I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was useless and when I was 14, he said, “You’re n going to be anything but a failure.”
After five years of poor jobs, I fell in love with a very nice g . But her mother said to me, “You’ve failed in everything you’ve ever done. You can’t give any happiness to my d
!” It was the disappointing thing that could have changed me later. I d
to do something positive about my life, because I wanted to show her that what people said about me was w
.
So I tried hard at my writing and went to college. My first book came out while I was at college. After college I w during the day and went to evening classes at college. Later, I gave up that job to use full time to write. And then I was offered a part-time job as a t
at a high school. I began to feel p
of my self – there was once a poor boy who’d left school early, now teaching at a key high school. My w
career took off when I had my own writing style.
Now, I’m rich and f , because I am often on TV and many people know me. But what does that mean? I just wish all the people who have looked down on me had said, “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”
短文填空。（每空2分，共16分）
根据下面短文内容，在空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整、通顺。
Microsoft founder(创建者) Bill Gates has talked about to be a good parent, saying that 13 is a right age for a child's first mobile phone.
The 57-year-old father of three said on the Today show that his children Jennifer and Rory were not allowed to have their phones until their 13th birthday and his youngest daughter Phoebe is still
for one.
“We've made a rule in our family that it's 13 when you get a phone.” He also said as a result his child often returned from school complaining, “All the other kids have one, I'm the only student
it, it's so embarrassing(令人尴尬的).”
Bill Gates said that they want to raise（抚养）their three children as usually as possible. It is said that their kids have to do
at home and can’t get much money.
In 2010 Mr. Gates said that he wanted to give most of his money instead of handing it down, “That wouldn't be good either for my kids or society,” he said.
完成句子。（每空一词，每空1分，共10分）
They used to see a movie on Saturdays. (变为否定句)
They __________ __________ to see a movie every week.
Trees are planted every year. (变为一般疑问句)
_________ trees _____________ every year?
Lucy found the supermarket by asking the policeman for help. (对划线部分提问)
__________ ___________ Lucy find the supermarket?
Whatever he says, I won’t believe him anymore. (同义句转换)
__________ ___________ what he says, I won’t believe him anymore.
他昨天没来上课，因为他生病了。（根据汉语提示完成英语句子）
He was__________ ________classes yesterday, because he was ill.
任务型阅读。阅读下文并回答问题。（每小题2分，共8分）
Jack Ma（Ma Yun), 50，is executive chairman（董事局主席）of Alibaba Group, a business-to-business online platform. On Sept. 19, Alibaba went public (上市) on the New York Stock Exchange (纽约证卷交易所). Ma has become the richest man on the Chinese mainland.
Ma was born in Hangzhou, he grew up as a happy kid. At the age of 12, he wanted to learn English. Every morning, he woke up at 5 am, cycled 40 minutes to a hotel near the:West Lake where he could chat to foreign tourists. He did it for nine years.
The experience made him a fluent English speaker and also opened his eyes to the wider world.
In a 1995 trip to the US, Ma was showed the Internet for the first time. He searched Yahoo using the word “Beer”, and found that there was nothing there about China. Seeing the chance, Ma returned to China and set up a website called China Pages without even knowing much about computers.
Four years later, 18 people including Ma, his wife and his friends founded(成立) Alibaba in Hangzhou. He believed in the Internet business potential(潜力) when few other Chinese did. People called him “Crazy Jack Ma”. But 15 years later, Alibaba has developed into the world's largest e-commerce（电子商务）company, owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall.
No one thinks he's mad now. Ma's favorite line has been printed on Alabama’s souvenir T-shirts. It reads:” Everybody should have a dream. What if that dream comes true?”Did Ma want to learn English at the age of 12?
_____________________________________________________.Where was Jack Ma born?
_____________________________________________________.In what year did Ma, his wife and his friends found Alibaba in Hangzhou?
______________________________________________________.What did people call Ma Yun?
_____________________________________________________.
口语运用。（每空1分，共5分）
阅读下面对话，从方框内7个选项中选择5个恰当的句子完成此对话。
| A. Would you like to watch it? B. What about you, Eric? C. No, I wasn’t. D. The team from No. 2 Middle School. E. When shall we meet? F. Yes, I am. G. How are we going there? |
A: Hi, Peter. We haven’t seen for several days. How’s it going?
B: Not bad.
A: Pretty good! Are you free this Sunday afternoon?
B: What’s up?
A: There is going to be a basketball match in our school.
B: Yes, of course. But which team is our school going to play against?
A:
B: Really? I think our team is very strong. Perhaps we will win the match.
A: But I hear that their team is strong, too.
B: I’m sure it must be a wonderful match.
A: I think so.
B: Let’s meet in the playground at 3:00 p. m..
A: OK. See you then.
B: See you.
The world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means (通讯设备). Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.
Man has been polluting the earth. The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in one place, man moved to another place. But this is not helpful. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.
Air pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad for all living things in the world, but it is not the only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us angry more easily.
Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. They stop people from burning coal(煤)in houses and factories in the city, and from putting dirty smoke into the air. Pollution by SO2 is now the most dangerous kind of air pollution. It is caused(引起)by heavy traffic. We are sure that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution.
The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means keeping the land, water and air clean. Also, we must take care of the rise in pollution at the same time.
________, our world is becoming much smaller.
| A．Because of the rise in pollution |
| B．Because of modern traffic and modern communication means |
| C．Because the earth is being polluted day and night |
| D．Because the earth is blown away by the wind every year |
Hundreds of years ago, life was ________it is today.
| A．much easier than | B．as easy as |
| C．much harder than | D．as hard as |
The writer thinks that pollution makes us angrymore easily.
| A．air | B．noise | C．rubbish | D．water |
According to the passage, which statement is true?
| A．The more people, the less pollution. |
| B．Air pollution is the only one kind of pollution. |
| C．If there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution. |
| D．We should not use modern traffic and modern communication any more. |
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