C

There are 5 channels on British television and each channel has several news programs all day long. Some programs are only for 3 minutes but some are one hour long. The people who read the news are called news presenters and because they appear on television every day, they are very famous.

This is a popular news presenter in England called Trevor McDonald, in the news studio. He presents a program called “News at Ten”every Monday to Friday evenings.

Another popular news presenter is Kirsty Young. She has a more modern style of reading the news, as you can see, she sits on the desk not on a chair!

Television news presenters need to have worked as journalists because they have to write most of the news that they read. Sometimes an important new event happens after the program has started, so the presenter has to be able to read something without looking at it first. They must always keep calm even when there are many changes during the program. At the end of “News at Ten”Trevor McDonald says “And finally...”. Then he reads an unusual or interesting item. It’s a famous saying in England now.

1.Who sits on the desk to read the news?

A．Kirsty Young.                           B．Trevor McDonald.

C．All the news presenters.                  D．Some journalists

2.People in Britain can watch TV news _______ every day.

A．only for three minutes                   B．for an hour

C．in the evening                          D．at any time

3.Which is the best title of this passage?

A．Television News                        B．Trevor McDonald

C．Evening News                          D．News at Ten

D

Everyone would like to be remembered. A few people even try to do something that no one else in history has ever tried to do. These people sometimes have their names recorded（记录）in the Guinness Book of Records.

Often it takes a group of people to do something unusual. One such team paddled（用桨划）a bathtub（浴缸）145 kilometers for 24 hours. This group had 13 members. They paddled their bathtub on a river near Ashford, Great Britain on May 28 and 29. 1983. A month later, a racing team of hospital bed pushers in Avon, Great Britain, pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometers in just 50 minutes! However, the distance（距离）record for hospital bed pushing is still held by the men of Bruntsfield Bedding Center. This team from Edinburgh pushed a hospital bed 5,203 kilometers in 1979. It took the team 35 days to cover the distance.

Another group of record makers held the highest dinner party in the world. Nine people from Sydney,Australia, climbed Mountain Huascaran on June 28, 1989. The climbers carried a dinner table. chairs, and a meal up the mountain. When they reached the top, they all put on warm suits for dinner.

People all over the world are trying hard to do something unusual to make a record. It should be understood, however, that now not all the records will be kept in the Guinness Book of Records.

1. According to the passage, what record was made near Ashford in May, 1983?

A．A record for paddling a bathtub.

B．A record for climbing a mountain.

C．A record for pushing a hospital bed

D．A record for swimming across a river.

2.The word cover in the passage means _______.

A．start             B．go through         C．keep             D．know

3.What was unusual about the highest dinner party held by the nine people in the passage?

A．The people who held the dinner party all came from Sydney.

B．Only nine people held the highest dinner party.

C．They had a meal on the mountain.

D．They carried a dinner table and chairs up the mountain to hold the dinner party.

4.Which of the following shows the right order（顺序）of what happened in the passage?

a. A group of 13 members paddled a bathtub on a river near Ashford.

b. A team from Edinburgh made a distance record for hospital bed pushing.

c. A group of nine people from Sydney had a dinner party on the top of Mountain Huascaran.

d. A racing team pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometers in just 50 minutes in Avon.

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

5. Which of the following is mentioned（提及）in the passage?

A．Hospital bed pushing was a popular sport in Edinburgh.

B．People living in Ashford usually used a bathtub to carry things.

C．Two different records for hospital bed pushing were given.

D．Hospital bed pushing was held twice a year in Avon, Great Britain.

阅读下面短文，根据括号内所给汉语写出单词的正确形式（每空一词）。

Have you ever heard of Jet Li? He is a great film   1.     (明星) in China. His action films are very popular in the2.   （世界）because he is good at Kung Fu. Many of us like him. “ Huo Yuanjia” is one of his   3.   （最好的） films. It’s an action film. In this film, there are many famous  4.  （演员）and actresses. I 5.  认为）it is very exciting and funny. It’s    6.  （真正地）a good film, and  7.  （所有）of us like it. At the  8. （相同的）time, Jet Li is a kind man. He donated much money to the people in Sichuan   9.    （在.....之后）the earthquake on May 12th, 2008. He would like to   10. （建造） some new schools for the children there.

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每空限用一次。

1.Most of the students in this school can speak________ English and Chinese.

2.Don’t make so much noise. Your little brother is             .

3.My        is to be a famous doctor.

4.The poor children got back to school ____________ the help of the kind people.

5. Mother’s Day is coming. Tom wants to buy his mother some ____________ as a gift.

任务型阅读（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

BLUE SKY HOTEL

150rooms                  156 Xinlin Road

Two restaurants(24hr.)           Tel: (0471) 740-5386

Swimming pool                Fax: (0471) 840-5181

Near the downtown

1.There are _________________ rooms in the Blue Sky Hotel.

2.The restaurants are open for _____________________.

3. The Blue Sky Hotel is at __________________________.

4.If you want to book a room, you can call ____________________.

5.You can __________________________ to relax in the Blue Sky Hotel.

我校英语老师想在寒假组织一次英语冬令营活动，要求你制作一份海报贴在校园布告栏上，具体内容包含如下：

（1）要求说英语、生活自理(look after oneself...)；（2）时间：一周：（3）写一句话呼吁大家参加。

注意：海报部分内容已写好，你只需将其它内容补充完整。

Do you want to have an interesting winter camp this winter vacation? You need

to       And                       .It will take you            . Our English teachers will be with us.

                                        !

最近的一项研究调查表明，大约20%的学生有不吃早餐的习惯。请根据下列表格内容提示用英语写一篇短文。

原因 

1.晚上学习太晚，想睡多一会而不吃早餐；

2. 家长太忙无法照顾，直接给钱让孩子自己解决；

3. 一些男生把钱拿去玩游戏机，一些女生想保持苗条不吃早餐

后果 

1. 上课无精打采，成绩下降；

2. 身体越来越差；

你的建议（至少写出2条建议并说明原因）

注意：

1. 词数80左右（短文的开头已给出，不计入词数）；

2. 不能透露个人任何信息（例如：班级和姓名等），否则不予评分。

A survey shows that about 20% of the students have a bad habit of not having breakfast.                                                                     

I’d like some _______ and _______.

A．tomatoes; muttons                      B．tomatoes; mutton

C．tomatos; muttons                       D．tomato; mutton

If H2 burn in O2, we can get _____.

A．H2               B．H2O              C．O2               D．H2O2

I am thirsty, Could you let me have _____ coke?

A．little             B．any              C．some             D．other