閱讀下面對話，從方框中選擇適當的句子補全對 話。(其中有兩項是多余的)

A：Dad,we were told to collect some information about Fuzhou Subway. 1

B: Sure. It's reported that Subway Line 1 will have its test run at the end of this year.

A： Great!2

B：It has a total length of 29. 2 kilometers.

A： How many stations are there?

B： 3 And it connects four main areas of the city from the north to the south.

A： Then how about the ticket price?

B: Well,it still remains unknown. 4  

A： Hope not. 5

   A. How long is it?

   B. When will it be put into use?

   C. It covers 24 stations.

   D. But I hope the ticket won’t be expensive.

   E. Would you please tell me something about it?

   F. Does it cover many stations?

   G. I'm looking forward to taking the subway to school!

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   根據短文內容，從方框中選出恰當的單詞或短語 填空，使語意通順，每個選頂只能用一次，有兩項多余。

   A. everyone   B. how long   C. weak   D. higher   E. instead of 

    F. However  G. speed  H. left  I. until  J. lower  K. enjoyed  L. how far 

   Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe,England,on December 25,1642. He was born early and he was very 1 No one believed he could continue to live. But he surprised 2 . He had one of the most powerful minds in history. And he lived 3 he was 84.

   Newton's father died before he was born. His mother married again a few years later. She 4 Newton with his grandmother.

   The boy was not a good student. Yet he was curious (好奇的) and liked to make things,such as kites,clocks and simple machines. Newton also 5 finding new ways to answer questions or solve problems. As a boy,for example,he wanted to find a way to measure (測量) the 6 of the wind. On a windy day,he measured how far he could jump with the wind at his back. Then he measured 7 he could jump with the wind in his face. From the difference between the two jumps,he made his own measure of the power of the wind.

   Strangely,Newton became a much better student after a boy kicked him in the stomach. The boy was one of the best students in the school. Newton decided to get even (報復) by getting 8 marks than the boy who kicked him. In a short time,Newton became the top student at the school.

   Newton left school to help on the family farm.9 ，the boy was not a good farmer. He spent his time solving math problems,instead of taking care of the farm. He spent hours visiting a bookstore in town.10 selling his vegetables in the market. An uncle believed that Newton would do better as a student than as a farmer. So he sponsored (資助) the young man into Cambridge University to study math.

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  根據短文內容及首字母提示完成單詞。

   In the town of Lampang in northern Thailand,there is an unusual group of musicians. They play many different k 1 of music—everything from traditional Thai songs to music by Beethoven. Both children and adults love this group. What makes them so p 2 ? Is it their music? Their looks? Yes,it's both of the things,but it's a 3 something else： they’re elephants.

   These musical elephants started at the TECC (泰國大象保護中心) in Lampang. The TECC protects elephants. It teaches people to understand and love them. And,like many zoos a 4 the world,the TECC encourages elephants to paint.

   Richard Lair w 5 for the TECC. He loves his job there and knows a lot about elephants. He says some of the animals 5 paintings are very good. But,in fact,elephants h 6 better than they see. And so he had an idea： if elephants are s 7 and they have good hearing,maybe they can play music. To test his idea,Lair and a friend started the Thai Elephant Orchestra. During a performance (表演) ，the elephants play a number of i 8 , including the drums and the xylophone (木琴) .

   But can elephants really make music properly? Yes,says Lair. They are very creative. Humans e 9 the animals to play,but the elephants make their own songs;they don't just copy their trainers o 10 other people. There are now CDs of the group's music which make money for the TEC   C. And the music these artists create is pretty amazing.

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  從下面方框中選出10個單詞，并用其正確形式填 空，使短文意思完整、通順(每詞限用一次) 。

    back,bad,express,feel,it, loud,luck,simple,sweet,thank,two,warm 

   Once upon a time,a young man came across a spring (泉水) of dear water while crossing the desert. The water was very sweet,and he filled his leather container (皮革容器) so that he could bring some 1 to his teacher. After a four-day journey,he presented the water to his teacher. The old man took a good drink,smiled 2 and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man returned to his village with a happy heart. After a while,the teacher let 3 student taste the water. He spat (P±) it out,saying it was terrible. It was clear that the water had become no longer fresh and sweet because of the old leather container. The student questioned his teacher, “The water tasted strange; why did you still like it?” The teacher replied, “You 4 tasted the water while I tasted the gift. The water was the container for an act of love and kindness and nothing could be 5 .”

   After reading the story,we can understand when we receive a chocolate as a gift from a child,we get more than the chocolate 6 What we should do properly is to express 7 naturally to him or her because we love the idea within the gift.

   Gratitude (感激) does not always come naturally.8 , most children and many grow-ups like only the thing given rather than the 9 shown in it. We should remind ourselves and teach our children about the beauty of feelings and 10 of gratitude. After all,gifts from the heart are really the gifts of the heart.

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根據短文內容和所給中文提示，在空白處寫出正 確的單詞。每空限填一詞。

   I feel it^ very important for families to have regular meals together. One of my great childhood memories is having 1 (晚餐) with my parents and two sisters. Because my husband and I both work and our three children are busy with their studies,we seldom have a 2 (機會) to get together as a family. But we thought it would be possible for us to sit down and 3 (享受) meals together every week.First,we tried setting three fixed days：Mondays,Wednesdays,and Fridays. But almost everyone was not 4 (積極的) . Then my son had the idea that everyone could tell me his or her most convenient days,and I would choose the two best days. For a while,children were still unhappy with the 5 (選擇) .They said they’d rather spend their time in the 6 (當地的) park with their friends and play sports. 7 (然而) ,they gradually began to see these evenings together as interesting and helpful. We loved it. We discussed each other's problems. We even made plans for a 8 (野餐) . After a couple of months,anyone who had to 9 (錯過) the family meal felt bad. And now,we all feel weVe been able to build much stronger relationships within the family than we had before.

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 請用適當的詞完成下面的短文，每個空只能填寫一個形式正確、意義相符的單詞。

   The Great Wall is known as the eighth wonder of the world. Every year thousands of tourists from all over the world come to visit this place of 1 in China.

   Last Saturday I went to the Great Wall 2 some of my friends. It was a sunny day. On our way up,we saw many volunteers (志愿者) keeping order in the sun. They helped the elders with their bags,3 photos for some tourists and answered people's questions. Though they were very 4 ,they didn't stop to have a rest. We were deeply moved when we saw this.

   Just at that moment,we saw 5 little boy standing alone and crying. We went over and asked what 6 to him. From his answer we knew that he couldn’t find his mother. We told him not to 7 about it and then we tried to get in touch with his mother with the phone number he gave us. Twenty minutes 8 ,his mother turned up. When she saw her son,she was very excited and thanked 9 with tears in her eyes.

   That day we not only enjoyed the beauty of the Great Wall,but also felt the warmth of the society.10 everyone can reach out a helping hand to others,the world around us will be more and more harmonious (和諧的) .

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閱讀下面短文，根據所讀內容，在文章后第1 一 10 小題的空格里填入一個最恰當的單詞。

注意:每個空格只填一個單詞。

   Noah Webster was born on October 16 ,1758,in the West Division of Hartford,where his father farmed and worked as a weaver. His mother was a housewife.

   Few people went to college at that time,but Noah loved so much to learn that his parents let him go to Yale,Connecticut's only college. Noah graduated in 1778. He desired (渴望) to study law,but his parents didn't have more money to send him to school. So,in order to make a living,Noah taught in Glastonbury,Hartford and West Hartford. Later he studied law.

   Noah did not like American schools. Sometimes 70 children of all ages were crammed (擠滿) into one-room schoolhouses with poor books and untrained teachers. Their books came from England. Noah thought that Americans should learn from American books,so in 1783,Noah wrote his own textbook A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. Most people called it the “Blue-Backed Speller” because of its blue cover.

   For 100 years,Noah's book taught children how to read,spell,and pronounce words. It was the most popular American book of its time. Ben Franklin used Noah's book to teach his granddaughter to read.

   When Noah was 43 ,he started writing the first American dictionary.He did that because Americans in different parts of the country spelled,pronounced and used words differently.He thought that all Americans should speak in the same way. He also thought that Americans should not speak and spell just like the English. Noah used American spellings like color instead of the English colour and music instead of musick. He also added American words that weren’t in English dictionaries like skunk and squash. He spent over 27 years writing his dictionary. When Noah accomplished (完成) his dictionary in 1828,at the age of 70 ,the first American dictionary came out. It had 70,000 words in it.

   Noah did many things in his life. He worked for copyright laws,wrote textbooks. Americanized the English language,and edited magazines. When Noah Webster died in 1843,he was considered an American hero.

   Noah Webster and the 1 American Dictionary 

      Name： Noah Webster

      Date of birth： 

      October 16,1758 

      Major events：

      ?1778： After graduating,Noah had to work as a 2 because his parents couldn’t 3 his further education.

      ?1783: Crowded schoolhouses with poor English books and untrained teachers didn't 4 Noah. He wrote the textbook of his own. The textbook was so 5 at that time that even Ben Franklin used it to teach his granddaughter to read.

      ?1801 ：Noah started writing the first American dictionary because he realized it was 6 for all Americans to speak in the same way. Also,he thought all Americans should speak and spell in their 7 way.

      ?1828: The first American dictionary wasn’t 8 until Noah was 70 years old. It 9 him over 27 years to write it.

      ?1843: Because of his contribution to America,Noah was considered an American 10 when he died.

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  Tommy White has been rowing across the Pacific Ocean in a rowboat since he left California on July 10 ,2007. He has been heading for Australia with only birds,fish,and sharks ever since.

   Crossing the Pacific is the only part of his journey. Tommy has decided to go all the way around the world using his own energy. He will row,bike,walk,and climb the world without help from any motors (馬達) at all. His plan includes climbing the tallest peak on six of the continents (大陸) along the way.

   For the first part of his trip,he bicycled 5,546 miles from Seattle,Washington to Mount McKinley in Alaska and back,walked 67 miles to base camp,and climbed 20,320 feet to McKinley's peak. Now in the second part of his dangerous trip,he is rowing to Australia.

   Why would he try to go around the world this way? He explains that he wants to encourage kids to dream their dreams and get to their own goals. He wants to show kids that there might be hard parts along the way,and sometimes they might not even get to that final goal. But they can have great adventures and learn a lot along the way.

   Tommy has already faced some difficulties. For example,winds and waves keep pushing him westward when he wants to go south toward the Solomon Islands. If his luck doesn’t change,he will cheerfully change his plan,and aim to land at Papua New Guinea. One way or another,he's sure he’ll get to his next goal：Australia.

   When his trip around the world takes him across land,he enjoys meeting people一especially children. He has already visited many schools and shared his story.

   Tommy encourages all kids to set their eyes on a goal and not give up. He says,“With goals,we will make progress,and we will be farther along than when we started,even if we don't get to some goals. That's called life!”

1. How has Tommy decided to go all the way around the world?

2. Which part of his trip is he in now?

3. If his luck doesn’t change,where does he aim to land?

4. What does he enjoy on his trip across land?

5. To Tommy,does life mean struggling for (為……而奮斗) the goals?

  學校英語閱讀社團進行了一次“尋找名著節(jié)目”的 趣味競賽，請你根據以下五本小說的描述把書名代號 A—E填人1一5小題相應空格處。

   1 A girl named Alice falls down a rabbit hole after an unusual big white rabbit. She finds herself in a land of talking animals and other fantastic animals,and starts a trip full of adventures (冒險) .

   2 After a ship accident Crusoe lands on an island. To live he must build a home for himself. He saves a man called Friday. A lot of adventures happen to them on the island.

   3 The story is about the Marchi family of four sisters growing up. It shapes the image of the four different characters to the family daily life.

   4 This is an adventure about a boy called Jim Hawkins. He goes out to sea with a treasure map and finds an island full of treasures. It's a problem-solving journey to rescue (營救) treasures from dangerous situations.

   5 This story is about an emperor who loves clothes very much. Two brothers cheat the emperor to get silver and gold. They tell him that people can5t see the clothes unless they are clever. In the parade,everyone says his new clothes are wonderful except a little boy.

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請先閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后根據短文 內容從下面方框內的七個選項中選擇五個還原到文 中，使短文意思通順、結構完整。

                                       Hip-hop planet 

   1 Countries like France,Brazil and even Japan have their own hip-hop culture. But where did this strange speaking-singing style come from? Many centuries ago,in West Africa,traditional storytellers played musical instruments while they were telling stories. When this tradition traveled from West Africa to the USA. it developed into different musical styles. For example,blues and jazz. 2 And in the 1970s,there were many poor areas in New York. There wasn’t any money for music lessons in schools,so kids made their own music. Teenagers Afrika and DJ Here played their records outside in the streets. Everybody joined in. MCs had rapping (說唱) competitions. Every week,there were talented new dancers,new DJs and new MCs. Hip-hop culture was born.

   3 It was 1980. I was at a party in New York. There was a young DJ at the party. He was playing records. While he was putting a record on,a kid picked up a microphone (話筒) and began tapping. Some other kids were break-dancing to the music. It was loud and boring,and I hated it. I preferred jazz.

   4 Today's successful American artists like Missy and her friend Tim heard it on the radio when they were growing up.

   The last time I heard hip-hop,I was in West Africa. 5 I was going to interview a traditional storyteller when I met a young hip-hop artist. He told me there are hundreds of rap groups in Africa today. We live on a hip-hop planet.

   A. I remember the first time I heard hip-hop.

   B. You can find hip-hop everywhere you go.

   C. I was writing a book about African-Americans.

   D. Many Americans gave music lessons to poor children.

   E. These styles all started in poor African-American areas.

   F. During the 1980s,hip-hop became popular all over the USA.

   G. Some people don't like hip-hop because of its spoken words.

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