Jack is a twenty-year-old young man. Two years ago, when he finished middle school, he found work in a shop. Usually he works until ten o'clock in the evening. He is very tired when he gets home. After a quick supper he goes to bed and soon falls asleep. His grandma who lives downstairs is satisfied with (满意) him because of his hard work.

One day, on his way home, he met Mary. They were both happy. He asked the girl to go to his house. She agreed happily. He bought some fruit and drinks for her. And they talked about their school, teachers, classmates and their future. They talked for a long time.

"Have a look at your watch, please," said the girl. "What time is it now?"

"Sorry, something is wrong with my watch," said Jack. "Where's yours?"

"I left it at home."

Jack thought for a moment and found a way. He began to stamp his foot on the floor, "Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The sound woke his grandma up. The old woman shouted downstairs, "It's twelve o'clock in the night, Jack. Why are you still jumping upstairs?"

根据短文内容,选择最佳选项。

1.Jack was ________ when he finished middle school.

A. sixteen B. eighteen C. twenty D. fifteen

2.The old woman is satisfied with Jack because ________.

A. he's her grandson B. he's clever

C. he works very hard D. he gets home late

3.From the story, we can know that Mary is Jack's ________.

A. classmate B. workmate C. aunt D. wife

4.The underlined word "stamp" in the story means ______ in Chinese.

A. 印章 B. 跺 C. 贴邮票 D. 承认

5.Jack stamped his foot on the floor in order ________.

A. to wake his grandma up

B. to make his grandma angry

C. that his grandma was going to tell him the time

D. that his grandma was going to buy him a watch

（Four students are talking about the future after class.）

根据短文内容，判断句子正(T)、误(F)。

1.It will be the 40th Olympic Games in 2048.

2.Liu Yuan thinks that people can spend their holidays on the moon in the future.

3.Robots will do the things that people don’t want to do in Zhang Lan’s opinion.

4.Sun Wei will be sixty years old by the year of 2050.

5.From the talk, we can know that people’s life in the future will be worse.

Tina lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood(洪水) and quite a few houses were washed away. 1..

Tina took in one of the families which had lost everything. 2. Tina's friends could not understand why she wanted to give so much when she already had so many children to support.

"Well," Tina explained to her friends, "At the end of World War I, there was a poor woman in a town in Germany. 3. "

"The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, 'We won't be able to have much for Christmas. I'm going to get just one present for us all. 4.’She came back with a little girl who had no parents. 'Here's our present,' she said to her own children."

"The children were more than excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she grew up as their sister. 5."

根据文章的内容，将下面的句子还原到文中。

A.Now I'll go and get it.

B.But Tina's house was high enough to escape (逃)it.

C.Her husband had been killed in the war and she had many children, just like me now.

D.She shared her home until the family could build another house.

E.I was that Christmas present.

For most kids, homework is just part of their daily lives. but have you ever imagined that one day you won't need to do any homework at all? Such a thing just happened in a school in the UK.

Nottingham East Academay, a school in the UK has a non-homework policy(政策) recently. The school plans to make the students do more activities at school. So the students no longer need to do homework after class. When the school announced(宣布) it, students, teachers and parents were all surprised.

Barry Day, the president of the school, thinks that homework is unnecessary. He once told a local newspaper, " people give children homework to do simply because they think it should be given. In fact, homework doesn't help with education at all.

Letting kids leave their homework at school is becoming popular in the UK. Several other schools are welcoming the policy and doing something similar. Tiffin Boy's School has started giving students less homework. The time has dropped from two or three hours to just forty minutes a night. Nottingham East Academay is asking students to read for fun with their parents instead.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案

1.What is Barry Day?

A. The president of the school. B. A newspaper reporter

C. A parent D. A student in that school

2.How long does it take students to finish their homework at Tiffin Boy's School NOW?

A. None. B. Two hours. C. Three hours. D. Forty minutes.

3.Barry Day thinks homework is unnecessary because_______.

A. most people don't think homework should be given

B. he doesn't think homework is helpful to education

C. homework is very important

D. some school welcome the policy

4.How did the parents react(反应) to the non-homework policy when they heard it?

A. They were angry. B. They were very surprised.

C. They were bored. D. They were relaxed

5.The best title for the passage is_________.

A. Homework Is Necessary B. Reading Is Fun

C. Non-homework Policy. D. Amazing Newspaper.

A man went into a restaurant and sat down at one of the tables.

A waiter went up to him and gave him the menu.

The man read it carefully, then ordered(点餐) all the most expensive foods and began to enjoy himself.

Then a small boy came into the restaurant and sat at the man’s table.

The waiter came up and said to the man, “What would your little boy like, sir?”

“Oh, just an ice cream, ” the man told him. Then he said to the waiter, “I’m just going out to buy a newspaper.”

He left the restaurant. The waiter gave the boy an ice cream. The boy ate it, and then stood up and walked to the door.

The waiter ran to him.

“Excuse me,” he said, “but your father hasn’t come back and he hasn’t paid for his meal or for your ice cream.”

“I’m sorry,” The young boy said, “He’s not my father, I don’t know who he is.”

The waiter did not understand. “What do you mean?” he asked.

“The man came up to me in the street, ” the boy said. “He asked me if I liked ice cream. I told him I did. Then he told me to come into the restaurant at 2:00pm and sit down at his table. He said he’d give me some.”

After knowing the truth, the waiter felt so sad, because he had to pay money for the meal.

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

1.What did the man order in the restaurant?

2.Where did the little boy sit?

3.Was the small boy the man’s son?

4.When did the man tell the boy to come into the restaurant?

5.Who paid money for the meal?

这是一篇Lucy给家人做饭的小短文。由于粗心，她丢掉了几个词，请你帮她填上，每空一词。

Lucy was free yesterday. She wanted to cook for her1.. She would like rice with eggs. She 2.out three eggs and some rice. 3., she cooked some rice. Next, when the rice was OK, she put some oil, salt and the rice into a pan. Then，she put three 4. into the pan. Finally, she mixed them up and cooked them 5. a few minutes. It was time to enjoy it!

假如你是吴伟，这周六是你的生日，你要在家里举办一次生日聚会。请你根据下面的提示，写一份邀请函给你的外籍同学Jack ，邀请他来参加聚会。

提示： 文章要包括以下内容：

1. When and where will you have the party?

2. Who will come to the party?

3. What will you do at the party?

4. Do they need to take anything with them?

要求：格式正确，书写工整，语句流畅，具有可读性，可适当发挥

80词左右。开头已给出，不计入总词数。

—Li Ming and Wang Gang disagree with me.

—Never mind, no one can anybody.

A. satisfy B. cancel C. promise D. discuss

The boys tried , but they failed. There was a fight between them.

A. to be angry B. not to be angry C. be angry D. not be angry

We are all busy the coming English exam.

A. to get ready B. getting ready C. to prepare for D. preparing for