________ and short of breath，Andy and Ruby were the first to reach the top of Mount Tai.
A．To be tired B．Tired C．Tiring D．Being tired
James became ________ King of England and Wales and ________ King managed to unite the three countries peacefully in the end.
A．the；the B．a；the C．/；the D．the；/
假设你是一名班长，学期结束时老师要你给同学们用英语作简短的评价，班里的林华同学这个学期以来变化很大。根据下表用英语写一篇短文。
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过去 |
学习不努力，经常与同学吵架； 乱扔垃圾，经常打电脑游戏到深夜。 |
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现在 |
自从老师找他谈话以后有了较大改变。 与同学相处融洽，爱护校园和班级环境。 参加各类活动。 |
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希望 |
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注意：1. 短文须包括所给的内容要点，要求语句通顺、意思连贯；
2. 词数90个左右，短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数；
We are glade that Lin Hua has improved a lot this term
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1.Is Western food as (taste) as Chinese food?
2. (hope), we can start again and build a better world on Mars.
3.Have you been to Beijing? It is in (north) China.
4.When you learn English, try to have _________(fun) with the language.
5.Hearing the good news, he just jumped with (excite).
6.The robot needs repairing. You’d better have someone (repair) it at once.
7.We are good _________ (partner) no matter what we do.
8.The bell __________ (ignore); nobody went into the classroom yesterday.
9.The book is so __________ (encourage) that everyone wants to own it.
10.It is hard for us __________ (communicate) with native Americans.
根据短文内容，完成文后任务。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。
Jerome Kern is often called the father of American musical theater. Kern is remembered for the hundreds of songs he wrote for musical plays and movies. Music historians say that Kern gave artistic importance to American popular music for the first time. And, they say, he led the development of the first truly American theater music.
Jerome Kern was born into a middle-class family in New York City in 1885. Jerome’s mother, Fanny, loved the piano. She began to teach Jerome how to play when he was very young.
Jerome was a quiet boy and not a top student. When he completed high school, his father said he would have to work in the family’s store. But he later came to believe that Jerome might do better in music than in business after all. So he let the boy go to Europe to study music, as almost all serious young musicians did at the time.
Jerome Kern began his career as a songwriter in theaters in London and New York City. Success came quickly. By the early nineteen twenties, Kern was a successful young composer for Broadway musical comedies. In one three-year period alone, he wrote music for nineteen shows.
Kern wanted to try something completely new. He thought a musical play should be a real work of art, not just a collection of songs and dances. Kern wanted to do a truly American musical, with real American characters and real situations.
In 1927, he found the story he wanted. It was the book “Show Boat” by American writer Edna Ferber. “Show Boat” takes place in the 1880 on a passenger steam boat that travels along the Mississippi River.
Kern died in 1945 at the age of sixty. But “Show Boat” has been performed thousands of times all over the world.
阅读短文，然后根据题目要求及所给语境完成任务
Music touches our hearts and shortens (缩短) the distance between people of different countries. The super star Jay Chou has cooperated with the American NBA star Kobe Bryant to create a song named The Heaven and Earth Challenge. That’s a song written by Jay Chou whose favorite sport is basketball. It expresses the love for basketball. And it encourages young people to be more confident. Jay Chou has learned much from Kobe’s sports spirit. In the song, Jay Chou does most of the singing part while Kobe plays a part of rapper (说唱者). People can download the ring tone (铃声) of the song from the Internet. All the money from the downloads will go to Project Hope, which aims to improve educational environment in poor areas in China.
1.d__________: space between two points or places
2.e__________: give confidence or hope to somebody
同义句转换（每空一词，共2分）
Jay Chou has learned much from Kobe’s sports spirit.
Jay Chou has learned 3.______4.______ from Kobe’s sports spirit.
根据短文内容简答问题（共1分）
5.What does the song express? _________________________________.
