— Hello! Could I speak to Mr. Liu, please?

— Sorry. He _________ for a month.

A. had been away    B. was left C. has been away

补全对话。从方框中选出适当的句子补全对话。

A: Lucy, why are you going out   1 ?

B: That’s the sound of a truck collecting rubbish.

A: Do you mean you have to take the rubbish to the truck?

B: Yes. You know   2  is our duty. We should help protect the environment.

A: I agree.  3 , we must do something around the neighbourhood.

B: Sure. It is our duty to keep the environment clean and tidy. If we make a contribution to protecting the environment,  4 

A: That’s right. We mush try our best to make our country more beautiful. So we should   5  to improve the environment.

Jack is a little schoolboy. He lives in a small town in England. His father works in a factory in London. One day his mother   1  him to post a letter to his father.

Jack walked down the street. He didn’t see a letter box on the street. But he really   2  a basket with a sign on it. The sign said, “PUT LITTER IN THIS BASKET”. “I can read,” thought Jack, but he couldn’t   3  the word “letter” right.

Jack dropped the letter in the basket. Then he ran  4  to tell his mother about the basket.

“Oh, no, child!” said his mother, “You put the letter in a basket. That litter basket is   5  old paper and other useless things.”

“Oh,”said Jack,“does the   6  on the basket mean that?”

“Yes, it does,”said his mother,“The word is‘litter’not‘letter’. Now get the letter and post it.”

When Jack got there, a man was putting the old   7  in a truck.

“Stop!”shouted Jack, and he began to tell the man about the letter.

The man helped him to look for the letter. After a while they   8  it.

Then Jack put the   9  in the letter box. He said,“  10  don’t they tell us all the words when we first go to school? Then things like that can’t happen.”

Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago, the world had only a few thousand people. These people moved from one place to another. They moved over the land, hunting animals for food.

No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did， their lives changed. They did not have to look for food any longer. They could stay in one place and grow it. People began to live near one another, so the first village was established. Many people came to work in the villages, and these villages became even larger.

When machines appeared, life in the villages changed again. People built factories. More and more people lived near the factories. The cities began.

Today, it’s strange that some people are moving back to small villages. Can you tell me why?

根据短文内容，判断正(T)误(F)。

1.People moved from place to place to hunt animals.

2.The story says,“No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed.” In this sentence, the word “they” means people.

3. When machines appeared, life in the cities changed again.

4. All people like to live only in very big cities.

5. People built factories after the cities grew big.

①Forests help to keep water from running away, so drought does not often happen. The trees in the forests can keep raindrops from hitting the soil directly, and the dead leaves on the ground can also keep the water from running away.②

Chinese people don’t want to see more floods and droughts. We have built the “ Great Green Wall” of trees across the northern part of our country.③ Thanks to the “ Great Green Wall”, we can prevent the wind from blowing the earth away. It will stop the sand from moving towards the rich farmland. That’s why more “ Great Green Walls” are needed. Trees must be planted all over the world.④

根据短文内容，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳答案。（10分）

1. “Great Green Wall will make the world better.” This sentence should be put in      .

2.       can help to keep water from running away.

3. The reason of building “ Great Green Wall”is        .

4. We have built the “ Great Green Wall” of trees        of China.

5.From the passage, we can know which is wrong.

In most parts of the world, many students help their school make less pollution. They join in “environment(环境) clubs”. In an environment club, people work together to make our environment clean. Here are the things students often do.

Turn off the water! Do you know that some toilets can waste(浪费) twenty to forty tons of water an hour? In a year, that would fill a small river! In environment clubs, students mend those broken toilets.

No-car day. On a no-car day, nobody comes to school in a car—not the students and not the teachers! Cars give pollution to our air, so remember: Walk, jump, bike or run. Use your legs! It’s lots of fun!

No-garbage(垃圾) lunches. How much do you throw away after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used again. Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage and report them to the whole school! We love our environment. Let’s work together to make it clean!

1. After mending the broken toilets, they save _______.

2. On a no-car day,  ________will take a car to school.

3. Environment clubs ask students _______

4. From this passage we know the students usually have lunch _______ .

5. The writer wrote the passage to tell students to _______.

The world is not hungry，but it’s thirsty.   1  while we say we are short of water.Why？Because about 97% of water on the earth is sea water which we can‘t drink or use for watering plants directly.Man can only drink and use the 3% of water that comes from rivers and lakes.   2  ，because some of it has been polluted.

　　Now more water is needed.The problem is how we can avoid a serious water shortage in the future.  3 Scientists are making study in this field.Today，In most large cities water is used only once and then runs to the sea or rivers.but it can be used again.Even if every large city reused its water，the water will still not be enough. 4 .

　　The sea seems to give us the best answer.There is a lot of water in the sea.All that needs to be get the salt out of the sea water.This will be expensive，but it has already been used in many parts of the world.   6 So you see，if we can find out a way，we’ll be in no danger of drying up.

从方框中所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，补全短文。其中有一项为多余选项。

E. First, we should find out ways to reuse it.

F. And we can’t even use all of that.

任务型阅读，根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

The English language is changing all the time. New words are created, like DIY, SDA and e-mail. How do words come into English? Many words are borrowed from other languages. From Chinese, for example, English has borrowed words like kowtow and kung fu.

Words have also come into English in unusual ways. Words like classroom and mooncake are two short words which are put together. Also, parts of two words are put together and become a new word. For example, smog comes from smoke and fog. Some words come from longer words, like TV from television, and math from mathematics. Don’t you think all these make English an interesting language?

根据短文内容，完成下列问题。

1.Is the English language changing all the time?

2. Are many English words borrowed from other languages?

3.Which language does the English word kung fu come from?

4. What does somg come from?

5. What is short form television?

1.这辆轿车挺好，至于价格呢，我想它太高了。

The car is quite nice. ________ ________ the price of it , I think it is too high.

2.当今世界面临的最大问题之一是世界人口增长越来越快。

One of the greatest problems of the world today is that the world’s population  is growing ________ and ________.

3.我们很长时间没见面了。

We haven’t ________ each other ________ a long time.

4.正如俗语所云“事实胜于雄辩”。

As the saying goes, ________ speak louder than ________.

5.那场大雨妨碍了许多学生不能按时到校。

The heavy rain  ________ lots of students ________ getting to school on time.

Talking About English Learning

English is spoken by many people in the world. It’s becoming more and more seuful and _____1______ ( 重要的) in our daily life.

I have learned English s   2____  many years ago. In class, I try to listen to the teacher ____3_______ (仔细地)and speak English more. After class, first I go over the lessons. Then I listen to tapes, watch English programs on TV, read English, ___4______ ( 参加 ) the English corner and so on. While I am in trouble, my English teacher gives me much h____5_____. I study    6   __  hard that I’m good at it now. I wish to practice ____7_____ (说)English with foreigners one day!

By the way, here are some suggestions for you. First, believe y    8     and try to read or speak English loudly. ___9_____, learn English words and useful phrases or sentences by heart. Third, try to use English as much as ___10______.