The clock struck eleven at night. The whole house was quiet. Everyone was in bed except me. Under the strong light, I looked sadly before a huge pile of troublesome stuff they call “books”.

I was going to have my examination the next day. “When can I go to bed?” I asked myself. I didn’t answer, in fact I dared not.

The clock struck 12. “Oh, dear!” I cried, “ten more books to read before I can go to bed!” We pupils are the most wretched creatures ( 可怜的人 ) in the world. Dad does not agree with me on this. He did not have to work so hard when he was a boy.

The clock struck one. I was quite hopeless now. I forgot all I had learnt. I was too tired to go on. I did the only thing I could. I prayed, “Oh, God, Please help me pass the exam tomorrow. I do promise to work hard afterwards, Amen.” My eyes were heavy, so heavy that I could hardly open them. A few minutes later, with my head on the desk, I fell asleep.

1.When the author was going over his lessons, all the others in the house were_____ .

A. asleep             B. working in bed     C. outside             D. quietly laughing at him

2.Reviewing his lessons didn’t help him because ________. 

A. it was too late at night

B. he was very tired

C. his eyes lids were so heavy that he couldn’t keep them open

D. he hadn’t studied hard before the examination

3.What do you suppose happened to the author？

A. He went to a church to pray again

B. He passed the exam by luck

C. He failed in the exam

D. He was punished by his teacher

4.The best title for the passage would be __________ .

A. The Night Before the Examination

B. Working Far into the Night

C. A Slow Student

D. Going Over My Lessons

When someone says, “Well，I guess I’ll have to face the music”， it doesn’t mean that he is planning to go to hear a singer or attend a concert. It is something far less unhappy than you are called in by your leader to explain why you did this and that or why you did not do this or that.

　 At some time or another, every one of us has to “face the music”, especially as children. We can all remember father’s angry words “I want to talk to you”. And only because we did not listen to him. What a bad thing it was！

　 In the middle or at the end of every term, we students have to “face the music”. The result of the exam will decide whether we will face the music or not. If...that means parents cold faces and contempt (轻视) of the teachers and classmates.

　“To face the music” is well known to every American, young or old. It is at least 100 years old. It really means that you have to do something, no matter how terrible the whole thing might be, because you know you have no choice.

1.“To face the music” means “to__________”.

A. do something that we don’t like to

B. go to the theatre

C. go to the music show

D. do something that we want to

2.In the third paragraph， “If…”really means “If__________”．

A. we don’t do a good job                             B. we get an “A” in the exam

C. the exam is easy                                         D. the exam is difficult

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

A. “To face the music” is well known in the United States．

B. “To face the music” has a history of more than 100 years．

C. The young Americans know what “to face the music” means．

D. Only the old in the United States know the meaning of “to face the music”．

All over the world people enjoy sports, Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.

     Many people like to watch others play games. They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when “their” player or team wins.

     Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for(参加) them. Football, for example, has spread(展开)around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy! And think of people in cold countries. Think how many love to skate or ski (滑雪) in Japan, Norway or Canada.

      Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time. Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.

      People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends. Sports help to train a person’s character. One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace(胜不骄，败不馁).

1.Why do people all over the world enjoy sports?

A. Because they are healthy.

B. Because they are happy.

C. Because they want to live longer.

D. All the above.

2.Why do some people get excited when they watch a game? Because  ___________. 

A. their favourite team wins                B. they win the game

C. they get the good news                    D. they can’t help themselves

3.Why do people from different countries often become friends after a game together? Because ____________.

A. they train their character in the game

B. they understand each other

C. they are friendly to each other

D. they help each other

根据对话内容，将方框内符合对话情境的句子填在对话空白处，使对话恢复完整。选项中有两项是多余的。

A: You look tired today. What’s the matter? 

B: 1.____________________. 

A: Why? 

B: I had a terrible dream. 2.___________________. 

A: Then? 

B: I shouted for a long time. 3.____________________. 

A: Then? 

B: Then I woke up. 4.______________________. I couldn’t get to sleep and I  kept awake until six. 

A: 5.___________________. Maybe you have too much pressure. Try to relax yourself. 

B: Thank you. 

A. When I was walking to school, I fell into a river. 

B. I’m tired, too. 

C. But nobody came to help me. 

D. I didn’t sleep well last night. 

E. What a terrible night. 

F. It was two o’clock in the morning. 

G. You are so lucky.

用方框里所给的单词的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、连贯、合理

Every person needs friends. Friends are  1.  who open their hearts to us. They always encourage us to try our  2.  to do everything, and they even make us face challenges bravely.   3.   in touch with our friends is important to us all. In this way, we can know how everything is going on with our friends. Friends communicate with each other in different ways. Some make phone calls to their friends   4.  . Some send postcards to their friends when they go on holiday. Others prefer to send interesting articles and 5.   along with their letters. Among the ways, there must be your favorite one. Anyway, let’s communicate with our friends as often as possible.

阅读短文，然后根据题目要求及所给语境完成任务

根据短文内容，完成文后任务。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

 Jerome Kern is often called the father of American musical theater. Kern is remembered for the hundreds of songs he wrote for musical plays and movies. Music historians say that Kern gave artistic importance to American popular music for the first time. And, they say, he led the development of the first truly American theater music.

Jerome Kern was born into a middle-class family in New York City in 1885. Jerome’s mother, Fanny, loved the piano. She began to teach Jerome how to play when he was very young.

Jerome was a quiet boy and not a top student. When he completed high school, his father said he would have to work in the family’s store. But he later came to believe that Jerome might do better in music than in business after all. So he let the boy go to Europe to study music, as almost all serious young musicians did at the time.

    Jerome Kern began his career as a songwriter in theaters in London and New York City. Success came quickly. By the early nineteen twenties, Kern was a successful young composer for Broadway musical comedies. In one three-year period alone, he wrote music for nineteen shows.

    Kern wanted to try something completely new. He thought a musical play should be a real work of art, not just a collection of songs and dances. Kern wanted to do a truly American musical, with real American characters and real situations.

In 1927, he found the story he wanted. It was the book “Show Boat” by American writer Edna Ferber. “Show Boat” takes place in the 1880 on a passenger steam boat that travels along the Mississippi River.

Kern died in 1945 at the age of sixty. But “Show Boat” has been performed thousands of times all over the world.

1.Is Western food as         (taste) as Chinese food?

2.         (hope), we can start again and build a better world on Mars.

3.Have you been to Beijing? It is in           (north) China.

4.When you learn English, try to have _________(fun) with the language.

5.Hearing the good news, he just jumped with        (excite).

6.The robot needs repairing. You’d better have someone          (repair) it at once.

7.We are good _________ (partner) no matter what we do.

8.The bell __________ (ignore); nobody went into the classroom yesterday.

9.The book is so __________ (encourage) that everyone wants to own it.

10.It is hard for us __________ (communicate) with native Americans.

假设你是一名班长，学期结束时老师要你给同学们用英语作简短的评价，班里的林华同学这个学期以来变化很大。根据下表用英语写一篇短文。

注意：1. 短文须包括所给的内容要点，要求语句通顺、意思连贯；

　　　2. 词数90个左右，短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数；

   We are glade that Lin Hua has improved a lot this term

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

—Is that picture hanging up in your bedroom?

—________

—Is it in your bedroom?

A．I beg your pardon?    B．So what?   C．Take it easy.        D．What if?