阅读与回答问题（共5小题，每小题2分，计10分）
About 10 years ago when I was a student in college, I was working in a shop near my school. One day, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair(轮椅).
As I looked at this girl, I saw that she was seated in her chair. I realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and body. She was wearing a little white dress with red dots(圆点).
As the couple wheeled her up to me, I was looking down at the cash register(收银处). I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼). As I took the money from her grandparents, the girl gave me the biggest smile I have ever seen. All of a sudden her disability disappeared. All I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile gave me a new sense of life. She took me from being a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world of smiles, love and warmth.
That was 10 years ago. I’m a successful businessman now. Whenever I am down and thinking about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl’s smile and the life lesson she taught me.When did the story happen? (no more than 5 words)
Why was the girl seated in a wheelchair?
What did the little girl’s smile give the writer? (no more than 5 words)
What is the writer now? (no more than 5 words)
What can you learn from the story?
Two policemen stopped Andrew Kershaw in his sports car one night, because he was speeding in the street of the town. The young man was very drunk. He knew he was in trouble, so he decided to make fun of them. He was a law student at the university, so he knew the law very well, better than most people.
When the policemen came to his car, Andrew asked one of the policemen to write down in his notebook everything they said. The policemen had to do this because it is the law, although people usually don’t know it. The policemen tested Andrew’s breath and the breathalyzer showed that he had too much alcohol in his blood. This all took a long time because the policemen had to write down everything that he and the policemen said.
In the end, by law, the policemen had to ask Andrew if he wanted to say anything. Andrew decided that he had two things to say and the policemen had to write down. The first thing was “Please don’t hit me again, officer”. And the second thing was “Does the other officer want ￡5, too?” Of course, the poor policeman had to read this in court, in front of the judge , and he was very embarrassed. Andrew, who was in court, thought it was very funny, until the judge took away his license for a year and fined（罚款）him ￡100, ￡90 for drunk driving, and ￡10 for his rudeness!
The policemen stopped Andrew in his car because __________.
| A．it was very late | B．he was drunk |
| C．he was driving too fast | D．he hardly broke the law |
The underlined word “breathalyzer” means __________.
| A．a tool used for repairing machines |
| B．a machine used for examining patients |
| C．a person who is in charge of giving breath test |
| D．an instrument（仪器）used for testing and analyzing（分析）one’s breath |
Andrew made fun of the policemen, only __________.
| A．to be praised by the judge |
| B．to be asked by the judge |
| C．to be taken away by the judge |
| D．to be punished by the judge |
We all know that foods will easily go bad if they get too warm. So we usually put them into our fridges to keep cool in hot weather. But can you make it without fridges?
In 1995, Abba, a teacher from Nigeria, found a cool way. His invention was called Pot-in-Pot Cooling System.
It uses two clay pots (陶罐). There is a smaller pot inside a larger one. The space between the two pots is filled with wet sand. Fruit, vegetables or drinks can be put into the smaller pot. A wet cloth covers the whole cooling system. Some foods can be kept fresh for several weeks in it.
Abba built five thousand pot-in-pot systems for the villagers in his hometown. Then people all over the country began using the invention. Soon it became popular with farmers in other African countries.
In 2000, Abba got a prize --- the Rolex Award. If you are trying to do something to improve human life, you may have the chance to get this prize.Who is Abba?
Where should we put fruit and drinks in the Pot-in-Pot Cooling System ?
What can farmers use Abba’s invention to do?
How many pot-in-pot systems did Abba build for the villagers?
From the passage, how can we have the chance to get this kind of prize like Abba?
阅读下列图表，做1-2小题。
You can’ t _____ at Lisa’s Gym.
A. play basketball B. watch a movie C. danceIf Mrs. White exercises at Lisa’s Gym for two hours every Sunday, she should pay ___ a week.
A. $80 B. $40 C. $160
阅读下面的图表，做1-3小题。
We can probably find the advertisement .
A. in a news report
B. on a website
C. in a TV programSara Myers is .
A. the mother of a child
B. the owner of a pet store
C. the name of a writerWhich of the following is NOT true ?
A. The book is written mainly for children
B. From the book , we can know what dogs eat.
C. The book came out in December, 2013 .
Do you know something about tree rings? Do you know they can tell us what the weather was like, sometimes even hundreds of years ago?
A tree will grow well in a climate with lots of sunshine and rainfall. And little sunshine or rainfall will limit the growth of trees by studying the tree rings. For example, to find out the weather of ten years ago, count the rings of a tree from the outside to the inside. If the tenth ring is far from the eleventh ring, then we’re sure that it was sunny and rainy most of that year. If it is near to the eleventh ring, then the climate that year was bad.
Tree rings are important not only for studying the history of weather but also for studying the history of man. Many centuries ago, there lived a lot of people at a place in New Mexico. But now you can find only sand there－no trees and no people. What happened?
A scientist studied the rings of dead trees there. He found that the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees to make fires and buildings. As all the trees had gone, the people there had to move.
Tree rings can tell ______ according to the passage.
A. whether a tree was strong or not.
B. whether the climate was good or not
C. how tall trees used to be.If you want to find out the weather of twenty years ago, you should study ________.
A. the twentieth ring
B. the tenth ring
C. the twenty-second ringWhat does the underline word “limit” mean?
A. 证实 B. 限制 C. 促进Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A. Trees can’t grow well in a climate with little sunshine and rainfall.
B. Tree rings grow far from each other in a bad climate.
C. The people left the place in New Mexico because the land became sand.The passage mainly tells us ________ .
A. how climate affects the growing of trees
B. the importance of the trees
C Tree rings can help us study the history of weather and man.
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