“I’ve changed my mind. I wanted to have a telescope, but now I want my dad back.” Lucien Lawrence’s letter to Father Christmas, written after his father had been knifed to death outside his school gate, must have touched everyone’s heart. Lucien went on to say that without his father he couldn’t see the stars in the sky. When those we love depart from us, we cannot see the stars for a while.
But Lucien, the stars are still there, and one day, when you are older and your tears have gone, you will see them again. And, in a strange way, I expect that you will find your father there too, either in your mind or heart. I find that my parents, who died years ago, still linger (留連) in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did when they were alive. I still live to please them and I’m still surprised by their reactions. I remember that when I became a professor, I was so proud, or rather so pleased with myself that I couldn’t wait to cable my parents. The reply was a long time in coming, but when it did, all my mother said was “I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children!” I haven’t forgotten. The values of my parents still live on.
It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care. Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence has been to face the aggressors（入侵者）, and to lay down my life for those in my care? How many people would want me back for Christmas? It’s a serious thought, which gives me pause.
I pray silently, sometimes, in the dead of night, that ancient cry of a poet “Deliver my soul from the sword and my darling from the power of the dog.” Yet I know death comes to us all, and sometimes comes suddenly. We must therefore plan to live together, but live as if we will die tomorrow. We live on, I’m sure, in the lives of those we loved, and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure. If more parents knew this in their hearts to be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today.
小題1: According to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph ___________.
A．puts forward the subject of the text
B．shows the author’s pity on the kid
C．serves as an introduction to the discussion
D．makes a clear statement of the author’s views
小題2:In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to explain to us____________.
A．how much he misses his parents now
B．why his parents often appear in his dream
C．when Lucien will get over all his sadness
D．how proud he was when he succeeded in life
小題3:What feeling did the author’s mother express in her reply?
A．Proud.B．Happy.C．Disappointed.D．Worried.
小題4:In the author’s opinion, the value of a person’s life is _____________.
A．to leave a precious memory to the people related
B．to have a high sense of duty to the whole society
C．to care what others will remember and treasure
D．to share happiness and sadness with his family
小題5: What does the writer mean by the sentence taken from an old poem?    
A．Call on criminals and murderers to lay down their guns.
B．Advise parents stay with their children safely at home.
C．Spend every day meaningfully in memory of death.
D．Try to keep violence and murder far away from society.

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:A
小題5:D
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Eric Peterson，head of St.George’s School in the northeastern state of Rhode Island，says，“In the end，schools ought to do what’s the right thing for their students，first and foremost.”And he wanted to see if a 30-minute delay would make a difference. It did.
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A．Persona haibits.B．Early school hours.
C．Sports activities.D．Too much home work.
小題2:According to Michael Breus，         .
A．Teenagers are too lazy to get up early for school.
B．Teenagers should change their biological rhythms.
C．Lacking sleep can cause serious problems.
D．Sleepy teenagers shouldn’t drive to school.
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A．Schools should try their best to help students.
B．Students should adjust to their school’s schedule.
C．Changing school schedule is their last choice.
D．Something has to change at the end of a school day.
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A．St.George School.B．Rhode Island State.
C．Students in St.George School.D．30-minute delay of school day.
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A．Some positive changes in St.George’s school.
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B．never wash dishes after each meal
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A．they want to make a change after eating the same food for years at home
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D．entertain ourselves in other ways
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B．is completely against surfing the Net
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Here is a two-way student exchange in action. Fred, nineteen, spent last year in Germany with George's family. In return, George's son, Mike, spent a year in Fred's home in America.
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At the same time, in America, Mike, a friendly German boy, was also forming his idea. “I suppose I should criticize (批評) American schools.” he says. “It is far too easy by our level. But I have to say that I like it very much. In Germany we do nothing but study. Here we take part in many outside activities. I think that maybe your schools are better in training for citizens. There ought to be some middle ground between the two.”
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A．help teenagers in other countries know the real America
B．send students in America to travel in Germany
C．let students learn something about other countries
D．have teenagers learn new languages
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B．German schools were harder than American schools.
C．Americans and Germans were both friendly.
D．There were more cars on the streets in America.
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C．Students usually take 14 subjects in all.
D．Students go outside to enjoy themselves in a car.
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A．A better education should include something good from both America and Germany.
B．German schools trained students to be better citizens.
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“Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.”
This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown citizen who lived in Rome in AD 52 wrote it.
We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can even change our lives.
But have all these developments really improved the quality of our lives?
Picture this: You’re rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen, the noise from the television is getting louder and louder. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. How calm and happy do you feel?
Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave us feeling stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have not telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they lead simpler lives.
One family in the UK went “back in time” to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons Benjamin, 10, and Tomas, 7, spent nine weeks in a 1940s house. They had no washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile phones.
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Don’t be available all the time, turn off your mobile phone at certain times of the day. Don’t check your e-mail every day.
Don’t reply to somebody as soon as they leave a text message just because you can. It may be fun at first, but it soon gets annoying.
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A．problem with technology
B．improvements of our life with technology
C．the important roles technology plays in our everyday life
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A．Marketing is affecting kids all the time．
B．Most kids now don't have a happy childhood,
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A.gestures don't mean anything while talking
B.gestures can help us to express ourselves
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B.show their friendship by touching each other
C.say "Pardon me." to each other when they are talking
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A.look up and down at your friend
B.look at the other person in the eyes
C.hide your opinion
D.look at your watch now and then
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A.shows his rudeness to you
B.shows his anger to you
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The huge Florida wetland known as the Everglades is a slow-moving river 80 kilometres wide but only a few centimeters deep. People call the Everglades a “river of grass” because sawgrass covers most of it. Sawgrass is not really grass. It is a plant that has leaves edged with tiny sharp teeth that can easily cut through clothes—and skin!
Travel in the Everglades is difficult. You cannot walk through shallow water because the sawgrass will cut you. The water is too shallow for regular boats. So, we use an airboat. An airboat is a flat, open boat. Like an airplane, it has a big propeller to move it. The propeller is fixed on the rear of the boat. It makes a tremendous noise, but it does the job. The boat skims along the water’s surface. Although we can still get lost in an airboat, at least we are above the alligators(短吻鱷).
While hundreds of different kinds of animals live in the Everglades, the most famous is surely the alligator. Once endangered, alligators are now protected within Everglades National Park. Visitors are likely to see them both on land and in water.
For a long time, dangers have threatened the Everglades. Around 1900, some people felt this precious wetland should be drained (排干). They said it was just a big swamp and not good for anything. In the 1920s, there was a land boom in Florida. People wanted to build homes everywhere, including in the Everglades. They built canals, levees (防洪堤) , and other water systems that stopped the rivers flowing into the Everglades. Factories were built near rivers that flowed into the wetland. These factories dumped poisonous waste that damaged the Everglades ecosystem.
? People are now working to preserve the Everglades National Park for the future. Right now, one big problem is the paperbark tree. This tree is an invader from Australia.
Paperbark trees soak up a lot of water. In the early 1900s, people brought them to Florida because they thought they would help drain the Everglades. However, the invaders adapted too well. Paperbark trees have taken over hundreds of thousands of acres of the Everglades and killed other trees. Scientists are cutting down these invaders or spraying them with herbicides (除草劑) to kill them. ?
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A．Airboats may make a very big noise.
B．You may get lost when passing through.
C．Paperbark trees soak up too much water there.
D．Many different kinds of animals are to be protected.
小題2:Why do people use airboats instead of normal boats?
A．They have big propellers to move them faster than alligators.
B．The propeller makes loud noise so as to scare alligators.
C．Their flat bottom can skim along the water surface.
D．They can watch alligators without hurting them. ?
小題3:The following measures were taken to drain the Everglades except that people______. ?
A．built canals and levees to stop the rivers flowing into Everglades?
B．built factories near rivers that flowed into the wetland?
C．brought Paperbark to soak up water in Everglades?
D．a(chǎn)re cutting down these Paperbark trees?
小題4:The underlined word "invader" probably means something______. ?
A．that moves in from another placeB．that enters and takes control?
C．that has been brought in?D．that is in danger?

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