第一部分词汇，第一节单词拼写，根据句子的意思及括号里的中文提示, 每空限填一词, 注意使用词汇的适当形式。(共10小题,每小题1分,满分10分)
第一部分词汇，第二节选词填空(共10小题, 每小题1分, 满分10分)
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第二部分阅读理解，第一节阅读下面短文, 从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中, 选出最佳答案。(共15小题,每小题2.5分,共37.5分)
School News
Welcome back to school! Have you signed up for an after-school activity yet? Here are some of the activities you can try.
SPORTS TEAMS
Do you like sports? How about joining the football team? It has try-outs next Tuesday at 3:00. Many of our best players have moved up to college. So now the team needs new players. For more information, meet our sports advisors, Ms. Matte or Mr.Stergis.
GOOD AT ART?
This year, your classmates in the school art club plan to paint a mural(壁画)on the wall by the office. So they need new members to help create it! Are you interested in drawing, painting or taking photographs? This club is for you. The first meeting of the school year is next Wednesday at 3:15 in Room 221. Please see Ms. Greenway for more information.
NEW THIS YEAR
There are some new activities you can have a try. Try the new after-school science club! It has plans to enter the national Senior Robotics competition this year. So if you want to try building a robot, this club is for you. See Mr. Larson in Room 105 for more details. The club meets every Thursday at 3:30.
Do you like acting? Are you good at singing? The school play this year is a musical—The Sound of Music. Come and try out next Monday at 3:10 in Room 125.
For a list of all the after-school activities this year, click here. Or pick up a membership form from the advisor's office, Room 107.
If you have lived in New York City for many years, like I have, the skyline becomes part of you and your daily life.
When I was invited to visit the recently completed Summit One Vanderbilt, New York's fourth-highest tower, I wasn't expecting much. I felt like I'd seen it all and I thought that this observation deck (观测台) would be another space for a view of the city, but nothing else.
Let me tell you something: I have never seen one like this before. It sits on top of a building on 42nd street and Vanderbilt, right next to Grand Central Station. Once you have ascended to the top floor, you step into air, which makes you feel like being at l,000 feet above ground level with its mirrored floors. Once you make your way throughout the space, you feel like New York is part of a body, and your sense of space is challenged by the reflections of the light. The reflections create endless possibilities for photos and videos, and the light changes throughout the day. I took out my camera and began to take photos, feeling a connection with the city that no other observatory has been able to give me.
Summit is something unique, an art work with architecture. It will be an observatory that will change with the city. I personally can't wait to take photos at sunset, or when winter arrives.
What a day! I started my new school this morning and had the best time. I made lots of new friends and really liked my teachers. I was nervous the night before, but I had no reason to be. Everyone was so friendly and polite. They made me feel at ease. It was like I'd been at the school for a hundred years!
The day started very early at 7:00 am. I had my breakfast downstairs with my mom. She could tell that I was very nervous. Mom kept asking me what was wrong. She told me I had nothing to worry about and that everyone was going to love me. If they didn't love me, mom said to have a good talk with them. I couldn't stop laughing.
My mom dropped me off at the school gate about five minutes before the bell rang. A little blonde girl got dropped off at the same time and started waving (招手) at me. She ran over and told me her name was Abigail. She was very nice and we became close straight away. We spent all morning together and began to talk to another girl called Stacey. The three of us sat together in class all day and we even made our way home together! It went so quickly. Our teacher told us that tomorrow we would really start learning and developing new skills.
I cannot wait until tomorrow and feel as though I am really going to enjoy my time at my new school. I only hope that my new friends feel the same way, too.
For decades, the homework standard has been a "10-minute" rule, which suggests a daily maximum of 10 minutes of homework per grade level.
But some schools have begun to give their youngest students a break. An American elementary school has announced a no-homework pilot program(试点项目) for the coming school year, extending the school day by two hours to provide more in-class instruction. "We really want kids to go home at 4 o'clock, tired," Kelly Elementary School Principal Jackie Glasheen said. "We want them to enjoy their families. We want them to go to soccer practice or football practice."
New solutions to homework differ by community. These local debates aren't easily understood by the fact that even education experts disagree about what's best for kids.
The most all-round research on homework so far comes from an analysis(分析) by Duke University professor Harris Cooper, who found evidence(证据) of a positive relationship between homework and student achievement, meaning students who did homework performed better in school. Cooper's analysis focused on how homework influences test scores. The relationship was stronger for older students from the 7th to the 12th grade than for those in younger grades, for whom there was a weak relationship between homework and performance.
However, Cathy Vatterott, an education professor at the University Missouri-St. Louis, thinks there is not enough evidence that homework is helpful for students in elementary school, "Relationship is not a cause," she said "Does homework cause achievement, or do high achievers do more homework?" Vatterott thinks there should be more stress on improving the quality of homework tasks, and she supports efforts to ban homework for younger kids.
第二部分阅读理解，第二节(共5小题,每小题2.5分,满分12.5分)
How to improve English pronunciation
It's true that you do not have to sound exactly like a native English speaker. However, when you meet someone for the first time, a good pronunciation will help leave a good impression on him/her. Here are some tips on improving your English pronunciation.
You cannot correct your pronunciation when you don't know the rules of it. So, start improving your pronunciation by first making yourself clear about the knowledge.
Watch while listening.
Find an article with recording. In this way, you can learn the relationship between the spelling of a word and the sound, and what words sound like when they're in a sentence together.
Have yourself recorded.
Hearing your own voice can be a strange experience. But it is a great way to improve your speech habits. If there's a letter or word that you want to improve upon, record yourself saying it. Find the differences and improve your way of pronunciation.
Add correct stress to words.
English is a stressed language. You can hear this when you say a word out loud. For example, the word "introduce" is pronounced with a stress at the end, so it sounds like this: "in-tro-DUCE"．
Practice every day.
After learning how to say something correctly, you need to practice often. With enough practice, you can get what sounds right too.
A. Learn the rules.
B. Write down what you hear.
C. Look at the words while listening to the recording.
D. Then compare it with the recordings of native speakers.
E. That means greater force is used in speaking some words.
F. There are some excellent recordings on English pronunciation.
G. For at least 30 minutes a day, repeat the correct way to pronounce the words.
第三部分语言运用，第一节任务型阅读(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
When I was in middle school, I had a classmate named Alice. She liked to tell me my shortcomings (缺点).
One day, Alice said to me, "You are too short and too proud!" Hearing this, I felt very sad and 1 . I ran home to tell my father 2 it, with tears in my eyes. My father said nothing. He just 3 me carefully. Then he said to me, "Are all the shortcomings Alice has told you true? You can write them down and check 4 they are true or not." After 5 them down, I was 6 to find that about half of the things were true. For some of the things, I couldn't change them. But for many of the things, I could 7 them. For the first time, I knew about 8 better than before.
9 , I showed my father what I had written down, 10 he didn't read it. "That's just for you, " my 11 said. "You know about yourself 12 than any other person. If something that is said about you is true, you'll find it 13 . Lister to others patiently, but hear the truth only."
My father's advice came to my mind at many important moments. It is the best 14 that I have ever had in 15 life.
第三部分语言运用，第二节语法填空(共10小题,每小题1.5分,满分15分)
My last holiday was a five-day trip to Prague in the Czech Republic. I know Prague well because I lived there when I was at university, more ten years ago.
Instead of (stay)in a hotel, I stayed with one of my old (friend). It was so much fun, and a little bit like my old life. I wanted (do)all the same things I did in my university days, so I visited the university. It has changed lot and looks more modern. I also went to the supermarket was near my old house. I loved seeing all the different foods. I was (extreme)happy to find my favourite cheese(奶酪)and chocolate biscuits but they were a bit (expensive)than I remember!
We did some touristy things too. We walked up beautiful Petrin Hill and around the castle. The views of the city were (amaze)up there. We walked across the historic Charles Bridge, went to the TV Tower and (see)the famous baby statues climbing up it. Those things haven't changed, of course.
第四部分 写作(满分20分)
要求：1. 词数100字左右；2. 可以适当增加细节；3. 开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear John,
Yours,
Li Hua
