Caroll Spinney
Caroll Spinney started working with puppets when he was eight years old. In 1969 he started working on Sesame Street, an American television series for children. Today, the series is shown on television in more than eighty countries and Spinney is still the man inside the eight-foot yellow chicken called Big Bird.
Spinney loves his work and knows that he has a responsibility for children watching the programme. He doesn’t want children to know that Big Bird is really a man, so he tries to notice every detail.
Caitlin Moran
When Caitlin Moran was eleven, her parents asked her if she wanted to leave school and study at home. She refused at first, but changed her mind and left school two years later. Her experiences provided the story for her first book, The Chronicles of Narmo.
It is a wonderful story about a year in the life of a family who educate their children at home. She started writing it at thirteen and finished it soon after her sixteenth birthday. Now she enjoys writing and is writing a play and her second book.
Rick Allen
Rick Allen, the well-known drummer of the Irish rock band Def Leppard, joined the band on his fifteenth birthday. A year later, in 1979, the band became famous. Then, in 1984, Rick had a very bad car accident and lost his left arm. A friend developed an electronic drum kit so that he could play the drums with an arm and two feet. He returned to the band with great happiness and he still performs with them now. The first time he played in a big concert everybody was so kind that he cried.
Now Rick is married and has a home life. Life with one arm is still a problem, but if he can 't chop vegetables with one hand he simply uses his feet.
1.Which of the following can describe Caroll Spinney?
A.Creative and hopeful.
B.Brave but proud.
C.Responsible and careful.
D.Hopeful but lazy.
2.What was the inspiration for Caitlin Moran’s first book?
A.Her school life.
B.Her birthday party.
C.Her parents’ career.
D.Her home-study experience.
3.What can we infer about the people mentioned in the text?
A.They enjoy their jobs.
B.They are highly talented.
C.They are good at performing.
D.They became famous late in life.
为了使同学们更加健康地成长,学校决定向同学们征求建议。假如你是张华,请用英语向校长写一封80词左右的建议信。所写内容必须包括表格中你对学校和老师的建议,并适当说明理由。开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。
| our school | our teachers |
Suggestions for a Better School Life | 1. open the library more often 2. organize more after-class activities 3. give us longer vacations | 1.… 2.… 3.… |
要求：
(1)表达清楚，语法正确，上下文连贯；
(2)必须包括表格中的所有信息，并按要求适当发挥；
(3)词数：100左右（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）；
(4)不得使用真实姓名、校名和地名等。
Dear Headmaster,
I’m very glad to write a letter to you. These days we are talking about how to have a better school life. Here are some of my suggestions.
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Hope my suggestions will be helpful. Thanks for reading my letter.
Yours sincerely,
Zhang Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改同桌写的以下作文。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。
Learning English is of great valuable. English is widely used all over the world. It was often used in the international meetings. Most business letters are writing in English. With a help of English we can learn modern science and technology from developed country. We can also introduce our achievement and experience to other countries. Because its importance, English is a requiring subject in high schools and colleges. Now many people are working hardly at English. It’s very important to learn English well. Unless we learn English well, we can not serve for our country better. So I suggest most Chinese learned it well.
根据课文内容填写相应的单词或短语
I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be 1. for so long 2. I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature. I can well remember that there was a time 3. a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound. That’s changed a lot since I came here.
English now is also4. as a foreign or second language in South Asia. For example, India has a very large number of 5. English speakers because Britain ruled India from 1765 to 1947. During that time English became the language for6. and education. English is now also spoken in Singapore and Malaysia and countries in Africa 7. South Africa.
I am fond of my sister but she has one serious shortcoming. She can be really 8.. Although she didn’t know the best way9.getting to places, she insisted that she 10. the trip properly.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式
Keeping a diary in English is a 1.(use) way to improve our English writing abilities.
Compared with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takes 2.(little) time than them. It can help us to develop the habit of thinking in English. If we insist on this practice, gradually we’ll learn how to express 3.(we) in English. Keeping a diary in English, we certainly run up against many difficulties. In the first place, it often happens that we have trouble in4.(find) proper words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there5.(be) many idiomatic words in Chinese. And6.is extremely hard for us to put them into English7.(proper).
As far as I am concerned, my suggestion is 8.we should always have a notebook and Chinese-English-dictionary within easy reach. Whenever something beats us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then look up our dictionary. We can also turn to our English teacher for help, if necessary. In short, I believe that it is very useful to keep diary9. English for the development of our writing10.(skill).
One day，I was on my way to a meeting in town with a colleague（同事）of mine．We had already _______ the car and were walking toward the meeting place．_______，we saw an old man with a walking stick trip up（绊倒）on a _______ of a building about 20 feet in front of us．
We immediately _______ to sit him up and checked if he was _______． He had broken his glasses and _______ his nose a little，which was bleeding．Neither I nor my colleague had any tissues but another _______ stopped to give the old man some tissues．
We helped him to his _______; he was looking for the local museum which was _______ on the other side of the road. We held his ________ and walked him across the road and into the museum. We helped him ________ on a chair and informed（告知）a woman clerk there，who got him some ________． And the old man drank it up．We told the clerk to ________ him a taxi and I gave her $10，telling her to use it to ________ his taxi home．He had ________ that he lived about a 20-minute walk away．As we left，he thanked us and called us “________ Persons”．
If you see an elderly person in ________，even though he/she is just walking across the road or even if he/she has ________ something，please help him/her．You can even just ________ at him/her and be nice．That is somebody’s grandfather or grandmother and all of you reading this would want somebody to do the ________ for your own grandparents．
1.A. packed B. parked C. repaired D. passed
2.A. Frequently B. Calmly C. Straight D. Suddenly
3.A. stone B. road C. step D. door
4.A. rushed B. turned C. waited D. happened
5.A. free B. okay C. comfortable D. upset
6.A. burned B. cleaned C. moved D. injured
7.A. passer-by B. colleague C. driver D. friend
8.A. nose B. museum C. feet D. place
9.A. exactly B. sincerely C. actually D. extremely
10.A. head B. hand C. ticket D. stick
11.A. sit down B. set down C. come up D. give in
12.A. food B. money C. rest D. water
13.A. notice B. buy C. call D. request
14.A. add up B. pay for C. care about D. dig out
15.A. mentioned B. persuaded C. reported D. suggested
16.A. Polite B. Strong C. Brave D. Nice
17.A. pain B. person C. need D. power
18.A. knocked B. kicked C. ended D. dropped
19.A. throw B. smile C. laugh D. look
20.A. same B. attitude C. pleasure D. thanks
