It is not polite to arrive at a dinner party more than 15 to 20 minutes      1           . The host or hostess usually waits for all the guests to arrive before serving the meal. If someone is late, the food may be spoiled, and so might the host or hostess’s spirits. If you have to be late, call and tell them to start  2           you.

    It’s even 3   (bad) to be early! The host or hostess will probably not be ready. If you are early, drive or walk around the block a few times, or just sit in your car  4  the right time.

    Though it is often important to arrive on time, yet on the other hand, for open houses, the host or hostess invites guests to arrive and leave    5      a certain time. You can arrive at any time within the time he or she gives you.

    It’s polite to bring an empty stomach, but it’s even nicer to bring a small present. The present should not cost a lot, or you might embarrass the host or hostess.      6     (flower), wine, or a box of candy will do fine. Never bring money as a present.

In an   7              (introduce), the order of a name is: (1) 、the given name；(2) 、the family name. In other words the given name comes first. It’s important not   8               to learn and remember names, but to respect them often in   9              (converse). After the introduction，we usually call friends   10           their given names. Older people may want you call them their titles and family names, such as “Mr. Jones”、 “Mrs. Johnson” or “Dr. Brown”.

基础训练篇（24）

Ms. Mary was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like half her age. She loved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact   1.           she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished  2.           a driving mistake.

Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policemen in it saw her pass a red light without  3.          (stop).

When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason  4.                     she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak        5             old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished  6.            he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she  7.              (choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.

When she had  8.               (success) done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive a car well, and you have no doubts       9.                your eyesight.”

The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary  10.          (dismiss), and her record remained unbroken.

基础训练篇（4）

If you want to improve your English, you’d better listen to BBC English which is part (1)_____________ the BBC World Service. It broadcasts all kinds of programmes, such (2)__________difficult grammar points, life in Britain, differences (3)__________ written and (4)__________(speak) English and so on. It is easy for you to find out some information (5)___________ the programmes. You just need to write to BBC English and ask (6) ________ it.

In China, there are (7)__________ English programmes like Follow Me on TV (8)__________ on the radio. They are usually easy (9)__________(receive) and understand and they are very (10)__________(use) to you.

第二节 读写任务 （共1小题，满分25分）

阅读下面短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

The Guangzhou Children’s Palace and Urbanities Growing magazine last week published the results of survey about how children and parents view thankfulness. 84% of parents think that today most children do not feel a sense of thankfulness toward their parents. 90% of the parents said that the key to teaching children to be thankful toward their parents is for parents to set a good example themselves. If parents expect their kids to be more thankful to them, they themselves should be thankful toward their kids as well as toward others.

How do children understand the idea of being thankful? Most children think that being thankful means repaying those who have supported them. 44% of the children think that they should be grateful to those who once helped them or brought them happiness; 36% of the children think that if someone helped them before, then they should do something for him or her in return; and 20% said that they should be grateful to their parents for bringing them up. No kids think that being thankful was something out of date.

[写作内容]

1.    以约30个词概括短文的要点；

2.    以约120个词就 “对父母的感谢” 这个主题发表自己的看法，包括以下要点：

你认为子女是否应该对父母表示感谢并指出原因；

你通常以怎样的方式对自己的父母表示感谢。

[写作要求]

1.    可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2.    标题自拟。

[评分标准]            概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

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Until a century ago, bloodletting was used to treat many ailments. Dating back to before the time of Christ, the treatment involved letting a type of worm, called a leech, such blood from the patient. People believed that there were liquids called humors in the body and that these determined a person’s personality and heath. Bloodletting, they thought, restored a balance to these humors.

    At the time, little was known of the working of the human body, but people did know that the same liquid, blood, flowed throughout everyone’s body. They knew it was a vital substance, for loss of any great amount of it meant certain death. Thus, they concluded that all diseases were carried in the bloodstream, and that if the body was relieved of bad blood, heath would return. Bloodletting, however, came to be used as a cure-all. Woman were bled to keep them from blushing while members of the clergy were bled to prevent them from thinking sinful and worldly thoughts.

    From the 11th to the 18th centuries, barbers were the people to go to if you needed to be bled. This custom explains the significance of the traditional barber’s pole: the white stripes stand for bandages and the red stripe for blood.

1. This passage is concerned about            .

healthy people and doctors                         B. bleeding as a cure-all

C. barbers of long ago                                      D. leeches with special jobs to do

2. The red and white stripes on barber pole symbolize         .

sin and redemption                             B. the bleeding form

C. women who are nurses                                  D. humors in the body

3. Why is bloodletting no longer considered a cure-all?

Because more is known about the workings of the human body.

Because leeches were outlawed

Because barbers were too busy cutting hair.

Because today we know that blood is necessary for health

4. In the second paragraph, the word “Thus” could be replaced by the word       .

   A. When                        B. However                  C. If                            D. So

5. Ailments means           .

   A. cures                         B. women                     C. disease                     D. medicines

第二节：读写任务（满分25分）

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

During summer holidays, two classmates, Tom and Peter, were traveling in the desert. As they were walking, they had an argument, and Tom was so angry that he slapped Peter hard across the face. Peter felt hurt, but without saying anything, he wrote down in the sand these words: “Today my best friend Tom slapped me in the face.”

It was very hot, but they kept on walking and walking until they found an oasis(绿洲), where they decided to take a bath. Suddenly Peter got stuck in the mire(泥潭) and started drowning. Seeing that, Tom rushed over and saved him without any hesitation. After Peter got recovered from the drowning, he wrote with a knife on a stone: “Today my best friend Tom saved my life.”

Feeling curious, Tom, who had slapped and saved his best friend, asked Peter, “After I beat you, you wrote something in the sand but just now you put down what I had done on a stone. Why?”

Peter replied: “When someone hurts us, we should take it down in the sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But when someone does something good for us, we must carve it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

Hearing that, Tom was deeply moved and understood what Peter had said and what he had done.

[写作内容]

下面请你以 “What I have learnt from Tom’s understanding?” 为题，谈谈你读了这个故事以后的感受。内容要点包括：

1．以约30个词概括上述故事的要点；

2．以约120个词就Peter “被打” 和 “被救” 后的举动发表你的看法，内容包括：

（1）Tom 为什么感动了？他到底明白了什么？

（2）你从这个故事中学到了什么？简要说明其理由。

[写作要求]

可以使用实例来支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容论述，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

What I have learnt from Tom’s understanding?

A party was held  __________the heroes who had helped saved thousands and thousands of lives in the big earthquake in Sichuan.

       A. in time of B. in place of  C. in name of        D. in honor of

----- I’m sorry, but we really can’t offer you the job if you haven’t get a higher education.

----- What a pity!  I___________ hard at high school.

   A. must have worked   B. should have worked   C. may have worked   D. should work

第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

       阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

       As many as 20% of all children in the United States suffer from some form of the learning disorder called dyslexia（读写困难症）.

Experts on dyslexia say that the problem is not a disease． They say that persons with dyslexia use information in a different way. One of the world's great thinkers and scientists Albert Einstein was dyslexic． Einstein said that he never thought in words the way that most people do. He said that he thought in pictures instead. The American inventor Thomas Edison was also dyslexia. Dyslexia first was recognized in Europe and the United States more than 80 years ago. Many years passed before doctors discovered that persons with the disorder were not mentally slow or disabled. The doctors found that the brains of persons with dyslexia are different, In most people, the left side of the brain — the part that controls language — is larger than the right side. In persons with dyslexia, the right side of the brain is bigger. Doctors are not sure what causes this difference. However, a research has shown that dyslexia is more common in males than in females, and it is found more often in persons who are left-handed.

No one knows the cause of dyslexia, but some scientists believe that it may result from chemical changes in a baby's body long before it is born. They are trying to find ways to teach persons with dyslexia． Dyslexia persons think differently and need special kinds of teaching help. After they have solved their problems with language, they often show themselves to be especially intelligent or creative.

1．Einstein and Edison are spoken of in the passage to prove that ________.

       A．they suffered from dyslexia

       B．they succeeded because of dyslexia

       C．they are neither slow in thinking nor disabled

       D．dyslexia is not a disease

2．Who is the most unlikely to suffer from dyslexia?

       A．Left-handed persons .      B．Inventors.

       C．Females.        D．Males.

3．Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?

       A．Once persons with dyslexia have their language problems solved, they will be intelligent

and creative.

       B．The left brain of the person with dyslexia is larger than the right side of brain .

       C．People have no idea of the cause of dyslexia .

       D．Experts think the cause of dyslexia may be related to chemical changes in baby's body long  before its birth.

4．The passage mainly talk about ______.

       A．some form of the learning disorder       B．a serious disease

       C．the intelligence of the great people .      D．the teaching help to persons with dyslexia.

5．The persons with dyslexia ________.

       A．are some kinds of sick persons      B．are mentally slow

       C．think differently from common people D．are all males

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After a busy day of work and play, the body needs to rest. Sleep is necessary for good health. During this time, the body recovers from the activities of the day. The rest that you get while sleeping makes it possible for your body to prepare itself for the next day.

There are four levels of sleep, each being a little deeper than the one before. As you sleep, your body relaxes little by little. Your heart beats more slowly, and your brain slows down. After you reach the fourth level, your body shifts(变换) back and forth from one level to the other.

Although your mind slows down, you will dream from time to time. Scientists who study sleep point out that when dreaming occurs, your eyeballs begin to move more quickly (although your eyelids are closed). This stage of sleep is called REM, which stands for rapid eye movement.

If you have trouble falling asleep, some people recommend(建议) breathing very slowly and very deeply. Other people believe that drinking warm milk will make you drowsy. There is also an old suggestion that counting sheep will put you to sleep.

49. During REM, ______

       A. you move restless                                          B. you start dreaming

       C. your mind stops working                                          D. your eyeballs move quickly

50. A good title for this text might be_________

   A. Dreams                      B. Sleep                C. Good Health      D. Work and Rest