Easter is a happy time in western countries like the UK and the USA. After Christmas, it is the most fun holiday. It   1   as an important religious （宗教的） festival, but for the non-religious it is   2   a special time. It is an official holiday,   3   most people visit their families or friends during Easter.

The most important Easter tradition is   4   each other Easter eggs, because eggs are the symbol of new life. Traditionally people   5   paint chicken eggs, but today they give each other chocolate eggs.

A fun game during the festival is the Easter   6  hunt （搜寻）. Parents hide chocolate eggs in the   7  , and the children go out to hunt for them. What they find, they can eat! It’s quite normal for children to feel   8   after Easter weekend as a result of eating too   9   chocolate.

The date of Easter follows the cycle of moon. It is always sometime   10   late March and late April. This year Easter was on April 12th.

1. A. begin                        B. begins                     C. began                     D. begun

2. A. too                           B. also                        C. either                      D. as well

3. A. so                            B. or                           C. but                         D. however

4. A. cooking                    B. showing                  C. lending                    D. giving

5. A. got used to               B. was used                 C. used to                   D. was used to

6. A. egg                          B. candy                     C. chicken                   D. apple

7. A. drawer                     B. garden                    C. kitchen                   D. bedroom

8. A. ugly                         B. angry                      C. sick                        D. hungry

9. A. few                          B. many                      C. little                        D. much

10. A. after              B. between                  C. among            D. from

用方框所给单词的适当形式填空。

1. Be careful when you walk _________ the street.

2. They were _________ surprised at the wonderful magic tricks.

3. I hope I’ll be __________ enough to get a free ticket to the places of interest in Beijing.

4. We couldn’t help __________ when we watched the funny performance of Xiao Shenyang.

5. I have made a __________ to travel to Taiwan in the summer vacation.

根据中文提示，用词组的适当形式填空。每空一词。

1. She ___________ ___________（收到……来信） her pen friend yesterday.

2. All the athletes ___________ ___________（对……满意） with the nice service during the Beijing Olympics.

3. ___________ ___________（到目前为止），many measures have been taken to control the spread of A/H1N1.

4. After the earthquake, he left for Wenchuan as a volunteer ___________ ___________（而不是） a tourist.

5. You_________ __________（最好） check over your exam paper carefully before you hand it in.

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文正确、通顺。每词限用一次。

   Parents, especially those of teenagers, care about their children’s education more than anything else. They would do    1    for their children. Many of them spend most of their spare time    2    their children with studies. If they have no time or cannot do it themselves, they would hire family teachers    3    send their children to after-class schools. It seems as if a better    4    is all that parents expect for children.

How can we explain the present situation? First of all, many parents have   5   that future success depends more and more    6    skills and education. Secondly, in a competive （竞争的） society there are both losers and    7   . Those who have better skills and more knowledge will enjoy    8    opportunities.

Certainly, it is important to learn to succeed, but the    9    thing to learnis how to survive （生存） how to be a qualified citizen （合格的公民）.    10    this is included in good education, the children will surely have a bright future and healthy in body mind.

从II栏中选出与I栏中每句话相对应的正确答语。

                 I                                       II

1. Is that Ann speaking?                                A. Congratulations!

2. What does your teacher look like?                     B. Sorry, she isn’t in right now.

3. I’m sorry for losing your pen.                        C. It doesn’t matter.

4. I’ve passed the English exam.                        D. All right. I’ll do it at once.

5. Would you please turn down the music?                 E. How are you doing?

                                                    F. She is tall with long hair.

                                                    G. She is friendly and easy-going.

用恰当的单词填空，完成对话。每空一词。

A: Our National Day is coming. I’m looking forward to it.

B: Me, too. As we know, it’s the     1     birthday of the PRC.

A: What are you going to do celebrate it?

B: A great military review （大阅兵） will     2     held in Tian’anmen Square. How I wish I could fly there!

A: I’m afraid we’ll all have to watch it on TV.

B: But I’m    3     it must be perfectly wonderful! Our country is getting stronger and stronger.

A: Right, especially after we experienced so many big events in 2008. We all feel     4     of China.

B: Let’s      5     our country a better and brighter future.

将下列各句译成英语。必须用上所给的提示词。

1. 她不害怕在公众场合说英语。（be afraid, in public）

2. 不要独自外出，否则你可能会迷路。（alone, get lost）

指出各个句子中哪一个划线单词黑体部分的字母发音与其他划线单词黑体部分的字母不同。

1．The young man said he would like to live in the country with his cousin.

A               B                 C            D

2．Mike stopped his work and looked out of the window.

A                B

Then he watched the street carefully to see what had happened．

C                                  D

3．I read the book about eastern food in Asia in the reading-room last week.

A                  B                  C             D

4．There's  another TV play which I would rather see on Thursday.

A         B                     C           D

5．Men's   hands and fingers are so big that they aren't fit for this kind of job．

A      B        C                                 D