While watching the Olympics the other night, I came across an unbelievable sight. It was not a gold medal, or a world record broken, but a show of courage.

The event was swimming and started with only three men on the blocks. For one reason or another, two of them false started, so they were disqualified. That left only one to compete. It would have been difficult enough, not having anyone to race against, even though the time on the clock is important.

I watched the man dive off the block and knew right away that something was wrong. I’m not an expert swimmer, but I can tell a good dive from a poor one, and this was not exactly medal quality. When he resurfaced, it was evident that the man was not out for gold – his arms were waving in an attempt at freestyle. The crowd started to laugh. Clearly this man was not a medal competitor.

I listened to the crowd begin to laugh at this poor man who was clearly having a hard time. Finally he made his turn to start back. It was pitiful. He made a few desperate strokes and you could tell he was worn out.

But in those few awful strokes, the crowd had changed.

No longer were they laughing, but beginning to cheer. Some even began to stand and shout “Come on, you can do it!” and he did.

A clear minute past the average swimmer, this young man finally finished his race. The crowd went wild. You would have thought that he had won the gold, and he should have. Even though he recorded one of the slowest times in Olympic history, this man gave more heart than any of the other competitors.

Just a short year ago, he had never even swum, let alone race. His country had been invited to Sydney.

1.From the passage we can learn that the young man         .

2.The crowd changed their attitudes because          .

3.What’s the best title for the passage?

Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.

The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts hardly lose their pumping power with age.

“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20---25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. “Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the ageing process.”

What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.

“This gender (性别)difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink.

They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on healthy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease.

The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart, said Goldspink.

The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.

1.The underlined word “longevity” in the second paragraph probably refers to _________.

2.The text mainly talks about ________.

3.According to the text, the UK scientists have known that _________.

4.We can know from the passage that _______.

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。[来源:七彩教育网]

---Look at this beautiful little statue I bought on my vacation.

---_1.__Oops! Oh,no! I’ve broken it !

---What a shame.

---Aunt Mary,I’m so sorry!_2.

---Oh, don’t be silly!

---But I broke it!

---Never mind, dear.3. And besides, I was planning to give it to you anyway.

---4. You’re not just saying that to make me feel better, Aunt Mary?

---No, o! 5. But the thing certainly wasn’t expensive, and I definitely bought it for you

E. I didn’t do it on purpose.               

F Of course, don’t want you to feel bad.

G. You are just joking?

根据下列句子汉语注释，在答题卡相应的位置上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）

1.At last I managed to _____________(说服) him to give up smoking.

2.The meeting was called off in the ____________(缺席)of many women.

3.She feels a strong sense of __________________(职责) towards her employees。

4.If people are better educated,there is a good chance that we will see less _______(暴力)

and fewer wars.

5. I couldn’t sleep because the bed was so ___________(不舒服).

6. His performance was _________(完美的) in every way.

7.Xinshiji is a ____________(私立的) school.

8.The problem is of great _____________(重要的)

9. He _________ (犹豫)about what to next.

10.He talked of other cultures as if they were more ________(熟悉的) to him than his own.

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

My classmate LiuXin became crazily about a popular      1.___________

star last year. She now listens his songs, buys his pictures     2.____________

and goes to his concerts wherever they are.She seems        3.___________

to have lost interest on her studies.All that shw wants        4._______

is to know about his latest news.As the result, she has fallen   5.__________

behind others.We are all very worried about her and wanted   6._________

to help her,but she doesn’t follow our advices.Our teacher    7.___________

Mr Chen has told her parents about this.They are surprising   8.________

and sad.I don’t think Liu Xin is the only girl who are crazy    9._________

about popular stars.What can we do it to help them out?       10._________

假如你是校学生会主席，为了更好地保护环境，你代表学生会向全校学生发出倡议。请根据以下内容，写一份倡议书：

1 保护环境是我们的职责。

2 我们要养成环保的习惯：(1)尽量步行上学或骑自行车上学(2)离开房间前关灯和其他电器

(3)不随地扔垃圾(4）节约用水

3 发出环保的号召。

注意：1 词数：120左右  2 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

参考词汇：电器electrical applicance （可数名词）

Dear friends，

As we can see, the environment around us is getting worse and worse.

 Thank you!                        

The students’ Union

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。

1. tick       A. diamond     B. flexible     C. minimum    D. bride

2. alcohol    A. adolescent    B. sorrow     C. cottage      D. appropriate

3. cigarette   A. automatic    B. decide      C. subscribe    D. advocate

4. concrete   A. random      B. quantity    C. glance       D. blank

5. absolute   A. appreciation   B. actual      C. candidate    D. wave

 It’s a shame that I was too busy to watch the film last night. If I ____ time. I would have gone to watch it.

I feel ____ is your husband who is to blame for the spoiled child.

The rooms need ____. Our guests are coming tomorrow.