( ) 15. —The famous actress says she'll celebrate her 28th birthday next week. Her fans ...
—__________________. That can't be true. I'm sure she was born in 1990.
A. You are welcome
B. Sure she will
C. Never mind
D. Wait a minute

D

二、完形填空(每小题1分,共15分)
Every Saturday night my family and I go out and feed the homeless people in the city of Orlando. We wanted to see ______16______ it was like in the life of a homeless person. One special thing I like to ______17______ is, my family and I do not eat ______18______ we begin our journey so we know how it feels to be hungry. We all get together in the ______19______ and prepare the food. Some of the meals are sandwiches and cookies and a bottle of water. Sometimes my mum ______20______ a steaming hot delicious meal. We then pack them all up to feed 30 or more people.
A lot of people ______21______ homeless people. In fact, not all homeless people are bad people. Some are really nice; some of them just had ______22______ things happening to them. At first when my family and I went out on the street we had to get their ______23______. But now that they see us every week they believe in us. We ______24______ know some of their names. We all have to remember that these are people with ______25______. Some of them shake our hands for giving them food. Some of them do really funny dances because they are ______26______.
We have become ______27______ close to this man named Tony and his wife. They have all of their personal things in shopping carts. After meeting them several times he has told us a lot about his ______28______. He graduated from a college. He ______29______ teach French and Spanish.
Feeding the homeless makes me appreciate ______30______ I have at home. I love making a difference in someone’s life.

C
; A
; D
; A
; B
; D
; C
; A
; C
; A
; D
; B
; C
; D
; B

三、阅读理解(每小题2分,共20分)
A
A lot of teenagers are good at Art at school, but how would you feel if people called you “the new Picasso” or if many famous people collected your paintings?
Alexandra Nechita was born in 1985 and she began to paint shortly after she moved
to California with her family in 1987. She spent four or five hours a day on painting. Soon people offered to buy her paintings and she had her first art show at the age of eight. Stories about this child appeared in the newspaper and on the television, and her paintings became famous all over the world when she was only nine. She visited Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and her family’s native place Romania where thousands of fans came to see her at the airport. Alexandra said, “When it all started, I was moved. It was very exciting and I loved the travelling. Later I got very tired and I missed home.”
Her paintings are often large in scale, displaying close attention to colour and space while carrying strong messages, usually calling for universal peace and freedom. “Painting represents for me a way of communicating my inner feelings,” the artist has said. “Through painting I have a voice and I can make a change.”
Alexandra’s family was poor when they first came to America, but now they live in a large house with a swimming pool. Her mother said, “We started without anything, but thanks to Alexandra, we now have everything we ever dreamed of.”
( ) 31. Alexandra became well-known all over the world for her paintings at the age of ______.
A. nine B. eight C. two D. three
( ) 32. What messages are often shown in Alexandra’s paintings?
A. Food and love. B. Protecting the environment.
C. Peace and freedom. D. Famous people.
( ) 33. From the passage, we can learn that ______.
A. Alexandra was not interested in travelling
B. Alexandra’s parents were good at English
C. Alexandra’s success changed her family’s life
D. Alexandra’s stories appeared in students’ textbooks

; A
; C
; C