Reporter: How long have you been a firefighter?
Wilson: For eight years.
Reporter: How did you get started?
Wilson: First, I had to take a lot of tests in two weeks. Then, I went to the firefighter school for four months. 1 learned how to put out fires and how to use equipment. I also had a full-time training every day!
Reporter: How do you stay safe on the job?
Wilson: I wear special clothing. It helps keep me protected from fire. I also carry an oxygen tank (氧气瓶) and a
mask (面具). They help me to breathe in a smoke-filled building.
Reporter: Are there any new tools that firefighters use?
Wilson: We have a special camera that can see in the dark. It can find heat. That way, we can exactly tell the place of a fire.
Reporter: Do you save pets?
Wilson: Just three days ago, I helped save some cats. They were hiding under the beds. Pets usually hide during
a fire because they are afraid of danger.
Reporter: Do you ever get afraid?
Wilson: No. There is no time to be afraid. I just think about what to do to put out the fire safely.
Reporter: What do you like best about being a firefighter?
Wilson: Helping people!Kate Wilson has done her job for____________.
| A．2 weeks | B．3 days | C．4 months | D．8 years |
To become a firefighter, Kate Wilson ____________at first.
| A．took a lot of tests | B．learned to stay safe |
| C．saved some animals | D．used fire equipment |
58. Kate Wilson says she does not get afraid because_____________.
| A．she has an oxygen tank |
| B．she knows how to fight fires |
| C．she enjoys finding heat |
| D．she is too busy putting out fires |
59. As a firefighter, Kate Wilson likes____________ most.
| A．wearing a mask | B．asking questions |
| C．helping people | D．hiding in smoke |
60. What did the reporter make this interview for?
| A．To tell people what a firefighter does. |
| B．To teach people how to prevent fires. |
| C．To make people want to be firefighters. |
| D．To show people how a firefighter is trained. |
Experts(专家) say that students usually need eight to ten hours’ sleep at night, but most Chinese students do not get enough sleep. Some Chinese parents are usually glad to see their children studying late. They will think their children work very hard, but not all parents are happy about this. Once a mother told us that every morning her 10-year-old boy put up one finger (手指) with his eyes still closed, begging(请求) for one more minute to sleep. Like thousands of students “ early birds” in China, he has to get up before six every morning.
A report shows that without a good night’s sleep, students seem to be weaker (虚弱) than they should be. Many students have fallen asleep during class at one time or another. Too much homework is not the only reason why students stay up late. Some watch TV or play the computer games late into the night.
Experts have ever said that the students should develop good study habits. So some clever students never study late, they are able to work well in class.The 10-year-old boy begged for more minute to sleep because__________.
| A．he didn’t have enough sleep |
| B．it wasn’t time for him to get up |
| C．he didn’t want to go to school |
| D．he wanted his mother to wake him up |
In this passage we know if students don’t get enough sleep, they may________.
| A．become too weak to sleep | B．not work well in class |
| C．go to bed early | D．be weak in English |
In this passage “early birds” means “persons who ______________”
| A．get up early | B．get up late |
| C．sleep less | D．don’t want to sleep |
“Stay up late” here means “_____________”
| A．study late | B．watch TV late |
| C．not go to bed until late | D．stay outside |
According to the passage, which of the following is right?_________
| A．If you want to study better, you must work hard at night. |
| B．Sleeping less means working hard. |
| C．Some clever students are able to work well in class because they have good study habits. |
| D．Students don’t have enough sleep because they have lots of homework to do. |
Yang Liwei circled the earth 14 times in 21 hours on October 15 and 16, 2003, landing on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Looking a little tired, Yang stepped out of Shenzhou V, smiling and waving at the waiting people. “I feel very good.” Yang said to Premier Wen Jiabao on the phone. Yang said to a newspaper, “For our motherland and me, this is a great moment.”
China’s launch of Shenzhou V shows a higher starting point. It has two special systems（系统） to protect the spaceman, but neither Russian rockets（火箭）nor American ones have.
Yang didn’t know that he was chosen as China’s first spaceman until just before the launch. Although Yang was excited at the news, he still slept at 8p.m. as usual and was woken up at 8p.m. the next morning. Before the launch, Yang ate Chinese traditional food-dumplings. We all know that travelers usually eat them before going on a journey for good luck.
A stamp Success of China First Manned Space Flight was issued（发行）on October 16, 2003, making China the third country to send a spaceman into outer space.It took Yang Liwei_____ to travel around the earth every circle.
| A．6 hours | B．90 minutes |
| C．2 days | D．21 hours |
How did Yang Liwei feel after he came back to the earth?
| A．Quite tired. | B．A little scared. |
| C．Tired but excited. | D．A little nervous |
Which of the following statement is right?
| A．There is no difference between China’s spaceship and other countries. |
| B．Yang Liwei knew he would be China’s first spaceman long before. |
| C．From the news, Yang Liwei was too excited to fall asleep. |
| D．Yang was proud of the flight. |
What does the underlined word “launch” mean?
| A．发射 | B．出发 | C．制造 | D．设计 |
China issued the stamps to _________.
| A．leave them in space |
| B．give them to Yang Liwei as a reward |
| C．celebrate the success |
| D．give them to Russian and American spacemen. |
Come and see the Indian elephants and the new tigers from America. The bears are waiting to meet you, and the monkeys from China are waiting to throw things at you. The lovely dogs from Australia are waiting to laugh at you, and the giraffes from Zambia are waiting to look down on you.
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Do not touch，give food or go near the animals.How many kinds of animals are talked about in the passage？
| A．Four | B．Five. | C．Six. | D．Seven. |
Now Mr. Smith is in the zoo with his two sons, one aged 14 and the other 10, how much are the tickets together？
| A．$4.00 | B．$2.00 | C．$3.00 | D．$1.00 |
Which of the following is the visiting time？
| A．8:30 a.m. Monday | B．9:30 a.m. Friday |
| C．3:00 p.m. Sunday | D．5:00 p.m. Tuesday |
From the passage we can guess the animal “giraffe” must be very _______.
| A．fat | B．long | C．strong | D．tall |
Which of the following can we do in the zoo？
| A．To give some food to the dogs. |
| B．To touch the monkey on the head. |
| C．To throw things everywhere. |
| D．To take a few nice photos. |
For many people the subject of hiccups (嗝) is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fifteen-year-old schoolboy from Birmingham, it was something quite different.
His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks. After the first week, Harry's parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure his attack.
Harry, who is now back at school, described what happened to him.
“When I began to hiccup, I drank a glass of water but that didn't do any good. That evening I had hiccups every four seconds. We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn't work either.”
After a week of sleepless nights, he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray of his chest but they couldn't find anything wrong.
“They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped.”
Harry was very lucky. The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Osborne, who hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last, but nobody knows why.Harry's hiccups lasted ____.
| A．a week | B．fourteen days |
| C．twenty-eight days | D．one month |
His hiccups started after he ____.
| A．drank a glass of water | B．went to hospital |
| C．ate an Indian meal | D．finished his homework |
His parents decided to take him to hospital when he ____.
| A．hiccupped for four seconds |
| B．held his breath |
| C．hiccupped at night |
| D．couldn't stop hiccupping |
His hiccups completely stopped one week after the doctor ____.
| A．gave him some medicine |
| B．took an X-ray of his chest |
| C．gave him a shock |
| D．let him drink cold drinks |
What does “shock” in this passage mean？
| A．震惊 | B．休克 | C．喷嚏 | D．哈欠 |
One weekend ,a wife and a husband went to visit a shop in Tokyo. After they got back home, they couldn’t find their camera. They thought the camera must be in the shop. After a few weeks ,they went to that shop again and the boss（老板）of the shop gave their camera back to them.
When their pictures of the camera came out ,the husband saw two pictures he did not take .One was a man standing at the door of the shop .In his hand there was a piece of paper with some words on it ,”I find your camera.” The other was a boy with a piece of paper in his hand. There were some words on the paper too ,”I take the pictures.”What did the wife and her husband do one weekend?
When did they find their camera was lost?
Did they find their camera at last?
How many pictures didn’t they take when their pictures of the camera came out?
Who found the camera and who took the pictures?