The engine of the ship was out of order and the bad weather         the helplessness of the crew at sea.

   A. turned out          B. added to    C. go through   D. give in

 -----It rained cats and dogs this morning. I’m glad we took an umbrella.

  -----Yeah, we would have got wet all over if we           .

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

          one of you breaks the window will have to pay for it.

   A. which        B. whichever     C. whoever    D. No matter who

          at the cafeteria before, Tina didn’t want to eat there again.

   A. Having eaten     B. To eat      C. Eat      D. Eating

 The parents were shocked by     news that their son needed     operation on his knee.

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

 星光中学（Xingguang High School）近期举行了一次登山活动。假定你是学校英语报记者，请写一篇短文，报道此次活动。内容包括：

       1.    时间与地点：4月10日，大青山（Daqing Mountain）；

       2.    活动的过程；

       3.    你对于这次活动的评论。

注意：  1. 词数120左右。

        2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

       增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

       删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

       修改：在错的词下面画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

       注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

                2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

    On January 5th, the students in our school visited Robot World, which we saw a great diversity of robot. It was amazed that those robots could do a great number of things just like real people, including playing chess, playing piano and drawing pictures. What’s more, the robots were of different kinds and shapes, which made us excited. At addition, that excited me most was the show given by a group of robots. They danced just as if they are dancers on the stage. By visiting Robot World, I have learned a lot of about robots, especial about their functions and shapes. This visit has made a strong impression on me and I’m eager to learning more about robots in the future.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

What is the E-mail? __71__ You can send messages in only a few seconds by email.

On the Internet there are many powerful computers called “servers” to help people send and receive emails. __72__ If you want to use the email service, you have to open at least an email account called a “mailbox”, just like we set up a mailbox in a post office. Some mailboxes are provided free of charge by ISPs, which you can get when you open an Internet account.

__73__ First you have to connect to the Internet and go to the homepage of the ISP providing free mailboxes. Then you’ll find an icon（符号）showing “apply for a free mailbox”. Click the icon, and an agreement about the rules for using the free mailbox will appear. __74__ Then you have to fill in a form about your basic personal information, and the name and pin of the mailbox. After finishing these, you will get a mailbox like this: your name @ mail server, for example: jack@163.com. The mailbox is separated into two parts by a separator “@”, which is read as “at”. The former part is the name of the mailbox. The latter is the domain name（域名）of the mail server. All mails to you will be received by the server and put into your mailbox. __75__.

    A. How to apply for a free mailbox?

    B. You can read this mail on any computer in the world as long as you have the name and pin of the mailbox.

    C. E-mail is very popular today.

    D. The e-mail, which is also called email, stands for “electronic mail”.

    E. The sending and receiving servers are just like post offices.

    F. If you want to go on, click the icon “I agree”.

    G. Where can you find an E-mail?

Disease, poverty, hate, love－Charles Dickens’ stories opened his readers eyes to the most important themes of his age. Two hundred years on, stories still speak volumes（含义很深） across the world, proving that Dickens’ legacy（遗产）was far greater than just “great-literature”.

February 7 marks the 200^th anniversary of the writer’s birthday. To mark this date, BBC writer Alex Hudson listed six things Dickens gave the modern world. Let’s take a look at two of them.

A White Christmas

Dickens is described as “the man who invented Christmas” － not the religious festival, but the cultural aspects that we associate with the festive season today.

In the early 19^th century, Christmas was barely worth mentioning, according to critic and writer Leigh Hunt. The committee which ran the Conservative Party even held ordinary business meetings on Christmas Day－unthinkable in the West nowadays, when everyone but the most necessary workers takes at least three days off.

Many people believe that Dickens’ popular descriptions of the festive period became a blueprint for generations to come. In his classic novel, A Christmas Carol, he not only put forward the idea of snow at Christmas, but also painted a picture of glowing warmth－“home enjoyments, affections and hopes”.

In his biography of Dickens, Peter Ackroyd wrote: “Dickens can be said to have almost single-handedly created the modern idea of Christmas.”

“Dickens” poverty

Dickens was one of the first to take an honest look at the underclass and the poor of Victorian London.

He helped popularize the term “red tape” to describe situations where people in power use amounts of bureaucracy(官僚作风) in a way that particularly hurts the weaker and poorer members of society.

“Dickensian” has now become a powerful word for describing an unacceptable level of poverty. In 2009, when the president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in the UK wanted to talk about poverty in some areas of Britain, she did not use words like “terrible” or “horrific”, but rather described it as “life mirroring the times of Dickens”.

68. The article is mainly about           .

A. a brief introduction to Charles Dickens

B. the characters in Charles Dickens’ stories

C. Charles Dickens’ impact on the world

D. Charles Dickens’ achievements in literature

69. Why is Dickens called “the man who invented Christmas”?

A. Because he created both religious and culture festival.

B. Because one of his novels helped to shape Christmas celebrations.

C. Because his novels have something to do with Christmas.

D. Because he was the first man to have suggested celebrating Christmas.

70. We can learn from the passage that           .

A. Dickensian is widely used to describe the Christmas

B. Charles Dickens’ novels reflect the true life at his age

C. Every person can take three days off for Christmas

D. The theme of Charles Dickens’ stories is about poverty

　Chilean rescued miner Edison Pena ran the New York City Marathon on November 7th , less than a month after he was rescued from a collapsed (坍塌的) mine that trapped him and the other 32 miners for 69 days. Pena ran 10 km daily through the mine’s tunnels (巷道) to beat the anxiety, wearing cut-down boots until rescuers sent him a pair of sports shoes through a narrow hole that served as the miners’ “lifeline” to the surface.

“When I ran in the darkness, I was running for life,” Pena told a news conference in New York. “I was running to show that I wasn’t just waiting around. I also wanted God to see that I really wanted to live.” The miners were discovered alive on August 22---17 days after the mine collapsed, but it took many more days for rescuers to dig a hole big enough to bring them out.

       The New York Road Runners, which organizes the marathon, had invited Edison Pena to the event after hearing his story. They thought he could ride in the lead vehicle or hold the finish line tape, but Pena said last week he did not want to watch, he wanted to run. “I was very eager to take on this big challenge,” he said. “I wanted to show the world I could run.” He hoped to run the 26.2-mile race in about six hours. “I have a knee injury, but I am eager to cross the finish line,” he said.      

An Elvis Presley fan who asked rescuers to send the singer’s music down into the mine, Pena broke into song at the news conference with the Presley hit Return to Sender.

On the morning of November 7^th, Pena, known as “the runner” by fellow miners trapped with him, set out to cover the course along with thousands of other runners and completed the race in five hours and 40 minutes.

64. When trapped underground, Pena ran a long way every day to _______.

   A. find a way to get out         B. get rid of his uneasy feelings

   C. keep himself from coldness    D. dig a lifeline to the ground

65. According to the passage, Pena _______.

 A. was not expected to run the marathon at first            

B. failed to achieve the goal he had set for the marathon

  C. wore sports shoes while working underground   

D. was asked to sing a Presley’s song at a news conference

66. During the rescue of the Chilean trapped miners, the digging of the escape hole lasted about _________.

A. 17 days           B. 22 days     C. 52 days         D. 69 days

67. Pena can be best described as _________.

 A. smart-minded      B. warm-hearted      C. hard-working    D. strong-willed