America is growing older. Fifty years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. Today, 10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society in many ways — education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the graying（老龄化）of America has made us a very different society — one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages.
A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his / her social position, marriage or health. There’s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn’t as strong as it used to be. It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 35-year-old grandmother, or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.
Many people say, "I am much younger than my mother-or my father- was at my age." No one says "Act your age" anymore. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.
1.It can be learned from the text that the aging of the population in America ______.
A．has made people feel younger
B．has changed people’s social position
C．has changed people’s understanding of age
D．has slowed down the country’s social development
2.The underlined word ‘one’ refers to _______.
A．a society B．America C．a place D．population
3."Act your age" means people should _______.
A．be active when they are old
B．do the right thing at the right age
C．show respect to their parents young or old
D．take more physical exercises suitable to their age
4. If a 25-year-old man become general manager of a big firm, the writer of the text would most probably consider it _______.
A．normal B．wonderful
C．unbelievable D．unreasonable
It was already dark when an old man came to a small town. He found an inn and wanted to stay there for the night. After he had gone to his room, the owner said to his wife, “Look at his bag, dear. I’m sure there are lots of valuable things in it. I want to steal it when he is asleep.”
“No, no,” said the woman. “He must look for his bag tomorrow morning. Then he’ll take you before the judge.” They thought and at last the woman had an idea. “We have forgetful grass,” said the woman, “Why not put some into his food? If he has the food, he will forget to take his bag away.” “How clever you are!” said the owner, “Don’t forget it when you prepare supper for him.”
The old man had the food with the forgetful grass and went to bed. The next morning, when the owner got up, he found the door was open and the old man had left with his bag. He woke his wife up and said angrily, “What a fool! Your forgetful grass isn’t useful at all.”
“No, no,” said the woman. “I don’t think so. He must forget something.”
“Oh, I’ve remembered!” The owner cried out suddenly, “He forgot…”
1.The old man came to the inn _______.
A．in the morning B．in the afternoon
C．in the evening D．at night
2.The owner and his wife wanted to _______.
A．get the man’s bag
B．steal the man’s money
C．make the man pay them more
D．hide the man’s bag
3.The owner and his wife put the forgetful grass into the food because _______.
A．the old man always forgot something
B．they wanted to make the food better
C．they hoped the old man would leave the bag in the inn
D．they wanted to know if the grass was useful
4.According to the passage the old man forgot _______.
A．to take his bag away
B．to tell the owner when he left
C．to close the door when he went to sleep
D．to pay them the inn money
书面表达
假定你叫李华。准备写信给英语报社编辑，反映你最近生活中所遇到的烦恼。请根据写作要点和写作要求写一封信。
写作要点如下：
1. 最近遇到一些问题，不知如何做，希望得到帮助；
2. 你自己有自己学习以外的其他爱好和兴趣；
3. 你父母认为你应该在学习上多花时间提高成绩，上好大学。
写作要求：
1. 词数不少于100；
2. 信的格式已给出，请写信件正文；
3. 不能使用真实的个人信息。
Dear editor,
I have had a problem recently and …
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Look forward to getting your advice soon.
Yours,
Li Hong
短文改错
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处语言错误，每句中最多两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在此处加一个漏字符号（∧），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：在错的词下划一个横线（____），并在其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（从十一处起）不计分。
Once, a man got on a bus to New York. Because he did not want to pay, so he hid in the toilet. But a passenger saw her. A woman tapped the person in front of her on the shoulder and say, “There’s a bum(流浪汉)in toilet. Tell the bus driver.” The message was passing on from person to person. But somewhere along the way, it was changed. The bus driver told that there was a bomb in the toilet. He immediate stopped the bus and telephoned the police. When the police came, they told the passengers to get off the bus or stay far away. Then they closed the highway. As a result, a traffic jam of 15 mile long was soon caused. In the help of a dog, the police searched for two hours. Of course they found no bomb.
根据下列各句句意和空白之后的汉语提示词，在答题卡指定区域的横线上写出对应单词的正确形式，每空只写一词。
1.You should be ____________(道歉) to your customers for wasting their money.
2.Over the years several similar __________ (理论) have been put forward.
3.This change of the state is a ___________(物理的) change.
4.Have you____________ (装饰) your Christmas tree yet?
5.The children burst into ________ (笑声) when they saw the stranger man.
6.He used to be a famous ____________ (音乐家), but he plays no longer.
7.The ___________ (枕头)cover can match up with the sheets.
8.She can speak English ___________(流利地) as she is always in practice.
9.I could hardly____________ (认出)you with a beard.
10.This cartoon not only fits children’s taste, but also_________ (教育) them.
根据短文内容，从下框的A~F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。
How to Simplify Your Life
Less is more. This is why we say: reduce things by half instead of doubling them, get rid of junk instead of piling it up, relax instead of stressing, slow down instead of speeding up. Apply these principles in your everyday life in a conscious way. You will then find yourself well along on your journey to simplification.
1._________
When you concentrate on one task, you find you have energy that you didn't even know you had. Just imagine: you are at a fair and you have to carry two heavy pigs over 100 yards. If you keep grabbing one and then the other, it will take forever, because one of them will keep slipping out from under your arm and running off. But if you tie one pig in a place, pick up the other, gather all your strength and make a dash for the finish line, pause for a moment, run back and get the other one, and with great determination, carry the second pig to the finish line, then you can be sure of success.
2._________
The pressure at work is on the increase in all occupations. In the modern nuclear family, the expectations that formerly would have been shared among all the relatives are now concentrated on the individual partner. If you have the feeling that 24 hours per day are not enough for all the things you need to do, then it's not because the day has too few hours, but because you have too many activities. A simple fact that overloaded people often tend to forget. The solution is equally simple: refuse to accept so many work assignments in your private life or your working life.
3.___________
“I can handle stress” is regarded as a positive statement in the world of work. People who can handle stress are given more and more to cope with -- until one day they break. Pay careful attention to the signs that tell you that you are under more stress than you can cope with. These signals came from various areas of life．You become ill, or your work efficiency decreases. If you have any of these symptoms, change your life goals and decrease your tolerance of stress. Say quite openly, "I can't manage that."
4.________
“If only I were slimmer, more beautiful, richer, cleverer, then I would be happier.” This is a dream that makes a lot of people ill, depressed, and unhappy. Life has its flaws, defects, corners, and edges. Only those who accept this reality can lead a really full life. Of course there are activities in which errors are dangerous: driving a car; crossing the road. But life doesn't consist entirely of these things. In among them there is a lot of room for small and large mistakes.
5._______
Successful people all have their own places where they can withdraw in order to work. Find out which places improve your creativity. For me it's the train. When I know that I'm going to be traveling for four hours without phone calls and people knocking on my door, I find my mind is free and I can read or write complex articles. There can be problems working on the train, of course: if the person sitting opposite you keeps talking away, or if train traps make you tired (some people fall asleep after a few miles).
