Oprah Winfrey is not just a very successful TV personality(名人) in the US, she is also a woman who has encouraged millions. For those people, her life and her success are a good example. She has struggled with many of the challenges（挑战）that we all face, and she has changed her life. Her message is powerful: I did it, and so can you.

Oprah Winfrey is a black woman whose becoming famous is an encouraging story. She was born on January 29, 1954 in a small village in America. Her patents were very poor. For her family, life seemed to hold no promise.

But there was nothing that could stop Oprah. She was an extremely bright girl at school. She asked her kindergarten teacher to let her go to school sooner and she also skipped (跳级)the second grade of primary school（小学）. Her life from the age of six till about fourteen was very hard. For many women such difficulty would be too heavy to bear（忍受）. But not for Oprah. When she was fourteen, Oprah went to live with her father. Her father showed her how hard work and discipline（自律） could lead to self-improvement. Oprah listened to her father, and a few years later she won a college scholarship that allowed her to go to university.

Two years later, after graduation, she started working for television. For more than ten years she worked for different TV stations across the country. In 1984, she moved to Chicago, where she became the host of a talk show called "AM Chicago". When Oprah started, "AM Chicago" had few listeners. By September of the next year, the show was so successful that it was given a new name: 'The Oprah Winfrey Show".

Oprah Winfrey's story encourages many people to believe that success and happiness in life are within reach for everyone.

1.What does Oprah Winfrey mean by saying “I did it”?

A．I managed to over come (战胜)the challenges.

B．I encouraged many people who want to succeed.

C．I created many chances to help people.

D．I was respected as a source of strength.(力量源泉)

2.When Oprah Winfrey was a child, her parents were so poor that _____.

A．life seemed hopeless.                    B．her family never promised anything.

C．her family could hardly keep any promise.    D．nobody trusted her family

3.From the third paragraph we can infer________.

A．Oprah was older than most of her schoolmates when she finished primary school.

B．Oprah was younger than most of schoolmates when she finished primary school.

C．Oprah couldn’t finish primary school because her family was very poor.

D．Oprah stopped her study when she was in the second grade of primary school.

4.Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage?

A．Oprah’s father had a great effect（影响） on her.

B．AM Chicago was a local newspaper in Chicago.

C．Oprah worked for different TV stations in the US.

D．Oprah suffered a lot when she was young.

5.The best title of the passage may be _____.

A．Oprah Winfrey’s TV show                B．A popular TV show in America

C．Oprah Winfrey                         D．How to become a successful host

The Internet is not perfect. There are many problems with it. The Internet is not organized. There is no one in charge of the Internet. It is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for. It is also easy to get the wrong information on the “Net”. Some businessmen cheat people on the Internet. Internet thieves can steal credit card numbers. Some advertisers send spam to e-mail boxes. E-mail boxes are often filled with these unwanted advertisements. Illegal(不合法的) businesses can operate on the Internet. These businesses sell X-rated materials, cigarettes and alcohol to teenagers.

The Internet has websites with information about making bombs, breaking the law and terrorism. Criminals（罪犯） can fool people, especially children, in chat rooms. They can spread poisonous（有毒的） information and attack new members.

The Internet is the greatest advance in communication since human appeared. But it can also be like a dark road in a dangerous part of town. Parents need to set parental controls on their children when they use the Internet. This will keep some of the bad material away from their children. The Internet can be dangerous to computers, too. Some people who have bad intentions enjoy causing problems for other people they don’t even know. They create computer viruses（病毒）. A computer can get virus by downloading a program that has a virus in it. Some virus come by e-mail.

A virus can destroy the data a person has saved in computer files. A virus can cause a computer to crash（崩溃）. A virus can also reproduce（复制） itself! It can send copies of itself to everyone on a person’s e-mail address list. Then these people’s will have the same problems and can’t work normally!

1.The underlined word “spam” in the third paragraph means ___________

A．letters                                B．products

C．useless information                      D．poisonous information

2.Why can illegal businesses operate on the Internet?

A．Because there is no one in charge of the Internet.

B．Because some people like to buy banned products on the Internet.

C．Because X-rated materials, cigarettes, alcohol and so on can be sold well on the Internet.

D．Because people who operate businesses on the Internet are criminals.

3.Parental controls are needed when children use the Internet because________

A．children can’t use the computers well

B．children may damage the computers

C．the Internet is always unsafe for the children

D．poisonous information may have a bad effect on children

4.The harm of a computer virus is that___________

A．it can change the saved data in computer

B．it can reproduce the computer

C．it can make the computer operate ill

D．it can destroy the saved files and the computer itself

5.We can infer from the passage that the key to solving the problems with the Internet is____________

A．to improve the computers                B．to improve people’s moral （道德）level

C．to order people not to use the Internet       D．to find a medicine to kill computer viruses

单词拼写 (每题1分,共10题, 满分10分)

1.The change in climate may __________(影响) your health.

2.It is reported that only two people _______(幸存)the accident at last.

3.The ship _______(下沉)to the bottom of the sea after hitting an iceberg.

4.You've been working all morning---you __________(应得) a rest

5.He is good at ______(解决) this kind of problem.

6.The textbook c________ 10 units, including a mainly revision.

7.Our constitution (宪法)says that all men are e __________.

8.I would a________ it if you could help me with my English.

9.The teacher decided to d________ all his life to education.

10.In my o_________, I don’t agree with your plan.

选择下列词语的适当形式填空 (每题1分,共10题, 满分10分)

1.Do you know when the earth ____________________.

2.After we heard his funny story, we all __________________________.

3.She says she is all right now, which makes me happy ______________.

4.I don’t know how to _____________ the problem .

5.___________, he is right in saying so.

6.He didn't work hard. _____________, he failed his exam.

7.The boss considers Mr Wang as the most able (能干的) member of the team and _____________ him.

8.When she was in difficulty, she didn't know whom to ___________for advice.

课文完型填空 (每题1分,共10题, 满分10分)

My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was ___91___very difficult period of my life. I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went for advice. He offered guidance to poor black people on their ____92___ problems. He was generous with his time, ___93___which I was grateful.

I needed his help because I had very ___94___education. I began school at six. The school where I studied for only two years was three kilometers away. I had to leave because my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. I could not read ___95___ write well. After trying hard, I got a job in a gold mine. ____96____, this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg. ____97____, I did not have one because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would become out of work..

The day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my happiest. He told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in Johannesburg. I became more hopeful about my future. I never forgot how kind Mandela was. When he organized the ANC Youth League, I _____98_____ it as soon as I could. He said:

“The last thirty years have ____99___the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage ____100_____ we have almost no right at all.”

1.                A．a              B．an             C．the  D．\

2.                A．personal        B．private         C．social D．legal

3.                A．to             B．for            C．in   D．about

4.                A．few            B．many           C．much D．little

5.                A．and            B．but            C．or   D．neither

6.                A．So             B．But            C．However  D．And

7.                A．Generally       B．Sadly           C．Luckily   D．Unluckily

8.                A．took part in      B．join in          C．join  D．attend

9.                A．seen           B．looked at        C．watched  D．observed

10.               A．when          B．where         C．which D．that

根据汉语意思完成句子 (每空1分, 共15空, 满分15分)

1.作为回报，在我生日时他赠给我一块手表作为礼物。

_______ _________, he sent me a watch as a gift on my birthday.

2.随着时间流逝，他也逐渐成熟起来。

______ _____ _____ _____, he is growing more mature.

3.他起床晚了，这是他迟到的原因。

He got up late.  ________  __________ he was late for school.

4.在老师的帮助下，他的英语进步很大。

________ ______ ______ ______ his teacher, he has made great progress in English.

5.我的目标是给人类提供高质量的生活。

My goal is to provide humans with a life ______ ____________ _________.

In fact, the room was not made to be a gift. It designed for the palace of Frederick I. However, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave them to Peter the Great. And then , the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czar’s winter palace in St Petersburg. Late, Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg when she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details in it. In 1770 the room was completed the way how she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and it’s mirrors and pictures shone like gold. Sad, although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now missed.

It is not who is right but what is right ______ is of importance.

A．which            B．it                C．that              D．this

I thought him nice and honest ______ I met her.

A．first time          B．for the first time    C．the first time       D．by the first time

It is reported that the United States uses ______ energy as the whole of Europe.

A．as twice           B．twice much        C．twice much as      D．twice as much