We Chinese are sure nobody can ________ Diaoyu Island _______ our motherland(祖国).[来
A. divide; into B. be divided; into C. divide; from D. be divided; from
It takes us about ____ hour to get to the Yangzhou-Taizhou Airport from Taizhou by ____ bus.
A. an; a B. a; the C. an ; / D. a ; /
书面表达（20%）【2013苏州】
初中生在成长的过程中总会碰到一些烦恼。就这一话题你班正积极筹备召开一次主题班会。请根据以下所列举的几项烦恼，用英语写一篇发言稿，并对这些烦恼逐一提出你的建议。
1．不被人理解，朋友少；
2．作业多，没有时间从事业余爱好；
3．父母给的零花钱不够用。
注意：1．文章开头和结尾已写好，不计入总词数；
2．词数90左右。
Dear classmates,
We middle school students do have many pains while we are growing up.
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That's all. Thank you!
任务型阅读（5%）【2013南通】
Courage is the ability to be brave in various situation in our life. Here and there, now and then, everyone needs courage to do something well. Courage may make you confident of your success. If you have courage, you will not show fear in face of anything difficult or dangerous. With courage, you mak look someone in the eye who you have wronged and say “I am sorry”: you may still smile even if you are seriously ill and know you are at the end of your life.
How can we build up our courage?
Believe you will be successful. Take chances and know that you have your own talents. Besides, your family and friends are always there for you.
Exercise your courage. It can be compared to a muscle(肌肉). The more we use it, the stronger courage gets.
Know that giving up is not a choice. It’s much easier to give up, and it takes courage to say or do what you think is right, even when other people think you are wrong.
Fight to control your fear. Courageous people may
still be afraid, but the differnce is tha
t
they can control their fear.
They don’t let it hold them back but use it as a reminder of what they can lose if they don’t go on.
Get courage by reading inspiring stories of brave
people. Abraham Li
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is one of the people who you may think of.
1. What is courage?
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2.What wil you do in face of difficulty or danger if you don’t have courage?
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3. How can courage become stronger?
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4. What is the difference between courageous people and others?
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5. What will you do if you have courage in your study?(请结合自身实际，自拟一句话作答)
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短文填空（5%）【2012南通】
If you think of after-school activities as a waste of time, you are wrong! After-school activities help us grow up in many 1.w __ . Above all, they offer us chances to practise what we learn in 2. c __ . Through various activities, we can also learn more about today's society (社会) and a lot of3.n __ things that we can't learn from our books. What's more, they help to develop our abilities that we need both for our studies now and for our work and life in the 4.f __ .
We are busy with our studies in school, so after school we all need to 5. r _ ourselves. After-school activities just make it possible for us to breathe 6. f air and remove tiredness. Then, we can pay7.a _ to our studies and achieve good results.
Some after-school activities will make us useful and helpful to 8.o __ ; some can keep us strong and 9.h __ ; some may even change our life. So, all the students, get out and take an 10.a __ part in various after-school activities!
选出错误项并改正（5%）
( )____________ 1. Lucy forgot her homework at home yesterday.
A B C D
( )____________ 2. The gravity on Mars is about third-eights of that on Earth.
A B C D
( )____________ 3. My sister prefers to wear black to red.
A B C D
( )____________ 4. He was too tired that he couldn’t keep his eyes open.
A B C D
( )__________ 5. Since her mum is busy, Mary oughts to do more housework.
A B C D
