Can you remember the day when you spoke your first word? If you can, you are unusual. Try to imagine what first few months of your life were like. I am sure you just spent most of your time eating, sleeping and crying. As you grew older, you were awake more of the time. It took your parents more time to play with you and talk to you. You watched and listened  curiously（好奇）. You began to know that people made certain sounds to go with certain things.

Then you began to try making the sounds which you heard. And step by step you were able to make the right sound for one thing.

On that day you came to understand the secret of language. The secret is that a certain sound means a certain thing. One sound might be as good as another. But it is no good as a word unless everybody agrees on its meaning. Only when a group of people use the same set of sounds of things, can they understand each other. Then, and only then do these people have a LANGUAGE.

After you found the secret of language, you learned words. Some of the words meant things, such as BOOKS, CHAIRS and SHOES. Some words meant doing things, such as GO and SWIM, and other words describe things, such as GOOD and DIRTY. Soon you learned to put words together to express your idea, such as “I want to go out and play with my friends.” This is language. By means of language people can communicate. So we say languages are means of communication.

1． _____ can remember the day when_______ .

       A．One, he spoke his first word            

       B．No one, he spoke his first word

       C．Most people, they spoke their first words 

       D．None, they spoke their first words

2．When you were a little baby, you_____________.

       A．made sounds to let people know that you wanted to eat

       B．spent most of your time playing with your parents

       C．could not hear any sound around you

       D．spent most of your time eating, playing and crying

3．The secret of language is that.

A．one sound might be as good as another  

B．people can understand each other

C．a certain sound is for a certain thing    

D．there is a special sound for each person

4．You could learn words_________.

       A．before you knew what the language was    

       B．after you knew what the language was

       C．before you knew the secret of the language  

       D．when you were a baby

5．The aim in using language is.

       A．to get everything one wants from others    

       B．to say what one wants to know

       C．to share ideas, opinions, news, etc with one another

       D．to make oneself understood by others

Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England on 8th January, 1942. He went to school in St Albans--a small city near London. Although he did well, he was never top of his class. After leaving school, Hawking went first to Oxford University where he studied physics, and then he went to Cambridge University where he studied cosmology. As he himself admits(承認), he didn't work hard. He was a very lazy student, and did very little work. However, he still got good marks.

It was at the age of 20 that Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him. He started to bump (撞上 )into things. When he visited his family at Christmas time, his mother was so worried that she made him see a doctor. Hawking was sent to hospital for tests. Finally, the result came back. Hawking had motor neuron disease, an incurable illness which would make him unable to speak, breathe or move without the help of a machine. Doctors said they had no way to help him. He would die before he was 23.

At first, Hawking became very sad. After a while, though, he began to see his life in a different way. As he later write, "Before my illness was diagnosed(診斷), I had been very bored with life. There bad not seemed to be anything worth doing. But shortly after I came out of hospital, I suddenly realized that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do." Hawking married, found a job at Cambridge University, and had three children. He also went on to do some of the most important scientific research.

Today, Hawking still works at Cambridge University as a professor. He strongly believes that his story shows that nobody, however bad their situation(處境) is, should lose hope. "Life is not fair, "he once said. "You just have to do the best you can in your own situation."

1．As a university student, Stephen Hawking _______.

       A．worked very hard                      B．studied math and physics

       C．was the best student in his class          D．was lazy and did very little work

2．Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him when ______.

       A．he was sent to hospital for tests          B．his mother made him, see a doctor

       C．he was twenty years old               D．he visited his family at Christmas time one year

3．In this passage the word "incurable" means ______.

       A．無法治愈的       B．難以確診的      C．常見的            D．可以治愈的

4．When Hawking was first diagnosed with motor neuron disease, he __.

       A．made up his mind to get married            B．began to ,see his life in a different way

       C．thought that nothing in life was worth doing  D．became very unhappily

5．What would be the best title for this passage?

       A．Motor Neuron Disease                               B．Life is Fair

       C．Professor Stephen Hawking                       D．A Lazy Boy

When my family moved to America from a small village in Guangdong, China, we brought not only our luggage, but also our village rules, customs and culture. One of the rules is that young people should always respect （尊敬）elders. Unluckily, this rule led to my very first embarrassment in the United States.

I had a part-time job as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. One time, when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple, the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly. I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always respect the elderly. As soon as I said that, her face showed great displeasure. My manager, who happened to hear what I said, took me aside and gave me a long lecture about how sensitive（敏感）Americans are and how they dislike the description “old”. I then walked back to the table and apologized to the wife. After the couple heard my reason, they understood that the problem was caused by cultural differences, so they laughed and were no longer angry.

In my village in China, people are proud of being old. 3Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty, and people who reach such an age have the most knowledge and experience. Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience.

However, in the United States, people think “growing old” is a problem since “old” shows that a person is going to retire or that the body is not working well. 4Here many people try to keep themselves away from growing old by doing exercises or jogging, and women put on makeup, hoping to look young. When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly, they got angry because this caused them to feel they had failed to stay young. I had told them something they didn’t want to hear.

After that, I changed the way I had been with older people. It is not that I don’t respect them any more; I still respect them, but now I don’t show my feelings through words.

（一）  根據(jù)短文簡要回答

1．Why did Jack bring the couple their food very fast?

2．What would Jack do after this experience?

（二）將劃線的句子譯成漢語

3．________________________________________________________________

4．________________________________________________________________

（三） 請給短文擬一個適當?shù)臉祟}

5．________________________________________                       

情景設定：學校運動會正在進行之中。校廣播臺“榮辱廣角鏡”欄目小記者蕭鳴看到了下面兩組鏡頭。鏡頭一：男子接力比賽最后一棒，二班王強同學跌倒受傷，仍然堅持跑到了終點。鏡頭二：賽場周圍，有部分同學說笑嬉鬧，還將剩余的飲食和廢棄物隨手亂扔。假設你是蕭鳴，請你從上面兩組鏡頭中任選一組，并根據(jù)其內(nèi)容為校廣播臺寫一篇80詞左右的短訊。

要求：

1．確定并圍繞所選鏡頭進行表達，短訊內(nèi)容應給予情景想象和細節(jié)擴展；

2．對所選的鏡頭要有個人觀點，提出表揚、倡議或批評、建議；

3．詞數(shù)80詞左右，開始語已給出（不計入詞數(shù)）。

School sports meeting was still going on.

A bird（鳥）is         tree （樹）and some apples are         the tree．

A．on; on             B．in; in              C．in; on                 D．on; in

The books on the table are very nice．Please         them to your brother．

A．bring              B．take               C．have                 D．look

This is         orange,          orange is          orange．

A．an; An; an          B．an; The; an         C．an; The; /                D．the; An; /

--Do you have computers?

--        ．

A．Yes, it is           B．Yes, we have        C．No, we haven't      D．Yes, I do

What do you like         for breakfast?

A．eat                B．eats                 C．to eat                D．is eat