People all need friends because nobody wants to be lonely and a friend can help you in good and bad times. You’ve made friends since childhood，but you still don’t know who your true friends are. Here are some signs to tell you if your friend is a true friend：
Always honest
Honesty is important to keep a relationship alive. A true friend always tells you the truth. It may be hard sometimes but lying can destroy a friendship. It is important that your friend speaks honestly and never makes up stories.
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There are always periods in your life when you have problems or difficulties. A true friend will always have time to listen to your problems and give advice. He may not be able to offer a solution to your problems but the fact that your friend made time to listen is a sign he/she cares for you. Your friend is not a true friend if he/she can never make time for you when you are in trouble. You also need to be reasonable and accept that your friend also has other things to do so he/she can’t always listen immediately to your problems.
Always respectful (尊敬的)
A true friend will always respect your opinion no matter whether he/she agrees or not. Your true friend may disagree but never insists that he/she is correct.
Always understanding
It is possible that some problems will arise between you and your friend. A true friend will always be forgiving (体谅的) and understanding，even if it isn’t his/her fault. We are all different people and we all make mistakes. A true friend is always forgiving and understanding because he/she doesn’t want to take the risk of losing his/her best friend.
1.What’s the best title for the third paragraph?
A. Always there for you
B. Keep your secrets
C. Always happy for you
D. Remember your important days
2.According to the passage，a true friend will always ________________.
A. follow your advice
B. offer a solution to your problems
C. listen immediately to your problems
D. respect your opinion even if he/she disagrees with it
3.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Never tell lies to friends.
B. Making time for friends.
C. Sharing fun with friends.
D. Paying attention to a friend’s opinions.
4.A true friend will always forgive and understand you because __________.
A. he/she wants to help you
B. he/she doesn’t want to lose you
C. he/she wants you to feel confident
D. he/she doesn’t care about your mistake
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A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.
A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a piece of advice, “I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage,” she offered. “Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together.”
The husband agreed. So each of them tried to think of the things that annoyed them about the other and wrote down what they came up with. The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists.
“I’ll start,” offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill three pages. In fact, as she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband’s eyes because he never thought that he had so many shortcomings.
The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. “Now, you read your list and then we’ll talk about the things on both of our lists,” she said happily.
Quietly the husband stated, “I don’t have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect. I don’t want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn’t want to try and change anything about you.” The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.
In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don’t really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us and see the wonderful things before us?
1.Why were there tears in the husband’s eyes when the wife read his annoyances?
A. Because he had no courage to face his shortcomings.
B. Because he never thought he had so many annoyances in his wife’s eyes.
C. Because he was sorry that he didn’t find any annoyance about his wife.
D. Because he didn’t think he deserved to have such a perfect wife.
2.After hearing the husband’s words, the wife felt _________.
A. moved and ashamed
B. sad and disappointed
C. satisfied and proud
D. surprised and confused
3.The story is intended to tell us that ___________.
A. disappointment cannot be avoided in our life
B. young couples should be more tolerant (宽容的) to each other
C. we should turn a blind eye to other people’s blame
D. we should try to look for and see the wonderful things around us
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I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise. In the end ,I said, “ Son, remember: Be slow and steady, and that will win the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”
Sonny opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy, Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”
I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn’t wish that the hare would fall asleep!”
“He must have wished that,” Sonny said, “Otherwise how could he be so foolish as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”
“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted. “He won the race by perseverance (坚忍不拔的), by pushing on steadily.”
Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,” he said. “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he’d never have won the race. That’s for sure.”
I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be. They’re just hopeless.
1.The writer argued with his son because ______________.
A. he liked tortoises while his son liked hares
B. they disagreed about whether the tortoise was foolish
C. he tried to teach his son a moral (品德) lesson but the son had totally different opinion
D. he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn’t.
2.Sonny believed that the tortoise ______________.
A. won the race by his own hard working
B. took a risk by agreeing to run a race
C. was not given a fair chance in the race
D. in fact did win the race luckily
3.Billy, Tony and Sandy must be_______________.
A. boys who were unknown to Sonny’s father
B. boys who Sonny has run races with before
C. boys who Sonny has never raced with before
D. boys who Sonny did not expect to race with again
4.According to the passage, who do you think learnt a lesson?
A. The tortoise B. Sonny
C. The hare D. Sonny’s father
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People have always been wondering about what our future will look like. Go on reading this text, and you will know what will happen in the next fifty years.
How can we know what the future will look like? To be able to understand the future, you must know the past. What has taken us to where we are today and what has changed along the way? The world has changed a lot in the last 150 years, but we humans are driven by the same basic needs as we were 150 years ago. Will this change in the next 150 years? No.
What inventions have really made a difference in the last 150 years? In the past years, the inventions that have affected most people around the world for everyday living are the telephone, electricity, radio, television, computer, the car and the ability to communicate through the Internet. Then we of course have a lot of inventions that have made life easier, like new medicine, faster transports etc. In general, human beings have been working hard in the last 150 years to make the inventions so that they will be able to get control of the time and the world. Since there is still much to do in this area, this will be the focus at least for the next 150 years.
Why do we need to predict the future? Predicting the future is important for two reasons: first we need to start to think about what kind of future we would like for ourselves and to pass on to the next generation, and then we need to know what decisions we need to make today that will give the best result in the future.
1.What does the author try to tell us in the second paragraph?
A. Our basic needs will not change in the future.
B. The world is quite different from what it was.
C. Humans will no longer enjoy food in the future.
D. The world will be completely changed tomorrow.
2.Our past inventions have made .
A. our daily life more stressful
B. it easy for us to live
C. our work easily done
D. us work less time
3.What will humans do in order to keep the world under control?
A. To produce more cars for transportation.
B. To spend more time working on the Internet.
C. To work much harder to achieve their goals.
D. To focus on making more inventions.
4.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. What result we’ll receive in the future.
B. The two reasons of predicting the future.
C. The importance of predicting the future.
D. The decisions we make for our future.
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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Once there was a very poor villager. He found it difficult even to support his family. 1. He walked about in the streets, but he did not get a job. One day, he met a rich businessman, who gave him the job of cleaning the office. The villager began his work and he even started reading and writing in his spare time.
One day, the businessman saw that the villager was writing something. He said, “You can also read and write! Your handwriting is very good.” 2. The villager began to do this job as best as he could.
Later, the businessman learnt that the villager was good at accounting（计算）, and he made him his shop accountant. The other accountants were very jealous of the villager’s abilities. They told the businessman that the villager had a small room where he hid the money stolen from him.3.
One day, they had their chance. They saw the villager going into ‘that’ room. 4. When they came back and opened the door, there was nothing in that room except an ordinary box.
The villager was ordered to open the box with his own hands. And there was only a pair of dirty shoes and some old clothes. 5. At the same time, he was so angry with the jealous accountants that he fired them at once. The villager was made the only accountant for his office.
A. He came to a big city hoping to find a job.
B. They closed the door behind him and ran to the businessman.
C. So the businessman decided to give the villager a good lesson.
D. Seeing this, the businessman was moved by what he had seen.
E. So the villager was given the work of writing business letters for him.
F. The villager wished that some kind people might give him a good job.
G. But the businessman refused to believe them unless he had seen it with his own eyes.
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Li Hua: Hi, Li Lei. Long time no see. What did you do during your winter holiday?
Li Lei: Hi, Li Hua. I found a part-time job in a real estate (房地产) company as 1.salesman for twenty days.
Li Hua: Really? That must be 2. (extreme) interesting.
Li Lei: Yes, interesting 3. tiring. I stood for ten hours a day and introduced the houses to customers that I met. Sometimes I was laughed at, but most of the time, I 4.(praise) for my wonderful work by many people.
Li Hua: I guess you 5. have gained a lot from this part-time job.
Li Lei: Yes, I really have learnt a lot about how to express my opinion, how to communicate 6.different people and how to work in a team.
Li Hua: I also took part in a great many social activities, some of 7. were really impressive. Through these activities, I not only gained a lot of social experience but also improved my practical skills, such as interpersonal skills and organizing ability. As far as I’m 8., acquiring practical skills is of great 9.(important) to us students. Besides, the experience 10. (gain) may pave the way for our future career development.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Bobby Buns was a very amusing and lively waiter who had his own cafe. He was also very , because during a visit to a he discovered one of the young cows there was pretty . Instead of producing milk, this cow produced milk coffee.
to become rich, Bobby took the cow straight to the city. When he arrived, his wife told him that he should first reorganize the cafe so they had a place to the cow. However, Bobby was so and impatient that he this advice, and took the cow straight to the .
At first the result was quite . The cow was featured in the newspapers and on TV. Customers came from far to taste the delicious fresh milk coffee.
However, after the , it turned out that having a cow in the middle of a cafe was not at all . Every day the cow broke twenty or thirty cups simply by wagging (摇摆) its tail. The cafe smelt terrible. The hay the cow ate got spread all over the place. The cow left so little room in the cafe that there would be fewer customers .
, the authorities came to do an inspection. They gave him such a heavy fine that Bobby almost had to the cafe. Bobby Buns realized that he had to be more patient and . He should until everything was ready before his fresh milk coffee.
, Bobby was a lucky guy. When the cafe was being reorganized, he took the cow back to the village. There he discovered that one of the hens laid chocolate eggs. This time he knew he had to be patient, and wait until everything was . When everything was all , his cafe became the most famous and successful in the whole city.
1.A. sensitive B. curious C. careful D. fortunate
2.A. town B. city C. village D. cottage
3.A. special B. healthy C. heavy D. clever
4.A. Intending B. Learning C. Continuing D. Failing
5.A. hide B. kill C. sell D. put
6.A. confused B. excited C. ashamed D. angry
7.A. followed B. ignored C. considered D. valued
8.A. yard B. home C. garden D. cafe
9.A. impressive B. horrible C. upsetting D. important
10.A. anxiety B. disappointment C. excitement D. shock
11.A. strange B. interesting C. natural D. proper
12.A. joining in B. cutting in C. giving in D. stepping in
13.A. Unfortunately B. Probably C. Gradually D. Generally
14.A. forget B. decorate C. close D. discover
15.A. organized B. eager C. different D. friendly
16.A. relax B. wait C. predict D. dream
17.A. dropping B. purchasing C. inventing D. serving
18.A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. However D. Instead
19.A. prepared B. tried C. remembered D. changed
20.A. in need B. in place C. in turn D. in peace
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请修改下面的短文。短文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线( \ )划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Boys and girls, attention, please! I have anything to say. It’s a good news that our school is going to hold a party on Saturday evening, when is to welcome our Canadian friends. The party will be interested. You can dance, listen to music, sing songs and playing games. Would you like to bring a small gift with you? Then you can send to your new foreign friend. Please write a few word that can express your best wishes. Anyone who want to attend the party can go to the great hall in the second floor. Everyone is welcome.
I hope everyone will have a wonderfully time. That’s all. Thank you!
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现在，越来越多的学生开始意识到学习英语的重要性，但是一些学生发现在日常生活中很少有说英语的机会。假设你校学生会决定举办一次英语口语竞赛,请根据以下提示，写一则100词左右的英语海报。
目的：提高同学们的英语口语能力
时间：12月8日下午2:00-5:00
地点：校会议室
评委：3名外教和7名外语老师
奖品：一台笔记本电脑（获得第一名的学生）
参赛对象：全校学生
（海报发布时间：10月8日）
参考词汇：英语口语 oral English
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