【题目】Only when I left my parents for Italy ________ how much I loved them.

A. I realized B. I had realized

C. had I realized D. did I realize

【题目】单词拼写（根据所给的中文提示，写出形式和意义都正确的词，共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

【1】We follow the _______________（原则）of peaceful coexistence.

【2】They have agreed to_______________（参与）in the forthcoming Beijing Tennis Open Tournament.

【3】Man is a flexible animal, a being who gets_______________ （习惯于）to everything.

【4】The children waited patiently in _______________（期望）of the magician.

【5】She had _______________（自愿）entered that chilling world of long silence.

【题目】The employees have not been paid________ since the new manager took over this company last year.

A. absolutely B. commonly

C. regularly D. Ordinarily

【题目】缺词填空（新概念考查，根据所给的首字母，写出形式和意义都正确的词，共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

【1】My friend, Patrick, has always been a fanatical o_______ of Mr. Lane’s Radical Progressive Party.

【2】Many owners of private cars are going to offer “free rides” to people on their way to work. This will r_________ pressure on the trains to some extent.

【3】He waved d_______________ to his companion, who had been water skiing for the last fifteen minutes.

【4】If explosives are used, vibrations will cause the roof of the mine to c_______________.

【5】Fishermen and sailors sometimes c_______________ to have seen monsters in the sea.

【题目】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。每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：在错的词下画一横线，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

When I was at middle school, I have a nice classmate, that was the first foreigner I had ever met. She was friendly and very pretty. She was good in three languages, although he was born in China. It was interested that her father was a Frenchman while her mother came from England. All of them were teaching at a university at that time. She was crazy collecting stamps, listening to pop music, as well as playing the football. Her dream was to be an engineer, so she usually studied harder to achieve it. She often told funny stories in English to make us laughing. We all liked her.

【题目】D

In recent years, our parenting culture began to send the message that competence（能力） was important for building self-confidence. However, that same parenting culture made a big mistake by telling parents they should tell their children how competent they were. Children can't be convinced that they are competent. Only your children can build their sense of competence.

However, you can do several things to encourage them to develop their own competence. First, you can give them opportunities to gain a sense of competence. You should allow your children to “get their hands dirty” in the daily life and find out what they are capable of.

These daily experiences allow your children to develop specific competencies that will be helpful to them as they grow up. Also, the more individual competencies children develop, the more they will view themselves as globally competent people.

Second, you can be sure that they gain the most value from their experiences. You can direct their focus to the competences that enabled those successes rather than some generic（笼统的） praise of the accomplishment itself. And you can also praise their accomplishments.

A great difficulty for parents is allowing their children to be wrong or do something poorly in the mistaken belief that these experiences will hurt their sense of competence. In fact, whether they do it well isn't important because success isn't really the goal. Instead, the goal is their willingness to keep trying.

Another mistake that parents make is that, after being unsuccessful when their children first try something, they try to correct them so they will succeed the next time they try. That's not to say that you can't lend a hand when they are struggling. But let them take the lead; if they really want your help, they'll ask for it.

【1】The passage is mainly about_____.

A. the arts to praise children

B. the ways to help children develop ability

C. the ways to evaluate children’s ability

D. the proper ways to help children deal with failure

【2】What should parents say to help children gain value from their experiences?

A. Well done!

B.You are the best!

C. You are really careful!

D. You’d better do as I do.

【3】Parents often make a mistake by ______.

A. getting their children’s hands dirty

B. not realizing the harmful effect of failure

C. putting themselves into children’s shoes

D. telling their children how competent they are

【4】How did the writer develop the passage?

A. By asking and answering questions.

B. By introducing different opinions.

C. By listing examples.

D. By giving explanations.

【5】In which section of a newspaper can you find this passage?

A. Education B. Health and Fitness

C. Home and Garden D. Careers

【题目】高中生面临沉重的学习压力，因此，很多同学课间休息时间也坐在教室里学习，但效果并不理想。就此，班主任准备开一次班会课，以劝诫这些同学：适当的休息很有必要。现请你以“The Ten-minute Break Between Classes”为题，按以下要求写一篇英语短文，让这些同学从中受到启发。要点如下：

1. 请简要描述现象：很多同学在课间休息时间也坐在教室里学习，但效果并不理想；

2. 十分钟的课间休息很有必要；

3. 你是如何利用这十分钟休息时间的。

注意：词数100词左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数。

The Ten-minute Break Between Classes

Time seems to be so limited for us senior high school students.

【题目】Switzerland is the best place to be born in the world in 2013, and the US is just 16th. A new study produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit says American babies will have a dimmer future than those born in Hong Kong, Ireland and even Canada. The EIU, a sister company of The Economist, attempted to measure how well countries will provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in years to come.

People born in Switzerland will tend to be the happiest and have the best quality of life judged in terms of wealth, health and trust in public institutions, according to the analysis. The Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden and Denmark also all make the top five in a “quality-of-life” index（指数）where it is best to be born next year.

One of the most important factors is being rich, but other factors come into play including crime, trust in public institutions and the health of family life. In total, the index takes into account 11 factors. These include fixed factors such as geography, others that change slowly over time such as demography（人口学）social and cultural characteristics, and the state of the world economy. The index also looks at income per head in 2030, which is roughly when children born in 2013 will reach adulthood. Small economies dominate the top 10 countries, with Australia coming second and New Zealand and the Netherlands not too far behind.

Half of the top 10 countries are European, but only one, the Netherlands, is from the euro-zone. The crisis-ridden south of Europe, including Greece, Portugal and Spain, falls behind despite the advantage of a favourable climate. Interestingly, the largest European economies - Germany, France and Britain — do not do particularly well. Nigeria has the unenviable title of being the worst country for a baby to enter the world in 2013.

【1】According to the passage, the happiest people live in .

A. Denmark B. Switzerland C. Germany D. Nigeria

【2】The factors of telling the best place to be born don’t include .

A. economy B. geography

C. trust in public institutions D. pollution

【3】From the passage, we know .

A. the Economist Intelligence Unit is a company

B. the Economist attempted to measure the best place to live

C. the Scandinavian countries are hardly at the top of the list

D. half of the top 10 countries are from the euro-zone

【4】The purpose of the text is to show people .

A. the best place to be born in 2013

B. a new study made by the EIU

C. the worst country to be born in 2013

D. the factors of measuring the best place to be born

【题目】A

Mona Lisa, the mysterious woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century masterpiece, had just given birth to her second son when she sat for the painting, a French art expert said.

The discovery was made by a team of Canadian scientists who used special infrared and three-dimensional technology to look through paint layers on the work, which now sits in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Bruno Mottin of the French Museums’ Center for Research and Restoration said that on very close examination of the painting, it became clear that Mona Lisa’s dress was covered in a thin transparent gauze dress.

“This type of gauze dress was typical of the kind worn in the early 16th century in Italy by women who were pregnant or who had just given birth. This is something that has never been seen up to now because the painting was always judged to be dark and difficult to examine,” he told a news conference. “We can now say that this painting by Leonardo da Vinci was painted to commemorate the birth of the second son of Mona Lisa, which helps us to date it more precisely to around 1503. The young woman with the half smile has been identified as Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Florentine merchant Francesco de Giocondo. She had five children.”

Mottin also said that, contrary to popular belief, the subject had not let her hair hang freely, but in fact she had worn a bonnet from which only a few curls had managed to escape.

"People always wrote that the Mona Lisa had allowed her hair to hang freely over her shoulders. This greatly surprised historians because letting your hair hang freely during the Renaissance was typical of young girls and women of poor virtue," he said.

The team had hoped to discover more details about Leonardo's "sfumato " technique of subtly blending one tone into another, which the artist used to create a special effect. But scientist John Taylor said the team had been frustrated by the lack of brush stroke detail on the painting.

【1】This passage mainly discusses___________..

A. a new discovery about Leonardo da Vinci

B. a new discovery of Mona Lisa

C. the way Leonardo da Vinci painted Mona Lisa

D. the relationship between Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci

【2】Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. Mona Lisa was in fact the wife of Lisa Gherardini.

B. The painting is in French now.

C. Mona Lisa lived in the 1500s in Canada.

D. Leonardo da Vinci painted the masterpiece in memory of the birth of his second son.

【3】What did people think of the hair of Mona Lisa?

A. People thought her hair was in fashion.

B. People thought she had her hair curled.

C. People thought she had let her hair hang freely over her shoulders.

D. People thought she wore fake hair.

【4】Why didn’t people find Mona Lisa’s dress was covered in a thin transparent gauze dress at first ?

A. Because they didn’t look carefully.

B. Because the painting was in bad condition.

C. Because Leonardo da Vinci fooled people.

D. Because the color of the painting was dark.

【5】From the last two paragraphs we can know the scientists felt a little_________.

A. discouraged B. satisfied

C. hopeful D. surprised

【题目】Here is a true story about a famous man who worked in the White House and a criminal. They once faced the same thing: their mother gave them apples when they were young.

The criminal said: one day, my mother brought some apples and asked my brother and me: “Which one do you want?” “The reddest and biggest one,” my little brother said. My mother stared at him and said to him angrily: “You should learn to give the good things to others; you shouldn’t always think of yourself.” Seeing this, I suddenly changed my idea and then said to my mother: “Mum, please give me the smaller one and give the bigger one to my little brother.” Hearing my words, my mother was very happy. She kissed me on my face and gave the reddest and biggest apple to me as a prize. From then on, I learned to tell lies, fight, steal and rob. In order to get what I wanted, I played hard. As a result, I was sent into prison.

The famous man from the White House said: One day, my mother brought some apples. She said to my brother and me: “You all want the reddest and biggest one, right? Well, let’s have a competition. Now I divided the grassland in front of the gate into two and I will give one to each of you and you must shear(修剪) it well. And I will give the reddest and biggest apple to him who does it the most quickly and best.”

After the competition, I won and I got the biggest apple. In our family, as long as you want to get the best things, you must take part in competition. I think it is fair. No matter what you want, you must pay lots of efforts.

【1】The criminal got the reddest and biggest apple because .

A. he told the truth that he wanted a smaller one

B. he knew how to make his mother happy from her answer

C. elder brother should of course have the bigger one

D. his mother loved him more than she loved the younger brother

【2】We can conclude from the passage that .

A. it’s wrong to ask children to choose apples when they are not old enough

B. it’s important to make children aware that no matter what they want, they must pay work

C. it’s wrong to ask children not to always think of themselves

D. it’s always necessary to have a competition when we give children apple

【3】The writer tells the story by .

A. organizing it in the order of time

B. making a comparison between two men

C. providing some scientific information

D. describing it in the order of space

【4】It is implied in the passage that .

A. we should always try to win competitions which can bring us a lot

B. in order to get what we want, we should play hard

C. a mother’s educational method has a great influence on a child’s growing

D. giving children apples will lead them to become criminals