Will you have a free evening tonight? ______, let’s have a dinner together.

A. If not     B. Why not     C. If so      D. What’ more

. —— You finally made it , didn’t you ?

    ——Yes ,          your help , I would have not succeeded.

   A. but for       B. except for      C. but that         D. thanks to 

. In the years        , the city government will take effective measures to bring the price of the house under control.

A. following       B. followed        C. follow           D. to follow 

最近，很多中学生都纷纷开起了自己的博客。一方面，博客可以作为展示自己的窗口，

可以释放学习的压力，因此已经被越来越多的中学生所接受。但是，另一方面，很多家长和

老师都认为管理个人博客要花相当多的时间和精力，会耽误学习。

请对这一现象进行简要介绍，并发表自己的看法。

注意：词数120左右

参考词汇：开博客open one’s blog

开头已给出：

Nowadays, it is a common phenomenon that more and more high school students open their own blogs on the Internet.

请以“如何学好英语”为题，写一篇议论文。主要内容如下：

(1)要学好英语，应该坚持不断地使用英语。

    (2)语法是重要的，但语法不是一切；

    (3)在开始阶段应十分重视听与说，注意语音语调。

词数：80～120。

45. —Could I borrow your digital camera, please?

    —Yes, of course you ________.

A. might       B. will          C. can  D. should

Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States and Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes which will give them a head in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.

However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.

Parents can see that their children are very skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children lack self-respect and self-confidence.

The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills that they need to be confident, happy and clever.

Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.

Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and lots of self-confidence.

Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not merely teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.

64. Parents in China, according to this passage, ______.

A. are too strict with their children

B. are too rich to educate their children

C. have some problems in educating their children correctly

D. are too poor to educate their children

65. Generally speaking, children’s skills ______.

A. come from their parents

B. have nothing to do with their education

C. may be different from child to child

D. have something to do with their marks in the exams

66. The writer of this passage does not seem to be satisfied with ______.

A. the parents’ ideas of educating their children

B. the education system

C. children’s skills

D. children’s hobbies

67. Doing some cooking at home helps children ______.

A. learn how to serve their parents

B. learn how to become strong and fat

C. benefit from it and prepare themselves for the future

D. make their parents believe that they are clever

第二节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

I am writing to thank you for your great hospitality.

I have a good flight home and my parents and sisters                              76.               

were waiting for the airport to meet me. There was so                          77.                

many news to tell them that we stayed up talking until                           78.                 

long after a midnight. They were interested to see my                             79.              

photograph, especially the one of you and your family.                         80.                

I learned a lot of English while staying with you.                                        81.                 

I am planning to write you regularly like a way of                                       82.                 

practicing. It would be real helpful if you could correct                               83.                 

my mistakes. But l do hope you’ll visit us next year.                                     84.                 

I’m sure we will get very well with each other.                                            85.                 

I am looking forward to your good news.

 The pop star walked out of the stage, ______ her hands elegantly to her crazy fans.

A. waving        B. was waving      C. waved           D. to wave

The first newspapers were handwritten sheets which were posted in pubic places. The earliest recorded newspaper was started in Rome in 59 BC. In the 700’s the world’s first printed newspaper was developed in China. The paper was printed from carved(雕刻的) wooden blocks and sent out among the citizens. Europe didn’t have a regularly(定期的) published newspaper until 1609, when one was started in Germany.

The fist regularly published newspaper in the English language was printed in 1620. In 1621, an English newspaper was started in London and was published weekly. The first daily English newspaper was the Daily Courant, which didn’t appear until March 1702.

In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston. But the local(当地的) government soon stopped its publication. In 1704, John Campbell started The Boston News-letter, the first newspaper to be published daily in America. By 1760, the whole America had more than thirty daily newspapers. There are now about 1800 daily papers in the United States.

Today, as a group, English language newspapers have the largest circulation(发行量) in the world. The largest circulation for a newspaper, however, is that of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, which sells over eleven million copies every day.

1．In Europe, the newspaper was first regularly published_____.

A .in England                 B. in Germany

C. in France                   D. in London

2．The first English newspaper printed and sold every day appeared _________.

A. in 1620                                       B. in 1609   

C. at the end of the 17th century          D. at the beginning of the 18th century.

3．How many years earlier was the newspaper printed in China than in America?

A. 9 or 10 centuries.                       B. More than 1000 years.

C. 700 years or so                         D. Less than 800 years.

4．Which of the following newspapers have the largest number of readers in the world?

A. Italian language newspapers.

B. German language newspapers.

C. English language newspapers.

D. Japanese language newspapers.

5．Which title best gives the main idea of the passage?

A. The World’s First Newspaper.

B .History of Newspaper.

C. The First Daily Newspaper in American.

D. A Remarkable Man-Benjamin Harris.