On the New York set of the film Hide and Seek, ten-year-old Dakota Fanning spends her time playing a deeply disturbed girl who deals with her mother's suicide (自杀) by creating an imaginary friend, who may not frighten her family.

Today, though, she has the day off. "This week I only worked two days,"says Fanning, sitting in a sofa in her hotel's library, "but I get bored when I'm not working. Especially because it's cold here and I can't do anything, you know? So, I've been knitting (编织) --- all day, every day."The actress, who's held her own opposite Oscar winners such as Sean Penn and Denzel Washington, recently mastered the fine art of scarves (围巾). Though she's about ready to move on to hats, she first plans to make a souvenir (纪念品) scarf for Robert De Niro, who plays her father in the film. "He's the nicest guy you'd ever meet in your entire life,"she says, her voice dropping to a whisper. "I would make him a brown one.”

Like any other fifth-grader, Fanning spends several hours a day going to school. In addition to her personal trailer (活动住房) --- which is kept well-supplied with hot chocolate packets, lemon Gatorade, and a TV that doesn't always work --- she has another trailer where her teacher, Jan, conducts classes in history, spelling, reading, math, science and health. "We have this big board where we have a calendar (日历),"Fanning says. "When we were here in January, I wrote the calendar in all blue. February was red, and March was green.”

On this particular morning, she had a spelling test. "There was a topic for each of the word lists,"she says, sitting on her knees. "This one was flowers --- they were all names like oxygen, carbon dioxide, chrysanthemum (菊花)..."Chrysanthemum? "Well, they didn't make me spell that one. They just had me fill in the ‘e'. But I can spell it: c-h-r-y-s-a-n-t-h-e-m-u-m.”

Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Dakota Fanning is a young gifted actress.

B. Dakota Fanning is a lonely orphan.

C. Dakota Fanning is a creative pupil.

D. Dakota Fanning has many interests.

Dakota Fanning has to knit all day in order to _____.

A. kill time   B. make money C. master a skill D. make a scarf for her boyfriend

By saying that "He's the nicest guy you'd ever meet in your entire life”, Dakota Fanning really means that _____.

A. she is the daughter of Robert De Niro

B. she has fallen in love with Robert De Niro

C. she is in love with Robert De Niro

D. she admires Robert De Niro very much

What would be the best title for the text?

A. Dakota Fanning's Role

B. Dakota Fanning's Knitting Art

C. Dakota Fanning's Day Off

D. Dakota Fanning's Spelling Test

I was on a bus one March evening. The driver didn’t  36  to start the bus soon because it was not yet  37 . A middle-aged woman got on. Tired and sad, she told her story  38 , not to anyone in particular. On her way to the station, half of her  39  was stolen. The other half was hidden under her blouse, so she  40  still had some left. A few minutes later, she stopped crying, but still looked  41 .

When all the seats were taken, the driver started the engine. The conductor began to collect fares(车费). When she came to an old man in worn-out clothes, he  42 that he had spent all his money when he had accidentally got on a wrong bus and now he was trying to go home. On hearing this, she ordered the old man to  43  the bus. The old man was almost in tears as he  44  her to let him take the bus home. The driver took the conductor’s side and repeated the conductor’s  45  .

The woman was watching the incident.  46  the driver and the conductor raised their voices at the old man, she interfered(干预).

“Stop  47  him! Can’t you see he’s only trying to get home?”

“He doesn’t have any money! ” the driver  48  .

“Well, that’s no  49  to throw him off the bus,” she insisted.

Then she reached inside her blouse, look out her  50  money, and handed it to the conductor. “Here’s his fare and mine. Just stop giving him a  51  time.”

All heads turned to the woman. “It’s only money,” she shrugged.

She rode the rest of the way home  52  a happy smile, with the money she’d lost earlier  53  .

On the road of life, the help of strangers can  54  our loads and lift our spirits. How much sweeter the  55  will be when we make it a little smoother for others!

36. A. try  B. care  C. decide  D.  intend 

37. A. empty  B. full  C. crowded  D. ready 

38. A. tearfully  B. seriously  C. carefully  D. calmly 

39. A. fare B. possession  C. money  D. wealth 

40. A. strangely B. happily  C. secretly   D. fortunately 

41. A. unsatisfied  B. weak   C. unhappy   D. excited 

42. A. explained  B. declared  C. admitted   D. found 

43. A. get off  B. start   C. get on   D. stop 

44. A. begged  B. scolded  C. praised   D. thanked 

45. A. request  B. action   C. suggestion   D. command 

46. A. Unless  B. Although  C. Until   D. When 

47. A. attacking  B. bothering  C. blaming   D. wronging 

48. A. warned  B. whispered  C. shouted   D. repeated 

49. A. problem  B. need  C. matter   D. reason 

50. A. spending  B. collected   C. remaining   D. borrowed 

51. A. busy  B. cold   C. hard   D. fearful 

52. A. giving  B. wearing   C. taking   D. forcing 

53. A. forgotten  B. used   C. earned  D. returned 

54. A. move  B. increase   C. lighten   D. carry 

55. A. world  B. journey   C. smile   D. friendship 

In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet （小鹦鹉）on my finger, I wanted to show Perky   36   the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird   37  out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my   38  , Perky flew off. The enormous（巨大的）, blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue   39  and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all.
Kathy managed to   40  me. With fake optimism（乐观）, she even tried to reassure（安慰）me that Perky would find a new   41  . But I was far too clever to   42  that such a thing was possible.
Forty years later, I watched my own   43  growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the   44  of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the   45  of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed（宣称）to   46  the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog.   47  Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and   48  that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.
"The best thing   49  Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the   50  we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just   51  down and landed on my finger."
When I was finally able to   52  , we examined the amazing evidence（证据）. The dates, the locations and the pictures of the bird all   53  . It seems our two families had been 54   long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were   55   ! Perky lived!"

【小题6】

A．parent B．home C．master D．life

读写任务(共1小题，满分25分)

阅读下面的短文，然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

     An English proverb goes like this , " Spare the rod and spoil the child ." It implies that in order to enable a child to grow healthily , parents must make him eat bitter foods, do hard work and be sent to places where he can get the fullest training and knowledge.

First of all , eating bitter foods is necessary for a child . Poor food can help cultivate in him the frugal (节俭的 ) habit and make him realize what we eat daily is the fruit of the sweat of the laboring people . Consequently , he will not be wasteful when he grows up . Secondly , parents should also make the child do hard work . Doing hard work will give him an opportunity to taste the bitterness of labor. Moreover, hard work may also enable him to cherish the fruit of other's labor. Finally , children should be sent to somewhere where life is hard if possible . Human society is full of tests and trials . Flowers from a greenhouse can never withstand a storm . Therefore, children should be allowed to face the world and brave the storm . It is in difficult conditions that young people can get the most training and learn how to solve the problems in various circumstances .

【写作内容】

1.  概括短文的内容要点，该部分的词数大约为30；

2． 就"童年时代需要艰难生活的磨砺"这一主题发表你的看法，该部分的词数大约为120。短文至少包括以下的内容：

（1）描述你的童年生活

（2）你对童年时期的生活有怎样的认识

【写作要求】

你可以使用实例或其他方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不要抄袭材料中的句子。

Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.

Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.

People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.

Today, we know that the little iron that is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.

It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.   

1. A good title for this reading passage is______.

A. Popeye the Sailor                                      B. The Truth About Spinach

C.A Mistake with Numbers                                     D. Folic Acid Makes You Strong

2. Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?

A. They thought spinach made them strong.

B. They thought Popeye was funny.

C. Spinach had a lot of iron.

D. People liked folic acid.

3.A research group told people that spinach______.

A. made Popeye strong

B. was a green vegetable

C. had less iron than other green vegetables

D. had more iron than other green vegetables

4.The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from______.

A. iron                         B. folic acid                 C. spinach          D. exercise

5.Folic acid is ______.

A. something in food                   B. a vegetable  C. dangerous  D. a certain kind of spinach