One of the best-known women in the world is a small doll(洋娃娃). This famous doll, called Barbie, was created by Ruth Handler in 1959. Now Barbie is known everywhere. Before Barbie, all dolls were made to look like babies. People thought that this was a way to teach young girls how to become a good mother. Barbie was the first doll made to look like an adult instead of baby.

From the beginning, Barbie was a modern career(職業(yè)) girl. There was a different Barbie for each job: nurse, teacher, police officer, race car driver, professional basketball player, pilot, as well as the very first female to fly in space. Barbie made it possible for young girls to dream about a future other than being a mother and a housewife. It showed girls that they had choices and could become anything they wanted to be. At the time, these ideas were very new and positive. The movement for equal opportunity(機(jī)會(huì)) for women had just begun and women wanted to have the same chance as men to do important work.

However, Barbie’s approval(認(rèn)同) as a role model has not lasted. Today, many people criticize(批評(píng)) Barbie for making young girls too concerned about their appearance(外表). These people complain that the beautiful, well-dressed Barbie seems to tell girls that while they can hope to have different career, it is more important for them to be beautiful and thin. The female figure that Barbie represents has also been criticized for being unrealistic(不現(xiàn)實(shí)). Young girls might think that Barbie’s figure is beautiful and desirable(可取的). However, if Barbie were a real person, she would be six feet tall and wear a size three shoe!

1.What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The roles of a modern woman.

B. The image(形象) of Barbie dolls

C. What is role models?

D. What is beauty?

2.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Barbie was created by Ruth Handler in 1959.

B. Barbie was the first doll that was made to look like an adult.

C. Barbie served as a role model for girls when she was created.

D. Barbie is criticized by many young girls today.

3.The author suggests that Barbie’s figure is ________________.

A. beautiful and desirable

B. unrealistic and impossible

C. real and delicate(易損的)

D. tall and modern

“Earthquake!” The word flashed in my brain. A roaring sound filled my ears. I tried to hide beneath my desk. The desk did a wild tap dance, slipping and sliding towards the center of the room. I twisted(扭曲) my body and grabbed at the windowsill(窗沿) behind me, somehow kicking free of my dancing chair. I tried to stand. My legs skated away as if on a bucking escalator(彎曲的自動(dòng)扶梯).

My fingers shook, grasped and held the windowsill tightly. Somewhere through the roar sounded the terrified scream of some wounded animals. I looked behind me and tried to steady my gaze on the other kids but the scene was a dizzy nightmare. Some of the class were sitting in the middle of the room, surrounded by chairs and desks. One girl was screaming. A boy was trying to move across the floor to the door in a crazy overarm crawl(肩上爬行).

I cried aloud, “I’m going to die. I’m going to die. Save me, I’m not ready to die, I’m not ready!”

I moved forward on my knees and pressed my face against my clenched fingers(握緊拳頭). Suddenly I realized that the rocking had stopped. Perhaps I wasn’t going to die.

1.The roaring sound was made by ____________________.

A. a wounded animal B. people screaming

C. children running D. an earthquake

2.When the writer clenches his fingers he is ___________________.

A. afraid B. angry

C. injured D. impatient

3.Paragraph 2 describes the ________________________.

A. injuries suffered by the writer

B. effects of a bad nightmare

C. disorder in the classroom

D. the writer’s fear of death

4.At the end of the passage there is a feeling of ___________________.

A. fear B. hope C. sorrow D. excitement

Your best friend is possibly the most important person in your life. But sometimes friendship’s road is not always smooth, or it’s a total dead end. What do you do when this happens?

Scenario(設(shè)想) 1: Drifting Apart(漸行漸遠(yuǎn))

You’ve found that your friend no longer wants to jog (慢跑)with you. She’d rather hit the chat rooms, or she’s become crazy about hanging with her new interest.

It’s a bummer when old friends start having less in common. But it might still be worth trying to get into your friend’s new interest, trying something new on your own, or meet some new folks who like doing the things you enjoy. Another thing to try is talking to your friend about it- in a non-this-is-your-fault(過(guò)錯(cuò)) way. The goal is telling how you feel, not “winning”.

Scenario 2: Fights

“Yes, he is.” “No, he isn’t.” the argument could continue forever.

No matter how sure you are that you’re right, friendship is based on RESPECT. Since you and your friend aren’t clones(克隆), you will disagree sometimes! Is it worth fighting over? If it is trivial(無(wú)價(jià)值的), why not give it up? Agree to disagree(保留不同意見(jiàn)) and get on well with life. Even if you’ll never agree, try to see the other person’s viewpoint. At least honor his right to have his own opinions. Never get physical. Violence can make a small problem into a disaster.

Scenario 3: End of the Road

Is the friendship over? If you are not the one ending it, it feels as if a knife cut your heart into pieces. But the thing is that you can’t force someone to be your friend. Give yourself time. But don’t freeze in a looking-back, holding pattern(模式). Be open to new friendship. You never know when the “best friend forever” will come along.

1.The underlined word “bummer” in the third paragraph can be replaced by “________ thing”.

A. normal B. common

C. unpleased D. guilty（負(fù)疚的）

2.You are advised not ______ when your friend reduced communication with you.

A. develop the same interest as our friend does

B. blame（責(zé)怪） your friend for not being as friendly to you as before

C. give in to the friend who has hurt your feeling deeply

D. stick to the friendship that was built up in the past

3.In the writer’s opinion, showing disagreement ______________.

A. will surely lead to the end of a long friendship

B. shows that you don’t respect your friend

C. is natural and normal behavior of human being

D. means you have nothing in common with your friend.

4.The purpose of the passage is to teach you ________________.

A. how to mend a broken friendship

B. how to keep a long friendship

C. what to do when a friendship changes

D. what to do to win new friends

單詞拼寫（共10小題，每小題0.5分，滿分5分）

1.I said hello to her, but she i___________________ me completely!

2.He spent the e________________ day in his room reading Harry Potter.

3.G______________, she realized that he wasn’t telling her the truth.

4.Go s___________________ along this road and turn left at the traffic lights.

5.What’s her a__________________ towards the plan? Is she for or against it?

6.Even a j________________(旅程) of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.

7.Hundreds are still in the water, waiting to be r__________________(營(yíng)救).

8.The movie star felt his reputation(名譽(yù))had been d__________(損壞) by the newspaper article.

9.My _______ (青少年) daughter is always having different opinions from mine.

10.The phrase “to ______ (埋) yourself in your work” means giving all your attention to your work.

下面短文中有10處語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤。請(qǐng)?jiān)谟绣e(cuò)誤的地方增加、刪除或修改某個(gè)單詞。

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

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫上修改后的詞。

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。

I went to see film after supper. On my way to the cinema, I met an old English woman, she had lost her way. I gave up the chance to see the film, walking towards her and took her to her hotel. While go there, I told her great change have taken place in the past few years in China and she told me something about Britain and her family. Though I missed the film, however I felt very happy, for I not only helped the old lady out from trouble but also practise my spoken English. If I hadn't worked hard at English, I would have been able to help her.

英語(yǔ)是當(dāng)今世界上主要的通用語(yǔ)言之一，也是世界上使用最廣泛的語(yǔ)言。請(qǐng)你結(jié)合自己的實(shí)際，以“Ways of Learning English in Everyday Life”為題，寫一篇100-120詞的英語(yǔ)短文。

Ways of Learning English in Everyday Life

Today English, the most widely used language all over the world, is playing an incresingly important part in our life.

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About _____ of the population of that country _____ on farms.

A. Two third; live B. Two third; lives

C. Two thirds; lives D. Two thirds; live

In their spare time, they will discuss the _____ to the study of English.

A. means B. approaches

C. methods D. Ways

The traditional goal of science is to discover how things are, not how they ought _____.

A. to be B. be C. have been D. To

--- Is Tom still smoking?

--- No. By next Saturday he _____ for a whole month without smoking

A. will have gone B. will have been

C. will go D. has been going