閱讀下列短文，并做每篇后面的題目，從四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出能回答所提問(wèn)題或完成所給句子的最佳答案。

Robert E Peary was a great U.S. explorer (探險(xiǎn)家) , He reached the North Pole in 1809, For more than 20 years, he tried to reach the pole. During much of his this time, he kept a diary of trips. A diary is the writing of a person that tells about his or her life day by day. Here is what Peary wrote in his diary on the day he reached the pole.

“The pole at last ! My dream for 20 years. Mine at last ! I cannot bring myself to believe it. It all seemed so simple …”

This page was written on the biggest day in Robert E. Peary's life. But the diary also tells about the hard times he had. Many times during his travels, Peary had to say good-bye to his wife. Once he wrote.

“Another good-bye, and there have been so many ! Strong brave woman, You have lived with me through all my hard work. This life is a dog's life. Will I succeed ? Will I return ?”

1．An explorer is a person who ________.

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A．makes a short trip

B．flies a plane

C．keeps a diary

D．goes into a place to learn about it

2．One the day he reached the Pole, Peary felt excited and happy because ________.

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A．his dream had come true

B．his living conditions had been greatly improved

C．he had heard from his wife

D．he had just had a pleasant dream

3．From the last paragraph, you can tell that Peary probably felt ________.

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4．In this diary Peary wrote, “This life is a dog's life ……”It means ________.

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A．this life is an ordinary life

B．this life is a hard life

C．this life is a short life

D．this life is an easy life

5．For which reason do people keep a diary ?

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A．They tell about all the interesting stories they have heard.

B．They want to keep all the things in their minds.

C．They tell about the most important things they do every week.

D．They write down what they do and feel every day

閱讀下列短文，并做每篇后面的題目，從四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出能回答所提問(wèn)題或完成所給句子的最佳答案。

Early in the 18th century, Captain Cook, a famous explorer of England, unexpectedly caught sight of an unusual animal during his first visit to Australia. The animal had a large mouse like head and jumped along on its large legs. To his great surprise, the unusual animal carried its young in a special pocket of flesh. Captain Cook pointed to the animal which was eating grass in the distance and asked his native guide what the animal was referred to. The guide seemed not to know what he was pointing at and finally said “Kangaroo”, but their requests were met with puzzled looks of the native people. Before long they got to discover that the native guide who made the answer to Cook's question really meant, “I don't know what you are pointing at. ” Funny enough, the name “Kangaroo”, stuck and it is still in use today.

1．Which of the following sentences best expresses the main idea ?

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A．Captain Cook's guide made a joke.

B．Native Australians could not speak English in Cook's time.

C．Some words have rather funny origings (起源).

D．Captain Cook was a lover of wild animals.

2．When the native guide said “Kang-a-roo”, he really meant “________”

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A．Ah, it is a special kind of animal.

B．I wonder what you have said

C．What do you mean by pointing at that animal ?

D．I have no idea of what you are referring to.

3．We can infer from this passage _________.

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A．we should learn many different languages

B．Captain Cook made a mistake in understanding

C．Captain Cook was a foolish explorer

D．the importance of a language in common

閱讀下列短文，并做每篇后面的題目。從四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出能回答所提問(wèn)題或完成所給句子的最佳答案。

Tom Smith was a writer. He wrote detective(偵探) stories for magazines. One evening he could not find an end for a story. He sat with his type writer(打字機(jī)) in front of him, but he had no idea . So he decided to go to the cinema.

When he came back, he found that the had a visitor. Someone had broken into his room. The man had had a drink, smoked several of Tom's cigarettes(香煙) and had read his story. The visitor left Tom a note:

"I have read your story and I don't think much of it. Please read my advice and then you can finish it. By the way, I am a thief. I am not going to steal anything tonight. But if you become a successful writer, I will return!"

Tom read thief's advice. Then he sat down and wrote the rest of the story. He was still not a successful writer, and he was waiting for his thief to return. Before he went out in the evening, near his typewriter he always left a story which had not been finished.

1．Tom went to the cinema because he ________.

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A．Hoped to get ideas

B．was feeling tired

C．hated to see a visitor

D．wanted to see a film

2．The visitor came to Tom's room ________.

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A．to have a drink

B．to see Tom

C．to read Tom's story

D．to steal something

3．The visitor thought that Tom's story was ________.

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A．quite good

B．not well written

C．too short

D．not exciting

4．The thief said that he would ________.

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A．steal Tom's stores

B．write more stories

C．come and steal Tom's things

D．come every night

5．Tom found the thief's advice ________.

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第二部分  閱讀理解  (滿分35分)

第一節(jié)　閱讀理解下面的短文，然后根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，指出能完成所給句子或回答所提問(wèn)題的最佳答案。(每小題2分)

What makes a house a home? A home is a place of companionship with people in it who love each other, who are harmonious (和諧的) and closer with one another than with those in the workplace or with classmates at school. A home is a place that’s so magnetic that it’s difficult to leave. In a home there is love, sharing and appreciation, and the members help one another.

I have seen families on the street. But if they live, sleep, talk, and eat together, they are a family, even if they are poorly off. You don’t need a roof to make a home. The truly homeless are some of the rich people who build multi-million-dollar houses and are too busy to really live in them. The truly homeless are those who have turned their home into a hotel lobby. The parents work and the children misbehave. They don’t talk and eat together every day. They rarely see each other. The truly homeless people are those with babysitters, caretakers, gardeners and maids. However, people are unaware of this, as they are too busy making money outside the home that they don’t live in. This is another way of looking at the rich and the homeless. Who is to be pitied?

Control of the computer and the Internet is also important to make a house into a home. If the computer is on all the time, the house turns into an office, even if everyone is at home. Many homes these days are just offices. Human communication has stopped. The computer eats up all the time that one should be giving to others within the home. Using the computer moderately gives us time for play and communication, not with a screen, but with other people.

1 Which of the following may serve as the best title for this passage?

       A. How to make a house a home? B. What makes a house a home?

       C. Who are truly homeless?   D. What is a home for?

2 The purpose of the first paragraph is to tell us ____ .

       A. that where there is home there is love  B. how to have a happy home

       C. what people think a home is     D. the author’s concept of home

3 The underlined word “those” refers to ____ .

       A. people who build multi-million-dollar houses

       B. people who don’t spend time with the family

       C. people who have lost their family members

       D. homeless families living on the street in America

4Which of the following is FALSE according to the passage?

       A. Computers and the Internet are important for a happy home.

       B. A home is a place where you are willing to stay.

       C. Sometimes it’s the rich that should be pitied.

       D. Even the poorest people can have a happy home.

5 According to the passage, which is NOT mentioned as an element (要素) of a home?

       A. Communication.      B. Appreciation.     C. Kindness.    D. Companionship.

任務(wù)型寫作

   請(qǐng)根據(jù)以下的任務(wù)說(shuō)明和寫作要求，寫一篇150詞左右的英語(yǔ)短文。

　　[任務(wù)說(shuō)明]

　　你要參加一場(chǎng)英語(yǔ)辯論賽，主題是“學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)錯(cuò)誤該不該改正”。在參賽之前，你要查閱相關(guān)資料，并準(zhǔn)備你的辯論發(fā)言。請(qǐng)認(rèn)真閱讀下面的短文，然后完成以下的任務(wù)。

1）概括短文的內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)，該部分的字?jǐn)?shù)大約60；

2）就“學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)錯(cuò)誤該不該改正”這個(gè)主題發(fā)表你的看法，至少包含以下的內(nèi)容要點(diǎn)，該部分的字?jǐn)?shù)大約90；

a)　以英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)為例，簡(jiǎn)述你學(xué)習(xí)過(guò)程中經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)的語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤；

b)　你是如何看待自己的語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤；

c)　你的老師如何對(duì)待你的語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤；

d)　你對(duì)老師的做法持什么看法？為什么？

　　[寫作要求]

　　你可以使用實(shí)例或其它論述方法支持你的論點(diǎn)，也可以參照閱讀材料的內(nèi)容，但不要抄襲閱讀材料中的句子。

　　[評(píng)分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)]

　　概括的準(zhǔn)確性、語(yǔ)言的規(guī)范性、內(nèi)容的合適性以及篇章的連貫性。

　　[閱讀材料]

　　Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time; if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between his language and others’ language. Bit by bit, he makes the right changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learn to do all the other things. They learn to talk, run, climb, ride a bicycle by comparing their own behaviors with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school teachers never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, even fewer chances for him to correct himself. They do it all for him. Teachers act as if the student would never notice a mistake if they did not point out it to him. They act as if the student would never correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let the student do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word means and what the answer is to that problem.