The little boy entered the house, unhappy. His mother was        cakes in the kitchen. She smiled as she         ,but she stopped when she saw his face. “Tyler,          happened? Is everything okay?”

“Nothing is okay, mom.” said the boy, “Today, in our science lesson, Mrs. Green was talking about the          .She said that the whole world is getting dirtier and that many animals and plants are dying. She wants us to think of something we can do to help. I thought all the way, but there is      I can do to make a difference.”

“Let me tell you        .” the mother said after thinking for a while. “One morning a man was walking down a beach, there he saw thousands of dying starfish* covering the beach, they        up by the waves*, and it was too difficult for them to make their way back by           . The man shook* his head as he walked along, ‘What a pity! So many starfish will die on the beach.’ The man        very sorry for those starfish. He went on walking and just at that time he was    to find a boy in front who was throwing the starfish back into the sea as    as he could, ‘how silly you are! My     ,’ the man said, ‘There are so many starfish, can you throw all of them back?’ The boy didn’t stop but kept throwing, ‘I can’t help them all, I can make a difference to this one, and this one, and this one, and this one.”

“Thinking for a moment, the man    to help return the starfish to their home. He smiled and said to himself, ‘Sometimes the biggest lesson in life comes from the   person.

1.A. drinking       B. making        C. selling        D. washing

2.A. turned around   B. turned down    C. turned on      D. turned off

3.A. what          B. when          C. where         D. why

4.A. air            B. land           C. water         D. environment

5.A. something      B. anything        C. everything    D. nothing

6.A. a legend       B. a joke           C. a story       D. an idea

7.A. pushed         B. was pushed      C. were pushed   D. were pushing

8.A. himself        B. itself           C. ourselves      D. themselves

9.A. feel            B. felt            C. fell           D. fall

10.A. afraid          B. surprised       C. sad           D. angry

11.A. slow           B. fast           C. soon          D. high

12.A. father         B. mother         C. son           D. daughter

13.A. Or            B. So             C. Because       D. Though

14.A. began          B. remembered     C. forgot        D. waited

15.A. shortest   B. tallest          C. smallest      D.biggest

 THE CLOTHING STORE’S SUMMER SALE

Save on all clothes in the store

Sale starts on Sep.10 and ends on Sep.19.

Open Monday to Saturday, 8:00am to 6:30pm

THE CLOTHING STORE

California Street

1.How many kinds of clothes are having on a sale.?

A.Two     B. Three     C. Four     D.all kinds

2.How much did the shirt used to cost?

A.$288     B.$120      C.$132     D.$108

3.How long does the sale last?

A.one week   B.two week   C.ten days  D. a quarter of a month

What was the highlight *of the May Day? It was Hangzhou Bay Bridge*, which opened on that day.       

It is 36 kilometers long and the world’s longest cross- sea bridge. It begins at Jiaxing, crosses the East China Sea, and end at Cixi, about 70 kilometers from Ningbo. It will reduce* the driving time between Shanghai and Ningbo by about two hours.

A great number of the workers started to build it on November 2003, and ended in June 2007. Now the bridge has become famous. About 40,000 vehicles *can cross the bridge each day at first. This will be added to 100,000 vehicles a day in 2026. During the May Day holiday, many car owners came to the bridge as well as tourists on coaches*. So many people wanted to see the bridge with their own eyes.

As a shortcut *between Zhejiang and Shanghai, the bridge will not only improve traffic but also help economic *development in the Changjiang River Delta.

“People enjoy working in small cities like Cixi but living in big cities like Shanghai,” said a man. “With the help of the bridge, they can leave Shanghai for Cixi in the morning and go back in the afternoon. They only need to drive for about one and a half hours.”

1.Hangzhou Bay Bridge opened________.

A. in November, 2003   B. in July, 2007   C. on May 1, 2008    D. on March 1, 2008

2.It took about ___________ to finish building the bridge.

A. three years and a half   B. two years and a half  C. three years   D. four years and a half

3.Which city is not mentioned in the passage?  ___________.

A. Cixi              B. Ningbo       C. Hangzhou           D. Shanghai

4.The passage can most probably be found in _____________.

A. a text book          B. a magazine         C. a newspaper        D. a movie poster

One morning, a blind* boy sat in front of a building with a hat by his feet .He held a sign* which said,“I am blind. Please help me. There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat .He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps* and ask,“Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”

The man said,“I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way.”

What he had written was,“Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty* of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.

The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.

There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.

The first is: Treasure*what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.

The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.

1.On the sign what the man wrote was,“_______.”

A. Treasure what we have already had.

B. Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.

C. We are so lucky that we are not blind.

D. Try your best to help those who need your help.

2.The word“recognized”here in Chinese means______.

A.承认                                    B.接受

C.表扬                                    D.认出

3.From the passage we know that _____.

A. the boy always has a hat on his head.

B. the man is one of his friends.

C. the boy is blind and needs help.

D. the boy works for the man.

4.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A .The hat began to fill up after the man wrote some words on the sign.

B. The man took away all the few coins from the hat.

C. The boy wanted to get enough money to go to school.

D. Nobody wanted to give any coins to the blind boy.

 Have you felt annoyed when a mobile phone rings during the class? Something must be done to stop this. Now in New York City, USA, a rule is carried out* in schools. Students can’t even bring mobile phones to school. Is it a good thing or not?

Anxious* parents say that mobile phones are an important tool* in holding New York City’s families together.

“I worry about it,” said Elizabeth Lorris Ritter, a mother of a middle school kid. “It’s necessary in our everyday life. We have a washing machine*, we have running water, and we have mobile phones. A number of Americans think mobile phones connect* them to children on buses, getting out from subways, walking through unknown* places.

 “I have her call me when she gets out school,” said Lindsay Walt, a schoolgirl’s mother. “No one in New York is going to let their children go to school without a mobile phone.

 What about the mobile phone owners, the students? Most of the students said that mobile phones were necessary and the mobile phone was like an extra* hand or foot for them.

 “I feel so bored,” said May Chom, 14. “There is also no way to listen to music on the way to school without my phone. It will be a really, really boring trip.

1.Elizabeth Lorris Ritter is worried that ______________.

A. students are not allowed to bring mobile phones

B. students spend too much time in listening to music on the mobile phones

C. students bring mobile phones to school and they often ring during the class

D. no rule is carried out to stop students from bringing mobile phones to school

2.____________ American parents disagree with the rule that students can’t bring mobile phones to school.

A.  Some.       B. Many      C. Few     D. No

3.May Chom likes to ______________.

A. go to school without a mobile phone    

B. chat with her friends on the mobile phone on the way to school

C. walk through interesting places with a mobile phone

D. bring a mobile phone to school

4.This writer wants to tell us the __________ in carrying out* the rule not to use a mobile phone in school.

A. importance  B. problem     C. happiness      D. hopeless

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词仅用一次。

1.Teachers often tell their students about the _________ of learning how to learn.

2.Kathy is an _______ and friendly girl, her teachers all like her.

3.I prefer lemons to apples. I like the sour _________.

4.Think it over before you make a ________.

5.We were _________ into four groups by Mr. Zeng at the beginning of the game.

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容及所给中文提示，写出空白处各单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。(10分)

  Lucy is a good student. she is very busy this     (学期). She will     （面临）the coming _______(考试). They are very important. because she doesn't want to       （失去）the chance to get to the high school. Last week, she    （做梦，梦到）that she was swimming in a sea of paper. Her mother said she was too stressed out and she should pay more ______(注意)to sports and try to eat healthy food to get enough energy. She used to eat _____（糖果）.This week she eats more fruit and vegetables instead of    （甜的）food. Also, she runs in the playground after school every day. Now she feels ___(不同地).She feels much better than before. She doesn't____ (担心)about her study at all.

在生活中，我们经常会遇到一些令人不愉快的事情，应该如何处理呢？以下是网站www.fyv.com提供的几个问题及其解决方法，请你予以合理的配对。

Problems:

      1.Some people always smoke in public places.

      2.The No.1 bus is always late.

      3.Some students always drop rubbish * everywhere at school.

      4.My parents ask me to go to after – class activities club all day, even on weekends.

      5.Some children talk loudly in the bookstore.

A: Tell them politely to keep quiet.

B: Call the bus company and ask for the better service.

C: Hand out some posters to ask them not to litter.

D: Tell them that we need to relax after studying for a long time.

E: We could say politely, Excuse me! Would you mind not smoking here?

进入初三后，你的朋友Larry变化很大，昨天班会课老师表扬了他。你为他感到高兴，一高兴你就想写点什么，于是就写了一篇关于他变化的文章以之鼓励。

提示：used to do sth (used to be…)   feel lonely          copy others’ homework 

 obey the class rules  with the help of     make progress  be allowed to do… 

注意：1．所写内容必须包括表格中的信息

 2．表格中的… 必须你自己拓展。

 3．词数：100个左右。要求意思连贯，语句通顺

4．文中不得出现真实的人名与校名

 My friend Larry has changed a lot.                                                                

--- A new baby came to the earth ________ a sunny winter morning.     

--- How nice.

A. on          B. in        C. of            D. at