Father’s secret

My father grew up in a fatherless home. At that time, the family struggled hard to _ _. The childhood experiences caused my father to be extremely mean.

When we children became knew  that other children got spending money from their parents, we made the ______of ask our father from some.His face turned cold, “If you’re old enough to ask you’re old enough to_____” he shouted. And we went about the neighborhood seeking odd jobs.

There was a period of time when _ _of us had a car, so we had to ride the bus home. _ _the bus stopped more than two miles from home, Dad never met us. If someone _ _, he ‘d say in his loudest voice, “That’s what your _ _are for!” When I went to senior high school, I had to _ _a long way each time I came home. The walk didn’t _____me as much as the fear of walking alone. I also felt that my father didn’t care about my _ _. That feeling was _ _one spring evening.

It had been a quite difficult week at school. Tests and long hours in labs had left me _ _. As other students were __at their stops, I looked out of the window __. Finally ,the bus pulled into my stop, and I _ _off, beginning the long journey home.

On that evening, I saw something gray moving along the hedge(樹籬) towards my house. Upon a closer watch, I __ it was the top of my father’s head. Then I knew, each time I ‘d come home, he had _ _behind the hedge, watching, until I arrived safely. He did __ after all.

After that, that spot of gray became my focus. I could hardly wait to watch for its ______movement on my way home. Upon reaching home I would find my father sitting in his chair. “So, it’s you !” he’d say, pretending to be _____.

I replied, “Yes, Dad, it’s me. I’m home.”

1.A. travel B. survive C. succeed D. escape

2.A. excuse B. point C. mistake D. discovery

3.A. waste B. borrow C. save D. earn

4.A. each B. none C. one D. all

5.A. Though B. Since C. When D. Until

6.A. complained B. forgot C. arrived D. failed

7.A. buses B. legs C. brains D. friends

8.A. walk B. run C. ride D. drive

9.A. tire B. help C. trouble D. excite

10.A. opinion B. grade C. safety D. interest

11.A. felt B. discussed C. shown D. removed

12.A. curious B. exhausted C. worried D. delighted

13.A. met B. singing C. talking D. kept

14.A. sadly B. coldly C. seriously D. carefully

15.A. paid B. stepped C. called D. dropped

16.A. considered B. imagined C. remembered D. realized

17.A. fallen B. left C. stood D. lain

18.A. care B. try C. watch D.know

19.A. secret B. quick C. easy D. small

20.A. confident B. surprised C. happy D.angry

Charlie Vansant, a college student of Athens, Ohio who reported that his car was stolen, got a surprise when he learned a woman had mistaken it for her daughter's car and taken it－using her key.

Kate Anderson became an accidental car thief when picking up her daughter's car near an Ohio University building last week. Anderson spotted the Toyota Camry（豐田凱美瑞）and used her daughter's key to unlock the car, start the engine and drive home-without realizing that the car wasn't her daughter's.

When Charlie Vansant left class a short time later, he found only an empty parking spot. He first assumed the car had been towed, but when the police couldn't find a record of it, they took a theft report.

The morning after Anderson took the car, her daughter discovered the Camry in the driveway wasn't hers. Anderson said she was able to find Vansant's name on paperwork in the glove compartment and look up his phone number on the website for the university.

When Anderson told Charlie the car was in her driveway, "It sounded real suspicious at first, as she wanted to hold the thing for ransom（贖金）,” said Vansant. He eventually went to the house with a police officer, where he was reunited with his car. According to the police report, the case was closed "because of mistaken car identity", Anderson wasn't charged.

Vansant seemed to blame the car company more than the "thief". "Her key fit not only my lock, but my ignition（點火裝置） as well - so high-five for Toyota. I guess." he said.

1. What does the underlined word "towed" mean in paragraph 3?

A. removed. B. damaged.

C. stolen. D. sold.

2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Mrs. Anderson's daughter discovered the car her mother drove was not hers.

B. Mrs. Anderson stole Charlie's car at the request of her daughter.

C. Charlie had thought he had to give Anderson money to get his car back.

D. Mrs. Anderson used her daughter's key to unlock Charlie's car and drive home.

3. What does Charlie mean by "high-five for Toyota"?

A. He is blaming Toyota for the poor quality of car keys.

B. He should thank Toyota for returning his car.

C. He wants to celebrate with Toyota for getting his car back.

D. He thinks highly of Toyota for producing large quantities of cars.

4. What is likely to happen next according to the passage?

A. Mrs. Anderson was charged with stealing a car.

B. Charlie blamed Mrs. Anderson for mistakenly taking his car.

C. Charlie would ask the Toyota Company to give him an explanation.

D. The Toyota Company would give Charlie a new car as compensation.

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You view websites in 30 seconds through the “Surf Ads” page. Once the 30 seconds is up, you’ll either get a green tick sign or a red “x”. The green tick sign means you’ve earned $0.01and the “x” means you have not earned money for the visit. You’ll get red x’s when you have more than one website from the “Surf Ads” page open. When this happens, you get no credit.

Earnings example

You click 10 ads per day =$0.10

20 referrals(轉(zhuǎn)送) click 10 ads per day =$2.00

Your daily earnings =$2.10

Your weekly earnings =$14.70

How to get paid

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1. What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage?

A. To tell an interesting story.

B. To introduce a surprising way to earn money.

C. To solve a puzzling problem.

D. To present an exciting research.

2. You can earn money by ________.

A. chatting online

B. advertising some products

C. clicking on advertisement

D. choosing green ticks or x’s

3.What can we know from the passage?

A. You’ll earn $0.10 if you click 1 ad.

B. You’ll get many green ticks if you have many websites open.

C. Your AlertPay account is not for free.

D. You can get your payments through AlertPay.

The English test will be removed from China’s college entrance exam by 2020, according to the Ministry of Education. The national college entrance exam, known as the “Gaokao” has been used to evaluate Chinese students for three decades. The Ministry of Education has worked out a plan for reforming exams and enrollment. Tests will be held several times a year to allow students to choose when and how often they sit the exam so as to reduce study pressure and change China’s once-in-a-lifetime exam system.

The decision has aroused a heated discussion among Shanghai educators and parents who doubted the reform would re­duce the burden of learning English or if the substitute test could reflect a student’s English skills and help students learn English better.

“ As far as I see, the reform doesn’t mean English is no longer important for Chinese students after it will be excluded from the unified college entrance exam,” Yu said. “In a way, English is even more important than before since the test would only serve as reference, while every college and university, even every major, can have different requirements of a student’s English skills under a diverse evaluation system. ”

Yu said some students will have their study pressure reduced if the major they choose doesn’t need excellent English while others still need to study hard if they want to be among the best students.

The education ministry said the reform would not affect students attending the college entrance exam over the next three years.

1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A. English will become less and less important in the stage of compulsory education.

B. It has been 30 years since English became one subject of national college entrance exam.

C. China’s once-in-a-lifetime exam system is unacceptable at all.

D. The system that tests are held several times does more good than once-in-a-lifetime exam system.

2. According to the passage, Shanghai educators and parents argue that _____.

A. the new exam and admission system will make no difference

B. English shouldn’t be removed from China’s college entrance exam

C. the reform may accomplish the very opposite

D. Western educational system does not apply to China

3. What does the passage try to express in the underlined sentence?

A. Students needn’t lay a good foundation during the period of high school.

B. Whether students should study English hard may depend on their major.

C. Students can constantly strive for perfection only in their major.

D. English must be close to full mark.

4. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A. To advise students not to devote themselves to English.

B. To call on Education Department to remove English from “Gaokao”.

C. To support the act of Ministry of Education.

D. To encourage students to do as they have planned.

As many as 4 out of every 1,000 infants born today have permanent hearing loss. When parents learn that their child has hearing loss, they are faced with many difficult decisions. These decisions can include choosing therapies and schools, as well as finding financial help for hearing aids or cochlear implants (人工耳蝸).

Help Me Hear Foundation is a public charity that gives the gift of hearing to deaf children from families existing on very low incomes around the world.

Help Me Hear Foundation believes that a child’s first years of development are critical. Being able to hear is vital to human, and Help Me Hear Foundation seeks to provide a positive lasting impression on society through its programs.

Recipients of Help Me Hear Foundation’s benefits receive state-of-the-art hearing devices that otherwise would cost thousands of dollars per child over the course of their lifetime. The Foundation raises money through donations for hearing aids and cochlear implants, which saves recipients and their families on average over $50,000 on related expenses.

The Foundation tries to be a transparent charity, and wants to be a catalyst for allowing deaf and hearing-impaired children to develop in a typical fashion alongside their peers.

Needy families can obtain information on specific services, and find out about deafness education by visiting the Help Me Hear Foundation’s website. The website offers helpful information on how hearing aids work, and how hearing aids ease many of the learning and language challenges that hearing-impaired children deal with on a daily basis.

1. Help Me Hear Foundation was probably set up to _____.

A. build schools for deaf children

B. research deaf children’s behavior

C. protect deaf children from being ignored

D. offer real help to poor deaf children

2. We learn from the text that _____.

A. the local government is in charge of the foundation

B. the work of the foundation depends on donations

C. even blind children can turn to the foundation

D. poor deaf African children cannot get help from the foundation

3. For whom is the text most probably written?

A. Poor parents who have deaf children.

B. Doctors who want to improve skills.

C. Students who cannot see the blackboard clearly.

D. Teachers who have deaf children in their class.

4.. The author writes the text mainly to _____.

A. tell how to avoid permanent hearing loss

B. explain how hard a life deaf children live

C. introduce Help Me Hear Foundation

D. advise people to give money to Help Me Hear Foundation

Although problems are a part of our lives, it certainly doesn’t mean that we let them rule our lives forever. One day or the other, you’ll have to stand up and say – problem, I don’t want you in my life.

1. Problems with friends, parents, girlfriends, husbands, and children – the list goes on. Apart from these, the inner conflicts within ourselves work, too. These keep adding to our problems. Problems come in different shapes and colors and feelings.

But good news is that all problems can be dealt with. Now read on to know how to solve your problems.

Talk, it really helps. What most of us think is that our problem can be understood only by us and that no talking is going to help. 2. Talking helps you move on and let go.

Write your problems. 3. When you write down your problems, you are setting free all the tension from your system. You can try throwing away the paper on which you wrote your problems. By doing this, imagine yourself throwing away the problems from your life.

Don’t lose faith and hope. No matter what you lose in life, don’t lose faith and hope. Even if you lose all your money, family… you should still have faith. 4.

Your problems aren’t the worst. No matter what problem you get in life, there’re another one million people whose problems are huger than yours. 5. Your problems might just seem big and worse, but in reality they can be removed.

Go about and solve your problems because every problem, however big or small, always has a way out.

A. But the truth is that when you talk about it, you’re setting free the negative energies that have been gathering within you.

B. When we have a problem, a pressing, critical, urgent, life-threatening problem, how do we try and solve it?

C. Tell yourself: when they can deal with them, why can’t I?

D. Of course, we’ve been fighting problems ever since we were born.

E. We can often overcome the problem and achieve the goal by making a direct attack.

F. Having a personal diary can also be of huge help if you don’t want a real person to talk with.

G. With faith and hope, you can rebuild everything that you lose.

A few years ago, my younger brother and I went to Norfolk, Virginian by plane. , before we took off, we heard the pilot's voice throughout the plane, “Sorry, ladies and gentlemen. We have no on the plane. We have a generator(發(fā)電機), and we are going to the engines with it. We will in the air and head to Norfolk, and see what happens. ”

See what happens? We are going to get up in the air, and see what happens? At this point, one woman started crying. “Oh, no! We are going to ！” There were sighs of and anxiety quickly spreading throughout the plane, and we hadn't even yet. Thirty minutes passed and we were still there. Then the voice of the pilot came over again,“ Ladies and gentlemen, I know you are , so are we. We only have one engine going right now, and it is working double time. ”

There was crying we had walked in to grave(墳?zāi)?. But the pilot told us our one engine was working double time, and his was to get up in the air and see what happens! Then we did. We got up in the air and happened. We arrived in Norfolk and everyone for still being alive.

Although I do sincerely like to have a plan “see what happens”, it really isn’t such a bad life strategy. All too often, I would see people pursuing their goals with inaction just because they don’t have success. Actually, success will never be guaranteed. The thing that you can do is just get up in the air, and see what hap­pens.

If you are planning to learn a new skill, “get up in the air, and see what happens!” It might not be as as you thought. You might be smarter than you thought, and the result could be very ! So don’t stay there trying nothing just because there is no of guaran­teed success.

1.A. HopefullyB. ExcitedlyC. UnfortunatelyD. Thankfully

2.A. serviceB. powerC. waterD. fuel

3.A. shutB. fixC. changeD. start

4.A. get upB. pack upC. light upD. speed up

5.A. waitB. delayC. crashD. suffer

6.A. rumorB. desperationC. diseaseD. pain

7.A. looked overB. gone outC. got acrossD. taken off

8.A. sittingB. checkingC. watchingD. boarding

9.A. puzzledB. patientC. anxiousD. embarrassed

10.A. even ifB. as ifC. what ifD. only if

11.A. commentB. complaintC. promiseD. plan

12.A. everythingB. somethingC. nothingD. anything

13.A. escapedB. cheeredC. sighedD. praised

14.A. less thanB. other thanC. better thanD. more than

15.A. frozenB. annoyedC. concernedD. satisfied

16.A. realisticB, organizedC. potentialD. guaranteed

17.A. sameB. commonC. bestD. last

18.A. interestingB. challengingC. surprisingD. encouraging

19.A. rewardingB. disappointingC. sorrowD. trouble

20.A. meaningB. signC. actionD. reward

閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（不多于3個單詞）或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

Tom: Sandy. It seems that only half of the students passed the final exam.

Sandy: Really? The exam 1. have been very difficult this time.

Tom: Well, I’m really 2. (surprise) too. There are many students who definitely didn’t fail. According to Jack, there are eight boys in his class who failed, 3. (include) himself and Scott.

Sandy: Oh! Scott is 4. of the top students in the college. What about his sister, Kate? Did she pass?

Tom: Oh, yes. It seems she 5. (get) good marks.

Sandy: That’s 6. (absolute) unbelievable. ! Scott was 7. much better student than his sister, and has been working so hard for the last few months.

Tom: It seems 8. (fair), doesn’t it? But, from 9. I’ve heard, perhaps he worked too hard. He was ill during the week of the exam.

Sandy: Oh, I see. These things happen, sometimes. I suppose the teacher will take his illness into account and give him a pass.

Tom: Well, there is a rumor going around 10. the head of the Department is leaving.

Sandy: Because of the bad result, you mean?

Tom: Well, I suppose so. I’m not sure. Maybe Mr. Smith is going to be the new Department Head.

假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文, 請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文.文中共有10處語言錯誤, 每句中最多有兩處.每處錯誤僅涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改.

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號(∧), 并在其下面寫出該加的詞.

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線(＼)戈lj掉.

修改：在錯的詞下畫一橫線, 并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞.

注意：1．每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞.

2．只允許修改l0處, 多者(從第ll處起)不計分.

When an English traveler, who spent a few week in Sweden, was about to return to home, he found he had only enough money left to get a ticket to England. Since it was only two-day voyage, he believed he can get home without eating anything. He final bought a ticket with that little money and went to board the ship. He closed his ears to the sound of the lunch bell or refused to go to the place where people had his dinner when dinnertime came. Therefore, he couldn’t stand this any longer and went to the dining hall, enjoy the last meal on the ship. He then said, “Waiter, brings me the bill.” “Oh, meals are included in the ticket.” said the waiter.

仔細觀察下面一幅圖畫，根據(jù)圖畫的內(nèi)容，寫一篇詞數(shù)100左右的英語短文。

情景：假定你叫李華，家住香港。你和幾個朋友約定星期六在中心公園聚會。現(xiàn)請你寫封信邀請在學(xué)校居住的Brown女士參加，并根據(jù)下圖告訴她來中心公園的路線。

參考詞匯：have a gathering party(聚會)

這是一篇圖畫說明文，根據(jù)圖畫，指明路線，如何到達中心公園。注意觀察圖畫，確定出發(fā)點、行走路線、目的地，靈活使用表達路線的表達語。

Dear Mrs Brown,

We are so glad that you're coming to join us on Saturday. Here is how you can find us.

Yours,

Li Hua