Saturday, October 7th, was a marathon of sad tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired official in the department of foreign affairs, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskaya’s mother, Raisa Mazepa, in the hospital. She had just been diagnosed(诊断) with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husband’s funeral. “Your father will forgive me, because he knows that I have always loved him,” she told Anna and her sister, Elena Kudimova, the day he was buried. A week later, she had an operation and since then Anna and Elena had been taking turns helping her deal with her grief.

Politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital, but her twenty-six-year-old daughter, who was pregnant, had just moved into Politkovskaya’s apartment, on Lesnaya Street, while her own place was being prepared for the baby. “Anna had so much on her mind,” Elena Kudimova told me when we met in London, before Christmas. “And she was trying to finish her article.” Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and, like most of her work, the piece focused on the terror that can be seen all over the southern republic of Chechnya. This time, she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, who are in favour of Russia. In the past seven years, Politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life during wartime; many had been collected in her book “A Small Corner of Hell: reports from Chechnya.” Politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield, and her writing bore frequent witness to robbery, and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other Russians—and almost no other reporters—cared to think about.

Politkovskaya’s father died of ______.

A. tiredness          B. a disease        C. an attack       D. an accident

From the text we know that Raisa Mazepa ______.

A. didn’t love her husband                   

B. didn’t attend her husband’s funeral

C. was having an operation the day her husband was buried

D. was too sad to attend her husband’s funeral

The underlined word “emerged” most likely means ______.

   A. came out        B. went into      C. looked into      D. left for

How many family members of Anna are mentioned in the passage?

   A. Three.           B. Four         C. Five            D. Six

Which of the following words can best describe Politkovskaya’s character?

   A. curious         B. easy-going     C. careless          D. responsible

My brother can ride a horse and swim, and he can shoot _______.

   A. as well                B. also                         C. as well as                 D. either

What do you think of the reason _____ he gave at the meeting yesterday?

A. why           B. for which    C. that                  D. in which

His talk had __________ me.         

看图写话。（2*5=10）

1．(lollipop, boy) _________________________________________

2.  (want to) _________________________________________

3. (there, jar) _________________________________________

4.   (the man, ride, street) ________________________________

5.  (there, lots of) _______________________________________

-- Is your name Liu Li?

-- __________.

A. Yes, it is.       B. No, I’m not.      C. Yes, I am.     D. No, it is.

I didn’t see your sister at the meeting. If she _____, she would have met my brother.

A. has come          B. did come           C. came              D. had come

I preferred _______the long jump rather than ________ in the relay race in the school sports games.

   A. to choose; to run      B. choosing; to run    C. choosing; run      D. to choose; run

假设你是光明中学的学生李华，得知国外某大学历史悠久。课程灵活，有意申请到该校英语系学习。请根据表格信息，用英语写一封自荐信。

注意：1．词数不少于60；2．信的开头和结尾已经给出；3. 提示词：英语演讲比赛English Speech Contest

Dear Sir,

My name is Li Hua, from Guang Ming High School in Beijing, China. I would like to apply for admission to the English Dept of your school.

_______________________________________________________________________________________                  

___________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________   

Looking forward to your early reply.

Your sincerely,

                                                                 Li Hua

It never occurred to me         you could succeed in persuading him to change his mind.

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