Grandpa is getting old and he has trouble what others say to him.

A.hear B.to hear C.hearing D.have heard

A lot of famous doctors gathered in New York_____ save this old woman.

A.so that B.in order that

C. in order to D.as a result

According to a national study, in the summer of 2013, the long-term(长期的) warm weather in the UK has made the number of butterflies increase.

Around 46,000 volunteers(志愿者) took part in the year’s Big Butterfly Count(统计), and they found 830,000 butterflies.Volunteers were asked to make a record.They would record how many times they found one of 21 different kinds of butterflies.

Later, the scientists used the records to find out how many butterflies of different kinds were found across the country.Then, they compared the results to the year before.They found that there was a rise in the number of 15 kinds of butterflies, and some of them went up by 50% compared to recent years.They said the increase in butterfly numbers was a result of warm weather.

However, scientists also said that the number of butterflies was in decline(下降) as a whole, and that we might not see the same result the next year.

Richard Fox, who works for Butterfly Conservation, said, “UK butterflies are in long-term decline.Studies have been done since the 1970s.They show that UK butterflies have declined in type and number.”

He added, “We must halt the long-term decline of these beautiful creatures(生物).The only way is by stopping the damage that has been done to the butterflies’ habitats(栖息地) across the UK.”

1.The volunteers were asked to ______.

A.study 830,000 butterflies

B.help scientists take notes

C.record the number of each kind of butterfly

D.find how many kinds of butterflies there are

2.What can we learn from the study?

A.There were 20 kinds of UK butterflies.

B.50% more UK butterflies were found in 2013.

C.The number of 15 kinds of UK butterflies increased.

D.There was a long-term increase in UK butterfly number.

3.What does the underlined part “the same result” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A.The weather is cold.

B.The weather is warm.

C.UK butterfly numbers decline.

D.UK butterfly numbers increase.

4.The underlined word “halt” in the last paragraph means “_________”.

A.stop B.study C.make D.plan

5.What would be the best headline of the passage?

A.Different kinds of butterflies in the UK.

B.Big Butterfly Count in the UK in 2013.

C.UK Scientists made butterfly numbers increase.

D.Warm weather made UK butterfly numbers increase.

当今许多家长不仅要求孩子刻苦学习功课，而且还要求他们学习诸如音乐、舞蹈、书法、美术、棋类等各种特长，希望孩子未来能更成功。对此现象的利弊、得失众说纷纭。请你根据下面提示要点写一篇短文并简单表明自己的观点。

益处：发展多种技能,培养多种爱好, 丰富生活；开阔视野，完善自我；增加就业机会。

弊端：孩子自我支配时间少；压力更大；加重家庭经济负担等。

你的观点： ……

注意：1.不少于100词；短文的开头已经给出，不计入总词数。

2.参考词汇：enrich 丰富 broaden 开阔 horizon视野

Many parents are trying to find tutors to teach their children special skills such as music, dancing, calligraphy, painting, chess and so on,

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Dear students, please read the passage carefully. _______you are ____mistakes

you’ll make.

A. The more carefully, the fewer

B. The more careful, the less

C. The more careful, the fewer

D. The more carefully, the less

—What you can do is _______ more English if you want to learn English well.

—You mean _______ more English is useful to me?

A. practicing, practice B. to practice, practicing

C. practicing, practicing D. to practicing, practice

“How are you?” is a nice question. It’s a friendly way for Americans to greet each other. But “ How are you？”is also a very unusual question. It often doesn’t need an answer. The person who asks” How are you?” hopes to hear the answer“Fine”even if the person’s friend isn’t fine. In fact, they are not really a question or an answer. They are simply other ways of saying “Hello”or“Hi”.

Sometimes people also don’t say exactly what they mean, For example, when someone asks “ Do you agree？”the other person might think，“No，I disagree. I think you’re wrong.” But it isn’t very polite to disagree so strongly, so the other person might say,“ I’m afraid …”It’s a nicer way to disagree.

People also don’t say exactly what they are thinking when they finish talking with other people. For example, many phone talks finish when one person says” I have to go now.” Often, the person who wants to finish the phone call gives an excuse,” Someone’s at the door.” The excuse might be real, or not. Perhaps the person who wants to finish the phone call simply doesn’t want to talk anymore, but it isn’t polite to say that. The excuse is more polite, and it doesn’t hurt the other person.

When they are greeting each other, talking about an idea, thinking of finishing a talk, people don’t say exactly what they are thinking about. It’s an important way that people try to be nice to each other, and it is part of the game of language.

1.“How are you？”is another way of saying “Hello” or “Hi”.

2.It is polite to say” No，I disagree. I think you are wrong” if you don’t agree with others.

3.When someone says” I have to go now” on the phone, it means he wants to go on talking.

4.“Someone is at the door ”may be an excuse for finishing a phone call.

5.Sometimes, people don’t say exactly what they are thinking about just because they try to be nice to each other.

What is the hottest English word these years? “Selfie" may be one of them. It was even named Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries in 2013. The word was first used in an Australian online forum in 2002. Now, almost everybody knows it.

Selfie is a photo that one takes of oneself. People usually take selfies with a smart phone and send them to a social media website. Nowadays, more and more people are taking selfies. From your best friend to your favorite pop star, selfies are taking over Renren and Sina Weibo.

What makes people love selfies? Selfies can help to remember what's going on in their personal life. "Almost every day, I take a photo of myself at school, and save it in my Ozone. These photos record my happy and sad moments." said Huang Xu, 16, from Hunan. Another usual reason for taking a selfie is to share online. They hope to make friends and share their feelings with others. "During summer vacation, my classmates and I shared many selfies online. Through these photos, we got to know each other's holidays and feelings," said Wang Lin, 15, from Henan. "I'm too shy to ask someone to take pictures of me, but it's easier to do it by myself."

Although taking selfies is popular among young people around the world, they should be careful at the places where they take selfies. People are warned（警告）not to take light-hearted selfies in serious places, such as in some traffic accidents. In order to protect art works, selfie is banned in some museums and galleries, too.

1. The word "selfie" has a history of about .

A.12 years B.13 years C.15 years D.20 years

2.In Paragraph 3, the writer mentioned (提到) 2 young people to .

A. talk about their school lives

B. introduce the development of selfie

C. help people take a clear and beautiful selfie

D. explain the different reasons why people love selfies

3.The underlined word "banned" means .

A. not visited B. not stopped

C. not allowed D. not watched

从方框中选出适当的句子抄在空白处，完成对话，有两项为多余选项。

A：I’ve been learning English for a long time, but I still can’t speak English well. 1.

B：Take your time, Li Ming. Anyway, Rome wasn’t built in a day. In fact, you only need to practice before you can speak it well.

A：2.

B：That’s natural. 3. Let me take something for example. You know, when people

first learn to drive a car, they can’t do it well.

A：I know what you mean.

B：4. All you have to do is to practice and don’t be afraid of making mistakes. The more mistakes you make, the faster you can learn English well.

A：5.

B：Just take your time. I am always glad to help.

Xi’an is a city with many places of interest and _____ tourists come here every year.

A.thousand of B.thousand

C.thousands D.thousands of