She _______ a lot of money on clothes.

A. takes B. costs C. spends D. buys

His father _____ to Nanjing. He _____ back next week.

A. has been， is B. has been， will be

C. has gone， is D. has gone， will be

Come and see the Indian elephants and the new tigers from America. The bears are waiting to meet you， and the monkeys from China are waiting to throw things at you. The lovely dogs from Australia are waiting to laugh at you， and the giraffes from Zambia are waiting to look down on you.

Tickets

Grown-ups：＄2.00

Children：Over 12 ＄ 1.00 Under 12 Free

Opening time 9：00 a.m.— 4：00 p.m.

Except Friday 10：00 a.m. — 3 ：00 p.m.

Keep the zoo clean！

Do not touch，give food or go near the animals.

1.How many kinds of animals are talked about in the passage？

A. Four B. Five. C. Six. D. Seven.

2.Now Mr. Smith is in the zoo with his two sons， one aged 14 and the other 10， how much are the tickets together？

A. $4.00 B. $2.00 C. $3.00 D. $1.00

3.Which of the following is the visiting time？

A. 8：30 a.m. Monday B. 9：30 a.m. Friday

C.3：00 p.m. Sunday D. 5：00 p.m. Tuesday

4.From the passage we can guess the animal “giraffe” must be very _______.

A. fat B. long C. strong D. tall

5.Which of the following can we do in the zoo？

A. To give some food to the dogs.

B. To touch the monkey on the head.

C. To throw things everywhere.

D. To take a few nice photos.

根据短文意思，用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、完整(其中有两个多余选项)。

Life is not easy， so I’d like to say “When anything 1. ， believe in yourself!” When I was a young boy， I was too shy to speak to anyone. My classmates often laughed2. me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later， something happened， and it 3. my life. It was an English speech contest(比赛). My mother asked me to take 4. in it. What a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak5. all the teachers and students of my school!

“Come on， boy. Believe in yourself! You are sure to6. .” Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I 7. the topic “Believe in yourself”. I tried my best to remember all the speech and8. it over 100 times. With my mother’s great love， I did well in the contest. I could9._____ believe my ears when the news came that I had won the first place. I heard the cheers from the teachers and students. Those classmates who once looked 10. on me， now all said congratulations to me.

--Da RunFa Supermarket is _______ on weekends. We can do some shopping

there on weekdays.

--Oh, no. It ________ ever since last Friday.

A.open; has closed B.close; has been open

C.open; has been opened D.closed; has been closed

--Are you confident about the coming competition , Judy?

--_________. I’m well prepared and feel I’ve got everything ready.

A.I hope so B.I’m afraid not

C.It’s hard to say D.Sure, I am

--Could you please show me how to connect my ipad to WiFi ?

--_____________.

A.Help yourself B. My pleasure

C. Do it yourself D.With pleasure

—Could you tell me__________ ? —Since 2010．

A．how long has Yancheng BRT been in use

B．how soon will Yancheng BRT be in service

C．how long Yancheng BRT has been in use

D．how soon Yancheng BRT will be in service

Mark began to introduce the guest speaker to the listeners, but then stopped for a while. He had forgotten her name.

Barbara hid her valuable things when she went on vacation. When she came back, she couldn’t remember where she’d put them.

Perhaps you’ve had such experiences like these. Most people have. But most of them haven’t realized that they have a memory problem. Neither do they know a simple but important fact: Memory can be improved. If you’ll just accept that, the following will show you how.

First, relax. If you are over worried about remembering something, you’ll forget it. If you keep telling yourself that your memory is bad, your mind will come to believe it and you won’t remember things. When you forget something, don’t follow up with sayings like “Oh, my God! I always forget things!” Such words will have a bad result on you and your memory.

But relaxing isn’t enough. To improve your memory, you’ll need to take an active role. Like your body, your memory can be made strong through exercise. Look for opportunities to exercise your memory. For example, if you’re learning a language, try to actively remember a lot of new words.

If you don’t take notice of things actively, you won’t remember them. So, you can make pictures of what you see in your mind every day. For example, don’t just put your keys down! If you want to find them again, make a mind picture of the place where you’re putting them.

1.The first two paragraphs just tell us ________.

A. Barbara was a very rich person

B. Mark often forgot his friends’ names

C. examples of memory problems

D. language problems of two persons

2. When you forget things, you ________.

A. must be too careless

B. shouldn’t lose heart about your memory

C. must accept the fact

D. shouldn’t take notice of the result

3.The word “opportunities” in the fifth paragraph means “________”.

A. places B. activities C. positions D. chances

4. According to the passage, ________ can make your memory better.

A. realizing your memory problems

B. talking to your friends

C. making mind pictures of what you see

D. doing sports every day

5.The purpose of the passage is to help you ________.

A. to improve your memory B. to introduce the guest

C. to remember new words D. to forget unhappy things

A serious problem for today’s society is who should be responsible(有责任的) for our elderly and how to improve their lives. It is not only a financial(财务的) problem but also a question of the systerm we want for our society. I would like to suggest several possible ways to this problem.

First, employers(雇主) should take the responsibility for their retired(退休的) employees. To make this possible, 1% of profits(利润) should be left for this purpose. But when a company must take life-long responsibility for its employees, it may suffer from a commercial(商业的) disadvantage because of higher employee costs.

Another way of solving the problem is to return the responsibility to the individual(个人). This means each person must save during his working years to pay for his years of retirement. This does not seem a very fair model since some people find that it’s difficult for them to pay for their daily life without trying to earn extra to cover their retirement years. This means the government might have to step in to care for the poor.

In addition, the government could take responsibility for the care of elderly. The government could provide more money through government taxes to increase the level of pensions(养老金). What’s more, some institutions(社会福利机构) should be created for senior citizens, which can help provide a comfortable life for them. Unluckily, as the present situation in our country shows, this is not a truly practical answer. The government doesn’t have enough money to care for the elderly, particularly when it is busy trying to care for the young.

One further solution is that the government or social organizations set up some working places especially for the elderly where they are independent.

In short, all these measures have advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, we are expecting to combine(结合) these measures so that we can provide the care we hope to give to our elderly generations.