There was a woman in Nanjing , who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially(尤其) the younger one, Ben,       he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed(看似) so      .

    The mother       that she herself would have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the library to read a     a week and do a report about it for her.

One day, in Ben’s      , the teacher held up a rock（石頭） and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him      . Why did Ben raise his hand? They wondered（想知道）. He    said anything, what could he possibly want to say?

    Well, Ben not only       the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew       the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were   . Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book      .

Ben later went to the       of his class. When he finished high school, he went to University （大學(xué)）and at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.

After Ben grew up, he       something about his mother that he did not know as a    .

She, herself, had never learned how to      .

1.A. because       B. so                  C. but            D. though

2.A. clever         B. had                C. slow           D. quick

3.A. asked         B. decided             C. forgot          D. heard

4.A. notice         B. message            C. book           D. question

5.A. class         B. room               C. office          D. lab

6.A. think          B. leave               C. speak          D. answer

7.A. always        B. even               C. quickly        D. never

8.A. found        B. played              C. knew          D. threw

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

10.A. afraid        B. surprised            C. worried        D. unhappy

11.A. pictures      B. exercises            C. shops           D. reports

12.A. top          B. end                C. back           D. side

13.A. learned       B. remembered         C. understood      D. guessed

14.A. doctor        B. child                C. student         D. teacher

15.A. read         B. work               C. teach           D. show

Mr. King goes to a dinner party. He is wearing old clothes. He comes into the room. But people in the room don't look at him. They don't ask him to sit at the table. Mr. King goes home and puts on his good clothes. He goes back to the party. Everyone in the room stands up and smiles(微笑) at him. They give him very good food to eat. Mr. King takes off his clothes, and puts them in the food and says, “Eat, clothes!” The other people ask, “What are you doing?” He answers, “I'm asking my coat to eat food. I am wearing my old clothes. You don't look at me. You don't ask me to sit down. Now I'm in these clothes. And you give me very good food. Now I see, you give the food to my clothes, not to me!”

1.Mr. King goes to the dinner party, but people in the room don’t look at him. Because __.  

A. he doesn't come by car            B. he is young 

C. he is wearing his old clothes        D. he is old 

2.Mr. King goes back to the party. People in the room stand up and smile at him because_____ . 

A. he is wearing his old clothes

B. he comes by a very good car

C. he is wearing his good clothes

D. he is putting on his good clothes

3.Mr. King says the good food is _______. 

A. for he  B. for his good clothes   C. for me    D. for him

Mary didn’t understand such sentences as“She is blue today”，“You are yellow”，“He has a green thumb”，“He has told a white lie”and so on．And she went to the teacher Mrs James for help．

Mary：Mrs James，there is a colour in each of the sentences．What do they mean?

Mrs James：In everyday English，Mary，blue sometimes means sad，yellow afraid．A person with a green thumb grows plants well and a white lie is not a bad one．

Mary：I'm afraid I don’t understand them all．Would you give me an example for “a white lie”?

Mrs James：Certainly．Now I just give you some cakes．In fact you don’t like it，but you don’t want to let me know it．Instead you say，“No，thanks．I’m not hungry．”That’s a white lie．

Mary：It sounds very interesting．Thanks very much．

Mrs James：You are welcome．Colours are meaningful．I think you will meet more sentences like these in the future．Please come to me if you have any questions．

1.Blue sometimes means sad in ________ English．

A．good         B．spoken       C．usual         D．poor

2.I don’t have a green thumb，so all my plants________．

A．die off       B．grow well    C．look nice      D．a(chǎn)re good

3.He is ________today．He is told that his father is seriously ill．

A．blue        B．yellow        C．green         D．white

Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older. Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old.

The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress. They also found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five.The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.

The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.

Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

1.When will people become happier and experience less worry?

A. 18 years old     B. 80 years old     C. 50 years old    D. 25 years old

2.What does the underlined word“emotions”mean in Paragragh Two?

A. 體力           B. 情感          C. 智力         D. 目標(biāo)

3.Who has the most sadness, stress and worry?

A. a fifty-year-old man             B. a fifty-year-old woman

C. a twenty-five-year-old woman       D. a twenty-five-year-old man

4.According to the last paragraph, why may people be happier at an older age?

A. They are more thankful for what they have

B. They have better control of their emotions

C. They spend less time thinking about their bad experiences

D. All of the above.

Many years ago, when I was working as a volunteer at a hospital, I got to know a little girl named Lisa. The poor little girl had a very serious disease and was dying. The doctor had done his best but no medicine really worked. The only chance to save her seemed to be a blood transfusion(輸血) from her five-year-old brother. The little boy had the same disease before and had developed the antibodies(抗體) to fight the illness.

    The doctor talked to the little boy about what they planned to do, and asked him if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate(遲疑) for a moment. He took a deep breath and said, “Yes, I’ll do it if it can save Lisa.”

As the transfusion was going on, the little boy lay quietly in bed next to his sister. He looked at her and smiled all the time. When everything was done and the colour returned to his sister’s face, his smile disappeared and he looked a little afraid. He looked up at the doctor and asked, “ Will I start to die now?”

He was too young to understand the doctor. He thought he would have to give all his blood to his sister, but he agreed.

1.What happened to the 1ittle girl named Lisa at last?

A. She died of a very serious disease.

B. She got better with the antibodies from her brother.

C. She lost her little brother.

D. The transfusion failed and her illness got worse.

2.The doctor waited the little boy to _____.

A. give a11 his blood to his sister

B. give some of his blood to his sister

C. give his life to his sister

D. get the same disease as his sister

3.How did the five-year-o1d boy understand the doctor's plan?

A. He thought he was going to lose all his blood.

B. He thought he was going to be killed.

C. He thought he was going to die together with his sister.

D. He thought he was going to die when he grew up.

4.What did the boy feel when the doctor talked to him about the transfusion?

A. He was unhappy to help his sister.

B. He was so afraid that he refused to do anything.

C. He was worried about his sister.

D. He was willing to give his blood.

5.The writer still remember the story many years later _____.

A. because the little girl had a very strange disease

B. because the sister and brother had the same disease

C. because the doctor saved the little girl's life

D. because of what the boy did for his sister

根據(jù)句意和漢語(yǔ)提示，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~(每空一詞)

1.More and more people have ___________(意識(shí)到) that health is more important than wealth.

2.Tom got a lot of presents on his ____________________(20) birthday．

3.He made a sudden ______________ (決定)

4.Green represents new life and            (生長(zhǎng)).

5.Amy doesn’t like _________(爭(zhēng)論) with others.

BRT, which is short for Bus Rapid Transit, is c  1.“the underground system on the ground”. It has been in s 2.since October 1st , 2012 in Lian Yungang. In the p__3.__, the roads in the city were so crowded（擁擠的）that most buses went slowly. Because of this, the city government decided to build BRT. Now, people can go to work by it more e 4.than before. And if you have a student card, you can have a discount on the t     5..

選詞填空（共10小題，每小題1分，滿分10分）

1.Don’t be so __________! The bus will be here soon. 

2.He worked out the problem          yesterday. We are proud of him.

3.        in the coming exam, students are busy revising their lessons.

4.The children are not used to              . They may feel lonely.

5.China             WTO for 11 years.

6.In order to be healthier, you should                   .

7.The London Olympics                on 27^th, July, 2012.

8.The little girl looks forward to                from her brother in China.

9.Look! There is a nice wallet               on the grass.

10.Please come, Peter. We are planning               .

根據(jù)所給漢語(yǔ)和句子意思，用英語(yǔ)補(bǔ)全句子。

1.Yellow is the color of the sun ,because it can                  (使我們想起) a sunny day .                 

2.He is hardworking ,he _____________________________(不介意為學(xué)生會(huì)做額外的工作)

3.It is silly of you ____________________________________(不原諒別人的錯(cuò)誤)

4.Mr Wu spends a lot of time _______________________(解釋東西給我們)

5.All the students are ________________________(做實(shí)驗(yàn)) in the laboratory now .

請(qǐng)認(rèn)真閱讀下面短文，在短文后表格中的空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~(注意：每空1個(gè)單詞)

As we know, Xiao Shenyang and Liu Qian did wonderful jobs in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Now many people are crazy about these two persons. But how much do you know about them?

    Xiao Shenyang was born in a poor peasant family which is in difficult family conditions. His real name is Shen He. He is an actor. He is good at Er Ren Zhuan. He learned acts, following Zhao Benshan. During the school life, he was very active in many activities. He looks like a simple man, but he never stops pursuing (追求)his artistic aspiration (渴望). More and more people like his style of performance, and we hope he can make great progress in the future.

    Liu Qian is a young magician from Taiwan. At the age of 7, Liu saw a cute magic toy in a shop. At that moment he began to love and decided to learn magic. Liu didn't go to any magic school. he practiced tricks every day to improve his skills, until one day he was able to put on a show for his class. He saw the surprise on everyone's face, and he felt it was cool. He often does street shows for passers-by, police and farmers. He worked hard at it. Now he is a famous magician.