Win a week in England!

You still don’t know what to do this summer? Well, here’s your chance to win a one-week language course in Kent, England! Free4Fun and ETC (English Travel Connections) are giving  away two trips to Rochester. This historic city is less than an hour’s drive from London and close  to the sea resort of Herne Bay. It is also the home of one of England’s most famous writers,  Charles Dickens. The town of Rochester is in Southeast England. Charles Dickens often wrote  about it in his books. His home, Gad’s Hill, is there, too. A popular attraction is Rochester Castle, a large Norman fortress（堡垒）. It was built in the 11th century and rebuilt during the 14th  century. Other attractions are Rochester Cathedral, which was built during the 13th century, and Dickens Centre. It has got its name in honour of Dickens himself.

The trip to England includes:

*  travel by train (via the Eurotunnel) to and from any railway station in Germany

*  room and full board with a guest family for one week

*  language course in small groups

*  two trips to London

*  large choice of sports and entertainment

*  German-speaking advisors available 24 hours a day

Interested? All you have to do is to answer the following question:

When was Charles Dickens born?

So, take the chance and send your answer by 1 May to:

Free4Fun "Rochester"

Free4Fun, 24 Elphinstone Road, Hastings, 2FQ6VJ

fax: 089 / 85 763-103

e-mail: free4fun@netlight.com

The two winners will be contacted directly before 5 May. They will also be announced in the June issue of Free4Fun. Good luck!

For further information contact:

phone: (03212) 144 43

fax: (03212) 144 42

e-mail: info@etc. com

1.Rochester Cathedral was built in the         .

A．1400s            B．1300s            C．1200s            D．1100s

2.What activities can you participate in during the trip?

A．Enjoying sports and entertainment.

B．Learning the German language.

C．Traveling by train with a guest family.

D．Working as a language advisor.

3.If you want to win a prize you have to send your answer to         .

A．the June issue of Free4fun                B．ETC

C．info@etc. com                         D．free4fun@netlight. com

4.This ad was designed to target           .

A．Italians           B．Germans          C．Europeans         D．Americans

An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.

James Harrison has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia. He has enabled countless mothers to give birth to healthy babies, including his own daughter, Tracey, who had a healthy son thanks to her father's blood.

Mr. Harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years old and has now racked up a total of 984 donations. When he started donating, his blood was deemed so special that his life was insured for one million Australian dollars.

He was also nicknamed the “man with the golden arm” or the “man in two million”. He said: “I've never thought about stopping. Never.” He made a pledge to be a donor aged 14 after undergoing major chest surgery in which he needed 13 litres of blood. “I was in hospital for three months,” he said. “The blood I received saved my life so I made a pledge to give blood when I was 18.”

Just after he started donating he was found to have the rare and life-saving antibody in his blood. At the time, thousands of babies in Australia were dying each year of Rhesus disease. Other newborns suffered permanent brain damage because of the condition. The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood. It stems from one having Rh-positive blood and the other Rh-negative.

His blood has since led to the development of a vaccine called Anti-D. After his blood type was discovered, Mr. Harrison volunteered to undergo a series of tests to help develop the Anti-D vaccine. “They insured me for a million dollars so I knew my wife Barbara would be taken care of,” he said. “I wasn't scared. I was glad to help. I had to sign every form going and basically sign my life away.”

Mr. Harrison is Rh-negative and was given injections of Rh-positive blood. It was found his plasma could treat the condition and since then it has been given to hundreds of thousands of women. It has also been given to babies after they are born to stop them developing the disease.

It is estimated he has helped save 2.2 million babies so far. Mr. Harrison is still donating every few weeks now.

1.How old is James Harrison？

A．56               B．70               C．74               D．78

2.What does the underlined phrase “two million” refer to?

A．dollars            B．babies            C．mothers          D．all of the above

3.Why did James decide to donate his blood? Because _____.

A．someone else’s blood saved his life

B．he has a golden arm worth a million dollars

C．a vaccine called Anti-D is to be developed

D．his daughter asked him to help her son

4.The sentence “The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood” (underlined in Paragraph 5) suggests that _____.

A．all the patients have a rare antibody in their blood

B．babies suffer permanent brain damage before born

C．Rhesus disease contributes to permanent brain damage

D．. the mother and the baby have different types of blood

5.What can we infer from the sixth paragraph?

A．His wife Barbara needed to be taken care of badly then.

B．Some of the tests to develop the vaccine are dangerous.

C．Mr. Harrison was glad to help develop a new vaccine.

D．His blood type was accidentally discovered after tests.

Are you an optimist? Do you look at your glass and see it as half full? Do you believe that every cloud has a silver lining and that generally things turn out for the best? Do you believe that if something is meant to be, it will be? If you reply “yes” to all of these questions, then you are an optimist. You probably are enthusiastic, cheerful and outgoing. You may well be successful atwork and in love.

But you may be misguided because things don’t turn out for the best. You may believe that when one door closes another one opens (for example，you may fail to obtain a new job，another chance will come around soon), Wrong. When one door closes, another door slams in your face. That's bitter reality.

Now a book has been published which confirms what we pessimists(悲观者）have suspected all along. It's called The Positive Power of Defensive Pessimism. Its author argues that defensive pessimism can lead to positive results. Defensive pessimism is a strategy used to manage fear, anxiety and worry. Defensive pessimists prepare for things by setting low outcomes for themselves. They carefully consider everything that may go wrong and plan for ways to handle these problems. And this gives them a sense of control. Lawrence Sanno, a psychology professor, says, “What’s interesting about defensive pessimists is that they tend to be very successful people, so their low opinion of the situation’s outcomes is not realistic. They use it to motivate themselves to perform better. ”

So far, so good. This is not rocket science. Defensive pessimists prepare carefully and consider what might go wrong, whether at work, on a date or even in a sports game. It makes sense to have a back-up plan. There are many sayings in English urging caution. For example, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” and “ Don’t count your chickens until they hatch. “ To have a confident and optimistic approach to life’s problems is good. But listen to what Woody Alien，the American comedian says, ”Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”

There are pros and cons to being an optimist and a pessimist. Don’t feel bad if you see the glass half empty. You are a realist. But lighten up and hook up with someone who sees the same glass half full.

1.What is the passage mainly about?

A．A book that has recently been published.

B．The dangers of being too optimistic.

C．The benefits of defensive pessimism.

D．How to become successful in life.

2.The underlined sentence “This is not rocket science” in paragraph 4 means     .

A．he cost is not so high                     B．there is no real proof

C．it’s not a dangerous thing to do            D．it is quite simple to understand

3.The writer would probably describe himself as          .

A．an optimist        B．a realist           C．a defeatist         D．a scientist

4.Which of the following English expressions would a defensive pessimist believe?

A．“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”

B．“Every cloud has a silver lining.”

C．“Whatever will be, will be.”

D．“The glass is half full not half empty.”

Homelessness is a huge problem all over the world. It’s said that each day there are about 1 million people living on the streets in the US. It is a serious problem which should be dealt with effectively.

There are two main reasons for people leaving their homes: poverty and less affordable houses due to bad economic conditions. Other reasons include: domestic violence, divorce, and mental illness. Living without a home makes people main targets of violence activities and besides, these homeless people have to face the following difficulties on a daily basis.

They have to move about, carrying their belongings, which makes it difficult for the charity and the government to help them. They have limited access to bathrooms and restrooms and are forced to live in dirty conditions, making them easy to be attacked by diseases. They have limited access to health-care facilities in case of emergency, and almost no access to education as they have no money. They are often ill-treated by society, which makes them unfriendly, often ending up being involved in activities connected with crime like selling drugs or guns.

Homelessness is not something that happened overnight --- it has been in the country for decades. The society usually believes those living on the street to be mentally unstable. This belief is partially true. Most of them are normal people just like you and me.

The federal government is doing all it can to help but it is not enough, so the ordinary citizens have to stand up and try to help whenever it’s possible. There are various organizations, such as charity organizations that are working constantly to make sure that homeless people find a shelter to live in. the united efforts have helped millions of people return to their normal lifestyle. However, there is still a long way to go before a better situation is created for all the homeless.

1.Homeless people suffer from all the following except __________.

A．violent activities    B．disease attack      C．moving a lot        D．heavy work

2.The homeless are usually treated as __________.

A．having mental problems                  B．a danger to society

C．physically disabled people                 D．being too lazy to do anything

3.Which of the following are mentioned to help solve the problem of the homeless?

① the government ② homeless people ③ charity organizations ④ the ordinary citizens

A．①②③           B．①③④           C．①②④           D．②③④

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A．Most homeless people died of hunger and cold.

B．The homeless should work hard to change their own situation.

C．The homeless problem is a serious problem that need solving effectively.

D．The homeless people have nothing to take when they move about.

根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并将答案写在本题下面的横线上。选项中有多余选项。

A:What’s your opinion about this design? 　1　

B:I have never seen a better one.　2　

A:Thanks.I was afraid that you wouldn’t like it.

B:Really?　3　

A:We will have to hire some famous models for the advertisement.

B:It may cost a lot.but it will really bring in more benefit for us.　4　

A:Who do you like better,the models from home or abroad?

B:I think models from home may be more popular among the young.They may bring better results.

A:That’s true.　5　 OK,let’s choose the best models now.

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误只涉及到一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并且在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用（﹨）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.每处错误及其修改后仅限一词；

2只允许修改10处，多者从第十一处起不记分。

After watch “English TV” last Sunday morning, I phoned to my classmate and told him to go to see a film in the afternoon. Before the film was over, we returned to school to do our lessons. While we are having a rest in the corridor, I saw Mr Liu, my China teacher. He told me that we had made some progresses in English, but my Chinese lagged behind, especially my Chinese composition. He suggested I must read more and keeping a diary every day. In the evening my father told me that reading newspapers would do me well for improving composition writing. That was really good idea! What they said was quite right, and I should follow their advice.

阅读下面的短文，根据要求回答相关问题。（请将答案直接写在答题卷上）

[1] Hurt may occur at any time in our daily life, and forgiving someone who has hurt you or let you down is never an easy thing．Several new studies, however, say that  it could have a lot of health benefits．When you think of forgiveness, you probably don’t think of it as being a health or medical problem．Studies from Stanford University, on the other hand, show that something like anger can ________.

[2] When cartoon book characters like the Incredible Hulk get angry, they change colors and often gain special power．In the real world, anger is less obvious and may be more dangerous. That’s why Professor Fred Luskin, founder of the Stanford Forgiveness for Good, says being angry can harm your physical and mental health. Two new studies seem to show the same idea.

[3] The studies find that people who are able to forgive feel less stress, less back pain, and less depression. They also have fewer headache, lower blood pressure, and fewer problems on sleeping.

[4] So it doesn’t matter if your anger is caused by the traffic or other things．Learning to let it go is important. Techniques such as deep breath or thought can help. Or just ask yourself if it’s worth hurting yourself by staying angry with someone else.

[5] Forgiveness does not mean that you simply accept what happened and say it’s OK. Instead, it’s a way of making peace with yourself about what happened in the past.

1.What does the underlined word “it” (paragraph 1) probably refer to?( no more than 4 words )

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2.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 1 with proper words．( no more than 4 words )

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3.Complete the following statement with proper words．( no more than 4 words )

It is proved that people who _______________________________ are more relaxed and healthy.

4.Why doesn’t it matter if your anger is caused by the traffic or other things? ( no more than 15 words )

_____________________________________________________________________________

5.What is the main idea of the passage? ( no more than 10 words )

_______________________________________________________________________________

随着高考的临近，部分住校生要求搬出学生宿舍，在学校附近租房子住。请你根据下表提供的内容，写一篇英语短文，阐述学生和家长的观点，并表达自己的看法。

注意：1．陈述所有要点，可适当发挥，不要简单翻译；

2．词数120左右；

3．开头已给出，但不计入总词数。

参考词汇：熄灯制度blackout rule

With the College Entrance Examinations approaching day by day，some senior three students are moving out from their dorms and living in rented apartments near their schools．

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—So you missed the lecture given by the famous professor.

—____________. I got there 10 minutes before it finished.

A．Not at all          B．Not exactly        C．Not really          D．Not likely

—What’s your plan for this winter vacation?

—I’ll take an express train to Shanghai for my holiday ___________ school ends.

A．hurriedly          B．soon             C．immediately       D．since