Deserts(沙漠)do not stay the same size (形状).Sometimes they grow bigger. Sometimes they get smaller. The world’s biggest desert, Sahara, is in Africa. Right now, the Sahara desert is growing fast.
Why is the Sahara growing ? In some places , People farm too much. In other places ,animals eat all the grass. or people cut down the trees. This makes the soil(土壤) weak. Weak soil lets the desert grow.
Why is it a problem? people can not grow food in the desert. people can not build houses, hospitals , or schools in the desert . so people must leave their homes .They must live somewhere else.
What can people do ? They can plant trees. They can also farm less. These things make soil stronger. maybe the Sahara will stop growing . It’s a big problem. Many people must work together to solve (解决) it?What is the main idea ?(中心思想)
| A．The Sahara Desert is in Africa . |
| B．Farming too much makes the soil weak. |
| C．Big problem are caused (引起) by the growing Sahara desert. |
| D．Planting trees will help the world. |
The Sahara is growing .Which of these things is not a reason(理由)？
| A．Building homes | B．Farming too much |
| C．Animals eating the grass | D．Cutting down trees |
What do we know about deserts ?
| A．Their size never changes | B．They are caused by people |
| C．They can make trouble for people | D．They are all in Africa. |
Planting trees can
| A．make the soil weaker | B．help people farm less |
| C．be good for the soil | D．make the Sahara grow. |
Stopping growing the desert
| A．is easy | B．takes a lot of people |
| C．is not a big problem | D．is not important |
Bob was happy. He was at a new school, and the other students were friendly. “Hi, Bob!” They said. But some students said, “Hi, Peter!” Bob didn’t understand. He asked another student, “ Why do some students call me Peter?”
“Oh, that is easy to answer,” the student said. “Peter was a student here last year. Now, he goes to a different school. You like Peter. Some students think that you are Peter.”
Bob wanted to meet Peter. He got Peter’s address(地址) from a student and went to Peter’s house. Peter opened the door. Bob couldn’t believe his eyes. He looked really like Peter! Bob and Peter had the same color eyes and the same smile. They had the same black hair. They also had the same birthday.
Bob and Peter found out that they were twin brothers. They both were adopted(领养) by two different families. Soon after the boys born, one family adopted Bob, and another family adopted Peter. Bob’s family never knew about Peter, and Peter’s family never knew about Bob, either.Bob didn’t understand why __________.
| A．he was happy |
| B．he went to a new school |
| C．some students called him Peter |
| D．he was named Bob |
Another student told Bob that __________.
| A．students liked Peter |
| B．he looked liked Peter |
| C．Peter was a good student in that school |
| D．Peter liked his studies very much |
How did Bob feel when he saw Peter?
| A．He felt very sad. |
| B．He was greatly surprised. |
| C．He felt that Peter was very funny. |
| D．He was very angry because they looked the same. |
What is not mentioned(提及) about Peter and Bob?
| A．Their eyes had the same color. |
| B．They had on the same clothes |
| C．They had the same black hair. |
| D．They were born on the same day. |
Bob and Peter _____________.
| A．lived in different countries |
| B．lived in the same family |
| C．lived in different families |
| D．lived with the same parents |
Americans love sports . But this hobby sometimes has serious results—at least to the players. For example, when people play tennis, sometimes they hurt their elbow（肘部）. Also it is easy to hurt a knee in a football game. These injuries（毁伤）happen while the player is having fun, but they still hurt.
A few months ago, Kathleen Simmons, who loves playing volleyball, hurt her knee in a volleyball game. Her doctor told her that she needed a very difficult operation（手术）or she might not be able to play again. She felt very sad
Then Simmons learned about “video operation”. With the help of this new science in medicine, doctors can now repair many injuries.
For this operation, her doctor didn’t have to open her knee. Instead he put a very small camera lens（镜头）inside her knee. The lens sent back pictures, which appeared on a television screen. As he worked, he could see the inside of her knee on the TV. With the help of the large pictures on the screen, the doctor knew exactly what to do when he was making the repairs.
Simmons started walking five days after her operation. “My knee hurt a lot the first few days,” she said. “But I felt better very quickly.” Now, six months after her operation, Simmons can do everything she did before her injury. “It feels like a new knee,” she said. “I can even play volleyball again.”Do Americans love sports?
What sport is Simmons interested in?
What did the doctor put inside Simmons’ knee?
What problem may people have when they play sports?
Can Simmons do everything like before?
Joan worked in a hospital as a nurse. One evening there was a big dance at the hospital. Most of the doctors and nurses would be there, but it was Joan’s turn to look after the sick children. She liked dancing very much, so she felt very sorry for herself.
She went to each sick child one after another and said good-night, until she came to one little boy, Dickey. He was eleven years old, but he was already able to talk like an adult( 成人). Poor Dickey had a very serious illness, and now he was hardly able to move any part of his body except his hands. Joan knew he would never get any better, but he was always happy and always thinking about other people instead of about himself.
Dickey knew that Joan loved dancing, so now when she came to say good-night to him, he greeted her with the words, "I' m very sorry that you have to miss the dance because of us. But we are going to have a party for you. If you look in my drawer(抽屉), you ' Il find a piece of cake. I saved it from my supper today, so it' s quite fresh. And there is also a dollar there, You can buy something to drink with that. And I' d get up and dance with you myself if I was able to,” he added.
Suddenly the hospital dance seemed very far away and not at all important to Joan.Joan felt unlucky that evening mainly because______________.
| A．there wasn't a dance ball at the hospital |
| B．of her unpleasant job |
| C．she couldn’t look after the sick children |
| D．she would miss the big dance |
Poor Dickey__________________.
| A．was a boy of eleven |
| B．had a serious illness |
| C．was clever at talking though he was very young |
| D．all the above(以上全部) |
Dickey was lovely because______________.
| A．he was a sick boy |
| B．he could dance with Joan |
| C．he often thought about other people instead of about himself |
| D．he could foresee(预知) that he would never get any better |
Which of the following is not true?
| A．Dickey couldn’t walk. |
| B．Dickey knew nothing about the dance. |
| C．Dickey could only move his hands. |
| D．Dickey greeted Joan when she came. |
At that party arranged(安排) for Joan, probably_______.
| A．Dickey got up and danced with her |
| B．Dickey brought her something to drink |
| C．Joan was moved (感动)by Dickey |
| D．Dickey lost the dollar which he saved |
Li Ping is a Grade Eight student in Nanjing Sunshine Secondary School. The table below is his mid-term self-assessment(自我评价).He draws faces to show his progress：
Li Ping thinks he did best in ______ in Unit 1.
| A．opposites | B．using a dictionary |
| C．a report | D．present perfect tense |
What does Li Ping need to improve（提高） in Unit 1?
| A．Present perfect tense. | B．Using a dictionary |
| C．A report. | D．Opposites. |
Which do you think Li Ping does well in?
| A．Present perfect tense. | B．Passive voice. |
| C．Organizing information. | D．Favorite educational computer game. |
What is Li Ping NOT very good at in Unit 2?
| A．Suffixes ‘full’and ‘less’. | B．Past continuous tense |
| C．Linking words. | D．My best holiday. |
From the table we know Li Ping is weak in ________
| A．Vocabulary | B．Main task |
| C．Study skills／Pronunciation | D．Grammar |
Tea bag drinking is most Westerners' favorite way of drinking tea. Do you know how it came about?
The tea bag was invented in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan, an American tea seller. He was sending out free tea in silk bags for people to try. People put the bags together with the tea leaves into the cup and added(增加) hot water. The tea tasted good, and people thought it was easy to clean the cup. They were not happy when Sullivan started sending them loose (散的) tea again.
Sullivan realized that he had a hot new thing in his hands, and he built a machine to pack the bags. As tea bags became popular, they were changed from silk to gauze (薄纱) and later paper. In 1952, Lipton Tea made the tea bag even more popular with its invention of the four-sided tea bag. Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK, and today 85%of the tea in the UK is packed in paper bags.
However, many people still prefer loose-leaf tea. This is because some tea companies put not very good tea in their tea bags. But for most drinkers, tea bags are still the easy and tasly way to go.Who invented the tea bag?
| A．An English tea seller. | B．Chinese. |
| C．Lipton. | D．Thomas Sullivan. |
The tea in silk bags was welcome because________.
| A．the tea in bags was free and very good |
| B．the tea tasted good and the cup was easy to wash |
| C．people were happy, with the loose tea |
| D．people didn't know any better way to enjoy the tea |
The material of the tea bags is usually_________now.
| A．silk | B．gauze | C．paper | D．plastic |
The underlined sentence "Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK" probably means “_______in the UK”.
| A．Tea bags soon became popular |
| B．Tea bags surprised everyone very much |
| C．Tea bags kicked the loose-leaf tea out of the market |
| D．Tea bags weren't allowed to be sold |
The reading mainly talks about________.
| A．the invention of tea |
| B．the way of drinking tea |
| C．the history of tea bags |
| D．people' s favorite tea in the world |
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