Dear son,
The day that you see me old and I am already not in good health, have patience and try to understand me.
If I get dirty when eating, if I can not dress, have patience and remember the hours I spent 1 it to you. If, when I speak to you, I 2the same things thousand and one times, do not 3 me, listen to me. When you were small, I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story until you got to sleep. When I do not want to have a 4, neither shame me nor scold me. Remember when I had to chase（追逐） you with thousand excuses I 5, in order that you wanted to bathe. When you see my 6little about new technologies, give me the necessary time and do not look at me with your mocking( 嘲弄 ) smile. I taught you how to do so many things: to eat good, to dress well, to confront life（面对生活）….
When at some moment I lose the 7, let me have the necessary time to remember. When my 8 legs do not allow me to walk, give me your hands, the same way I did when you gave your first 9. And when someday I say to you that I do not want to 10 any more ---- that I want to rest forever, do not get11. Someday you will understand.
Try to understand that my age is not lived but survived. Some day you will discover that, despite（尽管） my mistakes, I always wanted the 12 thing for you and that I tried to prepare the way for you. You must not feel sad, angry or impotent( 无可奈何 ) for seeing me 13 you. You must be next to me, try to understand me and to help me as I did it when you 14 living. Help me to walk, help me to end my way with love and 15 .
I love you, Son.
Your father
1. A．giving B．teaching C．coming D．pointing
2. A．praise B．think C．repeat D．blame
3. A．interrupt（打断） B．disturb（打扰） C．look D．avoid
4. A．rest B．word C．bath D．sleep
5. A．discovered B．invented C．noticed D．suspected
6. A．knowing B．fearing C．enjoying D．lacking
7. A．sight B．heart C．way D．memory
8. A．tired B．short C．long D．strong
9. A．step B．pace C．laugh D．cry
10. A．talk B．live C．write D．sleep
11. A．careful B．interested C．calm D．angry
12. A．last B．first C．best D．most
13. A．near B．behind C．below D．against
14. A．made B．started C．earned D．found
15. A．mercy B．care C．optimism D．patience
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In the last years of the 1920s, hundreds of record flights were made. A few were made by women. But no woman had flown across the Atlantic Ocean. A wealthy American woman, Amy Guest,________1.________(buy) a plane to do this. However, her family were against the idea.________2. she looked for another woman to take________3.________place. Friends suggested Amelia Earhart, who became interested in flying while________4.________(live) in Toronto. American publisher George Putnam had helped organize the Atlantic Ocean flight________5.________made Amelia famous. Afterwards,________6. continued to support her flying activities. In 1931, George and Amelia were married. He helped provide her7.________financial support.
8.________May 20th, 1932, Amelia took off from Newfoundland. She headed east in________9. small red and gold plane. Amelia had problems with ice on the wings, and fog from the ocean. At one point, her plane dropped________10.________(sudden) 900 meters. She regained control. And after 15 hours she landed in Ireland. She had become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone.
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Philip was a nine-year-old boy in a Sunday school class of 8-year-old girls and boys. Sometimes the third graders didn’t welcome Philip into their group and usually tricked him. This was not because he was older, but because he was “different”. You see, Philip suffered from a condition called Downs’s Syndrome. This made him “different”, with its facial characteristics, slow responses and mental problems.
One Sunday after Easter, the Sunday school teacher gathered some plastic eggs that pulled apart in the middle. The teacher gave one to each child. On that beautiful spring day, the children were to go out and discover for themselves some symbol of “new life” and place it inside the plastic eggs.
After the children returned to the classroom, the teacher opened their eggs one by one, asking each child to explain that symbol of “new life”. The first opened egg contained a flower. Everyone cheered. In another was a butterfly…. When the teacher opened the last egg, it was empty. “That’s stupid,” said someone. The teacher felt a pull at his shirt. It was Philip. Looking up, Philip said, “It’s mine. I did it. It’s empty. I have new life, because the tomb is empty.” Not a sound was heard in class at all. From that day on, Philip became a real part of the group. They welcomed him, and whatever made him different was never mentioned again.
Philip’s family knew he wouldn’t live a long life, for there were too many things wrong with him.
1.The underlined word “condition” in the 1st paragraph probably means __________.
A．grade B．status C．health D．disease
2.It can be inferred from the first paragraph that _______.
A．the 8-year-olds were sometimes cruel.
B．The 8-year-olds were friendly to Philip.
C．Philip was really different in school.
D．Philip was older and more sensitive.
3.The teacher gave each child one plastic egg to let them ______.
A．play around on that beautiful spring day.
B．put some symbol of “new life” into it.
C．try to pull it apart in the middle.
D．go out and discover themselves.
4.After Philip explained his new life, _________.
A．the class thought he was clever. B．The class fell silent.
C．He began to study in the class. D．He felt dying.
5.We learn from the passage that _________.
A．the teacher used to have classes outdoors
B．Philip was healthy as a whole.
C．The Philip’s new life wish was empty
D．Philip was accepted by his classmates in the end
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The expression “keeping up with the Joneses” was first used in 1913 by a young American Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself: he began earning $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. Young Momand was very proud of his riches. He got married and moved with his wife to Long Island, outside New York City.
But just moving there was not enough. For when Momand and his wife saw that their neighbors belonged to a country club they too joined a club. And when he saw that rich people were expected to ride horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave grand parties for their new neighbors.
It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. Momand and his wife could not do that.
The race ended for them when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an inexpensive New York City apartment.
Momand later said that his experience had been a cruel awakening for him. However, he was able to see the funny side of it. He looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with their neighbors.
He decided that this would make good stories for many papers across the country. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses”, because “Jones” is a very common American name. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with the people around you. Momand’s stories appeared in different newspapers for over 28 years.
People never seem to tire of keeping up with the Joneses. That is one reason why they read the “right” books, go to the “right” universities and eat in the “right” restaurants. But no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
1.The writer of this passage means to tell us ___________.
A．what Arthur Momand did to keep up with his neighbors
B．how the expression “keep up with the Joneses” came into being
C．what we should do to keep up with our neighbors
D．how we can live differently from others
2.The reason Momand moved to Long Island is that ___________.
A．he wanted to live in a rich neighborhood
B．there was a country club for him to join
C．it was outside the city and good for horseback riding
D．his wife came from that area
3.By saying “It was like a race”(in Para 3), the writer means ____________.
A．it was just a suitable place for the horse race
B．Momand and his wife kept themselves busy
C．Momand’s neighbors also gave parties one after another
D．Momand tried to compete with their neighbors in his way of life
4.The funny side Momand saw in his experience was _________.
A．he moved back to a cheap place
B．he was not alone in keeping up with his neighbors
C．he made a mistake in following other people’s examples
D．he cared too much about what others thought of him
5.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A．Momand earned a lot of money when he got married
B．Momand was always very interested in riding horses
C．Momand found there was something wrong with his way of life
D．Momand wrote stories for newspapers about himself and his neighbors
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When doctors urge overweight kids to pick up more activities，reading probably isn’t what they have in mind. Yet a new study by fatness researchers at Duke University finds that the simple act of reading—depending on the choice of material—can cause weight loss in teenage girls.
The study’s experimental group included 31 fat girls aged 9 to 13，who took part in the Healthy Lifestyles Program at Duke Children’s Hospital. The girls read a novel called Lake Rescue，whose protagonist (主人公) is an overweight teenager who struggles with low selfesteem，feelings of loneliness and teasing because of her size. A group of 33 girls read a different book called Charlotte in Paris，which did not have an overweight character，and another group of 17 girls read neither book.
At the end of the sixmonth experiment，all the girls who read books had lost weight，but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost more. They lowered their body mass index (BMI) by 0.71，compared with 0.33 in the Charlotte group，an average 0.05 increase among the nonreaders.
The idea behind the study，says Dr Sarah Armstrong，director of Healthy Lifestyles，was to find a way to encourage the girls without adopting the restrictive and often authoritative voice of so many other nutrition and diet programs. Lake Rescue was the perfect instrument，says Armstrong；it presents a likable character to whom the girls could relate and whom they could learn from. As the book progresses，its protagonist learns to make healthier lifestyle choices and finds an adviser to help keep her on track. Armstrong says，“She learns that she can become healthier，and the ‘I can do it’ feeling resonates (产生共鸣) with the teenage girls.”
1.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A．There are different ways to help overweight kids lose weight.
B．Lifestyle is important for kids.
C．Lake Rescue is the perfect weightlosing instrument.
D．Reading can help kids lose weight.
2.How many girls took part in the experiment?
A．31. B．33. C．64. D．81.
3.What does the underlined word “She” in the last paragraph refer to?
A．Armstrong. B．The protagonist in Lake Rescue.
C．A character in Charlotte in Paris. D．A girl in the first group.
4.According to the passage we can know that ________.
A．overweight girls are living unhappily
B．reading is the best way to lose weight
C．different reading materials play different roles in losing weight
D．people will become fat if they don’t read
5.In which part of a newspaper can we read the above passage?
A．Education. B．Entertainment. C．Health. D．Advertisement.
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What will man be like in the future — in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.
Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is relatively a short period of time, so we may suppose that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain’s capacity(容量). As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and finally we shall need our brains more and more, and finally we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring a physical change too: the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.
Nowadays our eyes are in constant use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over long period of time it is likely that man’s eyes will grow stronger.
On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.
But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald.
Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature to look at! This may well be true. All the same, in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with us. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and motions similar to our own.
1.The passage mainly tells us that __________.
A．Man’s life will be different in the future
B．Future man will look quite different from us
C．Man is growing taller and uglier as time passes
D．Man’s organs’ functions will change
2.What serves as the evidence that man is changing?
A．Man has got stronger eyes now than he ever had.
B．Man’s hair is getting thinner and thinner.
C．Man’s arms and legs have become lighter and weaker.
D．Man has been growing taller over the past 500 years.
3.The change in man’s size of the forehead is probably because __________.
A．he makes use of only 20% of the brain’s capacity
B．his brain has grown larger over the past centuries
C．he will use his brain more and more as time goes on
D．the other 80% of his brain will grow in due time
4.Which of the following is TRUE about a human being in the future?
A．He is hairless because hair is no longer useful.
B．He has smaller eyes and wears better glasses.
C．His fingers grow weaker because he doesn’t have to make use of them.
D．He thinks and feels in a different way.
5.It is implied that __________.
A．human beings will become less attractive in the future
B．body organs will become poorer if they are not used often
C．human beings hope for a change in the future life
D．future life is always predictable
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阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请阅读下列应用文及相关信息:
A. LEGENDS OF DETECTIVES
This magazine is published every month and tells you true stories about real life of famous detectives. You can find out how some of the most dangerous criminals were caught and how some famous detectives chased them.
B. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHY
This weekly magazine is your window on the world. Have you ever wondered what the Indians eat for breakfast? Do you know that the Himalaya Mountains are getting higher every year? This fascinating magazine is full of colour photographs.
C. ISLAND
The chief editor of this magazine is Guo Jingming, a famous writer who is popular with teenagers. Every month Guo and other well-known writers bring you the latest teenage love stories. Each magazine carries three full-length stories as well as cartoons and colour pictures of your favorite film stars.
D. WORLD NEWS
This weekly magazine can help you keep in touch with the world. It is filled with facts and figures about almost everything you can think of, plus articles by our regular writers on the week's most interesting news stories. Special front page sums up the mews for the busy readers.
E. AMERICAN GUIDE
If you're thinking of going to America, this weekly magazine is a good choice for you because it is full of helpful suggestions on how to manage the visa and even what to buy once you're there. Lots of colour photos can help you choose the best hotel and the cheapest flights.
F. SHERLOCK HOLMES A NOTHER
This magazine brings you the best in crime thrillers written by well-known crime writers. These exciting stories are so good that you won't be able to put the magazine down. And every month one crime is left to be continued so that readers can try to guess what will happen.
请阅读以下相关读者的信息，并按照要求匹配信息。
1.Mary Alderson is a white-collar woman in a big firm. She doesn't have much time to read anything detailed but she is looking for something with plenty of brief news and information.
2.Julie Sunderland is a student in senior high school and loves spending time watching movies and lying on her bed reading some stories. She is always interested in finding out more about some of the biggest movie stars in the world.
3.Bill Woodward is retired now and he used to travel a lot when he was young. Now that he has stopped his work, he enjoys reading about foreign people, places and customs around the world.
4.Leroy used to be a policeman and he still takes an active interest in the work of detective, But recently he enjoys reading crime fictions after years spent chasing real criminals.
5.Kate Power has never been abroad and now she is planning to go to the US. The travel agent suggests that she read about some reference books first before she starts out.
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近年微博（microblog）在中国越来越流行，2011年也被有关媒体称为“微博元年”。假设你是校报记者，请根据下列提示为校报写一篇介绍微博的英语短文。
［写作内容］
1. 非常方便，人们可以随时利用微博来表达心声，交流想法。
2. 给人们提供了一种释放压力的方式。
3. 与朋友分享心情，增进他们之间的了解。
4. 也有潜在的危险，有可能泄露个人隐私或其他重要信息。
5. 综上所述，使用微博要谨慎。
【写作要求】
1. 只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。
2. 文章的开头已为你写好（所给句子不计入5个句子中）。
【参考词汇】释放 ：release 潜在的potential 隐私：privacy
Microblog has become part of our life. _____________________________________
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阅读下面短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
No One Dares to Help
On a recent Sunday, I was buying groceries in a supermarket when I heard the sound of a car accident. It was close but not very close, so I continued shopping.
As I took a right turn on Munadhama Street, I saw a man lying on the ground in a small pool of blood. He wasn’t dead.
The idea of stopping to help or to take him to a hospital crossed my mind, but I didn’t dare. Cars passed without stopping. Pedestrians and shop owners kept doing what they were doing, pretending nothing had happened.
I was still looking at the injured man and blaming myself for not stopping to help. Other shoppers peered at him from a distance, sorrowful and sympathetic, but did nothing.
I went on to another grocery store, staying for about five minutes while shopping for tomatoes, onions and other vegetables. During that time, the man managed to sit up and waved to passing cars.
No one stopped. No one did anything. No one lifted a finger.
The injured died on the street. The only reaction came from a woman in the grocery store. In a low voice, she said, “My God, bless his soul.”
An offer of aid could have saved the man’s life.
【写作内容】
1．以约30个词概括文章的内容；
2．以约120个词就“To help or not to help”为主题发表你的看法，并包括如下要点：
(1)读完文章后的感受；
(2)以你自己亲身经历为例，说明你或路人是伸出援助之手还是袖手旁观；
(3)从上述材料或在日常生活中所遇到的类似事件中所得到的一些启示。
［写作要求］
1．作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。
2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
［评分标准］ 概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。
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