阅读下列短文，从各题所给的A.B.C.和D项中选出最佳的选择，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑.

Getting electricity has always been a problem for the 173 people living in Nuevo Saposoa, a small village in Peru, South America. However, things went from bad to worse in March 2015 after heavy rains damaged the only power cables in the area. The villagers were forced to use oil lamps, which are not only expensive but also dangerous because of the harmful gases they produce.

Luckily, researchers at the University of Technology (UT) in Lima, Peru heard about their problem and found a wonderful solution. They made a lamp that can be powered by plants and soil, both of which can be easily found in the Amazonian rainforest where the village lies. The lamp takes energy from a plant growing in a wooden box and uses it to light up an LED light bulb.

While that may sound amazing and even impossible, the science behind the ides is quite simple. As plants create their food (using the sun’s energy, water and chemicals from the soil), they also produce waste which they return to the soil. Tiny animals in the soil eat this waste and they produce electrons – the building blocks of electrical energy. The UT team put special sticks inside the soil to capture the energy and keep it in the lamp’s batteries for later use. The researchers say a single charge can power a 50-watt Led light for two hours - enough time for local villagers to get their evening work done.

The university gave ten Plant Lamps to the villagers of Nuevo Saposoa in October 2015. So far, they have been a huge success! Elmer Ramirez, the UT professor who invented the lamp, believes the Plant Lamp could help improve the lives of many people, especially small rainforest communities, 42% of whom have no electricity.

1.What are the problems of oil lamps according to Paragraph 1?

A. They are difficult to use and create pollution

B. They are expensive to buy and easily damaged

C. They are difficult to repair and produce little light

D. They are expensive to use and can be bad for health

2.The electricity made by the Plant Lamp comes from______.

A. plant food                  B. plant waste

C. the soil’s heat            D. the sun’s energy

3.What is true about the Plant Lamp?

A. It can be made by local people

B. It is much easier to use than oil lamps

C. It can produce all the electricity the village need

D. The things it needs to make electricity are easy to find

4.The Plant Lamp’s inventor believes it could be most helpful for _________.

A. rainforest communities    B. cars

C. poor people in cities    D. farmers

5. What is the purpose of the passage?

A. To report on a new invention

B. To explain a new scientific theory

C. To describe how electricity is made

D. To discuss the problems of poor villages

阅读下列短文，从各题所给的A.B.C.和D项中选出最佳的选择，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑.

It may be hard to believe, but the American Revolution(革命)—the war that freed the American states from British control—began over a cup of tea. Tea was not the only thing that caused the war, of course, but it played a very big part.

The British people’s love of tea is well-known. When the British won control over mush of North America in the early 1700s, they brought their tea- drinking habits with them. Tea quickly became the continents most popular drink. As tea could not be grown locally, just as in Britain, it was shipped into the country—mostly from India.

In the early 1700s, the Britain government made a special deal with the East India Company, as an English trading company. They agreed that no other company was allowed to bring tea to Britain or any country controlled by Britain, including America. It was a great deal for the East India Company, since it meant that the company could decide whatever price it wanted for its products. And it always decided on a high price!

In North America, the local people did not like having to pay such high prices. Instead of overpaying for tea from the British, they turned to Dutch traders, who secretly brought tea to the country that was just as good—and much less expensive. Although this broke the law, the American people didn’t care. They got the same cup of tea at a much lower price.

The East India Company, however, didn’t like this at all. By the 1760s, they were losing millions of pounds each year to Dutch traders—a huge amount of money in a time when ￡60 a year was considered a good income. Instead of reducing their prices to compete with the Dutch, the company asked the British government for help and the government agreed.

In 1767, the British introduced new law that increased the prices of all goods which were brought into America. These laws helped make the East India Company even richer and forced local people to pay much more for everything. The American leaders asked the British government not to do so, but the British refused to listen. These unfair laws increased Americans’ anger about British rule and the rest, as they say, is history.

1.In the early 1700s where did most tea drunk in America come from?

A. China  B. India  C. America  D. Britain

2.The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to________.

A. the tea maker

B. the American government

C. the British government

D. the East India Company

3.Why did may Americans begin to buy tea from the Dutch traders?

A. The tea was much cheaper.

B. The tea was a lot healthier.

C. They could buy it more easily.

D. They didn't want to support the British.

4.What did the East India Company do to stop losing money?

A. It reduced the price of its tea.

B. It improved the taste of its tea.

C. It introduced a new kind of tea.

D. It asked the British government for help.

5.What is the passage mainly about?

A. Tea trade in eighteenth-century America.

B. The relationship between America and Britain.

C. A reason for the start of the American Revolutionary War.

D. The introduction of British tea-drinking habits into America.

阅读下列短文，从各题所给的A.B.C.和D项中选出最佳的选择，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑.

“Save the whales!” That’s what the picture on Jake Smith’s bedroom wall said. Jake liked having a picture that said something important: that showed he cared. He just never expected to get a chance to save a real whale, one right in his own neighbourhood.

It was a Saturday morning when the newspaper first reported the whales’ coming. A group of the animals were swimming close to the beach in Jake’s hometown. All the local people rushed out to the beach to see them. They were expecting a beautiful show, better than a movie, but nothing they’d have to do anything about.

Then one whale swam in the direction, directly towards land. It came in with the waves, and when the waves receded. Its huge body on the sand. Suddenly, Jake and his family and all the others were no longer sightseers. They had to become rescuers. A few people ran towards the animal. They pushed and tried to force the whale back into the water, but it was no use.

An animal rescue service team soon arrived in a truck with heavy lifting machinery, to help move the animal. Jack and his family couldn’t do much on the beach, so they went back to their house and made sandwiches and hot tea for the rescuers. At least, Jake thought, they could help in some way.

Back at the beach, they offered the food to the rescuers and were happy to see that it was needed. It was getting dark. Some people lined up their cars along the beach and shined the headlights on the sand. The rescuers would not give up. After trying many times they were finally able to lift the whale into the water. Everyone cheered when it headed out to sea. It swam out about a mile and then disappeared for a moment under the sea. Then, in what looked like a jump of joy, it rose high above the water—a thank-you to those who had worked so hard to save his life.

1.What does the picture on Jake’s wall tell us about him?

A. He lived near the ocean.

B. He cared about the environment.

C. He worked as an animal rescuer.

D. He thought whales were the most beautiful animals.

2.Why did the local people go down to the beach that morning?

A. To swim with the whales

B. To help rescue the whales.

C. To see the whales swimming.

D. To watch a movie about whales.

3. The underlined word “receded” in Paragraph 3 means ________.

A. didn't move         B. went back out

C. washed over         D. got up

4. How did Jake and his family help save the whale?

A. By calling the rescue service.

B. By asking their neighbours for help.

C. By giving the rescuers food and drink.

D. By controlling the people on the beach.

5. In what order did the events of the whale rescue take place?

a. The whale disappeared under the sea.

b. People turned on the lights of their cars.

c. Rescuers lifted the whale into the water.

d. People pushed the whale towards the sea.

e.A group of the animals were swimming close to the beach in Jake’s hometown.

A. e-d-b-c-a     B. e-b-c-d-a

C. d-b-e-a-c      D. a-e-b-d-c

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16-25各题所给的A、B、C、D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When Rebecca was a middle school student, she was often bullied（欺凌）.At that time, she didn’t want to tell others. However, she now thinks people who are bullied should talk about their _________.

Rebecca says that many people who are bullied_____in silence. She says that although she ______heard a lot about bullying when she was in primary school, she never thought it would happen to her.

Rebecca told us that the bullying began when she went to middle school. People started making fun of her for being a ______student and knowing all the answers.

She went on to say that every time she answered a question correctly in class, everyone would start shouting and saying that she was too________for them.

She told us that by the end of the year, she was very ________about the bullying and became ill. She began to hate school. But __________ she had a friend who could talk to, and they told their head teacher about her problem. She believes that talking to the teacher______her a lot. They found ways to deal with the problem, and the bullying finally_______.

Her_______is, don’t see yourself as the problem. Nobody should be bullied. But if you don’t tell anyone what is going on, nobody will know that you need help.

1. A. experiences   B. jokes    C. hobbies   D. studies

2.A. sleep    B. laugh       C. suffer        D. play

3.A. seldom   B. always   C. never        D. suddenly

4.A. bad    B. happy   C. silent        D. good

5. A. clever   B. slow    C. noisy        D. proud

6. A. pleased   B. worried   C. satisfied   D. amazed

7.A. usually   B. interestingly  C. luckily   D. strangely

8.A. surprised   B. controlled   C. excited   D. helped

9.A. started   B. stopped   C. increased   D. continued

10.A. problem   B. agreement       C. condition   D. advice

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从1-15各题所给的A、B、C、D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In a far-away place, there was a village. The village was____ in potatoes than anywhere else in the country. At the end of every growing season, ______potatoes were dug out of the ground, and readied for market. In each home, men and women would________divide the potatoes into three groups, large, medium and small.

One year, there was a young man______received his share of the potatoes. As the other villagers_______, he walked around the village laughing and talking.______villagers thought he was lazy, and they worried that this man would never get__________potatoes ready in time. When it was time for the villagers________to market, they were greatly surprised to find that the man’s potatoes_____perfectly into three groups.

After _______the man how he did it, they understood he was not lazy, ______very clever. He had put all his potatoes in a cart and pulled it along the village’s rough dirt road. As the cart moved up and down over the road, the potatoes moved_______. The small potatoes moved to the bottom, the larger potatoes rose to the top and the medium potatoes rested____ the middle.

Life______like this too. The rough roads we travel along can also_____us.

1.A. rich    B. richer        C. richest    D. more rich

2.A. thousand with  B. thousands with   C. thousand of   D. thousands of

3.A. busily   B. busy     C. more busily   D. busier

4.A. who    B. which    C. what     D. whose

5.A. work    B. was working   C. were working   D. works

6.A. A    B. An     C. The     D. /

7.A. he    B. him     C. himself    D. his

8.A. go    B. going    C. to go     D. went

9.A. are divided  B. were divided   C. are dividing   D. divided

10.A. asking   B. asked    C. ask     D. asks

11.A. so    B. and     C. or     D. but

12.A. too   B. also     C. either        D. neither

13.A. on    B. in     C. with     D. by

14.A. has   B. are     C. were     D. is

15.A. to help   B. help     C. helps     D. helped

根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。

阅读短文，从方框中所给的六个句子中选择五个还原到短文中，使短文通顺完整、衔接自然。

March 20th is World Water Day every year. According to a report from the United Nations, more than half of the world's major rivers have serious water loss and are polluted.The Yellow River, the world's fifth longest river, watered some of the oldest farms on earth. But now it has a serious problem. 1.In most of the past 35 years, it didn't reach the sea.The Nile in Egypt, running 6, 650 km, is the longest river in the world. 2._ Now it is down to 2 billion m' or so.  Australia's Murray River reaches the sea only every other year.  One fifth of America's Rio Grande has no water, either. 3._Mostly it's damming (筑坝) and global warming that make rivers dry.

4. Now about 45, 000 of them lie across the world's rivers. They hold back around 15% of the world's fresh water from running to the sea.Global warming is making things worse. Warmer weather takes water away. The glacier (冰川) are becoming smaller. 5.Global warming has had certain effects on water sources (源头). Droughts (干旱) happening around the world make people pay more attention to this fact.

写出各单词的正确形式；每空只写一词。

Reading is an activity people enjoy a lot in their free time.

Some like reading newspapers and o1. enjoy novels or comic(喜剧的) books. My  f2._books are those about the lives of great people. Reading them always gives me a lot of ideas on how to make my  o3. life better.

Great people are remembered not because they were handsome or beautiful, but because they did not give up w4.their lives were difficult. They tried to use e5. chance to change their lives and make the world better.

One good example is Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two brothers w6. invented the airplane. The plane has m_7. the world into a small village. Hard work, not good luck, is the r8._ why the Wright Brothers could invent this convenient(方便的) machine and become great people. Today we will remember them when we see planes i9. the sky.

Whenever I read s10. about great people, I always learn a lot from them and they encourage me to march on.

This is why I enjoy reading about great people’s lives.

—Mom, shall we have supper now?

—Oh, we won’t have supper ______ your dad comes back.

A. until              B. since

C. while              D. after

Mr Zhang is a kind teacher. He devotes much of his time _________ us with English.

A. to help             B. helps

C. help                 D. to helping

My father has worked there ___________.

A. since five years              B. since 2005

C. since ten years ago           D. B&C

_______ fine day it is! Let’s go and fly a kite.

A. What                 B. What a

C. How                D. How a

---How many apples are there in your bag? ---___________

A. No                 B. No one

C. Nothing            D. None

We’ll try our best to do the work better with ________ money and _______ people.

A. few, little         B. a few, a little

C. less, fewer        D. fewer, less.

The work is _________ ,so I often feel ________.

A. bored , boring             B. boring , boring

C. boring, bored               D. bored ,bored

John is ______ honest boy. He has­­­­­ ______ useful book.

A. an; an           B. a; a

C. a; an             D .an; a

The river near our village is about _______ long.

A. three-hundreds-metres         B. three-hundred-metre

C. three hundreds metres         D. three hundred metres

______ important information he left for me! It’s of much ______ to me.

A. What, use            B. What an, use

C. How, useful          D.How an, useful

阅读理解。

We may know that there are four basic periods(时期) for human beings to pass through when you enter and live in another country. This process helps you deal with culture shock（冲击）.

Culture shock begins with the "honeymoon period". This is the time when you first arrive in a place where everything about the new cu1ture is strange and exciting. You see new things, hear new sounds and language, eat new kinds of food. This period can last for quite a long time because you feel very happy.

Unluckily, the second period can be more difficu1t.  After you have got used to your new life, you can become very tired and begin to miss your motherland, your family, your friends, your pets and so on. Al1 the little prob1ems in life seem to be much bigger and more worrying when you face them in a foreign country. This period can be very difficult and lead to moving backwards quickly.

The third period is called the "adjustment period". This is when you begin to realize that things are not so bad in the new country. Your sense of humor usually becomes stronger and you realize you are becoming stronger by 1earning to take care of yourself in the new place. Things are still difficult, but you are now a survivor.

The fourth period can be cal1ed "at ease at last". Now you feel quite comfortable in your new place. You can deal with most problems that you have. You may still have prob1ems with language, but you know you are strong enough to deal with them. At this time, you may feel a little uncomfortable if you go back to your motherland.

1.According to the passage, culture shock usually happens when you ______.

A. get married to a foreigner

B. live in a big city

C. go to live in a foreign country

D. meet foreigners in your motherland

2.During the first period of the process, you feel _________.

A. sad and lonely

B. happy and excited

C. angry but strong

D. easy but uncomfortable

3.You will find that you are a survivor in _______.

A. the 1st period        B. the 2nd period

C. the 3rd period        D. the 4th period

4.The fourth period can be regarded as a period of being _____.

A. relaxing              B. worrying

C. tiring               D. disturbing

5.From the passage we can conclude that ______.

A. living in another country is fun

B. it’s boring to live in another country

C. knowing about culture shock is hard

D. it’s not easy to deal with culture shock

完形填空。

通读下面的短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

I walked into the Huddle House Restaurant in Brunswick, Georgia and sat down at the table. I picked up the menu and was to order something for breakfast.

“Excuse me,”

I looked up and __________a nice-looking woman standing before me.

“Is your name Roger?” __________ asked.

“Yes,” I answered, feeling rather confused(迷惑) as I had never seen her before.

“My name’s Barbara and my __________is Tony, “she he said, pointing to a middle-aged man sitting alone at the table by the window. He was __________ and weak.

“Tony White, from Landon School in Jacksonville, Florida.” She added.

I looked at that man for a few seconds, __________ I didn’t recognize(认识) him.

“I’m really sorry. The name doesn’t ring the bell,”I said.

She walked back, began __________with her husband and once in a while I saw her turn around and look directly at me.

I ordered breakfast and a cup of __________, sitting there, trying to remember who this Tony was. “I __________know him,” I thought to myself. “He recognizes me for some reason.” I picked up the coffee cup. All of a sudden it came to me like a flash of lightning.

“Tony, the bully, the bad boy!” I could __________ believe my eyes. “Jesus! He’ s so thin now. Not the big boy that I __________ from back in 1977.”

Everything came up to my mind. The time this __________ boy had made fun of my big ears in front of the girls in my class, and the time this big bully had pushed me against the walls in the hallway just to make himself __________ a big man to all other students.

“I am sorry, Roger,” Tony rolled by me in the wheelchair, being pushed by his wife, raising his thin trembling hand. “I am so sorry for __________ that I did to you.”

“I’m…I’m er…” I didn’t know what to __________ to him.

After a few months later, I received a letter from Barbara. Tony was __________ . Tony had been a fireman and had been seriously wounded in a task.

How I regretted for not saying something to him but I no longer had the chance!

1.A. heard          B. saw          C. felt          D. told

2.A. you           B. we           C. he           D. she

3.A. husband        B. father       C. brother      D. son

4.A. fat            B. thin         C. strong        D. young

5.A. but            B. and          C. or           D. so

6.A. listening     B. writing      C. talking       D. playing

7.A. tea            B. juice        C. coffee        D. milk

8.A. needn’t      B. need         C. mustn’t     D. must

9.A. hardly        B. really      C. simply        D. mostly

10.A. protect      B. remember     C. love          D. miss

11.A. clever        B. shy          C. bad          D. friendly

12.A. look after   B. look for     C. look at       D. look like

13.A. everything  B. nothing     C. something    D. anything

14.A. talk          B. tell         C. say           D. speak

15.A. healthy      B. dead         C. famous        D. Blind

—How many times         Carl         to the Great Wall?

—Only once.

A. does ;go           B. did; go

C. has; gone          D. has; been

Sherlock Holmes asked the suspect what he ___ when the murder took place.

A. was doing          B. has done

C. is doing           D. would do

In the UK, a lady usually doesn't like to be asked ___.

A. whether has she got married    B. how old is she

C. where she comes from            D. how much she weighs

---I'm going to give a talk on the Dragon Boat Festival to the exchange students.

---Great! But don't forget to tell them______.

A. what should they eat at the festival

B. why people enjoy the full moon

C. what kind of race is often held

D. How do people celebrate it

___ great fun we had in Yandu Park last Sunday!

A. How               B. What

C. What a           D. How a

— Must I turn off the gas after cooking?

— Of course. You can never be________ careful with that.

A. enough          B. too

C. so               D. very

We can have ________ bluer sky if we create _________less polluted world.

A. a; a               B. a; the

C. the; a            D. the; the

–What about food? Would you like some _______?

–Yes, please.

A. egg              B. tea

C. rice             D. banana

--I’m too nervous to give a speech before so many people. ---_______, Maria. You can do it.

A. That’s true        B. With pleasure

C. Come on             D. You’re right

―Where’s your father?

―He _____ abroad on business.

―Really? But he can’t _____ many English words.

A. has been, tell       B. has gone, speak

C. has gone, say       D. has been to, talk

缺词填空。

In China, a lot of food is wasted every year and the waste food is e____________for 200,000,000 people. The food is wasted in restaurants, at home and in schools, etc.

In restaurants or at home, people often o __________ or cook too much food. But they can’t eat it up . When they go out of a restaurant, f __________ and happy, they n __________ look back at the uneaten food on the table again. Should Chinese consumers(消费者) feel sorry for the terrible w __________ ?

In schools, we can often see a lot of students throw food away after m __________ and they only eat the food they like.

Everyone is supposed to have enough food to eat. However, in some p__________ , the food is so little that  a lot of people died from hunger. T __________ China has tried hard to solve the problem of hunger over the past thirty years, the job is not f __________yet. Food is important to us all. We can’t live without food. So it    is necessary for us to love food and try to eat up e __________ on our plates. When we eat in restaurants, we should pack up the leftovers. We also need to tell other people to stop wasting food as soon as possible.