1.Our life ______(change) a lot in the last few years.
2.The villagers got clean drinking water by ______(dig) a deep hole.
3.He is a fan of Jolin. He is often heard ______(sing) Jolin's songs.
4.______ (reduce) air pollution, we'd better ride more often than before.
5.She hurt herself badly and ______(send) to hospital at once.
6.We must get there before the film ______(begin ).Let's hurry.
7.Who ______(speak ) at the meeting this afternoon? I think Mr. Lee is.
8.Your broken bicycle, I think，needs ______(repair).
1.The teacher and students ___/'mænidʒd/ to run out of the building in the earthquake.
2.In some foreign countries, things like glass，plastic and paper are usually ______/'sepəreitid/ into different groups and then recycled.
3.John lives in a big family. But he doesn't know all his ______/'relətivz/ names.
4.He is ______(骄傲)to be a volunteer for the Special Olympics World Games.
5.Because of colour ______(盲)，Jim can't join the army.
6.All the Chinese celebrated the ______(成功的)landing of Shenzhou-9 spacecraft.
7.There is an ______(介绍)to the scientist in this magazine.
8.We need more ______(秘书)to help us finish the task.
9.Our school is ______the theatre, on the other side of the road.
10.—Why don't you buy a new flat, Lisa?
—It's too expensive. I can't ______it.
It is believed in some ways that the daughter is father’s lover. But my experience has taught me in a different way. For a long time, my father has been a very vague figure（模糊的形象）to me. He was a man of few words, tall but slim and nothing else.
When I was in primary school, my father was never there to pick me up, and he never came to any of my parent-teacher meetings. He was always busy doing projects. I remember when I was in middle school and my head was badly hurt in a PE class. During my operation, my father was nowhere to be found. This hurt me most. At that moment, I considered my father as a cold-blooded man who did not care about me at all.
But things seemed different at my high school graduation ceremony, where I was chosen to represent my class and give a speech. My father, once again, told me he had a business trip in a place outside the city and would be unable to show up（露面）. “Don’t come. I will be very nervous if I see you,” I told him.
I remember my speech went smoothly. After the ceremony was over and I was about to leave. I suddenly noticed a familiar（熟悉的）looking man sitting in a corner of the hall. It was my father! I was so surprised that I rushed to him with tears（眼泪）running down my face. “Well done,” he said. His eyes were also filled with tears.
Later, I found out that my father had managed to finish his work by staying up late, and he drove for eight hours to get back. He had been sitting in the corner because he didn’t want me to see him. My father remembered every word in my speech.
For much of my life, I described my father was a cold-blooded man who only cared about his work. But when I thought deeply about this, it was obviously（明显地）not true. At my graduation ceremony. I could feel my father’s deep love. The fact is that seeing is not believing, and seeing may not be the fact if we don’t perceive（感知）the world with our hearts and minds. There’s no doubt that life doesn’t lack（缺少）love, but sometimes our eyes have trouble seeing it.
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The writer’s father was in the hospital during her operation.
B. The writer’s father attended her high school graduation ceremony.
C. The writer’s father sometimes picked her up when she was in primary school
D. The writer’s father went to parent-teacher meeting when she was in primary school.
2. The writer rushed to her father with tears running down her face mainly because .
A. she gave a speech successfully
B. the graduation ceremony was over
C. she was so nervous that she couldn’t help crying
D. she was touched to find her father cared about her
3.What does the underlined word “this” in the last paragraph refer to（指代）?
A. That my father was always doing projects.
B. That my father was a cold-blooded man.
C. That my father sat in the corner of the hall.
D. That my father’s eyes were filled with tears.
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. My busy father B. Life is full of love
C. Seeing is not believing D. A wonderful speech
At sunrise in a fishing port of eastern Spain(西班牙)，several fishing boats have already set out. These fishermen were hunting for fish，shrimps and plastic bottles.
They were working for ECOAIF, a local clothing company. Since July，the company has been working with the fishermen to pick up plastic rubbish in the Mediterranean(地中海).The rubbish will
be used to make fashinable clothes.
"Where others see rubbish, we see raw material," said Javier Goyeneche, president(董事长)of ECOAIF. "We're showing that through recycling, we are able to create(创造)fashion. " ECOAIF was founded in 2010. The Spanish company now sells its clothes made from rubbish in big cities around the world. Goyeneche said the clothes had been very popular in the US, Japan and some European countries.
"People really love it," Goyeneche added. "Today's customers(顾客)are showing more and more interest in environmenal protection. Besides，clothes made from rubbish are very light. They are really comfortable and cheap.”
1.What may the underlined word "shrimps" be?
A. A kind of seafood. B. A kind of plant.
C. A kind of bird. D. A kind of flower.
2.What is ECOAIF according to the passage?
A. A famous person. B. A clothing company.
C. A social organization. D. A number of dustbins.
3.The workers in ECOAIF can make clothes .
A. through recycling B. from expensive material
C. from cheap material D. from the rubbish on the land
4.Which of the following is NOT the reason why people like clothes made from rubbish?
A. People are interested in environmental protection.
B. The clothes made from rubbish are very light.
C. The clothes made from rubbish are very cheap.
D. People like all kinds of rubbish in the ocean.
Have you ever wondered(疑惑)what goes through your mind when you choose where to sit in a new classroom? Or in a waiting room, full of strangers? Or on a bus? Researchers(研究者)have found out some interesting facts.
Girls sit by girls and boys sit by boys. Adults sit together and young people choose another young person to sit near. But it goes further than this. We even choose to sit near someone who looks like us. People with glasses are more likely to sit near other people with glasses. People with long hair sit closer to other people with long hair.
We seem to believe that people with similar habits or hobbies will share similar experiences and we are more likely to be accepted场people like ourselves, or even，we think we may be safer with people who look like us. Sometimes that's true but it's a pity if we always stay with the same people，the same group. The danger always staying in our comfort zone(舒适区)is that we just recycle the same opinions, the same tastes and the same ideas. We lose the chance to learn something new, find out interesting things, hear funny stories and find differences.
When we always stay with the same people, how can we break down the barriers(隔阂)which prevent us from getting to know people with different ideas? And how can we avoid the ignorance(无知)?If you want to live in a society that opens to changes, new things and different opinions, be the cat among the pigeons(鸽子).
Move out of your comfort zone. Go and sit next to someone different. And don't just sit there without any words. Say hello. Ask a question. Start a conversation. That' s how we make friends. That's how we learn about people. That's how we open our minds to new ideas. That's how we live an exciting life.
1.People like staying in their comfort zone because they may .
A. remain comfortable and special
B. find out more interesting things
C. be accepted easily and feel safe
D. discover differences among themselves
2.The sentence "Unsurprisingly, we prefer to sit closer to people like ourselves. " should be put at the beginning of
A. Paragraph 1 B. Paragraph 2 C. Paragraph 3 D. Paragraph 4
3.What is the purpose of the article?
A. To tell us not to talk with strangers.
B. To introduce ways to learn about the world.
C. To explain how people communicate with foreigners.
D. To encourage(鼓励)us to get along with different people.
As teenagers，you have many dreams. These can be very big such as winning the Nobel Prize. Or they can be small, you may just want to become one of the best students in your class.
Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Have you ever tried to make your dream real? Follow Your Heart by an Australian writer Andrew Matthews tells us that making our dreams real is life's biggest challenge(挑战).
You may think you are not very good at some school subjects, or it is impossible for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts stop you from realizing your dream, the book says.
In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is. Don't let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step，and your dream will come true because a big dream, in fact, comes from many small dreams.
You must also never give up your dream.
There will be difficulties on the way to your dreams. But the biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will lead to better exam results，while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book. As you get closer to your dream，it may change a little. This is good as you have the chance to learn more skills and find new interests.
1.What is Follow Your Heart?
A. The first thing you must do to make your dream real
B. The most important dream to have for teenagers
C. The name of the book by Andrew Matthews
D. The name of the famous Australian writer
2.If you want to make your dream real , you should .
A. remember what your dream is B. keep telling yourself what you want
C. never be afraid of difficulties D. try to start with all the things above
