In 1998, Liu Xiang’s ________ in hurdling was noticed by Sun Haiping．
A．abilityB．trade
C．electricityD．memory
书面表达
研究表明音乐对人类的的情绪、疾病，甚至对人的学习效果都有着重要的影响。请你以Music and I为题，按照下列要点写一篇英语短文：你对音乐的看法是什么？在学习的时候你被允许听音乐吗？你喜欢什么样的音乐及喜欢的理由是什么？注意：词数80－100，文章题目和开头已给出（不计入总词数）。参考词汇：mood，learning efficiency（学习效率）
Music and I
Research has shown that music has an important effect on people.
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选词填空（共1小题）
根据语篇内容，用方框中所给词的正确形式填空，使短文意思通顺、连贯。方框中有两个词为多余。
“It’s over! Thank goodness!” School was over and I was tired. I 1. in the front of school bus.
Janie, the driver, tried 2. the uncomfortable atmosphere(气氛) by striking the match of talks. I tried to listen, but 3. I was too busy thinking about my day. On this day, 4. , her talk was worth listening to.
“ 5. father’s ill,” she said to no one in particular（特别的）, I could see worry in her 6. . I had never seen her like this before. She always met students with a smile.
“What’s wrong with him?” I asked.
7. her eyes wet and her voice unusual, she answered, “Heart trouble.” Her eyes lowered as she continued. “I 8. my mom, so I didn’t think I can stand losing him.” I couldn’t answer. My heart ached for her.
I sat on the seat thinking of th
e great pain my own mother 9. into when my grandfather died. I wouldn’t want anyone to go through that.
Suddenly I realized Janie wasn’t only a bus driver, that was just her job. She had a whole world of family and cares, too. I suddenly felt very 10. . I paid no attention to Janie because she was a bus driver. I shouldn’t have been self-centered.
Understanding people is an art.
信息匹配（共1小题）
根据对话内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出最佳选项。选项中有两项是多余项。
Rita and Lisa are at home. Rita is surfing the Internet and Lisa is reading a book.
Rita: Hi, Lisa. 1.
Lisa: Yes, of course. I really want some cheap film tickets. There is a new film in the theater now. 2.
Rita: Forty yuan for one ticket.
Lisa: 3. Usually one ticket is about 100 yuan.
Rita: Yeah, it’s the usual price. But, here, on this group-buying website, it’s much cheaper.
Lisa: Let me see. (Come to the computer.) Yes, it’s true!
Rita: Now, many of my friends buy film tickets on this website.
Lisa: Just now you said “group-buying”. 4.
Rita: It’s “B2T”-Business to Team. In B2T, we can get bulk discounts(大幅优惠)
Lisa: So we can save a lot of money! 5.
Rita: That’s right. How many tickets do you want? We’d better hurry, for the tickets will sell out very soon.
Lisa: I want four tickets! Thank you very much.
Rita: You’re welcome.
阅读短文，回答问题。
Now and then we may all get ill. Then we usually go to see a doctor. Doctors know a lot about what makes us ill. They may give us some medicine to take. The medicine often makes us well again.
But sometimes medicine can’t drive the pain or hurt away. A sick person does not get well after taking enough medicine. This ever happened to one man. He was not getting well even if he had been in hospital for nearly a month. Then he found a new “doctor” inside himself. This “doctor” was his own sense of humor. He saw laughable films and read funny comic books. Something wonderful happened! Laughing took away his pain. Then he was able to sleep and rest well. He said laughing was his best “medicine”. His doctor thought so.
Here is another sick man. He had a terrible pain in his back. The doctors tried every effort to stop it from hurting, but failed. Then the man began to draw pictures in his mind. He “drew” a picture of a dog. He imagined it as a real dog that was biting (咬) his back and made him feel a lot of pain. Then the man talked softly to the dog and touched its head gently. He soon made friends with the dog and the dog didn’t bite him any more. To everyone’s surprise, his pain went away!
These stories may surprise you. But more and more people are getting well in this way. So call on the “doctor” inside your own heads. Stay happy and well!
1.Does medicine always work?
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2.Who was the first man’s new “doctor”?
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3.What was wrong with the second patient?
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4.Who made the second patient well again, the doctor or the "dog" in his head?
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5.Why do we need to call on the “doctor” inside our own heads?
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阅读短文，从每题所给的三个选项（A、B、C）中，选出最佳选项。
Do you know Roma people? They were called Gypsies（吉普赛人）by Europeans because they thought they came from Egypt(a country in Africa). About a thousand years ago, the Roma people left their homeland. They are known as nomads because for hundreds of years many of them have lived in large groups that travel from place to place. They have no real homeland.
Today, the Roma are now living all over the world. They have kept their language and many customs. For example, it’s important for Roma to marry other Roma. It’s also a custom for parents to choose the person their children will marry. Roma people get married when they are young, sometimes even as young as 14.
Romany is the language of the Roma people, which was written down only recently. Because the Roma are nomadic and have moved all over the world, their language has developed in many different ways. It is sometimes hard for Roma in one part of the world to understand Roma from another part.
Roma music is famous all over the world, because many Roma throughout history have been musicians. Their music has influenced many other kinds of music, like classical and jazz.
Roma don’t usually assimilate（同化） into host countries. Over many centuries, governments have forbidden them to marry each other, travel or wear their traditional bright clothes. They have their gold taken away from them-treasures（财富） from their parents and grandparents. They have been taken as slaves（奴隶）, and have been forced to change their names.
But today, the Roma are finding ways to live in peace with others while keeping the treasures of their culture. “There is a will within us to continue to live as a people,” says George Kaslov, whose family arrived in New York from Russia a hundred years ago. “All the other ethnic（种族） groups who came to America assimilate gradually with time going; they lose their customs and language. But not the Roma, We hold out.”
1.What does the underlined word “nomads” in the 1st paragraph mean?
A．People who move from place to place.
B．People who come from Roma.
C．People who have their own homeland.
2.What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?
A．George Kaslov has a strong will to live on.
B．The Roma still keep their customs and language.
C．The Roma are finding ways to keep the gold of their own.
3.What can we infer（推断） about the Roma according to the passage?
A．Most of the Roma live in very unusual houses.
B．Most Roma get married either when they are very young or very old.
C．Their culture is very different from other European cultures.
4.What is the main purpose of the passage?
A．To tell readers about an interesting culture.
B．To tell us why the Roma need our help.
C．To show us how all people are similar.
5.What would be the bes
t title for the passage?
A．Brave Roma Travelers
B．Famous Roma Music.
C．The Roma: Past and Present
