During a recent phone interview with a mom who had just moved to Colorado, the conversation turned to disaster planning.” I am standing here looking out of the window at the smoke from wildfires,” she told me, “and have absolutely no idea what we will do if the wind shifts our way.” Fortunately, the fire was put out, saving her home.
Making a disaster plan isn’t something anyone does for fun. But being caught without one in a time of need is worse. Emergency management officials say too few families have a disaster plan ,even in areas that have been hit hard by hurricanes or flooding.
I have prepared food, water, flashlights, candles, a battery-powered radio and firewood since our family was hit years ago by a hurricane that blocked off streets and knocked out our power for more than a week. Still we lack the medications, emergency contacts, and emergency-meeting and pet-care plans we should also have .Officials in my state of Oregon have warned us that one of us is really ready for the major disaster which is very likely to hit here---- a big earthquake.
Working parents need to coordinate(协调)their disaster plans with their children’s schools or child-care centers. Many parents in the 2003 New York blackout（断电）weren’t able to get home to their children because public traffic was stopped and lights were out. After that, many parents made detailed plans with child-care providers about where to meet in emergencies, an whom to contact if unable to reach each other.
Good emergency planning and training helped teachers at a child-care center in the World Trade Center successfully move children to a safe place during the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Do you have an emergency plan for your home? If not, you know what to do.
1.According to the first paragraph , the mom_____.
A. lived alone in her home.
B. didn’t have a disaster plan
C. never thought her house would catch fire
D. was not frightened in front of the wildfires
2.What can we infer from what emergency management officials said in Paragraph2?
A. Few people have fully realized the importance of making disaster plans.
B. The state of Oregon has been ready for a possible earthquake.
C. Hurricanes and flooding cause people to make disaster plans.
D. Many people consider making a disaster plan is fun.
3.Which of the following things has the writer NOT prepared for disasters?
A. food B. Candles
C. A radio D. Medicine
4.We can infer that the 2003 New York blackout _____.
A. was not serious enough to attract parents’ attention
B. showed how careful the teachers had always been
C. made parents realize the importance of having a disaster plan
D. helped parents know the importance of teachers to their children
5.The fifth paragraph is mainly written to tell us that_____.
A. some people have disaster plans
B. children may be in danger any time
C. a good disaster plan can be helpful
D. child-care centers are not that safe
At the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, the sport of canoe racing was added to the list of international competitions. The favorite team in the four-man canoe race was the Unites States team. One member of that team was Bill Havens.
As the time for the Olympics neared, it became clear that Bill’s wife would give birth to their first child about the time that the US team would be competing in the Paris games. In 1924, there were no jet airliners from Paris to the Unites States, only slow ocean-going ships. Bill found himself in a dilemma. Should he go to Paris and risk not being at his wife’s side when their baby was born? Or should he stay with his family?
Bill’s wife insisted that he go to Paris. But after much soul searching, Bill decided to stay at home, where he could support his wife when the child arrived. As it turned out , the Unites States four-man canoe team won the gold medal in Paris. And Bill’s wife was late in giving birth to their child. In fact, Bill could have competed in the event and returned home in time to be with her when she gave birth. People said ,” what a shame!”
The child finally born to Bill and his wife was a boy, whom they named Frank. Twenty-eight years later, in 1952, Bill received a telegram from Frank. It was sent from Helsinki, Finland, where the 1952 Olympics were being held. The telegram read, “Dad, I won. I am bringing home the gold medal you lost while waiting for me to be born.” Frank had just won the gold medal for the Unites States in a rowing event, a medal his father had dreamed of winning but never did. When people asked Bill about his decision he made twenty-eight years ago, he said he would make the same choice if he was in such a situation again.
1.If we say some is in a dilemma, we probably mean he/she _____.
A. lives a very hard life
B. has to make a difficult choice
C. has to give up all that he/she has
D. doesn’t know what he/she wants
2. From Paragraph3 we know Bill’s wife ____.
A. knew the baby would be born late
B. knew what her husband really wanted
C. wanted to support her husband to win the gold medal.
D. was not understanding enough to support her husband
3. What is the main reason why people said” what a shame!”？
A. Bill didn’t give his wife any support at home.
B. Bill’s decision caused the team to perform badly.
C. Bill didn’t know what was more important to him.
D. Bill could have returned home with the gold medal in time.
4.What happened twenty-eight years later after the baby’s birth?
A. Bill received a gold medal from Finland.
B. Bill’s son helped make his dream come true.
C. Bill earned the respect of all the American people.
D. Bill took part in the Olympic Games and won.
5.After reading the passage, we infer that ____
A. Bill thought his decision was right.
B. Bill trained his son to win the medal.
C. Bill loved fame more than his family
D. Bill hated his decision very much
当前不少文学作品被改编成电影。有人选择看电影，有人则喜欢读原著。请你以“Film or book, which do you prefer?”为题，按照下列要点写一篇英语短文：
1、 看电影：省时、有趣、易懂
2、 读原著：细节更多、语言优美
3、 我的看法及理由
注意：1、词数：100-120 文章题目已给出（不计入词数）。
2、参考词汇： original work 或 book in the original（原著 ）
Film or book, which do you prefer?
短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面的短文，文中共有10处语言错误，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），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：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I often quarrel about my mother over whether I can watch TV after school. She holds view that senior three students have to make fully use of every minute to work hard at their lessons. It seems to me that once I am allowed to do that, I'll unable to control myself and forget all about my study. She also thinks it is bad for my eye. But I really can't accept her ideas. In my opinions, watch TV can set my mind at rest after a day's hard works. Besides, it is important for us to know what had happened at home and at abroad. Thus, we shouldn't be forbidden to watch TV.
语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
A young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water. __1._water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder2._had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man__3.__ ( present ) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled _4.__ ( warm ), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home__5.__a happy heart.
After the student left, the teacher let__6.__student taste the water. He spit it out, _7.__ (say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like_8.__?" The teacher replied," You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be__9.__ (sweet). "We understand this lesson best__10.__we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.
For over one hundred and fifty years, Americans of all social classes have worn blue jeans. 1. Whether they are worn for work or for fashion today. Strauss' invention continues to be popular not only among Americans but also among people around the world.
Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829. 2. He grew up in Kentucky before moving to New York in 1847. Before becoming an American citizen and moving to the West in 1853, Strauss worked in his brother's dry goods business. This gave him a chance to produce his famous invention. After the gold rush of 1949, Strauss decided to move to the West to seek his fortunes.
Strauss did not want to be a person who searched an area for minerals. Instead, he knew he could make a good living by selling supplies to the miners. At first, he planned to sell sewing supplies and cloth. 3. When he heard miners complaining that their clothes were easily broken or they usually tore their pockets during mining, he decided to use a special fabric to make pants for the miners. These pants proved so popular that he quickly ran out of materials to make more．
In 1873, Strauss received a letter from a Jewish tailor named Jacob Davis who had invented a process of connecting pockets with copper rivets（铆钉）.This made the pants last a long time. Because Davis did not have the money to patent his idea, he offered to share it with Strauss if Strauss would agree to pay for the patent. 4. .
The business has been growing ever since and Levi Strauss' company is now one of the largest clothing companies in the world.
By the time Strauss died in 1902, he had made a great contribution to American fashion. 5.
A. As a young boy, he moved with his family to the United States.
B. Nobody knew what kind of material was suitable.
C. He did and Levi jeans have been made with metal rivets ever since.
D. However, he did not get much business for those products.
E. He also made a great contribution to America's clothing industry.
F. Since they were invented by Levi Strauss, they have become a symbol of American consumer culture.
G．As the business grew, Strauss got much money from it.
