A hug is a wonderful thing and it is a great gift to share with people. For some people, a hug is considered to be a great way to say “I care.” A hug communicates support, affection(喜爱), unity and belonging. A hug shows a strong feeling of sympathy. A hug brings happiness. A hug also touches the soul.

Hugs are healthy. Hugs can ease pain, reduce stress, cure depression and refresh the heart, yet they have no side effects…No wonder, it is a true miracle medicine.

A hug can say “I love you”…A hug can say “I hate to see you go”. A hug can say “ It’s good to have you back”. A hug can say “It’s great to see you’. A hug can say “I feel your pain”. A hug can also say “Let me share your burden”.

No matter whether you’re the giver or the receiver, hugs touch the inner being. From friends, to families, to loved ones, to those in need, a hug warms the heart.

A hug is truly amazing. It brings generosity(慷慨) to the giver and happiness to the receiver. It brings blessings to those who give and joy to those who receive.

Hugs are one of the reasons why God gave us arms. So, stretch out your arms to someone today. Reach out to those you love. It will warm the heart of the giver and give light to the soul of the receiver.

Reach out to your neighbor. It will show that you care. Reach out to one in need. It will show that you are responsible. Reach out to the world. It will show God that you care for his creation.

1.What is the best title of the passage?

A．The advantages of hugs.                  B．How should we hug

C．The tips on giving others hugs              D．The facts of hugs

2.Hugs can benefit people in the following ways EXCEPT________.

A．improving the health                     B．cheering people up

C．making receivers happy                  D．creating great wealth

3.According to the third paragraph, we can learn hugs can__________.

A．send some messages                     B．make people come back

C．stop people going somewhere             D．break people’s hearts

4.To show you care, you should reach out to_________.

A．those who need joy  B．your neighbor      C．those you miss      D．God

5.What can we learn from the passage?

A．Sometimes hugs have side effects.

B．If people are sad, we'd better not hug them.

C．We must hug each of our neighbors every day.

D．People often feel joyful when they receive hugs.

Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis,cricket — anything with a round ball, I was useless." he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England's rural Devonshire.

It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.

The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway's school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man's cold-water exploits (成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.

Journeys to the Pole aren't the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. "John Ridgway was one of the few who didn't say, 'You are completely crazy,'" Saunders says.

In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter (遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.

Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.

This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.

1.The turning point in Saunders'life came when ________.

A．he started to play ball games

B．he got a mountain bike at age 15

C．he ran his first marathon at age 18

D．he started to receive Ridgway's training

2.We can learn from the text that Ridgway ________.

A．dismissed Saunders' dream as fantasy

B．built up his body together with Saunders

C．hired Saunders for his cold-water experience

D．won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic

3.What do we know about Saunders?

A．He once worked at a school in Scotland.

B．He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.

C．He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.

D．He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.

4.The underlined word "Intrigued" in the third paragraph probably means ________.

A．Excited           B．Convinced         C．Delighted         D．Fascinated

5.It can be inferred that Saunders' journey to the North Pole ________.

A．was accompanied by his old playmates

B．set a record in the North Pole expedition

C．was supported by other Arctic explorers

D．made him well-known in the 1960s

单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

1.The boy, s______________ of stealing the collected money, is being closely watched over.

2.To their d_______________, their son was admitted into a famous university.

3.Word came that our football team was d_____________again. 

4.If we work with a strong will, we can o___________ any difficulty, however great it is.

5.He joined the group c______________of five young men.

6.It is impossible to know in ______________ (提前) what will happen.

7.The old man is respected by the people because he has____________(贡献) to the country.

8.Disneyland offers its visitors ___________（各种各样的）activities.

9.The girl made a great________(印象) on her neighbours and they spoke highly of her.

10.All ____________(航班) have been put off because of the heavy snow.

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加.删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意: 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Now I’d like to introduce our English paper to you. On my opinion, the paper is very importance to our study and daily life. We can improve our English, especially writing English by reading it and writing. At the same time, it’s a fun and relaxing to read it, it makes our after-class time meaningful and colorful. There is a lot of columns in our paper, such as School News, Teachers’ Advice and Students’ Voice. Not only it make us learn the important events of our school, but helps ourselves communicate with teachers. However, we can take the advices from our teachers more seriously. In a word, I like our paper very much.

当前不少文学作品被改编成电影。有人选择看电影，有人则喜欢读原著。请你以“Film or book, which do you prefer?”为题，按照下列要点写一篇英语短文：

1、 看电影：省时、有趣、易懂

2、 读原著：细节更多、语言优美

3、 我的看法及理由：

文章题目和开头已给出（不计入词数）。

参考词汇： original work 或 book in the original （原著）

Film or book, which do you prefer?

Some of us think that it is better to see the film than to read the book in the original. ______________________________________________________________________________

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Which of the following phonetic transcription(音标) is right for the phrase “the egg”?

A．/TE eg/           B．/ Ti eg/            C．/Wi eg/           D．/ di eg/

— Would you like some       .

— Oh, yes, just a little.

A． milk             B．apple             C．pears             D．oranges

— Do you know ___________ woman in pink over there?

— Yes. She is ___________ office worker of Hilton Hotel.

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

Tom earned some money____ babysitting for the couple living next door.

A．in               B．at                C．by               D．of

Look out when crossing the road, _____ you may be hit by a car.

A．or               B．and              C．so               D．but