Most Americans don’t like to get advice from their family. When they need advice, they don’t usually ask people they know. They often write letters to newspapers and magazines. And these newspapers and magazines can give advice on many different subjects such as family problems, language learning and how to buy a house and so on.
Most newspapers publish (刊登) letters from readers with problems. And they would also publish the answers to the letters. There are many writers giving advice to newspapers. Some of these writers are doctors, and some are teachers or lawyers (律师). One of the best writers is a woman. Although she doesn’t have special learning for this kind of work, experience helps her a lot to give advice. She is named Angel. She started writing advice for newspapers at the age of ten. Her advice to young readers now is in a column (栏目) called DEAR ANGEL in the Philadelphia Bulletin.
What do most Americans like to do when they have problems?
| A．They like to ask their friends. |
| B．They like to write to newspapers and magazines. |
| C．They like to ask their parents. |
| D．They like to write to the people they know. |
Which of the following is not mentioned (提到) to give advice to newspapers?
| A．Teachers. | B．Doctors. |
| C．Captains. | D．Lawyers. |
What helps Angel a lot to give advice?
| A．Family. | B．Age. |
| C．Money. | D．Experience. |
Angel often gives advice to .
| A．old readers | B．young readers |
| C．her parents | D．her students |
The passage mainly tells us .
| A．how Americans get advice |
| B．how to get advice from teachers |
| C．Americans have too many family problems |
| D．how to write advice to reader |
It can be dangerous to travel by sea. Ships sometimes sink(下沉) far away from land. When this happens, the sailors(海员) have to get into small boats. If another ship does not come and help them and they do not have enough food or water, they will die.
Most people believe we must not drink sea water. They believe that if we do, we shall be very ill because of all the salt in the water. A doctor called Alain Bombard did not believe this. He thought that people could stay alive by drinking sea water and eating small fish, animals and plants from the sea. On 19 October 1953, he set out in a small boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean(大西洋). He did not take any food or water with him.
Every day Dr. Bombard drank just a little sea water. He also caught fish and they had water in them. He drank this water. He could not cook the fish, so he ate them as they were. He took small plants from the sea, which gave him more food.
Dr. Bombard became hot, tired and quite ill, but after 65days at sea he was still alive. He traveled 2,750 miles from one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other, and on 24th,December 1953, he reached Barbados.
He lost 20 kilos, but he showed that people could live on sea water, the animals and plants in the sea.Alain Bombard was ______.
| A．an old sailor | B．a fisherman | C．a cook | D．a doctor |
He wanted to show that _____.
| A．sea water was dangerous | B．sailors often died |
| C．people could drink sea water and not die | D．fish were good for people |
He went across ______.
| A．a large ocean | B．a town | C．a boat | D．a ship |
Dr. Bombard lived on ______.
| A．sea water | B．food that he cooked | C．only fish | D．sea water, fish and small plants |
The story is about _____.
| A．drinking sea water | B．a dying sailor | C．a kind doctor | D．eating good food |
Typhoons(台风) the northern of the world have girls’ names. Sometimes they have very beautiful names. Rose is a pretty name but there was nothing pretty about Typhoon Rose.
It began to rain in Hong Kong on the morning of Monday, August 16th, 1971. At ten o’clock in the morning, Typhoon Rose was still 130 miles away but already the wind was blowing people’s umbrella away. The wind became stronger and stronger. The typhoon shelters were soon full of boats. Ships that were too big to go inside the shelters put down more anchors(锚). Some very big ships went out to the sea. It is safer for a big ship to be at sea in a typhoon because there are no rocks in the open sea. Kai Tak Airport closed. No planes were able to take off or land. At 9:00 in the evening, all the lights went out.
No one slept well that night. It is difficult to sleep in such bad weather.
In Typhoon Rose, more than one hundred people died.229 people were hurt and had and 66 of these had to go to hospital. 1,500 people lost their homes. The people of Hong Kong will not quickly forget Typhoon Rose!What’s the possible result of Typhoon Rose in Hong Kong?
| A．Lots of big ships hit rocks |
| B．More than two hundred people lost their lives and many more lost their homes. |
| C．People didn’t sleep well in such bad weather. |
| D．People turned off all the lights at 9:00 in the evening. |
The people of Hong Kong will not quickly forget Typhoon Rose because.
| A．it caused the terrible losses. |
| B．they didn’t sleep well that night. |
| C．Typhoon Rose wasn’t as pretty as its name. |
| D．they couldn’t find their ships after the typhoon. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Typhoons all over the world have girls’ names. |
| B．Typhoons with pretty names are usually beautiful. |
| C．Typhoon Rose only hits Hong Kong. |
| D．Typhoon Rose brought a storm to HongKong in 1971. |
Some big ships didn’t go inside the shelters because________.
| A．they had more anchors | B．it was safer outside |
| C．they were not afraid of rocks | D．it was too expensive for big ships t go inside the shelters. |
This passage is mainly about_________.
| A．the names of typhoons | B．typhoons in Hong Kong |
| C．Typhoon Rose | D．what a typhoon is like |
Top student Liu Weijian had a problem recently. The 14-year-old from Xiamen used to get marks of over 110 points (out of 120 points) on his math tests. ①But during last semester’s final exams, his math score was only 90 points.
“I didn’t know what happened,” said Liu, who kept feeling nervous and frustrated about math during the following month.
Like Liu, many of us experience setbacks (挫折) in life. ②你会怎样应对这些挫折呢？ Would you just let them be and give up?
Liu chose to face his problem. His parents and teacher also gave him help. After some hard work, he now gets marks between 100 and 110 points on his math tests. “Don’t be afraid of setbacks,” he said. “You will beat them.”
Guo Xingjuan in Shenzhen also has a story to tell. The 15-year-old girl is not good at doing sit-ups (仰卧起坐), ③which is necessary for the coming high school P.E. entrance test (体育中考). One has to do at least 35 sit-ups in a minute to pass the test. However, she could only do 20.
Feeling worried, Guo decided to do something. She did sit-ups for half an hour every day after school. Now, after a month, she can do 30 sit-ups a minute. “I finally found what made me slow through practice, and then I improved the skill little by little,” said Guo. “I believe next month I will be able to do 40!”
根据短文内容，完成下列任务。将文中划线的句子①翻译成汉语。
_____________________________________________________________ 将文中划线的句子②翻译成英语。
_____________________________________________________________ 指出文中③处划线的关系词which指代的内容。
____________________________________________________________ 猜测词义。
The underlined phrase “little by little” means “_____________” in Chinese. 回答问题。
What did both Liu Weijian and Guo Xingjuan do when they met with setbacks?
______________________________________________________________
On October 31st, 2009, Chinese famous scientist Qian Xuesen, died in Beijing when he was 98 years old. He is famous as “the country’s father of space technology and king of rocketry”.
Qian was born in 1911 in Hangzhou. He left for the United States after winning a scholarship to graduate school in 1936. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute{学院) of Technology and later at the California Institute of Technology.
Qian began his career in the US and was regarded as one of the brightest minds in the new field of aeronautics{航空学) before returning to China in 1955.
After he returned, Qian set up the first missile (导弹) and rocket research institute of China. The institute later helped start Chinese space program. He led the development of China’s first nuclear-armed ballistic missile and worked on its first satellite.
He retired in the year before Chinese manned space program was launched in 1992. But his research formed the basis for the Long March CZ -2F rocket that carried astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit in 2003.
In August, 2009, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Qian and praised him for devoting his life to Chinese defense technologies. Qian told him, “I’m trying to live to be 100 years old” Qian was regarded as __________ before returning to China.
| A．A father of space technology |
| B．king of rocketry |
| C．one of the brightest minds in the new field of aeronautics |
| D．one of the best-known scientists |
When did Qian Xuesen retire?
| A．In 1970 | B．In 1991 | C．In 1992 | D．In 2009 |
What does the underlined word mean in Chinese?
| A．发奖品 | B．批评 | C．赞扬 | D．鼓励 |
List the following things in correct orders. Which is the correct?
① left for the United States ② won a scholarship to graduate school
③ returned to China from the United States
④ set up the first missile and rocket research institute of China
⑤ studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| A．②①③④⑤ | B．②①⑤③④. | C．⑤③④②① | D．⑤②①③④ |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Qian was born in 1936 in Hangzhou. |
| B．Qian began his career in China. |
| C．The Lρng March CZ-2Frocket carried YangLiwei into orbit in 2009. |
| D．Wen Jiabao visited QianXuesen in August 2009. |
What is color? Why do some of the things around us look red, some green, others blue?
Colors are really made by deflected (反射) light. We see color because most of the things reflect light. In the same way, if something is green, it reflects most of the green light. If something reflects all light, it is white. If it doesn’t reflect any light, it is black.
Some of the light is reflected and some is taken in (吸引) and turned into (变成) heat (热能).The darker the color is, the less light is reflected, the more light is taken in. So dark-colored clothes are warmer in the sun than light-colored clothes.When something reflects light, we can _____.
| A．see its color | B．see its heat | C．not see its color | D．see nothing |
Something looks white because it reflects _____.
| A．some light | B．no light | C．all light | D．most light |
the dark-colored clothes are warm because ____ is taken in.
| A．more light | B．less light | C．more color | D．less color |
In summer ______ make people feel cool.
| A．dark-colored clothes | B．red-colored clothes |
| C．green-colored clothes | D．light-colored clothes |
What’s the best title(标题)of this passage( 短文 )?
| A．Dark color | B．Color | C．Heat | D．Clothes |
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