How many people will go to the zoo?

A. 3.    B. 4.    C. 5.

Who cooks the dinner?

A. Jason.    B. John    C. The woman.

What will Lucy do this weekend?

A. Go shopping.

B. Camp in the mountain.

C. Go hiking.

暑假即将来临。你班同学讨论了假期计划，提出了不同看法。请根据提示写一篇有关讨论的英语短文，并谈谈你的看法。

注意:1. 短文必须不少于词数100

2.短文必须包括表中所列要点，可根据内容分段表达。

3.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

4.参考词汇:眼界——horizon(或view)

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假定英语课课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意:1.每处错误及其修改均限一词。

2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Last summer, I got a young pet dog. I named him with Max after my favorite toy robot. The next day, I called her like this: “Come here, Max!” Then he comes up to me. I told him to getting on the bed. Strange, he went to the bathroom. Although it was very hot, I thought that Max wanted to go for swim, so I put him into a pool. To my surprises, he enjoyed himself very much in the water. Now Max has grown more bigger and follows me no matter where I go. He had brought me a lot of happiness.

I am now on my year abroad in  1. (German) as part of my university course. At the beginning of my time here, I had the chance to meet so many new people and make lots of new friends. It is almost like 2. (start) a new life and can make you feel nervous and 3. (lone) at first. But I knew that when I moved to this country I had to be open and friendly. This is certainly what I have done since moving here and I have made some great friends along the way.

Next week a friend of  4. (I) is moving to Spain for the next part of her year abroad. She will be living near a beach and have a lot of fun. But I am also  5. (concern) about her as she will have to start a new life in another new country. She said that she 6. (want) to go back in time very much.

In order 7. (say) goodbye to her, a group of friends and I had a surprise party. We made her a scrapbook with photos and memories of her time here so 8. she could take it along! We hope that she has 9. wonderful time in Spain and that she will get along well 10. her new classmates and settle into her new home.

Do you know how many languages there are in the world? There are about 1500, but many of them are not considered very _____. English is considered one of most important languages because many people _____ it, not only in England and America,  _____ in other countries of the world. About 200 000 000 speak it _____ their own language, and another 230 000 000 use it as _____ language. It is _____  to say how many people are learning it. _____ boys and girls in schools are trying to do so.

Many _____ children study French. French is also a very important language. _____ children study German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.

Which is the best ______ to learn a language? We know that we all learnt ______ language well when we were ______. If we learn a second language in the ______ way, it may not seem so difficult. What does a small child do? It ______ what people say, and it tries to guess what it hears. When it wants something, it has to ______ it. It is using the language, ______ and talking in it all of the time. If people use a second language ______, they will learn it ______.

In school, you learn to read, to write ,to hear and to ______.It is best to learn all new words through the ______. You can read them, spell them and speak them later.

1.A. spoken    B. happy    C. important    D. ideal

2.A. like    B. use    C. operate    D. play

3.A. but    B. and    C. too    D. so

4.A. like    B. with    C. for    D. as

5.A. distant    B. a second    C. the second    D. a special

6.A. easy    B. again    C. difficult    D. best

7.A. Millions of    B. Hundreds of    C. Tens of    D. Thousands of

8.A. Chinese    B. Japanese    C. English    D. Asian

9.A. Some    B. Thousands    C. All    D. Much

10.A. time    B. way    C. thing    D. place

11.A. a foreign    B. our mothers’    C. other’s    D. our own

12.A. born    B. children    C. grown    D. boys

13.A. same    B. different    C. useful    D. good

14.A. talks    B. wants    C. cries    D. follows

15.A. ask    B. want    C. get    D. ask for

16.A. speaking    B. writing    C. thinking    D. doing

17.A. sometime    B. sometimes    C. all the time    D. for the time

18.A. fluent    B. confident    C. freely    D. easily

19.A. fight    B. sing    C. speak    D. play

20.A. mouth    B. hands    C. ears    D. eyes

Worry problems are everywhere in our daily life. How to solve them? The answer is that we must equip ourselves to handle different kinds of worries by learning the three basic steps of problem analysis. The three steps are：

Get the facts

Why is it so important to get the facts? Unless you have the facts, you can’t possibly attempt to solve your problem intelligently. Without the facts, all you can do is wondering around in confusion. 1. When you are worried, your emotions are riding high. But here are two ideas that can help you see the facts in a clear and objective way.

When trying to get the facts, you can pretend that you are collecting this information not for yourself but for some other person. This will help you to take a cold and fair view of the evidence. You can also pretend that you are a lawyer preparing to agree.2. You will generally find the truth lies somewhere in between.

Analyze the facts

3. And write out all the various steps you could take and then the probable consequences (后果) of each step. For example, what am I worrying about? What can I do about it? Here is what I’m going to do about it. After carefully weighing all the facts, you can calmly come to a decision.

4.

Unless you take your action, all you face—finding and analysing—is a waste of energy. How can you break the worry habit before it breaks you? Move worry out of your mind by keeping busy.5. Accept what can’t be avoided If you know a situation is beyond your power, say to yourself: “It is so; it can, t be otherwise.” Don’t permit little things to ruin your happiness. Try to develop a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness.

A. Act on that decision.

B. It is not an easy job to get facts.

C. Decide how much anxiety a thing may be worth.

D. Plenty of action is one of the best ways to cure worry.

E. There comes a time when you must decide and never look back.

F. Try to get all the facts both on your side and the other side of the case.

G. Whenever you are worried, write down the questions that make you worry.

Micro-blog is no longer simply a platform for self-expression, gossip and networking, as it is becoming an increasingly fierce battlefield for businesses wanting to promote their products and services.

Over the last year, micro-blogging has become wildly popular in China, with some 65 million China based micro-blog accounts registered(注册登记)by the end of 2010 and the number is growing by more than 10 million each month, according to Data Center of the China Internet(DCCI).

At present, China's largest web portal Sina claims to have 5,000 company micro-blog users, including Starbucks, Channel, and IKEA. On the micro-blog pages of the companies, visitors can not only view advertisements, but also see consumer feedback(反馈)and even commentaries on hot social issues.

E-commerce(电子商务)expert Lu Bowang says micro-blogging has opened a whole new dimension of marketing. Through micro-blogs, companies can quickly grasp the attention of potential consumers and interact with them on a regular basis so to develop a friendly link with consumers, Lu said.

An Internet surfer nicknamed Xiaoben posted on his micro-blog page that he enjoyed drinking Puer tea, and within 10 minutes, a micro-blogger who owned an online shop selling Puer tea recommended his shop to Xiaoben. “It is a little bit like magic. I just make a wish, and then I get a micro-blog response.”

However, with more and more people micro-blogging to make money, experts warn that marketing via micro-blog could be a double-edged sword.

Huang Heshui, professor from Xiamen University says micro-blogging is highly personal and private, and that too many advertising messages can annoy micro-blog users leading them to dislike certain brands.

Further, a brand can be as easily damaged as established through micro-blogging, as consumers' negative feedback about a certain product or company can be very quickly spread in the micro-blog community, Huang added.

The micro-blog managers should set up some rules and regulation to supervise micro-blog marketing, and at the same time, business organizations need to strengthen self-discipline(自律)and try to build up an honesty-based business culture, e-commerce expert Lu Bowang suggested.

1.What can we infer from the first two paragraphs?

A. Most people in China plan to use micro-blog.

B. Businessmen use micro-blog to promote their products.

C. Micro-blog used to be a platform for self-expression, gossip and networking.

D. The number of registered accounts will reach 95, 000,000 by the end of March 2011.

2.Names like Starbucks, Channel, and IKEA are mentioned to__________ .

A. show the importance of micro-blog

B. show the development of E-commerce

C. prove that consumers are the most important

D. prove that advertisements are everywhere

3.From the example of Xiaoben, we can know__________ .

A. people don't use their real names when surfing the Internet

B. pure tea is quite precious

C. if one makes a wish on the Internet, he will indeed realize it

D. micro-blog is very convenient in our daily life

4.What can we infer from what Huang Heshui said in the passage?

A. It is not a good idea to advertise products in the micro-blog community

B. Bad comments about a product or a company matter most.

C. The micro-blog has its advantages and disadvantages.

D. Using the micro-blog to set up your brand is much easier.

The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play an important role in helping patients to get better.

As part of nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the museum and into public places, some of the country’s best artists have been called in to change older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings.

Of the 2,500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages (走廊), waiting areas and treatment rooms.

These recent movements first started by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in northeastern England during the early 1970s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience. A common hospital waiting room might have as many as 5,000 visitors each week. What a better place to hold regular exhibition of art! Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the outpatients waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975. Believed to be Britain’s first hospital artist, Senior was so much in demand that a team of six young art school graduates soon joined him.

The effect is surprising. Now in the passages and waiting rooms, the visitor experiences a full view of fresh colors, playful images and restful courtyards.

The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from illness. A study has shown that patients who had a view onto garden needed half the number of strong painkillers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.

1.According to the passage, "to soften the hard edges of modern buildings" means ___________.

A. to pull down hospital buildings

B. to decorate hospitals with art collections

C. to improve the quality of treatment in hospitals

D. to make the corners of hospital buildings round

2.According to Peter Senior, _______.

A. art is losing its audience in modern society

B. art galleries should be changed into hospitals

C. patients should be encouraged to learn painting

D. art should be encouraged in British hospitals

3.After the improvement of the hospital environment, patients may _______.

A. no longer need drugs in their recovery

B. no longer depend wholly on expensive drugs

C. need good-quality drugs in their recovery

D. use more pain killers in their recovery

4.The fact that six young art school graduates joined Peter shows that _____.

A. Peter's enterprise is developing greatly

B. Peter Senior enjoys great popularity

C. they are talented hospital artists

D. the role of hospital environment is being recognized

When I was a little girl, I remember that when my dad was repairing something, he would ask me to hold the hammer, so we would have time for a conversation with each other. I never saw my dad drinking or taking a night out. All he did after work was taking care of his family.

I grew up and left home for college and since then, my dad had been calling me every Sunday morning. And when I bought a house several years later, my dad painted it by himself in the fierce summer heat. All he asked was to talk to him, but I was to busy in those days.

Four years ago, my dad visited me. He spent many hours putting together a swing for my daughter. He asked me to have a talk with him, but I had to prepare for a trip that weekend.

One Sunday morning we had a telephone talk as usual. I noticed that my dad had forgotten some things that we discussed lately. I was in a hurry, so our conversation was short. Several hours later that day I received a call. My father was in the hospital. Immediately I bought a plane ticket and on my way I was thinking about all the occasions I missed to have a talk with my dad. By the time I arrived at the hospital, my father had passed away. Now it was he who did not have time for a conversation with me. I realized how little I knew about my dad, his deepest thoughts and his dreams.

After his death I learned much more about him and even more about myself. All he ever wanted was my time. And now he has all my attention every single day.

1.When the author was a little girl, she       .

A. liked playing on the swing

B. often talked with her father

C. was good at repairing things

D. learned to take care of her family

2.When at college, the author      .

A. received a call from her father every Sunday morning

B. phoned her father every Sunday morning

C. asked her father to call her every Sunday

D. asked her father to talk with her

3.Why did the author fail to have a talk with her father four years ago?

A. She had got tired of talking with him.

B. She was busy painting her house.

C. Her daughter asked her to play.

D. She was busy planning a trip.

4.When did the author begin to regret missing the talks with her father?

A. After her father's sudden death.

B. Many years after her father's death.

C. On her way to the hospital to see her father.

D. As soon as she got the news that her father was ill.

Sharon, Aged 22

The most important thing to keep in mind when going into high school is to be yourself. Besides, I don't know what your middle school was like, but high school teachers will not care about things such as how much homework you already have in one night. It's best to just learn to deal with things and manage your time wisely so you can achieve everything you need to.

Frank, Aged 21

I think almost every kid feels both nervous and excited before their first day. You will probably love it. I know I did. You should join some sports or activities that will make your high school experience more enjoyable. Good luck!

Eddie, Aged 20

When I started high school， I was really nervous too, especially since I had been homeschooled all through middle school and didn't really know anyone. I suppose the best advice would be to just relax. The first couple of days can be a little bit hard, but things will become easier before you know it.

David, Aged 19

I'm not going to lie. The first day is kind of frightening (令人恐惧的). But you'll get used to it. Don't be afraid of anyone; upperclassmen will pick on you more if you let them know you're afraid. Just take it easy. Making some friends and staying with them will greatly help you get used to high school quickly. After the first week， it's really not bad at all. Don't worry.

1.What can we infer from Sharon about high school?

A. Teachers are quite strict.

B. Students often stay up at night.

C. Teachers provide little care for students.

D. Students should make good use of their time.

2.How did Eddie feel on his first day of high school?

A. Excited.    B. Bored.

C. Worried.    D. Relaxed.

3.Who mentions the importance of friends?

A. Frank.    B. David.

C. Sharon.    D. Eddie.

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.When was Gucci started?

A. In1921.    B. In1925.    C. In1953.

2.Who was the second head of Gucci?

A. Rodolfo.    B. Ugo.    C. Aldo

3.How much did the company lose in 1991?

A. S50 million.    B. S60 million.    C. S90 million.

4.What do we know about Maurizio?

A. He didn’t get along with Guccio.

B. He wasn’t a successful businessman.

C. He wasn’t a member of the Gucci family.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.Why did the man come to America?

A. To study.    B. To work.    C. To travel.

2.Why does the man speak good English?

A. He has stayed in America for a long time.

B. He attended an international school.

C. He learned it from his father.

3.Where is the man from?

A. Beijing.    B. Chengdu.    C. Shanghai.

4.What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Friends.    B. Relatives.    C. Classmates.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.What kind of food will the man have?

A. French food.    B. Chinese food.    C. American food

2.How soon can the man get the food?

A. Within ten minutes.

B. Within twenty minutes.

C. Within half an hour.

3.Which of the following doesn’t the man order?

A. Beef.    B. Lettuce.    C. Chicken

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.What does the woman think of the movie?

A. Touching.    B. Frightening.    C. Interesting

2.How old is the man now?

A. 12.    B. 16    C. 18.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.What is the setting of the picture?

A. A zoo.    B. A mountain.    C. A garden.

2.Why does the man’s aunt often travel around the world?

A. To take some pictures.

B. To do some sightseeing.

C. To study animals

What will the man do this afternoon?

A. Play football.

B. Play tennis.

C. Play computer games.

When does the man plan to get to the party?

A. Around 6: 00 pm.    B. Around 7: 00 pm.    C. Around 7: 30 pm

How will the man go to school tomorrow?

A. By car.    B. By bus.    C. By bike.

Where will the speakers go first tomorrow?

A. To a castle.    B. To a garden.    C. To a museum.

What is the man doing？

A. Offering a suggestion.

B. Asking for help.

C. Giving a warning

假定你是李华，你校英文报“外国文化”栏目拟刊登介绍美国节日风俗和中学生生活的短文。请给美国朋友彼得写信约稿，要点如下:

1、栏目介绍；

2、稿件内容；

3、稿件长度:约400词；

4、交稿日期:10月10日前。

注意:1、词数100词左右；

2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3、开头语已经给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Peter，

I’d like to ask you to write an article for our school’s English newspaper.

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Yours,

Li hua

假定英语老师上课要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。作文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线 ( \ ) 划掉。

修改:在错的词下面划一横线，并在横线下面写出修改后的词。

注意:1. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词。

2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Mr Steve Johnson, businessman from London, went on a business trip to India. He sent an email back home for his wife Jennifer as soon as he arrived. Fortunately, he mistyped a letter, and the email ended up go to a Mrs Joan Johnson. It was later found out why Mrs Joan Johnson was the wife of a preacher (牧师) who had just been died. The preacher’s wife takes one look at the email and immediate fainted. When she finally recovered, he nervously pointed to the message, that read, “I’ve arrived safely, and it is hot down here.”

Have you ever heard “Tuhao, let’s be friends”? Are you puzzled, wondering what it means? Then you’re 1. (possible) out of date.

Nowadays, the Chinese words “tuhao” and “dama” have become so familiar 2. many Chinese people that they often play jokes on each other when 3. (chat) about the daily life. For example, if you take out your new 4. (fashion) mobile phone, your naughty friends may call you “tuhao”, 5. (laugh) loudly and happily.

Amazingly, the two wildly popular words have become hot words in English too. Recently, the BBC 6. (produce) a program to introduce “tuhao”. On the Internet, “tuhao” can 7.    (translate) into “new money(暴发户)” in English. Besides, The Wall Street Journal has also borrowed “dama” from the Chinese pinyin to describe the middle-aged Chinese women 8. are bargain-hunting. They are called “a force in the global gold market”. Experts say the Chinese language’s influence on English will continue during 9. entire 21st century, and 10. is expected that “tuhao” will be welcomed by the Oxford University Press to appear in the new word lists.

It was a mid April—a time when the planet Earth turns under the hot rays of the sun. There was a large desert in Africa with no sign of ________ except a little rose. There was not a bird or tree in _________ . The sand dunes(沙丘)became piles of burning coal as the days ________ . But the little rose successfully ________ the cruelty of sun. The sun was very ________ to have seen the rose’s ability to ________ such terrible conditions.

One afternoon, the sun said to the little ________ , “Dear Rose! I am the supreme power in this universe. I have the ________ to give and take life. Thousands of living things ________ every day, as they are not able to stand my heat. But, you have been bearing even my hottest ray ________any complaint. May I know the source that gave you this huge _________?”

“Oh，mighty Sun,” the little rose said ________ , “I don’t know much about this desert. But it appears ________ and there seems to be no one else in the whole world my eye could reach. I began to feel ________ for the loneliness of this desert and ________ to help it as possible as I could. And in this process, I never ________ anything that caused pain to me.My whole ________ has been to be a good friend to this desert and help _________ its loneliness.”

_____ by the little rose’s care for the large desert, the sun offered a(n) ________ — millions of other roses that filled the desert with their sweet smells and thus turned the entire stretch (延伸) into a great oasis (绿洲) of life.

1.A. history    B. human    C. life    D. death

2.A. silence    B. sight    C. turn    D. trouble

3.A. got through    B. set down    C. got together    D. passed by

4.A. stood    B. avoided    C. completed    D. disliked

5.A. pleased    B. surprised    C. disappointed    D. frightened

6.A. change    B. follow    C. improve    D. survive

7.A. child    B. friend    C. flower    D. animal

8.A. power    B. chance    C. duty    D. right

9.A. grow    B. die    C. stop    D. live

10.A. with    B. over    C. through    D. without

11.A. attention    B. force    C. strength    D. success

12.A. gently    B. proudly    C. fluently    D. rudely

13.A. small    B. far    C. thick    D. large

14.A. happy    B. lucky    C. sorry    D. angry

15.A. refused    B. decided    C. agreed    D. promised

16.A. experienced    B. collected    C. solved    D. forgot

17.A. courage    B. bravery    C. kindness    D. concern

18.A. play jokes on    B. think highly of    C. get rid of    D. pay attention to

19.A. Attracted    B. Touched    C. Injured    D. Educated

20.A. expense    B. salary    C. praise    D. reward

The Wonderful World of Makeup

As a busy mom, my makeup routine has changed significantly. Unless it’s a special occasion, I won’t spend much time on it. However, despite my speedy routine, makeup is fun. 1. I also enjoy freebies (赠品) very much. You too? Thought so. Let’s get started.

Be realistic. Are you a person who likes simplicity? 2. Besides time, how much money are you willing to invest in products? Do you know your skin type? Knowing how your skin reacts is important. Once you have a realistic idea of what you want to do, your skin type, and how much money you are willing to spend, you’re on your way.

Research. Think about your budget and check out different brands online. One of the very best websites and beauty retailers online is Sephora. The Sephora website gives you detailed information on each brand. Want to go green? Sephora has a great deal of information on green and natural products suited for every budget.

3. Once you’ve got an idea about brands, try it out. Sephora’s in-store product samples are enough and you are allowed and encouraged to give makeup a test. Don’t be afraid to ask questions.

4. When you make a purchase from Sephora, you always get to choose three free samples. If you join its Beauty Insider program, you will earn reward points that can be redeemed (兑现) for more samples, other products, and a free beautiful gift on your birthday.

A word on expensive brands. Some of the expensive brands really do have superior staying power and last a long time. 5. Personally, I like to mix things up (higher end with drugstore brands).

A. They are investments for our skins after all.

B. When time allows, I love playing with different colors and trying new products.

C. There’s no pressure to buy — just come and learn.

D. Don’t be shy away from drugstore brands.

E. Take advantage of freebies.

F. Try before you buy.

G. Do you prefer the 5-minute or less routine?

Cats are domestic(驯养的)animals. They are not only sociable but also fashionable. Domesticated cats would like to form cat communities based on sharing of love and food. And they bond with each other very quickly, which is quite different from humans.

Cats don’t always cry because of being hungry for food. Because cats are social animals, they cry because they want to have company. Cats may not cry every time but they may chatter or mumble. It’s really scary to hear cats chattering like old women. They should be listened and one must talk back.

Meow does not mean that the cat is crying but it is simply a greeting. A cat’s cry may depend on what it is looking for; it can be championship or other things. Cats may cry because of boredom on rare occasions. Cats also need rest and recreation. Cats get stressed when they are ignored. It can be given a name and called, it can be given a pat on the head, but it should not be kicked when it wraps itself around its master’s leg.

A cat follows its master around because of a connecting feeling. Cats look upon its master as a second mother. Even if a cat is old, they never ignore the feeling of being attended and cared for.

Cats use a variety of sounds like mimicking to communicate with one another. They are very moody and they can’t be made like oneself all the time. They have different body language signs which you can tell by the way their tail, ears, paws and body are positioned.

There are many ways by which a cat can be stopped from crying like setting up playful activities with the cat, not ignoring it, taking it to a walk and feeding it regularly. A cat knows how to take advantage of its master’s feelings because they can read them.

1.Cats are probably afraid of_______.

A. excitement    B. chattering    C. being listened to    D. loneliness

2.In order to comfort your cat when it is stressed, you’d better_______.

A. touch it on the head    B. make it sleep quickly

C. kick it on the back    D. pay no attention to it

3.The cat is good at communicating with others by_______.

A. making different noises    B. moving its tail down

C. using different body languages    D. lying on the ground on its back

4.Which of the following can comfort the crying cat?

a. interesting games     b. listening to music      c. having a walk     d. shouting at it

e. having a meal        f. leaving it alone

A. b, d, f    B. a, c, e    C. a, b, e    D. b, c, f

China’s high-tech buildings can be seen everywhere in places like Beijing and Shanghai, but a few hundred miles away in Shanxi province, some three million people still live in caves.

These simple homes often dot the countryside in small, hard-to-find groups, but in places like Lijiashan, where hundreds of caves are on nine different levels of a hillside, it is possible to find whole villages made up entirely of cave livers.

People have been living in caves in Shanxi for around 5,000 years, and it is believed that at one time a quarter of the population lived underground. These days around one-twelfth live in caves and for many of them, life is almost as it was for their ancestors.

Lijiashan, a 550-year-old cave village is typical. Like most cave villages, there is still no running water, meaning locals are using muddy water of the nearby Yellow River. Most homes still have paper windows rather than glass ones. Inside, their owners sleep on large stone beds, known as kang; cool in the summer, but fires can be lit inside them during the winter months.

Lijiashan once housed 600 families. But now there are just over 40. Mr Li’s family has lived in Lijiashan for six generations. After his kids left the village to find work elsewhere, he and his wife turned their 180-year-old home into a guest house with cave bed-rooms where Chinese art students stay when they come to paint the unusual village landscape.

“The only people left here now are old people,” he said, “As soon as the children grow up they leave. They don’t mind living here by the Yellow River. Sometimes they just move down the road. But they want to live in new apartments, not in these old caves.”

1.According to the passage, in Lijiashan________.

A. some three million people still live in caves    B. hundreds of caves are hard to find

C. all the villagers are cave livers    D. people live in small groups

2.In a typical cave village_________.

A. people usually use water of the river    B. the houses have glass windows

C. people sleep on the ground    D. there is running water

3.Why do the families in Lijiashan become fewer and fewer?

A. Because old people have to leave their homes to have a better life.

B. Because the students go to school in the city.

C. Because caves are not fit to live now.

D. Because young people don’t want to live there any more.

4.The underlined word “landscape” can probably be replaced by_______.

A. animal    B. scenery    C. clothing    D. window

Robert Frost was one of America’s best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came late in his life.

He was born in San Francisco, California in 1874. He lived in California during his early childhood. He was named after the chief Southern general in America’s Civil War. The general’s name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to honor the general.

Someone once asked another American writer, Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The best thing, he said, was to have an unhappy childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost’s childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very good writer. Robert Frost’s father was a reporter who wanted to be a politician. But he didn’t make it. He often drank too much wine and became angry. Robert was the victim (受害者) of his anger.

Robert Frost finished high school in 1891. After high school, Robert’s grandfather offered to pay his costs at Dartmouth College. But Robert left the school after a few months. He did not like it. He spent the next few years working at different jobs. At one time, he worked in a factory. Later, he repaired shoes. He was a teacher. He was a reporter. Always, he wrote poetry.

Robert Frost attended Harvard University for two years. After that, he returned to the many jobs he held before. For a while, Frost tried to take care of a farm in the state of New Hampshire. He was not a successful farmer. And he continued to write poetry. He said that until 1930, he earned only about ten dollars a year from writing.

In 1912, he decided to try to make a new start. He took his family to Britain. The cost of living was low. In Britain, Frost found a publisher for his first book of poems. The book was called A Boy’s Will. When it appeared in 1913, Frost received high praise from British readers. Praise was something he had not received in his own country.

Ezra Pound, another American poet living in Britain, read the poems and liked them very much. He wrote a magazine article about Frost. He also helped get Frost’s second book of poems published in America. That book was called North of Boston.

1.The followings are writers EXCEPT _____.

A. Robert Lee Frost    B. Robert Edward Lee

C. Ernest Hemingway    D. Ezra Pound

2.The passage wrote about Hemingway in order to show that _____.

A. he had great influence on Frost’s poetry and life

B. Frost’s poetry style was the same as Hemingway’s

C. Frost spent his childhood unhappily

D. Frost was unhappy because he was the victim of his father

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Robert Frost’s father was angry and drank a lot because he didn’t realize his dream.

B. Once Frost’s first book was published he gained great praise in his country.

C. After leaving Harvard University, he began to learn to write poetry.

D. Frost was found to have a gift in poetry while he studied in high school.

4.What’s the passage mainly about?

A. Roberl Frost’s unhappy childhood.    B. Roberl Frost’s first and second book.

C. Roberl Frost’s family and jobs.    D. Roberl Frost’s life and poetry.