For the most part, you are probably only exposed to the music that is played on your favorite radio stations and TV shows, music Web sites, or the music that your friends and family members enjoy. While you probably know a lot about your favorite type of music, it can be a rewarding experience to enlarge your horizons (眼界), discovering artists and types of music that you’re not familiar with. Who knows, you might discover you like certain types of music you never even considered.

Have you ever wondered about the history and influences of your favorite types of music? For example, did you know that rock ’n’ roll originated (起源) from the blues, and that the blues began as a form of musical expression for African Americans during slavery(奴隶制度)? Did you know that most hip-hop is heavily influenced by early rhythm blues and jazz?

There are many fun ways to learn about different musical styles and their historical roots. For example, if you like hip-hop, listen to some of your favorite CDs and take note of the samples the performers used to create the songs. There is a possibility that the artist used parts of older songs to create the music. You can go to the library or online to learn more about the artists and listen to more of their music by checking out CDs from the library or downloading songs online for a small fee.

 You can learn so much about culture and history just by paying attention to different types of music and what is being expressed in the songs. There are so many different styles of music to learn about, and you owe (欠) it to your-self to make an effort to listen to and learn about them.

1.The main topic of this passage is _______.

A. creating music                  

B. performing music

C. enjoying your favorite music        

D. learning about music

2.What music did African Americans use to express their feelings of being slaves?

A. Rock ’n’ roll.    B. The blues.   C. Hip-hop.     D. Jazz.

3.How can you learn about culture and history through music?

A. By writing down the names of the music

B. By creating music from older songs yourself.

C. By caring about what is being expressed in music.

D. By keeping a record of fees after downloading songs online.

4.By saying the underlined sentence in the last paragraph, the author probably means that _______.

A. you should try harder to learn about music

B. you should return something to music

C. you should borrow music CDs from others

D. you should buy music CDs yourself

There once was a very honest shopkeeper whose business was to provide goods to the local people. He would open his shop at 8:00 a.m. after having his breakfast and at 1:00 p.m. he would go for lunch. In the evening at 8:30 p.m. he closed his shop to complete his daily routine.

However, to get time for lunch was really difficult be-cause he didn’t have anybody to help him at that time. Therefore, it was his daily practice that whichever customer was shopping at 1:00 p.m. would be asked to oversee (看管) the shop until the shopkeeper returned from lunch.

One day, a group of four thieves planned to steal from his shop while he was gone for lunch. One of the thieves went at 1:00 p.m. to be the customer that would be asked to oversee the shop.

The thief, pretending to be a customer, went in at 1:00 p.m. and started buying several items. As planned, the shop-keeper asked the thief to sit on his chair for thirty minutes until he returned from lunch.

Then, the other three thieves quickly came and told the pretend customer to help, but something had changed within him and he knew deeply in his heart that if he was given responsibility for the shop, he should not perform any dishonest acts during that time. His friends did not agree. As the now honest man tried to stop them, they resisted (抵抗) and a fight started. And at the same time the shopkeeper returned and asked why there was a fighting. The now honest man explained the entire plan.

The shopkeeper had been searching for an honest man who could take ownership of the shop and run it. The shop-keeper felt that he had found the right man.

1.What is the problem for the shopkeeper?

A. Nobody could prepare lunch for him every day.

B. He had nobody to keep the shop when he went for lunch.

C. He was too busy to have lunch every day.

D. He couldn’t find a person to work at the shop.

2.Why did the thief go to the shop at 1:00 p.m.?

A. Because he thought he would be asked to keep the shop.

B. Because the shopkeeper invited him to lunch then.

C. Because the shop was closed at that time.

D. Because he thought he could buy cheap things then.

3.When the shopkeeper returned from lunch, he found _______.

A. everything in his shop was stolen

B. the thief became the new owner of the shop

C. there was a fighting in his shop

D. the thief helped his fellows steal things from his shop

4.From the passage, we can infer that _______.

A. once a thief, he will always be a thief

B. an honest man will be responsible for his action

C. you can’t believe in a dishonest man forever

D. trust can change a thief into an honest man

When you make a mistake, big or small, cherish it as the most precious thing in the world. Because in some ways, it is.

    60 . Most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad. And we are reminded that we should try to avoid mistakes. We’ve been scolded when we make mistakes — at home, school and work. Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.

Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow.   61   . We don’t really consume information and instantly know it or know how to do it. Instead, we get information about something, from reading or from another person or from observing usually; then we construct a model in our mind, test it out by trying it in the real world, make mistakes, revise the model based on the results of our real-world experimentation and repeat, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, until we’ve pretty much learned how to do it well.

   62   . If you succeed at something, it’s probably something you already knew how to do it. You haven’t really grown much from that success — at most it’s the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Most of the journey is made up of mistakes. By trial and error, we try out new strategies and make new discoveries, thus leading to higher payoffs. So if you value learning, if you value growing and improving, then you should value mistakes.    63  

A. Just think about how we learn.

B. Everyone can make mistakes in their life.

C. Mistakes are how we learn to do something new.

D. It is natural that we are in a bad mood when we make mistakes.

E. Mistakes are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.

单词拼写（共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分）

1.While reading, please pay much a__________ to your pronunciation

2.Many rare animals are in d________, because they are being hunting for.

3.To be h_________, I don’t like your hairstyle, for it is quite strange.

4.A special machine was made to s_________ difficult problems.

5.If we combine health with a balanced d_______, we will be full of energy every day.

6.He expressed it in the __________ （形式）of music.

7.They achieved their ___________ (目标)of increasing sales by five percent.

8.The government insists that the plan will not do any________(伤害) to the environment.

9.You should a__________ （道歉）for your rudeness to the teacher in the class.

10.With the government’s aid，those________(影响)by the earthquake have moved to the new settlements.

阅读下面的短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中动词的适当形式。

However, there was one band that 74_______ (start) in a different way. It was 75_______(call) the Monkees and began as a TV show. The 76___________ were to play 77______ on each other as 78______as play music, most of 79___________was based loosely 80_____the Beatles. The TV organizers had planned to find four musicians who could act as well as sing. They put an  81______________in a newspaper 82_________(look) for rock musicians, 83_____they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of the band.

假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，假设下文是你同桌写的作文。文中有10处错误，请你按下面的要求在错误的地方增加、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：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11处起)不计分。

Nowaday more and more people dream of be famous, and the internet has become a new approach to this. On the Internet, many young people may be familiar to a group called “Backroom boy”. The group caught people’s eye because its funny perform. They just pretend be singing while in fact the sound is made by the original voice from video. When asked why they do this for the first time, they said,” We like playing jokes to each other.. There were some foreign videos online, looks very funny and interesting. So we decided to make our own. Just for a fun.

2011年5月1日起全国实施室内公共场所禁烟，为此，你校学生对学校周边的部分室内公共场所禁烟的情况进行了调查，结果发现，约40% 的室内公共场所仍有吸烟现象。假如你是李华，请你用英文给《21世纪报》的编辑写封信，内容包括以下要点：

1．简要描述调查结果；

2．说明吸烟对健康的影响；

3．提出具体的禁烟措施或建议。

注意：

1．词数100-120左右；

2．信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：现象phenomenon

Dear editor,

A smoking ban（禁烟令） in all indoor public places in China, such as hotels and restaurants, has taken effect（生效） since May 1st, 2011, but the survey we have recently conducted shows that___________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

Best wishes!

                                                        Yours Sincerely

Li Hua

We agreed ______ here but so far she hasn’t turned up yet.

A. having met    B. meeting   C. to meet    D. to have met 

Sichuan is located ________ the west of China while Japan lies______ the east of China.

   A. to ; to    B. in; in   C. in; to    D. to; in

The family settled in New York in 1970 and has lived there_______.

  A. ever since     B. long since   C. since before   D. since ever