Last spring, members of Alaska’s Troop 34, based in Fairbanks, trudged (跋涉) out into the snowy wilderness to take part in their state’s Take a Kid Trapping program. In many parts of the state, beavers （海狸）are pests and need to be controlled.

The 10－to－12－year－old girls found out where beavers lived, set traps, and skinned the two animals they caught. The girls hope to catch ten more beavers so that the entire troop can make mittens and hats with the fur. They also want to cook beaver meat.

Troop leaders and members say the Scouts are doing a good deed by helping control the state’s beaver population. But animal－rights activists say trapping is cruel. They want the Girl Scouts to stop in their tracks.

Beavers aren’t only causing a problem in Alaska. Residents in Sampson County, N.C., have turned to a local committee to help them battle the growing beaver population there.

County landowners are frustrated after the county spent more than $ 50,000 in eight years trying to reduce the beaver population through a government program. The joint state and federal program included paying money to trappers for every beaver carcass they trapped.

Many local residents say that the program didn’t work because there were too few trappers. That’s why the county set up its own committee to investigate other ways to control the area’s beaver population.

The county will rely on its own beaver－trapping program. It has hired a trapper to set traps in various areas. The county will pay $10 for every beaver carcass.

Why do many people say that beavers are a nuisance? For beavers to survive, they need lots of water. Water provides the large rodent （啮齿动物）with a place to hide from meat – eating animals. Beavers also store food underwater for the winter. When there’s not enough water in a particular area, beavers get busy building dams.

Beaver dams can cause major flooding and damage to the surrounding countryside as the animals cut down trees to use in their construction projects. Beavers build canals to transport heavy objects.

1.What is Alaska’s Troop 34?

A．A team of the Boy Scouts.                 B．An army.

C．A team of the Girl Scouts.                 D．A sports team.

2.Why does the troop hope to catch ten more beavers?

A．To fulfill their task.

B．To sell them for money.

C．To get enough fur.

D．To exchange them for mittens and hats.

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Sampson County has to find a new way to control the beaver population there.

B．The government program in Sampson County has proved to be a success.

C．The local government has controlled the number of beavers in the County.

D．More and more trappers now start to set traps in Sampson County.

4.Local residents hate beavers because they can ___________.

A．cause damage to dams

B．block up canals with heavy objects.

C．do great harm to construction projects.

D．badly damage the environment and cause floods.

Let’s say you have a piece of wood, a nail, and a hammer. Pretend the wood is a person, and the nail is a mean rumor(谣言) about that person. If you hammer in the nail, you’re obviously hurting him or her. If you then pull out the nail, there’s still a hole in the wood, and the damage has been done.

There are many reasons why that nail of a rumor can be so harmful. Rumors are, quite simply, a form of bullying(欺侮). When a person or a group makes up a rumor about someone or decides to spread gossip, it’s usually to hurt someone, break up a friendship, or make someone less popular. It’s the same thing as teasing, only it’s done behind someone’s back instead of to his or her face.

When you spread a rumor about someone, you’re sending a signal that the person is outside of the group, and somehow less worthy of friendship than others. You’re making fun of that person or pointing out negative things about him or her. This can let others think that it’s okay to make the person feel bad, and make him or her an outsider.

We need to be able to trust our friends, and gossip and rumors can break this trust. If you tell a personal secret to a friend, and he turns around and tells it to someone else, you might feel like you will get burned if you ever get close to him again.

Letting a rumor influence your behavior is like letting someone else make a big decision for you. Let’s say you hear that the teacher plans to call a Snow Day tomorrow because a blizzard (暴风雪) is coming. Expecting a day off, you don’t do your homework. The next morning, the blizzard turns out to be nothing more than a drizzle(毛毛雨), and school isn’t off after all. You get zeroes on your work.

1.To tell a rumor and a tease apart, you depend on ______.

A．whether it is done behind someone

B．whether it is painful or not

C．whether it is a kind of bullying

D．whether it is spread fast.

2.If a rumor is spread about someone, others may_______.

A．point out his or her advantages

B．keep away from him or her

C．not feel he or she is an outsider

D．be hurt if getting close to him or her again.

3.The purpose of this passage is to _______.

A．advise on how to deal with rumors

B．teach us how to judge a rumor

C．find out why rumors spread fast

D．explain why rumors hurt

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。

How to Read a Book

Books can be your best friends.  1  They can introduce you the things you may never see… But do you know how to read them in order to get the fullest enjoyment possible? The following tips should help.

1. Find a book. Look in the library or in one of the large bookstores. You could also ask friends if you could have a book at their book shelves. Search the shelves until you find a book that looks good．Read the first page to see how it reads, and the cover text on the back of the book, if it has any.  2

2. Buy or borrow it and take it home. Do not start to read it until you have the time.  3  And set aside time to do nothing else but read, as it can be, at times, suspenseful（悬疑的）, exciting and relaxing.

3. Get comfortable on the couch. Have a lamp behind you, lighting the area where you are reading. Make sure the television is off and that anything else that could distract you has been attended to.  4 __.

4. Start the book by turning the pages and really enjoy it. Do not think about anything else but what you are reading. Put yourself into the action or location in the story. Once you concentrate completely, it will be difficult to put the book down. And remember that reading is not running your eyes over a book.  5 . However, if you need to read the book quickly, then you do not need to pay attention to every word.

A．If you are busy doing other things, you should wait until you have finished them．

B．Get warm if you are going to be sitting still for a few hours．

C．If you are already concentrating, then buy it or borrow it．

D．Try to imagine the story in your head．

E. They can take you to places that you may never go．

F. You should read it actively and enjoy it completely．

G. Otherwise, you will miss it．

根据句意写出本册书中所学单词的正确形式,答案写在答题卡上，共10分

1.To attain a high level of fluency in a foreign language, you need to be _______(环绕，围绕) by it.

2.You should _______(通知，告知) a friend of your targets so they can motivate you.

3.You would probably think that the father was ________(祝贺) his son on doing something well.

4.They might move in an abrupt way ________(像，与…相似) a robot more than a human.

5.Garments will be so strong that they will never get old and ________(磨损的).

6.By the year 2050, people will live together in peace and _______(平等).

7.Tiny, insect-like robots may be sent around the cells of our bodies to ______(评估) our health.

8.Fleming remained modest about the amazing _______(后果，结果) of his discovery.

9.Medical advances ranged from discovering the causes of diseases under microscopes to surgical procedures replacing diseased organs with _______(捐赠)ones.

10.We started flying around the world and _______(同时), scientists figured out how to split the atom.

假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号∧，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线＼划掉。

修改：在错词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2、只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

I used to feeling pressured to do well in exams. I was such afraid of falling behind that I kept thinking about studying every minute of the day. The pressure makes me out of breath.

To my disappointed, the more worried I was about my studies, the less effective I became. Later, I realized I just took pressure too serious. So I tried taking things easy by taking part in various activity out of class, enjoying music and even daydreaming about fun things. To my delight, this worked! Gradually，I became more anxious about exams and began to take pleasure in my studies. Pressure cannot avoided.

What counts is how to deal with properly, but above all, how to turn it into pleasure or challenge.

假如你是张伟，你的好友王楠因不擅长与他人交流，感到非常苦恼。最近，他来信向你求助。请你用英语给他写一封100词左右的回信。 主要内容包括：

1．劝他不必为此事感到苦恼；

2．告诉他与别人有效地交流是很重要的；

3．就如何改变目前的状况给他提出几点建议。

注意：信的开头和结束语已为你写好， 但不计入总词数。

Dear Wang Nan,

I know you are feeling annoyed these days because you are not able to communicate with others effectively.

I hope my advice will be of help to you.

All the best.

Yours sincerely,

Zhang Wei

Art is influenced by _____ customs and faith of ____ people

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

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is so________ that most of us can not understand it.

A．controversial       B．appropriate        C．abstract           D．ridiculous

 Once a decision has been made，all of us should ________ it.

A．direct to          B．stick to            C．lead to            D．refer to

—Have you got any particular plans for the coming holiday?

—Yes，________，I’m going to visit some homes for the old in the city.

A．if ever　　        B．if busy            C．if anything         D．if possible