I was never very neat, while my roommate Kate was extremely organized. Each of her objects had its place, but mine always hid somewhere. She even labeled(贴标签) everything. I always looked for everything. Over time, Kate got neater and I got messier. She would push my dirty clothing over, and I would lay my books on her tidy desk. We both got tired of each other.

War broke out one evening. Kate came into the room. Soon, I heard her screaming. “Take your shoes away! Why under my bed!” Deafened, I saw my shoes flying at me. I jumped to my feet and started yelling. She yelled back louder.

The room was filled with anger. We could not have stayed together for a single minute but for a phone call. Kate answered it. From her end of the conversation, I could tell right away her grandma was seriously ill. When she hung up, she quickly crawled(爬under her covers, sobbing. Obviously, that was something she should not go through alone. All of a sudden, a warm feeling of sympathy rose up in my heart.

Slowly, I collected the pencils, took back the books, made my bed, cleaned the socks and swept the floor, even on her side. I got so into my work that I even didn’t notice Kate had sat up. She was watching, her tears dried and her expression one of disbelief. Then, she reached out her hands to grasp mine. I looked up into her eyes. She smiled at me, “Thanks.”

Kate and I stayed roommates for the rest of the year. We didn’t always agree, but we learned the key to living together: giving in, cleaning up and holding on.

1.What made Kate so angry one evening?

A.She couldn’t find her books

B.She heard the author shouting loud

C.She got the news that her grandma was ill

D.She saw the author’s shoes beneath her bed

2.The author tidied up the room most probably because     .

A.she was scared by Kate’s anger

B.she hated herself for being so messy

C.she wanted to show her care

D.she was asked by Kate to do so

3.How is Paragraph 1 mainly developed?

A.By analyzing causes B.By showing differences

C.By describing a process D.By following time order

    I have dreamt of taking a trip to Hawaii since I graduated but the best thing always needs waiting. I took a trip with my friends to Haleakala National Park which lies in Hawaii.

When we arrived at Haleakala National Park we were suggested to watch the early morning sunrise. I was lost in the sightseeing that afternoon so I could hardly wait to meet the sunrise. In the next morning we all jumped out of the bed very early at 3 o’clock and walked to the rocks by the seaside. In the first half an hour we imagined how wonderful it would be when the first light came out through the thick clouds and how soft it would be when the light touched our skin so we waited and waited. However another half an hour later I gradually lost my patience since there was nothing but the chilly darkness and I felt that I was frozen to death. But my friends were still extremely cheerful.

Nearly another one hour later “Amazing!” a word burst out from Judy and we all shouted to welcome the light orange greatness which is really unbelievable. Until today I dare say that it is the most impressive（印象深刻的）sunrise in my life. However waiting in the morning darkness is also the one I can not wipe out forever.

Waiting sometimes is really a hard thing for most of us as it needs patience and strong-willed determination but what about the result after that? It might turn out to be pleasingly unbelievable and satisfied. So it is really worthwhile to wait for the best.

1.When did they see the first light of the sunrise?

A.About 3 o’clock. B.About 4 o’clock.

C.Nearly 5 o’clock. D.Nearly 6 o’clock.

2.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “chilly” in paragraph two?

A.Total. B.Cold.

C.Terrible. D.Interesting.

3.What’s the author’s attitude towards waiting for the sunrise?

A.Excited all the time. B.Afraid all the time.

C.Firstly excited then afraid. D.Firstly excited then impatient.

4.What does the author want to tell us by this passage?

A.Sometimes it is worthwhile to wait for the best.

B.Hawaii is a good place to enjoy the sunrise.

C.I enjoyed the most flaming sunrise in my life.

D.My friends and I took a trip to Hawaii.

    A very dangerous situation happened in California last week. More than 12 wildfires broke out in the state. Most of them began on October 8, in Northern California. They grew rapidly. The fires were made bigger by winds of up to 50 miles per hour and dry air in the area.

At least 20 people have been killed, the state government said. About 200 have been injured. At least 3,500 homes and businesses have been destroyed. About 50,000 people have been required to escape. Many left in a hurry, without time to take their personal things. “All the good stuff(东西)—I’m never going to see it again,” Jeff Okrepkie said. He escaped from his Santa Rosa home. It was destroyed soon after he left.

The fires burned through parts of eight counties(郡，县). These include Sonoma and Napa. The areas are important to California’s economy(经济). They are home to many of the state’s vineyards(葡萄园) and wineries(酿酒厂). In 2016, California’s wineries made more than $57 billion.

October is when wildfires usually produce the most ruins in California. But it is unusual for so many fires to start at once. Up to now, the government has not given a cause for any of the fires, many of which were still burning.

1.Why did the fires grow quickly?

A.Most of the fires began in October. B.12 fires happened at the same time.

C.The state government didn’t do anything. D.High-speed wind and dry air.

2.How many people have to leave their homes?

A.50,000. B.200. C.3,500. D.20.

3.What is the biggest loss for California’ s economy?

A.Homes have been destroyed. B.Wineries have been burned.

C.People have to leave their homes. D.Many people have been injured.

4.What is the cause of the fires?

A.The high-speed wind and dry air. B.Many fires started at once.

C.October produces the most ruins. D.The cause is not explained.

    Welcome to our school. You can do a lot of things here. Come and join us.

1.You may have a chance to introduce your inventions on _________.

A.Monday B.Friday .

C.Sunday D.Wednesday

2.The person who teaches Computer Science is from___________.

A.Australia B.America

C.Canada D.New Zealand

3.You may learn something about a disease called TB from __________.

A.Mr. Morison B.Dr. West

C.Mr. Thomas D.Mrs. Green

4.If you want to learn something about satellites, you can go to the class from______.

A.18:30 to 21:00 on Friday B.8:30 to 11:30 on Sunday

C.19:00 to 21:00 on Monday D.19:30 to 21:00 on Wednesday

假定你是学生会主席李华。一个英国中学生代表团要来你校作戏剧方面的交流。请你写一篇欢迎词，内容包括：

1. 表示欢迎；

2. 主要活动安排；

3. 你的良好祝愿。

参考词汇：学生会：the Students’ Union。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。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。

There is no doubt whether birds are our friends. Therefore, a large number of birds are killed for food every year, that really causes more and more people to be worried. The other day I was walking in the woods when the shot was heard. Hearing the shot, the birds in the trees fly in all directions. A bird was bad injured and looked sad. Find the bird injured, I decided to take it home. At home I took good care for it. When it recovered, so I returned it to the woods. I hope something can be done to protect birds from killed.

写出下面句子括号中所给词的正确形式。

1.We’ll make it before the clock_________(敲击) nine.

2.Welcome to drop in if it is __________(方便的) to you.

3.If you have any questions, don’t_________(犹豫) to ask me.

4.Books in the library are often _________(分类) according to subjects.

5.Fifteen people were under _________(逮捕) because of serious violence.

6.With China’s economy_________(繁荣), the country becomes powerful.

7.The_________(大多数) of his income is spent on his house every month.

8.He forgot to turn the _______(水龙头) off, and the water is running all over.

9.He could have finished it on time, but ________(不知怎么地) he fell behind.

10.I tried all means to look for my keys, but everything was in _______(徒劳).

    For the past ten years, my dad and I have attended the same school--- he as an administrator and I as a student. Our relationship, in and out of school, has been totally unpredictable.

When I was younger, all that my dad said was doctrine （信条）and anything did I, _________, copied. We played games together, and stayed up late reading bedtime stories. I could__________ my dad taking me to school, running into him ________ during the day and riding home with him every afternoon.

As I grew older, we were not as _________as we used to be. He wasn't cool any more .He wore his socks too high, listened to _________ country music and laughed too loudly in front of my friends. He became a total embarrassment.

However, the _________ that occurred in school were even worse. The worst one happened in seventh grade. My dad came to our New Year party, __________as Donald Duck, guitar in hand, singing silly songs. Just kill me！ I wanted to run away.

This _________ continued into high school, but we somehow began to find a balance .Things started to ______around the time of my 10th-grade physics project. The ________was to build a wood bridge with the best strength-to-weight ratio（比率）. All the students and physics teachers __________ . So did my dad, the only administrator！ Embarrassed, as usual, I _________ the  scene._____________, later when I learned from my friends that my dad    _____ all competitors and won everyone's admiration, I found that mixed in with my__________was a touch of pride.

I had needed someone else to show me what I ________ in my dad. It wasn't the fact that he'd won； it was more than that. I began to_________ that we have many of the same values and sometimes the same opinions. No matter how much I had tried to________ him, he still influenced me.

I feel_________ to have such an unusual father. The ________ I have developed with my dad over the years has enabled me to look back and see how I’ve grown.

1.A.temporarily B.naturally C.originally D.passively

2.A.apply to B.count on C.see off D.pick out

3.A.gradually B.previously C.regularly D.eventually

4.A.close B.reliable C.generous D.confident

5.A.creative B.familiar C.horrible D.live

6.A.failures B.coincidences C.competitions D.disasters

7.A.dressed up B.broken down C.settled down D.signed up

8.A.debate B.party C.progress D.struggle

9.A.happen B.change C.grow D.disappear

10.A.issue B.task C.lesson D.procedure

11.A.participated B.protested C.hesitated D.explored

12.A.fled B.investigated C.pictured D.made

13.A.Instead B.Otherwise C.Therefore D.However

14.A.convinced B.defeated C.ignore D.evaluated

15.A.confusion B.encouragement C.embarrassment D.fascination

16.A.recommended B.tolerated C.doubted D.appreciated

17.A.recognize B.demand C.argue D.estimate

18.A.approach B.limit C.resist D.believe

19.A.puzzled B.fortunate C.concerned D.awkward

20.A.strategy B.habit C.relationship D.potential

How old is “old” ?

How old is “old” ?  1.Two hundred years ago, you were old at 35. That was the average life then. At the turn of this century, as medical knowledge advanced, the average life span(长度) increased to 45. In 1950, 70-year-olds were really old. Today, a healthy 70-year-old is looking forward to many more active years.

So, how old is old? The answer is one you’ve heard many times, from all sorts of people. “You are as old (or young) as you feel!” The calendar(日历) simply tells you how many years you have lived.  2.

Once an unknown author wrote , “ 3.Nobody grows old by living a number of years; people grow old by giving up their goals.”

4.Alice Brophy, when she was with the New York City commission for the Aging, said, “It upsets me when people say, ‘Gee, you look young for your age!’ What does that mean? Is there some model that you’re supposed to look a certain way at 65 and 75 and 85? You know you can die old at 30 and live young at 80.”

There are many wrong ideas about aging.  5.Here are some of the more common ones. For example, most older people are in poor health, or older people are unable to change.

A.Old is a point of view.

B.It’s extremely terrible to be grown old.

C.The answer has changed over the years.

D.Your body tells you how well you’ve lived.

E.Older people are stubborn, unable to change.

F.Youth is not a time of life but it is a state of mind.

G.These ideas stereotype (固化) people on the basis of age.

    A mother goat is able to pick out her own baby from its voice alone by the time the kid is just five days old.

Researchers from University of London played kids’ bleats to female goats and studied their responses. They were surprised to find that the animals were able to pick out their own kids’ voices.

“A mother and the kid rely a lot on smell to recognize one another and, in the wild, during the first week of their lives, the animals hide in grass and don’t call much. It’s a strategy they use to avoid enemies,” Dr Elodie Briefer, who led the research, explained to BBC News. “The mother call to the kids when she want them to come and feed, so we expected that kids would recognize the mothers’ voices.” In fact, this was the case for deer, which also use this hiding strategy, although they do not belong to the same family of species as goats.

She and her team recorded and played back young kids’ calls to the female goats and recorded their responses.She explained, “Even when the calls came from kids that are five to six days old, we could see the mothers responding more to the voices of their own babies.” Hearing the voice of their own kids, the females would look towards the speaker that the sound was coming from, moving around and calling in response.

The scientists say that understanding how goats behave and communicate is very important. “This helps us understand just how smart these animals are,” said Dr. Briefer. “Farmers might be able to change their way to raise goats considering this natural behaviour.”

1.What does the underlined word “bleats” means?

A.habits B.voices

C.responses D.videos

2.During the first few days of the baby deer, the mother and the kid mainly depend on ______to recognize each other when they are hiding in grass.

A.voice B.touch

C.videos D.smell

3.In the experiment, what does a mother goat do when hearing her kids’ voice?

A.Making voice in response. B.Jumping over and over.

C.Hiding herself somewhere. D.Behaving just as usual.

4.The passage is mainly written for ______ to read.

A.teachers B.writers

C.farmers D.lawyers