Once upon a time, there was a lazy poor living in a small house with spider webs(蜘蛛網(wǎng)) on the walls and mice running around. People ______ coming into such a dirty place and the poor man was lonely and sad every day. He thought it was poverty(貧困) that______ his unhappy life. One day, the poor man dropped in on a wise old man and asked him for ______ about changing his life. The old man gave him a beautiful vase(花瓶) and said, “This is a magic vase that will bring you _______.” The poor man looked at the vase ______ . Why would he need a vase in his poor house? However , he didn’t want to ______ such a beautiful vase, so he brought it home on the table. “It.s not right for something so beautiful to be ______.” the poor man looked at the vase and thought. Then he picked some wild flowers and put them into it, making it even more beautiful. ______ he was still not satisfied . “It is not good for such a beautiful thing to stand next to a spider web.” At this, he started to do some cleaning in the house and paint the walls. His house turned into _______ place immediately. The poor man _______ . He suddenly realized that in the past it was his laziness that made him poor and unhappy. From then on, he worked hard and his life got better and better.

1.A.enjoyed B.avoided C.forgot D.considered

2.A.led to B.connected to C.made up D.set up

3.A.service B.knowledge C.advice D.care

4.A.peace B.happiness C.mess D.regret

5.A.sadly B.nervously C.proudly D.surprisedly

6.A.throw away B.give out C.pay for D.keep off

7.A.ugly B. Full C.empty D.dirty

8.A.Although B.But C.So D.Because

9.A.large B.dark C.strange D.comfortable

10.A.cheered up B.rang up C.sped up D. stayed up

Garden Tour & Cooking Class 909 North Cumbre Road. Santa Barara, CA

Saturday, October 24, 2015. 9:30am-1:00pm

Cook with Suzzane Traditionally, American Indians’ dishes were made with corn,beans,potatoes and pumpkin. Takea tour around Trinity Garden, pick some of these foods and returns in the kitchen. There you can watch Suzzane prepare delicious dishes with them.It is surely a new experience! Suzzane will make an introduction of three traditional foods and tell you what they meant to the American Indians hundreds of years ago. At the same time,you can learn how to cook with these autumn harvest(收獲) vegetables.

The means includes the following:

Hot Potato Pie with Cornbread Topping

Thanksgiving Soup

Fresh Vegetable Salad

Trinity Fruit Ice-cream

★$35 per person,including printed recipes (菜譜), the four dishes above and a book by Suzzane, Children under 8 can come for free.

★Booking by email by Oct 15; Suzzane landry @ alt. Net

About Suzzane Landry: She is the writer of Healthy Eating and Fresh Food Matters. To look for new ideas to add to her cooking, she traveled a lot,working in kitchen all over the world.This brought her the idea of “fresh food cooking”. Then she set up the website below to get people’s attention to healthy eating. She is excited to share her knowledge through cooking chooses, cookbooks and DVDs. Her teaching is popular with people from different countries. Learn More: Visit WWW.freshfoodcooking.com Follow Suzzane on FACEBOOK and TWTTER.

1.The cooking class in advertisement will be given______.

A. In spring B.in summer

C.in autumn D.in winter

2.In this class ,you can watch Suzzane cook dishes with the foods______.

A.brought from home B.picked in Trinity Garden

C.bought from the market D.onbooked from the Internet

3.The menu offered by the cooking class including the following EXCEPT______.

A.cake B.soup C. Salad D.ice-cream

4.If Mr.Green goes to the class with his parents and his 6-year-old son, be should pay____.

A. $35 B. $70 C.$105 D.$140

5.According to the advertisement, we know that__________.

A.we can book the cooking class on the phone

B.only American Indians enjoy Suzzane’s teaching

C.Suzzane got her cooking ideas from different DVDs

D.Suzzane Landry wrote two books about eating and food

It is reported that some developed counties have shipped broken parts of computes to China.Such a thing can be founded every day although it is against international laws. Last month Hong Kong officers found 131,000 kilograms of broken computers, TVs and phones send from Japan.

Things like these are called electronic waste, or e-waste. Dealing with is not an easy job because dangerous poison like mercury(汞)and lead (鉛)can be found in them. Every time an old computer breaks down, it needs to be deal with safely. But at present, broken computer parts are usually buried. It may be hundreds of years before they are really goes in the earth.

Many places in China are polluted by e-waste. Guiyu in Guangdong province is one of them. This town is named as”the e-waste capital of the world”. It has to deal with 1.5mllion kilograms of e-waste each year, from which it makes 75 million years. But it comes at a cost. Many of the poison in e-waste find their way into the environment. Plastic is burned outdoors and chemical water is poured into rivers, Greenpeace, an environmental group, has found the air, the earth and the rivers in Guiyu badly polluted.

The Chinese government wants the country to develop, but in a way that doesn;t do harm to the environment and people’s life. This year,China presents a new protection law, the strictest one we have ever had. Computer complies like Lenovo and Dell will be asked to take back their old computers. This is because the complies that make computers know best to deal with them safely. Hopefully, the problem with e-waste will be solved in near future.

1.The e-waste found in Hong Kong last month was from________.

A.France B.Japan C.Germany D. Australia

2.The underlined word buried probably means ______in the passage.

A.焚燒 B.障礙 C.回收 D.掩埋

3.The town of Guiya in Guangdong Province_________.

A.is the e-capital of the world

B.has serious e-waste pollution

C. Deals with e-waste safely

D.speeds much money on e-waste

4.This year,the Chinese government__________.

A.tried to change people’s life

B.closed some computer complies

C.make a new environment protection law

D.asked people to hand in their old computers

5.The passage is mainly about________.

A.the way in deal with e-waste

B.the cost of burning e-waste

C.the e-waste problem in China

D.the need to pass a law against e-waste

配對閱讀。 左欄是對五位學(xué)生英語技能情況的描述，右欄是馬丁英語培訓(xùn)中心七個課程的簡介， 請為左欄的每位學(xué)生選擇一個合適的課程。

The Great Wall is known as the eighth wonder of the world. Every year thousands of tourists from all over the world come to visit this place of1._____ in China.

Last Saturday I went to the Great Wall 2._______ some of my friends. It was a sunny day. On our way up, we saw many volunteers(志愿者) keeping working in the sun. They helped the elders with their bags., 3.______ photos for some tourists and answered people’s questions. Though they are very 4._______ , they didn’t stop to have a rest. We were deeply moved when we saw this.

Just at the moment, we saw 5.______ little boy standing alone and crying. We went over and asked what6._______ to him. From his answer we knew that he couldn’t find his mother. We told him not to 7._____ about it and then we tried to get to touch with his mother with the phone number he gave us. Twenty minutes 8._______ , his mother turned up. When she saw her son, she was very excited and thanked 9.______ with tears in her eyes.

That day we not only enjoyed the beauty of the Great Wall, but also felt the warmth of the society. 10._______ everyone can reach out a helping hand to others, the world will be more and more harmonious(和諧的).

Recently, more and more people are reported dead from drowning(溺水) accidents. Here are two reports from www.sinhuanet.com.

Seven People Drowned in a Reservoir(水庫)

Reporter Tang got the news from Guangdong Provincial Government that people died in a drowning accident on April 5th, 2015. A 17-year-old girl , Xiao Yi, fell into a reservoir while washing hands after a tomb(墓) sweeping with her family. Her sister, her parents , her brother and some of her relatives jumped into the water one after one to save her, although they didn’t have good swimming skills. Unfortunately, none of them succeeded. As a result, Xiao Yi ans six of her family members lost their lives.

Three People Lost Their Lives in the Dongjiang River

On May 1st, 2015, seven middle school students went swimming in the Dongjiang River. At first, they had a great time playing in the water. Suddenly one of the boys had a cramp(抽筋) . He went up and down in the water and shouted for help. Two of them tried to save him, but got drowned. At that time, a man called Li Jinlin was fishing nearby. When he heard the shout, he jumped into the water without a second thought. He tried his best to save the second one, he ran out of energy and couldn’t go up again. Two students and he lost their loves.

Information Card

1.The website for the readers to get the news reports

2.The time of the first accident

3.The thing Xiao Yi was doing when she fell into the reservoir

4.The person who saved a student in the Dongjiang River

5.The number of the people who lost lives in the two accidents

書面表達(dá)（15分） 每年夏天，溺水事故頻發(fā)。 請你就此寫一篇短文談?wù)勀愕目捶ā?/p>

內(nèi)容包括：

1.我們應(yīng)該如何防止此類事故發(fā)生？（兩點(diǎn)建議）

2.如果看到有人落水，我們應(yīng)該如何施救？

3.呼吁同學(xué)們熱愛生命，注意安全。

作文要求：1.不能照抄原文；不得在作文中提到出現(xiàn)的學(xué)校真實(shí)姓名。

2.語句連貫，詞數(shù)80個左右。作文的開頭已經(jīng)給出，不計入總詞數(shù)，也不必抄寫在答題卡上。

Almost every year in summer, many people are reported dead from drowning accidents. How to prevent such sad accidents?

Here are some . Do you like ?

A. oranges； them B. orange； it

C. oranges； they D. oranges； their

It took people three months to build this great building.

A. two hundreds B. hundred of

C. hundreds of D. two hundred of

—He be in the classroom， I think.

—No， he be in the classroom. I saw him go home a minute ago.

A. can； may not B. must； may not

C. may； mustn’t D. may； can’t