C

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind, please help.”

There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”

What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it.” Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course, both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.

The first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.

( ) 52. What did the boy do on the street?

A. Waiting for someone. B. Begging for money.

C. Showing his handwriting. D. Enjoying the sunshine.

( ) 53. What’s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word “recognized”?

A. 注意到 B. 看到 C. 承认 D. 辨认出

( ) 54. What can we learn from the story?

A. Before the man changed the words, the hat was full.

B. People didn’t know the boy was blind.

C. It was a good way to make money by holding a sign.

D. Without the man’s help, the blind boy couldn’t get so much money.

( ) 55. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. A blind boy.

B. A kind man.

C. How to raise money.

D. Different words make a difference.

第II卷 (非选择题，共55分)

五、任务型阅读(共2篇，计20分)

A. 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容完成表格，每空一词(共10小题，每题1分，计10分)

Many animals hide(躲藏) to stay alive. They hide in many ways. Some animals hide in leaves; some animals hide in snow. Usually their colors or shapes(形状) help protect them. It’s hard to see an Arctic bear in snow. Its white fur helps protect it. Chameleons(变色龙) can hide by changing colors. Their skin turns the same color as what is around them. Some chameleons can change colors in five minutes.

Many animals try to look bigger than they are to stay alive. Some animals can make other animals think they are very big. If they look very big, animals that are looking for food will run away. Bears can walk on two legs. They look very, very scary(可怕的). Some animals will run away from them.

Many animals try to stay around other animals. This helps them stay alive. Zebras stay close together so that they can help each other look out for danger. Seeing many stripes at once can also confuse(使混乱) animals that want to eat them. Some birds stay in a circle, each toward a different direction(方向). In this way they can also help each other stay alive by looking around for animals that may want to eat one of them.

B. 阅读并回答问题(共5小题，每题2分，计10分)

Would you like to sleep on a bed of ice? What would you think if someone said to you, “Welcome to our hotel. Come in where is cold!”

That is what happens at the Ice Hotel. The Ice Hotel is in a town in Sweden. Both the hotel and the beds are made completely(完全地) out of ice and snow. The room temperature is just -6℃. People in the hotel keep warm by covering up with reindeer(驯鹿) skin. Their beds are covered with reindeer skin, too.

Why would people want to stay at an ice hotel? Why would people want to sleep on top of a big ice cube? The manager says, “People enjoy the beauty. It is pure(纯粹的) winter. It is white and fresh snow and completely quiet.”

Each spring the Ice Hotel melts(融化). It turns into a big puddle(水坑). But by the next October, builders start making a new one.

66. What’s the temperature of the room?

67. What are the hotel and beds made of?

68. How do people keep warm in the Ice Hotel?

69. Why do people want to stay at an Ice Hotel?

70. What happens to the Ice Hotel in spring?

六、词汇运用(共10小题，每小题1分，计10分)

根据句意和汉语提示写出单词，完成句子。

71. We can see flowers __________(到处) in the park.

72. He has a high __________(高烧)，so he stays at home today.

73. Don't worry. Nobody is___________(完美的)in the world.

74. We need more students to __________(数数) the red-crowned cranes in the wetland.

75. The __________(政府) around the world are taking action to fight against ISIS.

B.根据句意用所给词的适当形式填空。

76.The refugees(难民) are _____ (main) from the countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

77. Do you know that her little girl got ______ (lose) in the shopping centre yesterday?

78. Last night, CCTV reported the ________ (excite) news.

79. He was so ______ (sleep) that he couldn’t keep doing his work.

80. Parents advised their children _______ (save) their pocket money to help people in Syria.

七、短文填空(共10小题，每小题1分，计10分)

根据短文内容及首字母提示,补全空格内单词，使短文完整、通顺。

Yancheng Nature Reserve in Jiangsu was set up in 1984. More than three million wild birds live there happily all year r   81   .

People can visit the wetland at a   82   time, but they mustn’t fish or hunt there. S   83   ， some people killed wild animals in both Yancheng and o   84   nature reserves in the past years. If one k   85   three red-crowned cranes, he will have to stay in prison(监狱) for at l   86   ten years. H  87   , some people still kill such wild birds.

Once, five young men wanted to kill wild ducks with poisonous(有毒的) food and s   88   them for money. The police caught two of them when they came back days later t   89   pick up the dead ducks. Soon people took away all the poisonous food from the reserve. Ten people stayed at that place to s   90  birds from getting there. At last, the poisonous food killed about 200 wild ducks.

八、书面表达(共l小题，计15分)

请用英文谈一谈你最喜欢的季节，80词左右，要点如下：

1. 最喜欢什么季节;

2. 这个季节有什么特点;

3. 你为什么喜欢这个季节;

4. 在这个季节人们喜欢做什么活动。

参考答案：

一、1-5.BAAAB 6-10 AACCC 11-15 ABBBC 16-20 ACABA

二、21-25.DCCAC 26-30.BDACD 31-35.DADBC

三、36-40.BADCA 41-45.DBDCC

四、46-50.BDBCB 51-55.DBDDD

五、(A) 56 stay 57 Ways/Methods 58 same 59 easy 60 in 61 themselves 62 Bears 63 look 64stripes 65 around/out

(B) 66.It’s -6℃. /-6℃. 67.They are made of ice and snow. /They are made out of ice and snow./Ice and snow. 68.By covering up with reindeer skin. / People keep warm by covering up with reindeer skin. 69.Because they enjoy the beauty. (It is pure winter. It is white and fresh snow and completely quiet.) 70.It turns into a big puddle. / It melts.

六、71.everywhere 72.fever 73.perfect 74.count 75.governments 76.mainly 77.lost 78.exciting 79.sleepy 80.to save

七、81.round 82.any 83.Sadly 84.other 85 kills 86.least 87.However 88.sell 89.to 90.stop

八、略。