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Imagine the situation. You are driving along a desert or on a mountain. You have no idea where you are. You passed the last house two hours ago. Then your car breaks down. It is night and it is cold. You have no mobile phones. What do you do? Well, next time take a GPS with you. This invention may be able to help you. It is a device which uses satellites (卫星) to find the user’s position(位置). It can find your position to within 20 meters. A GPS cannot start your car, but at least you will know where you are.
GPS, which means Global Positioning System, is a small radio receiver. It looks like a mobile phone. You can hold it in your hand, or put it in your pocket. It is sometimes put into a watch or a telephone. We also find GPS devices in cars, planes, or boats. Some of these devices have electronic maps, so you know where you are. For example, in a city they can tell you the name of the street.
There are three parts to the Global Positioning System. The first part is the receiver. You can hold it in your hand, or have it fixed into your car, plane, etc. The second part is a group of satellites orbiting the Earth. The receiver contacts at least four of the satellites and calculates its position. The third part of the system is a network of ground stations. They are all over the world. They control satellites and make sure they are working well.
Some people think that in the future the GPS will be as common as the mobile phones. They are becoming cheaper and more and more accurate. There are also new uses for the GPS. Perhaps they will be like watches. Everyone will have one and you will never get lost again.
. According to the passage, with the help of the GPS, people __________.

A．can’t find their directions in different countries

B．can always find where they are

C．can learn about the culture of an unknown place

D．can spend the least time getting to another place

. The underlined word “They” in paragraph 3 means ____________.

A．Receivers	B．GPS devices
C．Satellites	D．Ground stations

We can learn from the passage that ____________.

A．GPS can’t be put into a watch

B．GPS are becoming dearer and dearer

C．People can start their cars with a GPS

D．People can’t lose their way with a GPS when driving

We spend hours, days and years of our lives in school. Imagine you could design your dream school, what would it be like? What would you be doing? We wanted to find out what teenagers around the world thought. Here is what they said:
Richard from the USA: My dream school would have a big swimming pool and two soccer fields. It would also have a cinema, a gym and a shopping center. My school has none of these, and I think there should be more pleasant things for students to do while they are studying.
Sonia from Italy: I’d like a room where we can relax and play computer games. I’d also like to have a music room. I think there should be a place for everyone to go and relax after class. Wu from Beijing: I think it would be great to have another day off (休息日) every week, besides the weekend. If that day was a Friday or a Monday, we would have a long weekend every week. What fun! I also think school should start later, at about 10 o’clock, and finish earlier.
Hannah from Australia: In my dream school, I think the teachers should give us more freedom and choice about how we study and what we study. I also think it’s unimportant for us to wear school uniforms every day. I really don’t like wearing it.

. Richard is from_________.

A．Italy	B．USA
C．China	D．Australia

. From the passage, we know that_________.

A．Sonia from Italy would like a room to relax and play computer games

B．Richard from the USA thinks his dream school should start at 10 o’clock

C．Wu from Beijing enjoys studying five days a week

D．Hannah from Australia likes wearing a school uniform every day

. What is the passage mainly about?

A．A dream school.	B．Soccer fields.
C．A music room	D．School uniforms.

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Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are trying to work or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
If you do, you need to take control of your feelings. Getting angry with others can（71）（引起）you to lose friends.
My Feelings Are Like Wild Animalsto help you control your feelings. It tells how to stay cool when bad things happen.
The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse.While getting angry, all you have to do is to tell yourself to keep calm. The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three.
●Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.
●Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.
●Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh.
根据括号里所给的汉语意思, 在（71）处填入一个适当的词，使句意通顺。______
Every time you get angry, wrire down why you are angry. (请写出此句的同义句)
Every time you get angry, wrire down _______you are angry ______.
List(列举) two tips the book gives on how to control your anger.
(1) _______________________________
(2) _______________________________
Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry.（将此句子翻译成汉语。）
___________________________________________________________________
It tells teens how they should stay cool when bad things happen.(请在文中画线的句子中找出一个可以替换上句中“cool”的词。)________

It all started when I was two years old. My parents didn’t get along and got divorced（离婚）. I hated that I couldn’t see both of my parents at the same time. So my dad, my younger sister, Alexis, and I went to live with my grandma and grandpa. We lived with them for almost six years. My mom, on the other hand, lived with her boyfriend Michael in Oklahoma. My life was really good, but when my mom called to check up on my sister and me, I cried myself to sleep. I missed her so much.
My life at my grandparents’ house was really nice. And then on Friday, May 15, 2002, my grandpa died of cancer. I cried for seven days straight. My dad and his new wife were worried about me. So they took me to the doctor and they said that I was too sad and that I needed to find something happy and healthy to do during the day.
I prayed（祈祷）to God every night saying that I was sorry for getting myself sick and I also prayed for him to take care of my grandpa. I still pray to this day. And now, at my mom’s house, she has a four-year-old girl, my half-sister, Macie. And I have my step-dad（继父）, Michael, there for me. I really like Michael. He’s really good to me and my sister. And at my dad’s house, I have two little brothers, Blake and Justin. Blake is two years old and Justin is ten months old. I have so much to be thankful for, but I’m still looking for more.
The writer had to leave her ________ when she was two years old.

A．father	B．mother
C．grandpa	D．grandma

The writer cried to sleep while her mother called to check up her because she _______.

A．hated her father	B．hated her father’s new wife
C．missed her mother	D．missed her grandpa

We can infer(推断) from the story that ______

A．The writer’s father and her mother didn’t treat her very well.

B．The writer wished that she could live both her father and mother.

C．The writer’s mother didn’t love her so she left her when she was only two.

D．The writer was taken to the hospital after her grandpa died. And the doctor asked her to take much medicine.

Half-sister means the writer and Macie have the same _________.

A．father but different mothers

B．mother but different fathers

C．grandmother but different grandfathers

D．grandfather but different grandmothers

How many brothers and sisters does the writer have?

A．2	B．3
C．4	D．5

A．Playing basketball.	B．Swimming.
C．Playing chess.	D．Hiking.