When I was eight years old, my family moved from Edinburgh to London because father started a new job there. It was hundreds of miles away from my grandmother, so we sometimes spent hours ______ to Edinburgh to visit her when we missed her terribly.
Grandmother never had much. She didn't have ______ things, or live in a nice house, but I could feel with my ______ that she loved us deeply, especially when my world was turned upside down ______ my mother and father divorced(离婚) two years later.
I still remember those little things, Grandmother allowed me to sit on top of her ______ table, getting me to dip(蘸) my fingers in the sugar bowl or ______ from her coffee cup. Grandmother had a beautiful bottle high on a shelf. One day after her ______， I received a box. To my surprise, I found the ______ inside. She remembered once I had asked her for it.
Grandmother ______ her pennies(便士) in a glass jar. She could use those pennies herself but she kept ______ for my brother Tommy and me. And I was always ______ to divide the pennies between my brother and me. “One for you, one for me，” I would repeat(重复) ______ the jar was empty. I don't remember how much we got on our visits, but I know that's ______ she loved us and cared about us when we were far away from her. So if I am ______ enough to find a penny lying on the ground one day, I am sure it is just the one from Grandmother in heaven(天堂)．
Those childhood memories have never gone away from me. Instead, they still give me warm feelings through the years. A grandmother's ______ stays with a grandchild as long as he needs it. You know, love is just like that.
1.A. hiking B. running C. driving D. walking
2.A. normal B. expensive C. cheap D. old
3.A. life B. heart C. idea D. thought
4.A. because B. unless C. while D. before
5.A. bedroom B. garden C. bathroom D. kitchen
6.A. fill B. eat C. use D. drink
7.A. die B. dead C. death D. died
8.A. bottle B. box C. bowl D. cup
9.A. used B. found C. saved D. lost
10.A. them B. it C. her D. us
11.A. excite B. exciting C. excited D. excitement
12.A. if B. as C. although D. until
13.A. what B. how C. when D. where
14.A. patient B. sad C. lucky D. bored
15.A. interest B. love C. smile D. mind
书面表达
根据下表内容要点，请你根据你的笔友李明的基本情况、困惑，给他提一些建议。
基本 情况 | 出生日期 | 2002年6月23日 |
星座 | Cancer | |
个性 | 活泼外向，注重细节。 | |
爱好 | 热爱大自然，加入Birdwatching Club 两年了。 | |
困惑 | 学习 | 作业多，睡眠少，上课打瞌睡，压力大。 |
情感 | 父母忙于工作，不时感到孤独。 | |
建议 | 穿白色衣服，因为…… | |
…… | ||
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要求：1. 层次清楚，语句通顺、意思连贯、书写规范；
2. 短文必须包括以上要点，可作适当的发挥；
3. 词数不得少于90个词；
4. 文中不得出现真实的人名、校名或地名。
Li Ming is my pen friend. He
七、任务型阅读
Good morning, boys and girls. Today I’ll give you a talk about going online.
We know that there are too many net bars（网吧）around us. The Internet makes our lives interesting and enjoyable. Many of us like going online very much because we can learn how to use the computer. We can learn English and read some newspapers and magazines to know more information around us. It can make us clever in playing computer games. Also when we send e-mails to our friends, they can get them right away. It can help us keep in touch with people from all over the world.
But some students spend too much time in playing computer games and some stay in the net bars all day and all night. It takes them too much time to chat online, so they don’t do better in their lessons and they don’t study well any more. I think we mustn’t get online when it is time for us to study. We can do it in summer or winter holidays. I think we should get online with our teachers or parents.
At the same time, if we have lots of free time, we can do some activities after school. We usually have activities from 4:50 to 5:50 in the afternoon. We can play basketball or football. We also have some interest groups in school, such as drawing, singing and dancing. We can go to the English corner on Monday afternoon. I hope we can spend more time on our subjects or on such activities that we can learn a lot from and less time on the Internet.
That’s all! Thank you.
阅读以上信息，用恰当的单词完成下面的表格，每空一词。
Title (标题):A 1. About Going Online | |
Advantages | Make our lives interesting and make us2.our lives. Learn how to use the computer and can get more 3.. 4. e-mails to our friends anytime and they can get them right away. Help us keep in 5.with people from all over the world. |
Disadvantages | It 6.too much time to play computer games. Some students spend too much time 7.online, so they do 8.in their lessons. |
9. | Do it in summer or winter holidays; do some 10. activities and have some interest groups in school. |
短文填空
One day, our English teacher Mr Smith came into the classroom with a book in his hand. He started his lesson with a question, “Who can d1. what stress is like?” No one answered. Then he raised the book and asked, “How heavy is the book?” We b2. to think and guess. One student stood up and said, “I think it is 100 grams.” Another student said, “It is 200 grams.” Our answers were d3.. At last, Mr Smith explained, “The real weight doesn’t m4.. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have a pain in my right arm. If I hold it for a d5., I will have to ask you to send me a doctor. It is the exact same weight, but the longer I hold it, the h6. it becomes. This book stands for stress. If you hold it without p7. it down, sooner or later, you will not be a8. to hold on. No matter how much stress you have, stop and take a rest if possible. Boys and girls, you should learn to relax y9.. I am sure you will live a happy school life.” We will n10. forget Mr Smith and this meaningful lesson.
It seems school children all over the world complain about their school food. Cherie Blair,the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, said that she would prepare a packed lunch for her son if school dinners do not improve. So what do students of your age eat for lunch at school?
Japan
High schools have canteens(餐厅), which serve everything from noodles to rice, but not burgers and chips. Other children bring food from home such as cold rice balls, meat or fish,pickles(泡菜) and vegetables.
Students take home a menu for the coming month including notes on nutrition value. Twice a year parents are invited to have a taste of the food. The class with the fewest leftovers(剩饭) at the end of the month receives a prize.
United States
A typical menu from an American school is made up of a hamburger with fried potatoes or roast chicken, fruit and cookies. School lunches must also provide at least one-third of the daily dietary allowances(定量) of protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, calcium, and calories.
Australia
Meat pies, sausage rolls and hot dogs are all traditional dishes in Australian school shops. But as the country pays more attention to children’s health, healthier foods have started to find their way onto school menus.
Many schools have used a traffic light system. The sale of red-labelled foods, like pastries(点心), chocolate and soft drinks, is served only twice a week. Healthier green-labelled foods such as sushi(寿司), sandwiches, corn and watermelon. In some schools, students have a choice of up to 89 foods to choose from, including popcorn and rice.
South Africa
Most of South Africa’s schools do not serve meals at all. Classes end at 1:30 p m and students get their own lunches. Many students bring food from home, usually sandwiches. Fast food and fried food sell the best among students. But as more people began to realize the fact that being too fat may cause different diseases, some schools in towns have led the way towards better nutrition. Now students at these schools are provided with porridge(麦片粥) with vegetables, such as onions,beans, carrots and tomatoes.
1.Cherie Blair thought that .
A. her son should enjoy his school dinners
B. Tony Blair should complain about he school food
C. she was too busy to make packed lunch for her son
D. school dinners in her son’s school were not good enough
2.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. There are no canteens in most schools in South Africa.
B. School lunches in the United States have enough nutrition.
C. Australian schools encouraged students to eat red-labelled foods.
D. Not all schools in Japan have canteens to serve food to students.
3.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. All traditional dishes in Australian school shops are very healthy.
B. There are a lot of traffic lights in most Australian schools.
C. Australian schools have started to serve healthier foods to students.
D. Chocolate and watermelon are regarded (看作) as healthier foods in Australia.
4.From the passage, we know that .
A. high school canteens in Japan serve all kinds of food
B. one third of the students in the US have lunch at school
C. school serve different foods from country to country
D. Australian students are not allowed to buy soft drinks
As an Englishman, I can speak three languages—English, German and French, so do you think the British people are very good language learners? The fact is that they aren’t.
Some statistics（数据）from the survey done by the European Commission（欧盟委员会）showed that 62% of the British people only speak English. 38% speak at least one foreign language and 18% speak two or more. Compared with the British people, 56% of the people in other European countries speak at least one foreign language and 28% speak two or more. From this you can see that the British people are famous for not speaking foreign languages and that they are not good language learners in Europe.
And the survey also showed that English is the most widely-spoken foreign language. Many European people can have a conversation in English. That’s why my people don’t think it is necessary to learn a foreign language.
In Britain, students are not required to learn a foreign language. That means learning a foreign language is only an option at school. In UK schools it is common for children to start learning a foreign language at 11 and many of them give it up at 14. So why don’t students continue learning foreign languages at school? Because they think it is more difficult to get good marks in languages than in other subjects such as science or history.
To solve this situation, the British government is looking for different ways to improve language learning at school. One way is to start learning it at a much younger age. Another one is to give school children more choices.
Changing the British attitude（态度）to learning foreign languages may be a hard task but the government decided to try!
1.Which of the following about the British people is TRUE?
A. They are good language learners.
B. 62% of them speak two or more languages.
C. More than half of them only speak English.
D. They are famous for speaking foreign languages.
2.In Paragraph 4, “option” means .
A. game B. choice C. mistake D. conversation
3.What is the best title of the passage?
A. Speaking English B. Young English learners
C. Schools in the UK D. Foreign Language Learning in the UK
