Dear friend,

For the past 17 years, you have been my best friend. I remember that you told me you were called Cigarette because of your features. You have seen me through difficult times, happy times and just about every stage of my life. You have always been here when I need you. Some of my family and friends didn’t like you so much, but I’ve always been on your side. I thought you were a great friend, and I counted on you at all times, especially when I was not very happy.

It’s hard for me to tell you this, but in the past few months, I have been seriously thinking about ending our relationship. I think that I‘ve just been too dependent on you, and I feel that at the age of 35 I should start being more independent. I thought about just maybe seeing you once in a while, but I don’t think that would work. Eventually, I’d start relying on you all the time again. I feel the only way to end our relationship is to end it forever.

I’ve always included you in everything I’ve done. But next week, I’m going on a trip, and I’ve decided not to take you along. I feel this would be a good time to break up. I will be gone for a whole week without you and if I can make it on my own for that week, I know I can make it forever.

It is a little sad for me knowing that I won’t be able to rely on you any more, but I think I will be a better person in the end.

1.By writing the letter, the author wants to ______.

A.say goodbye to his girlfriend

B. tell his friendship with Cigarette

C. tell his travelling plan

D. give up smoking

2.The underlined phrase “counted on” in the first paragraph can be replaced by “_______”.

A. worried about B. cared for

C. depended on D. got along well with

3.According to the passage, the “l(fā)etter-receiver” _______.

A. is the author’s girlfriend

B. has done harm to the author for years

C. will feel sad when reading the letter

D. will never leave the author

4.The author decided to take a trip to ______.

A. get away from his best friend

B. relax himself for a while

C. reduce his sorrow for the break

D. show that he is independent

5.Why does the author want to end his relationship with Cigarette?

A. Because he wants to be more healthy.

B. Because they are going through difficult times.

C. Because his family and friends no longer like him.

D. Because he is going on a trip.

Parents have widely different views on the problem of pocket money. Four new fathers were asked this question and this is how they answered.

Ashish Khanna: Although many argue that pocket money helps develop children’s sense of value, I don’t agree. I wouldn’t give my child any pocket money. First of all, I never got pocket money and I seem to have a good value for money. If my child ever needed something and I felt it was a reasonable（合理）request , I would buy it for him .

Sharad Sanghi: No, I wouldn’t give my child pocket money because I don’t want to create the perception（觀念） of “ her ” money and “ my ” money . Besides, if I refuse to buy her something that I think is bad for her, she may buy it with her pocket money on the sly. In this way, I would lose control over my child’s requests. I feel it also encourages children to care more about money than anything else. I don’t want my child to start judging(評判) other children by the amount of money or pocket money they have.

Rakesh Shah: Yes, I would give my child pocket money. I feel that children should learn to spend money intelligently and not go overboard spending. They will learn what their limitations（限制）are and feel the difficulty when they have to pay for something that is over their own pockets .

Rajiv Patel: Yes, I would give my child pocket money because it is important that she learns to manage money. I will give her a fixed amount every month and if she spends the money before the month is over, then she will learn a lesson and not spend money so freely.

Vikram Desai: Yes, I would certainly give my child pocket money. But I would not give it to him on a weekly or monthly basis. He would have to earn it. If he helped me finish some of my jobs or helped his mother with housework, I would reward him. This helps him realize that “money does not grow on trees” and it requires hard work to earn money.

1.Ashish Khanna may agree that ____________.

A. he was given too much pocket money when young

B. he can take much control of his child by money

C. he will buy anything he thinks his child really needs

D. pocket money helps children develop a good value for money

2.The underlined phrase “on the sly” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ___.

A. for free B. at a lower price

C. happily D. secretly

3.What do Rakesh Shah and Rajiv Patel have in common?

A. They want their children to learn to manage money.

B. They ask their children to get pocket money by working.

C. They teach their children the difficulty of making money.

D. They allow their children to spend money freely.

4.According to Vikram Desai, children’s earning money by themselves makes them know that ____.

A. money is not easy to get

B. money can be gotten from the trees

C. one can get lots of money if he / she works hard

D. money is not so important for people nowadays

5.Who would give his child pocket money every month ?

A. Ashish Khanna B. Sharad Sanghi

C. Rakesh Shah D. Rajiv Patel

When couples get married, they usually plan to have children. Sometimes, however, a couple can not have a child of their own. In this case, they may decide to adopt(收養(yǎng)) a child. In fact, adoption is very common today. There are about 60 thousand adoptions each year in the United States alone. Some people prefer to adopt infants, others adopt older children, some couples adopt children from their own countries, and others adopt children from foreign countries. In any case, they all adopt children for the same reason ---- they care about children and want to give their adopted child a happy life.

Most adopted children know that they are adopted. Psychologists（心理學(xué)家） and child-care experts generally think this is a good idea. However, many adopted children or adoptees have very little information about their biological parents. As a matter of fact, it is often very difficult for adoptees to find out about their birth parents because the birth records of most adoptees are usually sealed. The information is secret so no one can see it. Naturally, adopted children have different feelings about their birth parents. Many adoptees want to search for them, but others do not. The decision to search for birth parents is a difficult one to make. Most adoptees have mixed feelings about finding their biological parents. Even though adoptees do not know about their natural parents, they do know that their adopted parents want them, love them and will care for them.

1.According to the passage, some couples adopt children because_________

A. They care a lot about children.

B. They need looking after in their old age.

C. They want to enrich their life experience.

D. They want children to keep them company.

2.Why is it difficult for adoptees to find out about their birth parents?

A. They are usually adopted from distant places.

B. Their birth parents often try to conceal（隱瞞）their birth information.

C. Their birth information is usually kept secret.

D. Their adoptive parents don’t want them to know their birth parents.

3.Adoptees find it hard to make the decision to search for their birth parents, because____

A. They generally hold bad feelings towards their birth parents.

B. They do not want to hurt the feelings of their adoptive parents.

C. They are fully aware of the expenses(費(fèi)用) involved in the search.

D. They have mixed feelings about finding their natural parents.

4.What does the underlined word “infants” in Paragraph 1 most probably mean?

A. teenagers B. babies over 2-year old

C. new babies D. persons under the age of 18

5.What can we infer from the passage?

A. Early adoption makes for closer parent-child relationship.

B. Most people prefer to adopt children from overseas.

C. Understanding is the key to successful adoption.

D. Adoption has much to do with love.

請根據(jù)首字母或括號內(nèi)的中文提示用單詞或短語的正確形式填空.（請?jiān)诖痤}卡中完整寫出單詞）

1.I could no longer __________ (忽視) the fact that he was deeply unhappy.

2.Lori had changed so much that I could hardly r______ her when I met her at the supermarket.

3.Was it an accident or did David do it _____________(故意)?

4.She dreamed about a handsome young man coming to r____ her from her pain.

5.President Putin’s official visit to Beijing is _____ (安排)for December 24 to 27.

6.Nelson Mandela d_________ all his life to the freedom for the black.

7.Learning to __________ (表達(dá))oneself well is an important part of education.

8.The rule is b______ on the idea that everybody should be treated equally（平等地）.

9.Anna returned to her college after r___________ from an illness.

10.Obama ___________(上臺(tái)) at the beginning of 2009 and he has been in office for five years.

假設(shè)你叫李華,自從上了高中后，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己不是很適應(yīng)高中的學(xué)習(xí)生活，現(xiàn)在就目前的情況，給自己初中時(shí)最信賴的老師寫一封求助信：

1.對老師的問候。

2.高中生活基本情況：

①學(xué)科比初中多

②每天作業(yè)時(shí)間3-4小時(shí)，課外活動(dòng)時(shí)間很少

③睡眠時(shí)間不足，上課有時(shí)感到疲勞

④考試壓力大

3.你目前遇到的最大的問題以及現(xiàn)在的感受

注意： 1.內(nèi)容應(yīng)包括以上所有信息，要有適當(dāng)發(fā)揮。

2.詞數(shù): 120左右。信的開頭和結(jié)尾已經(jīng)寫好，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)。

3.參考詞匯：課外活動(dòng)— activities after class 壓力 — pressure

Dear Mr Wang,

This is Li Hua．

All the best.

Yours truly,

Li Hua

A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches too long.

He came downstairs, where his mother and his two sisters were washing up tea things in the kitchen. “These new trousers are too long.” He said. “ They need shortening (縮短)by about two inches. Would one of you mind doing this for me, please?” His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything.

But as soon as his mother had finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son’s bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.

Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother’s trousers. She was a kind-hearted girl, so she went quietly upstairs without saying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches.

The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came back, she , too, remembered what her brother had said. So she ran upstairs and took two inches off the legs of the new trousers.

1.The young man bought the new trousers _______ his size.

A. as long as

B. two inches longer than

C. as big as

D. two inches shorter than

2.He asked _______ to shorten his new trousers.

A. his mother and sisters

B. his two sisters

C. his elder sister

D. his mother and one of his sisters

3.His elder sister shortened the trousers ________.

A. after finished washing

B. before she went to bed

C. when she came back from the cinema

D. after having supper

4.The next morning the young man would find the trousers were _______.

A. two inches shorter

B. four inches shorter

C. six inches shorter

D. eight inches shorter

One night, the first floor of the house suddenly caught fire. The fire was big, and soon became a sea of fire. On the second floor lived a little girl and her grandmother; the little girl’s parents had died, and she lived together with her grandma. In order to rescue the little girl, the grandmother was burned to death, leaving the little girl crying for help loudly.

How could people enter the house? At the very moment, a man carrying a ladder rushed to the flames and got into the window. When he appeared again in the eyes of the people, the little girl was in his arms. He gave the child to the crowd, and then disappeared into the night.

This little girl had no family. Two months later a meeting was held to find a person to adopt (收養(yǎng)) the girl. A teacher was willing to adopt this child, and said she could give her the best education; a farmer wanted to adopt this child, saying that village life would let the child grow up healthily and happily; a rich man said, “I can give the child everything that others can do.”

A lot of people who wanted to adopt this child said about many benefits of their adopting the child. But the little girl’s face had no expression. At this time, a man, through the crowd, walked straight in front of the little girl, and opened his arms for the little girl. People were puzzled, and they found that the man had terrible scars on his arms. The little girl let out a cry, “This is the man who saved me!” She suddenly jumped up, and buried her face in his arms and sobbed. Naturally the man adopted the girl.

1.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The grandma was too old to rush out of the room.

B. The little girl and her grandpa lived on the second floor.

C. To rescue the little girl, her grandma died in the fire.

D. The grandma and the little girl cried for help loudly on the first floor.

2.What did the man do when he had saved the little girl?

A. He returned to his work.

B. He left the girl to the crowd and left quickly.

C. He was injured and went to the hospital.

D. He took the girl home.

3.The meeting was held there in order to .

A. decide who would adopt the girl

B. find out who had rescued the girl

C. decide how the girl would be raised

D. honor the hero who had saved the girl

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A. People didn’t want to help the little girl at first.

B. The man who had saved the girl was a fireman.

C. The rich man would buy everything the girl needed.

D. The girl recognized the man and was happy to be adopted by him.

If you are planning on traveling, there are a few simple rules about how to make life easier both before and after your journey.

First of all, always check and double?check departure (出發(fā)) time. It is surprising how few people really do this carefully. Once I arrived at the airport a few minutes after ten. My secretary had got the ticket for me and I thought she had said that the plane left at 10：50. When I arrived at the airport, the person at the departure desk told me that my flight was closed. Therefore, I had to wait three hours for the next one and missed an important meeting.

The second rule is to remember that even in this age of credit cards (信用卡), it is still important to have some local money in cash (現(xiàn)金). Once I arrived at a place at midnight and the bank at the airport was closed. The only way to get to my hotel was by taxi but because I had no dollars, I offered to pay in pounds instead. “Listen! I only take real money！” the driver said angrily. You can imagine how terrible I felt at that moment.

The third and the last rule is to find out as much as you can about the weather at your destination before you leave. I feel sorry for some of my workmates who travel in heavy suits and raincoats in May, when it is still fairly cool in London or Manchester, to places like Athens, Rome or Madrid, where it is already beginning to get quite warm during the day.

1.Where is the writer most probably from?

A．Britain. B．The USA.

C．Italy. D．Greece.

2.When the writer found he had no dollars to pay the taxi driver, he________.

A．a(chǎn)sked the driver to give him a free ride

B．offered to pay in pounds

C．gave the driver some fake(假)money

D．tried to pay by credit card

3.Generally, in May the weather in London is________.

A．warm and dry B．cold and dry

C．hot and wet D．cool and rainy

4.The writer mainly tells us________.

A．how to make life easier

B．how to be well prepared for a trip

C．how to enjoy ourselves on the trip

D．how to schedule our trip

Want to find a job? Now read the following advertisements.

1.If you don’t know how to use a computer, you can just apply for the position as _________ .

A. a secretary B. a waiter or a waitress

C. an accountant D. a salesclerk

2.If you want to get the position of accountant in Wilson Bookstore, you have to satisfy the following conditions EXCEPT _________ .

A. being a woman

B. knowing well how to use a computer

C. having been an accountant

D. having an accountant certificate

3.If you want to try for a job in Fairmont Hotel, you _________ .

A. have to be a woman and know foreign languages

B. should be a university graduate

C. have to be taller than 1.72 meters

D. should be younger than 30 years old

Health is the most important thing in the world. Nothing is more important than health. If one takes away our money, houses, cars, or even our clothes, we can still survive. _1.__That is why we always tr y to eat in a healthy way and exercise regularly.

How can we keep healthy? In order to eat healthily, I usually avoid eating food high in fat, like French fries or cookies, which are junk foods__2. Besides, I only eat little meat.

_3._ Taking exercise every day helps us build a strong body. Regular exercise is an important part of keeping me healthy.

What's more, I think friends are an important part of one's health. _4.__I always feel better when I am with friends than when I am alone. When I am with my friends, I always laugh. Laughing is also an important part of health. It is good to stay with my friends.

By eating properly and exercising regularly, I can keep my body at a proper weight and keep healthy. By spending time with my friends, I can keep my mind as well as my body happy. These things sound easy to do, but not many people can manage them. __5._

A. Many studies show－ that people with a narrow (狹窄) range of social contacts (社會(huì)交往) often get sick.

B. There, are some people who like staying alone, but they keep healthy.

C. On the other hand, doing exercise is very important.

D. But if our health was taken away, it is certain that we would surely die.

E. I think a strong will is necessary if we want to keep healthy.

F. I eat a lot of vegetables and fresh trust fruit which are full of vitamins.

G. Some people appear fat because they often eat too much.