In 1896, Einstein went to Zurich to study physics. There he met a girl from Hungary. They studied in the same class and the same interest in physics brought them together and they became good friends. Before long they fell in love. In 1903 when Einstein was 24, he married Merits, who was 4 years older than he.

After their marriage, Einstein devoted himself to the research of the great theory. To give her husband more help, Merits gave up her own work, and became a good wife and assistant. She tried her best to encourage him whenever possible. She was sure that her husband would succeed. They often discussed the theory while walking outside or sitting together in the room. They even did that in their letters when one of them was away from their home.

In1914, Einstein moved to Berlin and settled down there. At that time his theory proved to be correct and he had become famous all over the world. But it was not long before the First Would War broke out. Merits as well as her two sons, who were on holiday in Switzerland, couldn’t come back to Berlin any more. The war not only stopped Einstein’s work but also broke up the warm, happy family. In 1919, Einstein and Merits had to get divorced(离婚).

1.In which year was Merits born? ___

A.1896 B. 1875 C. 1883 D. 1879

2.We can learn from the passage that Merits ______.

A. greatly helped Einstein with his research work

B. supported Einstein but helped him little

C. was also a great scientist

D. was the real discoverer of the theory

3.The underline phrase "settled down" in the last paragraph means _____.

A. to become restless

B. solve problems

C. decide to leave

D. to begin living a stable and orderly life

4.Why did Einstein and Merits get divorced?

A. Because Merits didn’t love Einstein after the war broke out.

B. Because Einstein was famous all over the world.

C. Because Einstein only cared about his research.

D. Because the war stopped Merits from coming back to Berlin.

5.The writer wanted to tell us that _____.

A. Merits should be respected as greatly as her husband

B. We should remember Merits when talking about Einstein’ theory

C. The bitter (苦难的) suffering was the mother of success

D. Einstein suffered a great deal in his life

Women were friends, I once would have said, when they totally love and support and trust each other, and bear to each other the secrets of their souls, and run—no questions asked—to help each other, and tell harsh truths to each other(No, you can’t wear that dress unless you lose ten pounds first.) when these truths must be told.

In other words, I once would have said that a friend is a friend all the way, but now I believe that’s narrow point of view. Friendships serve many different functions，meet different needs and range from those as all-the-way as the friendship of the soul sisters mentioned above to that of the most casual playmates.

Convenience friends are women with whom we’d have no particular reason to be friends: a next-door neighbor or the mother of one of our children’s closest friends. They’ll lend us their cups for a party. They’ll drive our kids to school when we’re sick. They’ll take us to pick up our car when we need a lift .As we will for them. But we don’t , with convenience friends, ever come too close or tell too much; we maintain our public face and emotional distance.

Special-interest friends aren’t intimate（亲密）,and they needn’t involve kids or cats. Their value lies in some interest jointly shared .And so we may have an office friend or a tennis friend.

“I’ve got one woman friend,” says Joyce,” who likes, as I do, to take music courses, which makes it nice for me and her. I’d say that what we’re doing is doing together, not being together.”

Crossroads friends are important for what was for the friendship we shared at a crucial（关键的）,now past, time of life. A time, perhaps, when we roomed in college together or went together through pregnancy, birth and that scary first year of new motherhood.

Crossroads friends develop powerful links, links strong enough to endure with not much more contact than once-a-year letters at Christmas. And out of respect for those crossroads years, for those dramas and dreams we once shared, we will always be friends.

Crossroads friends seem to maintain a special kind of intimacy ----dormant（休眠的） but always ready to be revived（复活） ---and though we may rarely meet ,whenever we do connect, it’s personal and strong. Another kind of intimacy exists in the cross-generational friendships, the friends that form across generation in what one woman calls her daughter-mother and her mother-daughter relationships.

There are good friends, pretty good friends and very good friends, and these friendships are defined by their level of intimacy. We might tell a good friend, for example, that yesterday we had a fight with our husband. And we might tell a pretty good friend that this fight with our husband made us so mad that we slept on the couch. And we might tell a very good friend that the reason we got so mad in that fight that we slept on the couch had something to do with a girl who works in his office. But it’s only to our very best friends that we’re willing to tell all, to tell what’s going on with that girl in his office.

1.The underlined word “harsh”(in Para.1)probably means “------“

A. protective B.impossible

C. unpleasant D. unbelievable

2.What can we know about convenience friends?

A.People may share their sorrow and pain with their convenience friends.

B.People may borrow a large sum of money from their convenience friends.

C.People may ask their convenience friends to pick up their children for them.

D.People would like to seek comfort and convenience from their convenience friends.

3.What is the similarity between crossroads friends and cross-generational friends?

A.They often write to each other but never meet.

B.They become friends at a crucial time of their life.

C. They both enjoy a special kind of intimacy with each other.

D.The relationship usually exists between mothers and daughters.

4.The friendships in the passage are classified（分类） according to _________.

A.different stages of one’s life

B.the purpose of making friends

C.how people make friends with others

D.how close the relationship is

5.What would be the best title for the passage?

A.The value of friendship

B.How to make lasting friendships

C.Ways to avoid destroying your friendship

D.Friends, good friends and such good friends

Word spelling(10%)

1.He died of h__________ because of lacking food.

2.She wants to r__________ her weight from 98 to 92 kilos.

3.When I said some people are stupid, I wasn't r__________ to you.

4.Lin Qiaozhi wrote a book i_______________ for women in the countryside.

5.This character was a social failure but loved for his optimism and determination to o_________ all the difficulties.

6.E___________ with up-to-date weapons, the warship set off towards the Atlantic.

7.Some husbands and wives are always a__________, which will affect their children.

8.The boy made a living by d___________ bottles of milk from door to door.

9.U__________, his father died, leaving the family even worse off, so Charlie spent his childhood looking after his sick mother and his brother.

10.I r___________ to say that I am unable to help you because I am too busy.

Proof-reading (10%)

Dr Yuan is quite satisfying with his life. However, he didn’t care about being famous. He feels it gives him less freedom to do her research. He would much rather keeping time for his hobbies. He enjoys listening to violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and read. Spending money in himself or leading a comfortable life also mean very little to him. Indeed, he believes in that a person with too much money has more rather than few troubles. He therefore gives millions of yuan equip others for their research in agriculture.

父母给予我们生命，哺育我们成长，教育我们长大，没有父母便没有我们，我们要懂得报答父母的养育之恩，我们要珍惜父母的深情，我们要感恩父母。假如你的名字叫李华，你校英语报开展“感恩家书”征文活动，请用英语写一封100-120个词的信，向校英语报投稿，内容包括：

1. 父亲或母亲给你印象最深刻的一件事；

2. 对父亲或母亲的感恩。

注意：信的开头和结尾已给出（不计入词数）。

Dear Dad / Mom,

I’m writing to you to convey / express my thanks to you.

Yours

Li Hua

--- So you missed The Lord of The Ring.

--- _______. I got to the cinema twenty minutes before it finished.

A. Not exactly B. Not especially

C. No way D. No excuse

We will reach Dali in Yunnan Province, _______our cousins will join us.

A. which B. where C. who D. that

The careless driver received a ticket for speeding. He _______ so fast.

A. couldn’t have driven B. can’t have driven

C. wouldn’t have driven D. shouldn’t have driven

A very large number of the students in our school _______from the countryside. Besides, the number of girls ______ more than half of the total.

A. is/ reaches B. are / reaches

C. are/ reach D. is / reach

______ is the ability to do the job______ matters, not where you come from or what you are.

A. This / that B. That / that

C. It/ that D. It/ which