--- Are you willing to live on Mars(火星) one day? It must be amazing!

--- It sounds exciting, but it still worries me.

A. Of course I am. B. I’m not sure.

C. Why not? D. Are you telling a joke?

English is becoming more and more important in our daily life. We all want to learn English and speak it nicely. Perhaps you do not know how to improve your spoken English. I used to find speaking English really . My English was really bad at first. To be honest, it took me a lot of time to practise it, and I even tried many ways. Now I list my ways as follows. I hope will be of some help to you.

Firstly, try to use English as often as you can every day. you meet with some daily things, you can try to tell yourself or express them in English.

, try to get someone who can speak with you. It is the most important way. You have good English in your mind, but no one speaks with you. I think it is the biggest pity. You can speak to your best friends in English when you have a chance.

Thirdly, try to a beautiful sentence in mind when you are learning. If you can keep going, It is also a good way. English aloud when you have time. In one or two , you may find it is not so difficult for you to speak nicely.

Fourthly, try to watch some programs. For example, CCTV 9 is a good channel to help learn English. It’s easy for you to practise English in context(情境) while watching them.

I think if you try to put listening, reading, speaking, and writing together and keep going on, you can make your English better.

1.A. good B. well C. better D. best

2.A. easy B. strong C. useless D. difficult

3.A. it B. they C. themselves D. itself

4.A. How B. What C. When D. Why

5.A. Firstly B. Secondly C. Thirdly D. Fourthly

6.A. keep B. write C. say D. talk

7.A. Listen B. Read C. Speak D. Write

8.A. days B. minutes C. months D. hours

9.A. TV B. radio C. computer D. phone

10.A. very B. more C. much D. little

1. Amy and her twin brother both want to take part in the competition. How much should they pay in all?

A. None. B. 20 yuan.

C. 40 yuan. D. 60 yuan.

2. Which of the following planes can take part in the competition?

A. A 29-centimetre-long plane with wings and a body.

B. A plane which needs to be thrown before taking off.

C. A plane made all by parents.

D. A plane made of paper and cloth.

3. If you want to join in the competition, when should you hand in your application form and money?

A. 26 November. B. 25 November.

C. 20 November. D. 28 November.

4. Bill’s plane didn’t look interesting. But, it stayed in the air for longer time than the others. Which award did Bill win?

A. The most interesting design.

B. The best looking plane.

C. The plane flying the farthest.

D. The plane flying the longest time.

5.Where can you most possibly see the reading material?

A. In a dictionary. B. In a story book.

C. On a notice board. D. In a library.

Seven years ago, Starbucks closed a shop in Beijing’s Forbidden City after a well-known TV host talked about if the US coffee fits into the old Chinese building.

Five years later, Starbucks seemed to regain its confidence(自信). It opened a shop beside Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou with more than 1,600 years of history. People started to talk about it online. They were not sure if the coffee business would do bad to this old temple(庙).

Some people still think that the Starbucks shop should not be opened near temples. They think it is not only a coffee shop, but a cultural invasion(文化侵略). Let us take a look at the practices in other countries. In the Forbidden City of South Korea, Gyongbokkung Palace(景福宫), there are no food or drink stores, except the food-selling machine at the gate. In Japan, the place of interest may be taken away from the list of country’s treasure if it brings in modern shops.

However, many old sights in China try to look for a balance(平衡) between traditions and business. As for Nanjing, the Starbucks shop near the Confucius Temple has been there for years. Visitors are used to enjoying the sights and the coffee at the same time. The shop here plans to meet the need of growing numbers of foreign and younger Chinese visitors. There may be more win-win deals in the future like this.

1. What is the reading passage mainly about?

A．How Starbucks has grown.

B．Starbucks and temples.

C．What Starbucks makes.

D．Traditions and business.

2. According to the passage, what happened in 2012?

A．A Starbucks shop closed in Beijing’s Forbidden City.

B．Starbucks opened a shop beside Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou.

C．Starbucks opened a shop beside the Confucius Temple in Nanjing.

D．A Starbucks shop closed in Gyongbokkung Palace.

3. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

A. Starbucks is sure to bring bad to old temples a lot and changes them.

B. People think Starbucks is only a coffee shop and it has nothing bad.

C. In South Korea, there are many coffee shops in Gyongbokkung Palace.

D. In Japan, places may be out of the list of country’s treasure for modern stores.

4. What do many old sights in China try to do?

A. They try to keep all the business shops away from the old sights.

B. They try to open business shops without doing bad to old sights.

C. They try to open more business shops to make more money.

D. They try to keep in the list of country’s treasure without opening shops.

5. What is the meaning of regain in paragraph 2 in the passage?

A. 恢复 B.得到

C. 反复磨练 D. 失去

During the 2014 YOG, not only players but also volunteers impressed us a lot this summer. It is reported that more than 20,000 volunteers took part in the 2014 YOG in Nanjing and they have another name-Little Green Lemon. Green is the colour of growth and youth, while lemon has the same sound as Ning, another short name of Nanjing.

It’s a pity that not everyone could be a Little Green Lemon, but we can volunteer to help others in many different ways.

The traditional way is to donate free time to help people in need. Volunteers visit homes for the elderly and orphans (孤儿), or care for homeless people. We can also volunteer to plant trees, pick up rubbish and clean neighborhoods. In Shenzhen, some school students volunteer to teach sick children. Their classes include painting and learning numbers.

Unlike traditional volunteering, skill-based volunteering needs volunteers to learn about the job or have special lessons for it. They can use their skills to make a difference. For example, in China many children volunteer to become guides in museums. They receive history lessons so that they can tell old stories of the museums to visitors.

Although volunteering takes up our time and can be difficult sometimes, it shows our care for others and changes the way we look at ourselves. Sometimes it’ s easy to worry about grades or get angry because we don’ t have the most expensive sneakers (运动鞋). Volunteering gives us a chance to think about what we have, and the truly important things in our life. Maybe this is the reason why more and more people would like to be volunteers.

1.What might be the title of the passage?

A. Little Green Lemon

B. Volunteers in the YOG

C. Different Ways of Volunteering

D. Skill-based Volunteering

2.According to the passage, which of the following is not the traditional way of volunteering?

A. Visiting a home for the elderly.

B. Cleaning up the neighborhood.

C. Taking care of homeless people.

D. Being a guide in Nanjing Museum.

3.What do skill-based volunteers need to do?

A. They need to have history lessons and have some special skills.

B. They need to learn more about the job or have lessons for it.

C. They need to have a lot of money and they are willing to donate it.

D. They need to have skills to plant trees and clean up the museum.

4.Which of the following statements is wrong about volunteering according to the passage?

A. People can volunteer to help others in many different ways.

B. Volunteering gives us a chance to think about what we have.

C. We can volunteer to plant trees, pick up rubbish and clean neighborhoods.

D. People can use their skills to make volunteers different.

5.Why do people attend volunteering activities according to the passage?

A. Because they don’t have the most expensive sneakers.

B. Because they can learn the truly important things in lives.

C. Because they can donate plenty of money to help people in need.

D. Because they can have special lessons to learn more about the world.

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1.Let me show you some (杰出的)works of art by a girl from the USA.

2.I didn’t go camping with friends last weekend. I did housework with Mum (反而,却) .

3. (进一步的) information is necessary for you to work better in a foreign country.

4. Chang’e 4 will send a lot of clear pictures back to us when it (到达) the moon.

5.It says Chinese middle school students study ( 最努力) in the world.

根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在标号为 61-65的相应位置上。

1. --Do you know the (high) of the teaching building? -- About 26 meters.

2. (luck), Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴集团)went public in New York this September.

Jack Ma (马云) has become China’s richest man.

3.Look at the haze! The weather is even (bad) today.

4.“You can do anything you like. Help (you), children!” said Sand’s mother.

5.You had better (not, spend) too much time on computer games.

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I’m going to Beijing with my friends for vacation. There are many 1. to visit. People from2. like to visit the Great Wall. It's really wonderful. It runs over 6,000 kilometers .Beijing is also 3. for the Palace Museum. There are many art treasures there. Don’t 4. them if you visit the museum. Tian’anmen Square is near the museum. It’s the largest city square in the world. It’s easy to go

5. around Beijing. Heavy traffic can be seen during the rush hour, but it’s easy for you take the underground or buses to travel around.

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Have you ever wondered what an American high school is really like? This article will describe a typical (典型的) high school and its students.

A typical American high school has several large buildings and enough space for about 1,500 students. Every student is given a locker. When students first arrive at school, they go straight to their lockers to put away or get their textbooks and to hang up their outdoor clothes. As American textbooks are expensive, students would rather loan(租借) than buy them. Students must pay back if they lost any of them.

American students have different types of school transport. They usually take a yellow school bus or walk to school if they live close enough. Sometimes their parents drive them to school. When they turn 16 years of age, most take a free driving class at school for one term. If students earn passing grades in the class and also pass their state driver’s exam, they can begin driving themselves to school.

Each day, students take six or seven classes. They must take science, math, English and social studies. They can choose art, homemaking, fashion design and other classes. In some schools students are required to take one or more of the following special classes: health education, physical education or foreign language studies. Students move to different classrooms for each subject. This is because each teacher has their own classroom. There is a five-minute break between classes, to give the students the time to hurry to their next class.

The regular school day usually ends early in the afternoon. After school more than half of the students are involved in after-school activities. These activities include sports-especially football, basketball, baseball and soccer or clubs, such as yearbook, speech, school newspaper, photograph or student government.

Title: 1. in an American High School

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People are different in the world. Some are open, while others are shy. Shy people feel comfortable when they are alone. In this way, they can s 1. some more time on their favorite activities. They often have some h 2. , such as reading books, writing poems. In the following lines, we will o 3. you a number of ways to meet new friends.

Go Online

it is easy and quick to get to know people and make new friends o 4. . With some online chatting tools such as QQ, MSN, WeChat and Line, you can meet different people and they s 5. the same interests with you even if you live in a far-away place of the world.

Join a Club

The club is a place where you will meet a lot of people. What’s more, it will be easier for you to s 6. a talk with them, as you may have the same interest. Make new friends in your c 7. and plan some activities together in it. You will be able to begin a long lasting friendship with them.

Be a Part of Sports Team

Sports make b 8. your mind(心灵) and body full of energy. You might be able to get on well with your team members. If you enjoy playing any sport, joining a local team is a great idea to make new friends e 9..

Volunteer

Working with people is a nice way to make new friends. You will meet people of all ages as volunteering interests people, young or o 10. . This will give you the chance to make friends with them.