One day a mime(哑剧演员) is visiting the zoo and tries to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper pulls him into his office. The zookeeper explains that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla(大猩猩), has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance(出席人数) at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts.
The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He soon discovers he can sleep, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime — the job he likes but loses.
However, with days going by, he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition(隔墙), and dangles(悬挂) from the top to the lion’s cage. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is a fuel to the crowd.
At the end of the day he is given a raise for being such a good attraction — well, this continues for some time. The crowds grow larger, and the mime’s pay keeps going up.
Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slides and falls. The mime is terrified. He starts screaming “Help me!”, but the lion is quick. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?”
1.The mime accepts the zookeeper’s offer because __________.
A. he doesn’t like being a mime
B. he has been out of work
C. he likes performing at the zoo
D. he is offered a higher pay there
2.How does the mime find the job dressing up as the gorilla?
A. Hard and tiring. B. Dangerous but exciting.
C. Easy and funny. D. Boring but well-paid.
3.The mime’s first contact with the lion is to __________.
A. find pleasure for himself
B. win back his audience
C. get his pay raised
D. get the lion’s attention
4.The underlined words “a fuel” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________.
A. frighteningB. disappointingC. familiarD. exciting
假定你是李华，正在新西兰学习，你计划寒假期间在当地旅行，请写一封e-mail向旅行社询问相关的旅行信息。
内容应包括：
1．旅行信息（如景点、费用等）；
2．当地特色（如食品、风俗等）；
3．注意事项。
注意：1．词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir or Madam,
I’m Li Hua, a Chinese student studying in New Zealand. I’m writing to ______
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Sincerely yours,
Li Hua
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。
In our daily life, music plays a important part. It can give us energy and making us happy. There is many kinds of music, such as country music, R&B, rock music and so on. Different people have different ideas about music. My friend Betty enjoys listen to the music she can dance. John likes rock music and Jazz music so he thinks that they are interesting. Jane is fond of listening to some relaxed music. She likes country music a lot of, because it is easy to learn, and this kind of music can easy make people calm. What about you? What kind of music did you prefer?
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
A castle is a type of fortified（加固的）structure 1. (build) in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages. This is different from a palace 2. is not fortified, though there are a large number of 3. (similarity) among these types of construction. Since then usage of the term 4. (apply) to diverse structures.
The European castles 5. (origin) in the 9th and 10th centuries, resulting in its land divided among nobles, who built castles to control the area 6. (surround) them. The castles were also 7. (defense) structures. Although army uses are often emphasized in castle studies, the structures also served 8. centers of administration and symbols of power. Urban castles were 9. (usual) used to control the local people and important travel routes, 10. rural castles were often built near farmland.
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。
One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one’s mistakes. It is extremely hard sometimes to say a (n) ________ thing like “I was wrong about that,” and it is even harder to say, “I was wrong, and you were right about that.”
And I had an experience recently with someone ________ to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the ________ of a certain grocery store in the neighborhood where I grew up, and he asked me ________ I remembered the egg boxes. Then he ________ an incident and I began to remember vaguely the incident he was describing.
I was about eight years old ________, and I had wandered into the store with my mother to do the weekly grocery shopping. On that ________ day, I must have found my way to the dairy food department ________ the incident took place. There must have been a special ________ on eggs that day because there was an impressive display of eggs in dozen and half-dozen boxes. The boxes were ________ three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of them to ________ the boxes. Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart, ________ the boxes and left. For some reason, I ________ that it was up to me to put the display back together even though it was not my ________, so I began to work.
The manager heard the ________ and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my ________ checking some of the boxes to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as if I was the wrongdoer. He severely ________ me and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs to ________ the loss. I protested my innocence and tried to explain, but it did ________ good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, ________ the manager did not.
1.A. pleasantB. enjoyableC. simpleD. difficult
2.A. arguingB. notingC. promisingD. admitting
3.A. bossB. cleanerC. cashierD. manager
4.A. ifB. howC. whyD. when
5.A. imaginedB. rememberedC. performedD. related
6.A. at a timeB. at the timeC. at timesD. at one time
7.A. usualB. luckyC. wonderfulD. particular
8.A. whereB. afterC. untilD. though
9.A. displayB. exhibitionC. saleD. design
10.A. piledB. decoratedC. wrappedD. packed
11.A. inspectB. admireC. arrangeD. destroy
12.A. knocked onB. knocked overC. knocked offD. knocked at
13.A. declaredB. pretendedC. decidedD. regretted
14.A. faultB. taskC. goalD. plan
15.A. screamB. alarmC. noiseD. call
16.A. back B. kneesC. stomachD. head
17.A. praisedB. hitC. shoutedD. scolded
18.A. set asideB. sort outC. make up forD. pick up
19.A. nothingB. noC. anyD. something
20.A. obviouslyB. frequentlyC. unfortunatelyD. unnecessarily
After studying the daily habits of 177 self-made millionaires over the course of five years, Thomas C. Corley found that they avoid one costly habit: procrastination (拖延症).
“It prevents even the most talented individuals from realizing success in life,” he writes in his upcoming book, “Change Your Habits, Change Your Life.”
This goes hand-in-hand with author Napoleon Hill’s claim that the wealthiest people are also the most decisive people.
Out of the 500 millionaires Hill studied in the early 20th century, “Every one of them had the habit of reaching decisions quickly,” Hill wrote in his 1937 classic, “Think and Grow Rich.”
One of the major causes of procrastination is lack of passion, Corley emphasizes: “We simply like to do the things we like to do and we put off the things we do not like to do.”
“According to Gallup, only 13% of employees are ‘engaged’ in their jobs, or emotionally invested in their work,” Corley writes.
“Whether you realize it or not, procrastination is a big reason why you are struggling financially in life. It damages your credibility with employers and fellow colleagues at work. It also affects the quality of your work and this affects the business you or your employer receive from customers, clients, and business relationships.”
The good news is that anyone can overcome procrastination — and it’s simpler than you may think. He also notes that “the voice of procrastination screams just as loud and clear in the minds of those who excel in life as it does in the minds of those who do not.”
How do they silence it? They rely on “to-do” lists to get things done. They create firm deadlines, and they meet with “accountability partners” to ensure they’re sticking to their goals and deadlines, Corley says.
Nearly everyone is susceptible to procrastination — but fighting against it can make all the difference.
1.According to the passage, millionaires______.
A. usually succeed through their own efforts
B. are only passionate about making money
C. don’t hesitate when making decisions
D. create both long-term and short-term goals
2.What can people do to overcome procrastination?
A. Do whatever they like to do.
B. Avoid things they are unwilling to do.
C. Be fully prepared for emergencies.
D. Accomplish things on schedule.
3.Which of the following can replace the underlined word “excel”?
A. struggleB. stand outC. thinkD. work hard
4.What might be the best title for the passage?
A. Fighting procrastination
B. How to become a millionaire
C. Research on a bad habit
D. The importance of making “to-do” lists
