In Europe, many people make friends between their countries through town twinning. Town or city twinning means two towns in different countries agree and decide to become “twins” with a sister-city relationship.
The people find pen friends in the twin town. They exchange newspapers and stamps. The school teachers discuss teaching methods with the teachers in the twin town. Officials visit the twin town for celebrations. Ordinary people travel to the twin town, too, but not very often if it is far away.
Sometimes, schools even exchange their classes for two or three weeks! For example, German middle school students study for a while at the school in their twin town in Britain, staying with British families. A few months later, their British friends come to study in Germany.
Many British towns are so pleased with the results of the twinning that they set out to find more than one twin town!
Tonbridge, a small town in Kent, for example, has twin towns in both Germany and France. Richmond near London has relationships with Germany, France and even a town in a Balkan(巴尔干半岛的) country!
Town twinning can help make friends. It helps students improve their language skill, and also helps people to understand the differences between nations.
1.Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Town Twinning B. Friendly Towns
C. Exchanging Teachers and Students D. Peace and Understanding
2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Twin towns exchange newspapers and stamps.
B. Twin towns exchange business skill.
C. Schools in twin towns exchange classes for a period of time.
D. Ordinary people travel to the twin town.
3.Twin towns develop ____________.
A. between European countries and China
B. in the English-speaking countries only
C. in the same country
D. between different countries
4.How many countries are mentioned in this passage?
A. 7 B. 6. C. 5 D. 4
5.One of the advantages of town twinning is to ________.
A. earn more money
B. set up schools
C. improve students’ language skills
D. develop industry and agriculture
Good health is the most valuable thing a person can have, but one cannot take good health for granted. It is important to remember that the body needs proper care in order to be healthy. There are three things that a person can do to help stay in good shape: eat right food , get enough sleep, and exercise regularly.
Proper nutrition is important for good health. Your body cannot work well unless it receives the proper kind of “fuel”(燃料).Don't eat too much food with lots of sugar and fat. Eat plenty of foods high in protein, like meat, fish, eggs and nuts. Vegetables and fruits are very important because they provide necessary vitamins and minerals. However, don't overeat. It is not helpful to be overweight.
Getting the proper amount of sleep is also important. If you don't get enough sleep, you feel tired and easily get angry. You have no energy. Over a long period of time a little amount of sleep may even result in a change of personality .Be sure to allow yourself from seven to nine hours of sleep each night. If you do, your body will feel strong and refreshed, and your mind will be sharp.
Finally, get plenty of exercise. Exercise firms the body, strengthens the muscles, and prevents you from gaining weight. It also improves your heart and lungs. If you follow a regular exercise program, you will probably increase your life-span (寿命).Any kind of exercise is good. Most sports are excellent for keeping the body in good shapes: basketball, swimming, bicycling, running and so on are good examples. Sports are not only good for your body, but they are enjoyable and interesting, too.
If everybody were to eat the right foods, get plenty of sleep and exercise regularly, the world would be a happier and healthier place. We would all live to be much older and wiser.
1. According to the passage,_________.
A .we should always keep fit
B. if we were healthy, we could spend our days in doing things with less sleep
C. one can eat a lot to stay in good shape
D. one needn't take any exercise if he is healthy
2.In order to keep good health, ___________ .
A. we should eat a lot of sweets
B. one needs a large amount of fat
C. people should eat according to the foods nutrition
D. we must try to sleep now and then
3. Eating more and sleeping less________.
A. can keep healthy B. is no good for you
C. gets you more energy D. will keep your personality
4.The writer explains ________in this passage.
A. how to eat B. the importance of doing exercise
C. how to keep healthy D. what to eat
5.The title of the article should be___________ .
A. Eating and Exercising
B. How Vitamins Work in Man's Body
C. Staying Healthy
D. Sleeping Well
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为1-10的相应位置上。
China's top track and field star, Liu Xiang, 1. (office) announced his retirement on Tuesday through his Weibo account 2. being sidelined for more than two years in rehabilitation修复of an ankle surgery. The 31-year-old athlete star chose a low-key way to announce his retirement. "From today on, I will say goodbye to my 3. (profession) athletics career. It's a decision 4. (make) through thorough consideration. I have no other 5. (choose) despite reluctance and pain. Goodbye, my track, my hurdles!" Rumors of Liu's retirement 6. (report) periodically定期的 since he fell down at 2012 London Olympic Games 110-meter hurdles' preliminary contest, 7. was the last match he ever attended. In Athens, Liu tied the 12.91 seconds world record to claim the gold medal .His breakthrough of winning the Olympics and world championships proved 8. Asian people can be competitive 9. Western counterparts in men's sprint冲刺 events at the highest level. That's 10. huge motivator激励 that should be reckoned考虑 with.
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I consider myself something of an expert on apologies. A quick temper has me with plenty of opportunities to make them. In one of my earliest , my mother is telling me, “Don’t watch the when you say ‘I’m sorry’. Hold your head up and look the person in the , so he’ll know you it.”
My mother thus made the key point of a(n) apology: it must be direct. You must never to be doing something else. You do not a pile of letters while apologizing to a person in position after blaming（责备） him or her for a mistake that turned out to be your . You do not apologize to a hostess(女主人), whose guest of honor you treat , by sending flowers the next day without mentioning your bad .
One of the important things you should do for an apology is readiness to the responsibility(责任) for our careless mistakes. We are used to making excuses, which leaves no for the other person to us. Since most people are open-hearted, the no-excuse apology leaves both parties feeling about themselves. That, after all, is the of every apology. It little whether the apologizer is wholly or only partly at fault: answering for(对……负责) one’s encourages others to take their share of the blame.
1.A．provided B．mixed C．compared D．treated
2.A．dreams B．courses C．memories D．ideas
3.A．side B．ground C．wall D．bottom
4.A．mind B．soul C．face D．eye
5.A．imagine B．enjoy C．mean D．regret
6.A．useful B．successful C．equal D．basic
7.A．pretend B．forget C．refuse D．expect
8.A．hold on B．put away C．look through D．pick up
9.A．poorer B．weaker C．worse D．lower
10.A．fault B．reason C．result D．duty
11.A．cruelly B．freely C．roughly D．foolishly
12.A．manners B．excuses C．efforts D．roles
13.A．active B．effective C．extra D．easy
14.A．raise B．perform C．admit D．bear
15.A．situation B．need C．sign D．room
16.A．advise B．forgive C．warn D．blame
17.A．wiser B．warmer C．better D．cleverer
18.A．purpose B．method C．end D．advantage
19.A．cares B．matters C．depends D．remains
20.A．facts B．states C．rights D．actions
假如你已在新南威尔士大学留学一年多，现在写一篇五句话作文描述这一年多以来在悉尼的生活。
开头已写好。不计入总句数。
【写作内容】
吃 | 上课期间：拥挤的学生餐厅；周末：中餐馆 |
住 | 开始：寄宿家庭，有些规则让人不舒服；后来：学生宿舍，更多自由 |
学 | 学术要求与国内不同；自己的观点很重要； 比高三更努力；从缺乏自信到自主学习 |
玩 | 周末和朋友（多数为中国学生）外出，欣赏风景，拍照 |
【写作要求】
1. 只能使用5个句子表达全部内容；
2. 适当添加细节以使文章连贯。
3. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准】
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
After learning at The University of New South Wales for more than one year，I would like to describe my life in Sydney as “work hard, play hard”.
1.他们请他走人,也就是说他被解雇了。
They asked him to leave. ________ ________ ________, he was fired.
2.希望我的建议能得到你的赞同。
I hope that my suggestions will ________ ________ your approval.
3.她不该把孩子单独留在那儿。
She was wrong to ________ her child ________.
4.患难朋友才是真朋友。
A friend ________ ________ is a friend indeed.
5.这位严厉的父亲不能容忍孩子们闲坐着。
The strict father cannot have his children ________ ________.
6.你可以用每天抽点时间练笔的方式方法来提高你的写作。
You can improve your writing by ________ ________ some time each day to write.
7.我已经意识到这一事实: 我可爱的宝贝如今已是比爸爸还高大的少年。
I have ________ ________ ________ the fact that my lovely baby is now a teenager taller and stronger than his father.
8.如果你照这样吃下去, 减肥是根本不可能的。
If you keep on eating like this, losing weight is ________ ________ ________ ________.
