Yearsagoafarmerownedlandalongt-优题课

You may surf the internet to choose some films for the long holidays. Read the following introductions for movies that are showing at the moment. And then answer questions.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Happiness (Romance) ★★★★
Happiness tells the story of two people (Lisa Turbot and Danny Roy) who work for different advertising companies. They talk on the phone all the time and don’t like each other. But then they correspond by e-mail and fall in love. This movie will be very popular with teenagers and people who like romances. It also has beautiful music.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I scream (Thriller ) ★★
In I scream, Paul (Colin Jacks) is a young man who joins a thriller club. Each of the members tries to frighten the others. Paul is told to stay in an old house for the night. Everyone who has tried to stay in the house before has died. This movie is very frightening but also quite silly. It doesn’t make sense for Paul to stay in the house when things start to go wrong. Only for people who like thrillers.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Paul’s Heroes (Comedy) ★★★
This is very funny war movie set in World War Two. Six soldiers (including Sammy Turblow) have to get to Italy to take secret messages to the American army there. During the movie, they dress up as women and fight with Italian workers. You can guess the ending, but it’s great fun getting there.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Drama ) ★★★★
This is a very good drama with Jack Ross, who plays a hard-working truck driver. His wife becomes ill and he has to find a doctor who can help her. In his travels he meets Dr Lloyd (Phidl Driver) who has found the cure for the illness, but Jack Ross has only twelve hours to get the medicine back to his wife on the other side of America. This is an excellent movie, which is very exciting.
68. The purpose of writing this article is to _____________
A. advertise the four films to attract more audience
B. compare the different advantages of each film
C. introduce different films to vacationers.
D. persuade people to go to the cinema
69. The underlined word “correspond” can be replaced by ________.
A. communicate B. match C. write D. exchange
70. Which of the following is the best title for the fourth film?
A .A Hard-working Truck Driver B. Medicine
C. A Strange Illness D. Twelve Hours

Twelve-year-old Paul Crossnickle has lived as a hero for six years now. It wasn’t until he wrote a composition for a recent class project, however, that he got the recognition he should have got.
On July 27, 1991, Paul saved his three-year-old sister Julie from drowning in the family swimming pool. When he found her, he jumped in, pulled her off the bottom and brought her to the ground.
Their father was trying to bring Julie to life when fire fighters arrived. She survived without serious injury.
Last month, in Paul’s seventh-grade language arts class at Juniper Elementary School, teacher Liliana Mauro asked students to write about an important event in their lives. Paul wrote about rescuing Julie.
“He was somewhat disappointed, for he was never recognized for his deed,” Principal Mondragon said. “Mrs. Mauro telephoned the Fire Department and looked into what they could do for him.”
The school held a regular gathering for their teachers and 200 pupils, which surprised Paul Firefighters from a local station joined Assistant Fire Chief Dave Horn and the city officials who presented Paul with a plaque (徽章) that recognized him “for his heroic efforts preventing a needless loss of life in a near-drowning accident.”
Paul’s parents, Alan and Kathy Crossnickle, were there as well as Julie.
“Paul’s story was one of success…and his sister was able to survive with all her faculties in place,” fire Captain Steve Valenzuela said. “This should remind everyone else that because of Paul’s quick action, knowing to get his sister out of the pool and calling 911 and beginning CPR probably saved her life.”
65. The correct order of the story is _____.
a. Paul became a known hero
b. Paul wrote a composition c. Paul pulled his three-year—old sister off the bottom. d. Paul’s parents were present at the gathering.
e. Mrs. Mauro connected the Fire Department f. Paul was given a plaque.
A. a, b, c, d, e, f B. c, a, b, d, e, f C. c, b, e, d, f, a D. b, c, a, e, f, d
66. Fire Captain Steve meant that _______ when he said that Julie survived “with all her faculties in place.”
A. Julie was saved undamaged
B. Julie was frightened though she was saved
C. Julie was sent to hospital without delay
D. Julie was able to return to the place because of Paul’s rescue
67. What conclusion can we get from the text?
A. Paul’s parents didn’t want Paul to be a hero at all.
B. The school wanted other students to learn from Paul.
C. Mrs. Mauro was fond of Paul very much.
D. Paul looked forward to being a hero for six years.

第三部分：阅读理解（每题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Although the new year is already here, the great moments of the old year are still in the memory. Let’s look back at some of these.
the United States
One of the world’s largest New Year’s Eve parties was held in Times Square, New Year. The festival attracted hundreds of thousands of people to watch brightly-lit ball drop on a landmark building at the stroke(报时的钟声) of midnight.
A great amount of confetti(五彩纸屑) was released from the sky at zero o’clock..
Britain
Painted in shining colours and blowing on whistles,50,000 party-goers arrived in London’s Millennium Dome to dance in the New Year. The Millennium Dome came to life at midnight as 50 DJs started up, competing on five separate dance floors to warm the crowd into the party mood.
Russia
New Year is the biggest holiday in Russia. It is traditional to put up a tree for celebrations with family and friends.
On the very last day of the years, Russians with a taste for a very cold swim braved freezing temperatures to plant traditional, festival trees on the bed of the Northern Ocean and at the bottom of Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake.
Malaysia
Brave skydivers threw themselves off the world’s tallest buildings near midnight and floated towards the new year.
The jump from the 452-metre Petronas Twin Tower was called a real leap from one year to the next since the group took off in the last second of the old year and landed a minute later in the new year.“That was really cool,”said Roland Simpson,“over crowds of onlookers to the landing spot.”
61. In New Year the brightly-lit ball dropped______.
A. from the sky onto the Times Square B. to celebrate the stroke of midnight
C. to welcome the arrival of Christmas D. at the point between the old and the new year
62. Which of the following is NOT true about celebrations in the world?
A. A large quantity of confetti was given out from the tallest building.
B. Skydivers in Malaysia jumped down from the world’s tallest buildings.
C. Some Russians planted trees on the bed of Lake Baikal.
D. In Britain 50 DJs competed on five separate floors.
63.The underlined word “landmark”means______ in the text.
A. an easily recognizable object, such as a tall tree or building
B. something that marks an important point in one’s life
C. something marking the limits of a piece of land
D. a building that is marked on a map
64. The text shows that_____.
A. New Year has been the starting point for people to have dreams
B. people in different countries welcomed New Year in different ways
C. people’s ways of celebrations are exciting
D. the new year is better than the old year

实验班必做题（61---65每题3分）
I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language—the way it can evoke(唤起) an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all—all the Englishes I grew up with.
Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken”, as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English,” for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions(认识)of the limited English speaker.
I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed（难堪） of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is ,because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.
I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”, and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal(内在的) language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure: I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show; her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
61. By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”, the author means that ______.
A. she uses English in foreign trade B. she is fascinated by languages
C. she works as a translator D. she is a writer by profession
62. The author used to think of her mother’s English as ______.
A. impolite B. amusing C. imperfect D. practical
63. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?
A. Americans do not understand broken English.
B. The author’s mother was not respected sometimes.
C. The author’ mother had positive influence on her.
D. Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.
64. The author gradually realizes her mother’s English is _____.
A. well structured B. in the old style
C. easy to translate D. rich in meaning
65. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The changes of the author’s attitude to her mother’s English.
B. The limitation of the author’s perception of her mother.
C. The author’s misunderstanding of “limited” English.
D. The author’s experiences of using broken English.

At Harton College-an English boarding school（寄宿制学校）for boys-there are many rules.Fifteen-year-old Bob Sanders often breaks them.
The boys can go into the town in the afternoon after class. But they must return to the school at six o’clock. One afternoon Bob walked to the town. He looked at the shops and then went to the cinema. After the film, he looked at his watch. It was after eight o’clock. He was a little worried . He walked back to Harton College as fast as possible.
When he arrived, he ran quickly to the main entrance（主要入口）.It was locked. He went round the school buiding to another door. That one was locked too. He looked up at the window of his dormitory（宿舍）.It was on the third floor. The window was open. But it was quite dark and he could not climb up the wall easily. Then he saw another open window on the ground floor. It was the window of the headmaster’s study（书房）.
He looked into the room-no one was there. Bob quickly climbed on to the window and jumped into the room. Just then he heard a noise. Then someone turned on a light in the corridor（走郎）.Bob looked around and then hid under the sofa. One minute later, Mr Mannering the headmaster, came in. He turned on the light on his desk, and sat down on the sofa（沙发）.Then he opened a book and began to read.
Bob lay under the sofa as quietly as possible. He couldn’t move. The floor was cold and uncomfortable. He looked at the headmaster’s shoes and socks for an hour.
“Why doesn’t he get up and go to bed?”Bob thought.
Mr. Mannering read his book for another hour.Finally, the headmaster closed his book and stood up. He put the book on a shelf and walked towards the door.
“Thank God he didn’t find me under the sofa,”thought Bob.
Then Mr. Mannering stopped and spoke towards the sofa.
“Would you turn off the light when you leave?”
He said, and left the study.
57．Bob returned to the school more than two hours late because_______.
A．he enjoyed himself too much B．he did not catch the bus
C．he hated the rules D．he ran into an old friend
58．The main entrance was_______.
A．too high B．open C．shut D．slightly open
59．Bob didn’t go to his dormitory because_______.
A．the gate was locked B．the window was shut
C．it was quite dark D．the wall was too high for him to climb up
60．Bob actually went into the headmaster’s_______.
A．dormitory B．private（私人的）office
C．kitchen D．bedroom