—________ the population of the world?
—It _________ about 6.8 billion.
A. How many, is B. How much, is C. What’s, is
_______ I had no time to travel, I still felt very happy.
A. Though B. But C. So
假如你叫李华，是初三（2）班的一名学生，你所在学校的 “爱心俱乐部 (Helping Hands Club)” 将吸收新的成员。你想加入该俱乐部，请你根据你自己的擅长，平时的爱心表现以及参加爱心俱乐部的目的写一封自荐信。收信人是高先生.(15分)
词语：name, student, Class 2, Grade 3, member, hard, be good at,
get along with, join
据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。（10分）
Reading is an activity, people enjoy a lot in their free time.
Some like reading newspapers and o 1. enjoy novels or comic books. My f 2. books are those about the lives of great people. Reading them always gives me a lot of ideas on how to make my o 3. life better.
Great people are remembered not because they were handsome or beautiful, but because they did not give up w 4. their lives were difficult. They tried to use e 5. chance to change their lives and make the world better.
One good example is Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two brothers who invented the airplane. The plane has c 6. the world into a small village. Hard work, not good luck, is the r 7. why they become great people. Today we will remember them when we see planes i 8. the sky. Whenever I r 9. stories about great people, I always learn a lot f___10.__ them.
This is why I enjoy reading about great people’s lives.
任务型阅读,阅读短文,完成各题(10分)
Have you ever heard of a famous charity called Operation Smile? We hope we can help you understand how we are trying to help children all over the world.
Operation Smile was started by a doctor and his wife. In 1982, together with some volunteers, they went to Philippines to help children who had holes in their lips or inside their mouths. (1)对他们来说，吃喝很困难。These volunteers worked very hard. But they worried that they could not go on with the work because they were lack(缺乏) of money. Then they decided to start a charity (2)_________they could help these needy children. They called it Operation Smile.
Operation Smile works in more than twenty developing counties and has cured over 10,000 children who have problem with their mouths. Operation Smile has won many prizes for its work and in 1999 they even started a special event called “The World Journey of Hope”. 5,000 children in 18 countries are cured during the event.
On the other hand, Operation Smile trains health care professionals in developing countries so that they can continue to help children when Operation Smile has left. As to the children with much more serious problems, they will send them to America for further treatment.
So show your kindness and generosity(慷慨) to the needy children now. You can send your donation to Operation Smile at local bank. (3) Many thanks from the children who can smile now will come to you.
1.将(1)句译成英文：_______________________________________________
2.将(2)句的空白处填入适当的词语使句意完整,上下文通顺 _____________
3.将(3)句翻译成中文：_____________________________________________
4.找出文中与下列句子意思相近的句子：
They worried that they could not continue to work because they have no money.
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5.What is the best title of the passage?
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根据短文内容,回答问题(10分)
Ayumi lived with her mother when she was a kid．She couldn't remember her father because he left the family when the girl was five and never came back．Ayumi's mother gave her much freedom to do whatever she liked，because the mother was always at work．
Ayumi was a model when she was young．After graduating from junior high school，she left home to take entrance exams to an art school in Tokyo with her friends，but to her surprise，she was the only one that failed．
After that，when someone offered her a chance to be a singer，Ayumi refused，because she thought she wasn't good at singing． But later，she changed her mind — she couldn't find any other jobs．
Her first song came out in 1998 and soon attracted attention．Her first albums(唱片) A Song for ×× came out in 1999 and quickly sold over one million copies． Each of her albums has sold very well since then．She has become "the Queen of Pop" in Japan．
根据短文内容回答下列问题。
1.Why did Ayumi's mother give her much freedom?
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2.What result did Ayumi get in her entrance exams to an art school in Tokyo?
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3.At first, why did Ayumi refuse the chance to be a singer?
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4.What's the name of Ayumi's first album?
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5.When did her first song come out?
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