One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by sending newspapers door to door, was so hungry that he decided to beg for a meal at the next house.

However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, “How much do I owe (欠) you?”

“You don’t owe me anything,” she replied. “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.” With these words, Howard Kelly left that house.

Years later the woman became badly ill and was finally sent to the hospital in a big city. Dr. Howard Kelly, now famous, was called in. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Dressed in his doctor’s clothes, Dr. Kelly went into her room and recognized her at once. From that day on, he gave special attention to her, and decided to do his best to save her life.

At last the woman was saved. Dr. Kelly asked the business office to pass the final bill to him. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to the woman’s room. She was afraid to open it because she was sure that it would take the rest of her life to pay for it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her attention. She read these words:

“Paid in full with a glass of milk, Dr. Howard Kelly.” Tear of joy flooded her eyes.

1.The boy sent newspapers door to door in order to ________.

A．thank the woman for her kindness          B．continue his schooling

C．become a famous doctor                  D．support his poor family

2.Which is true about the boy and the woman?

A．She never thought he would save her life later.

B．She thought he was not hungry but thirsty.

C．She wanted him to pay for the glass of milk.

D．He was too shy to ask her for some water.

3.After Dr. Kelly knew who the woman was, he ________.

A．refused to take good care of her himself

B．decided to try his best to save her

C．told her she once gave him a glass of milk

D．asked for her bill and paid it off at once

4.The best title for this passage is ________.

A．The Final Bill                           B．A Warm-hearted Woman

C．A Glass of Milk                          D．A Famous Doctor

Getting close to active or erupting volcanoes can be dangerous. But for Michael Rampino, it’s all in a day’s work. Rampino is a volcanologist, a scientist who studies volcanoes and how they affect our planet. Rampino has been close to red-hot lava flows (熔岩流) in Hawaii and explosive volcanoes in Indonesia. He knows when to get close to an active volcano and when to back away.

Rampino wasn’t always a volcanologist. He worked for NASA for seven years. He studied rocks until he began to research climate change and the effects that volcanoes have on climate. He became interested in the subject. “Once I started working with volcanoes,” Rampino said, “I was hooked.”

Rampino is a professor at New York University. As part of his job, he travels to areas where volcanoes have been active. “Active” means they have erupted within the past few centuries and probably will erupt again. Rampino studies the deposits (沉积物) of ash and other materials from the eruptions. The ash may hold clues to what happened to the Earth in the distant past. It may also help scientists predict what could happen to Earth’s climate in the future.

Rampino doesn’t work alone. He works with a team of scientists who use computers to stimulate (模拟) the effects volcanoes have on Earth’s atmosphere.

Being a volcanologist may be hard work, but it’s also fun. “It’s cool traveling the world studying “to understand the events that have shaped Earth’s history.”

1.To Rampino, being close to active volcanoes is _____.

A．scary but necessary                     B．adventurous but meaningful

C．impossible and unnecessary               D．dangerous but urgent

2.The underlined word “hooked” in Paragraph 2 probably means “_____”.

A．trapped           B．touched           C．attracted          D．frightened

3.Rampino’s study on volcanoes might help _____.

A．warn people to protect the environment

B．support the study of Earth’s future climate

C．tell the future eruption time of the volcanoes

D．reduce the possibility of the volcanoes’ eruptions

4.In which part of a newspaper could we find this text?

A．People.           B．History.           C．Climate.           D．Business.

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。

If you are hungry, what do you do? Have your favorite meal and stay quiet after that?  1  But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your friends or favorite stars．So it silently serves your needs and never lets itself grow．When mind loses its freedom to grow, creativity gets a full stop．This might be the reason why we all sometimes think "What happens next?", "Why can't I think?"

 2  Why reading but not watching TV? It is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhood．Since it develops other aspects of our life, we have to get help from reading．

Once you read a book, you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you．3 Now this seed is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideas．If it is used many times, the same seed can give you great help to relate a lot of things which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams!

This is nothing but creativity．4  Within no time you can start talking with your friends in English or any other language and never run out of the right words．

So guys, do give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading．5 Go and get a book!

A．The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed．

B．Why not do some reading while you are hungry?

C．Just like your stomach, your mind is also hungry．

D．Now what are you waiting for?

E．Hunger of the mind can be actually solved through wide reading．

F．Reading can help you make more friends, too．

G．Also this makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary

假定英语课上英语老师要求同桌之间互相修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。

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。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该词下面写出该加的词。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1、每处错误及修改均仅限一词。

2、只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。

My family was very poor when I was child. My parents were workers but couldn’t afford to buy toys

from me. As a result, my dolls looked a lot differently from those bought from toy stores. My dolls were

home-made. The first doll I owned it was made of a glass Coca-Cola bottle. I was such excited to make a doll by

itself. Soon I became a collector of empty Coca-Cola bottles because I see each bottle as a possible baby doll at

that time. People whom worked in the store selling Coca-Cola could see me pick up empty bottles almost every

day. Those home-made toys brought me a lot of happy.

假设你是李华强。时下,你校不少学生带手机上学。为此,你班组织了一次班会，讨论中学生上学是否有必要带手机。请你给英语笔友Tom写封信，根据下表提供的信息，客观地介绍讨论的情况。可结合你校实际进行适当发挥，并发表自己的看法。

注意：

正确使用英文书信的基本格式。

词数：100左右。

Dr. Peter Spence, ______headmaster of the school, told us, “______fifth of pupils here go on to study at Oxford and Cambridge.”

A．不填; A           B．不填; The         C．the; The          D．a; A

Many citizens urged their government to take measures to cut _______ their carbon emission to reduce greenhouse effects.

A．off               B． up              C． out             D．down

--How was your weekend, Rose?

--Awful! This was the first time I ________ alone at home, bored to death.

A．had left           B．had been left       C．have been left      D．have been leaving

Who do you think will _______ since the president has resigned?

A．take over         B．take up           C．take in            D．take off

I missed the last bus and had no money for a taxi; so I could do nothing but_______ home last night.

A．to walking         B．walk              C．walking           D．walked