After years of study, I have known there are only two types of people in this world: those who get to the airport early and those who arrive when the plane is about to take off.

If there were any justice（公正）in this world, early-airport people would be rewarded for doing the right thing. And late-airport people would be punished. But early-airport people get ulcers（溃疡）, heart attacks and bite their fingernails to the bone. Late-airport people almost don’t realize they are flying.

A guy of that kind once said, “Don’t hurry. If you miss your flight, it’s because God doesn’t want you to go.” This is clearly a guy who is never going to get an ulcer.

Early-airport people suffer another “name”. They are called exactly what they are -wimps（窝囊废）. I know. I was an early-airport person for years. “My baggage will get on the plane first,” I told myself. Indeed it would, which made it the last baggage they took off the plane after landing.

Another strange thing: No matter how early I showed up, I was always told that someone had called two or three years ahead of me and asked for the best seat. I thought it was a trick. I thought there was someone in America who called every airline every day and said: “Is that wimp Simon flying somewhere today? If he is , give me his seat.”

After a lifetime arguing with my wife over whether I really have to pack 24 hours in advance and set the alarm clock four hours ahead, I have learned another fact about early-airport people and late –airport people:

They always marry each other.

1.We can learn from the passage that     .

2. Paragraph 5 mainly wants to tell us that      .

3.This passage is written in order to     .

4. It could be inferred that the writer’s wife is     .

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

I worked for a short time as a cashier（出纳员）at a restaurant a few months ago. 71  One night, just before Christmas, I found a large black wallet on the floor near one of the tables. I guess I should have checked it to find out who was the owner, but I was busy at the time. Also, I imagined that if the wallet contained anything valuable, the owner would be back.

An hour later a man came up to the counter（柜台）. 72  I asked him to describe the lost wallet, and after he described it exactly, I gave him the wallet. He expressed his sincere thanks when I handed it to him. He asked me if I had opened it, and when I told him “ No”, he opened it right away and showed that it contained nearly $800 in cash (现金). 73  

“A reward for your honesty,” he said and then turned and walked away.

74  I began wondering whether I would have been so honest if I had known what was in the wallet! I thought that if there had been no way to find the owner and no one had returned to claim（认领）it, I might have kept it. But it also came into my mind that I had in fact saved someone’s Christmas plans by finding and returning the wallet. 75  The good feeling it gave me was worth more than anything money could  buy.

E. I wanted to be honest, so I didn’t care much about money.

F. I also helped clear off the tables when it was especially busy.

G. For quite a long time I kept happy whenever I thought about it.

短文改错（共10小题，每题1分，满分10分）

文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

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、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Li Ling is the only one of the student in our class who have ever been to England. Last summer she is lucky enough to be sent there to study for three months. When she arrived in England by plane, she was picking up at the airport by the Johnson family,∧she would live with for the next few months. The family does everything they could to make Li Ling to feel at home. Li Ling began her study abroad at a middle school, where she met friends from all over∧ world. She made fully use of every minute to practise her spoken English and was better thought of by all the people around her.

假如你是李华，是一名中学生。请你根据下表内容用英语写一封信给某报社Just Ask 栏目的主持人Ralph,请求他们帮助你解决一个长期困扰你的问题。

注意：

1．词数：100左右，开头和结尾均已经为你写好，不计入总词数；

2．参考词汇：发脾气lose one’s temper

Dear Ralph,

I’m a middle school student._________________________________________________

I do hope we’ll be closer. What can I do?

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

Don’t eat the food that has gone bad, otherwise you will _______.

A. fall ill          B. fall silent        C. fall asleep       D. fall in love

—— Would you please tell the children not to make so much noise?

——Yes. _____________.

A. Thank you      B. I’d rather not     C. I’d like it        D. I’d be happy to.

Tom was late for school ___________________, which, of course, made his teacher very angry.

A. more or less   B. sooner or later   C. here and there    D. over and over again

The style of Lady Gaga _________ a major trend (趋势；趋向) in fashion.

A. entertains       B. focuses         C. represents        D. handles

All schools in our province　　　new English textbooks to improve students' listening，speaking，reading and writing abilities three years ago.

A .admired         B. admitted       C. adopted           D. afforded

When a pencil is partly in a glass of water, it looks as if it ____.

A. breaks         B. has broken    C. were broken        D. had been broken