Kieron Williamson, a seven-year-old British boy, is being recognized as an art genius after selling 16 paintings for 18, 000 pounds in just 14 minutes. This boy has artistic skills that would
be the envy of any serious painter and drawn comparisons to Pablo Picasso, a child prodigy（神童）who became one of the most recognized artists of the 20th century. It all began on a family holiday to Cornwall on the southwest English coast when Kieron was five. Inspired by the view, he asked his parents for his first sketch-pad （速写纸）. From that moment on, he became deeply interested. While supportive, Kieron’s parents are careful not to push their son. He only paints when and what he wants.
He has a waiting list of hundreds and requests for his works have been flooding in. His father said a sale of Kieron’s works held in November even drew a buyer from Japan. “We had people driving down that night, there were people on the door waiting to come in the morning who had been standing outside, the phones were going mad as soon as the door opened at nine o’clock and within 14 minutes all the 16 pictures had gone, ” he said.
All this talent, money and high praise could so easily go to a young boy’s head, but Kieron said his friends keep him grounded. “Some of them want to be as good as me and some of them think. . . Umn, ‘you are not too special’,” he said.
Kieron’s favourite painter is British artist Edward Seago and he has spent some of his earnings buying a work by his hero. The rest is being invested by his parents until he reaches 25. Kieron’s parents and his younger sister Billi-Jo don’t see him as anything other than a normal seven-year-old boy who likes to tear around the house and who’s mad about football. But for now, with so much still to learn, there’s only one thing he wants to be when he grows up. He said, “I think I’ll definitely be an artist. ”
1.According to Paragraph 1, we can know Kieron Williamson ______ .
A. painted 16 paintings in only 14 minutes
B. draws as well as Picasso did
C. is one of the most recognized artists
D. has unusual ability in painting
2. What made Kieron Williamson begin to love painting?
A. His first sketch-pad.
B. His parents’ encouragement.
C. The view at the seaside.
D. His swimming near the coast.
3.In Kieron Williamson’s friends’ opinion, he ______.
A. is famous but a little proud
B. isn’t very special from other children
C. isn’t worth praising at all
D. is hard to get along with
4.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ______.
A. Edward Seago thinks highly of Kieron’s painting
B. Kieron likes doing sports and painting instead of studying
C. Kieron’s family is very poor
D. Kieron wants to be a great painter
5.The passage mainly tells us ______.
A. a seven-year-old painting genius
B. how to be a great painter
C. Kieron Williamson may become the second Picasso
D. the painting changed Kieron Williamson’s life greatly
Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl _____ 1.(name) Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion（输血） _____ 2.her 5-year-old brother, ____3. had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to fight the _____4.(ill).
The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate（犹豫） for a moment _____ 5.taking a deep breath and saying, “Yes, I’ll do it ___ 6.it can save Liz.”
_____ 7.the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, ____8.(see) the color returning to her cheeks. Then ____ 9.face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, “Will I start to die right away?”
Being young, the boy had_____10.(understand) the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his sister all of his blood.
Mrs. Ball had a son. His name was Mick. She ____ him very much and as he was not a __2 __ child, she was always ____ that he might be ill, ____ she used to take him to see the best ____ in the town four times a year to be looked ____.
During one of these ____, the doctor gave Mick all kinds of tests and then said to him, “Have you had any ____ with your nose or ears recently?” Mick ____ for a second and then answered, “Yes, I ____.”
Mrs. Ball was very ____. “But I’m sure you have ____ told me that, Mick!” She said worriedly. “Oh, really?” Said the doctor ____. “And what trouble have you with your nose and ears, my boy?” “Well,” answered Mick, “I always have trouble with them when I’m ____ my sweater off, because the ____ is very tight.”
1.A. loved B. hated C. missed D. cared
2.A. rich B. clever C. strong D. happy
3.A. afraid B. surprised C. glad D. sure
4.A. which B. for C. but D. so
5.A. player B. teacher C. doctor D. lawyer
6.A. round B. over C. for D. after
7.A. talks B. years C. visits D. stays
8.A. answer B. thing C. word D. trouble
9.A. waited B. thought C. stood D. looked
10.A. did B. will C. have D. do
11.A. excited B. interested C. pleased D. surprised
12.A. already B. just C. never D. always
13.A. angrily B. seriously C. happily D. carefully
14.A. turning B. taking C. keeping D. putting
15.A. collar B. nose C. mouth D. ear
最近，你们班就“学校需不需要利用暑假时间组织学生集体补课”进行了讨论。有些同学认为学校应该组织补课，而另一些同学认为不需要。现在请你将讨论结果写一篇短文。
For(正方) | Against(反方) | Your opinion |
to learn more | to have a good rest | ? |
to get the teachers, help more easily | to plan the time more freely | |
… | … |
注意：1、根据内容要点可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
2、词数：80个左右。开头部分已给出，不计入总词数。
Recently we had a warm discussion about whether our school should organize all the students to study at school during the summer holidays.
单词拼写（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）
1.She _________(使结合) some fresh fruit with some milk..
2.My friends and I made a(n) _________（安排）to meet at 5:00 pm in the cinema.
3.It is _________ (不清楚的) whether they will agree to carry on the research.
4.When he tried to listen carefully, the sound suddenly _________(消失).
5.It took us almost a week to reach our __________（目的地）.
Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea. People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops. People had it sent from Holland. And even those people who could afford it did so only because of curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.
Tea remained very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea. Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added. She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was so famous a lady that people liked to copy everything she did, they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.
At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening. No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess （公爵夫人） found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o'clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, tea-time was born.
1.The word “curiosity” in the first paragraph probably means ________.
A. 好奇 B. 臆测 C. 迷恋 D. 决心
2. Which of the following is true of tea-drinking in Britain?
A. The British people got expensive tea from India.
B. The habit of tea-drinking reached Britain from France.
C. The British people were much slower in getting the habit.
D. People in Britain began drinking tea one thousand years ago.
3. Some people cooked tea leaves because ______
A. most children liked to have them
B. they were very good vegetables
C. they didn’t know how to use them
D. sandwiches needed mixing with them
4. People in Britain like to drink tea with milk because of the influence of _______.
A. a famous French lady
B. people in Holland
C. the upper social class
D. the ancient Chinese
5.This passage mainly discusses _______.
A. how tea-time was born in history
B. the history of tea-drinking in Britain
C. the habit of drinking tea with milk in it
D. differences about tea-drinking Europe
