Cause and effect is one way to explain things that happen around us. Many things happen because something caused or influenced them to happen. Sometimes it is hard to look at a cause and find out what causes the effect. It may help you to start with the effect and use your reasoning (推理的) skills. Think about all the things you know that could be reasons for the effect you can see.
For example，you may see someone putting on a heavy jacket. This is the effect. To look for a cause, think to yourself, “What would make someone put on a heavy jacket?” Maybe the person is going outside into very cold weather. Maybe the person works in the penguin pen (企鹅圈养地) at Sea World. Maybe the person is going to visit an ice skating rink where the air is kept very cold. All of these things could be a cause for putting on a heavy jacket.
Now, think about a second example. The effect is a boy named Tony has to go to the head teacher’s office. What are the possible causes? Maybe he fought with another student. Maybe he is just being picked up early. Maybe he is being given a prize!
Here is another example for you to think about its cause and effect. Carol，13，was trying to fall asleep when her 8-year-old brother, Doug, came into her room. He looked around a bit，but seemed really out of it. Then Doug went back into the hallway and stood there looking straight up at the hall light for quite a while. Little brothers can be very strange，but this was really much too strange. Carol didn’t know what to do. Just then, Carol’s father appeared and explained that Doug was sleepwalking. What’s the cause and effect, could you tell?
1.According to the second paragraph，which of the following is an effect?
A. Someone puts on a heavy jacket.
B. Someone works in the penguin pen.
C. Someone will go outside into cold weather.
D. Someone will go to visit an ice skating rink.
2.Tony has to go to the head teacher’s office. Which of the following isn’t the possible cause?
A. He fought with another student. B. He is going shopping.
C. He is being picked up early. D. He is being given a prize.
3.What was Doug doing when his sister Carol tried to fall asleep?
A. He was going outside. B. He was reading a story.
C. He was sleepwalking. D. He was looking for his dad.
4.Which of the following is cause and effect?
A. Tony got up and had a glass of water.
B. We came home and found him sleeping.
C. The ball was lost and a window was broken.
D. Tim was late again and his teacher got angry.
A couple from Miami, Bill and Simone Butler, spent sixty-six days in a life-raft(救生艇) in the seas of Central America after their boat sank.
Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their boat, Simony, they met some whales. “They started to hit the side of the boat,” said Bill, “and then suddenly we heard water.” Two minutes later, the boat was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go under the water.
For twenty days they had tins of food, biscuits, and bottles of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water — two things which saved their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw(生的). Then the line broke. “So we had no more fish until something very strange happened. Some sharks came to feed, and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands.”
About twenty ships passed them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea their life-raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing boat saw them and picked them up. They couldn’t stand up.
So the captain carried them onto his boat and took them to Costa Rica. Their two months at sea was over.
1.Bill and Simone were traveling _______ when they met some whales.
A. in a life-raft B. in Miami
C. in Simony D. in Panama
2.The whales hit the side of the boat, and then _______.
A. they brought in a lot of water
B. they broke the side of the boat
C. they pulled the boat
D. they went under the water
3.During their days at sea, _______ saved their lives.
A. tins of food and bottles of water
B. a fishing-line and a machine
C. whales and sharks
D. Twenty passing ships
4.When they saw the fishing boat which later picked them up, _______.
A. they were too happy to stand up
B. they couldn’t wait to climb onto the boat
C. their life-raft was beginning to break up
D. they knew their two months at sea would be over
The Round Bird is not like any other birds. He has a big round body but with little wings. He can not fly but he expects to play with other birds in the sky. Every day and in many ways, he tries to fly. And he tries again and again. But nothing works. Then he thinks it will be better use the tree. It is very hard for a little bird to do so, but he climbs up the tree! The Round Bird really wants to learn to fly. A few minutes later, he sits on a branch and gets ready to jump and flap his wings. He practices many times and flap some more, but they don’t work! In the end, he climbs down the tree and starts thinking seriously.
After thinking for a long time, he knows that although he really wants to fly and tries hard, there are some birds are not able to do. He can’t fly because of his body and his little wings. But he knows that there are still some things he is able to. Then the only job for the Round Bird is to find those special things that only special birds like him can do.
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The Round Bird has little wings
B. The Round Bird can fly with other birds.
C. The Round Bird can fly if he tries hard.
D. The Round Bird can not climb up the tree.
2.What’s the Round Bird like?
A. Beautiful and friendly.
B. Lazy but funny.
C. Hard-working and good at thinking.
D. Smart but lazy.
3.Which of the words had the same meaning as “flap”?
A. Swing. B. Break. C. Nod D. Show.
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A. Every bird can fly.
B. We can make our dream come true if we try hard.
C. We should think twice before we do something.
D. We should find the most suitable (适合) things for us to do.
Here are some important events in August in Britain.
Great British Beer Festival Tue.3 Aug—Sat.7 Aug London Drink, music and other entertainments. This is held at Earls Court. http:// www.gbbf. org | Edinburgh International Festival Fri. 13 Aug – Sun. 5 Sep. Edinburgh A festival of classical music, operas and dances in Edinburgh http://www.eif.co.uk |
Bristol International Balloon Festival Thur.12 Aug— Sun. 15 Aug. Europe’s largest hot-air balloon festival, with over 100 balloons taking part. http:// www. Bristolfiesta.co.uk
| Summer Bank Holiday Mon. 30 Aug. A public holiday in English, Wales and Northern Ireland. People take trips or short vacations during the holiday. For more: travel/transport |
1.How long does Great British Beer Festival last?
A. 4 days. B. 5 days. C. 24 days. D. 1 day.
2.If you are in the UK at the end of August, you can probably take part in __________.
A. Summer Bank Holiday
B. Great British Beer Festival
C. Edinburgh International Festival
D. Bristol International Balloon Festival
3.What is Bristol International Balloon Festival about?
A. Food. B. Music C. Balloons. D. Vacations.
完形填空。（本题有15小题，每小题1分，共计15分）
The phone rang once twice—then someone picked it up. “You got the wrong number!” a man’s voice said before the line went __ .
But I called again. “I said you got the wrong number!” came the voice. Once more the phone clicked in my __ .
How could he know I had a wrong number? So I tried a __ _ time. The man said, “Is that you again?” “Yeah, it’s me.” I answered. “I wonder how you knew I had the wrong number before I even said nothing.” “None of my business. You __ _it out!” He hung up the phone again.
I sat there for a short time and then called the man back. “Have you __ __with it yet?” he asked. “The only thing I can think of is …__ _ever calls you.” “You got it!” The phone died for the fourth time.
I rang him again. “Well I thought maybe I should be the first to __ to you.” He began to laugh and told me, “My name is Adolf Meth. I’m 88 years old and I haven’t had so many wrong numbers in one day in 20 years” We both __ _. We talked for ten minutes. Adolf had no family, no friends, just like me. Everyone he had been __ _ to had died.
Since then we became phone friends. We called each other almost every day. And I told him about my life and my__ _. On one phone about a disagreement that I’d had with my boss, I told him, “I think I should have it out with him.”
Adolf said, “Let things __ _down. When you get as old as I am you find out that time takes care of a lot. If things get __ _, and then you can talk to him.”
“You know,” he said softly one day, “I’m talking to you just the way I’d talk to a boy __ _ my own. I always wanted a family—and children.”
One morning I received a call to tell me he had died the night before. With tears in eyes I heard him asking __ I wanted to call him again and again. “Because you__ to me, Adolf…because I was your friend.” I whispered, “I didn’t get the wrong number at all. I got you.”
1.A. busy B. dead C. bad D. wrong
2.A. heart B. mind C. head D. ear
3.A. third B. second C. first D. fourth
4.A. keep B. put C. speak D. work
5.A. got along B. come up C. done well D. gone through
6.A. nobody B. somebody C. everybody D. who
7.A. pay attention B.look forward C. introduce myself D. say hello
8.A. joked B. agreed C. laughed D. smiled
9.A. pleased B. friendly C. known D. close
10.A. questions B. worries C. problems D. answers
11.A. cool B. get C. calm D. turn
12.A. less B. more C. worse D. better
13.A. on B. in C. of D. for
14.A. how B. when C. why D. whether
15.A. mattered B. meant C. preferred D. Answered
书面表达（共l 题，计20 分）
学校英语校报开辟专栏讨论学生学习生活，Helen想要投稿参与讨论。假如你是Helen, 请根据表格所给提示，并作合理发挥，写一篇80词左右的英语短文。
提示词：垃圾食品 junk food
注意：
1. 表达中必须包含所给要点，可以适当发挥，不要简单翻译。
2. 表达中请勿提及真实校名及姓名。词数90左右。
Problems
| 1.常常熬夜，感觉很疲劳，压力大 |
2.经常感冒，感到虚弱 | |
3.和父母不时有争执 | |
4.……（自拟两点） | |
Suggestions
| 1.步行或骑车上学，每天锻炼一小时 |
2.拒绝垃圾食品，多吃蔬菜和水果 | |
3. 制定学习计划，10点前上床睡觉 | |
4.……（自拟两点） |
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