—Let’s go and have a good drink tonight.

—______Have you got the first prize in the competition?

A. What for?             B. Thanks a lot.    C. Yes, I’d like to. D. Why not?

Mary loved small animals. One morning while she was walking in the forest, she found ___1___weak birds in the grass. She took them home and put them in a small cage. She cared them with love and the birds both grew ___2___. They thanked her ___3___a wonderful song every morning.

   But something happened one day. Mary left the door of the ___4___open. The larger bird flew from the cage. She thought that it would ___5___. As it flew close, she grasped (紧抓) it. She was very ___6___ to catch it. ___7___ she felt strange. She opened her hand and looked sadly at the ___8___ bird. Her great love had killed the bird!

   The other bird was moving back and forth (来回) in the cage. Mary could ___9___ its great need for freedom (自由). It wanted to fly into the clear and blue___10___. At once, Mary took the bird ___11___the cage and let it fly away. The bird circled once, twice, three times…

  Mary enjoyed watching the bird flying and singing ___12___. Suddenly the bird flew ___13___ and landed softly on her head. It sang the ___14___song that she had ever heard.

  The easiest way to lose love is to hold it too tight. The best way to keep love is to ___15___it wings (翅膀).

1. A. some                           B. several                            C. two                         D. three

2. A. small                           B. strong                     C. thin                          D. tired

3. A. with                                   B. for                          C. about                       D. at

4. A. house                         B. room                      C. cage                      D. garden

5. A. return                       B. die                           C. fly back                   D. fly away

6. A. sorry                     B. afraid                       C. frightened                 D. excited

7. A. Suddenly                            B. Usually                   C. Easily                     D. Hardly

8. A. living                         B. interesting                 C. lucky                       D. dead

9. A. take                             B. feel                          C. say                         D. get

10. A. river                          B. trees                        C. sky                          D. box

11. A. out of                     B. out from                   C. out off                          D. away of

12. A. sadly                         B. happily                     C. friendly                   D. angrily

13. A. higher                  B. farther                    C. closer                      D. later

14. A. sweetest                    B. poorest                     C. worst                       D. loudest

15. A. show                         B. give                         C. pass                       D. buy

THE 'China Daily', a newspaper, reports that the average student goes to sleep at 00:30 am. Even if that's an exaggeration (夸张), it's too close to the truth. Scientists say teens should sleep nine hours each night. But that's hard to do.
    Some even "pull all-nighters". These are lazy students who have homework due (到期) the next day that they haven't done. In the morning they don't look healthy and you can tell who's been doing it.
    One reporter did a survey on the problem. She found that most kids pull all-nighters to finish homework, but some do it for other reasons, such as playing computer games!
    Maybe the students’ lack (缺乏) of sleep is because of laziness - But in fact, few of them are lazy- or maybe it's because they have too much to do in middle schools.

Zhang Jialiang, a student in a middle school, usually go to bed around midnight. He says, “If I stayed up past 00:30 am, I wouldn't get any work done. I'd be falling asleep at my desk. My classes begin at 6:50 am. I'm partly awake in my first class. By the second, I'm slightly drowsy(困倦的). By my third class, I'm sleepy. By midday I'm finally wide-awake. But by 3:00 pm, I'm slowing down again. Yet I get more sleep than the China Daily's 'average student'.”
    Most Chinese middle schools seem to have a similar problem with sleepy students.
    Middle school classes start at 6:50 am, so students have to wake up one and a half hours before that to get ready and catch the bus. It's believed that lack of sleep can damage (损害) both grades and health.
    Some schools are paying attention. Classes in those schools start at 7:30 am.
1. What's the problem talked about in the passage?
A. Many kids have too much homework to do.
B. Many teenagers don't have enough sleep.
C. Many children are crazy about playing computer games.
D. Many kids are too lazy to finish their homework on time.
2. The underlined(画线) sentence implies (暗示) that the report in the newspaper _____.

A. is quite true              B. is far from being true C. is just a lie               D. is probably true
3. Which of the following is NOT a reason mentioned in the passage?
A. Laziness.           B. Homework.                     C. Housework.       D. Computer games.
4. What's the solution(解决办法) suggested at the end of the passage?
A. Later start of classes.                                   B. Less homework.
C. Going to bed early.                                D. Eating healthy food.
5. What’s Chinese meaning of the phrase "pull all-nighters" in the reading?

A. 开夜车                 B. 混时间               C.太懒惰        D.熬通宵

根据下列句子的意思及所给汉语注释，写出各单词或词组，使句子完整、正确、通顺（每空词数不限）

1. Parents always miss their children___________________（无论在哪里）they are.

2. Paper making is one of the greatest___________________（发明）in world history.

3. Mike often___________________（打排球）with his classmates after school.

4. If our school team wins the last two ___________________ (比赛) , we will be the top.

5. Time was over. The students stopped___________________（讨论）and rushed out of the classroom.

短文填空，从下面方框中选出10个单词，用它们的适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺。（注意：每词限用一次，其中有两词多余）

A woman was eating in a restaurant. She asked the waiter to do many (1) ________for her. Now she was (2) ________the waiter a lot of trouble. (3) ________, she asked the waiter to turn on the air conditioner（空调）because she  (4) _________too hot. Then she asked him to

(5) ________it off because she was too cold. This went on and on for (6) ________half an hour.

But the waiter was very kind and (7) _________ .He did everything the woman asked    (8) ________ to do without getting angry. Finally, someone (9) ________ in the restaurant asked why the (10) ________ didn’t just throw the woman out. “Oh, I don’t care.” the waiter said, Smiling. “We don’t even have an air conditioner.”

初中生活就要结束了，临别之际你一定有不少知心话想给你的老师讲，那么赶快用你手中的笔，用最优美的句子表达你的心声吧。要求：30词左右，句子准确，表意完整。（5分）

Dear Mr. /Miss_________,

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Li Ping

假如你要从City A前往City B，而且手中只有880元人民币。请对以下表格中的信息进行比较，选择你将乘坐的其中一种交通工具，并陈述理由。词数：70左右。（10分）

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---Does Ted tell you if he            next Sunday? 

---No, he doesn’t. But if he             , I’ll give you a ring.

A. will come, will come               B. comes, will come

C. comes, comes                        D. will come, comes

Excuse me, can you tell me            ?

A. why was the train late     B. why the train was late

C. why is the train late       D. why the train is late

I often heard her            in the room.

A. sing           B. sang          C. singing         D. sings