【题文】Last Sunday, I went to the neighborhood café with my friend. On the way, I ____ an old lady, whose cart had been knocked over and her ____ were scattered across the pavement. She was ____ her goods. People passing by were ____ her as if she were a beggar.
I _____ Many things were running through my mind. “What should we do?” I asked my friend quietly.
“It’s none of our business. ____, you may get both of us into trouble and ____ it if you help,” my friend said ___
and then continued to walk ahead. However, I felt great ____ for this poor lady.
“She really needs help,” I said seriously and began to ____ the lady.
I cautiously ____ beside the lady, helping her. I could feel passersby ____ me doubtfully. I knew they were thinking I was ____ for helping her or that I had knocked over her card and therefore I was assisting her out of _____ .
“Thank you,” she whispered.
“You are welcome,” I murmured, offering a _____ .
She also smiled. After all goods were _____, she slowly rose to her feet. She thanked me again, and continued down the street. Yet I knew that her smile and _____ would always be impressed on my mind.
At that moment, I didn’t care anymore what other people _____. I smiled to myself because although I had helped that lady in such a ______way, she had helped me more by showing me how I could be ____ in the world.

【小题1】

A．noticed B．hit C．heard about D．waited for

【小题2】

A．carts B．goods C．foods D．clothes        .

【小题3】

A．donating B．enjoying C．collecting D．providing

【小题4】

A．serving B．helping C．scolding D．avoiding

【小题5】

A．shouted B．hesitated C．promised D．ignored

【小题6】

A．Therefore B．However C．Besides D．Thus

【小题7】

A．appreciate B．mind C．change D．regret

【小题8】

A．coldly B．cheerfully C．frequently D．carefully

【小题9】

A．honor B．pity C．pride D．joy

【小题10】

A．approach B．observe C．understand D．leave

【小题11】

A．calmed down B．knelt down C．got off D．ended up

【小题12】

A．eyeing B．envying C．admiring D．supporting

【小题13】

A．grateful B．great C．afraid D．crazy

【小题14】

A．duty B．sadness C．hate D．control

【小题15】

A．help B．smile C．job D．suggestion

【小题16】

A．used up B．sold out C．picked up D．given out

【小题17】

A．mercy B．appreciation C．effort D．wish

【小题18】

A．faced B．gave C．wanted D．thought

【小题19】

A．long B．hard C．strange D．small

【小题20】

A．polite B．fortunate C．different D．wealthy

【题文】A second-grade education has not stopped garbage collector Jose form bringing the gift of reading to thousands of Colombian children.
Jose started rescuing books from the trash almost 20 years ago. He was driving a garbage truck at night through the country's wealthier neighborhoods. The discarded reading material slowly piled up, and now the ground floor of his small house is a makeshift community library stacked from floor to ceiling with some 20,000 books. They range from chemistry textbooks to children's classics.
He says books are luxuries for boys and girls in low-income neighborhoods such as his, with new reading material at bookstores too expensive. There are 19 public libraries in Bogota, a city of 8.5 million people,.But they tend to be located far away from poorer areas."This should be in all neighborhoods, on each corner of every neighborhood, in all the towns, in all departments, and all the rural areas," says Joes. "Books are our salvation and that is what Colombia needs."
The 53-year-old Jose has a love of reading he attributes to his mother.She always read to him even though she was too poor to keep him in school."She used to read me stories every night," said Jose.
He has traveled to book fairs in Mexico and Chile to share his experience of starting a library with thrown-away reading material. "To me, books are the greatest invention and the best thing that can happen to a human being."
While Jose still examine the rubbish for additions to his library, his fame as Colombia's "Lord of the Books" has also brought him thousands of donated books. He has sent many to other libraries around the country. That is because he doesn't have room for them all.
He says he doesn't reject technology that allows books to be read digitally. But he prefers to read the printed word on paper.
"There's nothing more beautiful than having a book in your pocket, in your bag or inside your car," he says.
【小题1】What do we know about Jose’s library?

A．It contains 20,000 books or so.

B．It is located in the center of Bogota.

C．Its books are all collected from the donation.

D．It will be rebuilt to hold more books.

【小题2】What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?.

A．The reason why Jose started a library.

B．The poor life that the local children live.

C．The location of the public libraries.

D．The dream the children in Bogota have.

【小题3】.From the passage, we can know that ______.

A．Jose hated books to be read digitally.

B．his dream is to become a book collector.

C．Jose received a good education at his early age.

D．Jose’s mother developed his love of reading.

【题文】Special Kids Therapy（治疗）（SKT）, is a charitable organization devoted to improving the quality of the individuals who struggle with physical, mental or emotional disabilities.
Examples of what SKT can do:
SKT offers the families of children with special needs practical help in buying special medical equipment, such as electrically-powered wheelchairs and other communication equipment that are not covered by insurance.
SKT organizes summer camp activities for children with special needs, providing them with a chance to enjoy their summer and experience the traditional summer camp that fits their abilities.
How you can help:
SKT is an all-volunteer charitable organization, which is staffed by volunteers and depends on donations that make it possible for us to serve and help these special children.
SKT relies on people like you to help make good things happen for these special children. Your contribution is sincerely appreciated. Your donations help make children with special needs able to have alternative therapies such as animal-assisted therapy, art ＆ music therapy, massage therapy and water therapy. These are just a few of the many proven alternative therapies that bring joy and build self-respect of the children with special health care needs. Although these therapies are not covered by insurance, they enhance the mental, physical and emotional aspects of a child’s life.
SKT knows that your time is valuable and we appreciate your volunteer interest. There are many chances to volunteer to work with the children and their families at our events or programs.
Donations may be mailed to:
Bosse Financial
Attn: Special Kids Therapy, Inc
PO Box 1024
Findlay, Ohio 45839
Please write checks to Special Kids Therapy
Phone: 419-422-5607
Email: care@specialkidstherapy.org
【小题1】From the passage we can know that SKT_______.

A．Earns very little by its alternative therapies

B．Offers help to the children with disabilities

C．Is partly supported by the local government

D．Pays insurance for children with special needs

【小题2】What does the underlined word “enhance” mean in the text?

A．Accept

B．Damage

C．Reduce

D．Improve

【小题3】What can we infer from the text?

A．SKT is a non-profitable organization.

B．The disabled can ask practical help from SKT.

C．Donations are used to pay insurance for children.

D．Families of children with special needs are all poor.

【小题4】The text is written to________.

A．encourage families to get donations

B．tell us how children can live a normal life

C．make an introduction of the special children

D．Call on people to join SKT to help disabled children

【题文】Most parents fear getting letters home from their children’s school. They are usually informing them that their child is in big trouble. But ahead of the SATs exams next week, one school decided to send a letter of a different type.
Bosses at Buckton Vale Primary School in Stalybridge sent letter to all pupils in the sixth grade to tell them how specisl and unique they are. The letter highlights all the natural skills and abilities the pupils have and everything that makes them “smart” individuals.
They are told how their laughter can brighten the darkest day and that the examiners do not know the pupils are kind, trustworthy and thoughtful.
The letter, signed by the headmaster and two other teachers, has been put on the school’s Facebook page and shared more than 9,000 times with more than 7,000 likes.
The letter reads, “Next week you will sit your SATs tests for maths, reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation, We know how hard you have worked, but there is something very important you must know. The SATs test does not assess all that makes each of you special and unique. The people who create these tests and score them do not know each of you in the way that we do and certainly not in the way your families do.”
The letter goes on to say that the tests are not the most important thing in life, adding, “The scores yu wll get from this test will tell you something, but they will not tell you everything. There are many ways of being smart. You are smart!”
The letter has been welcomed by many parents on Facebook. Lynn McPherson wrote, “That’s great…instilling（逐步灌输）hope, faith and belief.” And Mary Tilling said, “Every child school receive one of these. Brilliant.”
【小题1】What does the underlined word “They” in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A．Parent.	B．Children.
C．Teachers.	D．Letters.

【小题2】What’s the purpose of the letter sent befor the SATs exams?

A．To stress the importance of the exams.

B．To help the students pass the exams.

C．To help the students to build confidence.

D．To inspire the students to achieve success.

【小题3】What message does the letter want to convey?

A．Everyone can realize his dream.

B．Everyone has his unique value.

C．Exams are meaningless in our life.

D．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

【小题4】The author gives two examples in the last paragraph to show_______.

A．the letter was well received

B．the letter was a total failure

C．the parents are easy to please

D．the parents support their children

【题文】A new keyboard can tell whether you are its owner. The keyboard records information about the typing pattern and sends it to a computer program. The program then checks to see if the typing pattern and sends it to a computer program. The program then checks to see if the pattern matches the right user, If not, an alarm sounds, and the computer locks the typist out. It locks out anyone else, even if than person knows password. What’s more, this device needs no batteries. It harvests all the person knows your password. What’s more, this device needs no batteries. It harvests all the energy it needs from the action of your typing. Besides, the keyboard is also self-cleaning and the keys are free of damage from water, oil and dirt.
The keys of the new keyboard are made of the same inexpensive plastic that might be found on any other standard keyboard. But instead of being smooth, the keys have millions of tiny plastic nanowires（纳米线）on their surface area to every key, increasing the gffective contact area between the plastics and fingers. This ensures that there’s enough power to run the keyboard as someone types.
Liming Dai, a scientist, did not work on the new keyboard, but he thinks the design could be important in getting better performance from a variety of devices. “It could also be applied to a touch screen, for instance,” Dai says. “Then smartphones and notepads could harvest energy from the action of someone typing or drawing.”
“Future work might make the keyboard even more useful,” Dai adds. “A later design might build tiny capacitors（电容器）onto the nanowires,” he suggests. Capacitors are little devices that temporarily store electric charges. Those might then LEDs to light a Keyboard in the dark.
Zhonglin Wang is a co-designer of the new keyboard. His team has build a working model of the keyboard. “If a company decides to fund（投资）its production, this keyboard could be in stores in as little as two years,” says Wang.
【小题1】How does the new keyboard tell whether you are its owner?

A．By checking the right user’s passwords.

B．By sending alarms to a computer program.

C．By matching the typing pattern to the right user.

D．By recording information about the typing pattern.

【小题2】Why are there many nanowires on the surface of the keys?

A．To make the keys beautiful.

B．To help produce power.

C．To make the keys smooth.

D．To improve the speed of typing.

【小题3】What’s Dai’s attitude to the new keyboard?

A．Unconcerned.

B．Positive.

C．Doubtful.

D．Critical.

【小题4】What is the best title for the text?

A．A New Keyboard Made of Nanowires.

B．A New Keyboard Powered by Typing.

C．A New Keyboard’s Future.

D．A New Keyboard Entirely Owned by You

【题文】假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
As we all know, we can meet with various challenges in our life. Facing with challenges, how should we do?
Last month, our class climbed Mount Tai, which was more than 1,500 meters above sea level. Lacking exercises, I thought that this activity was great challenge for me. I felt very exhausted halfway that I wanted to give up. See this, my classmates and even some strangers encouraged me. In the end, I managed to reach on the top of the mountain.
Therefore, don’t give up in the face of challengers. If you are determined enough, it’s certainly that you can overcome it.

【题文】假设你是李华，你从网上得知美国中学生Peter 要成立一个网上绘画俱乐部，你想加入。请根据以下要点给他发一封电子邮件：
1.说明消息来源和自己的意愿；
2.理由和打算；
3.希望获准。
注意：1.词数100左右（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Peter,
I’m Li Hua, a middle school student from China_____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua

【题文】Why we still need to read Dickens
Walk into any bookstore, and you can hardly avoid “bumping into” Charles Dickens. Many of Dickens’ works still sell well today.【小题1】
As someone who teaches Dickens, the question of why we still read him is often on my mind. 【小题2】 One day nearly 10 years ago, however, when I was giving a lecture, I was telling the students that for Victorian readers, Dickens’s writing was a “tune-in-next-week” type of thing that generated crazes. 【小题3】 “But why should we still read this stuff?” the student asked. The answer I gave was only acceptable, “Because he teacher you how to think,” I said.
The question annoyed me for years, for years, and for years I told myself answers, but never with complete satisfaction. We read Dickens because he is not just a man of his own times, but also a man for our times. We read Dickens because we can learn from experiences of his characters almost as easily as we can learn from our own experiences.
【小题4】 But these are not exactly the reason why I read Dickens. My search for an answer continued until one day a text message came from a student of mine. “We still read Dickens’s novels,” she wrote, “because they tell us why we are what we are.” Simple as it was, that’s the explanation I had sought for years.
Dickens shines a light on who we are during the best of times and wrote of times. 【小题5】 If you have time, go to pick up one of his many novels, read it and enjoy what it has to tell you about yourself.

A．Then a hand shot up.

B．I know that wasn’t really the reason.

C．And they are placed on outstanding shelves.

D．That question was never more troubling.

E. That’s why we still need to read him today.
F. I already know who it is I’ll meet in those novels.
G. These are all wonderful reasons to read Dickens.

【题文】Every year thousands of tourists visit Pompeii, Italy. They see the sights that Pompeii is famous for- 【小题1】(it) stadium, theatres, shops and restuarants. The tourists do not, however, see Pompeii’s people. No one has lived in Pompeii for almost 2,000 years.
Once, Pompeii was a busy city of 22,000 people. It 【小题2】 (lie) at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, a grass-covered volcano. Mount Vesuvius had not erupted for 【小题3】 (century), so the people of Pompeii felt that they were in 【小题4】 (safe).
In August of AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted. The entire top of the mountain exploded, 【小题5】 a huge black cloud rose into the air. Soon stones and hot ashes began to fall on Pompeii. When theeruption ended two days later, Pompeii 【小题6】(bury) under 20 feet of stones and ashes. Almost all of its people were dead.
From then on, Pompeii remained under stones and ashes. Then an Italian scientist 【小题7】 (name) Ginseppe began to uncover Pompeii. 【小题8】 (slow) and carefully, Ginseppe and his men dug. The city looked almost the same as it had looked in AD 79. There were streets and fountains, house and shops. There was a stadium 【小题9】 20,000 seats. Perhaps the most important of all, there were everyday objects,【小题10】 tell us a great deal about the people who lived in Pompeii. Ginseppe has died, but his work continues.