Word spelling(满分10分)

1.He did the work with his teacher's________(指导).

2.She is my n_______ from America, the daughter of my eldest sister.

3.Jane and Sarah used to be friends but now they are bitter e________.

4. The teacher _________(惩罚) the noisy children by making them stay after school.

5.He made a f_______ by selling houses.

6.If you make any more noise I shall o_______ you out of the hall!

7.The three goals we scored in the first half gave us a useful c________ against defeat.

8.There was a s_______ with trees and grass in it in the center of the city.

9. What is the _______(平均的)rainfall for August in your country

10. We all wore m_____ at the party and no one knew who we were.

It was black in the evening. Jason, a 12-year-old boy didn’t want to go outside. But his mother, Branda, was worried about his father and   36  he go.

That evening the man had to  37  his car, a Buick outside their house in the driveway.

38  enough, the wife hadn’t heard a single  39  for at least one hour. “Go and find him,” she told Jason.

The kid stepped outside in the darkness and called into the shadows “Dad?”

       “Jason?”  40  was his father, but his voice sounded  41  . He spoke slowly, in a strange way.

       That evening, when the man had to get   42  the car to fix it, he used a forklift to lift the car.  43  , the man didn’t place the blocks in front of the car’ s front tires to keep it from  44  forward off the forks, which was exactly  45  it did afterwards.

Little Jason saw his dad’s feet  46  out from beneath the car.  47   to take a full breath, Old Jason sank into a sleepy, half-alive  48  .

       “Calm down. It will be OK.” The boy  49   his mother. Now he couldn’t afford to be scared.

       He climbed on and started up, the Buick started to come off the ground and 50   in the air.

       Minutes later, 911 policemen arrived. Old Jason 51  beneath the car, still breathing.

       It wasn’t  52  his dad was loaded into an ambulance that the little boy 53   and sobbed.

       Little Jason says one happy change has come out of the 54  : he gets to spend more time with his dad. Old Jason, who hasn’t touched a car  55   the Buick fell on him often spends evenings with his son playing.

A. claimed              B. demanded            C. declared                D. announced

A. clean                     B. buy                     C. fix                D. sell

A. Strangely            B. Interestingly        C. Fortunately           D. Dangerously

A. word                     B. sentence              C. noise                    D. sound

A. He                        B. This                    C. There                   D. It

A. usual                     B. different              C. calm                     D. unhappy

A. into                    B. onto                    C. beneath                 D. above

A. Somehow                  B. Anyhow              C. Somewhat             D. Anyway

A. sinking              B. rolling                       C. driving                 D. running

A. what                    B. how                    C. why                            D. when

A. bringing            B. moving               C. sticking                D. taking

A. Unable             B. Unlikely              C. Likely                  D. Able

A. environment      B. circumstance        C. state                            D. position

A. inspired            B. comforted           C. required              D. persuaded

A. moved                 B. drove                  C. bent                            D. suspended

A. slept                    B. sat                      C. stood                           D. lay

A. until                    B. unless                 C. when                           D. while

A. broke out             B. broke down                C. broke up               D. broke off

A. matter                 B. affair                  C. accident                D. event

A. after                    B. till                       C. when                         D. since

根据首字母及中文填写正确的单词（共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分）

1. I could see a tall f_______ over there, but when I came near, I found it wasn’t a person.

2. After a few days’ stay in hospital, Mr. Green r_______  from his illness. 

3. In China, young children are usually taught to r_______ the old people.

4. He is a f_______ as an artist, but a success as an art teacher.

5. After g_____________ from university, he worked as a newspaper reporter.

6. The students are making p__________ for the coming mid- examination.    

7. Attention should be paid to m_______ good use of English newspapers rather than selling materials to students.

8. I am trying to lose weight because I’m so a________ of my body.

9. The children had an a_______ about what game to play, but they reached an agreement in the end.

10. He is so shy that he often feels e____________ about making speeches in public.

1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business .But he was not a good artist.So he invented a very simple camera (照相机).He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden .That was the first photo.
The next important date in the history of photography was 1837. That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his studio. He used a new kind of camera and a different processs. In his pictures, you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest details. This kind of photograph was called a daguerreotype.
Soon, other people began to use Daguerre's process. Travellers brought back daguerreotypes from all around the world. People photographed famous buildings, cities and mountains.
In about 1840, the process was improved. Now photographers could take pictures of people and moving things. The process was not simple. The photographers had to carry lots of film and processing equipment. But this did not stop the photographers, especially in the United States, where from the 1840s daguerreotype artists were popular in most cities.
Mathew Brady was a well-known American photographer. He took many pictures of famous people. The pictures were unusual because they were very life-like and full of personality.
Brady was also the first person to take pictures of war. His 1862 Civil War pictures showed dead soldiers and ruined cities. They made the war seem more real and more terrible
In the 1880s, new inventions began to change photography. Photographers could buy film readymade in rolls. So they did not have to make the film immediately. They could bring it back to their studios and develop it later, meaning that they did not have to carry lots of equipment. And finally, the invention of the small handheld camera made photography less expensive.
With the small camera, anyone could be a photographer. People began to use cameras just for fun. They took pictures of their families, friends and favourite places. They called these pictures "snapshots".
Photographs became very popular in newspapers in the 1890s. Soon magazines and books also used documentary photographs. These pictures showed true events and people. They were much more real than drawings.
Photography had turned into a form of art by the beginning of the 20th century. Some photographs were not just copies of the real world. They showed ideas and feelings, like other art forms.
【小题1】The passage is mainly about______________.

Lightning flashed through the darkness over Donald Lubeck’s bedroom skylight. The 80-year-old retired worker was shaken by a blast of thunder. It was 11 p.m. The storm had moved directly over his two-story wood home in the rural town of Belchertown, Massachusetts. Then he heard the smoke alarm beeping. Lubeck padded down the stairs barefoot and opened the door to the basement, and flames exploded out.

Lubeck fled back upstairs to call 911 from his bedroom, but the phone didn’t work. Lubeck realized he was trapped. “I started panicking,” he says.

His daughter and young granddaughters, who lived with him, were away for the night. No one will even know I’m home, he thought. His house was three miles off the main road and so well hidden by pines that Lubeck knew calling for help would be fruitless.

Up a hill about a third of a mile away lived Lubeck’s closest neighbors, Jeremie Wentworth and his wife. Wentworth had been lying down, listening to the radio when it occurred to him that the sound was more like a smoke detector. He jumped out of bed, grabbed a cordless phone and a flashlight, and headed down the hillside toward the noise.

He dialed 911. “Is anyone there?” he called out as he approached the house. Wentworth knew that Lubeck lived in the house.

Then he heard, “Help me! I’m trapped!” coming from the balcony off Lubeck’s bedroom.

“I ran in and yelled,‘Don, where are you?’ Then I had to run outside to catch my breath.”

After one more attempt inside the house, he gave up and circled around back. But there was no way to get to him. “I shined the flashlight into the woods next to an old shed and noticed a ladder,” says Wentworth. He dragged it over to the balcony and pulled Lubeck down just as the second floor of the house collapsed.

Wentworth and Lubeck don’t run into each other regularly, but Lubeck now knows that if he ever needs help, Wentworth will be there.

Lubeck still chokes up when he tells the story. “I was alone,” he says. “Then I heard the most beautiful sound in my life. It was Jeremie.”

1.According to the text, Lubeck___________.

A．stayed calm in the fire                    B．couldn’t find a safe way out

C．lived on the first floor                    D．called for help in the fire

2.How did Wentworth help Lubeck escape?

A．He called 911.

B．He went upstairs and took Lubeck out.

C．He put out the fire.

D．He used a ladder and pulled Lubeck down.

3.Which of the following factors was not mentioned in the text that almost cost Lubeck’s life?

A．He was living in his wood home alone that night.

B．The storm was too heavy and the fire was too fierce.

C．He lived far from the main road and was surrounded by pines.

D．He was too frightened to escape from the danger.

4.What does the text mainly talk about?

A．A near neighbour is better than a distant cousin.

B．A good way to get a narrow escape.

C．God helps those who help themselves.

D．Blood is thicker than water.