—I quarreled with my desk mate yesterday. It’s all my fault.

—Look, she is just over there.      —go and say “sorry” to her.

A．You know the drill                                       B．Believer it or not

C．To be exact                                                D．It all depends

April 1st is a special day,      practical jokes may be played without punishment.

A．in which       B．on which        C．with which         D．for which

—What’s your impression of the Great Wall?

—Wonderful! Once       , it can never be forgotten.

A．seen        B．seeing          C．being seen         D．saw

Fish taste better if they      off the bright sunlight. Put you drying table under the tree for best results.

A．fade out          B．turn out         C．dry out           D．give out

Taking Care

From a very early age, I knew I wanted to be a nurse. My mother was a nurse and I have always  1  her and the way she took care of everyone. I wanted to be just like her.

So, here I am, a   2  for the last seven years. I love my work. Now, my father is quite   3  . He is 71 and has heart failure, and a lot of other medical  4  . Up until April of this year, he was able to live alone, drive, and   5  all of his own needs. His health has broken sown swiftly. I’m the only girl out of the five children. Being the only girl and a nurse  6  me at the top of the caregiver list. Taking care of a sick parent is very 7  , not at all like taking care of other patients. I have to   8  my own family to be here with Dad. I know this is   9  I need to be but it is still hard. I   10  abut 12-15 hours day taking care of him. I want to spend all of the time that I can with him because I know that our   11  left together is short.

At the same time, I find myself 12  that my brothers don’t help more. Sometimes, it is days between their   13  . they all have families of their own and busy lives but…so do I. My eldest brother does help some. He   14  at night. He comes in at 8 or 9pm and lets me go home. But he is up and   15  to hit the road at about 6 am. My   16  brothers pop in for 10-15 minute visits. It is   17  annoying. They say they  18  stand “to see Daddy this way” which I understand. It hurts me to see him so sick  19  weak, too. But …h(huán)e’s our Dad. He has taken care of us our whole lives. I just  20  like we should all do our part to take care of him now.

1．A．missed                  B．a(chǎn)dmired               C．cheered               D．loved

2．A．nurse                    B．mother                C．doctor                 D．daughter

3．A．stubborn               B．healthy                C．lonely                  D．ill

4．A．puzzles                 B．difficulties           C．problems             D．matters

5．A．give up                 B．take care of         C．watch over          D．take up

6．A．put                       B．encouraged          C．obliged                D．showed

7．A．necessary              B．easy                    C．important            D．difficult

8．A．refuse                   B．support               C．a(chǎn)bandon              D．own

9．A．when                    B．how                    C．where                 D．why

10．A．waste                  B．spend                  C．kill                      D．pass

11．A．  money               B．pleasure               C．emotion               D．time

12．A．a(chǎn)ngry                  B．calm                   C．enthusiastic         D．a(chǎn)nxious

13．A．trips                    B．favours               C．visits                   D．meals

14．A．lives                    B．a(chǎn)ppears               C．sleeps                 D．stays

15．A．likely                   B．ready                  C．sorry                  D．glad

16．A．other                   B．dear                    C．busy                   D．pitiful

17．A．even                   B．ever                    C．still                     D．really

18．A．mustn’t               B．needn’t                C．can’t                   D．shouldn’t

19．A．or                       B．a(chǎn)nd                     C．yet                      D．but

20．A．feel                     B．sound                  C．smell                   D．look

Mrs. Amatuli was my teacher in the fourth grade.

One day at lunch time, I was getting ready to eat my same old tuna fish（金槍魚(yú)）sandwich and suddenly Mrs. Amatuli asked me if she could buy my sandwich from me. She explained that I could use the money to buy a hot lunch from the cafeteria.

I was thrilled. I never bought my lunch at the cafeteria. It was too expensive for my family, and we always carried our lunch and brought the bath back home to use again the next day. My sandwiches were either bologna（大臘腸）or tuna fish. It rarely varied beyond that.

You can understand my delight when I had the opportunity to buy a hot lunch.

When we finished lunch that day, Mrs. Amatuli took me aside and said she wanted to explain why she had bought my sandwich.

Oh, I couldn’t wait to get home and tell my Mama that form now on I wanted tuna fish on Fridays. After my Mama understood why, she gladly fixed tuna fish for me on Friday. She even fixed it on brown bread because she knew Mrs. Amatuli liked brown bread.

From then on every Friday I cold get in line with the rest of the kids for a hot lunch. I didn’t care how many of the ids complained about cafeteria food—it tasted divine to me!

I realize now that Mrs. Amatuli could have fixed herself a tuna sandwich of Friday. But she bought my sandwich because she saw a little girl who was thrilled over the simple act of having a hot lunch.

I will never forget her for her compassion and generosity.

1．Which of the following can best describe Mrs. Amatuli?

      A．Lovely.                B．Strict.                 C．Clever.                D．Kind.

2．The author didn’t buy her lunch at the cafeteria because    .

       A．her lunch was various                          B．her family was very poor

       C．her mother could prepare it at home       D．her teacher gave her a hot lunch

3．After lunch that day, Mrs. Amatuli explained         .

       A．she was Catholic                                 B．Catholic ate meat on Fridays

       C．Catholic ate fish on Fridays                   D．she liked brown bread

4．The underlined word “divine” in Paragraph 8 means      .

      A．delicious              B．bad                     C．typical                 D．hot

5．What might be the best title for the passage?

       A．My grateful mother                              B．My considerate teacher

       C．My boring lunch                                  D．A thrilled student

As dangerous as sharks may have seed to people after watching Jaws, which was released on

June 20,1975, the recent disastrous decrease in their numbers show that people have proven far

more dangerous to sharks.

    This disastrous decline is due in large part to commercial fishing of sharks. “The market for

shark fins（魚(yú)翅）in East Asia opened up thanks to changes in their economy, increasing their

ability to spend money on things such as shark fin soup,” Burgess said.

However, the biggest worry for sharks and their relatives, the skates and rays, which are suffering a similar fate, “is how they are killed incidentally when fishermen try and take other fish—the problem of bycatch（漁業(yè)混獲）,” Burgess explained. “They may be thrown back afterward, but they’re still dead.”

The key of the problems behind bringing sharks back is that “they’re not the same as other fish,” Burgess said, “Sharks are slow growing and slow to reach maturity. Sharks are live bearers, which means females keep their young in their body just like us, but instead of nine months, it takes 12 to 18 months or more in sharks. Also, sharks generally can’t give birth again until a year after they’ve given birth—sometimes they’re on a three-year cycle. So once you get a shark population knocked down, this ‘life in the slow lane’ means that recovery is measured in decades rather than years.”

Burgess said, “I’m on the recovery team for it, but the recovery plan for that is over the course of 100 years. So I won’t see them recover, nor will you, nor will your children. That’s what it means when these animals go down—they’re down a long time.”

Any measures aimed at saving sharks must not only consider byeatch, “which is the real killer right now,” but also encourage interactional cooperation, Burgess said.

“Sharks are very migratory, and many species cross borders,” he said. “We can protect them only by getting many government to come aboard. That’s the hardest part about this.”

1．The text mainly tells us       .

       A．shark fins are valuable                          B．sharks are dangerous

       C．by catch brings bad effects                   D．sharks are in danger

2．The number of sharks is decreasing mostly because of      .

       A．the film Jaws                                      B．commercial interests

       C．changes in economy                            D．shark fin soup

3．Bringing sharks back is difficult because      .

       A．they’re like the other fish                      B．their reproductive rate is slow

       C．they can’t give birth again                     D．their life cycle is only 3 years

4．What can be concluded from the last paragraph?

       A．Sharks live the way human beings do.

       B．It’s time many governments cooperate.

       C．Sharks’ migration takes a very long time.

       D．By catch shouldn’t be forbidden by international laws.

5．The test is most probably a        .

       A．newspaper ad                                      B．book review

       C．science news report                             D．science fiction story

閱讀下面的短文，并根據(jù)短文后的要求答題。（請(qǐng)注意問(wèn)題后的詞數(shù)要求）

[1]The government employs many people to take care of our city. However, these professionals can not help out everyone by themselves. They need our help!

[2]Volunteering is something that really helps as individuals. Volunteering is when we regularly go and do nice things for other people. Volunteers may help out in local retirement homes, or in hospitals. Some volunteers work with poor people and other volunteers help teach orphaned children to read.

[3]Volunteering teaches mature thinking. Volunteering gives us a chance to stop complaining about our lives and realize exactly how lucky we are. We are able to see the people who really need the help. Volunteering also teaches more about the quality of being responsible for others and ourselves, the character of giving understanding and showing pity to others in trouble.

[4]Volunteering gives us a chance to our share of the work of making this society the best it possibly can be. It helps us feel good about ourselves when we can help those who rally need our help. When we can make somebody else feel special, it helps us remember what life is really about.

[5]There are many places that you can go to try volunteering. Here are a few places for you

◆Hospitals—You can go and visit people who are really sick. Sometimes all they need is someone who will talk with them, or someone

◆Orphanage—The children living here really need someone to play with them.

◆Food shelter—Many food shelters can really use more people willing to just organize the shelters and help distribute the food to those who need it.

◆Community center—Although a lot of community centers are well run, some of them can really           , especially with cleaning and with repairs.

◆Retirement home—Many of the elderly people living here have lived very fascinating lives. Lister to them.

Whatever you decide to do, just do the best you can. Remember that giving can be its own reward!

1．What’s the main idea of Paragraph 2?（no more than 10 words）

2．According to the underlined part of Paragraph 3, list three words that can summarize what volunteering can also teach us about.

    ①             ②             ③      

3．Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

We will understand the real meaning of life if we let others feel they are different.

4．Fill in the blank with proper words（no more than 5 words）

5．Please translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4.

根據(jù)漢語(yǔ)提示，將單詞的適當(dāng)形式寫(xiě)在答題卡相應(yīng)在的橫線上。

1．These details are easily           （忽略）, so you should pay attention to them.

2．The industry      （繁榮）attracted Europeans including Jewish people.

3．Your return ticket is         （有效的）for three months.

4．Thank you for your help.        （否則）, we would not have finished our task on time.

5．This hotel is so popular that guests are asked to make       （預(yù)定）in advance.

假設(shè)你是李華，你的朋友Alice給你寫(xiě)信決定來(lái)上海旅游，同時(shí)想了解上海世博會(huì)（Expo 2010 Shanghai China）的情況。請(qǐng)根據(jù)以下信息，用英文給她寫(xiě)一封回信。

注意：

    1．詞數(shù)：120—150；

2．可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。