Mr Li is ______ university student. He often does ______ dishes after supper at home.

A. a, a B. an, the C. a, the D. the, the

We all want to try something new, but finding the ______ to start is always the hardest part.

A. success B. wisdom C. courage D. trust

I thought ______ difficult ________ the final decision.

A. it, to make B. it’s, to make

C. that, make D. it’s, making

Most boys _______ blue to pink while most girls _______ wear pink than blue.

A. would rather, prefer B. prefer, would rather

C. would rather, would rather D. prefer, prefer

完形填空 閱讀短文，從每題所給選項中選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。(15分)

Frank was a very talkative little boy. He never saw a new thing asking a great many questions about it.

His ____ was very patient and kind. When it was ____ to answer his questions, she would do so. Sometimes she would say, “You are not ____ enough to understand that, my son. When you are ten years old, you may ask me about it, and I will tell you.”

The first time Frank saw an hourglass(沙漏), he was very much interested, but he did not know ____ it was. His mother said, ‘An hourglass is made in the ____ of the figure 8. The sand is put in at one end, and runs through a small hole in the ____. As much sand is put into the glass as will run through in an hour.

When Frank watched the little stream of sand, he was impatient, ____ it would not run faster. “Let me ____ it, mother,” said Frank： “It is lazy, and will never get through.” “Oh yes, it will, my son,” said his mother. “The sand moves down little by little, but it moves all the time.” “When you look at the ____ of the clock, you think they go very slowly, and so they do； but they never ____.”

“While you are playing, the sand is running, grain(顆粒) by grain. The hands of the clock are moving, second by second. At night, the sand in the hourglass has run through twelve times. The hour hand of the clock has moved all around its face. This is because they keep working every ___. They do not stop to think how much they have to do, or how long it will ____ them to do it. Now Frank’s mother wanted him to learn a little poem, but he said, “Mother, I can ____ do it.”

His mother said, “Study all the time. Never stop to ask how long it will take to learn it. You will be able to say it very soon.”

Frank ____ his mother’s advice. He studied line after line, very busily； and in one hour and a half he knew the poem perfectly.

1.A. without B. except C. for D. about

2.A. father B. brother C. mother D. sister

3.A. hard B. proper C. impossible D. useless

4.A. popular B. wise C. friendly D. old

5.A. what B. why C. how D. who

6.A. size B. shape C. time D. number

7.A. middle B. back C. front D. top

8.A. so B. because C. before D. until

9.A. kick B. touch C. drop D. shake

10.A. faces B. time C. hands D. surface

11.A. stop B. worry C. walk D. talk

12.A. year B. minute C. day D. month

13.A. bring B. leave C. take D. offer

14.A. finally B. easily C. carefully D. hardly

15.A. refused B. allowed C. followed D. Forgot

It is reported that some developed countries have shipped broken parts of computers to China. Such a thing can be founded every day although it is against international laws. Last month Hong Kong officers found 131,000 kilograms of broken computers, TVs and phones sent from Japan.

Things like these are called electronic waste, or e-waste. Dealing with them is not an easy job because dangerous poison like mercury(汞) and lead (鉛) can be found in them. Every time an old computer breaks down, it needs to be dealt with safely. But at present, broken computer parts are usually buried. It may be hundreds of years before they are really goes in the earth.

Many places in China are polluted by e-waste. Guiyu in Guangdong province is one of them. This town is named as “the e-waste capital of the world”. It has to deal with 1.5 million kilograms of e-waste each year, from which it makes 75 million years. But it comes at a cost. Many of the poison in e-waste find their way into the environment. Plastic is burned outdoors and chemical water is poured into rivers, Greenpeace, an environmental group, has found the air, the earth and the rivers in Guiyu badly polluted.

The Chinese government wants the country to develop, but in a way that doesn’t do harm to the environment and people’s life. This year, China presents a new protection law, the strictest one we have ever had. Computer companies like Lenovo and Dell will be asked to take back their old computers. This is because the companies that make computers know best to deal with them safely. Hopefully, the problem with e-waste will be solved in the near future.

1.The e-waste found in Hong Kong last month was from________.

A. France B. Japan C. Germany D. Australia

2.The underlined word buried probably means ______ in the passage.

A. 焚燒 B. 障礙 C. 回收 D. 掩埋

3. The town of Guiya in Guangdong Province_________.

A. is the e-capital of the world

B. has serious e-waste pollution

C. Deals with e-waste safely

D. speeds much money on e-waste

4.This year, the Chinese government __________.

A. tried to change people’s life

B. closed some computer companies

C. make a new environment protection law

D. asked people to hand in their old computers

5.The passage is mainly about ________.

A. the way in dealing with e-waste

B. the cost of burning e-waste

C. the e-waste problem in China

D. the need to pass a law against e-waste

根據句意和漢語提示，在空白處填入一個適當的單詞(每空限一詞)

1.The teacher told us that a year is ________ (分開) into 12 star signs.

2.–Are you busy these days, Mr Sigmund Friend?

–Yes, I must __________ (建議) different books to different teenagers.

3.Please pay attention to correcting your _____________ (發(fā)音) when you read English.

4.During World War 2, Millions of ____________(德國人)suffered from the war, too.

5.We’ll graduate next year. It isn’t _____ (僅僅，簡直) a question of time. We must try our best.

You can improve your English ___________reading more.

A. in B. with C. by D. of

Excuse me, can you tell me ?

A. when does the plane leave

B. how long the plane has left

C. when the plane leaves

D. when did the plane leave

The shorts __________ of cotton.

A. made B. is made C. making D. are made