These days having a best friend seems so important to girls. However I have learned that having one best friend is not the way to go. It's so much better to have many great friends.
As I was coming into Middle School, I was really excited because my friend Jennifer was going to be in the same Middle School! At first things were great, she introduced me to her friend Amy and we had lots of fun together. Then things started to change. Jennifer was very controlling: I couldn't make new friends, and pretty soon being Jennifer's friend was a struggle.
Jennifer wanted to be the "leader" of our little group. Amy and I were never partners with each other in class projects or gym; it was always, "Who gets the privilege（特权） of being Jennifer's partner." Amy and I both wanted to be Jennifer's number one.
I always waited for Jennifer and Amy after classes. They chatted by Jennifer's desk as Jennifer packed her books up and I waited by the door. Sometimes when they left, they'd walk right past me. No "Thanks for waiting." No "Sorry we took so long." It was as if they couldn't even see me.
After months of living through school this way, I had really changed. I was moody, depressed, lonely. I spent lots of days trying not to cry, I felt so left out.
Finally, near the very end of the school year, I was so incredibly sick of having to battle for friendship. I stopped sitting with Jennifer at lunch and stopped waiting for her after class.
It was tough at first, but now, I have tons of friends. We have fun and happy times together and I love them all to bits. It amazes me how easy our friendship is. There's no struggling to be on top. I wish Jennifer could understand. Maybe one day she'll look back at what happened and she'll change, but even though I lost a friend, I am a happier person.
1.What is the purpose of the writer writing this passage?
A. To describe her school life
B. To talk about the way Jennifer treated her friends
C. To advise girls to make many friends instead of one
D. To show her regret towards losing a friend.
2.What does the sentence Things started to change(paragraph 2) refer to?
A. The writer lost interest in study.
B. Being Jennifer’s friend became a struggle.
C. Lessons became more and more difficult.
D. The writer gave up the friendship with Jennifer.
3.What can be implied from the last paragraph?
A. All of the writer’s new friends are equal.
B. The writer regretted a lot about losing a friend.
C. Jennifer has changed herself.
D. The school life is always difficult for the writer.
One afternoon I toured an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting. I was looking forward to a quiet view of the art works.
A young couple viewing the paintings ahead of me chatted nonstop between themselves. I watched them a moment and decided the wife was doing all the talking. I admired his patience for putting up with her continuous talk. Distracted by their noise, I moved on.
I met with them several times as I moved through the different rooms of art. Each time I heard her constant burst of words, I moved away quickly.
I was standing at the counter of the museum gift shop making a purchase when the couple came near to the exit. Before they left, the man reached into his pocket and pulled out a white object. He extended it into a long stick and then tapped his way into the coatroom to get his wife’s jacket.
“He’s a brave man.,” the clerk at the counter said, “Most of us would give up if we were blinded at such a young age. During his recovery, he made a promise that his life wouldn’t change. So, as before, he and his wife come in whenever there’s a new art show."
“But what does he get out of the art?” I asked. “He can’t see.”
“Can’t see? You’re wrong. He sees a lot. More than you or I do,” the clerk said. “His wife describes each painting so he can see it in his head.”
I learned something about patience, courage and love that day. I saw the patience of a young wife describing paintings to a person without sight and the courage of a husband who would not allow blindness to change his life. And I saw the love shared by two people as I watched this couple walk away.
1.The young couple were at an art museum ________.
A. to show their love B. to discuss paintings
C. to describe paintings D. to appreciate art
2.After hearing what the clerk had said about the couple the writer was ________.
A. encouraged B. excited
C. touched D. annoyed
3.The passage is mainly about ___________.
A. the importance of art B. good manners in public
C. patience of a husband D. love between a couple
假定你是李华，昨天你有一次不愉快的就餐经历，对餐厅的服务员态度非常不满意，于是你给该餐厅老板写一封投诉信。要点如下：
1.问题：牛肉面(beef noodles)里有苍蝇(fly)，服务员态度粗鲁。
2.要求：餐厅赔礼道歉。
3.希望能改进服务。
注意：1.词数：100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sir / Madam,
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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：在错的词下画一横线，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。
My husband and I traveled to England this summer to see his mother and stay for six months. My motherinlaw had a dog which named Tassie. It was Mike and I who would took him for walks along a small path every day.
One day, therefore, it was pouring with rain. Despite of the bad weather, the dog sat eagerly at the door waiting for us to take him out for his usually walk. I looked at him and said: “I'm not going out in such weather.” Tassie ran down the hallway immediately but came back with one of my Wellington boot. He wagged his tail and dropped them on my foot. My husband burst out laugh. Did we go for the walk? Of course we did!
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The best way to get around a city may be driving a car. Indeed, it could be of little 1.(convenient) for you to travel from one point to another if you don't own a car. While you can always use public transport, it can be quite unreliable sometimes. But don't worry. There are car rental companies that can help you with your traveling needs at anytime. If you are planning on a vacation during a major holiday like Christmas, 2.(consider) hiring a car for you and your family's use. The obvious 3.(benefit) of doing so are as follows：
Some rental companies even include a driver with every car rented. Imagine yourself with a driver taking you to your destination 4. waiting to drive you back home. In this way, even parking 5.(become) the least of your concerns.
Even if you have to drive the car by yourself, you can benefit from hiring a car because you can take the shortest route 6.(enjoyable) to your destination. If you have planned your holiday in 7. hurry, you might have missed 8.(check) on your car's condition. If this is the case, it is wise to rent a car because it will not break down 9. your way at all.
Traveling in your own car is a lot 10.(comfortable), to be frank, than riding the train or bus. You can stop at anytime if you need to grab something.
Every year, as soon as Halloween is over, our son Matthew waits for the lights. He's been doing it for more than a dozen ______. As the days grow shorter and the nights longer, as the temperatures ______ and the leaves fall, he waits for the ______.
The neighbors across the street always put up a ______ and brilliant light display for the holidays and Matthew loves to wait for them to be turned on, which usually ______ right after Thanksgiving.______ he begins his monitoring a month before their arrival. And then, each day between Thanksgiving and ______ the lights are turned off, he waits, ______， from midafternoon on.
And when each evening's moment comes, you don't have to be with ______. You know it no matter where you are in the house. The rhythmic ______. The dancing around the house. Pure ______ on his face! And it happens every single night.
Despite all his ______， in the world's view — his severe mental disabilities, his two-year-old ______ in a twenty-three-year-old body, his inability to speak — Matthew knows ______ very profound, that light will shine in the darkness, that no matter how dark, how long the ______ eventually, and without ______， those lights will shine again. No matter how many seasons of the year without them, there will come a season when those lights will shine again.
Life ______ its own seasons of darkness，desperate, lonely, ______ and full of fear at times. ______those seasons, a new season can come and the light can be seen again. Whatever ______ I find within and around me, I look to my son, and remember that a light can break the darkness.
1.A. hours B. seconds C. decades D. years
2.A. rise B. change C. drop D. stay
3.A. lights B. neighbors C. tricks D. holidays
4.A. tasteful B. beautiful C. strong D. strange
5.A. happens B. tests C. obtains D. delivers
6.A. Instead B. Then C. Therefore D. However
7.A. unless B. until C. after D. since
8.A. nervously B. impatiently C. excitedly D. quietly
9.A. it B. her C. one D. him
10.A. poems B. excitement C. fighting D. clapping
11.A. surprise B. sadness C. glory D. delight
12.A. limitations B. advantages C. characters D. beliefs
13.A. brother B. sister C. mind D. memory
14.A. nothing B. something C. everything D. anything
15.A. holiday B. display C. street D. wait
16.A. fail B. pity C. stop D. plan
17.A. receives B. proves C. supports D. brings
18.A. satisfying B. unwilling C. painful D. peaceful
19.A. In spite of B. Thanks to C. Regardless of D. As to
20.A. happiness B. darkness C. sympathy D. warmth
