根据所给中文题示及句意完成短文。
I’m from a small village in the 1. （西部的）part of Zhejiang. It is a nice and 2. （安静的）place and it has a population of about 800. There are a lot of things to do, with a library, a park and a sports centre. It’s famous for the low mountains which are really 3. （美丽的）.
At the weekends, people from the big cities come here to relax 4. (他们自己). They go hiking, pick fruits and have a picnic. A great ma
n 5. （名叫）FengKe was born here, so it’s also a good 6. （机会）to visit his old family house. Villages in the past were poor, but now they are living 7. （快乐的）. Some of the young men even have their cars and 8. （工厂）. People in my village are kind and friendly. They like 9. （聊天）with you and telling you some stories about the village. If you’re lucky enough, you will be 10. （邀请）to have meals with their family. I’m sure you’ll have a lot of fun!
用方框内所给单词的适当形式填空（5分）
1.The traffic accident caused a fire __________, no one was killed.
2.It’s important to get at least eight ____________ of sleep every day.
3.Yesterday is my brother’s _______________ birthday.
4.Smoking is the second ___________ cause of death in the world.
5.There are about two ____________ students in our school.[
请仔细阅读四段话，从A、B、C、D中找出对应的小标题，并回答第5小题。
1.No one wins all time. Learn from the times that you lose. All great champions were once losers at some point. But, they learned. And they kept a positive attitude until they got better.
2.Your happiness is up to you. Many people forget this. Truly successful people choose happiness no matter what their present situations are.
3.Chances lie in what you do every day. You do the same work. You eat the same foods. You wear the same clothes. Try a new way. Take a new path. Even talk to someone new.
4.Opportunity is everywhere. Even the worst situations have opportunities. Seize（抓住）the opportunity, and seize the time. That’s the secret of success.
5.The material above tells us the ways to ______
A. find a good jobB. live a positive life
C. p
rotect the environmentD. keep us healthy
What is the first thing you want to do when you see someone yawn（打哈欠）？You want to yawn, too! Yawning is contagious.
Scientists have found that all people yawn. Babies start to yawn even before they are born. The earliest yawn takes place when a baby is still inside its mother. When young children are about one year old, they start to yawn when they see others yawning. That’s why scientists seem to think yawning is contagious.
It’s no secret that yawning is contagious, but why do we yawn? Well, scientists are not really sure.
Some think we yawn because we feel bored. Recently scientists studied two groups of students between the ages of 17 and 19. One group watched music videos, and the other watched a boring color test. Scientists compared the numbers of their yawns and found that the color test group yawned more times than the video group.
Another reason for yawning has to do with breathing. Some scientists believe that when we are bored or tired, we breathe more slowly. As our breathing slows down, we cannot get rid of （去除）enough carbon dioxide, our bodies will tell the brains（大脑）to breathe deeply. The result is a big yawn.
In 2007, scientists suggested a new reason. They said that the reason why people yawned was to cool down their brains. These scientists found that people who were warmer than others yawned more often.
Scientists are still trying to find out why yawning happens and why it is so contagious. But they are only sure that when one person yawns, almost everyone else nearby wants to yawn, too.
1.The underlined word “contagious” in Paragraph 1 means _________.
A. helpful to our health
B. passing from one person to another
C. hard to understand
D. getting into one trouble after another
2.According to the scientists, people start to yawn when they are _______.
A. bornB. one year oldC. 17 or 19 years oldD. inside their mothers
3.Which of the following are the possible reasons for yawning according to the passage?
①People yawn because they are bored
②People yawn to catch others’ attention
③People yawn to cool down their brains
④People yawn to get rid of carbon dioxide.
A. ①②③B.②③④C.①②④D.①③④
4.We can probably read this passage in a ____________
A. storybookB. travel guidebookC. movie posterD. science magazine
Try reading the following sentences as fast as you can. “ She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells in the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.”
Not very easy, was it? What you’ve just read is called a tongue twister（绕口令）. It is an exercise made up of sounds that are hard to pronounce in order to help people pronounce words faster and more correctly. Try the next example.
“Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers, Did Peter Piper pick a peck of picked peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers, where’s the peck of picked peppers Peter picked?”
Tongue twisters usually do not have much meaning. They are just designed to improve people’s ability（能力）to pronounce words. Although they may be very difficult, these exercises are very important to people who are trying to speak English correctly. This is because tongue twisters help people to tell the differences between similar sounds.
So if you wish to pronounce words more smoothly, you’d better try picking out some tongue twisters and practicing them.
1.Tongue twisters are helpful in improving ________ skills.
A. listening B. writingC. pronunciationD. communication
2.The first tongue twister is hard because _________.
A. it is very boring to read
B. it teaches us a lot of knowledge
C. we don’t know who “she” is
D. the sounds of “s” and “sh” are similar
3.What does the “ability” mean in Paragraph 4?
A. Pronouncing words faster and more correctly.
B. Pronouncing words faster
C. Knowing the meaning of words.
D. Picking out tongue twisters smoothly.
Last week, 169 Junior One students at No. 35 Middle School of Shenyang took their first no teacher exam. After the teacher handed out the exam papers, he left the room and never came back. A student collected in the papers when the exam was over.
“That test was not only a test of knowledge, but also a test of morality（道德）. We wanted to show the students how important honesty（诚实）is,” said the school’s headmaster. Next year, it wants 80% of its exams to be without teachers. But students have different ideas.
“I was happy and excited during the exam because my teachers trusted（信任）me,” said a 15-year –old girl in Class 11.
“Schools must trust students a lot and do not use invigilators（监考人）in exams. But I think it is too early. Some students will cheat（作弊）if there are no invigilators. And the students will not be able to ask for help when they need,” said another student.
“I don’t like having invigilators in exams. When they walk around the classroom, they make me nervous. I would get higher marks without them in the room because I would feel more relaxed,” a third student said.
“I think it’s very important to have invigilators in exams. Many students want to check their answers with each other after they have finished papers. And invigilators can also keep the classroom in order when something unusual happens. They may make me nervous, but I still think we need them,” a girl student said.
No-teacher exams may be a good idea. But before using them, schools must tell students the importance of honesty and try to find ways to solve something unusual in exams.
1.Why did No. 35 Middle School of Shenyang hold a no – teacher exam?
A. Because the teachers were too busy with their work.
B. Because it wanted to show the students the importance of honesty.
C. Because the students didn’t need their teachers to invigilate.
D. Because the headmaster wanted to know who cheats in exams.
2.How many students don’t agree to no-teacher-exams mentioned in this passage?
A. OneB. TwoC. ThreeD. Four
3.What does the underlined word “them” in the last paragraph refer to（指代）？
A. StudentsB. TeachersC. InvigilatorsD. No-teacher exams
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. More students will cheat if there are no invigilators in exams.
B. No-teachers exams can make students honest and get good grades.
C. Most students are worried about having no invigilators in class exams.
D. Some students may feel relaxed if there are no invigilators in exams.
