首字母填空：先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。(共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分)
Tennis is in its second life. Its first game b 1. in France. The name of the game comes from the French w 2. "tennez". The English men c 3. the game "tennis" when they watched the Frenchmen play 800 years ago.
The Englishmen liked the French game. Tennis courts were b 4. in every park, in every city, just like today. The two countries played against each other. At first they played for h 5. . Then they won money. Later people began cheating（欺骗）to get money. Three hundred years ago the game was forbidden（禁止）to s 6. the cheating. The game also d__7.___. Americans found the old courts when they went to Europe 100 years ago. They learned w __8.__ they could do about the game. They liked the game as the Englishmen did before. After returning home, the Americans built tennis courts. Tennis began to become p 9. in all the United States. Now it is one of the most e 10. games in the world again.
完成句子： (共6小题；每小题1.5分，满分9分)
1.比起写信来，他更喜欢发电子邮件。
He prefers ____________________________________________________ letters.
2.我想知道他们彼此相爱多久了。
I wonder how long _________________________________________ .
3.如果你看看墙报的话，你就会发现有好几篇文章是以诗歌的形式写成的。
If you have a look at the wall newspaper, you will find that quite a few articles _____________ __________________ a poem.
4.他的成绩已经远远超出我的想象。
His achievements __________________________________________my imagination.
5.据说东北虎的生活很值得近距离观察。
It is said that the life of tigers in North China ________________________________.
6.这些老照片常常使我想起30年前无锡的样子。
动词填空：用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。(共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分)
1.When to go climbing _______________ (decide) by us last night.
2.The police said that they _______________ (remind) parents not to let their children go out alone on TV the next day.
3.While I was watching a football match on TV, my twin brother _______________ (pack) for the next day’s trip to Qingdao.
4.Nothing much should ____________ (do) at the moment. All we can do now is to wait.
5.The goal of this lesson is ____________ (learn) how to make telephone calls in English.
6.They met happily yesterday. In fact, they ______ (not meet) each other for many years.
7.He seemed to have difficulty _______________ (control) his actions.
8.Why can’t you just believe me? I _____________(tell) you everything I know!
单词拼写: (共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分)
（A）根据句意，用括号内所给词的适当形式填空。
1.The famous ________________(direct) names are almost well known to all in China .
2.Seven ______________(twelve) of the students have been to the exhibitions.
3.What he said drove her even ________________(mad).
4.How _____________(noise) the children are playing on the playground!
（B）根据句意和汉语注释，写出单词的正确形式。
5.I have no idea _______________ (是否) to stay or leave at the moment.
6.One of the ______________ (不利条件) of living in the countryside is that you can’t buy everything you want easily.
7.I’m wondering if the boy was deeply __________ (影响) by some unhealthy websites.
8.I sat _______________ (紧靠) the wall, so he didn’t notice me at all.
What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions（提到） hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck.
If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically(按字母表的顺序)and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…, you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98, meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96, while love:12+15+22+5=54, and luck : 12+21+3+11=47, a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money or prayer(祈祷)? They can’t , either.
Then what else? Don’t be worried．You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude(态度).Yes, attitude is the word． See for yourself: attitude:1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100，a full mark.
Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible that one will have a change for the better after one has changed one’s attitude.
When you change your manner and became friendly towards others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive (积极地) attitude towards failure(失败),you’ll find it’s also rewarding though it has caused you losses.
1.What is the mark of the word “money”?
A. 54 B. 72 C. 96 D. 100
2.In the writer’s opinion, what is the most important thing in a person’s life?
A. Hard-work. B. Knowledge. C. Money. D. Attitude.
3.According to the passage, if you meet with problems, the best way out is to _______.
A. ask for help from others B. say your prayers to God
C. change your attitude D. try maths-solving methods (方法)
4.From the passage we can learn that ______.
A. different attitudes come from different courses of life
B. mathematics can solve every problem easily in our daily life
C. failure sometimes can bring you good if you take a positive attitude
D. none of the English words except “attitude” equals to 100 or more
Have successful people ever felt sad? Do they have any “secrets” to success? The answers to these questions can be found in US president Barack Obama’s “back to school” speech. Here is an excerpt(摘录) from his speech.
I know that sometimes, you get the sense that you can be rich and successful without any hard work—that your ticket to success is through pop music or basketball or being a TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.
But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. Not all the homework will seem rather important to your life right this minute. And you may not succeed at everything the first time you try.
That’s OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures (the opposite of success). JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was turned down 12 times before it finally came out. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots (投篮) during his career. But he once said, “I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures beat you—you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time.
No one’s born being good at things. You become good at things through hard work.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness; it’s a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to tell when you don’t know something, and to learn something new.
And even when you’re struggling(奋斗), even when you’re discouraged (泄气), and you feel other people have given up on you—don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
1.Why does Barack Obama mention (提到) JK Rowling and Michael Jordan in the third paragraph?
A. To compare these two famous persons.
B. To explain that the more failures he has, the more successful he is.
C. If you want to be successful, you should fail first.
D. To show that failure is the mother of success.
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. No one can be successful without working hard.
B. Failure can be good if you treat it in a right way.
C. Those who believe in themselves shouldn’t ask others for help.
D. One should try his best to make his dream come true.
3.Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined sentence?
A. One shouldn’t ask questions because it is a sign of strength.
B. One should believe in himself though he will face much difficulty.
C. One doesn’t have to work hard when he has failed several times.
D. One doesn’t have to ask for help because it is a sign of weakness.
