Have you ever been to a wedding and simply loved the bride’s bouquet（花束）？More than likely some part of it was the Hawaiian Wedding Plant. This foreign houseplant can be enjoyed by anyone, not just brides. With a little proper attention and careful planning on location, this foreign houseplant, which is from Madagascar, can be brought into the home where it can become an interesting focus.

Caring for the Hawaiian Wedding Plant is not much different from caring for any other houseplants that may already be in your home. The only difference between this type of houseplant and others is the amount of the basic requirements that this foreign houseplant needs to survive and perform beautifully. During the growing season, this plant requires its wet soil, but when winter rolls around, this plant needs its soil to be kept drier.

Hawaiian Wedding Plants should also be potted in well-drained(排水)soil and placed in a location that receives full sun. That the soil must be kept wet does not mean that it should sit in water, so the soil must drain easily or this plant will not survive. Water the plant daily and feed this plant every two to three weeks with a little fertilizer(化肥) for acid-loving plants. Prune in early spring, even as early as February. If these needs are met, this plant will stay beautiful.

The most special feature of this foreign houseplant is its long lasting blooms(开花)combined with its unbelievable sweet smell. The Hawaiian Wedding Plant blooms the heaviest in the spring months, but has been known to bloom in any warm months, so do not be surprised to find blooms most time of the year except maybe in the dead of winter.

Why does the author mention wedding and bouquet in the first paragraph?

  A. To introduce a Hawaiian wedding.              B. To attract the readers’ interest in the passage.

C. To show the beauty of the flower.           D. To teach the readers to choose proper bouquets.

The Hawaiian Wedding Plant comes from________.

  A. Hawaii                 B. China                C. Madagascar                     D. Alaska

Which of the following are the growing conditions of Hawaiian Wedding Plant?

  a. Wet soil.                b. Lots of fertilizer.                     c. Proper sunshine.        d. Some acid.

A. a.c                           B. a. b                   C. b. c                          D. a. d

What does the underlined phrase “in the dead of winter” in the last paragraph probably mean?

  A. At the end of the winter.                     B. At the beginning of the winter.

C. In deadly condition in winter.          D. In the coldest part of winter.

On my birthday this year, I decided to do something very different. I had been   31   so much and I wanted to reach out to bring happiness to someone else. So, that   32  , I bought some flowers and went to a hospital. I had no   33   who I was going to present the flowers to, but I would find someone who needed   34  .

I asked the nurses in the hospital, who thought it   35   that I didn’t have anyone in particular to see.   36  , they gave me the room number of a(n)   37   lady, who needed some comfort.

I entered the room with the flowers. The elderly woman looked up, staring at me   38  . She was greatly moved when I told her about my   39   in being there. She was an amputee(被截肢者) and she explained to me that she was very worried   40   they were going to fit her with prosthetic leg(假肢). She knew that as she was getting used to the “  41 ”leg, she would be in  42  .

Later, in the following two hours, we  43  a lot and both felt very happy. I  44   until it was dark. I will always remember how   45   she was the moment she received the flowers from me—a   46  . She called me her angel and said she had no more   47  .

I   48   that story with my neighbor and she   49  that she was going to do the same thing on her birthday. And I hope that she will   50  others to be kind and do the same thing. You never know you might be considered someone’s angel one day.

A. shown            B. told                  C. given                D. bought

A. week             B. afternoon          C. hour                 D. night

A. belief            B. sense                C. message            D. idea

A. paying attention to              B. cheering up

          C. looking after                  D. looking down upon

A. strange        B. lucky              C. difficult         D. true

A. Instead        B. Still               C. Besides          D. Therefore

A. young         B. old                C. happy           D. strong

A. angrily        B. suddenly        C. quickly          D. confusedly

A. purpose       B. experience      C. failure            D. trouble

A. unless         B. but                     C. because         D. until

A. thin          B. long                    C. short            D. new

A. surprise       B. pain                    C. need            D. sight

A. talked         B. asked             C. imagined        D. smiled

A. worked        B. stood             C. stayed          D. rested

A. busy          B. shy               C. disappointed   D. moved

A. stranger     B. friend             C. relative       D. doctor

A. fun             B. interest              C. fear                  D. challenge

A. repeated     B. shared            C. learned       D. changed

A. agreed         B. forgot            C. joked         D. promised

A. force          B. warm                   C. allow         D. encourage

Between the two generations, it is often their different views of life and value _______ cause family conflicts．

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

During the week days,  they are luckily busy office people; but on weekends, they are just a brood of（一窝）stay-home animals. A recent survey shows that office workers in China prefer quiet and easy ways to spend their weekends.

In the survey, conducted by job seeking and offering website Zhaopin.com, 32.8 percent of the 6,000 respondents choose to stay home at weekends and have a good rest, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

Twenty percent use their days-off to do housework. And only 19.3 percent are willing to have fun during the break time from work. Their first choice of fun is shopping.

Other choices, though practiced by few, include meeting friends, accompanying the children, trips to the suburbs, and lessons for more skills.

When they. go shopping, 54.5 percent of the white-collars actually shop in supermarkets, while 27.9. percent attend other stores, especially when discounts are offered.

 These activities don't seem to cost much, as 60 percent spend average less than 200 yuan (US$26) during weekends, and 30 percent no more than 500 yuan.

 When asked whom they would spend the weekends with, about 40 percent mention their partners, and 30 percent prefer a weekend all by themselves. Less than 20 percent hang out with friends.

Only 5.8 percent would kill the time with their colleagues. This is because we tend to avoid too many personal contacts with our co-workers when we don't have to work with them, according to some experts.

How many of the office workers who are the respondents do the housework at weekends?

A.1,968.        B.1,158.       C.1,200.       D.1,674.

Why will less than ten percent of office workers kill the time with their colleagues at weekends?

A. Because they can't spare time to play with them.

B. Because they tend to avoid too many personal contacts with hem when they don't have to.

C. Because. they have many things to deal with at weekends.

D. Because some experts suggest they should not keep in touch with their colleagues.

Which of the following is TRUE according to the survey?

A．There is the same percentage about people preferring a weekend all by themselves and people spending no more than 500 yuan during weekends.

B. Most office workers can’t afford things in supermarkets, so they prefer to attend other stores, especially when discounts are offered.

C. More than one fifth of office workers like to hang out with friends.

D. All the office workers prefer to relax themselves and no one is willing to learn more skills.

What is the best title of the passage?

A. How to spend the weekends

B. Several ways of spending their weekends for office people

C. How to go shopping on the weekends for office people

D. Office people prefer easy weekends

根据上下文选择恰当的词组填空；8%

blow away ,be concerned about,  come to power, because of,  

as a matter of fact.  give in, get along with ，calm down，because

1.The girl insisted on going with her mother. And her mother had to _____________.

2.The mother wanted to know how her son was _____________________ other classmates.

3.More and more people ,whether young or old,___________________ their health.

4.After listening to the light music for a while, the boy began _______________.

5.Jack would like to work in the company ______________ the good working conditions.

6. Suddenly a strong wind came and _______________ the roofs of their house.

7. The new president made a wonderful speech after he __________________.

8. I don’t like him ._________________________ I hate him.

假如你班将举行一次英语班会，主题为“How to be strong and healthy”。请你根据下面提示写一篇发言稿。

Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was struck by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops, huge and round, yellow through the dust and smoke of the city. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking what a pity it was that most city livers---myself included---usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.

My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.

I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest house with no electricity or hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon.

Today our lives are connected with glass, metal, plastic and fiber-glass. We eat and breathe things our bodies were not designed to process. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters, air-conditioners, cars and computers. White noise and pollution is in the air. Radio waves and strange lights are constantly disturbing our minds and bodies.

Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I saw the moon and remembered these things. And I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains and perhaps write. I may grow old there. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.

What was the author’s pity in this passage?

A. Most people living in the city failed to see the beautiful moon.

B. There was too much pollution in the city.

C. There were too many modern inventions.

D. There was too much traffic on the road.

What attracted the author most according to the passage?

A. The mountainous jungle of India.           B. The fullest moon.

C. The high mountains in India.                  D. All kinds of modern inventions.

The author longs for ________.

A. Camping outside at night                     B. Returning to the nature

C. Writing books                                     D. Watching the moon

The main idea of this passage probably is “________”.

A. Disadvantage of Living in Cities

B. The Pleasure of Being out at Night

C. Touched by the Moon                    

D. Pollution Caused by Modern Technology

从电视上看到甲型流感(H1N1flu)仍然在墨西哥流行，你为正在墨西哥上学的笔友Anderson的健康与安全担心。请你给他写一封信询问他的情况，并提出防护建议。

要点：

一 询问

1．他的健康状况

2．他们学校有无甲型流感病例(H1N1flu cases)

二 建议

1．尽量呆在家里，少去人多的地方；   2．勤洗手，讲卫生；

3．多开窗，保持空气清新；           4．多吃水果蔬菜。

注意：

1.词数：100左右

2.首尾已给出，不计入总数

3.适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

Dear Anderson,

   From TV I know there are still many H1N1flu cases reported recently in Mexico and many schools are closed as a result. I’m so worried about you.                                                   

                                                           Yours,

Li Hua

As______ matter of fact, _______beauty of nature there made a deep impression on me.                                            

A. a; the                B. a; /             C. the; the;            D. /; the

It's no use _____ my husband ________ money. He won't take your advice.

A. to argue with; about              B. arguing about; with

C. arguing with; about              D. to argue about; with