6、In the early 1980s to have a mobile phone was an impossible luxury to most people in the world. People did not usually assume that they had to reach someone via a mobile phone on a regular basis. It didn’t matter if you didn’t have a mobile phone. In the modern society owning a mobile phone has no longer been a privilege, but a necessity. Almost anyone needs a mobile phone to reach as well as be reached by others no matter where they are. The days are gone when phone ownership depended on a fixed address and a high salary.   

It is amazing to see how fast and how far the mobile phone has spread. Teenagers have become the channel through which mobile phones have found their way into the wider society. The young were also the first to see the potential of text messaging. However, the mobile phone is by no means a mere technological innovation; it heightens a basic human quality —the ability to communicate —there are few aspects of life that it fails to touch.

The mobile phone is mobile only because the user is mobile. We are in a time of mobility. Never before have so many people been on the move, whether as commuters, workers, travelers, freelancers or migrants. Mobile phones encourage and respond to this mobility. They help those far away from their home to keep in touch with their families. They serve as a means of people fitting into a new social environment.

The mobile phone changes the way people organize their lives. Plans can be made or changed at any moment and while organizing in advance used to be extremely important to any social gathering, now only the vaguest plans are necessary. Mobile phones even change the experience of being alone as they provide countless way to pass the time.

It is ridiculous to compare a mobile to a body part, but carried on the person, often all the time, they are something to which people have grown attached.

1．The underlined word “luxury” in the first sentence means something that is ____________.

    A．expensive and not necessary               B．important and valuable

    C．unnecessary and useless                    D．payable and comfortable

2．The fact that the mobile phone touches almost every aspect of life supports the author’s view that______________.

    A．the mobile phone suits a new social environment.

    B．the mobile phone has the function of sending text messages.

    C．the mobile phone encourages mobility of the people

    D．the mobile phone promotes human communication

3．How has the mobile phone changed people’s lives?

    A．It removes the difficulty in making plans in advance. 

    B．It simplified the process of holding social gatherings.

    C．It increases the possibilities to get over loneliness.

    D．It narrows the gap between teenagers and adults.

4．What do you think of the writer’s attitude towards mobile phones?

    A．They are troublesome and useless.

    B．They are important and necessary.

    C．They are expensive yet useful.

    D．They are immediate but noisy.

5、A woman of the 19th century, when women were just beginning to be allowed the right to an education, was at risk from being independent and intelligent. Elizabeth Peabody was such a woman who lived beyond her age. In her teaching career, she was able to communicate to her pupils some of her own passion for acquiring knowledge. For her, education was not an accumulation of facts but rather a life-long process that developed the whole person.

   Little is known about why she remained single all her life. Many researchers assume that she was too independent to need a husband, or, as she wrote, that marriage would keep her to the cup of domestic life. No matter how hard she tried to keep herself away from a married life, she was an important player in her sisters’ marriages.

In 1837, she discovered that a neighbor from her childhood was the author of several stories that moved her very much. She introduced him to writers and brought his work to the attention of American readers. This man known as Nathaniel Hawthorne began visiting the Peabody home, where he met and fell in love with her sister Sophia. But there was a mix-up in Elizabeth as she tried to be useful to Hawthorne. She forced him to write something she offered. Understandably, Nathaniel Hawthorne became increasingly unhappy about her desire to manage his and Sophia’s lives, and as time went on, they grew more distant.

Miss Peabody was the center of academic activities. The educator Horace Mann, regarded as the father of American education, was drawn to her and benefited from her thought about education. Elizabeth’s sister Mary lost her heart to Mann at first sight, but she had imagined that perhaps he was in love with Elizabeth. Until Mary and Mann got married in 1843 there were some hard feelings between the sisters.

1．According to the first paragraph, Miss Peabody was______________.

      A．risky, independent and intelligent          B．independent, intelligent and eager to learn

     C．lively, independent and passionate         D．able, risky and full of love for knowledge

2．What does the writer think Miss Peabody think of education?

       A．Education must represent a process of accumulating facts.

       B．Education should benefit a person in every way for all time.

       C．Education is a long way a person should take at birth.

D．Education can make a person cleaver and independent．

3．Why did Nathaniel Hawthorne grow distant from Miss Peabody?

      A．Because he didn’t tolerate her ideas of writing stories.

       B．Because he didn’t like the way she introduced him to others.

      C．Because he hated her being involved in his family life．

D．Because he wanted to separate Sophia from her sister.

4．Which of the following is true about Horace Mann?

      A．He took advantage of the academic activities.

     B．He fell in love with Elizabeth at first sight.

      C．He was attracted by Mary’s beauty.

      D．He made great contributions to American education.

4、Not every president is a leader, but every time we elect a president we hope for one, especially in time of trouble. Leadership is as much a question of timing as anything else. The leader must appear on the scene at a moment when people are looking for leadership. And when he comes, he must offer a straightforward and powerful message.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand and remember. We have an image of what a leader ought to be. We even recognize the physical signs: leaders may not necessarily be tall, but they must have bigger- than-life, commanding features. We expect our leaders to stand out a little, not to be like ordinary men. Half of President Ford’s trouble lay in the fact that, if you closed your eyes for a moment, you couldn’t remember his face, figure, or clothes.

It also helps for a leader to be able to do something most of us can’t. Mao swam the Yangtze River at the age of 72. We want our leaders to be like us but better, special, more so. Yet if they are too different, we reject them.

A leader must know how to use power （that’s what leadership is about）, but he also has to have a way of showing that he does. A leader should know how to appear relaxed and confident. His walk should be firm and purposeful. He should be able to give a good, hearty, belly laugh. Ronald Reagan’s career as an actor showed to good effect in the debate with his opponent. He managed to convey the impression that in fact he was the President.

A leader rides the waves, moves with the tides, understands the deepest feelings of his people. He cannot make a nation that wants peace at any price go to war, or stop a nation determined to fight from doing so. His purpose must match the national mood. His task is to focus the people’s energies and desires, to inspire, to make what people already want seem possible and important to achieve.

1． The passage is mainly about____________________.

A．how a leader is elected                         B．what it takes to be a leader

C．when a leader is needed                  D．where a leader lays his power

2．The author thinks that President Ford_________________.

A．was an ordinary-looking man

B．got into more trouble than the other presidents

C．was not tall enough for his status

D．stood too far away from real life

3． According to the passage, Reagan succeeded in winning his election largely due to the fact that _______.

A．he was once an actor         

B．he was able to well present himself

C．Reagan did much for America    

D．Reagan was a very lucky man

4．In the last paragraph the author emphasizes that a leader should_________________.

A．encourage his people to think about things in a new way

B．like to swim like Mao to fight with waves and tides

C．spare no efforts to get his people to follow him   

D．try to know his people and make them happy

3、On 15 September 1918 Lee Duncan, an American soldier, rescued a half-starved shepherd and her five puppies from a bombed dog’s kennel on the battle fields of France. Duncan chose two of the dogs, a male and female, while members of his group took the mother and the others back to camp. The only survivors over the next few months were the two pups Duncan had claimed, naming them ‘Rin Tin Tin’ and ‘Nannette’ after tiny French puppets the French children would give to the American soldiers for good luck.

       When the war ended, Duncan made special arrangements to take his pups back to his home in Los Angeles, but during the Atlantic crossing, Nannette became ill and died, shortly after arriving in America. In 1922, Duncan and Rin Tin Tin attended an LA dog show, his dog performing for the crowd with an impressive high jump. After the show, Duncan received $350 for Rin’s performance. That was the beginning of Rin Tin Tin’s later involvement in many films and television series

       It happened that Warners （华纳公司）had difficulty shooting an exterior scene with a wolf as they got into a low budget. Duncan quickly approached the director and told them that his dog could do the scene in one take. True to his word, Rin did the scene in one take. As a result, he and his dog were hired for the entire shoot of “Man From Hells River”. The film was a hit and Rin Tin Tin became a box-office star. It was the first American dog movie star. It made 26 pictures for Warners while starring in his own live 1930s radio show “The Wonder Dog”. At the peak of his popularity, Warners kept 18 trained stand-ins（替身） to reduce any stress on their dog star. The star dog was worthy of the honor of having its private chef to prepare daily lunches for him. As a band was playing classical music it slowly consumed a lunch of tenderloin steak. 

1．The names Duncan gave to his dogs ____________________.

A．were offered by his fellowmen

B．had been used for some French puppets  

C．contained the idea of good luck

D．expressed a good wish for French Children

2． Which is the right order of the events that happened according to time in the passage?

a．Rip performed at a dog’s show.

b．Rip was discovered in a battle.

c．Rip lost its sister in America.

d．Rip was allowed to act in a film.

e．Rip was becoming a well-known star.

A．b, a, c, d, e         B．e, c, d, b, a         C．b, c, a, d, e         D．c, d, b, e, a

3．Which of the following is important for Rip and his master to be hired by Warners?

A．There were 18 substitutes for Rip.         B．Rip jumped at the 1922 dog show.

C．Warners got into financial trouble .       D．Rip acted successfully as a wolf.

4．Which of the following can replace “chef”?

A．musician         B．cook               C．consumer              D．star

2、短文填空

（1）根据上下文填词；（2）根据所给的词填词；

（3）根据所给词的首字母填词。（每空只写一词；请将填的词完整的填在短文下面的题号上。）

Every day millions of tons of foods are consumed worldwide. Among （1）________ there is a large amount of junk food.

The negative effects of junk food are obvious. The （2）__________ junk food people eat, the more （3） ___________ （like） they are to put on weight. Some people even end up （4） __________（get） overweight. （5）___________many people don’t realize is that it is their extra weight that is causing them （6）___________（get） sick. The worst thing about this is that they don’t see the link（7） _________ eating junk food and their ill health. Our bodies need healthy food and some of the best foods to eat （8）___________（be） fruit and vegetables. We should have enough food to （9） ___________ our energy requirements, but to keep fit we should eat a variety of foods （10）__________ contain different kinds of nutrients.

1、给你的外国笔友Peter写一封信。

提示：

1．何度过高三学习9、10两个月。

2．想在明年高考考哪所大学？为什么要考这所大学？

3．今后要做哪些方面的努力，去实现你的目标？

要求：120个词。信的开始和结尾已写好，不计入词数。

Dear Peter,

How are things with you? Are you still working on your paper?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  Best wishes

  Yours ever

  Lili

27、A good idea occurred to Mr Baker ______to his invention recently.

A．while applying                                         B．while applied

C．while he was applying himself            D．while applying himself

25、1. opinion

  A. ocean            B. possible             C. purpose             D. stomach

2. break

  A. reality            B. really                 C. greatly                     D. bread

3. desire

  A. disadvantage  B. useless              C. pleasure            D. surprise

4. warmth

  A. worthy          B. without             C. together            D. throat

5. clothes

  A. says                     B. buses                C. watches            D. dishes