【题目】To develop one’s taste in English，the most effective way is to read English books extensively. However, one may be at a loss to choose the appropriate books，especially as a beginner.I would like to share some of my experience.

My first English novel was Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice，recommended by many English teachers and professors as an ideal book for English learners. But I had great difficulty in understanding the novel，let alone enjoying it. It’s not the vocabulary that troubled me，but rather the way Austen constructs sentences，and her way of thinking，which seemed too remote to me at that time. My fading enthusiasm was much recovered after reading Hemingway’s novel Farewell to Arms. I particularly liked his brief and lively style. So my first suggestion is，as a beginner, you’d better choose contemporary novels instead of classical ones.

However，reading novels is not the only way to improve your English. English essays can at once inform you，entertain you, and improve your taste in English. The best example is Bertrand Russell’s work. Its language is plain, yet you cannot help feeling the elegance and the unique sense of humor. His simple language enables his philosophy(哲理) within the reach of ordinary people. Here comes my second suggestion—essays are indispensable.

Never follow other’s opinions blindly，however famous or influential the person might be. As a saying goes，one man’s meat is another man’s poison. With that in mind，we are sure to find out our favorite writers through reading and develop our fine taste in English.

【1】What made the author’s first English novel hard to understand?

A. Complex conversations.

B. Not knowing the social background.

C. The old-fashioned vocabulary.

D. Sentences and Austen’s thinking pattern.

【2】Which can best replace the underlined word“ indispensable”?

A. necessary B. challenging

C. related D. inspired

【3】What advice does the author give in the last paragraph?

A. Choose books that challenging us most.

B. Read books that are instructive.

C. Don’t be affected by other’s choices.

D. Compare books before buying.

【4】What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?

A. Give comments on literature works.

B. Tell beginners how to choose English books.

C. Encourage people to read more English books.

D. Recommend first-class books to English learners.

【题目】假定你是李华，你的班级准备举行一场中秋诗会。请代表班级给外教Mr. Hill 写一封英文邀请函。

主要内容包括：

1.活动时间：九月十五日晚七点至九点。

2.活动地点南湖公园。

3.活动内容：赏月，品尝月饼，朗诵诗歌等。

参考词汇：诗歌朗诵会：poetry recital party.南湖公园：South Lake Park.

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；。

Dear Mr Hill,

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Yours,Li Hua

【题目】Many people think that listening is a passive business. It is just the opposite. Listening well is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. It is because they do not realize this, or because they are not willing to do the work, that most people do not listen well.

Listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as ‘bracketing’. Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else’s world from the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. Moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other person. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to open up the inner part of his or her mind to the listener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be accomplished only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.

Most of the time we lack this energy. Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening selectively. Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are far more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply refuse to listen to what we don’t want to hear.

It wasn’t until toward the end of my doctor career that I have found the knowledge that one is being truly listened to is frequently therapeutic(有疗效的). In about a quarter of the patients I saw, surprising improvement was shown during the first few months of psychotherapy(心理疗法), before any of the roots of problems had been uncovered or explained. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patient’s sense that he or she was being truly listened to, often for the first time in years, and for some, perhaps for the first time ever.

【1】The phrase “stepping into his or her shoes” in paragraph 2 probably means ________.

A. preparing a topic list first

B. focusing on one’s own mind

C. directing the talk to the desired results

D. experiencing the speaker’s inside world

【2】What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 2?

A. How to listen well.

B. What to listen to.

C. Benefits of listening.

D. Problems in listening

【3】According to the author, in communication people tend to ________.

A. listen actively

B. listen purposefully

C. set aside their prejudices

D. open up their inner mind

【4】According to the author, the patients improved mainly because ________.

A. they were taken good care of

B. they knew they were truly listened to

C. they had partners to talk to

D. they knew the roots of problems

【题目】书面表达

最近，某中学英语报向学生征文，主题为New Look of My Hometown。请你根据以下内容提示，用英语为该报写一篇短文，介绍家乡的情况并发表自己的看法。

注意：1．可适当增加细节，使短文连贯、通顺；

2．词数100左右。

参考词汇：economy经济

【题目】下面每个句子都只有一处语言错误。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。多改或不按格式要求改不得分。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（），并在其下面写出该词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

【1】Between the two buildings stand a tall tree.

【2】 Mr. Brown lost all his possession in that big fire.

【3】A few kind words at the right time can make difference.

【4】Deeply impressed on its beauty, I fell in love with Guilin.

【5】Life in the twenty-first century is much easier than it used to.

【6】Instant Tom heard the fire alarm, he rushed out of the building.

【7】After his journey from abroad, Richard returned home, exhausting.

【8】 Don’t move anything here. Mother likes everything to be in the place.

【9】It is demanded that the books are returned to the library within two weeks.

【10】We’ll discuss a number of cases which beginners of English fail to use the language properly.

【题目】书面表达

假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Peter近期打算来中国，他对中国的乡村生活很感兴趣。

你打算邀请他去体验一下你家乡的“农家乐”。请用英文写封信向他推荐，要点如下：

1．“农家乐”兴起的原因；

2．“农家乐”的服务特色。

注意：

1．词数100左右；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3．参考词汇：农家乐agritainment

Dear Peter,

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Yours．

Li Hua

【题目】“The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself; to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful,” says Plato. Self-control is at the root of all the advantages. Let a man give in to his impulses (冲动) and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.

A single angry word has lost many friends. When Socrates found in himself any temper or anger, he would check it by speaking low in order to control himself. If you are conscious of being angry, keep your mouth shut so that you can hold back rising anger. Many a person has dropped dead in great anger. Fits of anger bring fits of disease. “Whoever the gods would destroy, they first make them mad.” “Keep cool,” says Webster, “anger is not argument.” “Be calm in arguing,” says George Herbert, “for fierceness (狂怒) makes error a fault.”

To be angry with a weak man is to prove that you are not strong yourself. “Anger,” says Pythagoras, “begins with foolishness and ends with regret.” You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he conquers, not by the power of those which conquer him.

Self-control is man’s last and greatest victory.

If a man lacks self-control he seems to lack everything. Without it he can have no patience, no power to govern himself; he can have no self-confidence, for he will always be controlled by his strongest feeling. If he lacks self-control, the very backbone and nerve of character are lacking too.

【1】What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Self- control is important for a man.

B. We should learn to be strong.

C. A man who keeps cool won’t lose any game.

D. The great heroes in history knew how to control themselves.

【2】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. If you are mad, the gods will fail you.

B. If you lose your temper first, gods will fail you first.

C. If you can’t control yourself, you will be crazy.

D. If the gods want to fail you, they will make you mad first.

【3】Which of the following is NOT true, according to passage?

A. The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself.

B. You will make a small mistake serious if you don’t keep cool.

C. You must measure a man’s strength by the power of the feelings which conquer him.

D. Anger begins with foolishness and ends with regret.

【4】Which of the following can’t help you avoid anger, according to the passage?

A. Being calm in arguing.

B. Checking your temper or anger by speaking low.

C. Keeping your mouth shut.

D. Trying to make the other angry first.

【题目】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。

Researchers have shown that your talent for happiness is, to a large degree, determined by your genes（基因）. 【1】 We can do this by overcoming negative emotions and developing positive emotions.

Strategy（策略）1: 【2】

The first step is to make a choice to be happy. In Seeking Happiness, Bertrand Russell said, “Happiness must be an achievement rather than a gift of the gods, and in this achievement, effort must play a great part.”

Once you’ve decided to be happier, you can choose strategies for achieving happiness.

Strategy 2: Develop gratitude（感激）.

In Authentic Happiness, psychologist Martin Seligman encourages readers to perform a daily “gratitude exercise”. 【3】

Strategy 3: Remember, money can’t buy happiness.

Research shows: 【4】 Yes, “we always think that some things are wrong because they cannot bring us happiness.” writes Daniel Gilbert in Stumbling on Happiness.

Strategy 4: Take part in meaningful activities.

“People are seldom happier,” says Jackson, “than when they’re doing meaningful activities.”

Yet, he has found that the most common leisure（休闲）activity — watching TV — produces some of the lowest levels of happiness. 【5】 Active leisure that helps a person grow does not come easily, he writes in Finding Flow.

A. Choose to be happy.

B. Seek happiness.

C. However, psychologists believe we can pursue happiness.

D. This drives bitterness from our heart, and promotes happiness.

E. Happiness is decided by many things.

F. To get more out of life, we need to put more into it.

G. More money doesn’t often bring more happiness.

【题目】短文改错

下面是你同学的一篇英文习作，请你帮助修改这篇作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改仅限一次。

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Alibaba founder Jack Ma, his company has been valued at more than $ 221 billion of which Ma owned 6%, is put in the top position among China’s wealthiest. But he stays outside the list of the world’s 10 rich people.

Fought against a hard life, young Ma still managed to learn English well enough to gain a degree and became a teacher. Afterwards he started a translation agency in which took him to the US, where he introduced to the Internet. His fate was bound to change before he was accidentally appointed to take an American visitor Jerry Yang, a co-founder of Yahoo, in a tour of the Great Wall. The meeting obvious proved to be a turning point for all of them, promoting the birth of Alibaba and later cooperation with Jerry Yang.

【题目】阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示,在空格上填入恰当的词，使句子完整。

【1】他与他的新上司胡新的讨论注定会对他的记者生涯产生重要影响。

His discussion with his new boss, Hu Xin,_______ _______ strongly influence his life as a journalist.

【2】听上去汽车的发动机好像坏了。如果是这样的话，我们最好立刻把它送到修理厂。

It sounds like something is wrong with the car’s engineer. _______ _______ ,we’d better take it to the garage immediately.

【3】她以前从来没有见过和罗伯特一样打网球打得这么好的人。

Never before _______ _______ _______ anybody who can play tennis as well as Robert.

【4】我正在玩游戏，这时突然停电了。

I _______ _______ computer games _______electricity was cut off.

【5】一看到他古怪的穿着，我们都笑了。(sight)

We laughed _______ _______ _______ _______ his strange clothes.