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My mother is a kind and gentle woman. She is very busy from morning till night. As a teacher she works diligently (勤奋地) and efficiently. As a mother, she takes good care of us and gives us every comfort. I have an elder brother. He and I both love her dearly, as she loves us.

My mother has been teaching maths at a middle school in my hometown. She goes to the school early in the morning and does not return home until late in the afternoon. She loves her students and cares for them. She treats them with patience and teaches them well. For her excellent qualities and very good teaching results, she is always praised and respected by both her students and colleagues alike. And she has been chosen or elected as a model teacher several times.

My mother is a thrifty and industrious (勤劳的)woman. She never buys expensive or beautiful dresses for herself; she goes occasionally to buy some inexpensive and high-quality clothes for us. She never goes to big restaurants to enjoy expensive meals. She only eats a cheap meal outside when she is too busy. She lives a busy yet simple life, without any complaints. As soon as she comes back from school, she sets about doing housework; sweeping the living room and bedrooms or cleaning the furniture, and putting everything in good order. Besides, she prepares nice dishes for us to eat. She seems to be on the go all the time. As she has been very busy working hard every day, she looks older than she really is. Her face is wrinkled, and her hair has turned silver white. But she looks as cheerful and happy as ever.

Often she says to us, “Work while you work, and play while you play.” What a good piece of advice this is! I never forget it and always keep it in my mind. This advice of hers will always serve as a guide to my action.

1. The mother is always praised and respected by the students and other teachers, because      .

A. she cares for her students

B. she has good qualities and is good at teaching

C. she loves her students and treats them with patience

D. she has been chosen or elected as a model teacher several times

2. The third paragraph mainly tells us that the author’s mother            .

A. seems to be on the go all the time

B. cares much about her children

C. is a thrifty and industrious woman

D. never buys expensive or fancy dresses for herself

3. What does the mother mean by saying the words in the last paragraph?

A. You should concentrate on anything you are doing.

B. You should play all the time.

C. You should work and play at the same time.

D. You should work all the time.

4. What does the mother look like?

A. She looks young and beautiful.

B. She looks much older than other women.

C. She looks younger than she really is.

D. She looks older than her real age.

Esquire Magazine

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Boys’ Life magazine

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Boys’ Life magazine is a general-interest magazine published in three types for boys from first grade through high school. It includes a mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, entertainment, and comics.

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Nick Magazine

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Nick Magazine is filled with wonderful entertainment for children aged 6 to 14. It is wholesome (有益健康的), imaginative, and truly from a child’s point of view. Share the award-winning entertainment and humor magazine from Nickelodeon with your kids.

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Seventeen Magazine

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Seventeen is the world’s most popular magazine for today’s young women. Every issue brings you everything you need to know—about everything that’s important to you. Seventeen covers everything from high school to Hollywood! In every issue you’ll get the latest information on style, friends, guys, college, careers, love, as well as hot tips on beauty, fashion, fitness, entertainment, and relationships.

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5. If Mr. Smith, a business man, wants to buy a magazine about his career, he may pay         .

A. $24.00    B. $29.99    C. $36.00    D. $38.00

6. For Nick Magazine what is special is that it         .

A. has three types                  B. has many jokes for children

C. sees the world in a child’s eye       D. involves many professional areas

7. What information is contained in all of the magazines?

A. Entertainment.       B. Sports.    C. News.    D. Fashion.

Last year, Claire Noble-Randall woke up at 5:30 am every morning. She had to catch two buses to arrive in time for first-period chemistry at Ingraham High School in Seattle, US.

Ingraham starts at 8 am, but Noble-Randall often didn’t get to sleep until after midnight. “It was really hard not to fall asleep in class,” she said.

Her mom solved the problem this year when she discovered that other parents had hired a private city tour bus to take their children to the school.

“Now, she leaves the house at a much more reasonable time 7:10 in the morning... to catch the little tour bus at 7:23 am,” said her mother, Noelle Noble.

That may be one way to help students get more sleep. But more than 3,300 people have signed an online petition (请愿) looking for a better solution from the Seattle school district. Those who have signed the petition want all high schools and middle schools to start no earlier than 8:30 am. Most of Seattle’s high schools and middle schools start at 8 am or earlier.

Later start times for teenagers is an idea that some parents around the nation, have wanted for years. They’ve provided plenty of scientific evidence that teenagers tend to be night owls and delayed start times improve their health, mood, attention, and, in some cases, learning.

But attempts to delay start times for teenagers haven’t worked. Coaches don’t want late dismissals (放学) cutting into sports practices; community groups don’t want to wait longer for gyms and fields and before- and after-school programs don ‘t want to change their schedules.

This time, however, they’ve got Seattle School Board. President Sharon Peaslee on their side. She herself is the mother of two high school students. Peaslee hopes other board members will pass her plan calling on the district to find a way to make the changes.

8. How did Noble-Randal solve her problem of early classes?

A. She quit first-period classes.

B. She found a faster way to the school.

C. She took a private city tour bus to the school.

D. Her family moved to a house near the school.

9. People who signed the online petition want schools to        .

A. provide a school bus service

B. delay school start times

C. improve the quality of lessons

D. stop students from falling asleep in class

10. Why did parents’ attempts to change school start times fail?

A. Not enough people signed the petition.

B. No scientific evidence could support their idea.

C. It would influence the schools’ schedules.

D. It would influence many out-of-school activities.

11. What can we infer from the article?

A. More parents will hire a private bus for their children.

B. Seattle schools plan to change their schedules next year.

C. There will be less after-school activities and programs.

D. There is now a higher chance of delaying school start times.

Silvia Maier works at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She and her colleagues invited 51 young men into the lab for 3 hours of tests. They showed each man 180 food items on a computer. Each time, they asked the men to judge how healthy, tasty and appealing the food was.

Then the researchers stressed out 29 of the men. They did this by asking each to put one hand in ice water for three minutes. If the water was too unpleasant, the volunteers could remove their hands, but must continue looking into a video camera. The men were also encouraged to put their hands back into the cold water. All the while, a researcher watched and videotaped the ordeal (考验). Another 22 men held one hand in warm water. They were not videotaped.

Afterward, the researchers showed each man a series of two food items. They did this 210 times. And before making choices, the men were told to choose the healthier of the two items. When the testing was over, the scientists gave the volunteers a snack. Each man got one of the items he had said that he preferred. Despite being coached to choose healthy foods, the stressed men proved more likely to pick the less healthy.

The researchers also performed brain scans of the volunteers. It showed what part of the brain was active as they made their choices. “Our findings indicate that stress affects the decision making,” Maier’s team concluded. And it does this by changing two brain pathways. One affects sensory information, such as taste. The other affects a person’s ability to make decisions such as eating what is good for us.

More studies will be needed to confirm the new findings. But the early signs suggest that stress not only makes junk food more appealing, but also weakens the brain’s ability to resist eating it.

12. How did the scientists mainly get the result?

A. By doing experiments.

B. By asking questions.

C. By conducting surveys.

D. By secret observations.

13. The cold water used in the experiment may make men feel

A. pleasant

B. frightened

C. relaxed

D. stressed

14. Why did the scientists scan the brains of the volunteers?

A. They wanted to find the IQ of them.

B. They wanted to observe the activities of their brains.

C. They wanted to discover the potential disease of them.

D. They wanted to know the health conditions of them.

15. What does the last paragraph imply?

A. The new Swiss study is the final conclusion.

B. Stress may increase self-control in eating.

C. Stress makes junk food more attractive.

D. It is easy for stressed people to resist tasty foods.

A student’s life is never easy. And it is even more difficult if you will have to complete your study in a foreign land. ___16___ The following are some basic things you need to do before even seizing that passport and boarding on the plane.

●Knowing the country.

You shouldn’t bother about researching the country’s hottest tourist spots or historical places, You won’t go there as a tourist, but as a student. ___17___Most importantly, read about their laws. You surely don’t want to face legal problems, especially if you’re away from home.

●___18___

Don’t expect that you can graduate abroad without knowing even the basics of the language. Before leaving your home country, take online lessons to at least master some of their words and sentences. This will be useful in living and studying there. Doing this will also prepare you in communicating with those who can’t speak English.

●Preparing for other needs.

Check the conversion(兑换) of your money to their local currency. ___19___The Internet or your intended school will be very helpful in finding an apartment and helping you understand local currency.

Remember, you’re not only carrying your own reputation but your country’s reputation as well. If you act foolishly, people there might think that all of your countrymen are foolish as well. ___20___

A. Packing your clothes.

B. Studying their language.

C. That would surely be a very bad start for your study abroad program.

D. Going with their trends will keep it from being too obvious that you’re a foreigner.

E. Set up your bank account So you can use it there, get an insurance and find an apartment.

F. It’ll be helpful to read the most important points in their history and to read up on their culture.

G. A lot of preparations are needed so you can be sure to go back home with a diploma and a bright future waiting for you.

The wisdom my 77-year-old father has passed on to me came more through osmosis(潜移) than lectures. My dad’s ___21___shines through all my life.

Old age hasn’t ___22___him, mainly because he doesn’t think almost-80 is old. He had ever trained for a charity ___23___across the Hudson River in New York. He wore his custom-fitted diving suit, but he still got so ___24___. We warmed him and wrapped him in a sleeping bag. “Oh, ___25___. It isn’t that bad,” he’d say, “I am fine.” He always is. He did ___26___the Hudson swim a month later.

If you ask my father whether or not his life has been hard, he will say he is ___27___. He means the kind of happiness that comes from ___28___a well-cooked family meal, taking a good long run or growing a perfect tomato. Did I mention that he used to run marathons before his knee replacement surgery? He’s the only one ___29___convinced me I could do it, too. “Anyone can run a marathon,” he said, “___30___you keep training.”

My father was born in 1933. His childhood took a ___31___at the beginning of World War II. His father joined the French Army and was ___32___by the Germans and spent the war in a prison camp. My dad and his mother and sister were shipped off to New Jersey to live with s. His mother ___33___from depression, and Dad went to a boarding school in New England from the sixth grade on. Yet in all Dad’s dinner table ___34___, there have been many times when he turned them into ___35___stories.

After a family dinner the other night, my father advised us to try the skydiving ___36___ “Sixty-five seconds of falling,” he said. “ I ___37___it. I should have been a paratrooper (伞兵)!”

He loves getting cards in the mail, and usually I’m ___38___, so instead I call him on Father’s Day. But this year I’ve ___39___to be early for once. I want to let him know how much he ___40___to me.

Dad, thank you—for all of it and mostly for your long faith that everything will be OK.

21. A. ability                  B. gentleness                  C. optimism                  D. humor

22. A. comforted   B. slowed                  C. punished                  D. accused

23. A. swim                  B. donation                  C. volunteer                  D. activity

24. A. warm                  B. sad                                C. calm                                D. cold

25. A. come out    B. come back    C. come over                  D. come on

26. A. complete    B. stop                                C. delay                                D. celebrate

27. A. ordinary    B. young                                C. disabled                  D. lucky

28. A. destroying    B. containing    C. sharing                  D. buying

29. A. whom                  B. which                                C. what                                D. that

30. A. as long as    B. as far as                  C. though                                D. because

31. A. step                  B. turn                                C. sigh                                D. dream

32. A. killed                  B. caught                                C. driven                                D. fired

33. A. resulted    B. trapped                  C. suffered                  D. separated

34. A. jokes                  B. manners                  C. stories                                D. news

35. A. foolish                  B. great                                C. short                                D. terrible

36. A. chance                  B. adventure                  C. visit                                D. movement

37. A. loved                  B. hated                                C. used                                D. assessed

38. A. late                  B. early                                C. noisy                                D. quiet

39. A. refused                  B. permitted                  C. allowed                  D. decided

40. A. occurs                  B. possesses                  C. means                                D. proves

The story happened in ancient times. A king was so clever that he thought of a good way to test ___41___his men were reliable.

One day, he had a huge rock ___42___ (place) on a roadway at night. Then he hid ___43___ (him) nearby and watched carefully to see if anyone would remove the big rock. Some ___44___ (wealth) businessmen and high officials came by, but they simply walked around it. Many of them even loudly blamed the king for not keeping the roads clear, but none of them would bother ___45___ (get) the big stone out of the way.

Then a villager came along carrying a load of vegetables. On ___46___ (approach)the big rock, he stopped and laid down his burden, trying hard to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushing, he ___47___ (final) succeeded. As the villager picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the rock ___48___ (be). The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the king, saying that the gold was for the person ___49___removed the huge rock from the road.

The villager learned a valuable lesson that many others would never understand: Every obstacle presents ___50___opportunity to improve one’s condition.

假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文，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(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。

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。

When I was a very young children, my father created a regular practice| remember well years late. Every time he arrived home at end of the day, we’d greet her at the door. He would ask who we was and pretend not to knowing us. Then he and my mother would have had a drink when she prepared dinner and they would talk about his day and hers. When they chat, my father would lift my sister and me up to sit in the top of the fridge. It was both excited and frightening to be up there! My sister and I thought he was so cool for putting us there.

假如你是李华，你的美国网友Peter正在你校做交换生，他打算参加你们学校举办的中华经典诗词朗诵比赛，请你给他写封邮件，告知他具体情况,

内容如下:

1. 报名时间、地点: 截至时间6月15日；学生会办公室；

2. 比赛时间、地点: 6月30日下午3:00-5:00;学校学术报告厅；

3. 比赛内容和形式:个人或小组朗诵中华经典诗词；

4. 奖项:评出前十名颁奖

注意:1. 词数100左右;

2. 可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

参考词汇:中华经典诗词朗诵Chinese Classical Poetry Reciting

学术报告厅Academic Lecture Hall

Dear Peter,

How is everything going?

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua