It was 8:40 in the evening and I was at Starbucks — Plaza Singapura，the place we are going to meet．I was 20 minutes before meeting time．It is not polite to be late for a date(约会) for the first time anyway．I waited，looking at the people coming and going．I was daydreaming about today's soccer match I played and started thinking about life and soccer．Life is like soccer．You never know when you are going to get hit by the ball in your face．You have to live!

As I was trying to relax myself，I felt her appearance — the smell，I can never forget．I looked up and saw her smiling and making her way towards me．She was pretty-looking and she was in fashion(时髦的)．I stood there watching her coming．A bright color T-shirt with a beautiful skirt．Wow，I really love girls wearing skirts．It makes them look more attractive and natural．

"Sorry I am late．"

"No，it's OK．I am just early myself．"

"So what film are we going to see?"

"It's OK，we will check it out later，and anyway what matters most is whom I am going to see it with，not the show．"

1.Why was the man at Starbucks alone?

A．He got there much too early．

B．He was there for his first date．

C．He wanted to be more polite．

D．He enjoyed watching people there．

2.What can you know from "You never know when you are going to get hit by the ball in your face"?

A．He was worried about his date．

B．Soccer is a difficult game．

C．He was afraid to be hit in the face．

D．He lost a soccer match．

3.What did the man think of the girl at the first sight(视线)?

A．She was very young．

B．She was very careless．

C．She was very fashionable．

D．She was very popular．

4.What do you know from their dialogue?

A．The girl likes seeing films very much．

B．The man has two tickets in his pocket．

C．The girl felt sorry for her being late．

D．The man was good at expressing himself．

Mobile phone technology is developing rapidly. What will the future mobile be able to do and what will it look like? Take a look at the following mobile phones, and you’ll find that some amazing phones are now coming our way.

Packet

The packet has five touch screens with different usages(用法). When folded, the Packet is in a simple square shape. You can see the time and any messages you’ve received. Once you open it, the five screens will pop up.

Cob alto

It has taken only two years for touch screen mobile phones to be used worldwide. Why not the 3D phones then? With an almost all-glass design, the Cobalto phone can make Google Maps even more useful, as shown here.

Human-body Phone

We often save photos of someone we love. When we miss them, we can see the photos. And now, Japanese scientists’ human-body phone is more than just photos. With a human body shape, it's coated with a material just like human skin. When you’re holding the phone, it feels as if you’re holding someone you miss.

Paper Phone

How many times have you wanted to smash(摔碎) your phone when talking to annoying people? With the Paper Phone, you’ll soon be able to do it. As the world’s first flexible(易弯曲的) mobile phone, it can be bent freely while you’re making calls, reading e-books and playing music.

1.The underlined phrase “pop up” means _____________ in English.

A. come out B. work out C. go off D. turn off

2.When we miss someone very much, we can save photos of him or her with ______________.

A. the Packet B. the Cobalto

C. the Human-body Phone D. the Paper Phone

3.We can learn from the passage that _________________.

A. the Packet has five touch screens with different usages.

B. the Cobalto has been used in the phone market for ten years.

C. the Paper Phone is easy to break, but difficult to make calls.

D. talking on the Human-body phone makes people annoyed easily.

4.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. The importance of Mobile Phones

B. The future of Mobile Phones

C. The changes of Mobile Phones

D. The difference of Mobile Phones

用方框中所给单词或词组的适当填空，每词限用一次。

1.In the film Dearest, the busy parents set out to find their___________ son.

2.The_________ why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man.

3.I was able to finish the job ___________.

4.The club will hold a competition to test their members’ computer ____________.

5.In a busy world, __________ your time is increasingly important

根据短文内容和所给中文提示，在空白处写出单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。

A fable about help

One day, a __1.（口渴的）bee went to a river to drink. As he was drinking, suddenly the bee was carried away by the running water in the _2.__（小溪）. He tried his best to swim towards the bank of the river, but _3.__（失败）. His life hung by a single thread. Just at that time, a kind bird flew over. Seeing that the bee was in great __4._（困境）, the bird picked a leaf __5.（离开） the tree and threw it into the river. The bee climbed onto the leaf and it was _6.__ （带来）safely to the land. He was so thankful to the bird for saving his life.

Not long after that, the bird was sitting on the branch of a tree . He didn`t know that not far from him, a man raised his gun and was about to shoot at _7._（他）. However, it happened that the bee saw that. He_ 8._（意识到） what the situation was like . As _9.__（快） as he could, he flew into the man`s eyes and stung him. The pain in his eyes was so great that the man had to give up shooting at the bird.

In this way , the bee, whose life had been saved by the bird, was_ 10.__（能） to save the life of the bird.

语法填空（共10小题，每小题1分）：

阅读短文，根据上下文或者句子结构，在空格处填入恰当的词（注：其中 5，10小题已给出首字母）。

Mr. Hunt was a forty-five-year-old man. Five years ago, he still lived a _1.___（艰难的） life. Later on, he tried to write about his terrible past in a novel. He posted his first novel to a newspaper and waited for a year. He couldn’t get enough __2._____ to buy food or clothes for his family. He even wanted to kill himself before he received a __3.___(答复) from a newspaper: His novel would soon be published!

Mr. Hunt became famous in his town. Several of his novels were published and he got lots of ___4.____(letter) from all over the country. He had to a____5.____ some important meetings and meet some visitors. He had to ask his mother __6.____ lived in a small village to come to help him to do some housework. His mother was strong enough to do all the housework and she was ready ____7._______ (live) with her son. One day, Mr. Hunt was busy _8.___(写) a novel when the telephone rang. He was invited to ___9._____(一个) important party. He had to leave at once. That evening, when he came back, he found his room was clean and tidy. But he couldn’t find the novel he had been writing. He asked, “Where did you put the paper on my desk, Mum?”

“I’ve burnt some used paper,” answered the old woman, “but I’ve put all the clean paper on your shelf!”

W___10.___ a poor man!

任务型阅读：（共5小题，每题1分）

仔细阅读1—5小题中优秀学生的经验介绍及表格中的5条秘诀（A,B,C,D,E,），并进行配对。

1.In high school, Nick ran track, played football and was in the band and orchestra. “I was so busy that I couldn’t waste time looking for a pencil or missing paper. I kept everything right where I could put my hands on it,” he says.

2.When a teacher assigns(布置，分派) a lot of homework, Domenica draws up a timetable（时间表），dividing the assignment into small parts. “It’s like eating a steak,” She says. “You chew(咀嚼) it one bite at a time.”

3.One student put a vocabulary list in the bathroom. He learned a new word every day while brushing his teeth. Another student used the time to remember biology(生物) terms while practising running.

4.In an international class, Asian-Americans, on average scored higher than other students. The teacher found that the Asian-Americans discussed homework problems together, tried different ways to work out the problems and explained their solutions to one another.

5.Christi is an excellent student at the University of California. If her math teacher assigns five problems, she does ten. If the history teacher assigns eight pages of reading, she reads twelve. “Part of learning is practising,” she says. “And the more you practise, the more you learn.”

书面表达（共1大题，满分20分）

阅读使人明智，阅读使人充实。请根据下面图表信息写一篇短文，介绍课外阅读的益处、你的课外阅读情况及你的阅读计划。

提示： 1. 短文应包括图表中的全部信息，条理清楚，行文连贯；

2．短文中不能出现真实的人名和地名;

3．80字左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Reading Outside Class

As we all know, reading has a lot of benefit.

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—I had a headache. I can’t sleep.

—_______

A. Don’t worry. B. Not so well.

C. I’m sorry to hear that. D. Why?

Xu Xia and her teammates are _______ the USA next week.

A. leaving for B. leave for C. leave D. Left

We brush our teeth twice a day.

A. may B. can C. should D.shouldn’t