London, May 5, 2003 Emma Richards of Britain has become the first woman and the youngest person to finish the Around Alone, which is a round-the-world sailing race. The journey started in New York last September and went east around South Africa to New Zealand. It crossed the Pacific Ocean and went around South America, ending up yesterday in Rhode Island, the smallest state in America. In the end, the trip covered over 46,000 kilometres. The same sea route was taken in the past by many famous travelers who wanted to learn about the world.
Emma, a 1996 graduate (毕业生) of the University of Glasgow, finished the race at the age of twenty-eight. The race requires competitors to sail alone. Emma said that actually it was very difficult to be all by herself for such a long time even though she’s really into sailing. Her worst moment was when she had to climb the high mast (船桅) in a bad storm to fix some broken parts. She sailed hundreds of kilometres away from land and the wind was blowing very hard. Only her strong willpower kept her going to make it all the way. These days, Emma is happy to be home with her parents and sleep in a bed that stays still.The first paragraph is mostly about .
| A．the Around Alone race | B．a terrible wind storm |
| C．the start of the journey | D．the smallest state in America |
Which one is NOT true?
| A．Emma sailed alone around the world. |
| B．Emma made a new route for the sea travel. |
| C．Emma is the youngest person to finish the race. |
| D．Emma is the first woman to finish Around Alone. |
The second paragraph mainly tells us about .
| A．Emma’s parents | B．how to repair a broken boat |
| C．the University of Glasgow | D．Emma’s sailing experience |
How long did the trip take?
| A．About four months. | B．About six months. |
| C．About eight months. | D．About twelve months. |
What is the best way to explain Emma’s success?
| A．The other racers had many problems. |
| B．Her parents encouraged her to keep on. |
| C．She had strong willpower to make it to the end. |
| D．She had received a good education in a university. |
Can plants eat people? Probably not, but there are many plants that eat meat. Some of them are big. And they can eat small animals. One famous meat-eating plant is the Venus flytrap（捕蝇草）.
The Venus flytrap is a very strange plant. It grows in dry parts of the United States. Its leaves are like the pages of a book. They can open and close very quickly. Inside the leaves, there are three small hairs. If a fly touches one of the hairs, the leaf closes quickly. The fly cannot get out. In about half an hour, the leaf presses the fly until it is dead. Then, the plant covers the fly. Slowly, the plant eats the fly.
Why do plants do it? Most plants get what they need from the sun, the air, and the ground. In some places, the ground is very poor. It doesn’t have all these important things, especially nitrogen（氮）.Animal meat has a lot of nitrogen, so some plants eat meat to get what they need. Let’s hope that some of the bigger plants don’t get the same idea!The Venus flytrap is a kind of.
| A．plant | B．animal | C．food | D．meat |
The Venus flytrap grows in.
| A．most parts of the world | B．some parts of Africa |
| C．dry parts of the United States | D．wet parts of England |
From the passage, we learn that.
| A．all plants can eat people | B．all plants can eat animals |
| C．some plants can eat people | D．some plants can eat animals |
he underlined word “presses” probably meansin Chinese.
| A．挤压 | B．关上 | C．打开 | D．松开 |
Some plants eat animal meat because __________.
| A．plants are dangerous to animals |
| B．animals are dangerous to plants |
| C．plants want to get what they need from animal meat |
| D．plants want to protect themselves against animals |
Travel Information
| Place of interest |
 Water Cube |
 West Lake |
 Disneyland |
 Drangon Tower |
| Location |
Beijing |
Hangzhou |
Hong Kong |
Harbin |
| Phone Number |
010-28135589 |
0571-68345576 |
00852-28029822 |
0451-82187899 |
| Price of Ticket |
￥60 |
￥50 |
￥300 |
￥150 |
| Feature |
Special bubbly (气泡状的)design |
The Broken Bridge |
Cartoon characters |
Skywalk |
根据表格所提供的信息选择最佳答案。It is said that the love story about Xu Xian and the White Snake happened on __________.
| A．Dragon Tower | B．West Lake | C．Water Cube | D．Drangon Tower |
If a person in Hangzhou feels like visiting Water Cube, he should call __________ to get information.
| A．0451-82187899 | B．0571-68345576 | C．010-28135589 | D．00852-28089822 |
Disneyland, which attracts a lot of tourists from home and abroad every year, is in __________ according to the travel information.
| A．Beijing | B．Harbin | C．Hong Kong | D．Hangzhou |
Two travelers plan to have a bird’s eye view(俯视) of Harbin, and they need to pay __________ from the information above.
| A．￥150 | B．￥300 | C．￥450 | D．￥120 |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the travel information?
| A．Water Cube is special in design. |
| B．The price of a ticket for West Lake is the highest. |
| C．In Disneyland, you can’t see any cartoon characters. |
| D．Dragon Tower is in Beijing. |
Skin Diving Interesting & Useful
Skin-diving, a new sport today, takes you into a wonderful new world! It is like a visit to the moon!
When under water, it is easy for you to climb big rocks because you are no longer heavy, much lighter than on land!
Here, under water, everything is green and blue. During the day, there is plenty of light. When fish swim nearby, you can catch them with your hands!
With a tank of air on your back, you can stay in deep water for a long time, but you must be careful when you dive in deep water.
To catch fish is one of the most interesting parts of the sports. Besides, there’re more uses for skin diving. You can clean and repair ships without taking them out of water. You can get many things from the deep sea. The underlined sentence “takes you into a wonderful new world” in the first paragraph means ____________.
| A．the moon is a wonderful place to visit. |
| B．climbing big rocks under water is wonderful. |
| C．skin-diving is a wonderful way for traveling. |
| D．you can see many things you’ve never seen and enjoy yourself. |
With a tank of air on your back, you can _______.
| A．swim like a fish | B．have more fun |
| C．go deeper under water and stay longer | D．catch fish more easily |
What does the last paragraph mainly tell us?
| A．Skin diving is a new sport today. |
| B．Skin diving is interesting as well as useful. |
| C．How to catch fish. |
| D．What you can see under water. |
We can probably find this article in a ________.
| A．newspaper | B．text book | C．sport magazine | D．guidebook |
Which of the following is Not True about skin-diving according to the passage?
| A．You feel lighter when you go under water. |
| B．You can clean and fix ships without taking them out of water at skin diving. |
| C．There’s enough light under water all the time. |
| D．You can see fish and catch them at skin-diving. |
Albert was an ordinary worker in an oil company in America. His workmates gave a nickname (绰号)“Four dollars a bucket of oil” below his name whenever and wherever he wrote down his name. As time went by, people forgot his real name. Later, when Rockefeller, the board chairman(董事长)of the oil company heard of it, he was very surprised, so he invited Albert to his office.
“Some people give you a nickname. Why aren’t you angry?” asked Rockefeller with some puzzlement in his eyes.
“Mr. Rockefeller, I like this nickname very much, because it is our company’s advertisement. When someone calls me ‘Four dollars a bucket’, I think it’s free advertisement for our company. It’s not necessary for me to get angry. Don’t you think so, Mr. Rockefeller?”
“What a wonderful man!” Rockfeller said excitedly when hearing Albert’s words. “Young man, work harder, you must be successful in the future! I believe in you!”
Five years later, Albert became the second board chairman after Rockefeller. Later Albert said in one of his reports, “I don’t think we should feel upset when we have no way to do the world—shaking things.” We should treat everything actively because maybe our future success will begin from a small thing!”Albert was ___________in the oil company at the beginning.
| A．a worker | B．an assistant |
| C．a manager | D．the second board chairman |
Albert wasn’t angry about his nickname because ____________.
| A．he liked to have a nickname |
| B．it could make his workmates happy |
| C．he could become famous |
| D．it was a free advertisement for his company |
What is the main idea of this passage?
| A．Rockefeller asked young people to work harder. |
| B．It’s very important to do small things well. |
| C．You can’t get angry when someone calls your nickname. |
| D．You should make more advertisements for your company. |
What did Rockefeller mean when he said “the world-shaking things”?
| A．The big things | B．The interesting things |
| C．The small things | D．The frightening things |
What would be the best title for this passage?
| A．I Believe in You | B．Albert and Rockefeller |
| C．Four Dollars a Bucket | D．The Second Board Chairman |
Chen Jie, 14, from Ningbo, Zhejiang is a lucky girl. She got 3600 yuan as gift money this Spring Festival. However, her grandmother took away all the money and put it in a bank account.
Many students experienced the same thing as Chen. They got their gift money, only to immediately have it taken away.
Xiong Shengyue, 14, from Nanjing, doesn't agree with the practice. "I think the money should be the children's," she said. " We should take care of it by ourselves."
It is not so simple, said Chu Chaohui, a researcher at national Institute of Education Sciences.
Giving gift money is used to show social status (地位)and develop relationships, he told Beijing Legal Evening News. Gift money has lost its traditional meaning of good will and has "little to do with the children". What's more, children don't earn the money through work. So he thought that parents should still play a big part in dealing with the money.
But Yan Honglan, a mother of a 14-year-old boy in Beijing, has let her son be responsible (承担责任的)for his gift money since the age of 8. "I want to develop his financial(理财) skills, ' Yan said.
She also added:" No matter how you deal with the money, the most important thing is to make the children feel they're respected(尊重) and trusted.
Chen supported Yan's idea. She said that though she knew her grandmother wouldn't waste her gift money, she would feel happier if she could at least know how the money is spent.
"It would make me feel a little bit more grown-up," she said.Chen Jie’s grandmother ________.
| A．took away all her money and put it in a bank |
| B．let her take care of all her money |
| C．gave all her money to her parents |
| D．spent all her money |
Chu Chaohui thought the gift money should be dealt with by _________
| A．children | B．grandmother | C．parents | D．friends |
Yan Honglan thought___________ is the most important thing.
| A．to make children feel a little bit more grown-up |
| B．to take care of the gift money by themselves |
| C．to put the gift money in a bank account |
| D．to make the children feel they're respected and trusted. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Chen Jie got 3600 yuan as reward this Spring Festival. |
| B．Xiong Shengyue thought children should take care of the gift money. |
| C．Chu Chaohui thought parents shouldn’t play a big party in dealing with the money. |
| D．Yan Honglan has let her son be responsible for his gift money since the age of 9. |