The adolescent girl from Tennessee was standing on the stage of a drama summer camp in New York. It was a beautiful day. But the girl didn’t feel beautiful. She was not the leggy, attractive Hollywood type. In fact, she described herself as stupid.

Her name is Reese Witherspoon. Since Reese Witherspoon was six years old, she had admired and respected Dolly Patton, who was a famous country singer. For three years she had gone all out to act, dance and sing, fancying that she could be another dolly Patton.

However, at the end of the camp her coaches told her to forget about singing. They suggested she think about another career. She took their words to heart. After all. why shouldn’t she believe the professionals?

But back at home in Nashville, her mother-a funny, happy, optimistic woman-wouldn’t let her feel depressed. Her father, a physician, encouraged her to achieve in school. So she worked hard at everything and was accepted at Stanford University.

And at 19, she got a part in a low-budget movie called Freeway, which prepared for her role in the movie Pleasantville. But her big break came with Legally Blonde.

“If you can’t sing and you aren’t charming, play to your strengths. If you’re going to make it in this business, better focus on what you’re good at,” she told the interviewer later.

And then came the offer that took her back to her Nashville-playing the wife of a country star Johnny Cash, a singing role. All of a sudden the old fears learned on that summer stage were back. She was so nervous on the stage. But she didn’t give up on the movie or herself. She spent 6 months taking singing lessons again. She learned to play the Autoharp. And the hard work built up her confidence.

Last March, Reese Witherspoon walked up on another stage, the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, and accepted the Oscar as Best Actress for her heartbreaking, heartwarming singing role as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line.

1.Why was Reese Witherspoon sad at the end of the camp?

A. She was described foolish

B. She was told to give up singing

C .She failed to be famous

D. She had to go back home

2.What was Reese’s parents’ response after her coaches suggested her giving up singing?

A. They agreed with her coaches

B. They only focused on her study

C. They ignored her frustration

D. They encouraged her

3.How did Reese succeed in playing the singing role?

A. By regaining her confidence through hard work

B. By practicing autoharp for over 6 months

C. By making herself leggy and attractive

D. By forgetting that summer stage

4.Which is the best title for the passage?

A. A successful actress B. Reese Witherspoon

C. Never give up D. Fortune is important

“A Long Walk Home”-----life as Eli Reed saw it

American photographer and photojournalist Eli Reed has been documenting “l(fā)ife as I saw it” for more than 40 years. His career retrospective(回顧), “Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home”, is an extraordinary search of beauty while recording hardship. With a heart of love, Reed uses a style that uncovers humanity at every turn. According to Reed, “A Long Walk Home” is about what it means to be a human being. It all began with a photo he took of his mother and his memory of her smile.

Raised in New Jersey, reed was originally a painter. Primarily self-taught in photography, he became a freelance photographer in 1970. after producing some impressive photos that drew much attention, he joined the famous company Magnum Photos---the first black photographer invited to do so.

His photos are remarkable in their lack of judgment of the people or the situations he comes across. In Beirut, Lebanon, a man removes a tree branch from a car in a recently bombed parking lot. An old man wrapped in a sheet plays a drum in front of a sign reading “God Is the Way” while National Guardsmen lift their guns during a war in Miami. A young boy upside down with his legs in the air in a Kenyan refugee camp, his determined look faces the camera. In Harlem, New York, a group of laughing children take over an abandoned car, using it as a jungle gym.

Where another photographer might have focused on the sobriety of these situations. Reed’s camera smiles. His images show how humans cope, rise above, and carry on. This is what gives “ A Long Walk Home” its power. Considering the places Reed has been to, there are very few photos of guns or obvious violence. Instead, Reed focuses on the varied human responses to hardship.

We smile along with Reed in a gesture of compassion and solidarity. We recognize our fellow human beings.

1.Why did Eli Reed produce his work “A Long Walk Home”?

A. To search for the meaning of life

B. To keep memories of his mother

C. To help people who are suffering

D. To pursuer his love of photography

2.According to the passage, Magnum Photos_____________.

A. employed Reed in 1970

B. was located in New Jersey

C. taught Reed the art of photography

D. only had white employees originally

3.In his work “A Long Walk Home”. Reed’s photos_____________.

A. aim to draw others’ sympathy

B. were taken only in America

C. reflect the strength of humans

D. focus on war and violence

4.What does the underlined word “sobriety” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A. Warmth B. Cause C. Value D. Seriousness

IMAGINE if, to collect your salary each month, you had to walk to the nearest town, perhaps tens of miles away, to gather in a school or a football court or a church. There, you and your colleagues wait for a man to arrive from the capital, perhaps a thousand miles away, with a suitcase of cash.

Few countries are as corrupt as Congo(剛果). Mobutu Sese Seko, a former strongman, used state funds to charter a Concorde to take him on shopping trips to Paris. By the time of his overthrow in 1997, graft was endemic. Government employees were not paid but rather expected to use their positions to make a living. Among the most prized government jobs was that of accountant: the people responsible for transporting bags of cash to the provinces to hand out to employees.

In 2012, however, the Congolese government started helping civil servants to open bank accounts. Around three-quarters of them—some 670,000 people—now have one. In the process, the government has weeded out tens of thousands of ghost employees, since the embezzlers who invented them could not open accounts in their names without a matching ID.

Yet in a vast country with fewer roads than Luxembourg, hardly anyone lives anywhere near a bank branch. So Congolese banks must now do the work the government accountants used to: shipping money to the remote area. Cash has to be transported to branches in regional capitals, and thence to account-holders on the backs of motorbikes, in canoes or by foot. Bank staff with suitcases of cash make easy targets, just as they did in the west of America in the 19th century. Though they usually travel with armed policemen, there have been at least ten armed robberies of bank employees since January.

At the moment banks are little more than money-transfer companies, and not very sophisticated ones at that. The transfers tend to go only one way—out of Kinshasa—so cannot be netted against each other; instead cash almost always has to be moved physically. Therefore, most Congolese bankers hope that the new system will promote the growth of a proper banking system.

1.The underlined word “charter” (Paragraph 2) can be replaced by “_______________”.

A. drive B. rent C. write D. push

2.How did government employees use to earn a living?

A. By getting enough salaries

B. By talking to employees

C. By transporting bags of cash

D. By benefiting from their positions

3.What is not one of the challenges that bank staff have to face while transferring each?

A. The transfers are netted against one another

B. The cash may be robbed away

C. Most cash has to be moved physically

D. They sometimes have to walk to transfer cash

4.Which of the following can be the best title of the article?

A. Unavoidable robberies B. Frequent corruption

C. Cash on the way D. Best banking system

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。

More American Fathers Stay Home to Raise Kids

Families in the U. S. are changing. 1. This number is twice that of 25 years ago. In 2012, 16 percent of all parents in the U. S. were stay-at-home dads. Gretchen Livingston is with the Pew Research Center. She says in the last 25 years there have been changes as far as dads taking on more caregiving responsibilities and mothers taking on more bread-winner responsibilities. 2. That is a huge change. The study finds that disability, sickness and unemployment are among the reasons that fathers stay home. 3. For example, Blake Humphreys has also been a stay-at-home dad for the past ten years. Blake and his partner have two kids. Blake is a big, muscular man. He is well over six feet tall, with a beard and long hair tucked under his baseball cap. He looks like the kind of man that would be hard to frighten. 4. "I am a stay-at-home dad for ten years. And I know that just saying it sounds scary to me right now." Blake became a stay-at-home parent for the same reason many women do – he made less money than his partner. Even thought the number of stay-at-home fathers is growing in the U. S., such men can still face worries about their self-worth. 5. To help solve this problem, he volunteers at his children’s school partly to battle that isolation and to build up his sense of self-worth.

A. But, some fathers do so simply to spend more time with their children.

B. Blake shared his feeling of anxiety.

C. A new study finds that in the U. S. more than two million fathers are staying home to take care of the house and family.

D. A lot of men lost their jobs

E. However, he says he does feel fearful when he counts the years he has been out of the workforce.

F. She adds that the number of hours a day that dads spend caring for their kids has tripled in the past decades.

G. Black expressed his true feeling towards being a stay-at-home dad.

完型填空

閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（ABCD）中選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

I believe I had the perfect life. Because I was about to __ __ my high school, and on my way to college, I had great friends and a loving family. There was nothing ____ ____ . But I spoke too soon.

It was around 9:25 a. m. that I heard the news that would ___ _____ my life forever My brother Zach had been in a car accident. He fought for five days before he ___ ______. That day, I became an only child. I felt desperately ________.

After Zach’s death, I found __________ in food. I ate, then I slept, then I ate again. I couldn’t cry. I could barely feel anything, and I was _________ .I stopped building relationships for fear that they would end just as __________ as Zach’s life. Also, I became nervous about any potentially _______situations-driving late at night-but I couldn’t express this fear of life ________ I wanted to be strong for my parents. I saw my parents’ _________ worse than mine on account of the losing of their son. I didn’t want them to __________ me. I also experienced a lot of ___________, because I was angry about why the sadness had happened to me, and I never __________from this emotion.

Now, it has been nearly five years since Zach’s death. I don’t ________life anymore: I face it bravely. I ________ my friendships and began socializing more. I even _______ Zach’s story with people around me. Although my new friends met him they know about Zach.

One lesson I learned from losing my brother was never to be _______ to say, “ I love you.” I loved my brother, but it was too late to ________ it loudly. The last time I remember telling my brother I loved him was when he was when he was dying. Don’t make this ________like me.

1.A. skip B. finish C. admit D. determine

2.A. earning B. reaching C. competing D. missing

3.A. slip B. alter C. simplify D. spoil

4.A. took away B. gave away C. passed away D. flew away

5.A. lonely B. deserted C. abandoned D. remote

6.A. nutrition B. benefit C. guidance D. relief

7.A. funny B. hopeless C. patient D. numb

8.A. finally B. suddenly C. appropriately D. violently

9.A. complicated B. particular C. risky D. tense

10.A. so B. if C. unless D. because

11.A. pain B. discouragement C. tolerance D. memory

12.A. think about B. dream about C. consider about D. care about

13.A. unpleasantness B. anger C. unhappiness D. power

14.A. escaped B. anger C. stopped D. measured

15.A. damage B. choose C. fear D. leave

16.A. produced B. rebuilt C. promoted D. insured

17.A. imitate B. advertise C. share D. perform

18.A. stubborn B. nervous C. bold D. afraid

19.A. explore B. express C. circulate D. spray

20.A. mistake B. explanation C. decision D. comment

閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（1個(gè)單詞）或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

I always have my own ways to learn English. First, I always read the text in advance so that I can know what I must pay much attention to in class. 1._____ my delight, when my teacher raises a question, I know how to answer more often. And whenever I answer a question 2.______ (correct), I have a strong sense of achievement.

Besides, I always try to take notes in class. Important language points, grammar rules, useful 3._____ (express) and key words are4._____ we want to take down. After class, I organize the notes so that I can have a better 5.______ (understand) of them. Of course, I will certainly read aloud the notes in the morning.

To develop my interest in English, after class I 6._____ (wide) read English materials. By this means I can also develop my ability of reading.

7.____ (chat) with my teachers and classmates is also one of my ways to learn English. We often talk 8.____ English about different topics concerning friendship, sports, etc. Free expression in English always9.___ (give) me a sense of pride, 10.______ in turn inspires me to learn English better.

短文改錯(cuò)

假定英語(yǔ)課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請(qǐng)你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤，每句中最多有兩處。每處錯(cuò)誤僅涉及一個(gè)單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)(∧)，并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線( \ )劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1.每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2.只允許修改10處，多者(從第11處起)不計(jì)分。

In order to strengthen our sense of social responsible, the students in our school launched an activity of donating books to the children in poor areas. We gather in front of the school library in the afternoon of Jan. 15th. Each of them gave away some books what we treasured. We even wrote our names and address on the front pages, hope to be contacted and make friends with the children who would receive the books. About two thousand books were collected in and sent away. An activity not only provided a good chance for us show love for others, but also helped us to make new friends.

書(shū)面表達(dá)

2016年5月至10月將在河北唐山舉行世界園藝博覽會(huì)。假設(shè)你是紅星中學(xué)高三的學(xué)生李華，獲悉唐山世界園藝博覽會(huì)正在全國(guó)范圍內(nèi)招聘英語(yǔ)志愿者。請(qǐng)用英語(yǔ)寫一封自薦信，申請(qǐng)成為唐山世界園藝博覽會(huì)7月至8月的志愿者。信的內(nèi)容包括：

1．表達(dá)愿望；

2．提供至少三條自薦理由（例如：扎實(shí)的英語(yǔ)功底）；

3．懇請(qǐng)獲準(zhǔn)。

注意：

1．詞數(shù)100左右；

2．開(kāi)頭和結(jié)尾已給出，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)。

提示詞：世界園藝博覽會(huì)Would Horticultural exposition

Dear Sir or Madam,

I’ve read the news on the Internet that the World Horticultural Exposition will be held in Tangshan from May to October in 2016. __________________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________

Sincerely,

Li Hua

As I was new to the city, _________ had I set foot in the street __________ I realized I was lost.

A. no sooner; then B. instantly; when

C. barely; when D. hardly ; that

_________ with a difficult situation, Teddy determined to ask his boss for advice.

A. Faced B. Having faced

C. To face D. Facing