City people usually think they are a lot smarter than country people. They often laugh at simple country ways. But people do not laugh at country music. It is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today.
Perhaps it is so popular because it is about simple but strong human feelings and events—love, sadness, good times and bad times, it tells real life stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more and more complicated(复杂的), it is good to hear music about ordinary people.
Country music, sometimes called country western, comes from two kinds of music. One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. The other is traditional cowboy music from the West. The singers usually play the guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars.
At first city people said country music was low-class. It was popular mostly in the South. But during World War Ⅱ, thousands of Southerners went to the Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories. They took their music with them. Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps in the South. They learned to like country music. Slowly it became popular all over the country.
Today country music is popular everywhere in the United States and Canada, in small towns and in New York City, among black and white, and among educated and uneducated people. About 1,200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty-four hours a day. People sing it in their languages. The music that started with cowboys and poor farmers is now popular all over the world.
1.People enjoy country music because______.
A. it is about ordinary people B. it is easy to learn
C. it is free of charge D. it is very exciting
2.The fourth paragraph mainly tells us______.
A. why people love country music in the United States
B. when people began to enjoy country music
C. how country music became more and more popular
D. where country music was most popular
3.From the last paragraph we can see that______.
A. all people enjoy country music all over the world
B. country music is well received all over the world
C. rich people love country music best of all
D. black people enjoy country music best of all
4.Which of the following can be used as the best title for this passage?
A. American Country Music
B. Life in the American Country
C. American Cowboys
D. American Radio Stations
You may need to give first aid. First aid is defined(下定义) as the emergency care given to a sick or injured person. The goals of first aid are to prevent death and to prevent injuries from becoming worse.
Each emergency condition is different. However, the following rules apply to any kind of emergency.
☆ Be aware of your limitations. Do not try to do more than you are able to. Nor should you do things if you are unfamiliar with them. Do what you can under the conditions at the time.
☆ Stay calm. Acting calmly will help the victim feel safe.
☆ Take a quick look to see if the victim is bleeding, and if there is a pulse.
☆ Keep the victim lying down and do not move him or her.You could make an injury worse if you move the victim.
☆ Take necessary emergency steps.
☆ Call for help or ask someone to make the EMS system（急救系统）start.
☆ Do not remove clothing unless you have to.If clothing must be removed,tear the clothes along the seams（线缝）.
☆ Keep the victim warm. Cover the victim with a blanket. Coats and sweaters can be used if a blanket cannot be found.
☆ Reassure the victim. Explain what is happening and that help has been called.
☆ Do not give the victim any food or fruits.
☆ Keep the bystanders away from the victim. Bystanders want to have a look, offer advice, and say something about the victim's condition. The victim may believe that the condition is worse than it really is.
1.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. You should help an injured person in any condition.
B. Don't remove the clothing of the injured person whatever happens.
C. It is necessary to cover the victim with a blanket.
D. If the injured person feels hungry, you should give him or her some food.
2.Why should bystanders be kept away from the victim?
A. Because bystanders can prevent the victim from receiving first aid
B. Because what they say can make the victim think the condition is very bad.
C. Because the victim doesn't want to accept the advice of bystanders.
D. Because the victim hates being surrounded by bystanders.
3.The main purpose of the passage is to tell ________.
A. how to save a person
B. what to do when an accident happens
C. how to call for help
D. how to give first aid
假设你是李华，暑假将至，你的外国朋友Alice发来邮件请你推荐旅游目的地，请给她回复一封邮件，内容包括：
1.景点位置、地位
2.当地特色（自然人文、美食、交通等）
3.相关提示
注意：1. 文章开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
2. 可适当增加细节，使文章内容充实、连贯。
3. 词数100词左右。
Dear Alice,
Hearing that you will spend the summer vacation touring in China, I’m more than glad to offer my recommendation.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（^），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。
Three days before, my aunt went to attend a meeting. After the meeting, she went to a restaurant for a lunch. Therefore, when it was time to pay the bill, she couldn’t find her purse. She thought it must have stolen. Just then, a man in his early twenty came up and paid for her. My aunt was very gratefully. They talked about each other for a while and my aunt finally realize who he was. My aunt had collected some money to helping a boy before. That young man was the boy. My aunt didn’t recognize her, but the kindness had never been forgotten.
People do have different ideas about what 1. (wear). While young people tend to consider more about fashion, personality and how they look when 2. (choose) clothes, elderly people pay 3. (great) attention to whether they appear right, they feel comfortable as well as whether the material is worth 4. price.
How people get dressed also changes over time. Take China 5. an example. In the 1960’s and 1970’s, there were practically only two or three colors people wore—blue, green and gray. The styles of the clothes 6. (be) also very dull. In the 1980’s young people would only wear 7. was in fashion. 8. (recent), we have come to understand that the way you dress 9. (you) is a reflection of your occupation, your background and your personality, 10.we see different people wear different clothes according to occasions, their likes and feelings.
In winter, I often walk in a nearby park during lunch time. The park is ______, as few people have the time to enjoy the winter sun on a weekday. The two people that are often seen are a middle-aged father and his little daughter ______ her school uniform. The father looks like he has all the time in the world—he ______ to hurry along the jogging path; instead he matches his pace with ______ of the little girl. Sometimes they are lying ______ in the sun, laughing and chatting. The man certainly doesn’t look ______. What sort of job can he have that gives him the flexibility to walk in the park in the middle of the day
And today, we ______ sat on the rocks and had a little chat. “You must enjoy the park very much to come here so often,” I said. The father nodded. “How” I asked curiously, “do you ______ to leave your office to be with your daughter every day”
The ______ that the father, Satyendra Dugbey, told me showed me how, if we ______under the surface, even ordinary people’s life can be quite ______.“I used to be no different from any of those thousands of office workers ______ to work every day,” he began. His wife and he were well ______ but rarely managed time off for leisure.
Everything changed after a(n) ______ in which Dugbey was hit by a car. As he lay in hospital, terrifying thoughts came into his mind. “How would my daughter, then only four, remember me if I died that day” “Would my daughter have ______ of being with her father”
The moment he recovered and went back to work, Dugbey took time off at lunch, ______ her daughter from school which was ju
st next door to his working place, and took her to the park.
It was actually a very small change he’d made, he said, but it ______ him every day to see the difference it ______ to his life. “It brings me so much ______ that I can’t believe why others haven’t thought of doing the same thing.” he said simply.
I got up to continue my ______walk, unexpectedly happy after his story.
1.A. noisy B. appealing C. quiet D. still
2.A. on B. in C. with D. under
3.A. tends B. intends C. inspires D. refuses
4.A. it B. that C. this D. those
5.A. heavily B. tiredly C. lazily D. lonely
6.A. unemployed B. untrained C. untested D. unwanted
7.A. truly B. generally C. entirely D. finally
8.A. succeed B. fail C. manage D. suggest
9.A. news B. story C. data D. phenomenon
10.A. dig B. push C. clean D. knock
11.A. extraordinary B. common C. peaceful D. reliable
12.A. hurrying B. wandering C. hesitating D. hating
13.A. down B. over C. above D. off
14.A. affair B. accident C. situation D. sight
15.A. association B. consideration C. misunderstanding D. memories
16.A. picked up B. picked out C. took up D. took out
17.A. bothered B. puzzled C. frighten D. amazed
18.A. took B. led C. made D. got
19.A. love B. joy C. relief D. depression
20.A. long-suffering B. long-lost C. long-forgotten D. long-lasting
