They ___________ for two hours
A. is working B. worked C. have been working D. had worked
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
Learning to study is not difficult. The first thing to remember is that you must be willing to learn. It doesn't mean that you must always like the subject. It does mean, however, that you must be willing to learn whatever is necessary. Try to understand why it is important and how it will help you now and later. Knowing mathematical facts will be useful in your whole life. Knowing how to spell words makes any kind of writing easier. Sometimes the subject that you think is going to be uninteresting and it will be attractive when you began to work on it. Learning things can be fun if you can try your best.
Here’s some advice for you: have a certain time each day and a quiet place with good lighting for study, so that you can concentrate on you study without interruptions. Have everything ready before you sit down to study, a dictionary, paper, a pen and books. Be sure you understand what you should learn before you start. Read carefully and pay special attention to the most important things. When memorizing, find out the main parts and then recite the whole thing. Check your homework after you finish it. Never forget the importance of review and preview.
【写作内容】
1. 以约30个词概括短文的内容要点。
2. 然后以约120词就“想学就能学好”的主题发表看法， 并包含如下要点：
1） 以亲身经历说明只有想学才能学好这个道理；
2） 学习本身就是乐趣；
3） 要有良好的学习方法；
4） 学习并不是难事。
【写作要求】
可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的观点， 也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不要直接引用原文中的句子。
【评分标准】
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯
完成句子（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
1.每日起床后，他都喝一杯水，这对他的身体有好处。
_______________________,he always drinks a glass of water,_______________________
2.在他的一生中，他总是设法帮助那些比他不幸的人。
_____________________, he has always tried to help those ___________________________.
3.两国交战多年，人民苦难深重。
As the two countries have been__________________, people there ______________________.
4.虽然他自己觉得并没有做了什么突出的事情，他的邻居们却对他交口称赞。
His neighbours _____________though he himself didn't think he _____________ special.
5.此后，琥珀屋的去处便成了一个谜。
After that,_________________ the Amber Room ___________________________.
单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
1.What ________ (素质) does a great person have?
2.It is unfair that he gets very little in ________ (报酬) for his hard work.
3.I knew it would help us achieve our dream of making black and white people _____. (平等)
4.The police had the criminal trapped in a narrow street where he could not ________(逃跑).
5.It was on September11, 2001 that the terrorists ___ (袭击) New York’s World Trade Center.
6.The front passengers were lucky to ________(幸存) the accident.
7.We stayed in a ___________ (豪华的) hotel near the Tian'anmen Square.
8.Lions and tigers __________(属于) to the cat family.
9.The ship ________(下沉) to the bottom of the sea last year.
10.He _________ (搬走) the table to the kitchen yesterday.
信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
首先， 请阅读下面几个网站的介绍：
A. www.moviefan.com
If you are a super fan of movies, TV series and cartoons, please visit this website. You can watch them online. You can also download them from the Internet.
B. www.nba.com
This is a website about Ameirican National Basketball Association, where you can find all the information about the NBA teams and the scores of basketball matches. If you are interested in basketball stars you can also find a lot of introduction about them.
C. www.utoronto.ca/writing/advise.html
This online writing course provides a number of resources for intermediate ESL learners who want to improve their writing skills. The site provides varieties of topics, sample essays, and writing suggestions.
D. www.wiseshpper.com
If you like shopping online, it is the best website for you. Here you can find anything you want, such as food, clothes, books and so on. We’re sure that you can enjoy the same shopping pleasure as in the shopping center!
E. www.rollingstone.com
This is a music website and you can find a lot of latest songs. The most interesting thing about this website is that you can even record your song in the website and allow others to enjoy your voice! It’s wonderful, isn’t it?
F. www.book.com.cn
Do you like reading? Do you want to write your own books? If yes, it is the very website for you. Here you can not only read others’ books but also write your own books. Besides, you can ask famous writers for advice on how to improve your writing skills.
请阅读以下人物的信息，然后为他/她匹配感兴趣的网站。
1.Amy is taking ESL soon. But she is still not sure about her writing ability, so she is eager to look for a website with various writing materials.
2.Charles likes watching movies on the Internet at home instead of going out with his friends. He says he wants to be a director (导演) in the future.
3.Mary is a basketball fan. Now she is a member of School Basketball Club, where she meets many students who are talented in playing basketball. They often exchange information about the famous basketball stars.
4.Alice likes writing and she wants to be a writer like J.K. Rowling. She wants to find a website for people who like writing and reading.
5.Janet works in a big company and is well-paid. Though she likes shopping very much, she is very busy and can’t spare(抽出) any time for shopping.
English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the world’s books and three quarters of international mail are in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vocabulary—perhaps as many as two million words.
However, let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no eggs in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But when we explore its paradoxes ( 探讨它的矛盾)， we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them.
And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural(复数形式) of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be teeth? One goose, two geese—so one moose, two meese?
How can a slim chance and a flat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects( 反映) the creativity of human beings. That’ why, when stars are invisible. And why , when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
1.According to the passage ______.
A. sweet-meats and sweetbreads are different things
B. there should be an egg in an eggplant
C. pineapples are the apples on the pine tree
D. boxing rings should be round
2.Which of the following is the correct plural?
A. Beeth B. Greese C. Meese D. Tooth
3.Which of the following includes two items which have the similar meaning?
A. A wise man and a wise guy B. Overlook and oversee
C. Quite a lot and quite a few. D. Hot as hell and cold as hell.
4.The underlined words “wind up” in the last paragraph probably mean “___”.
A. blow B. roll up C. get hurt D. finish
5.Through the many paradoxes in the English language, the writer wants to show that human beings are _______.
A. clever B. crazy C. lazy D. dull
