－ ________ does the bridge made of steel weigh? －About 90,000 tons.

A. How much       B. How long        C. How heavy       D. How far

— Why not_______ an English club to practice _______English?

A. to join； speaking   B. to join； to speak

C. join； speaking      D. join； to speak

They have _______weeks ________ for the summer holiday than American students.

A. less； on         B. more； off

C. more； on         D. fewer； on

—Which word can’t describe (描述)appearance（外貌）?  —___________.

A. Beautiful    B. Good-looking   C. Pretty   D. Helpful

The supermarket is a strange place. People usually spend _______ time finding things than they want，but they usually spend _______ money than they want.

A. less； less       B. fewer； more

C. less； more        D. fewer； less

– What a hot day!    -- The weather report says it’ll be even ______ tomorrow.

A. wetter       B. cooler        C. hotter   D. colder

People in the UK say “autumn”, while people in the USA say “______”.

A. down   B. fall     C. fell    D. all

I often discuss my work __________ my parents _________ home.

A. in； at      B. with； at

C. about； in   D. at； in

Shanghai is larger than _______________ city in China.

A. the other   B. any other        C. any             D. all the

We are all _______at the ________ story.

A. exciting； exciting B. exciting； excited

C. excited； exciting D. excited； excited

You can trust them because they never_______ lies.

A. talk    B. tell        C. say    D. speak

If you have_______, you should_______ your friends.

A. happy something； share it to

B. something happy； share it to

C. something happy； share it with

D. happy something； share it with

—What’s your best friend like?     —__________________

A. She is fine. Thank you.

B. She is a doctor.

C. She likes watching TV.

D. She is helpful and generous.

John is ______ Year 8 ______ Woodland School.

A. in； on        B. at； in

C. at； at        D. in； at

What ______ honest boy! And he is ______ best student of all.

A. a； a          B. an； the

C. a； the       D. the； the

写作

随着年龄的增长，我们所学知识的广度在扩大，深度在加深，作业量也会增大。你们学校的English Newsletter正在以Our homework为题举行征文活动，请根据下列表格提示的内容，用英语写一篇征文。

要求：1)表达清楚，语法正确，上下文连贯；

2)必须包括表格中所有的相关信息，并适当发挥；

3)词数：100词左右(正文的开头已给出，不计入总词数)；

4)不得使用真实姓名、校名和地名等。

Our homework

As we grow, what we learn is more and more difficult and we have more and more homework.

In the past, we

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缺词填空

根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。（每空一词）

Nowadays, more and more young people are becoming too proud and over-confident. They think they can do e 1.   . So they simply ignore(忽视) their old parents, and believe that their parents’ experienced thoughts are out of date. Actually I used to be one of them, but after h  2.  a story told by my father, I changed my mind completely. Now I would like to s  3.  it with all of you.

Once, there’s a young man w  4.  looked down on the old. He always thought that the old were just nuisances (麻烦事) in your busy life, a useless life that was going to be over. He also did this to his father. One day, the father and the son happened to meet each other in the garden. The son suggested that they should take a walk t __5._ . As they walked, a beautiful garden came into their sight. The son pointed to one of the prettiest flower and said, “We young people are like this sweet flower, so healthy, so energetic, and full of spirit. What about you oldsters? Just l 6.   the falling leaves from a dying tree.”

Hearing this, the father smiled but said nothing. They continued the walking in s 7. . When they passed a shop, the father stopped and went in, he bought a walnut（核桃）and showed it to his son, slow and kind, he said, “We old are like this walnut. We’ve experienced many hard events in life. So we built up such a strong shell, and at the same time we also built up a pure inner world. Every fruit is so full-grown.”

“But every fruit was born by f _8.__.” Refuted(反驳) the son.

“Yes, but not every flower can bear fruit….”

From then on, I always keep this story in my m  9.  . It has taught me a lot.

We should try to be a flower that can bear fruit. We also have to know that our parents aren’t nuisances, b 10.   experienced walnuts, works of nature.

任务型阅读

阅读下列短文，根据短文中的信息完成文后表格。（每空一词）

More and more people are wearing glasses. Poor eyesight makes us not so happy as those with good eyesight. That is why our eyes should be given a lot of care. Natural eye care should be put in a number one place.

There are several causes leading to poor eyesight such as not enough food, genes(基因) and aging(变老). Televisions, computers and reading are also the causes of having poor eyesight. If you work in front of the computer, it is best to take a break every once in a while. Something dirty can cause redness and they will make you feel uncomfortable. It is bad for your eyes, too. If this happens, you’d better clean your eyes by using cold water. You must also try your best to protect your eyes from harmful things. For example, sunglasses are not just for fashion but they can also serve as a great way to protect your eyesight from UV rays.

Eating healthy foods will do good to your eyesight. Remember that vitamins A, C and E are good for eyes. Try to eat food groups that have lots of these vitamins. And you should do eye exercises because exercise protects your eyesight, too. If a person exercises regularly and eats the right kind of food, his eyes will stay in good condition for a long time.

All above are natural ways of eye care that help us keep healthy eyes. In a word, eye care is very important, no matter how old a person is.

词汇应用

根据句子意思，用括号中所给汉语提示或英语单词的适当形式填空。（每空一词）

1.His advice is of great__________(价值）to all of us.

2.You’d better drive carefully for your own___________(safe）.

3.It is very___________(tire）to climb the Great Wall.

4.The hotel is very popular with tourists because it provides a high level of_________(服务）.

5.Zhou Xun is one of the most popular___________(女演员）in China.

6.The sports meet has been___________(取消）because of the bad weather.

7.The dress is one of the _____________(最新的）fashion designs.

8.It seems that he has_____________(success)solved the problem.

9.Do you want to know the__________(真相）of the car accident?

10.The classroom looks___________(整洁）and the teacher is very angry.

Close contacts between Japan and the rest of the world were created in the twentieth century. In the last forty years, business contacts between Japan and the West have become very important. Many foreign companies now have offices in Japan and Japanese businessmen do business around the world. Differences between Japanese and Western ways of doing business, however, often bewilder foreign businessmen and make doing business in Japan difficult for foreigners.

The American businessman, for example, wants to start talking business immediately. He does not want to wait. The Japanese businessman, on the other hand, likes to arrive at decisions after giving them serious thought. Another thing foreign businessmen have difficulty in understanding is when a Japanese means “Yes” or “No”. This is because of cultural differences between Japanese and Western society(社会), Which make it difficult for a Japanese to say “No” directly.

In the USA, it is easy to say “No” to something one does not want to do. But in Japan, it is very difficult to say “No”. To refuse an invitation or a request(请求) with “No” is felt to be impolite. It is thought to be selfish and unfriendly. So instead of saying “No” directly, the Japanese have developed many ways to avoid(避免) saying “No”. These can help them avoid hurting other people’s feelings. However, this often makes their ways of doing business rather difficult for foreigners to understand and follow.

1.What often makes foreigners feel difficult to do business in Japan?

A. Their different ways of doing business.

B. Their different lifestyles.

C. The fact that the Japanese never say “No”.

D. The fact that the Japanese are slow to take action.

2.Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the underlined expression “bewilder foreign________businessmen” in Paragraph One?

A. cause foreign businessmen to change their minds.

B. give a feeling of surprise to foreign businessmen.

C. attract foreign businessmen’s attention.

D. make foreign businessmen think wrongly.

3.What fact does the passage lead you to believe?

A. American businessmen do things more slowly than Japanese ones.

B. American businessmen like to say “Yes” and “No”.

C. Americans usually say what they are thinking.

D. Americans do not say what they think or feel clearly.

4. From the passage we can infer(推断) that __________.

A. Japanese businessmen are good at business

B. foreign businessmen should try to know Japanese ways of doing business

C. foreign businessmen must be more polite

D. you must learn from Japanese businessmen if you want to succeed

Nearly eight hundred million people in this world cannot read or write, most of them in developing countries. Two-thirds are women and girls.

John Wood who started the Room to Read campaign（运动）, has opened 1,650 schools and 15,000 libraries in some of the world’s poorest communities（社区）. He said that from the beginning, Room to Read’s goal was to reach 10 million children around the world in the poorest countries.

In 1998, on a three-week vacation journey in Nepal, Wood met a local headmaster who invited him to visit his school in a far mountain village. The experience changed Wood’s life.

“This headmaster had 450 students at the school, but he didn’t have any books,” Wood said.” He had a library that was empty.”

Wood promised to fill the library shelves and returned to the village year later with some of his friends with 3,000 books. And that was just the start. Later, Wood used some of his personal money to start Room to Read. He believes that world change begins with educated children. Today, the programme can be found in 10 countries across Asia and Africa.

Wood believes the key to the program’s success is local support .While Room to Read gives away money and provides books, communities offer land and parents help build the school. Agnes, a Room to Read teacher in Zambia who also runs the library, is proud to say the literacy at her school has improved. Room to Read’s biggest challenge is the huge need. Hundreds of communities have asked for literacy programmes. One way of Room to Read’s success is that it will achieve Wood’s goal of reaching 10 million kids by 2015, five years earlier than it is planned.

1.The purpose of the Room to Read campaign is to __________.

A. ask parents to read together with their children

B. help poor children to learn to read and write

C. tell more people the importance of reading

D. help 10 million children to go to college

2.When John Wood travelled in Nepal in 1998, he __________.

A. visited many local schools

B. sent many books to local children

C. started the Room to Read campaign

D. met a man who changed his life

3.The underlined part “the literacy” in the last paragraph refers to（指的是）__________.

A. the teaching conditions

B. the teaching quality

C. students’ ability to read and write

D. the money teachers earn every month

4.John Wood is a person that is ____________.

A. helpful and generous B. honest and brave

C. careless but active   D. strict but friendly

In choosing a friend, one should be very careful. A good friend can help you study. You can have fun together and make each other happy. Sometimes you will meet fair-weather friends. They will be with you only if you have money or luck, but when you are down, they will run away. How do I know when I have found a good friend? I look for certain qualities of characteristic, especially understanding, honesty and reliability (可靠).

Above all else, I look for understanding in a friend. A good friend tries to understand how another person is feeling. He is not quick to give his opinion. Instead, he tries to learn from others. He puts himself in the other person's place, and he tries to think of ways to be helpful. He is also a good listener.

At the same time, however, a good friend is honest. He does not look for faults (过错) in others. He notices their good points. In short, a friend will try to understand me and accept me.

Another quality of a friend is reliability. I can always depend on (信赖) a good friend. If he tells me he will meet me somewhere at a certain time, I can be sure that he will be there. If I need help, he will do his best to help me. If I am in trouble, he will not run away from me.

There is a fourth quality that makes a friend special. A special friend is someone with whom we can have fun. We should enjoy our lives, and we would enjoy our friendship. That is why I especially like friends who are fun to be with. A good friend likes the same things I like. We share experience (经验) and learn from each other. A good friend has a good sense of humour, too. He likes to laugh with me. That is how we share in the joy of being friends. And I know that he is looking for the same quality in me.

When I meet someone who is reliable, honest, and understanding, I know I've found a friend!

1.Which of the following qualities the writer thinks is the most important in choosing ________a friend?

A. understanding.      B. honesty.

C. reliability.        D. a sense of humour.

2.If you have fair-weather friends, ______ .

A. they will give you all that they have when you need help

B. you will be refused when you get into trouble

C. you will become rich

D. you can be sure that you get real friends

3.Good friends need to ______.

A. always point out each other's mistakes

B. be helped with money

C. understand each other's feelings

D. have money or luck

4.This passage mainly discuss ______.

A. the qualities of a friend

B. where to choose friends

C. how to get along with friends

D. the importance of having a friend

BBC News on TV, radio and online often brings you stories from across the world. Today we can hear “Life in China”. Have you got a story about life in China today? If you do, please put your stories here.

1.How does Wu Peng contact his parents according to the passage?

A. By writing letters.    B. On the telephone.

C. On the Internet.      D. By sending text messages.

2. Who thought it was not right to eat on the underground?

A. Cindy.      B. Mike.

C. Wu Peng.    D. The kid’s mother

3.What does Mike want people to do?

A. Care about left-behind children

B. Obey the rules in public.

C. Improve their public manners

D. Stop wasting

完形填空,通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods ________ she realized that she was lost.

Sitting on a rock and ________ what to do, she began crying.  After a while，she  ________ to walk along a path with tall trees and thick bushes. When it was getting dark, she saw a small, dark wooden house. She opened the door and   ________ entered. Suddenly, she heard a strange noise, and she ran out of the door and back to the   ________ . Cold and tired, she fell asleep near a stream（小溪）.

The girl’s parents were out and her dog, Laddy, was at home. Laddy sensed that his mistress（女主人）was in danger. He jumped   ________ a window, breaking the glass. He looked in the fields. But he couldn’t find his mistress anywhere. However, from the ground came a   ________ scent (气味) as he lowered his head. He ________ the scent and walked across the grassland. Barking ________  into the air, the dog ________through the woods until he found the   ________ . But the girl was not there, so he headed back to the woods. Much to his delight, he saw his mistress’ blue shirt in the distance. He   ________ over some bushes and saw the little stream, where the girl was ________ .

When she opened her eyes and ________ her dog standing beside her, the girl said, “you    ________ me, Laddy,” and she kissed him several times. Seeing their daughter and dog coming back, the parents were happy. That night Laddy had a hero’s supper: a huge meal of pork.

1.A. before        B. since        C. while             D. as

2.A. wondering     B. forgetting  C. remembering       D. repeating

3.A. preferred     B. refused     C. failed            D. decided

4.A. carelessly    B. carefully   C. hopelessly        D. unwillingly

5.A. trees        B. bushes      C. woods            D. grasses

6.A. at            B. through    C. in                D. onto

7.A. terrible      B. strange     C. pleasant         D. familiar

8.A. missed       B. discovered C. followed          D. noticed

9.A. calmly       B. loudly      C. happily          D. gently

10.A. searched   B. found        C. looked           D. travelled

11.A. window      B. girl        C. house             D. hero

12.A. jumped      B. climbed      C. walked            D. flew

13.A. awake        B. afraid      C. available         D. asleep

14.A. listened    B. watched      C. heard            D. saw

15.A. disturbed    B. comforted   C. saved            D. scared

---I am very worried about tomorrow’s math test. I am afraid I can’t pass this time.

--___________! I’m sure you’ll be successful.

A.No problem       B. Cheer up

C. That’s right   D. Don’t mention it

---I wonder if it is going to rain next week.

---If it_________, I have to stay at home.

A. is    B. does   C. do      D. will

--I would rather_________ than dance. What about you? ---I prefer________.

A. sing; to dance      B. sing; dance

C. singing; to dancing D. singing; to dance

--I have a letter ________, but I’m too busy.

--Why not have your cousin_______ it for you?

A. to post; post    B. posted; post

C. to post; to post  D. posted; to post

Nobody except Eddie and Hobo_________ Brisbane before.

A. have been to  B. has been to

C. have gone to  D. has gone to

He was charged_______ robbing the old man ________ his money.

A. with; for   B. about; of

C. with; of   D. about; for