Good afternoon! Welcome to England．We hope that your visit here will be a pleasant one．Now，I would like to tell you something about our laws．

The first one is about drinking．Now，you may not buy wine in this country if you are under 18 years of age，neither may your friends buy it for you．

The second one：noise．Enjoy yourselves by all means，but please don’t make unnecessary noise，especially at night．We ask you to respect other people who may wish to be quiet．

The third One：crossing the road．Be careful．The traffic moves on the left side of the road in this country．Use pedestrian crossings（人行横道）and do not take any chances（冒险）when crossing the road．

My next point is about rubbish．It isn’t lawful to drop rubbish in the street．When you have something to throw away，please put it in your packet and take it home，or put it in a dustbin．

Finally，smoking．It is against the law to buy cigarettes or tobaccos if you are under 16 years of age．

I’d like to finish by saying that if you need any kind of help，you can contact the police．The police will be pleased to help you．You can call，write or directly go to ask any policeman．

（    ）1．Who do you think most probably makes the speech?

A．A guide．                                               B．A person who makes laws．

C．A teacher．                                               D．An English officer．

（    ）2．How many points are mentioned in the speech?

A．Three                  B．Four                    C．Five                       D Six

（    ）3．The main purpose（目的）of this speech is to______．

A．tell people that those above 18 years of age can drink and smoke in England

B．declare（宣布）the different laws of England

C．give advice to the travelers in England

D．ask people not to go to England

My parents have always loved everything about India, so a year ago we went on holiday there. It’s a wonderful    15  with beautiful scenes and interesting people . However, I didn’t enjoy Indian  16  very much.

On the second day we planned to see an old palace. At the  17  they said. “If you go by train, it’ll take you only two hours to get there.” However, the hot   18  took over four hours. I was very  19  when we got there , so we had some rice and vegetables with bread in a small restaurant. We were  20  to find it was quite nice. I wasn’t full up though and I saw a man nearby eating some little meatballs.

I said to my dad, “I’ve been eating rice all week. Can I have some meatballs please?”

Well, they looked delicious so I ate the first one very  21  . I was just putting the second one in my mouth when I felt myself  22 —my mouth was on fire! I started to cough（咳嗽）and there were tears (泪水)in my eyes. I couldn’t  23  how spicy (辛辣的) it was!

I drank about ten glasses of water but the worst thing was everyone was laughing at me. You couldn’t make me eat another Indian meatball for all the   24   in the world!

1.                A．town           B．city            C．country   D．restaurant

2.                A．food           B．scenes         C．people   D．costumes

3.                A．palace         B．hotel           C．airport   D．entrance

4.                A．sail            B．walk           C．drive D．ride

5.                A．hungry         B．curious         C．cheerful  D．nervous

6.                A．shocked        B．surprised       C．bored    D．tired

7.                A．quietly         B．easily          C．quickly   D．gently

8.                A．burning        B．watering        C．crying    D．smiling

9.                A．feel           B．believe         C．think D．know

10.               A．diet           B．luck           C．time  D．money

Do you carry too much on the way to school or home? Don’t worry．Try e-readers（电子阅读器）and say goodbye to your heavy schoolbag．

      An e-reader has the memory space to hold hundreds of books．So people want to（A）扔掉沉书包 and read with small, light e-readers．For example，Cushing Academy，a high school in Massachusetts，USA，replaced（替换）most of the 20，000 books in （B） its library last summer．Teachers and students will use e-readers instead．

     Most e-readers are thin and weigh less than 500g．They can download（下载）an e-book in 60 seconds．“It's （C） so easy．You can have a lot of books right at your fingers!” said Meghan Chensusky．16．

      Chinese schoolchildren are also trying e-readers．At the Shanghai World Expo （世博会），an e-schoolbag is now on show．It is a special e-reader．Students can use it to download textbooks from the school servers（服务器）．（D）It can also send and receive homework．Some Schools in Beijing and Shanghai have tried this e-schoolbag for a few years．“It’s excellent．I （E）don't have to carry a heavy schoolbag anymore，”said Xiao Qi，15，Beijing．

       New e-readers are not just for reading．They have Wi-Fi and multimedia（无线电视和多媒体）．Parents worry that these may hurt their children's study habits． “I think Wi-Fi is not necessary for kids，”said Zeng Wenwen，43，Beijing．

1．将文中划线部分（A）译成英语：________________

2．文中划线部分（B）指代的是：________________

3．写出文中划线部分（C）和（E）的同义词或近义词：________ ________

4．将文中划线部分（D）改写为：Homework can also_______ _______and received through it．

5．从文中找出两个修饰或描写e-reader的形容词：________ ________

Did you watch NBA All-Star Game（全明星赛）this summer? If you watched it．you should

__1__Shaquille O’Neal’s（沙奎尔·舆尼尔）wonderful play．Shaquille O'Neal is in Cleveland now．

He Was born on March 6th，1972．He is 2.16 meters tall．When he was young。he Was very strong（强壮的）．His strong hands__2__him a good start of life．Shaquille liked playing __3__．But when he Was a high school student in Grade Two，he wasn't good at basketball Just at that time．he__4__his good coach（教练），Dale Brown．Then he began his hard practice．In 1992．he _5__NBA，playing for Magic Team，then Lakers，and later Miami Heat in 2004．He had a great  __6__．He has joined All-Star Game ten times，won NBA Finals MVP（最有价值的球员）three times，_7__got the gold medals（金牌）for the USA in the Olympic Games．They named him one of the fifty__8__players in NBA history．

    Shaquille O’Neal is strong and tall．People call him” Large Shark（鲨鱼）”．But he is good at __9__too．He has six CDs，It's really one of历e happiest things in the world to listen to his CDs and__10__ him play basketball at the same time．

（   ）1．A．remember          B．forget         C．meet          D．say

（   ）2．A．put               B．showed       C．gave           D．took

（   ）3．A．football            B．volleyball       C．tennis          D．basketball

（   ）4．A．missed            B．met           C．left            D．had

（   ）5．A．joined              B．had            C．took            D．became

（   ）6．A．idea               B．success      C．party        D．times

（   ）7．A．and                B．but          C．although       D．so

（   ）8．A．worst                    B．slowest        C．biggest         D．greatest

（   ）9．A．music             B．history        C．math          D．English

（   ）10．A．make           B．help          C．watch        D．look at