Cause and effect is one way to explain things that happen around us. Many things happen because something caused or influenced them to happen. Sometimes it is hard to look at a cause and find out what causes the effect. It may help you to start with the effect and use your reasoning (推理的) skills. Think about all the things you know that could be reasons for the effect you can see.

For example，you may see someone putting on a heavy jacket. This is the effect. To look for a cause, think to yourself, “What would make someone put on a heavy jacket?” Maybe the person is going outside into very cold weather. Maybe the person works in the penguin pen (企鹅圈养地) at Sea World. Maybe the person is going to visit an ice skating rink where the air is kept very cold. All of these things could be a cause for putting on a heavy jacket.

Now, think about a second example. The effect is a boy named Tony has to go to the head teacher’s office. What are the possible causes? Maybe he fought with another student. Maybe he is just being picked up early. Maybe he is being given a prize!

Here is another example for you to think about its cause and effect. Carol，13，was trying to fall asleep when her 8­-year­-old brother, Doug, came into her room. He looked around a bit，but seemed really out of it. Then Doug went back into the hallway and stood there looking straight up at the hall light for quite a while. Little brothers can be very strange，but this was really much too strange. Carol didn’t know what to do. Just then, Carol’s father appeared and explained that Doug was sleepwalking. What’s the cause and effect, could you tell?

1.According to the second paragraph，which of the following is an effect?

A. Someone puts on a heavy jacket.

B. Someone works in the penguin pen.

C. Someone will go outside into cold weather.

D. Someone will go to visit an ice skating rink.

2.Tony has to go to the head teacher’s office. Which of the following isn’t the possible cause?

A. He fought with another student. B. He is going shopping.

C. He is being picked up early.    D. He is being given a prize.

3.What was Doug doing when his sister Carol tried to fall asleep?

A. He was going outside.     B. He was reading a story.

C. He was sleepwalking.      D. He was looking for his dad.

4.Which of the following is cause and effect?

A. Tony got up and had a glass of water.

B. We came home and found him sleeping.

C. The ball was lost and a window was broken.

D. Tim was late again and his teacher got angry.

A couple from Miami, Bill and Simone Butler, spent sixty-six days in a life-raft(救生艇) in the seas of Central America after their boat sank.

Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their boat, Simony, they met some whales. “They started to hit the side of the boat,” said Bill, “and then suddenly we heard water.” Two minutes later, the boat was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go under the water.

For twenty days they had tins of food, biscuits, and bottles of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water — two things which saved their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw(生的). Then the line broke. “So we had no more fish until something very strange happened. Some sharks came to feed, and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands.”

About twenty ships passed them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea their life-raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing boat saw them and picked them up. They couldn’t stand up.

So the captain carried them onto his boat and took them to Costa Rica. Their two months at sea was over.

1.Bill and Simone were traveling _______ when they met some whales.

A. in a life-raft         B. in Miami

C. in Simony              D. in Panama

2.The whales hit the side of the boat, and then _______.

A. they brought in a lot of water

B. they broke the side of the boat

C. they pulled the boat

D. they went under the water

3.During their days at sea, _______ saved their lives.

A. tins of food and bottles of water

B. a fishing-line and a machine

C. whales and sharks

D. Twenty passing ships

4.When they saw the fishing boat which later picked them up, _______.

A. they were too happy to stand up

B. they couldn’t wait to climb onto the boat

C. their life-raft was beginning to break up

D. they knew their two months at sea would be over

The Round Bird is not like any other birds. He has a big round body but with little wings. He can not fly but he expects to play with other birds in the sky. Every day and in many ways, he tries to fly. And he tries again and again. But nothing works. Then he thinks it will be better use the tree. It is very hard for a little bird to do so, but he climbs up the tree! The Round Bird really wants to learn to fly. A few minutes later, he sits on a branch and gets ready to jump and flap his wings. He practices many times and flap some more, but they don’t work! In the end, he climbs down the tree and starts thinking seriously.

After thinking for a long time, he knows that although he really wants to fly and tries hard, there are some birds are not able to do. He can’t fly because of his body and his little wings. But he knows that there are still some things he is able to. Then the only job for the Round Bird is to find those special things that only special birds like him can do.

1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The Round Bird has little wings

B. The Round Bird can fly with other birds.

C. The Round Bird can fly if he tries hard.

D. The Round Bird can not climb up the tree.

2.What’s the Round Bird like?

A. Beautiful and friendly.

B. Lazy but funny.

C. Hard-working and good at thinking.

D. Smart but lazy.

3.Which of the words had the same meaning as “flap”?

A. Swing.      B. Break.     C. Nod     D. Show.

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Every bird can fly.

B. We can make our dream come true if we try hard.

C. We should think twice before we do something.

D. We should find the most suitable (适合) things for us to do.

Here are some important events in August in Britain.

1.How long does Great British Beer Festival last?

A. 4 days.      B. 5 days.     C. 24 days.     D. 1 day.

2.If you are in the UK at the end of August, you can probably take part in __________.

A. Summer Bank Holiday

B. Great British Beer Festival

C. Edinburgh International Festival

D. Bristol International Balloon Festival

3.What is Bristol International Balloon Festival about?

A. Food.       B. Music    C. Balloons.     D. Vacations.

完形填空。（本题有15小题，每小题1分，共计15分）

The phone rang once twice—then someone picked it up. “You got the wrong number!” a man’s voice said before the line went __    .

But I called again. “I said you got the wrong number!” came the voice. Once more the phone clicked in my __    .

How could he know I had a wrong number? So I tried a __   _ time. The man said, “Is that you again?” “Yeah, it’s me.” I answered. “I wonder how you knew I had the wrong number before I even said nothing.” “None of my business. You __    _it out!” He hung up the phone again.

I sat there for a short time and then called the man back. “Have you __   __with it yet?” he asked. “The only thing I can think of is …__    _ever calls you.” “You got it!” The phone died for the fourth time.

I rang him again. “Well I thought maybe I should be the first to __    to you.” He began to laugh and told me, “My name is Adolf Meth. I’m 88 years old and I haven’t had so many wrong numbers in one day in 20 years” We both __    _. We talked for ten minutes. Adolf had no family, no friends, just like me. Everyone he had been __    _ to had died.

Since then we became phone friends. We called each other almost every day. And I told him about my life and my__    _. On one phone about a disagreement that I’d had with my boss, I told him, “I think I should have it out with him.”

Adolf said, “Let things __    _down. When you get as old as I am you find out that time takes care of a lot. If things get __    _, and then you can talk to him.”

“You know,” he said softly one day, “I’m talking to you just the way I’d talk to a boy __    _ my own. I always wanted a family—and children.”

One morning I received a call to tell me he had died the night before. With tears in eyes I heard him asking __    I wanted to call him again and again. “Because you__    to me, Adolf…because I was your friend.” I whispered, “I didn’t get the wrong number at all. I got you.”

1.A. busy   B. dead    C. bad    D. wrong

2.A. heart   B. mind    C. head    D. ear

3.A. third   B. second   C. first       D. fourth

4.A. keep   B. put    C. speak    D. work

5.A. got along  B. come up   C. done well   D. gone through

6.A. nobody   B. somebody   C. everybody   D. who

7.A. pay attention B.look forward   C. introduce myself D. say hello

8.A. joked   B. agreed   C. laughed   D. smiled

9.A. pleased   B. friendly   C. known   D. close

10.A. questions  B. worries   C. problems   D. answers

11.A. cool   B. get    C. calm    D. turn

12.A. less   B. more       C. worse   D. better

13.A. on         B. in            C. of            D. for

14.A. how   B. when    C. why    D. whether

15.A. mattered  B. meant   C. preferred      D. Answered

书面表达（共l 题，计20 分）

学校英语校报开辟专栏讨论学生学习生活，Helen想要投稿参与讨论。假如你是Helen, 请根据表格所给提示，并作合理发挥，写一篇80词左右的英语短文。

提示词：垃圾食品 junk food

注意：

1. 表达中必须包含所给要点，可以适当发挥，不要简单翻译。

2. 表达中请勿提及真实校名及姓名。词数90左右。

As teenagers, we face many chances, but also have problems. Sometimes we wonder when to study and when to play. Some of us______________________________________________

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I think it’s important to have a healthy life style. We should

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根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整，每空一词。（本题共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）（注意：请在答题卡上写出包含首字母的完整单词！）

As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as w 1. the Nobel Prize.  Or they can be small.  You just want to become one of the top ten students in your class. Once you find a dream, what do you do with it?  Do you ever try to make your dream r  2.  ?

Follow Your Heart by Australian writer Andrew Matthews tells us that making our dreams real is our l  3. biggest challenge (挑战).

You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that it is i   4.  for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts p  5.you from reaching your dream, the book says.

In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember the dream in your m  6. .Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself w  7. you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster b  8.  a big dream is made up of many small o 9. . Please never give them up.

There will be difficulties on the road to your dreams. But the biggest comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will l  10.to better exam results, while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book..

阅读表达（本题共5小题，每小题2分，共10分）

If you lose 12 times in a row (连续地), will you just give up? Dale Carnegie, a pioneer in public speaking and self-development, kept trying. And he became famous by showing people how to be successful.

Carnegie was born into a poor family in the United States. The boy didn’t see a train until he was 12 years old. In his teens, he had to get up at 3 am every day to milk the cows for his family.

When Carnegie first entered college, he felt upset because of his ragged (破旧的) clothes and ordinary(平凡的) looks. His mother encouraged him, “Why not try to be better in other things instead of just dress and good looks?”

Carnegie tried to be more active in college. He joined the debate (辩论) team. But one after another, he lost 12 competitions. The young man was very disappointed with himself. He said later that he thought of killing himself after failing so many times. But soon Carnegie was seen practicing public speaking on the riverside. His hard work paid off at last. In 1906, Carnegie won a famous speech contest and became well-known. “Believe that you will succeed, and you will,” he said.

In order to share his success, Carnegie opened schools and wrote books. His best-sellers(畅销书) include How to Win Friends and Influence People and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. More than 50 million copies of his books have been translated in 38 languages. They are still helping people on the road to success.

1.What did Carnegie have to do every morning in his teens?

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2.Why did Carnegie feel upset when he first entered college?

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3.What did Carnegie do to be more active in college?

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4.How did Carnegie share his success?

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5.What should we do if we fail so many times?（至少2点）

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根据句意，用所给单词的适当形式填空。

1.These stickers are expensive. Do you have ______________  (cheap) ones?

2.Before we have the meal, let’s have some _______________ (tomato) soup first.

3.Look out! The car is ______________ (complete) out of control.

4.The great swimmer Sun Yang is the ______________ (proud) of not only China, but also Asia.

5.The clothes they wear are like these_______ (hero).

根据句意和汉语提示写出单词，完成句子。

1.There is too much sugar in the         (厨房), I never use it.

2.They want to be ___________(模特) when they grow up.

3.We always have a party to ______________ (庆祝) the Chinese New Year.

4.Leather feels soft and ______________(光滑的).

5.His rich experience is a great ______________ (优势) over the others in his office.