It’s such a happy-looking library, painted yellow, decorated with palm-tree stickers and sheltered from the Florida sun by its own roof. About the size of a microwave oven, it’s pedestrian-friendly, too, waiting for book lovers next to a sidewalk in Palm Beach Country Estates, along the northern boundary of Palm Beach Gardens. It’s a library built with love.
A year ago, shortly after, Janey Henriksen saw a Brian Williams report about the Little Free. Library organization, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit that aims to promote literacy and build a sense of community in a neighborhood by making，books freely available, she announced to her family of four, “That’s what we’re going to do for our spring break!”
Son Austin, now a 10th-grader, didn’t see the point of building a library that resembles a mailbos. But Janey insisted, and husband Peter unwillingly got to work. The 51-year-old owner of a ship supply company modified a small wooden house that he’d built years earlier for daughter Abbie’s toy horses, and made a door of glass.
After adding the library’s final touches(装点), the family hung a signboard on the front, instructing users to “take a book, return a book,” and making the Henriksen library, now one of several hundred like it nationwide and among more than 2,500 in the world, the only Little Free Library in Palm Beach county.
They stocked it with 20 or so books they’d already read, a mix of science fiction, reference titles, novels and kids’ favorites. “I told them, keep in mind that you might not see it again,” said Janey s stay-at-home mom.
Since then, the collection keeps replenishing(补充) itself, thanks to ongoing donations from borrowers. The library now gets an average of five visits a day.
The project’s best payoff, says Peter, are the thank-you notes left behind. “We had no idea in the beginning that it would be so popular.”
33. In what way is the library “pedestrian—friendly”? A. It owns a yellow roof. B. It stands near a sidewalk.
C. It protects book lovers from the sun. D. It uses palm-tree stickers as decorations. 34. Janey got the idea to build a library from . A. a visit to Brian Williams B. a spring break with her family
C. a book sent by one of her neighbors D. a report on a Wisconsin-based organization 35. What can we infer about the signboard? A. It Was made by a user of the library. B. It marked a final touch to the library. C. It aimed at making the library last long.
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D. It indicated the library was a family property. 第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中的两项为多余选项。
We’d better develop our interest in English at the beginning of our study. 36 We may feel good when we can say something simple in English.
37 So we must make some plans before study. And we should certainly carry out these plans in our study.
38 Our notes are much thinner than the books so that we can learn them by heart easily and can often review and read them. We may also record our notes on tapes so as to listen to them easily.
Reading a newspaper is the best thing to improve your English. 39 It will help you keep in touch with a lot of subjects in English.
40 Learn by heart the whole sentences and the phrases that contain the new words so that we may know how to use the words.
If time permits, we may read a mini Chinese-English dictionary carefully from cover to cover, which may help us widen our sight and master knowledge in all ways. A. Read a little from a newspaper every day. B. Don’t read books without making notes. C. Carefully write an e-mail in English.
D. It’s easy to develop an interest in English study. E. The more, the better.
F. Plans are always very necessary.
G. Never just memorize single English words. 第三部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节：完形填空 (共20小题，每小题.1.5分, 满分30分)
阅读下面短文。从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
According to a legend, a young man while wandering the desert came across a spring of delicious crystal-clear water. The water was so sweet, he 41 his leather canteen so he could 42 some back to a tribal chief who had been his teacher.
After a four-day journey he 43 the water to the old man who took a deep drink, smiled 44
and thanked his student for the sweet water. The young man 45 to his village with a happy heart.
Later, the teacher let another student 46 the water. He spat it out, saying it was 47 . It apparently had become stale(不新鲜的) 48 the old leather container.
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The student 49 his teacher: “Master, the water was foul. Why did you 50 to like it?”
The teacher replied, “You only tasted the water. I tasted the 51 . The water was 52 the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be 53 .”
I think we understand this 54 best when we receive innocent gifts of love from young children. Whether it’s ceramic tray or a bracelet, the natural and proper 55 is appreciation and thankfulness because we love the 56 within the gift.
57 doesn’t always come naturally. Unfortunately, most children and many adults 58 only the thing given rather than the feeling embodied in it. We should 59 ourselves and our children of the beauty and purity of feelings and expressions of gratitude. 60 , gifts from the heart are really gifts of the heart. 41. A. packed 42. A. take 43. A. presented 44. A. regularly 45. A. entered 46. A. drink 47. A. awful 48. A. other than 49. A. inspired 50. A. learn 51. A. water 52. A. rarely 53. A. better 54. A. lesson 55. A. importance 56. A. purpose 57. A. Happiness 58. A. prove 59. A. persuade 60. A. After all
B. picked B. move B. paid B. warmly B. returned B. use B. sweet B. instead of B. informed B. pretend B. gift B. nearly B. sweeter B. story B. feeling B. content B. Gratitude B. believe B. order B. In all
C. filled C. transport C. delivered C. gradually C. reached C. taste C. wonderful C. rather than C. challenged C. decide C. container C. mostly C. worse C. example C. response C. promise C. Meaning C. value C. drive C. Above all
D. developed D. bring D. sold D. entirely D. arrived D. expect D. helpful D. because of D. taught D. consider D. thing D. simply D. less D. dialogue D. activity D. idea D. Expression D. notice D. remind D. At all
第三部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分) 第二节：（共10小题；每题1.5分，共15分）
There once were a goat and a donkey(驴), 61 lived on a farm. The donkey worked the hardest so the farmer fed it the 62 (much) food. Sometimes the donkey was given more food 63 it could eat. This made the goat so jealous 64 it began plotting against(谋划对付) the donkey. “Hey, donkey,” the goat said one day. “I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don’t you pretend 65 (get) sick so you
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can take a day 66 ?” The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So the next morning, the donkey lay in the stable(畜栏) on its side with its eyes 67 (close). Right away, the farmer called the doctor. 68 looking at the donkey, the doctor said it needed a special medicine 69 (make) from the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed 70 goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.
第四部分：写作(共两节, 满分35分)
第一节：短文改错 (共10分;每小题1分,满分10分)
假定英语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短文。短文中共有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仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处, 多者(从第11处起) 不计分。 Dear John,
I am extreme sorry to tell you that I am unable to go to your party this Sunday. It is very kind for you to invite me to your house but I really look forward to going to your party and sharing your happy experience abroad. Much to my regret, I will be absent for your party owing to the fact that the College Entrance Exam are just around the corner, for which I am now really busy prepared. What’s worse, I have caught bad cold lately and I am really not I.
Anyway, we would have many more chances to get together. Shall we make it after the Exam? I am truly sorry. I hope you will forgive me and accept my sincere apology.
I’m looking forward to your reply.
Yours, Mike
第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是李华，在一个礼品网站为你的姐姐订购了一份生日礼物。礼物是一个标有姓名、生日及祝福语的有卡通动物形象的粉色杯子。收到礼物后你和姐姐都很满意。请给你的英国笔友Johnson写一封邮件，内容包括以下要点：
1．描述网购的礼物； 2．介绍网上支付及配送情况； 3．谈谈你对网上购物的看法。
注意：1．100个词左右；开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
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2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．参考词汇：支付宝安全控件Alipay Security Control. Dear Johnson,
I ordered a birthday gift for my sister on the Internet three days ago.
I’m looking forward to your early reply.
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua