­­— Hi, Susan, can your parents attend the parents’ meeting this afternoon?

­­— Sorry, they ________ to Hong Kong on business.

A. went B. have gone C. have been D. go

— Your iPhone is so smart. Can you tell me ________?

­­— In the new shopping center near my home.

A. when did you buy it B. when you bought it

C. where did you buy it D. where you bought it

Chinese Spelling Hero is a popular TV show ________ focuses on Chinese character writing among teenagers.

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

— Thank you for helping me work out the physics problem.

­­— ________.

A. Never mind B. It doesn’t matter

C. No, thanks D. It’s my pleasure

通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题给出的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案，并将答题卡上对应的选项涂黑。

Mike and his father hadn’t talked for ten years. Ten years ago, Mike’s mother ________. He thought it was his father who caused his mother’s death. He hated his father.

Now they were sitting in a nice ________. Suddenly his father asked the waiter to put some salt in his coffee. Mike was _______. His father smiled and said, “Before you were born, your mother and I often had fun _______ in the sea. We could taste the sea, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Every time I have salty coffee, I always ________ your mother. I miss her so much.”

Mike was deeply moved. He never knew his father had such _______ love for his mother. One month later, he moved in to live with his father. Whenever he made coffee for his father, he would put some _______ in it.

Ten years later, his father died. Mike ________ a letter saying “Dear Mike, please forgive me for my _______ —the salty coffee. Now let me tell you the truth. I don’t like salty coffee actually, but I drank salty coffee for 10 years! Being with you was the biggest _______ of my whole life.”

1. A. hurt B. disappeared C. died D. missed

2. A. mall B. restaurant C. house D. garden

3. A.surprised B. upset C. strange D. disappointed

4. A.drinking B. eating C. working D. playing

5. A.think up B. think over C. think of D. think about

6. A.wide B. deep C. high D. big

7. A.sugar B. milk C. honey D. salt

8. A.wrote B. received C. accepted D. refused

9. A.lie B. secret C. regret D. mistake

10. A.shyness B. kindness C. happiness D. sadness

1. You can buy ________ with $3.99 in Burger King.

A. only a small double Cheeseburger King

B. a small double Cheeseburger King and coke

C. a small double Cheeseburger King and potato chips

D. a small double Cheeseburger King, coke and potato chips

2. If you want to join Sunshine Children’s Club, you should be ________ .

A. 3 years old B. 11 years old C.13 years old D.18 years old

3. You can go to City Children’s Library at ________.

A. 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday B. 9:00 a.m. on Sunday

C. 9:30 p.m. on Thursday D. 3:00 p.m. on Saturday

4.If you visit http://www.lookandlearn.com, you can ________.

A. get more information about Sunshine Children’s Club

B. read books in City Children’s Library online

C. know more about Prize Art Competition

D. send an e-mail to Burger King

5. From the advertisement, we know that ________.

A. You have to pay if you go to City Children’s Library

B. Sunshine Children’s Club opens 6 days a week

C. We can have chicken wings in Burger King

D. A 20-year-old girl can not take part in the Prize Art Competition

Our voice gives away a lot of information about ourselves. It can tell us our gender(性别)and age. And now, scientists say that it can also tell us our height.

Scientists at Washington University, Indiana University and University of California found that listeners could accurately tell the height of speakers, just by their voices. And the key to this mystery is a sound known as the subglottal resonance（声门下共振）. It deepens with height and helps us build a mental picture of a person.

“The best way to think about subglottal resonances is to imagine blowing into a glass bottle with water. The less water in the bottle, the lower sound,” said John Morton, a scientist at Washington University. And it’s the same for humans. The frequency of the subglottal resonance depends on the height. The taller we are, the deeper the resonance frequency is.

In order to find out whether people could identify the resonance, scientists did experiments. A number of same-sex pairs of different heights were told to read the same sentence aloud. It was played back to listeners who had to choose which one of the pairs was taller. Then, other listeners had to rank the speakers from the shortest to the tallest. The listeners were able to identify the tall people 62.17% of time, much higher than a lucky guess.

Why not try the experiment yourself? Find out if your tall friends have deeper voices.

1. The scientists in some American universities found that people’s voices ________.

A. change more quickly as they get older

B. can tell the height of the speaker

C. sound different when they have water in their mouth

D. can tell the speaker’s gender, age and weight

2. The underlined word deepens might mean ________ in Chinese.

A.变得刺耳 B. 变得高亢 C.变得低沉 D. 变得甜美

3. According to the study, taller people usually have a ________ voice.

A. deeper B. louder C. lower D. higher

4. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Our voice is made up of the subglottal resonance.

B. The people tested in the experiments were of different-sex pairs.

C. A person’s voice is greatly different even when reading the same sentence.

D. Listeners’ ability to identify taller speaker is much higher than a lucky guess.

5. The best title of the passage might be ________.

A. How to Be Taller

B. Our Voice Tells Our Height

C. An Experience about Voice

D. Something about Subglottal Resonance

配对阅读 左栏是五个人的情况描述，右栏是七个相关的网站。请为每个人选择合适的网站，并将答题卡上对应的选项涂黑。

Alice is a doctor in New York City. She has one week off every August for the summer holiday. Last summer she decided to take 1.________ trip to San Francisco. She didn’t want to go by air. She really wanted to see the United States, so she 2.______ the train.

The train left New York City 3.________ Monday at 10:30 p. m. During the long trip, she looked out of the window and watched the country go by. She saw large cities, small towns and the beautiful countryside. She couldn’t help singing 4.________. She took walks through the train and talked with other 5.________ from time to time.

Finally at 2:45 p.m. on Friday, the train 6.________ in San Francisco. 7._______ she got off the train, she saw a poster on the wall of the station. 8.________ said, “Wanted! Volunteer doctors in the earthquake area!” Without thinking twice, Alice went to 9.________ the injured people immediately. She was 10._______ the whole week, but she was happy.

Jia Meng used to keep a diary in Chinese. But one year ago, the l4-year-old girl from Heilongjiang began to write her diaries in English, because Jia found her mother was reading her diary secretly. She changed the language because her mother can’t read English. “It’s like killing two birds with one stone，” said Jia. “My privacy（隐私）becomes safe and my English improves a lot.”

Jia’s mother is not the only mom who reads her child’s diary. Recently, Renmin University of China had a national survey among over 2,300 parents. The results show that about 40％ of parents read their children’s secrets.

That’s why many teenagers try to find ways to protect their privacy.

Wu Lei, 15, from Shanxi，keeps a diary, too. But he doesn’t write it on paper．He writes online, which he thinks is perfectly safe because his parents “know nothing about the Internet”.

Lu Huan, 13, from Guangdong, said her parents always secretly listened to the talk between her friends and her on the telephone in her room. To solve this problem, Lu asked her parents to buy her a cell phone.

“Parents want to know what is going on in their children’s lives,” said Shao Xiaozhen, a teenage expert in Beijing. “But sometimes they go about it the wrong way.” Shao suggested the teenagers that instead of hiding their secrets, talking to parents is a better solution.” If your parents know that you are safe, they’ll let you keep your secrets. ”

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