April 27 is Take Our Daughters to Work Day in Britain. Started at first in the United States and brought to Britain in 1994, Take Our Daughters to Work Day has become a special day for girls between 11 and 15. On that day thousands of girls take a day off school and go together with one of their parents to their work places. The purpose of this day is to broaden girls’ horizons and raise their self-confidence.
For many years people have thought that boys can do better than girls in society. But actually, “girls can be whatever they want to be just like boys, whether it is a pilot, a nurse or a chief executive,” says the chairman of Our Sons and Daughters Charitable Trust, an organization which supported the activity of the Day. “Now the girls have a close look at what their parents are doing and this may help them to be more self-confident when they are faced with a choice of work.”
Schools and many companies support the activity too. Palmers Green High School for Girls, in north London, has made the Day a necessary part of career education.
Zarina Bart, 15, from Palmers Green, went with her mother to her lawyer’s office on this year’s Take Our Daughters to Work Day. She found it interesting to see her mother at work. “It’s really strange seeing Mum at work — running around, getting serious and telling people what to do.” She has always liked this idea of going into law and thinks it likely that she will follow in her mother’s footsteps. Having a chance to see how her mother works has given her more self-confidence.
Experts believe that girls with higher self-confidence aim higher and are more likely to be successful in life. Parents have the most important effect on the confidence of teenage girls. If parents believe in their daughters and show examples both at work as well as at home for them, this will give a lot of help to girls. Take Our Daughters to Work Day is surely a step in the right direction.
1.What is the topic of this passage?
A. Raising daughters’ self-confidence.
B. Take Our Daughters to Work Day.
C. Equally between boys and girls.
D. Following mothers’ footsteps.
2.It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that ________.
A. women pilots are popular in Britain
B. girls are sure about their future jobs
C. people have wrongly believed that girls can do as well as boys
D. for many years boys have had a relatively wider choice of work
3.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. Take Our Daughters to Work Day is British in origin.
B. Palmers Green favors Take Our Daughters to Work Day.
C. On the Day children are taken to their parent’s work places.
D. Parents in Britain show good examples both at work and at home.
4.After her experience on Take Our Daughters to Work Day, Zarina felt ________.
A. confident about finding a job in the future
B. strange to watch her mother working in the office
C. sure about what to choose as her future career
D. interested in doing the same job as her mother
5.The author’s attitude towards the Day is ________.
A. favorable B. unclear C. critical D. neutral
语法填空,阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中所给词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号为1—10的相应位置上。
A man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight 1. he became angry when the child tried to decorate a box 2. (put) under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl 3. (bring) the gift to her father the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy.”
The man was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found out 4. box was empty. He yelled at her, 5. (state) “Don’t you know, when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be __6._ inside?” The little girl looked up at him 7. tears in her eyes and cried, “Oh, Daddy, it’s not empty at all. I blew kisses into the box. They’re all for you, Daddy.”
The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her
8. (forgive). Only a short time later, an accident took the life 9. the child. For many years, her
father kept that gold box by his bed and 10. he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
Long, long ago, in a dense forest there were thousands of tall and beautiful trees. They were happy, but____ of themselves. Among them there also a(an) ____ tree whose branches were badly twisted. All the trees made ______ of that ugly tree.
“How are you, hunchback?” the other ____ always shouted and their laughter made the ugly tree ____. The ugly tree thought, “I wish I were as ____ as the other trees. Why did God do this to me? Neither can I provide shade to the travelers. Nor can the ____ make their nests on me. Nobody needs me.”
One day, a woodcutter came to the____. He took a look at the trees and said, “These trees are lovely. I must ____ them.” As soon as he picked up his axe, the trees became ____. “Chop, Chop, 
Chop” went the woodcutter’s axe and one by one the trees started to fall.
“None of us is going to ____,” screamed one of the beautiful trees.
But when the woodcutter came near to the ugly tree. He had just raised his axe when suddenly h
e noticed how ____ the ugly tree was. “Hmm! This crooked tree seems to no ____ to me.”, he thought. Then he moved towards another beautiful tree. The ugly tree breathed a huge sigh of ____. He realized that by making him ugly, God had actually given him a boon. From that day on, the ugly tree never ____. He was happy with his crooked branches. He never forgot how he had escaped from the woodcutter’s axe, only because he was crooked and ugly.
1.A. proud B. short C. tired D. full
2.A. strong B. ugly C. thin D. straight
3.A. light B. fun C. sense D. use
4.A. directions B. persons C. trees D. animals
5.A. surprised B. angry C. sad D. moved
6.A. short B. long C. hard D. beautiful
7.A. fish B. pets C. hens D. birds
8.A. forest B. shop C. office D. hospital
9.A. cut B. put C. bring D. take
10.A. puzzled B. frightened C. amused D. satisfied
11.A. appear B. escape C. remove D. lie
12.A. soft B. flexible C. bent D. tall
13.A. doubt B. harm C. use D. way
14.A. desperation B. anger C. sorrow D. relief
15.A. complained B. grew C. spoke D. Waited
书面表达
生活中充满了选择，学会自主选择有助于我们的成长。请以“An important choice I have made”为题，用英语写一篇120词的短文，记述一次对你影响深远的选择。
内容要点：
1.记述选择的经过；
2.结合此次经历，简要说明自主选择的重要性。
注意：文章的标题已给出，不计入词数。
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短文填词
阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。
Sitting on the bus I took the book out and was about to read but I was attracted by a young woman behind, who was speaking 1.________ her cell phone.
She was talking to her brother. She wanted to know where he was, why he wasn't where he was supposed to be, why he had 2._________(撒谎) to their mother again and if he knew that their mum had broken down in3. t___________ that morning because of him.
She kept it quiet but she didn't have any mercy on him. She let him know exactly 4.___________she thought of him but I could tell there was 5.________ (爱) under all the disappointment. She tried so hard to get this boy to come to see his mother and make it all right, but I got the 6._________ (印象) she was fighting a losing battle.
When she left the bus, I got7._________ behind her. "Excuse me," I said. "Do me a favor, would you? 8.T__________ this money and buy your mum a box of chocolates 9.__________ a bunch of flowers. And tell her a stranger said that10. b_________ a mother is the hardest but most important job in the world."
Most people agree that honesty is a good thing. But does Mother Nature agree? Animals can't talk, but can they lie in other ways? Can they lie with their bodies and behavior? Animal experts may not call it lying, but they do agree that many animals, from birds to chimpanzees, behave dishonestly to fool other animals. Why? Dishonesty often helps them survive.
Many kinds of birds are very successful at fooling other animals. For example, a bird called the plover sometimes pretends to be hurt in order to protect its young. When a predator（猎食动物）gets close to its nest, the plover leads the predator away from the nest. How? It pretends to have a broken wing. The predator follows the "hurt" adult, leaving the baby birds safe in the nest.
Another kind of bird, the scrub jay, buries its food so it always has something to eat. Scrub jays are also thieves. They watch where others bury their food and steal it. But clever scrub jays seem to know when a thief is watching them. So they go back later, unbury the food, and bury it again somewhere else.
Birds called cuckoos have found a way to have babies without doing much work. How? They don't make nests. Instead, they get into other birds' nests secretly. Then they lay their eggs and fly away. When the baby birds come out, their adoptive parents feed them.
Chimpanzees, or chimps, can also be sneaky. After a fight, the losing chimp will give its hand to the other. When the winning chimp puts out its hand, too, the chimps are friendly again. But an animal expert once saw a losing chimp take the winner's hand and start fighting again.
Chimps are sneaky in other ways, too. When chimps find food that they love, such as bananas, it is natural for them to cry out. Then other chimps come running. But some clever chimps learn to cry very softly when they find food. That way, other chimps don't hear them, and they don't need to share their food.
As is mentioned above, animals behave dishonestly for survival. Is it OK to lie for us human?
1.The writer uses the three questions at the beginning of the passage to _________.
A. ask the readers to answer the questions
B. draw the readers’ attention to the topic
C. seek answers to the questions
D. show he is at a loss about the question.
2.Which of the following is not an example of animal’s dishonest behaviors?
A. A plover pretended to have a broken wing to protect its baby birds.
B. A scrub jay dug out its buried food and reburied it somewhere else.
C. The adoptive parents feed their baby birds of cuckoos.
D. A losing chimp starts fighting again after taking the winner’s hand.
3.The underlined word “sneaky” in paragraph 5 most probably means______.
A. selfish B. friendly
C. entertaining D. dishonest
4.What is the common reaction of most chimps when they find their favorite food?
A. They let out a loud cry
B. They cry in a very low voice
C. They hide their food immediately
D. They share their food with other chimps.
