写一篇100字左右的游记，写给你留下印象的你所去过的地方。可以用一下的词汇和句式：the most impressive place, it’s…kilometers from…to…, …is close to…,

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两处为多余选项。

If you are hungry, what do you do? Have your favorite meal and stay quiet after that? __1__ But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your friends or favorite stars. So it silently serves your needs and never lets itself grow. When mind loses its freedom to grow, creativity（创造力） gets a full stop. This might be the reason why we all sometimes think “ What happens next?”, “Why can’t I think?”

__2__ Why reading but not watching TV? It is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhood．Since it develops other aspects of our life, we have to take help from reading.

Once you read a book, you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you. __3__ Now this seed（果实） is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideas. If it is used many times, the same seed can give you great help to relate（联系） a lot of things, which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams!

This is nothing but creativity. __4__ Within no time you can start talking with your friends in English or any other language and never run out of the right words.

So guys, do give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading. __5__ Go and get a book!

A．The interesting part of the book is stored（存储） in your mind as a seed.

B．Why not do some reading while you are hungry?

C．Just like your stomach, your mind is also hungry.

D．Now what are you waiting for?

E．Hunger of the mind can be actually solved through wide reading.

F．Reading can help you make more friends, too.

G．Also this makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary.

In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity（繁荣）. Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.

I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit（追求） of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.

However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary player, they strongly blame competition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “ I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter because I really didn’t try.” What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one’s self-respect relies on how well one performs in comparison with others. Both are afraid of not being valued．Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve（缓解） can we discover a new meaning in competition.

1. What does this passage mainly talk about?

A．Competition helps to set up self-respect.

B．Opinions about competition are different among people.

C．Competition is harmful to personal quality development.

D．Failures are necessary experiences in competition.

2. Why do some people favor competition according to the passage?

A．It pushes society forward．                      B．It builds up a sense of duty.

C．It improves personal abilities.                      D．It encourages individual efforts.

3. The underlined phrase “ the most vocal” in Paragraph 3 means _____.

A．those who try their best to win

B．those who value competition most highly

C．those who are against competition most strongly

D．those who rely on others most for success

4. What is the similar belief of the true competitors and those with a “desire to fail”?

A．One’s worth lies in his performance compared with others’.

B．One’s success in competition needs great efforts.

C．One’s achievement is determined by his particular skills.

D．One’s success is based on how hard he has tried.

5. Which point of view may the author agree to?

A．Every effort should be paid back.

B．Competition should be encouraged.

C．Winning should be a life-and-death matter.

D．Fear of failure should be removed in competition.

Chicago, a city in the State of Illinois, is the second largest in the United States. It stretches for 29 miles along the southwest shore of Lake Michigan. Its splendid centre faces the lake behind a pleasant park. The Chicago River flows through the heart of the city. The city of Chicago, 713 miles west of New York and 1858 miles east of San Francisco, is located at the conjunction（连接） of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system and surrounded by the productive farmlands of the Midwest. This makes the city the crossroads of the nation and the “ bread basket” of the nation. From its beginning as a frontier fort（要塞） settlement in 1803, commerce（商业） has been the key to Chicago’s development, especially since the railroads and stockyards（牲畜围栏） were built in the 1840s and 1850s. Thousands of foreigners, attracted by the promise of steady jobs, have lived and worked there since the second half of the 19^th century; thousands more come to visit its famous fairs, and millions of others cross it every day by road or railway. Chicago is the world’s biggest road and railway centre, and it should claim（要求得到身份或权利的承认） the world’s busiest airport.

1. If you go to New York from Chicago, you go _____ for _____ miles.

A．east…713             B．west…713            C．east…1858           D．west…1858

2. From the passage, we can see that there is _____.

A．a lake right in the middle of the city

B．the Mississippi River in the middle of the city

C．a park in the middle of the city

D．a lake 29 miles away from the city

3. Chicago is called the “bread basket” of the nation because _____.

A．there is a river flowing through the city

B．it is located at the conjunction of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system

C．it is near the city of New York

D．there are rich farmlands around the city

4. _____ the city developed fastest.

A．Early in the 19^th century

B．Around the middle of the 19^th century

C．At the end of the 19^th century

D．During the second half of the 19^th century

5. Since the late 19^th century thousands of people have kept coming to Chicago _____. Which of the following is wrong?

A．on business                                            B．for a visit

C．for better jobs                                          D．to claim the world’s biggest seaport

Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia（南斯拉夫）, on August 27^th,1910. She attended the government school near her home until she was eighteen. At that time, some doctors and nurses from Yugoslavia were working in India, and they often wrote to the school about their work. She decided to join them one day.

When she finished school, she went first to Britain. Then a year later she went to India, where she began to train to be a teacher. After training, she was sent to Calcutta（加尔各答），where she taught geography at a school and soon after became headmistress（女校长）.

However, although she loved teaching, in 1946 Mother Teresa left the school and went to work in the poor parts of Calcutta．Later she trained to be a nurse in Patna, and then began her work helping the poor and comforting the dying in the streets of the city. Slowly, others came to help her, and her work spread to other parts of India．

Mother Teresa is now a well-known person. Many photos have been taken of her, as she travels the world to open new schools and hospitals in poor countries. In 1979, she was given the Nobel Peace Prize for the lifetime of love and service she has given to the poor.

1. Where did Mother Teresa receive her education?

A．In Yugoslavia and India．               B．In Yugoslavia and Britain.

C．In Britain and India．           D．In Yugoslavia, Britain and India．

2. What first inspired Mother Teresa to work in India?

A．Her visits to the poor parts of Calcutta．

B．Her visit to Britain after she left school.

C．The medical workers’ letters to her school.

D．The work of the nurse in the city of Patina．

3. In which order did Mother Teresa do the following things?

a．Trained to be a nurse.                              b．Went to India

c．Helped the dying.                                  d．Studied to be a teacher.

e. Went to Britain.                                    f. Worked as a headmistress.

A．b, a, c, e, d, f,       B．b, f, a, d, e, c        C．e, b, d, f, a, c        D．e, a, b, c, d, f

4. Mother Teresa gave up teaching because she wanted _____.

A．to look after the poor                           B．to travel to poor countries

C．to build hospitals for the poor                    D．to train nurses to care for the poor

5. Mother Teresa is now a famous person because she has _____.

A．saved many poor people in India

B．helped to bring about world peace

C．helped to make India a more peaceful place

D．taken care of many poor people in the world