Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. fill in each blank with the word or phrases that best fits the context.

It was raining outside. We all stood near the door of the supermarket, waiting. Suddenly I heard a sweet voice. “Mom, let’s the rain,” said a six-year-old girl, with beautiful red hair, who had been shopping with her mum in Walmart.

“What? No, honey. We’ll until it stops raining so hard,” the mother replied. The girl waited about one minute and repeated, “Mom, let’s run through the rain.”

“We’ll if we do,” the mother said. “No, we won’t, mom. That’s not what you said this morning,” the young girl said as she out of her mom’s arm.

“ This morning?” “Yes, when you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said, ‘If God can get us through this, he can get us through anything!’”

The whole crowd became . We couldn’t hear anything but . We all stood there silently. Her mom thought for a moment and said, “Honey, you’re right. Let’s run through the rain. If God lets us get wet, well, maybe we just need .”

Then off they ran. We all stood there, watching and smiling as they ran through the rain. They held their shopping bags over their just in case. Yes, they got wet. But they were followed by many who screamed and laughed like children all the way to their cars.

Memory is a fortune, a precious gift. I believe that somewhere down the road in life, the mother will herself looking back on this moment and she will smile. So don't forget to make time and take the opportunities to make memories every day and take the time to run through the rain.

1.A. get through B. look through C. run through D. go through

2.A. leave B. wait C. imagine D. jump

3.A. get wet B. get confused C. get paid D. get tired

4.A. pulled B. pushed C. carried D. form

5.A. noisy B. calm C. silent D. frightened

6.A. her mum B. the girl C. laughter D. the rain

7.A. running B. washing C. walking D. waiting

8.A. hands B. backs C. heads D. coats

9.A. drivers B. children C. parents D. adults

10.A. find B. stop C. make D. express

Directions: Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.

The radio club in our school is run 1. the students. Two years ago, I asked the headmaster 2. music could be played during the break time. He approved 3. idea. Our club is much 4. than just music, we tell students the weather, recent news, 5. some messages. During the exam time we tell the students what 6. should do for preparation. When parents come, we play songs sung by students and inform them 7. events, such 8. outings and school plays．

Our English teacher Mr. Owen started the literary club“Poets of the Next Generation”. Group members meet to talk about the poems and poets 9. we like. I am lucky as I am 10. of them.

Everyone needs friends. We all like to feel close to someone. It is nice to have a friend to talk, laugh and do things with. Sure, there are times when we need to be alone. We don’t always want people around. But we would feel lonely if we never had a friend.

Not two people are the same. Sometimes friends don’t get along well. That doesn’t mean they no longer like each other. Most of the time, they will go on being friends. Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very sad. We miss them very much. But we can call them and write to them. Maybe we would never see them again. And we can make new friends. It is surprising to find out how much we like new people when we get to know them. Families sometimes name their children after a close friend. Many places are named after men and women, if they are friendly to people in the town. Some libraries are named in this way. So are some schools. We think of these people when we go to these places.

There is some good news for people, if they have friends. These people live longer than those people who don’t have friends. Why? It could be that they are happier. Being happy helps you stay well, or it could be just knowing that someone cares. If someone cares about you, you take better care of yourself.

1.Which of the following places people name their friendly people is NOT mentioned in the

passage?

A. A room. B. A school.

C. A library. D. A town.

2.Why do people who have friends live longer?

A. They know more about the friendship.

B. They take less care of themselves.

C. They care more about their friends.

D. They feel happier and healthier.

3.This passage mainly tells us ________.

A. that people need friends

B. that people are all friends

C. how to get to know friends

D. how to name a place

1.With help from a Mr. H, you can .

A. stop using batteries

B. finish your homework on time

C. remember your teachers’ instructions

D. get your room tidied on your way home

2.A PENGO WATCH CONTROL can help you to .

A. repair your TV B. organize your homework

C. be a James Bond D. know what the weather is like

3.Where would you be most likely to find the two texts?

A. On a notice board. B. In a company brochure.

C. On a teenage website. D. In a college newspaper.

Blogs have become an important part of life. Millions of people have blogs. Perhaps you would like to have one; you would like to improve your blog; perhaps you would like to make your blog as a means of earning money or attracting more people. Whatever your aim is, this course shows you how to become better bloggers. You will learn how to find the right tone for your blog, set it up and keep it, write something that are effective and worth reading, and attract people from all over the world to your blog. While it’s simple to start a blog, it takes energy and skill to do it really well, as is true of any kind of writing.

Among the topics covered: introduction to the blog, the benefits of blogging, focusing on your blog concept, how to set up and keep a page, tips for effective blog writing and drawing visitors to your blog.

Course offered

How to blog

In this four-week course, a blogging expert will guide you through the process of designing, setting up, writing, and improving a blog. Each student will talk with the expert on blog, then set up a “live” blog and introduce it to the rest of the class for suggestions. Students will also have chances to ask the expert questions.

Online classes

Tuition(学费): $ 125. Registration(注册): $ 25.

Each class is strictly limited to 25 students aged 18 and up.

1.In the course, you will learn something Except _________.

A. focusing on your blog concept

B. how to follow others’ blog

C. the benefits of blogging

D. how to set up a blog

2.What do we know about the course?

A. There are more than 25 students in each class.

B. The course is intended for teenagers under 18.

C. New lectures are given each day.

D. It will cost you $ 150 to learn the course.

3.The passage is mainly about _________.

A. an online course about how to blog

B. an online plan on writing

C. an online program about blog history

D. an online competition in writing blogs

4.Which word can be used to describe the course for bloggers?

A. Difficult. B. Simple.

C. Helpful. D. Boring.

Directions: Complete the following sentences with proper phrases of different forms.

1.听起来你好像对这个新建的公园很熟悉。

It sounds ________ ________ you are very familiar with the newly-built park.

2.我们必须意识到熬夜是一种不健康的生活方式。

We must realize that ________ ________ is an unhealthy lifestyle.

3.既然你已开始做这件事情，你就应该把它做好。

_________ ________ you have started this thing, you should do it well.

4.她很喜欢烹饪。

She is very _________ _________ cooking.

5.不要对孩子太苛刻。

Don’t be too _________ __________ children.

Directions: Write an English letter of about 100 words according to the instructions given below .

假设你是张宏，你想给你的英国好友Henry写信，介绍你的新学校—怀化三中。请你跟据以下内容用英语写一封信。

学校风景：到处都是鲜花绿树，学习环境良好：

学校设施：漂亮的教学楼，大型文化广场，宽阔的运动场，书刊杂志齐全的图书馆，提

供美味佳肴的食堂等；

师生关系：老师耐心和蔼，结交了许多新朋友。

注意：1、词数100左右；

2、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3、信的开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：设施facility 广场square

Dear Henry，

How is everything going these days？Now I am a high school student of No.3 Middle School, Huaihua. _________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

Hope you can come and visit our school. Best wishes﹗

Yours ever,

Zhang Hong

Death Valley is the lowest, hottest, driest area in North America. This California National Park has less than 5 cm of rainfall a year and temperature up to 53℃ in summer. That’s enough to keep Americans away during the hottest months from June to August. But it is the high temperature and terrible heat that draw their most crazy fans, the foreign tourists. From all over the world, they come to the valley floor in cars, carrying maps and water bottles, and fanning themselves with newspapers to keep cool.
About 1.3 million visitors enter the park each year, from June through August. 90% of them are foreigners. They go there to experience the summer heat that gives Death Valley its name. The average high in July is 53.2 ℃ and the low 30 ℃. For August, the average high is 52.2 ℃ and the low 29.4 ℃.
So what do Americans think of the foreign visitors who arrive for the heat, just when locals from the United States try to avoid it? Park manager Brenda Henson says, “ The foreigners want to experience the heat in Death Valley. We think it’s crazy.”
In fact, Death Valley is a series of salt flats (盐滩) 225 km long and 6 km to 26 km wide. Birds and animals are largely absent, and only the hardiest plants have some chance of existence in this extreme place.
One tourist from Paris concluded, “ We come to it because we can tell all our friends and family that we’ve been to the hottest place in the world.”

1. 1.

   The real attraction of Death Valley for foreigners is that _____.

   1. A.
      summer heat keeps Americans away
   2. B.
      experiencing the heat in it is cool
   3. C.
      it is a series of salt flats
   4. D.
      it is a famous place in the world.
2. 2.

   What does the underlined word “ hardiest” in Paragraph 4 mean?

   1. A.
      Most difficult.
   2. B.
      Most energetic.
   3. C.
      Strongest.
   4. D.
      Best.
3. 3.

   Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

   1. A.
      The hottest time in Death Valley is from June to August.
   2. B.
      Not all the visitors to Death Valley are foreigners.
   3. C.
      The lowest temperature in Death Valley is 29.4 ℃.
   4. D.
      Death Valley is made up of salt flats.
4. 4.

   What would be the best title for the passage?

   1. A.
      Crazy Fans of Death Valley.
   2. B.
      Importance of Death Valley.
   3. C.
      Beauty of California National Park.
   4. D.
      The Best Tourist Attraction in North America.

New technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk（收缩）. It’s now a “global village” where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, our ability to benefit from this high-tech communication’s equipment is greatly enhanced by foreign language skills.
Deeply involved with this new technology is a breed of modern businesspeople who have a growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroad. In modern markets, success overseas often helps support domestic(国内的) business efforts.
Overseas assignments are becoming increasingly important to advancement within executive(行政的) ranks. The executive stationed in another country no longer need fear being “out of sight and out of mind.” He or she can be sure that the overseas effort is central to the company’s plan for success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroad. If an employee can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superior will have greater confidence in his or her ability to cope back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign language issues are becoming more and more common.
Thanks to a variety of relatively inexpensive communications devices with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets.
English is still the international language of business. But there is an ever-growing need for people who can speak another language. A second language isn’t generally required to get a job in business, but having language skills gives a candidate(候选人) the edge when other qualifications appear to be equal.
The employee posted abroad who speaks the country’s principal language has an opportunity to fast-forward certain negotiations, and can have the cultural insight to know when it is better to move more slowly. The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign clients(客户) over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.

1. 1.

   What is the author’s attitude toward high-tech communications equipment?

   1. A.
      Critical.                  
   2. B.
      Indifferent.              
   3. C.
      Negative.                
   4. D.
      Positive.
2. 2.

   With the increased use of high-tech communications equipment, business people_________.

   1. A.
      have to get familiar with modern technology
   2. B.
      are gaining more economic benefits from domestic operations
   3. C.
      are placing more importance on their overseas business
   4. D.
      are eager to work overseas
3. 3.

   In this passage, “out of sight and out of mind” (Para. 3) probably means _________.

   1. A.
      being unable to think properly for lack of insight
   2. B.
      being totally out of touch with business at home
   3. C.
      missing opportunities for promotion when abroad
   4. D.
      leaving all care and worry behind
4. 4.

   According to the passage, what is an important consideration of international corporations in employing people today?

   1. A.
      Connections with businesses overseas.    
   2. B.
      Ability to speak the client’s language.
   3. C.
      Technical know-how.                                  
   4. D.
      Business experience.

Do you remember the game “Telephone”? A message gets passed from person to person, and everyone laughs at how distorted(曲解) it becomes. As a game, telephone can be fun. In real life, sending messages through third parties fouls things up. It is important for family members who have “business” with other family members to take it up directly.
When tension arises in a relationship between two people, a frequent way of dealing with this is to send messages through a third person. Family doctors refer to the process as ‘triangulation”. Following a quarrel, a mother may say to her son, “Tell your father to pass the salt”, which may be answered by, “Tell your mother to get her own salt.” In many long cases of triangulation, the middleman becomes severely disturbed.
Two years ago, Ruth and Ralph Gordon brought their 17-year-old daughter for treatment. Lucille was not doing well in school, using drugs heavily. When I began to work with her, she was uncommunicative and aggressive. After some time, however, she opened up and told me her parents rarely talked to each other, but both used her as a middleman. Mrs. Gordon was sexually unsatisfied and suggested to Lucille that she ask her father to go for marriage advice. Mr. Gordon told Lucille that he was seeing another woman, and he urged Lucille to speak to her mother about improving her behaviour. Caught in this confusing situation, Lucille became more and more troubled. It wasn’t until she refused to play middleman that she began to improve. When either parent began to send a message through her, she learned to say, “Tell him/her yourself!”
You’ll find that when family members learn to dial each other directly, there’s rarely a busy signal or wrong number. With direct dialing, a sense of freshness is created.

1. 1.

   The underlined words “foul things up” in the 1st paragraph means ________.

   1. A.
      create things
   2. B.
      improve things
   3. C.
      remove things
   4. D.
      ruin things
2. 2.

   “Triangulation” in the 2nd paragraph refers to _________.

   1. A.
      the process of sending messages through a 3rd person
   2. B.
      the middleman who becomes severely disturbed
   3. C.
      the tension in a relationship between 2 people
   4. D.
      the argument between a mother and a father
3. 3.

   Through the example of Lucille and her parents, the writer hopes to tell the readers that _______.

   1. A.
      family members should learn to get their messages across directly
   2. B.
      parents should send their children taking drugs for treatment
   3. C.
      children can hardly get used to their parents’ troubles
   4. D.
      children should refuse the requests of their parents