首字母填空（共5小題，計5分）

1.I want to travel, e______________to English-speaking countries.

2.Keeping p__________, such as dogs and cats is more and more popular among young and old.

3.Have you ever h_______________ of the interesting story?

4.Would you m_______________ turning down the music?

5.He has been c________________ stamps for five years.

-The blanket looks beautiful .How much is it?

-I________ 500 yuan for it.

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

It seems hopeless to get there on time because there is little time ________.

A. leaving B. left

C. to leave D. leaves

. is necessary that you start training a few months before the walk.

A. This B. That C. What D. It

What can we learn from the special, very successful people in the world who make the impossible possible?

Lesson 1: Ways of creative thinking are needed

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both dropped out of college. They prefer to teach themselves because they like to develop their own ways of thinking. They think standard ways of teaching might stop people from being creative and having new ideas.

Lesson 2: The answer might not be what you expect

Find your answers from facts — not start with an expectation of what you will find. Stephen Jacobsen from Northwestern University believed what he was taught: that water on Earth came from icy comets(彗星) or planets which hit into Earth.

However, by studying a special rock, he discovered that it acts like a sponge(海綿). This suggests that Earth's water may have come from inside, driven to the surface to form the oceans, by geological activity.

“I had a pretty hard time making others believe it,” he said. “But thinking about the fact that you may the first person to see something for the first time doesn’t happen very often. When it does, it’s amazing.”

Lesson 3: A little luck goes a long way

Years of planning went into a recent achievement in space travel. The European Space Agency’s “Philae”, a robot landing craft, met up with Comet 67P, which is 480 million kilometers away. The trip from Earth by “Philae” had taken ten years!

The scientists had no idea what the surface of the comet would be like. If the landing failed, it would be impossible to get information from the spacecraft. Twenty years of work would have been wasted.

When “Philae” tried to land, it bounced(彈起) away from the comet’s icy surface twice. Luckily, however, “Philae” landed successfully and began sending information back to Earth.

1.Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn’t finish college because_________.

A. they preferred to learn by themselves

B. they needed standard ways of teaching

C. their teachers didn’t like their new ideas

D. their teachers weren’t able to teach them

2.In Lesson 2, the writer mainly wants to tell us that _________.

A. we should get answers from facts

B. we can believe what we are taught

C. it’s hard to make others believe something

D. an expectation can help get an answer in research

3.The example “Philae” in Lesson 3 shows that _________.

A. Comet 67P is not far away from Earth

B. it took “Philae” 20 years to reach Comet 67P

C. “Philae” landed on Comet 67P with a little luck

D. scientists know nothing about the surface of Comet 67P

4.The best title for this passage is ______.

A. Ways of discovering B. Lessons for success

C. Ways of being special D. Lessons for experiments

詞語填空（共10小題，每小題1分，滿分10分）

用方框中所給單詞的適當(dāng)形式填空，使短文通順、正確、連貫（每個單詞限用一次）。

From: sandra@oxmail. com

To: elle@oxmail.com

Subject: Need help !

Hi Elle,

I need some help with my problems. I don't know what to do ! You’re so confident(自信的) and always know what to do, so I hope you can give me some 1. .

I have very strict parents who won't let me do 2. on my own. They’ve been really 3. with me because of my poor school results. I don't know how to let them know that their pressure is 4. it hard for me to do well in school.

My friends at school are 5. trying to get me to do things I don't like. I want make my own 6. . I don't want to do things because of the pressure from my classmates. How do 7. deal with them?

I’m always worrying about my looks. I think I’m getting too fat. I have too many pimples (粉刺)on my face, 8. .

All these problems are making me feel very stressful and sad. I’m so stressed 9. I’m beginning to have sleep problems. I worry so much that I can't 10. . What can I do ? Please help !

Yours,

Sandra

按所給的漢語，用英語完成下列句子，并將答案寫在答題卡標(biāo)有題號的橫線上。（本大題共9分，每小題1.5分）

1. 湯姆對足球如此有天賦，以致于引起那個著名教練的注意。

Tom has such the famous coach’s attention.

2.領(lǐng)導(dǎo)建議我縮短工作時間，而不要熬夜。

The leader advised me

3.他們想知道在春季可以使用什么方法來提防感冒。

They wonder what method can catching a cold in spring.

4.那個科學(xué)家的發(fā)明世界領(lǐng)先并廣泛使用。

The scientist’s invention .

5.郭明義寧愿被誤認(rèn)為傻子（fool），也不愿放棄幫助他人。

Guo Mingyi would rather other people.

6.Anne很害羞，總是擔(dān)心不能與新同學(xué)相處融洽。

Anne is very shy and always worries about new classmates.

There are ______ people on the square. It's so crowded.

A. 8 hundreds B. hundred of C. hundreds of