When Pat Jones finished college, she decided to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could while she was young. Pat wanted to visit Latin America first, so she got a job as an English teacher in a school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish, so she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn’t know much English.

Once, A sentence she had read somewhere struck her mind: if you dream in a foreign language, you have really mastered it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and hoped that some day she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in English.

One day, one of her worst students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had gone to bed early and had slept badly.

“What does this have to do with your homework?” Pat asked.

“I dreamed all night, Miss Jones. And my dream was in English.”

“In English?” Pat was very surprised, since he was such a bad student. She was even secretly jealous (嫉妒的). Her dream was still not in Spanish. But she encouraged her young student, “Well, tell me about your dream.”

“All the people in my dream spoke English. All the newspapers and magazines and all the TV programs were in English.”

“But that’s wonderful,” said Pat. “What did all the people say to you?”

“I am sorry, Miss Jones. That’s why I slept so badly. I didn’t understand a word they said. It was a nightmare (噩梦)”.

1.Pat believed that ______.

A. people can learn foreign languages in their dreams

B. she already dreamed in Spanish so she has mastered Spanish 

C. one of her worst students had already mastered English

D. dreaming in a foreign language means a good command of it

2.Pat’s student didn’t finish his home work because______.

A. the home work was too difficult        

B. the student dreamed in English

C. the student didn’t sleep well           

D. the student didn’t know much English  

3.The writer wrote this story ______.

A. to show us how to learn a foreign language      

B. to show us how to teach a foreign language

C. to amuse us with an interesting story           

D. to encourage us to travel to foreign countries

4.From the passage we can infer that ______.

A. in Bolivia, people speak Spanish

B. Pat’s student who dreamed in English was actually good at English

C. Pat has already learned much Spanish

D. in Latin America, the newspapers and magazines are in English

When Cathleen Gardiner’s twins were born 17 years ago, doctors told her that they were a pair in a million. One had Down syndrome(低能综合症), while the other did not. Here, Cathleen tells their touching story.

Since Sean was born 17 years ago, I have always thought that he is just as wonderful as his brother and sister. Though he had a disability(残疾), we have never viewed him as a burden. He has always been a blessing. The doctors explained that though they were twins, they came from two different eggs. Lisa could walk at 11 months old, while Sean didn’t take his first steps till he was three. By two, Lisa was talking a lot, but Sean wasn’t able to speak until he was nearly four.

For the first five years of his life, Sean needed a great deal of care. Looking after him was my full-time job, though I also worked as a technical adviser in a computing company. We never treated them differently. We gave them the same toys and spoke to them in the same way. We encouraged Sean to keep up with Lisa, even though he never could, and we would help him develop his abilities. We sent them to the same primary school even after doctors advised us that Sean should go to a school for the disabled.

We had to explain to Lisa that he wouldn’t learn as quickly as she would. She told us that she’d help him with his school work. Having a non-disabled twin has really helped Sean develop. The love they share has given him a great deal of support. Now Sean and Lisa are both about to finish high school. I don’t think he would have done nearly as well today without Lisa’s help.

1.At least how many children does Mrs. Gardiner have?

A．Two.             B．Three.            C．Four.             D．One.

2.Mrs. Gardiner and her husband regarded Sean as _______.

A．a boy making others touched              B．a normal child without disabilities

C．a special gift                           D．a burden of their family

3.The third paragraph mainly tells us that _______.

A．the couple treated the twins equally

B．Cathleen did all she could to look after Sean

C．the couple didn’t follow the doctor’s advice

D．the couple encouraged Sean to grow up

4.This passage tells us that _________.

A．love can do wonders                     B．nobody is foolish or clever

C．being stupid doesn’t matter              D．all men are born equal

第二卷（非选择题共35分）
第二节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
　　此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如没有错误，在该行右边的横线上画一个“√”，如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
　　该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
　　该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
　　该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：原行没有错的不要改。
One day Mrs. Smith went shopping. Since she came back             76.      
home, she said to her husband, “I saw beautiful dress in                77.      
a shop this morning. It costs fifty pounds.” “Fifty pounds to             78.      
a cotton dress? That is very much!”  But every evening Mrs.       79.      
Smith spoke only the dress, and at last, after a week,                80.      
her husband said, “Oh, buy the dress!” She was very happy.              81.      
But the next day evening, when Mr. Smith returned home and      82.      
asking, “Have you got the dress?”, she said, “No.” “Why not?”     83.      
he said. “Well, it is still in the window of the shop in a                     84.    
week. I think, nobody else want this dress, so I don’t                85.      
want it either!”

A man was selling medicine at a fair（集市）．At first he sold bottles of a cure（药剂）for colds（感冒）for just a dollar a bottle．

Many people wanted to buy it and the man's young assistant moved quickly through the crowd collecting money and handing out bottles of the cure．

Then，when he had a big crowd， the man held up a very small bottle．

“And now，ladies and gentlemen，he shouted，“Here is the medicine you have been waiting for．The cure for old age．Drink just one bottle of this and you will live forever．

“And，ladies and gentlemen，the man continued，“I'm not going to charge（向……要价……）you a hundred dollars a bottle for this wonderful medicine．I'm not going to charge you fifty dollars a bottle．I'm not going to charge you twenty-five dollars a bottle．Now，ladies and gentlemen，I'm going to charge you just ten dollars a bottle． Think，my friends，for ten dollars you can live forever．

Most of the people in the crowd did not believe this．

One person shouted，“If it can make you live forever，why don't you drink it？Then another person cried，“Yes， you look as if you're at least sixty years old．

“Thank you，sir，thank you，the man answered，“I'm so glad you said that． My real age is three hundred and twenty-nine．

The crowd laughed at this but there were still some people who wanted to believe the man ．One of them spoke to the man's assistant as she passed by，“Is that true？he asked．“Is he three hundred and twenty-nine？

“Don't ask me，the assistant said，“I've only worked for him for a hundred and fifty years．

1.What did the man sell at first at the fair？   

A．bottles

B．a cure for colds

C．a cure for old age

D．a medicine that made people live forever 

2.How much did the man charge for the cure for old age？

A．one dollar a bottle        B．twenty-five dollars a bottle

C．fifty dollars a bottle       D．ten dollars a bottle

3.What does the word “assistant” mean in this passage？

A．仆人  B．朋友  C．助手  D．同伴 

4.What does this passage really mean？

A．The man is not honest，and so is his assistant

B．The cure for old age is very useful and not so expensive． ．

C．The cheaper the medicine is，the more people will buy．

D．The two men are very honest，and they would like to help people live forever．

Three high students become heroes after their act of saving a baby’s life.

Andrew Willis, 15, his brother Chris, 13, and friend Reece Galea, 14, were walking along Swallow Drive on their way to school on May 23, when Nicholle Price ran out of her house, shouting for help. Her six-month-old son Corey had swallowed (吞下) an earring （耳环） and the young mother couldn’t ring for help because something was wrong with her phone. The three teenagers rushed to the aid of Ms Price, called an ambulance (救护车), calmed her down and waited with her until the ambulance arrived before heading to school.

Ms Price, Corey and his grandmother Joyce Finnie visited the school last Thursday to thank the boys for their kind action. “It’s good to know that there are still some good people who will stop and help,” Ms Price said. “While I was shouting for help, a woman walking her dog went straight past, without stopping. I don’t know what would have happened if these boys had not stopped.”

The teenagers were shocked at the attention they received at school for their heroic act but admitted that the incident was nerve-racking(刺激神经的). “We heard her shouting so we knew something wasn’t right,” Andrew said. “We thought someone had died. It was scary （惊慌的） but we just did what we had to do.”

Just as proud as the boys’ parents is their principal, Tim McCallum.

After two days in hospital, Corey has now fully recovered. “He’s got two new teeth to show,” Ms Price said. “I have to keep a closer eye on him. He’s into everything now and grabs whatever he finds to put it straight into his mouth.”

1.The three high students were _____ when a woman ran out of her house shouting for help.

A．playing near the house

B．on their way to school

C．walking their dogs nearby

D．on their way back from school

2.Ms Price spoke of a woman walking her dog without stopping to show _____.

A．how dangerous the case was

B．how brave the three boys were

C．why the three teenagers’ action was heroic

D．how clever the three boys were

3.The underlined sentence in the 4th paragraph probably means “_____”.

A．they didn’t expect they would be given so much praise

B．they felt excited to have become so famous after the incident

C．they were supposed to receive so many prizes for their good deed

D．they were proud of the attention they received at school for their heroic deed

4.Which would be the best title for this passage?

A．How a baby was saved after swallowing an earring

B．Why the mother shouted for help

C．Baby life saved: teenage heroes earn high praise

D．A mother came to school to thank 3 teenagers