Ever thought of moving to a new country? How about starting a new country? Patri Friedman is planning to do just that. He left Google years ago to set up the Seasteading Institute. And his dream is to build seasteads-----floating micro-nations in the middle of the ocean.
So, what will life on a seastead be like? Probably a bit like life on a cruise liner (游轮), but much larger, with shops, gyms, swimming pools, schools and other areas. In fact, the early seasteads may actually be specially-rebuilt cruise liners. But as science advances, Friedman believes they’ll become more like floating cities, with several hundred people.
Seasteading raises a lot of questions. First of all, how will the new countries make money? The Seasteading Institute has suggested several money-making ideas, including ocean-based theme parks, casinos (赌场) and fish farming. There’s also the questions of safety. With storms, typhoons and pirates (海盗) , the high seas are a dangerous place. However, the Institute says that it can stand bad weather and prevent crimes with its well-designed systems.
So, is this just a day dream? Well, maybe not. One of the people behind the project is Peter Thiel. He founded PayPal and was one of the first investors (投资者) in Facebook. So far, he’s donated $ 500,000 to the project.
And Friedman isn’t wasting any time. He recently announced the creation of the Poseidon Award. This will be given to the first seastead with fifty people. Friedman is hoping to hand out the award in 2015.Where did Friedman use to work?
| A．In Facebook. | B．In Seastead Institute . | C．In PayPal. | D．In Google. |
A future seastead may be most likely to look like ___________________.
| A．a cruise liner | B．a floating city | C．a theme park | D．a fishing farm |
What can we infer from the passage?
| A．Friedman is planning to move to a new country. |
| B．Friedman is worried about the safety of seasteads. |
| C．Friedman has got some supporters for his project. |
| D．Friedman has already won the Poseidon Award. |
Which of the following can be the best titles of this passage?
| A．Seasteading: a new idea of living |
| B．Seasteading: a wild way of farming |
| C．Peter Thiel: a man behind the project |
| D．Patri Friedman: a crazy day dreamer |
Look at this picture. The boy is my good friend. His name is Mike. He is thirteen. He isn’t tall. His hair is brown. This is Mike’s father. He is very tall. That is Mike’s mother. She is tall, too. Mike’s father and mother are teachers. Who is the girl? She is Mike’s sister. Her name is Mary. She is very nice. All of them are English.
根据短文内容用合适的单词填空：My good friend is an ___ boy.
How old is Mike? He is _____.
Mike’s father and ____ are teachers.
What colour is Mike’s hair? It’s _____.
Mary is Mike’s ____.
Sandy and Sue are going to school. They are walking along the street. “Look!” Sandy says. “There’s a man near that gate. He’s standing. Who is it?
“It’s Mr. Jones, the postman,” Sue says, “He’s standing in front of Mrs. Mopp’s house.”
“Mrs. Mopp’s house!” Sandy says. “Oh, dear!”
Mrs. Mopp is not a nice lady. She is very tall and very ugly（丑陋的）. And her house is not a nice house. It is very big and very dark. Her gate is closed and Mr. Jones can’t open it.
“Listen!” Sandy says. “Can you hear Mrs. Mopp’s dog?”
“Yes,” Sue answers. “He’s barking（叫）.”
Mrs. Mopp’s dog is very big. His name is Boxer. His face is ugly and his teeth are long and sharp（尖）. He is a nice dog, but he doesn’t like Mr. Jones, the postman.
根据短文内容和首字母提示完成各句所缺单词：Sandy and Sue are s______.
On the way to s____ Sandy and Sue see Mr. Jones, the postman.
Mrs. Mopp is not at h____ now.
Boxer is a d____ name.
Boxer d_____ like Mr. Jones at all.
I’m a school girl. My brother and I are twins. We are both at school. We like school. My parents are both teachers. They work hard. My brother and I study at No. 1 Middle School. There are twenty-five boys and eighteen girls in our class.
We go to school from Monday to Friday. We have no classes on Saturdays and Sundays. We usually get up at six o’clock, and have breakfast at half past six. We come to school at seven o’clock. Classes begin at eight. We have four lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We have lunch a fifteen past twelve. At three fifty we have sports.
We study Chinese, math, English, geography, physics, history, politics and other lessons. We like Chinese. We like English, too. Some of us are good at it.
We go home at five o’clock. We have supper at six o’clock. We do our homework at seven every evening and go to bed at half past nine, but sometimes we go to sleep at about ten.
We work hard, we study for the people.
阅读短文选择正确答案填空My brother is ___ and I am ____.
| A．a worker; a student | B．a student; a worker | C．a student; a teacher | D．a student; a student |
We have ___ a fifteen past twelve.
| A．breakfast | B．lunch | C．supper | D．dinner |
We begin to do our homework from ____ to ___ every evening.
| A．Monday; Friday | B．seven; nine | C．school; home | D．six; eight |
. There are ___ boys and ___ girls in our class.
| A．twenty-five; twenty | B．some; any | C．twenty-five; eighteen | D．many; much |
Do they often have sports in the morning or in the afternoon?
| A．Yes, they do | B．No, we don’t | C．In the morning | D．In the afternoon |
It’s time to go home now. I am on a bus on a rainy day, and a woman with a dog gets on the bus. It is a big dog and its feet are not clean.
I don’t want the dog to sit near me. But the woman says to the conductor（售票员）. “Oh, I pay for my dog. Can he sit here like the other people?”
The conductor looks at the dog and says, “Yes, madam, but he must not put his feet on the chair.”
阅读短文选择正确答案填空I am going home ___ now.
| A．by bike | B．by bus | C．by car | D．by trolley |
What do I see? ____.
| A．A bus | B．A girl | C．A dog | D．A woman with a big dog. |
I don’t want the dog to sit near me because ____.
| A．the dog is big | B．the dog is not clean | C．the dog has no ticket | D．the dog isn’t mine |
Why do the woman and the dog get on the bus?
| A．It is a rainy day. | B．No one is on the bus. |
| C．The dog can sit | D．The woman is a conductor. |
The meaning of the conductor’s word is ____.
| A．the dog’s feet are like the other people |
| B．the dog must be like a man |
| C．the dog must not sit on the chair |
| D．the dog can sit here |
Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
If you do, you need to control your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry easily can make you lose friends.
Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, wrote My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells teens（青少年） how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can not make them better. “Getting angry is not a natural way to act”, the book says. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says you can control your anger easily, and all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.
When a baby falls over, it cries only when people are watching it. Like a baby, you can only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do.
The book gives many suggestions to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three.
①Keep 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.
②Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.
③Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh!The writer wants to tell us ____.
| A．not to get angry easily | B．to work hard at school | C．to do more exercises | D．to help each other |
The writer thinks that if you get angry easily you will ____.
| A．get ill very easily | B．lose your friends | C．put on weight easily | D．eat less |
My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals is a ____.
| A．story | B．book | C．picture | D．film |
My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals mainly tells us ____.
| A．what to read | B．how to read | C．how to stay cool | D．how to learn English well |
In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “it” refers to(指的是)____.
| A．the book | B．anger | C．habit | D．the baby |