A child who has once been pleased with a tale(神话故事) likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

 A change made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

1. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is _______.

A. repeated without any change                B. treated as a joke

C. made some changes by the parent            D. set in the present

2. According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _______.

A. in a realistic setting                       B. heard for the first time

C. repeated too often                           D. told in a different way

3. The advantage claimed(提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _______.

A. makes them less fearful              

B. develops their power of memory

C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs

4. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

A. they are full of imagination. 

B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth.

C. they are not interesting.

D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach.

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

假设你是新华中学的学生李明，班里从外地转来一名同学张华，他一时无法融入新的班集体，感到很苦恼请根据下列要点给他写一封信：

1．帮他分析原因

2. 给他提出建议(至少两条)

3. 陈述你帮助他的具体打算

注意：1．词数：100左右；

2．信的开头和结尾已给出(不算入总词数)；

Dear Zhang Hua,

I’m sorry to hear that you have trouble in getting along well with the new class. So I hope I can give you a hand.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Ming　

After decades of effort, the city is still trying to _____ how to ban smoking in public places.

A. look through            B. get through        C. figure out                        D. take out

.Is the school ______the foreigners visited yesterday large ?

A.that        B .where    C.the one        D.what

. I ____ to the top of the tree, but I fell off it and hurt my leg.

A. must have climbed                 B. was able to climb

    C. could have climbed             D. should have climbed

 Running a company is not _______ a matter of hiring people——they also need to be trained.

   A. simply          B. partly        C. seriously       D. equally

 完形填空 （共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第30至第40小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Going to a Britain school for one year was a very enjoyable and exciting experience for me. I was very happy with the school hours in Britain  31  school starts around 9 a.m. and ends about 3.30 p.m. This means I could get up an hour  32  than usual as schools in China begin before 8 a.m.

On the first day, all students went to  33  assembly. I sat next to a girl whose name was Diane. We  34  became best friends. During  35 , the headmaster told us about the rules of the school. He also told us that the best way to  36  respect from the school was to work hard and  37  high grades. This sounded like my school in China. {007}

My English improved a lot as I used English every day. I usually went to the Computer Club at lunch time, so I  38  e-mail my family and friends back home  39  free. I also had an extra French class on Tuesday evenings.  40  was really fun as I learned how to buy, prepare and cook food. 

31. A. because     B. if            C. so                 D. though

32. A. earlier      B. late          C. early               D. later

33. A. join           B. hold        C. attend            D. make

34. A. just           B. now         C. soon              D. fast

35. A. assembly    B. class       C. meal              D. break

36. A. take                 B. earn         C. find               D. creat

37. A. realise       B. achieve   C. improve         D. develop

38. A. must         B. should     C. needed                  D. could

39. A. for            B. in            C. on                 D. with

40. A. Eating       B. Cooking   C. Learning        D. playing

 As is often pointed out, knowledge is a two-edged weapon which can be used ______ for good or evil.

A. similarly                 B. widely                         C. equally                  D. properly

       --- Is there anything else to discuss?

     --- No, that’s all, I guess. ____

A. What for?  B. Hurry up, will you    C. Let’s call it a day, shall we?D. How time flies!

       What surprised me was not what he said but ____ he said it.

A. the way            B. in the way that         C. in the way                      D. the way which