Happiness is for everyone, and you don’t need to care about those people who have beautiful houses with and swimming pools or those who have nice cars a lot of money and so on. Why? Because those who have big houses may often lonely and those who have cars may want to walk on the country roads in their free time.

In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. When you are in at school, your friends will help you; when you study at your lessons, your parents are always good care of your life and your health; when you get , your friends will say congratulations to you; when you do something wrong, people around you will help you to it. And when you do something good to others, you will feel happy, too. All these are your happiness. If you notice those things, you can see that happiness is always you.

Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling of your heart. When you are poor you can also say you are very happy because you have something else that can’t be bought with money. When you meet difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy because you have more chances to yourself. So you cannot always say you are poor or you have bad luck. As the saying goes: Life is like a revolving(转动的)door. When it , it also opens. If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.

1.A. trees B. flowers C. gardens D. cars

2.A. and B. with C. but D. for

3.A. be B. feel C. seem D. live

4.A. wrong B. trouble C. problem D. danger

5.A. making B. talking C. feeling D. taking

6.A. regret B. trouble C. decision D. success

7.A. correct B. forget C. change D. know

8.A. before B. around C. follow D. for

9.A. develop B. progress C. challenge D. exercise

10.A. goes B. sleeps C. moves D. closes

China’s Manned Space Program

1.According to the article, the Chinese spaceman traveling in space twice is ____________.

A. Yang LiweiB. Fei JunlongC. Nie HaishengD. Zhai Zhigang

2.Shenzhou V went around the earth in space _____________.

A. OnceB. 4 timesC. 5 timesD. 14 times

3.Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng stayed in space for _____________.

A. 1 dayB. 4 daysC. 5 daysD. 14 days

4.Zhai Zhigang made our country’s first spacewalk in _____________.

A. 2013B. 2008C. 2005D. 2003

5.The space lesson about micro-gravity to all Chinese teenagers lasted _____________.

A. one dayB. three daysC. 15 minutesD. 40 minutes

In ancient times, there was a painter. He was good at painting flowers and birds. But he never stopped practicing until he became very famous.

An emperor(皇帝）of China also loved paintings,especially roosters(公鸡）. So he asked the famous painter to paint a rooster for him. He wanted the rooster to be the best among all his collections.

The painter promised to do so. The emperor waited and waited for one year.,but he didn’t get the picture. He couldn’t waited to see the painter. He became angry and wanted to kill him. So the painter hurried into the palace with paper,paint and a brush. In five minutes, a perfect rooster was on the paper.

After seeing this,the emperor became much angrier. “Since you can paint a rooster in five minutes, why did you keep me waiting for over a year?”he asked.

“Your Majesty(陛下），”said the artist. “I will let you know why.But you’ll have to come with me. “ he invited the emperor to his house. There, there were piles and piles of paper. On every piece of paper was a painting of a rooster.

“Your Majesty(陛下），”said the painter. “It took me more than one year to improve my painting skill in order to paint a perfect rooster for you.

1.According to the writer, the emperor_____.

A. loved beautiful paintings B. did very well in painting

C. was good at painting roosters D. Was very kind to the painter.

2.The painter spent ______practicing painting roosters for the emperor.

A. only a few months B. only five minutes

C. more than a year D. five minutes every day

3.The emperor wanted to kill the painter because______.

A. the painter refused to draw rooster

B. the painter couldn’t draw rooster well

C. he couldn’t find the painter anywhere

D. he couldn’t wait to see his painting

4.In fact, during the whole year the painter______

A.escaped from the emperor to live quietly

B. worked hard at practice drawing roosters

C. was invited to other places to draw roosters

D. drew piles and piles of paper to make a living

5.From the passage we can learn that_______.

A. it’s hard for painter to success B. it’s easy to paint in a short time.

C. hard work causes perfect result D. emperor was hard to deal with

You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABC? You may like eating bananas. But did you know there is such a thing as a “banana person”? How strange! Are these people from “another earth” ? No. They are just Chinese people like you and me.

ABC means American-born-Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside---hinting like a Westerner(西方人) and yellow outside --- looking like a Chinese.

Do you know why? Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese. Also, they are not interested in Chinese politics(政治), But if ABCs can’t speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are oversea Chinese. These people may be citizens(公民) of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair. But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C.N. Yang(杨振宁). He got the Nobel Prize Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.

1.“ABC” in this passage stands for “_______”.
A. a kind of banana

B. three English letters

C. American-born-Chinese

D Chinese-born-American

2.Chinese in Westerner countries are called “banana persons” because _________

A. their bodies are white inside but yellow outside.

B. they think like Westerners but look like Chinese

C. they were born in China but go to study in America

D. they were born in China but work in America

3.The underlined word “blood” may probably mean _________

A. 血统 B. 洪水 C. 身份 D. 流血

4.C. N. Yang is mentioned here to show that _________

A. American Chinese are great.

B. Chinese people can win Nobel Prize.

C. American Chinese are not Chinese citizen.

D. We don’t like him.

5.This passage mainly talks about________

A. Chinese B. the Nobel Prize

C. the life story of C.N. Yang D. What the ABC stands for.

阅读下面短文，完成有关任务。

Reading is a good habit, but the problem is, there's too much to read these days, and too little time to read every word of it. (83) There are hundreds of skills to help you read more in less time. Here are two skills that I think are especially good.

Preview--if it's long and hard. Previewing is especially useful for getting a general idea of heavy reading like long magazine articles and business reports.

Here's how to preview.

●Read the first two paragraphs and the last two paragraphs carefully.

●Then read only the first sentence of the other paragraphs.

Previewing doesn't give you all the details. (84) It keeps you from spending time on things you don't really want--or need--to read.

Skim--if it's short and simple. Skimming is a good way to get a general idea of light reading --like popular magazines or the sports and entertainment of your daily paper.

Here's how to skim.

●Get your eyes to move fast. Sweep them across each line.

●Pick up only a few key words in each line.

Everybody skims differently. You and I may not pick up the same words when we skim the same piece, but we'll get a similar idea of what it's all about.

A. 根据短文内容简要回答问题。

1.How many skills are recommended in this passage?

____________________________________________

2.What should we do when we read sports news in a daily paper according to the passage?

____________________________________________

B．将短文中划线的两个句子译成汉语。

3._________________________________________

4.________________________________________

C． 请给短文拟一个适当的标题。

5._________________________________________

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容用方框内所给词语的适当形式填空，使短文语义完整。(请你一定要注意词语的形式变化！)

Now lots of parents will buy everything that their children want to have. If they go on with the habit, their children won't know the money 1. from hard work.

Some parents like 2. birthday parties for their children. If they keep on doing this, their children will think it 3. for them to enjoy birthday parties every year. Year after year, maybe they will forget their 4. birthdays and only remember their own. It is against traditional habits.

Many parents don't let the children do housework. They think children have only one thing to do. They should study hard and do 5. in their lessons. If parents go on doing this, the children will only learn to open their mouths to be 6. and stretch out (伸出) their arms to be 7. every day. When the children grow up, they will be able to do 8., and they won't even find a job. Parents should teach the children 9. to do housework because it can help them start good habits of working by 10. .

情景交际（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

阅读下面对话, 从方框中选择五个最适当的句子完成对话。

Jack: Was the concert good?

Sadie: 1.___________________

Jack: Why are you angry then? 2.___________________

Sadie: Well, after the concert I waited outside the theatre—in the rain. I wanted their autographs.

Jack: Did you see them?

Sadie: 3.___________________

Jack: Did they talk to you?

Sadie: No, they didn’t. They didn’t wave. They didn’t smile. They didn’t say hello. 4. ___________________ They just jumped into a big, black car and then disappeared.

Jack: 5. ___________________

Sadie: Yes. But that was yesterday.

三年的初中生活即将结束，静坐在考场中的你，一定会思绪万千。三年来，你在学习、生活等方面取得了优异的成绩，这些成绩的背后有老师的辛勤教诲、家长的次次鼓励，还有......现在想来他们让你感谢。请以“Thank you, my…”为题写一篇英语短文。

要求如下：1. 短文内容应包括人物的外貌、性格、爱好和使你难忘之处等；

短文中不得出现真实的校名和人名.

3.词数80左右。

Thank you, my

Greens were having supper when they came to visit them.

A. / ; the B. The; / C. /; /

— What would you like?

— I’m thirsty. I’d like_________.

A. two cups of tea B. two cup of tea C. two eggs.