Dear Sammy,
I'm sorry I can't go to the Sports Center with you today.I have to see a doctor. Here are the directions (说明) to the Sports Center.
From our house, go right ahead on Main Avenue. Walk past the police station and the City Fountain. Then cross the bridge. At the other side of the river, turn right. The Sports Center is on your left. You can’t miss it. The basketball game starts at 1:00 p.m. so don’t be late. By the way, let’s have some ice-cream after you finish playing. We can meet at Choco’s Ice-Cream Shop. It’s right around the corner from the Sports Center. Your game should be over at 3:00 p.m. so I’ll meet you there 10 minutes later.
Have fun!
MomWhy won’t Sammy’s mother go to the Sports Center with him?
| A．Because she has a meeting. |
| B．Because she has to go to work. |
| C．Because she has to see a doctor. |
| D．Because she has to go swimming. |
Sammy won’t pass __________ if he goes to the Sports Center.
| A．a gas station | B．the City Fountain |
| C．a bridge | D．the police station |
Sammy will __________ after he comes out of the Sports Center.
| A．play sports |
| B．see a doctor |
| C．have cakes with his mother |
| D．have ice-dream with his mother |
Where is Choco’s Ice-Cream Shop?
| A．It’s on Main Avenue. |
| B．It’s near the Sports Center. |
| C．It’s near the City Fountain. |
| D．It’s on the left of the police station. |
When will Sammy and his mother meet in the afternoon?
| A．At 3:00. | B．At 1:00 | C．At 3:10 . | D．At 1:10. |
Think stars don’t move? Think again! When you look at the sky at night, the stars may appear to stay in the same place. But stars are always on the move—they are just so far away that the movement is hard to see.
But some stars move in ways that appear to be strange to be real. In 2005, astronomer Warren Brown found one of these space oddities(奇特). It was located on the outer edge of the Milky Way, the galaxy(星系) we live in. The star was speeding away like nothing he’d ever seen. “It seemed unbelievable. No star in the galaxy has a speed like that,” Brown remembers. “I thought, oh my goodness, I have something kind of special here.”
No one had ever seen a star like this one. What does a scientist do when the results don’t make sense?
Brown didn’t give up. Instead, he kept looking. And he kept finding more of these strange and speedy stars, called hypervelocity stars. Hyper means “above” and velocity has to do with speed. He and his team just found six more of these “above speed” stars, bringing to the total of 16. And, he says, he’s found even more, and is just waiting for the scientific community to confirm them.In 2005, astronomer Warren Brown found___________.
| A．a star was speeding away very fast. |
| B．a stars was moving away very slowly. |
| C．some stars were not real. |
| D．some stars were not in the Milky Way. |
Which of the following is TRUE?
| A．Stars never move at all. |
| B．No star in the galaxy has a fast speed. |
| C．It’s hard to see the stars moving. |
| D．Brown has never seen something special. |
The underlined word “hypervelocity” in the last paragraph probably means”_____”.
| A．匀速的 | B．超速的 | C．超重的 | D．超常的 |
The writer writes this passage to tell us____________.
| A．something about an astronomer. |
| B．where the Milky Way is |
| C．something about the speedy stars. |
| D．how scientists do their research |
Anybody can learn to count fast if he knows the secret of following trick.
Ask your friend to write any five-figure (五位) number on the blackboard. Then you write your five-figure number under it. You choose your figures so that each one with the figure above it will make nine.
Tell your friend to put a third five-figure number under your number. Then you write a fourth number in the same way. After he has written the fifth number, you draw a line under it and quickly write the sum.(总和). You may even write it from left to right..
How do you do it ? You take away two from the fifth number and put two in front of your answer. Is it interesting?If your friend’s number is 76815, your number must be_____________________.
| A．23184 | B．54613 | C．93184 | D．99999 |
How many six-figure numbers are there on the blackboard at last?
| A．Three | B．One | C．Five | D．Four |
If the fifth number is 49834, the sum will be_____________________.
| A．249834 | B．298344 | C．298342 | D．249832 |
You cannot go without a pencil when writing or drawing something. You have probably noticed letters H and B printed on your pencils．What，for example，do HB，2H or 3H mean?
Those are letters showing the hardness of the lead(铅)or graphite(石墨)in a pencil．H refers to hard lead．The bigger the Arabic number before the letter H，the harder the lead，and the lighter will be the colour. The hardest pencil has 6H on it．Such pencils are often used in making engineering drawings．People seldom write with them．B stands for soft lead．The bigger the number before the letter B，the softer the lead，and the darker will be the colour, the softest being the 6B pencil．Such pencils are favoured by artists．
The HB pencil has a lead core(中心部分)that is neither too soft nor too hard．Its colour is medium in its blackness．It is most suitable for ordinary(平常的)writing and drawing．The number that goes before the letter H shows_________．
| A．the model of the pencil |
| B．the factory where the pencil is made |
| C．how hard the pencil is |
| D．how long the pencil lasts |
A4B pencil is _______ than a 3B one．
| A．harder | B．softer |
| C．better | D．more expensive |
According to the passage，an HB pencil is best for people like_________．
| A．students | B．artists |
| C．printers | D．engineers |
【2012年湖北黄冈】Going on holidays is best choice for the Europeans to relax themselves, especially in the UK. However, much has changed during the past decades(几十年).
One of the most traditional British holidays was the “seaside holiday”. Families got on a train or into a car and traveled to seaside towns nearby to sunbathe on the beach, buy ice-creams and eat fish and chips and so on.
In the late 1970s, more and more British people started traveling to other countries in Europe for their summer holidays (July-August) because the weather wasn’t very good, even in summer. The “package holiday” was particularly popular with most families.
In the 1980s and 1990s, young people in the UK became wealthier, so many of them traveled to countries all over the world for their holidays.
These years, especially after the world financial crisis(金融危机), most British people can not afford to spend their holidays abroad. They again begin to choose to stay in their own home and go on a few day trips rather than spending money on hotels. They call this sort of vacation a “staycation”.
任务：请阅读上面短文，根据短文内容完成下面表格中的有关信息。
| Time |
Kind of holiday |
Reason |
| Before the late 1970s |
It was a tradition. |
|
| In the late 1970s |
Package holiday |
|
| Overseas holiday |
Young people became wealthier. |
|
| These years |
The world financial crisis. |
【2012年湖北黄冈】Yang Cangxu has recently become hot on the Internet. He is considered as a hero, and known as “A Professional Life Saviour”, because he has saved 24 people’s lives during the past 26 years.
Yang, a typical Chinese farmer, lives in Baoji, Shanxi Province. He is good at swimming, which is also his favorite. When he was young, he joined the army. ① The life in the army had a great influence on him. It also helped to form one of his characters(性格)——being ready to help others.
Just seven to eight meters away from his home flows a channel ( 水渠). The water is very deep and flows fast. There is a bridge over the channel. Walking across the bridge is not an easy thing. From time to time, people fall into the water. If this happens, the person must be rescued in time. ② Otherwise, he or she will be washed away by the water.
③Yang Cangxu is always the first one to rush to the channel to save the drowning person. We must learn from him.将①处翻译成汉语。
_________________________________________________根据②处内容，完成下面的句子。(每空一词)
Otherwise, the water will _________him or her ________.根据③处内容，其将改为定语从句。(每空一词)
Yang Cangxu is always the first one _______ _______ to the channel to save the drowning person.
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