写作（25分）
苏明是育才学校八年级的学生，他想写一封回信给他在美国的笔友Nancy，介绍他的学校生活。下面是一些要点，你能帮他写这封信吗？
1. 育才学校是一所混合学校。
2. 最喜欢的科目是历史。英语不太好，希望Nancy能帮他。
3.学校每学期有一个阅读周，同学们都很喜欢这个阅读周，可以读到图书馆的很多书。
4. 放学后打篮球，每周两次。
5. 喜欢育才学校的生活。
David Nancy,
I am very glad to receive your letter. You asked me about my school life in your letter. Now I’ll tell you something about it.
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缺词填空 根据短文内容及首字母提示补全单词（共10小题；每小题1分，共10分）
My best f___1.____ Betty is as slim as I．She is a pretty girl with short h____2.__．Betty is very g___3.___．She is willing to s___4.____ her things with her friends．She is also very h____5._ and is ready to help people at__6.____ time．She often helps me with my Physics and always gives s___【小7】__ to people on the bus．Betty likes singing, so she wants to be a s__7.____ when she g__8.___ up．I h___9.____ her dream will come true．
任务型阅读 请根据材料内容，完成各题。（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
Mr Smiths has two sons. One is seven years old, and the other is five. One morning during the holiday, when Mr Smiths is cleaning the car, his younger son came and asks him for some money for sweets.
“Sweets are bad for your teeth,” Mr Smiths said, “Take these two oranges, and give one to your brother.”
One orange is even bigger than the other, and as the small boy likes oranges very much, he keeps the bigger one and gives his brother the smaller one. When the other boy saw that, he said, “It is selfish(自私的) to take the bigger one for yourself. If father gives me oranges, I will give you the bigger one.”
“I know you will,” answered his brother, “That’s why I take the bigger one.”
1.When does the story happen?
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2.What is Mr Smiths doing then(那时)?
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3.What does the younger boy ask for?
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4.Does the younger boy get what he wants?
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5.Who got the bigger orange, the younger boy or his brother?
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用所给词的适当形式填空
1.Which is ____________, a car or a bike? (useful)
2.What about _____________ hiking next? (go )
3.The more friends you have, ____________you’ll feel. (happy)
4.Do you know how _______________out this maths problem? (work)
5.How long do you spend _______________ Chinese every day? (read)
6.Look! How hard it _______________ outside.(rain)
7.I think you ______________Physics useful in the future. (find)
8.My best friend has a good sense of ______________(humorous)
9.I’m sorry, I can’t tell you the _______________. It’s a secret. (true)
10.They often have a good time ________________ together. (chat)
11.These magazines are those _____ .(read)
12.The patient (病人) feels much ________________ today. (well)
13.He liked to tell funny stories to make people ______________ (laugh).
14.Who makes _____ mistakes, Jack, Tonny or Sandy? (few)
15. Everyone likes the girl’s __________ eyes.(smile)
请根据中文提示、英文释义或句意，写出句中所缺单词，使句子通顺。
1.May is my __________(忠实的)friend and I often go to her for help.
2.Tom, don't have so much cold drink. You should look after _______(你自己) well.
3.Tom is very ____________(幽默), he can make us laugh.
4.Are you ___________ (愿意) to help us with our homework?
5.I hope I can go to the USA this___________(autumn的美式英语).
Do you hope to do a lot of homework every evening? Are you interested in your English classes? Who do you want to teach you? Maybe you have lots of questions in your mind before school starts.
Well, I want to give you some good advice on these problems.
First, keep calm(平静). Don’t worry about all the problems you have. Put your heart into learning, and you can find something you are interested in. Do it actively.
Second, try your best to finish your homework quickly. Don’t spend a lot of time on it. Do more reading or writing in English. Think about the problems you have and solve them at once. Don’t stay up(熬夜) late, or you can’t study well the next day.
Third, invent something instead of copying or repeating. If you can remember the words in your way, you can tell your teachers you don’t like the way of copying them again and again. Be sure, you must pass the test. I think your teachers will agree with you. And they can give you some interesting work to do.
School is really a good place for us to learn. Believe in your teachers and yourself. You are the best one and you can do everything well.
1.The writer writes this article in order to (为了)_________.
A. ask students not to do their homework
B. tell students what a good teacher and a good school are
C. give students some good ways of learning
D. ask the students not to listen to the teacher carefully
2.How many pieces of advice does the writer give us?
A. Three B. Four C. Five D. Six
3.What does the writer tell students to do about their homework?
A. They should spend much time on it.
B. Do the homework quickly.
C. They should do more reading or writing in English.
D. They should stay up late doing their home-work.
4.What’s the third piece of advice about?
A. Study in your own way.
B. How to get high marks.
C. How to get on well with the teachers.
D. What kind of schoolwork is better for students.
5.According to (根据) the passage, students should believe in _________.
A. themselves and their parents
B. their parents and teachers
C. their classmates and their friends
D. themselves and their teachers
