You should keep record of your expense.

A. a B. an C. the D. that

（题文）Her mother is well because she often .

A. smokes B. exercises C. sleeps D. sings

is necessary that you start training a few months before the work.

A. This B. That C. What D. It

This road is about .

A. twenty metres tall B. twenty metres thick

C. twenty metres long D. twenty metres wide

He is in basketball, but I am in football.

A. interested; interesting B. interested; interested

C. interesting; interested D. interesting; interesting

（题文）The boy is often made pictures for hours by his mother.

A. to draw B. to drawing

C. draw D. drew

—How many English songs have you learned this term?

— 10.

A. At all B. At once

C. At times D. At least

In 1638, John Harvard donated some money and about four hundred books to a new university. This was the beginning of the library at Harvard University. The gift was so important that the university was named for John Harvard.

Thomas Bray began the first free lending library in the late 1600s. He set up more than 30 or these libraries in the American colonies. However, the idea for this kind of free library ended when Bray died in 1730. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and some friends started the first subscription（订阅费） library in the United States. In a subscription library people pay money to become members, but they mayborrowthe books without paying again.

In the United States, every child had a free education. This idea soon led to free libraries. One of the first libraries that used tax money to buy books was a library in Peterborough, New Hampshire. This library was set up in 1833.

1.The main idea of paragraph 2 is________.

A. Franklin started the first subscription library

B. in a subscription library people pay money to become members

C. Bray and Franklin were important in the history of public libraries

D. Bray died in 1730 and Franklin died in 1833

2.The underlined word “borrow” means_______.

A. read and write with no help from another person

B. use for a short time and then return

C. like very much

D. lend

3.The reading does not say it, but we can guess that_______.

A. there were free schools in the United States before there were free libraries

B. free schools and free libraries in the United States began at about the same time

C. the library in New Hampshire also had a free school in it

D. there were free libraries in the United States before there were free schools

4.Havard University began_______.

A. in 1731 B. in 1730

C. in 1833 D. in 1638

5.At the library that Franklin started, ________.

A. children could use books for no money at all

B. people paid a little money in the beginning but none after that

C. people paid a lot of money in the beginning but none after that

D. both A and B

I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens, and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world.

Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk,” she would say again, “it’s for Elizabeth. ”

I never saw her be angry, and never saw her cry. I knew she loved me—she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.

They never happened. And agulfopened between us. I was “too emotional（易动感情的）”. But she lived “on the surface（表面）”.

As years passed I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive（原谅）me.

I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.

My hope turned to disappointment（失望）, then little interest and, finally, peace— it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.

Now the present of her desk told, as she’d never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside —a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded（折叠）and refolded many times.

Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.

1.The writer began to love her mother’s desk ______.

A. after Mother died

B. before she became a writer

C. when she was a child

D. when Mother gave it to her

2.The passage shows that ______.

A. mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter

B. mother was too serious about everything her daughter had done

C. mother cared much about her daughter in words

D. mother wrote to her daughter in careful words

3.The word “gulf” in the passage means ______.

A. deep understanding between the old and the young

B. different ideas between the mother and the daughter

C. free talks between mother and daughter

D. part of the sea going far in land

4.What did mother do with her daughter’s letter asking forgiveness?

A. She had never received the letter.

B. For years, she often talked about the letter.

C. She didn’t forgive her daughter at all in all her life.

D. She read the letter again and again till she died.

5.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. My letter to Mother

B. Mother and Children

C. My mother’s Desk

D. Talks between Mother and Me

根据汉语意思完成句子

1.老师通常把我们分成四人一组。 The teacher usually _______ _______ _______ teams of four students.

2.十年来我们学校发生了巨大的变化。

Great changes _______ _______ _______ in our school since ten years ago.

3.我们希望你不要轻视这种工作。

We hope you won't _______ _______ _______ this kind of work.

4.咱们轮流打扫房间吧。 Let's _______ _______ _______ clean the room

5.我认为团队精神最重要。 I think that the _______ _______ is the ___ ___ .