I toured Zhangjiajie, I was deeply impressed with its beautiful scenery.
A．The first time B．At first C．For the first time D．It was the first time
书面表达（满分25分）
以“真正的朋友”为主题发表你的看法，包括以下要点：
1）你认为什么样的朋友是真正的朋友；
2）描述你的一个朋友。
注意：100词左右。
单词拼写（共15小题，每小题1分，共15分）
1.The officers on duty have ____________(克服) all the difficulties, many of them in tears.
2.The Spring Festival Gala was broadcast live without ____________ (打断).
3.It was the boy that was scolded for not____________ (道歉)to the girl who was made fun of by him.
4.By ____________ (积累) as much wealth as possible, they finally came into power with their own financial support.
5.“It’s now or never!” she exclaimed, and she knew she shouldn’t have ____________ (犹豫).
6. Large ____________ (数量) of money have been put into the research to find out the cause for the cancer. http://www. .com/
7.Of course, no country has the ____________ (特权)of fishing in our coastal water.
8.A distant ____________ (亲戚)is not as good as a near neighbour.
9.Eating out ____________ (吸引) to me in my childhood, but it can’t now.
10.Having worked hard for such a long time, I can ____________ (自信地) promise that this year is going to be very different. http://www. .com/
11.As a designer, ____________ (想象) that customers are critical is very important.
12.He has no ____________ (抱负) or aim in his life. He only drifts along.
13.The Prime Minister ____________ (后悔)not having mentioned the problem at the international conference.
14.We think that he is the most ____________ (体贴的) person we have ever met.
15.____________ (沮丧) about her future, she began to take drugs and became addicted to it.
The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly-held image(形象) of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past. "We were surprised by just how positive today's young people seem to be about their families," said one member of the research team. "They're expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There's more negotiation(商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don't want to rock the boat."
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. "My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me," says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall. " I always tell them when I'm going out clubbing. As long as they know what I'm doing, they're fine with it." Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. "Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I'd done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that."
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, "Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over."
1.According to the author, teenage rebellion ________.
A．resulted from changes in families
B．may be a false belief
C．is common nowadays
D．existed only in the 1960s
2.What is the passage mainly about?
A．Education in family
B．Negotiation in family
C．Teenage trouble in family
D．Harmony in family
3.The study shows that teenagers don't want to ________.
A．go boating with their family
B．share family responsibility
C．make family decisions
D．cause trouble in their families
4.What is the popular images of teenagers today?
A．They dislike living with their parents
B．They quarrel a lot with other family members
C．They worry about school
D．They have to be locked in to avoid troubles
5.Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today's parents ________.
A．care less about their children's life
B．give their children more freedom
C．go to clubs more often with their children
D．are much stricter with their children
Authorities in Shanghai said Thursday night that another person has died from H7N9 bird flu, bringing the death toll to five around the country. The city has reported six infections (感染) to date, and four have died, said the Shanghai Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission. Of the rest two, there was a four-year-old, the agency said. The baby was recovering from mild illness, it added. The person died at Huashan Hospital on Wednesday and was confirmed infected with the H7N9 bird flu on Thursday.
Also on Thursday, the commission reported the city's third death from the H7N9 bird flu. The case involved a 48-year-old man surnamed Chu, a poultry (家禽) transporter from Rugao in neighboring Jiangsu Province. He developed symptoms(症状) of cough on March 28. After having a fever on Monday, he went to a private clinic for treatment. The man then sought help in the Tongji Hospital in Shanghai in the early hours of Wednesday after his condition worsened. Chu died three hours after being admitted to the hospital. He was confirmed infected with the H7N9 virus on Thursday. Eight people who had close contact with him have shown no abnormal symptoms.
So far, China has confirmed 14 H7N9 cases -- six in Shanghai, four in Jiangsu, three in Zhejiang and one in Anhui, in the first known human infections of the lesser-known type of bird flu. Of all, four died in Shanghai and one died in Zhejiang. China's Ministry of Agriculture said Thursday the H7N9 avian flu virus has been detected from pigeon (鸽子) samples collected at a marketplace in Songjiang District of Shanghai.
After gene sequence analysis, the national avian flu reference laboratory concluded that the H7N9 virus found on pigeons was highly congenetic with those found on persons infected with H7N9 virus. China's health authorities have promised transparency(透明) and cooperation (合作) to the World Health Organization in regards to human infections of the new type of bird flu. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that no human-to-human transmission of H7N9 has been discovered.
1.What does the underlined word “confirmed” probably mean?
A．said B．doubted C．proved D．made
2.What does the news report mainly about?
A．How many people died of H7N9 bird flu
B．How the development of the H7N9 bird flu vaccine (疫苗) is going on
C．What measures the government has taken to stop the spreading of H7N9
D．The new outbreak of the H7N9 bird flu
3.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the news report?
A．H7N9 bird flu has killed four people in Shanghai and one in Zhejiang.
B．H7N9 virus is not one that spreads from human to human
C．So far, China has confirmed 14 deaths from the H7N9 bird flu
D．The government agreed to cooperate with WHO in regards to the H7N9
4.What can we infer from the second paragraph?
A．Chu, a poultry transporter is the city’s third death from the H7N9 bird flu
B．Chu developed symptoms of cough and a fever
C．Chu died three hours after being admitted to a private clinic
D．Eight people who had close contact with him haven’t been infected with H7N9
Silence is unnatural to man．He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness．In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else．Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence．If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox（喋喋不休的人）.He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure（蜡塑人像）.
The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito （蚊子）.But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing -with his neighbors.
Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be successful conservationists.
1.According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors_____.
A．in the hope of learning something new
B．in the hope of getting on well
C．about whatever they want to
D．about whatever they have prepared
2.According to the author, people make conversation to______.
A．achieve success in life
B．overcome their fear of silence
C．exchange ideas
D．prove their value
3.What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?
A．To persuade people to stop making noises．
B．To explain why people keep talking．
C．To discuss why people like talking about weather．
D．To encourage people to join in conversations．
4.By "the buzzing of a fly"(Para.1), the author means"_____".
A．the voice of a chatterbox
B．meaningless talk sound
C．a low whispering
D．the noise of an insect
