Dear Mr Zhu,

I am writing to your magazine’s “Teenagers Now” column(專欄) to ask for some help with my 16-year-old son. At the moment, he refuses to do almost everything his mother and I ask him to do. He is our only child and we treat him very well. His grandparents buy him many things, and yet he is still rude to us. He refuses to spend time with us or do as we tell him. Sometimes he acts as if he doesn’t even love us at all.

Now he refuses to do his homework, and instead insists on wasting his time watching DVDs and listening to foreign music. I cannot understand this music, but I don’t like it. He also spends too much time in Internet cafes, where he either plays games or chats online. He is wasting valuable time during this important period in his life!

What am I to do? At present, to prevent making his mother unhappy with an argument, I am allowing him his freedom. However, I am worried that if I keep allowing him to do what he wants, he may fail at school, or worse.

How can I help my son without harming our relationship?

Yours

Liu Zhenhua

1. What’s Mr. Zhu’s job?

A. A teacher.                                                                      B. A magazine columnist. 

C. A youth worker.                                                        D. A doctor.

2.From the passage, we can know that Mr. Liu’s son is _______ to his parents.

A. friendly                  B. thankful           C. polite          D. rude

3.What does Liu Zhenhua write to Mr. Zhu for?

A. To blame his son.

B. To ask for help with his son.

C. To say something about his son.

D. To complain to him about his son.

4.What do you think is the possible answer for the father?

A. The father should let the son alone.

B. The father should give his son a beating.

C. The father should allow his son his freedom.

D. The father should be patient enough to have communication with the son.

Text messaging, or simply “texting”, which allows people to send and receive messages on  mobile phones, becomes very popular today.

The advantages of texting are obvious. Texting helps to save money. If you have a few words to greet your families and friends on their birthdays or on some important festivals, sending messages can be cheaper than phone calling. Texting helps to save time. Even if you want to send a message to 100 people, you can do it one second. Texting helps you to “talk” to someone when he is too busy to answer the phone. Texting can also help you to “talk” to someone secretly if you don’t want others to hear what you are talking on the phone. These advantages are so amazing that many people are crazy about it. They hold mobile phones in hands all day long, send dozens of messages each day, and even text while driving or walking.

 However, texting has its disadvantages. Junk messages may come into your mobile phone box now and then. When your phone box gets too full, you can’t receive any more messages. You may therefore miss some important information.

What’s more, if you don’t do texting properly, for example texting while driving or walking, it can be dangerous. It can cause injuries and even death. It was reported that about 6,000 people were killed and half a million were injured for this reason each year. In Fort Lee, a small town in New Jersey, USA, three people died because they walked into traffic while texting in 2011. Two researchers at Stony Brook University, New York found that texters are 60% more probably to have an accident than others. When people are texting, they don’t notice other people or things around them. To reduce traffic accidents, all drivers of the UN are now not allowed to text while driving. About 32 countries have passed laws restricting the use of mobile phones while driving.

Texting is a wonderful way of communication. However, only when we use it properly, can we fully enjoy the fun it brings.

1. How many advantages of texting are mentioned in the passage?

A. Two.       B. Three.        C. Four.      D. Five.

2. What did the researchers at Stony Brook University find?

A. Texting is a good way of communication. 

B. 6,000 people were killed and injured.

C. Texters are easier to have an accident.

D. Many people text to greet families and friends.

3. The underlined word restricting probably means _________.

A. not telling   B. not allowing    C. enjoying   D. making

4. This passage is written to tell us that __________.

A. we should do less texting

B. texting has many advantages

C. texting is better than phone calling

D. we should do texting properly

用方框中所給單詞的適當(dāng)形式填空，每詞僅用一次（每空一詞）。

1.My son wants to go to see the          in the zoo. He thinks they are lovely.

2.Mr. Green ______ English in No. 1 Middle School when I was ten years old.

3.Do you know that Bill Gates donated（捐贈(zèng)）____4____ of dollars in 2010?

4.If we work hard ,we will          at last.

5.He had to talk to          when there was nobody at home.

閱讀下面短文，然后根據(jù)括號(hào)內(nèi)所給漢語(yǔ)意思寫出單詞的正確形式（每空一詞）。

At   1.   ( 目前 ), teenagers want to be independent ( 獨(dú)立的) from their parents as   2.   ( 快地 ) as possible. Many parents are   3.   ( 焦慮的 ) about it . Most teenagers are the only child in their family. They are always  4. （視為）as the little kids by their parents. But I think teenagers should be allowed to be independent because they have to   5.  ( 面對(duì) ) the challenges and difficulties in the future by   6. ( 他們). So learning to be independent   7.  ( 似乎) very important.  8.  （無(wú)論什么）they do, I think teenagers should learn to do it on their own.It’s a really exciting experience. Teenagers shouldn't be   9.  (害怕的) of learning to be independent,   10.  (雖然）there will be some trouble. Nothing is impossible and they will take pride in themselves in the future.

任務(wù)型閱讀（本題有5小題，每小題1分，共計(jì)5分）請(qǐng)閱讀下列文字材料，從方框A、B、C、D、E、F六個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出五項(xiàng)與71—75題中的描述一一對(duì)應(yīng)。

_______ 1. Many people like animals and take them as their pets. Nowadays pet hospitals are very busy. Kind persons who love animals are needed to work in busy animal hospitals.

 _______2. Scientists think that pets will probably be much smaller because people in the future will be living in much smaller places. Scientists are already working on making very small farm animals. The same things might be done to make smaller cats and dogs.

_______3.It’s said that some day you might own a panther as a pet. Scientists might have to start turning wild animals into pets. This might be the only way to save them from dying out.

_______4. What about a robot for a pet? This may sound silly, but it could become true. Robot dogs have been made to bark like real dogs. These “pets” might become more and more popular in the future. After all, robots don’t lose hair or chew on things the way real pets do.

_______5. Lots of people miss their pets while they are on holiday. One hotel in Minnesota has solved this problem. They lend cats to their guests. Many experts believe this idea will become more and more popular. It is very possible that in the future you will be able to order a pet, as well as room service, at a hotel.

A. Pet hotels

B. Smaller pets

C. Robots for pets

D. A panther for pet

E. Pet restaurants

F. Assistant needed in pet hospitals

我校開(kāi)展“讀好書(shū)，促成長(zhǎng)”的活動(dòng)，讀書(shū)恰好是你最喜歡的課外活動(dòng)，請(qǐng)你根據(jù)這次活動(dòng)的主題，參考表格中所給的的信息并適當(dāng)發(fā)揮，寫一篇倡議書(shū)，向全校同學(xué)發(fā)出倡議。

要求：1．詞數(shù)：80詞左右。

      2．倡議書(shū)必須包含所有要點(diǎn)，行文連貫，表達(dá)清楚，書(shū)寫規(guī)范

      3．開(kāi)頭結(jié)尾已寫好，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)。

My dear friends,

    Reading is very important in our life.________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

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___________________Let’s start reading now!

 Learning        country’s language is a better way of knowing ________ culture behind it.

A. the; a                      B. a; the                       C. 不填; the                        D. a; 不填

---Excuse me, I want to buy some food. Where can I find a supermarket？

       ---I know ________ not far from here. You can easily find ________.

A. that; it           B. it; one            C. one; it           D. one; one

I heard Lucy ________ happily in her room when I passed her house.

A. sing                          B. to sing            C. singing                     D. sings

 –Kate, do you know ________ it is from here to the gym?

–About twenty minutes’ walk.

A. how long                          B. how far                   C. how soon                         D. how often