I believe listening is powerful medicine. Studies have shown it takes a physician(医师) about 18 seconds to interrupt (打断)a patient after he begins talking.

It was Sunday. I had one last patient to . I went to her room in a hurry and stood at the doorway. She was an old woman, sitting at the edge of the bed, struggling to socks on her swollen(浮肿的) feet. She asked if I could help put on her socks. Meanwhile I said something like this: “How are you feeling? The nurse told me that you're anxious to see your son who's visiting you today. I believe you really seeing him.”

She me with a serious voice. “Sit down, doctor. This is my story, not your story.”

I was surprised and . I sat down. I helped her with the socks. She began to tell me that her only son lived not far from her, she had not seen him in five years. She believed that her health problems were worse because of her son. After hearing her story and helping her put on her socks, I asked if there was else I could do for her. She her head and smiled. All she wanted me to do was to .

In fact, the old feel lonely when they live alone. Sometimes they only need a listener. Therefore, Listening to someone’s story costs nothing but it is the key to healing(治愈).

1.A. look B. notice C. see

2.A. put B. wear C. dress

3.A. want to B. look forward to C. worry about

4.A. asked B. stopped C. required

5.A. embarrassed B. mad C.excited

6.A. but B. so C. or

7.A. missing B. loving C.meeting

8.A. nothing B. everything C.anything

9.A. shook B. dropped C. moved

10.A. talk B. feel C. listen

Changsha has various performing arts and entertainment industry for all tastes. The bar culture is the symbol(象征) of entertainment(娱乐) culture in Changsha.

The bar culture is designed to promote sociability(社会交往)in a society. For many adults, they usually go to different kinds of bars to relax after a day’s work with their friends or colleagues. They can not only enjoy the various music but also release stress and pressure. Meanwhile, they can make acquainted(使熟悉) with strangers after communicating with each other in a bar. Every coin has two sides. Although the bar culture has advantages, it also has disadvantages. Some of the adults addict to staying up in bars and lost themselves. We should know of the spirit of bar culture.

Nowadays, there are totally over 300 bars on large or small scales. Jiefang West Road is the birthplace of the first bar in Changsha. The fast catching up Golden Times Bar is an upsurge, which pushed Changsha's bar culture to another high.

1.What’s the aim of the bar culture?

A.To promote sociability in a society.

B.To push the culture to another high.

C.To release pressure.

2. What is the meaning of the underlined word “release”?

A. 释放 B. 发行 C. 汇集

3. How many bars does Changsha have?

A. About 300

B. More than 300

C. Under 300

4. Which road is the birthplace of the first bar in Changsha?

A. Jiefang East Road

B. Jiefang Middle Road

C. Jiefang West Road

5.What’s the best title of this passage?

A. Changsha bars

B. Culture of Changsha bars

C. Symbol of entertainment

1.What’s name of the adopted boy?

A.Mr. Peabody

B. Sherman

C. Mr. Peabody &Sherman

2.How much does the film earn in all?

A.$63,180,000

B. $ 69,890,795

C. 133,070,795

3.Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the review?

A.Mr. Peabody is a genius who is not only an inventor but a scientist.

B.Mr. Peabody is an adopted dog.

C.Mr. Peabody have met some of the celebrities(名人).

1.Which of these sentences is TRUE?

A.You can join the Tulip Festival on International Labour Day in 2014.

B.The Tulip Festival started in 1955.

C.Tulip isn’t a symbol of friendship.

2.Which city has the world’s largest tulip event?

A. Canada B. Ottawa C. Newsland

The Optimus Prime (擎天柱) model on Zhu Xiaoxuan’s desk looks small–only 30cm high. But it may be the first Transformers (变形金刚) toy made by a 3-D printer (打印机)in China.

Zhu, 14, from Shijiazhuang Foreign Language School, designed it himself. Zhu is a big Transformers fan. In winter vacation, when he saw news that people abroad made many things with 3-D printers, he quickly thought of printing a 3-D model of his favorite Transformer: Optimus Prime.

But where did he start? Zhu went to a local 3-D printing company and found that he first needed to design a digital (数码的) 3-D model. However, the software is much for difficult for a teenager to learn.Feeling challenged, Zhu decided to have a try. He found a video online that showed how to use the microsoft. He watched it and learnt hundreds of computer commands (命令).

After three days of hard work, he built the arms. But they turned out to be too long. Zhu had to re-design it. “The model has 96 parts and almost every part needs to be adjusted (调整). You can imagine how many times I have failed,” Zhu said.

Finally, over 20 days later, Zhu completed the design and had Optimus Prime printed out.

Every year in April, students at Renmin University of China have more pleasure than other students in Beijing. Why? Because they get a week off in the middle of term, the so-called(所谓) spring break.

“It’s been a tradition of our school for years,” said Wang Yueran, 20, a student at Renmin University. He organized a weeklong trip to Sichuan with 12 classmates last year.

But having fun is just one part of the spring break. Field trips, voluntary work, and social projects are all on students’ to-do lists. The Chinese proverb says “reading 10,000 books and traveling 10,000 miles”. It means experience is as important as theory. But while Chinese universities have the tradition of spring outings, what’s the aim of making spring break?

Qin Jianguo, from the student affairs office at Shenzhen University, thinks the idea of the spring break in some universities in China comes from the intention(目的) of pushing students out of the ivory tower(象牙塔) to get experience in their life. Many countries have similar vacations in the middle of the semester for students to do things they like. Taking Japan as an example, instead of partying like the US, many Japanese students choose to work as interns(实习生).

Besides Renmin University, only a few other universities in China, such as Yantai University, have a spring break for their students. Wei Xiang, a professor(教授) at Beijing International Studies University, said that the spring break is a good experiment for universities to give students more choices to arrange their own leisure(休闲) and study activities.

1.Why do students at Renmin University of China have more pleasure than other students in Beijing in April?

2. Besides having fun, what are also on students’ to-do lists?

3.According to Qin Jianguo, what is the intention of the spring break in some universities?

4. What do many Japanese students do during spring break?

5.Do most of Chinese universities have spring break now?

When your pen is broken, you think that’s the end of its life. You throw it away. It then joins tons of other garbage in cities. 1.Each day, about 10,000 tons of trash is produced in Guangzhou。

In other countries, the case is similar.“If you’re like most of us, most Americans, you’re making seven pounds (3.17kg) of trash a day,” US writer Edward Humes told CNN. 2.所以一个美国人一生中会制造102吨垃圾。

If you simply throw away that broken pen, it goes to a landfill and is buried(填埋) together with many other trash. To prevent polluting the water, workers cover the trash with soil and keep it dry. 3.And your pen will stay there for a long time without being used again. But it could have a better destination: the recycling bin.

4.你曾经注意过街道上垃圾箱的不同颜色吗? Many cities in China have been running a waste-sorting (垃圾分类) campaign. They divide trash into “recyclable(可回收) waste” and “unrecyclable waste”. Recycling waste can save energy, reduce greenhouse gas, and keep landfill space free for the unrecyclable trash.

Take your pen for an example. 5.At the recycling factory, its metal parts could be used to make other things. But recycling is not enough. “The best thing to do is just keep using your stuff for as long as you can,” US writer Adam Minter told Time Out magazine.

A: Hi, Mike. Do you know the second season of A Bite of China has come out?

B: That’s great news. 1._________________?

A: On April, 18th.

B: Have you watched it?

A: 2.______________.

B: How do you like it?

A: 3. _________,because it introduces some Chinese culture and tasty food to us.

B: Really! It is a pity that I didn’t watch it!

A: 4._____________?

B: That’s a good idea. I will go to your home to watch it together next Saturday. I can’t wait for it!See you!

A: 5.____________.

情景作文（10分）

雅礼中学黄雨桐同学以优异的成绩被英国剑桥大学录取。她对记者说：“我会在前一天制定计划，告诉自己明天要做什么，并且督促自己一定要做完。”可见她的成功离不开严格有序的自我规划。离中考只剩一个月了，同学们对于自己的学业有什么样的目标和计划呢？请围绕这一话题谈谈你的看法。

要求：1、内容包括：（1）你的学习目标是什么（2）围绕着这个目标你的计划是什么

2、字数在60-80左右。

3、不要出现你真实姓名、学校名和地名。

Russia which has just had a huge deal with China is ______ European country

A. an B. a C. the