Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation from others?
A. take notes when having lessons.
B. my friend will come along later.
C. hope everything is all right with you.
D. what he said is no more than a joke.
We shall not lose heart in the face of difficulties. Which of the following is correct for the underlined word in the sentence?
A. / hə:t / B . /ha:t /
C. /hiət / D. /heət/
Write at least 60 words about the topic “Honesty and I”. ( 以“我和诚实”为题写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格。)
（ 注意：短文中不得出现考生的姓名、校名及其他相关信息，否则不予评分。）
Expressions for reference （以下短语仅供参考）
keep one’s words, tell a lie, with pleasure, in return
One young excellent person was trying to find a high position in a big company. It was the director who would make the final decision.
The director discovered that the young man did an excellent job in his college, which interested him a lot.[来
The director asked, “Who paid for your college?”
The young man answered, “My father passed away when I was one year old, so it was just my mother.”
“What did your mother do?” The director seemed surprised.
“She is a clothes cleaner,” the young man answered, with no feeling.
“Have you ever helped your mother wash some clothes before?”
“Never. My mother always wanted me to study and read more books. She could wash clothes faster than me,” the young man seemed puzzled (迷惑) when answering.
“Well, now I need you to do something. When you go back home today, clean your mother’s hands and see me tomorrow.”
The youth was happy when hearing this because he felt that his chance of getting the job was great. When he went home, he happily asked his mother to let him clean her hands. His mother felt strange but happy. With mixed feelings, she showed her hands to the kid.
The young man cleaned his mother’s hands, with tears falling. It was the first time he not
iced that his mother’s hands were so wrinkled (皱的), and there were so many wounds. This pair of hands enabled him to go throug
h college. This pair of hands was the price that his mother had to pay for his life and his future.
The next morning, the director asked the young man, “Now tell me what you learned yesterday.”
After hearing what he said, the director knew the young man had learned his lesson. “This is the man whom I am looking for. We want you to be our member.”
1.Did the young man do quite well in college?
__________, ______________________________________________.
2.Who paid for the young man’s college?
_________________________________________________________.
3.Why hadn’t the young man helped clean the clothes before?
________________________________________________________.
4.What did the director ask the young man to do when he went back?
_________________________________________________________.
5.Why did the mother feel strange but happy when her son wanted to wash her hands?
_________________________________________________________.
6.The young man had learned his lesson. What can you learn from his lesson?
__________________________________________________________.
Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)（14分）
A pearl necklace(项链)
Penny was a five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were at a grocery store, Penny saw a plastic pearl necklace. What a b 1. necklace! She wanted it very much, so she begged her mother to buy it for her. The mother said, “Well, I can buy you the necklace, but when we get home, we should discuss what you can do to pay for it. Can we do that?” Penny agreed with much h 2. , and she got the plastic necklace she liked.
How much Penny loved the necklace! She w 3. it everywhere and every minute. Penny also did part time jobs to earn pocket money and she worked very hard. Soon she managed to pay off the price for the necklace.
Penny’s daddy knew all her e 4. and knew how much Penny cared about the necklace. One night, he asked Penny, “Penny, do you love me?”
“Sure, Daddy, ” the little girl said.
“Then how about giving me your necklace?”
“Oh, no , Daddy! N 5. my necklace!” Penny cried.
“Oh, dear, it’s fine,” her father gave her a kiss.
Several days l 6. , Penny went to her daddy, with her lips(嘴唇) trembling(颤抖). “Here, Daddy. I love you.” She held out her hand. Inside it was her beloved plastic pearl necklace.
Seeing this, Penny’s father smiled with surprise. He then pulled a cute box out of his pocket. Inside the box was a r 7. and colourful pearl necklace, whi
ch was waiting for Penny for so long.
Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文)（12分）
The book that can’t wait
One problem a lot of people have with books is that they buy them and then never start reading them.
To 【1】 , a foreign publisher called Eterna Cadencia came up with a very clever idea: it printed the words of the books in disappearing ink: the text of the book vanishes(消失) two months after the special package of the book is opened, so that encouraging buyers to start reading it 【2】 it goes away. They call this “the book that can’t wait.”
According to a video presented with the story, the book was 【3】 . The publisher sold out the whole first edition(版) at a bookstore the day it was printed, and received “thousands of requests” for more copies of the book. It also got a lot of news reports. As a result, the publisher is planning to publish 【4】 kinds of books in disappearing ink.
In some ways, the idea is pretty clever. 【5】 , we still have some suggestions:
First, the book should start the vanishing process after the reader first opens the book. If the vanishing ink books become very popular in the future, readers will need to read them one at a time. They don’t want their books to vanish before they read the first page.
Second, the vanished book should find a 【6】 use. Maybe they can be recycled, or maybe we can use them as notebooks. It would be a more environmentally friendly way to do this.
1.A. answer the questionB. take the pla
ce of books
C. solve this problemD. be fond of the books
2.A. beforeB. afterC. whenD. until
3.A. a terrible dreamB. a big problem
C. a large amusementD. a great success
4.A. the sameB. otherC. expensiveD. successful
5.A. HoweverB. SoC. LuckilyD. Finally
6.A. strangeB. hardC. goodD. traditional
