【題目】閱讀理解。

Backpacking in Europe is a wonderful experience for young people around the world.After high school or university,you can plan a European backpacking trip.

Packing

As you plan the things you will carry,bring warm clothes and a raincoat or umbrella to deal with changing weather in different European countries.Europeans like dressing nicely,and good clothes will make you feel less like a dusty(滿是灰塵的) backpacker.It is not worth taking the trouble to bring a hair dryer or shampoo,as you can buy basic necessities(必需品) in Europe.

Hostels

The cheapest places to sleep when backpacking in Europe are hostels(where people can stay and eat fairly cheaply).Most hostels have a lot of information about low-cost ways to see local attractions,and many offer tours.The cost for hostel beds differs from country to country.In Paris,you might pay 30 euros,but in Bulgaria,you can get a bed for 10 euros.In general,hostels are more expensive in large,popular cities such as Paris,Rome and London.

Many backpackers use rail passes(火車通票),which allow unlimited(不受限的) travel within country groups over a period of time.If you have the time to travel by train and will be traveling in a country group,this can be a good deal.Otherwise,you may consider point-to-point tickets,local trains,buses and airlines such as Ryanair,easyJet and Wizz Air,which offer cheap flights.

Food

Eating out in Europe can come with a high cost,and the best way to cut your food budget(預算) is to cook meals in the shared kitchens in hostels.You can make several meals into picnics to take advantage of Europe’s parks.When shopping for your picnic,try and buy at a local market.You save some euros while supporting the local industry at the same time.When eating out,choose restaurants away from tourist attractions.

【1】Which of the following is an advantage of hostels?

A.They are often built in popular cities.

B.They are mainly open to young people.

C.They usually provide tour information.

D.They always ask the same price for their beds.

【2】Which of the following can be put in the blank in the text?

A.Traveling. B.Shopping.

C.Entertainment. D.Transportation.

【3】To make a cheap trip in Europe,you’d better .

A.eat meals on the train

B.choose a restaurant near a park

C.enjoy a meal sold at a local market

D.cook your own meals at the hostel kitchen

【題目】All ticket prices are shown in Australian dollars and are inclusive of GST.

YOU MUST HAVE ACCESS TO A PRINTER IN ORDER TO PRINT OUT ANY TICKETS YOU BUY ON OUR TICKETING WEBSITE (MYFUN. COM.AU). You must present all print-at-home tickets on arrival at the attraction. Proof of your purchase from myfun.com. Au cannot be verified at the front desks without your print-at-home tickets, so entry will not be permitted without them.

【1】Where can you buy tickets if you want to see Wildlife World in Australian?

A.At ticket office.

B.At home online shopping

C.At home from the ticketing website.

D.At home from printer.

【2】If you forget to take all print-at-home tickets, you will___________.

A.be forbidden to go home

B.be allowed to see Wildlife World

C.be resisted to see Wildlife World

D.Be put into prison

【3】If you have retired for a year, you should take your ______ to Wildlife World.

A.ID B.IC C. IP D. IT

【4】If you have a 16-year-old son ,he may pay ______for a ticket.

A.＄7.95 B.＄17.99 C.＄34.99 D.22.99

【題目】短文改錯

假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。錯誤涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號(Λ)，并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線(＼)劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，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)不計分。

My brother used to ask me question whenever he did his homework, that made me annoyed. But every time he accepted my explanations I feel that I was the smartest person in the world. Answered his questions, I always liked to say that he was so stupid to solve such simple problems.

Last week both of them got the report cards from our school. Unexpectedly, I got a lot of Bs, though he got As. To make things worse, all that day my brother screamed how foolish it was for me not to ask questions! I could say nothing but admit that he was right. I have never made a fun of him since then.

【題目】閱讀理解。

Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling.Recycling in the home is very important of course.However,being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need.We are dealing with the results of that overconsumption in the greenest way,but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.

The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005.It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK.In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.

Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment.The UK,for example,is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste.If such packaging is burnt,it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect.Recycling helps,but the process itself uses energy.The solution is not to produce such items in the first place.Food waste is a serious problem,too.Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need.However,a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue and encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags.

But this is not just about supermarkets.It is about all of us.We have learned to associate packaging with quality.We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality.This is especially true of food.But it also applies to a wide range of consumer products,which often have far more packaging than necessary.

There are signs of hope.As more of us recycle,we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary material we are collecting.We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture,but we have a mountain to climb.

【1】The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show .

A.the tendency of cutting household waste

B.the increase of packaging recycling

C.the rapid growth of supermarkets

D.the fact of packaging overuse

【2】According to the text,recycling .

A.helps control the greenhouse effect

B.means burning packaging for energy

C.is the solution to gas shortage

D.leads to a waste of land

【3】What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?

A.Unpackaged products are of bad quality.

B.Supermarkets care more about packaging.

C.It is improper to judge quality by packaging.

D.Other products are better packaged than food.

【4】What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.Fighting wastefulness is difficult.

B.Needless material is mostly recycled.

C.People like collecting recyclable waste.

D.The author is proud of their consumer culture.

【題目】七選五閱讀。

Tips on How to Motivate a Team

Leadership is an art of making the work easier and more fun and motivating your team to succeed.If you want to get your team excited to face the next challenge,look through the following steps.

Set realistic goals. 【1】 For example,if you have a project that needs completing,create a chart that breaks the project into smaller goals so that,as they achieve each step,they can check it off and see themselves getting closer to completing the project.

【2】 So if it is somebody’s birthday or someone just got married or had a baby,make them feel special and important. 【3】—do whatever is appropriate for the occasion,as long as you are respecting that person’s privacy.

Create social events outside of work.Motivate your team by not having everything be all about work,work,work. 【4】 Have members go out for lunch in groups every two weeks instead of everyone going separate ways,so people are more motivated to work hard because they’ll know each other better.

Be a good role model.As a person that each individual team member can look up to,you don’t have to be perfect,but you should be hard-working,reasonable,willing to communicate,and generally a smart,reliable employee. 【5】

A.Make your team members feel recognized.

B.Get the team to work together.

C.Have monthly happy hours to let the members of your team relax a bit.

D.If you’re not showing the very quality that your team should possess,then why will they follow you?

E.Know what your team is capable of and provide a tool that shows their progress.

F.Email your best wishes and bring in a cake.

G.Get people walking around instead of over chat or email.

【題目】閱讀理解。

Windmills(風車)dot the landscape,producing a renewable energy source.Our pioneer ancestors established windmills as a means of bringing water to the surface.To tell the truth,the history of wind energy is very long.Since early recorded history,people have been harnessing the energy of the wind.Wind energy drove boats along the Nile River as early as 5000 BC.By 200 BC,simple windmills in China were pumping water,while well-designed windmills were grinding(磨)grain in Persia and the Middle East.

New innovations and curiosity helped spread interest in windmills and wind power.Middle Eastern citizens used them for food production by the 11th century.Merchants along trade routes returned to Europe and shared the idea.Windmills caught on,especially in Holland,and the Dutch improved their use.Here,windmills drained lakes and other bodies of water.In France,the windmill pumped irrigation water.Elsewhere in Europe,windmills were used to grind grain.

By the 19th century,settlers in the United States realized the importance of the simple windmill.Pioneers pumped water for livestock(牲畜)and farming.As estimated six million windmills dotted America’s landscape by the end of the 1880s.Charles Brush,the US inventor,invented a windmill capable of producing electricity in 1888.And now the machines are called wind turbines.As late as the 1920s,Americans used small windmills to provide electricity in rural areas without electric service.When power lines began to transport electricity to rural areas in the 1930s,local windmills were used less and less,though they can still be seen on some Western farms.

In the 1970s,oil shortages pushed the development of alternative energy sources,paving the way for the re-entry of the windmill to produce electricity.In the early 1980s,wind energy really took off in California,partly because of State policies that encouraged renewable energy sources.In the 1990s,the push came from a renewed concern for the environment in response to scientific studies indicating potential changes to the global climate if the use of fossil fuels continues to increase.Wind energy is an economical power resource in many areas of the country.

Wind energy isn’t a new phenomenon,but using wind turbines to create and use electricity is a trend that continues to sweep across the globe.

【1】The underlined word “harnessing” in Paragraph 1 is the closest in meaning to “ ”.

A.having influence on

B.controlling and using

C.talking about and studying

D.showing interest in

【2】As for the application of windmills,Europe .

A.became well-known all over the world first

B.first began food production

C.increased trade activities with other places

D.followed the example of the Middle East

【3】According to the passage,Charles Brush .

A.created the first electricity-producing machine in the world

B.first used windmills in the US

C.was a pioneer in producing electricity from wind

D.improved the economic strength in rural areas of the US

【4】What is the best title for the passage?

A.The importance of wind power

B.How does wind energy work?

C.The history of wind energy

D.When was wind power first used?

【題目】書面表達

假設你是高一、五班的李越，有感于校園中存在的隨意涂寫（scribble--v.動詞）和亂丟垃圾（litter---v.動詞）的行為（behavior），請用英語給校長寫一封100-120字左右的信。信中應包括以下內容：

1.說明寫信目的；

2.對這些行為的感想并進行批評；

3.提出建議：多設垃圾桶（dustbins）；制定制度；養(yǎng)成好習慣。

注意：信的開頭、結尾已給出（不計詞數）。

【題目】閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中,選出最佳選項。

Many times when children make a mistake,starting with breaking a window while playing football or skipping classes and ending with stealing something or fighting with another child,parents are always blamed by the society for not having known how to educate their offsprings(后代).The situation is not that easy to explain.

Parents always look for the best interest of their children and many times they are ready to take measures only for their sake.They know their children are suffering when they are forced to stay indoors or when they have no money,but they have to teach them a lesson so that they won’t repeat the same mistakes over and over again.When a child realizes that his father is talking seriously about him not being allowed to do something,he understands the seriousness of his deeds and he knows he will think twice before making the same mistake again.

These are the cases of the responsible parents,who suffer when they see that their children are not happy but who resist the temptation of forgiving them so easily so that they realize the gravity of their actions not only at present but also in the future.

On the other hand there are parents who always find excuses for their children’s behavior,who never consider they make mistakes or if they just do what they call “childish” things.

When you buy your children everything he has ever dreamt of or when you tell him he can wear a necklace even if he is only 13,he will become so spoiled that he won’t take into consideration anything of what you are telling him later on.He will get to the point where he steals from the house or from a shop so that he can afford to buy cigarettes or drugs.

【1】What does the author imply in the first paragraph?

A.It is the parents who are to blame when their children make mistakes.

B.Children are easy to make mistakes.

C.It is not always right to blame parents when their children make mistakes.

D.Educating their children is the responsibility of the parents.

【2】According to the author,if a child makes a mistake,the parents should .

A.teach the child a lesson

B.understand the child and forgive him or her

C.not make him or her stay indoors

D.not forgive him or her at all

【3】We can infer from the passage that .

A.parents’ attitude towards their children’s mistakes affects their children’s behavior greatly

B.parents’ excuses for their children’s behavior make no difference to their children

C.children are hard to educate if they often make mistakes

D.parents who make excuses for their children’s bad deeds are not good parents

【4】The purpose of writing this passage is to .

A.tell us it is normal that children make mistakes

B.show parents how to deal with the children who make mistakes

C.make us know why children often make mistakes

D.give some advice on how to forgive the children who make mistakes

【題目】閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當的內容（1個單詞）或括號內單詞的正確形式。

For centuries, everybody knows laughter is the best medicine. Besides bringing joy, the doctor also 【1】 （believe） that laughter helps release stress, which is the cause of many diseases.

The celebration of World Laughter Day is 【2】 （mean） to bring good health, joy and world peace. It is a special day that can 【3】 （celebrate）annually by anyone on the first Sunday of May. All people need to do is laugh aloud and wildly. The fun event was started 【4】__ Indian physician, Dr, Madan Kataria.

His quest to make the world a happier place 【5】 （begin） in 1995, with the introduction of Laughter Yoga（大笑瑜伽課）, a fitness class 【6】 people practice breathing exercise and uncontrolled laughter.

Though only five students attended the first class, this fun way of exercising soon began to spread and in a short time it began to be held 【7】 more than 70 countries around the world.

Members get together every day or twice a week 【8】 exercise by simply laughing out loud, waving their hands and making funny faces each other to keep the laughing going.

In 1998, in an attempt to spread the laughter to every person, the physician declared the first Sunday of every May World Laughter Day. Not 【9】 （surprise）, it became an instant hit. To make it more fun, Dr. Kararia suggested 【10】 （organize） the celebrations in public places so that other people could join in. Some even awarded prizes to participants who could perform this feat in natural and effortless way.

【題目】閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當內容（1個單詞）或括號內單詞的正確形式。

Every November 21 is World Hello Day, ___【1】____ people say hello to each other to express friendliness and love. World Hello Day __【2】___(found) in 1973 by Brian and Michael McCormack, in response (回應) to the conflict (沖突) between Egypt and Israel. They sent a large number of letters on __【3】___ importance of communication to world leaders and ___【4】__(celebrity) to advocate(倡議) setting ___【5】__ World Hello Day. The first World Hello Day was celebrated on Nov.21, 1973.

Originally, people around the world took World Hello Day as a ___【6】____(value) opportunity to encourage world leaders to use communication rather than force(武力) to settle conflicts. ___【7】____ (late), ordinary people started ___【8】____(greet) each other on that day to express ___【9】____ (they) love for other people and world peace.

Now, World Hello Day is observed by people in 180 countries. Why not greet your parents and friends 【10】___ a warm hello and a bright smile on this holiday?