—Could you please tell me ____?

—It’s next to the post office.

A. where is the supermarket B. where the supermarket is C. where the supermarket was

Ten years ago，a girl gave me an important gift. It was ______．

On the early autumn of 2007，I went to a new middle school for my ______ year's study. I knew ______ there. I was very lonely，and afraid to make friends with anyone. One day，my classmates talked ______ with their friends，but I sat at my desk alone as usual. How I wish I could ______ them！At that moment，a girl came into the classroom. She ______ at me，without a word，just smiled. It made me feel happy and warm.

That smile ______ my life. I started to talk with other students ______ made friends with them. The girl ______ a smile has become my best friend now. All my dark days have gone.

Now I believe that the world is ______ you think it is. If you think you feel lonely，you might always feel lonely. So smile at the world and it will smile at you.

1.A. a book B. a smile C. a word

2.A. first B. second C. third

3.A. everybody B. somebody C. nobody

4.A. happily B. sadly C. angrily

5.A. teach B. catch C. join

6.A. looked B. laughed C. shouted

7.A. bothered B. troubled C. changed

8.A. though B. and C. but

9.A. in B. at C. with

10.A. what B. where C. why

Paper is one of the most important products ever invented by man. The invention of paper meant that more people could be educated because more books could be printed. Paper provided an important way to communicate with knowledge.

Paper was first made in China about 2，000 years ago. In Egypt and the West，paper was not very commonly used before the year 1400. Paper was not made in Southern Europe until about the year 1100. After that，the forestry countries of Canada，Sweden，Norway，Finland，and the United States became the most important in paper?making. Today Finland makes the best paper in the world. And it has the biggest paper industry in the world.

When we think of paper，we think of newspapers，books，letters，envelopes，and writing paper. So paper plays an important role in our lives.

Paper is very good for keeping you warm. Houses are often insulated (隔热) with paper. You perhaps have seen homeless men sleep on a large number of newspapers. They are insulating themselves from the cold. In Finland，in winter it is sometimes 40 degrees below zero. The farmers wear paper boots in the snow. Nothing could be warmer.

1.What did the invention of paper mean?

A. It meant more people could be educated.

B. It meant more books could be printed.

C. It meant paper is one of the most important products.

2.When was paper made in Southern Europe?

A. Before the year 2000. B. After the year 1400. C. After the year 1100.

3.Which country makes the best paper?

A. Norway. B. Canada. C. Finland.

4.What's the meaning of the sentence “Nothing could be warmer.”？

A. Books are warmer. B. Newspapers are warmer. C. Paper is the warmest.

5.What's the main idea of the passage?

A. The invention of paper. B. The best paper. C. The uses of paper.

Many things around us may affect our feelings and moods.

1. Some people think they feel sad, especially when the full moon is hanging in the sky during Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon is so round and bright. But they can't get together with the family.

2. We always have bad thoughts when it rains. However, when the sun shines brightly, we feel happy again.

3. Now many people who live in the city don't always sleep well at night because it's too noisy for them to fall asleep.

4. Women like to wear orange and yellow clothes when they are feeling sad. Because these colors can make them confident and cheer them up. Blue and white can make people feel calm. Green is the color of nature. Red often makes people active.

5. When we talk about the Ya'an earthquake with friends, it always makes us sad and worried. But the 18th Meeting of the Communist Party（共产党）always makes us excited and active.

It's important for us to be in a good mood. If we are in good spirits, we can study or work better. So we must learn to take care of ourselves and stay in good spirits.

A.Weather can affect our moods.

B.Experiences can affect people a lot.

C.Colors can affect our feelings.

D.The environment can change our feelings.

E.Big events can affect our feelings.

F.The moon can affect our feelings.

When I was 5 years old，I went to the USA with my mom. I can still remember the first Halloween holiday I had in the USA.

On the morning of Halloween，we paid a visit to a pumpkin（南瓜） farm. Each of us brought a pumpkin to school with us. I used the pumpkin to make a lantern which had two triangle eyes and a scary mouth.

In the afternoon，we put on the Halloween costumes and went on parade in school. Some of the costumes were nice，but some of them looked scary. I chose to wear a suit of Superman's clothes.

I did a lot of things that day，but the part I liked best was “trick or treat” in the evening. After dinner，I went outside with an empty bag. I hoped to get a lot of candies from people. At first，I was a bit nervous，so when I knocked at the door，my heart was beating very fast. A lady came out，and I said carefully to her，“Trick or treat.” My voice was very low，and even myself could hardly hear it. To my surprise，the lady was so kind to give me two candy bars，and I was so excited，thanked the lady and moved on. I couldn't remember how many houses I visited，but I could remember how many candies I got — I got 91 pieces of candy that day，and I was so proud of myself.

What a happy Halloween I had！And I wish we could have a Halloween every month!

My friend Peter was kind and lovely. But as a student, he was bad at maths, English and science because he didn't have an aptitude (资质) for that kind of study.

One day we were playing football and the bail got stuck in a tree. Peter climbed the tree to get it, and one of the teachers, John Marston who was looking out of the window, noticed that he was a talented climber.

Mr Marston was an expert (专家) in climbing. He had climbed many mountains.

One weekend Mr Marston invited Peter to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Peter really enjoyed the climbing. Mr Marston told Peter he was a very talented climber for his age. Peter left school three years later with no qualifications (毕业证), but he kept climbing regularly until he became very good at it. In his early twenties, he became a professional climber. He said," I'll always remember Mr Marston because he showed me I had an ability which no one else, including me, knew about."

1.Which subject was Peter not good at?

____________________________________________________________________

2.When did Peter and Mr Marston climb Mount Kilimanjaro?

____________________________________________________________________

3.How did Peter feel about the climbing?

____________________________________________________________________

4.What did Mr Marston say about Peter?

____________________________________________________________________

5.Did Peter know he had an ability to climb at first?

____________________________________________________________________

语篇翻译 阅读下面的短文，将画线部分译成英文或中文。

46.Confucius is the greatest teacher in Chinese history. He was born on September 28,551BC in the Kingdom of Lu, in today’s Shandong Province. When he was young, he and his mother had a hard life. 47.他十五岁时开始学习音乐, and he did well in it. Then he went on learning other subjects. When he was thirty, he became a teacher. He started his own school. 48.He believed everyone should have a chance to get education whether they were rich or poor. He had about 3,000 students and many of them became famous.

49.Chinese see Confucius as the greatest thinker and also the greatest teacher. His most important ideas are kindness and good manners. 50.他说年轻人人应该照顾老年人。 People should stop thinking of themselves and work for others. His ideas are around in people’s everyday life. Today people can still hear them, and they go far into east and south Asia.

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2._________________________________________________________________

3._________________________________________________________________

4._________________________________________________________________

5._________________________________________________________________

课外阅读能丰富学生的课余生活，开拓他们的视野。但是，目前许多中学生并不重课外阅读。请你根据以下提示，写一篇英语短文，对这一状况进行分析并提出建议。

注意：1.内容需包括以上提示，课适当发挥，但不要逐句翻译；

2.条理清楚，语句连贯；

3.80词左右，短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数。

At present, only a few students do some reading after class. Here are several reasons. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Here are two pieces of news from a newspaper.

Hong Kong’s first sightseeing restaurant bus went into service, offering tourists and locals a fresh experience of sightseeing and dinning. People now don’t need to plan where to go or worry about where to eat. The sightseeing restaurant bus has two floors with 47 seats. It tours around the city while serving food prepared by the famous Michelin restaurant there. Its service includes day and night tours, with day tour covering over 20 sights from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island or to the New Territories. The two-and-a-half-hour day tour costs each passenger 380 HK dollars（$48.9）。

Night tours are only for booking out the whole bus and guests can choose the route（路线）for themselves.

With no smile and only terrible teeth, two robot-like dinosaurs（恐龙）standing at the desk are always ready to

help customers check in. They are professional workers for Henn-na Hotel in China, Japan, the second robot-staffed hotel. Robots in this hotel can greet guests in English, Chinese and Japanese languages and every room has a doorkeeper robot called “Tapia”, who can talk to customers or can offer such services as turning on or off TV or providing weather news. The hotel opens on Wednesday and the price of the room starts from 170 dollars a night.

1.The robots in Henn-na Hotel can speak _________kinds of languages.

A. two B. three C. four D. five

2.From the passage, we learn the robots in Henn-na Hotel________.

A. have no teeth B. never talk to customers

C. don’t greet people with a smile D. refuse to turn off or on TV for guests

3.Which is NOT true about the sightseeing restaurant bus?

A. The price of the day tour is 380HK dollars.

B. Passengers can enjoy the food and sights at the same time.

C. Michelin restaurants provide food for the tourists on the bus.

D. Passengers can choose the route for day tour by themselves.

“Chicken” idioms（习语）

The word “chicken” is used in so many English idioms. Do you know the following?

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

The expression“Don’t count your chickens before they hatch”means “Don’t expect that all your eggs, which have been laid, will hatch. “Hatch” is a verb, meaning the baby chicken breaks open the shell of the egg and comes out successfully. So the expression mainly means “Don’t depend on things working out just as you want them to.” this saying appears in the story The Milkmaid and Her Pail in Aesop’s Fables.

A chicken-and-egg situation

In history, philosophers（哲学家）and scientists have met this dilemma（困境）: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Aristotle thought that both the bird and the egg must have always been there. However, more recently, scientists such as Stephen Hawking have argued that the egg came before the chicken. In common speech, the term “a chicken-and-egg situation” means a situation where it is impossible to say which of two things appeared first and which caused the other one.

Don’t be such a chicken

There seems to be an idea in English, somehow, that a chicken is a scared bird. Maybe that’s not fair as most birds will probably fly away from you if you go towards them. But “Don’t be such a chicken” means “Don’t be so scared and get a bit more courage.” So if your friend fear to do something, you can say to him or her, “Don’t be such a chicken. Just have a try!”

1.The underlined word “hatch” means “_______” in Chinese.

A. 孵化 B. 长大 C. 破碎 D. 出售

2.While discussing the idiom “A chicken-and-egg situation”, the writer mentions Aristotle and Stephen Harking to show that_________.

A. Aristotle’s opinion was wrong

B. Stephen Hawking’s opinion is wrong

C. it’s impossible to find the right answer to this question

D. philosophers and scientists usually have the same answer to a question

3.We may use the idiom “Don’t be such a chicken” in the situation when someone_______.

A. is not brave enough B. enjoys counting his chickens

C. has difficulty making a choice D. hopes things will work out just as he wants

4.The writer probably appears in the __________ part of a magazine.

A. food B. culture C. travel D. sport