mean；helpful；tooth；without；wise |
Do you know that we are using up the Earth's fresh water faster than we can replace it？We need water to stay alive and if we don't use water（1） ,we will run out!
Water is needed for just about everything we do.We need it to farm，to wash，to provide power，to control fires and-most importantly- to drink.（2） water，we would all die.
So we should all save water if we want to have enough to stay alive.Using less water（3） saving money and saving energy.Saving water is EASY.Here are some（4) tips：
*Have shorter showers and only half fill the bath.
*Turn the tap off while you soap your hands or brush your（5） .
*Fix any taps or hoses（软管）that drip- every drop counts!
词与短语填空（本题共10分，每小题2分）
用下面方框中所给的单词或短语填空，使句子在逻辑上正确。（提示：选项中有一个是多余的。）
I need a new jacket. This one doesn’t ________ the cold.
My shoes were really ________. They only cost 10 dollars.
Wait before you buy that cell phone. Let’s ________ prices at another store.
His uncle took him out to dinner at an ________ restaurant, and the food was very delicious.
Working hard at English can ________ you to a wonderful world.
词语运用（10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。请将答案写在下面题号后的横线上。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。方框中有两个词是多余的。
What would life be like if you give up using your cell phone? Will it become boring?
Twenty-eight eighth-graders in San Francisco will tell you it can _______be rich and colorful.
These students took part in their _______“tech-free” challenge. They couldn’t use cell phones for two weeks from Nov 11 to Nov 22.
The idea was to help students _______how technology has affected their lives, said the principal (校长).
Uhl ________a survey on technology usage among the eighth-graders before thinking of the challenge. She found that 84 percent of the ___
_____said they didn’t like it “when everyone was on their cell phones”, ___
______they didn’t know what to do about it. The answer was actually easy – to stop constantly (频繁地) __
___ cell phones.
To help students understand the point, Uhl created the activity. It was ______welcomed among students.
“I wanted to sign up for the tech-free challenge because it was just really a good idea to do it,” said Joe Bevilacqua. “I wanted to get _______to my family. And it really worked. I started to hang out with ____
___family more. We watched more family movies and we played a lot of board games.”
词语运用（10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。请将答案写在下面题号后的横线上。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。方框中有两个词是多余的。
Jasmine（《茉莉花》） is a popular song in China. Many of_________ are quite familiar with it, and have learned it in primary school. At the CCTV Spring Festival Gala （央视春节联欢晚会）of 2013, Song Zuying sang the song ___
_______Celine Dion. This time, however, another foreign singer named Christine Guldbrandsen is going to bring her version of Jasmine to us all.
Christine is a Norwegian （挪威的）__________. She began to sing at the age of three. When she was 15, she signed a contract（合同） with Sony. One year___
_____, her first album （专辑）came out. Many people were amazed by her pure voice. In 2011, her ____
______album, Colors, became one of the best-sellers in Europe. Since then, Western media have ____
____her as a female singer with the most beautiful voice in Europe, _____
____often compare her with the popular American singer Taylor Swift.
Christine has a great love __________traditional music. That is the reason why she ____
______to sing Jasmine. In order to sing the song well, she has invited a professional Chinese teacher to teach her Chinese. To be ___
_____, Christine will combine Chinese folk music with Nordic（北欧的） music.
Such a unique Jasmine is certainly worth our expectation. Let’s look forward to it.
词语运用 （10小题，每小题1分，共10分)
阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。请将答案写在短文后相应题号的横线上。注意：①每个词只能用一次。②每空限填一词，有些词需要做相应的变化。③其中有两个多余选项。
| you, good, open, others, stop, happy, who, chance, grow, important, strong, which |
There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!
When the door of closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed that we don’t see the one that has been ___
___ for us.
Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one to do all the things you want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough tests to make you , enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. Always put yourself in _____
_____shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.
The happiest people may not have the _________ of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the
of people who have touched their lives.
Love begins with a smile, with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in life until you let go of（放开）
past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
词语运用（10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。方框中有两个词是多余的。
real, someone, towards, leave, question, choose, which, try, wife, anxious, rose, what
An elderly couple are having dinner at another couple’s house. After eating, the ___ are cleaning away the table. The two elderly gentlemen __
__ the table and go into the living room to have a cigar.
One of them says, “Last night, my wife and I ___ a new restaurant, and it was great. I __
__ recommend it.”
The other man says, “What’s the name of the restaurant?”
The first man thinks for a while frowningly(皱眉) and finally says to his friend, “Er…, what’s the name of the red flower you give to ____ you love?”
His friend replies, “a carnation?”
“No. No. the other one,” the first man says.
His friend offers another ____, “the poppy?”
“No,” says the first man, getting a little ___.
“You know the one ____ is red and has thorns(刺).”
“Ah, you mean a __?” His friend finally understands what it is.
“Yes, yes, that’s it,” the first man then turns ____ the kitchen and shouts, “Rose, what’s the name of that restaurant we went to last night?”
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