Nancy is an English school girl．She studies in a middle school．She has a little brother．His name is John．John is only four．Nancy likes him very much．
Today is Sunday．Nancy wants to do her homework．She takes out her pencil﹣box and opens it．"Oh，dear!where's my pen？"She can't find her pen．She goes to ask her brother in his bedroom．"John!I can't find my pen．Can you see…Oh，what are you doing with my pen？"
"I'm writing to my friend，Peter．"John answers．
"But how can you？You don't know how to write!"
"It doesn't matter．Peter can't read．"John says．
【小题1】How old is Nancy's brother？    

A．Five

B．Four

C．Six

D．Three

【小题2】     can't find her pen．

A．Nancy

B．Peter

C．John

D．Friend

【小题3】Where's John？    

A．In the school．

B．In a shop．

C．In his bedroom．

D．In her father's car．

【小题4】Which is not right？    

A．Nancy finds her pen in John's room．

B．John can't write．

C．John is writing with her sister's pen．

D．Peter can read．

【小题5】John and Peter are    ．

A．friends

B．English

C．at home

D．school girls．

Bags of Love
Last year, I worked in a middle school near my mother’s house, and I stayed with her for a month. During that time, I helped her do some housework and buy some food.
After the first week, I noticed that the food was eaten up very quickly. Then I began keeping an eye on my mum. To my surprise, I found that she would put some of the food into a paper bag and go out with it at about nine every morning. And finally, I decided to follow her. I saw her taking the food to the street children. She would also spend a lot of time talking and playing with them.
One day, I talked to a neighbor and found out that my mum was well-known in the area. The children were very friendly with her and even thought of her as their own mother. Then it hit me – why wouldn’t she want to tell me about it? Was she worried that I would stop buying food if I found out?
When my mum got home, I gave her a big hug (拥抱).I told her she didn’t need to keep it a secret from me. And she told me something about the children. Some of them lived with an old lady in a small house. Others slept on the street. For years, she was helping the poor street children by giving them food. After she told me everything, I was so moved by how selfless (无私的) she was. She helped others in need. As her son, I was so proud of my mum.
I continued to buy food for my mum after that. But I always added one more bag for her other children.
【小题1】After the first week, the writer noticed that _____.

A．the food was put into a big box	B．his mum followed the children
C．the food was eaten up quickly	D．his mum stopped buying food

【小题2】The street children thought of the writer’s mum as their _____.

A．old grandma

B．own mother

C．new neighbor

D．dear teacher

【小题3】How did the writer feel about his mum after she told him everything?

A．He was proud of her.	B．He was confident in her.
C．He was angry with her.	D．He was worried about her.

【小题4】The writer added one more bag of food to _____.

A．make friends with the children	B．get a hug from his mother
C．become well-known in the area	D．help the poor street children

【小题5】What do you think of the mother?

A．She is a poor woman	B．she is a thief .
C．She is very bad .	D．she is a kind woman.

根据短文内容，判断以下句子的正误。正确的写“T”，错误的写“F”。
Two sisters found work as saleswomen in a company. The first month was not easy. They worked very hard but sold nothing. The younger sister gave up in the second month. She left the company and found another job. The older sister stayed. She said she wanted to have one last try.
One year later, the older sister owned a car and a house. But the younger sister was still poor. She asked her sister, “why?”
The older sister said, “I got my first order (订单) the day you left. They liked my work. So they gave me more orders. Now life is good for me.”
So, keep working and never give up. You’ll get what you want.
【小题1】The two sisters worked in the same company at first.
【小题2】The two sisters didn’t work hard, so they sold nothing.
【小题3】The older sister gave up in the second month.
【小题4】The older sister was richer than the younger sister one year later.
【小题5】If you want to get something , you should keep working and never give up .

Driving in the U.S. can be difficult to understand not just because of all the rules and laws that drivers must follow, but also because of driving customs. Many people in the U.S. really depend on their cars to get to work and school. In fact most American workers spend an hour driving to work each day. In order to drive in the U.S., you have to go to your local Department of Motor Vehicles first, and take a written test to get your learner’s permit. If you pass this test, you can practice driving so you can pass a road test and get your license. The Department of Motor Vehicles has free booklets you can get to study for your learner’s permit. You can also get the information online and even take a practice written exam. To prepare for the road test, you can have a friend teach you to drive or pay to take classes at a driving school. You cannot, however, practice driving by yourself. If you are caught driving with only a learner’s permit, you can get into trouble with the law.
Once you get your driver’s license in one state, you can use it to drive in all of the United States. Wherever you drive, you will see signs posted along the road showing the speed limit. These numbers are not a suggestion. Generally you can drive faster on a highway than on local streets. Local police use special equipment to discover your speed. If they discover you are speeding or driving over the speed limit, police can stop you and give you a ticket. You will have to pay a fine which may be more than $100. The lines painted on the road are not just to keep cars in their lanes. They send a message. For example, a double solid yellow line means that it is against the law to pass another car here.
【小题1】During learning how to drive, you shouldn’t________.

A．read the booklets DMV provides	B．have a friend teach you
C．take classes at a driving school	D．drive alone

【小题2】The underlined word “it” refers to________.

A．your learner’s permit	B．your driver’s license
C．the law	D．the car

【小题3】If you are caught driving over the speed limit, ________.

A．your driver’s license will be taken away	B．you will be given a warning
C．you will have to pay a fine $100 or more	D．you cannot drive your car anymore

【小题4】Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Most Americans go to work in their cars every day.

B．If you only have a learner’s permit, you can’t drive it by yourself.

C．When you get your driver’s license, you can’t drive on a high way.

D．If you drive your car in the double solid yellow line, you are against the law.

【小题5】The best title of the passage may be “________”.

A．Driving in the U.S.	B．Driving speed
C．Following the traffic rules	D．Getting your driver’s license

Captain(船长)Nemo invited me and my friends to go hunting with him in the forests of Crespo Island. I asked him why he was so interested in Crespo Island. “I thought you preferred the sea to being on land.”
“I do,” replied the captain. “But these forests are under the sea.”
After going through a door, we were about ten meters under the water. The light from the sun reached us. Everything looked very colourful. We were going deeper and deeper. At 100 meters deep, we could see quite well, and Captain Nemo stopped and pointed to some dark shapes. This was the forest. The “trees” in the forest were giant seaweed, and all their “branches” were vertical(垂直的).We could not stop looking at them. Fish swam around the branches like birds in a forest.
Suddenly, I saw a large sea spider about a meter tall. It was going to attack me. Captain Nemo’s man killed it with his gun, but it reminded me that the sea could be as dangerous as it was beautiful. When we reached 150 meters, it was dark. The sun’s light could not reach this depth(深度). We turned our lights. We could see about 20 meters around us. Finally, we found Crespo Island—where a steep rock wall rose in front of us.
We could go no further, so we walked back toward the Nautilus. Suddenly, Captain Nemo stopped and shot an animal with his gun, it was a beautiful and rare sea otter. At last, we could see the Nautilus. Several large sharks swam over us. Luckily they didn’t see us. We re-entered the Nautilus safely. I was tired but amazed by what I had seen.
【小题1】What do “dark shapes” in Paragraph 3 refer to(指的是)?

A．Trees.

B．Seaweed.

C．Rocks.

D．Fish.

【小题2】When they reached          meters, they couldn’t see quite well?

A．10

B．20

C．100

D．150

【小题3】Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．The giant seaweed under the sea was like trees in the forest.

B．Several large sharks swam over them and attacked them.

C．Captain Nemo preferred the sea to being on land.

D．The writer was tired but amazed by what he had seen.

【小题4】According to the passage, which is the correct order?
① Captain Nemo’s man killed a sea spider.
② The men returned to the Nautilus.
③ The men went to the forest.
④ Captain Nemo invited us to go hunting.
⑤ Captain Nemo shot an otter.

A．④①③⑤③

B．③④②⑤①

C．④③①⑤②

D．③④①⑤②

【小题5】What is the best title of the story?

A．A Visit to a Sea Forest	B．Death Under the Sea.
C．Captain Nemo and the Nautilus	D．Attacked by Giant Spider

It’s in the stars

Your Birth Date	Your Star Sign	Your Personality or Characteristics	Celebrity in This Star Sign
December 22nd to January 20th	Capricorn (Goat)	excellent at business, protective of your loved ones	Orlando Bloom
January 21st to February 19th	Aquarius (Water carrier)	honest, imaginative and independent	Justin Timberlake
February 20th to March 20th	Pisces (Fishes)	always willing to help people, generous and kind	Bruce Willis
March 21st to April 20th	Aries (Ram)	enthusiastic, brave and stubborn	Kate Hudson
April 21st to May 21st	Taurus (Bull)	direct and honest, impatient, with good sense of humor	David Beckham
May 22nd to June 21st	Gemini (Twins)	creative and imaginative, ready to learn	Johnny Depp
June 22nd to July 22nd	Cancer (Crab)	patient and understanding, easy-going, modest	Tom cruise
July 23rd to August 23rd	Leo (Lion)	generous, successful, impatient and bossy	Jennifer Lopez
August 24th to September 22nd	Virgo (Virgin)	well-organized, hardworking and sensitive	Keanu Reeves
September 23rd to October 22nd	Libra (Scales)	confident, outgoing, popular and easy-going	Will Smith
October 23rd to November 21st	Scorpio (Scorpion)	loyal, clever, determined, jealous	Leonardo Dicaprio
November 22nd to December 21st	Sagittarius (Archer)	honest and open, sociable, stubborn	Brad pitt

 
【小题1】A girl was born on May 28^th. What’s her star sign?

A．Taurus.

B．Leo.

C．Gemini.

D．Aries.

【小题2】Tom is generous and kind, and is always willing to help other people. What may be his star sign?

A．Cancer.

B．Pisces.

C．Sagittarius.

D．Scorpio.

【小题3】Which celebrity shares your sign if you were born on June 28th?

A．Will Smith.

B．Johnny Depp

C．Bruce Willis.

D．Tom Cruise.

【小题4】What does the underlined word“bossy”mean？

A．Telling others what to do like a boss.	B．Easily affected by something.
C．Enjoy being with others.	D．Showing a lot of interest in something.

【小题5】What’s the main idea of this article?

A．The relationship between the personality and star signs.

B．The relationship between the personality and animal signs.

C．It’s star signs that can shape your future.

D．It’s you who can shape your future .

The most awful words in the English language are, "Our computer is down." You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, "I'm sorry, I can't sell you a ticket. Our computer is down."
"If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket."
"I can't write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so."
I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and looking at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all you people do?"
"We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not."
"So when it goes down, you go down with it."
"That's good, sir."
"How long will the computer be down?" I wanted to know.
"I have no idea. Sometimes it's down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There's no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it's down it won't answer us."
After the girl told me they had no backup (备用) computer, I said. "Let's forget the computer. What about your planes? They're still flying, aren't they?"
"I couldn't tell without asking the computer."
"Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he's flying to Washington," I suggested.
"I wouldn't know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn't take you if you didn't have a ticket."
"Is there any other airline(航空公司) flying to Washington within the next few hours?"
"I wouldn't know," she said, pointing at the dark screen. "Only 'IT' knows. 'It' can't tell me."
By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage (行李).
【小题1】The best title for the article is _____.

A．The Most Awful Words	B．When the Computer Is Down
C．The Computer of the Airport	D．Asking the Computer

【小题2】What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?

A．She could sell a ticket.

B．She could write out a ticket.

C．She could answer the passengers' questions.

D．She could do nothing.

【小题3】What did passengers do when the computer was down?

A．They left the airport and went home.

B．They drank coffee and watched the black screen.

C．They began to talk to each other.

D．None above.

【小题4】The last paragraph suggests that _____.

A．a modern computer won't be down

B．computers can take the place of humans

C．sometimes a computer may drive people mad

D．People can do more things without a computer

Tim Berners-Lee is not the most famous inventor in the world. However, his invention has changed our lives.
He was born in London, England in 1955. When he was a small boy, Tim was interested in playing with electrical things. He studied science at Oxford University. He made his first computer from an old television at the age of 21.
Tim started working on early computers. At that time, they were much bigger than now. He worked in England then Switzerland. Tim was really interested in two things, computers and how the brain works. How could the brain connect so many facts so quickly? He had to work with people all over the world. They shared information about computers. It was hard to manage all the information. He answered the same questions again and again. It took a lot of time. It was even difficult for computers in the same office in Switzerland to share information. Tim also forgot things easily. Could a computer work like a brain? Could it “talk” to other computers?
There was an Internet already but it was difficult to use. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web（WWW）all by himself. This had a special language that helped computers talk to each other on the Internet. When people wanted to share information with others, they used the World Wide Web. The Internet grew quickly after that.
Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think he did anything special. He says that all of the ideas about the Internet were already there. All he did was to put them together. He says that many other people worked together to make the Internet what it is today.
Most inventors want to become rich. But Tim gave away the World Wide Web for nothing. He now works in America. He helps people share technology and wants the Internet to be free for everyone to use. Maybe he is the most important but least famous inventor in the world today!
【小题1】The underlined word “It” in Paragraph 3 refers to “__________”.

A．Working on early computers	B．Connecting different facts together
C．Repeating the answers to the same questions	D．Travelling to the office in Switzerland

【小题2】In what order did the following events take place?
a. Tim worked in England.
b. Tim invented the World Wide Web.
c. Tim studied science at Oxford University.
d. Tim made his first computer.
e. Tim worked in Switzerland.

A．c-e-d-a-b

B．e-b-a-c-d

C．c-d-a-e-b

D．e-c-a-b-d

【小题3】What does the writer think of Tim Berners-Lee?

A．He has changed our lives and he is great.

B．He is not famous because he is not rich.

C．He did nothing special but make people a good life.

D．He has made great achievements in memory research

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【小题1】The underlined expression "emotional support" means caring for a child's “ ”.

A．food

B．education

C．houses

D．feelings

【小题2】The General Meetings will be held __________.

A．every Thursday in February	B．three times in February
C．between February 4th and 18th	D．on February 4th and 18th

【小题3】The purpose of the material above is to help __________.

A．children with no homes	B．families with no children
C．schools with little money	D．teachers with little training

“One father is worth more than a hundred schoolmaster,” Britain poet George Herbert once said. Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, agrees.
When he was a little kid, Gates was silent and hated to talk with others. He spent most of his time alone—reading books and thinking. To help his son, Gates’ father held family meetings and let him play simple games with family members. “These activities seemed silly but they improved my leading and working-together abilities,” Gates said later.
While mothers offer a more gentle kind of love, fathers teach qualities like independence（独立）, confidence, courage and adventure（冒险）. Children learn these things from their fathers when they play sports or games together.
British scientists showed that children who grow up without their fathers may have many problems. They may not have enough courage for facing difficulties, may be shy and worried or may even commit crimes（犯罪）.
A caring father can help children get along well with others. Fathers not only lead their children into social circles but also teach them how to behave and control their feelings. Moreover, fathers let you know who you are. They lead you to learn what you should be like as a girl or a boy.
【小题1】To help Bill Gates, the father played __________ games with him.

A．simple and silly	B．difficult but useful
C．silly and useless	D．simple but useful

【小题2】According to the story, a caring father is likely to do the following EXCEPT_________.

A．offer a gentle kind of love	B．help kids get along well with others
C．teach children how to behave and control feelings	D．help you learn what you should be like

【小题3】The main idea of the story is ____________.

A．A father plays an important role in the growth of a child.

B．Parents offer different kinds of love to their children.

C．How Bill Gates became the richest man.

D．The possible dangers of children without fathers.