Bob Harris was a weatherman at a small television station. He worked for twenty years and during those twenty years, he felt that his life was boring. Every day, he studied the weather and tried to predict(预报)the next day’s weather. Then, he stood in front of the camera and read his report. Some days it was cloudy, some days it was sunny; sometimes rainy, while sometimes snowy. The weather changed each day, but Bob still felt that his job was always the same. His boss often told him to be happier and smile more in front of the camera, but Bob rarely smiled. He thought that most people did not watch his weather report and his job did not matter much to anyone. One day, he arrived at work and began to study the weather as usual. He noticed that something was different that day.
Everything he studied told him that there was going to be a very big storm very soon, though he was not completely sure. Suddenly, Bob felt excited. He ran to his boss’s office and asked to do a special weather report. The boss agreed and Bob gave a special report that afternoon, warning people of the coming storm. Because of this report, many people were safe during the storm.
Bob realized(意识到) that his job was actually very important.Why did Bob feel that his life was boring?
| A．Because the weather changed each day. |
| B．Because he did not want to work for a small television station. |
| C．Because he did not like to stand in front of the camera. |
| D．Because he felt that his job was always the same. |
Why did Bob rarely smile when he was in front of the camera?
| A．Because he thought that his job did not matter much to anyone. |
| B．Because he only worked for a small televison station. |
| C．Because he did not like his boss. |
| D．Because the weather report was boring. |
Why did Bob ask to do a special weather report?
| A．Because he felt excited. |
| B．Because he wanted to warn people of the coming storm. |
| C．Because he realized that his job was actually very important. |
| D．Because he wanted to smile in front of the camera. |
Why did Bob feel excited?
| A．Because he wanted to do a special weather report. |
| B．Because he wanted to ask his boss for more money. |
| C．Because he knew there was going to be a big storm soon. |
| D．Because he was going to stand in front of the camera. |
How did Bob realize that his job was actually very important?
| A．People were safe from the storm because of his weather report. |
| B．He got better pay after he did the weather report. |
| C．People liked him very much. |
| D．He did a special report every day. |
Antarctica is in the most southern part of the world. It is like nowhere else on the earth. It is much larger than Europe, and nearly twice the size of Australia. Antarctica is the coldest and windiest place in the world, even colder and windier than the North Pole. In summer, the sun shines for twenty-four hours a day, but in winter it’s completely dark for about three months. Very few plants grow there, but there is some wildlife, including whales, seals and penguins.
When Captain James Cook traveled around Antarctica in the 1770s by ship, he found no one living there. Today, a few scientists work in Antarctica, but they only spend a short time there.
Many scientists are studying the ozone layer, which is getting thinner and thinner worldwide. The biggest “hole” is above Antarctica, and weather there is getting warmer. Scientists think that this cold and lonely place can teach us a lot about the earth and how to keep the earth safe.When did Captain James Cook travel around Antarctica?
| A．In the 1670s. | B．In the 1760s. | C．In the 1770s. | D．In the 1780s. |
The underlined part “ozone layer” means “________” in Chinese.
| A．冻土层 | B．大气层 | C．臭氧层 | D．高压层 |
How many kinds of animals are mentioned in the passage?
| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. | D．Five. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Antarctica is much bigger than Australia in size. |
| B．Scientists spend a long time in Antarctica. |
| C．There is no plant growing in Antarctica. |
| D．In winter, it’s dark for about 70 days in Antarctica. |
Why is the weather in Antarctica getting warmer and warmer?
| A．Because there are more and more people living there. |
| B．Because the ozone layer is being destroyed. |
| C．Because the sun shines a long time every day there. |
| D．Because the weather in other places is getting warmer. |
I have returned to my hometown after I was away ten years ago. So many things have changed around here. It has become better and better. When I left here, there was a small pool on the right of my house. Now the pool has gone and people have built a large shopping mall(商场) there.
The biggest changes have taken place in the center of the city. There are sidewalks on both sides of the street. You can see a street center with so many tall buildings around. You can’t drive there any more because no vehicle is allowed to pass there. A European-style fountain(喷泉) has been built in the street center garden.
There used to be an old school near my house. I spent my five years studying there. There was a small payground in front of the school. But now what I can see are five tall buildings standing there. There are two big classroom buildings and a library. A new post office has also been built just across from the new school.I have been away from my hometown for ________.
| A．ten months | B．one year | C．five years | D．ten years |
On the right of my house, there was a _________ ten years ago.
| A．library | B．garden | C．supermarket | D．pool |
No vehicle is allowed to pass the _________.
| A．center of the city | B．old school | C．street center | D．playground |
Which of the following is WRONG(错的)?
| A．A fountain is in the street center garden. |
| B．Now there is an old school near my house. |
| C．There are two big classroom buildings and a library in the new school. |
| D．There is a post office across from the school. |
What’s the best title for the passage?
| A．Great Changes in My Hometown. | B．A Wonderful Place |
| C．What a Nice Town | D．My School. |
Air is always around us. It is around us when we walk and play. From the time we are born, air is around us. When we sit down, it is around us. When we go to bed, air is also around us. We live in air.
All the animals and plants need air. Living things can’t live without air. We can live without food or water for a few days, but we can not live for more than a few minutes without air. We breathe in air. When we are walking or running, we need more air. When we are asleep, we need less air.
We live in air, but we can’t see it. We can only feel it. We can feel it when it is moving. Moving air is called wind. How can we make air move? Here is one way. Hold and open a book in you hand in front of your face. Close it quickly! What you feel is the air._________ need air.
| A．Some of the animals | B．All the things |
| C．Some of the plants | D．All the animals and plants |
We can live for a few days __________.
| A．without air | B．without food or water |
| C．without food or air | D．without air or water |
We need _________ air when we are asleep.
| A．less | B．no | C．most | D．a lot of |
Which of the following sentences is TRUE(对的)?
| A．Sometimes we don’t live in air. |
| B．Air is not around us when we go to bed. |
| C．We can live happily without air. |
| D．We need more air when we are working or running. |
We live in air, but we can’t ________ it.
| A．look | B．see | C．get | D．feel |
As we all know, people couldn’t live without water. Some parts of our bodies are made of water. We depend on clean water to live every day.
However, we human beings are polluting water seriously. In some areas of China, people are still in great need of clean water. Dirty water is one of the world’s biggest healthy problems. It’s harmful to our health. When water from the rain and melting(融化) snow runs through roads, it picks up some dangerous chemicals and other things along the way. Many of the rivers are short of protections, so they are easy to be polluted by factories or animals’ waste.
World Water Day has grown to become one of the important dates since 1993. In 2013, World Water Day shares the topic of Water Cooperation. If everyone tries their best to save and protect the clean water, our living conditions will be much better.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。From the first paragraph, we know that people couldn’t live without _________.
| A．fire | B．water | C．books | D．language |
Dirty water is ________ to our heath.
| A．useful | B．kind | C．harmful | D．cruel |
Many of the rivers are easy to be polluted by __________.
| A．schools | B．factories or animals’ waste |
| C．fish | D．human beings’ waste |
What’s the topic of 2013 World Water Day?
| A．Water and Food. | B．City Water Protection. |
| C．Water Quality. | D．Water Cooperation. |
Which of the following is TRUE(对的)?
| A．The clean water is enough in China. |
| B．We needn’t any clean water. |
| C．World Water Day started in 2013. |
| D．We should try our best to protect the clean water. |
When you cut your skin, you bleed(流血). If a person loses a lot of blood, he will become ill and may die. Blood is very important. People have always known that. At one time, some people even drank blood to make them strong!
When doctors understand how blood goes around inside the body, they try ways of giving blood to people who need it. They take blood from the healthy people and give it to people who need it. This is called " blood transfusion（输血）". The blood goes from the arm of the healthy person into the arm of the sick person.
But there are two problems. First, it does not always work. Sometimes people die when they have blood transfusion. Later, doctors find that we do not all have the same kind of blood. There are four groups—O, A, B and AB. We all have blood of one of these groups. They also find that they can give any kind of blood to people of group AB. But they find that they must give A-group blood to A-group people and B-group blood to B-group people. I have O-group blood and the doctor told me that I could give blood to anyone else safely.
There is another problem. To give blood of the right kind, doctors have to find a person of the right blood group. Often they can not find a person in time. If they have a way to keep the blood until someone needs it, they can always have the right kind of blood. At first they find they can keep it in bottles for fifteen to twenty days. They do this by making it very cold. Then they find how to keep it longer. In the end they find a way of keeping blood for a very long time.
We call a place where we keep money a "bank". We call a place where we keep blood a "blood bank". One day, when you grow up, you may decide to give blood to a "blood bank". In this way you may stop someone from dying. Or perhaps one day you may become ill. You may need blood. The "blood bank" will give it to you. From the passage, we learn that sometimes people die when they have blood transfusions because they __________ .
| A．are given the cold blood | B．lose too much blood |
| C．are given the wrong kind of blood | D．are O-group people |
Which of the following is true? ________
| A．We can drink blood to make us strong. |
| B．Blood transfusion is always safe. |
| C．The writer has O-group blood and can give blood to anyone. |
| D．The blood can only be kept for 15to 20 days. |
People set up the "blood bank" so that they can _____________ .
| A．give the right kind of blood to the people who need it in time |
| B．keep different groups of blood as much as possible |
| C．make it easier to sell or buy blood |
| D．keep blood for more than twenty hundred years |
From the last paragraph (段落) of the passage, we learn that _____________ .
| A．the writer thinks it's good to give blood to a "blood bank" |
| B．we may become ill if we give blood to a "blood bank" |
| C．there are many blood banks in the world today. |
| D．blood is more important than money |
The writer doesn't talk about ____________ in the passage.
| A．how important blood is to us | B．the four groups of blood |
| C．where the blood bank is | D．what "blood transfusion" is |