Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents’ home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register (收款台), I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.
I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend’s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.
I wrote him and his wife a thankyou note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.
Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I’d left the lights on all day, and the battery (电池) was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership—a shop selling cars—was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.
“Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?” I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.
“Thank you” — two powerful words. They’re easy to say and mean so much.
1. What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car?
A．He had it pulled back to the gas station.
B．The couple sent him a business card.
C．The couple offered to help him.
D．He called his friend for help.
2.The battery of the author’s car was dead because ________.
A．something went wrong with the lights
B．the meeting lasted a whole day
C．he forgot to turn off the lights
D．he drove too long a distance
3.By telling his own experiences, the author tries to show ________.
A．how to write a thankyou letter
B．how to deal with car problems
C．the kindheartedness of older people
D．the importance of expressing thanks
书面表达：
随着电脑的普及运用，如今越来越多的中学生也在借助于电脑字，因此很多中学生的书写水平在急剧下降。针对此现象你班举行了主题为“中学生进行书法比赛是否有必要”的班会，请你根据下面的提示写一篇100词左右的短文。
有的同学认为没有必要：1. 电脑时代，使用手写的场合很少；
2. 在电脑上打字比书写快。
有的同学认为很有必要：1. 提高学生的汉字书写技巧；
2. 培养学生对书法的兴趣；
3. 增进学生对汉语语言文字的热爱。
你的观点…… （提示词：handwriting）
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。
It was dinner time. Mr and Mrs Smith were about to begin their dinner then they find that their son, Mike, wasn’t there. So Mrs Smith asked her husband to go and find him. Mr Smith went to Mike’s room and found Mike laying on the floor, read a book. He was laughing! Mr Smith told him to go for dinner, and he left quite unwilling. Wondering that what attracted his son so much, Mr Smith took a look at the book. Now Mrs Smith and Mike were at the table，waiting Mr Smith. She got quite patient and sent her son for his father. Mike went back to his room. To his great surprised, he saw his father sitting on the floor, reading the same storybook of hers on the floor!
语法填空（阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或用所给单词正确形式填空，不多于3个单词）
Simon：Linda, do you know when the visitors from China are coming?
Linda: We offer them three __1.__ (choose): the end of March, the middle of April and the beginning of May, and they chose the earliest __2.__， which is good actually with exams _3.__ (come) up in May.
Simon：Right. And how many are coming? Did you say about 8?
Linda：Yes, they said 8 at first, but 4._ (change) to 6 this morning.
Simon: Good, we have 5 weeks to prepare. Here are my suggestions. On the first day, a welcome party, then they can visit __5.__ schools in the district on the second and third days.
Linda: We've got to remember this group wants to look at how the Internet is being __6.__(use) in the classroom. That's _7.__ they are coming for.
Simon：Exactly, __8._ I want to ask Mr. Todd to give them a talk on this on the afternoon of the third day.
Linda：That will fit in very __9._(nice).
Simon：And on the last day, they would do some sightseeing. We could take them on the tour of London, but many of them may have been there already, and Scotland will be too far away.
Linda: Why not take them for a walk along the coast? It should be 10. (interest).
Simon：Good idea! Linda. I'm sure they'll like it.
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
As children grow, so does their desire to become independent. 1. . As parents, our job is to find the right balance between kids’ desire for independence and the need to keep kids safe.
Kids need to be allowed, in fact encouraged; they like to be given certain risks. 2. . The right risk level for your child will depend on their age, developmental level, and character. It will change over time, and there are few hard and fast rules that apply to every child.
3. Every time you put your kids in the car you are putting them at risk. It is a fact of life.
So what is a parent to do ? We must encourage them to explore their world while setting clear limits where safety is an issue. 4. . We must let them run, but be prepared to catch them when they fall. We can’t take their steps for them; we can only point out the path.
It’s hard to imagine when they are small, but someday very soon they will be walking , riding a bike, even driving ! 5. .
A. Children do not often want to become independent.
B. It is impossible for any of us to live completely risk-free.
C. The goal for parents is to determine how much risk is appropriate.
D. Often they will become more willing to take risks and try new things.
E. Sometimes it is really tough for parents to encourage their children to be independent.
F. Someday they must face the world without us, and part of our job is to prepare them for that.
G. If we are overprotective, they are likely to grow up ill-prepared to meet and overcome the challenges they must inevitably(不可避免地) face.
Just as the world’s most respected scientific bodies have confirmed that the world is getting hotter, they have also stated that there is strong evidence that humans are driving the warming. Countless recent reports from the world’s leading scientific bodies have said the same thing. For example, a 2010 summary of climate science by the Royal Society stated that: “There is strong evidence that the warming of the Earth over the last half-century has been caused largely by human activity.”
The idea that humans could change the planet’s climate may be counter-intuitive (与直觉不符的), but the basic science is well understood. Each year, human activity causes billions of tons of greenhouse gases to be released (释放) into the atmosphere. As scientists have known for years, these gases hold heat that would otherwise escape to space, wrapping the planet in an invisible blanket.
Of course, the planet’s climate has always been changing thanks to “natural” factors such as changes in solar or volcanic activity, or cycles relating the Earth’s going around the sun. According to the scientific literature, however, the warming recorded to date matches the pattern of warming we would expect from a build-up of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere – not the warming we would expect from other possible causes.
Even if scientists did discover another reasonable explanation for the warming observed so far, that would beg a difficult question. As Robert Henson puts it in The Rough Guide to Climate Change: “If some newly discovered factor can account for the climate change, then why can’t carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases?
The only way to prove with 100% certainty that humans are responsible for global warming would be to run an experiment with two identical Earths – one with human influence and one without. That obviously isn’t possible, and so most scientists are careful not to state human influence as an absolute certainty．
1.In most scientists’ opinion, the global warming is mainly caused by ____ ．
A. solar activity
B. volcanic activity
C. the Earth’s going around the sun
D. human activity
2.The text is developed by ____ ．
A. giving typical examples
B. following the order of space
C. analyzing a theory and arguing it
D. comparing and finding differences
3.The underline word “identical” means ____ ．
A. totally different B. exactly the same
C. extremely important D. relatively independent
