I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was 1 and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be 2 but a failure.”
After five years of 3 jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best 4 that could have happened to me. I 5 I wanted to do something positive(积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to 6 that what people said about me was 7 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s face it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my 8 and went to college. My first novel 9 while I was at college.
After college I taught during the 10 in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of 11 that job to write full time 12 I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself. —Here was a working-class boy who’d 13 school early, now teaching at the university.
My writing career took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and famous, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. But what does it mean? I 14 wish all the people that have put me down had 15 “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”
A．bright B．useless C．simple D．hopeful
A．anything B．something C．everything D．nothing
A．low B．poor C．good D．useful
A．support B．happiness C．surprise D．thing
A．agreed B．decided C．planned D．told
A．me B．them C．her D．it
A．wrong B．right C．stupid D．faulty
A．experiment B．practice C．writing D．composition
A．came on B．came in C．came out D．came back
A．day B．night C．month D．year
A．giving in B．giving back C．giving out D．giving up
A．while B．if C．when D．Or
A．left B．attended C．changed D．graduated
A．just B．exactly C．so D．very
A．praised B．said C．answered D．advised
Dear Wen Qian,
Today is March 12th. I get up early in the morning. After breakfast my cousin Linda takes me to Mike’s birthday party. Mike is Linda’s good friend, but I don’t know him. Of course I don’t know where his house is. Oh, Linda knows the way to his house. At about eight o’clock we get to Mike’s house. Mike is very friendly, and I like him very much. I have fun at his party. And I know a lot about Mike’s family. His parents are teachers, but they don’t work in the same school. Mike has two sisters, they are Susan and Alice. They both like sports. And they both have pen pals in China. Who do you know is Alice’s pen pal? Her pen pal is Zhang Xuefeng, He’s your cousin. Isn’t it interesting?
Yours.
Helen __________ knows the way to Mike’s house.
| A．Helen | B．Wen Qian |
| C．Linda | D．Mike |
Mike’s__________ is a teacher.
| A．father | B．sister | C．cousin | D．friend |
There are_____________ people in Mike’s family.
| A．four | B．five | C．six | D．seven |
Zhang Xuefeng is Wen Qian’s__________
| A．cousin | B．brother |
| C．friend | D．pen pal |
Which of the following is true about Helen?
| A．Helen takes a taxi to Mike’s house |
| B．Helen doesn’t have pen pals in China |
| C．Helen has fun at mike’s birthday party. |
| D．Helen isn’t happy at the party |
完型填空 (10分)
There is a zoo in our city. My parents often take me there on___. I like animals. I have_______ toy animals in my room. In the______ , I can see the tigers, elephants, monkeys, pandas, bears, snakes, and many other ______ . Some animals are friendly, but some are not. Tigers, bears and some snakes are_______ , that is why they have to stay in_______ . But I do not think it is good for animals to stay in cages(笼子). They should be free. The animals in cages can't be_________ . I think the most interesting animals in the zoo are the dolphins. I like_______ them swim and jump. They swim so fast and jump so high. They can play with a ball. They can stand up and walk________ water! They are very________ to people. If you fall into water and can't swim, they may come to help you.
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完型填空。（每题1分，共10分）
It was my first day at Grade 6. And the first lesson was ____ English. When I was doing nothing, Mr. Gough, our new English teacher, ____ into the classroom.
To my surprise, he held up a book, The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, and asked “Who ____ it yet? ”. I put my hand up, because Poe was my favorite writer. Mr. Gough asked if I really understood ____ the author tried to say in his book. My reply made him smile, and he asked me ____ an essay on that subject.
After that, English classes became a new interest for me. Mr. Gough thought that students had to ____ a play to understand it. “Don’t just read it, ” he said.
As time passed, we developed a real friendship. He encouraged me to be a ____ in the future. When I left school, he said to me, “You have a gift for writing, Tony, and one day you’ll come to realize how ____ it is. Make use of it if you want your life to be complete. ”
____ has passed. Now every time I sit down to write ____, I think of Mr. Gough. He was more than just an English teacher, because he also taught me useful lessons in life.
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完形填空（每小题1分，共15分）
Linda：Hello！
Lily： !
Linda：What’s your name?
Lily：My is Lily.
Linda： Linda. Nice to meet you!
Lily： , too.
Linda：What’s your name, Lily?
Lily：Brown.
Linda：So your full name(全名) is , right?
Lily：Yes. And you?
Linda：My last name is .
Lily： it, please.
Linda：M-I-L-L-E-R.
Lily：What’s your ?
Linda：4563-9807.
Lily：My phone number 2349-9309.
Linda：What’s that?
Lily： my quilt.
Linda：What color is it?
Lily：It’s
Linda：Is Frank？
Lily：No, he . name’s Jack.A、GoodB、Hello C、Thank you
A、teacher B、nameC、card
A、She’sB、You are C、I’m
A、Nice to meet you B、Thank you C、Yes
A、firstB、oneC、last
A、LilyB、BrownC、Lily Brown
A、MillerB、AliceC、Linda
A、Spell B、Say C、Look
A、number B、telephone numberC、ID number
A、isB、areC、be
A、That’sB、It’s C、It
A、redB、a red C、my red
A、sheB、heC、name
A、isB、aren’t C、isn’t
A、HeB、HerC、His
完形填空
Amy is 13. She lives her parents in Suzhou. She is in Grade 7. From Monday
Friday, she goes to school. And she usually wears school clothes. There a lot of nice people in her class. Millie, her best friend, always games with her at lunchtime. They both enjoy________ the songs of Jay Zhou.
She is very busy now. Tomorrow is New Year’s Day. They are going to celebrate it ________their classroom, ________ Amy and Millie are going to the supermarket. They want to buy some
________ : sweets, chocolates, lemons and pears for their classmates. Amy often ate chocolates before, but now she ________ eat them any more because she wants ________ healthier(更健康). Millie loves pears. She is going to buy five kilos of them.
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