I have some difficulty ______English.

A. to learn B. learn C. learning D. learned

You have to know ______ you're going if you are going to find the best way of getting there.

A. what B. that C. where D. who

— The light in his room is still on. Do you know _______?

— Maybe at midnight again.

A. what’s he doing B. why he stays up so late

C. if he is busy studying D. when he will stop working

During all this time, I never stopped thinking about leaving. When I travelled across to the other side of the island, I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, “Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.”

So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe(独木舟). Next, I had to get it down to the sea. How silly I was! Why didn’t I think carefully before I began to work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn’t move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn’t move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.

In my sixth year on the island, I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to leave in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea. The island was my home now, and I was just happy to be alive. A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.

I kept food and tools at both of my houses, and also wild goats. There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learned to take food from me, and soon I had goats’ milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn fields. And so, many years went by.

1.We can infer(推断) from the first paragraph that the writer_______.

A. was probably from England B. lived happily on the island

C. lost his way on the island D. was born on the island

2.The writer was very unhappy because________.

A. he had cut down a small tree

B. he had a very fine canoe

C. he couldn’t move the canoe

D. he had made a small canoe

3.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The writer made fields with high fences to keep many wild goats in.

B. The writer didn’t try to leave the island because he had two homes on it.

C. The writer made himself a smaller canoe in his sixth year on the island.

D. The writer knew the canoe was too small for a long journey across the sea.

4.This story is mainly about how the writer_______.

A. kept goats in the fields B. leave the island

C. built houses by himself D. survived on the island

5.This story is probably a part of a(n)_______.

A. telephone message B. advertisement

C. travel guide D. novel

阅读与回答问题

Lizzie was born in 1842. She lived in a small house on a farm with her parents and two brothers. Her father and older brother worked in the fields picking cotton, and her mother and younger brother worked in the vegetable garden. Lizzie worked in the farmer’s house.

The farmer didn’t like Lizzie’s older brother and gave him the hardest jobs. Lizzie was afraid that one day the farmer would hurt her brother, or sell him to another farmer.

Many slaves(奴隶) tried to run away to the free states. But most were caught by slave catchers or tracking dogs. However some slaves found clever ways to escape(逃跑）. Lizzie was one of them.

Everyday she went to the farmer’s house, where she made beautiful clothes for the farmer’s daughters. She was allowed to keep small pieces of left-over materials, and she stitched(缝) these together into small patterns. Then she stitched the small patterns together to make a quilt. The patterns all had names such as ‘Flying Geese’, ‘Bear’s Paw’, or ‘Nine Patch’.

That quilt was really a map. Lizzie hung it on the clothes line outside the house, and her brother and other slaves saw Lizzie’s map and knew which way to go.

They also knew that Lizzie’s cabin was a “safety house” because a quilt with a sky blue square in the middle meant “safety house”. At each safe house, they were hidden and given food. With the quilt’s help, they knew the way to get to the next safe house until they got to the free states in the north.(改编于《新理念英语》)

回答下面5个问题, 每题答案不超过6个词。

1.How many people were there in Lizzie’s family?

________________________________________

2.Why did Lizzie decide to help her older brother?

Because _________________________________

3.Who did Lizzie make the clothes for?

________________________________________

4.How did she help her brother and other slaves?

________________________________________

5.What do you think of Lizzie?

________________________________________

根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。

Happiness is a feeling that lights up your eyes, makes your steps light and makes you want to sing for no reason. Everyone wants to be happy.

As the saying goes: When you smile, the world s 1. with you; when you cry, you cry alone. Wearing a smile will help you to w 2. lots of friends.

Life is full of u 3. and downs. We can’t change the way life is, but we can do our best to change a bad situation into a good one. To help us do this, it’s good to know some of the factors that i 4. happiness.

One of the biggest factors is social r 5. . People who are close to family and friends are h 6. than people who don’t have those relationships. Another factor is work or school. If you enjoy school, e 7. if you have lots of homework or extra classes, you will still feel that your school life is meaningful and happy. But if you h 8. school, your negative attitude(态度) may cause you to feel bored and upset that you have to do so much work.

A third factor is your attitude towards life. How do you feel if you fail in an exam? Maybe you think it’s unfair because you always study hard and should get a good m 9. . You can't stop blaming(责备) yourself. Or, maybe you accept it. You go through the paper c 10. , find out why you made stupid mistakes, and tell yourself, "Take it easy! I’ll do better next time!" Your attitude makes a big difference.

She has so________ close friends that she really doesn’t know _________.

A. many; who to talk B. few; who to talk to

C. much; what to do D. little; how to do

She got up to get some sleeping pills but found there was _________ left at home.

A. nothing B. none C. something D. nobody

_____ it is to fish by the lake in _____ weather!

A. How great fun; such a fine

B. What great fun; such fine

C. What a great fun; such fine

D. How a great fun; so fine a

—— Go for a picnic this weekend, OK?

—— __________ I love getting close to nature.

A. I can’t agree more. B. I’m afraid not.

C. I don’t think so. D. I hope not.