A lot of things ________ in Oxfam shops, _________ books.

A. sell； including B. are sold； including

C. sell； include D. are sold； include

Bob used to _______ a difficult person to get along with. But recently he has got used to_______ with others in a friendly way.

A. be, work B. be , working

C. being ,work D. being, working

—Let’s go and listen to Mr. Black’s speech on Western culture, shall we?

— ________ . It’s getting to the end.

A. Why not? B. That’s all right

C. I’m afraid not. D. Never mind.

完形填空，從每題所給選項中選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。

Ever since I was a child, my mouth has caused me trouble. I'm not a bad person； I have a _______ time learning when to keep my mouth closed.

My mom has told me again and again, "Robert, your constant bad words are hurting me. If you _______ to be this rude, you will get into big trouble."

It's been a problem at school several times too when teachers have told me something I didn't want to hear. I used to feel it was my duty(職責) to _______ myself.

One day in English class I began working on my homework until I heard a classmate_______ behind me. It was Nathaniel, who liked doing that as usual.

At first, I said very _______ , "Nathaniel, would you please be quiet?"

However, Nathaniel continued talking to himself. I quickly _______ "Nathaniel, shut up(閉嘴)!"

For the next five minutes, we threw hurtful(傷感情的) words back and forth at each other.

"At least I don't have an ugly lazy eye like you!" I shouted.

I knew this would make him _______ . It would hurt his feelings and shut him up.

What I said filled him with anger. He tried to _______ over my seat and catch me as he shouted, "That's it! That's it!"

_______ at his reaction(反應), I sat back in my seat. I had never seen Nathaniel act like this before.

Later on, we were taken to the principal's office. There, Mr. Black, our English teacher, told us to _______ the matter. It wasn't until then that I finally found that _______ I hurt someone physically(身體上), the wounds eventually heal(愈合). But when I hurt them with my _______ , sometimes the pain (痛苦) never goes away.

At the end of the discussion, I said _______ to Nathaniel.

When I went back to my room, I spent some time praying(祈禱). I began to _______ how often what I said hurt others. But I believe that as I keep praying and asking God to help me, he'll tell me when to keep my_______ closed.

1.A. busy B. hard C. happy D. fantastic

2.A. decide B. like C. continue D. try

3.A. support B. separate C. smell D. spend

4.A. singing B. reading C. beating D. talking

5.A. clearly B. nicely C. carelessly D. angrily

6.A. repeated B. expressed C. replied D. shouted

7.A. nervous B. afraid C. sad D. bored

8.A. fall B. look C. hand D. reach

9.A. Angry B. Surprised C. Nervous D. Happy

10.A. discuss B. solve C. explain D. report

11.A. while B. after C. when D. where

12.A. words B. action C. ideas D. experience

13.A. goodbye B. thanks C. sorry D. okay

14.A. talk about B. hear about C. complain about D. think about

15.A. eyes B. mouth C. windows D. door

How do you win a Nobel Prize for writing? Here’s the secret from a previous winner： make it short, keep it real, and work hard.

Canadian author Alice Munro, 82, was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature. She is known for her short stories about personal relationships of ordinary people, usually women.

Munro was born into a farming family in Ontario. The family was very poor. Munro did a lot of physical work as a young girl. She decided to be a writer at the age of 12. Now Munro turns her hard childhood into great writing ideas. The story Dear Life, for example, opens with a description of the neighborhood in which Munro grew up. Also, she talks about her poor relationship with her mother in many of her stories, such as Lives of Girls and Women and Friend of My Youth.

Since she published her first book in 1968, Munro has won many awards, with the Nobel Prize as her biggest honor. But Munro doesn’t see herself as a talented(有天賦的) writer.

“I’m the opposite of a writer with a quick gift. I don’t grasp it very easily at all, the ‘it’ being whatever I’m trying to do,” she said.

Do you dream of becoming an author while sadly admitting you are not that talented? Munro has a tip for you： use notebooks and write a lot.

“I have lots of notebooks that contain(包含) this writing,” she said. But it helps her sort out (整理) her mind. “Stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them.”

1.As a Nobel prize winner, Alice Munro is famous for _________.

A. having a rich childhood

B. writing short stories

C. having good relationship with her family

D. only writing about women in her stories

2.In the story Dear Life, Alice Munro _________.

A. described her poor relationship with her mom

B. wrote about her poor family

C. described the neighborhood where she grew up

D. talked about physical work she did in her childhood

3.Alice Munro published her first book when she was_________.

A. 37 B. 12 C. 30 D. 82

4.From the passage we can learn that Alice Munro is _________.

A. talented B. easy-going(隨和的)

C. confident D. hard-working

5. According to Alice Munro, those who want to be a writer should _____.

A. have talent in writing

B. write stories as long as possible

C. make up the story with imagination

D. write as much as possible

When I was a little girl, my father loved to play catch (拋接球游戲) with me. I wasn’t very good, but he would encourage me. He was always telling me “keep your eye on the ball” as I would not be able to catch even the easiest of throws.?

As I got older, we didn’t play catch as much. If I had a problem, I would go to my father to ask for his advice. He would try to joke with me and say “keep your eye on the ball”. We would both laugh because usually that advice did not apply to(適用于) the problem, but he would try to make me smile.?

My father became ill in 1995 when I was 23. As he suffered from a stroke (中風), he could not speak. There weren’t any more conversations. He could only mouth words, which were sometimes hard to understand. After a while, I seemed to be pretty good at reading his lips (嘴唇), even better than the nurses who were caring for him.

During our last conversation, I was telling him about a problem I was having with my then boyfriend. Once again, I could read his lips： “Keep your eye on the ball.” We both smiled.

That was the last time I saw my father before he passed away.

Since then, when I get into a stressful situation I tell myself “keep your eye on the ball”.

1.At first, by saying “keep your eye on the ball”, the writer’s father _____.

A. tells her to be careful while playing catch

B. wants to teach her a life lesson

C. wants her to work harder in every way

D. laughs at her when she misses the ball

2.When the writer asked for advice from her father, he usually _____.

A. tried to solve the problem for her

B. didn’t care about her problem

C. joked with her and made her smile

D. told her to solve the problem alone

3.When in trouble, the writer tells herself “keep your eye on the ball” to _____.

A. encourage herself to face the difficulty

B. remember the old days with her father

C. help herself forget her troubles

D. remember how to play catch

4.The underlined word “pretty” means _________.

A. beautiful B. quite C. carefully D. always

5.Which of the following can describe the writer’s father?

A. Serious. B. Cheerful(令人愉快的). C. Honest. D. Careless.

Flying is a fast way to travel. But it is a big headache for some people. They can’t help worrying about things like, “Is turbulence (顛簸) a bad thing?” or, “Is it dangerous if we don’t change our mobile phones to flight mode (飛行模式)?” British newspaper Daily Mail spoke to some experts to answer these questions. They also tell us other interesting things about flying.

Is turbulence dangerous?

It’s scary and uncomfortable. But it is not something you really need to worry about.

Turbulence is caused when two groups of air hit one another at different speeds. Wind, thunderstorms (暴風雨) and being close to mountains can be reasons for this.

You may feel like turbulence is dangerous, but it won’t crash (墜毀) your plane. “Even in extremely rough air (擾動氣流), the wings (機翼) are not going to break off,” explained Patrick Smith, an airline pilot, who is also an air travel blogger and author of AskThePilot.com.

Why are plane windows round?

Round windows are for passenger safety.

As the airplane flies higher and higher, the outside atmospheric pressure (氣壓) gets lower and lower. During the flight, the pressure inside the plane becomes greater than the pressure outside.

When this happens, square windows can break. That’s because having different pressures inside and outside puts pressure on the corners of square windows. But rounded corners can spread the pressure through the window.

What happens when a phone isn’t on flight mode?

Some passengers believe mobile phones and tablets need to be turned off because they could bring the plane down. However, this is not true.

If you don’t change your phone to flight mode, pilots and air traffic controllers may hear unpleasant sounds in their headphones. It also influences radio communications. So it’s still best to put it on flight mode.

1.According to Paragraph 1, we learn that the story is going to _____.

A. show what worries people may have about flying

B. interview some experts about flying

C. give people tips about how to travel by plane

D. explain some interesting facts about flying

2.What will happen when there is turbulence?

A. People may feel uncomfortable.

B. Two planes may hit each other easily.

C. It will make the plane drop suddenly.

D. It can break off the plane wings.

3.Planes use round windows rather than square ones, because ____.

A. round windows can spread the pressure

B. round windows can add outside pressure

C. square windows can lower(降低) the pressure on the windows

D. the corners of square windows are difficult to make

4.What happens if a phone isn’t on flight mode?

A. The plane will crash.

B. Air traffic controllers can’t get any information.

C. It may influence radio communications.

D. It may be noisy in the plane.

5.The passage may be taken from _______.

A. A story book B. A science magazine

C. A guide travel D. A novel

閱讀表達 閱讀短文，根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答問題

Primary and junior high school students will get new versions (版本) of textbooks this fall term.

The biggest changes will take place in Chinese textbooks. The primary goal is to include more traditional(傳統(tǒng)的) Chinese culture. For example, ideas on the hundred schools of thought (諸子百家) will be introduced to students. There will also be more classical Chinese poems and essays (文章). The percentage(百分率) of traditional culture in the new textbooks will be raised to 30 percent for primary school students and 40 percent for junior high school students. Meanwhile, about 15 percent of the content (內(nèi)容) will be taken out in order to make students have less work.

The Language and Culture Press will publish the new Chinese textbooks. It makes one of the main versions of the present textbooks in China. First, the new books will be given to more than 4 million students in the first and seventh grades across the country starting this fall, and then they will be given to other grades.

Also, politics (政治) textbooks will get new names. Primary school politics textbooks were called “morality and life (品德與生活)”, and those for junior high schools were called “ideology and morality (思想品德)”. This year, the names of all politics textbooks for the first and seventh grades will change to “morality and law (道德與法治)”.

It’s the first time the word “l(fā)aw” will be included in the names of textbooks since 1949. “We need to let kids know that laws protect them as well as how they do that,” said Li Xiaodong, sociology (社會學) professor at Beijing Normal University.

No more than six words

1.When will the students get the new textbooks?

____________________________________________________________________________

2.What percentage of traditional culture will be raised to for junior high school students?

_____________________________________________________________________________

3.Why will 15 percent of the content be taken out ?

_____________________________________________________________________________

4.How many students in the first and seventh grades will get the new books first?

_____________________________________________________________________________

5.What will the politics textbooks be called this year?

_____________________________________________________________________________

任務型閱讀 閱讀短文，根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容完成表格內(nèi)所缺信息，每空一詞

When did you last say “I love you” to your father? If you can’t remember, then you can get the chance this Father’s Day on June 19.

Generally compared to(與---相比) a mother’s gentle love, a father represents qualities such as independence(獨立), confidence, courage and adventure(冒險).

Also, caring fathers help their children get along with others. Fathers can lead their children into their social circle(社交圈). They can also teach them how to behave and control their feelings.

For example, Microsoft founder Bill Gates was quiet and didn’t like to talk with others when he was a little kid. So his father often held family parties and let Bill play games with family members. “my ability of leading and cooperating(合作) became better through games.” Gates once said in an interview with US Fortune magazine.

US actor Will Smith said that his father taught him important lessons through small things. His father once planned to tear(拆) down a wall of their shop and rebuild it. But little Will thought it was impossible. After a year and a half, they did it. “You didn’t try to build a wall. You are going to lay a brick every day. And soon you have a wall,” he said on TV show.

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters”, British poet George Herbert once said. Do you agree?

根據(jù)句意和漢語提示, 在空白處填入一個適當?shù)膯卧~。(每空一詞)

1.The _____________(調(diào)查) show that it is necessary for us to develop a green lifestyle.

2.Who was ________________(缺席的) from school yesterday?

3.Finally, Gulliver _______________(設法完成) to break the ropes and got away.

4.His car crashed _____________(撞) the wall last night because of the heavy rain.

5.It is necessary to use the natural resources _______________(明智地).