I was in my first year of college, making friends and enjoying life, but then my whole world turned upside down. I had a heart attack. It felt like someone was stabbing (刺) me in the chest with a knife over and over again.
After three months of rest I went back to college, but then things took a turn for the worse. I was staying at my Nana’s house and woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible pain in my chest. I knew I was having a heart attack again.
I couldn’t even shout for help. Luckily my grandpa was going to the toilet and heard me falling out of bed. If it wasn’t for him, I probably wouldn’t be here.
The two holes in my heart were causing the problems and I needed an operation immediately to repair them. Unfortunately, the surgery didn’t go well and they only managed to repair one of the holes.
When I woke up from the operation, I had a really dry mouth and couldn’t wait to have something to eat and drink. The biggest shock of all came when I was told that I needed a heart transplant and was put on the register. The doctors were stunned at how quickly heart failure came on – it usually takes years, but it took my heart less than six months to get to that stage. My whole world came crashing down, but I stayed strong. It was a choice between crying every day and getting on with my life.
As time went on, life became even harder. I hated feeling weak all the time and needing help with everything. It got to the point where I thought I would never get a new heart. I was diagnosed with depression.
Even though I thought that Christmas 2008 would be my last, I really enjoyed it and even had a good New Year. Everyone was crying for me when the clock struck midnight and they told me to keep fighting.
A week later, I got a call from the doctors saying they’d found a suitable donor (捐赠人). My wish came true and thankfully the operation went well. I spent four hours in surgery where they took out my old heart and put a new one in. When I woke up I burst out crying. I had a second chance at life.
1. What happened when the author was having his second heart attack?
A. He felt less pain than he had during the previous one.
B. He realized what it was and shouted for help in time.
C. He narrowly escaped death thanks to his grandfather.
D. He decided to have an operation to repair the two holes in his heart.
2.When the author learned that he needed a heart transplant, he ______.
A. couldn’t help crying every day
B. chose to continue to fight for his life
C. felt so depressed that he tried to kill himself
D. was so anxious that his heart failure developed very quickly
3. At the beginning of 2009, the author ______.
A. was convinced that the past Christmas had been his last
B. felt blessed and grateful for his second chance at life
C. received a heart transplant but the operation didn’t go well
D. felt hopeless all the time and was diagnosed with depression
4.Which one would be the best title for the text?
A. Choices matter
B. Rebuilding my world
C. Waiting for a new heart
D. The most special Christmas
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A. 819—l647—3226． B. 207—322—2973．
C. 800一345—2929. D. 4168—6106．
2.Which one attracts a student interested in international affairs most？
A．Visitoz．
B．Expedition Education Institute．
C．The Experiment in International Living．
D．The International School for Earth Studies．
3.The main purpose of the passage is to .
A. attract more students to take an active part
B. persuade people to study language skills
C. advise people to stay in nature more and more
D. compare the differences of four different programs
假如你是李华，是校刊记者。请你为校刊写一篇英语短文，介绍最近在我国很多城市发生的雾霾（haze）天气。请参考以下要点：
1. 危害；
2. 原因；
3. 如何自我防护。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Recently haze pollution has happened in many cities of China.
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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。每处错误仅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：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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。
I want to be a teacher when I listen to my teacher carefully. I think I can be a teacher when I grow up. I can help many students learn things well. I can play with my students, either. So we are well friends. I want to be a doctor when I see many doctors to save their patients. To be a doctor is really great. I think I can be a doctor when grown up. Then I can help many people out of danger. I will be by far the happy girl in the world. I want to be a reporter when I watched TV every evening. We can get lots of important informations from them. They make the world smaller and also make us happy. I would like to being a reporter when I grow up. And I can learn a lot about China and the other countries around world. I can meet many superstars so well. I have lots of dreams. I think my dreams can come true one day, because there’s an old saying “where there is a will, there is a way.”
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
It is 1. (say) that in the year of 300 AD, there was a kind old man and his name was Saint Nicholas. He was always ready to help the poor and often gave 2. (present) to them.
Today, Father Christmas is 3. imaginary figure, but 4. (near) all young children believe in him. They think he is an 5. (attract) old man with a long white beard 6. a long red robe.
7. the night of the twenty-fourth of December every year, Father Christmas from some cold northern land comes down the chimney of the fireplace 8. (put) presents by the beds of children or to fill their stockings. So children go to bed that night, 9. (hang) up their stockings, and on Christmas morning they wake to find them full of presents. Of course, it's really 10. (they) parents who fill the stockings.
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A poor farmer had a friend was famous for the apple he grew. One day, his friend gave the farmer a(n) and told him to it home. The farmer was with the gift, but when he got home he did not know to plant it.
He was that if he planted the tree the road, the fruit would be stolen. If he planted the tree in one of his field, his neighbors would come and steal some of the apples. If he planted the tree near his house, his children would take the fruit.
he planted the tree in his wood where no one could see it. The farmer was very of what he did. However, as time went on, he found that the tree didn’t any fruit. He didn’t know without and good soil, the tree soon after he planted it.
Later the friend asked the farmer why he had planted the tree in such a place. "What's the difference?" the farmer said . "If I had planted the tree near the road, would have stolen the fruit. If I had planted the tree in one of my field, my neighbors would have come and stolen some of the apples. If I had planted it near my house, my own children would have taken the fruit."
"Yes," said the friend, "but at least someone could have the fruit. Now you not only have robbed every one the fruit, but also you have a good apple tree!"
1.A. who B. whom C. which D. whose
2.A. beautiful B. wonderful C. bad D. usual
3.A. apple B. tree C. book D. shovel
4.A. bring B. fetch C. take D. reach
5.A. careful B. sad C. pleased D. busy
6.A. what B. how C. why D. where
7.A. confused B. happy C. afraid D. puzzled
8.A. near B. on C. in D. down
9.A. at night B. during their spare time C. at their convenience D. at noon
10.A. Gradually B. Finally C. Exactly D. Actually
11.A. worried B. concerned C. embarrassed D. proud
12.A. take B. develop C. bear D. get
13.A. air B. sunlight C. water D. rain
14.A. ruined B. stopped C. destroyed D. died
15.A. strange B. special C. poor D. ill
16.A. angrily B. confidently C. seriously D. happily
17.A. neighbors B. strangers C. children D. farmers
18.A. got B. taken C. enjoyed D. owned
19.A. with B. of C. for D. off
20.A. destroyed B. stopped C. planted D. created
