Americans like to travel on their yearly holiday.Today,more and more travelers in the United States are spending nights at small houses or inns(客栈) instead of hotels.They get a room with breakfast the next morning.
Rooms for the night in private(私人的) homes with breakfast have been popular with travelers in Europe for many years. In the past five or ten years, these bed and breakfast places have become popular in the United States.Many of these American’s bed-and-breakfast inns are old historic buildings. Some bed-and-breakfast inns have only a few rooms, while others are much larger.Some inns do not provide telephones or televisions in the rooms, but others do.
Staying at a bed-and-breakfast inn is much different from staying at a hotel.Usually the cost is much less.Staying at an inn is almost like visiting someone’s home.The owners are glad to tell about the areas and the interesting places to visit. Many vacationers say that they enjoy the chance to meet local families.
1.Americans take a holiday trip ________.
A. all the year roundB. for years
C. every yearD. every other year
2.Why do American travelers prefer staying at bed-and-breakfast inns?
A. It is like visiting someone’s home.
B. The money they spend there is much less.
C. They can meet local families.
D. All of the above.
3.Staying at the bed-and-breakfast inns, ________.
A. the travelers needn’t pay anything
B. the travelers have to pay for the telephones or televisions
C. the travelers can meet and talk with the local people
D. the owners will show the travelers around the area
4.Which is TRUE according to the passage?
A. European and American vacationers like staying at bed-and-breakfast inns.
B. All Americans enjoy traveling.
C. These bed-and-breakfast inns are all old historic buildings.
D. Staying at a bed-and-breakfast inn is just like at the traveler’s home.
If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice: There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.
Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across，but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example, in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.
As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.
For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.
If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.
1.According to the author, which should you improve first among the four skills?
A．Reading and listening.B．Reading and writing.
C．Writing and speaking.D．Speaking and listening.
2.The underlined phrase “come across” in the second paragraph can probably be replaced by “________”．
A．meet by accidentB．discover
C．find on purposeD．look for
3.The author seems to agree with the view that ________.
A．everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every day
B．you needn't practice listening if you keep on reading every day
C．being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening
D．you should take notes of whatever you are hearing
4.The passage is mainly about how to ________.
A．choose suitable listening materials
B．deal with new words in reading
C．improve your English as quickly as possible
D．become fluent in speaking and writing English
Shlander is a man from space. He thinks the people and things on the earth are very strange. He is now writing a letter to his friend at home. Here is part of his letter. Read it and answer the questions.
Now I am in a strange world. It is very nice. There are many new things here. There are many earth monsters (怪物) here, too. The earth monsters look very funny. They have just one head, two arms and two legs. They have thin black strings(细绳) on their heads. Some earth monsters have brown or yellow strings. The earth monsters have a hole in their faces. Every day, they put nice things and balls from the trees into the hole. They put water into the hole, too. The earth monsters do not walk very fast. They move from place to place in tin boxes.
At night, the earth monsters like to look at a square window box. This box has very small earth monsters in it.
1.Shlander thinks the people and things on the earth are very ________.
A. strangeB. niceC. differentD. beautiful
2.Shlander thinks man on the earth is ________.
A. a monkeyB. an earth monster
C. a tin boxD. a strange world
3.The earth monster doesn't have ________.
A. a head, arms and legs
B. brown or yellow strings on its head
C. a hole in its face
D. a wing on its body
4.The square window box is ________.
A. a car or a bus
B. a very small earth monster
C. a TV set
D. a radio
假如你是李华，已经被大学录取，即将进入大学学习。请你用英语给好友Sam写一封信，谈谈进入大学后的打算。短文应包含以下要点：
1、尽快适应环境;
2、注重能力发展。
注意：
1. 全文100词左右；
2. 书信的开头已给出，不计入总词数；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sam,
How are you getting along with your life recently? _______________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
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。
注意： 1、答案请写在答题卷上； 2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分；
3、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 4、答题符号、格式要规范：
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。
There were many people on the bus and no vacant seats. When a woman got off, a man near the door attempted to rise, but she had forced him back into his seat. “Thank you,” she said, “but please don’t do that. I am perfect able to stand.” “But, madam, let me…” began the man. “I ask you to keep your seat,” interrupted a woman with the hands on her shoulders. So the man tried to rise, and said: “Madam, will you kindly permit me to…?” “No, no,” said the woman and again force him back. At last the man managed to get up, say: “ Madam, you have carried me three block beyond my house. I want get off.”
阅读下面句子，请根据首字母、中文意思或括号中所给单词的提示，在空白处填入适合的单词、短语、句型或语法知识的正确形式，使句子完整通顺。（特别注意：每空一词；按小题给分）
1. Nearly 800 of those victims s________(寻求) help but declined to file complaints against their attackers.
2.They left the lights down to create a comfortable a________.
3.The spread of u________ areas destroys the habitats of wildlife and endangers some species.
4.Be m________ and don’t be conceited. Otherwise, you will lag behind.
5.We should direct our attention at the f________(基本的) question.
6.科学家们现在发现的基因无法解释所有的那些情况。
The gene that the scientists have discovered today doesn’t ________ ________ all of those cases.
7.像硅谷这样的地方一定会产生与高科技相关的服务。
Places like Silicon Valley will no doubt ________ ________ ________ services related to Hi-tech.
8. 既然已着手这份工作，就必须尽最大的努力完成。
________ ________ you put your hand to the work, you must do your utmost to finish it.
9. 你不应该仅仅因为一个人贫穷而瞧不起他。
You shouldn’t ________ ________ ________ a person just because he is poor.
10.大多数出色的律师和推销员都有劝说他人的天分。
Most of the best lawyers and salespeople really________ ________ ________ ________ persuasion.
11. I ________(true) feel sorry for your terrible loss.
12.The more he explained about it, the ________ (bad) things got.
13. In China, kids are often compared ________ “the flowers of motherland”. (介词填空)
14.The workers of this factory are paid ________ the hour. (介词填空)
15. Mary likes the bedroom, from ________ window a beautiful lake can be seen.
