The reason ______ he failed was _______ he was too careless

A. because; because    B. why; because   C. that; that     D. why; that

The World Wide Web is sometimes jokingly called the World Wide Wait because it_______ be very slow.      

   A. should         B. must          C. can          D. will 

While I was in 9th grade, I built a circuit (電路裝置) for the traffic system of our city. After getting the first prize, I got this valuable advice from my father: “Do whatever interests you, and don’t let the work challenge you, make sure you are challenging that work.” 

I have always preferred the projects which are challenging and related to real life problems. I clearly remember building a shipping program several years ago. I divided the whole project into several small sections. When I understood it clearly, I used my brainstorming skill on it, and gave some basic ideas. Then I asked my professor for help before jumping into coding (編碼). At first, I did not know how to ask questions correctly and always asked the question “How do I do it?” As I kept working and discussed with my professor, I became more comfortable and those “how” questions soon turned into “what if I do this and that” types of questions.

     It took me four days to write the code. The desire to solve the problem kept me sleepless all nights brainstorming in even greater details. Every time I saw my program running smoothly, I exploded with joy. I still remember the last day of my work. I was getting some problem and didn’t know what to do. At that moment, a man came in to clean. He had headphones, and he was dancing while cleaning the room. Seeing this, I burst out laughing. That moment calmed me. I regained energy and interest and started to work again, and soon I fixed the problem.　

    My success in the project proved that breaking up a large problem into small parts could help find a possible solution. Discussing the problem with others was also very beneficial. Now I have gained the confidence to attempt any kind of project.　

According to the passage, the writer was interested in ______.

  A. developing traffic systems          B. doing challenging projects

C. winning great prizes                 D. writing different codes

The writer asked the question “how do I do it” at first because ______.

A. he had no clear idea about his program   B. he was too shy to express himself

C. he wanted to be understood easily       D. he preferred this kind of question

We learn from the passage that the writer’s shipping program ______.

A. would benefit people a lot             B. was done together with others

C. was difficult and needed patience       D. cost much money and energy

What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Do It Yourself           B. No Pains, No Gains

C. Learning with Interest               D. Practice Makes Perfect

We produce 500 billion of plastic bags in a year worldwide and they are thrown away polluting oceans, killing wildlife and getting dumped in landfills where they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. Researchers have been unsuccessfully looking for a solution.

The 16-year-old Canadian high school student, Daniel Burd, from Waterloo Collegiate Institute, has-discovered a way to make plastic bags degrade(降解) in as few as 3 months, a finding that won him first prize at the Canada Wide Science Fair, a ＄10,000 prize, a ＄20,000 scholarship, and a chance to revolutionize a major environmental issue.

Burd’s strategy was simple: Since plastic does eventually degrade, it must be eaten by microorganisms (微生物). If those microorganisms could be identified, we could put them to work eating the plastic much faster than under normal conditions.

With this goal in mind, he grounded plastic bags into a powder and concocted(調(diào)制) a solution of household chemicals, yeast(酵母) and tap water to encourage microbes growth. Then he added the plastic powder and let the microbes work their magic for 3 months. Finally, he tested the resulting bacterial culture on plastic bags, exposing one plastic sample to dead bacteria as a control. Sure enough, the plastic exposed to the live bacteria was 17% lighter than the control after six weeks.

The inputs are cheap, maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because microbes produce heat as they work, and the only outputs are water and tiny levels of carbon dioxide.

“Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, I have piles of plastic bags falling on top of me. One day, I got tired of it and I wanted to know what other people are doing with these plastic bags. The answer: not much. So I decided to do something myself.” Said Daniel Burd.

Daniel Burd won first prize at the Canada Wide Science Fair because      .

    A. he found a new kind of microorganism

    B. he contributed much to environmental protection

    C. he found a way to degrade plastics in shorter time

    D. he could encourage microbe growth in an easier way

Daniel Burd exposed one plastic sample to dead bacteria to      .

    A. make the live bacteria work better      B. test how effective his method was

C. know which bacteria worked faster      D. control the temperature in the process

Maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because       .

    A. plastics can get hot easily           B. microbes can produce heat themselves

    C. much carbon dioxide is produced     D. the temperature can be controlled

Daniel Burd got his idea from       .

    A. his school textbook          B. the failure of researchers

    C. his everyday work           D. the practice of other people

書面表達(dá)

假設(shè)你應(yīng)邀參加學(xué)校組織的“英語學(xué)習(xí)師生座談會(huì)”，請(qǐng)你根據(jù)下表所提示的信息，用英語寫一篇發(fā)言稿，簡單介紹自己英語學(xué)習(xí)的情況，并對(duì)學(xué)校今后的英語教學(xué)提出建議。

注意：1．對(duì)所給要點(diǎn)逐一陳述，適當(dāng)發(fā)揮，不要簡單翻譯；

      2．詞數(shù)120左右，開頭和結(jié)尾已經(jīng)寫好，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)；

          3．文中不得提及考生所在學(xué)校和本人姓名。

Dear teachers and schoolmates, it’s a great pleasure for me to be here today

and share my experience of learning English with you.

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Thank you for listening.

This is the first time we ________ a film in the cinema together as a family.

    A. see          B. had seen         C. saw          D. have seen

Dad had to cycle to work this morning because his car _______ at the garage.

A. was repaired                     B. was repairing

C. was being repaired                   D. would repair

Not until he called the secretary three times ______ that the manager went to an important meeting．

    A．did he tell     B．he told      C．was he told      D．he was told

In order to produce more grain, it________that the area of farmland_____.

 A. is demanded, being increased   B. has been demanded, be increased

 C. demand, should be increased   D. demands, should increase

短文改錯(cuò)(共10小題; 每小題1分, 滿分10分)

以下標(biāo)有題號(hào)的每一行均有一個(gè)錯(cuò)誤，請(qǐng)找出，并按下列情況改正：

此行多一個(gè)詞：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。

此行缺一個(gè)詞：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（∧），在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。

此行錯(cuò)一個(gè)詞：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，在該右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。

注意：請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡上作答。

We live on the earth, but we are not alone in the world.

Everyone know we should keep the balance of nature,             ____________

or we don’t always do as we say .                          ____________

A species can become endangered with different reasons.        . ____________

But the very important one is their living places are ruined. We        ____________

cut down trees without plant new ones, and we pollute the place     ____________

where animal live. Because of this, they have no home and        ____________

they are going to be die out.                                   ____________

Other reason is money. Many tigers are killed by those         ____________

who want to sell our fur and use their bones for medicine.        ____________

We should do everything which can be done to change the          ____________

situation, or wild animals can only exist in our memories.