The Peales were a famous family of American artists．Charles Willson Peale is best remembered for his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution．He painted portraits（肖像） of Franklin and Jefferson and over a dozen of George Washington．His life-size portrait of his sons Raphaelle and Titian was so realistic that George Washington reportedly once tipped his hat to the figures in the picture．
Charles Willson Peale gave up painting in his middle age and devoted his life to the Peale museum，which he founded in Philadelphia．The world’s first popular museum of art and natural science mainly covered paintings by Peale and his family as well as displays of animals in their natural settings．Peale found the animals himself and found a method to make the exhibits more lifelike．The museum’s most popular display was the skeleton （骷髅） of a huge，extinct elephant，which Peale unearthed on a New York farm in 1801．
Three of Peale’s seventeen children were also famous artists．Raphaelle Peale often painted still lives of flowers，fruit，and cheese．His brother Rembrandt studied under his father and painted portraits of many noted people，including one of George Washington．Another brother，Rubens Peale，painted mostly landscapes and portraits．
James Peale，the brother of Charles Willson Peale，specialized in miniatures （小画像）．His daughter Sarah Miriam Peale was probably the first professional female portrait painter in America．
1.The author mentions in Paragraph 1 that Washington tipped his hat to the figures in the painting to show that ________．
A．Charles Willson Peale’s painting was very lifelike
B．Washington respected Charles Willson Peale’s work
C．Washington was friendly with Raphaelle and Titian Peale
D．the painting of the two brothers was very large
2.The underlined word “unearthed” is closest in meaning to“ ______”．
A．Showed
B．invented
C．dug up
D．looked over
3.Which of the following is NOT the child of Charles Willson Peale?
A．Titian Peale．
B．Rubens Peale．
C．Raphaelle Peale．
D．Sarah Miriam Peale．
4.The author’s attitude toward the Peales is in general _______．
A．Puzzled
B．admiring
C．Excited
D．disappointed
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B．Teaching Assistant in Hania's Playschool．
C．Weekend Work in Rubberlast Group Ltd．
D．Teaching Assistant in the University of Bristol．
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B．Job 2，3 and 5
C．Job 4，6 and 7
D．Job 3，4 and 6
3.Which is the only position that has a formal educational requirement?
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C．Teaching Assistant at Hania's Playschool．
D．Full-time Secretary position at United Business Ltd
This is a true story from Guyana．One day，a boy took a piece of paper from a box．He made a paper ball and pushed it into his nose．He couldn’t get it out．He ran crying to his mother．His mother couldn’t get the paper out，either．A week later，the paper was still in the boy’s nose．His nose began to have a bad smell．
So his mother took the boy to a hospital．The doctor looked up at the child’s nose，but she couldn’t get the paper out．She said she had to cut the boy’s nose to get the paper out．
The boy’s mother came home looking sad．She didn’t want her child to have his nose cut．The next day she took the boy to her friend Sidney who lived in a house with an old lady called May．May wanted to see the child，so the child let her look up his nose．
“Yes，I can see it，” May said．“It will be out soon．”
As she spoke，she shook some black pepper （胡椒粉）on the child’s nose．The child gave a mighty sneeze and the paper flew out．His mother was surprised．May told his mother to take the boy to the seaside for a swim，for the salt water would go up his nose and stop the bad smell．
So the lucky boy didn’t have to go to the hospital to have his nose cut．
1.After the boy pushed a paper ball into his nose，____．
A．he took it out
B．his mother took it out
C．he tried to take it out but failed
D．he did nothing but cry
2.Which of the following is TRUE?
A．The doctor helped to take the paper ball out of the boy’s nose．
B．The boy had to have his nose cut at last．
C．The boy’s mother found some black pepper to solve the problem．
D．May succeeded in taking the paper out．
3.The boy should be taken to the seaside for a swim because ____．
A．he needed to learn to swim．
B．the sea water would wash out the paper ball．
C．the sea water would stop the bad smell of his nose．
D．he needed a rest．
假定你是李华，下周六是你的生日，你准备在家开一个生日party ，并邀请部分同学和外国朋友参加，party 7：30开始。你家住在民族街656号，乘23路或40路公共汽车在一中站下车。你家就在车站对面，房子是红色的，门是白色的，很容易找到。请根据好友信息，给你的朋友写一封邀请信。
656 Minzu Street
November 2，2015
Dear Jack，
Next Saturday will be my birthday． ___________________________________________
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Best wishes，
Yours truly，
Li Hua
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Time flies! This is a third year that I have been in this school．In the past two and a half years, our school had organized many activities．What impressed me best was an activity called “Learning to Farm”．In an autumn afternoon, we were sent to a farm which we learned to plant potatoes．Having been in the city for so a long time, we were so happy to go to the countryside．After divided into 3 groups, we started to work．Some students cut potatoes into pieces; some dug holes, and the others put the pieces into the hole, put the earth back and pushed them down hard．We continued doing that until all the work was done．Although we were exhausted, but we felt happy on our way back home．
阅读下面材料，在空白处填上适当的内容（一个单词）或括号内单词的适当形式。
While thousands of college students headed for warm climates to enjoy sun and fun during their week off from classes, seven local students had other plans．
The Northern Essex Community College (NECC) students and one of their teachers spent part of their spring break in New York City , helping repair an area1.(destroy ) by the hurricane ．
“I wanted to see for myself what happened,” said Terry．“I couldn’t imagine2.it is like to lose your home and everything that you know and the3.(power ) effect the hurricane had on those people．I wanted to do something and to understand their feeling of helplessness．”
The group headed into Brooklyn’s Red Hook district, which was hit by the hurricane．There they net people from other parts of the country,4.had also volunteered to help．Together, those volunteers and the NECC students5.(work) to clear rubbish out of a three-story building．They put on protective suits and gloves6.they entered the building．
Inside the building, the students saw nothing but broken walls and doors and pieces of the building7.( lie) all over the place．
8.helped people in need．It was remarkable how a community lost so much and was still able to recover, and this left the deepest impression 9.the students．
