( ) 27. The place where the children study must ________. A. be free for everything B. have a TV set and a computer
C. be quiet, bright and free from things for entertainment D. be big, clean and tidy
( ) 28. What does the underlined word ―overcoming‖ mean in the passage?
A. Forgetting. B. Leaving. C. Realizing. D. Beating.
( ) 29. According to the passage, the children should _____ when they have trouble with their homework.
A. ask their parents for help
B. try to solve the problems by themselves C. wait for their teachers’ help D. put it away and have a snack
( ) 30. This passage is written _________. A. for parents to help their children study well B. for the children who want to improve their work
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C. for teachers to teach their students D. for housewives to make their kids happy B
The best way of learning a language is using it. The best way of learning English is talking in English as much as possible. Sometimes you’ll get your words mixed up and people will not understand you. Sometimes people will say things too quickly and you can’t understand them. But if you keep your sense of humor (幽默), you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes you make. Don’t be unhappy if people seem to be laughing at your mistakes. It’s better for people to laugh at your mistakes than to be angry with you, because they don’t understand what you are saying. The most important thing for learning English is: ―Don’t be afraid of making mistakes because everyone makes mistakes.‖
( ) 31. The writer thinks that the best way for you to learn a language is _______.
A. writing B. using it C. listening D. learning grammar ( ) 32. What should you do in learning English?
A. Be careful not to make any mistake. B. Write as quickly as you can.
C. Speak English as much as you can. D. Laugh more often.
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( ) 33. When people laugh at your mistakes, you should __________.
A. not care B. be happy C. feel worried D. be unhappy ( ) 34. When you make a mistake, you should ____________. A. keep quiet B. get angry
C. be kind D. keep your sense of humor ( ) 35. The story tells us: ―________________.‖
A. Only foolish people make mistakes B. Few people make mistakes
C. People never make mistakes D. There is no one who doesn’t make mistakes.
四．任务型阅读（10分）
One day a man went to a fish store to buy a fish for his dinner. He picked up a fish and after examining it carefully, he held it up to his nose and smelled it.
―Here! What’s this?‖ cried the shopkeeper. ―Why do you smell that fish? Do you think it has gone bad?‖
―I didn’t smell it,‖ answered the man.
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―Then what were you doing with your face so close to the fish?‖ asked the shopkeeper.
―I wasn’t smelling the fish. I was only talking to it,‖ said the man. ―Talking to it?‖ said the fish seller, ―Why, what did you say to it?‖ ―I asked him if there was any news from the sea, and that’s all,‖ answered the man.
―Well, what did the fish say?‖
―He said he didn’t know the latest news, because he hadn’t been in the sea for more than two weeks.‖
( )36.What does ―examine‖ mean? It means ― ―. A. Look at closely B. looked after closely C. look for closely D. look up closely 37.Why did the man hold the fish up to his nose? _____________________________________________ ( )38.What did the fish say, do you think?
A. It said it was out of the sea. B. It said it didn’t know the latest news.
C. It said it hadn’t been in the sea D. It said nothing. ( )39. What happened at the end of the story?
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A. The shopkeeper got angry with the buyer B. The buyer left the shop without buying the fish. C. The buyer fought with the shopkeeper. D. The buyer got some bad news from the fish. ( )40.what does―latest‖mean?
A.迟到 B.最新的 C.最长的 D. 流行的 五．词汇（25分）
（一）根据句意及首字母提示完成句子。（10分）
1. We should take a p_______ examination every year. It’s good for our health.
2. He was much a_______ by the sad news. 3. He a _______ some words to explain his idea. 4. I find it f_______ that I can’t speak other languages. 5. I didn’t r_______ I had made a mistake until he told me. (二)综合填空。（15分）
surprise, interest, ask, want, women, get, be, many, return, think, finish, stop
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\not go straight to the beach. It went through some of the__1__places of the city. \
It was still too early to get to the beach.I__3__to know why the bus left early at eight in the morning and__4__at four in the afternoon. I was_5___that the bus was full. All the people on the
bus__6__women.And they all seemed to know each other. \to the beach together often, \
The bus__7__several times to let people off. Wasn't any of them going all the way to the beach? The bus drove on, and more and__8__people got off. I then realized that the bus was the service bus for__9__workers in those places of interest. It took them to their workplaces in the morning and took them back to the city after they__10__their work there. In the end the bus arrived at the beach.I got off, but I was the only one at the beach.
七、书面表达。假如你是Mike，正在英国学习外语。你的朋友Lin Tao在学习英语的过程中遇到了一些困难，向你求助。请给他写一封信，介绍一下你学习英语的方法，并鼓励他不要放弃。（15分）
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