Write the following words according to the phonetic symbols (根据音标写单词)
1.China has a long ______ [ˈhɪstri] of about 5000 years.
2.The old man can’t see anything, because he is ______ [blaɪnd] in both eyes.
3.Some ______ [ˈeɪnʃənt] towns have walls around them
4.Ben is a ______ [ˈdʒu:niə(r)]school student and he is in Grade Seven.
5.A fireman’s job is to ______ [ˈreskju:] people from danger.
Writing.（作文）
Write at least 60 words about the topic “My opinion on playing computer games”（以“我对玩电脑游戏的看法”为题, 写一段不少于60个词的短文, 标点符号不占格。）
（注意：短文中不得出现任何人名、校名及其它相关信息, 否则不予评分。）
Suggested questions：（以下内容仅供参考）
1. What is your opinion about playing computer games?
2. Why do you think so? （Give at least two reasons）
3. What suggestions will you give about playing computer games?
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What will the home of the future look like? A team of architects in Hong Kong say that city homes will be tiny, as populations continue to grow and space becomes more expensive.
They have designed “spaceflats” that are only 30 square metres in size. These flats have small rooms: a living room, a bathroom and a bedroom, as well as a balcony（阳台）, but everything is carefully planned to make good use of the limited space.
The living room is the main room of the flat. It can be used as an office, a kitchen or even a second bedroom. There is a sofa that can be changed into a bed. The dining table can be changed into a computer desk. And, if not needed, both the sofa-bed and the table can be folded away（折叠收拢）. There is a flat-screen TV, which can also serve as a computer monitor. You can’t see the cooker, the microwave and the small refrigerator because they are all hidden out of sight.
The other rooms are small but practical（实用的）. The bathroom contains a toilet and shower. The double bed in the bedroom can also be a sofa, if necessary. The balcony has enough space for two people to sit and you may see an amazing fountain on it. All the rooms have high ceiling to provide as much storage（存储）space as possible, while the flat has large windows to let in plenty of sunlight.
“Spaceflats” are now being tested in a building in Hong Kong. “It’s wonderful,” said one citizen, “The flat is so well designed that you feel that there is plenty of space.”
1.Will city homes be tiny according to the architects in Hong Kong?
2.What can the living room be used as?
3.How many things are hidden out of sight?
4.Where can the owner enjoy the nice view?
5.There is plenty of sunlight in the flats, isn’t there?
6.Would you like to live in the “spaceflats”? why?
He was just an ordinary p_________. Day after day, he went regularly across the village. For him, life was without waves.
One day, he was delivering mails as usual. When he looked up in the sky, he s_________lost his balance（平衡）. It was a little stone that caught his feet. He found it strange but beautiful. He then placed the stone in his bag carefully. Because of this stone’s arrival, his day was lightened. He had a thought—I can b_________a castle with such beautiful stones. How wonderful it will be!
His ordinary life started to be different since then. He still delivered mails, but he collected every stone he could find along the way. All those dusty stones, in his eyes, shone like diamonds. After collecting e_________stones, he started. During the daytime, he passed along the dreams of others; and during the night time, he had his own dream. No one was willing to join in. But he was still happy b_________he knew the dream and the castle only belonged to him.
After 20 years of working day and night, his dream castle was finally completed. It was a wonderful castle just as he i_________.
This is a real story. His name is Xue Waller. The stone castle has become one of the most famous tourist a_________in France. At the entrance of the stone castle, there is a sentence—“I want to know how far a dream stone can go.”
1.p_________
2.s_________
3.b_________
4.e_________
5.b_________
6.i_________
7.a_________
Doing experiments is one of the most interesting things about studying chemistry. In China, it’s often teachers who do the experiment in the front of the class with students_________. But in the US, students take action by themselves.
The first time I took a class in my school’s chemistry lab, I was surprised to find that students were wearing special glasses, plastic gloves, as if there had been a bio-chemical attack! _________is always the most important for science lab classes in America. The outfit（装备）prevents us from harmful chemical materials.
My chemistry teacher usually gives us the instruction sheet the night before the lab class to let us know a lot about the experiments. During the class, she first_________the steps of the experiments and then puts us into groups to do the experiments. What’s special is that for every lab class, she changes everyone’s partner to let us work with_________classmates.
The class is often filed with laughs. Once we tried to bum chemicals. The chemicals produced many colors of fames（火焰）, _________bright orange and dark green. Many students in my class were amazed. “Wow! That’s so beautiful! ” they screamed.
After finishing an experiment, we need to write a detailed report. It consists of the steps, our feelings and the final results. If there has been a mistake in the experiment, we need to analyze（分析）why it happened and_________we should do to correct it. The reports are important. They make up around 25 percent of our term grade.
1.A.playing B.watching C.singing D.sleeping
2.A.Fun B.Time C.Money D.Safety
3.A.wait for B.care for C.go over D.clean out
4.A.different B.same C.tall D.clever
5.A.during B.from C.through D.including
6.A.how B.what C.where D.when
On a freezing January morning, Myron opened the library in Iowa. She heard a cat cry and finally found a yellow kitten in a pile of books.
“His little feet were frozen,” recalls Myron. “We gave him a bath to warm him up and he purred the whole time so that we know he liked us very much.” That was 1988 and it was a story for Dewey, the cat who has lived happily among the books ever since. “His story has a life of its own, we have people drive hundreds of miles out of their way just to see Dewey. We even had a Japanese public television crew come here to make a short film of him. ”Shortly after the kitten’s rescue, a photo of the library’s “new employee” appeared in local newspapers. Local people were invited to vote for the name of the kitten. “We have never had such a big crowd for a contest and there wasn’t even a prize,” Myron says with a laugh.
Dewey grew from a popular local “library employee” to a national star with his pictures on calendars. However, he is not the only cat who lives among books. Library cats greet people in about 125 libraries across America. Most live and “work” comfortable, small town libraries where they don’t get lost in the books. Library cats used to make a living by catching rats, but library cats have more duties: to a make the library a pleasant place.
“Library cats just create a nice, warm atmosphere（气氛）, ”says Gary Roma, producer of Puss in Books, the film about library cats. “The cats attract children to the library and the elderly who maybe can’t have pets in their apartments, ”says Roma, “Books, libraries, and cats just go together.”
1.The cat Dewey was found by Myron in the ___________ of 1988.
A.spring B.summer C.autumn D.winter
2.The underlined word “purred”in the second paragraph means “___________”.
A.felt angry B.felt happy C.felt hungry D.felt sleepy
3.A contest was held after the kitten’s rescue to ___________ the cat.
A.win B.name C.film D.feed
4.Library cats can do many things, including ___________.
A.acting for a film B.catching rats
C.making people pleased D.All of the above
5.Puss in Books was ___________.
A.a book about cats B.a film about Dewey
C.a film about library cats D.a film about popular libraries
6.From the passage we can infer（推断）that ___________.
A.library cats only attract children and old people
B.Dewey is one of the cats who live among books.
C.library cats are not as popular as they used to be
D.every library in America has at least one cat
