书面表达
你的家乡是一个依山傍水的小镇。解放前，这里的人们生活极其贫困；解放后，人们的生活在各个方面都发生了很大的变化。请根据以下提示写一篇100左右的短文，介绍该镇的变化情况。
1.人口：约20万。
2.面积：约360平方千米。
3.地理概况：坐落在山脚下，面临一条大河，新建了许多工厂，商店，医院，学校等等。
4.教育：解放前只有一所学校，只有富家子可以上学。现在有10所学校，每个孩子都可以上学。
5.生活：丰富多彩，人们工作之余，可以逛商店，看电影，跳舞，参加体育活动等。
解放：liberation
改错
Time fly like an arrow. I’m already in Senior Grade 3 before I realized it. It will be only a little more than eight months before I graduate middle school. At the present, I’m busy review my lessons in order to take the College Entrance Examination. I hope to go to Beijing University, that is one of the best university not only in China but also in the world. I’ll try my best to turn your dream into reality. Most of my classmates are also studying very hardly to realize their dreams. I do believe everyone will be able to enter an university or college.
语法填空
Bill: Alice, there are some questions I want to ask about the Olympics? __1.__ longest running race in the modern Olympic Games is called the Marathon. Can you tell me something about it?
Alice: Ok. It gets its name from a town in Greece___2.__(call) Marathon, ____3.____ is 26 miles from Athens, the capital city of Greece. This is the story of why the Marathon race is included in the Olympic Games.
Bill: There is a story about it?
Alice: yes.
Bill: Can you tell me ___4.__it?
Alice: Ok. Once there was an ancient Greek soldier called Phidippides. He ran so fast _5.___ he was often sent on long journeys with important___6.____(message). One day the leader of Athens led their army to fight against their enemies and won the battle. They wanted to make their people know what ____7.__(happen). So they asked Phidippides to go to Athens and tell their people the good news. He was very tired after all the fighting but he ran as fast as he could. As he managed _____8.____(get) to the centre of the city, he fell to the ground, ____9.___(open) his mouth and cried, “Athens is saved!” Then he fell down, dead. His story became famous and it was remembered by the Marathon race of 26 miles, which is the __10.____(distant) from Marathon to Athens.
Bill: That’s a moving story. We should remember him.
单词拼写：用单词或提示词的适当形式填空，每空限一词
1.To our great _______(delighted), it worked perfectly.
2.The school uses both modern and _________(tradition) methods for teaching reading.
3.Finding the lost pen gave me a sense of __________(achieve).
4.Good _______ (finance) condition leads to good health.
5.The old man shook his head in _________(belief) when I told him I would go to the moon.
6.A ________(标题) on the front page draws attention to the story inside.
7.Many people have trouble sleeping after a long _________(飞行).
8.Our company was __________(建立) in 2003. That is to say, it has a history of more than 10 years.
9.The female went up the stairs with light _________(优雅的) steps.
10.He doesn’t always call me up. He only calls me ____________(有时).
完型填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题中所给的四个选项（ABCD）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。
For several years, we lived at the end of a long Texas country road. Every evening when I was away from home on business, my little boy would ask _______of his mother to take his black _____and his daddy’s walking stick, to make the half-mile_______from the house to the fence which_______the beginning of the dirty driveway.
One day, I was busy with my business and was_______for about an hour, completely forgetting about the _______little boy down the road who might be_______for his daddy.
On my way home, the rain was so thick that I could not_______ten feet in front of me. All I could______was finishing my journey and getting out of the rain. _______, the downpour began to abate(减弱). It was only a drizzle(细雨) by the time my car turned the last_______and approached the final street between me and a warm home and nice meal.
_______, I caught sight of my little boy, who was_______an umbrella in one hand, a walking stick in the other, and was wearing the biggest and most beautiful smile ever to lighten the ______ of a little boy.
As I stopped the car and_______the door, he ran into my arms and held me long and hard. He was wet and_______with cold, but he never_______the rain, nor the hour-long wait. He simply said, “Daddy, I missed you. I am so glad you are home.”
Last year, we_______to a wonderful new home provided for a special season in our lives. We no longer have a long country road. _______, I have never forgotten the rainy day and the little boy and his black dog. Often, perhaps a thousand times, that_______has appeared in my mind. Like all events in our lives, it happens once, and must be treasured.
1.A. order B. permission C. praise D. likes
2.A. bag B. dog C. umbrella D. toy
3.A. journey B. flight C. effort D. ride
4.A. discovered B. explained C. marked D. described
5.A. controlled B. trained C. delayed D. bothered
6.A. useful B. grateful C. careful D. faithful
7.A. waiting B. sending C. searching D. calling
8.A. drive B. see C. feel D. hear
9.A. stick to B. think of C. pick up D. hold out
10.A. In fact B. In surprise C. At once D. At last
11.A. moment B. corner C. street D. way
12.A. All of a sudden B. Believe it or not C. In other words D. For seconds
13.A. holding B. opening C. finding D. lifting
14.A. body B. head C. face D. hand
15.A. closed B. locked C. knocked D. opened
16.A. worrying B. crying C. trembling D. complaining
17.A. noticed B. doubted C. judged D. mentioned
18.A. moved B. turned C. returned D. traveled
19.A. Therefore B. Besides C. Otherwise D. However
20.A. time B. scene C. act D. sight
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。
Life comes in a package, which includes happiness and sorrow, failure and success, hope and despair. Life is a learning process（过程）. 1.
Happiness achieved by bringing a smile on another face gives a certain level of achievement. __2. Sorrow is basically because of death of a loved one, failure and despair. But these things are temporary（暂时的）.
3. . It helps us to succeed and teaches us to survive and shows us an exact way, while success brings in money, fame, pride and self—respect. The only way to express our thanks for our success, achievements and happiness is to be respectful to the failure.
Hope is what keeps life going. 4. Hope builds in patience.
5. . Life also teaches us not to regret over yesterday, because it has passed and is beyond our control. Tomorrow is unknown, for it could either be bright or dull. So the only alternative is to work hard today, so that we will enjoy a better tomorrow.
A. Life teaches us not to despair even in the darkest hour, because after every night, there is a day.
B. With each passing day we learn to deal with various situations.
C. Different people have different attitudes towards success and failure.
D. Hope makes us dream.
E. Failure is the path to success.
F. Never stop doing whatever you are fond of.
G. Only when we are in sorrow can we realize the true worth of happiness.
