A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin (顽童)was walking around the shining car. "Is this your car, Paul?" he asked.

Paul answered, "Yes, my brother gave it to me for Christmas." The boy was surprised. "You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn't cost you anything. Boy, I wish..."He hesitated (犹豫).

Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he had a brother like that. But what the boy said surprised Paul greatly.

"I wish," the boy went on, "that I could be a brother like that." Paul looked at the boy in surprise, then he said again; "Would you like to take a ride in my car?" "Oh, yes, I'd love that." After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes shining, said, "Paul, would you mind driving in front of my house?"

Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the boy wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was wrong again. "Will you stop where those two steps are?" the boy asked.

He ran up to the steps. Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled ( 残疾 ) brother. He sat him down on the step and pointed to the car.

"There he is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn't cost him a cent. And some day I'm going to give you one just like it. Then you can see for yourself all the nice things in the Christmas window that I've been trying to tell you about."

Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him and three of them began an unforgettable holiday ride.

1.The street urchin was very surprised when______________ . 

2.The urchin asked Paul to stop his car in front of his house______________ .

3.We can infer from the story that______________.

4.The best title of the story is__________ .

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.

Languages do not just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It’s important to master(掌握) the rules for word order in the study of English, too. If the speaker puts words in a wrong order, the listener can’t understand the speaker’s sentence easily. Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes, But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn’t change. Let’s see the difference between the two pairs of sentences.

“She only likes apples.”               “Only she likes apples.”

“I have seen the film already.”           “I have already seen the film.”

When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit(精神实质) of the language and use it as the English speaker does.

1.From the passage we know that _______when we are learning English.

2.The writer thinks it is _______ in learning English.

3.We can learn from the passage that ________.

4.“She only likes apples.” ________.

When a friend is sad about a tragedy(悲剧)，it’s hard to know how to comfort(安慰) him/ her. But the worst thing you can do is say nothing. It could mean that you don’t care. You don’t have to say much.. A single supportive phrase doesn’t require absolutely perfect words to break the ice. Here are some conversation starters when life difficult situations have your tongue tied.

1. A friend loses his baby.

Don’t say: “Don’t worry. You’re so young. You’ll have another baby.” Do say: “ I’m so sorry. I can’t begin to imagine what you are going through, but if you want to talk about it, call me anytime.”

2. A guy deserts（抛弃）your friend.

Don’t say: “I never liked that rat bastard (坏蛋) anyway!” ( If the couple winds up reconciling (和解)， you could end up losing your friend.) Do say: “Breaking up is always hard to deal with, but I’m here for you, whatever you need.”

3. A friend has a death in the family.

Don’t say: “It’s God’s will.” or “I know exactly how you feel.” Do say: “I’m sorry about your loss. What can I do to help?”

4. A friend loses a job suddenly.

Don’t say: “Work is always boring. Those bosses didn’t suit you!” Do say: “I’m sorry for that, but I know there’s an even better job waiting for you there. Let’s think about possibilities.”

5. Someone’s pet dies.

Don’t say: “Gee! It was only a cat!” or “My roommate doesn’t like her dog and she is getting rid of her dog. Do you want it?” Do say: “I’m sorry, she was such a great cat. How long did you have it?”

1.Which of the following has the same meaning as the underlined part “have your tongue tied”?

2.As a whole, what’s the suitable way to comfort your friend troubled with a tragedy?

3.Though your friend is deserted, you’d better not say dirty words about her/ his friend because _______________________ .

4.Which of the following might be suitable words when your friend’s dog dies?

根据所给句子的意思，填上合适的单词，并注意其正确形式，首字母或中文已给出。

1.There is no indoor swimming-pool in this school and the students often go to swim o_________.

2.Sorry, I can’t go with you. I’m s      ______   from a serious headache.

3.Believe it or not, my old school friend has changed so much that I can’t r____________ him.

4.I can’t express how g_______________ I am for what you’ve done for me.

5.Although she is Chinese, she can speak English and French _________ (流利地).

6.Many young men ______________ (不同意) with their parents on most things because of the generation gap.

7.Walk two _____________（街区）, and you’ll find the super market at the corner.

8.Never tell him a secret, because he has got a           （松的）tongue.

阅读下面的短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中单词的正确形式，并将相应

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(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改仅限一词。

2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Dear friends,

It is real a good chance to have met all of you here. We have spent several precious weekend in learning in the English Club. Although we have been members for a short period of times, we have made a great progress. That is because we are all very much active and the activities are not only enjoyable and also helpful. Besides, the foreign teachers here work hard and try his best to make the activities lively and interested. I am very pleased to say that all of us greatly improved our spoken English so far. I am looking forward to see all of you again in the near future!      

假设你是李华，你的朋友小明写信告诉你他学英语有困难，尤其是英语口语能力不够。请你给他写一封回信，就如何提高英语口语能力给他一些建议。你的文章须包括以下1、2条建议，并再提一条建议。词数：100左右。

1．课堂上，积极发言（回答问题，发表观点等）；

2．课外，尽可能地用英语交流；

3．另外，……

注意：1 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；2 开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Xiao Ming,

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Guangzhou Asian Games has reached our common goal—＿＿＿ Asian game that is more beautiful and harmonious(和谐的).   

The girl told me that she ＿＿＿ beaten and she ＿＿＿telephone the police.

The teacher told us that the sun ＿＿＿ in the east and ＿＿＿ in the west.