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Island University has a competition for middle school students.
Read about the competition on their web site.
School Competition
Students! Here is your chance to help the physically disabled(残疾人). Think out a robot or a machine to help them live better. There’ll be three prizes. The winning schools will each get $15,000. Read the information below:
What do you have to do?
·Try to know problems faced by the physically disabled in Hong Kong. Write a 200-word article on the difficulties these people have to suffer each day.
·Try to know modern inventions that help the physically disabled. Then think out a robot or a machine that will improve the lives of the physically disabled. Draw your invention. You can make as many drawings as you like to show your invention. You can even make a small model of your invention.
· Write a short description of your invention.
Who can join?
All middle school students in Hang Kong.
So, come on! Join the competition, and get the chance!
小题1:Where can you find the information?
小题2:Why is the school competition held?
小题3:What prize will each winning school get?
小题4:How many words should be written on the difficulties the disabled have to suffer each day?
小题5:Who can join the competition?
答案

小题1:On the web site
小题1:To help the physically disabled(1ive better)
小题1:$1 5,000.
小题1:Two hundred./200.
小题1:All middle school students in Hong Kong.
解析

小题1:从第二行的句子Read about the competition on their web site可知答案是.On the web site
小题1:从文章的句子:Here is your chance to help the physically disabled(残疾人).可知答案是 To help the physically disabled(1ive better)
小题1:从文章的句子:The winning schools will each get $15,000可知获奖的学校会得到.$1 5,000.的奖金。
小题1:从文章的句子:Write a 200-word article on the difficulties these people have to suffer each day.可知要写两百个字的文章。Two hundred./200.
小题1:从倒数第二段的句子:All middle school students in Hang Kong.可知答案是 All middle school students in Hong Kong.
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The future can be difficult. There are many famous predictions   52    never came true.Before 1929, there was no sound in movies. The head of one of the     53  movie companies in the United States predicted that no one would want to see actors   54  . Of couse,he was wrong! In 1979,the head of the largest computer company in the United States said,“No one will want to have a computer in his or her home.” He thought that computer would never    55   by most people.
小题1:A.Predict             B.Predicting             C.Predicted
小题2:A.who               B.what                  C.that
小题3:A.big                B.bigger                 C.biggest
小题4:A.talk               B.talked                 C.to talk
小题5:A.use                B.be used                C.are used
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What might the future be like? Here are some predictions: things to come, things to go.
The Spring Festival, the most important Chinese holiday when everyone returns home, has caused headaches for millions of Chinese. More than 2 billion people travel at the same time, making getting travel tickets and the journey difficult. But in 28 years, Spring Festival travel may not be a problem at all. China plans to build more than 120,000 kilometers of railway and a fast transportation network that will serve 90% of the population by 2020. And because most of China will be cities, people will not have to go to other places to find a job, so it will no longer be a problem.
Newspaper will come to an end in 2043. In the future, digital(数字的) newspapers will be sent to personal web tools through Internet. Readers can discuss topics with journalists and editors. Information will move faster.
Oil is running out faster than expected. But scientists have found something else for oil as fuel(燃料). Coal, natural gas, solar power, nuclear power and even water can take the place of oil as sources of energy(能源).
Schools will go electronic(电子化). Computers will be important and popular among the students. Everything will be in the computer and students will not need to bring books to school. They will find information on the Internet. A computer will be the students’ library, schoolbag and connection to the outside world. There will be robot teachers, they will check homework on computers and communicate with the students’ parents through e-mail. And school buses will be like spaceships, comfortable and safe.
小题1: More than 2 billion people have a hard time returning home during                .
A.Christmas DayB.National Day
C.the Spring FestivalD.the Mid-autumn Festival
小题2:The newspapers will disappear                .
A.in 28 yearsB.by 2020 C.by 2053D.in 33 years
小题3:               is not mentioned in the passage as sources of energy.
A.CoalB.WindC.Nuclear powerD.Water
小题4:From the passage we can know                 in the future.
A.the Spring Festival travel may still be a problem
B.90% of the population will live in the city
C.robot teachers will check homework
D.readers can discuss topics with each other through Internet
小题5:What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?                 .
A.Schools will go electronicB.Computers will be important
C.There will be robot teachersD.School buses will be like spaceships

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China is the home of tea,  36 has more than 4,000 years of history. People in China drink tea daily.  37  the three major drinks ----tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is drunk by   38 people in the world. Tea from China, along   39 silk and porcelain, began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export  40  .
Tea leaves  41  mainly in the area south of the Yangtze River, in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian, because of the mild  42  and rich soil there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all 43  kinds of tea.
Over the past centuries, Chinese people  44  their unique tea culture, which includes tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making, tea drinking and so on. Tea is   45  a popular topic which is often mentioned in dances, songs, poems and novels.
小题1:
A.whoB.whichC.whereD.when
小题2:
A.InB.ForC.OfD.By
小题3:
A.the number ofB.a number ofC.a large number ofD.the largest number of
小题4:
A.betweenB.withC.exceptD.besides
小题5:
A.at that timeB.from now onC.since thenD.since now
小题6:
A.produceB.are producedC.makeD.are made
小题7:
A.climateB.weatherC.conditionD.environment
小题8:
A.interestingB.importantC.famousD.normal
小题9:
A.had developedB.have developedC.developedD.are developing
小题10:
A.tooB.as wellC.eitherD.also

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These days,cars are designed using computers.Let’s look at how a new car is created.
First,several   16  talk about the new car and any good ideas that they have.Then they sit down at their computers and   17  many sketches.The best two or three drawings are chosen and then more detailed drawings of   18  are developed on the computer.You can change the size,shape or color of any part on the computer to see   19  the car would look and then you can choose the best design.
Both the inside and the outside of the car have to be designed.Part of the inside of the car is    20 so that the designers can sit in it.They can feel if there is enough  21 inside and if they can reach  22 .Then some cars are built-there are more than 15,000 parts of a car to 23 
When everything is known to be   24  ,the cars are made in the factory.Again,computers are used to make sure that all the parts are   25  as they are needed.The factory
usually stays open all through the night so that the car production never stops.
小题1:
A.driversB.designersC.workersD.salesmen
小题2:
A.drawB.orderC.typeD.enjoy
小题3:
A.bicyclesB.trainsC.carsD.buses
小题4:
A.howB.ifC.whatD.that
小题5:
A.coveredB.paintedC.lockedD.built
小题6:
A.metalB.glassC.leatherD.room
小题7:
A.nothingB.somebodyC.everythingD.nobody
小题8:
A.chooseB.testC.showD.repair
小题9:
A.safeB.easyC.cheapD.fast
小题10:
A.rareB.electronicC.comfortableD.ready

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阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C 和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Have you ever heard of Agatha Christie, an excellent writer? Agatha Christie is, without a doubt,   16  mystery writer in the world. Her books have been translated into more than 100 languages. All 77 novels and story collections she wrote are still on the market 25 years after her   17 .
Agatha Christie was born in 1890 in a southwest England seaside town. She enjoyed a very comfortable childhood in a big house with   18  servants(仆人). Agatha was known   19  an imaginative child. With her sister and brother away at school, she often played alone. She passed the time by making up stories which she told to   20 .
Agatha Christie’s first novel was published in 1920. In it, she   21  one of her most popular characters, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. He went on to appear in 33 of her novels, and in several movies   22 . Although Poirot appears again and again in her novels, Christie certainly could not be considered as repeating her ideas. Her powers of invention and her ability to surprise continue to attract   23 readers around the world.
Christie also wrote several   24 . One of these, “The Mousetrap”, became the longest-running play in the history of theater. It is about a murder mystery that   25  in a country house. All these mysterious stories earned her the title “Queen of Crime”.
小题1:
A.more practicalB.more famous
C.the most famousD.the most practical
小题2:
A.lossB.birthC.deathD.arrival
小题3:
A.muchB.plenty ofC.lotsD.a lot
小题4:
A.asB.likeC.byD.for
小题5:
A.her brotherB.herC.herselfD.her sister
小题6:
A.createdB.producedC.builtD.continued
小题7:
A.alsoB.besidesC.as wellD.either
小题8:
A.millionB.millionsC.millions ofD.million of
小题9:
A.storiesB.playsC.moviesD.comedies
小题10:
A.takes placeB.takes inC.takes offD.takes down

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