--- You are supposed to come to school on time. But you are five minutes late for class.

--- _______________

A. I’m very sorry, sir, but there’s something wrong with my bike.

B. Yes. Because I live far from here.

C. I have to mend my watch.       

D. But I was here on time yesterday.

  Once I went shopping on my first visit to Macao. Coming   1    cold and cloudy England, I enjoyed the sun and dressed in a T-shirt and a   2  skirt. Not having much   3   to enjoy the sun in England, my legs were very white. In England this is not a fashionable look at   4  . Most women spend every   5 day out trying to get darker skin（皮膚）. The darker the skin, the better the look. I have tried to get darker but   6   works for me!

   As I   7   around one shop ,the two shop assistants kept looking at my legs all the  8  , talking quietly to each other in Chinese. I began to feel   9  and  asked my friend if we could leave. After we left the shop, she asked me what was   10   . I complained about the shop assistants being very   11  . They must be talking about my white skin. My friend laughed. “ They weren’t laughing at you. They were saying   12   nice your legs were. Many Chinese women want to have white skin like yours.  13  , there are many beauty products(美容產品)   in the shops to make skin whiter and a lot of money is spent on them.”

   It just shows that we are never happy with what we have. The grass is much   14  on the other side. If the women of the West and East thought the same way, Western women wouldn’t spend so much money on beauty products   15  makes skin darker and women from the East wouldn’t need to use cream that makes skin whiter.

1. A. from                        B. for                 C. to                         D. with

2. A. long                      B. short            C. cheap                   D. expensive

3. A. money                           B. exercise          C. space                   D. chance

4. A. most                      B. last             C. all                D. least

5. A. cloudy                           B. rainy            C. sunny            D. windy

6. A. anything                   B. everything       C. nothing          D. something

7. A. jumped                    B. ran             C. rode                   D. walked

8. A. time                       B. day            C. hour            D. minute

9. A. uncomfortable            B. unhealthy         C. uninterested     D. unlucky

10. A. unusual                  B. wrong          C. serious         D. terrible

11. A. polite                    B. impolite         C. glad            D. sad

12. A. how a                  B. what a          C. what           D. how

13. A. At first                  B. In the end       C. In fact          D. From now on

14. A. green                   B. greenest        C. more green      D. greener

15. A. that                     B. who                 C. when            D. what

     Marriage does not always work out. Or at least, some people think their marriage is not working out. One of these people was a Turkish man, Suleyman Guresci. Mr. Guresci and his wife were married for twenty-one years, but he thought that his marriage was not working. He wanted to break up with his wife, Nesrin Caglasas. After six years in court, the couple finally got a divorce.

   After the divorce, Mr. Guresci wanted to quickly find a new wife, so he went to a computer dating agency to help him look for one. He told the dating agency the kind of woman he wanted to marry, and the computer began looking for a good match for him.

 After looking at 2,000 women, the computer found only one who matched well with man. The computer program showed that Mr. Guresci and this woman were made for each other. The woman was Nasrin Caglasas—Mr. Guresci`s ex-wife.

   When he heard who the computer had matched him with, Mr. Guresci asked his ex-wife to remarry him. Before their second marriage, Mr. Guresci told his friends that he would more understand this time.

1.         This reading passage is about……

A.      how to get a divorce.                        B. marriage in Turkey.

3. how to live together.                         D. one couple’s(一對夫妻) marriage

2.       Why did Mr. Guresci want a divorce?

A. His wife wanted one.                          B. A computer found a new wife for him.

C. He thought his marriage wasn’t working.  D. His wife went to a computer dating agency.

3.    How long did it take Mr. And Mr. Guresci to get a divorce?

A. two years          B. twenty-one years      C. six years         D. the passage didn’t say

4.    Who told Mr. Guresci that Nesrin Caglasas was his perfect match?

A. a computer       B. his ex-wife          C. his friends      D. his family

5.    What sentence about Nesrin Caglasas is NOT true?

A. She was Mr. Guresci’s ex-wife.            B. She agreed to marry her ex-husband.

C. She was computer programmer.        D. She used a computer dating agency.

Stephen Hawking, a world famous British physicist, will write a children’s book with his daughter. Hawking said the book will be “a bit like Harry Potter” but without the magic. “It explains the wonders of the universe（宇宙）,”said Hawking , while he was on a visit to Hong Kong last week .

Hawking, 64 , is probably the world’s most famous scientist after Albert Einstein . He is an expert on black holes. He has put his whole life into digging into the beginning (and the end) of the universe.

        “My goal is simple,” Hawking once said. “It is to completely understand the universe, why it is and why it is there at all.”

        Hawking has a bad illness that stops him from moving or talking. For a period of time , he had no way to communicate except by blinking（眨眼）.

        Now he sits on a wheelchair with a computer by his side. To communicate, he moves two fingers to control the computer’s mouse. He selects his words from the screen , which are then spoken by a voice synthesizer（音響合成器）.

        “I have had the disease for most of my life,” Hawking once said. “Yet it has not stopped me from being successful at my work

        Although Hawking is such a disabled man, he made great achievements. He has received may awards and prizes for his work over the years. This includes winning the Albert Einstein Award. It is the highest achievement in theoretical physics （理論物理）.

1、The book that Stephen Hawking will write is         .

       A．the same as Harry potter                   B．quite different from Harry Potter .

       C．about the magic .                             D．about science

2、From text we can learn          .

       A．Hawking is more famous than Einstein

       B．Hawking is less famous than Einstein

       C．Both Hawking and Einstein are very famous

       D．Neither Hawking nor Einstein is famous

3、What does the underlined pronoun “it ” stand for ?

       A．the goal .           B．The magic.        C．The universe.       D．The book.

4、According to the text , which of the following statements is the fact ?

       A．Hawking has received many awards and prices except the Albert Einstein Award.

       B．The illness keeps him from moving and talking.

       C．He communicates with others by speaking.

       D．The illness stopped him from being successful.

5、What is the best title for the text ?

       A．Stephen Hawking                             B．A Famous Book

       C．Live as Hawking Does     D．A Clever Man

詞匯運用 兩個學生正在網上聊天, 請根據上下文意思幫助他們補全單詞。

A: Hi, How R U?

B: Fine, thanks. Yesterday morning I saw your father in the street, I went up to talk to him, but he said he didn’t know me. I was confused.

A: It (1)_________（不可能）be him! My father was at home studying English at that time.

B: Oh, sorry! I made a mistake. But why is your father studying English now?

A: He wants to (2) __________（提高）his English. He has been studying English for only one year. Last month he went to have a business talk with an American in New York, he was (3) ___________（應該）to arrive at 9:00 a.m., but he was 30 minutes late, by the time he got there, the American had already left. He sat outside the meeting-room for a long time, felt sad and (4) _________ （饑餓的）, he even didn’t know (5) i_____________ there’s a good place to eat.

B: What a pity! He should have studied English really hard and know some customs of the English-speaking countries

A: You’re right. I really need to come up with some good ideas and help him with his English, now I am teaching him to study English (6) b_________ listening to tapes.

B: Good. Have you ever been to another country?

A: Not (7) y____________. I’d like to go to France some day.

B: Me too. I’d like to go somewhere relaxing. BTW, next Saturday is my friend Sam’s birthday, I was (8) __________（邀請）to his birthday party, but I don’t know what present I should take.

A: If I (9) w__________ you, I would buy a CD of Jay Chou. Most teenagers like singers who sing their own songs. Listening to his songs usually makes us feel relaxed.

B: Thanks. Are you free 2night? How about (10)_____ (見面) 4 dinner and then c a movie?

A: OK, that’s great!

Jim這個學期將作為交換生要來中國學習，他要到中國的一個朋友家里做客, 你作為中國學生認為Jim 在哪些方面需要注意，請給他提些建議。（可以采用以下提建議的句型：be supposed to, why not, should/shouldn’t, be allowed to，…）

1. He ______________________________________________________________________ .

2. ________________________________________________________________________

3. ________________________________________________________________________

4. ________________________________________________________________________

5. ________________________________________________________________________

6. ________________________________________________________________________

今年寒假你們都過得怎樣? 相信一定很精彩, 請先把下面的題目補充完整, 然后描述自己的一天 ,80詞左右. (可填的詞如happy, busy, unforgettable, 等等)

                           A/An ___________ Day

--Look, the tall building looks very modern．

--Yes, and there is a garden on its            ．A garden in the air!

A．top                      B．ground               C．side                D．floor

--Why did you laugh just now?

--Ted wanted to tell us         very funny story, but he forgot           end himself．

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

--Wow, so many new houses! I can’t believe that．It used to be a poor village．

--Yes．       has changed here．

A．Nothing           B．Something          C．Everything          D．Anything