根据句意，用所给词的适当形式填空。

1. I am ______(surprise) at the news. What about you?

2. When I passed the driving test, I thought I was the_____(luck) person in the world.

3.The little boy is ______(kind) to his classmates, so nobody likes him.

4. What do you think about the air __________(pollute) in your hometown?

5. Danny and Daniel are brothers, and their_____(wife) are sisters. That’s interesting.

书面表达,根据汉语提示和要求写一篇短文。

要点：

1、现在越来越多的人喜欢养宠物，宠物正受到很多人的青睐。

2、养宠物有什么好处？

3、养宠物应该注意什么？

注意：

1、词数80—100左右，须包括以上要点。

2、条理清楚，语句规范通顺，字迹工整。

 根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，将答案按序号填入下面表格内。

    Reading books is a good hobby for all kinds of reasons.

    First, reading books is f  1  . You can always keep yourself interested and help you to have an enjoyable time if you like reading. This is especially u  2   when the weather is bad. It is a relaxing hobby too. You can really become lost in a book.

   Next, you can read a book a  3  : in a car, in a waiting-room, on a plane, in bed —even in the bath. All you n  4  is a book! Reading is a convenient hobby as it is easy to stop and then start again.

   A  5  good reason for reading books is that it is useful. If you read as a hobby you will get better and better at it. This m  6   that you will read faster and will become better at understanding what you read. As your reading improves, you will probably find your schoolwork becomes much e  7  . Many school subjects depend on（依靠） good reading and, as you read, you learn more and more.

    Some people say that reading is out of date（过时）. This is not t  8 . You have to be able to read to use a computer and, the better you read, the better your computer skills will be. Reading is never out of date!w   w w .x k b 1.c o m

   Good readers are most likely to be good w  9  , too. They are usually good at spelling as well, and have more things to write about. Reading books is a wonderful hobby, one of the best. W  10   other hobby could be more useful, or more enjoyable?

阅读短文,根据短文内容，按要求答题。

A forest fire that burned 55 square kilometres was finally brought under control on Wednesday morning. The fire started on Sunday in Black Bear State Park and quickly spread to nearby areas.

On Monday, police evacuated（疏散） the small town of Lawson and ordered the people to leave their homes. The fire destroyed 20 homes in the area and caused heavy damage to 40 others.

Nobody was hurt. Officials said the damage to homes and cars was between $l million and $2 million. The government declared the town a disaster (灾难) area. The fire spread quickly in the hot, dry weather. Fire fighting was difficult because of strong winds. Firemen from 55 fire departments in the state joined the National Fire Service to put out the fire. Some kept fighting for 24 hours. Fire engines and helicopters dropped water onto the fire. In order to control the fire, firemen cleared a way around the fire.

Police closed King Road to traffic on Tuesday because of heavy smoke. Thousands of tourists had to drive an hour north to Queen Road to pass the fire area.

Some people did not follow the police order. Paul Grayson sent his wife and two children to safety, but he stayed. As the fire came within 50 feet of his house, he started thinking, “Am I foolish? Did I stay here too long, just for a house?”

1. When and where did the forest fire start?

2. What did the police order the people to do?

3. Why was fire fighting difficult?

4. How did the firemen drop water onto the fire?

5. What kind of person do you think Paul Grayson was?

 根据短文内容，从下面方框中选择适当的单词或词组填空，使短文内容完整正确。

I want to have a robot to help Mum with the daily work. I think that life is   1  when you have a robot, but Dad says that robots are just computers and can catch a   2   easily. When this happens, you can have a lot of   3   with it. Instead of helping you, it will make a   4   at home. It will   5   over lamps and furniture. And then you will decide to return it to the robot shop.

1.           2.           3.            4.           5.          

根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。

1. If I have a robot, I want to make him _________(do) the homework.

2. Someone attacked him with a knife and he bled to ________(die).

3. Tom _________(have) a walk with his dog every afternoon.

4. We spend half an hour ________(read) English every morning.

5. On _______(child) Day, every child will be happy to get the beautiful presents.

根据括号中所给的汉语写出单词，使句子意思完整正确。

1. There’s something wrong with my computer. I have to         （重启） it.

2. Simon wants to have a robot with four small         （轮子）.

3. I want to go to the bookshop. Could you         （借） me your bike?

4. The young mother told her child not to play with the         （锋利的） knife.

5. Everyone should try to be _________（有礼貌的） and helpful to others.

 “Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.”

This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown person who lived in Rome in AD（公元） 53 wrote it.

We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can even change our lives. But have all these developments really improved the quality of our lives?

Picture this. You’re rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen, the noise from the television is getting louder and louder. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. How happy do you feel?

Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave up feeling stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have no telephones, no cars, not even any electricity（电） often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they live simpler lives.

One family in the UK went “back in time” to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons Benjamin, 10 and Thomas, 7, spent nine weeks in a 1940s house. They had no washing machine, microwave（微波炉）, computer or mobile phones.

The grandmother, Lyn, said, “The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes.” The boys said they fought less. Probably, they said, because there was less to fight over, such as their computer. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a “trendy（赶时髦的）, beer-drinking granny”, to one who cooked things.

1. The writer uses the quote（引号） at the beginning of the story to ________.

A. tell us a truth about our lives

B. tell us what life was like long time ago

C. point out what causes such a thing to happen

D. point out some problems we will meet in the life

2. In the passage the writer describes a picture to show that new inventions _______.

   A. have speeded up our lives         B. have improved the quality of our lives

   C. may make people feel very happy   D. may bring people some trouble

3. The family chose to spend some time in a 1940s house because _______.

   A. they loved to live simple lives

   B. they wanted to know how people lived without modern inventions

   C. they were troubled by modern inventions

   D. living in a different time would be a lot of fun for them

4. According to the passage, which id NOT right?

   A. People who live far away from noisy cities often seem to be happier.

   B. An unknown Roman was sure that the quality of life would get better.

   C. The family had some changes when they lived in a 1940s house.

   D. With the improvement of our lives, we often feel stressed and tired.

5. The passage is mainly about ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­________.

   A. problems with technology   X|k | B | 1 .  c |O  |m

B. improvements of our lives with technology

   C. changes happening to technology  

D. the importance of technology

In 1926, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo. The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837. That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his picture you could see everything clearly, even the smallest thing. This kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype(银版照相). Soon other people began to use Daguerre’s way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all around the world. People took pictures of famous buildings, cities and mountains. In about 1840, photography was developed. Then photographers could take picture of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of film and other machines. But this did not stop them, for example, some in the US worked so hard. Mathew Brady was a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual because they were very lifelike(栩栩如生的). Photography also became one kind of art by the end of the 19^th century. Some photos were not just copies of the real world. They showed feelings, like other kinds of art.

1. The first photo taken by Niepce was a picture of _______.

A. his business   B. his house     C. his garden       D. his window

2. The Daguerreotype was _______.

A. a Frenchman                    B. a kind of picture

C. a kind of camera                 D. a photographer

3. If a photographer wanted to take pictures of moving things in the year of 1840s, he had to ________.

A. watch lots of films

B. buy an expensive camerax_k_b_1

C. stop in most cities

D. take many films and something else with him

4. Mathew Brady________.

A. was very lifelike                    B. was famous for his unusual pictures

C. was quite strong                 D. took many pictures of moving people

5. This passage tells us ________.

    A. how photography was developed

    B. how to show your ideas and feelings in pictures

    C. how to take pictures in the world

    D. how to use different cameras

阅读理解,阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

1. If you want to buy a new jacket, you’ll have to go to _______.

A. 3031 No.3 Road B. 5300 No.3 Road

C. 9020 Bridgeport Road D. 1100 Chesnut Street

2. If you want to go out for dinner on Sunday, you can call up the number _______.

A. 22785161 or 22706030 B. 22706030 or 33562367

C. 77364431 or 22785161 D. 33562367 or 22785161

3. You don’t have to pay on Monday if you go to _______.

A. Skyline Hotel B. Lansdowne Park Shopping Center

C. New York Museum D. Garden Restaurant

4. If you want to enjoy yourself on Sunday mornings, you can go to _______.

A. Lansdowne Park Shopping Center B. New York Museum

C. Garden Restaurant D. Coffee Shop

5. Visiting New York Museum, you can know _______.

A. the history of American native people B. the history of New York

C. the art of America D. the art of New York