American is an ________ country. You can hear _______ every where.

There was _____ time when everything to do with _______ nature could keep Anne

spellbound.

假如你是李明， 你已经在新的学校学习了3个月，你的笔友Steve来信询问你的学习生活各方面的情况。请你向他写一封回信。

1.分享你在这3个月中所遇到的困难（新环境新同学，学习上的难度，想家等）

2.如何在老师及同学的帮助下成功克服它们，慢慢融入新的班级。

要求：字数 100-120

想家 homesick

Dear Steve,

Many thanks for your concern. _____________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

Looking forward to your telling me your study life.

Yours,

Li Ming

完成句子（每小题2分，满分10分）

1.因为下雨，我们推迟了校运会。（because of…）

2.据要求所有人都要准时参加会议。（ It is requested that…）

3.是他们的旅行日志使他们深受青少年的喜爱。( It + be + 强调部分 + that ---)

4.布莱克一家正在吃晚饭这时有人敲门。（be doing --- when ---）

5.2008年5月12日下午2点28分四川省发生强烈地震。

用所给动词的适当形式填空（每空一分，满分10分）

1.After a big snowfall, the town ________ (lie) clean and quiet.

2.Our manager would like to have you _______ (give) a speech at the meeting.

3.We are told _________(not throw) waste paper everywhere.

4.We have been good friends ever since we _______ (meet) on the first day of school this term.

5.____­­­­_____ (judge) from what he said, he must be an honest man.

6.Finally they got their child _________ (interest) in study.

7.Can you wait for me for another second? I __________ (finish) my work.

8.After the floods, some survivors __________( trap) at the top of the houses.

9.It was the second time that the artist _______________ (come) to this mountain village.

10.We should love and respect our parents who ______ always _________ (concern) about us and have done so much for us.

单词拼写（每小题1分，满分10分）

1.When asked whether he would give up, he gave us a d___________ look, which meant he would not change his mind.

2.One third of the people in the building were killed or i_________ (受伤) during the big fire.

3.After the flood, nearly everything was d_______(摧毁)) and the villagers sank into sadness.

4.The film Red Sorghum（红高粱） is b________ on the novel written by Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for literature (文学) this year.

5.Do keep c___________ when facing something emergent (危急情况).

6.My father is a heavy smoker. I ever tried to p_________ him to give up smoking but I failed.

7.After g__________ from college, Wang Kun and Wang Wei finally got the chance to cycle along the Mekong River from where it begins to where it ends.

8.Playing games on the Internet _____________(频繁地) does harm to your health.

9.Compared with Tom, I think Lily is much more _______________( 可信赖的)

10.__________________(祝贺) to you on passing the exam and getting the first prize.

 Brazil has become one of the developing world’s great successes at reducing population growth, but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard.

　　Brazil’s population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.

　　Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas (通俗电视连续剧) and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil’s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.

　　“Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values-not many children, different attitudes towards life, women working,” says Martine. “They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people aware of other patterns of behavior and other values, which were put into a very attractive package.”

1.According to the passage, Brazil has cut back its population growth _____.

2.What can you infer from the passage about many Third World countries ?

3.Soap operas have helped in lowering Brazil’s birth rate because ______.

Will it matter if you don't take your breakfast? Recently a test was given in the United States. Those tested included people of different ages, from 12 to 83. During the experi­ment, these people were given all kinds of breakfasts, and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Special tests were set up to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast. The results show that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect than if he or she has no breakfast. This fact appears to be especially true if a person works with his brains. If a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with more attention to class.

Opposite to what many people believe, if you don't eat breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch, and end up gaining weight instead of losing. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.

1.During the test, those who were tested were given ________.

2.The results of the test show that ________.

3.The passage mentions that many people believe that if you don't eat breakfast, you will ____.

4.Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

John keeps a record of new words and expressions in English. He usually writes them in a note-book. Then, later in the day, he asks his teacher about them. “Mrs. Thomas, these expressions are new to me. ‘She’s blue today.’， ‘You’re yellow’, ‘A little white lie’, ‘She has green fingers’.” After looking at the note-book, Mrs. Thomas says, “In everyday English, John，‘blue’ sometimes means sad.  ‘Yellow’ means afraid. A person with ‘green fingers’ grows plants successfully. And ‘a white lie’ is not a bad lie.” “I don’t understand. Please give me an example.” “ For example, I offer you some cake. The truth is that you don’t like my cake. You don’t say that. Instead, you say, ‘No, thanks, I'm not hungry.’ That’s a white lie.” John says, “I see , thanks for the explanation!”

1.“Blue” sometimes means in spoken English “_____”.

2.A person with “green fingers” is one who _____ planting.

3.“You’re yellow to fight.” means “_____.”

4.If you say “It’s a white lie.”, it means that someone _____.

When I was young, my father used to grow carnations(康乃馨) ----- a kind of flower which was red, pink and white. He took care of them with much love and devotion. Every day he came back home from work, he would enjoy watching them. Everyone who saw them admired them for their beauty. And he used to tell us, “No one should touch my flowers.”

One day, my younger sister Clemence, who loved dad very much, wanted to help him. So she cut the carnations from their stems(枝干) one by one and arranged them on the ground. She believed that dad would be very pleased to see them that way.

When mom and I realized what my sister had done, we became completely speechless. However, my sister had no idea why no one showed her any appreciation. When my dad arrived, he went straight to see the flowers as usual. Seeing his flowers lying on the ground like dead animals, he was shocked at first. He looked towards the street to see if it was any of the neighbor’s children who could have done it. Then he looked at mom in silence. Finally mom, who always taught us to tell the truth no matter what, said, “No bad neighbors did this great job, only your lovely daughter Clemence.”

Dad’s face changed into a smile and then he said, “Do I have a better flower than my lovely daughter?” My younger sister smiled and hugged dad strongly.

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

2. How did Clemence feel when she had the carnations cut?

3.What caused my younger sister to smile and hug dad strongly?

4.Which of the following would be the best title?