it is hot summer in 4 , it"s cold winter in Australia.
Australia is big, but the population there is 5 . The population of Australia is the same 6 that of
Shanghai, a city in China.
Australia is famous for its 7 and kangaroo. After about drive from any town, you will find 8 in the
middle of white sheep. Sheep, sheep, 9 are sheep. Have you ever seen a kangaroo? It has a "bag" in its
body. The 10 50 kangaroo keeps its baby kangaroo in the"bag". It is very interesting, isn"t it?
( )1. A. great ( )2. A. much ( )3. A. north ( )4. A. China ( )5. A. small ( )6. A. so ( )7. A. horses ( )8. A. you ( )9. A. there ( )10. A. girl | B. greater B. little B. west B. New Zealand B. more B. for B. cats B. yourself B. where B. son | C. greatest C. more C. south C. Brazil C. much C. such C. bears C. your C. anywhere C. father | D. the greatest D.few D. east D. South Africa D. big D. as D. sheep D. yours D. everywhere D. mother |
1-5 D B C A A 5-10 D D B D D | |||
阅读理解。 | |||
Reading for pleasure is the easiest way to become a better reader in English. It is also the most important way.Some students say they dont want to read for pleasure. They say they want to use their time to learn the rules of the language and new words. They say that pleasure reading is too easy. Many experts say pleasure reading is very important for learning English. Dr. Stephn Krashen, a famous expert on learning languages, says that pleasure reading helps you learn many importat things about English. Students learn more grammar and more words when they read for pleasure. They also learn more about good writing. Dr. Krashen tells us that pleasure reading helps each student in a different way. Each student needs to learn something different. Pleasure reading makes it possible for each student to learn what he or she needs. Reading for pleasure is not the same as studying. When you read for pleasure, you choose your own books, and you don`t have to remember everything. There are no tests on your pleasure reading books. Pleasure reading will help you: ●learn how English speakers use English ●read faster in English ●find examples of good writing in English ●learn new words ●learn about the cultures of English speakers | |||
1. Is pleasure reading important for learning English? 2. Which is the easier way to become a better reader, pleasure reading or studying? 3. What do some students think of pleasure reading? 4. How can we become better readers? 5. What"s the greatest advantage of pleasure reading? | |||
阅读短文,选择正确答案。 | |||
Do you get enough sleep? With so much homework it"s often difficult to get the rest you need. But you need to try, because sleep keeps you healthy and it stops you getting fat. Recently, a group of US scientists did a study (调查) of kids aged between 8 and 13. The study found that if kids sleep for just one extra (额外的) hour each day, the chance of their getting fat is cut by about 30 percent (30%). Why? When people don"t get enough sleep, they become tired. When they are tired, they don"t exercise enough. Also, kids like snacks: If they are awake (醒着的) an extra hour or two each day, they have more time to eat snacks or other unhealhy foods. So, how much sleep should you get? Scientists suggest 10 to 11 hours a night for kids aged 5 to 12. For older kids, eight to nine hours will do. | |||
1. How many reasons are given why people might get fat without enough sleep? | |||
[ ] | |||
A. 3. B. 2. C. 1 D. None. | |||
2. If you are under 10, how long do the scientists advice you to sleep? | |||
[ ] | |||
A. 10 to 11 hours. B. 8 to 9 hours. C. 8 to 13 hours. D. As long as possible. | |||
3. Where was the study done by the scientists? | |||
[ ] | |||
A. In China. B. In Britain. C. In America. D. In Japan. | |||
4. What does" eight to nine hours will do" mean? | |||
[ ] | |||
A. Eight to nine hours" sleep will be good and enough. B. Eight to nine hours" sleep will be too long. C. Eight to nine hours" sleep will help get fat. D. Eight to nine hours" sleep will help eat snacks and unhealhy foods. | |||
5. What does the passage talk about? | |||
[ ] | |||
A. How to get long sleep. B. How to keep fat. C. Enough sleep makes people healthy and slim (苗条) D. Long sleep makes people healthy and slim. | |||
短文填空。根据短文内容和首字母提示把所缺单词填写在短文中相应的横线上,使句意完整正确。 | |||
There is nothing more important to life than the sun. Without the sun all living things on the earth would die. The sun is a star. There are millions of stars like the sun i (1) the sky. They are as large as the sun and as hot as the sun. At n (2) you can see many stars, but in the daytime you can o (3) see one star-the sun. The sun is much n (4) to us than any other star. That"s w (5) it looks the biggest and brightest of all the stars. The distance (距离) of the sun from the earth is as much as 110 million kilometers. Most of the stars are thousands of light years a (6) from the earth. Do you k (7) the light year? Nothing in the world travels faster than light. It t (8) 300, 000 kilometers a second (秒). And one light year is the distance that light travels in one year. | |||
阅读理解。 | |||
Many people go to school for education. They learn language,history,politics,math and so on. Others go to learn a skill so that they can find a job. School education is very important and useful. Yet, no one can learn everything from school. A teacher can"t teach his students everything. The teacher"s job is to show students how to learn. They teaches them how to read and how to think. So the students shall learn much more outside school. It"s always more important to know how to study by oneself than to remember some facts or formula (公式). It is certainly quiet easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in math. But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a math problem. Great scientists before us didn"t get everything from school. Their teachers only showed them the way. The reason for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books more than taught at school. They would ask many questions as they read. They worked hard all their lives. Most important is that they knew how to use their brain. (大脑). | |||
根据短文内容,回答下列问题。 | |||
完型填空。 | |||
Flies (苍蝇) usually live in the dirty places. Let"s look at a fly, and see where it 1 . First, it flies out of the window, 2 it stands on 3 dirty things in the street, and then it flies back to the house and walks over your 4 . When a fly walks on the dirty things in the street, its 5 have got some germs 6 them. When the fly walks on your food with its dirty feet, it 7 the germs on your food. What can you 8 this? First, we learn that we mustn"t leave dirty things in the street or on the ground near 9 . Second, we learn that all food must be covered so that flies may not 10 it. Third, we learn that flies often carry germs and we must kill them as soon as we see them. | |||