When I was 4, my parents decided they could no longer live together. That same year, my mom moved to Los Angeles (L.A.) and a therapist (治疗师) was hired to decide where I would live. Playing with a dollhouse in her office, I showed her the mother’s room on one side and the father’s room on the other. When she asked me about the little boy’s room, I told her the little boy didn’t know where to sleep.
The therapist finally decided I would stay with my dad during the school years and visit my mom on long holidays and for summers. I began flying between two cities and leading two different lives. I remember my last school day in Grade Six. My friends made plans to go to the beach together, but I couldn’t join them because I had to fly to L.A. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to see my mom and stepdad; I just didn’t want to leave my friends. It wasn’t easy to put up a wall, and pretend I didn’t hate saying goodbye to them. In the morning, my dad drove me to school with my packed bags, and after school, my friends went together, and I went to the airport.
What has come of this in the end is that I’m always missing somebody. When I’m in northern California, I miss my mom and stepdad, while in L.A. I miss going out with my friends, my dad, and my little brother and sister. But after so many flights, I’ve learned that it’s also fun traveling between two cities and experiencing different lives. Other children may not have the opportunity to experience so much.
1.The dollhouse game showed that the boy _______ .
A. didn’t want his parents to stay together
B. was very independent
C. had no feeling of belonging
D. didn’t like his parents
2.Why didn’t the author like traveling between two cities at first?
A. Because the traveling separated him from his friends.
B. Because he hated saying goodbye to his mom.
C. Because the traveling made it difficult for him to meet his parents.
D. Because he wanted to spend his summers with his dad.
3.We learn from the text that the author _______ .
A. stayed with his mom during the school years
B. finally accepted his traveling lifestyle
C. enjoyed traveling more than others did
D. never enjoyed staying with his family
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A. Always Miss Somebody
B. Travel on My Own
C. My Divorced Parents
D. My Lonely Life
书面表达
高考在即，高三学生目前正处在紧张复习迎考的氛围中。假如你叫李华，是某中学高三学生，面对目前的压力，想和父母说些知心话，请你用英文在你的博客上用书信形式表达出来。主要内容如下：
知心话 |
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感恩 | 关切鼓励，倾注爱心 |
对父母 的期望 | 多交流，使自己保持良好的状态 创造条件，给自己提供适时帮助 |
学习打算 | 考生自拟(至少写三点) |
注意：1.短文需包括所有内容要点，可适当发挥；
2．词数：100左右。开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mom and Dad，
The annual college entrance examination is around the corner. On this special occasion, how I wish I could have a heart to heart talk with you.
短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出改正后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Everyone has a dream．We are on the way to achieve it whether the way is smooth or toughly．As Senior 3 student, I have the same dream as my classmates that I can be admitted to an ideal university．In the past three years, I have done everything I can to equip myself with that I have learnt from my teachers．Not only have I enjoyed the pleasure of study but also I have got closer to my dream．Anxious and pressure did discourage from me at times．Besides, with the encouragement of my teachers and classmates, I think I’ll make it．
I’m sure that there has still a long way to go to achieve my dream．No matter how challenged it is, I’ll make it come true．As the proverb said,” Where there’s a will, there’s a way．”
语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（限填1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
In my living room, there is a plaque that advises me to “bloom 1. you are planted”. It reminds me of Dorothy. I got to know Dorothy in the early 1980s, when I was teaching Early Childhood Development through a program. The job 2. (responsible) required occasional visits to the classroom of each teacher in the program. Dorothy stands out in my memory as one 3. bloomed in her remote area.
Dorothy taught in a remote school near Harlan. To get to her school from the town of Harlan, I followed a road 4. (wind) around the mountain. In the eight-mile journey, I crossed the same railroad track five times, giving the possibility of 5. (catch) by the same train five times. Rather than feeling excited by this drive through mountains, I found it depressing. The poverty level was shocking and the small shabby houses gave me the greatest feeling of 6. (hope).
From the moment of my arrival at the little school, all my gloom disappeared. Upon arriving at Dorothy’s classroom, I was greeted with smiling faces and treated like a queen. The children 7. (prepare) to show me their 8. (late) projects. Dorothy told me with a smile that they were serving poke greens salad and cornbread they made themselves for dinner.
Lonely 9. she was far away from the modern civilization and convenience, she never ran out of reports of exciting activities of her students. Her enthusiasm never cooled down. She passed all the tests 10. (excellent) and I found that Dorothy was really blooming where life had planted her.
完形填空
Recently, I was invited to a writing class at my old high school. I accepted the________ because it’s always fun to see what young writers are up to. A few hours before the class, I got the ________ that I often get before I go into a school — nausea(反胃) and the fear that I’m about to get into _________.
When I________into a school, all the old feelings come back：________teacher is going to get mad at me; the headmaster is going to make me take a note home.
But I’m not alone in having________feelings from school days. Often people talk about bad ________they still have about being unprepared for a(n) __________ test. Others say that being picked on and not being________ for a team are still terrible memories for them. So it’s no ________ that adults sometimes act like they’re still in school.
My _________ memories are about teachers getting mad at me. I was often ashamed of the serious crime of “talking out of turn”， a guy who couldn’t keep his ________ shut.
I realize that the answer is to face the feelings, ________ avoid them. So I volunteer at a school once a week. Each week, I’m a little more ________ when I walk into the office to _________. And I admit that sometimes when the headmaster _________ me with a smile, I think he’s planning to call my mother to say I should dress a little nicer _________ I visit his school. But by the end of my time there, I feel _________.
Now I’m __________ my next volunteer day at school. In fact, I might get there a little earlier so I can spend _________ more time there.
1.A. challenge B. present C. invitation D. offer
2.A. message B. chance C. wish D. feeling
3.A. mood B. trouble C. thought D. panic
4.A. arrive B. walk C. admit D. rush
5.A. another B. many C. the other D. some
6.A. amazing B. fascinating C. exciting D. lasting
7.A. situations B. places C. experiences D. dreams
8.A. important B. easy C. recent D. average
9.A. chosen B. noted C. concerned D. adapted
10.A. doubt B. way C. wonder D. secret
11.A. best B. longest C. worst D. latest
12.A. heart B. eyes C. mouth D. hands
13.A. rather than B. except for C. as to D. instead of
14.A. stressed B. annoyed C. tired D. relaxed
15.A. sign in B. check out C. take off D. get up
16.A. impresses B. greets C. shocks D. refuses
17.A. when B. since C. whether D. unless
18.A. anxious B. strong C. nervous D. strange
19.A. reflecting back to B. looking forward toC. getting away from D. taking over by
20.A. also B. still C. even D. ever
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Although many Chinese students say that their knowledge of English grammar is good, most would admit that their spoken English is poor. Whenever I speak to a Chinese student, they always say, “My spoken English is poor.” 1. I would like to suggest that there may be some reasons for their problems with spoken English.
First, they fail to find suitable words to express themselves due to a limited vocabulary. 2. However, you can speak with a limited vocabulary, if you choose a positive attitude. Others will follow you as long as you use the words that you know.
3. Sometimes they make mistakes when they are speaking because they are shy and nervous. Yet students should remember that their goal should be FLUENCY NOT ACCURACY. Your aim in writing is to be accurate following the rules for grammar and using them to get your message across. But to talk to someone in English, as quickly and well as you can, even though sometimes you may use a wrong word or tense, but it doesn’t matter. 4.
The third reason is that not enough attention is paid to listening. You have one mouth but two ears! All the hearing is necessary for you to start speaking.
Fourth, most Chinese students are reactive rather than proactive(主动的) language learners. Instead of actively seeking out opportunities to improve their spoken English they passively wait for speaking opportunities to come to them and wonder why their English always remains poor. 5.
A. Second, they are afraid of making mistakes.
B. They may try to avoid making similar mistakes next time.
C. Obviously the better answer is to expand their vocabulary.
D. However, their spoken English does not have to remain “poor”!
E. The second reason lies in the reluctance of using what has just been learned.
F. The person you are speaking to will understand you and make allowances for any mistakes he hears.
G. If you have this proactive outlook, then you will see English opportunities wherever you go.
