Dear Sir,
I have to travel every day from Souk Road to the airport. Two buses travel along their route: the number 49 and number 16. But by the time the number 16 bus reaches Souk Road it is always full, so I can’t get on it. I have to wait for the number 49, because sometimes there are empty seats on it.
The timetable says that there are buses from Souk Road to the airport every ten minutes. If this is so, why do I have to wait half an hour for a bus nearly every day?
The regulations (规章) say that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must stop at every stop where people are waiting. Why do the half-empty buses go straight past me when I am standing at the bus stop?
The regulations say that no bus may carry more than 40 seated passengers and 20 standing passengers. Yesterday I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the airport. I counted the other passengers as they got off. There were 129 of them.
It is clear that our bus companies break the regulations and think little of their passengers. Can nothing be done to make your service better?
Yours,
Tired passenger
1.The writer has to take Bus No. 49 because ______.
A.it is not always full B.it arrives on time
C.it travels faster D.it has fewer seats on it
2.The regulations say that each bus may carry ______ passengers at most.
A.20 B.40
C.129 D.60
3.What kind of letter is this passage?
A.It’s a letter of thanks B.It’s a letter of apology
C.It’s a letter of introduction D.It’s a letter of complaint
What’s On?
Electric Underground
7.30pm－1.00am Free at the Cyclops Theatre
Do you know who’s playing in your area? We’re bringing you an exciting evening of live rock and pop music from the best local bands. Are you interested in becoming a musician and getting a recording contract(合同)? If so, come early to the talk at 7.30pm by Jules Skye, a successful record producer. He’s going to talk about how you can find the right person to produce your music.
Gee Whizz
8.30pm-10.30pm Comedy at Kaleidoscope
Come and see Gee Whizz perform. He’s the funniest stand-up comedian on the comedy scene. This joyful show will please everyone, from the youngest to the oldest. Gee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh! Our bar is open from 7.00pm for drinks and snacks(快餐).
Simon’s Workshop
5.00pm-7.30pm Wednesdays at Victoria Stage
This is a good chance for anyone who wants to learn how to do comedy. The workshop looks at every kind of comedy, and practices many different ways of making people laugh. Simon is a comedian and actor who has 10 years’ experience of teaching comedy. His workshops are exciting and fun. An evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funny.
Charlotte Stone
8.00pm-11.00pm Pizza World
Fine food with beautiful jazz music; this is a great evening out. Charlotte Stone will perform songs from her new best-selling CD, with James Pickering on the piano. The menu is Italian, with excellent meat and fresh fish, pizzas and pasta(面食). Book early to get a table. Our bar is open all day, and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white wine.
1.Who can help you if you want to have your music produced?
A.Jules Skye. B.Gee Whizz.
C.Charlotte Stone. D.James Pickering.
2.At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?
A.The Cyclops Theatre B.Kaleidoscope
C.Victoria Stage D.Pizza World
3.When will Charlotte Stone perform her songs?
A.5.00pm-7.30pm. B.7.30pm－1.00am.
C.8.00pm-11.00pm. D.8.30pm-10.30pm.
Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life.
In some modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all whether rich or poor, clever or stupid, one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough: we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees; they refuse to do what they think “low” work; and in fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor; we can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we would get terrible diseases in our towns.
In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we are educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability, and secondly, that we realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that it is very bad to be ashamed of one’s work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.
1.The writer of this passage thinks that________.
A.free education can solve all of the world’s problems
B.free education for all probably leads to a perfect world
C.free education won’t help to solve social problems
D.all the social problems can’t be solved by free education
2.According to the passage, ________.
A.work with hands is dirty and shameful
B.work with hands is low work
C.work with hands is the most important
D.we can’t regard work with hands as low work
3.The purpose of education is _________.
A.to choose a system of education
B.to let everyone receive education
C.to prepare children for their future life
D.to prepare children for well-paid jobs
假定你是李华，你的朋友张明来信说他进入高中后发现英语听力理解比较困难，向你寻求帮助。请你用英语给他回信并提供几点建议。主要要点如下：
1. 常听英语对话；
2. 看CCTV9；
3. 听英文歌曲。
注意：1. 词数100左右；开头和结尾已经给出，但不计入总词数。
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 信件中不能出现真实姓名和地址；
参考词汇：对话dialogue
Dear Zhang Ming,
It’s nice to hear from you. I’m sorry to know that you are having trouble in English listening comprehension.
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Yours truly,
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。
I go to the Summer Palace last week. At the gate, I happened to meet some American tourists. I greeted them for English and then we began to chat. I got know that they were college students travel in China. Most of them were interesting in Chinese medicine. They were busy taking pictures and were impressed by the changes where had taken place in the past a few years. After that, we went boating and had a good time. We exchanged our email address so that we could write to each other in future. They thanked us again and again. I was real glad to have a chance to practise my oral English.
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。
One evening, an elderly lady was driving past a small town when one of her tires suddenly blew out. It 1. (be) a bad situation for a woman of her age. She was very annoyed, especially with the weather getting 2. (cold) and colder. At that moment, 3. man stopped his car in front of hers and asked 4. she needed help. The old lady became even more nervous because the man looked poor and 5. (hunger). However, since no one else had stopped to help her during the past two 6. (hour), she stood back and let him help her. After the man finished changing the tire, the lady was willing 7. (pay) him some money. To 8. (she) surprise, the man replied that he just wanted to help her, just as others had helped him in the past. He didn’t want the lady to pay him back anything. Instead, he just wanted her to help others in need 9. well. Later that evening, the lady helped a heavily pregnant woman. 10. never occurred to her that the woman was the poor man’s wife.
