B
Tony loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about
playing college basketball the next year. Suddenly a car hit him and he was thrown three meters into the air.
Tony woke up in a hospital room. When the doctor told him that both his legs were broken, he knew his college basketball dreams were over. Tony did what the doctors told
him, but it didn't work. After he left the hospital, Tony was sent to a health center． A week after he arrived there, he met Sunny Chen. Sunny used to be a coach．His legs were hurt badly in a skating accident．Though he couldn't move his legs，Sunny became a coach of a basketball team called the Suns．It was an on-wheelchair basketball team，because everybody on the team played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited Tony to join the game. Tony played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he stopped feeling sorry for himself．
After becoming a part of the Suns，Tony improved quickly．Basketball was
like medicine for him．Tony was much better than before．When Tony became sad or angry，Sunny was there to be with him．The day before Tony left the center, he had dinner with Sunny．He asked Sunny how he could be so happy, even with his broken legs．
Sunny smiled and said, “It’s really quite easy．When you keep your face to the sun，the shadows fall behind.”
50. From the passage, we know that ________. A. Tony was hit by a bus B. Tony was hit by a car
C. Tony was hit by a basketball D. Tony was hit by a football 51. Where was Tony when he woke up after the accident?
A. In a hospital. B. In a health center. C. In a college. D. In a sports center. 52. How did Sunny help Tony? A. By teaching him how to play basketball. B. By giving him some medicine in the game.
C. By having dinner with him in the health center. D. By inviting him to join the Suns and being with him.
53. According the passage, we can know that Sunny was ________. A. shy and careful B. humorous and patient C. helpful and hopeful D. serious and hardworking C
American nutrition expert Professor Barry Popkin says that the number of overweight people in the world is now bigger than the number of people who don’t have enough to eat. A billion people worldwide now weigh too much and the number of obese people is now more than 300 million. “Obese” means at least 15 kilos heavier than you should be. However, there are also 800 million people in the world who don’t have enough to eat.
Professor Popkin said that the number of hungry people is falling slowly but the number of overweight people is rising fast. The main reasons for this are:
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● people are doing less hard physical work
● more people worldwide now eat too much fatty food ● too many people are driving cars instead of walking ● people spend too much time in front of a television
The United States has the highest rate of obesity in the developed world and Japan has the lowest. Professor Benjamin Senauer is absolutely certain of the reasons for this.
“Japanese people are fit. They use public transport and walk,” he said. “The average American drives to work and drives to supermarket. When he gets home, he sits on a couch in front of the TV and eats junk food.”
In Britain and many other European countries, there are three times as many obese people as there were 20 years ago. About two thirds of British adults are overweight or obese. “The effects of this are clear,” said London doctor Elena Power. “We have more illnesses related to weight and fewer fit people.
China used to be one of the slimmest nations in the world. However, Professor Wu Yangfeng from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing recently estimated （估计）that 20 percent of the world’s overweight people live in China. The Chinese government is especially worried about the increase in obesity among schoolchildren.
“We have a serious problem,” said Professor Wu. “It requires an improvement from everyone, or it will get worse.
54. How many people weigh too much in the world now?
A. A billion. B. 20 billion. C. 300 million. D. 800 million. 55. Professor Popkin probably agrees that_______.
A. walking to work helps people keep fit B. watching TV makes people put on weight C. eating food without fat helps people keep fit D. working in offices makes people put on weight
56. Which of the following is Not True according to the passage ? A. Being overweight can cause more illnesses.
B. About two thirds of British people are overweight.
C. More and more schoolchildren are overweight in China.
D. Most Japanese people are healthier than those in other countries. 57. What does the writer try to tell us in the passage?
A. The importance of losing weight.
B. How people keep fit all over the world. C. How many countries have health problem. D. The number of overweight people is growing. D
Do you want to become better at making small talk with new people? Do you want to become better at networking with others? Nothing will improve your networking ability and your ability to make a successful conversation with other people rather than your curiosity(好
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奇心) about them.
When you are curious about other people, you will want to discover some of the interesting ways that they are similar to you. When you are curious about them, you’ll also be interested to discover the ways in which they think differently and live differently from you.
When you have curiosity about others, you will be much less self-conscious and your conversations will work a lot better. Instead of worrying yourself, “What can I say next that won’t sound stupid?”, you will be focused on learning more about the other person.
Making small talk with strangers can be tricky. We’ve all heard the advice that we should pick something out of our immediate environment and use that as a main point to start our small talk with the other person.
It’s true that this can be a great starting point for a conversation. However, when you focus too much on discussing things like the weather in your city, you can bring the conversation to a painful end very quickly. The other person will sense that you are trying to make a conversation, but that you have no interest in really getting to know him or her.
How can you keep small talk from becoming boring?
One way is to watch the other person for clues they will give you about what is really interesting to them. When you get these clues, use them to start making the conversation a bit more about their life, their opinions, and their experiences.
After you have had a couple of minutes to break the ice, try looking for ways to make the conversation a little bit more personal. Ask the other person for his or her opinion about something that is a bit more personal but not extremely so. The first few minutes of talking to someone new will not be the best time to ask the other person his or her opinion on religious（宗教的） or political（政治的） matters. However, he or she might be happy to discuss his or her favorite team or musical band.
58. In Paragraph 1, the writer mainly wants to tell us that___________. A. curiosity can help us make a good talk B. it’s hard to make a talk with new people C. curiosity helps us know new people quickly D. it’s hard to make a successful talk with others
59. The underlined word “self-conscious” in Paragraph 3 probably means_____. A. self-centered B. self-controlled C. serious D. nervous 60. While carrying on a conversation, we should_____. A. think about what won’t sound stupid B. show our interests to the other person C. try to learn more about the other person D. discuss things like the weather in the city
61. What is the best title for the passage?
A. The way of starting small talk.
B. Improving our small talk with curiosity. C. The importance of small talk in our life.
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D. Improving our relationship through small talk.
七、阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最
佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。（共8分，每小题2分）
For most people, summer holidays mean sun, sea and sand, 62 . She had a holiday full of ice and snow. She and her family travelled across Greenland! Starting just above the Arctic Circle (北极圈), Sarah’s family used dogsleds with kites to cross the world's biggest island.
Sarah says 63 . \
more snow.\The family travelled 15 miles a day for 22 days, moving faster when strong winds pushed along their kites.
Then the weather became a bit hot for the dogs to pull sleds during the day, 64 . The Landrys lived in tents, ate dried food, and took baths with
heated water. When they weren't travelling, they played with kites and made snowmen. Using their mobile phones, the family could send and get emails even from Greenland’s ice cap! The road to the top was icy and dangerous.
The difficult journey was worth it when they reached the ice cap and saw the view. \冰山)were so bright, just like the rising sun.\said Sarah. Now she and her family have returned home, 65 . Next holiday, they are going to the South Pole.
A. so the family began travelling at night B. there were many people travelling there, too C. but not for Canadian schoolgirl Sarah Landry
D. but they're already talking about their next plan
E. there wasn't much to see during the long journey
八、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共10分，每小题2分）
Juliane Koepke
In 1971, a plane crashed(坠毁) in the Amazon
forest in Peru. Only one person survived(从……中逃
生). She was a 17-year-old German girl called Juliane Koepke. When the plane crashed, Juliane fell through the trees and landed on the ground. She did not wake up for a day. When she did, she had a terrible headache and a bad cut on her arm, but she could walk. She stood up
and immediately started to look for help.
After a while, Juliane realized that she was by herself in the forest. She needed to find her way to a town or village, but how could she do that? She knew that the plane had crashed in the middle of the forest!
Luckily, Juliane knew something about the forest. Her parents were scientists. They were studying the forest in Peru, and that is where Juliane grew up. She knew
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that the most important thing was to find fresh water.
When Juliane found a stream, she followed it in the direction that the water was moving. She knew that the stream would become a river, and there were often villages near a river. It wasn't an easy journey for her. She walked for days. She often had to walk or swim through dangerous water full of crocodiles. When the animals attacked(攻击) her, she fought them with a stick.
Rescue(营救) planes were looking for people who were still alive after the accident, but after ten days, they decided to give up. They knew that they would never find anybody. Two days later, Juliane Koepke walked out of the forest, hungry and very tired, but alive!
66. When did the plane crash in the Amazon forest? 67. What happened to Juliane when the plane crashed? 68. What did Juliane do first when she woke up? 69. Why was the journey difficult for her? 70. What helped Juliane walk out of the forest?
书面表达（共21分）
九、完成句子（共6分，每小题2分）
根据中文意思完成句子。
71．天气很好。为什么不去放风筝呢？
It’s fine today. ______ go to fly a kite? 72．一般说来，女孩子和男孩子是一样聪明的。
Generally speaking, girls are ______ boys. 73．期末考试要到了，同学们都忙着复习功课呢。
The final exam is coming. The students ______ their lessons. 十、文段表达（15分）
根据中文大意和英文提示词语，写出意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于50词的 回信。信的开头和结尾已给出， 其字数不计入所要完成的回信内。 所给英 文提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。
74．假如你是李红，你的美国笔友Mary通过邮件，想了解你课余活动情况。请
根据她邮件中提出的问题回复邮件。邮件的开头与结尾已给出。 Mary邮件中的问题：
? What activities do you often do in your
spare time?
? What is your favorite activity?
? Why do you like it?
提示词：play basketball, listen to music, use the Internet, healthy, relax,
get knowledge
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