--- Are we going to visit the flower show tomorrow?

--- No. The monitor said it _______ till the next week.

A．was put off        B．has been put off    C．would put off       D．was putting off

The first way to make friends is to smile. When you smile, people think you are __1___ and easy to talk to. It may not be easy at first to smile. But, you can practice in the mirror(鏡子). When you look at yourself, think if you’d like to __2___ to your smiling face or your usual face. Of course the smiling face. Most people stay away from an __3___ face.

One easy way to start a conversation with someone is to say __4___ nice about them. For example, you could talk about an interesting __5___ to a teacher’s question, good match at the ball field, pretty shirt, etc…. Think about how great you feel when someone says something nice to you. Doesn’t it make you want to __6___ talking to that person?

Ask your new friends questions about themselves. Such as: “Who’s their favorite singer?” “Where do they live, who’s their teacher?” “What do they do after school?” … etc. They are all good questions to start a __7___.

When someone asks you a question, do have an answer for them. If you don’t __8___ who your favorite singer is, or what your hobbies are, think about it. There’s nothing that will __9___ a conversation quicker than a shrug(聳肩) for an answer.

Shy kids often have some trouble with complements. When someone says something nice, shy kids often say nothing. This leaves the other person __10___ if they said something wrong. The best and easiest reply to a complement is a simple “thank you”.

1.                A．funny          B．strang          C．crazy D．friendly

2.                A．talk            B．say            C．see  D．look

3.                A．honest         B．old            C．angry D．exciting

4.                A．anything        B．something       C．everything D．nothing

5.                A．answer         B．book           C．decision  D．invention

6.                A．have           B．prefer          C．finish D．keep

7.                A．discussion       B．conversation     C．meeting  D．game

8.                A．meet          B．believe         C．know D．guess

9.                A．try            B．stop           C．find  D．make

10.               A．wondering      B．forgetting       C．hearing   D．knowing

Americans use many expressions with the word dog. People in the United States love their dogs and treat them well.

Some people say we live in a dog-eat-dog world. That means many people are competing for the same things, like good jobs. They say if a person wants to be successful he has to work like a dog. This means they have to work very, very hard. Such hard work can make people dog-tired. And, the situation would be even worse if they became sick as a dog.

Still, people say every dog has its day. This means that every person enjoys a successful period during his or her life. To be successful, people often have to learn new skills. Yet, some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks(手藝). They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.

Dog expressions are also used to describe the weather. The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year. A rain in summer may cool the weather. But we do not want it to rain too hard. We do not want it to rain cats and dogs.

1.If a person without lots of money wants to buy a car, he or she has to ______.

A．treat the dog well                       B．live with lots of dogs

C．work like a dog                         D．become sick as a dog

2.The saying you can never teach an old dog new tricks tells us older people ______.

A．have more ways to do things               B．do things more slowly

C．dislike to learn new things                 D．know wonderful tricks

3.Which of the following is NOT true according to this passage?

A．Many dogs are loved and treated well by people in America.

B．“Every dog has its day” means dogs are the most successful animal.

C．“It rains cats and dogs” has the same meaning as “It rains heavily”.

D．There are many expressions with the word dog in English.

People often complain they face too many problems. Every day and everywhere there are problems. Many times we find it hard to stay happy. When one problem is solved, another one comes up.

People have money problems, work problems, family problems, health problems..... the list goes on. And we usually think that people who are happy and successful are having fewer problems than us. Look at the successful people we often mention. They have money they need, they have jobs they love, they have good friends, they have obedient(孝順的) kids, they have the successful business, they have loving families etc. Everything goes well with them. That is why they are happy and successful. But in fact, the more successful you are, the more problems you have to face. More success means more challenges they have to face, and more success means more risks they have to take.

Young and old, rich and poor, successful and unsuccessful, educated and uneducated, all have problems. The difference is that their problems are different from each other.  Rich and successful have big problems. Poor and unsuccessful have small problems. Still they all have problems which they can face. Successful people are successful just because they are ready to face challenges larger than ordinary people.

Winning the US elections(選舉) makes Obama very happy. As a new US president, he has to face bigger challenges. He has to be more careful about his work he does, or he will lose his position(位置). Looking at him, we may say he is lucky, happy and successful. But, I think, as the US president, he has more pressure than an ordinary person.

1.You will be a/an ______ person if you are afraid to face more challenges.

A．ordinary          B．successful         C．famous           D．educated

2.From this article we know that President Obama ______.

A．has fewer problems                     B．was born in a rich family

C．takes more risks                        D．is a successful businessman

3.The main idea of this article is _______.

A．why poor people are always poor

B．how many problems people usually have to face

C．how lucky and happy President Obama is

D．how to deal with problems in life

In life, people come across many experiences, which they remember all their lives. I had a similar experience, too.

It was the day of my last paper of the final exam. My uncle had invited me to spend my vacation with him. I was especially excited about the invitation that my uncle had given me to stay with him for a few days in Cambridge.

On that day we got into our classroom. The teacher quickly handed out the paper. The exam would last two hours and some of the expected questions came. I finished it almost forty-five minutes earlier. But since it was a rule not to collect the paper before the allotted（規(guī)定的）time. I had to sit till the teacher collected the paper. I checked my paper twice and corrected some of the mistakes in it. I started thinking about the place my friends and I had planned to go to after the exam. The time seemed to be endless. So I thought of drawing something on the paper and turned it overleaf. I was shocked to see that the page which I had supposed to be blank had four more questions on it which carried 20 marks and would take at least half an hour to complete. There were only 10 minutes left. I was so nervous that I could hardly write anything. They were the sub-questions（小題）of the last question. Suddenly our physics teacher came in and told all of us that in the last question, out of 6 sub-questions only 2 had to be solved. I felt very relieved.

From then on, I realized that my anxiousness and excitement could have cost me to lose 20 marks and decided never to make such a mistake again.

1.Which of the following statements is true?

A．The writer didn’t work hard at physics.

B．The writer lost 20 marks for the last question.

C．The writer made some mistakes during the exam.

D．The questions on the paper were difficult for the writer.

2.The underlined word “relieved” means ________.

A．less worried                           B．less afraid

C．more surprised                         D．more nervous

3. We can infer（推斷） from the passage that _____________.

A．the writer did 2 sub-questions of the last question

B．the writer finished doing all the sub-questions

C．the writer spent 45 minutes finishing the paper

D．the writer got full marks in the physics exam

4.We can learn from the passage that we should _____________.

A．learn some exam skills

B．be careful not to make mistakes in the exam

C．try our best to do well in the exam

D．concentrate on what we are doing

補全對話(本大題滿分10分，每空2分)

A: Why are you in such a hurry, Mr. Wang?

B: My parents are coming to our school from my hometown for the first time.

A: 1.__________________

B: By train.

A: Do they know the way to our school?

B: 2.__________________

A: Do you know how to get to the station?

B: 3.__________________

A: It’s a long way from here to the station. First you can take the No. 537 bus or No. 405 bus, then change to the No. 130 bus at the bus stop South Lake Square. It will take you right there.

B: 4.__________________

A: Yes, of course. It takes about 60 yuan.

B: 60 yuan? It takes too much.

A: 5.__________________

B: That’s great! Thank you.

A．No. You know I’m new here for a few days.

B．It’s faster if you take a taxi.

C．Really? By bus or train?

D．Just take the bus. Let me go with you.

E. You can buy a map of our city.

F. I see. Can I take a taxi to get there?

G. No. So I am going to meet them at the station.

完成句子(本大題滿分14分，每小題2分)

1.---What club do you want to join?

---I _________________(擅長打籃球). I want to join the sports club.(be)

2.---Why didn’t your grandfather go to school when he was young?

---Because he was ___________________(太窮而不能上學).(too)

3.---What should we do first?

---Let’s go to see _______________________(孩子們是否已經睡著了).(fall)

4.---Do you often shop online?

---Yes, of course. I think more and more teenagers ______________________(將對網上購物感興趣).                                 (take)

5.---I’d like to live in Henan Province.

---Really? Then you _____________________(你得習慣于每餐吃面條).(use)

6.---Do you know the old lady?

---No. ________________________（但是她使我想起了去世幾年的奶奶）.(remind)

7.---Why did Tom call you this morning?

---He told me ______________________(我去年買的那部手機已經修好了).(repair)

短文綜合填空（本大題滿分11分，每空1分）

Most people may not think that there are any problems with watermelons, but some Japanese sellers do. There is often wasted s_______1.when they store watermelons, because round watermelons do not sit nicely on shelves. So some c_______2.farmers have solved the watermelon problem. They make their watermelons grow in square glass boxes so the watermelons become square. The only problem now is the p_______3.. The square watermelons cost about 80 dollars each.

Many people know the s_______4.“Roses are red, violets(紫羅蘭) are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you”. Well, today the poem needs to c_______5.“Roses are red” to “Roses are red, roses are blue”! Australian scientists discovered that when they put a chemical from a blue f_______6.into a rose, they can create a nearly 100% blue rose. Some of science’s inventions are beautiful, not just u_______7.!

For many years Chinese scientists have been w_______8.on developing new kinds of stronger rice and now they have produced a new kind, called super rice. Super rice not only can protect i_______9. against insects(昆蟲) and diseases(病害), but it also produces more than any other kind of rice. Today farmers can grow almost one and a half times more rice than they could grow in the p_______10..

Doctors might be able to use vegetables to fight cancer now. US scientists have discovered a w_______11.to put a chemical into tomato plants while they are growing. When cancer patients eat the tomatoes, the tomatoes will fight the cancer in their bodies.

暑假生活即將開始，你怎樣度過一個有意義的暑假呢？請你根據寫作要點提示寫一篇短文談談你的假期生活安排。

1. 寫作要點提示：

1）做力所能及的家務，參加一些公益活動；

2）合理安排時間學習；

3）堅持體育鍛煉。

2. 寫作要求：

短文的內容應包含所提示的要點，語言要流暢，可圍繞提示要點適當增加內容，以使短文的意思完整；短文用詞應在90個左右。

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