Space travel is nothing new. The first spacecraft with a human was sent up into space in 1961. Since then, people have not only traveled to space, but also many of them have lived there in space stations for some time.
The Soviet Union(前苏联) sent the first space station into space in 1971. This space station was called Salyut 1. Salyut 1 was designed as a place where people could live while they observed space and did experiments. The first group of astronauts lived there for 23 days. The Soviet Union went on to make seven more Salyut space stations. At about the same time, the United States built its own space station, called Skylab.
Astronauts visited and often lived in these space stations for a short time. However, it wasn’t until the late 1980s when The Soviet Union sent the Mir space station that people began to live in space for a longer time. Mir stayed in space from 1989 until 2001, when it was decided that the space station was too old and no longer safe to live in.
Living in space stations seems to be fun, but astronauts face many problems. One of them is food. All the meals on space station are put together on Earth and sent there by space shuttle. Because the food has to last a long time (sometimes up to three months), a lot of it has to be stored in cans. The space station does not have a fridge, but it has a cool room to keep fruit and vegetables fresh. Astronauts also eat many other foods such as dried meat that do not need special care.
Without the help of gravity, sitting down to eat can be tough. Astronauts sometimes have to fix themselves to the wall while eating. They also have to be very careful to that food does not float away.Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “observed” in Paragraph 2?
| A．Discovered | B．Checked | C．Watched | D．Fixed |
What can we infer(推断)from the passage?
| A．Astronauts can never have a chance to eat fresh food when they live in space station. |
| B．The Soviet Union sent a total of 9 space stations into space in the 1970s and 1980s. |
| C．Astronauts could live in the Mir space station for no more than three weeks. |
| D．Space travel has quite a long history of more than 60 years. |
What is the best title of this passage?
| A．Exploring Space | B．Space Travel | C．Living in Space | D．Space Stations |
There is an elephant and a monkey. They’re friends, but one day they want to know who is stronger(更壮). One of them says, “Who can get apples over there, who is stronger.”
There is a river over there. Monkey says, “I can’t swim.” Elephant says “I can swim. Please sit my back.” They go across the river. The apple trees are very high. The elephant can’t reach(够着) the apples. The monkey climbs(爬)up the tree and gets many apples.
Now they know they should help each other.The elephant and the monkey want to know________
| A．who is smarter | B．who is higher | C．who can swim | D．who is stronger |
_______ can’t swim.
| A．The elephant | B．The monkey | C．The big animals | D．The small animals |
_______can’t reach the apples
| A．The elephant | B．The monkey | C．The high animals | D．The short animals |
At last the monkey goes across the river with the help of_______.
| A．the elephant | B．the monkey | C．an animal | D．a boat |
From the story we should(应该)________.
| A．lean from the elephant | B．learn from the monkey |
| C．A and B | D．help each other |
Billy and Sam were twins. They were in the same class. They were both very happy. One day their teacher asked the class to write a composition(作文)“My Mother”. Sam wrote one, but Billy was lazy. He just copied his brother’s. The next day, the teacher asked Billy why his composition was the same as Sam’s. “We have the same mother, don’t we?”answered Billy.
根据短文内容判断句子正误，正确的填T，错误的填F。Sam was older than Billy.
Sam and Billy were in different classes
The name of the composition was “My Mother”
Billy’s composition was the same as Sam’s
Billy was not lazy. He was very clever
Long long ago, an old scientist made a few tests on different animals to find out which was the cleverest of all the animals.
In one test the old scientist put a monkey in a room. In the room there were many boxes. Some boxes were inside other boxes. The smallest box had some food in it. The scientist wanted to watch the monkey and to find out how long it would take the monkey to find the food. The scientist left the room. He waited for a few minutes outside the door. Then he put his eye to the keyhole(钥匙孔). What did he see? To his surprise, he found himself looking into the eye of the monkey. The monkey was on the other side of the door and looked at the scientist through the keyhole.The scientist wanted to know ____.
| A．if the monkey came into the small box | B．if the monkey would sleep |
| C．which animal was cleverer than other animals | D．if some boxes were inside other boxes |
After the scientist left the room, the monkey _______.
| A．looked at the scientist through the keyhole | B．began to look for food |
| C．came into the boxes one after another | D．began to eat the food |
To the scientist’s surprise, _____.
| A．the monkey went out of the room |
| B．the monkey looked at the scientist through the window |
| C．began to look for food |
| D．put its eyes to the keyhole. |
The earth moves round the sun, and the moon moves round the earth. When our part of the earth turns to the moon, it is night.
The sun is much bigger than the moon. But sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because it’s much nearer to the earth.
The sun is very bright. It gives a very strong light. The moon looks quite bright, too. But it doesn’t give any light at all.
The moon looks much bigger and brighter than the stars. But actually the stars are much bigger and brighter than the moon. They look smaller than the moon because they’re much farther away from us.
Read and choose the right answer ____moves round________.
| A．The earth; the moon | B．The moon; the earth |
| C．The moon; the stars | D．The sun; the earth |
Sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because_________.
| A．it is much bigger than the sun |
| B．it comes out only at night |
| C．it is much nearer to the earth than the sun |
| D．it doesn’t give a strong light |
The sun_______________.
| A．is very bright, and it gives a very strong light |
| B．isn’t bright, but it gives a very strong light |
| C．is very big, but it doesn’t give any light at all |
| D．is very round, but it can’t move round |
The stars______________.
| A．look much bigger than the moon |
| B．look much bigger than the sun |
| C．are a lot brighter than the moon, but they are not bigger than the moon |
| D．are much farther away from us than the moon |
Tom was not old, but he did not have much hair. His wife, Grace, had thick, beautiful, black hair. They had one daughter. Her name was Jane, and she was four and a half years old. There was a photo of her father in the living-room, and a few days ago, Jane looked at it for a long time and then said to her mother, “Mummy, why had Dad got very little hair? ”
Grace laughed and said, “He’s got very little hair because he thinks a lot, Jane. He’ s a clever man.”
Jane looked at her mother’s thick, black hair for a few seconds（秒钟）, and then she asked, “Mum, why have you got a lot of hair? ”Tom had ________ hair.
| A．very little | B．a little | C．very few | D．a few |
Grace had ________ hair than Tom.
| A．much | B．more | C．the most | D．many |
There was a photo of ________ in the living-room.
| A．Jane | B．Jane’s parents | C．Jane’s mother | D．Jane’s father |
Jane wanted to know why her mother had ________ hair，too.
| A．black | B．beautiful | C．less | D．lots of |