Beijing Opera is the traditional Chinese art. Now there are still many young people 1     it inChina. Li Jun is one of them. Every morning at 5 ： 30,he 2    ,finds a quiet place and begins shouting (叫喊)at a wall, “Ahh...eee...” He is always shouting for about 30 minutes. Li Jun 3     to learn Beijing Opera when he was 10. “My voice(声音)is changing. It is 4     than before, ” he said. Li Jun says he can’t eat ice cream because it is 5     for his voice. Because of his 6      work，Li Jun  got the  first place in the CCTV Art Contest for Kids. He 7     Takeover of Weihu    (《智取威虎山》).a  great  Beijing Opera song.

Beijing Opera is about 200 years old. There are 8     big roles (角色)：sheng ( men)，dan (women), jing( or hualian, also men) and chou ( men or women). Li Jun is learning to 9     a hualian. Every day at school,Li Jun learns to somersault(翻筋斗)and 10     leg exercises. In the afternoon,he learns to sing. “I am very 11     every day,and I only want to lie in bed at the 12     of a day, ” said Li Jun. “But I feel very 13     every  day. ” Li Jun’s  teacher  said,  “He is a(n) 14     kid. Maybe he will become a 15     Beijing Opera  star. ”

(   ) 1. A.  hearing  B. talking     C. writing  D. learning

(   ) 2. A.  sleeps  late B. gets off     C. gets up  D. goes to bed

(   ) 3. A.  took  B. wanted     C. began  D. got

(   ) 4. A.  worse  B. little     C. loud  D. better

(   ) 5. A.  bad  B. good     C. hot  D. cold

(   ) 6. A.  hard  B. easy     C. difficult  D. long

(   ) 7. A.  spoke  B. told     C. sang  D. talked

(   ) 8. A.  two  B. four     C. three  D. eight

(   ) 9. A.  stop  B. get     C. use  D. become

(   ) 10. A.  has  B. does     C. works  D. brings

(   ) 11. A.  tired  B. happy     C. bored  D. excited

(   ) 12. A.  beginning  B. middle     C. front  D. end

(   ) 13. A.  interesting  B. long     C. happy  D. easy

(   ) 14. A.  easy  B. wild     C. funny  D. unusual

(   ) 15. A.  happy  B. great     C. kind  D. hard

What’s going to happen in the future? Will robots control our planet? Will computers become smarter than us? Not likely. But here are some things that scientists say are most likely to happen in 10 to 30 years from now,according to the BBC.

Digital money    |

We used to pay with cash (现金）for everything we bought. Now when we use a credit card(信用卡）to shop online,money is spent without us seeing it.   That means we have already been using digital money.  Using a card is  much easier  than  searching our pockets for change. It is also safer than carrying a  lot of cash.

When ATM cards were first introduced,they were not accepted everywhere. But now it’s hard to live without them. It’s reported that people inSwedencompletely stopped using cash last year,and theUSmight be the next.

Bionic(仿生的）eye

It’s no longer something only in a science fiction  movie. People  who  are  blind  may  have  a

chance to get their sight back一by wearing bionic eyes.

A blind eye can no longer sense light,but a bionic eye can use a camera to “ see ” the environment and send data(数据）to the mind. Now the bionic eye only allows patients to see lights and unclear shapes. A high resolution(分辨率）image could be just a few years away.

Self-driving cars

Unlike a human driver,a self-driving car won’t get distracted(分神）by a phone call,the radio or something outside the window. Sensors (探测器）and cameras on the car would help it stick strictly to the rules of the road and keep a safe distance from other cars. This would greatly reduce the number of road accidents. You could even take a nap while the car drives itself. In the future,driverless cars would be widely accepted.

(   ) 1.          has stopped using cash completely.

A.Sweden B. ATM     C. BBC  D.America*

(   ) 2. What does the writer mainly tell us about digital  money?

A. We use digital money to shop online without paying money.

B. Digital money is most likely to be used instead of cash.

C. Using cash is easier and safer than a credit card.

D. ATM cards are always popular.

(   ) 3. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Bionic eyes only appear in the science fiction film.

B. Human drivers won’t get distracted by something outside.

C. The blind wearing bionic eyes may see clearly in the future.

D. There will be no road accidents at all if self-driving  cars are used.

(   ) 4. From the report,we can learn some information  about        .

A. culture and art     B. industry and farming

C. science and technology     D. traffic and journey

(   ) 5. Which of the following can be predicted(预测）from the passage?

A. There would be a number of self-driving cars on the road.

B. The blind could use cameras to see things around.

C. We would live a hard life with digital money.

D. Robots would control the world.

假设你是李明，你在国外的网友Eric在网上看到几幅中国剪纸(Chinese paper cut) ,Eric对此很感兴趣，给你发来邮件，询问有关中国剪纸的信息。请你根据下表提示给他回复邮件。

Chinese paper cut long history very popular over 2,000 years in different parts of China young or old be fond of do well in... birds,animals,flowers... different shapes Where do people put Chinese paper cuts? ...

要求： 1.文中不得出现真实的人名和校名；

2.词数80以上。

 Thomas Saint patented(获专利）his  idea for a sewing-machine(缝纫机）in London in  1790,but the idea was not used. Then a German  patented his idea for a sewing-machine in  1810,but again n 1      was interested in it. In 1829,a poor tailor(裁缝）in Pairs,Barthelemy Thimonnier,i 2      a machine which worked,and made eighty of them. As prices were cheap，he was given a big o 3      for army uniforms. However,other tailors in Paris were afraid ： they thought that they might 1 4      their jobs. The angry tailors broke all eighty machines. Thimonnier lost the order but continued to i 5      his design. He made a new machine in 1848,and this was d 6      too!

Then the story continued in the USA. Various(各式各样的）machines were patented there in the 1850s,but one machine is known e 7      now ： the Singer. Its inventor was I. M. Singer,a German immigrant(移民），and his company made the new machines. Soon they were bought by c 8      companies. Then in 1865,they were sold for u 9      at home. This time the machine was accepted by e 10      because it was very good.

1.          2.          3.      4.     5.         

6.          7.          8.      9.      10.        

Lily ：There are so many inventors in the history.

David： Yes. We must thank them for their i 1      They make things c 2     for us.

Lily：Yeah. Look!What’s that thing with three 1 3     ?

David:It’s a cup. It was u 4      in the old days in China.

Lily ： What was it used for?

David：I think it’s used for d 5      wine. It’s m 6      of metal.

Lily：How s 7      it looks!

David ：Umm,very interesting,isn’t it?

Lily：Yeah. Oh,a teapot in a bowl.

David： Ah? That’s not a teapot. It  was for serving wine. When the bowl was  f 8       with  hot water,the wine in the pot would get w  9     .

Lily:That’s a good idea. Now was it still used in China?

David：Yeah. C 10      wine culture.

Lily ：Ancient Chinese were very clever. I’ve learnt a lot.

David:That’s right. Let’s go to the European Shop now.

Lily ：OK. Let’s go.

1.          2.          3.          4.          5.         

6.          7.          8.          9.          10.         

    The first pencil was a bunch(束）of graphite (石墨）sticks held together by string. Then someone thought it would be better to put the graphite into a hollow(中空的）wooden stick. Joseph Rechendorfer was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber (橡皮）onto the top of a pencil which makes it really easy to rub out mistakes.

   This is what an old airplane looked like. The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called Kitty Hawk.

    Do you know the first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn’t have any pedals(踏板）？ People walked it along.

The first metal bicycle was High Wheel or Penny-farthing. People had a hard time keeping their balance on this type of bicycles.

   Do you know the first toy balloon，made of vulcanized (被石充化的） rubber,was thought up by someone in the J. G. Ingram company in London,England,in 1847?

(   ) 1. Who invented the pencil?

A. The Wright Brothers.  B. Joseph Rechendorfer.

C. Baron von Drais.  D. The writer     doesn’t  tell us.

(   ) 2. Which  of the following inventions was invented by only one person?

A. The toy balloon.  B. The metal bicycle.

C. The airplane一Kitty Hawk.  D. The pencil.

(   ) 3. For the first metal bicycle,it’s hard for people         .

A. to buy it     B. to fix it

C. to keep their balance on it     D. to make it  run

(   ) 4. From the table,we can know         .

A. Kitty Hawk was the name of an inventor

B. Baron von Drais made the first     bicycle  without pedals

C. Penny Farthing invented the     first metal  bicycle

D. the first bicycle was made at the end of the nineteenth century 

(   ) 5. The table mainly tells us         .

A. the history of some inventions

B. when the pencil was invented

C. the first toy balloon was made in the nineteenth century

D. how the first airplane was made

 Do you know who invented tea? In fact,tea,the most popular drink in the world ( not including water)， was invented by accidentals). According to an ancient Chinese legend(传说）, the emperor Shen Nong 1      tea when he was boiling drinking water over an open fire. Some leaves from a nearby bush(灌木丛）fell into the water and remained there for 2      . The emperor noticed that the leaves in the water produced a 3      smell. Later he decided 4      the hot mixture (混合物）. It was quite delicious. And 5     ,one of the world’s favorite drinks was invented.

China is the home of tea,6      has more than 4,000 years of history. People throughoutChinadrink tea daily. 7      the three major drinks—tea,coffee and cocoa,tea is drunk by 8      people in the world. Tea fromChina, along 9      silk and porcelain,began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export 10      .

Tea leaves 11      mainly in the area south of the Yangtze River,in the provinces of Zhejiang,Jiangxi and Fujian,because of the mild 12      and rich soil there. Longjing,Wulong,Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all 13      kinds of tea.

Over the past centuries,Chinese people 14      their unique tea culture,which includes tea planting,tea-leaf picking,tea making,tea drinking and so on. Tea is 15      a popular topic which is often mentioned in dances,songs,poems and novels.

(   ) 1. A.  invented  B. found out     C. discovered  D. tried out

(   ) 2. A.  sometimes  B. some time     C. some times  D. some days

(   ) 3. A.  pleasant  B. pleased     C. bad  D. terrible

(   ) 4. A.  not to taste  B. to taste     C. tasting  D. taste

(   ) 5. A.  by the way  B. on the way     C. on its way  D. in this way

(   ) 6. A.  who  B. which     C. where  D. when

(   ) 7. A.  In  B. For     C. Of  D. By

(   ) 8. A. the number of     B. a number of

C. a large number of     D. the largest number of

(   ) 9. A. between     B. with  C. except     D. besides

(   ) 10. A.  at that time  B. from now     on  C. since then     D. since now

(   ) 11. A.  produce  B. are produced     C. make  D. are made

(   ) 12. A.  climate  B. weather     C. condition  D. environment

(   ) 13. A.  interesting  B. important     C. famous  D. normal

(   ) 14. A. had developed     B. have developed

C. developed     D. are developing

(   ) 15. A. too     B. as well  C. either     D. also

Coffee has been a part of people’s life for 1     years，and it is still a favorite drink in the world. Here is a story of coffee and 2      it was discovered.

The story 3      us coffee was discovered in Africa 4      . One day,a farmer 5      his goats,and he saw them  6      some berries from a plant. The goats became 7      after they ate the berries. The man often felt tired,8       he decided to try the berries,too. 9     ，he didn’t feel tired any more. Coffee plants were thus discovered. Later,coffee was taken from Africa to 10      countries in Europe andAmerica. After that,farmers started to grow coffee plants there,too,especially in South America.

(   ) 1. A.  thousand of  B. thousands     C. thousands of  D. a     thousand of

(   ) 2. A.  how  B. why     C. what  D. who

(   ) 3. A.  says  B. speaks     C. talks  D. tells

(   ) 4. A.  long,long  time  ago  B. long,long times  ago

C. long,long  time  before  D. for a long time

(   ) 5. A.  watch  B. watches     C. was watching D. is watching

(   ) 6. A.  eat  B. eats     C. ate  D. eaten

(   ) 7. A.  very  tired B. very active C. badly ill     D. fast asleep

(   ) 8. A.  but  B. or     C. because  D. so

(   ) 9. A. For his great surprise     B. With his great surprise

C. To his great surprise     D. To his great surprises

(   ) 10. A. other     B. the  other  C. others     D. another

Linda过去是单身，去年她和Mike结婚（get married to sb. ) 了。阅读表格，并写一篇80个

词以上的短文，描述Linda的生活变化。文章的开头已经写好，不计人总词数。

Linda used to be single.        

 When Martin was a small boy,he lived in the little town of Holtham. Then,he thought the town was a big p 1      When Martin went back to Holtham last week,he thought “It’s a small town! ”.

Holtham has changed little during the p 2      forty years. B 3      Martin has changed a lot. He has g 4      into a man. He is now in his m 5      age. His thoughts are a man’s thoughts,and he sees things through a m 6      eyes.

Martin s 7      in Holtham for five hours. He walked from street t 8      street. He could see no friends. Was Holtham then a town of strangers? No,Martin suddenly u 9      it all. Only he h 10      was a stranger in the town.

1. _____  2.      3.       4.      5.           

6.          7.      8.       9.      10.