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If you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a comet （彗星）．
A comet sometimes looks like a star．Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own．It shines from the sunlight it reflects （反射）．Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun, but on a much longer path （轨道） than the earth travels．
If a comet isn’t a star, what is it then?
Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock．When sunshine melts （融化） the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it．These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail．
Many people perhaps have seen a comet．However no one knows how many comets there are．There may be millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see．
An Englishman named Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky．Some comets move out of our sight and never come back．Others keep coming back at regular times．A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it would come back again．Maybe you have ever seen Halley’s Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986．Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it．You will probably be able to see Halley’s Comets when it comes near the earth again．
A comet is like ________．

A．sun

B．moon

C．sunlight

D．the earth

A large part of a comet is ______．

A．water and rock

B．water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron

C．ice, iron and rock dust

D．only a few big pieces of rock

Maybe many people _______．

A．haven’t seen any comets	B．have seen all comets
C．have seen a comet at daytime	D．have seen a comet

Some comets keep coming back ________．

A．at any time	B．at noon
C．at regular times	D．at daytime

Halley’s Comets came back _____．

A．in 1990

B．in 1980

C．in 1986

D．in 1989

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Sunny English Club is for _______．

A．nurses

B．policemen

C．businessmen

D．students

You will pay ________ if you want to stay in the English club for half a year．

A．300 yuan	B．600 yuan
C．1200 yuan	D．2400 yuan

You can visit Ocean Museum ________．

A．on Saturday	B．on Wednesday
C．on Monday	D．anytime

One can get free exams in Health Centre if he is ________．

A．9

B．17

C．67

D．73

If you are interested in the life of fish, you should go to________．

A．Health Centre	B．Ocean Museum
C．Sunny English Club	D．16 Yong Le Street

Strange things happen when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty-four zones （时区）．The time difference between two zones is one hour．You can have days with more than twenty-four hours and days with fewer than twenty- four hours．You can have weeks with more than seven days and weeks with fewer than seven days．
If you make a five-day trip （旅行） across the Atlantic Ocean （大西洋） , your ship come into a different time zone every day．As you come into each zone, the time changes one hour．If you travel west, you set your watch back．If you travel east, you set it ahead （向前）．Each day of your trip has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours．
If you make a trip by ship across the Pacific Ocean （太平洋） , you cross the International Date Line（国际日期变更线）．This is the point where a new day begins when you cross the line, you change one full day．If you travel east, today becomes yesterday, if you travel west it is tomorrow．
Something interesting will happen to the time if you travel because_____．

A．a day has always fewer than twenty-four hours

B．a day has always more than twenty- four hours

C．a day has more or f ewer than twenty-four hours

D．some time zones are large and some time zones are small

The time difference between two time zones is_______．

A．twenty-four hours	B．one hour
C．two hours	D．twenty-three hours

If we crossthe Atlantic Ocean, we_______．

A．change one full day

B．set our watch back

C．set our watch ahead

D．set our watch back or ahead

If we travel east across the International Date Line on July 5th, the date becomes July______．

A．3rd

B．4th

C．5th

D．6th

The Atlantic Ocean________．

A．is in one time zone

B．is divided into twenty-four zones

C．is divided into five time zones

D．can not be crossed in five days

I shook hands with my father in the truck, and for a long time he looked straight ahead and didn't say a word．But I knew he was going to say a little to me．"I can't tell anything．" he finally said．“I never went to college, and none of your brothers went to college．I can't say don't do this and do that, because everything is different and I don't know what is going to come up．I can't help much with money either, but I think things will work out．”
He gave me a new check-book（支票簿）．“If things get pushing, write a small check．But when you write one, send me a letter and let me know how much．There are some things we can always sell．” In four years all the checks I wrote were less than a thousand dollars．My part-time jobs such as reading to the blind student and sitting with the teachers' kids filled in the financial gaps．
"You know what you want to be, and they'll tell you what to take," my father went on．“When you get a job, be sure it's honest, and work hard．” I knew that soon I would be alone in the big town, and I would be missing the cool winds and a life where your thinking was done for you．
Then my dad reached down beside his seat and brought the old, broken Bible（圣经）that he had read so often, the one he used when he wanted to look something up in a friendly quarrel with one of the neighbours．I knew he would miss it．I knew, though, that I must take it．
He didn't say read this every morning．He just said," This can help you if you will let it．”
Did it help? I got through college without being a burden（负担） on the family．I have been able to make money since．
What is the writer's main purpose（目的）in writing this passage？

A．To tell the readers his life story．

B．To tell people what kind of person his father was．

C．To let people know how poor he was．

D．To tell the readers what present he got from his father．

Why did the father not ask his son not to do this and do that？

A．Because he felt quite confident of his son．

B．Because he was born from a poor family．

C．Because he was a man of few words．

D．Because he didn't want to be much too strict with his son．

What would someone learn from this passage？

A．How to live by oneself．

B．How to stand on one's own feet．

C．What a good father should do．

D．What the self-important is like．

What may be the proper Chinese for the underlined part in the passage？

A．闲暇时光	B．学费
C．经济不足	D．精神空虚

What kind of book did the Bible seem to be to the writer's father？

A．It was a book which told you how you should get on well with others．

B．There were many good examples for you to copy in it．

C．It was a book that told you how to get a good job and a good future．

D．It was a good book that could help you when you were in trouble．

There are many wetlands（湿地） in China and some of them have become the world's important wetlands．The Chinese Yellow Sea Wetlands are among them．They are in Yancheng， Jiangsu Province．They are home for many different kinds of birds and animals．The world's largest Milu Deer Nature Reserve（自然保护区） is in them．More than 700 milu deer live freely there．There are not many red-crowned cranes in the world， but every winter you can see some in the Red-crowned Cranes Nature Reserve in the Yellow Sea Wetlands．
The temperature in the wetlands is usually neither too high nor too low．There is a lot of rain and sunshine， too．They are really good places for wildlife（野生生物）。 Offering food and home for some special kinds of animals and birds is not the only reason why we need to protect wetlands．Wetlands are important because they also prevent flood．But some people want to change the wetlands to make more space for farms and buildings．This means there will be less and less space for wildlife．
Luckily，more and more people are beginning to realize the important of wetlands and wildlife．Every year， on February 2nd，many activities are held to tell people more about wetlands．
The Chinese Yellow Sea Wetlands are in the _______ of China．

A．east

B．south

C．west

D．north

Usually the weather in the wetlands is _______．

A．hot	B．pleasant
C．cold	D．dry

The World Wetlands Day is on _______．

A．April 22	B．June 25
C．February 2	D．March 22

We must protect wetlands because _______．

A．they are home for wildlife

B．they can prevent flood

C．they can offer food to the animals and birds

D．all of the above

The best title for the passage is _______．

A．China's Wetlands Have All Entered the World's List

B．Wetlands-Home for Wildlife and Human Beings

C．Special Animals in the Chinese Yellow Sea Wetlands

D．Wetlands-Valuable Recourses（珍贵资源） of Land on the Earth

New Books this Month
The Long Night This is David Reilly’s first book. David became a writer after teaching English for several years. Maha is a nurse in northern Australia. She works in a small hospital. One day a baby is so ill that Maha has to drive all night to get her to the nearest big city. They have a lot of problems getting there and …	Hard Work This exciting story is Joanna’s twentieth. Hard Work is about Sombat. He works with his father, a carpenter, in Thailand. They work long, hard hours making tables and chairs, but they do not have any money. Then one day a man dressed all in black buys the most beautiful table in the shop…	Hospital or Cinema Marcie Jacome, who studies English in London, wrote this story earlier this year. Tina is a young Indian woman whose dream is to become a doctor. She goes to London to study English and medicine, but one day she meets a man who asks her to go to the USA with him to become a film star…What will Tina do?