【题目】第一节单词拼写：请根据汉语提示完成下列句子，每空只填一个单词。

【1】How will information technology meet these ________(挑战)today and in the near future?

【2】Under the new curriculum standard, our teachers have________(采用) the new method of teaching.

【3】By searching online, I have found out the meaning of the word ________(最后，终于).

【4】To our ________(快乐,高兴), the government has passed some laws of protecting the air, and we can do something useful, too.

【5】He has a message from King Fahd, believed to be an________ (呼吁) for Arab unity.

【6】 There is no need to keep ________(责备) each other about the breaking of the windows.

【7】Despite many difficulties, I am deeply ________ (乐观的) about the problems.

【8】________(失望的), she asked me to take her to the train station, saying she would take the train back home.

【9】The more time, energy and money you spend ________(获得，取得) knowledge, the more control you have over your life.

【10】 We all want to make a good first impression and not get stuck in an________(局促不安的) conversation.

【11】 I ________(绝对地) believe in miracles, and believe that they are all around us, every day.

【12】His research has________ (贡献) a lot to our understanding of this disease.

【13】I believe that every one of us has our own fears...fear of being ________(打败), fear of losing and the likes.

【14】He tried to hold out for higher pay by ________(拒绝) signature to the contract.

【15】 Smoking should be ________(禁止，取缔) in cars, and particularly any vehicle with children in it.

【题目】短文改错

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11处起）不计分。

Cherry, whom is about 5 or 6 years old, is my favorite pet. About three years before, Cherry showed up at our house. I have just lost my cat and was very sadly, so I didn’t plan to own another pet. At first, we ignored her. We were getting ready leave for a vacation. My two daughter kept wanting us to keep her and fed her behind my back. Finally I had to tell them if he was still here when we got back, we would keep her. I was sure a dog would move on. Guess what? When we got back from vacation, but the dog was still around. It seemed like an angel had send her to us.

【题目】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

The Amber Room【1】(put) up in 1709. It used to belong【2】Frederick William I, the first King of Prussia. Peter the Great fell in love with the room on a visit, and in 1716 the King of Prussia sent it to Peter the Great as a gift.

The Amber Room was shipped to Russia in 18 large boxes and put in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg as a part of a European art collection. It was first open in 1746 in the Winter Palace,【3】it was housed till 1755. In 1755, Czarina Elizabeth ordered the room【4】(move) to the Catherine Palace in Pushkin. An Italian【5】(art) Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli redesigned the room to fit into its new larger space,【6】(use) extra amber from Berlin.

【7】seems hard to believe that boxes of several tons of amber could go missing, and many historians have tried to solve the mystery. Most of them believe【8】the boxes were destroyed in the Second World War. One of the more extreme theories is that Stalin【9】(actual) had a second Amber Room and the Germans stole a fake (赝品).

The history of the new Amber Room, at least, is known for sure. The reconstruction (重建),【10】was based largely on black and white photographs of the original Amber Room, began in 1979 at Tsarskoye Selo and was completed 25 years later.

【题目】假如你是李华，国际学校的教师Paul邀请你星期六参加该校举行的“中国文化日”活动。但你爷爷突然生病住院，你要和父母一起去医院探视，不得不谢绝他的邀请。请根据下列要点用英语给Paul写一封电子邮件。

要点：1.谢绝邀请；

2．说明理由；

3．预祝活动成功。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3．邮件开头和结尾已为你写好。

Dear Paul，

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Yours，

Li Hua

【题目】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式

God has blessed me with a lovely brother. He is 4 years younger than me. I still remember that day when he was born. He is 【1】 premature baby. When he was a little baby, he always used to cry for no reason and hardly slept. He never allowed me and my parents 【2】 (sleep) well.

As time went by, he【3】 (become) a little older. I used to get angry with 【4】 since he started snatching(抢) all my toys away from me. 【5】 , my parents taught me that he is my younger brother and I 【6】 make him learn to share things.

Now, 【7】 we still fight over things, we both love each other deeply. We share the same school and have the same 【8】 , like doing sports, singing and reading.

We do a lot of secret things without informing our parents and if 【9】 (catch), we will join hands to deal with the situation. Life is fun when we are together. As we are growing old day by day, we are becoming 【10】 (responsible) for our duties than before. And we know that no matter where we go in life, we both are always there for each other to face the hardships of life.

【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

__【1】__

Home can be a great place for children to study. It's important to provide a workspace of their own where they can read books or just write a letter to their friends.

●Location (位置)

__【2】__Kitchen and dining room are not so well suited for regular study，since books and pens get in the way of the daytoday uses of those areas. Set up a place where a child can settle in and leave papers and pens at hand without having to clear everything away each night. For a child that likes being alone，set aside a corner of his bedroom，but keep it separate from things like games，music and other hobbies not related to studying.

●Keeping Things in Order

Parents should encourage their child to spread out，but to leave it neat and orderly when he isn't using his workspace. Ownership is very important for selfrespect __【3】_ The workplace should be personal，but not another part of the playroom.

●__【4】__

Encourage the whole family to help build a supportive environment that children need for success in school. Give them a good example of how to deal with problems，how to manage time and get things done in the right way.__ 【5】_Study will be more enjoyable and effective when supported by the whole family.

A．Attitude Is Everything

B．Bring Organization into Your Home

C．Here are several ways to choose a location.

D．Building a Good Home Learning Environment

E．Hold a cando attitude and your child will follow your example.

F．Setting up a space in a common area of your home can be a good idea for children.

G．A child who learns to organize his space will carry organization into every corner of his life.

【题目】Forgiveness(宽恕)

Forgiveness is a quality that is difficult to possess. When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be extremely difficult to let go of your hate. However, forgiveness is possible, and it can be surprisingly beneficial to your physical and mental health. People who forgive show less sadness, anger and stress and more hopefulness, according to a recent research. 【1】Try the following steps：

Calm yourself.【2】You can take a couple of breaths and think of something that gives you pleasure: a beautiful scene in nature, or someone you love.

Don’t wait for an apology. Many times the person who hurt you does not intend to apologize. They may have wanted to hurt you or they just don’t see things the same way.【3】Keep in mind that forgiveness does not necessarily mean becoming friends again with the person who upset you.

Take the control away from your offender(冒犯者). Rethinking about your hurt gives power to the person who caused you pain. Instead of focusing on your wounded feelings, learn to look for the love, beauty and kindness around you.

【4】If you understand your offender, you may realize that he or she was acting out of unawareness, fear, and even love. You may want to write a letter to yourself from your offender’s point of view.

Don’t forget to forgive yourself.【5】But it can rob you of your self-confidence if you don’t do it.

A. How should you start to forgive?

B. Why should you forgive?

C. Try to see things from your offender’s angle.

D. Recognize the benefits of forgiveness.

E. For some people, forgiving themselves is the biggest challenge.

F. If you wait for people to apologize, you could be waiting an awfully long time.

G. To make your anger die away, try a simple stress management technique(技能).

【题目】 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

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：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（^），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。

May I have your attention, please?

As you know it, our class will have a talk show on environment protection with Class One on May 4th. Before it take place, we will invite Dr. Lil from Qinghua University give us a talk on the environment problem and he will also tell you about the improvement in environment protection in recent years in Beijing.

The report will begin at 2:00 pm in Wednesday, April 30th in the auditorium on the third floor in the classroom building. I’m sure we can get enough informations from his talk to make well preparations for a coming talk show. Everyone should be there on time, then listen to the report or take full notes on the same time.

That’s all. Thank you.

【题目】Argentina in the late nineteenth century was an exciting place. Around 1870, it was experiencing an economic(经济的)boom, and the capital, Buenos Aires, attracted many people. Farmers, as well as a flood of foreigners from Spain and Italy, came to Buenos Aires seeking jobs. These jobs didn′t pay well, and the people felt lonely and disappointed with their new life in the city. As the unhappy newcomers mixed together in the poor parts of the city, the dance known an the tango(探戈舞)came into being

At the beginning the tango was a dance of the lower classes. It was danced in the bars and streets. At that time there many fewer women than men, so if a man didn′t want to be left out, his only choice was to dance with another man so that he could attract the attention of the few available women. Gradually, the dance spread into the upper classes of Argentinean society and became more respectable.

In Europe at this time, strong interest in dance from around the world was beginning

The interest in international dance was especially evident in Paris. Every kind of dance from ballet(芭蕾舞)to belly dancing could be found on the stages of the Paris theaters of the Paris theaters. After tango dances from Argentina arrive in Europe, they began to draw the interest of the public an they performed their exiting dance in cafes, Though not everyone approved of the new dance, saying it was a little too shocking, the dance did find enough supporters to make it popular.

The popularity（流行）Of the tango continued to grow in many other parts of the world. Soldiers who returned to the United States from World War I brought the tango to North America, It reached Japan in 1926, and in 2003 the Argentinean embassy in Seoul hired a local tango dancer to act an a kind of dance ambassador, and promote tango dancing throughout South Korea.

【1】The origin of the tango is associated with

A Belly dances

A. American soldiers B. Spanish city

C. the capital of Argentina

【2】Which of the following is true about the tango?

A. It was created by foreigners from Spain and Italy.

B. People of the upper classes loved the tango most

C. It was often danced by two male in the beginning

D. A dancer in Seoul became the Argentinean ambassador.

【3】Before World War I, the tango spread to

A. America B. Japan

C. France D. South Korea

【4】What can be the best title for the text?

A. How to Dance the Tango B. The History of the Tango

C. How to Promote the Tango D. The Modern Tango Boom

【题目】阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题纸上。

【1】Rather than go on holiday to seaside I_______________________ in the city. (prefer)

我宁愿在城市里购物而不愿去海边度假。

【2】_______________________the free tickets, I would not have gone to the concerts so often.(be）

要不是免费票，我不会这么频繁地光顾音乐会。

【3】We subscribe to the view _______________________ from being independent. (benefit)

孩子从独立中获益匪浅，我们赞同这个观点。

【4】The young couple stood still with _______________________ each other, unable to speak anything. (fix)

这对年轻的夫妇站着一动不动盯着对方，什么也说不出来。

【5】Never _______________________that he was able to break the world record but he did it. (occur)

他从未想到过他能打破世界纪录，但是他做到了。

【6】The great GM project , _______________________, is assessed to lead to the rapid development of modern agriculture. （contribute）

他们做出贡献的伟大的GM项目被评估会帮助现代农业快速发展。

【7】The explorer took only such men and things _______________________into the jungle.(need)

探险家只带那些他真正需要的人和东西去丛林。

【8】_______________________a famous painting, which had been handed down for generations. (hang)

挂在墙上的是一幅有名的绘画，它是一代代流传下来的。

【9】Mothers holding jobs outside the home should have flexible schedules _______________________＿care for their children. (make)

在家庭外工作的母亲应该有更灵活的日程安排以便更容易照顾小孩。

【10】______________________ makes his parents very worried．（attach）

他不太重视学习让他的父母很担心。