This sad story happened on a cold winter evening. It was so cold and snow was falling so heavily that the roads were covered with ice and a strong wind was blowing. Being outside in such weather was very unwise. However, Peter Lee had to walk home from work. Peter walked with difficulty along a country road, the cold wind beating against his chest. He thought, “ If I wear my coat backwards, maybe, it will be a little bit warmer for me.” He stopped walking, took off his coat, and put it on backwards. “That’s much better.” He said to himself happily. Walking on through the thickly falling snow, he was thinking about drinking a cup of warm coffee by the burning fireplace.

A few minutes later, a car knocked down Peter. The driver hadn’t seen him soon enough. When he tried his best to put on the brakes（剎車）, the car skidded（打滑）on the icy road. The frightened driver got out of the car and ran to see how the poor man was.

After a while, a police car arrived. A policeman went up to see Mr. Lee who was lying on the ground. He told the driver, “I’m afraid he’s dead.”

The driver was so surprised. “This can’t be the case, because I hardly touched him. Check my car carefully. There’s not a mark on it.”

The policeman sad, “I’m sure he’s dead.”

“It’s impossible,” the driver said anxiously. “As soon as I hit him, I ran to help him. He was lying on the road, but he was breathing and there was no blood.”

“Did you touch him?” The policeman asked.

“Yes, but only to turn his head around the right way.” The driver answered.

1.Why did the writer say this story was a sad one?

A. It was rather cold that day.

B. Snow was falling heavily that day.

C. The man in the story was made dead by mistake.

D. An accident happened on the road.

2. According to the writer, Peter Lee _____.

A. was wise

B. didn’t need to walk home in such bad weather

C. was in bad need of going home

D. had difficulty in finding the road leading to his home

3.Peter Lee wore his coat backwards _____.

A. to keep himself a little bit warmer

B. to help walk forward more easily

C. not to let others know him

D. not to let the cold wind blow

4. The driver failed to see Peter Lee soon enough, _____.

A. so the car skidded on the icy road

B. so he tried his best to put on the brakes

C. and he had to get out of the car

D. so his car knocked him down

5.What did the driver do to make Peter Lee die?

A. He touched him carefully.

B. He turned his head around the right way.

C. He helped him to sit up.

D. He turned him over gently.

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1.All the information about the writer must be included except his / her _____.

A. school name B. e-mail address

C. year of birth D. telephone number

2.What is required for the articles wanted according to the passage?

A. They must be fully created by the writers themselves.

B. They must be typed in single space and on both sides.

C. They must be provided with photos and descriptions.

D. They must be sent with the copies of texts and pictures.

3.According to the passage, you can send your articles _____

A. within 3 weeks

B. all summer

C. all the year round

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4.How many ways can you find in the passage to contact School Life?

A. one B. twoC. threeD. four

5. Who do you think will write articles for School Life?

A. Students who are interested in writing.

B. Teachers who love writing and taking photos.

C. Parents who wish their kids to be popular writers.

D. Readers who had a happy time in their childhood.

America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.

Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.

For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!

1. The writer of this passage must be ______.

A. an American

B. a Chinese

C. a professor

D. a student

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.

B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.

C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.

D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.

3. From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be ______.

A. warmly welcomed at the airport

B. offered a ride to his home

C. treated hospitably at his home

D. treated to dinner in a restaurant

4.The underlined words “generous with our time” in Paragraph 3 probably mean ______.

A. strict with time

B. serious with time

C. careful with time

D. willing to spend time

5.A suitable title for this passage would probably be “______”.

A. Friendships between Chinese

B. Friendships between Americans

C. Americans’ hospitality

D. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships

閱讀下面信息，請從以下選項（A、B、C、D、E、F）中選出符合31—35題的選項，其中有一項是多余選項。

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B. Cozy Corner

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14:30—17:30

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For hot soup, enjoy the special price under ￥21!

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1.The Wangs are going to eat out together. Mr. Wang likes to eat fish, but the children want beef.

2.Jimmy heard that a new restaurant just opened. In that restaurant he can enjoy delicious fast food and play computer games at the same time.

3. Michael loves to taste food from all over the world. He’d like to go to an Italian restaurant tonight.

4.Jennifer’s parents are coming to see her today. She wants to eat hot food with them.

5.Mrs. Smart is meeting her old friend. She is looking for a restaurant where she can have afternoon tea and also have a talk with her friends.

完形填空

閱讀下列短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項A、B、C、D中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。

I was in a strange city and I didn’t know the city at all. ___, I could not speak a ____ of the language there. After I spent my first day in the town center, I decided to lose my way on my second day, for I ____ that this was the way of getting to know the strange city.

I ___on a bus, rode on it for several stops, then ____ and walked on. The first two hours ____ pleasantly enough. Then I decided to turn ____my hotel for lunch. After I walked for ____, I decided I had better __the way. But the trouble was that I knew only the word of the name to the street.

I ___to ask a newspaper-seller. He smiled and handed me a ____. I shook my head and ___ the name of the street again and he put the paper into my hands. I ___ give him some money and went on my way. The next person was a policeman. He listened to me carefully, smiled and took me by the arm. There was a strange look in his eyes as he pointed left and right, and left again. I nodded politely and walked on.

About an hour passed and I noticed that the houses were getting ____and I saw green fields on ___ side of me. I had come all the way into the country. Now I had to look for the nearest railway station!

1.A. Besides B. ExceptC. Beside D. But

2.A. sentence B. meaning C. soundD. word

3.A. believed B. understoodC. said D. realized

4.A. rode B. tookC. got D. climbed

5.A. it off B. it downC. down it D. off it

6.A. spent B. pastC. passedD. through

7.A. toB. on toC. back D. back to

8.A. some time B. sometimeC. sometimes D. some times

9.A. to ask B. to ask for C. ask for D. ask

10.A. stood B. stop C. stopped D. standing

11.A. book B. paper C. magazineD. note

12.A. toldB. saidC. talkedD. spoke

13.A. mustB. wantedC. couldD. had to

14.A. more and more B. many and many C. less and less D. fewer and fewer

15.A. either B. both C. all D. neither

語法填空

閱讀下面的短文，在空白處填入一個適當(dāng)?shù)脑~，或填入括號中所給單詞的正確形式。

Do you chew gum after a meal? _1.__( chew ) gum helps you clean your mouth. But some people spit（吐）chewing gum on the street instead of putting it in the garbage bin. It’s bad _2.___ the gum is sticky（黏的. It’s hard to get it off things.

__3._ ( recent ), a team of British scientists said they had solved the problem. They invented non-stick chewing gum.

In Britain, ￡150 million is _4._ ( spend ) to clean gum from the country’s streets each year. It’s the same in China. On Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square, after the National Day Holiday, __5.__ ( hundred ) of thousands of chewing gum pieces __6.__ ( be ) left on the ground. It usually takes weeks to clean them up.

But the non-stick is ___7._ ( easy ) to clean. It is washed away by the rain and it’s no problem for street cleaners. Even if you get the non-stick gum in your hair, you can wash it out __8.__ shampoo ( 洗發(fā)水 ).

“The gum is coated with a thin film of water,” said Professor Cosgrove, the 9.__ ( lead ) of the study. “That’s _10.__ it is not sticky at all.”

單詞拼寫

根據(jù)下列句子及所給的首字母，在答題紙上寫出個單詞的正確、完全形式。

1. Ladies and gentlemen, a_____, please! The plane is put off because of the haze.

2.The news s_____ quickly as soon as the traffic accident happened

3.Sometimes it is h_____ to make a list of everything you have to do. It helps me a lot.

4.–Do you know w_____ volleyball this is?

--Maybe it’s John’s.

5.The soup you made yesterday was too s_____. We were all thirsty after drinking it.

6.John is as strong as a horse, so he s_____ gets ill.

7.Tell the students not to do something dangerous. After all, s_____ is the most important.

8.Yue Fei is one of the most famous national h_____ in Chinese history.

9. –Thank you for helping me.

--It’s my p_____.

10. He r_____ not listening to his teachers carefully in class when he studied English.

書面表達(dá)

升入九年級，很多學(xué)生感到壓力增大，有的甚至影響了學(xué)習(xí)。如何變壓力為動力，從而促進(jìn)學(xué)習(xí)是大家所關(guān)心的問題。請根據(jù)下表內(nèi)容對造成壓力的原因和后果進(jìn)行分析并提出你的建議。

注意：

（1） 短文須包括上述所有要點，可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫；

（2） 80詞左右，短文的開頭已給出，不計入總詞數(shù)。

At present, a great number of Junior Three students are under too much pressure. Here are the reasons.____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

--- Peter， is ______ fork yours?

--- No. I took it by ______ mistake.

A.the ; a B. a ; / C. a ; a D. the ; /

Now many young people in China celebrate Christmas Day ______ December 25th.

A. on B. in C. at D. to