Manypeoplethinkthatwaterwillne-优题课

An old man was going home late one night with his horse and cart after a day’s hard work. When he was not far from his house, the light on the cart went out. He tried but could not mend (修理) it. He was near his home, and so he went along the road without a light. When a policeman saw this, he stopped the old carter.
“Where is your light?” asked the policeman. “No man may take a cart along the road at night without a light. You know that. You have broken the law (法律).” “I had a light, but it has just gone out,” said the old man.
“I don’t believe that story,” said the policeman. He took out a book and got ready to write. What’s your name and where do you live?” he asked.
“Please don’t take my name,” said the old man. “My home is just there. You can see it from here. I had a light nearly the whole way. I haven’t come far without a light.”
“You came all the way without a light. What’s your name?”
The carter quickly took the policeman’s hand and put it down on top of the light. The light was still hot and burnt the policeman’s hand. The policeman jumped and he was very angry. “Now, what do you think?” said the carter. “Did I come all the way without a light?”
In the passage the word “cart” is ____.

A．something like a car

B．something like a light

C．something pulled by a horse

D．something with a light

The old man drove home ____.

A．on the back of his horse

B．late one night

C．very late every night

D．with a policeman

Where did the policeman stop the old man?

A．Near the old man’s home.

B．At the traffic lights

C．Under a road light

D．Far from the old man’s home

The cart was stopped by the policeman because ____.

A．the old man didn’t have a light

B．the policeman didn’t believe the old man’s words

C．the old man didn’t want to tell his name

D．the light on the old man’s cart was not on

What made the policeman believe the old man’s words?

A．He made the policeman touch the light.

B．He jumped and shouted angrily.

C．He made the policeman angry.

D．The light burnt the policeman’s hands.

When the world was very young, people lived in hot places .They didn’t live in cold places because they could not keep warm there.
At first men didn’t know how to make a fire. Sometimes trees were hit by lightning .Then a fire was started .People took some of the fire near their homes. A fire was very important for three reasons. It kept them warm. Wild animals were frightened when they saw it. And when food was cooked, it tasted much better.
But men didn’t know how to make a fire. When they had a fire, they didn’t let it stop burning. If it went out, they couldn't start it again. They had to wait for lightning to start another fire. Sometimes they had to wait for years.
Later, they learned how to make a fire. But it was not easy to make something burn . Now we have matches. We can carry them in our pockets and make a fire when we want to.
Millions of years ago people didn’t live in cold places because________.

A．they were afraid of cold

B．they didn’t know how to keep warm

C．they couldn’t make a fire

D．they couldn’t find cold places

People found that _______.

A．wild animals enjoyed fire very much

B．the cooked food tasted better than uncooked food

C．the uncooked food tasted much better

D．wild animals needed fire to keep them warm

Now we can make a fire___________.

A．in cold places	B．in our pockets
C．if it is necessary	D．in the forest

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage.

A．People are much cleverer now than they were long before.

B．A fire could be made by lightning.

C．We can make a fire with matches

D．After man knew how to make a fire, it became very easy to burn something .

Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their daily life. For example, they can help people to save much time to do more work, and they can help people to work out many problems they can't do easily. Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers before the twenty-first century, except the old people.
Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children. They hope computers can help them improve their studies in school. However, many of their children use computers to play games, to watch videos or to sing. The teachers and parents complain that computers can not help children to study but make them fall behind. So computers are locked in boxes by parents.
In some other countries, even some scientists also hate computers. They say computers let millions of people lose their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble. Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness?
It will be decided by today's students themselves!
Why do we say the computer is a useful machine? Because ______.

A．our country asks us to learn it

B．it can help us a lot

C．we can use it to play games

D．it can help us to find jobs

What do many teachers and parents complain about? They complain that ______ .

A．their students and children use computers to study.

B．computers let them lose their jobs

C．computers make their students and children fall behind

D．computers bring people a lot of trouble

How do you understand the last sentence of this passage? I think it means ______.

A．computers are used by people

B．people can live well without computers

C．one must decide how to use computer

D．computers are strange machines

APPLICATION FOR EMPLOYMENT(求职申请)
Name：Harry Smith
Address：2341 Maple Avenue Oakland，California，USA
phone Number：564-2113
Work Experience

Company	Position (职位)	Work You Did	Dates You worked	Yearly Pay	Reason for Leaving
Greenfield High School	English teacher	Taught English	2003-2006	$31，000	Got a job in California
Ames Bookstore	Bookseller	Sold books	2001-2003	$12，000	Got a job teaching in Massachusetts

What did Harry Smith do in2001?

A．An English teacher．	B．A bookseller．
C．A worker．	D．A gatekeeper．

In 2002，the yearly pay Harry Smith got from his work was_________．

A．$31，000	B．$12，000
C．$24，000	D．$5，642，113

Harry Smith left Ames Bookstore to work in________ in Massachusetts．

A．a high school	B．a bookstore
C．a factory	D．a company

Mo was born into a farming family in a village in Shandong province .He grew up listening to folk stories about gods, spirits foxes .Those stories later became the inspiration (灵感)for Mo’s writing.
Mo left school at the age of 12 and started to work in the fields . Although he was tired after his daily hard work ,Mo was always hungry for books .However, there were very few in the village .He read his older brothers’ textbooks and even dictionaries .He helped others with farm work in exchange for books . “When I finished reading all the books around ,I thought I was the most knowledge man in the world ,”he told Xinhua.
After Mo left his hometown and joined the army in 1976,he began to read widely ,including works by Lu Xun and many other famous writers .He studied from these writers but did not copy them .Instead ,he developed his own style .As the first Chinese citizen（公民）to win a Nobel Prize in literature, Mo told a group of reporters in his hometown shortly after he won the award . “I grew up in an environment filled with folk culture .It enters my novels whenever I pick up a pen This has affected ,even decided my style.”
When did Mo Yan leave school and start to work in the fields ?

A．at the age of 12.	B．at the age of 11.
C．at the age of 13	D．at the age of 15

Mo Yan is from_____

A．Shanxi

B．Jiangsu

C．Shandong

D．Guangdong

Mo Yan developed his own style_______

A．while listening to folk stories about gods ,spirits and foxes

B．during his dairy hard work in the fields.

C．when he won the Nobel Prize in literature.

D．after he studied from many famous writers.

Which of the following is wrong __________?

A．Mo Yan left school when he was very young.

B．Mo Yan was the most knowledgeable man in the world.

C．Mo Yan read many books when he was very young.

D．Mo Yan is the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in literature.

What can we learn from Mo Yan’s success(成功)？

A．Rome was not built in a day.	B．Easier said than done.
C．Well begun , half done .	D．The older, the wiser.

A．Fresh water.	B．Little rain.
C．Pouring dirty water.	D．Money.