“Hey, Jenna, do you think we’ ll still be friends when we’re eighty-two?” I asked my friend.

Losing Jenna would be like losing a very close sister.

“Of course, we’ll still be friends when we’re eighty-two,” Jenna announced loudly

The next year, in Grade Four, we met Jamie. The three of us soon became close friends. We played together almost every day. I thought even time couldn’t pull us apart, but I was sadly mistaken.

The three of us started fighting a lot. Before Christmas, We had a really big fight, and Jamie and Jenna were against me, both saying I was bossy (专横的). I felt helpless and lonely. I thought Christmas would be horrible!

I was surprised when Jenna came to my house and gave me a terrible Christmas card she had made for me. I was so sure that she was still disappointed with me.

“Wow,” I said, breaking the silence as we stood on either side of my front door. “Thanks.”

“Okay…well… I have to go,” she said softly.

“Okay. See you later then…” and I closed the door.

“Who was that at the door?” my mom asked.

“It was Jenna, my classmate.” I said.

The card started off with “Merry Christmas”, but then it said, “I am so glad we’re friends. I am sorry about what I said when we were fighting. A fight won’t stop us from being friends. Besides, we said we were going to be friends even when we’re eighty-two.”

I stopped reading and started laughing. I couldn’t believe I had forgotten what she said that day in the backyard. I couldn’t believe I had been so selfish in trying to make my friends feel sorry for me.

1.The best title for this passage would be______________.

2.How would the author and Jenna get along with each other after Christmas?

3. What can we learn from the underlined sentences?

4.Which of the following is the right time order according to the passage?

a. Jamie became the author’s friend.

b. The author felt lonely and unhappy.

c. Jenna, Jamie and the author fought.

d. Jenna brought the author a Christmas card.

e. The author was sorry for what she did.

f. Jenna and the author promised to be lifelong friends.

On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the New York railway station, playing his violin. The music was so great that many people stopped to put some money into the hat of the young man.

The next day, the young artist came to the same place, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different from the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it under his hat. Then he began to play the violin. It sounded more pleasant than ever.

Soon he was surrounded with people who were attracted by the words on that paper. It said, “Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Please come to claim (认领) it soon.”

After about half an hour, a middle-aged man rushed through the crowd to the violinist and said, “Yes, it’s you. I knew that you were an honest man and would certainly come here.” The young violinist asked calmly, “Are you Mr George Sang?” The man nodded. The violinist asked, “Did you lose something?” “It’s a lottery ticket,” said the man. The violinist took out a lottery ticket on which George Sang’s name was seen. “Is it?” he asked. George nodded and took the lottery ticket and kissed it, then danced with the violinist.

The violinist was a student at an arts college and had planned to attend advanced studies in Vienna. Later his classmate asked the violinist, “At that time you needed money to pay the tuition （学费）and you had to play the violin in the railway station every day to make money. Why didn’t you keep the lottery ticket for yourself?”

The violinist said, “Although I don’t have much money, I live happily. But if I lose honesty I won’t be happy forever.” Through our lives, we can gain a lot and lose so much. But being honest should always be with us.

1.What did the young artist do at the railway station on Friday?

2.According to the words on the paper, which sentence below is TRUE?

3. From this article, we can learn that ____.

根据文章大意及首字母，用适当的词完成短文（共6小题，每小题1分，满分6分）

Xiao Ming knows English plays an important 1.r_______in today's world. So he works hard to enlarge his vocabulary, for he believes that the more English words he learns, the better his English will be. And his English is improving rapidly because of his hard work.

In this year's summer holiday, he went to the UK, where he grasped every 2.o_____to speak to the3.n_____English speakers. He tried to speak English with British 4.a_______ . He also found that sometimes the Britons and the Americans use different words for the same thing. For example, the Americans say gas, 5.e_______ ,apartment and candy, while the Britons say petrol, lift, flat and 6.s______.

根据课文内容填词：（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分）

So why has English changed over time? 1.   all languages change and develop when cultures meet and  2.    with each other. At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English 3.  today. It was based more on German than the English we speak at present. Then   4.between about AD 800 and 1150, English became   5.  like German because those who ruled England spoke first  6.  and later French. These new settlers   7. the English language and especially its   8. . So by the 1600's Shakespeare was able to make use of a wider vocabulary than ever before. In 1620 some British   9.  moved to America. Later in the 18th century some British people were taken to   10.  too. English began to be spoken in both countries.

根据句意选择单词，并用适当形式填空。（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）．

1. Rains are_____ in this part of the country in summer.

2. He ______ to his classmates and joined them in the heated discussion.

3. He has a good ________ of German.

4. He speaks English as              as a native English speaker.

5. Mr.Wang, are you free _______? I’ve got some questions for you.

6.The girl finally ________ her shyness and stood up, answering the question.

7. The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their_______.

8.Jane and Mary are good friends; the former is a teacher, and _______ is a nurse.

9.The wind is in the _______ direction.

10.Tom ____________  the doctor’s advice and goes on smoking.

语法考察（每小题1分，共5分`）将下列句子的直接引语转换成间接引语，间接引语转换成直接引语

1.Nancy asked her deskmate, “How did you work out the problem, Bob?”

Nancy asked Bob how he ______ _______out the problem.

2. “I found my wallet under the desk, ”Lucy said to her mom.

Lucy ______ her mom that she had found_______ wallet under the desk.

3.The teacher told us not to make any noise then.

The teacher said to us, “______ make any noise ______”

4. Mom asked me whether I had finished my homework.

“You have finished your homework,______ ______ ?”mom asked me.

5.Rainy asked her father what they would have for supper.

Rainy asked her father, “Dad! What ______ ______ have for supper?”

–I’m glad to be offered the job. Shall I start tomorrow?

– ______. See you tomorrow.

 He is free now, so he ______ go with us, but he hasn’t decided yet.

 – Are you cleaning my room?

– I can’t help _____. I can’t bear seeing people’s room in a mess!

 ________ that I was puzzled.