--I need a costume for tomorrow's performance, but it's too expensive.

            --Why not __ one?

            A. buy                    B. rent                   C. lend

Read the_________ carefully. They will help you know how to use the popper.

   A. instructions               B. decisions                C. results

The book might be my sister's. Hemingway is________ favorite author.

            A. his                    B. her                   C. my

书面表达。（满分20分）

每年五月的第二个星期日是母亲节（Mother’s Day）。这一天，孩子们通过各种方式向母亲表达他们的爱。假如你是Millie，现在学校刻苦学习，迎接中考(Senior-High School Entrance Examination)。学习之余，想念母亲，提笔给母亲写一封信。信的内容主要包括：

1. 对母亲母亲节的祝愿。

2. 介绍自己的学习情况：面临中考，学习压力大；学习很刻苦，晚上做作业有时到11点。有信心在中考中取得好成绩。

3. 要母亲不要为自己操心，自己会成为母亲的骄傲。

4. 其他（至少一点）。

要求：1. 词数90左右。信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

      2. 短文必须包括所有内容提示，可适当发挥，使短文连贯、通顺；

      3. 短文中不出现具体的校名、姓名。

Dear mum,

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Yours

Millie

阅读与回答问题。（本大题共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）

   Jeff Keith has only one leg. When he was 12 years old, Jeff had cancer. Doctors had to cut off most of his right leg. Every day Jeff puts on an artificial(man-made) leg. The leg was plastic. With the plastic leg, Jeff can ski, ride a bicycle, swim and play soccer. He can also run.

   When he was 22 years old, Jeff Keith ran across the United States, from the East to the West. He started running in Boston on April 1. He stopped running in Los Angeles. He ran 5,190 kilometres; that’s about 26 kilometres each day. Jeff wore out 36 pairs of running shoes and five plastic legs.

   Jeff stopped in cities on the way to Los Angeles. In every city people gave Jeff money. The money was not for Jeff. It was for the American Cancer Society. The American Cancer Society used the money to learn about cancer.

   On the way to Los Angeles, Jeff talked to people about cancer. He also talked about being disabled. Jeff is disabled, but he can do many things: he skis, swims, plays soccer, and runs. He finished college and is studying to be a lawyer. Jeff says, “People can do anything they want to do. I want people to know that. I ran not only for disabled people. I ran for everybody.”

1. Why does Jeff have one leg left?

   __________________________________________________________________________

2. What did Jeff do with the money he got on the way to Los Angeles?

   __________________________________________________________________________

3. What does Jeff want to be in the future?

   __________________________________________________________________________

4.How long did it take Jeff to run from Boston to Los Angeles?

   __________________________________________________________________________

5. What does the story want to tell us?(请自拟一句话作答)

   __________________________________________________________________________

短文填词。（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

    Students learn their lessons in class. They sit in the classroom and l  1   to the teacher. This is a way of learning. Is this the o  2   way for students to learn? Of course not. There is another way to learn. That is students can teach themselves. For e  3  , if you cannot remember something when you are doing your homework, what will you do? You can look at your books to

f   4   the answers.

How to teach yourself? The first thing you must do is reading. Read something you are i  5   in, or you have to read. The second is that you must ask yourself questions. A clever student is usually g  6   at asking questions. The third is to answer the questions yourself by w  7  hard, by reading books, and sometimes by asking o  8  people. These are the ways of teaching yourself. If you keep doing l  9 these for a long time, You are sure to have great s   10   in your study.

句型转换。（本大题共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

1. The boy had bread for his breakfast.(改为否定句)

   The boy ___________  ______________ bread for breakfast.

2. People speak French in France.(改为被动语态)

   French _________  ___________ in France.

3. “Mum, are you free now?” Kate said to her mother.(改为间接引语)

   Kate asked her mother _________ she was free _________.

4. He is working hard at his lessons so that he can catch up with his classmates.(保持句意基本不变)

   He is working hard at his lessons ____________ __________ to catch up with his classmates.

5. They had a very enjoyable trip.(改为感叹句)

   _____________  _____________ enjoyable trip they had!

用方框中所给动词的适当形式填空。

1. There ___________ an important meeting at 2.00 this afternoon. Don’t forget to remind me of it then.

2. The teacher _____________ some pictures on the wall just now. 

3. Miss Zhang _______________ us English since we came to this school three years ago.

4. --- I knocked on your door so long.

   ---Oh, sorry. I didn’t hear you. I ________________ to rock and roll.

5. The boy who ___________________ on the grass at the moment is my brother.

根据句意，选用方框内所给词的适当形式填空。

1. After a ____________, both sides reached a final agreement.

2. Japan is to the ____________ part of China.

3. To live ____________, you should change your lifestyle and diets.

4. Scientists are always trying to discover the ___________ world to human beings.

5. Audrey Hepburn, who died in her __________, devoted all her life to charity.

 根据句意或中英文提示写出所缺单词。

1. Water covers about three quarters of the earth’s ____________.(表面)

2. _____________(though) he is very clever, he doesn’t work hard at his lessons.

3. Are you ___________ (sure) Mr Wang will come to our meeting?

4. ______________ with life on Earth, life on Mars will be better in many ways.(比较)

5. The Great Wall is one of the ____________ (unusual things that fill people with surprise) in the world.