【題目】Noah Webster, born on October 16, 1758, is known for The American Dictionary of the English Language. He has been called the" Father of American Scholarship and Education. " His " Blue-Backed Speller" books were used to teach spelling and reading to five generations of American children. But how much do you know about him beyond that?

At the age of 16, Noah Webster began attending Yale College, Unfortunately, he spent his four years at Yale during the American Revolutionary War, and, because of food shortages, many of his college classes were held in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Later, he served in the army. Having graduated from Yale in 1778, Webster wanted to continue his education in order to earn his law degree. He had to teach school in order to pay for his education. He set up many small schools that didn’t survive, but he was a good teacher because instead of forcing his students to learn, like what most teachers did, he rewarded them.

He earned his law degree in, 1781, but did not practice law until 1789. Once he started he found the law was not to his liking. Webster did not have much money.

In 1793, Alexander Hamilton lent him $ 1500 to move to New York City to edit a newspaper. In December, he founded New York’s first daily newspaper, American Minerva, and edited it for four years. For decades, he published textbooks, political essays, a report on some diseases, and newspaper articles for his party. He wrote so much that a modern list of his published works required 655 pages.

Noah Webster died on May 28, 1843 and was buried in the Grove Street Cemetery.

【1】Which of the following best describes Webster’s life at Yale?

A. Tough. B. Smooth.

C. Normal. D. Tiring.

【2】What did Noah want to be after graduation from Yale?

A. A teacher. B. A lawyer.

C. A headmaster. D. A scholar.

【3】What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A. Webster was a most productive author.

B. Webster led a miserable life in New York City.

C. Webster’S books added up to 655 pages.

D. Webster didn’t write any political Works.

【題目】-I wonder whom you are waiting for.

-The policeman __________ the traffic accident.

A. dealt with

B. to deal with

C. will deal with

D. did with

【題目】We are at your service. Don't ________ to turn to us if you have any further problems.

A. beg

B. bother

C. intend

D. hesitate

【題目】Talking plants might sound like characters in a fairy tale. But recent scientific studies have shown that plants communicate with each other and with other living things in a surprising number of ways. To understand them, scientists say, we just have to learn their language. Farmers are especially interested in what plants have to say.

“Plants are able to communicate with all sorts of organisms(有機(jī)體). They can communicate with giant bacteria, with other plants and with insects. They do this chemically, ”said Cahill, an Ecology Professor of the University of Alberta in Canada.

Plant scientists are just beginning to understand this chemical “l(fā)anguage”. Cahill says studies have shown, for example, that plants can evaluate conditions in their immediate environment and take appropriate actions. Plants have an ability, for example, to signal pain or discomfort caused by anything from temperature extremes to an insect attack. Jack Schultz, a professor of chemical ecology at the University of Missouri, says when a plant senses that it’S being eaten, it cannot walk away from trouble；on the contrary, it will release a chemical vapor that alerts other plants nearby.

“Their language is a chemical language, and it involves chemicals that move through the air, which are easily to be changed, and most of all are smells that we are familiar with, ” Schultz explained.

“All plants responded to the attack by changing their chemistry to defend themselves, ” Schultz recalled. “But we were quite surprised to find that nearby plants also changed their chemistry to defend themselves, even though they were not part of the experiment. ”

Studies have also shown that plants under attack release pleasant chemicals. Those chemicals attract friendly insects that attack the pests eating the plant.

In the end, plants’ability to communicate their needs－and our ability to understand them－could help farmers reduce the use of poisonous chemicals, cut operating costs and limit damage to the environment.

【1】The recent scientific studies have shown that plants can __________.

A. communicate with other living things in a chemical way

B. hardly react to any sudden change in temperature

C. use a very special chemical language which is familiar to us

D. respond to the attack by giving off poisonous chemicals

【2】When being eaten by a pest, the plant will ___________.

A. walk away from trouble

B. change its chemistry to kill the insect

C. release a chemicaI vapor to “ask” other plants for help

D. give off nice chemicals to attract friendly insects to a tack the pest

【3】The underlined word “alerts” most probably means “___________”.

A. warns B. protects

C. threatens D. allows

【4】Which would be the best title for the passage?

A. Communication between Plants

B. A Chemical “Language”

C. Plants Can Talk

D. How Plants Protect Themselves

【題目】If you and your friends wish to share a secret, you can write it in code, and no one else will be able to read it. Codes are one way of writing in secret Ciphers(暗碼)are another. In a code each word is written as a secret code word or a code number. In a cipher each letter is changed.

Codes and ciphers have played an important role in the history of the world. Julius Caesar, the Roman ruler who defeated almost all the countries in Europe about 2,000 years ago, used a cipher when he sent secret messages to his troops. During the American Revolution, George Washington’s spies used a kind of code to send his information about the enemy before his military action. In World War Ⅱ. the Americans ”broke” or figured out Japan’s most important navy codes and got enough information to destroy a powerful Japanese fleet.

Storekeepers use codes to mark their goods. The codes show how much is paid for the goods or when they are added to the stock. Businessmen use codes to hide plans from their business enemies. Sometimes personal letters or diaries are written in code. Many people enjoy figuring out codes and ciphers simply as a hobby.

In the 16th century, codes and ciphers Were very popular among scientists. They wrote messages to each other in code so that no one else would learn their secrets. Geronimo Gardano, all Italian astrologer(占星家), mathematician, and doctor, invented the trellis cipher.

He took two sheets of paper and cut exactly the same holes in each one. Then he sent one sheet, which he called a trellis, to a friend and kept the other for himself. Whenever he wanted to write a message. he put his trellis over a clean sheet of paper and wrote the secret message through the holes. There he removed the trellis and filled the rest of the paper with words that would make sense. When his friend received it, he put his trellis over the writing and read the secret message.

【1】The best title of this passage would be _______.

A. Codes and Ciphers

B. Differences between Codes and Ciphers

C. History of Codes and Ciphers

D. Inventors of Codes and Ciphers

【2】Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Ciphers can be broken or figured out more easily than codes.

B. You could read some words in Geronimo’s letter without his trellis.

C. The first person who ever used a cipher in history was Julius Caesar.

D. Fondness of using codes was the hobby of the scientists in the 1600s.

【3】According to Geronimo Gardano, a trellis is _____________.

A. a piece of paper with many small holes

B. a secret message with a lot of small holes

C. a letter with unreadable words and sentences

D. a sheet of paper with groups of Arabic figures

【4】It is NOT mentioned in the passage that codes and ciphers are used for the purpose of _________.

A. military affairs B. commercial secrets

C. scientific achievements D. personal enjoyment

【題目】假定英語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匯。

2. 只允許修改10處, 多者(從第11處記)不計(jì)分。

When I was a child, I spent more than ten years learn the violin. Therefore. I couldn't understand “real music”· After I graduated from high school, the friend of mine suggested that we started to learn the guitar because we all thought it was cool. I will never forget the day on that we went to buy guitars in the guitar store. Here I saw a guitar player playing the guitar, which I really enjoyed. He became my first guitar teacher. There were too many wonderful models to choose that it took me a long time to buy one Now the guitar is the most importantly part of my life and I practice it every day.

【題目】James Bender, in his book How to Talk Well tells the story of a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he won a blue ribbon. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it.

The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” The reporter asked. “Why,” said the farmer, “didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen(花粉) from the ripening corn and carries it from field to field. If my neighbors grow bad corn, cross-pollination(異花受粉) will slowly reduce the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn. ”

He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbors’ corn also improves. The lesson for each of us is this: If we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn.

【寫作要求】

1.突出：人與人之間本應(yīng)和睦相處、互幫互助、共同進(jìn)步；

2. 以約30個(gè)詞概括短文的要點(diǎn)；

3. 發(fā)表你的看法，談?wù)勀愕恼J(rèn)識(shí)。

【注意事項(xiàng)】

1、作文中可以使用實(shí)例來支持你的論點(diǎn)，也可以參照閱讀材料的內(nèi)容論述，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

2、作文中不能出現(xiàn)真實(shí)姓名和學(xué)校名稱。

【評(píng)分標(biāo)準(zhǔn)】概括準(zhǔn)確，語言規(guī)范，內(nèi)容合適，篇章連貫。

【題目】It was three in the afternoon and I was putting my baby to sleep when the phone rang. It was a little girl asking for the Gold-stein family. " 【1】__" I said，"you've got the wrong number. " 【2】the phone didn't stop ringing. Each time it was the voice of a little girl. She was 【3】 one call after another, each time asking for the Gold stein family. My baby wouldn't stop crying. I started to lose my 【4】 . 1 left the phone 【5】 the hook for about an hour, certain that this would 【6】 her. But as soon as I put the phone back on the hook, she 【7】 ！ I started to cry. After about the tenth call I told her that if she called one more time I would call the 【8】 . At 6： 30 pm, the phone rang for about the 25th time. I picked it up, but remained 【9】 . 1 could hear the same voice of a girl. What kind of 【10】 would allow her to do this all the afternoon! I 【11】 to speak to her mother. To ray 【12】 ，she called her mother to the phone. I told the mother what her little girl had been doing to me all the 【13】 . The mother assured me that this was the 【14】 phone call her daughter had made that day. "My daughter's teacher gave all the girls in the class the phone number of their new teaching 30. The entire class of 【15】 girls was told to call the new assistant to find what time their class would be. The teacher must have given them the wrong number 【16】 "

Until about 9:00 pm, the phone 【17】 rang from time to time. Each time, it was a little girl wanting to know what time the class was ！ Some girls, even after hearing they had the wrong 【18】 ，would anyway ask if I knew the time ！ I would just 【19】. It had turned into a joke now! I would 【20】 have thought that an entire class of girls, all with the same voice, was calling me ！

A. Stop B. Sorry C. Fine D. OK

A. Then B. So C. But D. And

A. making B. returning C. receiving D. sending

A. hope B. interest C. sense D. temper

A. at B. on C. off D. above

A. discourage B. frighten C. puzzle D. connect

A. arrived B. called C. appeared D. returned

A. school B. director C. neighbors D. police

A. angry B. calm C. silent D. serious

A. operators B. parents C. teachers D. mothers

A. refused B. started C. preferred D. demanded

A. surprise B. disappointment C. joy D. satisfaction

A. day B. night C. afternoon D. morning

A. first B. last C. second D. easiest

A. plan B. assistant C. course D. advisor

A. on purpose B. in advance

C. by mistake D. for the moment

A. still B. sure C. always D. just

A. place B. information C. address D. number

A. cry B. laugh C. complain D. wait

A. almost B. yet C. already D. never

【題目】— You look tired. Shall we stop to have a break?

—__________ I can hardly walk farther.

A. Of course you are right.

B. Never mind.

C. Not at all.

D. Why not?

【題目】People suffered __________ from the disaster, but they didn't lose confidence in rebuilding their homes.

A. a good many

B. a large number

C. a great variety

D. a great deal