I've loved my mother's desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as Mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens,and white paper, I thought that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world.

  Years later,during her final illness,Mother kept different things for my sister and brother. "But the desk," she said, "is for Elizabeth."

  I never saw her anger, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me;she showed it in action. But as a young girl，I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.

They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. 1 was "too emotional". But she lived "on the surface".

  As years passed and I had my own family，I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me.

  I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.

  My hope turned to disappointment,then little interest and,finally, peace―it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn't be sure that the letter had even got to Mother. I only knew that I had written it,and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.

  Now the present of her desk told me，as she had never been able to，that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside―a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded and refolded many times.

  Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose act that speaks louder than words.

(   ) 1. The writer began to love her mother's desk         .

     A. after Mother died    B. before she became a writer

    C. when she was a child    D. when Mother gave it to her

(   ) 2. The passage shows that         .

     A. Mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter

    B. Mother was too serious about everything her daughter had done

    C. Mother cared much about her daughter in words

    D. Mother wrote to her daughter in careful words

(   ) 3. The word "gulf in the passage means         .

     A. deep understanding between the old and the young

    B. different ideas between the mother and the daughter

    C. free talks between mother and daughter

    D. part of the sea going far in land

(   ) 4. What did Mother do with her danghter's letter asking for forgiveness?

    B. For years, she often talked about the letter.

    C. She didn't forgive her daughter at all in all her life.

    D. She read the letter again and again till she died. 

(   ) 5. What's the best title(题目) of the passage?

     A. A Letter to Mother    B. Mother and Children

    C. Mother's Desk    D. Talks between Mother and Me

 In 1955, Walt Disney himself opened the first Disney Park in Los Angeles, USA. Later, Disney World was opened in Florida in 1971. It cost between $ 500 and $ 600 million to build. Tokyo Disney Park opened in Japan in 1983 ，and Europe Disney opened in France in 1992.

  Now Hong Kong is going to build a Disney Park and it will be open in 2005.

  More than 80% of Hong Kong's population would like to visit the Disney Park when it is opened. But about half of them thought the adult admission fee(成人参观费) of between HK $ 250 and HK$300(US $32 to US $ 38)  is too high. The children's admission fee is not known yet. But children may not mind paying any entrance fee. "If I start saving money now,I'll have enough money to pay the entrance fee in five years' time,"said Chan Postany, a 12-year-old girl. "I can't take my son to the Disney Park in USA，" said Mrs Yu，mother of a small boy. "That's why I agree with the government's plan to build one here. Then I'll be able to take my son there. The admission

fee of several hundred dollars is nothing compared(与....... 相比) with the price of an air ticket to

USA."

(   ) 1. The second Disney Park was built in          .

     A. Los Angeles    B. Florida

    C. Tokyo    D. France

(   ) 2. How many Disney Parks will there be in the world by the year 2005？

A. Two.    B. Three.    C. Four.    D. Five.

(   ) 3. What do Hong Kong people think about the plan?

     A. Most of them agree with it.

    B. Half of them don't agree with it.

    C. Few of them agree with it.

    D. Only children like it.

(   ) 4. Do all Hong Kong people care much about the entrance fee?

     A. Yes,they all think that the fee is too high.

    B. No,the children may not mind how much the fee will be.

    C. Yes,most of them feel that the fee is not high.

    D. The writer doesn't tell us.

(   ) 5. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

     A. The adult admission fee is lower than the children admission fee.

    B. Disney Parks are getting more and more popular among children and adults.

    C. The children's admission fee is about HK $ 250 to HK $ 300.

    D. Since the fee is too high,few Hong Kong people want to visit the park.

  Have you ever been in a cable car? Well, Paul has. Last February, he went on a 1 trip to Switzerland. 2 a trip!The first morning,he got into a cable car. He wanted to go to the 3 of the mountain and ski down. The cable car started up the mountain. He looked down, 4 it was so beautiful. Then there was a terrible noise. Suddenly, the car 5   . It didn't move,and there was silence everywhere.

  It was cold. It began to get   6 and it began to snow. Paul was alone for two hours. He thought," They've 7 me! "At last the car started back down the mountain. It went very fast. "Sorry ，"a man said 8 Paul climbed out of the car.  " We've never had this 9 before.

  Please, 10 it again tomorrow."

  "He's joking," Paul thought, "I，ve had enough of cable cars for a lifetime.”

(   ) 1. A. ski    B. swimming    C. fishing    D. surfing

(   ) 2. A. Why    B. What    C. How    D. Who

(   ) 3. A. back    B. left    C. right    D. top

(   ) 4. A. so    B. but    C. or    D. and

(   ) 5. A. moves    B. moved    C. stopped    D. stops

(   ) 6. A. bright    B. hot    C. dark    D. warm

(   ) 7. A. forget    B. forgotten    C. remember    D. remembered

(   ) 8. A. but    B. and    C. while    D. when

(   ) 9. A. problems    B. questions    C. problem    D. question

(   ) 10. A. try    B. trying    C. tries    D. to try

  It's always interesting to visit another country for those who have never been to foreign countries. Foreign 1 can be educational(有教育意义的) for anybody if he is interested enough to make preparations beforehand(预先) .Learning the 2of a new country would be 3 for a traveller;but the benefit(好处) of such an effort(努力) would become clear soon after his arrival. It may not seem important to him when he comfortably stay at home,but knowing 4 to order a meal or rent a room is 5 for the new comer in a strange country. Not 6 the language, it is 7 difficult for a traveller to 8 the people or the customs of the new 9 .

  Of course，in our small 10  ，it is often possible to 11 someone who can understand our 12 language, but this is only second-best for a traveller. To be sure, he can see places and things without the 13 of a language, but places and things are not all of any country. To get the greatest benefit 14 a trip to another country, it is 15 important for a visitor to have an understanding of the language.

(   ) 1. A. travel    B. country    C. language    D. people

(   ) 2. A. knowledge    B. language    C. speech    D. words

(   ) 3. A. usual    B. easy    C. difficult    D. interesting

(   ) 4. A. why    B. who    C. how    D. when

(   ) 5. A. necessary    B. unimportant    C. useless    D. funny

(   ) 6. A. hearing    B. knowing    C. saving    D. reading

(   ) 7. A. never    B. such    C. hardly    D. very

(   ) 8. A. see    B. find    C. understand    D. believe

(   ) 9. A. family     B. country    C. city    D. village

(   ) 10. A. house    B. group    C. term    D. world

(   ) 11. A. find    B. look for    C. pick up    D. know

(   ) 12. A. foreign    B. common    C. own    D. Chinese

(   ) 13. A. use       B. speaking    C. writing      D. learning

(   ) 14. A. from      B. in    C. at        D. to

(   ) 15. A. how    B. instead    C. also    D. finally

当前，全市各学校正开展"好书伴我成长"活动。请你根据活动主题，并结合表格中所给信息，以"Growing Up with Good Books"为题，用英语写一篇80 ~ 100词的倡议书，向全校同学发出倡议。

要求：

1. 倡议书应包括所有要点；

2. 倡议书的开头已给出，不计人总词数。

Growing Up with Good Books

My dear friends

Reading is very important.        ;       

  Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, you can improve it if you are patient. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to take action. You must first go where there are people. You won't make friends staying home a 1

  Joining a club or a group, talking to those who like the same things as you do is much e 2 Or join someone in some activity.

  Many people are n 3 when talking to new people. After all,meeting strangers means seeing the unknown. And it's human nature to feel a bit unpleasant about the unknown. Most of fears about d 4 with new people come from doubts(怀疑) about ourselves. We imagine other people are judging us―finding us too tall or too short,too this or too that. But don't forget that they must be feeling the s 5 way. Try to accept yourself as you are,and try to put the other person at ease. You'll all feel more c 6

  Try to be brave even if you don't feel that way. When you e 7 a room full of strangers, walk tall and straight, look d 8 at other people and smile.

  If you see someone you'd like to speak to,say something. Don't wait for the other person to start a c 9 .

Just meeting someone new does not mean that you'll make friends with that person. Friendship is based on mutual(相互的) likings and "give and take". It takes time and effort(精力) for us to develop friendship. And there are things that stop a new friendship from g 10 ,

1.       2.       3.        4.        5.      

6.       7.       8.       9.       10.      

  Many people prefer to relax themselves by singing. However, have you ever imagined that an American airplane had to make an emergency landing (紧急迫降) after a passenger r 1 to stop singing on the plane?

  The flight would leave Los Angeles for New York. As soon as it took o 2 ，the woman passenger's performance began. To be honest,her voice didn't sound so t 3

  The whole trip would take six hours. Because of the woman, later the flight had to c 4 the route and make a sudden stop at Kansas City. Then the woman was asked to get off the plane.

One airport spokesman said, "She got us into trouble while she was e 5 herself. We had tried to stop her but it hadn't w 6 . So we had to do that.”

  T 7 the passengers were told not to take photos on the plane，one of them got the video of the woman being taken down the plane in handcuffs(手铐) .Even so,everyone was s 8 to see her keeping singing the 1990s pop song. After being interviewed, the police let her go free. American Airlines, however, refused to fly her to her city.

  According to the woman, she chose to keep singing in order to please the b 9 time. The song she sang was Whitney Houston's hit song /Will Always Love You, which was one of the most p 10 songs in the twentieth century in America.

1.        2.        3.       4.        5.      

6.      7.         8.       9.        10.    

 To write a great news story,you have to make sure it is correct, relevant(相关的) and fresh.

  For a start, all the information in a news story must be correct. Not only spelling and grammar,but also facts. Any mistakes that appear(出现) in a news story can get a newspaper into big trouble. For example, if a newspaper said that Yang Liwei was the first man to go into space, it would be wrong. He wasn't the first. The newspaper would probably lose lots of readers because of that mistake.

  A news story should be not only correct, but also relevant to its readers. People are mostly interested in news that happens near to them. That is why you care more about what happens at your school than at American schools. It is also why newspapers in Beijing don't talk about much news in Shanghai or Hong Kong.

  Finally, news must always be fresh. When you pick up your evening newspaper, you want to read about news that happens that day. You don't want to read news about last week!

  So,now you know what makes a good news story. Have a good look at our newspaper, and see if it is full of good news. You can try writing a news story for our newspaper like a real reporter.

(   ) 1. The writer mentions____ main factors(因素) to make a news story really great.

A. two    B. three    C. four    D. five

(   ) 2. According to the second paragraph, the correct information in a news story includes

     A. translation and facts    B. spelling and pronunciation

    C. spelling, grammer and facts    D. translation and grammar

(   ) 3. According to the writer, newspaper in Liaocheng should talk much about news in

A. Liaocheng    B. Hong Kong    C. Shanghai    D. Beijing

(   ) 4. Which of the following is true?

     A.     A small mistake can't get a newspaper into trouble.

    B.     A lot of people like reading news about last week.

    C.     The passage doesn't tell us who was the first man to go into space.

    D.     People are mostly interested in news that happens far away from them. 

(   ) 5. The passage mainly talks about _______

     A.     why to be a good reporter

    B.     where to find interesting news

    C.     when to choose a good newspaper

    D.     how to write a great news story

  Lu Xun is one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20th century. Besides his famous stories, he also wrote many influential articles about the living conditions of Chinese people.

  Born in 1881 to a wealthy family, Lu Xun had a happy childhood. In 1893, however, his grandfather, a senior government official, was put into prison for taking money. At the same time,his father became seriously ill. From that time on,his family were no longer accepted by their relatives and friends. These early experiences greatly influenced his writing.

  By the time Lu Xun arrived in Nanjing to study at university in 1899，he already believed that Chinese society had to change and become modern. In 1902 ，he went to study in Japan. There, he began writing articles for several Chinese student magazines. He showed a gift for writing and translating，and he even wrote several books，although none was popular. He returned to China in 1909 because he was in need of money.

  After working for several years as a teacher in Beijing, Lu Xun again returned to writing. In 1918, he wrote his famous short story Diary of a Madman.It was the first Chinese novel published using the everyday language that people spoke, which helped make it a great success. This,together with his novel The True Story of Ah Q(1921) ，made Lu Xun a leading Chinese writer.

  Although successful, Lu Xun still worried greatly about China's future. In 1926, he moved to Shanghai and gave up writing stories in order to devote himself to what he called "pen warfare". He now only wrote articles which called on the people to fight against the government. For this,the government stopped him from publishing any more books. He was forced to write his articles using false names.

  Since his death in 1936，Lu Xun，s importance and influence have grown. Today, many of his writings are included in school textbooks, and his works are read by millions around the world.

(   ) 1. Which of the following greatly influenced Lu Xun's writing according to the passage?

     A.     The people he met in Japan.

    B.     The experiences in his early life.

    C.     Working as a teacher in Beijing.

    D.     His father's being put into prison.

(   ) 2. According to the passage, why was Lu Xun's story Diary of a Madman so popular?

     A.     It was based on Lu Xun's diary.

    B.     It was the first novel to use everyday language.

    C.     Its story took place in modern times.

    D.     It was written using a western style.

(   ) 3. The underlined word "This" ( Paragraph 4) refers to        .

     A.     the success for Diary of a Madman

    B.     the use of everyday language

    C.     the first Chinese novel

    D.     The True Story of Ah Q

(   ) 4. After moving to Shanghai, Lu Xun mainly wrote        .

     A.     funny stories

    B.     articles about himself

    C.     articles against the government

    D.     stories about government officials

(   ) 5. In what order did these events take place in Lu Xun's life?

a.     The government stopped him from publishing books.

b.     He wrote Diary of a Madman.

c.     His father became ill.

d.     He moved to Shanghai.

e.     His writings were put into textbooks.

     A. c―a―b―d―e    B. c―b―d―a―e

    C. a―c―d―b―e    D. a―d―b―c―e

 When I was 13 years old,a boy gave me an important gift. It was a 1 It was the early autumn of my first year at a junior high school, and my old school was far away. 2 ，no one knew who I was. I was very lonely, and afraid to make friends with 3 .

  Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing, I 4 my heart break. I couldn't talk to anyone about my problem, and I didn't want my parents to 5me. Then one day, while my classmates were talking happily with their friends, I sat at my desk 6 as usual. At that moment, a boy entered the classroom. I didn't know who he was. But he passed me and then turned back. He 7 me and,without a word,smiled.

  Suddenly I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. It 8 me feel happy, lively and warm. That smile changed my life. I started to talk with the other students and made friends. Day by day,I became closer to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile 9 my best friend now.

I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think you are lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will 10 .

(   ) 1. A. smile    B. magazine    C. box    D. camera

(   ) 2. A. As usual    B. As a result    C. The same as    D. Such as

(   ) 3. A. someone    B. everyone    C. anyone    D. nobody

(   ) 4. A. tasted    B. smelled    C. feared    D. felt

(   ) 5. A. hear about    B. talk about    C. care for    D. worry about

(   ) 6. A. slowly    B. politely    C. unhappily    D. naturally

(   ) 7. A. listened to    B. looked at    C. took pride in    D. rushed to

(   ) 8. A. made    B. led    C. offered    D. threw

(   ) 9. A. has become    B. became    C. become    D. is becoming

(   ) 10. A. look back    B. come back    C. turn back    D. smile back