Last night, Dan hung out with his friends too late. When he came home, he went upstairs without a _______. But to his surprise, his father was sitting in his room.
A. noise B. sound
C. voice D. silence
---Why didn't you go to the party last night?
---Because I was waiting for Sam in his office _______ he came back.
A.for B.until
C.since D.from
—Hey! Peter! What are you looking at?
---I find ________ hole in the blackboard, let's go and tell Mr. Wang about it.
A. a B. an C. the D.\
书面表达（15分）
虽然目前过洋节已经成为一种时尚，但随着民族精神教育的深入开展，传统的中国节越来越受到重视。假如你叫沈爱华，请你给你的美国笔友John写一封80词左右的信，邀请他来中国感受中国风俗文化，并向他介绍你最喜欢的中国节日。文章首句已给出，不计入总词数。
提示词：red packet 红包、压岁钱 set off firecrackers 放鞭炮
Dear John,
How is it going? You asked about Chinese festivals in you last letter. There are many Chinese traditional festivals in China. _______________________________________________________
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补全对话（5个小题，每小题2分，共10分）
根据下面的对话情景，在每个空白处填上一个适当的句子，使对话的意义连贯、完整。
A: Hello, Sonia! We’ll have our School Day next Wednesday.
B: Yeah. That’s right. What’s up?
A: Let’s do something for it.
B: Good idea!
B: 1. .
B: Have you? What’s the volunteer club for?
A: It helps organize celebration activities on that day. 2. ?
B: Sure, I’d like to join the club, too. By the way, my MP3 is broken. 3. ?
B: You are a lucky dog! You needn’t go anywhere. My father is good at repairing it.
A: Really? Thank goodness. I have asked many students. But nobody knows.
4. . And I need it.
B: A listening test? When?
A: Next Monday.
A: 5. .
B: Thank you.
短文填空（10个小题，每小题1分，共10分）
阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。请将答案写在短文后相应题号的横线上。注意：①每个词只能用一次。②每空限填一词，有些词需要做相应的变化。③其中有两个多余选项。请选择适当的词语，将其正确的形式填入文章的空白处，每词限用一次。（10分）
this, hero, quick, sit, be, have, go, with, again, another, when, stop |
Once, an old man told me a story of himself:
I thought I was great when I was young. At that time I decided to write a book, in order to add special points to the book and spend my vocation, I would like to look for a person among _1.__ poor and dawdling(虚度) people. I believed there could be such a person.
I was lucky. One day I found such a place where there __2._ a small lonely farm. The most exciting I found in front of a small house was an old man __3.__ a bearded face, wearing brown jeans, __4._ in a chair and cutting grass.
I turned to go home and wanted right away to sit before my typewriter. And __5.__ I went around the small house on the muddy(泥泞的) road when turning, and from __6._ angle(角度), looked toward the old man, I suddenly __7.__. To my surprise, I found that beside the chair was a stick and an empty pant to the ground. All of a sudden, who was just now I also thought as a poor dawdling old man, became a __8.__ I was always looking for. Thank God I looked back __9._.
Since then, I haven’t __10._ given conclusions for those I have only seen or talked for a while.
