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阅读理解。     A meteorite (陨石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettifer in Britain when he was
working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggest in the past 26 years in Britain.
 The meteorite weighed (重量) one kilo, and might be over four thousand million (百万) years old.
 "I hear the big noise in the air. I looked up and saw the tops of the trees coming and going," he said.
"I didn"t know what it was."
 Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500 meteorites may fall on earth
every year, but only very few are found. Mr. Pettifer"s meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the
Second World War.
 Mr. Pettifer is glad. "When you think about it coming from so far away, it really is something strange."1. The meteorite was _____ Mr Pettifer when it fell down.    A. close to
    B. far from
    C. hitting
    D. coming to2. The meteorite was already _____ years old.    A. 40,000,000,000 
    B. 40,000,000
    C. 400,000,000 
     D. 4,000,000,0003. Mr. Pettifer found the tops of the trees coming and going because _____.    A. the trees were afraid
    B. the fast falling meteorite kept the tree tops moving
C. it was going to rain
    D. the moving was made by wind4. _____ people see a meteorite fall although they visit the earth often each year.    A. Quite a few 
    B. Some 
    C. Few 
    D. Many5. Mr. Pettifer was _____ to see the falling of the meteorite.    A. happy 
    B. afraid 
    C. sorry 
    D. angry

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试题【阅读理解。 A meteorite (陨石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettifer i】；主要考察你对人物故事类等知识点的理解。[详细]

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     A group of frogs were traveling    1    the forests, but suddenly two of them fell into a hole. The other
frogs tried to help them. When they saw how deep the hole was, they cried to the two frogs that they
could not be saved. The two frogs didn"t    2    and tried their best to jump up out of the hole. The other
frogs    3    saying that they were sure to die.    4 , one of the two frogs, who heard what the other
frogs were saying, gave up. Then he fell down and died.
     The    5    frog, however, continued to jump as    6    as he could, and at last made it out. When he
   7    , the other frogs asked, "Didn"t you hear us?" The frog, who had a poor    8    , said, "I thought you
were encouraging me all the time."
     The story teaches us a    9    :There is power (力量) of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging
  10    to those who are down can help them out while a discouraging word can kill them.

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(     )1. A. across
(     )2. A. care
(     )3. A. kept
(     )4. A. Luckily
(     )5. A. another
(     )6. A. wide
(     )7. A. got out
(     )8. A. smelling
(     )9. A. way
(     )10. A. smile

B. through
B. understand
B. finished
B. Finally
B. other
B. tall
B. ran away
B. eyesight
B. skill
B. laugh

C. from
C. know
C. practiced
C. Suddenly
C. others
C. hard
C. got off
C. hearing
C. sentence
C. help

D. past
D. think
D. stopped
D. Happily
D. one
D. far
D. woke up
D. looking
D. lesson
D. word

根据短文内容，回答问题。
     In May, 1976, Gaynor was a nine-year-old girl and lived in North Wales. One day, on her way home
from school, she saw a silver(银色的)object(物体)in a field not far from her home. The object looked
like a saucer.
     Gaynor was very scared. She stayed behind the tall grass and watched the door of the strange object
open. She saw two aliens wearing silver suits get out. Then they used something to examine (检测) the
ground. They were short and had pink eyes. After about thirty minutes, the two aliens went back into the
object. Then it took off.
     When Gaynor got home, she told her mother about this unusual experience, but her family decided to
keep quiet about it. They didn"t want others to laugh at their daughter.
     However, 18 months later, Gaynor told her story to UFO scientists. They found out that Gaynor told
the truth.
1. Where did Gaynor see the UFO?
    ________________________________
2. What did Gaynor see when the door of the UFO opened?
    ________________________________
3. What did the two aliens do?
    ________________________________
4. What did the two aliens look like?
    ________________________________
5. Why did Gaynor"s parents keep quiet about her unusual experience?
    ________________________________

完形填空。
One day Mark Twain was invited to __1__ a talk in a small town, He met a young man, one of his
friends. The young man said that he had an uncle, his uncle __2__ laughed or smiled. "you bring your
uncle to my talk tonight," said Mark Twain. "I"m sure I can make him laugh."That evening the young man
and his uncle sat __3__ the front. Mark Twain told several funny stories. __4__ made everyone in the
room laugh. But the old man never __5__ smiled. Mark Twain told __6__ funny stories, but the old man
still kept __7__. Finally, he stopped. He felt very tired and gave up.__8__ later, Mark Twain told a
friend of his about __9__ had happened, "Oh", said his friend, "I know that old man. He has been _10__
for years."

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