2018-2019学年江西省南昌市第十中学高一上学期期中考试英语试题 17页

‎ 2018-2019学年江西省南昌市第十中学高一上学期期中考试英语试题 本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分，全卷满分150分。考试用时120分钟。‎ 注 意 事 项：考生在答题前请认真阅读本注意事项及各题答题要求.‎ ‎1．答题前，请您务必将自己的姓名、考试证号用书写黑色字迹的0．5毫米签字笔填写在答题卡和答题纸上。‎ ‎2．作答非选择题必须用书写黑色字迹的0．5毫米签字笔写在答题纸上的指定位置，在其它位置作答一律无效。作答选择题必须用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，请用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案，请保持卡面清洁和答题纸清洁，不折叠、不破损。‎ ‎3．考试结束后，答题纸交回。‎ 第I卷（选择题）‎ 第一部分 ‎ 听力（本大题共20题，每小题1.5分，共计30分。）‎ 第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）‎ ‎　　听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题，每段对话仅读一遍。‎ ‎1 .Where does the woman decide to go?‎ ‎ A. To Australia. B. To Canada. C. To Japan.‎ ‎2 .How much should the man pay?‎ ‎ A.＄16. B.＄32. C.＄60.‎ ‎3 .What does the woman expect the man to do on Saturday?‎ ‎ A. Celebrate their mum’s birthday. B. Take Brian out for the day. C. Help Brian move house.‎ ‎4 .What does the woman mean?‎ ‎ A. She don’t like the job. B. She will take the job right away.‎ ‎ C. She isn’t sure whether to take the job.‎ ‎5 .What are the speakers mainly talking about?‎ ‎ A. A novel. B. A film. C. A writer.‎ 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）‎ ‎ 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。‎ 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。‎ ‎6 .What will the woman do this evening?‎ ‎ A. Attend a party. B. Visit her grandma. C. Do some shopping.‎ ‎7 .What does the man advise the woman to do?‎ ‎ A. Make a skirt. B. Buy a handbag. C. Wear a necklace.‎ 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。‎ ‎8 .Where does the conversation take place?‎ ‎ A. At a hotel. B. At an airport. C. At a police station.‎ ‎9 .What does the man suggest the woman do?‎ ‎ A. Wait where she is. B. Make a request for the loss. ‎ ‎ C. Give him her telephone number.‎ 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。‎ ‎10.What’s the relation between the speakers?‎ ‎ A. Husband and wife. B. Friends. C. Boss and worker.‎ ‎11.Why does the woman look worried?‎ ‎ A .She has been late for-work recently. B .She is not getting on well with her boss.‎ ‎ C .She has trouble taking her children to school.‎ ‎12.What might the woman think of Alice’s way to deal with her problem?‎ ‎ A. Practical. B. Strange. C. Wrong.‎ 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。‎ ‎13. How long will the course run this year?‎ ‎ A. Six weeks. B. Seven weeks. C. Eight weeks.‎ ‎14.What was the woman surprised at?‎ ‎ A. The lack of assistants. B. The condition of weather. C. The number of children.‎ ‎15. What new activities can the children have this year?‎ ‎ A. Adventure sports. B. Fun programs. C. Creative classes.‎ ‎16. What is expected about the course this year?‎ ‎ A. It will run better. B. It will last longer. C. It will start earlier.‎ 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。‎ ‎17.What difficulty did the speaker have when starting to learn French?‎ ‎ A. Grammar. B. Vocabulary. C. Pronunciation.‎ ‎18.Why did the speaker go to France?‎ ‎ A. To settle there. B. To look for a job. C. To continue her studies.‎ ‎19.What did the speaker think of her French after she arrived in France ?‎ ‎ A. Poor. B. Acceptable. C. Excellent.‎ ‎20. What is the most important in learning a language according to the speaker?‎ ‎ A. Mastering the grammar rules. B. Using the language in real life.‎ ‎ C. Knowing a large number of words.‎ 第二部分 阅读理解（共20题；每小题2分，满分40分）‎ ‎ 第一节 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D），选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（共15题；每小题2分，满分30分）‎ A A strong earthquake hit Japan on March 11. It has killed thousands of people and brought huge damages to the country. The quake also damaged four local nuclear reactors(反应堆). Now, the biggest worry of Japanese people is the radiation leak(辐射泄漏). Many local people have moved out of the radiation area. Still more people around the area have to stay in their houses.‎ People are afraid of nuclear radiation because it may cause terrible diseases. Scientists say there are three kinds of radiation, alpha, gamam and beta. Alpha radiation is the most dangerous to people because if it reaches our skin, it will react with much energy. If a person takes in 50 to 100 millisieverts(毫西弗特，辐射剂量单位) of radiation, bad chemical changes will happen to his blood. If a person takes in 3000 millisieverts, he may begin to lose hair and have a fever or cancer. If a person takes in 10000 millisiverts, he will die in a few minutes.‎ So far, Japanese people are still safe because the situation is under control. Though some radiation has gone out of the reactors, it has spread to the sea and isn’t dangerous enough to people. However, many Japanese people still try their best to protect themselves from radiation.‎ ‎ They wear masks and use everyday clothing to cover all their skin.‎ ‎21. How many local nuclear reactors were damaged by the earthquake in Japan on March 11?‎ A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four ‎22. What was the biggest worry of Japanese people?‎ A. The earthquake. B. The tsunami. C. The radiation leak. D. The safety.‎ ‎23. Which of the following is the most dangerous radiation?‎ A. Alpha radiation. B. Gamma radiation. C. Beta radiation D. None of the three ‎24. What will happen to you if you take in 3000 millisiverts of radiation?‎ A. You will be all right in a few days. B. You will die in a few minutes.‎ C. Bad chemical changes will happen to your blood. ‎ D. You may begin to lose hair and have a fever or cancer. ‎ ‎25. How do Japanese people protect themselves from radiation?‎ A. They stay in their houses. B. They ask help from the scientists.‎ C. They move out of the radiation area. ‎ D. They wear masks and use everyday clothing to cover all their skin.‎ B Leymah Gbowee, ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, dreamed of peace and made it happen, founding a movement of women who brought peace and a female president to Liberia.‎ On the night of her high school graduation party, surrounded by family, neighbors, and friends, Leymah Gbowee imagined a bright future. She planned to study biology and chemistry in college and become a pediatrician. However, Gbowee writes in her autobiography（自传）, Mighty Be Our Powers, within six months of that party in 1989, everything around her was gone — her country broken by civil war, her family broken, her plans gave up. And Gbowee never became a doctor. Gbowee saw civilians(平民) killed before her eyes. She escaped with relatives from one shelter to another, often went hungry. Upon returning to Liberia in 1991, she saw a terrible sight: everyone had fled, leaving their homes to the fighters.‎ Yet her spirit wouldn't die. She began studying under a UNICEF program. Finally, with her family's help, she imagined a movement of women demanding peace in Liberia and made it happen. Traveling from village to village, Gbowee began organizing women and persuaded ‎ women of different cultures to unite; under her leadership, thousands of women were dressed all in white to symbolize（标志）peace. Gbowee writes：“We were silent before, but after so many of us have been killed, fallen with diseases, and lost our children and families, war has taught us that the future lies in saying no to violence and yes to peace！”‎ The women had reason to fear, but Gbowee had no choice. Then women could have the right to vote. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first female president in 2005. Gbowee's work was just beginning. She now travels round the world, meeting with everyone from presidents to CEOs to people living in tiny villages, fighting for women and girls.‎ ‎26．Leymah Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her contributions to ________.‎ A. the education in Liberia B. the women's movement C. stopping the world war D. protecting the environment ‎27．The underlined word “pediatrician” in Paragraph 2 is close in meaning to ________.‎ A. teacher B. politician C. biologist D. doctor ‎28．What happened to Leymah Gbowee within two years after 1989?‎ A. She volunteered in shelters. B. She lived an unsettled life.‎ C. She wrote an autobiography. D. She tried to realize her first dream.‎ ‎29．What effect did the civil war in Liberia have on Leymah Gbowee?‎ A. The war strengthened her spirit. B. She gave up a UNICEF program.‎ C. She kept silent after the war. D. She didn't expect peace at all.‎ ‎30．It can be inferred from the last paragraph that Leymah Gbowee ________.‎ A. still has a long way to go B. doesn't have any sense of fear C. will be another female president D. will make efforts to be CEO of a company C While 375 million people around the globe use English as their native language, the number of people using it as a second language has already been well over that figure (数字)．‎ It is said that soon one billion people could use English to communicate with others, including both native speakers and nonnative speakers.‎ ‎“The rise and fall of a language is closely connected with that country's economic (经济的) strength and development potential (潜力)．” Rhodri Jones, the English manager of the ELT group of the British Council said.‎ An expert who has given many lectures on the future of English said the economic boost (快速发展) in Asia would raise (提高) the positions of the Chinese and Hindi languages. Therefore, the English language is facing a serious problem. Where will English turn in the next fifty years or the century?‎ The recently introduced book from Britain “Future of English” might give people concerned with their question some enlightenments (启发). The book helps to help English teachers, planners, managers and decision makers with a professional interest in the development of English worldwide. With the book written in English translated into Chinese and to be published soon, the book might be brought to wider sphere (范围) of people.‎ ‎“From the book, we learn many facts about the English language, and we may be able to predict (预测) its future after reading it.” said Dorothy Humphrey, who used to be a senior English teacher for the British Council.‎ ‎31．The reason why some language rises in the world depends on ________.‎ A. the country's economic strength and development potential B. the country's economic strength in the world C. the number of the population who use it      D. the population of the country ‎32．According to this passage, English may not be a world language forever because ________.‎ A. more and more people will come to visit China B. people in the world won't like English in the future C. the good economy would raise the position of the Chinese and Hindi languages D. China and India will be more developed than those English speaking countries ‎33．The book “Future of English” helps to ________.‎ A. adds to people's interest toward English    ‎ B. emphasize (强调) the importance in the world C. improve the standard of people's learning English ‎ D. make people interested in the development of English worldwide ‎34．After reading “Future of English” we know ________.‎ A. English may disappear sooner or later ‎ B. what the future of the English language is C. the world is keeping changing all the time      ‎ D. English is the language with the most speakers ‎35．The main idea of the passage is ________.‎ A. English has a bright future   ‎ B. why English has been popular in the world C. how to improve people's ability of learning English D. the usage of English may become less in the world one day 第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)‎ 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。选项中有两项为多余选项。‎ How to make friends Friendship is a very important human relationship and everyone needs good friends. Good friendship has many advantages. It offers companionship(陪伴), improves self-worth and is good for health. There are times in our lives such as when we have recently moved into a new town, or changed our jobs or schools. Such changes often leave us without a friends.______36________ But for many of us the process is difficult and requires courage. Below are some helpful suggestions on how to make and keep friends.‎ 1. Communicate with others.‎ ‎ The first step to make friends is associating with other people. You can go to public places to meet new people. Besides, you will need to make yourself known by becoming an active member of such places.‎ 2. Start a conversation.‎ ‎ Starting a conversation is the second most important step in making new friends. ___37______ You can always start the conversation. Being able to make small talk is a very useful skill in relating with other people.‎ 3. ‎______38______‎ ‎ Choosing friends with common interests is important in building friendship as these interests would always bring you and your friend together. Hanging out will always be a pleasant experience.‎ 4. Let it grow.‎ ‎ It is a good thing to stay in touch. However, try not to force your new friend with calls,‎ ‎ messages or visits as this would likely to make him or her tired and finally you may lose your friend. _____39____ The best friendships are the ones that grow naturally.‎ 1. Enjoy your friendship.‎ ‎ The best way to enjoy friendship is to allow your friends to be themselves. ____40____ Try not to change them from who they are to what you want them to be. Become the kind of friend you will want your friends to be to you.‎ A. Be cheerful.‎ B. Do things together.. ‎ C. Do not wait to be spoken to. ‎ D. Try not to find fault with your friends. ‎ E. Making new friends comes easy for some people.‎ F. For a friendship to develop you need to stay in touch.‎ G. So you will need to give your friend time to react to you..‎ 第三部分 英语知识运用 第一节 完形填空（共20题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）‎ 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意。然后从41-60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ When I was in seventh grade, I volunteered at a local hospital during the summer. I spent most of the time there with Mr Gillespie. He never had any ___41__, and nobody seemed to care about his condition. I spent many days there ___42__ his hand and talking to him, helping with anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, ___43__ he responded with only a squeeze (挤，压) of my hand. Mr Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).‎ I left for a week, and when I came back, Mr Gillespie was ___44__. I didn’t have the courage to ask any of the nurses where he was, for ___45__ that they might tell me he had died. So with many questions___46__, I continued to volunteer there.‎ Several years later, I was at a gas station when I noticed a ___47__ face. When I realized who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was alive! I got up the ___48__ to ask him if his name was Mr Gillespie, and if he had been in a ___49__ about five years ago. With an uncertain look on his face, he ___51__ yes. I explained how I knew him. His eyes ___51__ tears, and he gave me the warmest hug.‎ He began to tell me how, ___52__ he lay there comatose(昏迷的), he could hear me talking to him and could ___53__ me holding his hand the whole time. He thought it was a(n) ___54__, not a person, who was there with him. Mr Gillespie firmly believed that it was my ___55__and touch that had kept him alive.‎ Then he told me about his life and what happened ___56__ him to put him in the coma. We both cried for a while, said our good-byes and went our ___57__ way.‎ Although I haven’t seen him since, he fills my heart with joy everyday. I know that I made a ___58__ between his life and his death. More ___59___, he has made a very big difference in my life, too. I will never forget him and what he ___60__ for me; he made me an angel.‎ ‎41. A. visitors B. secrets C. workers D. relatives ‎42. A. touching B. breaking C. holding D. shaking ‎43. A. if B. even if C. even when D. unless ‎44. A. dead B. lost C. puzzled D. gone ‎45. A. fear B. average C. reason D. advice ‎46. A. undone B. unanswered C. uncovered D. unaccepted ‎47. A. special B. pleasant C. familiar D. strange ‎48. A. base B. request C. command D. courage ‎49. A. coma B. shade C. surprise D. tip ‎50. A. allowed B. replied C . thought D. considered ‎51. A. turn out B. turn into C. burst into D. burst out ‎52. A. if B. because C. unless D. as ‎53. A. feel B. disagree C. imagine D. send ‎54. A. animal B. angel C. native D. partner ‎55. A. noise B. shout C. voice D. advice ‎56. A. to B. on C. over D. off ‎57. A. double B. lovely C. single D. separate ‎58. A. living B. difference C. promise D. life ‎59. A. importantly B. carefully C. frequently D. actually ‎60. A. missed B. realized C. did D. practised 第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)‎ 第四部分 英语语言运用能力（共三节，满分50分） ‎ 第一节 课文填空 （共10小题，每小题1.5分, 满分15分）‎ 根据课文内容以及所给提示，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词），或者括号内单词的正确形式填空。‎ ‎ I am ____61_____ of my sister but she has one serious shortcoming. She can be really stubborn. Although she didn’t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted ____62_____ she organize the trip properly. Now I know that the proper way is always her way. I kept asking her, “When are we leaving and when are we coming back ?” I asked her whether she had looked at a map yet. Of course she hadn’t; my sister doesn’t care____63_____ details. So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province. She gave me a determined look – the kind that said she would not change her____64_____. ‎ Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. For three days the water in the village wells rose ____65_____ fell, rose and fell. Farmers noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them. A smelly gas came out of the cracks. In the farmyards, the chickens and even the pigs were too nervous to eat. Mice ran out of the fields____66_____ for places to hide. Fish jumped out of their bowls and ponds. At about 3:00 am on July 28,1976,some people saw bright lights in the sky. The sound of planes could ____67_____ outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the sky. In the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst. But the one million people of the city, ____68_____ thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.‎ At 3:42 am everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world was at an end! Eleven kilometers directly below the city the greatest earthquake of the 20th century had begun. It was felt in Beijing, which is more than two hundred kilometers away. One-third of the nation felt it. ____69_____ huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut across houses, roads and canals. Steam burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ____70_____. The suffering of the people was extreme. Two-thirds of them died or were left without parents. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.‎ 第三节 单句改错。（共10题，每小题1分，共10分。）‎ ‎（每句话一个错误，错误涉及一个单词的增加，删除或者修改。）‎ 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（）并在其下面写出该加的词。‎ 删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。‎ 修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。‎ ‎71.Or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or would not understand what you are go through? ‎ ‎72.She said, “I don’t want to set down a serie of facts in a diary as most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty.” ‎ ‎73.I wonder that it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature.‎ ‎74.It was based more on German than the English we speak in present. ‎ ‎75. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to make a use of a wider vocabulary than ever before.‎ ‎76.When I told her the air would be hard breathe and it would be very cold, she said it would be an interesting experience. ‎ ‎77.The army organized teams to dig out those that were trapped and to bury the dead.‎ ‎78.It’s no pleasure look through these any longer because nature is one thing that really must be experienced. ‎ ‎79.Later in the next century, people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world and because of that, English began to be spoken in many another countries.‎ ‎80. English began to spoken in both countries.‎ 第五部分 书面表达（满分25分，其中5分为书写分。）‎ 假如你是校编辑李华, 你校学生给你写了一封信，请仔细阅读此信的内容之后，用英语给她写一封回信。‎ Dear Li Hua ，‎ I am an active girl, and I speak and laugh loudly in the classroom, like a boy. I don't care about small matters. On the contrary, my neighbor, the girl who sits next to me, speaks quietly and dare not do the things I often do. I can understand this.‎ What I can't stand is that she often gets angry with me about small things. How can I get along with her?‎ Yours ‎ ‎ Alice 注意：1. 词数100左右，。‎ ‎2．回信就原信内容给出至少三条建议(如谈心，相互理解，参加生日活动，谈论共同话题，分享快乐等等)。‎ Dear Alice Thank you for your letter I know you are now having trouble communicating with your classmates. Here are some tips to help you. ‎ ‎________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ‎ Yours Li Hua 南昌十中2018-2019学年高一上学期期中考试英语学科参考答案 一、听力(共20小题，每小题1.5分，总计30分)‎ ‎1-5 CBACB 6-10 ACBCA 11-15 CAACB 16-20 ABCAB 二、阅读理解 （共20小题，每小题2分，总计40分)‎ ‎21-25 DCADD 26—30BDBAA 31-35 ACDBD 36-40 ECBGD 三、完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，总计30分）‎ ‎41-45 ACBDA 46-50 BCDAB 51-55 CDABC 56-60 ADBAC 四、课文内容填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，总计15分)‎ ‎61. fond 62. that 63. about 64. mind 65.and ‎ ‎66. looking 67. be heard 68. who 69. A 70. ruins 五、单句改错（共10小题，每小题1分，总计10分)‎ ‎71.Or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or would not understand what you are through? ‎ ‎72. She said, “I don’t want to set down a of facts in a diary as most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty.” ‎ ‎73. I wonder it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature.‎ ‎74. It was based more on German than the English we speak present. ‎ ‎75. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to make a use of a wider vocabulary than ever before.‎ ‎76. When I told her the air would be hard breathe and it would be very cold, she said it would be an interesting experience. ‎ ‎77. The army organized teams to dig out those were trapped and to bury the dead.‎ ‎78. It’s no pleasure through these any longer because nature is one thing that really must be experienced. ‎ ‎79. Later in the next century, people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the ‎ world and because of that, English began to be spoken in many countries.‎ ‎80. English began to spoken in both countries.‎ 六、书面表达（25分，其中5分为卷面分） Dear Alice Thank you for your letter I know you are now having trouble communicating with your classmates. Here are some tips to help you. ‎ I am pleased to know that you want to make friends with this girl. In my opinion, you'd better first have a hearttoheart talk with her, because understanding each other is very important for you two. And I also think it's better for you to ask her to join you and your classmates in all kinds of activities, such as birthday parties, going out for a walk, discussing some fashionable topics, and so on. Besides, helping each other is also very important for both of you. Just share happiness and sadness with her, And I believe she will understand you in time and it is certain you will be good friends in future.‎ I truly hope the advice can be of help to you.‎ Yours，‎ Li Hua 听力原文：‎ Text 1‎ M: Are you going to spend the summer in Australia?‎ W: No, I planned to go to Canada, but my children begged me to take them to Japan. I agreed.‎ ‎ Text 2‎ M: Excuse me. Do you have any tickets left for the concert tomorrow?‎ W: Yes. They are $16 each. Um … how many would you like?‎ M: Two, please.‎ ‎ Text 3 ‎ W: What’s the matter with you, Jack?‎ M: Brian phoned me today. He was wondering whether I could help him move house on Saturday.‎ W: I’d rather you didn’t. It’s mum’s birthday and I thought we could take her out for the day.‎ ‎ Text 4‎ M: Have you decided to take that summer job you were offered?‎ W: Well, I want more information before I accept it.‎ ‎ Text 5‎ M: God, I’m glad that’s over.‎ W: So you don’t like it? It’s based on a novel written by a famous writer.‎ M: No, I think the story, the dialogue and the whole thing about the war are hard to understand.‎ W: But the leading actor is my favorite.‎ ‎ Text 6‎ W: Hi, I’m looking for a dress for Jane’s party this evening. Can you give me some advice?‎ M: How do you like this skirt? It goes well with your skin.‎ W: Really? OK, I would try it.‎ M: And I believe this necklace would make you more attractive.‎ W: OK. Should I take a bag with me?‎ M: Of course. ‎ W: How about the brown bag you and I bought last week?‎ M: I can’t agree more. And hurry up, grandma is waiting for us.‎ W: OK.‎ ‎ Text 7‎ W: Hi, I just arrived on Flight 245 from London. I waited until all the luggage came out, but my suitcase wasn’t there.‎ M: Well, I guess it might have been put on the wrong flight. There’s a chance it won’t arrive until tomorrow.‎ W: Tomorrow! ‎ M: I’m very sorry about this. Leave us a phone number so that we can reach you, and the airline will call you as soon as we get your suitcase. ‎ ‎ Text 8‎ M: Hi, Jean. You look worried. Is everything OK?‎ W: Well, my new boss is expecting us to start work at 8 o’clock in the morning. But I have to take ‎ our children to school. That means I’ll be late for work. And you can’t spare any time to do it.‎ M: Oh, dear … or … but not a surprise. My friend Alice had a similar problem last year.‎ W: How did she settle it?‎ M: She didn’t do anything at first. But in the end she told it to her boss. He said he hadn’t realized the early start would present a problem and he agreed to let them start half an hour late.‎ W: That’s great. Perhaps I should deal with it the same way.‎ ‎ Text 9‎ M: Hello, everyone. We are lucky to have Molly Taylor here today. Molly is organizing an activity course for the summer holidays. Molly, this is the second year of the course, isn’t it?‎ W: Yes. The summer course operated for the first time last year for a six-week period. We did think about making it longer this year and have a seven-week course, as there’re some schools which finish term a week earlier. In fact, two schools have eight-week holidays. But in the end we decided to keep to the same plan as last year. ‎ M: But, as I understand, last year’s course wasn’t a complete success, was it?‎ W: Well, we were actually very surprised by the number of people interested in the course. We didn’t actually have enough assistants to look after all the children. Besides, there was such a lot of rain that we couldn’t go outside as often as we wanted to. ‎ M: So, what activities can the children look forward to this year?‎ W: Well, once again there’ll be artists and musicians who will lead creative classes. We also considered providing some more exciting adventure sports. But we decided not to, in the end. Instead we’re introducing some fun programs. I think it’ll be good fun for the children.‎ ‎ Text 10‎ W: Pleased to be here today. My name’s Joan, and I’d like to share with you something about my French learning. I still remember when I first started to learn the language I didn’t really have a problem with the pronunciation. I just had a hard time memorizing words. But I made a great effort and soon I was scoring ten out of ten in all of the tests. By the time I got to university, I could do some writing and translations without much difficulty, and I actually enjoyed learning the grammar rules. Then as part of my university course I had to go and live in France for a year. As soon as I arrived，I realized I didn’t know how to order ‎ the type of coffee I liked, and trying to find somewhere to live or stay was something difficult to deal with. I called people about information in the paper, but I had to keep putting the phone down because I couldn’t understand a word they were saying — they all spoke so quickly! I could see then that there’s no point in just knowing words if you can’t hold a conversation with a native speaker. The ability to speak freely is what helps you get a job, hold a conversation or just buy the things you need.‎