— Do you know 　　　　 when you arrived?

— Five minutes. I missed something exciting.

A. how long the show had been on B. how long had the show been on

C. how long has the show been on D. how long the show has been on

— Barcelona lost the match last night.

— 　　　　 It is unbelievable. They always win.

A. How come? B. Never mind. C. I can’t agree more. D. That’s common.

II. 词形转换。用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空,每空格限填一词。

1.He felt ________(embarrass) when he heard the _____________ (embarrass) news.

2.He felt __________ (lucky) that day because he lost his money on the train.

3.There are __________ (hundred) of people dancing on the square now.

4.I don’t think what he said is __________ (believe). He is a man who often tells lies.

5.Teachers are often compared to _____ (burn)candles.

6.My father works at __________ (little) ten hours every day.

7.The movie has a bad _________ (end), many audiences cried in the theatre.

8.The _______ (discover)of power plays an important role in society.

9.What time do you get _________ (dress) every morning?

10.Tina stared at him in _________(belief), shaking her head.

III. 动词应用。用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空,必要时可加助动词或情态动词。

1.If you keep _________ (work) hard, you will succeed in the end.

2.When he was about __________ (leave) home, he saw a stranger come into the house.

3.Have you finished __________ (read) the book?

4.He had a chance _________ (learn) French in Paris last year, but he had to give it up because of his illness.

5.The farmer said he would stop __________ (grow) apples because they were too cheap.

6.They __________ (begin) to work before I arrived there.

7.The girl said that she __________ (finish) her homework already.

8.He invited a lot of friends _________(come) to his birthday party.

9.I _________ (fool) by my best friend on April Fool’s Day last year. I want to play a joke on her this year.

10.The students began with speaking English, but ended up _________(speak) Chinese.

IV. 完成句子。根据所给汉语提示完成英语句子,每空一词。

1.当我起床的时候,父母已经离开家去上班了。

_________ ________ _________ I got up, my parents _________ ________ home to work.

2.他什么都没说。飞快地穿上衣服跑出门去。

He said nothing. He quickly ________ ________ his clothes and ________ _________ the door.

3.对不起,你能捎我一段路程吗？

Excuse me, can you _________ me _________ __________?

4.我们带着怀疑的目光看着黑烟正从燃烧的大楼上方升起来。

We stared _________ ________ at the black smoke _________ above the burning building.

5.或许你的坏运气会变成好事呢。

Maybe your bad luck will _________ ________ a good thing.

Are you happy most of the time? Or do you easily get angry sometimes? Everyone has a different temperament(脾气). It is usually believed that both genes（基因） and environment may influence people’s temperament in different ways. Scientists have found that the season of the birth also plays a role. Scientists from Budapest, Hungary, studied 400 university students. In the study, The students needed to finish some questions to know which of four kinds of temperaments they most had. From the questions, scientists found that the students always answered something like “my mood often changes for no reason.” and “I love to deal with new projects, even if it is risky.” these answers were then connected with their birthdays. They discovered that people born in summer easily change between sad and happy moods compared to people born in winter. Those who always feel positive are mostly born in spring and summer. The study also found that those born in fall less probably had a mood of depression which may easily drive them to cry, while those in winter were not easier to be angry. Scientists said that this was probably because the seasons had an influence on certain chemicals in the human body. And the chemicals are important to control people’s moods even in adult life. “It seems that when you are born may increase or decrease your change of developing certain mood, disorders,” scientist Xenia Gonda told the Telegraph.根据短文内容，判断下列句子正 (A)、误(B)。

1.Ages probably may influence people’s temperaments according to the Paragraph 1.

2.The underlined the word “depression” most probably means sadness.

3.The answers to the questions of the study were matched with their birthdays.

4.People born in winter get sad or happy more easily.

5.The best title of this passage is “The Influence of Genes”.

It was a great pleasure for the family to move to a house with a very big garden. Betty and Tony could climb up trees，grow flowers and even play badminton. They liked to watch the birds flying among the trees in the garden. They even started to put food out to attract more birds.

Everything was fine for a few days until one afternoon there was a strange bumping noise on a window. Betty went outside and found a small bird dead on the grass. Its neck seemed to be broken. “It must have flown into the window. ” Tony said when his sister Betty called him to have a look. “Ah, yes, look here. You can see the mark where it hit the window. There are a couple of tiny feathers stuck on the window. ”

“Poor thing!”Betty said.

During the next month, five more birds died in the same way. “Why would they fly to the windows? ” They wondered. Finally they knew the truth. When the birds were flying, they couldn’t see into the rooms. All they saw was the reflection (倒影)of the garden. They thought that they were flying into trees because they saw trees reflected by the window.

“Something has to be done to save the birds.” the parents decided.

At first, the family tried keeping curtains (窗帘)across the windows, but this made the room dark. Then they bought some strong black paper and cut out the shape of a hawk. They made six hawks ——one for each window. They stuck the hawks to the windows. They looked pretty and did not keep out much light. When the birds saw the hawks, they would fly away.

After that, there were no more dead birds. The family were much happier.

1.They put food out to attract birds because they .

A. had a special garden for birds

B. had too much bird food to feed the birds

C. wanted to see more birds flying in the garden

D. wanted to catch some birds in the garden

2. birds died in the garden.

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

3.The birds flew to the windows because they .

A. found the windows very big and clean

B. wanted to fight for more food

C. thought there were more trees ahead

D. wanted to go into the room

4.The underlined word “ hawk ” means .

A. 丛林 B. 鹰 C. 山脉 D. 燕子

5.The story is mainly about .

A. why those birds died in their garden

B. Betty and Tony were good at paper-cutting

C. how the family saved the birds in the garden

D. the family had a new house with a big garden

Humans’ Greatest Achievements

The earth is 4.5 billion years old, but the human race has lived on it for just 200,000 years. In that short time, we have achieved some amazing things.

1.The list is almost endless. The invention of the airplane has changed our lives. The discovery of antibiotics(抗生素) has saved the lives of millions of people. Can you imagine living without electricity? What about the printing press(印刷术)? Without great achievements in communication, such as radio, TV, computers, the Internet and smartphones. 2.

What about the arts? The arts have brought pleasure to many people, but are the Beatles and Bach more important than antibiotics? 3.

Finally, we must not forget humens’ early achievements. 4. We can’t imagine modern life without cooked food and cars.

What are humans’ greatest achievements? To answer the question, we need to decide what

We mean by “great”. 5. Or is it just something that makes us say “Wow” like the Great Wall? What do you think ?

A. Do you think it is difficult to have great achievements?

B. Is it something that makes us rich or happy or saves lives?

C. We enjoy these things every day because they are free to use.

D. They used fire for cooking and heating and invented the wheel

E. Many of humans’ great achievements are in science and technology

F. And is Mickey Mouse as important an achievement as going to space?

G. We could probably live without them, but life wouldn’t be as interesting

Have you ever heard of a girl of 15, who set up a company of her own? Wendy Wong is the girl. She started the business two years ago. She has already written several successful computer games. They are so popular that over half a million games are sold every year. Now all of her family work in her business, and she is still in school.

She gets up early in the morning and then she talks with her family about the business over breakfast. Every day she goes to school in her own car with a driver, for she is not old enough. She enjoys her school, but some of the work is too easy for her to feel interested. She usually gets “A” grades in all her subjects, so the other students often ask her for help.

She finished her homework in half an hour after her driver takes her home. After dinner, she goes on her office and goes on working on her computer, writing games until 2 am. She does not usually need so much sleep as other children.

根据短文内容，回答问题。

1.When did Wendy Wong start the business? 

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2.What has Wendy Wong already written successful? 

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3.How does Wendy Wong go to school every day? 

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4.How about her grades in all her subjects? 

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5.How long can she finish her homework? 

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从方框中选择恰当的单词,并用其适当形式完成短文。

A. public B. price C. laughed D. do E. report F. hurried

G. worry H. allowed I. countries J. believed K.

“Jack, the headmaster wants you in his office.” When he heard this, Jack began to 1.

about it and suddenly everyone around 2. and shouted “April fool”, for this was April Fool’s Day.

In Britain and in some other 3., it is usual and ordinary to play a joke on people on that day. Children are 4. to play harmless jokes on their friends until twelve o’clock at night. Usually they try to play a joke on other children into 5. foolish things. Not only children but also grown-ups enjoy a joke on others. Even newspapers and radios at times try to play a joke on the 6. with a clever April Fool’s story.

Some time ago, for example, a very serious BBC TV program did a ten-minute 7.

about spaghetti trees in Italy. The reporter said that trees weren’t produced as much spaghetti as they did last year because of the bad weather. He also said that the 8. of spaghetti would go up. A lot of people who didn’t know what spaghetti was made of 9. the story. Some housewives 10. to buy the food that was going to become in short supply.