— Could you tell me __________ yesterday?

— Because my bike was broken on my way here.

A. why you came late B. why do you come late

C. why you come late D. why did you come late

完形填空

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

The Magic of Waving

It began a year ago, around Christmas.

While driving around the corner of our townhouse sports center, I always noticed an old man sitting by his front yard. He was usually smoking or drinking and looked grumpy (脾气不好).

One day, while I was driving past him with my daughter, I decided to _________at him with a lot of excitement. At the beginning, when he noticed me waving at him, he looked a bit shocked(震惊). Then, I saw his _________go up and he waved back.

“Why did you wave at him?” my daughter asked.

I told her that it was just an act of kindness that didn’t _________anything, and it gave both him and me a sense of joy. She responded by saying that she was a bit embarrassed (局促不安) to wave to a_________, but next time she would try it as well.

Lucky for us, we lived close to the old man, so we_________him rather often. Whenever we drove by, both of us would wave at him and, pretty soon, the old man _________ waving at everyone who passed by his house.

One day, my daughter’s friend came to visit and she told my daughter that she saw this strange old man near our home who waved at her very _________ . She mentioned that she waved back at him, even though she didn’t know him, and that it felt really good.

Upon hearing this, my daughter told her friend the story of how all the waving began.

Her friend responded, “Tell your mom that’s really_________!”

Other friends made similar comments(评论), and this response taught my daughter just how much an act of kindness can be very natural and effortless, if you really want to do it. It showed us how giving happiness _________ both the giver and the receiver.

Inspired by all these positive effects, we’re planning to give our elder waving neighbor a thank-you card, to express our thanks for the warmth that he communicated through his enthusiastic waves. And to thank him for _________ this simple joy with all who pass by his house.

1.A. look B. laugh C. shout D. wave

2.A. leg B. hand C. foot D. head

3.A. cost B. bring C. break D. hide

4.A. smoker B. stranger C. manager D. driver

5.A. saw B. asked C. thanked D. visited

6.A. started B. succeeded C. guided D. lasted

7.A. slowly B. gradually C. excitedly D. safely

8.A. different B. easy C. cool D. humorous

9.A. attracted B. controlled C. reminded D. benefited

10.A. getting B. sharing C. following D. keeping

Children’s Books Fair

1.If your sister wants to know more about the space, she can choose ________.

A. MARS—The Red Planet B. The Weather

C. Horses D. The Earth Science Book

2.“The Weather” is one of our Early Earth books for boys and girls aged ________.

A. 5—8 B. 13—15 C. 9—12 D. 8—13

3.“Horses” is about ________.

A. the red planet

B. the weather on our earth

C. the easy-to-do activities

D. the noblest animal on the planet

4.Which is true according to the ads above?

A. The Weather is about the Moon.

B. Horses is a perfect book for kids aged 7—10.

C. The Earth Science Book was written by Dinah Zike.

D. MARS—The Red Planet is about the noblest anima

Lost in the Mountain

Teenager Jake Deham was skiing (滑雪) with his family in the USA when he fell over and lost one of his skis. His family didn’t know that he had a problem. They kept on skiing. When they got to the foot of the mountain, there was no sign of Jake.

Jake couldn’t find his ski anywhere. In the end, he decided to take off his other ski and walk down the mountain. But he couldn’t work out the right way to go.

It was now getting dark and he was a long way from any place of safety. He knew that he might die that night in the cold temperatures. But Jake kept calm(镇定). At home, Jake watched a lot of programs about living in difficult situations. He remembered the advice from these programs and knew that he should build a hole in the snow. He made a hole and pointed it up the hill so the wind couldn’t blow into it. Outside his hole, the temperature fell to a dangerous —15℃that night, but inside it Jake was safe from the cold.

But he had to get down the mountain. The TV programs always said,“ If you are lost, you should find someone else’ s tracks (足迹) through the snow and follow them.” “I wanted to live my life.” remembers Jake. “So I got up and I found some ski tracks and I followed those.” He walked and walked and finally he saw lights. Nine hours after he lost his ski, he found a team of worker who came to save him. He was safe!

His mum was very happy when she heard the news. Amazingly, Jake didn’t even have to go to hospital. He got through the terrible experience without any injuries.

So, the next time someone says that watching TV is a waste of time, think of Jake. Sometimes TV can save your life!

1.Jake’s parents didn’t know that he was missing until.

A. they reached the foot of the mountain

B. they began to ski down the mountain

C. a team of workers found Jake

D. Jake lost one of his skis

2.What was the most important decision Jake made for his safety?

A. To go skiing with his family in the USA.

B. To search for the ski that he had lost in the snow.

C. To take off his other ski and walk down the mountain.

D. To build a hole in the snow to keep himself warm.

3.How did Jake get down the mountain the next morning?

A. He followed his parents.

B. He followed the workers.

C. He followed some ski tracks.

D. He followed some light.

4.What was the correct order in which these events happened?

a. Jake made a hole in the snow.

b. Jake lost one of his skis.

c. Jake finally saw lights.

d. He followed some tracks.

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

A Smart Home

When you’re not at home, many worries may start to crowd your mind. Did I turn the coffee maker off? Did I lock the door? Are the kids doing their homework or watching television? With a smart home, you can quiet all of these worries.

A smart home is a home with a communication network. This network connects devices(装置), such as lights and TV sets, and allows them to be controlled from far away through electrical wiring, mobile phone communication or WiFi over the internet.

More and more people may start to consider owning a smart home, because it makes life much more convenient. It can help keep your room at a certain temperature. It can record what happens inside the home and send the video to your phone. When you are on vacation abroad, you can use a smart home controller to switch on or off the electricity when necessary. Some smart homes can receive a visitor, allowing him to come in and offering him a drink. They can even feed the cat and water the plants.

Besides, smart homes are easy to fix. Most smart home technology and devices are wireless and can be set up with a minimum of tools, using only the guiding information. When a problem appears, you can deal with it yourself without paying a professional.

However, for home-users, the smart home technology is far from perfect. It can be rather expensive to own the technology and the devices. Also, because the smart home system allow its owner to get home information from anywhere, it leaves the home easy to be attacked by hackers(黑客),who may secretly use or change the information in the system.

Now, many scientists are excited at the future of smart home technology. Imagine being able to get fashion advice from your mirror, or receive food shopping suggestions from your refrigerator. While there are others who worry that those smart devices will make people lazier and lonelier. Whatever it is, one thing is for sure---smart home technology will change the way we live and work.

1.According to the passage, nowadays a smart home can lock the door through______________.

A. electric lights B. mirror technologies

C. mobile phones D. shopping programs

2.The third paragraph of the passage is mainly about _________.

A. the steps to use smart systems

B. the prices of smart programs

C. the advantages of a smart home

D. the tools for setting up smart devices

3.What’s the writer’s opinion according to the passage?

A．People will become less happy in the future.

B．People’s life style will be different in the future.

C．Mobile phones are the most important in smart homes.

D．Smart homes are much better than other smart systems.

Pictures That Don’t Last

“YEARS ago when I was at the Grand Canyon, I remember someone coming up to the canyon’s edge, taking a shot with their camera and then walking away, like ‘got it – done’, barely even glancing at the magnificent (壮观的) scene sprawling (展开) in front of them,” Linda Henkel, a scientist at Fairfield University, US told Live Science.

Henkel was surprised by how obsessed (着迷的) people are with taking pictures these days – before dinner, during friends’ birthday parties, on museum tours and so on. You know people just like that, don’t you?

They keep taking pictures because they think that it helps record the moment, but as Henkel’s latest study has just found out, this obsession may prevent their brains from remembering what actually happened, reported The Guardian.

In her study, Henkel led a group of college students around a museum and asked them to simply observe 15 objects and to photograph 15 others. The next day the students’ memory of the tour was tested, and the results showed that they were less accurate in recognizing the objects and they remembered fewer details about them if they photographed them.

“When people rely on technology to remember for them – counting on the camera to record the event and thus not needing to attend to it fully themselves, it can have a negative effect on how well they remember their experiences,” Henkel explained.

But there is also an exception: if students zoomed (缩放) in to photograph part of an object, their memory actually improved, and those who focused the lens (镜头) on a specific area could even recall parts that weren’t in the frame.

So basically, this study is saying that constantly taking pictures can harm your memory. But shouldn’t reviewing pictures we have taken help wake up our memories? This is true, but only if we spend enough time doing it.

“In order to remember, we have to access（接近）and interact with the photos, rather than just amassing them,” Henkel told The Telegraph. However, previous research has shown that most people never take the time to look over their digital pictures simply because there are too many of them and they aren’t usually very organized on their computers.

1.The author mentioned Henkel’s trip to the Grand Canyon at the beginning to ______.

A. complain about some tourists’ bad habits

B. give suggestions on how to enjoy one’s tour

C. describe the great view of the Grand Canyon

D. point out people’s obsession with taking pictures

2.Which of the following statements about Henkel’s study is TRUE?

A. Reviewing pictures always helps people bring back memories.

B. Taking pictures in a museum tour helps students recognize objects better.

C. Pictures that focus on the details of objects are likely to improve people’s memories.

D. People should spend more time studying real objects than taking pictures of them.

3.The underlined word “amassing” in the last paragraph probably means ______.

A. displaying B. collecting

C. introducing D. remembering

4.What is the article mainly about?

A. Some skills to learn for taking pictures.

B. People’s obsession with taking pictures and its influence.

C. How pictures remind us of our past.

D. How to deal with pictures after taking trips.

阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。每个选项只能用一次。

Encourage Exercises

It’s no secret that many students do not like to say in classrooms and study all day. 1. Quite a lot of them don’t like outdoor PE classes either.

“Our three PE classes every week are all run, run and run. It’s for our High School Entrance Examination (中考)，said Li Liangjing, 15, a junior 3 student from Xiamen.

2. . Two months ago, the Shanghai University of Sport made a survey from over 110,000 students and worked out teenagers’ physical index (指数). For junior high school students, their physical health score is 94.1, which is quite good. But this doesn’t mean they are active in sports, because their awareness (意识) and willingness (意愿) to do physical exercises only scores at 74.8. 3. , reported the Paper News.

Because of that, the Shanghai Education committee decided to put more importance on the general physical quotient (体商) of teenagers. This means that schools should pay attention to not only students’ health and sports test scores, but also their knowledge, skills and willingness to do exercises.

Thus, making PE classes more fun and growing students’ interests in sports seems necessary, according to the deputy director (副主任) of the Shanghai Education Committee, Wang Ping. 4. , such as throwing the handkerchief (手绢) and the eagle and the chickens. They also teach students different sports like tennis, swimming and martial art (武术).

“ 5. , which can be good for all their lives,” said Wang. And experts (专家) from the Shanghai University of Sport are planning to introduce the idea to more provinces.

阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。

Creator of e-mail makes use of ‘@’ sign

Does your class use e-mail? Have you ever tried to write a story for our newspaper and send it in by e-mail? E-mail is used for everything, and it makes life easier. But do you know where e-mail came from?

The man who invented it was Ray Tomlinson, a US engineer. He died early last month at the age of 74.

Back in 1971, Tomlinson was working on something that could send messages from one computer to another. Tomlinson tried to find a way to separate users’ name from the names of their computers. He needed some kind of symbol (符号). However, it couldn’t be a popular one, and it couldn’t be one that computers might know in a different context (语境). It also needed to be on keyboard at the same time. The “@” sign was there, and pretty much no one used it. It was perfect.

“The ‘@’ sign made the most sense,” he told Wired in 2012. “It said where the user was…at.” For example, by writing “Alex at 21st Century Teens” you can send a message to somebody named Alex who works at 21st Century Teens. This was the early form of email.

The interesting thing is that Tomlinson didn’t remember what the very first test message he sent was. “Probably the first message was QWERTYUIOP or something like that,” Yahoo reported, guessing the first row of letters on the keyboard.

Tomlinson, the father of e-mail, changed the way the world communicates and more importantly saved the symbol “@”.

Today, the “@” symbol is finding new life outside of our inboxes (收件箱). Most famously, social media like Weibo and Wechat use it at the beginning of user names. So even if we don’t use e-mail some day, Tomlinson’s contribution (贡献) will certainly live on.

1.Who invented the e-mail?

2.When did he invent the e-mail?

3.Why did he choose the symbol “@”?

4.What does “@” sign tell us?

5.What’s the passage mainly about?

文段表达

从下面两个题目中任选一题，根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50词的文段写作。文中已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。

假如你是李华，你和同学们准备为小明举办一个生日聚会，打算邀请你们的好朋友—

美国交换生Peter参加。请你用英语写一封电子邮件，告诉他聚会的时间和地点，活动内容，以及需要准备什么。

提示词语：hold, activity, get together, sing, eat, game, gift, wish

提示问题：● When and where are you going to celebrate Xiao Ming’s birthday?

● What are you going to do at the party?

● What do you advise Peter to prepare for Xiao Ming’s birthday?

Dear Peter,

How is it going?

I’m writing to invite you to Xiao Ming’s birthday party.

I’m looking forward to your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

假如你是李华，你们学校正就“感恩父母，从我做起”这一话题开展大讨论。请你用英语写一篇短文给某英文网站投稿，谈谈为什么要感恩父母，你通常在业余时间帮父母做什么，以及你这样做的感受。

提示词语：think, bring up, work, make money, support, housework, cook, clean, wash, happy, proud

提示问题： ● Why is it important for you to thank parents?

● What do you usually do for them in your spare time?

● How do you feel?

At my school, we are talking about what we can do to thank parents.