After Mom died, l began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work. He was frail and moved slowly, but he always had a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with an unsigned note reading," Drink your juice." Such a gesture, l knew, was as far as Dad had ever been able to go in expressing his love. In fact, l remember, as a kid I had questioned Mom "Why doesn't Dad love me?" Mom frowned, "Who said he doesn’t love you?" "Well, he never tells me, "I complained." He never tells me either," she said, smiling. " But look how hard he works to take care of us, to buy us food and clothes, and to pay for this house. That's how your father tells us he loves us. "

I nodded slowly. I understood in my head, but not in my heart. l still wanted my father to put his arms around me and tell me he loved me. Dad owned and operated a small scrap (片) metal business, and after school I often hung around while he worked. Dad handled scrap steel into a device that chopped it as cleanly as a butcher chops a rack of ribs. The machine looked like a giant pair of scissors, with blades thicker than my father's body. If he didn’t feed those terrifying blades just right, he risked serious injury. "Why don' t you hire someone to do that for you?" Mom asked Dad one night as she bent over him and rubbed his aching shoulders with a strong smelling liniment. "Why don’t you hire a cook?" Dad asked, giving her one of his rare smiles.

Many years later, during my first daily visit, after drinking the juice my father had squeezed for me. l walked over, hugged him and said, "I love you, Dad." From then on I did this every morning. My father never told me how he felt about my hugs, and there was never any expression on his face when I gave them.

1.What would be the best title for the passage?

A．My father never loved me                B．I just couldn't understand my father

C．My hard-working father                  D．Silent fatherly love

2.The author’s father always prepared a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice for him because____.

A．that was the author's favorite

B．that was a gesture of love

C．the author was always complaining

D．he was sure the author would be thirsty

3.The author’s father didn’t hire a helper because________.              .

A．he wanted to save money

B．his job required high skills

C．his job was too dangerous

D．he was not good at communicating with others

4.We may infer from the passage that _______.

A．the author's father lacked a sense of humor

B．the author's-father didn't love him very much

C．the author quite understood his father as time went on

D．the author's father was too strict with him

Do you know when and where ice cream got its start? It's an international favorite with a long and interesting history

The earliest ices were eaten in China many years ago. The people would put orange juice on ice .Later, this idea traveled to Italy. Nero, the emperor of Rome between 37 and 68 A.D, liked to eat ices as a special treat between violin lessons. He ordered runners to run to the mountains, get snow and quickly run back to the palace; The snow was mixed with fruit juices and nuts.

Around 1660,Coffee shops serving ice cream were very popular in Paris. Most of the coffee shops were owned by Italians. The first successful one was opened by a man from Sicily named Francesco Procopio.

Ice cream was probably brought to America in the early 1700's, and quickly became the favorite of American presidents. George Washington had ice cream pots and machines in his kitchen. Dolly Madison the wife of President Madison, was the first person to actually serve it in the White House. She made her guests very  happy when she served her favorite dessert.

Before ice cream was sold in stores, it was made and frozen at home. it took a lot of work to mix cream，eggs，fruit，and salt, and then to freeze it. Nancy Johnson, an American woman who was good with machines, invented the hand-turned ice cream freezer in 1846. Five years later, Jacob Fluse opened the first ice cream business, in Baltimore, Maryland His business quickly spread to other states. Today in the United States,  ice cream is not only a food , it is away of life.

1.What's the passage about? (No more than 10 words)

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2.From which country did ice cream begin to travel in the world? (No more than l word)

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3.What does the underlined word "it" refer to in paragraph 4? (No more than 3 words)

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4.Who was the first person to serve the ice cream in White House'? (No more than 5 words)

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5.According to the passage ,what made ice cream so popular in the USA? Please list two reasons．

单词拼写（共15小题, 每小题1分，满分15分）

1.There are strong _____________(论据)against these measures.

2.I tried to fix the __________(设备)but I failed.

3.I’m sure that the word “friend” must ______(存在) in every language and in some ways it is a very easy word to understand.

4.He did the work under his teacher's ____________. (指导)

5.Take _________ (积极的)action and help make your neighborhood a better place to live in!

6.It may rain, but a_________ I shall finish the work today.

7. ---What’s our homework for today, Peter?   ---Sorry, I wasn’t c__________

8.You've been working all morning---you d __________a rest.

9.The fact that the 1 yuan fee goes to charity(慈善) may also encourage them to d_______ to good causes.

10.Once we are college students, we should learn to be i_______ of our parents' help.

11.He told me that the firm could not a________ to pay such large salaries.

12.On the way, a young man waved to me. I stopped and he asked me for a l_______.

13.As usual, the police will have a difficult time. They will be trying to keep order. It is always the same on these o__________.

14.He’ll be away for two months. We are p______ of him. He will take part in an important race across the Atlantic.

15.The instrument was bought by my grandfather many years ago. R______ it was damaged by a visitor.

单词拼写（共10小题，每题1分，满分10分）
【小题1】C___________ on your success last night!
【小题2】He b________ down and came up with a $20 bill. “ Sir, you must have dropped this.” The waiter said.
【小题3】Every year thousands of college g_____________ crowded in the job fair, hoping to find their desirable jobs.
【小题4】I’m very c_________ about my son in his new school, for he never knows how to take care of himself.
【小题5】He could have finished it on s__________, but somehow he fell behind.
【小题6】In the past, the villagers t__________ their goods by goat not by truck.
【小题7】They built s_________ for the homeless children.
【小题8】Though I haven’t met him for many years, I could r__________ him immediately when I saw him.
【小题9】He was c_______ along the street when he was knocked off his bike.
【小题10】Some animals hibernate (冬眠) under snow, because there is much air in l_____ snow.