When your feelings are bad,what can you do?Let me tell you a good way of solving this problem.If it is sunny outside,go out and stay in the sun for half an hour,and you will be better soon.

Scientists believe that weather affects(影响)people’s feelings.When the sun is shining,people often feel(A)______,but when it is cloudy,people often feel bad.

Also,you should pay more attention(注意)to your health in different weather.

For example,in hot summer,you should have more sleep.You can get up late in the cool morning.When the temperature is over 32℃,you should stop having sports.

根据所给材料,完成下列任务。

任务一:

A.避免　　B.预防　　C.解决　　D.改善

任务二:

（2）文中(A)处所缺的单词是:___________

任务三:判断正误(T/F)。

（3）When it’s cloudy,your feelings may be bad.

（4）In hot summer,we should increase(增加)sleeping time.

任务四:

（5）将文中画线句子翻译成汉语。

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 Damin usually (A) sets off in the late afternoon and gets the cormorants ready for work. First, he ties a piece of grass around their necks(B)为了阻止它们吃大鱼. Then when Damin’s boat (C)_________ the right place in the river, he pushes (D)them into river. Damin uses(E) several was to attract fish. During the day, he jumps up and down on his boat. The cormorants bring the fish back to the boat. (F)The fish are then taken and thrown into a big basket by Damin. (G)______ net are required for this type of fhishing.

(A)

We are  (1)   to live in such a rich country. However,   (2)   of us usually waste some things. Wasting happens everywhere. It   (3)  to be a simple matter, but it hurts the earth a lot. Our earth is in  (4)  . As middle school students, we need to try our   (5)  to keep ourselves away from doing that.

Electricity is one thing that we waste most. Lights, TVs, radios and other things are often   (6)   on even when no one is using them. We should turn them off when we do not need them. It takes us less than a second to do it. The   (7)   thing we often waste is water. Fresh water is so valuable that we shouldn’t waste it. It is only a simple stuff of  (8)   of a tap.

(B)

I am sure everybody can do this easily if he wants to. Another big waste is food. My mother used to cook so much food that much of it was thrown away. I told her we had wasted so much food. She thought I was right and now cooks only what we can eat.

It is not right to be wasteful. I find there is a simple way of not wasting things. That is to use only what we need. Do not touch what we do not need. In this way, we can stop wasting. We only have one world, it is necessary for us to protect our homeland. Every one of us can do something to save the earth. It is also the best way to save ourselves.

(C)

Harry Potter is a set of popular books created by J.K.Rowling in Britain. The books tell us some stories about a talented wizard(魔法师)，Harry Potter. When he was eleven years old, he had an unhappy life. However, a strange letter changed everything. It said he was accepted by Hogwart’s—a magic school which was closed to the common people. All kinds of adventures happened to Harry from then on. He met Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger on his way to school. They became good friends later. Harry did well in his lessons and worked hard to play magic. Harry always had a positive（积极的）attitude when he faced the difficulties. With the help of his friends, he tried his best to beat the enemies. Finally, he came back with the world peace. Smile appeared on everyone’s face. If someone wants to know what takes place in the magical world, he will have to read the set of books by himself!

任务1：阅读短文（A），用方框中所给词的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、连贯、合理。（每空一词，每词限用一次）

Tom and Jerry

Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse are two of the most popular（A） ________characters in the world. In the short cartoons, Tom is always trying to (B)_______ Jerry, but he never has any success. Almost every cartoon (C)ends with Tom in trouble and Jerrylaughing athim. (D)The stories are full of fun and have a long history.

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera both worked for MGM in the late 1930s. Their boss told them to make funny cartoons. Together they thought of the idea of a cat and a mouse. They thought it would be funny if the mouse was clever and (E)总是使猫陷入麻烦.

The first Tom and Jerry cartoon was shown in cinemas in 1940. It was a great success. Over the next 17 years, they made many Tom and Jerry cartoons. Most of them are (F)around seven minutes long.

In total, Hanna and Barbera made 114 Tom and Jerry cartoons. The cartoons were so good that they won a number of awards. The famous cat and mouseremainpopular today, as the cartoons are still shown on television around the world.

Mulan is an exciting action movie. It comes from an old Chinese story. The movie      64        (be) about a village girl, Mulan. She       65       (dress) up like a boy and takes her father’s place to fight in the army. Last night, I watched it with my sister. I think the actress played Mulan’s role well. The other actors were also fantastic and they       66      (do) a good job in the movie. My sister and I really enjoyed       67       (watch) it.

The movie shows Mulan’s love for her family, friends and country. It makes us       68       (feel) relaxed, and at the same time, we learn much from it. If you plan       69       (go) to the cinema and want to see something enjoyable,       70       (choose) Mulan! I’m sure you will like it.

Life today is easier that it was hundreds of years ago,but it has brought some new problems,One of the biggest problems is pollution(污染).(A)We can see it ,drink it and even hear it.

Man has polluted the earth.(B)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 not clean in a place,man went to another place.Now man is slowly polluting the whole world.

Air pollution is still the most serious,it’s bad for living things in the world.

Many countries don’t let people burn(C)“有害物质”for air in houses and factories in the city.Pollution by SO₂ is now the most dangerous kind of air pollution.It’s best to ride bikes.When you are riding,there is no pollution.But even in developed countries,most people don’t go to work by bike.It’s not because bikes are expensive or people are tired if they ride to work.It’s because the number of cars on the roads becomes larger.So more people put away their bikes and go to work by car,then things are getting worse and worse.We should have special roads only for bikes and make it so difficult and expensive for drivers(D)        (take)their cars into the city that they will go back to using their bikes.

Hunan TV’s new program ,Dad ,Where Are We Going ? ,has become very popular since last year. The show tells us that fathers should take ⑴_______________ in their children’s growing –up. In fact, this topic was always mentioned by Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), a famous official during the late Daoguang Period of the Qing Dynasty (1644 -1912).

Although Zeng ⑵______________ most of his time away from his family, his letters back home to his children have become famous . In these letters , there are many helpful suggestions on proper behavior . Many of his ways on child education are popular among today’s Chinese parents. His child –raising methods are useful for today’s busy fathers.

According to Zeng, the purpose of education was to learn wisdom from books ,rather than get an official position . Children should know that the most important aim of studies is to get more knowledge about nature and life.

  Some teachers say that parents should build a good relationship with their children. Parents shouldn’t force(强迫) their children to realize their wishes.

  In Zeng’s letters ,he asked his young children to do housework as a part of their daily life . He believed that doing housework would make his children more confident and independent(独立的) .

任务一：请根据短文内容分别写出⑴⑵处所缺单词。（每空限填一词）

任务型读写（满分5分）

George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. At the age of fourteen, he became his father’s helper. It took him a lot of time learning about engines(发动机). And on holidays he often made one engine into pieces and studied each piece carefully. George could not read or write, but he became a very good worker soon. He began to learn English when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The _________ was the greatest one of all. Today when we take trains from one place to another, we’ll think of this great man—George Stephenson.

按要求完成下列各题。

“Without music, life would be a mistake,” a famous German philosopher(哲学家)Friendrich Nietzsche said over a century ago. Music is a (A) big part of our lives. But in recent years, some US schools have cut music classes to control budgets(预算).

For example, Chicago public schools hurt arts education when it fired(解雇)over 1000 teachers. Among (B) them, 10 percent of the teachers taught art or music, according toThe Washington Times.

In fact, this is not just a problem in the US. In other ___(C)__, such asChinaand Britain, music class is not thought to be as important as classes like science, math and history. That’s partly because music is not seen as a very important life skill, and it doesn’t use an exam system(体系). (D)许多学生忙于作业, so parents and students choose to focus on subjects that are tested more often.

However, learning music is beneficial (有益的) in many ways.

Playing music is not as (E) simple as it looks, according to Kenneth Guilmartin of Music Together, an early childhood music development program. (F)When making music, you need different abilities to work together. For example, when playing the piano, people see music notes and decode(解码)them in their brains. They also use their fingers to make sounds. You need to deal with all these things at the same time,

Music has a special connection with science as well. You can see that many __(G)___ are good at playing music: Einstein played the violin and German physicist Max Planck was talented in playing the piano.