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Not many years ago， a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five， he gave ￡ 12，000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground. As a result of his kindness， many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk， Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection （注射） in my neck each evening.” he told the newspaperman， thinking of his evening glass of whisky. The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain， asking him for the secret of his daily injection. 1.Johnson became a rich man through _________. A. doing business. B. making whisky. C. cheating. D. buying and selling land. 2.The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson __________. A. had no children. B. was a strange man. C. was very fond of children. D. wanted people to know how rich he was. 3.Many people wrote to Johnson to find out __________. A. what kind of whisky he had. B. how to live longer. C. how to become wealthy. D. in which part of the neck to have an injection. 4.The newspaperman ____________. A. should have reported what Johnson had told him. B. shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had. C. was eager to live a long life. D. should have found out what Johnson really meant. 5.When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening， he really meant that ______. A. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening. B. he needed an injection in the neck. C. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well. D. there was something wrong with his neck.
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The computer, which was used to simplify difficult sums, began 1. a calculating machine in France in 1642. Then it developed into an analytical machine. After 2. (program) by an operator 3. used cards with holes, it could produce an answer quicker than any person. Later, Alan Turning wrote a book about how a computer could be made 4. work as a “universal machine”. From then on, the computer grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower. By the 1940s, it had grown as large as a room and this reality worried the designers. 5. , with its memory 6. (improve), the computer was made smaller. First, the memory was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips. As a result, the shape of the computer 7. (total) changed from a large machine to a PC and then a laptop. Connected by 8. network, the computer was able to share its knowledge 9. others through the World Wide Web. Since the 1970s many new applications of the computer 10. (find) in communication, finance, trade and many other areas. The computer has become a devoted friend and helper of the human race.
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One of the most important events in the Olympic Games is the Marathon race. It _ 16_ one of the great events in Greek history. In 490 B.C .about 10,000 Greeks fought _ 17_ the Persian army at a place _18__ Marathon. It is said that the Persians were ten times as many as the Greeks .However , __19_ the brave attack of the Greeks , the Persians were badly beaten and _20__ away from the plain of Marathon . When the Persians had run away, a soldier, who was the most famous _ 21 _in Athens, was ordered to carry the good news to the city _22_ full speed. Although he had fought through the battle and received many wounds, the soldier at once started off towards the _23_ city. It was twenty-six miles _24__ the plain of Marathon to the marketplace of Athens, where the elders of Athens had gathered waiting for news. He ran and ran __25_ hills and across plains. As he went on, his lips became dry and he breathed hard. But he thought of the _26__ of the people of Athens __27_ hearing the news, and he ran harder than ever. The elders of Athens heard a great shout and saw a soldier staggering (蹒跚）towards them . "Rejoice! Rejoice! We won!" gasped the soldier, and fell down __28__ . In __29_ of this noble soldier, the Marathon race _30__ the athletes run this same distance became an event in the Olympic Games.
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读写任务（共1小题，满分25分） 阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。 If you like to break things when you are unhappy, the Nanjing Zhonghua Middle School is the school for you. This term, Nanjing Honghua Midlde School will build a "stress wall" to help students who feel unhappy because of schoolwork or for other reasons. Tao Dehua, a leader at the school said the idea of a stress wall started when footprints were found on some newly painted walls and some school windows were broken. "These things happen because some students feel lots of pressure from their studies or because they don't get along well with other students. When under stress, the body get ready to either run or fight and becomes very nervous. Hitting the wall can help relax the body and take away stress," Tao said. "Tests and homework make me Sad," said Lu Yan, a junior girl."I can't wait to hit the wall. It will help me a lot with my problems." Another girl student who wouldn't give her name said that the wall won't help. "Mainly because it can't talk," she said. "I need to talk to someone when I'm sad." 【写作内容】 1、以约30个词概括这段短文内容； 2、然后以约120个词就“Should the stress wall be built"这个主题发表你的看法，并 包括以下要点： (1)学生的压力来源； (2)是否该建此墙； (3)提供一些其他有效的减压方法。 【写作要求】 l、可以参照阅读材料但不得直接引用原文的句子； 2、作文中不得出现真实的姓名和学校名称。 【评分标准】 概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。
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基础写作（共1小题，满分15分） 请根据以下内容为学校英语报写一篇报道。 最近，我国教育专家对我国中学生所喜爱的节日进行了一项调查，北京和广州的1000多名中学生接受了调查。结果表明，80%的中学生知道我国的春节等传统节日，50%的学生最喜爱的节日是春节，学生对其他节日的喜欢情况如下：
【写作内容】 1．调查的时间、对象和调查内容； 2．调查的主要数据； 3．调查结果表明：80%以上的学生知道我国的春节等传统节日；年青人也很重视洋节日。 【写作要求】 只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。
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信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分) 阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将该顼涂黑，选E请同时涂AB，选基请同时涂CD。 以下是儿童读物的信息：
以下是购买者或小读者的信息，请匹配购买者或小读者的信息与他们对应的读物。 1. Mrs. Green is a nurse in a hospital in London. She has a lovely daughter. She often says to her, "Hey, Baby! Look at you,. looking at me, looking at you looking at me." She is going to send her daughter to Grade 1 this September and buy a book with 40 pages for her. 2.Joe enjoys reading picture books about animals.He often buys some new ones. Last Saturday he bought a new book. There is such a sentence on the first page: "In a heart-warming twist on the ‘I-can-do-anything-you-can-do-better' theme, Little Nutbrown Hare goes through a series of declarations regarding the breadth of his love for Big Nutbrown Hare." 3. Tong Tong is five years and two months old now. Her father bought him a story book for his birthday on July 2. Now he is reading "But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave..." 4. Mr. Smith lives in New York City. He has a two-year-old grandson; who likes to listen to some stories about animals and read picture books with a hide-and-seek adventure and lots of pop-up surprises on every page!
5. Susan's mother bought her a new book today. In this book, there are many good bedtime activities---a reappearing little mouse is particularly pesky: By the end of the little rabbit's goodnight poem, the story has quieted to a whisper, and the drawings have darkened with nightfall. As you turn the last page, you can expect a sleepy smile and at least a yawn or two.
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A new generation addiction is quickly spreading all over the world. Weboholism, a twentieth century disease, affects people from different ages.They surf the net, use e-mail and speak in chat reoms. They spend many hours on the computer, and it becomes a compulsive habit. They cannot stop, and it affects their lives. Ten years ago, no one thought that using computers could become Compulsive behavior that could affect the social and physical life of computer users. This obsessive behavior has affected teenagers and college students. They are likely to log on computers and spend long hours at different websites. They become hooked on computers and gradually their social and school life is affected by this situation. They spend all free time surfing and don't concentrate on homework, so this addiction influences their grades, and success at schools. Because they can find everything on the websites, they hang out there. Moreover, this addiction to websites influences their soeial life. They spend more time in front of computers than with their friends. The relation with their friends changes. The virtual life becomes more important than their real life. They have a new language that they speak in the chat rooms and it causes cultural changes in society, Because of the change in their behavior, they begin to isolate themselves from the society and live with their virtual friends. They share their emotions and feelings with friends Who they have never met in their life.Although they feel confident on the computer, they are not confident with real life friends they have known all their fife. lt is a problem for the future. This addictive behavior is beginning to affect the whole world. 1. The passage is about A. the cause of weboholism B. the advantage of weboholism C. the popularity of weboholism D. the influence of weboholism 2.The underlined word"obsessive" in the second paragraph most probably means A. attractive B. addictive C. professional D. potential 3. We can learn from the passage that . A. weboholism has the greatest effect on teenagers B. teeangers can hardly balance real and virtual life C. people are addicted to games on the lnternet D. virtual life is more vivid and attractive anyway 4. Which of the following is NOT true of weboholism? A. It contributes to the development of the web. B. The chat room language may change social culture. C. The problem will have a negative influence on our future. D. People addicted to the web often become inactive in real life. 5.The author's attitude towards weboholism is that of being A. objective B. positive C. opposed D. acceptable
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Dear Michelle: Why can't my daughter manage her life better? She is 17 and an honor student, but she seems to be wasting her life away with a boyfriend who is holding her back. He consumes every waking, minute of her precious time and smooth-talks her as well. His goal is to get her to agree to go to the college of his choice, not her choice, and because his grades are lower, his choice will be limited. I feel like I want to rescue her, but she pushes me away and shuts me out. She has only brought us pride and joy; and now this! Help! A worried mother Dear Mother of a 17-year-old Girl: Hmmmmm. What's the matter with kids today? Remember that song from "Bye Bye Birdie"? Well if you do not, let me fill you in about teenagers and their life-management skills.Do not expect too much too soon because at the ripe age of 17, life-management is not within their reach, not should it be. Life experience creates both the conditions and the skills for management, and if management went before experiene, there would be tittle of it. Your daughter is an honor student for good reasons. She is smart, studies with intelligence and you have given her good Values. When the time comes for her to apply for college, and she visit the ones that were specifically desigened for student the top of their grade, she will most likely break away from her boyfriend's influenee. It is rare for an honor student to change the path of their academic career for puppy love. That being said, them might be some adoldscent wisdom in her behavior after all. Perhaps she is choosing to worry you, her parents, for unconscious reasons. Being such a good girl and being a steady source of joy might have become a bit too much for her. Let your daughter have her own private moment of 11th grade rebellion. She deserves a break from perfection. Michelle 1.From the mother's letter we can learn that her daughter A. is being fooled by the boy B. has fallen behind in her studies C. doesn't talk much with her mother D. has chosen which college to attend 2. According to Michelle; 17-year-teenagers . A. are too young to manage their life B. are old enough to live their own life C. should have managemnent before experience D. have reached the age of an adult 3. The underlined word"puppy-love"refer to A. false love B. foolish love C. pure love D. adolescent love 4.Michelle seems to believe that the daughter will finally A. come up with the right decision B. follow her boyfriend's advice C. worry her parents for unconscious reasons D. influence her boyfriend's behavior 5. The best title for the passage would be A. College of kids' own choice B. How can I help my girl? C. How to manage teenagers' life? D. A 17-year-old girl and her mother
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Electric ears are dirty.In fact, not only are they dirty, they might even be more dirty than their gasoline-powered cousins. People in California love to talk about "zero-emissions vehicles", but people in California seem to be clueless about where electricity comes from. Power plants mostly use fire to make it. Aside from the new folks who have their roofs covered with solar cells, we get our electricity from generators. Generators are fueled by something---usually coal, oil,but also by heat generated in nuclear power plants. There are a few wind farms and geothermal plants as well, but by far we get electricity mainly by burning something. In other words, those "zero-emissions" cars are likely coal-burning cars. It's just because the coal is burned somewhere else that it looks clean. It is not. It's as if the California Greens are. covering their eyes---"If I can't see it, it's not happening." Gasoline is an incredibly efficient way to power a vehicle; a gallon of gas has a lot of energy in it.But when you take that gas (or another fuel) and first use it to make electricity, you waste a nice part of that energy, mostly in the form of wasted heat---at the generator, through the transmission lines, etc. A gallon of gas may propel your car 25 miles. But the electricity you get from that gallon of gas won't get you nearly as far---so electric cars bum more fuel than gas-powered ones. If our electricity came mostly from nukes; or geothermal,or hydro, or solar, or wind,then an electric car truly would be clean. But for political, technical,and economic reasons,we don't use much of those energy sources. In addition,electric cars' batteries which are poisonous for a long time will eventually end up in a landfill.And finally, When cars are the polluters, the pollution is spread across all the roads. When it's a power plant, though, all the junk is in one place. Nature is very good at cleaning up when things are too concentrated, but it takes a lot longer when all the garbage is in one spot. 1. What does "clueless" mean in paragraph 2? A. People are seeing the California Greens everywhere. B. People in California love to talk about zero-emissions vehicles. C. People in California love to have their roofs covered with solar cells. D. People there have no idea that so far electricity mainly comes from burning coal, oil,etc. 2. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Electric cars are not clean at all B. Electric cars are better than gasoline-powered ones. C. People cast doubts on electric cars' batteries. D. Gasoline is an efficient way to powera vehicle. 3. The electricity we get from a gallon of gas may make our ear run A. not less than 25 miles B. more than 25 miles C. no more than 25 miles D. not more than 25 miles 4. According to the passage, electric cars . A. do not burn fuel and more environmentally-friendly B. are toxic because it is difficult for nature to clean it up when their batteries are buried in one spot. C. are very good at cleaning up when things are not too concentrated D. are poisonous for a long time and will eventually end up in a landfill 5. It can be inferred from the passage that A. being green is good and should be encouraged in communication B. electric cars are not clean in that we get electricity mainly by burning something C. zero-emissions vehicles should be chosen to protect our environment D. electric cars are now the dominant vehicle compared with gasoline-powered cousins
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After our early morning wake-up, we are still a couple of hours away from the overlooks.It is pitch black.I can feel the heavy humid fog left behind my last night's rain. This is why the tour memo listed "flashlight". Unfortunately; the majority of our hiking party of nine must have missed the memo, so we have only four flashlights between us. An hoar later,we are on the trail. It is dark, foggy, wet and the rocks are alippery.We alternate places between the flashlights "haves" and "have-nots". As we march, the only voices heard are from the "haves": "Step up, step down, watch out for the rock on your left." We reach Intipunku with only 15 minutes to spare. The view at sunrise is not what we were told in the travel brochures. Three feet in front of our faces is a white substance called "fog". As we walk towards the Machu Picchu ruins, my anticipation is mounting. When will the fog lift? Slowly, as if someone is cranking up a curtain, Huayna Picchu begins to appear,overlooking Machu Picchu. First there are fleeting glimpses, and then finally, there is, in its full splendor. When I envisioned going to Machu Picchu, I always thought of mysterious ruins and the famous postcard picture looking toward Huayna Picchu. But there is more to this man-made / natural wonder of the World. It is the adventure of getting there. I knew I wanted to experience the feel of the Inca culture and the energy of this sacred valley, I also knew I didn't want to take the train, but needed to hike. Depending on your starting point,the Inca Trail is 25 to 33miles of semi-arid desert, breathless mountain passes and stunning tropical cloud forest. Our hike took us four nights and 25 miles to finish. Our local guide MaurO keeps telling us "no worries, the hike is 90 percent mental and only 10 percent physical. "I am not convinced that the physical percentage is correct, but I definitely become more and more excited as we are now getting closer to Machu Picchu.By getting myself into good shape, running 20 miles and hiking a 500-foot-high hill five to seven times per week before I left for Peru, I was able to enjoy the beauty of the hike and not worry much about aching muscles and lungs. 1. About flashlights, which of the following statements is true? A. The local guide had asked them to take flashlights for the hike. B. They had taken enough flashlights for the hike. C. Before they got to Intipunku, they depended a lot on their flashlights. D. They used flashlights all the time. 2. Put the following events into the right order. a. They reached Intipunku, b. They read the travel brochures. c. They walked on the trail in the dark. d. They advanced to get closer to Maehu Picchu. e. They enjoyed the splendor of Huayna Picchu. A. ebade B. bacde C. abced D. bcaed 3. What does the underlined word "anticipation" in Paragraph Four mean? A. expectation B. excitement C. disappointment D. enthusiasm 4. What can NOT be inferred from the text? A. The writer made good preparation for the tour. B. The Inca Trail took them four nights. C. Machu Picchu is in the country of Peru. D. They reached Intipunku ahead of time. 5. According to the writer, what attracted him most in the tour? A. Mysterious ruins. B. The famous post-card picture. C. The hiking. D. The Inca culture.
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