【題目】To develop one’s taste in English，the most effective way is to read English books extensively. However, one may be at a loss to choose the appropriate books，especially as a beginner.I would like to share some of my experience.

My first English novel was Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice，recommended by many English teachers and professors as an ideal book for English learners. But I had great difficulty in understanding the novel，let alone enjoying it. It’s not the vocabulary that troubled me，but rather the way Austen constructs sentences，and her way of thinking，which seemed too remote to me at that time. My fading enthusiasm was much recovered after reading Hemingway’s novel Farewell to Arms. I particularly liked his brief and lively style. So my first suggestion is，as a beginner, you’d better choose contemporary novels instead of classical ones.

However，reading novels is not the only way to improve your English. English essays can at once inform you，entertain you, and improve your taste in English. The best example is Bertrand Russell’s work. Its language is plain, yet you cannot help feeling the elegance and the unique sense of humor. His simple language enables his philosophy(哲理) within the reach of ordinary people. Here comes my second suggestion—essays are indispensable.

Never follow other’s opinions blindly，however famous or influential the person might be. As a saying goes，one man’s meat is another man’s poison. With that in mind，we are sure to find out our favorite writers through reading and develop our fine taste in English.

【1】What made the author’s first English novel hard to understand?

A. Complex conversations.

B. Not knowing the social background.

C. The old-fashioned vocabulary.

D. Sentences and Austen’s thinking pattern.

【2】Which can best replace the underlined word“ indispensable”?

A. necessary B. challenging

C. related D. inspired

【3】What advice does the author give in the last paragraph?

A. Choose books that challenging us most.

B. Read books that are instructive.

C. Don’t be affected by other’s choices.

D. Compare books before buying.

【4】What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?

A. Give comments on literature works.

B. Tell beginners how to choose English books.

C. Encourage people to read more English books.

D. Recommend first-class books to English learners.

【題目】假定你是李華，你的班級準備舉行一場中秋詩會。請代表班級給外教Mr. Hill 寫一封英文邀請函。

主要內(nèi)容包括：

1.活動時間：九月十五日晚七點至九點。

2.活動地點南湖公園。

3.活動內(nèi)容：賞月，品嘗月餅，朗誦詩歌等。

參考詞匯：詩歌朗誦會：poetry recital party.南湖公園：South Lake Park.

注意：1.詞數(shù)100左右；

2.可以適當增加細節(jié)，以使行文連貫；。

Dear Mr Hill,

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【題目】Many people think that listening is a passive business. It is just the opposite. Listening well is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. It is because they do not realize this, or because they are not willing to do the work, that most people do not listen well.

Listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as ‘bracketing’. Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else’s world from the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. Moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other person. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to open up the inner part of his or her mind to the listener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be accomplished only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.

Most of the time we lack this energy. Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening selectively. Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are far more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply refuse to listen to what we don’t want to hear.

It wasn’t until toward the end of my doctor career that I have found the knowledge that one is being truly listened to is frequently therapeutic(有療效的). In about a quarter of the patients I saw, surprising improvement was shown during the first few months of psychotherapy(心理療法), before any of the roots of problems had been uncovered or explained. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patient’s sense that he or she was being truly listened to, often for the first time in years, and for some, perhaps for the first time ever.

【1】The phrase “stepping into his or her shoes” in paragraph 2 probably means ________.

A. preparing a topic list first

B. focusing on one’s own mind

C. directing the talk to the desired results

D. experiencing the speaker’s inside world

【2】What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 2?

A. How to listen well.

B. What to listen to.

C. Benefits of listening.

D. Problems in listening

【3】According to the author, in communication people tend to ________.

A. listen actively

B. listen purposefully

C. set aside their prejudices

D. open up their inner mind

【4】According to the author, the patients improved mainly because ________.

A. they were taken good care of

B. they knew they were truly listened to

C. they had partners to talk to

D. they knew the roots of problems

【題目】書面表達

最近，某中學英語報向?qū)W生征文，主題為New Look of My Hometown。請你根據(jù)以下內(nèi)容提示，用英語為該報寫一篇短文，介紹家鄉(xiāng)的情況并發(fā)表自己的看法。

注意：1．可適當增加細節(jié)，使短文連貫、通順；

2．詞數(shù)100左右。

參考詞匯：economy經(jīng)濟

【題目】下面每個句子都只有一處語言錯誤。每處錯誤僅涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。多改或不按格式要求改不得分。

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（），并在其下面寫出該詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下面劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

【1】Between the two buildings stand a tall tree.

【2】 Mr. Brown lost all his possession in that big fire.

【3】A few kind words at the right time can make difference.

【4】Deeply impressed on its beauty, I fell in love with Guilin.

【5】Life in the twenty-first century is much easier than it used to.

【6】Instant Tom heard the fire alarm, he rushed out of the building.

【7】After his journey from abroad, Richard returned home, exhausting.

【8】 Don’t move anything here. Mother likes everything to be in the place.

【9】It is demanded that the books are returned to the library within two weeks.

【10】We’ll discuss a number of cases which beginners of English fail to use the language properly.

【題目】書面表達

假定你是李華，你的美國朋友Peter近期打算來中國，他對中國的鄉(xiāng)村生活很感興趣。

你打算邀請他去體驗一下你家鄉(xiāng)的“農(nóng)家樂”。請用英文寫封信向他推薦，要點如下：

1．“農(nóng)家樂”興起的原因；

2．“農(nóng)家樂”的服務特色。

注意：

1．詞數(shù)100左右；

2．可以適當增加細節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

3．參考詞匯：農(nóng)家樂agritainment

Dear Peter,

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Yours．

Li Hua

【題目】“The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself; to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful,” says Plato. Self-control is at the root of all the advantages. Let a man give in to his impulses (沖動) and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.

A single angry word has lost many friends. When Socrates found in himself any temper or anger, he would check it by speaking low in order to control himself. If you are conscious of being angry, keep your mouth shut so that you can hold back rising anger. Many a person has dropped dead in great anger. Fits of anger bring fits of disease. “Whoever the gods would destroy, they first make them mad.” “Keep cool,” says Webster, “anger is not argument.” “Be calm in arguing,” says George Herbert, “for fierceness (狂怒) makes error a fault.”

To be angry with a weak man is to prove that you are not strong yourself. “Anger,” says Pythagoras, “begins with foolishness and ends with regret.” You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he conquers, not by the power of those which conquer him.

Self-control is man’s last and greatest victory.

If a man lacks self-control he seems to lack everything. Without it he can have no patience, no power to govern himself; he can have no self-confidence, for he will always be controlled by his strongest feeling. If he lacks self-control, the very backbone and nerve of character are lacking too.

【1】What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Self- control is important for a man.

B. We should learn to be strong.

C. A man who keeps cool won’t lose any game.

D. The great heroes in history knew how to control themselves.

【2】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. If you are mad, the gods will fail you.

B. If you lose your temper first, gods will fail you first.

C. If you can’t control yourself, you will be crazy.

D. If the gods want to fail you, they will make you mad first.

【3】Which of the following is NOT true, according to passage?

A. The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself.

B. You will make a small mistake serious if you don’t keep cool.

C. You must measure a man’s strength by the power of the feelings which conquer him.

D. Anger begins with foolishness and ends with regret.

【4】Which of the following can’t help you avoid anger, according to the passage?

A. Being calm in arguing.

B. Checking your temper or anger by speaking low.

C. Keeping your mouth shut.

D. Trying to make the other angry first.

【題目】根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。

Researchers have shown that your talent for happiness is, to a large degree, determined by your genes（基因）. 【1】 We can do this by overcoming negative emotions and developing positive emotions.

Strategy（策略）1: 【2】

The first step is to make a choice to be happy. In Seeking Happiness, Bertrand Russell said, “Happiness must be an achievement rather than a gift of the gods, and in this achievement, effort must play a great part.”

Once you’ve decided to be happier, you can choose strategies for achieving happiness.

Strategy 2: Develop gratitude（感激）.

In Authentic Happiness, psychologist Martin Seligman encourages readers to perform a daily “gratitude exercise”. 【3】

Strategy 3: Remember, money can’t buy happiness.

Research shows: 【4】 Yes, “we always think that some things are wrong because they cannot bring us happiness.” writes Daniel Gilbert in Stumbling on Happiness.

Strategy 4: Take part in meaningful activities.

“People are seldom happier,” says Jackson, “than when they’re doing meaningful activities.”

Yet, he has found that the most common leisure（休閑）activity — watching TV — produces some of the lowest levels of happiness. 【5】 Active leisure that helps a person grow does not come easily, he writes in Finding Flow.

A. Choose to be happy.

B. Seek happiness.

C. However, psychologists believe we can pursue happiness.

D. This drives bitterness from our heart, and promotes happiness.

E. Happiness is decided by many things.

F. To get more out of life, we need to put more into it.

G. More money doesn’t often bring more happiness.

【題目】短文改錯

下面是你同學的一篇英文習作，請你幫助修改這篇作文。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（＼）劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1.每處錯誤及其修改僅限一次。

2.只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計分。

Alibaba founder Jack Ma, his company has been valued at more than $ 221 billion of which Ma owned 6%, is put in the top position among China’s wealthiest. But he stays outside the list of the world’s 10 rich people.

Fought against a hard life, young Ma still managed to learn English well enough to gain a degree and became a teacher. Afterwards he started a translation agency in which took him to the US, where he introduced to the Internet. His fate was bound to change before he was accidentally appointed to take an American visitor Jerry Yang, a co-founder of Yahoo, in a tour of the Great Wall. The meeting obvious proved to be a turning point for all of them, promoting the birth of Alibaba and later cooperation with Jerry Yang.

【題目】閱讀下列各小題，根據(jù)漢語提示,在空格上填入恰當?shù)脑~，使句子完整。

【1】他與他的新上司胡新的討論注定會對他的記者生涯產(chǎn)生重要影響。

His discussion with his new boss, Hu Xin,_______ _______ strongly influence his life as a journalist.

【2】聽上去汽車的發(fā)動機好像壞了。如果是這樣的話，我們最好立刻把它送到修理廠。

It sounds like something is wrong with the car’s engineer. _______ _______ ,we’d better take it to the garage immediately.

【3】她以前從來沒有見過和羅伯特一樣打網(wǎng)球打得這么好的人。

Never before _______ _______ _______ anybody who can play tennis as well as Robert.

【4】我正在玩游戲，這時突然停電了。

I _______ _______ computer games _______electricity was cut off.

【5】一看到他古怪的穿著，我們都笑了。(sight)

We laughed _______ _______ _______ _______ his strange clothes.