It was the first day of school. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a little old lady smiling at me.
She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”
I laughed, enthusiastically responding, “Of course!” And she gave me a giant squeeze. “Why are you in college at such an age?” I asked.
“I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have children, and then retire and travel.”
“No seriously.”
“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!”
We became instant friends. Over the course of the year, Rose made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she took great delight in the attention given to her from the other students. She was living it up. At the end of the term we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet (宴会) and I’ll never forget what she taught us.
As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her note card on the floor. A little embarrassed she simply said, “I’m sorry. This whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.” As we laughed, she cleared her throat and began: “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing; There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You have got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anyone can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.”
At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral(葬礼) to honor the wonderful woman.
【小题1】While meeting Rose at the college for the first time, the author was curious about
________.

A．her age

B．her dream

C．her life

D．her motivation

【小题2】The underlined sentence “She was living it up” in the text most probably means
________.

A．she did as well as she was expected

B．she spent much money in her college life

C．she did things that she enjoyed

D．she deserved(应得) praise due to her study

【小题3】In Rose’s opinion, one can learn to grow up by __________.

A．getting new ideas

B．regretting his mistakes

C．gaining new knowledge every day

D．finding chances to do productive things

【小题4】What else did Rose most probably say at the football banquet?

A．“It seems my young days are over.”

B．“The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”

C．“When we are old, we can’t do anything. So enjoy in time!”

D．“Have a good time and don’t do much in order to stay young.”

【小题5】The story of Rose in the text shows that __________.

A．it is never too late to learn in your life.

B．it is good for old people to have friendship.

C．it is never too late to be all you can possibly be.

D．it is very important to have a healthy body when people are old.

One’s education starts from family, especially from his or her mother. Here is a story__26__ happened in my childhood.
One Saturday morning, I was watching TV in the living room with my two brothers. My mum__27__ several apples of different colors and sizes. She put all the apples on the table, then __28__me and my younger brothers, “Which do you like ?”__29__ my younger brothers and I wanted the biggest one. __30__ I could say “ The biggest one”, one of my brothers stood up and said what I wanted to say.
My mum __31__ the biggest apple and said to us, “It is __32__to get the biggest apple. Many people want the best thing, but few really get it. Now let’s start a __33__. Look at the lawn(草坪) in front of our __34__. I’ll divide it into three parts. Each of you must finish pruning(修剪) __35__own share. The best and quickest one will be__36__the biggest apple.” I won the apple finally.
Since then, I have learned to try my best to succeed whenever I get a chance. I work __37__to get what I want. That was what my mother advised me to do. I feel very thankful to my mum because she taught me a very basic but the most __38__lesson. It is quite fair that we can get what we want __39__competing (竞争). My mother kept teaching us in this way and we followed her __40__ all the time.
I do believe that mother is the first teacher of children, who can teach them to be a No.1 pursuing person.

【小题1】

A．how B．what C．that D．when

【小题2】

A．wanted B．drew C．hid D．brought

【小题3】

A．told B．answered C．replied D．asked

【小题4】

A．All B．Both C．Neither D．Either

【小题5】

A．Before B．When C．Until D．After

【小题6】

A．ate up B．looked up C．picked up D．gave up

【小题7】

A．good B．strange C．bad D．polite

【小题8】

A．lesson B．party C．conversation D．competition

【小题9】

A．school B．church C．house D．library

【小题10】

A．my B．our C．your D．their

【小题11】

A．sent B．given C．shown D．shared

【小题12】

A．hard B．carelessly C．easily D．comfortably

【小题13】

A．expensive B．important C．difficult D．traditional

【小题14】

A．on B．without C．about D．by

【小题15】

A．advice B．example C．decision D．plan

阅读下列短文，根据要求完成下列题目。
Miss Wen is my favourite teacher. (A)She began to teach us Chinese three years ago. She is a young girl with long, black hair and a beautiful smile. When she came to our school, I was not a good student in our class. I always failed（没有通过） the tests.
Miss Wen spent a lot of time with our class, but I never had a chance to talk to her. I thought I was just nobody in my class and Miss Wen didn’t like me. But I knew I was wrong later.
One day, Miss Wen asked me to meet her at the school gate. When I got there, she was waiting for me already. Then we went to the park in the school together. (B)Talking alone with my teacher made me excited. She smiled at me and told me that I was quiet but I could write wonderful stories. She told me that I could be a good student. 
Today, Miss Wen doesn’t teach us any more, but I still want to say that she taught me the most important lesson of my life: to believe in myself.
【小题1】将文中A处画线句子用现在完成时改写。
______________________________________
【小题2】写出文中B处画线句子的同义句。
It made me excited ____________________with my teacher.
【小题3】The underlined word “nobody” may mean _________.

A．an important person	B．an interesting person
C．an unimportant person	D．a boring person

【小题4】What does Miss Wen look like?
______________________________________
【小题5】What did Miss Wen say the writer was good at?
______________________________________

Long ago, Bluebird’s feathers were the colour of dust. She did not like her ugly colour. She was attracted by the colour of the lake near her home. It was as blue as the sky after a storm. Bluebird wanted to be the colour of that beautiful lake very much. Flapping her wings one morning, Bluebird flew from her tree to the blue lake. Then she bathed in the water three times. After each bath, she sang, “Blue water. Still water. I went in. I am blue.” Bluebird repeated this every morning. On the third day, she came out of the lake with beautiful blue feathers.
Now Coyote was a trickster(骗子)—and hungry too. He stayed behind Bluebird’s tree for a long time every day and watched her go to the lake. He pretended(伪装) to be interested in everything she did. He wanted Bluebird for lunch, but he was afraid of the blue water. On the third morning, Coyote saw Bluebird come out of the lake with beautiful blue feathers. Impressed, he sat next to Bluebird’s tree and waited for her. When she returned, he asked, “How did you get blue feathers? I want to be blue like the mountains too.” Bluebird didn’t believe Coyote, but she taught him how to bathe three times each morning and how to sing her song. Coyote did what she said, and after three days of bathing in the lake, his white fur turned deep blue.
Convinced(确信的) that blue fur was even more beautiful than blue feathers, Coyote forgot all about being hungry. He ran as fast as he could to the top of the hill. Standing on his back legs, he raised his front legs off the ground and howled. But Coyote slipped(滑倒) and rolled down the hill. He couldn’t stop himself, and the dust and dirt covered his new blue fur. He rolled and rolled until he hit into Bluebird’s tree heavily. No matter how much he tried, foolish Coyote could not shake the dust from his fur. And so the fur of all coyotes had the dull colour of dust to this very day.
【小题1】How many times did Bluebird bathe every morning before she had beautiful blue feathers?

A．Three times.

B．Four times.

C．Five times.

D．Six times.

【小题2】Why was Coyote a trickster?

A．He wanted to fly like Bluebird near the mountains.

B．He wanted to eat Bluebird but pretended to be curious.

C．He wanted to swim in the lake but was afraid of the water.

D．He wanted to sing Bluebird’s song but didn’t know the words.

【小题3】Where did Coyote go after his fur turned blue?

A．To the lake.

B．To the tree.

C．To the cave.

D．To the hill.

【小题4】Why did Coyote forget all about being hungry?

A．Because his fur had the dull colour of dust.

B．Because the dust and dirt covered his new blue fur.

C．Because he thought blue fur was much more beautiful.

D．Because he hit into Bluebird’s tree and hurt himself.

【小题5】What words does the writer use to help you imagine the colour blue?

A．sky, lake, mountains

B．bird, coyote, storm

C．flapped, climbed, bathed

D．fur, feathers, dust

情景交际（本题共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据对话内容，选出最佳选项填入空白处。（有两项为多余选项）
A: Summer holidays will begin next month. Are you going back to your hometown?
B: No, 【小题1】 .
A: What are you going to do?
B: Mum will take me to Beijing.    【小题2】 
A: She will be very happy to see you.
B: Yes, we haven’t seen each other for several years.
A:   【小题3】 
B: She is an English teacher. She is teaching in Beijing now. but last year she taught in Hong Kong.
A： 【小题4】 
B: Yes, she has. She likes traveling. So, she always moves to different places to work.
A: Is she going to work in Dalian?
B: Yes.    【小题5】
A: That’s great.