About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman!

There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shadows of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green － a strange world indeed.

Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”. These help us to see in a bright light and to tell difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods”, but these are used for seeing when it is near dark. They show us shape but no color.

Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes prefer blue to yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible colors around us.

1.The passage is mainly about _____________.

A．color and its surprising effects.

B．women being luckier than men

C．danger caused by color blindness

D．color blindness

2.According to the passage, with the help of the “cones”, we can_______________.

A．tell different shapes                     B．see in a weak light

C．kill mosquitoes                         D．tell orange from yellow

3.Why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?

A．Women are more careful.

B．There are fewer color-blind women

C．Women are fonder of driving than men.

D．Women are weaker but quicker in thinking.

4.Which of the statements about the color- blind is true?

A．Not all of them have the same problem in recognizing color.

B．None of them can see deep red.

C．None of them can tell the difference between blue and green.

D．All of them see everything in shades of green.

5.We can attract and kill mosquitoes by using a _____________.

A．red light          B．yellow light        C．blue light          D．green light

A．American & British Classics

A. classic is a literary work which has stood the test of time. Generations of readers have turned to classics to discover that which is ever-lasting. Through both the works themselves and the people they mirror, we may better be able to see ourselves.

B. World Literature

World Literature examines the common people found in quality literature worldwide, in these worlds, we find not only what is unique to each culture but what is universal,

C. Creative Writing

Creating Writing does not only provide us with an opportunity to express ourselves, but also holds our attention to word choice, paragraph development, and other skills useful in writing.

D. Technical Writing

It's a course which can help you to improve your communication skills in, for arid through technology.

E. Journalism

It's a course for seniors, in which we will cover how 10 gather, write and report the news. We will discuss how information is, or can be organized.

F. Non-fiction

The course is a study of non-fiction through reading many different types of non-fiction. The course will also be about the possible changes in journalistic reporting and the sharing of personal stories of various people on various topics such as travel and adventure.

请阅读以下学生的相关信息，然后匹配和他/她拟要选择的课程：

1.Lucy .wants to become a famous reporter in the world. She is eager to have the course which can help her to realize her dream.

2.Sally's vocabulary is very large, but she can not organize what she write well, which makes her writing illogically. She wants to get some more skill of it.

3.Lily can not know how to communicate with others as a. writer. She needs to improve the skill of it badly.

4.Jenny wants to become a writer of biography. Therefore, she wants to choose a. course connected with it.

5.Mary is interested in Mark Twain, especially his novels which arc full of humors. She really want to know some other writers who were born in the same country as Mark Twain was.

完成下列句子（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）

1.她从来不满足于现状。

She's never 　　　　　　　 the present situation.

2.I am quite 　　　　　　　　(很拮据) recently.

3.He 　　　　　(感到很好奇) the people who lived upstairs.

4.没有通过考试让我觉得丢脸。

Failing in the exam made me                    

5.徒步旅行能帮助我们接近自然。

Hiking can help us            nature

请你根据以下资料说明，使用5个规范的句子描述全部所给的信息内容。

写作内容：

姓名： 李华                        学校：育才中学

地址：中国广州育才路138号         出生年月：1989年10月1日

身高：180 cm                       头发颜色：黑色

全家人口：3人                     父母职业：教师

爱好：集邮和硬币                   掌握外语情况：英语

写作要求：1 标题：Something about Li Hua

2 必须使用5个句子介绍全部所给内容；

3 将5个句子组织成连贯的短文。

评分标准：句子结构的准确性和复杂度；信息内容的完整性和连贯性。

Dear son,

The day that you see me old and I am already not in good health, have patience and try to understand me.

If I get dirty when eating, if I can not dress, have patience and remember the hours I spent   1   it to you. If, when I speak to you, I   2  the same things thousand and one times, do not   3    me, listen to me. When you were small, I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story until you got to sleep. When I do not want to have a   4   , neither shame me nor scold me. Remember when I had to chase（追逐） you with thousand excuses I   5 , in order that you wanted to bathe. When you see my  6  little about new technologies, give me the necessary time and do not look at me with your mocking( 嘲弄 ) smile. I taught you how to do so many things: to eat good, to dress well, to confront life（面对生活）….

When at some moment I lose the   7  , let me have the necessary time to remember. When my   8   legs do not allow me to walk, give me your hands, the same way I did when you gave your first   9  . And when someday I say to you that I do not want to   10   any more ---- that I want to rest forever, do not get   11   . Someday you will understand.

Try to understand that my age is not lived but survived. Some day you will discover that, despite（尽管） my mistakes, I always wanted the   12   thing for you and that I tried to prepare the way for you. You must not feel sad, angry or impotent( 无可奈何 ) for seeing me  13   you. You must be next to me, try to understand me and to help me as I did it when you   14   living. Help me to walk, help me to end my way with love and   15   .

I love you, Son.

Your father

1.                A．giving          B．teaching        C．coming   D．pointing

2.                A．praise          B．think           C．repeat    D．blame

3.                A．interrupt（打断）                  B．disturb（打扰）    C．look D．avoid

4.                A．rest           B．word           C．bath D．sleep

5.                A．discovered      B．invented        C．noticed   D．suspected

6.                A．knowing        B．fearing         C．enjoying D．lacking

7.                A．sight           B．heart           C．way  D．memory

8.                A．tired           B．short           C．long D．strong

9.                A．step           B．pace           C．laugh     D．cry

10.               A．talk            B．live            C．write D．sleep

11.               A．careful         B．interested       C．calm D．angry

12.               A．last            B．first            C．best D．most

13.               A．near           B．behind         C．below     D．against

14.               A．made          B．started         C．earned    D．found

15.               A．mercy         B．care           C．optimism  D．patience

In the last years of the 1920s, hundreds of record flights were made. A few were made by women. But no woman had flown across the Atlantic Ocean. A wealthy American woman, Amy Guest,  1. (buy) a plane to do this. However, her family were against the idea. 2. she looked for another woman to take  3. place. Friends suggested Amelia Earhart, who became interested in flying while  4.  (live) in Toronto. American publisher George Putnam had helped organize the Atlantic Ocean flight 5.  made Amelia famous. Afterwards,  6.  continued to support her flying activities. In 1931, George and Amelia were married. He helped provide her7. financial support.

8.  May 20th, 1932, Amelia took off from Newfoundland. She headed east in  9.  small red and gold plane. Amelia had problems with ice on the wings, and fog from the ocean. At one point, her plane dropped  10.   (sudden) 900 meters. She regained control. And after 15 hours she landed in Ireland. She had become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone.

Philip was a nine-year-old boy in a Sunday school class of 8-year-old girls and boys. Sometimes the third graders didn’t welcome Philip into their group and usually tricked him. This was not because he was older, but because he was “different”. You see, Philip suffered from a condition called Downs’s Syndrome. This made him “different”, with its facial characteristics, slow responses and mental problems.

One Sunday after Easter, the Sunday school teacher gathered some plastic eggs that pulled apart in the middle. The teacher gave one to each child. On that beautiful spring day, the children were to go out and discover for themselves some symbol of “new life” and place it inside the plastic eggs.

After the children returned to the classroom, the teacher opened their eggs one by one, asking each child to explain that symbol of “new life”. The first opened egg contained a flower. Everyone cheered. In another was a butterfly…. When the teacher opened the last egg, it was empty. “That’s stupid,” said someone. The teacher felt a pull at his shirt. It was Philip. Looking up, Philip said, “It’s mine. I did it. It’s empty. I have new life, because the tomb is empty.” Not a sound was heard in class at all. From that day on, Philip became a real part of the group. They welcomed him, and whatever made him different was never mentioned again.

Philip’s family knew he wouldn’t live a long life, for there were too many things wrong with him.

1.The underlined word “condition” in the 1^st paragraph probably means __________.

A．grade            B．status             C．health            D．disease

2.It can be inferred from the first paragraph that _______.

A．the 8-year-olds were sometimes cruel.

B．The 8-year-olds were friendly to Philip.

C．Philip was really different in school.

D．Philip was older and more sensitive.

3.The teacher gave each child one plastic egg to let them ______.

A．play around on that beautiful spring day.

B．put some symbol of “new life” into it.

C．try to pull it apart in the middle.

D．go out and discover themselves.

4.After Philip explained his new life, _________.

A．the class thought he was clever.            B．The class fell silent.

C．He began to study in the class.              D．He felt dying.

5.We learn from the passage that _________.

A．the teacher used to have classes outdoors

B．Philip was healthy as a whole.

C．The Philip’s new life wish was empty

D．Philip was accepted by his classmates in the end

The expression “keeping up with the Joneses” was first used in 1913 by a young American Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself: he began earning $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. Young Momand was very proud of his riches. He got married and moved with his wife to Long Island, outside New York City.

But just moving there was not enough. For when Momand and his wife saw that their neighbors belonged to a country club they too joined a club. And when he saw that rich people were expected to ride horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave grand parties for their new neighbors.

It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. Momand and his wife could not do that.

The race ended for them when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an inexpensive New York City apartment.

Momand later said that his experience had been a cruel awakening for him. However, he was able to see the funny side of it. He looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with their neighbors.

He decided that this would make good stories for many papers across the country. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses”, because “Jones” is a very common American name. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with the people around you. Momand’s stories appeared in different newspapers for over 28 years.

People never seem to tire of keeping up with the Joneses. That is one reason why they read the “right” books, go to the “right” universities and eat in the “right” restaurants. But no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.

1.The writer of this passage means to tell us ___________.

A．what Arthur Momand did to keep up with his neighbors

B．how the expression “keep up with the Joneses” came into being

C．what we should do to keep up with our neighbors

D．how we can live differently from others

2.The reason Momand moved to Long Island is that ___________.

A．he wanted to live in a rich neighborhood

B．there was a country club for him to join

C．it was outside the city and good for horseback riding

D．his wife came from that area

3.By saying “It was like a race”(in Para 3), the writer means ____________.

A．it was just a suitable place for the horse race

B．Momand and his wife kept themselves busy

C．Momand’s neighbors also gave parties one after another

D．Momand tried to compete with their neighbors in his way of life

4.The funny side Momand saw in his experience was _________.

A．he moved back to a cheap place

B．he was not alone in keeping up with his neighbors

C．he made a mistake in following other people’s examples

D．he cared too much about what others thought of him

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

A．Momand earned a lot of money when he got married

B．Momand was always very interested in riding horses

C．Momand found there was something wrong with his way of life

D．Momand wrote stories for newspapers about himself and his neighbors

When doctors urge overweight kids to pick up more activities，reading probably isn’t what they have in mind.    Yet a new study by fatness researchers at Duke University finds that the simple act of reading—depending on the choice of material—can cause weight loss in teenage girls.

The study’s experimental group included 31 fat girls aged 9 to 13，who took part in the Healthy Lifestyles Program at Duke Children’s Hospital. The girls read a novel called Lake Rescue，whose protagonist (主人公) is an overweight teenager who struggles with low self­esteem，feelings of loneliness and teasing because of her size. A group of 33 girls read a different book called Charlotte in Paris，which did not have an overweight character，and another group of 17 girls read neither book.

At the end of the six­month experiment，all the girls who read books had lost weight，but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost more. They lowered their body mass index (BMI) by 0.71，compared with 0.33 in the Charlotte group，an average 0.05 increase among the nonreaders.

The idea behind the study，says Dr Sarah Armstrong，director of Healthy Lifestyles，was to find a way to encourage the girls without adopting the restrictive and often authoritative voice of so many other nutrition and diet programs. Lake Rescue was the perfect instrument，says Armstrong；it presents a likable character to whom the girls could relate and whom they could learn from. As the book progresses，its protagonist learns to make healthier lifestyle choices and finds an adviser to help keep her on track. Armstrong says，“She learns that she can become healthier，and the ‘I can do it’ feeling resonates (产生共鸣) with the teenage girls.”

1.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．There are different ways to help overweight kids lose weight.

B．Lifestyle is important for kids.

C．Lake Rescue is the perfect weight­losing instrument.

D．Reading can help kids lose weight.

2.How many girls took part in the experiment?

A．31.              B．33.               C．64.              D．81.

3.What does the underlined word “She” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．Armstrong.                            B．The protagonist in Lake Rescue.

C．A character in Charlotte in Paris.            D．A girl in the first group.

4.According to the passage we can know that ________.

A．overweight girls are living unhappily

B．reading is the best way to lose weight

C．different reading materials play different roles in losing weight

D．people will become fat if they don’t read

5.In which part of a newspaper can we read the above passage?

A．Education.         B．Entertainment.      C．Health.           D．Advertisement.

What will man be like in the future — in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.

Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is relatively a short period of time, so we may suppose that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain’s capacity(容量). As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and finally we shall need our brains more and more, and finally we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring a physical change too: the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.

Nowadays our eyes are in constant use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over long period of time it is likely that man’s eyes will grow stronger.

On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.

But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald.

Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature to look at! This may well be true. All the same, in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with us. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and motions similar to our own.

1.The passage mainly tells us that __________.

A．Man’s life will be different in the future

B．Future man will look quite different from us

C．Man is growing taller and uglier as time passes

D．Man’s organs’ functions will change

2.What serves as the evidence that man is changing?

A．Man has got stronger eyes now than he ever had.

B．Man’s hair is getting thinner and thinner.

C．Man’s arms and legs have become lighter and weaker.

D．Man has been growing taller over the past 500 years.

3.The change in man’s size of the forehead is probably because __________.

A．he makes use of only 20% of the brain’s capacity

B．his brain has grown larger over the past centuries

C．he will use his brain more and more as time goes on

D．the other 80% of his brain will grow in due time

4.Which of the following is TRUE about a human being in the future?

A．He is hairless because hair is no longer useful.

B．He has smaller eyes and wears better glasses.

C．His fingers grow weaker because he doesn’t have to make use of them.

D．He thinks and feels in a different way.

5.It is implied that __________.

A．human beings will become less attractive in the future

B．body organs will become poorer if they are not used often

C．human beings hope for a change in the future life

D．future life is always predictable