From: annel@freemai14all.com Sent: Wed., Oct. 19

To: tss_liam@kidstarmail.net

Subject: Hello!

Hi, Liam!

So you're my new pen friend. Let me tell you a bit about myself. I'm 14 years old and I live in

Calgary, Canada. I have two older brothers, Brian and Sam. I'm the only girl.

I love sports and I'm always looking for exciting new hobbies to try. I like playing baseball in winter.

It's fun beating the boys! But summer is my favourite time of the year. I love skateboarding and

rock climbing in summer.

Skateboarding's great because it's so fun and easy to learn! I often skateboard after school. There

are many places in the park where I can do stunts. I'm good at stunts like jumping and turning the

skateboard!

Rock climbing is also really fun. I usually climb with my dad on weekends. We can't do it on real

mountains very often because we live in the city. We do indoor rock climbing instead but it's not as

challenging.

So that's me! How about you? Please write back soon!

Bye for now!

Anne

1.Who wrote this email?

A. Liam. B. Brian. C. Sam. D.Anne.

2.What is the writer like?

A.Active. B.Shy. C.Lazy. D.Kind.

3.The writer sent this emailin order to

A. describe some exciting sports

B. look for a suitable pen friend

C. make a self-introduction

D. show others his/her hobbies

SCENE I

One dollar a week

The doorway of the house where Chandler has a room. He is dressed in his best clothes, ready for

his evening out. He is going out as his friend, Jeff 'White, comes in.

WHITE What are you doing this evening, Towers?

CHANDLER (Smiling) Tonight I'm going to live like a man with a million dollars!

WHITE What are you talking about? You haven't got a million dollars!

CHANDLER How much money are you and I paid each week, Jeff?

WHITE Eighteen dollars. Why?

CHANDLER And how much of that eighteen dollars do you spend each week?

WHITE All of it, of course.

CHANDLER Well, I don't. Each week I save one dollar out of my eighteen. Then,

every ten weeks, I can buy myself an evening to remember.

WHITE What do you do?

CHANDLER I put on my finest clothes, go to one of the best restaurants in New York,

eat the most expensive food on the menu, drink the best wine, and then

take a taxi home!

WHITE ( 29 ) Why?

CHANDLER Why? Because it makes me feel wonderful to sit with some of 'the richest

people in America, and to make them think that I'm rich, too.

WHITE You're crazy!

CHANDLER (Laughing) Perhaps I am!

Mrs Black comes in.

MRS BLACK Ah, Mr Chandler. I wanted to see you.

CHANDLER Good evening, Mrs Black. What a lovely evening!

MRS BLACK Lovely evening perhaps, but you haven't paid me for your room this

month. When am I going to get the money?

CHANDLER Soon, Mrs Black. Very soon.

Mrs Black looks at Chandler s clothes.

MRS BLACK You can spend money on expensive clothes, but you can't pay for your

room. Is that right?

CHANDLER (Hurrying away) Good night, Mrs Black!

1.This is most probably part of .

A. a play B. a novel

C. a poem D. a speech

2.Which of the following is the most suitable for ?

A. Excited B. Surprised.

C. Bored. D. Scared

3.What can we learn about Chandler?

A. He is a man of great wealth.

B. He is a man of great wisdom.

C. He is not very practical.

D. He is not very confident.

"Well, just take a look at that wheel（航轮）!” Earl Cooper said to Candy, his wife. "It must be older than anything we have back home."

Earl was looking at the wall outside the pub（酒馆）. The pub's name, The Old Swan, was on the wall. Next to the name was a wooden ship's wheel and in the middle of the wheel was the name of a ship, HMS Swan. The wheel was old, Earl could tell.

The next morning, Earl asked to see Tony Thatcher. The Old Swan was Tony's pub. He took Earl to his office while Candy had a coffee outside by the river. Earl said he could give Tony a lot of money for the ship's wheel. He told Tony that Benjamin Cooper, his grandfather, went to America on the ship HMS Swan. But Tony said no at first. After all, the wheel was very old and it was part of the pub's past.

"You can think of the past, Mr. Thatcher - can I call you Tony? - or you can think of today. And with the money, Tony, you can buy a good car. Maybe a new Jaguar? And, as I've told you, the wheel is part of my family's past too. So you could say it's going back home, in a way. So, what do you say?"

A month later, Earl and Candy were smiling as they looked at the wall of their house in Houston, Texas. Earl thought to himself that, at last, he had a piece of his family's past. He was happy.

In Portsmouth, Tony Thatcher was happy, too. He was putting his new Jaguar into his large garage（车库）. He was careful not to drive into any of the six ship's wheels in the garage. A friend of his made the wheels for him. They were just like the one that Earl bought. And there was another wheel on the outside wall of The Old Swan now. Old or new - Tony thought there was no way that a tourist could ever know which was which. Never in a hundred years.

1.Why did Tony refuse to sell the wheel at first?

Because he thought it was old and part of the pub's past.

Because he wanted to show it was important to his pub.

Because he tried to sell it to someone else at a higher price.

Because he did not really believe what Earl had told him.

2.What can we infer(椎断) from the story?

Earl had looked for such a wheel for a long time before that.

Earl would soon find out the truth and become rather angry.

Tony had sold quite a few wheels like that ancl got wealthy,

Tony would play the same trick again to make more money.[来

3.Which ofthe following can be the best title ofthe story?

A. The Wheel on the Wall B. An Excellent Buy

C. Old or New - Who Knows D. the Family's Past

An early form of a game in which a ball was kicked around a field is recorded in 1004 B.C. Japan. Some sports historians believe that the game of soccer began in England in the third century, however. They say that early English warriors（武士） kicked around the head of a killed enemy. This may or may not be true, but it is certain that soccer is an ancient sport.

Without doubt, the English played soccer during the times of King Edward I in the 1300s. In fact, the king passed a law against playing it. The law said, "There is great noise ... caused by kicking large balls from which many ghosts may appear." Anyone caught playing soccer at that time was put into prison. Two hundred years later, Queen Elizabeth I still had people put into prison for playing this "vulgar" sport.

Although there were such laws, soccer grew more popular. In 1681 it became an official(正式的) sport in England. By the 1800s, people throughout the country played soccer. By the 18th century, upper-class boys played it at schools. Its popularity grew among all English people.

At a meeting held in an English school in 1843, the first rules were suggested. In 1863 the heads of English soccer teams met in London to agree on some official rules. They organized an English football association（协会）. By 1871 all of the English clubs were following these rules. Today all soccer teams play by them.

Soccer is called "football" everywhere but in the United States. The game is played mostly with feet. No players except the goalie (守门员 ) may touch the ball with their hands. They may control the ball with any part of the body except their hands.

Soccer is by far the world's most popular sport. Every four years, nearly every country in the world tlghts for the World Cup. Tens of billions of soccer fans from around the world watch the World Cup on television.

1.According to the passage, a "vulgar" sport probably

A. appears to be rude

B. appears to be old

C. requires lots of energy

D. requires good teamwork

2.Which ofthe following shows the right order ofthe development ofthe game?

Upper-class boy students played it at schools.

An English football association was organized.

It became a popular sport throughout England.

The rules were accepted by all English clubs.

Playing the game was considered to be guilty.

A. e-c-a-b-d. B. e-c-a-d-b.

C. e-a-c-b-d. D. e-a-c-d-b.

3.What can we learn from the passage?

It is certain that soccer has a history ofover l,800 years.

The English had to play soccer in secret for two centuries.

Football is called "soccer" in the US because of the rules.

The king passed the law against the game for a stupid reason.

4.This passage is mainly about

A. why the game is so popular

B. how the game has developed

C. what the game is like

D. where the game first began

词汇运用 （本大题共8小题，每小题1分，共8分）

(A)根据句意和汉语注释，在答题卡对应题号的横线上，写出单词的正确形式。

1.Life is like a （赛跑）.You either take the lead or fall behind.

2.I thought about what she had said and stayed （醒着的）all night.

3.Hey! Relax! No one will （强迫）you to do that if you're not willing to.

4.Many countries speak （高度地）of China's high-speed railway technologies.

(B)根据句意，在答题卡对应题号的横线上，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。

5.Don't look at me like that! I'm telling you the （true).

6.It is not polite to ask a stranger questions about his （person) life.

7.Red lanterns are often （hang) along the streets before Spring Festival.

8.The new system is now （wide) used by IT companies all over the world.

用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空，并将答案写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。

（本大题共8小题，每小题1分，共8分）

1.Trust me. I (keep) it between you and me, I promise. Talk now.

2.I'm so sorry that I (not understand) you, but I do now.

3.Sally loves chocolate. -That (explain) why it's hard for her to lose weight.

4.If you have any trouble (use) the website,just click on this icon for help.

5.—Why didn't you answer my call?

—I (take) a shower. But I called you back as soon as I got out.

6.A big parade was held on Red Square (remember) the dead in World War II.

7.Cleverness is a gift; kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they (give) after all. Choices can be hard.

8.—Is the little baby in this photo me, Dad?

—It is. And now you (grow) into a young man. Where does the time go, huh?

A "blog"is a shortened name for a'web log". People write blogs about all kinds of things, from news and events to hobbies and reviews. Some people use them just as a simple record of what they have done.

“Blogging" has become very popular as more and more people use the Internet. New technologies have made keeping a blog an easy thing to do, so millions of people now have their own blogs. They are usually free to set up and are easy to update. You can upload pictures onto a blog and link to other websites. To many people, these features make blogs much more useful than traditional diaries.

We are now able to send texts, pictures and videos from our mobile phones directly onto the Web. New technologies like this are making blogging even easier, People also think that blogs are better than newspapers for finding out about news, events and opinions. They like to use blogs because they can get information from everywhere. It looks like blogs are going to become one of the most important ways to find and share information in the near future.

Title：Basic Knowledge of A Blog

按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子，并将答案与在答题卡对应题号的横线上。（本大题共6小题，每小题1.5分，共9分）

1.我记忆中的父亲不苟言笑，对我严格要求。

In my memory, Father was a man of few words and he .

2.这些短信很无聊，不值得回复。

These short messages are so boring that they .

3.为生价值并不取决于你是谁，而是你做什么。

The value of life does not ，but what you do.

4.这对新人相爱多年，今天终成眷属。真好！

The new couple with each other for many years and they are finally

getting married today. How nice!

5.《新天鹅湖》的特别之处在于它是以现代方式编曲的。

What makes New Swan Lake special is that .

6.别做白日梦了！别指望你会碰巧引起导演的注意。

Stop daydreaming! Never expect that you'll .

书面表达（本大题共10分）

假设你是悉尼大学一名华裔学生，名叫Jason Wu。你从China Daily上看到该报正在开展主题为Change for a Better China的环保讨论活动。你打算结合自己所居住的小镇的变化，给报社写一封英文信参与讨论。内容提示见下表：

注意事项：

1．英文信须包括表格中所有提示内容，要求语句通顺、意思连贯；

2．表格中“感想建议”一栏须用2-3句话展开合理想象，作适当发挥；

3．词数在90个左右，信的首尾己在答题卡上给出，不计入总词数；

4．信件内容必须写在答题卡指定的位置上。

参考词汇：

澳洲最美小镇(Australia's Nicest Towns) 清洁能源(clean energy)

World Reading Day is April 23. It’s special day that was founded in 1995 by the UN.

A. on; a B. in; a

C. on; an D. in; an