A survey shows that the number of fires in government buildings each year is small compared to home fires. This is probably because such buildings are taken good care of and managed. However, at home after work fire safety is your own duty.

For most of us who live in high-rise buildings, the safety of you and your family depends on how much you know to do with an emergency(紧急情况). When a fire happens, there is usually little time to decide what to do or how to act. The best thing is to make your emergency plan as soon as possible.

Sit down with the family and prepare a careful escape project. Do remember that every fire is unpredictable. Fire and smoke can move very quickly and the situations in any part of the building may change very quickly. Smoke is usually more dangerous than fire. It can spread throughout the building and enter your house when the fire is many floors away.

Some information says it is best to leave your house immediately when there is a fire. Others say it is safer to stay there. Which is correct?

Usually the best thing to do is to leave the building as soon as possible. However, do not try to leave your house a long time after the fire alarm has sounded. There is a higher chance that heavy smoke has already spread into stairways and hallways.

Never travel through smoke. You must stay inside your house and place wet towels at the bottom of the door to stop smoke from entering. Call the Fire Services Department by dialing “119”, tell them where you are and then move to the most smoke-free room. Open the window there to let in fresh air if possible. Hang a sheet from the window to show fire fighters where you are.

1.In the writer’s opinion, an emergency plan for a fire should be made early ______.

A. so that the fire can be put out in time

B. because we might lose our way in a fire

C. because we may have little time to call 119

D. so that we can keep ourselves safe from a fire

2.The underlined word “unpredictable” in Paragraph 3 is close to ______ in meaning.

A. unexpected        B. unlikely

C. unacceptable      D. unchanged

3.If it is a long time since the fire alarm sounded, the proper thing to do is ______.

A. to try to put out the fire

B. to stay inside the house

C. to leave the house at once

D. to sit down with the family

4.The writer wrote this passage in order to ______.

A. tell people some information about fires

B. teach people some skills of preventing fires

C. give people some advice on escaping from fires

D. show people some causes of fires in tall buildings

Many of you have heard a Cinderella story, but what you may not know is that there are over a hundred different ways to tell the Cinderella story. Each of these stories is written by a different author. The story of Cinderella has many different versions.

The version that most people know is the oldest one written in 1697 by Charles Perrault from France. This is the version where the birds help make Cinderella’s dress and the mice turn into carriage men and help Cinderella go to the ball in the pumpkin that turns into a carriage. In this version, many of the animals are Cinderella’s friends. They help her meet the Prince, who Cinderella marries, and together they live happily ever after.

In another version of this story, written in the 1850s by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from Germany, there are birds that help Cinderella throughout the story. Cinderella’s mother is not living at the beginning of the story. She visits her mother’s grave three times a day to say a prayer for her.

Cinderella’s father has given her a brunch when he goes to the festival. She plants the brunch and her tears water the brunch until it grows into a tall tree.

The birds now live in the tree and they give Cinderella a dress of gold and silver and slippers of the same colours. Cinderella goes to the festival to meet and dance with the Prince. Later, Cinderella marries the Prince and they have a nice life ever after.

Have you read other versions of the Cinderella story? More than one author can tell a story in a different way from their viewpoints(观点). That is why there are many versions of the same story.

1.The first version of the Cinderella story was written by ______.

A. Jacob Grimm          B. Charles Perrault

C. Wilhelm Grimm         D. Christian Andersen

2.The common part in the two versions of Cinderella mentioned in this passage is that ______.

A. both Cinderella and the Prince enjoy their marriage life

B. birds and mice help Cinderella meet the Prince at the ball

C. Cinderella wears a gold dress and silver shoes at the festival

D. Cinderella plants a small brunch and waters it with her tears

3.According to the passage, there can be many versions of the same story because ______.

A. there’re many authors who create stories

B. there’re many different kinds of old stories

C. there’re different ideas from different authors

D. there’re different stories by more than one author

完形填空

阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

School was out. The bell had rung and the        went out of every doorway – some to go running wildly towards their homes         their lives depended upon it, some to line up to catch buses under the watchful         of their teacher, and many more to walk off in groups or pairs in any one of several    .

Deborah was with her best friend, Pat. They were in a hurry       today they did not run, only walked quickly, hardly       at all, straight to Pat’s place. At the weekend one of Pat’s guinea-pigs had had four          , and Deborah was to see them for the first time.

Half a kilometre     school, they arrived. Opening the gate, running now, they     their school bags onto the grass and flew around the back.

Firstly, the dog had to be locked away. Then,         the attraction of grass failed to make the babies appear, the cover of the darkened nest had to be opened.        , Deborah held one of the tiny animals right in her hands.

She was awfully         . The darling little thing! She sat down on the grass, holding it gently, taking care not to hurt it in        way. It was perfect, so exactly like its mother, with its soft fur and little nose. It sat up in her hands and rubbed two tiny paws over its nose as if         had just been taught.

“You          only hold it for a minute,” Pat said importantly. “For a few minutes, anyway. Otherwise its mother might go off it.”

1.A. teachers    B. children     C. parents D. policemen

2.A. ever since B. so that     C. as if   D. even if

3.A. eye          B. ear          C. mouth   D. nose

4.A. directions   B. shapes       C. areas    D. corners

5.A. for          B. so           C. but       D. or

6.A. worrying     B. speaking     C. thinking  D. listening

7.A. dogs         B. friends      C. pigs      D. babies

8.A. at           B. to          C. from     D. in

9.A. carried      B. kept         C. pulled    D. threw

10.A. while       B. until       C. before   D. when

11.A. Actually   B. Finally      C. Luckily D. Hopefully

12.A. pleased     B. nervous     C. serious  D. sorry

13.A. the         B. a            C. any      D. every

14.A. he          B. it           C. she      D. they

15.A. must       B. should      C. can       D. Would

书面表达

每个同学都有自己喜欢的学科和学习方法，请以“My Ways of Learning English”为题，为《English Learner》写一篇征文，介绍你的学习方法。

要点如下：

1.你最喜欢什么学科；

2.就你喜欢的这门学科，谈谈你的学习方法（至少列举3条）；

3.在学习过程中遇到问题时你是怎样解决的。

要求：1.征文不少于80词；

2.文中不得出现真实的学校和姓名；

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翻译句子

1.天太黑，什么也看不见。(too…to…)

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2.寿光以蔬菜而著名。(be famous for…)

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3.王老师经常鼓励我们学英语。(be encouraged to…)

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4.到现在为止，我们在英语学习上取得了巨大的进步。(make great progress …)

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词汇应用

Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, you can improve it if you are patient. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to take action.

You must first go where there are people. You 1.    (not make) friends if you stay at home alone. Joining a club or a group, talking to those who like the same things as you do is much2.      (easy). Or join someone in some activities. Many people are nervous when3.      (talk) to new people. After all, meeting4.      (strange) means seeing the unknown people. And it's human nature to feel a bit 5.    (pleasant) about the unknown. Most of fears about dealing with new people come from doubts (怀疑) about ourselves. We imagine other people are judging us—finding us too tall or too short, too this or too that. But don't forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try  6.    (accept) yourself as you are, and make others 7.       (feel) at home. You'll all feel more comfortable. Be brave even if you don't feel that way when you go to a new place. Walk tall and straight, look  _8.    __(direct) at other people and smile. If you see someone you'd like9.      (speak) to, say something. Don't wait for the other person to start a conversation.  Just 10.    (meet) someone new does not mean that you'll make friends with that person. Friendship is based on mutual (相互的) likings and "give and take". It takes time and effort (精力)for us 11.       (develop) friendship. And there are things that 12.      (stop) a new friendship from growing.

阅读表达

The undersea world is very beautiful. Now more and more people want to dive in the water to find the secrets there. Scuba diving is a new sport today. It can take you into a wonderful undersea world.

You will find many strange animals in the sea. Some are as large as a school bus. Many sea animals give out light in the dark and some have sharp teeth. (3)During the day, there is enough light. Here, under the sea, everything is blue and green. When fish swim nearby, you can catch them with your hands. (4)When you have bottles of air on your back, you can stay in deep water for a long time.

However, you can’t dive too deep. And you must be very careful when you dive in deep water. The deep sea is not an easy place to live in. It’s cold, and it’s dark, too. The deeper it is, the less sunlight there is. At about 3,000 feet, there is no light at all. It is dark in the sea. Many fishes have no eyes. Some have big eyes. A few have eyes on one side.

Besides the cold and darkness, deep-sea animals face a third danger--other animals. Animals eat! They must find food to eat. Many animals eat plants. However, some Animals eat meat. This means these sea animals have animals have two big jobs. They need to find animals as food, and they have to try not to become other animals‘ meal.

1.Why do people want to dive in the sea?   ____________________________________________________________________.

2.How many dangers will animals meet in the deep sea? ____________________________________________________________________.

3.将(3)处画线的句子译成汉语。  ____________________________________________________________________.

4.将(4)处画线的句子译成汉语.  ____________________________________________________________________.

5.请给短文拟一个适当的标题   ____________________________________________________________________.

I started my school life at the age of six. At first the school for me, a boy, meant play, play and more play instead of sitting in the classroom and learning something. __1..I tried my best to do well in my schoolwork and follow the rules.  ____2.__. Every year we had different kinds of school trips. Not only could we learn many things from them, but also we were given many projects or tasks as homework. It helped us know more. At the same time, we made many good friends. ___3.. The next year, when I was in grade 9, I realized that I should give all my attention to my studies because I was going to take the exams to get into senior middle school.  Whenever I think of my school life, I feel very happy and I think in everybody‟s school life there are many ups and downs that influence his life. School is a place where all of us learn to care and share. “School” is not just a place, but a large building made up of the rules, knowledge and love. ___4.. I can describe my school in “Three S”. They are: Small, Sweet and Simple. My school was the best, is the best and will always be the best.

A. In Grade 8. I won prizes in drawing and English speech competitions.

B. I think in everybody’s success, school plays a key role.

C. Among all the subjects, I like drawing best.

D. However, I changed the way I used to behave at the school with the help of my teachers.

E. Growing and learning were great fun.

For most people, the word “fashion” means “clothes”. But people may ask the question, “What clothes are in fashion?” And they use the adjective “fashionable” in the same way: “She was wearing a fashionable coat. His shirt was really a fashionable colour.” But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs…and in languages.

Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.

Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspaper, radios, telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours. New fashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion.

1.From this passage we know that “fashion” means ______.

A. clothes                     B. many things

C. most of the popular things   D. everything

2.Which of the following things is fashionable today?

A. Surfing on the Internet.

B. Having a family dinner on New Year’s Day.

C. Learning to sing songs on the radio.

D. Doing morning exercises at school.

3.Today fashions change very quickly because _______.

A. people read newspaper every day

B. radios send information from one country to another

C. new things that people like are often shown on TV

D. people quickly learn what is happening in the world

4.“There is money in fashion” means ______.

A. clothes are expensive            B. money comes from fashion

C. people like new things           D. fashions make big money

As a child, I was really afraid of the dark and of getting lost. These fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments. Maybe it was the strange way things looked and sounded in my own room at night that scared me so much. There was never complete darkness, but always a streetlight or passing car lights, which made clothes on the back of a chair take on the shape of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the curtains(窗帘) seem to move when there was no wind. A very low sound in the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the day. My imagination (想象) would run wild, and my heart would beat fast. I would lie very still so that the "enemy(敌人) " would not discover me.

Another of my childhood fears was that I would get lost, especially on the way home from school. Every morning I got on the school bus right near my home. That was no problem. After school, though, when all the buses were lined up along the street, I was afraid that I would get in the wrong one and be taken to some other strange places. On school or family trips to a park or a museum, I wouldn't let the leaders out of my sight.

Perhaps one of the worst fears of all I had as a child was that of not being liked or accepted by others. Being popular was so important to me then, and the fear of not being liked was a serious one. One of the processes(过程) growing up is being able to realize and overcome our fears. Understanding the things that scared us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life.

1.The author had _________kind(s) of fears when she was a child.

A. one           B. two         C. three          D. none

2._________ would scare the author at night.

A. Streetlight and car lights

B. Wild animals and enemies

C. Moving curtains and wind

D. Strange sights and sounds

3.When she went to some other places, she would _________.

A. walk away without others

B. take a bus by herself

C. follow others closely

D. make sure not to take a wrong bus

4.Which of the following would be possibly true when she was a child?

A. She was usually popular among people.

B. She was always the leader of the others.

C. She always' got poor grades.

D. She was not at all liked by others.