单词拼写
结合语境，根据汉语或首字母提示用单词的适当形式填空。
1. The h__________ of the door is off.
2. Don’t come to the c__________ before you make a careful investigation.
3. We d__________ Lincoln High School in the baseball game yesterday.
4. Some chemical are easily a__________ into the bloodstream, while others are not.
5. The opposition leader c__________ the prime minister to call an election.
6. How many people __________(参加) your wedding?
7.They __________(怀疑) me of having a hand in the affair.
8.She __________(责怪) him for the failure of their marriage.
9.The air is __________(污染) so badly in some regions that people could hardly breathe.
10. Good planning is one of the __________(特征) of a successful business.
书面表达
假如你是李华，你参加了你校本周五举行的英语阅读比赛，并获得第一名。请根据以下提示用英语给你的美国笔友Tom写一封电子邮件。内容包括：
1. 描述比赛的情况；
2. 希望他提供单词的记忆方法；
3. 欢迎他到中国过春节。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语和结束语已为你写好，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：the Spring Festival春节
Dear Tom,
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Yours,
Li Hua
语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear 1 spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it correctly with confidence and without hesitation. 2 (three), we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.
There is no easy way to success 3 language learning. 4 good memory is of great help, but it is not enough only 5 (memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long a list of words and 6 (they) meaning, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language. If we __7__ (satisfy) with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. ＂Learn through use＂ is a good piece of 8 (advise) for those 9 are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practice speaking and 10 (write) the language whenever we can.
完形填空
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
I sit outside of my daughter’s nursery school classroom, patiently waiting for her. When the door opens, my daughter runs out with a broad smile. She 1 the excitement of school.
＂How was your 2 ?＂ I ask casually, while 3 wanting to hear every single detail. ＂It was so good, Mommy!＂ my daughter replies. That’s it. That’s all I 4 .
On the car ride home, I ask her a lot of questions. She answers me with a few words, but never goes into much __5__. Usually she tells me that she wants to 6 something else.
It has only been a few weeks, but I still find it so 7 that my daughter has a whole morning in school without me. I 8 ask the teachers for details and I am often provided with the same 9 answers that my daughter gives.
Now, three mornings a week, I close her classroom door behind me and she has her own 10 . I am given some 11 of her days like apples glued onto paper trees and paint dirt under her fingernails.
I know she 12 this privacy and the time to 13 a new environment and meet different kids. 14 , I can’t help but want to know about the details of her days. The ride home is the 15 time that she will provide me with some 16 about her morning.
When we pull into the driveway, I change the 17 to something else. I am sure that my constant questions annoy her, so I try to 18 them to the car ride after school.
I am 19 that my daughter doesn’t quite know our driving route yet; she can’t tell that I sometimes take the long way home, 20 we have those few extra minutes together.
1.A. learns B. adds C. misses D. enjoys
2.A. morning B. afternoon C. evening D. night
3.A. tiredly B. carelessly C. secretly D. suddenly
4.A. get B. need C. plan D. understand
5.A. study B. detail C. advice D. work
6.A. wait for B. prepare for C. worry about D. talk about
7.A. strange B. simple C. common D. practical
8.A. always B. just C. even D. never
9.A. satisfying B. funny C. short D. confusing
10.A. direction B. imagination C. influence D. experience
11.A. kindness B. excuses C. evidence D. challenges
12.A. promises B. achieves C. deserves D. ignores
13.A. remember B. explore C. choose D. consider
14.A. Then B. Again C. Also D. Still
15.A. only B. other C. second D. last
16.A. permission B. information C. devotion D. intention
17.A. interest B. rule C. conversation D. routine
18. A. take B. guide C. show D. limit
19.A. proud B. disappointed C. anxious D. grateful
20.A. although B. because C. so D. or
七选五
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。
Many parents would like to teach their children English at home, but don’t know how to start. It doesn’t matter if your own English is not perfect. The most important thing is that you give your children lots of encouragement and praise. ____1____ They will need some time to learn the language.
Make it a rule
Try to do certain activities at the same time every day. ____2____ For example, you could read an English story with your children before bedtime. Repetition (重复) is important — children often need to hear words many times before they say them themselves.
Playing games
____3____ Cards are a great way to teach words and there are many different games which you can play with cards, such as Memory and Happy Families.
Using everyday situations
The advantage of teaching English at home is that you can use everyday situations to practice the language naturally. For example:
●Talk about clothes when your child is getting dressed (＂Let’s put on your blue socks＂, etc.).
●____4____ When you go to the supermarket, give your child a list of things to find.
Using songs
Songs are a really good way to learn new words. Songs with actions are especially good for very young children because they are able to join in. ____5____
A. Fifteen minutes is enough for very young children.
B. Children learn naturally when they are having fun.
C. Teach food words when you are cooking or going shopping.
D. The actions often show the meaning of the words in the song.
E. With younger children, there is no need to teach grammar rules.
F. Don’t worry if your child doesn’t start speaking English immediately.
G. Children feel more comfortable and confident when they know what to expect.
B
It is widely known that any English conversation begins with the weather. Such a fixation with the weather finds expression in Dr. Johnson’s famous comment that ＂When two English meet, their first talk is of weather＂. Though Johnson’s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this English weather-speak.
Bill Bryson, for example, concludes that, as the English weather is not at all exciting, the obsession with it can hardly be understood. He argues that ＂To an outsider, the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it.＂ Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in the British Isles.
Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees with Bryson, arguing that the English weather is by nature attractive.＂Bryson is wrong,＂ he says, ＂because the English preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomena. The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty.＂ According to him, the weather in England is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the English as well as the outsider.
Bryson and Paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weather-speak among the English. Both commentators, somehow, are missing the point. The English weather conversation is not really about the weather at all. English weather-speak is a system of signs, which is developed to help the speakers overcome the natural reserve and actually talk to each other. Everyone knows conversations starting with weather-speak are not requests for weather data. Rather, they are routine greetings, conversation starters or the blank ＂fillers＂. In other words, English weather-speak is a means of social bonding.
1. The author mentions Dr. Johnson’s comment to show that ____________.
A. most commentators agree with Dr. Johnson
B. Dr. Johnson is famous for his weather observation
C. the comment was accurate two hundred years ago
D. English conversations usually start with the weather
2.What does the underlined word＂obsession＂ most probably refer to?
A. A social trend. B. An emotional state.
C. A historical concept. D. An unknown phenomenon.
3. What is the author’s main purpose of writing the passage?
A. To explain what English weather-speak is about.
B. To analyse misconceptions about the English weather.
C. To find fault with both Bill Bryson and Jeremy Paxman.
D. To convince people that the English weather is changeable.
