At the Olympic Games, only the athletes who have reached the agreed standard for their event will be______as competitors.

A. deserted                        B. discussed                                           C. admitted                 D. advertised

I had ______ quarrel with my deskmate yesterday but she made ______ apology to me later.

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

假设你是李华，你的美国朋友Jack打算到四川与你共度春节。Jack在邮件中提及了以下担忧和想法：

1．四川口音难懂；2．地方风俗陌生；3．外出游览；  4．在川交友。

请用英语回复Jack，表达你的欣喜和欢迎，并就邮件中提及的事项简略说明你的帮助和安排。

注意：1．书信必须包括以上所有内容；

         2．词数为80~100，书信的开头和结尾已经为你写好，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：口音accent     普通话Mandarin

Dear Jack,

How is everything with you?

I’m looking forward to your coming.

Best wishes!

Yours,

Li Hua

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：1）原行没有错的不要改；2) 不按要求做不得分。

My house is nearly the sea. One day there were                               【小题1】 __________

big waves. I was walking along the beach while I                            【小题2】__________

heard two men shout from a sinking boat. I ran                            【小题3】__________

quick to see if I could help. I found a small boat,                                    【小题4】 __________

and a boy help me push it into the sea. We soon                              【小题5】__________

reached the men just before they stopped breathing.                         【小题6】 __________

It was hard to help them into the boat, and we did                            【小题7】__________

it somehow. As I looked carefully at the face of the                         【小题8】__________

two men, I realized that one of them was our own                                  【小题9】__________

father. How much happy I was about that walk!                                                          【小题10】__________

阅读下面短文，并根据文章后的题目要求答题。

If you are worried about things and are under a lot of stress at work or school, then you are probably not sleeping well. Worry can keep you awake, tossing and turning in bed until the early hours of the morning when you eventually fall asleep. When you wake up, you don't feel refreshed, but tired and worn out and unable to face a new day.

Dr. Henry Winkle wrote an article in a recent newspaper, which indicates that_____________. Dr. Winkle says, "The more we worry, the less we sleep, the more we are unable to deal with stress. If we can find a way to get a good night's sleep," he adds, "we can often find the energy to deal with what's worrying us."

So, what is a good night's sleep? Research shows that the amount of sleep which people need in order to keep healthy varies a lot. Seven hours in about the average amount, though strangely enough, sleeping longer often gives you a headache instead of making you feel more refreshed.

Dr. Winkle believes that preparing for sleeping is important. People who work late should try to give themselves a short break and do something restful before going to bed. This could be watching TV or listening to music. Doing some exercise earlier in the day should help you to feel physically as well as mentally tired. A bedtime drink can also help, but coffee or tea should be avoided as they contain caffeine and will keep you awake. "When you put the light out," Dr. Winkle says, "concentrate on relaxing your muscles, working slowly up from your feet, and you'll be asleep before you know it."

【小题1】What is the best title of the text? (Please answer within 10 words)

【小题2】Which sentence in the text can be replaced by the following one?

People shouldn't go to sleep immediately but should take a break after working late in the night.

【小题3】Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words)

【小题4】Someone says that the longer you sleep, the better you feel. Try to find some arguments from the text against the idea. (Please answer within 30 words)

【小题5】Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 into Chinese.

根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有1个多余选项。

A: Hey, do you want to see the pictures of my holiday in Italy?

B:      56 

A: Ah, it was great! The food was great! The wine was great! But the traffic was terrible!

B:      57 

A: Those Italians are crazy drivers! I don’t want to think about it!

B: OK. OK.   58 

A:    Yes, so here’s a picture of the Tower of Pisa.

B: How nice!

A:    It was raining that day, but it was still wonderful. We climbed to the top!

B:   59 

A:    That’s a photo of the Arno River. That’s the “Ponte Vecchio”, the old bridge.

B:   60 

A: It was very interesting. There were beautiful old buildings in the city, and lots of wonderful museums.

B: That’s nice.

An African farmer had heard tales about other farmers who had made millions of dollars by discovering diamond mines. These tales so excited the farmer that he could hardly wait to sell his farm and go prospecting for diamonds himself.

So he sold the farm and spent the rest of his life wandering the African continent, searching unsuccessfully for the shining stone that brought such high prices on the markets of the world.

Finally, broke and worn out, he threw himself into a river and drowned.

Meanwhile, back at the farm, the man who had bought his farm happened to be crossing a small river on the property one day when he saw something shining at the bottom of the river. He picked it up. It was a sparkling stone - a good size stone - and, admiring it, he later put it on his fireplace mantel（壁炉架） as an interesting curiosity.

Several weeks later, a visitor admired the stone, looked closely at it, lifted it in his hand and nearly fainted. He asked the farmer if he knew what he'd found. When the farmer said no, that he thought it was just a piece of crystal, the visitor told him he had found one of the largest diamonds ever discovered.

The farmer was astonished. He told the man that his small river was full of these brilliant stones, and his farmland was covered with them. Not all were as large, perhaps, as the one on his mantel, but they were sprinkled generously throughout his property.

Needless to say, the farm the first farmer had sold, so that he could search for a diamond mine, turned out to be the most productive diamond mine on the entire African continent.

【小题1】Why did the first farmer sell his farm?

A. He had made a fortune by selling diamonds.

B. He was tired of his life as a farmer.

C. He wanted to make more money elsewhere.

D. He was told that there was no diamonds on his farm.

【小题2】What happened to him after he sold his property?

A. He found a river full of diamonds on his farm.

B. He lost everything including his own life.

C. He discovered a mine filled with brilliant stones.

D. He finally got his property back with diamonds.

【小题3】When the second farmer first found a shining stone, he ______.

A. felt sorry for what he had done to the first farmer

B. was excited to see he would soon be very rich

C. found it special and brought it home

D. couldn’t wait to share his joy with his friends

【小题4】The visitor nearly passed out after a close look at the stone because _______.

A. he was shocked by the misfortune of the first farmer

B. the discovery was too good to be true

C. it was not discovered on his own farm

D. he was blinded by the light from the stone

【小题5】What do we learn from the story?

A. Treasure a farm with a river running across it.

B. Show your belongings to others to find their real value.

C. Dig deep into what we have instead of wandering elsewhere.

D. Ask for professional advice before selling anything to others.

All 20 children who died in a shooting at a school in Connecticut were aged between six and seven, according to an official list of the dead.

The state's chief medical examiner said the gunman used a rifle as his main weapon, and all the victims appeared to have been shot several times.

The gunman, named in media reports as Adam Lanza, killed his mother before driving to the school and opening fire.

Six adults, all women, were also killed before the gunman shot himself dead.

The head teacher at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Dawn Hochsprung, is listed among the dead, along with adults Rachel DaVino, Anne Marie Murphy, Lauren Russo, Mary Sherlach and Victoria Soto.

Eight boys and 12 girls were killed - all but four of them were aged six.

The youngest, Noah Pozner, celebrated his birthday only last month.

A woman who worked at the school was the only person to be shot and survive.

Scores of people have left flowers at a memorial outside the school, and on Saturday evening hundreds attended a candlelight vigil（守夜）.

President Barack Obama is to visit Newtown on Sunday to meet families and speak at an interfaith vigil at the town's high school.

After the attack, he urged "meaningful action" against gun crime in the US.

"As a country we have been through this too many times," he said in an emotional White House address.

【小题1】How many people of the school got shot during this heartbreaking event?

A. 26.                     B. 27.                    C. 20.             D. 12

【小题2】Among the student victims, how many are just six years old?

A. 12               B. 20.                   C. 4.              D. 16

【小题3】Very few victims survived the shooting probably because _____.

A. they were all too young

B. they failed to call the police in time

C. they each were shot several times

D. they were not taken to hospital soon enough

【小题4】What did the gunman do after the massive killing?

A. He shot his mother dead.

B. He was caught by the head teacher.

C. He killed himself with his gun.

D. He got out to attend a candlelight vigil

【小题5】From President Barack Obama’s words we can expect that ______.

A. the control of the use of guns will be tighter in U.S.A

B. more gun crimes will be inspired by this attack

C. more people will own guns to protect themselves

D. fewer people will send their kids to the school

Originally, both the British and the American spoke with a rhotic accent. Rhotic essentially means an accent where the letter “r” is pronounced strongly after a vowel (元音). Rhotic accents are strong in both the US and Scotland, but seem to have disappeared from British English and its derivatives, such as Australian English and New Zealand English.

The major American accent –– the typical accent of the mid-western US –– is rhotic, and British English is, as a rule, non-rhotic. Specifically, US speakers pronounce every “r”, wherever they appear in a word. Most British speakers (and you will note that there are some British Isle accents that are strongly rhotic, like US) do not pronounce every “r”. Americans stress the “r” at the end of words such as “teacher” or “neighbour”, but in many non-rhotic British accents it is more of a “schwa” (an unstressed sound) so it comes out as, “teacha” (unstressed) or “neighba”.

This main difference also differs across the country of origin. For example, the US has a clear difference in the accents between people of the north and south, not to mention less clear differences across the states. Similarly, British people have a different accent according to their locality. The “cockney (伦敦东区)” accent is greatly different to the middle and upper class accents.

Another common difference appears to be that Americans pronounce words such as “herbal” without the “h”. Syllables (音节) may be stressed differently, too. “Oregano” in the US tends to be pronounced “o–reg–a–no” while in British English it is more likely to be “o–reg–AH–no”.

【小题1】When a rhotic accent occurs, ______.

A. the letter “r” is silent in any positions         B. the letter “r” is sounded after a vowel

C. the ending syllable of a word is stressed      D. the ending syllable of a word is unheard

【小题2】The underlined word “derivatives” in the first paragraph probably means “_____”.

A. neighbours                      B. ancestors           C. symbols                   D. branches

【小题3】In non-rhotic British accents, ______.

A. “bother” sounds the same as “buther”                 B. “cheaper” sounds the same as “chapter”

C. “worker” sounds the same as “worka”                D. “painting” sounds the same as “paintin”

【小题4】Even in the original country of the specific English language, accents differ ____.

A. from area to area                                        B. from person to person

C. from word to word                                    D. from stress to stress

【小题5】American people trend to pronounce words like “herbal” with the “h” ______.

A. stressed                          B. silent                                                           C. changed                 D. loud

For many people, the name Baskin-Robbins is connected to sweet memories of eating ice cream. Irvine Robbins, who helped create this famous company, died in May at the age of ninety. His career of making fun and exciting ice cream flavors (口味) changed the way Americans enjoy this food.

        Irvine Robbins opened his first ice cream store in 1945 in California. At the time, there were no stores that sold only ice cream. His sister’s husband, Burton Baskin, also opened his own ice cream stores.

        In 1948 they combined their six stores into one business. Baskin and Robbins realized that they were too busy to operate each store well. So, they decided to sell part of each operation to the manager of that store. This permitted the company to grow quickly.

       By 1953, they renamed their company Baskin-Robbins. They advertised that they sold 31 kinds of ice cream to show the many choices buyers had. There was one flavor for every day of the month.

Robbins and Baskin sold “Lunar Cheesecake (月亮奶酪)” the day after astronauts landed on the moon in 1969. Other flavors included “ChaChaCha”, for cherry chocolate chip, and Robbins’ personal favorite “Jamoca Almond Fudge”. They said, “We sell fun, not just ice cream.”

       By 1967, there were 500 Baskin-Robbins stores in the United States. The business partners sold their company that year. Today, there are more than 5,800 Baskin-Robbins stores around the world.

【小题1】It can most deeply remain in Americans’ good memories that Baskin-Robbins ___.

A. launched joyful varieties of ice cream

B. purchased much more than ice cream

C. combined many stores into a company

D. advertised their varieties of ice cream

【小题2】Which is the correct order of the events?

A. d-b-c-a                                        B. a-b-c-d                        

C. d-b-a-c                                       D. a-d-c-b

【小题3】According to the 5th paragraph, one particular of Baskin-Robbins is that ______.

A. it struggled for a large size of the company

B. its brands actually depended on top quality

C. it attempted to develop more chain stores

D. its brands closely followed the hot events

【小题4】Baskin-Robbins enjoyed its good business essentially due to ______.

A. the friendly manners                              B. the creative ideas

C. the unusual efforts                                D. the powerful ads

【小题5】By the story, the author seems to be suggesting readers: “______”

A. Explore your new ways!                     B. Double your efforts!

C. Depend on yourself!                                D. Trust your partner!