Many young students consider their friends as the most important people in their lives. They believe that their family members, especially their parents, don’t know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for advice. It is very important for young students to have one good friend or many friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone. This communication is very important in children’s growing up, because friends can discuss something difficult to say to their family members.
However, parents often try to choose friends for their children. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends. The question of “choice” is an interesting one.
Have you ever thought of the following questions?
Who chooses your friends?
Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?
Have you got a good friend your parents don’t like?
1.Many young students think their _________ know them better than their parents do.
A. teachers B. friends
C. brothers and sisters D. classmates
2.When young students stay alone, the usual way of communication is to _________.
A. talk with their friends on the phone
B. talk with their parents
C. have a discussion with their family
D. go to their friends
3.Which of the following sentences is TRUE?
A. In all families, children can choose everything they like.
B. Parents should like everything their children enjoy.
C. Parents should try their best to understand their children better.
D. young students can only go to their friends for help.
4.The main idea of this passage is that _________.
A. Good friends can communicate with each other
B. Friends can give good advice
C. Parents often choose friends for their children
D. young students need good friends
My friend Jim was a well-known radio host, who worked at a radio station all his life. All his colleagues knew him about one characteristic: If he’s on-air, he is always wearing a suit and a tie. They laughed at him, saying, “No one ever sees you. Why do you dress like that?” But he always turned that into a joke.
One day Jim was invited to appear on the TV. There was a show for the oldest radio employees. For the first time his fans, who only knew Jim by his voice, would see him. Before the recording of the show, the director came to Jim and asked, “Usually you arrive on time, but today you are 10 minutes late. It’s not terrible, but I still want to know why.”
“You see,” Jim answered, “at the last moment when I was already dressed up, I noticed that I didn't have new socks. For the first time I was invited to the television, and I thought that simply wearing clean socks was not enough. So I needed to go to the store for new socks.”
The director was surprised. He asked, “Why do you need new socks? You could have come without the socks because we will be filming you only over the waist.”
“ You see, to be perfect, I need to feel myself perfect in everything, starting with the shirt and finishing with the pen in my pocket,” Jim said. “And if my socks have holes in them or my shoes are dirty, I’m not spotless anymore. And it may make me less confident.”
1.From Para. 1 we can learn that when Jim is on-air, he______.
A. likes telling jokes
B. behaves strangely
C. always wears the same clothes
D. is careful about his dress
2.Jim was late for the TV show because______.
A. he went to buy new socks
B. he didn’t like to be filmed
C. he had to clean his clothes
D. he was too nervous
3.For Jim, being perfect in everything ______.
A. brings him success
B. makes him popular
C. gives him confidence
D. is difficult but necessary
书面表达
假如你是李华。你的美国网友Kate想阅读中文小说。请用英语给她写一封信，为她推荐一部小说。
内容提示：
1. 我推荐的小说是________； 2. 理由； 3. 祝福。
要求：
1. 字数100左右；
2. 开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数；
3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Kate,
I’m very glad to know you are very interested in Chinese novels.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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。
The famous person I would really like to interview him is Yang Liwei. He is not only the first Chinese to going to space but also one of the greatest astronaut in the world. I have long interested in space exploration and I believe I could learn a great deal by him about it.
If I could interview him, I will ask him what made him an astronaut and how he was training. I’d also like to know how he felt in space and whether space travel is so great fun as I have read. Finally, I would like to ask a few questions about his personally life, that must be very interesting.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
A lecturer was giving a lecture to his students on stress management. He raised a glass of water and asked the audience, “How heavy do you think this glass of water is？” The students' answers ranged from 20g to 500g. It doesn't matter on the absolute 1. (weigh). It depends on how long you hold 2. . If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have 3. ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have to call an ambulance. It's exactly the same weight, but the 4. (long) I hold it, the heavier it becomes. If we carry our burdens 5. the time, sooner or later, we won't be able to carry on, the burden 6. (become) increasingly heavier. What you've to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up again. We've to put down the burden periodically, so that we can 7. (refresh) and are able to carry on.
_8. you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work 9. . Don't carry it back home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're having now on your shoulders, let it down 10. a moment if you can. Life is short, enjoy it!
完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We humans love to make comparisons. On the market, we ___________ to find the best ones. In the classroom teachers compare their students to the___________. And parents compare their child to his or her peers to ___________an idea of what is “normal”.
___________ , comparisons of any kind come with a sting(刺痛) for everyone. When parents make it clear to anyone that their child is ___________ to all other children in all ways, they put their child under ___________ . Some children will obey when they are pressured to___________ their parents’ need for perfection; others may ___________ , trying to be just like any other kid, or, better still, to be just who they are. In other ___________ , parents who compare their child to other children might end up ___________ their child is somehow “deficient(有缺点的)” . And, again, they pressure their child to be___________ enough.
A most disturbing ___________ of all this comparing is that it pushes children into the destructive world of competition. “In a ___________ culture, a child is told that it isn’t enough to be good---he or she must ___________ others,” writes Alfie Kohn, a parenting expert.
According to Kohn, research doesn’t ___________ the theory that competition brings success. One after another, researchers have concluded that children don’t learn better ___________ education is changed into a competitive struggle. Competition prevents a child’s ability ___________ not only educationally but socially, too.
So, ___________ competition, cooperation! Instead of ___________ other people’s children, parents need to pay close attention to their own, learn who they are, discover their interests and talents, and teach them how to cooperate with others. They will need role models to ___________ them.
1.A. see B. touch C. sell D. compare
2.A. mature B. new C. model D. overseas
3.A. get B. use C. share D. explain
4.A. Therefore B. However C. Otherwise D. Besides
5.A. harmful B. superior C. responsible D. thankful
6.A. pressure B. control C. discussion D. consideration
7.A. express B. prove C. satisfy D. create
8.A. disappear B. wait C. resist D. rest
9.A. cases B. words C. ways D. nations
10.A. denying B. deciding C. predicting D. concluding
11.A. honest B. good C. patient D. polite
12.A. process B. consequence C. purpose D. method
13.A. traditionalB. scientific C. political D. competitive
14.A. defeat B. accept C. recognize D. choose
15.A. test B. challenge C. support D. change
16.A. since B. until C. when D. unless
17.A. losing B. progressing C. showing D. reducing
18.A. apart from B. because of C. as for D. instead of
19.A. shouting at B. laughing at C. looking at D. striking at
20.A. guide B. force C. invite D. expect
