Liu has breakfast at 6:15 am, leaves home with his mother at half past six, and it takes him about 30 minutes to take a bus to school, at last, arrives at school at 7 o’clock.

Like most of his classmates, Liu arrives at school a full hour before lessons start at 8 am.

In a 2009 survey of 2,500 school students in six cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, it showed that about 77 percent of the students were short of sleep.

In a recent survey made by China Daily website, almost 70 percent( 百分) of the 1,130 respondents(回复者) said they agreed with cutting school hours, while 22 percent disagreed and 10 percent had no answer.

Although their children spend long hours at school, many parents arrange (安排) for them to take more studies. Liu’s mother, Mrs Wang，who thinks her son is still not doing enough to win a place at a good quality high school.

“ Of course I want my son to have more sleep, more exercise and more fun,” she said, “But the common saying is that if you give you child a happy childhood, you will give him or her a failed future.”

But her son said, “I can’t stand that. I always feel sleepy in class. Would you mind not giving me too much homework to do”

All of us don’t know who can help the poor child. Maybe, something must be done to change people’s traditional opinions and children should have more time to play, to relax and to do what they like to do.

61 How does Liu Xingjian go to school?

A On foot  B By bus     C By bike     D By subway

62 In paragragh 4, the word full here means _________ in Chinese.

A 装满的  B 圆的     C 足足的     D饱的

63 In the recent survey, about _________ peolpe disagreed cutting school hours.

A 790      B 250      C 110      D 1130

64 The passage is mainly talked about _________.

A children’s study       B children’s sleeping

C parents’ opinions      D two surveys

65 Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

A Liu Xingjian has difficulty getting up early every day.

B The survey made in 2009 shows many students were short of sleep.

C Liu Xingjian’s mother thinks her son should work harder on his study.

D The writer gives some advice on how to cut school hours

(C)

阅读短文，完成表格

Last Tuesday, a little girl died after eating some fried chicken. Her father bought the chicken for her from a street seller in Fenzhuang Village, Fengtai, Beijing. After testing the girl, the doctor said she was poisoned (中毒) by nitrites (亚硝酸盐). Some experts suggest that we should buy foods with QS signs. They are safer.

After hearing about the accident, many people feel more worried about the food safety because there have been many food safety problems in our country these years. For example, poisonous(有毒的) rice, oil, milk and so on have been found out recently. People feel quite afraid because these poisonous foods are rather bad for their health and even kill them. They want the government to do something to stop such poisonous foods and drinks appearing again so that they can have safe and healthy foods and drinks.

Information Card

66. The little girl died after she ate __________.

67. Some experts suggest that we should buy foods with __________.

68 Many people feel _______ about the food safety after hearing about the accident.

69. The poisonous foods are _________ for people's health and even kill them.

70. The people want __________ stop such poisonous foods and drinks appearing again.

任务型阅读

May 20 is National Student Nutrition Day(营养日). Why is student nutrition important?

Just as a cell phone needs energy from charging(充电), we humans need energy from food. While eating food is the only way to (A) 使我们强壮， what we eat and the way we eat it are also very important, because they decide (B) whether we can get good nutrition.

Many of us have bad eating habits. For example, some don’t eat breakfast. Others eat too (C) ________ fast food. These bad habits may cause  nutrition problems, which are bad for the growth of our bodies.

A study by the government in 2005 showed that (D) over 20 percent of people aged 13 to 20 have nutrition problems, such as obesity(肥胖) and high blood pressure.

More students of Chinese middle and primary schools are (E) ________ having nutritious meals, such as milk and fruit. This year, the theme(主题) of National student Nutrition Day is “improve the nutrition of students in the countryside”.  (F) The government will spend quite a lot helping students get nutritious meals.

71. 将文中划线部分(A)译成英语。

72.写出文中划线部分(B)和(D)的同义词语或近义词语。

(B)           ( D

73.在文中(C)和(E)的空白处分别填入适当的单词。(C)           ( E)

74.将文中划线部分(F)改写为：________  will ________ the government quite a lot to help students get nutritious meals.

75.从文中找出一个有关营养不良的症状的词语。

第II卷 非选择题部分 (35分)

VII. 词句运用

第一节：选择单词或词组，用其适当的形式填空，使句子意思正确、通顺。

76. My uncle chose to be a tour guide _________________ a painter.

77. It’s impossible _________________ good grades without working hard.

78. Jane, could you help me _________________ when the train will leave on the Internet?

79. Hainan is a very large island. It’s the second _________________ island in China.

80. _________________, he got badly injured in the game .

第二节， 根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每个空格填一个单词。(5分)

81.为什么不考虑去上海世博会?

____________________ going to Shanghai Expo in summer vocation?

82. 我希望有一天中国男子足球队也能够参加世界杯。

I hope Chinese Men Football Team _____________________ to take part in the

Football World Cup one day.

83. 如果我们不节约用水，地球的水总有一天会用尽。

If we don’t save water, we __________________________ the last drop of water on the earth.

84. 这些年轻人打算举行晚会为那些贫困儿童募捐。

The young men are going to hold a party __________________________those poor children.

85 所有的学生都反对一年四季穿校服。

All the students                            the school uniforms all year round.

XI书面表达(共1题，计15分)

父爱如山!假设父亲节即将来临，请你借此机会给你父亲写封信，和他谈谈心里话。

写作要点： 1.父亲辛勤工作，让我受到更好的教育，过上更好的生活;

2.父亲在学习上对我严格要求;考试失利时，他鼓励我不放弃;遇到困难时，父亲鼓励我笑对生活;表达对父亲的感谢和祝福。

Dear father,

Father’s Day is coming, I’d like to say something to you. ________________________________

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