American people like to say “Thank you” whenever others help them. People of many other countries do so, too. It is a very good habit.

You should say “Thank you” when someone passes you the salt on the table. When someone walking ahead of you keeps the door open for you, when someone says you have done your work well, or you have bought a nice thing, or your city is very beautiful. “Thank you” is used not only between friends, but also between parents and children, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives.

“Excuse me” is another short sentence they use. When you hear someone say “Excuse me” behind you, you know that somebody wants to walk past you without touching you. It’s not polite to interrupt（打断） others while they are talking. If you want to speak to one of them, say “Excuse me” first, and then begin talking. You should also do so when you want to cough or make any unpleasant noise before others.

Let’s all learn to say “Thank you” and “Excuse me”.

1.What is the main idea of this passage?

A. American people use “Thank you” widely to show they are polite.

B. American people say “Excuse me” widely to show they are polite.

C. It’s not polite to say “Thank you” and “Excuse me” in America.

D. Both A and B.

2.You should learn to say “Thank you” when ______.

A. you say something kind to others

B. you help others

C. you are helped by others

D. you need others to help

3.“Thank you” is ______.

A. widely used

B. seldom used

C. used only by Americans

D. used only between friends

4.You should say “Excuse me” if you want to _____.

A. cough B. make some noise

C. go first D. all of the above

口语运用。（每空1分，共5分）

阅读下面对话，从方框内7个选项中选择5个恰当的句子完成此对话。

A: Hi, Peter. We haven’t seen for several days. How’s it going?

B: Not bad. 1.

A: Pretty good! Are you free this Sunday afternoon?

B: 2. What’s up?

A: There is going to be a basketball match in our school. 3.

B: Yes, of course. But which team is our school going to play against?

A: 4.

B: Really? I think our team is very strong. Perhaps we will win the match.

A: But I hear that their team is strong, too.

B: I’m sure it must be a wonderful match.

A: I think so. 5.

B: Let’s meet in the playground at 3:00 p. m..

A: OK. See you then.

B: See you.

书面表达 （16分）

Mary在学校参加了一个Art Club, 从那以后，她有了很大的改变。请你结合下面所给的提示，写一篇英语短文。

要求:

1. 要点齐备，可以适当发挥；

2. 80词左右，开头已经给出，不计入总词数；

3. 文中不得出现自己的真实姓名和所在学校的名称。

Joining an art club sometimes changes a person greatly.

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— Mum, could you buy me a dress like this?

— OK, we can buy _____ one than this, but _______ this.

A. a better, better than

B. a worse, as good as

C. a more important, not as good as

D. a cheaper, as good as

Shanghai is bigger than_____ in Jiangsu Province and bigger than______in China.

A. any city, any city

B. any city, any other city

C. any other city, the other cities

D. any other city, any city

We can put the prefix “un-” before the following words to give them the opposite meaning except（除了）_____ .

A. correct B. comfortable C. certain D. interesting

Soon it would be the holidays. But before that, there was the end of year exams. All the students worked hard for some time. If they didn't pass, they would have to take the exams in September again. Some students failed, but Kate decided not to be one of them. She worked hard all day, but just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister was worried about her. She was staying up too late（熬夜）. The night before the first exam, Barbala insisted（坚持）that she should have an early night and take a sleeping pill. She promised（许诺）to wake her in the morning.

As she was falling asleep, Kate was worried in case（万一）she over-slept. Her mind kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of the pill, she fell asleep. she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the paper. She couldn't answer any of the questions. Everyone round her was writing pages and pages. However hard she thought, she couldn't find anything to write about. She kept looking at her watch. Time was running out. There was only one hour left. She started one question, wrote two sentences, gave up and tried another one. With only half an hour left she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started crying. Her whole body shook（摇晃，震颤）. It shook so much that it woke her up. She was still in bed and it had all been a terrible dream. A minute later, Barbala called her name.

1.Which of the following is true?

A. All the students were usually successful in their exams.

B. Not all students passed the year exams.

C. Every one of the students could pass the end of year exams.

D. None of the students would take the exams again in September.

2.When you prepare for an exam,________.

A. you go over（复习）your lessons.

B. you read new books.

C. you take the exam again and again.

D. you look through the exam.

3.Kate worked very hard before the exams for ______.

A. she was very poor at her lessons.

B. she decided to be the best one in her class.

C. she didn't work hard all year.

D. she didn't want to fail in them.

4.Why did Barbala insist that Kate should take a sleeping pill?

A. Because she thought Kate should oversleep before the first exam.

B. Because Kate was so worried about her exams that she couldn't go to sleep at all.

C. Because Barbala hoped her sister would have a good sleep before the first exam.

D. Because she had promised to wake her up the next morning.

5.Kate dreamed a terrible dream simply because ______.

A. she had taken a sleeping pill.

B. she was too worried about her exams.

C. her sister had forgotten to wake her up.

D. she did not pass the exams.

根据句意或汉语注释，写出单词的正确形式。

1.The mountain in Xihui Park is 329 meters in _________（高）.

2.He’s the _________(着迷)about computer games among three of us.

3.__________(幸运), he passed the exam in the end .

4.Tu Youyou is one of my _______(偶像). She won the Nobel Prize for Medicine this year.

—What’s her family name? —It’s _______.

A. Mary Brown B. Mary C. Brown