8、Going home for Christmas is a tradition of the holiday season. No matter where you may be the rest of the years, being at “home” with your family and friends for Christmas is a “must”. The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are the busiest times of the year at airports, train stations and bus stations. It seems that all America is on the move and Americans are on their way to spend the holidays with their loved ones.

This means that the house will be full of cousins, aunts and uncles that might not see each other during the year. Everyone joins in to help in the preparation of the festival. Some family members get to choose a Christmas tree to buy and bring home. Others decorate the house on wrap presents. And of course, each household needs to make lots of food!

At Christmas Eve gatherings adults have eggnog, which is made of cream, milk, sugar beaten eggs and brandy. Plenty of eggnog or hot cocoa is on hand in colder climates for carolers, or people who go from house to house sing Christmas carols to their neighbors.

Long ago, each child hung a stocking, or sock, over the fireplace. Santa entered down the chimney and left candy and presents inside the socks for the children. Today the tradition is carried on, but the socks are now large red sock-shaped fabric bags still called stockings. Each child can’t wait to open his or her eyes to see what Santa has left in the stocking.

Giving gifts is a Christmas tradition. However, in recent years, more and more people have complained that Christmas is too commercialized(商业化) especially in large cities. Store owners begin advertising and decorating very early in hopes of selling more goods. Some people believe that the origin of Christmas has been lost.

1．It is a traditional custom for Americans           .

       A．to buy Christmas trees and bring them to churches for Christmas

       B．to drink beer on Christmas Eve

       C．to go home for Christmas with their family and relatives

       D．to hung stockings on the chimney

2．The underlined word “eggnog” in the third paragraph is a kind of        .

       A．drink                   B．food                    C．egg                     D．present

3．Each child hung a stocking over the fireplace in order to        .

       A．get some eggnog                                 B．have a look at Santa

       C．get some candy and presents                D．get some money from his/ her parents

4．The last paragraph wants to tell us that          .

       A．giving gifts is a Christmas tradition

       B．giving gifts is getting more and more commercialized

       C．store owners hope to get more presents

       D．people think there will be no Christmas in the future

5．Why does the writer say “all Americans are on the move” in the passage?

       A．Americans like to travel on Christmas.

       B．Because American has a lot of earthquakes on every Christmas.

       C．Because Americans don’t go sleep on Christmas Eve.

       D．Because Christmas holidays are the busiest times of the year.

7、BEIJING – Set off by the April 1 Sino – US plane collision and US official agreement of the biggest arms sale to Taiwan in a decade as well as remarks by US President Bush on defending Taiwan, there have been increasing hacker attacks on websites of the two countries in the past weeks.

An American group of hackers which calls itself Poizon Box had begun ruining Chinese web－sites after the April 1 spy plane incident, top Chinese Sina. com. said.

The Chinese soon attacked back.

On April 29, Chinese hackers invaded two US Government websites over the weekend, forcing the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services to shut down their sites for a short time.

The US Department of Labor went offline for a few hours after a page in its website was changed to display a picture of Wang Wei, the Chinese pilot who died in the collision.

The page was titled “China hack!” and read, in English, “The whole country is sorry for losing the best son of China-Wang Wei forever, we will miss you until the end of the day.”

On May 1, hackers exchanged bad remarks in which the official White House website was defaced(丑化) by a huge amount of e-mail garbage. On May 5, the White House website fell victim(受害者) to a denial(否定、拒绝) of service attack that blocked access(通道)to the site for more than two hours.

The Computer Network and Information Security Management Office told web operators an average of 100 sites a day had seen “some form of attack.”

1．The best title of the passage is ___   ___.

       A．Sino-US Plane Collision　                    

       B．Sino-US Hackers Fighting Cyberwar

    C．100 Sites Being Attacked　                  

    D．Cyberwar Continuing

2．What is the correct order of the events?

       a．Wang Wei’s picture appeared on a US website.

       b．Poizon Box destroyed some Chinese websites.

       c．The access to White House website was blocked for over two hours.

       d．Hackers exchanged bad remarks.

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

3．From the passage we can infer that ______    .

       A．US President Bush defended Taiwan

       B．all the Chinese people are sorry for losing the best son of China

       C．websites in the US and China have been watchful for attacks

       D．Chinese hackers began to play an important role in foreign affairs

6、Climate change, pollution, overuse of water and development are killing some of the world’s most famous rivers including China’s Yangtze. India’s Ganges and Africa’s Nile. WWF said on Tuesday. At the global launch of its report “World’s Top 10 Rivers at Risk”, the group said many rivers could dry out, affecting hundreds of millions of people and killing unique aquatic (水生的) life.

“If these rivers die, millions will lose their livelihoods，biodiversity(生物多样性) will be destroyed on a massive scale, there will be less fresh water and agriculture, resulting in less food security,” said. Rayi Singh, secretary—general of WWF—India. The report launched ahead of “World Water Day today, also cited the Rio Grande in the United States, the Mekong in Asia, Europe’s Danube, La Plata in South America and Australia’s Murray—Darling as in need of greater protection.

Rivers are the world’s main source of fresh water and WWF says about half of the available supply is already being used up. Dams have destroyed habitats and cut rivers off from their flood plains. While climate change could affect the seasonal water flows that feed them, the report said. Fish populations, the top source of protein and overall life support for hundreds of thousands of communities worldwide, are also being threatened. The Yangtze basin is one of the most polluted rivers in the world because of decades of heavy industrialization, damming and huge influxes(流入)of sediment(积淀) from land conversion.

Climate change, including higher temperatures, also means serious consequences for fishery productivity, water supply and political security in Africa’s arid Nile basin. Tributaries(支流) flowing into the Ganges are drying up because of irrigation, WWF said.

1．What does the text mainly about?

      A．Saving fresh water in our life.               B．How to protect our rivers.

      C．An important discovery.                       D．World’s top 10 rivers are at risk.

2．We can infer from the text that ___     __.

    A．rivers’ dying out could affect food security

    B．there are four Asian rivers mentioned in the passage

    C．the Yangtze is polluted thanks to the lack of enough tributaries

    D．higher temperatures couldn’t affect fishery productivity

3．The top 10 rivers are fast dying as a result of the following EXCEPT __    ___.

    A．climate change    B．wasting water      C．pollution             D．dams

4．WWF is probably a name of ___    __.  

       A．an organization       B．a newspaper          C．a magazine     D．a report

5、With the National College Entrance Examination drawing closer, Senior 3 students will do almost anything to ensure success – even change what they eat. More than 70 percent of high – scoring students in last year’s exam admitted taking “brain food”, according to a survey conducted by the Shanghai Hercules Teens Research Center last August. However, only 30 percent of them said they would do this again.

Experts say that, as long as they eat properly, teens will have no problem getting enough nutrition from their daily food.

So what should you be eating? A good start is to eat foods that give you a variety of nutrients. For each meal, choose several kinds of food from each of these groups:

* Vegetables;

* Fruits;

* Bread, cereals, noodles and rice;

* Milk, yogurt and cheese;

* Meat, poultry, fish, fried beans and peas, eggs and nuts.

You can eat healthily without giving up your favorite foods, but you should limit the fat you eat to keep your cholesterol (胆固醇) low. Only animal fat provides cholesterol, which is known to cause heart problems. Most people like the taste of table sugar, so there are sweeteners “hidden” in many foods like soft drinks, cookies, and so on.

If you have high – energy needs, sweets can be a useful source of calories but they contain limited nutrients and can cause tooth decay (腐坏).

When eating out, look for boiled or baked rather than fried foods. And try eating milk – based high–calcium (钙) foods instead of creamy items to reduce the fat and calories you take in. The teenage body changes quickly, so your attitude towards nutrition now can make a big difference to your health in years to come.

1．Many Senior 3 students take “brain food”         .

       A．to deal with heavy workloads

       B．to perform better in college entrance exam

       C．to have enough food and water

       D．to improve their health

2．What is eating properly, according to experts?

       A．Keeping away from animal fat.

       B．Having a balanced diet.

       C．Eating foods that supply high energy.

       D．Choosing vegetables and fruits only.

3．Which of the following statements about sweeteners is wrong?

      A．They can be found in soft drinks and cookies.

       B．They contain limited nutrients.

       C．Eating too many of them may hurt your teeth.

       D．Sweetener is another way of saying table sugar.

4．What is important to your health, according to the last paragraph?

       A．Limiting the amount you eat of sweets.

       B．Not believing in “brain food” blindly.

       C．Having a correct understanding of nutrition.

       D．Paying attention to foods in your body.

3、根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母，在答题纸上按题号写出各单词的正确的完全形式（每空限写一词）

1．He was d         to hear that they were not coming because he missed them very much.

2．They got into a heated a          about whether to go by sea or by air.

3．--- Why were you late for such an important concert?

    --- Because the plane arrived at the airport after a d        of three hours.

4．This is the best way I could think of to stop the students b         the school rules.

5．Beautiful views over the countryside have often i           people to write poems.

6．Our physics teacher is a h       man who always makes us laugh happily.

7．Rice is grown in China, Japan and other A         countries.

8．I can’t tell one from the other because they are only s      different.

9．Your friendship is very p         to me. I’ll treasure it forever.

10．The question is b         my power. Would you please help me?

2、此题要求改正所给短文中的错误.对标题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边的横线上划（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

原行没有错的不要改。

When Joe left university, he got a good work in a bike factory.            1．       

But after he had been worked there for some years, he decided             2．     

to have change, so he put a notice in several newspapers,                    3．     

saying what experiences he had and the kind of job he would               4．     

like to have. One of the answers he accepted was from a man              5．     

was looking for a job, too. This man wrote to him, “Dear, sir,              6．     

when you get a new job, be kind enough to give your name and            7．     

address to you present boss as I have been trying to find                     8．     

a position like yours for a long time.” After he reads the letter,              9．     

he suddenly realized that what he had done was real foolish.             10．     

1、假如你是王平，代表六班同学给你们学校新来的外籍教师Mathew写一封电子邮件，告诉他大家对他第一周教学的感受，内容包括：

1．大家对他总体评价较高；

2．具有独特的、使课堂生动活泼的方法；

3．知识渊博，且对学生很耐心；

4．就如何帮助英语基础薄弱的学生，向Mathew提一些建议（内容自拟）。

注意：

1．电子邮件必须包括以上内容，可以适当增加细节。

2．词数：120左右。（开头已经给出，不计入总词数）

Dear Mathew,

On behalf of the students of Class 6, I e – mail you telling you how we feel about first – week teaching in our class.                                                                

Some of us are still poor at English and need your help. We hope

Yours,

Wang Ping

27、--- Whose advice do you think I should take?

---            .

A．You speak       B．That’s it   C．It’s up to you D．You got it