Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He, since a very early age, has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy had any education?
Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us — our parents, brothers, sisters, friends — are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we were born, not on the first day we go to school. Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird’s nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn’t like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.
Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as many as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn’t tell you whether you are good at it.
We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can’t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.
1.In the opinion of the writer, .
A. the school is not important at all.
B. we have to learn from the people around us.
C. education takes place everywhere.
D. only people who care for us can teach us.
2.One can find out what he / she is good at by _.
A. what people encourage him/ her to do.
B. trying and practising things.
C. thinking about it when growing up.
D. he teachings of those he / she meets.
3.The passage tells us that _ .
A. different classes of people receive different kinds of education.
B. everyone gets education from the day he or she was born.
C. the school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world.
D. everyone will find out what he or she is good at.
4.According to the last paragraph, we know that .
A. the school enables us to understand the world in other ways.
B. the school is not so important as our living places.
C. the school teaches us things which are useless at home.
D. the school cannot prepare us for our daily lives.
In the lobby(休息室) after a long day at work, I found myself standing next to a handsome young man with a nice smile. A __ showed what we had in common: I had ____ in New York city from Germany while he had ____ from South America.
We exchanged stories about the ____ of starting a new life in a new country. “I’ve been ___an apartment within walking distance 
from my ____. And what I want is to have a good ____ of Central park! But I’m dreaming. I can’t ____ to rent a room like that myself and I haven’t found a roommate to share in expenses.” The young man wrote a ___ down on a piece of paper. “Her name’s Carol and she is a good girl,” he said. “You’ll ____ her, and she needs a roommate.”
I called her right away. “I’ve been ___ to hear from you,” said Carole, who lived near Central Park. ___, she became my best roommate, and has been my ___ for 34 years.
“We were sure lucky to ____ each other,” Carole said to me recently. “But I wondered what took you so ____ to call.” I said. “I called right after I ____ your South American friend.” Carole looked amazed. “Not a friend, ___ I met him only once, and he told me about you. But that was a whole week before you finally ____.” “But I don’t understand; I didn’t know him until that afternoon.” “Maybe he know of you before because you were ____ known in the company for your achievement.”
Though you are a small potato, if you work hard and do ___, people will find you sooner or later.
1.A. chat B. action C. letterD. sentence
2.A. got B. arrived C. reachedD. approached
3.A. returnedB. appearedC. heardD. come
4.A. pleasureB. difficulties C. excitement D. danger
5.A. finding outB. adoptedC. decorated D. searching for
6.A. job B. homeC. school D. friend
7.A. sightB. visitC. view D. point
8.A. realizeB. provide C. afford
D. stand
9.A. numberB. sign C. mark D. note
10.A. meet B. like C. believeD. agree
11.A. looking B. staying C. waiting D. keeping
12.A. AndB. However C. Then D. Indeed
13.A. wifeB. friend C. roommate D. partner
14.A. receive B. find C. notice D. see
15.A. shortB. fast C. longD. slow
16.A. ran into B. heard from C. knew ofD. referred to
17.A. hurriedlyB. rapidly C. commonly D. exactly
18.A. saidB. called C. spoke D. visited
19.A. farB. muchC. wellD. rather
20.A. everythingB. anythingC. nothingD. something
单词拼写,根据汉语提示或首写字母填单词( 5分)
(注意:在答卷上要写出所填单词的首字母及其它字母的正确形式，否则不给分)。
1.For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves or light incense in m________ of their ancestors.
2.China and Japan have mid-term festivals , when people a________ the moon and in China enjoy mooncakes.
3.Even though her ________ (顾客) might get thin after eating Yong Hui’s food, they were not eating enough energy-giving food to keep them fit.
4.Would you please come in? ________ (允许) me to lead the way .
5.The fact is that I earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand ,which a_______ for my appearance.
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
In the English Reading Week, one of my classmates recommended a quote to us, 1. goes like this， "Your future 2. （depend） on many things,but mostly on you. " I can't agree 3. (much) with this view. It's true that our future 4. (determine) by many things, such as opportunities and help from others, but our own atti
tude, determination, 5. hard work play a more important role. In 6. words, we are the master of our own future.
Take Abraham Lincoln for example. He was born in a poor family, and only received a 7. (limit) education in his childhood. Yet through his painstaking efforts, he 8. （change）not only his own fate but also the history of America. 9. to this day. Lincoln is regarded as one of the most inspiring figures in the world.
10. , I firmly believe that our future is in our own hands.
假如你是李华，最近你在浏览一个新西兰中学网站时，看到一位名叫Tom的中学生的留言，他计划在暑假期间到中国的北京旅游，希望能有一名中国学生作他的导游。你对此很感兴趣，请根据以下要点提示写一封e-mail给他。
主要内容包括 ：
1．希望作他的导游；
2．打算如何给他作导游:
（1）带他参观故宫(the Forbidden City), 鸟巢（the Bird’s Nest）, 水立方（the Water Cube）和长城（the Great Wall）。
（2）给他讲北京的悠久历史。
（3）享受当地美食。
3．期盼他的回复。
注意：1. 词数100左右。2. 可适当增加情节，使行文连贯。3. 信的开头已为你写好。
Dear Tom,
Recently, while visiting a senior high school website of New Zealand, I saw the message you posted on it. _______________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
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Best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
文中共有10处语言错误
，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\ )划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Never shall I forget the first English lesson giving by Miss Liu. One Monday morning, when she entered the classroom, we found that she was a young or beautiful lady. Then she introduced herself and said they shouldn’t call her Teacher Liu but Miss Liu. Later, she asked us to go to the blackboard and said something about ourselves with English in turn. When it was my turn, I felt so shyly that I didn’t dare to say anything before the class. She went up to me and said kindly, “Don’t afraid I believe you can do them well” At the last, 1 went to the blackboard. She praised me for which I had done.
