So it is （) to say that learning English is easy.

A.It’s my pleasure

B.You needn’t say that

C.Aren’t we friends？

D.I’m afraid I haven’t done well

, hoping to find something to eat because she didn’t want to die. Then she found a little house and thought it must be a woodman’s house and she might be able to stay there. So she knocked at the door. As there was no answer, she opened it and went inside. There she saw a room with a long table. On it there were seven knives and forks, seven plates and drinking cups, and on the plates and in the cups were food and drink. The little girl was too hungry to turn away from the food, and so she took a little from each plate and each cup. At the other end of the room, there were seven little beds. She tried to lie on some of them, and when she found a very nice one, she fell into a deep sleep, for she was very tired after a long walk through the forest.

1.The little girl was happy to get to the forest.()

A、Right

B、Wrong

C、Doesn’t say

2.When she got to the little house, someone opened the door to let her in.()

A、Right

B、Wrong

C、Doesn’t say

3.In the house she found a few things for seven people.()

A、Right

B、Wrong

C、Doesn’t say

4.The room was the home of some short kind-hearted men.()

A、Right

B、Wrong

C、Doesn’t say

5.The little girl slept very well in one of the little beds.()

A、Right

B、Wrong

C、Doesn’t say

Monica is （) to think so, on both （). Now a 40-year-old mother of four, she is preside

nt of a public sector labor union with 45,000 members. "() with my employees are probably different from those of male managers () me," she says. "I know what it's like to have to call and say my kid got the () so I won't be coming in. I have a more () style. - not soft, just more understanding." The man who is Monica's () agrees, "She tends to () more and is always looking for a (). People are happy and flourish because they have an input into decisions and they are not mere (); their energies are harnessed. On the other hand, consensus takes longer."

A from B.by C.more than D.because E.off

There are so many possible hobbies.Choose one-or possibly ____1 one-that suits you.A hobby should be something that when you get up in the morning on your day ____2,you will be able to

say,Great,today I can enjoy my hobby,"or"I can't wait to get home ____3 work,because my hobby is waiting for me!"You should be so absorbed when doing your hobby that you may even losetrack of time.A hobby can bring tremendous joy and satisfaction to the young or old.Start out ____4 making a list of all the possible hobbies you even think you would be interested in.Search your mind back to when you were younger too.Maybe your drawing or painting was hung in the hall at your grammar school _____5 it was so good or possibly you remember doing your own tune up on your car and how proud you were.At this point you just want to list a lot ofpossibilities,no matter how odd they may seem.

A.speak; talked

B.talk; told

C.say; spoke

D.tell; talked

Thank you so much for your lovely gift. _.

A.Never mind.

B.Im glad you like it.

C.Please dont say so.

D.No, its not so good.

Read the following passage and the statements that follow. Choose the best answer for each statement from the three choices marked A, B and C .

Outdoor Learning Environment

“How do they get the tomato on the vine(藤、蔓)？”

The question shocked Hillis. It reminded him of the time five years ago when he was volunteering at Beattie Elementary School in his daughter’s kindergarten classroom. He’d been reading the children a book about gardening.

“These kids had only seen vegetables in supermarkets,” he says. “I felt that something important was missing in their lives.”

So he went to work. Hillis and his wife, Sally, made the local government believe that it was necessary to create an outdoor learning environment. He and other volunteers raised more than 30,000 dollars to make such a project. The project was designed like the Platte River. Like the river, the school’s front walkway turns east to west, so they planted things along the walkway, such as native grasses which can be found along the river too.

Today, students are greeted every day by the cedar-mulched creation(雪松覆盖的表面), which spreads the length of three city blocks. In the back, there’s a garden, with twenty 1 ton rocks lying in the ground, where teachers hold classes.

The outdoor effort has changed things inside, too. For science, children plant seeds and, based upon each seed’s size and weight, guess how large a vegetable will grow to become. For arts and crafts, they collect fallen leaves and make designs out of them. Other science lessons make up a large part of the outdoor learning process. “No matter what time of the year it is,” Hillis says, “there’s always something going on.”

1.Hillis was a volunteer at Beatte Elementary School five years ago().

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.Doesn’t say

2.Halloween was first celebrated by the()around the fifth century.

A.English

B.American

C.Irish

D.European

3. The purpose of this course is to make the students know various rules of English grammar().

A.True

B.False

C.Not Mentioned

4.Students can tell how large a tomato will grow to become according to the seed’s size().

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.Doesn’t say

5.Craftsmen need knives and gravers of various types to make complicated patterns().

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.Doesn’t say

6. Which of the following doesn’t belong to the western culture()？

A.Europe

B.North Africa

C.Asia

D.America

7. What is the author’s main idea in the text()？

A.Education can be purchased

B.The difference between education and schooling

C.Degree is worthless

D.Students should learn more important knowledge

8. The settlers also taught the Indians to penetrate the forest, to hunt large animals().

A.True

B.False

C.Not Mentioned

9.The passage is mainly about().

A.parts of the brain that store information

B.illness that results in serious memory loss

C.how human brains process, store and recall information

D.how to improve our memory

10.What do you think “ginseng and gingko” probably are()？

A.Plants

B.Animals

C.Food

D.Drinks

11.Halloween happened().

A.from October 31st to November 1st

B.on October 31st

C.on November 1st

D.between October 31st and November 1st

12. How many cultural differences does the author mention in the text()？

A.One

B.Two

C.Three

D.Four

() in English.

A.You praise me too much

B.No，no. Thats too much for me

C.Its very kind of you to say so

D.Thank you

“不敢当”as a response to a praise can be translated into（).

A.Its very kind of you to say so

B.Im not worthy of the praise

C.Thank you

D.I do not deserve the praise

d a lot of things. Everything worked well, but I found one of my husband's socks missing. I looked everywhere for it, but I couldn't find it anywhere. The next morning, I got ready for school as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in. I greeted them first and then told them what we were going to do that day. When I turned around to write on the blackboard, the class broke out a roar! They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in fact, that I was afraid the headmaster would be into seeing all this. I asked the class to stop, but the more I talked, the more they laughed. I decided to pay no attention to them and I continued to write on the blackboard. When I did this, they roared even more. Finally, the teacher who had the room next to mine came in to see what all the laughter was about. When he came in, he started laughing, too! “Good heavens” I said. “Will someone please tell me what is so funny” “Oh, God, ”said the teacher. “You have a brown sock to the back of your skirt! ” So that's how I found my husband's missing sock. “Oh, well, ” I said to the class. “Let's just say you have had an unforgettable lesson on static (静止的) electricity. ”

21.The writer was a teacher. ()

22.When the writer turned around to write on the blackboard, the class began to laugh loudly. ()

23.She couldn't find one of her husband's socks, because her husband had taken it away. ()

24.The teacher from the next room laughed, because he found a sock on the back of the writer's skirt. ()

25.The students told her about the laughing.()

Energy independence. It has a nice ring to it. Doesn't it？ If you think so, you're not alone, because energy independence has been the dream of American president for decades, and never more so than in the past few years, when the most recent oil price shock has been partly responsible for kicking off the great recession.

“Energy independence” and its rhetorical (修辞的) companion “energy security” are, however, slippery concepts that are rarely though through. What is it we want independence from, exactly？

Most people would probably say that they want to be independent from imported oil. But there are reasons that we buy all that old from elsewhere.

The first reason is that we need it to keep our economy running. Yes, there is a trickle(涓涓细流)of biofuel(生物燃料)available, and more may become available, but most biofuels cause economic waste and environmental destruction.

Second, Americans have basically decided that they don't really want to produce all their own oil. They value the environmental quality they preserve over their oil imports from abroad. Vast areas of the United States are off-limits to oil exploration and production in the name of environmental protection. To what extent are Americans really willing to endure the environmental impacts of domestic energy production in order to cut back imports？

Third, there are benefits to trade. It allows for economic efficiency, and when we buy things from places that have lower production costs than we do, we benefit. And although you don't read about this much, the United States is also a large exporter of oil products, selling about 2 million barrels of petroleum products per day to about 90 countries.

There is no question that the United States imports a great deal of energy and, in fact, relies on that steady flow to maintain its economy. When that flow is interrupted, we feel the pain in short supplies and higher prices, At the same time, we derive massive economic benefits when we buy the most affordable energy on the world market and when we engage in energy trade around the world.

61. What does the author say about energy independence for America？()

A.It sounds very attractive.

B.It ensures national security.

C.It will bring oil prices down.

D.t has long been everyone's dream.

62. What does the author think of biofuels？()

A.They keep America's economy running healthily.

B.They prove to be a good alternative to petroleum.

C.They do not provide a sustainable energy supply.

D.They cause serious damage to the environment.

63. Why does America rely heavily on oil imports？()

A.It wants to expand its storage of crude oil.

B.Its own oil reserves are quickly running out.

C.It wants to keep its own environment intact.

D.Its own oil production falls short of demand.

64. What does the author say about oil trade？()

A.It proves profitable to both sides.

B.It improves economic efficiency.

C.It makes for economic prosperity.

D.It saves the cost of oil exploration.

65. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage？()

A.To justify America's dependence on oil imports.

B.To arouse Americans' awareness of the energy crisis.

C.To stress the importance of energy conservation.

D.To explain the increase of international oil trade.