We went into a secondhand shop to get out of the rain. I took my 6-year-old daughter’s hand and we started to walk around. Suddenly she reached out her hand to touch a pair of shiny black shoes.
“Buy for me?” she asked.
“Oh, Sweetie, they are tap dancing (踢踏舞) shoes. You aren’t taking tap dance.”
“Buy for me?” she repeated.
“Well, let’s try them on.”
She sat on the floor and took off her bright pink rain boots. When she stood up we heard “click”. She took a step, “click, click, click.”
The sun came out and we went on our way. Our next stop was the grocery store. “Click, click, click…” people turned to look as we entered the store. People would never allow their daughter to wear tap dancing shoes to the grocery store.
“Excuse me, dear. Why would you allow(允许) your daughter to wear tap dancing shoes here? They make such a noise.”
“Isn’t it wonderful?”
“Wonderful? My dear, this is not the place to wear those shoes.”
“You don’t understand. When she was a baby, doctors told us that she would never walk or talk. It has taken a lot of hard work and patience, but she asked for the shoes and the ‘click, click, click’ says that she can walk,” I said.
My daughter is 18 now and will graduate from grade 12 in June. It has not always been easy, but it has all been worthwhile (值得的). She has taught me that it doesn’t matter what others think. They don’t walk in your shoes.Why did the mother and daughter go to the secondhand shop?
| A．Because the daughter loved the place. |
| B．Because they liked walking there so much. |
| C．Because they tried to keep themselves from the rain. |
| D．Because the mother wanted to buy cheap shoes for her daughter. |
People would never allow their daughter to wear tap dancing shoes to the grocery store because _________.
| A．they are noisy | B．they are expensive |
| C．they are dirty | D．it is not allowed |
What does the sentence “They don’t walk in your shoes” mean?
| A．They don’t know how you feel. |
| B．They don’t walk the same way as you. |
| C．They don’t know the size of your shoes. |
| D．They don’t have the same shoes as yours. |
The story tells us ______.
| A．the love between mother and daughter is strong |
| B．you should wear the wrong shoes for your feet |
| C．wearing your own shoes helps you walk faster |
| D．sometimes you shouldn’t care about what others say |
In a surprising result, the No. 69 Middle School girls’ football team yesterday beat their school’s boys’ team. The boys’ team often helped the girls with their training (训练). They had never lost to the girls before, but this time the girls beat them 4 — 3.
After the game, Wu Nai, head of the boys’ team, was very unhappy. "We all thought this would be an easy game," he said. "We never thought a team of girls could beat us. This is the saddest day of my life. "
But Mr Hu, the boys’ PE teacher, said he thought the girls should win. "The boys were too confident (自信)," he said. "I told them before the match that they needed to play well. They all thought that girls’ football was a joke. Now they know better. They didn’t play carefully, and they lost."
The match had started well for the boys. After 30 minutes, they were winning 2 - 0. Their best player, Lu Ming, scored in the thirtieth minute. Earlier, the mid-field player, Ma Zhengquan, had scored the first goal in only the second minute of the match.
After the first half hour, the boys seemed to become too confident. At first, the girls had felt a bit nervous (紧张), but then they became more and more confident. Just before half time, Li Xiaolin made the score 2 - 1.
In the second half, the boys were the first to score. It was from Lu Ming. After that the boys became lazy, but the girls kept on working hard. Hao Meiling scored in the 68th minute, to make the score 3 — 2. Then Li Xiaolin scored twice in the last six minutes to make the last score 4-3. It was a surprising finish.
The girls’ PE teacher, Miss Wang, was very pleased with their work. "They were great!" She said. "I told them they could win. I told them that the most important thing was teamwork. The boys’ team had some good players, but my girls were a better team!" Who scored the first goal in the match?
| A．Lu Ming. | B．Ma Zhengquan. | C．Li Xiaolin. | D．Hao Meiling. |
How many goals did Li Xiaolin score?
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D． Four. |
Why could the girls’ team beat the boys’ in the football match?
| A． Because the boys’ team helped the girls with their training. |
| B． Because the boys had never lost to the girls before. |
| C． Because the boys’ team won the first half. |
| D． Because the girls played together better and worked harder. |
Which of the following is right?
| A． The girls made only one goal in the first half. |
| B． The girls even made 3 more goals than the boys in the second half. |
| C． Many people thought the girls could beat the boys before the match. |
| D． The girls’ team had some better players than the boys’. |
Choose the right order according to the passage.
a. The girls’ PE teacher told them that they could win.
b. Wu Nai, head of the boys’ team was very unhappy.
c. The match started well for the boys.
d. The girls kicked the second goal in the match.
| A． a-b-c-d | B． b-c-d-a | C． d-c-a-b | D． a-c-d-b |
Most people in Britain live in small family groups. More than a quarter of houses in Britain have only got one person in them. Some of these are old people but some are people of twenty to thirty who choose to live alone. 35% of houses have two people in them, and another 17% have three people. 15% have four people in them, and the other homes have five or more.
The families in Britain are small. It is unusual for parents to have more than two children. When children are about eighteen or nineteen, they leave their parents’ home, and they often go to a different city. Sometimes they only visit their parents two or three times a year. How many houses in Britain have 3 people living in them?
| A．8% of houses. | B． 15% of houses. | C．17% of houses. | D．35% of houses. |
At what age do children in Britain usually leave their parents’ home?
| A． About 18 or 19. | B． About 20 or 21. |
| C． About 25 or 26. | D． About 30 or 31. |
What do you think the passage is?
| A． An instruction. | B． A report. | C． A play. | D． A joke. |
What does the passage mainly tell us?
| A． Young people in Britain. | B． Old people in Britain. |
| C． Families in Britain. | D． The population in Britain. |
According to the passage, which of the diagrams is right?
American schools are quite different from those in China. In America, at the beginning of the term, students must select their courses and teachers first. While in China students usually have no chances to select their courses and teachers.
Selecting is very important for your grades in America. So at the first term, don’t select too many courses, 74.or you’ll feel very nervous and it may influence your study. Then you have to ask for some teaching plans. There is some information about subjects, time arranging, marks and textbooks. At the same time, you must choose the teachers. Different teachers have different teaching methods. If the teacher is called “killer” by the last grade, many students will give up choosing him. Because this kind of teacher will leave too much homework, too many exams and give too low grades.
There is another thing after you select the course and the teacher. How to buy textbooks makes each student feel hard. The textbooks in America are very expensive. Each copy is about $30～50. In order to save money, many students buy some used textbooks, and some students usually borrow textbooks from the school library. You must get enough ready before class. In class, discussing is very important. 75. 老师鼓励你提出问题或展示你自己的观点。They don’t usually ask you to sit well. Instead they allow you to sit or stand everywhere you like. They don’t give you much homework to do. You can learn some knowledge and do exercises by yourself. So in American schools, you must do almost all things yourself.
根据文章内容，补全71、72句中所缺单词、短语或句子。 At the beginning of the new term, American students have to ask for some teaching plans and get their textbooks ready besides ____________________.
The teacher____________________will always leave too much homework, too many exams and give too low grades.
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Bill Gates is head of the software company Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men. He was born on October 28, 1955 and grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. He was a very bright boy. Science and math were his two favorite subjects at school. And he dreamed of being a scientist.
Bill first started to play on computers at the age of 13. At that time, a computer was a very large machine. Once he was interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent as much time as possible on computers. In the end, they worked out a software program. Bill sold it for 4,200 dollars when he was only 17.
In 1973, Bill went to Harvard University. In 1975, Bill and his partners developed a software program called BASIC. This was not the first program ever created, but its inventors were the first to decide that people who wanted to use it should pay for it. BASIC was a success. Then Bill left Harvard to work for Microsoft, a company he started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon. So they began developing software for personal computers. They improved the software to make it easier for people to use computers. After many years of hard work, Microsoft becomes one of the most successful companies. And Bill Gates also becomes one of the richest businessmen in the world.
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As space science develops, man has learned more and more about space. Space is not only amazing but also dangerous. While working in space, spacemen are facing danger as well as success. 
Scientists have found out that the radiation（辐射） is the greatest danger to spacemen in space. When spacemen are working in space, they are in danger of the radiation from the sun and other stars, which is bad for their health. The harm of the radiation won’t be found until their children even grandchildren are born. Some special medicine may work a little, but no really effective medicine has been found so far.
Space rubbish is also thought to be a great danger to spacemen. It’s reported that there were 9,000 man-made things flying in space. About 30% of these are satellites, 10% are spaceships, and the rest are space rubbish. An explosion（爆炸）in space in 1999 made a cloud of 300,000 fragments, each at least 4mm in size. A small piece of these even knocked a spaceship window and caused some damage（损坏）.
Scientists are watching and reporting any possible danger all the time. They are working to deal with space rubbish. Although space is really dangerous, it interests many people on the earth. In the near future, it may become possible for people to spend a few days in a space hotel. We may even choose to leave the earth and live in space in a few years. So we should do something to help improve the space environment. ______ shows the man-made things in space in the correct way.
| A． | B． | C． | D． |
The radiation from the sun and other stars is ______ to spacemen.
| A．good | B．helpful | C．useful | D．harmful |
The underlined word “fragments”means “______”.
| A．碎片 | B．泡沫 | C．烟雾 | D．飞碟 |
The passage talks about _________ kinds of danger in space.
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
Which of the following is TRUE?
| A．Scientists have found out ways to solve any problem in space. |
| B．Every one of us can have a travel to space in ten years. |
| C．The harm of the radiation may be found in the spacemen’s children. |
| D．Space is really dangerous, so it doesn’t interest anyone on the earth. |
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