America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don’t feel hurt .If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand. Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) deeply into both families.

There is another difficult point for us to understand .Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China, we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off from our work to act as guides to our friends. It is opposite in America .Americans can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.

For Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life .So accept their hospitality(好客) at home and enjoy your visit in America !

1.The underlined phrase “pick up” in Paragraph 1 may mean “____________”.

A.keep out               B. give up

C. pay no attention to    D. continue

2.Which of the following is the typical (典型的) way of American hospitality ?

A.Treating friends at home.

B.Taking days off to be with friends .

C. Meeting friends at the airport at midnight.

D. Sharing everything they have.

3.Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?

A. Americans are always generous with their time.

B. Americans don’t feel hurt if their friendships disappear soon .

C. Chinese friendships develop more slowly but will never disappear.

D. Chinese friendships are more sincere than American friendships .

4.This passage is most probably written for____________ .

A.American students

B.Chinese students

C. Chinese visitors to America

D. American visitors to China

I love it at night. It’s peaceful. And when it cools down I sometimes do some ironing(熨烫衣物). I don’t really care for it. I work full-time and I am too busy for most housework. I remember the old woman who taught me to iron. I was about 15 and I had to get a job taking care of a woman to make a living. She had been an able-bodied, healthy woman until the accident that caused her to be paralyzed.

The woman sat in an electric wheelchair all day. She could only move her head and arms. She would tell me how to do things. She would teach me in great detail on the correct ways to do things. Her home was perfect and beautiful. She would follow me around in her electric wheelchair to make sure I did everything exactly right. I’m sure she had been a perfect homemaker. She would have me fold(折叠) everything, including socks. I would complain silently and wish terrible things on her. She taught me the right way to make the bed. I know sometimes she’d get frustrated(沮丧) and impatient with me. I knew she wanted to do it herself. But she never shouted or scolded. She only insisted I do it right. I didn’t like it much, but I did it.

Today I can iron pretty well. I know where to start on a shirt and the right way to do the trousers. Now when I think about it, I don’t think she is an old lady. I think she might have been about my age now. Anyway, when I iron, I think of her and silently thank her for all the things I learned.

1.The writer used to take care of the lady because ________.

A. she wanted to learn to do housework

B. she was a friend of the lady’s

C. she had to earn some money

D. she couldn’t find a room to live in

2.The underlined word ‘paralyzed’ in the first paragraph may mean ‘______’.

A. destroyed     B. deaf

C. seriously ill  D. unable to walk

3. The little girl was ______ when the lady taught her how to do housework.

A. encouraged to learn   B. unwilling to learn

C. delighted to learn    D. recommended to learn

4. Now the writer ______.

A. is still afraid of the lady

B. hates the strict lady

C. admires the disabled lady

D. is very grateful to the lady

Six months ago, Jack came to China to study. He has heard that Yangzhou is famous for its gardens. And he plans to visit some gardens in July, so he has collected information about them online as follows：

1.How much will a ticket cost Jack if he visits the Slender West Lake?

A. 30 yuan.         B. 40 yuan.

C. 90 yuan.         D. 150 yuan.

2.Which of the following can Jack do?

A. He can take a No.30 bus to Ge Garden.

B. He can visit the Slender West Lake at 8：00.

C. He can call 0514-87935285 for further information of He Garden.

D. He can go to www.he-garden.net to know more about the Slender West Lake.

3.What’s He garden famous for?

A. The green bamboo.    B. The long corridor.

C. The man-made hills.  D. The boat travelling.

完型填空

Andi Davise, a 49-year-old woman liked hiking. She crossed the trail through the Phoenix Mountains Preserve with a few other hikers as usual. But this morning, she met     and heard only the sounds of the animals.

After a while, she reached the steep slope (陡坡), she climbed up to the top        her hands. When she finally got to the top of the mountain, she       a dark shape several inches from her left foot. She was        and then looked carefully. “It’s a dog and it’s dead,” she said to herself. It took her a few seconds to realize that the dog’s eyes were    . She greeted in a low and soft      to show she was friendly. The bull dog shook when he heard her.

Andi inched(一点点移动)        and dropped some water into the dog’s mouth. He tried to stand up but failed. Something was wrong with his left       . Andi pulled out her phone to contact her husband, Jason,     , he didn’t notice it. She knew that if she didn’t carry the dog      the mountain, he would die.

Andi had     trouble going down the steep, rocky mountainside with the 50-pound animal in her arms. Even her arms and back started aching, she didn’t give up. The trip up      30 minutes while going back down took twice that.

Andi’s           received her messages at last. He and their son, Justin, jumped into the car and        to pick up Andi.

Later that morning, an X-ray showed that the bull dog was badly hurt, he was likely to        his left leg. A few days later, the Davises returned to the animal hospital. They named the dog Elijah and brought him home that day.

1.A. nobody   B. everybody   C. anybody     D. somebody

2.A. making    B. using     C. having      D. thinking

3.A. knew      B. heard    C. noticed     D. looked

4.A. satisfied  B. sad    C. excited   D. frightened

5.A. open     B. closed    C. big       D. small

6.A. sound   B. voice    C. noise    D. hearing

7.A. faster   B. slower    C. closer    D. longer

8.A. foot     B. eye    C. ear       D. leg

9.A. however  B. but      C. so       D. yet

10.A. up      B. down       C. left      D. right

11.A. few     B. little    C. great      D. many

12.A. paid   B. cost       C. spent    D. took

13.A. husband  B. son       C. wife       D. daughter

14.A. ran      B. drove    C. walked   D. jumped

15.A. lose     B. lost       C. loss       D. miss

----It shouldn’t take long to clear up after the get-together if we all volunteer to help.

----______________. Many hands make light work.

A. I can’t agree more   B. I don’t think so

C. Good idea             D. I’m afraid not

---- Let’s go fishing if it _______ this weekend.

---- But nobody knows if it ______.

A. is fine ； will rain    B. will be fine； rains

C. is fine； rains         D. will be fine； will rain

I think these materials may be of ___________ to your study.

A. important B. helpful       C. some help     D. useful

My father wants me to be a doctor _______an engineer,________I want to be an actor.

A. or； and   B. and； but

C. and； so     D. or； but

We may meet all kinds of difficulties in the future, but we should be confident enough to___________ any challenge.

A. put on     B. get on     C. take on     D. try on

— Our monitor Jack is good at all the subjects, but he never___________ .

— What a modest student!

A. gets off      B. takes off

C. puts off    D. shows off

—Would you like a cup of coffee or a bottle of juice?—______. I’d like some milk.

A. Either    B. Both     C. None     D. Neither

The doctor has devoted most of his time to ___________ the patients.

A. look after     B. looking after

C. looks after    D. looked after

As a student, I can’t afford ___________ a new mobile phone.

A. buy        B. buying        C. to buy        D. bought

If we don’t study hard, we will___________ in our class.

A. take the lead    B. fall behind

C. be the first   D. be successful

— Did you enjoy the outdoor training yesterday?

— No, not at all! I was _____dead after so much hard training.

A. as good as     B. as well as

C. so good as      D. so well as

They thought ________ important to look left and right when ________ the road.

A. it’s, cross   B. it, to cross

C. it, crossing     D. it was, to cross

Western countries, women are always dressed ___________  white ___________ their wedding day, because white is the colour of purity.

A. on； on   B. in； in           C. on； in    D. in； on

-- Excuse me. Could you tell me __________ ?    --- Sorry, I’m new here.

A. where is the nearest hospital

B. how can I get to the nearest hospital

C. where the nearest hospital was

D. which bus I should take to the nearest hospital.

I___________ stay at home and listen to the radio .

A. want            B. like          C.would rather      D. enjoy

书面表达

假设你是某英语报刊“Heart to Heart”栏目的编辑，负责回复读者来信。请回复下面一封来信，要求针对来信内容对来信者进行安慰、鼓励，并对其“学得很累”和“感到孤独”的状况提出建议。词数：80个左右。

Dear Editor,

I’m a Junior 3 student. I failed most of my final exams in my old school last year and my parents asked me to come to this new school. However, now I find I can’t study as hard as before and easily feel tired. I also feel very lonely among the new classmates. When in the old school, I could often share my happiness and sadness with my friends. So I think of my old classmates and friends quite often these days.

Grace

Dear Grace,

It is natural that you don’t feel at home in your new class as you did in your old one.

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任务型阅读：以下是某校的校规，请根据内容按四个不同场所归类，并将其序号填入下面相应的横线上。每一横线只能填一个序号：

1.Classroom

______ ______

2.Library

______ ______

3.School bus

______ ______

4.Playground

______ ______

请你按照以上校规，用英文为自己学校制订一条合理的校规：

5.__________________________________________________

语法填空（阅读下面短文，在空格处填入一个适当的词或用所给单词的正确形式填空。

Dear Lily,

Thank you for your letter. You wonder what my father is like. Now let me tell you.

My father is the person   1. I really admire in my life. He works   2.  a teacher in a junior school. He is tall and wears a pair of glasses.

At school, he is a hard-working and humorous teacher so that all his students love him 3.（deep）. He is quite patient to them and always tries his  4. to help them solve the problems. With his help, many students get good grades in the exams.

He is also a great father at home. He takes good care 5.   us and is never angry with us even when we cause some   6. (trouble). Last Sunday, I 7.  (break) the neighbor’s window when playing soccer. I was so scared 8.   I didn’t know what to do. He encouraged   9. (I) to face my problem bravely. What’s more, he keeps on eating healthy food and  10.  (exercise) every day. In his opinion, he should set a good example to us.

I love my father. He is my idol forever. Can you write and tell about your father? Best wishes!

根据短文内容和所给汉语提示，在空白处写出单词的正确形式，每空限填一词。

When I was sixteen, I met an American teacher. Thanks to him, I got a   1.   (机会) to improve myself.

One day, he wrote a poem on the blackboard and asked us what it meant. Everyone was 2.  (沉默的) in class. Unluckily, the teacher   3.  (选择) me to answer the question.

I said in a  4. (低的) voice,“Sorry, I don’t know.” I felt uneasy. “Can we be 5. (允许) to answer questions like this?” I thought. To my surprise, he didn’t 6.  (惩罚) me. He gave me a   7.  (宝贵的) lesson.

“ I don’t know,” he said. “It’s a wrong answer. You should at least have some ideas about the question   8.  (虽然) it’s a little difficult. It doesn’t mean that you don’t know. It means you are afraid of making  9.  (错误).” He was right. In fact, I 10.  (很少) spoke out my own opinions. I was afraid of being laughed by others.

After that, I said goodbye to the wrong answer---“I don’t know.” Any answer was better than that one.

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词仅用一次，每空一词。

1.Internet is ________ used in the world.

2.When we found the poor dog, it was already _______.

3.He didn’t receive any presents ________ a box.

4.He was serious about the _______ of the children.

5.It ______ be Frank’s schoolbag. He lost one this afternoon.

Although people everywhere seem to enjoy drinking coffee, they don’t all have the same coffee culture. In Europe, for example, coffee shops are common places for people to meet friends and to talk while they drink coffee. On the other hand, places like this were not as common in North America in the past. Instead, people in North America liked to drink coffee in their homes with friends. The coffee culture in the USA changed when Starbucks (星巴克)coffee shops spread across the country.

The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington, in the USA. It was a small coffee shop that cooked its own coffee beans. The coffee shop’s business did well, and by 1981 there were three Starbucks stores in Seattle.

Things really began to change for the company in 1981.That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment. He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, which caused his great interest. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did. In 1982, the original Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company’s head of marketing（市场营销）.

In 1983, Schultz traveled to Italy. The special environment of the espresso(浓咖啡 ) bars there caught his eyes. Back in the USA, Schultz created an environment for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable and casual, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Starbucks began opening more stores across the USA. Then the company opened coffee shops in other countries as well. Today, there are more than 16,000 Starbucks coffee shops all over the world.

However, that does not mean Starbucks has not had problems. In fact, many Starbucks stores have closed over the past few years. On the one hand, this is because there were too many coffee shops competing for business in one small area. On the other hand, stores in some countries closed because the coffee culture there did not match with the “feel the same everywhere” environment offered by Starbucks.

1. The underlined word “ran” in Paragraph 3 probably means “       ”.

A. closed            B. managed         C. left       D. sold

2. According to the passage, which is the right order for the following sentences?

a. This man helped to make Starbucks a huge coffee company.

b. He went to Seattle to learn about the company and later worked for it.

c. Howard Schultz noticed Starbucks ordered lots of special coffee makers.

d. Starbucks began as a small coffee company in Seattle in the USA.

A. a-d-c-b         B. a-d-b-c

C. d-c-b-a         D. d-c-a-b

3. Why did so many Starbucks close in small areas?

A. The coffee in these places was too expensive.

B. The style of the coffee stores seems the same.

C. People like to drink coffee at home with friends.

D. There were too many coffee shops in one place.

4. Which of the following shows the right structure of the passage?(P=Paragraph)

Delia was a young pianist. Her husband, Joe, was a young artist.

Each of them was taking lessons: Joe with a famous art teacher, and Delia with a great pianist from Germany. Their teachers were the very best, so lessons were expensive, more than they could really afford, but…when you love your art, nothing is too much.

But soon the money began to run out, and they couldn’t afford the lessons any more.

Then one day Delia came back home and told Joe that she had met a man whose daughter, Sally, wanted to learn the piano, and he was going to pay her $ 50 an hour.

“Delia,” Joe said, “I’ll be much happier if you keep up your lessons,” Delia said it didn’t matter. “When I’ve had some money, I’ll continue.” But Joe also decided to stop his lessons, to draw pictures and sell them.

A few days later, Joe came home and proudly took $ 200 from his pocket. “I met a man from Vermont,” he said, “who bought one of my pictures. And he wants to buy more!”

_________________.They didn’t have to worry any more about money.

Then, one day, Joe came home and saw that Delia’s hand was wrapped in a bandage(绷带). He asked her what had happened. “Oh,” said Delia. “My student, Sally, asked me to make some coffee for her. I dropped the coffee and burned my hand. Sally went straight to the drugstore and got this bandage for me. ”

“Delia, what have you been doing the last two weeks?” Joe asked. She tried not to tell him, but the tears came. “Oh Joe, I couldn’t get any students, so I worked as a waitress in a restaurant. Today, I burned my hand with hot water. So I can’t work any more. But we’ll still have money from the man in Vermont, won’t we?”

Joe looked at her. “There’s no man in Vermont, ” he said. “I’ve been working in a drugstore, and today someone came in to buy bandages for a woman who’s burned her hand. So when I saw you, well, I guessed.”

They both laughed.

[A story by O. Henry—adapted(改编)]

1.The writer of the story is ____.

A. Joe    B. Delia    C. O. Henry      D. Sally

2.Which of the following can be put in the “____” in Paragraph 7?

A. A bigger plan came to their mind

B. Since then Joe became very famous

C. So the two of them were very happy

D. Delia stopped her lessons and stayed home

3. Both of them laughed in the end because ____.

A. they would go on with their lessons soon

B. they had both told lies to make the other happy

C. they didn’t have to worry about money any more

D. they thought they had done something meaningless

4. The best title for the passage can be ____.

A. Blind love          B. A pleasant gift

C. A service of love   D. An unforgettable lesson

Four New Cool Inventions

Mip

Mip, a playful robot, was developed by a Canadian toy maker named Wowwee. It stands 19 cm tall. You can control it simply with your gestures(手势) or a smart phone. Mip can run, balance and dance on two wheels. It can also bring you a bottle of water.

Android Wear

Google is developing a smart watch called Android Wear. The watch uses a touchscreen and voice control. Simply say “OK, Google” to ask what ever you want to know. For example, say “OK, Google. Where’s the nearest toy store?” Your answer will tell you the answer on Google Maps.

Le Pen

Do you like listening to music while doing homework? If you do, you will like Le Pen. With a music player planted inside, Le Pen plays music while you write on paper. The music stops when you stop writing. So if you want to enjoy more of your favorite songs, keep on writing.

One wheel

In the near future you may find a new way to escape traffic: a self-balancing skateboard called Onewheel. It can go as fast as 19km an hour. On a single charge(充电), it can take you as far as 7-10km.

1. If you want to enjoy music while writing, you can choose________.

2.According to the passage, Android Wear can_________.

A. go as fast as 19km an hour

B. tell you how to get to some places

C. run, balance, dance and even serve you

D. play music while you writing on paper

3. Riding on One wheel, people can travel as far as __________.

A. 5-10km.         B. 7-10km.

C. 9-19km.         D. 19km and more.

4.Which statement is true according to the passage?

A. Mip is a robot that can help people make telephone calls to others.

B. Android Wear is a nice watch which can say “OK, Google” to the users.

C. Le Pen is a wonderful machine for people to write their own music for fun.

D. One wheel may be found on the roads in future and its speed can reach19km per hour.

1.__________can take part in the English Summer Camp.

A. Students under 13           B. Students aged 16

C. Students over 18            D. All the students

2.You can go to register on__________.

A. August 1st    B. August 6th     C. August 9th   D. August 26th

3.You can _______by joining in the English Summer Camp

A. visit the whole country

B. become an experienced teacher

C. improve your Chinese

D. know about British customs

完形填空

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

My grandmother used to say to me, “You can count the number of your true friends on the fingers of one hand.” For a long time I thought this was ________ .  Because there are not so many true friends in our life. But later, I’ve discovered that my grandmother was only half right. Maybe we do only ________  a few “best” friends in our lifetime, but those aren’t the only people that we can call friends. There are many different   ________.  Let me tell you about a few of them.

One type of friends is the type that I call the “soccer mum friend”. My neighbor Betty is a good   ________ . We both have kids who play soccer, and someone has to take them to their practices and pick them up . Betty and I and two ________ mothers do this. We meet sometimes and have coffee and talk ________ what our kids are doing, but those are the only times that we see each other. I ________staying with these women, but we don’t do anything else together.

Another type is the “________ friend”. This is the person   ________you share an interest or a hobby with. Doug and Charles Fisher, who are brothers, are a good example of this type. They all ________  to a bird-watching club. Every few weekends the members of the club go on hikes to watch different kinds of ________ . There’s nothing romantic about my relationship with Doug and Charles, of course. We just share an interest in birds.

________ , there’s the “other half of the couple” type of friends. Carmen is a friend that I’ve known  ________ college. When Carmen married George, I knew that I would have to be ________    friend if I wanted to continue to be Carmen’s. George and I don’t share that many interests, but we do have a ________ relationship . Because he is my good friend’s husband.

1.A. wrong   B. beautiful   C. friendly   D. true

2.A. make   B. take    C. give    D. find

3.A. rows   B. types    C. groups    D. teams

4.A. kind   B. friend    C. example   D. mother

5.A. another B. other     C. more of   D. the other

6.A. to      B. with      C. on       D. about

7.A. enjoy   B. wish    C. hope    D. dislike

8.A. club  B. bird    C. weekend   D. hobby

9.A. when   B. where    C. that       D. why

10.A. belong B. join    C. turn    D. point

11.A. persons  B. animals   C. birds D. friends

12.A. First  B. Besides   C. Therefore  D. So

13.A. since   B. before    C. after       D. until

14.A. Doug’s B. George’s C. Charles’sD. Betty’s

15.A. friendlyB. bad    C. poor    D. difficult

书面表达

元旦就要来了，做一个假期旅行计划。

1你计划和父母亲乘飞机去北京旅行。

2北京是我们的首都也是一个美丽的城市。

3要去参观天安门、长城等很多名胜。

4要拍很多的照片。

5要买很多喜欢的东西。

请根据以上要点写一篇短文，注意不要逐字翻译，80字左右。

                         My vacation plan

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