How old is “old”? The answer has changed over the years. Two Hundred years ago, you were old at 35. At the beginning of the 20th century, the average life span (平均壽命) was 45. In 1950, 70-year-olds were really old. Today, a healthy 70-year-old is still thought young.

          So, how old is “old”? The answer is one you’ve heard many times, from all kinds of people. “You are as old (or young) as you feel.” Your age simply tells you how many years you have lived. Your body tells you how well you’ve lived.

         “Nobody grows old by living a number of years,” wrote a writer. “People grow old when they don’t have their ideals (理想).” People shouldn’t have the wrong ideas about aging. Sometimes, older minds can be as bright as young minds. Alice Brophy once said, “It makes me unhappy when people say, ‘You look young for your age.’ What does that mean? You know you can die old at 30 and live young at 80.”

1.About 100 years ago, the average life span was __________.

A. 35                   B. 45    C. 70  D. 80

2. The meaning of the word “aging” is __________.

A. growing old     B. staying young    C. keeping healthy                  D. feeling unhappy

3.According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A. Old people are not as bright at young people.      

B. All older people are healthy and strong.

C. Aging does not mean you become unhealthy.       

D. Most older people are unhealthy and poor.

4. The passage is mainly(主要地) about _________.

A. the average life span              B. aging

C. the 20th century                     D. older people and young people

1.Yancheng History Museum is closed on _______

A. Monday                B. Friday            C. Saturday                D. Sunday

2. Tommy is an 8-year-old boy. He wants to visit the City Flower Show with his parents. How much will they pay?

A. 75yuan                           B. 100yuan               C. 125yuan               D. 150yuan

3.If you want to get more information about English Winter Camp, you can _________.

A. go to Canada                                                      

B. write to CEE/CCIEE

C. call at (0515)6606-2607                            

D. send an e-mail to Yancheng Teachers University

4. _____ will give Performances in Pop Music in Yandu Park.

A. Bands                     B. Dancers                 C. Singers                  D. Both A and C

When this story happened, they were working around a very large house. Their job was to do the cleaning. It was not a difficult job, but sometimes it was a little dangerous, because they had to walk below where workmen were working. Often these workmen dropped something from the top of the house many meters high to the ground.

One morning Joe was working near the house with a cigarette behind one of his ears. Suddenly somebody on the top shouted, "Look out!" But Joe did not "look out". He looked up. And as he did so, a long knife missed Joe's head, but it cut off one of his ears. At once he put his hand to one side of his head and cried out, "I've lost an ear. Help! Help!"

Jeff ran up to help his friend. "Look for my ear," Joe told him. "It must be on the ground somewhere." Jeff looked everywhere for the missing ear. At last he found an ear on the ground. He picked it up and carried it to Joe. "Here you are," he said, "I've found it." Joe looked at it. "No, that's not my ear." he said, "Mine had a cigarette behind it."

1.What were Joe and Jeff?

A. Soldiers.                 B. Drivers.          C. Farmers.        D. Cleaners.

2.How did Joe lose his ear?

A. He cut it off by himself.          B. Jeff cut it off with a knife.

C. A falling knife cut it off.           D. A cigarette burned it up.

3. From the passage, we know Joe  was not _______.

A. strong            B. kind                C. foolish    D. clever

4.Which is the most possible title for this passage?

A. A Lost Ear              B. A Busy Cleaner

C. A Falling Knife          D. A forgetful Man

閱讀下面短文，完成表各中所缺信息，每空一詞

What if there is a fire in your house? Would you know what to do? Here are several suggestions which might help you escape (逃生) from the fire.

Leaving the house through a door should be your first choice as an escape route. Windows on a higher floor may be a safe escape route if you could get help from another person.

     If you can see smoke in the house, stay low to the ground as you go to the door. In a fire, smoke and poisonous air hurt more people. You’ll breathe less smoke if you stay close to the ground.

If fire or smoke is blocking (阻塞) an escape route, you do this, firefighters (消防隊員) will have difficulty finding you. The sooner they find you, the sooner you can get out.

Meanwhile, keep heat and smoke from getting through the door by blocking the cracks (縫隙) around the door with blankets, or clothing. If there is a window, open it all the way and stand in front of it. If you can get a piece of clothing, cover your mouth to keep from breathing in the smoke. This works even better if you wet the cloth first.

If your clothed catch fire during a fire, don’t run! You had better stop, drop to the ground, and roll. This will cut off the air and put out the fire.

根據句意和漢語提示寫出單詞，完成句子。

1.She is a teacher of my _______________ (女兒).

2.I will take a shower _______________ (不久) after I come back from work.

3.The noise the boy made drove me very __________ (發(fā)瘋的).

4.The famous writer passed away in his ________________ (九十).

5.How_____________ (敢) you say like that? You are impolite.

根據句意，用所給單詞的適當形式填空。

1.Does he have any criminal records for __________ (thief)?

2.They live on the _________ (twelve) floor in the building.

3.The problem of ___________ (blind) is very serous. We will solve it soon.

4.They can make modern machines with the __________(develop) of science.

5.Do you think Gong Li is a great ____________ (beautiful)?

根據句意，用所給動詞的適當形式填空。

1.We celebrate Christmas by _______ (send) cards to each other.

2.We should do as much as we can __________ (help) them out of trouble.

3.The whole class ___________ (divide) into four groups.

4.How much did you spend _________ (buy) the new bike?

5.The Green family __________ (have) supper at the table when I came into the house.

根據所給首字母提示，完成短文。

Once upon a time there lived in Germany two brothers named Jacob Grim and William Grim. They liked to listen to old stories and then wrote them down. Then they had enough stories to make a book. You can guess the n   1.   of their book! It is Grimms’ Fairy Tales (《格林童話》)

The story of this little book began when the brothers were still at school. And it started w   2.  a good teacher. This teacher liked to find out how things happened. S   3.   the two brothers were doing the same thing. They asked questions and then looked for a  4.   to them.

Among the q   5.    the brothers asked were. “Who made up the old fairy tales?” “Who first told about Cinderella (灰姑娘)?” “Who made up the story of Snow White and the story of Sleeping Beauty?”

They found that no one knew the answers to such questions. The tales were made up in very early times. Most of them were made up in days before people knew h  6.   to write. People told the stories to one another and to their children. But only few still r   7.   them. “When these old people die, the stories will d   8.   with them.” said the brothers. We must write d   9.   all the stories we can find.”

Jacob and William hunted for stories for five years. At last they had 89 tales. Just before Christmas in 1812 and first book was published.

People loved the book! They asked for more fairy stories. So the two brothers published two m 10.   books. In all, they collected 210 stories to put into their books.

翻譯句子（共5小題，每小題2分，計10分）

1. 我們學校每年舉行運動會。

_______________________________________________________ in our school every year.

2.我認為這本書不適合兒童。

I ____________________ the book _____________________________________________.

3.你最好等車停下再下車。

You __________________________________ until ________________________________.

4.下雨天我寧愿待在家里而不愿不出去。

_____________________, I’d __________________________________________________.

5.在過去幾年中他出版了4本書。

He _______________________________________________________ in the past few years.