You can’t sneeze and keep your eyes _______ at the same time.

A．open            B．opens                 C．opened                   D．opening

As one of Hollywood’s all-time greatest actress, Audrey Hepburn is famous all over the world. When Hepburn died in 1993, the world mourned the loss of a great beauty, a great actress and a great humanitarian.

Born in Belgium on 4^th May 1929, Hepburn dreamed of becoming a successful ballet dancer. She had also been a model before she entered the film industry. In 1951, while acting in Monte Carlo Baby, Hepburn met the famous French writer Colette, who was attracted by Hepburn’s beauty and charm. She insisted that Hepburn was the perfect girl to play the lead role in Gigi, a play based on her novel. That event marked the beginning of Hepburn’s successful career.

Shortly after, Hepburn was chosen to play the lead role of a young princess in the Hollywood film Roman Holiday. It was a big success and earned her an Oscar for Best Actress. She also won a Tony Award for the play Ondine.

During her lifetime, Hepburn earned four more Oscar nominations. In 1989, she made her final appearance in her last film Always and played the role of an angel.

Throughout her acting years, she acted in only one TV series, Gardens of the world with Audrey Hepburn. By showing us the beauty of nature, Hepburn wanted to remind us that we should protect the environment.

Hepburn is remembered not just as a great actress, but also as a great humanitarian. She was honoured with a number of awards because of her efforts in her charity work. In 1992, the President of the United States presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In 1991, Hepburn discovered that she had cancer. In 1993, at the age of 63, she passed away peacefully in her sleep.

1. Which of the following is the correct order according to the events?

a．People mourned her death.

b. She was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

c. Her successful film career began.

d. She earned an Oscar for Best Actress.

e. She met the French writer Colette.

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

2. Her successful career lasted about _____________ years.

A．60                       B．50                     C．40             D．30

3. People remember Hepburn not only as a great actress but also as _____________ .

A．a kind lady         B．a brave lady           C．a wise lady  D．an attractive lady

During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape. When I traveled across to the other side of the island （岛屿）, I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, “Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.”

So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole （洞） in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe （独木舟）. Next, I had to get it down to the sea．How silly I was! Why didn’t I think before I began work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn’t move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn’t move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.

That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea．The island was my home now, not my prison, and I was just happy to be alive.  A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.

My life was still busy from morning to night. There were always things to do or to make. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange, it is true, but they kept me dry in the rain.

I kept food and tools （工具） at both my houses, and also wild goats （山羊）. There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goats’ milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn （玉米） fields. And so many years went by.

1. The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _____________.

A．escape in it                     B．get to the other side of the island

C．use it for food                         D．go around the island

2. To survive, the writer did the following EXCEPT _____________.

A．keeping goats for milk            B．making clothes from animal skins

C．working in the cornfields         D．going fishing in the sea

3. Why didn’t the writer use his first canoe?

A．Because it was too small for a long journey.  

B．Because it was too heavy to get down to the sea.

C．Because there was something wrong with it.

D．Because the writer was busy building a second house.

4. From the story, we can learn that _____________.

A．the writer tried to make his stay comfortable on the island

B．the writer had nothing to do on the wild island

C．the writer tried to escape in the second canoe, but failed

D．the writer was in prison on the island, losing his freedom

根据句意及所给中文提示或英文解释，写出句中所缺单词。

1. My neighbours are very    ▲    （友好的） to us.

2. Do you    ▲    （同意） with what I say?

3. We had a very cold    ▲    （冬季） last year.

4. Are you    ▲    （有空的） this evening?

5. I can’t    ▲    （买得起） to go to the 2010 World Cup.

6. The tourists had no c   ▲    but to wait for the next bus.

7. Tom is a    ▲    （a good sense of humour）boy, so everyone likes him.

Mike Hayes proved he was smart in his first year at college. In 2007,    1    he was a student at the University of Illinois, he came up with an idea to    2    his tuition fee（学费）and college costs problem. Hayes  3    everyone could afford to give him a penny.

He wrote to Chicago Tribune writer Bob Greene. Hayes wanted each of the newspaper’s    4    to send him a penny. Greene thought the idea sounded    5    and agreed to do it.

“Just one penny,” Hayes said. “A penny doesn’t    6    anything to anyone. If everyone    7    is reading your paper looks around the room right now, there will be a    8    under a seat, or on the corner of the desk, or on the floor. That’s all I’m    9   . A penny from each of your readers.”

In less than a month, the Many Pennies for Mike Fund（基金） had around 2.3 million pennies. Not everyone sent    10    a penny, many even sent dollars. Money was    11   from every state in the United States. So, Hayes    12    his $28,000 target（目标） and went on to get    13    for his degree in food science from the University of Illinois.

Perhaps the last    14    is best left to his father, Bill Hayes: “When Mike first told me about his 15   , I just laughed and said that I thought it was foolish-which shows you that he’s smarter than I am.”

1．A．before               B．because             C．while               D．if

2．A．solve                B．make               C．spend              D．cause

3．A．thought              B．heard               C．agreed               D．wondered

4．A．editors               B．readers              C．managers             D．writers

5．A．bad                 B．true                 C．relaxing               D．fun

6．A．buy                 B．mean               C．show               D．pass

7．A．whose              B．which              C．who                D．whom

8．A．newspaper             B．book               C．dollar               D．penny

9．A．asking                 B．writing              C．saying              D．doing

10．A．only         B．almost              C．also                  D．over

11．A．taken               B．borrowed           C．searched            D．received

12．A．found               B．remembered           C．reached             D．missed

13．A．time                B．reasons              C．money              D．lessons

14．A．news               B．word               C．gift                 D．money

15．A．dream              B．idea                C．problem                    D．study

请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从方框中所给的词中选出最恰当的10个，用其适当形式填空。每个词限用一次。

I am a doctor. People often come to see me because they have colds or coughs. People    1   come to see me because they are sad or nervous. Sometimes    2      helps. Sometimes talking helps. But many doctors    3    that music can help people feel better. I asked a few of my patients（病人） how music helps them.

“Sometimes I was    4   when I was a child. My family said, ‘Play your feelings on the piano!’ Sometimes I play a loud    5    on the piano. Soon I feel calm（平静的）. I can laugh and cry through my 6    on the piano. It’s natural for me. It’s like breathing（呼吸）.”

“Listening to music helps me feel    7   . I like to listen to music and dance when I    8   my house.”

“I play the violin. I like playing at night     9   it is quiet. After playing I am tired and I am happy. I always sleep    10    after playing my violin.”

Are you a musician? Good! Keep playing. If you are not a musician, listen to music and sing or dance. It’s good medicine.

In 1975，Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the top of Mount Everest in the Himalaya Mountains, the highest mountain in the world at 29,035 feet.

Junko was born in 1939 and grew up in a small town in Japan. During her childhood, she was thin and weak. At age 10, Junko went on a school trip. The students climbed two mountains, and Junko loved it. She could climb in her own time and ability.

After Junko graduated from university in 1962, she joined several climbing clubs. But they had mostly men members. Some refused to climb with a woman. In 1965, Junko married a well-known Japanese climber. Over the years, they climbed all the highest mountains of Japan.

Meanwhile Junko started a woman’s climbing club. By 1972, she was chosen to lead a team of women to climb Mount Everest. It took three years for the 15 women to train and raise money for their climb.

Finally in 1975, the team went to climb the mountain. They found nine guides to help them climb up the mountain. Everything went well until the morning of May 4. Suddenly a huge amount of snow and ice fell on them. One guide saved Junko. She rushed to help others. Everyone was alive but they had injuries, including Junko. However, the team decided to continue their climb. About two weeks later, on May 16, Junko reached the top of Mount Everest. Later she said,“I can’t understand why men make all this fuss（过于关注） about Everest - it’s only a mountain.”

1．When Junko was 10, she ______.

A．didn’t like sports or games                        B．often went on school trips

C．realized that she loved to climb               D．climbed mountains by herself

2．In 1972, Junko ______.

A．started a woman’s climbing club

B．trained 15 women for their climb

C．raised enough money for a climb to Mount Everest

D．became a leader of a woman team to climb Mount Everest

3．During their climb to Mount Everest, Junko and her team ______.

A．got little help from the guides

B．went on climbing after they had injuries

C．had to stop climbing because of their injuries

D．spent nearly a month the whole way to the top

4．What does the author mainly want to tell us?

A．Mountain climbing is dangerous.

B．Women can do the same things as men.

C．Junko was the greatest climber in the world.

D．Junko had a very hard time before she succeeded.

Sleep is very important. A person who does not sleep dies faster than a person who does not eat. We spend about a third（1/3） of our lives in sleep. That’s about 121 days a year!

How much sleep do we need? We are all different. A baby needs 16 hours of sleep every day. Children 6 to 12 years old need an average（平均） of 10 to 12 hours of sleep. Teenagers need 9 to 10 hours of sleep. An adult needs an average of 7 to 8 hours a night. There are some people who need only 3 hours of sleep. Others need 10 hours of sleep. After the age of 50, the average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a night. We need less sleep as we get older.

About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot fall asleep. The name of this problem is insomnia. Some people say, “I didn’t sleep all night.” But that’s not really true. They may sleep lightly and wake up several times. In the morning, they only remember the times they were awake（醒着）, so they think they were awake all night.

This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people had special ideas to make them sleep. Benjamin Franklin had four beds. He moved from one to the other to fall asleep. Mark Twain had a different way. He lay on his side across the end of the bed!

1．If you are thirteen years old, you need at least ______ hours of sleep.

A．16                  B．12                  C．9                   D．7

2．What does “insomnia” mean in this passage?

A．No sleep.                                                B．Bad sleep.

C．Slow sleep.                                             D．Sleep with many dreams.

3．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．We will die soon if we don’t sleep well.

B．The older we get, the less sleep we need.

C．We can tell a person’s age from his sleep time.

D．Famous people move from one bed to the other to fall asleep.

4．Which would be the best title for this passage?

A．Sleep More!                                  B．Go to Sleep!

C．Age and Sleep Time                             D．Famous People and Sleep

请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容从下面方框的七个选项中，选择五个还原到文中，使短文意思通顺、结构完整。

In Thailand, people do not eat with chopsticks, like in China, Japan, and Korea. They use spoons and forks. 1______. Most food is already cut. If you need to cut things, use the side of your spoon first and then use your fork. 2______. If you are right-handed, keep the spoon in your right hand and the fork in your left hand.

3______. The rice is not on the same plate with the other food. It is not necessary to finish all your rice or all your food. It is good to leave a little on your plate. If you eat anything, it means you want more.

4______. The host（主人） will ask you two or three times if you want more food. It is the same with whatever you are drinking. During the meal, never empty your cup or glass. When it is less than half full, your host or neighbor will fill it again. 5______. Always refill（再加满） your neighbor’s glass. This means that you must keep an eye on your neighbor’s glass all through the meal.

假设你是Emma，你的笔友Josh给你写了一封电子邮件，向你倾诉他在家里的一些烦恼。请根据来信和提示，给Josh回一封电子邮件。先说说你的看法，再给出建议，并适当发挥。

提示：1．内容要点：（1）看法：在父母看来，我们仍是孩子；父母这样做是为了保护我们。

（2）建议：给父母写信谈谈你的想法；主动帮你父母做些力所能及的事情。

      2．回信应包括以上所有提示的信息，做到行文连贯，不要逐字翻译。

3．词数：不少于80。开头和结尾已经写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Josh,

Thanks for your e-mail. I have ever had the same experience. I even had a fight with my parents. But now, I understand them.                                                         

I hope this helps!

Emma