---It was ___________ who helped us out of danger.
---What brave and helpful children! We should learn from them.

---It was ___________ who helped us out of danger.

---What brave and helpful children! We should learn from them.

A．they             B．them             C．their             D．theirs

天太黑看不清楚他是誰。

It was ________ ________ ________ ________ who he was.

---It was ___________ who helped us out of danger.
---What brave and helpful children! We should learn from them.

1. A.
   they
2. B.
   them
3. C.
   their
4. D.
   theirs

Every year on my birthday, from the time 1 turned 12, a white gardenia（梔子花）was sent to my house. It did not come with a card or note of any kind, but I loved the beauty and sweet smell of the flower.

And I never stopped imaging who the giver might be. My mother helped me to imagine. She’d ask me if I had done something kind for anyone. Perhaps the neighbor I’d helped carry heavy bags for, or one of my classmates who I helped the lessons with. As a teenager, though, I had more fun thinking that it might be a boy I liked at school.

When I was 17, a boy broke my heart and I cried myself to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, there was a message on my mirror, “If we let sadness go, happiness will surely come to you.” I thought about those words for a long time. When I finally went to get the glass cleaner, my mother knew everything was all right again.

One month before I finished high school, my father left us forever. I lost interest in all the celebrating activities such as the class play, taking photos with classmates before leaving the high school where I had studied for three years. Although my mother was very sad, she still encouraged me to take part in all those. She wanted her child to have a sense that there was still beauty in the face of bad luck, just like the gardenia—lovely, strong and perfect.

My mother died 10 days after I was married. I was 26. That was the year gardenias stopped coming.

51. From the age of ________，the writer began to receive a gardenia every year on her birthday.

A. 17         B. 12        C. 26        D. 10

52. What can we infer(推斷) from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3?

A. Mother was clever.        B. I was still sad.

C. The glass was dirty.        D. Mother really understood me.

53. The writer lost interest in activities before leaving high school because ________.

A. no flowers were sent to her  B. a boy broke her hear

C. her father died            D. there was no beauty in her life

54. In fact it was ________ who sent the flowers.

A. the writer’s father          B. the writer’s mother

C. a boy classmate            D. one of the neighbors

55. The passage mainly talks about ________.

A. mother’s love   B. the writer’s bad luck

C. teenagers’ problems while growing up   D. how to pace difficulties

　　Mark Twain（馬克·吐溫）is a famous American writer. He liked to know something about others' childhood. But one day someone asked him, “Could you remember the first money you got?” Mark Twain thought for a long time, then he answered, “Yes. I think I can't forget it all my life.” “Why? Is it much?” “No. It was only five dollars,” he said. “I was at school at that time. Some students didn't study hard in our class. And they didn't often finish their homework. They never respect（尊敬）teachers and often damaged desks or chairs. So our teachers were very angry with them. Then they made some rules so that we could take care of the desks and chairs. One of the rules was that anyone who damaged the desk or chair with a pencil or knife would be beaten before the whole school or have to pay for five dollars.”

　　“Did you damage that?” “Yes. One day I damaged my desk. I was very afraid.But I had to tell my father about it. I hoped he could give me five dollars. When my father understood what I did, he agreed to give me money and let me hand over（上交）to our teacher. I felt very happy. But to my surprise, before giving me the money, he gave me a beating. Because my father said it was too bad to have his face lost in front of the whole school.” “Bad luck! What did you do with the five dollars?” “Oh, it sounded very funny. I thought I had been beaten once, so I wasn't afraid of it any more. At last, I decided to receive another beating at school and keep the five dollars for myself. That was the first money I ever got.”

(1) When Mark Twain was at school, teachers liked those students who _______.

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(2) Teachers made some rules so that ________.

[　　]

A．students could study hard and take care of the desks and chairs

B．they could get much money from the students

C．students could buy new desks and chairs

D．students could play out of the classroom

(3) Mark Twain's father gave him the money because ________.

[　　]

A．Mark Twain needed the money to buy school things

B．his father had much money

C．he was afraid that Mark Twain could have his face lost

D．he asked Mark Twain to buy some things

(4) Mark Twain was beaten ________, and kept the five dollars for himself.

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(5) The best title of the passage may be ________.

[　　]

The story told to all American children about honesty(誠實) is about the cherry tree(櫻桃樹) that President George Washington cut when he was a boy．When his father returned home, he asked George if he knew anything about who cut the tree down．George replied, "Father, I can not tell a lie．It was I who cut down the cherry tree．"

In China, every child knows the story of Lei Feng, the young soldier who helped everyone and was very honest．The stories of George Washington and Lei Feng help us understand the importance of being honest．

Every teacher wants his or her students to be honest．If every student can be honest in their childhood, they will be honest when they become adults(成年人)．The country will then be known as an honest country and it will be respected(尊敬，尊重) by everyone．

Usually, it is the father and the mother who give the first lessons of honesty．George Washington learned honesty from his father．

A favorite Chinese story is about a young man who went to the market to buy food for his mother．There was a very young girl there who was selling flowers．The young man was asked to see and smell one flower and when the girl served another person, the young man stole the flower．

When he went home, he began to think what he had done．He went back to the market to see the girl．He told her that he was sorry and that he wanted to pay for the flower．

The little girl refused and said, "You do not need to pay for the flower, elder brother．Since you took it I thought you had a reason to take it．So I did not worry, about receiving money for it．"

The young man was ashamed(羞愧) that he stole the flower．He never forgot the kind-hearted peasant girl．To him it was a strong personal lesson and he could never forget about the importance of being honest．

1．According to the text, George Washington learned honesty from      ．

A．the textbook        B．his teacher                     C．his father         D．his mother

2．Who in human society is the first person to give lessons of honesty?

A．The parents．

B．George Washington’s father．

C．The eleventary school teachers．

D．A young girl who was a flower seller as told in a Chinese story．

3．Why is the education of honesty so important in school education?

A．Because it is one of the lesson required for study in every country．

B．Because if a child is honest in his/her childhood, he/she will be honest when growing up．

C．Because honest people are becoming less and less in most countries．

D．Because teachers are afraid of students stealing things when they are still in school．

4．The writer gives the favourite Chinese story             ．

A．a(chǎn)s an example of a touching love story

B．to show what may happen to a dishonest person

C．a(chǎn)s an example of the meaning of " honesty" in Chinese

D．to show that society as well as parents and teachers may also have an effect on the building up of a person’s character of honesty

5．Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．If a person is honest in his childhood, he will be honest when he becomes an adult．

B．The story about George Washington’s childhood is known to everyone in the USA．

C．The young man who stole the flower admitted his wrong doing to his parents．

D．The young man was ashamed of his wrong doing and could never forget the lesson he received from the kind-hearted peasant girl．

Tea bag drinking is most Westerners' favorite way of drinking tea. Do you know how it came about?

The tea bag was invented in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan, an American tea seller. He was sending out free tea in silk bags for people to try. People put the bags together with the tea leaves into the cup and added(增加) hot water. The tea tasted good, and people thought it was easy to clean the cup. They were not happy when Sullivan started sending them loose (散的) tea again.

Sullivan realized that he had a hot new thing in his hands, and he built a machine to pack the bags. As tea bags became popular, they were changed from silk to gauze (薄紗) and later paper. In 1952, Lipton Tea made the tea bag even more popular with its invention of the four-sided tea bag. Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK, and today 85%of the tea in the UK is packed in paper bags.

However, many people still prefer loose-leaf tea.  This is because some tea companies put not very good tea in their tea bags. But for most drinkers, tea bags are still the easy and tasly way to go.

1.Who invented the tea bag?

A. An English tea seller.       B. Chinese.

C. Lipton.                      D. Thomas Sullivan.

2.The tea in silk bags was welcome because________.

A. the tea in bags was free and very good

B. the tea tasted good and the cup was easy to wash

C. people were happy, with the loose tea

D. people didn't know any better way to enjoy the tea

3.The material of the tea bags is usually_________now.

A. silk         B. gauze         C. paper       D. plastic

4.The underlined sentence "Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK" probably means “_______in the UK”.

A. Tea bags soon became popular

B. Tea bags surprised everyone very much

C. Tea bags kicked the loose-leaf tea out of the market

D. Tea bags weren't allowed to be sold

5.The reading mainly talks about________.

A. the invention of tea        

B. the way of drinking tea

C. the history of tea bags     

D. people' s favorite tea in the world

It was the first day of school. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a little old lady smiling at me.

She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”

I laughed, enthusiastically responding, “Of course!” And she gave me a giant squeeze. “Why are you in college at such an age?” I asked.

“I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have children, and then retire and travel.”

“No seriously.”

“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!”

We became instant friends. Over the course of the year, Rose made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she took great delight in the attention given to her from the other students. She was living it up. At the end of the term we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet (宴會) and I’ll never forget what she taught us.

As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her note card on the floor. A little embarrassed she simply said, “I’m sorry. This whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.” As we laughed, she cleared her throat and began: “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing; There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You have got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anyone can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.”

At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral(葬禮) to honor the wonderful woman.

1.While meeting Rose at the college for the first time, the author was curious about

    ________.

  A. her age          B. her dream      C. her life       D. her motivation

2.The underlined sentence “She was living it up” in the text most probably means

   ________.

  A. she did as well as she was expected

B. she spent much money in her college life

  C. she did things that she enjoyed

D. she deserved(應(yīng)得) praise due to her study

3.In Rose’s opinion, one can learn to grow up by __________.

  A. getting new ideas

B. regretting his mistakes

  C. gaining new knowledge every day

D. finding chances to do productive things

4.What else did Rose most probably say at the football banquet?

  A. “It seems my young days are over.”  

 B. “The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”

 C. “When we are old, we can’t do anything. So enjoy in time!”

 D. “Have a good time and don’t do much in order to stay young.”

5.The story of Rose in the text shows that __________.

 A. it is never too late to learn in your life.

 B. it is good for old people to have friendship.

 C. it is never too late to be all you can possibly be.

 D. it is very important to have a healthy body when people are old.

根據(jù)句意提示寫出單詞，完成句子。

1.The street near my house is quite _________ (寂靜的) at night.

2.Do you think English ________ (語法) very difficult?

3.Kitty will go _______ (在國外) as an exchange student.

4.Last summer holiday, my teacher _________ (介紹) Joy to me, and now we are close friends.

5.They are happy to get some help from some local _____________ (企業(yè)).  

6.My hat is ______ (hang) behind the door. Can’t you see?

7.There were twenty people in the room, _________ (include) the teacher.

8.It was a delightful holiday and a ___________ (mean) experience.

9.--- Who is the _______ (produce) of the new computer?

--- My father’s company made it.

10.If you connect the printer to the computer ________ (incorrect), it will refuse (拒絕) to work.  

It was Mother’s Day, but the young mother was a little unhappy, because she was 800 miles away from her parents. In the morning she phoned her mother to wish her a happy Mother’s Day, and her mother told her about the beautiful lilacs(丁香花)in the garden.

Later that day, when she told her husband about the lilacs, he said, “I know where we can find all that you want. Get the children and come on.” So they went, driving down the country roads. There on a small hill, they saw a lot of beautiful purple lilacs. The young woman ran quickly to enjoy the flowers. Carefully, she picked a few here and there. On their way home there was a smile on her face.

When they were passing an old people’s home, the young woman saw an old granny sitting in a chair. They stopped the ear and the young woman walked to the old woman, put the flowers in her hands, and smiled at her. The old granny thanked her again and again. She smiled happily, too.

When the young mother came back to her car, her children asked her, “Who is the old granny? Why did you give our flowers to her?  I don’t know her,” their mother said. “But it’s Mother’s Day, and she has no children. I have all of you, and I still have my mother. Just think how much those flowers meant to her.”

1.The young woman was a little unhappy on Mother’s Day because________.

A. she didn’t have a present

B. she was far away from her mother

C. she didn’t know it was Mother’s Day

D. she wanted to see her father

2.Which of the following pictures do you think matches well with Paragraph 2?

A.                 B.                   C.                  D.

3.The young woman gave the flowers to the old granny because _____________.

A. the old granny was her mother

B. she didn’t like those flowers

C. her mother asked her to do so

D. she wanted the old granny to be happy too

4.The following words can be used to describe the young woman except __________.

A. kind       B. understanding       C. friendly      D. surprised

Adults usually do not remember most of the things that are taught by their teachers at school. But this story is one such    16     that I will never forget. Every time I drift off course, I think of this story.

    It was a normal Monday morning, and my teacher was teaching us on  17  things in life and about devoting ourselves to 18   is important to us. This is how the story went:

    An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the sub-way. He would    19    the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and   20  . He would do this every single day of his life. He sat at  21   street corner and begged for almost 20 years.

    His  22    was dirty, and a stench came out and it smelled terrible. The neighbors could not stand the smell any more, so they called for the police officers to clear the place. The officers knocked down the door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of  23   all over the house  24   he had collected over the years.

    The police counted the money, and they soon   25  that the old man was a millionaire. They waited outside his house expecting to ___26__ the good news with him. When the old man arrived home that evening, one of the officers told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was a   27    man now, a millionaire.

    But the old man said  28   ; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up  29 , went to the subway, sat at the street corner and continued to beg.

    Clearly, this old man had no great plans,  30   or anything significant for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than staying focused on the things we enjoy doing.

1.A. class             B. teacher        C. lesson        D. study

2.A. interesting         B. special         C. important     D. necessary

3.A. what              B. that           C. how          D. where

4.A. get up             B. get onto        C. get from       D. get to

5.A. sing              B. sleep          C. think         D. beg

6.A. a different         B. another        C. the same      D. a strange

7.A. house             B. coat          C. cap          D. bag

8.A. food              B. money        C. books         D. clothes

9.A. that               B. where         C. whose         D. who

10.A. recognized        B. said           C. realized        D. thought

11.A. tell               B. share          C. cover          D. discuss

12.A. rich              B. poor           C nice            D. bad

13.A. thanks            B. something       C. nothing        D. much

14.A. much later         B. much earlier     C. so quickly      D. as usual

15.A. friends            B. jobs            C. chances        D. dreams

 “Who needs a shopping mall if you have Taobao?” says Wang Lin, 28, a writer in Beijing.

Taobao, China’s largest online shopping site (網(wǎng)上購物站), has become an important part of Wang Lin’s life. She spends lots of money on Taobao.

A growing number of Chinese Internet users like Wang have found the joys of online shopping. Most online shoppers are students or young people. More women shop online than men. Clothing and home-use products (產(chǎn)品) are the most popular online.

It was reported that more than 250 billion yuan was spent on online shopping last year, 80% through Taobao.

Taobao means “l(fā)ooking for treasure” in Chinese. People can find almost everything they need on Taobao, from clothes to books, from candies to DVD players.

You may question the security of online shopping, Wang Lin said, “It’s very safe and convenient. Unless you receive the products from the sellers and are satisfied with them, the shop owner will not get the money. You can also get your money back if you want to return the products.”

1.What are the most popular online?

   A. Candies and DVD players.

B. Treasure products

   C. Clothing and home-use products.

D. Clothes and books.

2.Taobao is_______________.

   A. a shopping mall

B. an online shopping site

   C. an online shopper

D. the China’s largest website

3.In the last paragraph, the underlined word “them” refers to (所指) “_____________”.

A. the shop owners      B. products     C. sellers      D. online shops

4.Which is the best title of the passage?

   A. Wang Lin’s life

B. Online shopping in China

   C. China’s online shoppers

D. Shopping online is not safe

One day Tom borrowed a pot（罐） from his neighbour, Ali. The next day he brought it back with another little pot inside.

“That’s not mine,” said Ali.

“Yes, it is.” said Tom, “While your pot was staying with me, it had a baby.”

Some time later, Tom asked Ali to lend him a pot again. Ali said yes, hoping that he would once again get two pots in return. However, days passed and Tom still did not give the pot back. Finally Ali was angry and went to ask for it.

“I am sorry,” said Tom, “I can’t give it back to you because it died.”

“Died!” cried Ali, “How can a pot die?”

“Well,” said Tom, “you believed me when I told you that your pot had a baby.”

1.Who was the owner of the pot?

A. Tom.        B. Tom and Ali.            C. The baby.                 D. Ali.

2.How many times did Tom borrow the pot?

A. Once.       B. Twice.              C. Three time.             D. Some times.

3.Why was the neighbor happy to lend his pot a second time?

A. Because he wanted to get more.            B. Because he was a good neighbour.

C. Because he had lots of pots.                 D. Because he likes to help others.

4. What maybe happened to the pot at last?

A. It died.                                                        B. The neighbour took it back.

C. It was lost.   .                                        D. Somebody else bought it from Tom.

閱讀理解

Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The programme works because everyone’s eyes are different. So in the future you won’t have to remember a number when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank. You’ll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are. The eye-recognition(眼睛識別) programme is tested in shops and banks in the USA, Britain and Italy.

Scientists are working on other systems, such as knowing you from the shape of your face or hand or even your smell! And machines can already tell who you are from your voice or your fingerprint(指紋). But eye-recognition will replace other ways of finding out who you are. It is better, because your eyes don’t change as you get older, or get dirty like hands or fingers. And even twins have different eyes, so the programme can be up to 94% correct, depending on how good the technology is. In Britain, it was found that 91% of people said that they liked the idea of eye-recognition.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇正確答案。

1.Where has the programme for remembering eyes been tested?

2. How does the eye-recognition programme work?

3. Which recognition technology is already in use?

4.What problems could there be with the eye-recognition programme?

5.What is the advantage of the eye-recognition programme?