There is ______ “W” and ______ “N” in the word “woman”.
A. a; an B. an; / C. a; the
书面表达
在成长的过程中，你会遇到很多烦恼和困难，肯定有很多人对你提供过帮助，请以“Thank you， my__________”为题，对帮助过你的某个人表示感谢。
写作提示：1、他/她是什么样的人；
2、他/她做过什么让你最感激的事；
3、你想怎样表达你的感激之情；
要求：1.语言通顺，意思连贯，条理清楚，书写规范。
2.90词左右；不能出现真实姓名和学校名称，人名以Mike/Mary代替。
短文综合填空
阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在短文空白处填入一个恰当的词，使短文内容完整、通顺，将所填单词填写在答题卡上相应的题号后。
Language is always changing and developing. That isn’t a bad thing. If English hasn’t changed for a long time， we won’t have words to d 1. telephones， washing machines， computers or some other new things.
Language changes for s 2. reasons. First， it changes because the needs of its speakers change. New technologies， new products， and new experiences need new words to e 3. them clearly. A 4. reason for change is that different people have different language experiences. People use different sets of words and expressions b 5. they have different ages， jobs， education levels and so on.
How does language d 6. then? On the one hand， many of the language changes begin with young people. When young people communicate with others of their o 7. age， their language grows in grammar， words and expressions. Some have a short lifetime， but o 8. have a long life. On the other hand， we get new words in many different ways. We borrow them from other languages， we create them by m 9. words shorter or putting words together and we make them out of right names.
Language that don’t change over time are c 10. dead languages. The fact that English changes so much shows that it is a 11. and well.
完成句子
阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上相应的题号后。（注意：只写答案，试题的其他内容不得抄入答题卡）
1.—Teachers_______________________________ students’ future.(有很大的影响)(make)
—So they do.
2.—Mike_______________ a new job five days ago.(毫不费力地找到了新工作)(difficulty)
—How lucky he is!
3.—There are too many cars in our city， we should drive less for fresh air.
—You’re right， everyone___________.(人人都应该尽一份力保护环境)(part)
4.—I____________________.(发现和父母很好地相处很困难)(find)
—Why not communicate with them more?
5.—Many parents ___________________now.(不怕麻烦地为孩子提供所需要的一切)(way)
—So many children depend on their parents too much.
6.—How did Mary feel about the exciting news?
—She _______________________________.(如此的开心以至于止不住地发笑)(so)
7.—Before exams， students _______________________________by teachers.(老师们总是告诫学生尽量避免犯以前犯过的错误)(avoid)
—Oh， it’s hard to do that.
It is reported that in the near future robots and humans will probably work together to create jazz. A singing robot is being taught to create jazz with human being in a project.
Antonio Chella from Italy is working with a Telenoid robot. To start with， the Telenoid will be trained to imitate the movements and simple sounds made by a human singer， and then connect music with different human emotions.
Previous(以前的) robots had the ability to find common connections between things. But Chella suggests that a conscious(有意识的) robot should be able to go a step further and find new connections. The Telenoid is of this kind.
“This work raises interesting questions about the connection between consciousness and music creating.” says Philippe Pasquier， a musician needs a physical body.
Pasquer argues that the robot musician is faced with a big challenge. “Its software has already been developed and it can imitate The Beatles， a famous band. However， what made The Beatles famous were not only their songs but their wonderful performance of the songs，” he says.
It is not clear how a robot would perform music a new way. But by imitating humans， the Telenoid robot could provide some useful information. What is important is that human musicians often listen to and compare music made by others for a long time before creating music of their own. So the Telenoid robot had better listen to more jazz music first.
1.What’s the possible meaning of the underlined “imitate”?
A.制造 B.编曲 C.模仿 D.发出声响
2.What will the Telenoid robot be taught to do first?
A. Communicate with human beings
B. Connect music with human emotions
C. Live and work comfortably with human beings
D. Imitate the movements and simple sounds of a human singer
3.In Pasquier’s opinion， the Telenoid robot_________
A. will replace human musicians soon.
B. may have trouble performing music.
C. will become more popular than The Beatles.
D. can find connections between things that humans cannot find
4.Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?
A. The Telenoid， future robot musician.
B. How to teach robots to perform music.
C. The right music the robots should listen to.
D. Differences between a human singer and a robot musician.
5.In which part of a newspaper do we most probably read this passage?
A. Arts B. Entertainment
C. Medicine D. Science
So many of us expect everything we do to be successful. We look forward to success to show us our value or to be the top of the group wherever we are. How many times in our schooling did we hope for a high mark? We want it and then feel like a failure when we don’t achieve what we want. Even when we succeed we still pass that and go onto the next success and then the next. We are not often taught how to face failures.
For me， failure taught me more than success did. Success is of the moment and temporary(暂时的)but failure means we have ever done. It makes me stop and think. It opened my eyes and brain to different possibilities. Failure is just a choice in redoing not in giving up. Experiencing failure，I looked deeper and further.
I have a grandson who plays hockey(曲棍球) and as all players do，he went through a slump. So I saw he was unhappy with himself. Then I said to him， “Why don’t you think of it differently rather than being unhappy?” And I asked， “Scoring is your goal， right?” He answered，“Of course.” “Why aren’t you scoring now? Do you need a readjustment(重新调整)?”All of a sudden he calmed down--he was thinking of what I had just said. So in the next game I saw him trying different things to do better. Later he started scoring. Now when something is wrong， he takes the time to think it over rather than just keeping the “failure” mode(方式).
Look at failure differently. Failure is what gives us power to try a different way of doing things.
It teaches us to rethink， redo， and then success will come about. Don’t give up but learn to use a different way.
1.According to the author，when we succeed we .
A. are quite proud
B. are usually wild with joy
C. usually set up a higher goal
D. usually think of our failure over and over
2.According to the author，failure .
A. is the thing that troubles people
B. is of the short term or temporary
C. makes us learn more than success does
D. can make him unhappy from time to time
3.What does the underlined word “slump” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Course of winning the game.
B. Chance of being well-known.
C. Situation where one works hard.
D. Time of losing heart or being upset.
4.Why did the author’s grandson do better in playing hockey in the end?
A. He grew up and learned more skills.
B. He thought and tried in a different way.
C. He used the skill his grandma taught him.
D. He didn’t make a change and kept the “failure” mode.
5.Which is the best title for the text?
A. Expect Success. B. Face Failures Differently.
C. My Grandson and I. D. Keep Failure Mode.
