—Shall we hang out tomorrow morning?
— ________ I’ll save the morning for my homework.
A. Sorry, I can’t make it. B. Yes, it’s a good idea.
C. Well, it all depends. D. No, that’s impossible.
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Much to my________, I’m unable to accept your kind invitation.
A. fault B. duty C. guide D. regret
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So much progress _____ in the past few months that she now has no difficulty in making herself understood in English.
A. did she make B. has she made C. she has made D. she made
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What a(n) _______ it is that the new couple were born in the same year and on the same day.
A. acquaintance B. consequence C. circumstance D. coincidence
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Miss Li ___ as a secretary for five years in the company, and now she is general manager of it.
A. has served B. had served C. served D. serves
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Their sudden attack made us more ________ of the danger around us.
A. familiar B. particular C. aware D. doubtful
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Imagine what today’s life would be like if Alexander Bell _____ the telephone more than 130 years ago!
A. didn’t invent B. wouldn’t invent
C. hadn’t invented D. wouldn’t have invented
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He had been _______ good terms with Tom, but all of ____ sudden they lost in touch with each other.
A. on ; a B. in ; / C. on ; the D. in ; a
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Tom was __________ a happy childhood, ______ most people would like to have.
A. filled with; one B. blessed with; one C. covered with; which D. laden with; which
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The police ______ his address and phone number in order to do further investigation.
A. turned down B. put down C. left out D. held out
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It is a shopping mall ______has been built in ______ used to be a school.
A. which; where B. that; what C. which; that D. that; where
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— You seem to be on top of the world.
— Of course. There’s ________ more exciting than seeing your name in print.
A. everything B. nothing C. anything D. something
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--_______, we are going to play tennis on Saturday.
--But we have to first finish our task within the time ________.
A. If weather permits; allowing B. If weather permitted; allowed
C. Weather permitting; allowing D. Weather permitting; allowed
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After graduation I’d like to find a job _______ I can use what I have learnt at school.
A. whose B. which C. where D. that
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— Little Tom broke a window in our class.
— I would rather he ________ that.
A. hadn’t done B. didn’t do C. hasn’t done D. not do
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I had offered to watch my 3-year-old daughter, so that my wife could go out with a friend. I was getting some work done in my study while she ___36___ to be having a good time in the other room. No problem, I figured. But then it got a little too ___37___ and I shouted, “What are you doing?” No response. I ___38___ my question and heard her say, “Oh,…nothing.” Nothing？
I got up from my desk and ran out ___39___ the living room, where I saw her running across the hall. I followed and watched her as her little behind made a quick ___40___ into the bathroom. I had her ___41___! I told her to turn around. She ___42___. I pulled out my big Daddy voice, “Young lady, I said turn around!”
___43___, she turned toward me. In her hand was what was left of my wife’s new lipstick. And every square inch of her face was ___44__ with bright red! As she looked up at me with fearful eyes, I heard ___45__ voice that had been shouted to me as a child. “How could you…You should know…How many times have you been ___46___ … What a bad thing to do…” It was just a matter of my picking out which old ___47___ I was going to use on her so that she would know what a bad girl she had been. But ___48___ I could become angry, I looked ___49___ at the sweater on her. In big ___50___ it said, “I’M A PERFECT LITTLE ANGEL(天使)!” I looked back up into her tearful eyes and, ___51___ seeing a bad girl who didn’t listen, I saw a little angel full of ___52___ that I had come dangerously close to ___53___. “Sweetheart, let’s take a picture so Mommy can see how ___54___ you look.” I took the picture and thanked God that I didn’t ___55__ the chance to prove what a perfect little angel she had given me.
1.A. happened B. liked C. appeared D. pretended
2. A. long B. quiet C. calm D. strange
3.A. asked B. answered C. raised D. repeated
4. A. into B. of C. from D. for
5.A. way B. turn C. change D. progress
6.A. followed B. scolded C. cornered D. fooled
7.A. laughed B. listened C. agreed D. refused
8.A. Slowly B. Eagerly C. Angrily D. Unfortunately
9.A. filled B. marked C. printed D. covered
10.A. every B. such C. any D. one
11.A. told B. beaten C. frightened D. forbidden
12.A. reports B. notice C. advice D. words
13.A. as B. when C. since D. before
14.A. up B. down C. in D. on
15.A. signs B. letters C. messages D. figures
16.A. because of B. instead of C. in spite of D. as a result of
17.A. values B. sadness C. pities D. tricks
18.A. preventing B. getting rid of C. destroying D. doing wrong on
19.A. dirty B. ugly C. special D. silly
20.A. have B. get C. take D. miss
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A jobless man applied for the position of “office boy” at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test.
“You are employed,” he said. “Give me your e-mail address and I’ll send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start.”
The man replied，“But I don’t have a computer, neither an e-mail.”
“I’ m sorry，” said the HR manager.“If you don’t have an e-mail，that means , you do not exist. And who doesn’t exist cannot have the job.”
The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do with only ten dollars in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy 10 kg tomatoes. He then sold the tomatoes from door to door. In less than two hours, he managed to double his capital. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home happily with 60 dollars.
The man realized that he could survive in this way, and started to go every day earlier, and return late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled every day. Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles. Five years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers(销售商) in the US.
He started to plan his family’s future and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker（经纪人）and chose a protection plan.
When the conversation was concluded the broker asked him his e-mail. The man replied, “I don’t have an e-mail.”
The broker answered curiously,“You don’t have an e-mail, and yet have managed to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e-mail?" The man thought for a while and replied,“Yes，I’d be an office boy at Microsoft!”
1.The underlined word “tripled” can be replaced by________.
A. became large B. became 3 times
C. increased quickly D. decreased quickly
2.According to the passage，which of the following is TRUE?
A. The man is one of the biggest food retailers in the world.
B. The man didn’t give up though he failed the interview.
C. He started his career by selling tomatoes in the Supermarket.
D. Those who have e-mails can work at Microsoft.
3.The man can be described as________.
A. helpful and considerate B. positive and generous
C. smart and hardworking D. stubborn and unselfish
4.Which proverb can best describe the story?
A. Misfortune may be an actual blessing. B. Where there is a will, there is a way.
C. Accidents will happen. D. No pains, no gains.
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Mini Book Excerpts（节选）
Biography
When Salinger learned that a car park was to be built on the land, the middle-aged writer was shocked and quickly bought the neighboring area to protect it… The townspeople never forgot the rescue and came to help their most famous neighbor.
J. D. Salinger：A Life by Kenneth Slawenski（Random House,$27）Mystery（疑案小说）
“You’re a smart boy. Benny’s death was no accident, and you’re the only who saw it happen. Do you think the murderer should get away with it?”The boy was starting stubbornly at his lap again.
A thought suddenly occurred to Annika,“Did you …You recognized the man in the car, didn’t you?”
The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers,“Maybe,”he said quietly.
Red Wolf by Liza Marklund（Atria Books, $25. 99）
Short stories
She wants to say to him what she has learned, none of it in class. Some women are born stupid, and some women are too smart for their own good. Some women are born to give, and some women only know how to take. Some women learn who they want to be from their mothers, some who they don’t want to be. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won’t. Some mothers love so their daughters won’t.
You Are Free by DAnzy Senna (Riverhead Books, $15)
Humor
Do your kids like to have fun? Come to Fun Times! Do you like to watch your kids having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times! “amusement cycling”is the most fun you can have, legally, in the United States right now. Why spend thousands of dollars flying to Disney World when you can spend less than half to that within a day’s drive lf most cities?
Happy and Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle（Ecco,$14. 99）
1.If the readers want to know about the title of Salinger, they should buy the book published by
________.
A. Ecco B. Atria Books
C. Riverhead Books D. Random House
2.The book Happy and Other Bad Thoughts is intended for________.
A. young children B. Disney World workers
C. middle school teachers D. parents with young children
3.Which book describes women with characters of their own?
A. Happy And Other Bad Thoughts
B. J. D. Salinger: A Life
C. You Are Free
D. Red Wolf
4.After finishing the book Red Wolf, the readers would learn that ________.
A. the boy helped arrest the murderer
B. Benny died of an accident
C. the murderer got away with the crime
D. Annika carried out the crime
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When a child is told he is "uncool", it can be very painful. He may say he doesn't care, and even act in ways that are opposite of cool on purpose. But ultimately, these are simply ways to handle sadness by pretending it's not there.
Helping a child feel better in school had to be careful. If you say, "Why are you worried about what other children think about you? It doesn't matter!" Children know that it does matter. Instead, an active way may be best. You could say, "I'm going to do a couple of things for you to help you feel better in school."
If a boy is having trouble making friends, the teacher can help him. The teacher can arrange things so that he has chances to use his abilities to contribute to class projects. This is how the other children learn how to value his good qualities and to like him. A teacher can also raise a child's popularity in the group by showing that he values that child. It even helps to put him in a seat next to a very popular child, or let him be a partner with that child in activities, etc.
There are things that parents can do at home, too. Be friendly when your child brings others home to play. Encourage him to invite friends to meals and then serve the dishes they consider "super". When you plan trips, picnics, movies, and other shows, invite another child with whom your child wants to be friends.
What you can do is to give him a chance to join a group that may be shutting him out. Then, if he has good qualities, he can start to build real friendship of his own.
1.A child who has been informed of being "uncool" may ________.
A. care nothing about it B. develop a sense of anger
C. do something uncool purposely D. pretend to get hurt very much
2.A teacher can help an unpopular child by ________.
A. seeing the child as the teacher's favourite
B. asking the child to do something for partners
C. forcing other children to make friends with the child
D. offering the child chances to show his good qualities
3.Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Children don’t care others' comments on them.
B. It's only teacher's work to make children popular.
C. Parents should take their children out for picnic and shows more often.
D. Inviting children's friends to family activities is good for them to make friends.
4.The passage mainly talks about ________.
A. how to help an unpopular child
B. why some children are unpopular
C. who is responsible for unpopular children
D. how to find out good points of unpopular children
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Microblogging is a broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically much smaller, in both actual size and aggregate file size. Microblogs “allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links”.
As with traditional blogging, microbloggers post about topics ranging from the simple, such as "what I'm doing right now," to the thematic(主题的), such as "sports cars.” Commercial microblogs also exist, to promote (促进) websites, services and/or products, and to promote collaboration within an organization.
Some microblogging services offer features such as privacy settings, which allow users to control who can read their microblogs, or other ways of publishing rights besides entering the web-based interface.(界面) These may include text messaging, E-mail, or digital audio.
The first microblogs were known as tumblelogs. The term was invented in a blog post on April 12, 2005. However, by 2006 and 2007, the term microblog came into greater usage for such services provided by Tumbler and Twitter. Other leading social networking websites Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and XING also have their own microblogging features, better known as status updates.
Several studies, especially by Harvard Business School have tried to analyze the usage behavior of Microblogging services. Many of these studies show that for services such as Twitter, there is a small group of active users contributing to most of the activity.
Twitter, Facebook and other microblogging services are also becoming a platform for marketing and public relations, with a sharp growth in the number of social media marketers. The Sysomos study shows that this specific group of marketers on Twitter is much more active than general user population, with 15% following more than 2,000 people.
1.Why is a microblog different from a traditional blog?
A. Because a microblog doesn’t include pictures, but a traditional blog does.
B. Because a microblog doesn’t include videos, but a traditional blog does.
C. Because a microblog has smaller contents than a traditional blog in actual and total file size.
D. Because a microblog can only be written on the cell-phones.
2.Microblogging can protect the following privacy EXCEPT_______.
A. deciding the readers of the microblogs
B. allowing readers to publish their views
C. readers’ deleting what a microblog says
D. deciding whether readers can enter it
3.We can infer from the passage that______.
A. microbloggers always post about the thematic topics instead of the simple ones
B. microblogging has developed so quickly and brought the owners more and more benefits.
C. microblogging protects both the owners’ and the readers’ privacy
D. the studies by Harvard Business School have analyzed the usage of microblogging services
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What should you think about in trying to find your career? You are probably better at some school subjects than others. 71A boy who is good at mathematics can use that in an engineering career. 72So it is important to do well at school. On the other hand, you may not have any specially strong or weak subjects but your records show a general satisfactory standard. __73 Knowledge of history is not required for most jobs but if history is one of your good subjects you will have learned to remember facts and details. This is an ability that can be useful in many jobs.
74If nothing else, you may have learned how to get to work on time, to follow instructions and to get on with older workers. Just as important, you may become interested in a particular industry or career you see from the inside in a part-time job.
Facing your weak points is also part of knowing yourself. 75 Your school record, for instance, may not be too good, yet it is an important part of your background. You should not be apologetic about it but instead recognize that you will have a chance of a fresh start at work.
A. He may do well in his future work.
B. It is bitter to face any weaknesses than to pretend they do not exist.
C. Although not all subjects can be used directly in a job, they may have indirect value.
D. These may show strengths that you can use in your work.
E. Your school must have taught you the skills.
F. A girl who spells well and likes English may be good at office work.
G. If you have had a part-time job on Saturday or in the summer, think what you gained from it.
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英语课上，老师要求同桌同学相互修改作文。假设以下便条为你同桌所写，请你对其进行修改。便条中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\），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。
Dear Jim,
Thank you for your last letter telling me your recently news. I'd like to tell you something about our school sports meet. It was holding on Oct.20, which was a fine day. There were over 1,600 students and teachers attend it. Wang Lin, a student from my class won the 100-meter race. He finishes the race in 11.2 seconds and broke down the school record. They were all very excited. The sports meet was great success. It was why we were all making every effort for our class honor. Although I was not one of the winner, I was proud in what we had done. Looking forward to receiving your letter.
Yours,
Li Ping
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假如你是李华。最近，你们学校组织了创建“平安校园”的活动。请你结合下列要点提示，用英语给某英文报社主编写一封电子邮件，介绍该活动的相关情况。
1．要有安全意识；体育课、运动会中要注意安全；
2．校内要注意人身安全；与同学发生矛盾时，一定要克制、保持冷静；
3．养成开朗(cheerful)、健康的心理素质(psychological quality)
4．将为共建“平安校园”做出自己应有的贡献。
注意：
1．词数100个左右；
2．文章开头已给出，不计入总词数；
3．不要逐句翻译，可适当增加细节使行文连贯；
4．文中不得提及本人所在学校和自己的姓名。
One possible version：
Dear editor，
There is no doubt that safety plays an important role in our daily school life．
Yours sincerely
Li Hua
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