单词拼写（共10分）

注意：答题纸上需写完整单词

1.    Good parents are always c________ about how their children are getting along with their education.

2.    Some people like （遛）_______ their dogs after supper.

3.    Putonghua is the o________ language of China.

4.    Our baby is just starting to talk; he has got a v________ of about ten words.

5.    Lady Gaga is said to have _________ （毕业） from New York University before 2006. But in fact, she didn’t.

6.    Peter’s ________ (态度) towards women really scares me.

7.    Wenchuan was badly d_________ in the earthquake in the year 2008.

8.    Don’t worry. Progress will be made ________ (渐渐地).

9.    As an adult, you have the right to _______ (投票).

10.   P________ Hu Jintao has won a better fame over Obama.

阅读短文，根据短文内容从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

I had never been much interested in sports. I had tried playing tennis, swimming and running but found nothing I liked. But 10 years ago, I found the right kind of exercise---  41 .

Why did I start walking? At the age of twenty, my doctor told me I had a serious illness and   42  not live longer. I was so   43  then. I spent all of my life worrying. The doctor suggested that I should   44 . I didn’t listen at first.  45 , after several months, I began to get the meaning of the doctor’s words. While I was walking, I began to  46  flowers. I would stop and enjoy their beauty. I  47  found that I had missed the most beautiful part of life--- flowers, falling leaves, snow-covered houses. I had been wasting time worrying about  48 .

Now I’m 35, and I don’t worry any more about  49  may happen, Worry only makes me miss the good things in  50  . I want to say hello to everything because I’m living a new life.

1.                A．skating         B．fishing          C．riding    D．walking

2.                A．must           B．need           C．may D．should

3.                A．happy          B．worried         C．excited   D．bored

4.                                  A．take more exercise   B．watch more TV

C．play computer games less            D．have enough sleep

5.                A．If             B．So             C．Unless    D．However

6.                A．notice          B．water          C．pick D．plant

7.                A．usually         B．early           C．quickly   D．normally

8.                A．pressure        B．death          C．study D．work

9.                A．what           B．when          C．why D．where

10.               A．season         B．life            C．book D．family

— I’m sorry. I’ve forgotten my credit card. And I don’t have enough money for the meal.

— Don’t worry. ________.

——Not getting that job was a big let-down.

    ——Don’t worry. Something better will ____.

A、come along        B、take on     C、go by D、fall behind

 It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech．At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned．Fortunately, the moments are usually not obvious to the listeners. Why ? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser．When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened．

Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that don’t really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech – “ I have a dream”, you may notice that he stumble（结巴）his words twice during the speech．Most likely, however, you don’t remember．Why? Because you were fixing your attention on its message rather than on his way of speech-making. People care a lot about making mistakes in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition．But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performer. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly．Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human．

As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being imperfect．Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely．

1.The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will ___________．

2.You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because ___________．

3.It can be inferred from the passage that ___________．

4.What would be the best title of the passage?