單詞拼寫 (滿分10分) :根據(jù)首字母及漢語提示寫出單詞的正確形式。

1. You are taking a pretty selfish a_________(態(tài)度) to this, aren't you ?

2.The teacher is very p_________(耐心的）with his students .

3.We'll have an opportunity to e______________(交換）views tomorrow.

4.We should keep the b__________ (平衡) of nature, which is quite important to human beings.

5. Buses run f _________(頻繁地) from the city to the airport.

6.I feel very f____________ (幸運(yùn)的) living here.

7. I've come to the c___________(結(jié)論) that he's not the right person for the job.

8.The government should create more jobs for u________ (失業(yè)的) people.

9.I can't c_______ (集中) on my study with all that noise going on.

10.C________(比較) with many girls , she is indeed lucky. 

What’s in a name? Letters offer clues to one’s future decisions, apparently. Previous studies have suggested that maybe a person’s monogram __1__ his life choices — where he works, whom he marries or where he lives — because of “implied self-esteem (自負(fù)),” or the temptation of positive self-associations. For instance, a person named Fred might be attracted to the __2__ of living in Fresno, working for Forever 21 or driving a Ford F-150.

Now a new study by professor Uri takes another look at the so-called name-letter effect and __3__ other explanations for the phenomenon. He analyzed records of political donations in the U.S. during the 2004 campaign — which included donors’ names and employers — and found that the name of a person’s workplace more closely related to the first three letters of a person’s name than with just the first letter. But he suggests that the reason for the association isn’t implied self-esteem, but perhaps something __4__ the opposite.

Duyck, one of the researchers whose previous work __5__ the name-letter effect, isn’t so quick to abandon the implied self-esteem theory. He pointed out that the sample group Uri studied may have biased the results: Uri analyzed the name-letter effect in a sample of people who donated money to political __6__. Still, Duyck notes that Uri’s theories are credible, and that even while some people may __7__ the same name of companies, employees may be tending to those companies because they start with the same letter as their names. In the end, whatever the explanation for the name-letter effect, no one really disputes that self-esteem is __8__ on some level. But the true importance of the effect is up for debate. “I can’t imagine people don’t like their own letter more than other letters,” says Uri, “but the differences it makes in really __9__ decisions are probably slim.”

單詞拼寫 (滿分10分) :根據(jù)首字母及漢語提示寫出單詞的正確形式。
【小題1】 You are taking a pretty selfish a_________(態(tài)度) to this, aren't you ?
【小題2】The teacher is very p_________(耐心的）with his students .
【小題3】We'll have an opportunity to e______________(交換）views tomorrow.
【小題4】We should keep the b__________ (平衡) of nature, which is quite important to human beings.
【小題5】 Buses run f _________(頻繁地) from the city to the airport.
【小題6】I feel very f____________ (幸運(yùn)的) living here.
【小題7】 I've come to the c___________(結(jié)論) that he's not the right person for the job.
【小題8】The government should create more jobs for u________ (失業(yè)的) people.
【小題9】I can't c_______ (集中) on my study with all that noise going on.
【小題10】C________(比較) with many girls , she is indeed lucky. 

第三部分：閱讀理解（共20小題滿分40分）

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C、D）中選出最佳選項(xiàng)

My father was driving us to our grandparents’ house for our annual Christmas dinner. The closer we got to the turnoff (岔道) for my grandparents’ house, the slower the car went. Suddenly, my father U-turned in the middle of the road and said: “I can’t stand it!”

“What?” asked my mother.

“It’s those people back there at the Pan Am, standing in the rain. They’ve got children. It’s Christmas. I can’t stand it.”

When my father pulled into the service station, I saw that there were five of them: the parents and three children – two girls and a small boy.

My father rolled down his window. “Merry Christmas,” he said.

“Howdy (您好),” the man replied. He was very tall and had to stoop (彎腰) slightly to peer into the car.

My sisters Jill, Sharon, and I stared at the children, and they stared back at us.

“You’re getting wet standing here. Just a couple miles up the road there’s a shed (小棚) with a cover there, and some benches,” my father said. “Why don’t you all get in the car?”

The man thought about it for a moment, and then he waved to his family. They climbed into the car.

Once they settled in, my father looked back over his shoulder and asked the children if Santa had found them yet. Three unhappy faces gave him the answer.

“Well, I didn’t think so,” my father said, winking at my mother, “because when I saw Santa this morning, he told me that he was having trouble finding all, and he asked me if he could leave your toys at my house. We’ll just go to get them before I take you to the bus stop.”

All at once, the three children’s faces lit up, and they began to bounce around in the back seat, laughing and chattering.

When we got out of the car at our house, the three children ran through the front door and straight to the toys that were spread out under our Christmas tree. One of the girls spied Jill’s doll and hugged it to her breast. The little boy grabbed Sharon’s ball. And the other girl picked up something of mine.

We left them there at the bus stop in Winborn. As we drove away, I watched out the window as long as I could, looking back at the little girl hugging her new doll.

That was the Christmas when my sisters and I learned the joy of making others happy.

56. The writer’s father U-turned in the middle of the road because ______.

A. he could not stand the people at the service station

B. he could not bear the thought of leaving the people behind

C. he wanted to do something special for his parents

D. he wanted to help the family standing in the rain

57. The reason the father asked the kids if Santa had found them was probably that _____.

A. he knew the mention of Santa would lift their spirits

B. he once promised to receive them as guests in his house

C. he wanted to avoid embarrassing the family

D. he had met Santa and got the presents for the kids

58. How did the author feel at the end of the story?

A. She was pleased that they had been able to give the kids presents and make them happy.

B. She was unhappy remembering that they had been late for the Christmas dinner.

C. She was angry because she realized that she didn’t receive a Christmas gift that year.

D. She was puzzled by why her father had done this on Christmas.

59. What is the article mainly about?

A. How my family found the lost Santa.

B. The people at the service station.

C. The art of celebrating Christmas.

D. The joy of making others happy.

單詞拼寫

注意：每空只填1個(gè)單詞

1.We should try to ______ (使結(jié)合) work with pleasure.

2.He __________（分析）the food and found that it contained poison.

3.A British club arranged for high school students to go to places where there are lost           __________ (文明).

4.The Normans, a French-speaking people who defeated England made               __________ (貢獻(xiàn)) to the development of the new type of English.

5.Socrates’ way of _______(接近) the truth is now called the Socratic Method.

6.The children _________(恐慌) when they realized they were lost.

7.I don’t know his password, so I can’t have a________ to his computer.

8.His lie was so touching that many of his friends f__________ for it.

9.These words have similar meanings. I really have difficulty d_____one from another.

10.U________, his computer crashed the moment it was most needed.