Keeping little pets helps us become more responsible people,________?

A.does it B.doesn’t it C.is it D.isn’t it

Because of the convenience of online shopping, we ___________buy books without having to leave the comfort of our homes.

A.can B.should C.must D.need

—Seeing films is a good way to pass the time on the plane.

—_________I never go travelling without a book.

A.You are joking. B.I agree.

C.I don’t think so. D.Never mind.

—Sorry I’m late, Jack. The underground went wrong and there were no taxis as well.

—____________I’ve just got here myself.

A.What a pity! B.That’s all right.

C.What’s the matter? D.I am afraid not.

Complete the following passages with the words or phrases in the box/ Each can only be used once（將下列單詞或詞組填入空格。每空格限填一詞，每詞只能填一次）

A. set off B. aware C. traditional D. grew up E. professional

Henry Ford is known as making cars. He was born in 1863 in Michigan. He had 4 siblings, and his family owned a farm . He worked on the farm when he was young, but later he was 1.that he loved taking things apart to see how they worked. then putting them back together again. He worked on watches a lot , and ended up helping many people fix their watches . In 1879, when he was 16 years old, he 2. for Detroit to start working with machines, though he came home and worked on the farm a little , too. Ford got married to Clara Bryant in 1888, and worked on a sawmill. He finally became an engineer. Ford worked for the Edison Illumination Company. Edison encouraged him to keep working on his plans for motor-powered horseless carriage（馬車）which could take the place of the 3.one. Ford’s motor-powered horseless carriage was called the Quadricycle. He sold the Quadricycle and started his won company to continue his work making vehicles. He did not stay with the first company for many years, but started the 4. Ford Motor Company.

A. salaries B. no longer C. create D. wheels E. at a time

He spent many years developing cars, which were made only a few once. Ford was not the first person to 5. a car, but he was the one who began to make people easily use cars in the United States. His ‘Model T’ car, released in 1908, made many people want one. He needed to make a lot of cars very quickly. His company , Ford Motor Company, hired skilled workers to work on an assembly line. The car would move through the line, and each worker had a job along the line. One worker might put on 6., while at a different spot on the line, another worker put on tires. Every Model T was painted black. The company could make many cars 7. this way. In addition to using the assembly line to produce cars, Ford was also known for paying his workers fair 8.. Henry Ford died in 1947, but his company is still around and making cars today.

Rewrite the following sentences as required （根據(jù)所給要求，改寫下列句子。前六小題每空格限填一詞。最后一小題注意句首大寫）

1.The children read quite a few English magazines last year.（改為一般疑問句句）

__________the children __________quite a few English magazines last year?

2.China International Import Expo is held in Shanghai once a year.（對劃線部分提問）

_________ __________is China International Import Expo held in Shanghai?

3.You can buy paints, glue and other things in the shop.（改為被動語態(tài)）

Paints, glue and other things can ________ ________ in the shop.

4.The two men managed to escape from the prison at last .（保持句意基本不變）

The two men ______in ________from the prison at last.

5.If he improves his IT skills, he will easily get a job here.（保持句意基本不變）

He ________get a job easily here ______he improves his IT skills.

6.‘I have left the notebook in the library.’ Kitty said to me .（改為間接引語）

Kitty told me that _______ ______left the notebook in the library.

7.to send messages, is popular, to people all over the world, it , to use online services（連詞成句）

______________________________________________________.

A. Choose the best answer（根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇最恰當?shù)拇鸢福?/p>

1.Clearwater Beach offers the following things except________.

A.sugar-white sand B.crystal-clear water

C.gentle Gulf wind D.an ideal restaurant

2.When you go to South Beach, you can enjoy _________.

A.wild nightlife B.drawing Black Rock

C.playing on an ideal playground D.daily cliff diving

3.If Mr and Mrs Green from San Francisco visit Ka’anapali Beach, they will pay at least ________for the round-trip airfare.

A.$382 B.$289 C.$764 D.$671

4.The difference between Siesta Beach and the other beaches is that __________.

A.tourists enjoy an exciting sport B.fine sugar-white sand covers it

C.many famous persons visit it D.children have more great fun

5.If you want to take photos of white sand ,__________ maybe is NOT a good choice.

A.Clearwater Beach B.Siesta Beach C.Ka’anapali Beach D.South Beach

6.We can read the article above probably form a(an)______________.

A.story book B.advertisement C.comic strip D.fiction

Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（選擇最恰當?shù)膯卧~或詞語完成短文）

The first thing you remember

‘I remember , when I was about three, my mother looking at me in my buggy and smiling at me’.

Jan, 13

‘I was maybe four. We were driving to our grandma’s and our car ________. We couldn’t get out of the car and I cried. A mechanic came to help us.’

Alice, 12

‘I remember I was eating an ice cream when a dog came and took it out of my hand. I cried, I was two , I think.’

Tom,10

‘I remember my first memory is my second birthday. There was a cake with two candles. I couldn’t blow the candles out, so my dad did it for me.’

Mike, 15

Most adults remember little about this that happened in their very early childhood, _______, some people think that we aren’t really able to form memories before our fourth or fifth birthdays. But scientists carrying out research into early memories have suggested that this is not true. They say that we do form memories at a very young age. However , what we remember about our very early lives seems to change as we _______.

Researchers in Canada worked with 140 children aged between four and thirteen. First , they asked their participants to describe their earliest memories. Then they asked them roughly how old they’d been when the event happened . Next, they asked the kids’ parents to make sure that the event actually happened .And all the _______ were written down. The researchers waited for two years before they went back to the children and asked them again, ‘What’s your earliest memory?’

Nearly all the children who were aged between four and seven in the first interview said something very different in the second interview. And when the researchers reminded them of what they’d said the first time, many of the children said, ‘No, that never happened to me. ’However , many of the children who were between ten and thirteen at the first interview described exactly the ________memory in the second interview. This seems to suggest that our memories change in the early years, but that at around the age of ten, the things that we remember get fixed（固定的）.

The researchers are now looking into the question of why children remember certain events and not others. We sometimes think that most first or early memories are about very stressful things that happened to us as children , because had thins stand out in our minds. But in this study, stressful events were only a small percentage of what the children said they remembered. More often, their early memories were happy ones. The researchers are trying to work out why this is the case. We expect the researchers will _______ more fascinating things about memories in the near future.

1.A.ran forward B.sold out C.broke down D.sped up

2.A.As a result B.What’s more C.For the time being D.In fact

3.A.are pleased B.build confidence C.feel tired D.get older

4.A.forecasts B.answers C.reviews D.orders

5.A.unforgettable B.sweet C.same D.short

6.A.imagine B.require C.control D.discover

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格內(nèi)填入適當?shù)脑~，使其內(nèi)容通順，每空格限填一詞，首字母已給）

I don’t believe it! It’s 11p.m. and I’m still sitting here writing this article for the school magazine !I’ve had two weeks to write it and my teacher wants it tomorrow . She’s always c1. that I leave things to the last minute. Maybe she’s right. A month ago, I made up my mind to be more efficient this year and not to leave thing to the last minute. But I’ve failed. I’ve also been trying to get fitter for four weeks now. I’ve started going to the gym. I’ve taken up karate lessons and I’ve changed my diet. I’ve even been going to bed earlier. But I’m not feeling any fitter. I felt just a little u2.. I miss my bad habits. Why is leading a better life so hard?

I’ve just read an article on a website and I’ve found out that it isn’t my fault! In fact, it isn’t anyone’s fault! It’s our brains. They’re programmed, therefore, it is difficult to break bad habits. There’s nothing we can do . Scientists have done experiments that show we use one part of our brain when we think about o3.and another when we think about other people. However, when we think about the ‘future us’, we use the part of the brain that we usually use to think about other people. In other words, the brain sees the ‘future you’ as a different person to your ‘present you ’. And that’s why we don’t always find it easy to make sensible d4. in the future when we face difficulties.

But that’s not all. Scientists have also found out that it takes around ten weeks to form a good habit. For example , if I want to keep fit, it’s going to take me ten weeks to go to the gym and then it will become an automatic part of my life. That’s because ten weeks is the amount of time the brain needs to change and a5.new ways of behavior as a part of everyday life. The good news is that once you make it to ten weeks, everything becomes much easier. The bad news is that ten weeks is a really long time, so it’s easy to give up on （打消）your good plan s6.

So there you are. Maybe we want to change our ways and become better people but our brains won’t let us . or is this just an e7.? Look! I’ve finished my article on time. Anything is possible!

Answer the questions（根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答下列問題）

There was once a boy who was afraid of the dark. He thought that his bedroom was filled up with monsters when it was dark. But there came a time when he was too old to be allowed to keep sleeping with the light on .

That first night he was filled with fear, his mind full of monsters. Therefore, he went over to his wardrobe to get a torch. But when he opened the wardrobe door, he saw a monster, face to face, and he let out the loudest scream in the world.

The monster took a step backwards, grabbed his colourful hair, stared at the boy with his single red eye, and …started crying！ The monster cried for so long that the boy’s shock and fear disappeared. He calmed the monster as much as he could, and started talking to him, asking him why he was crying, and what he was doing there.

The monster told him he lived in the wardrobe, but almost never went out, because he was afraid of the boy. When the boy asked him why, the monster told him the boy’s face seemed to him the most horrible thing he’d ever seen with eyes, ears and a nose. The boy felt the similar way about the monster with a huge head full of mouths and hair.

The two of them talked so much that they became quite friendly , and they came to know that both of them had been afraid of the thing :the unknown . To lose their fear, all they had to do was to get to know each other. Together they travelled around the world, seeing lions, tigers, crocodiles and dragons. It was the first time either of them had seen such creatures, but they made the effort to get to know them. In the end, they ___________and __________.

And, although his parents weren’t too happy, because they thought he was too old to still believe in monsters, the truth of it was that all kinds of creatures visited the boy’s bedroom each night. And , instead of fearing them, he had learned to get to know them and be friends with them.

1.What was the boy afraid of when he was sleeping at night?

2.Why did the boy go to the wardrobe that night?

3.How did the monster in the wardrobe feel at first when he saw the boy?

4.What did the monster look like?

5.How did the boy and the monster get to know each other? List at least two things they did.

6.What can be filled in the blanks in paragraph 5?