Easter is a happy time in western countries like the UK and the USA. After Christmas, it is the most fun holiday. It   1   as an important religious （宗教的） festival, but for the non-religious it is   2   a special time. It is an official holiday,   3   most people visit their families or friends during Easter.

The most important Easter tradition is   4   each other Easter eggs, because eggs are the symbol of new life. Traditionally people   5   paint chicken eggs, but today they give each other chocolate eggs.

A fun game during the festival is the Easter   6  hunt （搜尋）. Parents hide chocolate eggs in the   7  , and the children go out to hunt for them. What they find, they can eat! It’s quite normal for children to feel   8   after Easter weekend as a result of eating too   9   chocolate.

The date of Easter follows the cycle of moon. It is always sometime   10   late March and late April. This year Easter was on April 12th.

1. A. begin                        B. begins                     C. began                     D. begun

2. A. too                           B. also                        C. either                      D. as well

3. A. so                            B. or                           C. but                         D. however

4. A. cooking                    B. showing                  C. lending                    D. giving

5. A. got used to               B. was used                 C. used to                   D. was used to

6. A. egg                          B. candy                     C. chicken                   D. apple

7. A. drawer                     B. garden                    C. kitchen                   D. bedroom

8. A. ugly                         B. angry                      C. sick                        D. hungry

9. A. few                          B. many                      C. little                        D. much

10. A. after              B. between                  C. among            D. from

用方框所給單詞的適當形式填空。

1. Be careful when you walk _________ the street.

2. They were _________ surprised at the wonderful magic tricks.

3. I hope I’ll be __________ enough to get a free ticket to the places of interest in Beijing.

4. We couldn’t help __________ when we watched the funny performance of Xiao Shenyang.

5. I have made a __________ to travel to Taiwan in the summer vacation.

根據(jù)中文提示，用詞組的適當形式填空。每空一詞。

1. She ___________ ___________（收到……來信） her pen friend yesterday.

2. All the athletes ___________ ___________（對……滿意） with the nice service during the Beijing Olympics.

3. ___________ ___________（到目前為止），many measures have been taken to control the spread of A/H1N1.

4. After the earthquake, he left for Wenchuan as a volunteer ___________ ___________（而不是） a tourist.

5. You_________ __________（最好） check over your exam paper carefully before you hand it in.

用方框中所給單詞的適當形式填空，使短文正確、通順。每詞限用一次。

   Parents, especially those of teenagers, care about their children’s education more than anything else. They would do    1    for their children. Many of them spend most of their spare time    2    their children with studies. If they have no time or cannot do it themselves, they would hire family teachers    3    send their children to after-class schools. It seems as if a better    4    is all that parents expect for children.

How can we explain the present situation? First of all, many parents have   5   that future success depends more and more    6    skills and education. Secondly, in a competive （競爭的） society there are both losers and    7   . Those who have better skills and more knowledge will enjoy    8    opportunities.

Certainly, it is important to learn to succeed, but the    9    thing to learnis how to survive （生存） how to be a qualified citizen （合格的公民）.    10    this is included in good education, the children will surely have a bright future and healthy in body mind.

從II欄中選出與I欄中每句話相對應的正確答語。

                 I                                       II

1. Is that Ann speaking?                                A. Congratulations!

2. What does your teacher look like?                     B. Sorry, she isn’t in right now.

3. I’m sorry for losing your pen.                        C. It doesn’t matter.

4. I’ve passed the English exam.                        D. All right. I’ll do it at once.

5. Would you please turn down the music?                 E. How are you doing?

                                                    F. She is tall with long hair.

                                                    G. She is friendly and easy-going.

用恰當?shù)膯卧~填空，完成對話。每空一詞。

A: Our National Day is coming. I’m looking forward to it.

B: Me, too. As we know, it’s the     1     birthday of the PRC.

A: What are you going to do celebrate it?

B: A great military review （大閱兵） will     2     held in Tian’anmen Square. How I wish I could fly there!

A: I’m afraid we’ll all have to watch it on TV.

B: But I’m    3     it must be perfectly wonderful! Our country is getting stronger and stronger.

A: Right, especially after we experienced so many big events in 2008. We all feel     4     of China.

B: Let’s      5     our country a better and brighter future.

將下列各句譯成英語。必須用上所給的提示詞。

1. 她不害怕在公眾場合說英語。（be afraid, in public）

2. 不要獨自外出，否則你可能會迷路。（alone, get lost）

指出各個句子中哪一個劃線單詞黑體部分的字母發(fā)音與其他劃線單詞黑體部分的字母不同。

1．The young man said he would like to live in the country with his cousin.

A               B                 C            D

2．Mike stopped his work and looked out of the window.

A                B

Then he watched the street carefully to see what had happened．

C                                  D

3．I read the book about eastern food in Asia in the reading-room last week.

A                  B                  C             D

4．There's  another TV play which I would rather see on Thursday.

A         B                     C           D

5．Men's   hands and fingers are so big that they aren't fit for this kind of job．

A      B        C                                 D