阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。把正确答案填在答题卡上。

Ali is from a Middle Eastern country. He now stays in the USA. He smokes a lot of cigarettes every day. He has smoked for nine years. Ali says, “I tried to give up smoking in my hometown, but it was impossible. My parents smoke. My brothers smoke. All my friends smoke. At parties and at meetings, almost all the men smoke. Here in the United States, not as many people smoke.  ____1.____ ”

Many smokers are like Ali: they want to stop smoking.  ____2.____ They know it can cause cancer and heart disease. But it is difficult for them to give up smoking because cigarettes have a drug in them. The drug is nicotine. People who smoke a lot need nicotine.

____3.____  The nicotine makes him sick. In a few days, the smoker’s body is used to the nicotine, and he feels fine. Later, the smoker needs nicotine to keep feeling fine. Without nicotine, he feels bad.

   ____4.____  Many people who quit will soon smoke again. At a party or at work they will decide to smoke “just one” cigarette. Then they will smoke another cigarette, and another. Soon they become smokers again.  ____5.____     

A. It will be easier to change the smoking habit here. 

B. It is very hard to quit smoking.

C. Thus nicotine makes smokers addicted to cigarettes.   

D. When a person first begins to smoke, he usually feels terrible. 

E. The smokers know that smoking is bad for their health.  

F. But it is said that medicine is needed to stop them from smoking.

G. Maybe there is only one easy way to quit smoking: never start. 

单词拼写（根据所给中文写出下列单词的正确形式；每小题1分，满分12分）

1.They entered the area without __________ (许可）.

2.He would ____________ (淹死）his sadness in coffee.

3.Yonghui did not look happy but __________(怒视）at him.

4.Perhaps we should combine our ideas and provide a _________(均衡的）menu.

5.Come on, ____________(满足) my curiosity, what happened last night?

6.We stood for a few moments, _______________(赞美；钦佩) the view.

7.They see a ___________(一文不名的）young man wandering on the pavement.

8.The fact is that I earned my ___________（船费）by working as an unpaid hand.

9.The discovery of __________(重力) is so important for science.

10.It was not so obvious that water was to be __________ (基本的）to the development of life.

11.I cheered up immediately and floated _________(失重地） around in our spaceship cabin.

12.For several ______ (十亿）years after the “Big Bang”, the earth was still just a cloud of dust.

此题要求你对一段文章改错。先对每一行作出判断是对还是错。如果是对的，在该行右边横线上画一个勾(√)；如果有错误(每行不会多于一个错误)，则按情况改错如下：

此行多一个词，把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改

Get a good education is more important today than

1._________

ever before .In Canada mostly children attend public

2._________

schools. Public schools are mainly found by governments

3._________

through tax income. Students in Canada taught in

4._________

English and in French. The rests of Canadian children

5._________

attend private schools, that are supported mainly by fees

6._________

paying by parents .By law ,the children must attend

7._________

the school from age 5 to 16. There are several different

8.________

levels in the Canadian education system .The first was

9._________

called Elementary Schools ,which include kindergartens

10._________

through grade 7 or 8.

最近，你班同学就“太空探索是否值得”这一话题展开了一场讨论。请你根据下表提供的信息，用英语写一篇短文介绍讨论的情况。

注意： 1. 词数：120左右；

2. 参考词汇：短缺 shortage （n.) 。

—Do you mind my asking you a rather personal question?

— Not at all.________.

A. Go ahead B. Sounds a good idea

C. That depends D. That’s fine

Sarah looked at _________ finished painting with __________satisfaction.

A. 不填；a B. a; the

C. the; 不填 D. the; a

Larry asked Bill and Peter to go on a picnic with him, but ________ of them wanted to, because they had work to do.

A. either B. any

C. neither D. none

My brother _________while he ________his bicycle and hurt himself.

A. fell; was riding B. fell; were riding

C. had fallen; rode D. had fallen; was riding

We must keep in mind the fact __________ China is still a developing country.

A. whether B. that

C. why D. when

Do you wake up every morning __________ energetic and ready to start a new day?

A. feel B. to feel

C. feeling D. felt