请以“Are we ready for the Senior High School Entrance Examination?“为题，用英语写一篇短文，内容要点如下：
1、现在相当一些老师上课语速很快，有太多的考试，几乎没有闲暇时间来进行课外活动；
2、有的学生过去懒惰，但现在已经意识到错误，并全身心投入到学习中去；人人都想超越自己。
3、你的备考的安排、期望……
注意事项 1、短文须包括所有内容要点，要求语句通顺、意思连贯；
2、第3要点的内容用2-3句话作适当发挥；
3、词数80个左右，短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Are we ready for the Senior High School Entrance Examination?
How times flies! The Senior High School Entrance Examination is coming soon!
1. 我的好朋友Tom出国将近2个月了。
My good friend _________________________ for nearly 2 months.
2.尽管外面天气很冷，但是他坚持每天游泳。
Though it is cold outside, he _______________________ every day.
3. 很多青少年由于过重的作业负担而得不到充足的睡眠。
A large number of teenagers can’t get ________________________ too much homework.
4.为了引起我们的注意，英语老师用红色把新单词标出来。
_______________________ , the English teacher has marked new words in red.
5. 我想知道多久以后如此多的邮件会得以回复。
I am wondering _______________________________ .
6.那名工程师独自继续开展他的工作，最后终于取得成功。
The engineer and finally had a success.
In National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., visitors have a rare chance to enjoy a world filled with hundreds of living butterflies. It’s an e 1. exhibition.
It p 2. a close look at butterflies. Dan Babbitt, one of the l 3. of the museum says visitors can get very close to the butterflies to learn about their i 4. .“Our purpose is to c 5. people to the natural world. We have found that using animals and insects is an amazing way to do that.” Babbitt says butterflies are important to the e 6. for several reasons.
“One big reason is because of pollination（授粉）. They will t 7. from flower to flower, taking pollen(花粉) from one flower to another. So we won’t have a number of fruit that we like to eat w 8. butterflies.”
“We have butterflies from all over the world” he says. “And have already s 9. about 5,000 or so different kinds.” He a 10. that the museum’s goal for the next five years is to let more people learn more about butterflies .
根据括号中所给的汉语写出单词，使句子意思完整正确。
1. Sorry, sir! Those boots aren’t (可找到的) in your size.
2.Spacemen have to__________(使固定) sleeping bags to the walls to prevent floating..
3.All the boys can’t wait to play basketball. They wish to begin (立即) after class.
4.We can use many _________(交通工具) such as buses, cars and so on to go to or from work.
B.用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子。每空限填一词。
5.Little Tom is often very clever, but he makes an （correct）answer this time.
6.When we got to the top of the mountain, we were tired and breathed __________(heavy).
7. Minnie is (pretty) than any other mouse I’ve ever seen.
8.A hot topic that people are now talking about is the (safe) of school bus these days.
When something becomes fashionable very quickly , we say that it’s a “craze”. The latest craze is sometimes a style of clothes or a hairstyle. Sometimes it is a game or a TV programme.
In the 20th century a lot of crazes started in the USA and then became popular in the USA and then became popular in other parts of the world. American youth culture has spread through tourism , TV , films, magazines and music videos.
One of the biggest crazes was the hula hoop（呼啦圈）. Hula hoops are not popular now, but in the1950s they were a sensation. An American company called Wham-O started to make plastic（塑料的）hoops toys, and in the USA the company sold 100 million hoops in a year.
Frisbees（飞盘）were another Wham-O product（产品）. Some people say that the idea
started in the factory of the Frisbee Baking Company in Connecticut. Workers there threw metal pans to each other during their breaks. Two businessmen made a plastic type of the flying pans, and sold their products to Wham-O. They became a big business.
So businesses usually help to produce a craze. Yoyos were another example. In the Philippines, where its name means “comeback”, the yoyo was a popular toy in the 1920s. But it didn’t become a global (世界性的) craze until an American called Donald Duncan bought the idea and sold it to the world. Around 100 million people bought yoyos in 1962 and 1963.
Most crazes come and go, but sometimes they survive. When the big skateboard started in California in 1965, many parents and governments said that the boards were dangerous, and they were not allowed in some areas. But the boards became popular again and they are still an important part of youth culture today.
1.What is a “craze” ?
A. A special culture in the western country.
B. Something that is liked by the young.
C. Something that first spreads in the USA.
D. Something that becomes very popular over a short period (时期) of time.
2.What does the underlined word “sensation” mean ?
A. 昂贵的物品
B. 值得珍藏的物品
C. 轰动一时的物品
D. 昙花一现的物品
3.What fact does the passage provide ?
A. All crazes in the world come and go quickly.
B. Skateboards are not allowed in most areas of America.
C. In the last century the USA introduced many new crazes.
D. Crazes have nothing to do with culture.
4. Which of the following can be chosen as the best title of the passage ?
A. Something about Crazes
B. Wham-O products
C. A successful Company
D. American Youth Culture
If you’ve tried studying when you’re tired, you know that it can seem very impossible to do well.
A study of sleep in sparrows suggests the relationship between sleep and the ability to learn may be more complicated(复杂) than people knew.
Niels C·Rattenborg, a scientist from Wisconsin-Madison, wanted to find out how the sparrows were able to deal with getting so much less sleep. He and his team brought eight wild birds into a lab and watched them for one year. They invented a game to check how well the birds could learn. In the game, the sparrows had to peck(啄)three buttons （按钮）in a right order to get a food treat. The scientists discovered that the birds’ ability to learn the right button order depended on(依靠)two things: the time of year and the amount of sleep the birds had had.
During the migration（迁徙）season, the sparrows were restless at night and got much less sleep than usual. Even so, they were able to understand how to get the food quickly as if they’d had a regular night of sleep. Outside the migration season, they found the sparrows that got less sleep than usual had much more difficulty learning how to get the food treats than birds that had a regular sleep.
The results show that the sparrows can deal with much less sleep during the migration season than usual. If scientists can find out why, they may learn from sparrows and find ways of helping people deal with getting much less sleep. Until scientists fully understand the relationship between sleep and learning, it’s better to get plenty of sleep when preparing for an exam.
1.The passage is mainly about .
A. sparrows’ migration.
B. sleep lessons from Sparrows.
C. how to get less sleep while studying
D. how sparrows that got less sleep get food treats
2.Why can sparrows get much less sleep during the migration season?
A. They eat more.
B. The climate is better
C. They can get food quickly
D. Scientists still don’t know the reason.
3.What fact does the passage lead you to believe?
A. We should sleep as little as sparrows do.
B. We should get enough sleep before an exam.
C. When tired, we should try to focus on(聚焦) our study.
D. When tired, we should check how we can sleep less than usual.
