【题文】阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C, D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I still remember it was in the winter of 1990 that, together with the help of my older sister, I ________ down my wishes for Christmas onto a piece of paper. How I wished on Christmas Eve my grandest wish would be ________ and placed under the Christmas tree—a puppy. When we were done, our wish-lists were collected by our parents with the promise to be ________ to Santa’s hard-working helpers.
The next day, our parents sat us down in the living-room, with ________ expressions on their faces. As it ________, they had seen our wishes, now wanting to talk to us about one wish ________— the puppy. For a moment, I held my breath, but was ________ when they told us that they weren’t against a puppy. What they ________ against was putting it under the Christmas tree. That was not a good idea.
They ________ taught us that an animal was not a gift that belonged to the same ________ as our toys. Animals were creatures with ________ that we should decide to have one, and it would be a (an) ________ to our family. An animal ________ a lot of responsibilities. It wasn’t anything one bought out of a mood. An animal could not be exchanged or ________ when we didn’t feel like it. A animal wasn’t a toy. An animal was a ________ family member that needed lots of love and attention. An animal was not a ________, but a family decision. A serious decision. And a big decision.
________, my Parents share my love for animals, so the decision came reasonably ________. After our grandparents had given their ________ up for taking care of the dog, while we were on future vacations, the answer was yes. Yes, we would get a puppy.
The following days and weeks, there was only one ________：our new family member! Yes, a family member, because animals have their rights. They are not simply food or gifts. We humans must attend, love and protect them.

【小题1】

A．left B．got C．set D．pulled

【小题2】

A．rejected B．declined C．challenged D．fulfilled

【小题3】

A．given away B．passed on C．taken on D．put up

【小题4】

A．dangerous B．curious C．serious D．mysterious

【小题5】

A．turned out B．taken out C．run out D．held out

【小题6】

A．in peace B．in order C．in particular D．in return

【小题7】

A．pardoned B．frightened C．inspired D．relieved

【小题8】

A．protested B．objected C．opposed D．resisted

【小题9】

A．patiently B．hurriedly C．anxiously D．roughly

【小题10】

A．arrangement B．routine C．schedule D．category

【小题11】

A．feelings B．secrets C．stains D．sufferings

【小题12】

A．convenience B．servant C．extension D．heritage

【小题13】

A．signed B．meant C．attained D．guaranteed

【小题14】

A．put forward B．put up C．put aside D．put off

【小题15】

A．native B．original C．responsible D．precious

【小题16】

A．riddle B．gift C．servant D．victim

【小题17】

A．Negatively B．Ridiculously C．Particularly D．Luckily

【小题18】

A．difficult B．easy C．contradictory D．concrete

【小题19】

A．thumbs B．toes C．noses D．eyes

【小题20】

A．theme B．argument C．prejudice D．topic

【题文】Characters in novels don’t always do what the writer wants them to do. Sometimes they cause trouble, take on lives of their own, or even work against the writer. It’s not just a problem for inexperienced authors: famed children’s novelist Roald Dahl said he got the main character in his book Matilda so “wrong”that when he’d finished his first version, he threw it away and started again.
Of course it’s not the characters’ fault. The problem lies with the author. Take Stephen King, who admitted that writing working-class characters is more difficult nowadays because his own circumstances have changed. “It is definitely harder,”King said.“When I wrote Carrie many years ago, I was one step away from physical labour.”
This is also true for characters’ ages, added King.“When you have small children, it is easy to write young characters because you observe them and you have them in your life all the time. But your kids grow up, it’s been harder for me to write about this little 12-year-old girl in my new book because my models are gone.”
For other authors, such as Karen Fowler, there’s one quality that can stop a character in its tracks: boredom.“I had particular problems with the main character in my historical novel Sister Noon,”she says.“She had attitudes about race and religion that seemed appropriate to me for her time and class, but they were not attitudes I liked. Eventually I grew quite bored with her. You can write a book about a character you dislike or a character you disagree with, but I don’t think you can write a book about a character who bores you.”
According to Neel Mukherjee, it was Adinath, a character in The Lives of Others, who made him work the hardest.“I think I struggled because it’s difficult to write a character whose most prominent personal feature is weakness, as Adinath’s is, without making that feature define him,”Mukherjee says. But a troublesome character is far from an unwelcome guest, he continues, arguing that “when characters work against the author they come alive and become unpredictable”.
“That is a fantastic thing to happen,”Mukherjee says.“I celebrate it. It is one of the great, lucky gifts given to a writer.”
【小题1】What can we infer about Stephen King’s book Carrie?

A．It was his most difficult book to write.

B．It was the first successful novel King wrote.

C．There were few children featured in the story.

D．Some of its main characters were working class.

【小题2】Why did Karen Fowler have trouble writing the main character in her novel Sister Noon?

A．She disagreed with the character’s attitudes.

B．The age difference between the two was too large.

C．She found the character very uninteresting.

D．The historical setting made accuracy difficult.

【小题3】What does Neel Mukherjee think of his difficult-to-write characters?

A．They are a sign that the story is not realistic.

B．They are often the most interesting.

C．They should be praised by all authors.

D．They need to be researched more thoroughly.

【小题4】In which part of the newspaper would you expect to find the passage?

A．Careers.	B．Culture.
C．Entertainment.	D．Lifestyle.

【题文】When men get together, they seldom talk about their feelings or inner thoughts. However, they talk about a lot, like their newest computer, how to repair their car, or even business.
Talk might move to the best place to find fish or women, jump to computer games, then continue to the sport of the season. They also like to tell jokes each other and spend a fair amount of time playing one-up and boasting (吹牛). Men seldom call each other to chat.
When man meets woman, he usually wants to make a good impression. Many single man try hard to carry on amusing, fun, and pleasant conversations. They use conversation to discover her interests and feelings in order to learn how to be attractive to her.
Some men, either out of nervousness or ignorance, spend most of the time talking about themselves, often appearing to brag about their achievements or talk endlessly about their problems or work. Even the quietest man talks to his woman when love is new.
When women get together, they talk about feelings and relationships, their work, and their family. They enjoy talking but also want the give and take of talk, then listen. Women often call each other to chat. Conversation is an important part of most women’s lives.
As relationship progress, however, many turns on the television and forgets how to talk. This raises anger and cry from his woman partner who says,“You never talk to me any more.”Some man start talking. Many, however, mainly discuss their own achievements and problems.
When the woman starts talking about her favorite subjects: feelings, family, relationships, friends and her work, many men lose interest or bring the conversation back to themselves, pretty soon, the man is back to starting at the television each night, wondering where his relationship has gone. The woman is talking to her friends, mom, sister or neighbor, often about that very relationship and how she is hurting.
【小题1】What can we know about men from the first two paragraphs?

A．They like to talk about practical matters.

B．They are willing to expose their inner thoughts.

C．They prefer to take adventurous travels.

D．They often call each other to chat about work.

【小题2】Which of the following can replace the underlined part“brag about”in Paragraph 4?

A．Show off.	B．Dream about.
C．Put forward.	D．Care for.

【小题3】What is the same topic in both men’s and women’s talk?

A．Family.

B．Work.

C．Friends.

D．Jokes.

【小题4】What is the best title of this passage?

A．How a man makes a good impression to a woman

B．Good relationship between men and women

C．Talking, the women’s main tool in communication

D．Men talk; women talk; do they talk together?

【题文】A glass a day keeps obesity at bay. Alcohol has always been thought to cause weight gain because of its high sugar content, but new research suggests a glass a day could form part of a diet. Looking at past studies they found that, while heavy drinkers do put on weight, those who drink in moderation can actually lose weight.
A spokesman for the research team at Navarro University in Spain says,“Light to moderate alcohol intake, especially of wine, may be more likely to protect against, rather than promote, weight gain.”The Inter national Scientific Forum on Alcohol reviewed the findings and agreed with most of the conclusions, particularly that current data do not clearly indicate if moderate drinking increases weight.
Boston University’s Dr. Harvey Finkel found that the biologic mechanisms (生物学机制) relating alcohol to changes in body weight are not properly understood. His team pointed out the strong protective effects of moderate drinking on the risk of getting conditions like diabetes (糖尿病), which related to increasing obesity. Some studies suggest that even very obese people may be at lower risk of diabetes if they are moderate drinkers.

The group says alcohol provides calories that are quickly absorbed into the body and are not stores in fat, and that this process could explain the differences in its effects from those of other foods. They agree that future research should be directed towards assessing the roles of different types of alcoholic drinks, taking into consideration drinking patterns and including the past tendency of participants to gain weight.
For now there is little evidence that consuming small to moderate amounts of alcohol on a regular basis increases one’s risk of becoming obese. What’s more, a study three years ago suggested that resveratrol, a compound present in grapes and red wine, destroy fat cells.
【小题1】Who is the passage intended for?

A．Those who produce wine.

B．Those who have drinking habit.

C．Those who sell alcohol.

D．Those who wish to quit drinking.

【小题2】What does the phrase“in moderation”in the first paragraph refer to?

A．Excitedly.

B．Carefully.

C．Properly.

D．Frequently.

【小题3】What can we learn from the passage?

A．Current data clearly show that moderate drinking increase weight.

B．Resveratrol is proved to increase the risk of becoming fat.

C．The specific roles of different types of alcoholic drinks are very clear.

D．The research found moderate drinking has a strong protective effect.

【小题4】What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?

A．How to do some easy experiments.

B．How to reduce the calories contained in wine.

C．How to make wine in a healthy way.

D．How to prove the finding mentioned above.

【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仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
While taking a walk with my pet dog this morning, I found the middle-aged man nearby was shouting on his phone. Obvious, he had a bad day. Before he left, I noticed his keys were on the ground. So I immediately picked up and ran away to find the man. Several minutes later, I found him, whom was still shouting on his phone beside his car. I walked to him and asked if he could hold on a little seconds. At first, he was angry about my interrupt. Then I showed to his keys and explained the whole thing. On heard my words, he immediately hang up his phone and apologized for his rudeness.

【题文】假定你是李华，正在新西兰学习。你计划寒假期间在当地旅行，请写一封e-mail向旅行社询问相关的旅行信息。要点如下：
1. 旅行信息（如景点等）；
2. 当地特色（如食品等）；
3. 注意事项。
注意：1. 词数：100左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总数；
3. 可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
Dear Sir or Madam,
I’m Li Hua, a Chinese student, studying in New Zealand. I’m writing to _______________________________________________________________________________
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Yours,
Li Hua

【题文】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Tina woke up early and immediately her thought turned to what happened yesterday. Her boss told her that she would be getting a _【小题1】___(promote). He explained that her extraordinary enthusiasm__【小题2】_ tireless effort had made her just the type of person he needed.
Tina smiled__【小题3】____(remember) his words and she felt proud of herself. She got up, smiled in the mirror and practically danced to the train station. __【小题4】___the way people noticed her mood and smiled at __【小题5】___. Some wished her a good day. At the tram everybody around her suddenly felt the urge__【小题6】___(smile).
Strangers on the train started conversations with each other. Tina was___【小题7】___ (surprise). Were all these people feeling her happiness? On her way to the office she_【小题8】___ (see) herself in a store window. Her whole face was glowing(发光). ___【小题9】___ (sudden) she realized that her smiling face might have been responsible for all the joy. This thought made Tina even__【小题10】___(happy). She was ready to face the first day of her new position in the company and she brought with her the memory of the impact she had on all those “strangers on a train”.

【题文】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Developing a better relationship with parents is important for most of the people.【小题1】 For example, some adult children believe that parents are not able to understand their lifestyles while some believe parents want to control their lives. Here are some tips on how to develop a better relationship with your parents.
【小题2】 Love your parents for who they are, not for who you want them to be. Realize how much they have done in order to give you the best life possible. Recognize the difference in your respective ages. Priorities（优先处理的事） change as a person grows live.
Take your parent’s advice seriously. Listen to their stories and learn from their past experiences. Parents don’t want you to make the same mistakes they did and it hurts them to see their children go through any difficult times. Realize that your parents are not trying to control you. 【小题3】.
【小题4】 Make an effort to spend quality time with your parents. Remember to visit them as often as you can. Get involved in their activities. Parents love to share the excitements of their lives with their children. Listen to their adventures, as parents often want their children to hear their latest news.
Make an effort to communicate with your parents more often. 【小题5】 Ask for advice when it’s needed. Listen and accept their concerns. Try to use statements such as, “I will certainly consider what you just said”, or“I would love to hear more about this in person.”Communicating openly will make them have more confidence in you.

A．Manage your time better.

B．Share the parts of your life with them.

C．It’s never too late to express your love.

D．But you need to plan another visit time.

E.They only want to tell you what is the best for you.
F.Understand the difference between you and your parents.
G.However, becoming older creates some distance from parents.