Learning Chinese may seem difficult to foreigners outside China. However, Daisy Raffan, an

36   girl in Britain, hopes to bring the   37   to the young people.

Daisy has   38   an online learning website to teach the language to as   39   people as possible, all over the world.

With China’s fast development in the world, Daisy thinks   40   important for people to learn the language sooner rather than later.

Daisy has been learning Putonghua   41   the age of five. Two years ago,   42   she decided to pass on what she had learned, she   43   the idea for the website, kidschineseclub.com.

She said: “People are afraid to learn Putonghua. One of the main reasons is that they think it’s an   44   language to learn, but I have had fun   45   it .And I hope what I have done is easy and fun.”

Her   46    offers a series of lessons, which are videos of Daisy teaching a group of students on topics from greetings and numbers to Chinese culture.

Daisy’s website has   47   the support of several important persons —the teenager says she has received a letter praising(贊揚(yáng)) her work from Gordon Brown,   48   is the British Prime Minister(首相).

She said: “I wrote to him and told him what I was doing and got a letter   49  . He said that what I was doing was a really good idea. I thought it was amazing. I was excited that   50   was supporting what we’re doing.”

Prana was a beautiful dog, whose name means “breath of life”. Although he died several years ago, I can still remember the days we spent together and what he has taught me about love.

I have two apple trees in the garden. Prana loved apples. When he went outside, he’d catch an apple and take it into the house to eat later. The apples had been on the ground and were often dirty so I wasn’t always happy that Prana had brought them into the house.

It was an autumn day in America, but it was very cold. A big snow fell and we had not done anything for its coming. On that special day, Prana went outside and I watched him through the window. I noticed that he was madly digging(挖) holes and bringing the apples to the ground so they could be seen above the snow. I did not know why he was doing this. He seemed to want to do something special.

When I called him back, he had his usual one apple in his mouth. About five minutes later, I looked outside. The garden was completely covered with birds. Prana had dug up all those apples for his bird friends to eat. He knew that they wouldn’t have stored enough food for the coming winter!

1.Prana was                .

2.I wasn’t always happy because                .

3.On the snowy day, Prana                .

4.The birds flew to the garden to                .

5.The topic of the story is about                .

What might the future be like? Here are some predictions: things to come, things to go.

The Spring Festival, the most important Chinese holiday when everyone returns home, has caused headaches for millions of Chinese. More than 2 billion people travel at the same time, making getting travel tickets and the journey difficult. But in 28 years, Spring Festival travel may not be a problem at all. China plans to build more than 120,000 kilometers of railway and a fast transportation network that will serve 90% of the population by 2020. And because most of China will be cities, people will not have to go to other places to find a job, so it will no longer be a problem.

Newspaper will come to an end in 2043. In the future, digital(數(shù)字的) newspapers will be sent to personal web tools through Internet. Readers can discuss topics with journalists and editors. Information will move faster.

Oil is running out faster than expected. But scientists have found something else for oil as fuel(燃料). Coal, natural gas, solar power, nuclear power and even water can take the place of oil as sources of energy(能源).

Schools will go electronic(電子化). Computers will be important and popular among the students. Everything will be in the computer and students will not need to bring books to school. They will find information on the Internet. A computer will be the students’ library, schoolbag and connection to the outside world. There will be robot teachers, they will check homework on computers and communicate with the students’ parents through e-mail. And school buses will be like spaceships, comfortable and safe.

1. More than 2 billion people have a hard time returning home during                .

2.The newspapers will disappear                .

3.               is not mentioned in the passage as sources of energy.

4.From the passage we can know                 in the future.

5.What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?                 .

短文填空 閱讀下則短文，然后在空白處寫出適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~，單詞首字母已給出。[有的詞請(qǐng)注意詞形的變化！] （共12個(gè)空，做對(duì)一個(gè)得1分，共10分）

Young people are often unhappy when they are with their parents. They say that their parents don’t 1.u       them. They often think their parents are too strict 2.w       them.

Parents often find it difficult to win their 3.c       trust, and they seem to forget how they themselves felt when they were young.

For example, young people like to do things without much4.t      . It’s one of their ways to show that they grow up and they can solve any difficult5.p      . But older people always think6.m       than young people. Most of them plan things ahead and don’t like their plans to be 7.c      , so when you want your parents to let you do something, you will succeed easily if you ask before you really start doing it.

Young people often make their parents angry by the 8.c       they wear, the music they enjoy and something else. But they don’t mean to cause any trouble. They just want to be cut off(擺脫) from the old people’s world and they are 9.t       to make a new culture of their own. And if their parents don’t like their music or clothes or their ways of speech, the young people feel very sad. Sometimes instead of going out with their parents, they just want to stay at home10.a       and do what they like.

If you plan to do something, you’d11.b       win your parents over and get them to understand you, if so, your parents will certainly let you do 12.w       you want to do.

補(bǔ)全對(duì)話 閱讀下面一則對(duì)話，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)木渥�，使補(bǔ)全后的對(duì)話意思完整，結(jié)構(gòu)合理，上下連貫。每個(gè)空白處只能填寫一個(gè)句子。[有的小題可能有多個(gè)答案，請(qǐng)寫出你最滿意的那一句。（每小題2分，共8分）

A: Hi! You look unhappy. 1.____________________?

B: I got very bad news from the News Report. It happened in Jiangsu Province.

A: What was it?

B:A crazy man entered a kindergarten and wounded(殺傷) 31 persons, including kids and teachers.

A: 2.___________________. Something must be done to keep schools safer.

B: Right. 3.____________________ when I grow up. Police can protect them from being hurt.

A: I think that’s a good choice. 4.__________________ if you want to be a policeman?

B: I am going to study harder and exercise every day to be stronger.

A: Oh, cool enough! I wish your dream come true.

B: Thank you.

為配合我市舉行的“6·5世界環(huán)境日”萬人騎自行車城區(qū)環(huán)游活動(dòng)，請(qǐng)你寫一篇以“Lower Carbon（低碳）, Happier Life”為主題的英語短文。（以上背景內(nèi)容無需表述）

短文要點(diǎn)如下：

1．在6月5日自己騎自行車上學(xué)，父母騎車上班；

2．在家使用節(jié)能燈；減少洗澡淋浴時(shí)間；

3．將用過的課本留給下屆學(xué)生；

4．請(qǐng)你就此話題補(bǔ)充1-2個(gè)個(gè)人做法。

要求：

1．不要逐詞翻譯；

2．在文中不要提及真實(shí)的校名和姓名；

3．詞數(shù)80左右；短文標(biāo)題和首尾句已給出，不計(jì)入詞數(shù)。

參考詞匯：

節(jié)能燈           energy-saving lamp             

用過的           used

下屆                     lower grades

Lower carbon, happier life

It’s our duty to save the environment.                                         

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

Lower carbon, happier life. Let’s take actions.

The future can be difficult. There are many famous predictions   52    never came true.Before 1929, there was no sound in movies. The head of one of the     53  movie companies in the United States predicted that no one would want to see actors   54  . Of couse,he was wrong! In 1979,the head of the largest computer company in the United States said,“No one will want to have a computer in his or her home.” He thought that computer would never    55   by most people.

1.A.Predict             B.Predicting             C.Predicted

2.A.who               B.what                  C.that

3.A.big                B.bigger                 C.biggest

4.A.talk               B.talked                 C.to talk

5.A.use                B.be used                C.are used

A: Hello, Sally! Congratulations to you for winning the first prize in the speech contest!

B: 1.  

A: You used to be shy when you talked to others. Why did you take part in the speech contest?

B: Yeah, I used to be shy. And my mother was really worried about it. She told me I must have confidence in everything. She encouraged me to do that.

A:2.  

B: I practiced the speech every day. In order to make it good, I had practiced it hundreds of times.

A: 3.  

B: I got excited and couldn’t help crying when I won the prize,but at first I could hardly believe I was the winner.

A:4.   

B: Yes, it changed me a lot. And it made me feel confident. I’m very thankful to all the people who helped me.

A: Thanks for answering my questions.

B: 5.  

__________ a terrible rainy night, many farmers’ houses were destroyed.

---Where may you advise me to start my business?

---In my opinion, Yichang is __________one of __________ best places for you.