_______ many times , he still couldn’t understand it．

       A．Told                 B．Having been told  

       C．He was told                 D．Though he had been told

－He asked Tom, “Have you finished your homework？”

－He asked Tom  　　　　.

       A．if had he finished his homework.

       B．whether he had finished his homework

       C．if he had finished your homework.

       D．if you had finished your homework.

Mary, whose father passed away for smoking abuse, cried, “Any assumption that smoking is beneficial is _________ absurd.”

A. totally              B. nearly               C. rarely                       D. merely

There are ______ to show that a new , different city is coming out of its dark past ．

       A．signals          B．marks         C．signs          D．symbols

----- Have you seen your nephew lately?

       ------ Yes, in fact, I saw him yesterday．I ______ him for three years．

       A．haven’t        B．didn’t         C．hadn’t          D．don’t

---Do you think our basketball players played vey well yesterday?

   --- _____________.

       A. They were not nervous at all    B. They were still young      

C. They played naturally          D. They couldn’t have done better

Why should I teach my children history? That sounds like a stupid question to even ask. But, as I hear different home schooling teachers discuss history, I get the idea that there may be different reasons for teaching history. Let me briefly explain the three good reasons for studying history and two bad reasons for studying history.

The major reason I see for studying history is that we can learn from the past. I am convinced that the world would be a much better place if more people understood the successes and failures of the past and the things that made these successes and failures. However, as the unfortunately true statement goes “the one thing we seem to learn from history is that we don’t seem to learn from history ”. Perhaps at least in teaching history, to my children I can do a small part in changing this.

A second major reason for studying history is that it is hard to understand the current political climate in the absence of an understanding of its historical context. We can not even understand who we are and where we are without history, much less try to figure out where we are going or how we should get where we want to be.

I teach my children history, for one more reason. I purchased a set of historical audio tapes for our children. My seven-year-old son listened to them over and over. It was my hope that he would become inspired by the accomplishments of people like the Wright brothers to accomplish things by himself. I think that it is good that we celebrate the accomplishments of people like Martin Luther King Jr. In doing so, young people are called on to stand for the principles that he stood for and accomplish what he accomplished. I also think that by studying people like Adolph Hitler, people can learn to stand against the things that he stood for.(325words)

What message can we get from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2?

A. Many people aren’t clever enough to learn well from the past.

B. Many people fail to make good use of history and make the same mistakes.

C. Many people feel it hard to understand history.

D. Many people have no interest in studying history.

Some historical figures （人物）are mentioned in the last paragraph to show_____.

A. people can be inspired to do good, while also learning to fight against evil

B. people may also learn from bad historical figures

C. more celebrations should be held to honor their achievements

D. today’s people can also achieve what they achieved

What would be talked about in the following paragraph?

A. How to teach history effectively.         

B. Some negative reasons for studying history.

C. How to get more people to study history.  

D. Some bad historical figures.

星期一, 你们开了个班会讨论 “上大学是高中生唯一的出路吗?” 以下图表是讨论结果.

根据图表数据, 写一篇短文,

要点包括以下内容;

1. 增长知识,提高素养(quality), 利于择业

2. 成功的路不只一条.

3. 学费(tuition)高,就业难.

4. 你的观点及原因

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Tom was late for school ___________________, which, of course, made his teacher very angry.

A. more or less   B. sooner or later   C. here and there    D. over and over again

Look out! Don’t get too close to the house________ roof is under repair.

A. which           B. its            C. whose                D. who