Scientists （科学家） are trying to make the deserts （沙漠） into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming deserts all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the deserts. Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.
Some places on the earth don’t get much rain. But they still don’t become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very helpful to dry (干旱的)places. Plants don’t let the hot sun make the earth even drier. Plants don’t let the wind blow the earth away. When a little bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants, the land can become deserts much more easily.Why can the land become deserts?
| A．Some places don’t get much rain. |
| B．Plants don’t let the hot sun make the earth even drier. |
| C．People don’t keep the earth well. |
| D．Scientists haven’t learnt enough about the deserts. |
Scientists are to make the deserts into good land again.
| A．carrying water | B．growing food | C．doing nothing | D．studying a lot |
Which is NOT true?
| A．The land never stops becoming deserts. |
| B．Scientists ask people to live in the deserts and grow food there. |
| C．People do bad things to the earth. |
| D．Scientists may not be able to change the deserts. |
Why are green plants and grass helpful?
| A．They can hold the water. |
| B．They can keep the earth wet. |
| C．They can stop the wind from blowing the earth away. |
| D．All the above. |
Which is the best title（题目）for the passage?
| A．The Desert Problem |
| B．People Make Deserts |
| C．Green Plants and Grass |
| D．The Deserts, the Tree and the Water |
Dear Pen Pal,
My name is Robert.I am fourteen years old.I’m short, and I have a medium build.I have short curly brown hair.I don’t wear glasses.I usually wear T-shirts and jeans.
I want to be a musician when I grow up.I want to play the drums in the rock band.Can you play any instrument? My favorite rock singer is Bad Boy.He is very popular.Do you know him? I like his music very much.He also plays the guitar and dances very well.He’s tall and very thin.He has a black beard.He sometimes wears funny glasses.He often wears T-shirts and jeans.Who is your favorite singer?
What do you look like? Are you tall? Is your hair long or short? Do you wear glasses? Write soon and tell me about yourself.
Robert
阅读上面一封信,回答下列问题Who is Robert’s favorite rock singer?
Is Bad Boy thin?
Does Bad Boy have a blonde beard?
What kind of glasses does Bad Boy wear?
What clothes does Bad Boy wear?
One day, an old man is selling a big elephant.A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it carefully.The old man goes up to him and says in his ear.“Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it.Then I’ll give you some meat.” “All right.” Saying the young man.After the old man sells the elephant, he give the young man some meat and says, “Now, can you tell me how you see the bad ears of the elephant?” “I didn’t find the bad ears.” The young man says.“Then why do you look at the elephant carefully” The young man answers, “Because I’ve not seen an elephant before and I want to know what it looks like.”The young man wants to buy the elephant.
The old man is selling a good elephant.
The young man knows the elephant isn’t good.
The young man doesn’t know the elephant isn’t good.
The old man wants the young man to buy the elephant.
Linda has four dollars.Can she buy a medium strawbrry and chicken hamburger?
A.Yes, she can.
B.No, she can’t.
C.I don’t know. If you want to have orange juice, you can
A.call 573-9603
B.go to Dessert House
C.go to House of Hamburgers Larry buys a large cabbage and mutton hamburgers and an apple and pear ice cream.He pays
A.＄10B.11＄C 12＄ If you have five dollars, you can buy
A.two small strawberries and chicken hamburgers
B.a glass of green teaDessert House’s ice creams may(可能)have the same(同样的)
A.kind B.priceC.size
阅读理解， 根据短文内容判断正（T）误(F)。
It's Sunday morning. The students of Class 3 are giving their classroom a good cleaning.
Miss Huang, their teacher, is working with them. The children are busy. Some are carrying water; some are cleaning the windows; others are sweeping the floor. Zhang Hua is putting up a map on the wall. It is a map of China. Wang Fei and Wei Qing are mending some broken chairs. The children are listening to the radio while they are working. The classroom looks nice and bright after the cleaning. The children are very happy. They go home for lunch at noon.The children are playing in their classroom on Sunday morning.
Miss Huang, their mother, is working with them.
There is a map of China on the wall.
Two of them are repairing the broken chairs.
They are singing while they are working.
阅读短文，回答问题，每题答案限9个词以内。（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
Look! What a nice picture! It’s a picture of a school. What’s the name of it? Let me see. Oh, it’s Beijing Sunshine Secondary School. In the school, you can see beautiful trees and flowers.
Of course, there are some teaching buildings, too. There are many students and teachers in them. All of them are very good. You can see a hill behind the school. There are many trees on it. Oh, there is a river near the school. It’s very clear, I think the school is very beautiful. I like it very much.What’s the name of the school?
Can you see beautiful trees and flowers in the schoo?
Who are in the teaching buildings?
What’s behind the school?
Is there a river near the school?