Robert Owen was born in Wales in 1771. At the age of ten he went to work. His employer had a largePrivate library so Owen was able to educate himself. He read a lot in his spare time and at nineteen he was given the job of superintendent(监工) at a Manchester cotton mill. He was so successful there that he persuaded his employer to buy the New Lanark mill in Scotland.

When he arrived at New Lanark it was a dirty little town with a population of 2,000 people. Nobodypaid any attention to the workers' houses or their children's education. The conditions in the factories were very bad. There was a lot of crime and the men spent most of their wages on alcoholic drinks.

Owen improved the houses. He encouraged people to be clean and save money. He opened a shop and sold the workers cheap, well-made goods to help them. He limited the sale of alcoholic drinks. Above all, he fixed his mind on the children's education. In 1816 he opened the first free primary school in Britain.

People came from all over the country to visit Owen's factory. They saw that the workers were healthier and more efficient than in other towns. Their children were better fed and better educated. Owen tried the same experiment in the United States. He bought some land there in 1825,but the community was too far away. He could not keep it under control and lost most of his money. 

Owen never stopped fighting for his idea. Above all he believed that people are not born good or bad.

He was a practical man and his ideas were practical. "If you give people good working conditions," he thought, "they will work well and, the most important thing of all, if you give them the chance to learn, they will be better people."

1.For Owen, his greatest achievement in New Lanark was _____________.

A. improving worker's houses             B. helping people to save money

C. preventing men from getting drunk     D. providing the children with a good education

2.From the passage we may infer that Owen was born ___________.

A. into a rich family                   B. into a noble family

C. into a poor family                    D. into a middle class family

3.Owen's experiment in the United States failed because _______.

    A. he lost all his money      

    B. he did not buy enough land

    C. people who visited it were not impressed

    D. it was too far away for him to organize it properly

4.We may infer form the passage that no children in Britain could enjoy free education until ____.

     A. 1771         B. 1816          C. 1825            D. 1860

Here are some advertisements taken from a newspaper.

(1)

Dear Drew Carter,

Your first year on this earth has been a pleasure ride for all of us. We love you!

Love,

Dad and Mom and many friends

(2)

Lawlis—Clarke

The Doctors Virgil and Marjorie Lawlis are pleased to announce the engagement（订婚）of their daughter Diana Susan to Mr. Robert Brent Clarke, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Clarke of Herford, Texas.

A spring wedding is planned in Houston.

(3)

Isbell—Foss

Mr. And Mrs. Davis K. Isbell announce the marriage of their daughter Dang to Mr. Stanley Foss, son of Mrs. John Sipe of Ada, Minnesota.

The wedding will be early April at Abiding Love Lutheran Church.

(4)

Story—Kurio

Miss Stephanie Story and Mr. Warren Kurio married on February 5, at half past seven o’clock in the evening at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas. The bride（新娘）is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Herbert Brule Story Jr. of Dallas. The groom（新郎）is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Stanley Kurio of Austin. 

1.What would be the best title for the first advertisement?

    A．We Love You                      B．Happy 1st Birthday

    C．One Year Old                     D．Our One-Year-Old Son

2.Lawlis and Clarke are going to get married        .

    A．in a church                      B．where Clarke’s parents live

    C．against their parents’ will     D．to Lawlis’s parents’ joy

3.Who got or will get married in spring?

    A．Not only Lawlis and Clarke but also Isbell and Foss.

    B．Neither Lawlis and Clarke nor Isbell and Foss.

    C．Either Isbell and Foss or Story and Kurio.

    D．Neither Lawlis and Clarke nor Story and Kurio.

4.Who are now a married couple?

    A．Lawlis and Clarke.               B．Dand Isbell and Foss.

    C．Story and Kurio.                                   D．The text doesn’t say.

Have you ever been at a meeting while someone was making a speech and realized suddenly that your mind was a million miles away? You probably felt sorry and made up your mind to pay attention and always have been told that daydreaming is a waste of time. 

“On the contrary,” says L. Giambra, an expert in psychology, “daydreaming is quite necessary. Without it, the mind couldn’t get done all the thinking it has to do during a normal day. You can’t possibly do all your thinking with a conscious（有意识）mind. Instead, your unconscious mind is working out problems all the time. Daydreaming then may be one way that the unconscious and conscious states of mind have silent dialogues.”

Early experts in psychology paid no attention to the importance of daydreams or even considered them harmful. At one time daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses. They did not have a better understanding of daydreams until the late 1980s. Eric Klinger, a professor of psychology, is the writer of the book Daydreaming. Klinger says, “We know now that daydreaming is one of the main ways that we organize our lives, learn from our experiences, and plan for our futures. Daydreams really are a window on the things we fear and the things we long for in life.”

Daydreams are usually very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams, which may be hard to understand. It’s easier to gain a deep understanding of your life by paying close attention to your daydreams than by trying to examine your sleep dreams carefully. Daydreams help you recognize the difficult situations in your life and find out a possible way of dealing with them.

Daydreams cannot be predicated（预料）. They move off in unexpected directions which may be creative and full of ideas. For many famous artists and scientists, daydreams were and are a main source of creative energy.

1.The writer of this passage considers daydreams         .

    A．hard to understand               B．important and helpful

    C．harmful and unimportant          D．the same as sleep dreams

2.The writer quoted（引用）L. Giambra and Eric Klinger to         .

    A．point out the wrong ideas of early experts   B．list two different ideas

    C．support his own idea                    D．report the latest research on daydreams

3.Which of the following is TRUE?

    A．An unconscious mind can work all the problems out.

    B．Daydreaming can give artists and scientists ideas for creation.

    C．Professor Eric Klinger has a better idea than L. Giambra.

    D．Early experts fully understood what daydreams were.

4.What is the main difference between daydreams and sleep dreams?

    A．People have daydreams and sleep dreams at different times.

    B．Daydreams are the result of unconscious mind while sleep dreams are that of conscious

 mind.

    C．Daydreams are more harmful.  D．Daydreams are more helpful in solving problems.

In the past hundred years, there have been frequent natural

disasters, _____ as floods, droughts, earthquakes. The disasters                1.________

have killed m_____ of people, destroyed countless homes, and           2.________

wiped out numerous ______ (piece) of land.                              3.________

Now more and more people become a_____ that those disasters           4.________

have much to do ______ what we have done to the earth. We have cut     5.________

down many trees in the forests, and have badly ______ (pollute)             6.________

the environment. As a ______, climates have become worse and worse.    7.________

The earth is our home-planet. It’s urgent for us to stop _____ (damage)        8.________

it, and to do our best to p____ it and make it a lovely place suitable to live      9.________

in, for we have n____ to go and survive except where we are now.            10.________

假如你是李华，是一名高中生。请你用英语给报社写一封信，反映如下情况和你的想法：

（1）教室是学生学习的地方，需要安静

（2）有些学生把手机带进教室，在课堂上经常听见手机的铃声。

（3）有的同学还在课堂上发信息，浪费宝贵的学习时间

（4）建议有手机的同学上课时把手机关掉，不要接听电话或发短信，应集中注意力学习

要求：（1）120字左右；（2）参考词汇：集中（注意力）concentrate on.

从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出所给单词划线部分的正确读音，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

1.victory  A. access                    B. ceremony       C. overcome      D. sacrifice

2.sword   A. sweet                      B. answer         C. sandwich       D. sidewalk

3.break    A. bread     B. weapon                         C. great          D. heavy

4.dozen    A. monument  B. income         C. towards                    D. lorry

5.plays     A. hopes     B. officers         C. books           D. groups

 — Are you satisfied with the result of the examination?

 — Not at all. _______.

A. That’s all right               B. It’s up to you

C. It couldn’t be worse           D. It depends

 The young nurse was very nervous when she ______ the doctor in operating on the patient.

  A. insisted         B. resisted          C. assisted           D. listed

 The games _______ the young men competed were difficult.

  A. in which        B. which           C. that              D. in that

 ---Professor Wang is said ______ in New York.

   ---No wonder he knows a lot about America.

  A. to study     B. to have studied      C. to be studying       D. that he is studying