This is a true story that happened in Japan. In order to repair the house, a Japanese tore open the walls. Japanese houses normally have an empty space between the wooden walls. When pulling down the walls, he found that there was a lizard(蜥蜴) staying there because a nail(钉子) from outside was hammered into one of its feet. He saw this, feeling pity and curious. When he checked the nail, he found it was nailed 10 years ago when the house was first built.
What happened? The lizard had survived in such a position for 10 years! It had been in a dark wall partition(夹层) for 10 years without moving! Then he wondered how this lizard survived for 10 years without moving a single step—since its foot was nailed! So he stopped his work and observed the lizard: What had it been doing? What and how had it been eating? Later, he didn't know from where another lizard appeared, with food in its mouth. Ah! He was astonished and touched deeply. The free lizard had been feeding it for the past 10 years.
Such love, a beautiful love! Such love happened with this tiny creature… What can love do? It can do wonders! Just think about it: one lizard had been feeding the other for 10 long years, without giving up hope on its partner. If a small creature like a lizard can love like this, just imagine how we can love if we try.
1. How did the Japanese feel when seeing the lizard there?
A. Frightened B. Enjoyable
C. Confused D. Usual
2. Why did the Japanese stop his work?
A. To watch how long the lizard can still live here.
B. To take out the nail and set the lizard free.
C. To have a rest by watching the lizard.
D. To find out why the lizard had survived there for 10 years.
3.What can we learn from the free lizard?
A. It teaches us never to give up our loved ones.
B. It teaches us to give more help to our loved ones.
C. It tells us to take pity on the stuck lizard.
D. It encourages us to live even longer.
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Tom was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he had to work in his spare time and during his holidays to pay for his education. In spite of this, he managed to get to the university, but it was so expensive to study there that during the holiday he found it necessary to get two jobs at the same time so as to make enough money to pay for his studies.
One summer he managed to get a job in a butcher’s shop(肉店)during the day-time, and another in a hospital at night. In the shop, he learnt to cut meat quite nicely, so the butcher often left him to do all the serving while he went to the back room to do the accounts(账目). In the hospital, on the other hand, he was, of course, allowed to do the simplest jobs, like helping to lift people and to carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at the butcher’s shop and at the hospital, Tom had to wear white clothes.
One evening at the hospital, Tom had to carry a woman from her bed to the place where she was to have an operation. The woman was already feeling frightened at the thought of the operation before he came to get her, but when she saw Tom, that finished her.
“No! No!” she cried．“Not my butcher! I won’t be operated on!” and fainted away(昏厥).
1. Tom made enough money by ________.
A. doing two jobs
B. working in a butcher’s shop
C. cutting meat well
D. studying in the university
2. Tom was a student, but at the same time he was__________.
A. a butcher and a doctor B. a manager and a doctor
C. an assistant D. a manager
3. The woman patient recognized Tom because ____________.
A. he was wearing white clothes
B. he was going to operate on her
C. he was now working in the hospital
D. he had sold meat to her
4.The underlined sentence “when she saw Tom, that finished her” means that the sight of Tom _________.
A. she felt better and better
B. took all her strength and courage away
C. broke her heart
D. made her decide to have an operation
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With the development of science and technology, new inventions, especially new electronic products, have made people’s lives easy and convenient. But as the saying puts: A coin has two sides.
One day, I was walking in the park with a friend and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and…I became invisible, absent from the conversation.
The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a tragedy to the closeness of human interaction. With email and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.
As almost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated, the alienation(疏远) index goes up. You can't even call a person to get the phone number of another person any more. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated.
Pumping petrol at the station? Why say good morning to the attendant when you can swipe(刷)your credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact?
Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to a teller who might live in the neighborhood when you can just insert your card into ATM?
Pretty soon you won’t have the burden of making eye contact at the grocery shop. Some supermarket chains are using a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those check-out people who look at you and ask how you are doing.
I am not against modern technology. I own a cell phone, an ATM card, a voice mail system, and an email account. Giving them up isn't wise…they're a great help to us. It's some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasy.
More and more, I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up a call because I didn't really have time to talk. The communications industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.
So I've put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging, with people who live near me，no cell phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when I'm at home.
1. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
A. The Advance（进步） of Communications Technology
B. The Consequences（结果） of Modern Technology
C. The Process of Communications Revolution
D. The Automation（自动化） of Modern Communications
2. Paragraphs 5 to 7 are listed as examples, which show that the use of modern communications is ___________.
A. encouraging B. disappointing
C. satisfying D. embarrassing
3. The passage implies（暗示） that _______________.
A. modern technology is bridging the people
B. modern technology is separating the people
C. modern technology is developing too rapidly
D. modern technology is interrupting our lives
4. What does the writer think to do with the modern technology?
A. We may use them no matter what others are doing.
B. We can throw them away and return to the ancient.
C. We can be far away from them forever.
D. We can use them less and communicate with the people around us.
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How many people have I met who have told me about the book they have been planning to write but have never yet found the time? Far too many．
This is Life, all right, but we do treat it like a rehearsal(排演)and, unhappily, we do miss so many of its best moments.
We take jobs to stay alive and provide homes for our families, always making ourselves believe that this style of life is only a temporary(暂时的)state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do. Then, at 60 or 65, we are suddenly given a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and realize that all those years waiting for Real Life to come along were in fact real life.
In America they have a saying much laughedat by the English: “Have a nice day.” They speak slowly and seriously in their shops, hotels and sandwich bars. I think it is a wonderful phrase, making us remember, in effect, to enjoy the moment: to value this very day．
How often do we say to ourselves “I’ll take up horse-riding(or golf, or sailing)as soon as I get a greater job.” But only to do none of those things when we do get the higher position．
When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well-paid respectable job at Daily Telegraph to go and work for a small weekly newspaper. At the time I was surprised by his decision: Why was he in this completely abnormal mental(精神) state? How could anyone turn his back on Fleet Street in central London for a small area in the countryside? I wanted to know.
Now when I am a little older and possibly wiser, I see the sense in it. In Fleet Street the man was under continuous pressure. He lived in all unattractive London suburb(郊区)and he spent much of his life sitting on Southern Region trains to and back from his work．
1. The first paragraph of the passage tells us that ．
A. we always try to find some time to write a book
B. we always make plans but seldom complete them
C. we always enjoy many of life’s best moments
D. we always do what we really want to do
2. The underlined phrase “turn his back on” (Paragraph 6) most probably means ．
A. leave for B. return to C. rely on D. give up
3.The man who worked at Daily Telegraph left this job because he was ．
A. under too much pressure
B. in an abnormal mental state
C. not well-paid
D. not respected
4.What is probably the best title for the passage?
A. Provide Homes for Our Family
B. Take Up Horse-Riding
C. Value This Very Day
D. Stay Alive
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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。
The last thing you want is a bad grade on a paper that took a lot of hard work and time. 1. To be successful in school, you have to make sure you know what assignments you're supposed to complete. And know exactly how and when you're expected to complete each assignment. So, you need to talk with the teacher. 2.
You don't have to become a person who looks stupid and follows the teacher around. 3. However, you should check in with your teacher every time he or she assigns a project that is new or unfamiliar.
You should also communicate with your teacher if you receive a poor grade unexpectedly. Teachers are humans, and they make mistakes. 4. Be polite. Your teacher will explain (and maybe appreciate the opportunity to fix any potential mistakes).
5. On test view day, pay attention and ask if there are any themes or patterns that are covered during the test period. Ask the teacher to explain any terms or exercises that aren't absolutely clear to you.
A. What a nightmare(噩梦)!
B. But when should you talk to a teacher?
C. If the teacher provides an email address, use if often!
D. Don’t be a pest, and don't call your teacher after dinnertime.
E. You don't have to speak to the teacher at the end of every class.
F. If you don't understand why your grade is low, go ask!
G. You should also ask questions any time a big test day is approaching.
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Charlie and Jackie joined a wholesale company together just after graduation. They both worked very hard. After several years, the boss made Jackie sales manager but Charlie a salesman. One day Charlie could not it any more. He handed in his resignation letter (辞职信) to the boss and complained that the boss did not hard-working employees, but only raised those who tried to please him. He thought that it was really .
The boss knew that Charlie had spared no for the company all these years, but in order to help Charlie to realize the between him and Jackie, the boss asked Charlie to do the following. “Go and if there is anyone selling watermelons in the market.” Charlie went, returned and said, “Yes.” The boss asked, “How much per kilogram?” Charlie went back to the market to ask and returned to , “$ 12 per kg.”
The boss told Charlie that he would ask Jackie the question. Jackie went, returned and said, “Boss, only one person selling watermelons. $ 12 per kg, $ 100 for 10 kg. He has a of 340 melons. On the table are 58 melons, and every melon weighs about 15 kg, from the South two days ago. They are fresh, red, and of good .”
Charlie was and he realized the difference between himself and Jackie. He decided not to but to learn from Jackie.
My dear friends, you know, a more person is more observant, thinks more and understands in . For the same matter, he sees several years ahead, you see only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365 times, so how could you ?
Think: how far have you seen ahead in your life? How are you?
1.A. madeB. became C. kept D. remained
2.A. do B. tolerate C. getD. put
3.A. valueB. meet C. repay D. enjoy
4.A. unusual B. careless C. unfair D. selfless
5.A. effortB. trouble C. effect D. rest
6.A. competition B. relationship C. disagreement D. difference
7.A. carry out B. find out C. look out D. pick out
8.A. onlyB. again C. even D. still
9.A. suggest B. announce C. answer D. repeat
10.A.difficult B. formerC. latter D. same
11.A. lotB. total C. few D. number
12.A. takenB. come C. heard D. bought
13.A. valueB. quantity C. quality D. shape
14.A. moved B. struck C. puzzled D. encouraged
15.A. leaveB . stop C. work D. stay
16.A.important B. intelligent C. hardworking D. successful
17.A. time B. needC. depth D. common
18.A. though B. while C. unless D. since
19.A.win B. like C. knowD. find
20.A.hopeful B. helpful C. thoughtful D. meaningful
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第二节：阅读下面的句子，根据首字母或中文提示在空白处填入适当的单词，使句子结构正确完整，语意通顺。
1. Mohandas Gandhi gave up a rich life for his ideas and fought for his country to be free from the UK in a p____________ way.
2.Neil Armstrong said, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for __________.”
3.Nelson Mandela once said, “... we were put into a p____________ in which we had either to accept we were less important, or fight against the government. ”
4.The design of the Amber Room was in the f________ style popular in those days.
5.The Amber Room was also a treasure d____________ with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make.
6. In ___________, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers.
7. By studying the old photos of the ___________Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old one.
8.A fact is a____________ that can be proved.
9. In a ____________, a judge must decide which eyewitnesses to believe and which not to believe.
10.Suddenly Jan Hasek saw some German soldiers by the ________ of the moon and they were taking wooden boxes from trucks and putting them in the mine.
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Many animals have disappeared during the long history of the earth. Finless Porpoise (江豚) is one of these endangered 1._________ that are dying out. As a student, I am asking you to pay attention 2.________ the situation of Finless Porpoises. Finless porpoises in the Yangtze River are in danger of becoming extinct because they are seriously 3._________ (affect) by human activities. To our disappointment, only about 1,000 are still living at present. We sincerely hope that WWF can play a role in 4.________ (protect) this endangered species. Firstly, we find 5._______ important to get sponsorship(赞助). If the government pays the farmers, they will allow tourists hunt only 6._______ certain number of animals. But more importantly, we need information from experts in WWF to help us better understand the animal. In that case, we can take 7.________ (good) care of them than before. And prizes will be given to the organizations 8._______ can protect them well. What’s more, more workers should 9._______ (employ) to help us. 10._______the task is challenging, we are confident that we will succeed sooner or later.
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本文中共有10处语言错误,每句最多有两处.错误涉及一个单词的增加,删除和修改.增加:把缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该词.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.每处错误极其修改均限一词.2.只允许修改10处,多者从第11处不记分.
Mr. Smith had a 8-year-old son named Tony, who enjoyed listening to music very much. So he bought a piano to Tony, hoping that he can become a famous pianist one day. The little boy put her heart into practising the piano day after day and seemed enjoy every minute of it. However, half a year later, he told his father that he was tiring of practising the piano. Heard this, Mr. Smith said, “Tony, it is one thing to be fond of listen to music, but it is another thing to perform skillful by yourself. You can never play the piano well even if you don’t practise more.”
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假定你是李华，最近你们班进行了一次题为“保护文化遗产是否很重要”的讨论。请根据以下要点用英语给荆州日报写一封信，介绍一下讨论结果，并谈谈你自己的看法。
| 观点 | 87%认为重要 | 13%认为不重要 |
| 理由 | 1．文化遗产是古代伟大文明的象征。 2．文化遗产大多和伟人联系在一起，保护文化遗产也是尊重伟人。 3．保护文化遗产可以增强我们的民族自豪感。 | 1．对社会发展无太大的促进作用。 2．浪费金钱和时间。 |
注意：1．词数120左右。
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3．文中不要用真实人名、校名等。
参考词汇：促进 promote 古代伟大文明的象征a symbol of great ancient civilization
Dear Mr. / Ms.,
I am a high school student. Recently our class had a heated discussion about________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours
Li Hua
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