— Sandy, _______ apple on the table is for you. Remember to eat it.
—Thanks, I will. _____ apple a day keeps the doctor away.
A. a; An B. the; An
C. an; The D. the; A
书面表达（15分）
某英文报举办“家乡的变化”主题征文活动。请根据下表提示，以“The changes in my hometown”为题，用英语写一篇90词左右的短文，不必逐字逐句翻译。
过去 | 道路狭窄、肮脏，垃圾遍地。人们居住在很小的旧房子里。他们过去常常在空闲时间听广播或看电视。 |
现在 | 在过去的几年中，我的家乡发生了很大变化。道路宽阔、干净，两边有许多绿树。大多数人已经搬进了新公寓。此外，大多数家庭有了电脑。 许多家庭甚至有了自己的小汽车。人们正享受舒适的生活。 |
将来 | 希望……（至少一点） |
The changes in my hometown
短文填空（10分）
If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time，they become weak；when you start using them again，they slowly become strong again．Everybody knows that．Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the s 1. way．
When someone says that he has a good memory，he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by u 2. it．When someone else says that his memory is poor，he really means that he does not give it enough c 3. to become strong．
If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak. We know that it is his fault（过错）．But if he tells us that he has a poor memory， many of us think that his p 4. are to blame（责备），and few of us know that it is just his o 5. fault．
Have you ever f 6. that some people can’t read o 7. write but they have better memories? This is b 8. they cannot read or write and they h 9. to remember things；they cannot write them down in a little notebook．They have to remember days，names，songs and stories；so their memory is the whole time being exercised．
So if you want to have a good memory， learn f 10. the people: practise remembering．
任务型阅读（10分）
Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago， there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people moved from place to place. They moved over the land， hunting（打猎）animals for food.
A long time passed. These people began growing crops. No one knows how or when those people learned about growing food. But when they did， their lives changed， they did not have to move houses any more.
They could stay in one place and grow it. People began to live near each other. And so the first villages grew. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages grew bigger and bigger. Then people had machines， and lives in the villages changed again. They built factories. So the villages grew into cities. Some of them grew very big.
Today， some people are moving back to small towns.
1.How many people were there in the world long long ago?
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2.When didn’t people have to move houses any more ?
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3.What did the villages grow into after people built factories?
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4.Why did people move from place to place long long ago?
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5.Who knows when people learned about growing food?
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词汇运用（15分）
1.He usually ___________（放松）20 hours every day ， can he succeed?
2.He studies in an _____________（国际的）school.
3.We listened to some interesting ______________（节目）last night.
4.The little girl will travel____________（在国外）to learn more about art.
5.—Do you know Hong Kong? —Yes， it ____________（回归）to China in 1997.
6.Everyone was attracted by the natural _________（beautiful）.
7.These handbags are their __________（wife）.
8.In summer， we can go ____________（sail）in Sanya.
9.______the baby ________（stop）crying yet?
10.Who _______________（break）the glass? It was all right just now.
11.My brother often uses his iPad______________（search）for information.
12.—How do you get on well with English?—After several _________（year）study， we have learnt much knowledge.
13.She ______________（borrow）this book for two weeks.
14.Is your father at home?
— No， I’m afraid he ____________（go）out.
What do you think of the most important inventions in the world? The TV? The printing? The telephone? Or the computer? A report shows that they are not the only important inventions. Here are three other important inventions.
One of the simplest inventions is the toilet. Before toilets， waste ran into rivers from people’s houses. Illnesses were common in big cities， and it was often difficult to find clean drinking water.
Animal food is another important invention. Before the invention， most animals were killed every autumn because there was not enough food for them in winter. After hay became a kind of common animal food， animals could live through the long winter.
The third great invention is glasses. Glasses help people read， write and do “close work” after the age of forty-five. Without glasses， the world would be difficult for the people above forty-five.
Important 1.______________ | |
Some most important inventions | The TV， the 2.________， the3.__________， the computer |
Three other important inventions | Before the inventions |
the 4.________ | 5.________ ran into rivers from people’s houses. |
6._________ were common in big cities. | |
It was often difficult to find 7.____________ drinking water. | |
animal food | Most animals were killed in 8.___________ because there wasn’t enough food in winter. |
9.___________ | Reading， writing and “close work” would be difficult for the people over10.____________. |
