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As the Internet becomes more popular, many older media (媒体) businesses are dying out. But TV seems to be doing OK. In fact, it's doing better than OK. Though the Internet is popular in the world, television continues to draw more and more people all over the world to many of its programs. Hundreds of millions turn to TV to watch World Cup soccer，Olympic Games and Discoveries.

In many places, increasing numbers of people can watch more TV than before. Ten years ago, only 44% of British homes had satellite or cable TV(卫星或有线电视).Today, more than 93% do. More importantly, recent studies show that people are spending more time watching TV. Surprisingly, this is even true of young people between the ages of 8 and 18.Today's television industry has given so many choices. As a result, people can watch more of the things they like 24 hours a day.

The technology behind television has also improved. The big boxes that once filled living rooms are gone. Today's TV screens are thinner and thinner, yet the pictures are better and better. TVs are also moving from living rooms into kitchens and vehicles.

For years, TVs have also been used as video game players. But now they have been used in a few new ways. Many televisions can connect to the Internet and record programs. They also let people watch two programs at the same time. Today the most modern television has been on the way of development.

The Internet is the main challenge (挑战) for television now. But TV industry has shown that television will be important for years to come.

1. Studies show that people are spending more time watching TV than before. (   ) 判断正误（“T”表示正确，“F”表示错误）

2. Many televisions can _______________the Internet and record programs. 完成句子

3. Where are TVs moving from living rooms? 简略回答 _______________________

4. What is the main challenge for television？简略回答__________________________

5. 将文中画线句子译成汉语 ______________________________________________

I went to a volunteer orientation（志愿者活动情况介绍会） at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in California several days ago.

Before I went there, I thought it was just a meeting for us to learn some basic information on how to do volunteer work. To my surprise, this meeting lasted for four hours! It told us in detail how to be a good volunteer at hospital.

For example, Graham, the director, told us to keep eye contact while offering help and never wait to be asked but offer help first. She also told us to bend down（弯下腰） to listen while patients are talking to show that we’re willing to hear. We should lead them to ask others for help if we can’t answer their questions and never say: it is not my business.

For the whole meeting, Miss Graham taught us how to satisfy patients through our words, body language and manners. It impressed me a lot. Americans pay so much attention to serving people with a professional attitude（专业的态度）.

I suddenly realized why many people feel foreigners are really nice and friendly. They have been trained to do so since they were young. They always ask themselves: How do people feel toward my service? How can I improve to let them feel better? I really like this kind of culture.

1.According to the first two paragraphs, we learn the following about the volunteer orientation EXCEPT ____.

A. it was held in a hospital

B. it lasted for four hours

C. it told people how to be a good volunteer at hospital

D. it talked about the kinds of volunteer work there are

2.As a volunteer at hospital, you should ____.

A. always wait to be asked

B. bend down to listen when being asked

C. show them that you know everything

D. leave them alone if you can’t help

3.The last paragraph mainly talks about ____.

A. what the whole meeting was about

B. why the meeting was successful

C. cultural differences between China and the US

D. what the writer learned from the meeting

4. What does the writer think of such culture in the US?

A. She feels that it is great.

B. She doesn’t like it.

C. She feels that it is hard to understand.

D. She thinks only the US has this kind of culture.

London used to be “foggy”--- the “fog” was in fact smog, a mixture of smoke and fog. In other words, it was caused by air pollution. In London, some of this pollution came from factories, but a lot of it came from the coal that people burnt in their houses to keep warm during the winter. By the 1950s, London’s smog problem had become so bad that the government decided to do something to clean up the air. It didn’t allow people to born coal in any British city. A few years later, the air became much cleaner.

Today many Chinese cities face the same problem with air pollution that London faced sixty years ago. However, this problem is more difficult for Chinese cities to solve. One reason is that more of pollution comes from big factories, rather than from the coal burnt in people’s houses. If these factories were suddenly closed, it would harm the economy and lots of people would lose their jobs. Another reason is that changing from coal to cleaner fuels is quite expensive. However, the air in many cities will become cleaner, as the government and ordinary people pay more and more attention to protecting the environment.

1.Where was the pollution from in London over sixty years ago?

A. The pollution came from factories.

B. The pollution was from coal that people burnt in their houses.

C. The pollution was from too much traffic on the roads.

D. The pollution was from factories and coal that people burnt in their houses.

2.How was the air in London after the government didn’t allow people to born coal in any British city?

A. It was still foggy.   B. It was smog.

C. It was much cleaner.  D. It was stormy.

3.What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

A. In most of Chinese cities there is smog.

B. The reasons of smog in China.

C. The reasons of why it’s difficult for China to solve “smog”.

D. What did Chinese government do to solve “smog”.

4.Which of the following is not true EXCEPT ____.

A. people in London were allowed to born coal sixty years ago.

B. the air pollution in many Chinese cities is not serious.

C. smog in fact is a mixture of smoke and fog.

D. changing from coal to cleaner fuels is quite easy and cheap.

In Singapore, many middle school students spend a lot of their time on their studies. Good education is often regarded as a ticket to success in their future. So many of these students try their best to get a good mark in their examinations. They have a lot of homework every day and exams are a big headache. Sometimes some of them are even made to remedial(补习的) classes after school.

Schools run activities outside school hours. The students like to take part in sports and games, music and dance, hiking and rock-climbing, etc. They are also active in community service.

In their spare time, most students like to listen to pop music. Hollywood blockbusters(大片) ，Hong Kong and Singapore movies are very popular among them. They understand IT very well .Some of them also spend their free time surfing the Internet, emailing their friends, playing computer and video games.

They sometimes go to cafes, fast food restaurants, shopping centers and big bookstores.

So, it looks like life as a middle school student in Singapore is not easy but it is rich and colorful.

1.What is not mentioned in the passage?

A. School work.

B. After-class activities.

C. Subjects.

D. Things to do in the spare time.

2.Why do students work hard at school in Singapore?

A. Because they have a lot of homework to do every day.

B. Because they have to go to remedial classes.

C. Because they want to have a good future.

D. Because they have many outside school activities.

3.What does the underline sentence mean in the first paragraph?

A. Students are afraid of the exams.

B. Students have a headache before an exam.

C. Students have too many exams.

D. Students are in poor health because of exams.

4.What is the best title of this passage?

A. Middle school students in Singapore.

B. Hard life for students in Singapore.

C. Remedial classes in Singapore. 

D. Colorful Life of Middle School Students in Singapore.

1.What is the most probably reason the sweater is the girl’s favorite?

A. The girl’s grandma made it.

B. The girl got it at the age of three.

C. The yarn is the color of bluebells.

D. The cat uses it for the kittens.

2. The word “kitten” in this poem most probably means ____.

A. a kind of food       B. a baby cat

C. a kind of drink        D. a bed for a baby

3. Why has the girl given the sweater away?

A. The girl wants her grandma to make a new sweater.

B. The girl will no longer like the sweater.

C. The girl likes her new jacket better than the sweater.

D. The girl is too big for the sweater

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Charlie came from a poor village. His parents had   money to send him to school when he was young. The boy was very sad. Mr. King lived next to him. He found the boy    and had pity on him and lent some money to him. So the boy could go to school. He studied hard and     all his lessons. When he finished middle school, the man introduced him to his friend in the town. And he began to work.

    Once Mr. King was seriously hurt in an accident. Dying，he asked Charlie to take care of his daughter，Sharon. The young man    and several years later he married the girl. He loved her very much and tried his best to make her happy. He often bought beautiful clothes and delicious food for her. He was good at cooking and he cooked     for her. So she became very fat and she felt it difficult to walk. And one day she found there was something wrong with her heart. Her husband wasn’t at home and she had to go to     at once. The doctors looked her over and told her    eat meat, sugar，chocolate and things like these. She was afraid    the doctor’s words and wrote all the names of the food on the paper. When she got home，she put the list on the table and     . When she returned home that afternoon, she found many kinds of food：meat，sugar and chocolate in the kitchen. Charlie was busy    there. As soon as he saw her，he said happily，“I’ve bought all the food you like, dear！”

1.A. no             B. some         C. much          D. enough

2.A. lazy           B. naughty        C. careful        D. diligent

3.A. did well in    B. was poor at    C. was working    D. was good for

4.A. was angry      B. thought hard    C. agreed         D. said “No.”

5.A. a little      B. a few         C. many          D. a lot

6.A. rest           B. sleep           C. hospital      D. work

7.A. should        B. would           C. to             D. not to

8.A. to remember    B. to forget       C. to catch      D. to teach

9.A. slept          B. went out       C. cooked      D. ate

10. A. reading      B. seeing          C. cooking       D. writing

写作

某英语报开展“How to Deal with the Exam Stress”征文比赛，请你根据表格中提示的内容，简要描述并适当发表自己的观点，写一篇英语短文。

注意事项：

1. 词数90词左右（给出的提示词不计）；

2. 文章中不能出现真实姓名校名等信息；

3. 文章中必须包含主要信息，并作适当发挥；

4.  请写出自己的看法，至少二点。

How to Deal with the Exam Stress

Everyone may have the exam stress. A little bit of stress can be a good thing to us.

根据中文意思，翻译下列句子。

1.我爸爸和妈妈周末都不上班。

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2.我无法想象没有颜色世界将会是什么样子。

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3.他自从很小的时候就对绘画很痴迷。

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4.他宁愿把忧虑埋在心里而不愿与他人分担。

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5.使我们感到惊奇的是，这位新作家的书值得一读。

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短文填空 根据短文内容及首字母提示，补全空格内单词，使短文完整、通顺。

In one way of thinking, failure is part of life. In a1.way, failure may be a way towards success. Edison, the i 2.of the light bulb（灯泡）, made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one. Once he was asked w3.he kept on trying to make a new type of battery when he had failed so often, he smiled and said, “Failure? I have no failure. Now I know 50,000 ways that won't w4..

So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it？Were conditions right? Were you in top from yourself? What can you change? Then you can decide w5.to keep on working hard or try it in a better way, and things will probably not go wrong n6.time.

Second, is the goal you're trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goals may be. Think c7. about this question. “If I am able to achieve my goal, where will it get me?" This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn't be doing anyway.

The t8.thing to keep in mind about failure is that it's mother of success. Don’t give up easily. Learn to “live with yourself" even t9.you may have failed. Maybe this will help you s10.in what you are doing in the end.

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I once believed that a friend is a friend all the way. Now I have changed my ideas about friendships.

1. Friends of convenience(便利). They can be the people who live next door or the mothers of our children’s closest friends. Friends of convenience are good indeed. They’ll help us when we need it. They’ll look after our cats when we go on holidays. But we don’t ever get too close or tell too much. Between us, we’ll talk about being overweight but not about being sad or disappointed(失望). However, people still find it necessary to make friends like this.

2. Special-interest friends. These friendships aren’t deeply personal or emotional(感情上的). They lie in some shared interests, so we may have an office friend, a tennis friend, or even a shopping friend.

3. Historical friends. We all have a friend who knew us when…maybe we were back in the second grade of primary school, when our family lived in that two-room flat downtown. He or she was the first, the only friend we told our secrets to.

The years have gone by, and we have gone different ways. But we’re still a personal part of each other’s past. We know how we looked before our teeth were straightened(矫正), and our getting together makes us think of an earlier part of ourselves, which is important and never lost.

4. Cross-generational friends. These are friendships that from across generations(代). I have in my own life a precious(珍贵的) friend, a woman of 65, who is clever, who listens well, and who means not only an ideal mother to me but also the person I’d like to be when I grow up.

Best friends, I believe, totally love and help each other.