If you are planning on traveling, there are a few simple rules about how to make life easier both before and after your journey.
First of all, always check and doublecheck departure (出发) time. It is surprising how few people really do this carefully. Once I arrived at the airport a few minutes after ten. My secretary had got the ticket for me and I thought she had said that the plane left at 10：50. When I arrived at the airport, the person at the departure desk told me that my flight was closed. Therefore, I had to wait three hours for the next one and missed an important meeting.
The second rule is to remember that even in this age of credit cards (信用卡), it is still important to have some local money in cash (现金). Once I arrived at a place at midnight and the bank at the airport was closed. The only way to get to my hotel was by taxi but because I had no dollars, I offered to pay in pounds instead. “Listen! I only take real money！” the driver said angrily. You can imagine how terrible I felt at that moment.
The third and the last rule is to find out as much as you can about the weather at your destination before you leave. I feel sorry for some of my workmates who travel in heavy suits and raincoats in May, when it is still fairly cool in London or Manchester, to places like Athens, Rome or Madrid, where it is already beginning to get quite warm during the day.
1.Where is the writer most probably from?
A．Britain. B．The USA.
C．Italy. D．Greece.
2.When the writer found he had no dollars to pay the taxi driver, he________.
A．asked the driver to give him a free ride
B．offered to pay in pounds
C．gave the driver some fake(假)money
D．tried to pay by credit card
3.Generally, in May the weather in London is________.
A．warm and dry B．cold and dry
C．hot and wet D．cool and rainy
4.The writer mainly tells us________.
A．how to make life easier
B．how to be well prepared for a trip
C．how to enjoy ourselves on the trip
D．how to schedule our trip
One night, the first floor of the house suddenly caught fire. The fire was big, and soon became a sea of fire. On the second floor lived a little girl and her grandmother; the little girl’s parents had died, and she lived together with her grandma. In order to rescue the little girl, the grandmother was burned to death, leaving the little girl crying for help loudly.
How could people enter the house? At the very moment, a man carrying a ladder rushed to the flames and got into the window. When he appeared again in the eyes of the people, the little girl was in his arms. He gave the child to the crowd, and then disappeared into the night.
This little girl had no family. Two months later a meeting was held to find a person to adopt (收养) the girl. A teacher was willing to adopt this child, and said she could give her the best education; a farmer wanted to adopt this child, saying that village life would let the child grow up healthily and happily; a rich man said, “I can give the child everything that others can do.”
A lot of people who wanted to adopt this child said about many benefits of their adopting the child. But the little girl’s face had no expression. At this time, a man, through the crowd, walked straight in front of the little girl, and opened his arms for the little girl. People were puzzled, and they found that the man had terrible scars on his arms. The little girl let out a cry, “This is the man who saved me!” She suddenly jumped up, and buried her face in his arms and sobbed. Naturally the man adopted the girl.
1.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The grandma was too old to rush out of the room.
B. The little girl and her grandpa lived on the second floor.
C. To rescue the little girl, her grandma died in the fire.
D. The grandma and the little girl cried for help loudly on the first floor.
2.What did the man do when he had saved the little girl?
A. He returned to his work.
B. He left the girl to the crowd and left quickly.
C. He was injured and went to the hospital.
D. He took the girl home.
3.The meeting was held there in order to .
A. decide who would adopt the girl
B. find out who had rescued the girl
C. decide how the girl would be raised
D. honor the hero who had saved the girl
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A. People didn’t want to help the little girl at first.
B. The man who had saved the girl was a fireman.
C. The rich man would buy everything the girl needed.
D. The girl recognized the man and was happy to be adopted by him.
A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches too long.
He came downstairs, where his mother and his two sisters were washing up tea things in the kitchen. “These new trousers are too long.” He said. “ They need shortening (缩短)by about two inches. Would one of you mind doing this for me, please?” His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything.
But as soon as his mother had finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son’s bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.
Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother’s trousers. She was a kind-hearted girl, so she went quietly upstairs without saying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches.
The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came back, she , too, remembered what her brother had said. So she ran upstairs and took two inches off the legs of the new trousers.
1.The young man bought the new trousers _______ his size.
A. as long as
B. two inches longer than
C. as big as
D. two inches shorter than
2.He asked _______ to shorten his new trousers.
A. his mother and sisters
B. his two sisters
C. his elder sister
D. his mother and one of his sisters
3.His elder sister shortened the trousers ________.
A. after finished washing
B. before she went to bed
C. when she came back from the cinema
D. after having supper
4.The next morning the young man would find the trousers were _______.
A. two inches shorter
B. four inches shorter
C. six inches shorter
D. eight inches shorter
假设你叫李华,自从上了高中后，发现自己不是很适应高中的学习生活，现在就目前的情况，给自己初中时最信赖的老师写一封求助信：
1.对老师的问候。
2.高中生活基本情况：
①学科比初中多
②每天作业时间3-4小时，课外活动时间很少
③睡眠时间不足，上课有时感到疲劳
④考试压力大
3.你目前遇到的最大的问题以及现在的感受
注意： 1.内容应包括以上所有信息，要有适当发挥。
2.词数: 120左右。信的开头和结尾已经写好，不计入总词数。
3.参考词汇：课外活动— activities after class 压力 — pressure
Dear Mr Wang,
This is Li Hua．
All the best.
Yours truly,
Li Hua
请根据首字母或括号内的中文提示用单词或短语的正确形式填空.（请在答题卡中完整写出单词）
1.I could no longer __________ (忽视) the fact that he was deeply unhappy.
2.Lori had changed so much that I could hardly r______ her when I met her at the supermarket.
3.Was it an accident or did David do it _____________(故意)?
4.She dreamed about a handsome young man coming to r____ her from her pain.
5.President Putin’s official visit to Beijing is _____ (安排)for December 24 to 27.
6.Nelson Mandela d_________ all his life to the freedom for the black.
7.Learning to __________ (表达)oneself well is an important part of education.
8.The rule is b______ on the idea that everybody should be treated equally（平等地）.
9.Anna returned to her college after r___________ from an illness.
10.Obama ___________(上台) at the beginning of 2009 and he has been in office for five years.
When couples get married, they usually plan to have children. Sometimes, however, a couple can not have a child of their own. In this case, they may decide to adopt(收养) a child. In fact, adoption is very common today. There are about 60 thousand adoptions each year in the United States alone. Some people prefer to adopt infants, others adopt older children, some couples adopt children from their own countries, and others adopt children from foreign countries. In any case, they all adopt children for the same reason ---- they care about children and want to give their adopted child a happy life.
Most adopted children know that they are adopted. Psychologists（心理学家） and child-care experts generally think this is a good idea. However, many adopted children or adoptees have very little information about their biological parents. As a matter of fact, it is often very difficult for adoptees to find out about their birth parents because the birth records of most adoptees are usually sealed. The information is secret so no one can see it. Naturally, adopted children have different feelings about their birth parents. Many adoptees want to search for them, but others do not. The decision to search for birth parents is a difficult one to make. Most adoptees have mixed feelings about finding their biological parents. Even though adoptees do not know about their natural parents, they do know that their adopted parents want them, love them and will care for them.
1.According to the passage, some couples adopt children because_________
A. They care a lot about children.
B. They need looking after in their old age.
C. They want to enrich their life experience.
D. They want children to keep them company.
2.Why is it difficult for adoptees to find out about their birth parents?
A. They are usually adopted from distant places.
B. Their birth parents often try to conceal（隐瞒）their birth information.
C. Their birth information is usually kept secret.
D. Their adoptive parents don’t want them to know their birth parents.
3.Adoptees find it hard to make the decision to search for their birth parents, because____
A. They generally hold bad feelings towards their birth parents.
B. They do not want to hurt the feelings of their adoptive parents.
C. They are fully aware of the expenses(费用) involved in the search.
D. They have mixed feelings about finding their natural parents.
4.What does the underlined word “infants” in Paragraph 1 most probably mean?
A. teenagers B. babies over 2-year old
C. new babies D. persons under the age of 18
5.What can we infer from the passage?
A. Early adoption makes for closer parent-child relationship.
B. Most people prefer to adopt children from overseas.
C. Understanding is the key to successful adoption.
D. Adoption has much to do with love.
