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Ⅰ. 单项选择1、He promised to help us and he his word.A．sticks to B．stuck to C．sticking to2、Mike likes playing ____ golf while I like playing _____ piano .A．the, the B．a , a C．/ , the D．the , /3、- Is the price of the backpack very high? - No, it ______ only twenty yuan.A．spent B．took C．cost D．paid4、--He seems _____ ill. Shall we take him to the hospital right now?--I don’t think it matters. Maybe he’s caught a bit of a cold.A．terrible B．terribly C．even D．to be terrible5、—It's not difficult for five workers to push the broken van away.— Yes, __________.A．Many hands make light workB．When the cat's away, the mice will playC．Every dog has its dayD．Don't put all your eggs in one basket6、I can’t find my notebook anywhere. I’m afraid I ______it.A．lose B．lost C．have lost D．was losing7、—Shall I give you a ride as you look so tired?—Thank you. ________.A．It’s your duty.B．Don’t mention it C．Do as you like D．It couldn’t be better.8、He told me that he ________ here for five minutes.A．has come B．had arrived C．had been D．came9、I can’t agree with you ________ you are wrong.A．if B．unless C．or D．though10、—do you go to the cinema?— Once a week.A．How often B．How soon C．How longⅡ. 完形填空Every day Jeff puts on an artificial(假肢). The leg is plastic. With the plastic leg, Jeff can ski, ride a bicycle, swim, and play soccer. He can also run. Jeff made a plan with his friends who had plastic legs, 2 . They decided to 3 across America. They all wore special T-shirts. He ran across the United States from the east to the west 4 he was twenty-two years old. He started running in Boston. Seven 5 later, he stopped running in Los Angeles. He ran 3,200 miles. Jeff wore out thirty-six pairs 6 running shoes and five plastic legs. Jeff 7 in cities on the way to Los Angeles. In every city people gave him money. The money was not for Jeff, 8 for the American Cancer Society. The Society used the money to help people know more about cancer.On the way to Los Angeles, Jeff talked to people about 9 . Jeff is disabled, but he can do many things. He finished college and is studying to be a lawyer. Jeff says, “People can do10 they wan to do. I want people to know that. I ran not only for disabled people. I ran for everybody.1．A．take B．cut C．put D．set2．A．also B．too C．either D．neither3．A．walk B．fly C．swim D．run4．A．while B．because C．when D．if5．A．months B．days C．hours D．minutes6．A．at B．for C．in D．of7．A．reached B．studied C．stopped D．started8．A．and B．but C．or D．so9．A．cancer B．walk C．society D．America10．A．any B．thing C．nothing D．anythingⅢ. 语法填空12、This is Tammela School, a primary school in Finland. The students are having a math class with their robot teacher.The “teacher” is1．small, blue machine about 25cm high, Reuters reported.Whenever students have problems, it helps them very2．(patient) and never gets bored.“The robot can make students3．(active) in class than usual. I see Eliasas one of the 4．(tool) to get different kinds of practice and activities into the classr oom,” a teacher told Reuters.dance to music." 6．is necessary to encourage kids to come up7．new ways to make use of technology in school life," the head of the school 8．(add) in the interview.The robot teachers are used9．(help) improve learning. This doesn't mean that human teachers will lose their jobs. The robots can teach well,10．they are not able to keep class in order. The school still needs human teachers.Ⅳ. 阅读理解A13、On the first day of school, our professor introduced himself and let us get to know someone we didn’t know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. “Hi, girl! My name is Rose, I’m 87 years old.”“Why are you in college at such a young age?” I asked jokingly.“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she replied.Rose became a college symbol this year and she easily made friends with other students.At the end of t he term we invited her to speak at our football party. I’ll never forget what she taught us.“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only two secrets of staying young, being happy and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've 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 big 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 anything, you will turn 20 years older. If I am 87 years old, and stay in bed for a year, and never do anything, will turn 88. Anybody can grow older. But every minute counts for young men,” she added.She ended her speech by singing The Song Rose. She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.At the end of the year, Rose finished the college education. One week after graduation, Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.Remember GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY(必选的), GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL（可选择的）.1．Rose went to college because she ___________.A．wanted to live longerB．loved to stay with the youngC．wanted to realize her dreamD．planned to enjoy her life there2．Rose was ____________ during her stay in college.A．outgoing and popular B．brave and hard-working3．Which of the following is included in Rose’s speech?A．People won’t grow old if they stop playing.B．The more you laugh , the younger you will be.C．People easily become old if they do more things.D．Time is especially important to young people.4．Which of the following can best describe the story?A．Live with your dream.B．Find secrets of staying young.C．Learn wherever you are.D．Be happy every day.B14、Do you know why different animals or pests have their special colors? Colors in them seem to be mainly used to protect themselves.Some birds like eating locusts (蝗虫), but birds cannot easily catch them. Why? It is because locusts change their colors with the change of the colors of crops. When crops are green, locusts look green. But as the harvest time comes, locusts change into the same brown color as crops have. Some other pests whose colors are different form plants are easily found and eaten by others. So they have to hide themselves for lives and appear only at night.If you study the animals’ life, you’ll find the main use of colors is to protect themselves. Bears, lions and other animals m ove quietly through forests. They cannot be easily seen by hunters because their colors are much like the trees.Colors are useful not only on the land, but also in the sea. A kind of fish in the sea can give out a kind of black liquid (液体) when the fish face danger. The liquid spreads over quickly, so they cannot be found by their enemies and can quickly swim away. That is why they live safely though they are not strong at all.1．From the passage, we can know that ________.A．locusts are big animalsB．Locusts are easily found by birdsC．Locusts are dangerous to their enemiesD．Locusts can change their colors to protect themselves2．Those pests with different colors from plants have to ________ to keep out of danger.A．change their colorsB．hide in the day time and appear at nightC．move quietlyD．hide at night and appear in the day time3．Bears and lions can keep safe because _______.A．their colors are much like the treesB．they move quicklyC．they are very strongD．they live in forests4．According to the passage, the fish can keep safe because ________.A．they can change their colorsB．they can give out a kind of liquidC．they are strong enoughD．they swim faster than any other fish5．Which is the best title for this passage?A．The colors of the seasonsB．Animals on the land and in the seaC．The main use of colors for animals and pestsD．How to keep safe in the seaC15、Kirsten:Have you read the book, The Travel? I just finished it yesterday.Renee: No, but I’ve wanted to. Is it good?Kirsten: It is! But it’s quite grim.Renee: How so?Kirsten: In the story, a mother and her son were on a trip when they were caught by a group of crazy people. They were kept in a small dark room and treated terribly. It really broke my heart to read that the mother chose to stay and fight with the bad guys. She was almost killed when trying to help her son run away.Renee: So it’s this g rim from the first page to the end?Kirsten:Yes, but there’s still a bright side in it. You get to see how strong parents can be when they want to keep their chi ldren from being hurt.Renee: I see. I’m surely going to borrow it from the library.Kirsten: Then you must hurry. When I borrowed it last Friday, they told me that many people were waiting to read it! 1．What happened in The Travel?A．A mother did her best to save her child.B．A mother took a trip to look for her son.C．A mother was treated terribly by her family.D．A mother was killed by a group of crazy people.2．What do we know from the conversation?A．Kirsten will lend Renee The Travel.B．The Travel is a popular library book.C．Kirsten did not enjoy reading The Travel.D．Renee has not heard of The Travel before.3．Why does Kirsten think the book is grim?A．Because it happens on a dark night.B．Because it makes the readers feel sad.C．Because there are many difficult words in it.D．Because readers have different ideas about it.D16、Our voice gives away a lot of information about ourselves. It can tell us our gender(性别)and age. And now, scientists say that it can also tell us our height.Scientists at Washington University, Indiana University and University of California found that listeners could accurately tell the height of speakers, just by their voices. And the key to this mystery is a sound known as the subglottal resonance（声门下共振）. Itdeepenswith height and helps us build a mental picture of a person.“The best way to think about subglottal reso nances is to imagine blowing into a glass bottle with water. The less water in the bottle, the lower sound,” said John Morton, a scientist at Washington University. And it’s the same for humans. The frequency of the subglottal resonance depends on the height. The taller we are, the deeper the resonance frequency is.In order to find out whether people could identify the resonance, scientists did experiments. A number of same-sex pairs of different heights were told to read the same sentence aloud. It was played back to listeners who had to choose which one of the pairs was taller. Then, other listeners had to rank the speakers from the shortest to the tallest. The listeners were able to identify the tall people 62.1% of time, much higher than a lucky guess.Why not try the experiment yourself? Find out if your tall friends have deeper voices.1．The scientists in some American universities found that people’s voices ________.A．change more quickly as they get olderB．can tell the height of the speakerC．sound different when they have water in their mouthD．can tell the speaker’s gender, age and weight2．The underlined word deepensmight mean ________ in Chinese.A．变得刺耳B．变得高亢C．变得低沉D．变得甜美3．According to the study, taller people usually have a ________ voice.A．deeper B．louder C．lower D．higher4．Which of the following is TRUE?A．Our voice is made up of the subglottal resonance.B．The people tested in the experiments were of different-sex pairs.C．A person’s voice is greatly diff erent even when reading the same sentence.D．Listeners’ ability to identify taller speaker is much higher than a lucky guess.5．The best title of the passage might be ________.A．How to Be TallerB．Our V oice Tells Our HeightC．An Experience about V oiceD．Something about Subglottal ResonanceE17、Butterflies are common all over the world but the ones in hot countries are usually biggerand more brightly colored than those in cooler countries, and there are more different kinds. Usually the male butterfly is more brightly colored than the female. The females have bigger and heavier bodies, since they carry the eggs. The gay colors of the male help to attract the female and the duller colors of the female make them less likely to be caught by enemies before they have laid their eggs.Some butterflies have a bright pattern of colors on the upper surface of their wings which show when they fly, but when they rest on a tree or leaf, they close their wings. On the undersides of their wings there are green and brown markings which look like the tree or leaves. They are then difficult to see. The best example of this is the Dead Leaf Butterfly. Even its wings are closed, it looks exactly like a dead leaf. There are even marks that look like the holes in a dead leaf. When a bird is chasing a butterfly, and it closes its wings, it seems to have disappeared completely.Many butterflies have round marks on their wings that look like eyes. When they areresting, and their wings are folded, these can’t be seen. When a bird sees one, and begins to attack it, the butterfly opens its wings. The bird thinks that it sees two eyes staring at it, and, frightened, it flies away.1．Which of the following is likely to be the most brightly colored?A．A female in a hot country. B．Male in a cool country.C．A male in a hot country. D．A dead leaf butterfly with wings closed.2．What does the underlined word “chasing”in the 2nd paragraph mean?A．running after. B．looking after. C．leave for. D．stay with.3．What is one of the reasons that female butterflies are safer from enemies than male butterflies?A．Because they are bigger.B．Because they are heavier.C．Because they have colors that are not so bright.D．Because they have marks that look like eyes.4．Which of the following is true according to the passage?A．The color of a male butterfly is always brighter than the female’s.B．The Dead Leaf Butterfly has holes in its wings.C．A lot of butterflies seem to have eyes on their wings.D．In order to catch a butterfly, the bird always closes its wings.F18、You put a blue lobster (龙虾) in boiling water, and a few minutes later, you take out a red lobster. Have you ever wondered why the lobster changes its color when it is cooked?Scientists at Manchester University’s school of chemis try in the UK have an answer. They found that a chemical in the shell called astaxanthin (虾青素) causes the lobster’s color to change.This chemical is red and is in the shells of both raw and cooked lobsters. But in raw lobsters, the redness of the astaxanthin is covered by the dark blue color of another chemical in the shell, crustacyanin (虾青蛋白).The darker color helps lobsters avoid enemies in the wild. And it is likely to have evolved (进化) by natural selection.However, when heated, the structure of crustacyanin changes. This makes the red color of astaxanthin stand out.This is similar to the changing colors of tree leaves in autumn. Leaves always contain the pigments that make them red, orange and yellow. But for most of the year, those pigments are covered by the bright green color of chlorophyll (叶绿素). In autumn, when the temperature cools and the sun’s light becomes weak, chlorophyll fades to make these warm-colored pigments visible (看得见的).“It is a scientific curiosity (神奇), but it may also have import ant uses in the real world,” said John Helliwell, the lead scientist, to The Daily Telegraph. “It could help people know when food has been cooked properly.”1．Whose color is red?A．Crustacyanin.B．Astaxanthin.C．Chlorophyll.D．Pigment.2．Which of the following is TRUE?A．Raw lobsters have no crustacyanin.B．Crustacyanin only exists in the shell of dead lobsters.C．Crustacyanin is a dark blue chemical.D．Astaxanthin can protect lobsters from enemies.3．From Paragraph 6 we know that ______.A．pigment in leaves can protect trees from sunshineB．chlorophyll disappears because of high temperaturesC．pigments in leaves can be seen all year roundD．chlorophyll fades when sunlight becomes weaker4．What can we learn from the article?A．Scientific studies can help people live a better life.B．No one knows why lobsters change their colors.C．US scientists discovered the chemical astaxanthin.D．Some animals change their colors with the seasons.Ⅴ.书面表达19、下面是汶川地震中的一张照片。
