It’s 10:00 pm. A man leaves a
restaurant, gets into his car and drives away. 200 metres further he’s stopped by a police officer.
Officer: Good evening, sir. We’re testing drivers for drunk driving. Would you please blow（吹）into this machine?
Man: I’m sorry, I can’t do that. If I blow into that machine, I will get out of air.
Officer: Please come along to the office and we can give you a blood test.
Man: I can’t do that. If you give me a blood test, I will bleed（流血）to death.
Officer: Then you’ll have to get out and walk five metres along this white line.
Man: I can’t do that, either.
Officer: Why not?
Man: Because I’m dead drunk! I can’t open the door.The man is stopped ______ metres away from the restaurant.
| A．5 | B．10 | C．200 | D．205 |
The conversation probably happens in a (an) ______.
| A．office | B．street | C．hospital | D．restaurant |
The man wouldn’t have the test for drunk driving because ______.
| A．he is badly ill | B．he will get out of air |
C．he is dead drunk |
D．he will bleed to death |
Tu Youyou, an 84-year-old Chinese female scientist, was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology (生理学) or Medicine on Oct. 5. She found a medicine that cures the deadly disease called malaria(疟疾). Tu shared the prize with two scientists from the US and Japan. Tu is the first native Chinese person to get the Nobel Prize in natural science.
Tu found artemisinin (青篙素) in sweet wormwood(青篙) back in 1971. She spent the following years trying to improve the medicine. According to World Health Organization, about 200 million people suffer from malaria around the world, and about half a million die each year. Today, artemisinin is still the most useful medicine that fights against malaria.
When Tu joined the national research team to find the malaria medicine in the 1960s and the 1970s, things were hard. The team didn’t have advanced equipment then. Tu used to medicines by taking taking them herself. Tu’s team searched old Chinese medicine books by hand and tested over 2,000 traditional recipes (配方).
To do research, Tu also had to travel a lot. Once she returned to her family after six months away from home. Her little daughter didn’t recognize her and hid from the “strange woman”. However, Tu never complained. “ I feel rewarded when I see so many cured patients,” she said.
Malaria is a kind of .
A. food B. deadly disease C. cancer
How many people shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4
Tu Youyou found artemisinin .
A. at the age of 40
B. after an American scientist found it
C.When she joined the national research team in the 1960s
Why did Tu use to test the medicine by taking them herself?
A. Because she liked to do so.
B. Because someone forced her.
C. Because she didn’t have good equipment.
Which is True according to this passage?
A. About 100 million people die from malaria every year.
B. Old Chinese medicine books are useless.
C. Tu’s little daughter didn’t know her after she left home for six months.
根据短文内容，从每小题A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Mobile phone use among children has become a problem for the school this year. Several children have got mobile phones as Christmas gifts, and more students will want them.
Mary Bluentt, an official, said mobile phone use is a distraction（分心的事）to students during school hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms. Teachers were also saying that sometimes students might use phone messages to cheat during exams.
She said some schools had tried to ban（禁止）mobile phones. Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn't get in touch with their children.
Many teachers said students should not have mobile phones at school, but if there were special or good reasons（理由）, they could leave their phones at school office. They also said there were many reasons why the students shouldn't have mobile phones at school: they were easy to lose and were a distraction from studies.
Many people say that they understand why parents would want their children to have phones, but they think schools should let the students know when they can use their mobile phones.
Some middle schools in Australia have stopped students from carrying mobile phones .
A. because they are students
B. because they are children
C. when they are at school
We know from the passage that some children get mobile phones from .
A. some mobile phone users
B. their parents and friends
C. the makers and sellers
The underlined word "cheat" means in this passage.
A. 查询 B.作弊 C.聊天
Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn't during school hours.
A. get in touch with their children
B. help the teachers with their work
C. leave their mobile phones at school office
The passage tells us that students shouldn't have mobile phones at school except for .
A. special or good reasons
B. their parents feel unhappy
C. listening music
Do you know what couch-potato means? Well, in America, the word is now often used. You see, in America, many people often spend their free time sitting on a couch (沙发) watching TV. As there are many channels to choose, the TV can be quite interesting and very addictive (使人上瘾的). One may sit and watch TV for hours and hours without stop! Well, these people who do nothing all day except watching TV are called couch-potatoes.
In America, while watching TV, most often sitting still with eyes looking right into the TV set. Also because these people are addictive to TV, they don’t take exercise and usually get very fat. So in many ways, these people look like real potatoes! Well, because they look fat, and watch TV on a couch, they are all called couch-potatoes. Now you know what a couch-potato means. The next time if you see someone watching TV too long, just say, “What a couch-potato!”
根据短文内容，判断下列句子是否正确，对的涂（A），错的涂（B）。(10分)
The word couch-potato is widely used in Germany.
Couch-potato is used to call the people who like eating potatoes very much.
A person who is called Couch-potato always spends lots of time watching TV.
Couch-potatoes usually get fat because they don’t like doing exercise.
The passage mainly tells us how to choose TV programs.
A young man went to a car shop. He was wearing rubber boots(橡胶靴子) and a dirty jacket. He needed a haircut(理发) very much. The young man looked at an expensive car carefully and then asked the shop owner(店主), “How much is this car?” “Nine thousand two hundred and eighteen,” the owner answered. “I want sixteen of them,” the young man said. The shop owner smiled coldly. He showed the door to the young man.
In another shop on the other side of the street the business was done(生意做成了). The young man took money out of his pocket and paid for the cars. He said the cars were for himself and his friends were. Each of them wanted to get one. He said that he and his friends were working on a fishing-boat. “We have got much money this season,” the young man said, “and we want to buy cars. ”The shop owner showed the young man the door means _______.
| A．to ask him to go away |
| B．to ask him to look at the door of the car |
| C．to tell him where the door of the shop was |
| D．to let him enjoy the beautiful door of the car |
How many cars did the young man want to buy for his friends?
| A．18. | B．17. |
| C．16. | D．15. |
How much is one of the cars?
| A．9218. | B．92180. |
| C．147488. | D．138270. |
－What was the man?
－He was a _______.
| A．bank clerk | B．school teacher |
| C．shop owner | D．fisherman |
The story tries to tell us _______.
| A．we can’t tell if a man is rich by his clothes |
| B．cars are expensive |
| C．people wearing rubber boots are rich |
| D．we can’t show the door to others |
Mr Smith was in trouble those days. He drove a car for Mr Black, a rich businessman. He worked hard and the shopkeeper liked him. But he couldn't work when he drank too much. And once he almost fell into the river when he drove along the bridge. Mr Black become angry and was going to send him away. He had a big family and was afraid of it and promised(许诺) he would stop drinking at once. The man told him to wait to be dealt with(处置).21世纪教育网版权所有
One Monday morning Mr Smith came into the office with two badly burnt(烧伤的) ears.
"What happened to your ears?" asked Mr Black.
"Well," said the man." I went to watch a football match yesterday while my wife was ironing(熨) clothes. She had put the iron(熨斗) near the telephone before she went to cook supper. Our team lost the game and I felt sorry for it. As soon as I went into the sitting-room, the phone rang and I answered the iron!"
"And what happened to the other ear ?"
"When I put the iron down on the table, the telephone rang again!"
_____, so he almost drove the car into the river.
A．Mr Smith was not careful
B．Mr Smith drank too much
C．Mr Smith forget they were on the bridge
Mr Smith went to watch the football match on _______.
A．Monday B．Saturday C．Sunday
We can guess _________.
A．Mr Smith drank much after the match
B．Mr Smith was angry with his team
C．Mr Smith didn't drink those days
The _____ badly burned Mr Smith's ears.
A．telephone B．drinking C．iron
What would happen to Mr Smith?
A．He would go on driving for Mr Black.
B．He would never watch any match
C．Mr Black would send him away.
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