----Would you please ______ the paper for me and see if there are any obvious mistakes?

-----Of course I will.

A. look around B. look through

C. look up D. look into

---Would you mind turning off the TV?

----____________, I am listening to an important report.

A. Of course not B. No, not at all

C. I’m afraid not D. Yes, I do

Is the art of conversation dying? The other day, my wife two teenage children did something we haven't for ages. It didn't require the Internet, a TV screen, batteries or anything else for that matter. But we all it so much we're thinking of doing it again sometime.

We had a conversation. The kind of real, live conversation that was when I was growing up, but which seems all too rare these days. Today we have chat rooms, text messages, e-mails but we seem to be losing the of communicating face-to-face. We all know young people are out on a date(約會(huì))these days, they spend most of that time their mobile phones. And teenagers nowadays seem to communicating with their friends by sending text messages rather than actually to them.

If we carry on like this, in the future, we'll lose the use of our . What do you think? E-mail me, and who knows? Maybe we could even have a real conversation about it!

1.A. and B.or C.but D.after

2.A. made B.known C.done D.seen

3.A. acted B.blamed C.decided D.enjoyed

4.A.common B.careful C.extra D.enough

5.A.name B.art C.attention D.aim

6.A. because B.how C.when D.unless

7.A. buying B.collccting C.repairing D.answering

8.A.dislike B.prefer C.admire D.believe

9.A.writing B.introducing C.speaking D.hurrying

10.A. eyes B.voices C.mouths D.hands

Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. They're both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.

Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor. Bad luck! A lot of apples has already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price (價(jià)格)。They felt unhappy and returned to their village.

"I can't understand why we sustained (蒙受) losses in business while others always profit (盈利)" Uncle Li asked one day.

"The tractor was too small " Uncle Wang said without thinking. "We'll carry more apples on a truck next time!"

"I agree!" said Uncle Li. "How foolish (傻的) we were !"

1. Uncle Li and Uncle Wang live in the low and broken houses because __________.

A. they hope to save money

B. they're both poor

C. their farms are at the foot of the mountain

D. they're not far from their farms

2.The two farmers had to sell their apples at a low price because ________.

A. theirs weren't as good as the others’

B. theirs were much less than the others'

C. a lot of apples had been already carried to the city

D. they forgot to carry them on a truck

3.Which of the following is true?

A. The two farmers found out why they were poor.

B. The two farmers will soon get rich.

C. Neither of the farmers is clever.

D. The two farmers decided to buy a truck.

For a long time, humans have used technology (科技) to study the world around us, and Mars is the latest place we’re using machines to explore. Besides the earth, the “red planet” is seen, as the one place in our solar system most likely to have life.

Early last month, the first American robot, Spirit, landed on Mars without any problem. Opportunity, the second robot, landed on the planet more than a week ago. Scientists are very excited about these machines’ safe landing on Mars. It means that now we have an excellent chance to look for water and other signs of life. So far, the robots have found some stones that could show Mars was once a wet and warm planet.

But the trips made by Spirit and Opportunity were dangerous. Mars is often called the “death planet”, because in the past its environment has been unfriendly to the robot explorers. Before Spirit and Opportunity, nearly forty spaceships had been sent to Mars since the 1960s. Two-thirds of them failed. The first spaceship, Korabl, sent in 1962 by Russia was among them. It broke apart (分裂) near the earth.

1.For a long time humans think ________.

A. they can surely find life on Mars

B. there may be life on Mars

C. it’s too late for them to explore Mars now

D. Mars is the only planet that has life on it

2.The two robots ________.

A. have found out that it is warm and wet on Mars

B. were sent to Mars to find some stones

C. were the first two American robots that landed on Mars

D. are the only machines that have landed on Mars so far

3. The third paragraph mainly tell us ________.

A. it’s a very hard and dangerous trip for spaceships to Mars

B. two-thirds of the spaceships sent to Mars have failed

C. Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars successfully

D. Mars is called the “death planet”

In the 1920s and 30s the airlines were just beginning. It was unusual for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers. Young men ,or “stewards” helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers’ luggage(行李)but they did not provide food and drinks. But then in 1930,a woman called Ellen Church invented the “stewardess”.

Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a different child. She didn’t want to work on a farm or marry a farmer —she wanted a more adventurous(冒險(xiǎn)的)life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got her pilot’s license.

Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a man’s world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous, she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot .But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because. flying was still an unreliable(不可靠的) way to travel. There were often delays(延誤),many crashes and the bad weathers made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and B.A.T. agreed.

The young woman from Iowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses.

At first pilots were unhappy because they did not want stewardesses on airplanes, but passengers loved the stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1000 of them working for different airlines. The early “stewardesses” had to be under twenty-five-year-old, single and slim. When a woman joined an airline, she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned ＄1 an hour.

In the 1970s, stewardesses were unhappy in their job and airlines had to make some changes. Since the 1970s, “stewardesses” have been called flight attendants. They are well paid and work fewer hours than in the past.

1.The last sentence of the first paragraph suggests that _________.

A. the word “stewardess” was made up by Ellen Church

B. Ellen Church was the first woman who flew a plane

C. Ellen Church was the first woman who worked on a plane

D. Ellen Church was the first woman passenger on a plane

2.From the second paragraph, we learn that ________.

A. Ellen did not behave in the same way as most other girls

B. Ellen’s family was not rich enough to support her education

C. Ellen was fond of working as a nurse in the hospital

D. Ellen has an unhappy childhood that changed her completely

3.The main reason for Boeing Air Transport offering Ellen the job was ________.

A. her flying experience B. her university education

C. her nursing experience D. her life attitudes

4.The passage mainly talks about _______.

A. the background of early flying pilots

B. the experience of flying passengers

C. the history of early flight attendants

D. the development of airplanes

根據(jù)句意和漢語注釋，寫出單詞的正確形式。

1.She invited me to her mother’s ________(forty) birthday party the day before yesterday.

2.She left her book at home this morning because of her _________(care).

3.How unlucky he was! He was ________(mistake) for the suspect.

4.I am sure China will be able to hold the Winter Olympic Games _______(success) in 2022.

動(dòng)詞填空 （本大題共8分，每小題1分）

1.What a heavy rain! We have no choice but ________(wait) at the bus stop.

2.Don’t miss Mayun’s wonderful speech. I’m sure each of us __________(attract)

3.---How soon ______ your friend ________(return)? ----I’m not sure, maybe in half an hour.

4.The Apple Watch young people were looking forward to ______(come) into the market at last.

5.-----Did you see a woman in a red skirt pass by just now？

------Sorry, I didn’t. I ___________(chat) with my online friends.

6. How pleased the girl was! She ______________(choose) to play the lead role in the new film directed by Zhang Yimou.

7.This book is so important that it is worth _______(read) again and again.

8.This is the first time that I ___________(play) baseball, What great fun!

書面表達(dá) （本大題共10分）

假如你的朋友Mike 明年打算去游覽上海迪士尼樂園，請(qǐng)你寫一封90詞左右的信，介紹一下上海迪士尼，并給出你的建議。要點(diǎn)如下：

1. 上海迪士尼將于明年春季開業(yè)。 它是由Walt Disney Company 建造的世界上第六個(gè)主題公園。

2. 據(jù)報(bào)道每天會(huì)有成千上萬的游客去游覽。

3. 它和其他迪士尼公園不同，在公園的中央有一個(gè)中國(guó)式的園林。

4. 你可以在那里欣賞到綠草，鮮花和水的美景。

5. 去太空山乘坐室內(nèi)過山車很刺激。和迪士尼人物合影你會(huì)非常愉快。

6. 請(qǐng)你用2-3句話就交通和園內(nèi)環(huán)保方面提些建議。

Dear Mike,

I’m very glad to know you want to visit Shanghai Disneyland next year. I’d like to tell you something about it.

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I hope all these can be helpful to you.

Best wishes.

Yours

We work together to achieve our common purpose: ________ world that is safer, cleaner and healthier than ________ one we are living in.

A. the ; / B. a ; /

C. the ; the D. a ; the