Earlier this year I traveled to Turkana in Kenya. I was there to take pictures of the “broken food system”.

As a special visitor, I was greeted with songs and dances. The locals used to sing and dance all the time but now Turkana is silent and has been for some years. No one is singing or dancing any more because they have no food, nothing to celebrate. Many of them are surviving on a little corn a day and water, which they can get just every two days.

I met Tede Lokapelo, a local farmer who described the experience of a six-year drought(干旱). Tede used to have 200 goats, but now he has only seven left. He told me that this drought has taught him a hard lesson: It is too difficult to keep animals. He lives on animals. His traditional way of life has been completely destroyed now. Without the food aid(援助) they got, Tede is certain that they would starve because there are no other ways to feed themselves left.

Sadly, the same can be heard in almost any developing country around the world. Almost one billion people go to bed hungry each night. The food system is broken. In Turkana, not enough rain has fallen since 2005. They measure(测量) rainfall not in days or weeks but in minutes. More and more people are being forced to rely on food aid, but people like Tede don’t want food aid. They want to work and develop their country. It’s our responsibility(责任) to change the situation so that they can support themselves.

Drought is impossible to avoid but famine(饥荒) is manmade, and unless enough money is provided to develop a basic infrastructure(基础设施) for people in the area, thousands more lives are sure to be lost.

1. Why do people in Turkana no longer sing or dance any more?

A. Because they have no time.                    

B. Because they are tired of them.

C. Because they are always hungry.           

D. Because they have other interesting things to do.

2.During the drought Tede had experienced, ______of his goats were killed.

A. 200                B. 193                 C. 7                     D. 6

3. Which of the following is NOT true about Tede Lokapelo?

A. He was a farmer in Kenya.                                

B. He has never received any food aid.

C. His traditional way of life ha s been changed.

D. He found it hard to raise animals after the drought.

4.What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A. To show drought is serious in the world.

B. To tell readers the serious situation of food shortage(短缺).

C. To ask more people to give food aid to people in Kenya.

D. To make it clear what is the right way to help people suffering from drought.

根据短文内容，从下框的A～E项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项，选项中有一项为多余项。

A. Gift giving proven(证明) to be valuable.

B. Memories from gift giving.

C. Moments and events for gift giving.

D. Various functions(功能) of gift giving.

E. Gift giving as a two-way(双向的) social activity.

Gift Giving

1.________

There are many occasions (场合) for giving gifts in modern societies: birthdays, naming ceremonies（庆祝仪式）, weddings, anniversaries（周年纪念日）, New Year. People often give gifts on many of these celebrations in western countries. Sometimes special events, such as one’s first day of school or graduation from university, often require gift giving.

2.________

What is happening when we give gifts? Most important, we are exchanging gifts. If someone gives me a gift for my birthday, I know that I should give one on his or her next birthday.

3.________

Gifts tighten(使紧密) personal relationships and provide a means of communication between loved ones. People say that a gift lets the recipient (接受者) know we are thinking of them, and that we want to make the person “feel special. ”We want people to feel wanted, to feel part of our social or family group. We give presents to say “I’m sorry.”

4.________

People tend to talk about presents in a fairly loving way. A woman whose mother had died years ago described the many gifts around her house. These were gifts that her mother had given her over the years: “I appreciate these, and they mean something to me,” the woman said, “because I remember the occasions they were given on, and that they were from my mother, and the relationship we’ve had. ” The gifts remain and keep the relationship alive in mind. This woman felt the same way about the gifts she gave to others. She hoped that the recipients would look at her gifts in years to come and remember her.

单词拼写（共12小题，每小题0.5分，共6分）

1.The salesman p________ us into buying his product yesterday.

2.What’s your a________ to this idea? Good or not?

3.They began the r＿＿＿ work at once, as soon as the earthquake happened.

4.In the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked and b_______..

5.There were dozens of people i＿＿＿＿in the fire, and they were sent to hospital immediately.

6.We work hard at English so as to have a good c________ of it.

7.I don’t want to set down a s______ of facts in a diary as most people do.

8.A_______ all languages change and develop when cultures meet and communicate with each other.

9.The goods will be t________ to Singapore by air.

10.How can Linda r_______ from her illness in this room when it’s so dirty and dusty?

11.We will cycle along the Mekong River and my sister is planning our s______ for the trip.

12.He often tells lies so I don't think he is a r_______ man.

假如你是某高中学生李华，进入高中后，你觉得学英语的方式和初中有很大不同，你给自己的英语王老师写了一封信，讲述自己的英语学习情况。要包括以下内容：

1．开始学习高中英语时，觉得英语比初中英语难很多，几乎丧失信心。

2．后来认识到英语的重要性。

3．每天努力学习英语。

4．向老师和同学请教更好的英语学习方法。

5．现在英语取得了很大进步，对英语越来越感兴趣。

提示： 初中   junior high school   高中   senior high school

(词数：100个左右。)

Dear Mr. Wang,

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Yours sincerely，

Li Hua

 — I beg your pardon? I can’t follow you.

   —________.

A. Please be careful.                                 B. Sorry, I will repeat that.

C. What about?                              D. What’s the matter?

I ________ watching television; let’s go for a walk.

A. am concerned about                    B. fall in love

C. am fond of                     D. am tired of

It seems ________ our team is going to win.

A. even though      B. when                       C. if                         D. as if

Excuse me, but can you tell me ________?

A. where can I get to the library                 B. where I can get to the library

C. how can I get to the library                    D. how I can get to the library

It was at 8 o’clock ________ I went back home last night.

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

Karen couldn’t________ her mind whether to apply for membership or not.

A. change                        B. make up                       C. read          D. share