5、Timeless, classic songs wrecked by tuneless, howling drunks: the karaoke machine is the most annoying gadget in Britain, a survey for the government found.

    A TNS Omnibus poll found that the Japanese invention topped a list of gadgets that people wished had never been invented. Nearly a quarter （22 percent） of those surveyed chose the karaoke machine. 17 percent said 24-hour sports channels, 12 percent chose video games consoles, while 11 percent said mobile phones and seven percent said alarm clocks.

    "When people are singing karaoke they are enjoying themselves, but as a member of the audience you are just watching somebody who can't perform -- and isn't particularly pleasant to listen to -- for as long as you can bear it." It is anti-social. You might have 10 people who want to sing some karaoke, which means 150 people have to suffer it."But the crazy thing is that people still do go just to be a spectator at other people's inability to sing." After a short while -- unless they're very drunk -- they're going to find that listening to performers failing to perform for two hours is not the best way to spend the evening."

    Karaoke has turned into a multibillion-dollar industry since being invented in 1971 by Daisuke Inoue, a Japanese club keyboardist looking to provide music for a customer who wanted to sing on a company trip.

    Asked which gadgets people would like to see invented in the future, 18 percent said a robot cleaner, 16 percent said a time machine and 12 percent said a teleporter. Asked what the most important safety gadgets were, 69 percent said the smoke alarm, 64 percent said seat belts and 29 percent said baby seats. Pollsters TNS Omnibus surveyed 2,584 adults in England online.

1. Which is not the question put forward by the pollsters TNS Omnibus?

A．Which gadget is the one people wished had never been invented?

B．Which gadget would people like to see invented in the future?

C．What is the most important safety gadget?

D．How was the karaoke machine invented?

2. How many people surveyed chose the karaoke machine to be the most annoying machine?

   A．About 150 people                     B．Some 568 people

   C．Over a quarter of those surveyed              D．Less than 22% of those surveyed

3. Which is not the reason why the karaoke machine is the most annoying gadget in Britain?

   A．Unless drunk, they will not find listening to people who can’t perform is the best way to spend the evening

   B．Classic songs are wrecked by those who are out of tunes.

   C．Only those singing are enjoying themselves while the members of audience have to bear it

   D．It is against social rules.

4. The following are all safety gadgets except_______.

   A．the smoke alarm              B．seat belts           C．teleported            D．baby seats

4、The way people hold to the belief that a fun filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining（達(dá)到） real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
    As a result，many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain brought by such things as marriage，raising children, professional achievement，religious commitment（承擔(dān)的義務(wù)），self improvement. Ask a bachelor（單身漢） why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun，adventure，excitement. Marriage has such moments，but they are not its most distinguishing features.
    Couples with infant（嬰兒） children are lucky to get a whole night‘s sleep or a three day vacation. I don't know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couple who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
    Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating（解放） realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can truly increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

1. According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because.

  A．he is unwilling to take on family responsibilities
  B．he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single

  C．he finds more fun in dating than in marriage

  D．he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement

2. From the last paragraph，we learn that envy sometimes stems from.

  A．hatred              B．misunderstanding         C．prejudice       D．ignorance

3. To understand what true happiness is, one must_______.

  A．have as much fun as possible during one's lifetime

  B．make every effort to liberate oneself from pain

  C．put up with pain under all circumstances

  D．be able to distinguish happiness from fun

4. What is the author trying to tell us?

  A．Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.

  B．One must know how to attain happiness.

  C．It is important to make commitments.

  D．It is pain that leads to happiness.

3、根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。

There is an English saying that goes, "he who laughs last, laughs the hardest." High School Musical star Zac Efron is laughing a lot these days.

__1___, because he was always the smallest in his class and was laughed at because he had a big space between his teeth. In sixth grade, Efron's basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime （兩個(gè)加時(shí)賽）, with three seconds left, he rebounded the ball and passed it — to the wrong team! ___2____

    ___3______Now at 21, Enron is one of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People, graces （榮登） the cover of Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood's most influential magazine, and is traveling the world promoting the third High School Musical film. Director Adam Shankman described Enron as "arguably the biggest teen star in America right now." Simply Google "Zac Enron" , and you get more than 14 million responses. Yes, it seems Enron has a lot to smile about these days.

    Enron was born and raised in California. ____4______According to Enron, "he would flip out （發(fā)瘋） if he got a B and not an A in school, and that he was a class clown." It was his father who encouraged him to act. ___5_____He also took singing lessons. He graduated high school in 2006 and was accepted at the University of Southern California to study film. But he put it off— why study movies when you can star in them.

Enron has risen all the way to the top of the movie business. And he can now laugh all the way to the bank.

A．He owed it a lot to his father that he succeeded.

B．But history, as they say, is a thing of the past

C．He took part in school performances and acted in a local theater.

D．When he was young, Enron was an unqualified basketball player.

E．He took school seriously.

F．They scored and his team lost the game.

G．As a young boy, Enron was picked on by his classmates.

2、英語課上,老師要求同桌同學(xué)相互修改作文。假設(shè)以下小作文為你同桌所寫，請你對其進(jìn)行修改。文中共有10處錯(cuò)誤，每句中最多有兩處。錯(cuò)誤涉及一個(gè)單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏詞符號（^），并在此符號下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1．每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞。

2．只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計(jì)分。

3．必須按答題要求做題，否則不給分。

Dear Mary,

We’ve been pen friends for a year now. It’s a fun, isn’t it? This year I’m starting my college

life. I’m real excited. Everything will be different with things in high school. I’ll have more

classes, and each of the class will be in a different classroom. In the dormitory I will have a

locker which I can keep my textbooks, notebooks, coats and other thing. This is my favorite

thing about going college. Two students will have to share a locker. I will like my friend Kim to

be my locker partner. We’re thinking of put our favorite pictures on the locker door. Please

sending me a new picture of yourself! OK?

Well, write soon. Bye.

Best wishes.

Cindy

1、學(xué)�！坝⒄Z角”開展以“感恩父母”為主題的征文活動(dòng)。請根據(jù)下列要求寫一篇文章，詞數(shù)120左右。要求：

文中需講述一件使你難忘的事

由此抒發(fā)你的感想，引發(fā)出對父（母）親的感激。

22、The writer and actor ______ invited to give us a report on plays in China.

A. were              B. have               C. has            D. was

21、The people were told to ______ themselves with everything they would need for the travel.

A. prepare        B. equip              C. relate            D. feed

20、He wants to rid himself ______ the burden of the secret, but can’t find a dependable person.

 A. to          B. at            C. of            D. from

19、In the past, women were ______and they often couldn’t get a good job.

 A. looked down upon      B. looked forward to      C. looked on as       D. looked into