In communication, a smile is usually　　　　 strong sign of a friendly and　　　　 open attitude.

A．the; / B．a; an C．a; /　 D．the; an

最近你所在的學校選出一男一女兩名學生作為學校的形象大使，希望他們可以成為其他學生學習的模范。為此學生中展開了激烈的爭論。請你根據(jù)下列提示，以“Do we need image ambassadors?”為題給某英語報紙寫一篇文章。

注意：1．詞數(shù)：120左右。

2．詞匯：image ambassador形象大使。

3．短文的開頭已為你寫好，不計入總詞數(shù)。

Recently my school has chosen a boy and a girl to be its image ambassadors and hopes that others can learn from the two model students.

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單詞拼寫

66．We should have the right to v            .

67．The thief was put in p            at last.

68．T            who were usually born after the1990s are crazy about the Internet.

69．At p            , I feel very satisfied with everything I have.

70．When you plan a trip, don’t forget to take your i            card and money.

71．A lot of university students g            and go abroad for further study every summer.

72．Your v            is the total number of words you know in a particular language.

73．——Would you like to see my flat?

——Yes, I’d like to come up to your a            .

74．Workers built s            for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.

75．One evening, I s            awake on purpose in order to have a good look at the moon.

閱讀下面的短文并從方框中的A—F中為每段文字選出最佳標題，在答題卡上將對應的選項涂黑。其中有一項選擇是多余的。

Here are some tips to improve your spoken English.

Whatever you have learnt or read in a day, practice in front of the mirror. For a start, you can read something from newspapers, English magazines, and books. Take a passage and read it aloud. After you think your accent has improved, try reciting a poem in front of the mirror. This will increase your confidence as well.

Talk to your family members and friends in English. You can also organize debates and speeches on a low level, where everyone in your family or friend circle speaks on one topic for a few minutes. It will help you get over the fear of making mistakes, as you will be with your friends and family—your comfort zone.

Listen to people who you think are good English speakers. It will help you catch the skill better. You can also watch their videos, listen to them online, or even in person. It can be anyone from Barack Obama to your teacher in school. Find every opportunity to speak English.

You will meet people like you there and it will help you realize that you are not the only person who isn’t good at this subject. Also meeting different people will help you overcome your complex. You can also join coaching classes, which will provide you professional help in learning spoken English.

Nothing is more beautiful than simplicity. So, instead of using an ambiguous（含糊不清的）language with tough words, go for simple words. Learning any new language is difficult and English is no exception. Start simple and go with the flow. With time, you would learn bigger words too.

If your mother wants to tell you something, she uses words. Birds cannot talk as we do. But some birds can make sounds to warn their young of danger.

The jackdaw is a kind of blackbirds that lives in Europe. Jackdaws live together. Young jackdaws do not know their enemies. When an older jackdaw sees a dog, it makes a loud rattling sound. The younger birds know this sound means danger is nearby. The sound warns them to know their enemies

If a young jackdaw is in a dangerous place, a jackdaw parent flies over him from behind. The parent bird flies low over the young bird’s back. The parent’s tail feathers move quickly from side to side, trying to express, “Follow me.” At the same time, the parent calls out, “Key-aw, key-aw. ”The parent mean, “Fly home with me.” The young bird then follows the older one home. Young jackdaws do not have to learn what certain sounds mean. They know the meaning of these sounds from the time they hatch（孵出）.

53．The jackdaw lives in　　　　　 .

54．Which of the following does this story lead you to believe?

A．All animal parents can talk to their young

B．Dogs are the most dangerous enemies for jackdaws

C．Young jackdaws know the meaning of their parents’ sound when they grow older

D．Some birds can give information to one another

55．Parent jackdaw can use their tail feathers to　　　　　 .

All her life, my mother wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should remain at all things clean and tidy.

You could turn your back for a moment in my mother's house, leave a half written letter on the dining room table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that my mother had "put it back where it belonged." as she explained.

My wife, on one of her first visits to my mother's house, placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink. When she returned, she found the packet had been removed. Confused（疑惑的）, she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits, only to return to find that her drink had disappeared. Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks, so as not to make water rings on the end tables. Now she knows better.

These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family. We were all inclined to（有…的傾向）forgetfulness, and it was common for one of us, upon returning from the bathroom, to find the every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly. "Do you remember what I was doing?" was a question frequently asked, but rarely answered.

Now my sister has developed a second-hand love of clean windows, and my brother does the cleaning in his house, perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet. I try not to think about it too much, but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week.

49．Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?

A．She enjoyed removing others' drinks

B．She became more and more forgetful

C．She preferred to do everything by herself

D．She wanted to keep her house in good order

50．My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother's house because　　　　　 .

51．The underlined part to the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister　　　　　 .

52．This passage mainly tells us that　　　　　 .

A．my mother often made us confused　　　

B．my family members had a poor memory

C．my mother helped us to form a good habit

D．my wife was surprised when she visited my mother

You do not need every word to understand the meaning of what you read. In fact, too much emphasis（強調）on separate words both slows your speed and reduces your comprehension.

First, any habit which slows down your silent reading to the speed at which you speak or read aloud, is inefficient. If you point to each word as you read, or move your head, or form the words with your lips, you read poorly. Less obvious habits also hold back reading efficiency（效率）. One is "saying" each word silently by moving your tongue or throat; another is "hearing" each word as you read.

These are habits which should have been outgrown long ago. The beginning reader is learning how letters can make words, how written words are pronounced, and how sentences are put together. Your reading purpose is quite different, which is to understand meaning.

It has been supposed that up to 75% of the words in English sentences are not really necessary for expressing the meaning. The secret of silent reading is to find out those key words and phrases which carry the thought, and to pay less attention to words which exist only for grammatical completeness.

An efficient reader can grasp the meaning from a page at least twice as fast as he can read the page aloud. He takes in a whole phrase or thought unit at a time. If he “says" or "hears" words to himself, they are selected ones, said for emphasis.

45．This passage is mainly about            .

46．Saying each word to yourself as you read            .

47．Your reading purpose should be            .

48．While reading, efficient readers usually            .

In some parts of the United States, farming is easy. But farming has always been difficult in the northeastern corner of the country, which is called New England.

New England has many trees and thin, rocky soil. Anyone who has wanted to start a new farm there has had to work very hard. The first job has been cutting down the trees. The new job has been digging out the roots of the trees. Then the farmer has had the difficult job of removing stones from his land. This work of removing stones never really ends, because every winter more stones appear. They come up through the thin soil from the rocks below. Farmers have to keep removing stones from the fields. Even today, farms which have been worked on for two hundred years still keep producing more stones. That is why stone walls are used instead of fences（籬笆） in New England fields. The stone walls are not high and a man can easily climb over them. However, they keep the farmer’s cows from joining those of his neighbor’s.

41．Where is New England?

42．Why do stones keep appearing?

A．Because the farmers keep digging them out

B．Because there are rocks below the soil and the soil is too thin

C．Because there are no trees at all

D．Because the wind keeps blowing

43．Why do the farmers build stone walls instead of fences?

A．Because the stone walls are not high and a person can easily climb over them

B．Because the stone walls can stop the cows from joining their neighbor’s

C．Because there are too many stones

D．Both A and B

44．Which of the following is NOT true?

A．There are almost no trees in New England

B．Farming is difficult in New England

C．It’s difficult for farmers to remove stones from the fields

D．The stone walls in New England are not high

I was tired and hungry after a long day of work. When I walked into the living-room, my 12-year-old son looked up at me and said, “I   21   you.” I did not   22   what to say, and I just stood there, looking   23   at him. My first   24   was that he   25   need help with his homework. Then I asked, “What was that all   26   ?”

“Nothing,” he said, “My teacher said we should tell our parents we love them and   27  

what they say.”

The next day I called his teacher to   28   more about what my son said and how the other parents had reacted（反應）. “Most of the fathers had the   29   response as you did,” the teacher said,” When I first   30   that we try this, I asked the children   31   they thought their parents   32   say. Some of them thought their parents would have heart trouble.”

Then the teacher   33   , “I want my students to know that feeling love is an important part of   34   . I’m trying to tell them it’s too bad that we don’t express（表達）our feelings. A boy

   35   tell his father or mother he loves him or her.” The teacher understands that sometimes it is   36   for some of us to say something that is good for us to say.

That evening when my son   37   to me, I took him in my arms and held   38   for a longer moment, saying, “Hey, I love you,    39   .” I don’t know if saying that made   40   

of us healthier, but it did feel pretty good.

　　　 role she played in the film! No wonder she has won an Oscar.

A．How interesting　　　 B．How an interesting

C．What interesting　　 D．What an interesting