Almost all people like flowers. Some people like flowers because of their smells, shapes, colors and so on. Others like flowers because they think different flowers mean different things. Flowers have their own language. For example, red roses mean “love” and sunflowers mean “loyalty(忠诚)”. So people in more than 100 countries have chosen their own national flowers which say something about their countries’ spirit. In 1994, China talked about choosing a national flower. Some people liked the peony(牡丹) but others liked the plum blossom(梅花). They couldn’t agree with each other. So it has not been decided yet.
People like to buy different flowers in different seasons. Where do all the beautiful flowers in shops come from? They may come from far away, so their price is higher.
a. Farmers grow flowers in their fields.
b. Planes or trains or buses take the flowers to different places.
c. Flower shopkeepers buy flowers from the flower markets. They look after the flowers and throw away the broken or bad ones. They cut the flowers to make them more beautiful.
d. You go to buy the flowers in the shops. When you buy a flower, you’re paying lots of people: the farmer, the driver of the plane or train or bus, the seller in the flower market and the flower shopkeeper.
So you’d better keep your flowers from far away for a long time. But how? Why not dry them? It’s easy! Sand drying is a way. Dry, clean sand is one of the oldest things for drying flowers. And it’s one of the cheapest.
·Fill a box half-way with sand.
·Put the flowers on top of the sand.
·Put the box in a warm, dry place.
·Leave the flowers there for one to three weeks.
·Take them out and they will be dry.
【小题1】The underlined words “national flowers” most probably means ______.

A．the flowers of the country

B．the flowers of the season

C．the most beautiful flowers

D．the strongest flowers

【小题2】People usually choose their own “national flower” according to (根据) the flower’s ______.

A．smell

B．shape

C．color

D．meaning

【小题3】The Chinese national flower has not been decided yet, because ______.

A．no flower can show China’s spirit

B．China hasn’t talked to choose the national flower

C．nobody agrees to choose the national flower

D．people can’t agree to choose the same flower.

【小题4】You’d better keep your flowers for a long time, because ______.

A．the flowers are easy to dry

B．the farmer will also ask you to pay

C．the flowers are expensive to buy

D．the shopkeeper has made them more beautiful

【小题5】Sand drying is everything here in the following but ______.

A．easy

B．clean

C．old

D．cheap

根据句意，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
【小题1】We love our children and our parents love ______(they).
【小题2】If giant pandas are in ______(dangerous), they will attack people.
【小题3】______(luck), he was not badly hurt in the car accident last month.
【小题4】Thousands of ______ (tour) come to the Great Wall every year.
【小题5】The places ______(mark) in red are very dangerous.

根据句意和中文意思，写出单词的正确形式。
【小题1】English ABC is an ______(教育的) program for those English beginners.
【小题2】Mrs. Bush is one of the ______(设计者) of the fashionable dress.
【小题3】Many parents send their children to study ______(到外国).
【小题4】World vision works for people, ______(尤其) for children.
【小题5】I bought a set of CD-ROM yesterday and it ______(包括) a CD and five books.

动词填空
【小题1】The wetlands photo show ______(begin) at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
【小题2】Our teacher told us that glass ______(feel) much colder than wood in winter.
【小题3】The students will go to the zoo if it ______(not be) rainy this Sunday.
【小题4】–Have you ever read a book called Waiting for Anya?
–Who ______(write) it?
【小题5】Ni Ni ______(choose) to act in Zhang Yimou’s film, wasn’t she?
【小题6】Helen ______(leave) her keys in the office. So she has to wait until her husband comes home.
【小题7】The passengers on the bus could do nothing but ______(wait) for the help from the police as there was no road ahead.
【小题8】Mr. Wang, would you please ______(not tell) it to my father?
【小题9】We were angry because she entered the room without ______(knock).
【小题10】I found a purse ______(lie) on the ground when I passed the shop.

短文填空
The most important drink is water. Not many people understand this but it is quite t  1 . People can l  2   for a long time without food, but they will die if two or three days w  3   water. In h  2   weather, many people do not drink e  5   water, because they don’t know how much water they n  6  . After t  7   exercise, people need more water.
The water in man’s body is m  8   more than other matters(物质). We’d better have enough water, or we may get i  9  . Water is n  10   to all the living things. There will be no l  11   if there is no water.
So we must save water and don’t w  12   water.

完成句子
【小题1】一阵恐惧掠过我的脑海。
A moment of fear ______________________________________.
【小题2】你为何急于卖掉你的房子？
Why are you ____________________________________ your home.
【小题3】我们已经很长时间没见面了，但我们不时地通邮件。
We ________________________ a long time, but we send e-mails _____________.
【小题4】学校为学生提供良好的学习环境。
Schools __________________________________ the students.
【小题5】我相信通过这个教育光盘，我们能学到很多东西。
I’m sure we can _________________________________________________.
【小题6】你介意告诉我如何使用这台打印机吗？
Do you mind _________________________________________?

根据以下要点，请以“My home town”为题写一篇70个词左右的短文。
1．我的家乡是个远离城市的小镇。过去是个安静且贫穷的地方。
2．最近十年发生了巨大的变化。有许多新建的道路和高楼。从镇上到城里比以前更快更容易了。
3．政府已经把镇中心变成了一个公园，而且我们还有一个大的购物中心和一家剧院。
4、大多数人感到高兴，因为这些变化带给了他们一个现代化的生活。
5．我认为……
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根据中文或首字母提示填写单词，注意词形变化
【小题1】I hope your dream will come t________ in the future.
【小题2】Sam has been learning English s__________ he was ten years old.
【小题3】Last night Bob ________(争吵) with Anna about the best place for vacation.
【小题4】Don’t be ________ (紧张的). You can try it slowly.
【小题5】I fell off the bike, but luckily I didn’t hurt m________.
【小题6】Could you buy me a __________(入场券) to the concert?
【小题7】They went to the Great Wall e________ me, because I had a bad cold.
【小题8】I can’t make a ________ (决定) about the dresses. Can you help me?
【小题9】The three astronauts are regarded as our national ________(英雄).
【小题10】He wasn’t happy because he f________ the test yesterday.

Lin saw __________ UFO last month. It’s strange.

A．a

B．an

C．the

D．/

– Where is Miss Wang?
– She went to Shanghai last week and will return __________ three days.

A．at

B．in

C．for

D．during