Your car is a necessary part of your life. You use it every day. Of course, you want to hold on to it so you make sure it has the latest alarm and immobilizer. But despite all these, cars like yours are still stolen every day. In fact, in this country, one car is stolen almost every minute! And if your car is stolen, you only have a 50:50 chance of seeing it again.
Each year, car crime costs nearly £3 billion. Of course, if you’re insured, you won’t lose out, or will you? Firstly, you will have to pay extra insurance later on, and then you may not be offered the full amount by the agent. You will probably have to hire a car and you will also lose the value of the contents and accessories (配件) in the car.
Now comes the solution. An RAC Trackstar system, hidden in one of 47 possible secret locations in your car, is the key of our system. If your car is stolen, radio signals are sent at twenty-second intervals from the car to the RAC Trackstar National Control Center via a satellite network. Then a computer gives the vehicle’s exact location, speed and direction.
The RAC Trackstar National Control Center, which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, will immediately inform the police in the area where the car is located. Because the police receive information every twenty seconds, they will always know the vehicle’s location. Once the thief has been arrested, your car will be returned to you.
RAC Trackstar is unique in being able to provide the National Control Center with details of the exact location of your car, its speed and direction. And speed is the key to successful recovery of a stolen vehicle. RAC Trackstar Control will immediately tell the police if you report your car stolen and under the 24-hour Guardian Option. It will also tell you if your car has been stolen. RAC Trackstar’s constant updates mean the police are kept informed of the car’s location. All these greatly improve your chances of seeing your car again.
1. If your car is stolen, you will have to ______.
A. hire a new car
B. pay more insurance
C. buy a RAC Trackstar system
D. inform the National Control Center
2.The Trackstar system can tell the police ______.
A. how the car is stolen B. who the thief is
C. what brand the car is D. where the car is
3.The underlined word “It” in the last paragraph refers to ______.
A. the local police station B. the Guardian Option
C. the insurance company D. the RAC Trackstar Control
4.According to the passage, people with RAC Trackstar ______.
A. automatically find directions
B. seldom get their vehicles damaged
C. have less chance of being in an accident
D. are more likely to get the stolen cars back
When my daughter Sally was five, I bought Grimm’s Fairy Tales and read Snow White to her one night. At the end of the original Grimm tale, Snow White’s stepmother is made to put on red-hot iron shoes and dance until she falls down dead.
This came as something of a shock. I always thought fairytales had happy endings. And I didn’t want my five-year-old daughter going to sleep thinking: “Thank goodness they tortured (折磨) that old woman to death.” That’s when I decided to write fairy tales.
In the years that followed, I wrote tales non-stop and read them to Sally at bedtime. The Corn Dolly was based on a child who was always complaining; The Silly King was just a silly story Sally loved; I wrote The Witch and the Rainbow Cat for Sally because of her enormous appetite for stories about witches while Dr Bonocolus’s Devil is a new version of the Faust legend．
Nifobobinus, however, was different. I wrote this book when Sally was older and took up all things girls have to do — who’s friends with who, who stuck a sticker on the back of whose boyfriend, or whatever thing she felt funny.
Nicobobinus, the boy who could do anything, came out of my desire for a more innocent world. He lived a 1ong time ago, in a city called Venice. Only his best friend, Rosie, knew he could, and nobody took any notice of anything Rosie said, because she was always having wild ideas anyway.
Nicobobinus was so different that it turned out to be an instant hit. The Times called me “an author setting out to rival the classic fairytales”. I asked Sally what she thought of Nicobobinus. She said it was her favourite.
1.What led the writer to start writing fairy tales for her daughter?
A. The frightening ends of past fairy tales.
B. His daughter’s strong interest in fairy tales.
C. His desire to let his daughter know more stories.
D. His attempt to fill his daughter’s bedtime with something.
2.We can infer from the third paragraph that the writer _____.
A. was a very productive fairy tale writer
B. based all his stories on some old legends
C. never described witches in his fairy tales
D. created his stories out of his own interest
3.When creating Nicobobinus, the first thing the writer considered was _____.
A. the changes of his daughter’s interests
B. what story the publisher wanted to get
C. ways to keep his daughter Sally innocent
D. the difference of the story from other stories
4.The underlined word “rival” in the last paragraph can be replaced by _____.
A. follow B. explore C. challenge D. recommend
Summer Rain
The worst days of any summer are the rainy ones. We spend all year looking forward to nice weather and long, hot days. All of winter, with its cloudy days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless days at the beach, lying on the sand and enjoying the bright and burning sun. And then, summer comes, and it rains.
As a child, I would wake up to rainy summer days and come close to crying. It wasn’t fair. We suffered through months of school and experienced bad weather for those short ten weeks of freedom and pleasant weather.
On those rainy summer days, I had nothing fun to do and could only sit inside, staring out at the rain like a bird in a cage. I was an only child, so there was no one else to play with. My father worked from home, so I was not truly alone, but he could not actively play with me since he was at work. It was those days that I would watch whatever was on television or read any books that I could find lying around. I’d drag through the day and pray each night that the rain would not be there the next day.
As an adult, though, my opinion of summer rain has changed. When you have to work every day, summer is not as exciting. Everything seems dull. Such a mindset makes you cheer for anything new or different. I spend the winter dreaming of summer and the summer dreaming of winter. When summer comes, I hate how hot it is. And then I look forward to the rain, because the rain brings with it a cold front, which makes me comfortable. Rainy days are still the worst days of the summer, but summer rain today means positively beautiful — and considerably cooler — weather tomorrow.
1.When the author was a child, he ______.
A. hated rainy days
B. liked staying indoors
C. preferred cooler weather
D. dreamed on summer days
2.We can learn from the passage that the author ______.
A. was often left alone at home
B. had no brothers or sisters
C. preferred reading to playing outside
D. could enjoy the brilliant sun in winter
3.As an adult, the author views summer rain differently because ______.
A. he knows it won’t last long
B. his summer holiday is very short
C. rain makes the weather cooler
D. he can better deal with his holiday
假如你是李华, 你班的留学生Charles即将结束三周的假期从美国返回。你想委托他为你代购一个剃须刀, 作为生日礼物送给爸爸。请按照以下要求给他写一封电子邮件:
1. 品牌: Gillette. 2. 价格: 30美元左右。 参考词汇: 剃须刀shaver
注意:
1. 词数100左右:
2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯:
3. 开头语和结束语已为你写好, 不计入总词数。
Dear Charles,
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短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，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：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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 was real nervous when I got to my new school. I grabbed our bag and walked down toward the dormitory building. With my joy, I got warm welcome, and was shown to my room. After setting down my stuff and chose my bed, I was led to the Fog room. I saw some girl sitting in the middle of the floor, played games. A girl saw me, but she said, “Pleased to meet you.” Everyone had turned around, came running at me and formed a circle around me. After a while, I sat down by Hailey, that was my first friend there.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
After graduation from college, I started to sell. Soon I discovered that the worried expression I 1. (wear) since childhood meant sure failure. I knew it wasn't going to be easy to change that expression on my face left by so many years of 2. （hard）. It called for a complete change in my view on life. Here is the method I tried.
Each morning during a fifteenminute bath, I determined to cultivate a big, happy smile. I found out, however, that it couldn't be a 3. (force) smile developed just for the purpose of putting dollars in my pocket. It had to be 4. honesttogoodness smile from down deep inside, an outward expression of happiness from within!
Let's see 5. starting off with a good fifteenminute training of the smile muscles helped me during the day. 6. entering an office I would think of many things I had to be thankful for, work up a big smile and then enter. Seldom did it fail 7. (get) the same smile 8. return from the person I met. I also found that it pleased people when I passed them on the street to give them a cheerful smile.
Give every living soul you meet the best smile you have ever smiled in your life, 9. see how much better you feel and look. It's one of the best ways I know to stop worrying, and start living. When I began doing this, I found 10. more welcome everywhere.
