time.

3.What lesson does the author learn from the story?

A．Always care for your friends.

B．Don’t care about others’ opinions.

C．Never owe your friends too much.

D．Try to be as cool as others.

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母或汉语注释，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分10分）
【小题1】Now that you are 18, you should have more sense of__________(责任感)。
【小题2】Luckily, most people s__________ the earthquake.
【小题3】In the Olympic Games，athletes c___________with each other for medals.
【小题4】This kind of car is a__________ on TV and newspapers every day. You can easily find out its description and the price you want.
【小题5】The _______ (设计) of the room was in the fancy style popular.
【小题6】I have even been put into space rockets and sent to ______(探索) the Moon
【小题7】All the old computers in schools will be r________ with the new ones.
【小题8】He tried his best to find a way to s________( 解决) the problem.
【小题9】This afternoon I will ______(打字) the letter for you.
【小题10】After all that hard work, you _______（应得）a holiday.

 Many people believe the English _______ on TV and the radio is standard English.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was   1   and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be   2   but a failure.” After five years of   3  jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the beatific   4   that could have happened to me. I  5   I wanted to do something positive (积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to  6  that what people said about me was   7  . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s   8   it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my   9   and went to college. My first novel   10    while I was at college. After college I taught during the   11  in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a   12   in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of   13   that job to write full time   14   I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself —   15   was a working-class boy who’d   16   school early, now teaching at the university. My writing career (职业) took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and   17  , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars.   18   what does it mean? I   19   wish all the people that have put me down had   20  : “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

1.A. bright                       B. useless                           C. simple                        D. hopeful

2.A. anything            B. something            C. everything                    D. nothing

3.A. low                 B. poor                          C. good                         D. useful

4.A. support          B. happiness             C. surprise                       D. thing

5.A. admitted                    B. decided                       C. planned                       D. told

6.A. me                          B. them                          C. her                           D. it

7.A. wrong               B. right                  C. stupid                        D. faulty

8.A. see                  B. know                         C. understand                   D. face

9.A. experiment                 B. practice              C. writing                       D. composition

10.A. came on                  B. came in                       C. came out                      D. came back

11.A. day                        B. night                 C. month                        D. year

12.A. graduation     B. pass                           C. degree                       D. success

13.A. giving in        B. giving back                     C. giving out                    D. giving up

14.A. while                     B. if                      C. when                        D. or

15.A. there                     B. here                            C. it                             D. that

16.A. left                        B. attended                    C. changed                     D. graduated

17.A. tired                       B. calm                          C. nervous                       D. famous

18.A. And                      B. But                   C. However              D. Well

19.A. just                       B. exactly                        C. so                            D. very

20.A. praised        B. said                  C. answered                   D. advised

Television has changed our lives in many ways. Many people now spend more time watching TV than doing anything else. Researchers in the USA has estimated(估计)that when most students leave school they have spent 11,000 hours in the classroom and 22,000 hours watching television. But what effect does this have?

Benefits(好处) of television:

1. Television helps us to learn more about the world and to know and see many mew things. Television can offer present information to us in a more effective way than books. It can also make things more memorable.

2. It entertains (使欢乐) us. It is an enjoyable way to relax. For millions of people around the world, television is a source of companionship and helps them to cope with everyday life.

3. It has increased the popularity of sports and arts.

4. It has made us aware of our global responsibilities. In 2000, for example, 1.5billion people in 147 countries watched a TV pop concert and helped to collect more than $100million for people in Africa.

Dangers:

1. Television can make us passive (消极的). We don't have to think and our brains become lazy.

2. It encourages us to buy things that we don’t need, and can make us unhappy with our own life.

3. It takes time away from activities such as reading, conversation, and games.

4. It gives a false picture of society. A study in 2003 showed that people who watch a lot of TV are more afraid of crime. They also think that there is a lot more crime than there really is .

5. Some critics(批评家) say that television make people violent. A ten-year study in the United States showed that children who watch violent television programmes are more likely to be violent themselves.

1. What’s the proper description of the time American students spend on TV and study?

A、They spend twice as much time on TV as in the classroom.

B、They spend twice as much time in the classroom as on TV.

C、They spend as much time on TV as in the classroom.

D、They spend less time on TV than in the classroom/

2. The underlined word “memorable” is closed in meaning to     .

A、easy to be remembered        B、remembered forever

C、interesting                  D、knowledgeable

3.Which of the following number is NOT true of the pop concert mentioned in the passage?

A、People in more than 140 countries watched it on TV

B、It helped to collect more than $100 million

C、It was held in 2000.

D、1.5million people watched it on TV.

4. According to the passage, the dangers of watching TV too much included all the following except that     .

A、television can make us active

B、television encourages us to buy things that we don’t need

C、television gives us a worse picture of society

D、television takes time away from a lot of activities