——Guess what ,we’ve got our visas for a short-term visit to the UK this summer．

       ——How nice! You            a different culture then．

       A．will be experiencing             B．have experienced

       C．have been experiencing            D．will have experienced

A “blogger” is a person who writes on an Internet website called a “blog”. The word “blog” is a short way of saying “web log”, or “personal website”. Anyone can start a blog, and they can write about anything they like.

There are millions of blogs on the Internet today. They provide news, information and ideas to the people who read them. They contain links to other websites. And they provide a place for people to write their ideas and react to the ideas of others.

A research company called Perseus has studied more than 3,000 web logs. It says that blogs are most popular with teenage girls. They use them to let their friends know what is happening in their lives. The study also says that more than 100,000 bloggers stopped taking part in the activity after a year.

However, some people develop serious blogs to present political and other ideas. For example, the Republican and Democratic parties in the southern state of Kentucky recently started their own blogs. And American companies are beginning to use blogs to advertise their products.

At the same time, some long-standing blogs have ended. Last week, blogging leader Dave Winer closed his free blog service “weblogs.com”. He said the site became too costly to continue. He started the blog four years ago, and thousands of people had written on it. They are now upset because they did not know that the site was closed

One blog that is still going strong is called Rebecca’s Pocket. Rebecca Blood created the website in 1999. She wrote about the history of blogs on the site. That article led to a book called The Weblog Handbook. It has been translated into four languages so far.

Miss Blood says Rebecca’s Pocket get about thirty thousand visitors a month. She writes about anything and everything — politics, culture and movies. She recently provided medical advice. And she wrote about how to prevent being stolen from online bank accounts.

The text is mainly written to _______.

A. introduce an Internet website called “blog”  B. introduce a short way of saying “web log”

C. tell readers about blogs                   D. tell readers how to write blogs

From the text we can learn that blogs cover almost everything except _______.

A. different ideas     B. medical advice   C. advertisements      D. account passwords

Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the text?

A. Politicians don’t use blogs at all.        B. A lot of bloggers no longer write or read blogs.

C. Those who like to use blogs are mostly teenage girls.

D. Dave Winer closed his “weblogs.com” because of the money shortage.

The reason why Rebecca’s Pocket is still going strong is that _______.

A. it was created by a woman             B. it is about the history of blogs

C. it provides useful information and advice

D. it has editions in at least four different languages

閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)以下提示：1）漢語提示，2）首字母提示，3）語境提示，在每個空格內(nèi)填入一個適當(dāng)?shù)挠⒄Z單詞，并將該詞完整地寫在右邊相對應(yīng)的橫線上。所填單詞要求意義準(zhǔn)確，拼寫正確。

I’d like to tell you what a bad day I had yesterday.     

Everything just went wrong.       the morning, my alarm            

clock didn’t ring,   so I woke up an hour ????????______. I was in such a            

hurry _____ I burnt my hand when I was cooking breakfast. Then I ran             

out of the house to catch the 8:30 bus. This is the  b     I usually take.         

But you may laugh, I m      it of course. I was very unhappy, and          

scared as w     because my teacher hates the students coming late to            

school. So I ran three miles to school only to ______(發(fā)現(xiàn)) that                    

_____ was there. The school was quiet and peaceful.                           

O        classroom was locked.                                    

I       （意識到）that moment: It was Sunday.                             

The manager insisted that the work ____ finished by the end of this month.

   A. should be            B. will be              C. must be                    D. ought to be

Tom has no       sense of life so he often makes stupid mistakes, making others laugh．

   A．ordinary    B．usual    C．good   D．common

                                              79 Mayfair Road

                                                      Plumton, Kent

                                                      October 10th

Dear Rosemary,

I was very glad to get your letter this morning. I really ought to have written to you---it was my turn, I know----but I have been terribly busy. The children seem to take up all my time. I am thinking of sending Ann to a nursery school. She’ll be four next month. Baby has just started to walk and doesn’t give me a moment’s peace. But you know what it is like! How are all your children? I’m sure they love living in the country.

I’m afraid we can’t come over to see you next Sunday, as you suggest. Tom’s mother is coming to spend the day with us. What about the Sunday after that----- the twenty-second? We are free that day and should love to come. We’re longing to see your house.

Let me know, then, if the Sunday after next suits you. May we come for lunch? We’d like to leave fairly early in the evening to avoid the heavy traffic on the roads.

                                                          Love from us all,

                                                                    Edna

Edna can not see Rosemary the following Sunday because_____.

A. she is afraid of the traffic　　　　　        　B. Tom’s mother is coming to see them that day

C. she prefers to come on 22nd　　　　　　　　  D. she is terribly busy with the children

What doesn’t give Edna a moment’s peace?

A. That she has been thinking of sending Ann to a nursery school

B. That Tom’s mother will come soon

C. That she has been thinking of going to see Rosemary’s new house

D. That her baby has just started to walk

We can infer from the letter that Tom is_________.

A. Edna’s husband    B. Edna’s son     C. Edna’s neighbor     D. Edna’s father

He had lost his temper and his health in the war and never found______ of them again.

A. neither     B. either       C. each         D. all

A father sat at his desk poring over his monthly bills when his young son rushed in and announced, "Dad, because this is your birthday and you're 40 years old, I'm going to give you 40 kisses, one for each year!" When the boy started making good on his word, the father cried out suddenly, "Oh, Andrew, don't do it now; I'm too busy!"

The youngster immediately fell silent as tears welled up in his big blue eyes．Apologicaliy the father said, "You can finish later．"

The boy said nothing but quietly walked away, disappointment written over his face．That evening the father said, "Come and finish the kisses now, Andrew!" But the boy didn't respond．

Unfortunately, a few days later after this incident, the boy had an accident and was drowned．His heartbroken father wrote．．．

"If only I could tell him how much I regret my thoughtless words, and could be sure that he knows how much my heart is aching．"

Love is not only giving．Any loving act must be warmly accepted or it will be taken as rejection and can leave a scar．If we are too busy to give and receive love, we are too busy! Nothing is more important than responding with love to the cry for love from those who are near and precious to us, because there may be no chance at all as in the case of the little boy．

What does the underlined phrase "poring over" mean?

       A．looking in on                       B．looking out for

       C．looking through                     D．looking around

The boy is going to give his father 40 kisses because ______．

       A．his father is very busy

       B．this is the boy' birthday

       C．the boy wants to play with his father

       D．this is his father' birthday and he's 40 years old

What happened to the youngster later?

       A．His heart was broken．            B．．He died unexpectedly．

       C．He ran away from home．        D．He fell silent all the time．

Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

       A．A Love Story                    B．Love Your Son

       C．A Father and a Son                D．Love is a Two-way Street

It is not a good idea to stop the actor Richard Griffiths in the middle of a play．During the past year he has stopped performances many times at the National Theatre when mobile phones rang, and he threw out one member of the audience because she failed to turn off her phone．

So when a mobile rang out for the third time during his performance in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, he spoke angrily to the theatergoer （愛看戲的人）, “I am not going to compete with these electronic devices （裝置）．”

Griffiths’ actions led to a debate in the UK theatre world over whether phones should be forbidden by law from British theatres, too．Actors have already asked the government to legalise （使合法化） the use of an electronic device that stops mobile phone signals in theatres．

Technology companies have “stopping” devices that send out a high-powered signal on the same frequency （頻率） as a mobile phone, stopping the mobile phone signal．

However, these are forbidden in many countries because they might stop emergency calls from being made．

Rosemary Squire, president of the Society of West End Theatre, said, “Phones are one of the biggest problems theatres face．We should look at equipment that could stop phones or make a London-wide theatre rule．”

Nick Allott, the managing director of Sir Cameron Mackintosh’s theatre group, said, “We would all welcome some ways of stopping ringing phones but doctors and emergency workers need to be connected in a theatre and we mustn’t stop that．” What can we do to solve the problem?

What can we infer from the second paragraph?

       A．Surely Griffiths did better than mobile phones in the theatre．

       B．Griffiths didn’t want mobile phones to affect his performance．

       C．Griffiths was jealous that mobile phones attracted the audience’s attention．

       D．Griffiths taught theatergoers a lesson in the performance as a teacher．

According to the passage, “stopping” devices ______．

       A．have the same functions as mobile phones

       B．cause the biggest problem theatres have to face

       C．prevent the mobile phones signals from being received

       D．help doctors or emergency workers receive emergency calls

According to Nick Allott, ______．

       A．“stopping” devices can make the sound of mobile phones disappear

       B．no one except doctors and emergency workers should have mobile phones

       C．phones are one of the biggest problems theatres face

       D．stopping phones in theatres has some side effects

What will probably be talked about following the last paragraph?

       A．Griffiths’ next performance in theatres．

       B．The opinions the public has about the problem．

       C．The ways to solve the cellphone problem in public places．

       D．The side effects mobile phones have on people．

新課程實(shí)施以來，山東省率先取締了晚課，你所在的班級學(xué)生對是否取消晚課展開了一次討論。請結(jié)合下面的討論內(nèi)容用英語寫一篇短文，并發(fā)表自己的看法。