From the time each of my children started school, I packed their lunches. And in each lunch I packed, I left a note. The note might be a thank-you for a special moment, or a few words of encouragement for the coming test or sporting event.
When they were little, they loved their notes. And when I went back to teaching, they even put notes in my lunches. As they grew older, my elder son, Marc, told me that he no longer needed my daily notes. Telling him that he no longer needed to read them but I still needed to write them, I continued the tradition until the day he graduated.
Six years after high school graduation, Marc called and asked if he could stay at home for a couple of months. He had spent those years well, and he was very successful. He lived far away from home. With his younger sister leaving for college, I was especially looking forward to seeing Marc at home.
Since I was still making lunch every day for his younger brother, I packed one for Marc, too. Imagine my surprise when I got a call from my 24-year-old son, complaining (抱怨) about his lunch.
“Did I do something wrong? Aren’t I still your kid? Don’t you love me any more, Mom?” he asked.
I laughingly asked him what was wrong.
“My note, Mom,” he answered. “Where’s my note?”
This year my younger son will be in high school. He, too, has said that he is too old for notes. But like his elder brother and sister, he will receive those notes till the day he graduates.
1.Every time the writer packed lunches for her children, .
A. she wrote them a letter
B. she gave them a kiss
C. she gave some flowers to them
D. she wrote them a note
2. How many children may the writer have according to the passage?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.
3.Why did Marc call to complain about his lunch?
A. Because he didn’t like the taste of the lunch.
B. Because the lunch wasn’t enough for him.
C. Because his mother didn’t love him any more.
D. Because he didn’t find the note in the lunch box.
4.From the last paragraph we know that .
A. the writer didn’t prepare lunch for her daughter
B. the writer will continue writing notes for her younger son
C. Marc didn’t love the note in the lunch box
D. the writer’s children won’t get money from her any more
5.What is the BEST title for the passage?
A. Love notes
B. Children’s complaint
C. My children’s story
D. Lunches for children
在初中四年的学习生活中，你一定交了不少好朋友，留下了许多美好的回忆。请以“My Best Friend Tom/Mary"为题，写一篇100词左右的短文，介绍一位你最要好的朋友，男生姓名用Tom；女生姓名用Mary统—代替。
内容要求：1．他，她的外貌特征和个性特点；
2．你们一起经历的一件你印象特别深刻的事情。
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Writing.（注意：文中不能出现考生的真实姓名、校名，否则不给分）
每年的6月22日是世界慈善日（Charity Day）。假如你是学校宣传部的成员，请你根据所给的信息用英文写一则海报，号召大家伸出援助之手，帮助贫困失学儿童。要求包含所有信息。
内容要点如下：
◆越来越多的孩子因贫穷而上不起学；
◆每个孩子都应该拥有上学的权利（right）;
◆我们应该做些力所能及的事去帮助他们。
POSTER
Dear students,
In some parts of our city, there are more and more children out of school_______________________________________________________________________________
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Thanks for your joining!
The Students’ Union
June 19 , 2014
In a classroom in any countries, the teacher teaches more than art or history or language. He or she teaches something behind--- the culture of the country.
In a country such as the United States, people with different history, culture and language join together and they pay much attention to person ideas. Teachers try to make each student special. Students do not have to remember a lot of information, instead, they work and find answers by themselves. There is often discussion in the classroom. At an early age students learn to have their own ideas. Their education encourages personal thought . The importance is placed on how to arrive at an answer and not only to get the correct answer.
In most Asian countries, people have the same language, history and culture. Perhaps for this reason, the education there pays more attention to group goals than personal ideas. Children in China and Japan often work together and help each other on homework. In the classroom, the ways of teaching are often very traditional. The teacher says, and the students listen. There is not much discussion. Instead, the students repeat rules or information that they have been taught in order to keep them in mind.
In many ways these differences come from different educational ideas. In Western countries teachers are taught to help students to learn. They make it easier for the students to learn by themselves. In some Asian countries, however, teachers often feel that their job is to pass knowledge to students.
1.Do students in the United States have to remember a lot of information?
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2.There is often discussion in the classroom in America, isn’t there?
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3.What does the education in the United States encourage?
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4.Which does the education in some Asian countries pay more attention to, group goals or personal ideas?
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5.Put the sentence “In some Asian countries, however, teachers often feel that their job is to pass knowledge to students,” into Chinese.
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Reading Comprehension.
(A) Fill in each blank with a proper word with the help of the first letter.
High school students in America hear about twenty b 1. every day. The first bell is the tardy bell (上课铃). If students are not at their desks when the tardy bell r 2., they know they are late. Another bell rings at the end of each class, and everyone leaves class q 3. and goes to the next class. When students are in a hunger, they are often h_______4.to hear the bell ring. If the class is i 5., they do not want the bell ring.
M 6.students like the lunch bell best. They know that is time to enjoy their l 7.. They b 8. a hot meal in the school dinning room or they b 9. their lunch from home in big paper bags. A 10.a nice lunch everyone knows that it is soon time for another bell, another bell…
Vocabulary.
Complete the sentences with proper forms of the words given.
1.I will always remember your _______ (kind) to me.
2.The teacher is _________ (please) with what we have done in class.
3.He worked hard and ___________ (success) in his business at last.
4.Tom ran so _________ (quick) that I couldn’t catch up with him.
5.On June 1st, parents usually spend some money in______（buy）pictures books for their children as presents.
