Jean is a bright young woman who comes from a rich and famous family. She goes to a good university and has everything that money can buy. Well, almost everything. The problem is that Jean’s family are so busy that they can hardly find time to be with her. In fact, Jean is quite lonely. So Jean spends a lot of time on her QQ. She likes being anonymous, talking to people who do not know about her famous family and her rich life. She uses the name Linda on QQ and has made a lot of friends who she keeps in touch with quite often.
Last year Jean made a very special friend on QQ. His name was David and lived in San Francisco. David was full of stories and jokes. He and Jean had a common interest in rock music and modern dance. So it always took them hours to talk happily on QQ and sometimes they even forgot their time. Of course, they wanted to know more about each other. David sent a picture of himself: He was a tall , good looking young man with big , happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.
When Jean’s father told her that he was going on a business trip to San Francisco, she asked him to let her go with him so that she could give David a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of their favorite rock singer. But when she knocked on David’s door in San Francisco, she found that her special friend was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim!
【小题1】 Jean spends a lot of her time on QQ because she is _________.

It was early morning. Peter Corbett helped Mark Wellman out of his wheelchair and onto the ground. They stood before El Capitan, a huge mass of rock almost three-quarters of a mile high in California’s beautiful Yosemite Valley. It had been Mark’s dream to climb El Capitan for as long as he could remember. But how could a person without the use of his legs hope to try to climb it?

Mark knew he couldn’t finish the climb alone, but his friend Peter, an expert rock climber, would be there to lend a helping hand. He and Mark thought that it would take seven days to reach the top.

Peter climbed about 100 feet up and hammered a piton(岩钉) into the rock. Fastening one end of a 165-foot rope to the piton, he let one end of the rope fall down. Mark caught the rope and fastened it to his belt with a special instrument. This instrument would allow Mark to move upward, but would prevent him from falling even as much as a single inch. He next reached above his head and fastened a T-shaped bar to the rope, using the same kind of instrument.

Mark took a deep breath, pushed the T-bar up almost as far as his arms could reach, and began the first of the 7, 000 pull-ups needed to reach the top. High above, Peter let out a cheer. “You’re on your way.”

Seven years before, at the age of twenty-one, Mark had fallen while mountain climbing, injuring his backbone. The fall cost him the use of his legs, but he never lost his love of adventure or his joyful spirit.

For the first four days the two men progressed steadily upward without incident. But on the fifth day an unbearably hot wind began to blow, and as time went by, it became stronger and stronger, causing Mark to sway(摇摆) violently on his rope. But Mark kept on determinedly pushing up the T-bar and pulling himself up. In spite of that, he had to admit that he felt a lot better when the wind finally died down and his body touched solid rock again.

It took them one day more than they had expected, but on July 26 at 1:45 in the afternoon, the crowd of people waiting on the top went wild with joy as the two heads appeared. Mark Wellman had shown that if you set your heart and mind on a goal, no wall is too high, no dream impossible.

1.What had Mark Wellman long desired to do?

A. To finish one of the most difficult rock climbs in the world.

B. To be the first to climb El Capitan.

C. To climb the highest mountain in California.

D. To help his friend Peter climb El Capitan.

2.How did Mark climb the mountain?

A. He fastened the rope to his wheelchair.

B. He hammered in pitons so that he had something to hold on to.

C. He held on to the T-bar and Peter pulled him up.

D. He pulled himself up using a T-bar and special equipment.

3. How did Mark lose the use of his legs?

A. He lost his footing and fell from the side of a mountain.

B. He fell during his first attempt on El Capitan.

C. His legs were broken by falling rocks.

D. While working out in the gym, he injured his backbone.

4.What was the worst problem Mark had during the climb?

A. He struck against the rock and hurt his arms.

B. A strong wind blew him away from the rock.

C. He kept falling several inches.

D. While swaying in space, he became terrified.

5.How did Mark react to difficulties during the climb?

A. He admitted that he was frightened.

B. He often worried about his friend’ s condition.

C. He was able to remain clam and determined.

D. He was joking to cheer himself up.

As time went by, the plan he stuck ____ fairly practical.

A．to proved         B．to proving         C．proved           D．to be proved

完成句子或句型转换 (共6小题15空；每空1分，满分15分)

根据中文意思完成句子或根据英文句子转换句型, 每空一词。

The salesman __________  __________  __________ buy the product yesterday.

昨天推销员说服我们买了这产品。

On hearing that her son died in Iraq, the woman __________  __________ tears.

听到她儿子在伊拉克死亡的消息，她突然大哭了起来。

“What do you want?” she asked me.

 =She asked me __________  __________  __________.

John, got up earlier than usual so that he could catch the early train,

= ________  ______  ______ catch the early train, John, got up earlier than usual.

As time went by ,he made more and more progress.

= _____ time going by, he made more and more progress.

The child is not only clever but also very hard-working.

= The child is clever ____ ____ _____ very hard-working.