Passage 1

Headache Medicine

• Take the medicine twice a day, every morning and night.

• Dose (药量) / each time

Age：over 14  2 tablets (粒)

              8-13     1 tablet

              4-7      1/2 tablet

• Not right for children below the age of three.         Hamilton Zoo

•Over 600 animals, tigers, pandas...

•Opening hours:

9:00am-5:00p Monday to Sunday

• Price: $15 per（每） person

• Transport: No.1 Bus

The Public Library

• Opening hours:

9:00 am-5:00 pm   Sunday to Friday

• Social Science Books      3rd floor

• Children Books                2nd floor

• Foreign Books             4th floor

• You can borrow books and search for information on the Internet.

1. Tom is a 12-year-old boy. If he has a headache, he should take ______ a day.

A. 1/2 tablet     B. 1 tablet      C. 2 tablets      D. 3 tablets

2.If a person is ______ years old, he or she can’t take this medicine.

A. two          B. ten          C. thirty        D. eighteen

3. If you want to borrow some children books, you can go to the ______.

A. 5th floor     B. 3rd floor       C. 4th floor       D. 2nd floor

4.The Public Library is closed at ______.

A. 4:00 pm      B. 9:00 am        C. 5:00 pm       D. 12:00 am

5. Lin and his father want to go to the Hamilton Zoo, they should pay ______.

A. $15         B. $30         C. $45         D. $10

Passage 2

Colin is a twenty-year-old young man. Two years ago, when he finished middle school, he got a job in a store. 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（满意） with him.

One day, on his way home, he met Nancy. They were both happy. He asked the girl to his house. She agreed happily. He bought some fruit and drinks for her. And they talked about the school life they spent together, their teachers, classmates and their future（未来）. 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 Colin. “Where’s yours?”

“I left it at home.”

Colin 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, Colin. Why are you still jumping upstairs?”

1.Colin was ______ when he finished middle school.

A. seventeen      B. twenty        C. eighteen      D. twenty-two

2.The old woman is satisfied with Colin because ______.

A. he buys food for her                B. he’s smart

C. he can keep quiet                  D. he gets home on time

3.From the story, we can know that Nancy was Colin’s ______.

A. classmate   B. co-worker（同事，同仁）   C. aunt    D. cousin

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

A. 集邮         B. 站立         C. 贴邮票          D. 跺脚

5.Colin stamped his foot on the floor in order ______.

A. to wake his neighbor

B. to make his grandma angry

C. that his grandma would tell him the time

D. that his grandma would buy his a watch

Passage 3

Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. They're both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.

Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor. Bad luck! A lot of apples has already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price (价格)。They felt unhappy and returned to their village.

"I can't understand why we sustained (蒙受) losses in business while others always profit (盈利)" Uncle Li asked one day.

"The tractor was too small " Uncle Wang said without thinking. "We'll carry more apples on a truck next time!"

"I agree!" said Uncle Li. "How foolish (傻的) we were !"

1. Uncle Li and Uncle Wang live in the low and broken houses because __________.

A. they hope to save money

B. they're both poor

C. their farms are at the foot of the mountain

D. they're not far from their farms

2.The two farmers carried the apples to the city to _________.

A. make a journey       B. visit some places of interest

C. meet their friends        D. make a profit

3.The two farmers had to sell their apples at a low price because ________.

A. theirs weren't as good as the others'

B. theirs were much less than the others'

C. a lot of apples had been already carried to the city

D. they forgot to carry them on a truck

4.Uncle Li and Uncle Wang were unhappy because _________.

A. they had sustained losses in business

B. they had lost some money in the city

C. something was wrong with the tractor

D. other people profited in the city

5.Which of the following is true?

A. The two farmers found out why they were poor.

B. The two farmers will soon get rich.

C. Neither of the farmers is clever.

D. The two farmers decided to buy a truck.

Passage 4

 Mr Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, "if anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea."

"OK, Dad," said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.

Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.

The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said, “Where is your father?” The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, “No more.”

The man was very surprised. He asked, “No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?”

"Burnt yesterday evening."

1. Mr Brown told his son that _____.

A. he would be away from home for four days

B. he would be back in seven days

C. he would be back in a month

D. he liked a cup of tea

2. Mr Brown wrote the words down on ________.

A. the wall    B. the door    C. a piece of paper    D. his son's pocket

3. A man came to visit the boy's father on ________.

A. the second day   B. the third day   C. the fourth day   D. the fifth day

4. The man was very surprised because _________.

A. he thought the child's father was dead

B. the child didn't ask him to sit down

C. the child gave him a cup of tea

D. he couldn't find that piece of paper

5.What was burnt? ___________.

A. The piece of paper B. Mr Smith C. The visitor D. The boy

从方框中选择恰当的句子完成下面的对话。

A: Excuse me, where is Seven Star Park, please? I’m a stranger here.

B:           1.        

A: How far is it from here?

B:            2.         

A: Well, how can I get there?

B:           3.          

A: Which bus should I take?

B:           4.        

A: Can it take me right there?

B:           5.        

A: Thank you very much. See you later.

B: See you.

A. Either No. 11 bus or No. 18 bus is OK.

B. How long does it take?

C. It’s about two kilometers away.

D. Yes, the park is just next to the bus stop.

E. Oh, it’s a little far from here.

F. I think you’d better take a bus.

G. The bus ride usually takes about 25 minutes.

在下面对话的空白处填上适当的话语（话语可以是句子、短语或词），使对话完整，并将其答案写在答题卡的相应位置上。

A: Excuse me, sir?

B: Yes?               1.          ?

A: I want to go to the train station, but I don't know how to get the ticket from the TVM (自动售票机).

B: This way, please. Well, just press here.

A:              2.            ?

B: 5 yuan each.

A: All right. By the way,      3.      do the trains come?

B: About every six minutes.

A:         4.       is the last one?

B: At 11:00 pm.

A: OK. Got it. Thanks for your help.

B:     5..

A: Goodbye!

B: Bye-bye !

根据短文内容，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文内容完整。并将答案写在答题卡的相应位置上。（每个词只能用）

Bella and Fiona were classmates last year. But this year they are in 1.__________ classes. Bella is in Class A and Fiona is in Class B. On the ____2.___________day of this term, Bella looked around Class A. She3._______few of the children. She was very 4.________ there. So she missed Fiona very much. In the art class, Bella sat alone in the classroom. She started painting a summer 5.__________. Then a child named John came and sat next to her. John told Bella about his summer vacation. 6. ___________ both painted pretty summer pictures. Bella started feeling better. At the end of the art class they became good 7.__________. On that day, the same thing 8._________ to  Fiona, too.

Bella’s father drove to their school to pick them up in the evening. Fiona and Bella were very happy to see each other. “9._________ we are not in the same classroom, we can still see each other,” Bella said.

Bella and Fiona talked and laughed on the way home. They 10._______ made new friends at school. But they wanted to keep their old friendship, too. 

根据短文内容按要求完成任务，并将答案写在答题卡的相应位置上。

根据短文内容简要回答下面的问题。

Dick was a college student. He was studying history. But at the end of the first year he did not pass the exam. A month later he sat for the make-up(补考) exam, but he was down again. Dick was worried, because he knew he might have to leave the college.

When Dick’s father knew this, he went to see the professor. “Dick is a good boy,” said the father. “If you let him pass this time, I’m sure he will study harder next year and pass all exams with very good marks.”

“No, that’s quite impossible,” answered the professor. “He almost knows nothing about history. Last month I asked him when Napoleon（拿破仑） died, and he said he didn’t know.”

“Please, sir, give him another chance,” said the father. “Sometimes we were too busy to read the evening papers carefully, so we even didn’t know Mr Napoleon was ill.”

根据上面短文的内容回答问题：

1.What was Dick?

2. Was he good at his lessons?

3. Did Dick pass the make--up exam ?

4.What did his father think of Dick?

5. Did his father know who Napoleon was?

阅读下列短文，根据要求完成任务。

Two farmers were on their way home one evening after a hard day's work. Both were tired. They happened to look up at the sky and saw a black cloud overhead.

"Ah!" said one farmer, "tomorrow we shall have rain and the rice will grow well." The second answered, "Nonsense (胡说), the rain will only kill the crops (庄稼)."

So they began to quarrel (争吵). Just then a third farmer came along and asked them why they were quarreling. Both farmers explained about the black cloud.

"What cloud?" asked the third farmer. They all looked at the sky. The cloud was no longer there.

根据短文内容，完成下列句子（所填内容可能是单词、短语或句子）：

1. The two farmers were going _____________.

2.They happened to look up at the sky and saw a black cloud overhead.

英译汉___________________________________

3.Who quarrelled  in the text ?________________________

4.The third farmer came along and said to the other two. He wanted to___________________.

5.How many farmers were there in the text?_____________

根据所给中文完成句子翻译，并将其答案写在答题卡的相应位置上。

1.通过刻苦努力,我在本学期取得了巨大的进步。

I make great progress this term by _______________________.

2.如果我是你,我会把钱捐给慈善机构。

I would give it to_______, if I ______you.

3.我喜欢能随着唱的音乐。

I like the music that ______________

4.她的书上个月出版了。

Her book____________last month.

5.我担心他的健康。

I_____________his health.

6.她不可能在这。她回家了。

She________ be here. She has gone home.

7.他宁愿步行也不愿意乘公共汽车。

8.请务必完成作业。

9.丹东是一个好玩的地方。

10.你过去很胖，是吗？

11.我应当被允许选择自己的朋友。