Husband had just bought a new washing machine for me. I decided to use it and I washed a lot of things. Everything worked well, but I found one of my husband’s socks missing. I looked everywhere for it, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.

The next morning, I got ready for school as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in. I greeted them first and then told them what we were going to do that day.

When I turned around to write on the blackboard, the class broke out a roar!

They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in fact, that I was afraid the headmaster would be into seeing all this.

I asked the class to stop, but the more I talked, the more they laughed. I decided to pay no attention to them and I continued to write on the blackboard. When I did this, they roared even more.

Finally, the teacher who had the room next to mine came in to see what all the laughter was about. When he came in, he started laughing, too!

“Good heavens,” I said. “Will someone please tell me what is so funny?’

“Oh, God,” said the teacher. “You have a brown sock to the back of your skirt!”

So that’s how I found my husband’s missing sock.

“Oh, well,” I said to the class. “Let’s just say you have had an unforgettable lesson on static（静止的）electricity.”

41. What was the writer?

A. A washer           B. A student          C. A headmaster            D. A teacher

42. What happened when the writer turned around to write on the blackboard?

A. The class roared with anger.                      B. The class began to laugh loudly.

C. Another teacher came in.                       D. There was a loud noise outside the room.

43. Why couldn’t she find one of her husband’s socks?

A. Because some students had hidden it.

B. Because her husband had taken it away.

C. Because she had left it in the classroom.

D. Because she never expected that it would stick to her skirt.

44. Why did the teacher from the next room laugh?

A. Because the whole class laughed.

B. Because he saw the writer fooled by the class.

C. Because he saw some of the students making faces.

D. Because he found a sock on the back of the writer’s skirt.

45. Which of the following statements is WRONG?

A. The writer had just bought a new washing machine.

B. The writer found one of her husband’s socks missing.

C. The students told her about the laughing.

D. She was afraid of being seen by the headmaster.

The Conservative（保守的） Party leader David Cameron has become the British prime minister. The 43-year-old Cameron is the youngest to hold the post in almost 200 years.

Cameron grew up with poor school reports but has become a famous political figure. He is reportedly a descendant（后裔）of King William IV. Cameron studied at the elite（精英的）Eton College. He went to Oxford University, where he graduated with a first-class honors degree in philosophy, politics and economics.

At Eton, Cameron was a problem boy. In 1983, he allegedly（涉嫌） took drugs. He was punished, and ordered to copy 500 lines of Latin text. He later passed the Oxford entrance exam. Now he is British’s prime minister, he has to deal with the country’s deep economic troubles.

46. How old was David Cameron allegedly took drugs?

A.15                           B.16                          C.17                         D.18

47. What can you infer about David Cameron from the text?

A. He is the youngest prime minister in history.     B. He often got high scores at school.

C. He is handsome.                                                         D. He didn’t behave well at Eton.

48. Which was David Cameron’s favorite subject?

A. Internet                   B. biology                        C. politics                    D. maths

49. According to the text, we know that      

A. As a punishment, he copied 50 lines of Latin text.

B. David Cameron passed the Cambridge entrance exam.

C. British has trouble with economy now.

D. David Cameron is a heavy smoker.

One morning a few years ago，Harvard President Neil Rudenstine overslept. For this busy man，it was a sort of alarm: after years of non-stop hard work，he might wear himself out and die an early death.

Only after a week's leave—during which he read novels, listened to music and walked with his wife on a beach—was Rudenstine able to return to work.

In our modern life, we have lost the rhythm between action and rest. Surprisingly, within this world there is a universal but silly saying:“I am so busy.”

We say this to one another as if our tireless efforts were a talent by nature and an ability to successfully deal with stress. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others. To be unavailable to our friends and family, and to be unable to find time to relax—this has become the model of a successful life.

Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the guide telling us where to go, the food providing us with strength, the quiet giving us wisdom.

How have we allowed this to happen? I believe it is this: we have forgotten the Sabbath, the day of the week—for followers of some religions—for rest and praying. It is a day when we are not supposed to work, a time when we devote ourselves to enjoying and celebrating what is beautiful. It is a good time to bless our children and loved ones, give thanks, share meals，walk and sleep. It is a time for us to take a rest, to put our work aside, trusting that there are larger forces at work taking care of the world.

Rest is a spiritual and biological need；however，in our strong ambition to be successful and care for our many responsibilities，we may feel terribly guilty when we take time to rest. The Sabbath gives us permission to stop work. In fact, “Remember the Sabbath ”is more than simply permission to rest；it is a rule to obey and a principle to follow.

50. The “alarm” in the first paragraph refers to “______”.

　　A. a signal of stress                                   B. a warning of danger

　　C. a sign of age                                       D. a spread of disease

51. According to Paragraph 4,a successful person is one who is believed to ____.

　　A. be able to work without stress　　            B. be more talented than other people

　　C. be more important than anyone else　　 D. be busy working without time to rest

52. Some people feel guilty when taking time to rest because they ____.

　　A. think that taking a rest means lacking ambitions

　　B. fail to realize that rest is an essential part of life

　　C. fail to realize that religions force them to rest

　　D. think that taking a rest means being lazy

53. What is the main idea of this passage?

　　A. We should balance work with rest.

　　B. The Sabbath givers us permission to rest.

　　C. It is silly for anyone to say “I am so busy.”

　　D. We should be available to our family and friends.

Now more and more students become volunteers. The projects may be with their school, neighborhood, or town, but the work of all volunteers is important. Students find that there are many advantages to volunteering.

First, volunteering helps others. Many people complain about problems in our society. Volunteers are part of the solution to our problems! While it is easy to complain about things that are not right, the volunteer takes action rather than complaining. When a student spends time working at a retirement (退休) home, cleaning up a park, or teaching a younger student, the volunteer makes the world a better place.

Second, being a volunteer makes students feel good about themselves. When a student volunteer knows that his or her efforts have made someone else’s life better, the volunteer feels great. Students always hear people saying that everyone should care about other people. Volunteers make it happen. Although some volunteer work is long or tiring, student volunteers end the day knowing they did the right thing. Their parents, teachers, and the public are proud of them. Knowing they did the right thing makes them feel better, even if they are tired.

Finally, students learn that volunteering is fun. A group of students might volunteer to clean up a riverbed in early spring. It is fun to be with their friends, to enjoy the weather, and to picnic later in a beautiful, clean area. Other students might read to young children in a playgroup. It is fun to spend time with children and to have them smile and laugh. No matter what their ages or talents are, every student can be a volunteer. The work of student volunteers is a powerful force that makes the world a better place.

54. The tile of this passage is ________.

A. Free-time Jobs           B. Daily Activities          C. School Life          D. Volunteer Work

55. The writer really wants to say that ___________.

A. volunteering helps society as well as volunteers themselves

B. it is fun to spend time volunteering in a pre-school

C. some people complain instead of taking action

D. some volunteer work is long and tiring       

56. According to the passage, how are volunteers different from other people?

A. They never complain.                              B. They always feel great.

C. They take action.                                D. They enjoy teaching.

We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively（被动地）. We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.

We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers.

Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor(谣言).

Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original message has changed.

That’s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping（打上标记）it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.

This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.

57. According to the passage, passive learning may occur in _______.

A. doing a medical experiment       B. solving a math problem

C. visiting an exhibition             D. doing scientific reasoning

58. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.

A. active learning                                      B. knowledge

C. communication                               D. passive learning

59. The author mentions the game Rumor to show that _____.

A. a message may be changed when being passed on

B. a message should be delivered in different ways

C. people may have problems with their sense of hearing

D. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor

60. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Active learning is less important.

B. Passive learning may not be reliable.

C. Active learning occurs more frequently.

D. Passive learning is not found among scholars.

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。

—I’m so happy that this term is over. We can enjoy the summer holidays.

—Me too. We can relax ourselves at last.

—   61  

—Yes, I’ll go back to my hometown. It has been a long time since I visited it last time.

—   62   

—Yes, and also do some farming.

—   63    

—Yes, I do that every summer during holidays.

—I didn’t know that a city boy could do farm work..  64     I’d like to learn to do some farming.

—Of course, my grandparents would be happy to see you.

—   65    I’m afraid…

—I’m sure. They are very kind persons.

A. Are you sure?

B. Do you have a plan for your holidays?

C. Would you like to go with me together?

D. Are you going to see your grandparents?

E. How are you going to spend your holidays?   

F. You mean you know how to farm.

G. Can I go there with you?

单词拼写  (满分10分)

1. Water has three states: gas , liquid and     (固体).               66.              

2. The high-quality      (飞行员)are badly needed.                       67.              

3. I’d like to buy two       (打)eggs.                                   68.              

4. The people’s      (平均)income is increasing year by year.             69.              

5. Women like       (讨价还价)                                    70.              

6. The village was surrounded by      (敌人).                         71.              

7. The goods are paid by      (支票).                               72.              

8. Tom shares everything with us      (自愿地)                      73.              

9. Cellphones are      (禁止) at school.                          74.               

10. As is known ,nobody is      (完美的)                            75.              

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

如无错误，在该行右边横线上划一个勾（√）；如有错误，则按下列情况改正：该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边写出改正后的词。

Two years ago I went to America and study at a language                      76.       

school. I had many wonderful experience , but I also                         77.       

had a sad one. One day, the school held a party, in that                       78.       

I invited to talk about Handan. After that they asked me a lot of                        79.       

things about China. But I couldn’t explain to him in English           80.       

clearly. I felt sadly. I learnt a lesson from this experience. I                      81.       

have already studied English for eight years, so I can’t use it                  82.       

very well. I must work hard to improve my speaking English                    83.       

so that I will not be able to communicate freely with foreigners.                       84.       

I hope I can be a bridge between China and other countries                 85.       

in the future.

 书面表达（满分30分）

假设你叫李明，“快乐男生”节目正热播,在学生中引起反响,上周你们学校为此展开了一场讨论。你的朋友Jack 关心此事,请你根据下表提供的信息,写一封回信，介绍此次讨论并发表你的观点。

competition竞争，比赛

注意：1. 行文应连贯, 内容应完整; 2. 词数110字左右; 3. 写信的格式。

Dear Jack,

I’m writing to tell you the discussion that has been held in our school about Happy Boys’ voice，which was held by Hunan TV Stations.

Yours

Li Ming

We _________ last night, but we went to the concert instead.

    A. must have tudied                   B. might study

    C. should have studied                 D. would study