Peter is thirteen years old. He is in Grade Two this year. He likes reading news and watching football games. And he often reads newspapers. He does his best to know where and when there is going to be a football game.
Now Peter is having lunch. He is listening to the radio, too. He is very happy because there is going to be a nice football game on TV at four this afternoon. He wants to watch it very much. But he is going to have English and Chinese tests(测试). He thinks hard and finds a way finally(最后).
“Hello, Mrs. Black!” Peter says to his teacher on the telephone, “Peter is ill in bed. He wants to ask for half a day’s leave(请半天假).”
“Oh, I’m sorry to hear that.” says Mrs. Black, “But who’s that?”
“It’s my father, Mrs. Black.”
请听短文,判断正( A )误( B ).Peter is a teacher
Peter will be in Grade Three next year.
Peter often reads newspapers because he wants to know where and when a football game will be held(将要举行).
Peter wants to ask for half a day’s leave because he is ill in bed.
Peter is a good student.
Everyone has got two personalities(性格)-the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real. You don’t show your secret personality when you’re awake because you can control your behavior, but when you’re asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, people frequently change their positions. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in.
If you go to sleep on your back, you’re a very open person. You normally trust people and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas. You don’t like to displease people. So you never express your real feelings. You’re quite shy and you aren’t quite sure of yourself.
If you sleep on your stomach, you are a rather secretive person. You worry a lot and you’re always easily upset. You always stick to your own opinions or judgment, but you don’t raise your hopes too much. You usually live for today not tomorrow. This means that you enjoy having a good time.
If you sleep curled up(蜷缩), you are probably a very nervous person. You have a low opinion of yourself and so you’re often defensive. You’re shy and you don’t normally like meeting people. You prefer to be on your own. You’re easily hurt.
If you sleep on your side, you have usually got a well—balanced(平衡的) personality. You know your strengths and weakness. You’re usually careful. You believe in yourself. You sometimes feel anxious, but you don’t often get sad. You always say what you think even if it makes people rather angryYou may find the passage in .
A. a science magazine B A guide book
C. a sports newspaper D. a story bookWhen does the sleeping position best show your secret personality?
A.In the daytime | B.At the beginning of sleep |
C.At night | D.During the deep sleep |
Tina hardly tells her secrets to her friends. She probably goes to sleep .
A.on curled up | B.on her stomach | C.on her back | D.on her side |
What does the word “defensive” mean in the passage?
A.易怒的 | B.攻击性的 | C.外向的 | D.有戒心的 |
What does the passage tell us?
Sleeping on your side is the best way of sleeping
Changing positions will cause sleeping problems.
Sleeping positions show people’s secret personalities.
Enough sleep makes people look better and healthier.
Jerry Green went to spend a year at the South Pole Station (南极站)as the only doctor in 1998 when she 47. While working at the station that March. she discovered that there was a hard lump (肿块) in her stomach. She knew it was cancer, but she wasn’t able to go to a doctor for help. She couldn’t leave the station for the next seven until the snow thawed. Dr. Green didn’t wait for the death. But decided to fight against the cancer. She tried to about the lump to a hospital in the United States. The doctors said it was cancer. Without the proper wouldn’t live for long. Soon a USA airplane came to provide her with some help. She started her own treatments(治疗)after getting instructions from American doctors. She finally spent the long winter there before she returned home that October .Since then, she had become a incubus in support of cancer charities. She also wrote a best-selling book called Ice Bound.
Sadly, Dr. Green’s cancer finally returned. She died on June 23.2009.Jerry Green discovered that she bad a bard lump in her stomach in .
A. March.1998 B. May. 1998 CJune.2009 D. July,2009What does the underlined word" thawed "mean in Chinese?
A.形成 | B.堆积 | C.融化 | D.覆盖 |
When did she start her own treatments?
A.After searching the Internet. |
B.After getting instructions from A merit an doctors. |
C.After hearing from her paw law |
D.After becoming a member in support of cancer charities. |
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.Dr. Green decided to give up the treatments. |
B.She sent the information about the lump to a hospital in the United Stales. |
C.She wrote a book called Ice Bound. |
D.Dr Green died of cancer. |
What does the writer feel about Dr. Green’s death?
A. exciting B. Happy. C Sad D. Pleased
Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis Cricket — anything with a round ball, I was useless." he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits (成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future. Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. "John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, ’You are completely crazy,’" Saunders says.
In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter (遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.The turning point in Saunders’ life came when ________.
A.he started to play ball games |
B.he got a mountain bike at age 15 |
C.he ran his first marathon at age 18 |
D.he started to receive Ridgway’s training |
We can learn from the text that Ridgway ________.
A.dismissed Saunders’ dream as fantasy |
B.built up his body together with Saunders |
C.hired Saunders for his cold-water experience |
D.won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic |
What do we know about Saunders?
A.He once worked at a school in Scotland. |
B.He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole. |
C.He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid. |
D.He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole. |
The underlined word "Intrigued" in the third paragraph probably means ________.
A.Excited | B.Convinced | C.Delighted | D.Fascinated |
It can be inferred that Saunders’ journey to the North Pole ________.
A.was accompanied by his old playmates |
B.set a record in the North Pole expedition |
C.was supported by other Arctic explorers |
D.made him well-known in the 1960s |
Biodiversity(生物多样性), or biological diversity, is a wide-ranging concept that covers all the different kinds of plant and animal species present on earth. Environmentalists believe that many millions of species exist. As all these living organisms are dependent on each other in some way, biodiversity is desirable. Any loss to the planet is actually a loss for mankind as well, and it is our responsibility to try and save Earth’s biodiversity.
Biodiversity has a vital role to play in the evolution(演变)of species. Species become extinct, but new species evolve, and this is how a balance is maintained. This may sound pretty simple, but it takes millions of years for changes to take place.
Biodiversity is also very important to the stability of food webs. Damage to them can mean disaster for an entire ecosystem. The extinction of a single animal species can put huge pressure on the numerous other species dependent on it.
Biodiversity also has an important role to play in human society. Apart from being the most intelligent species on earth, human beings are also the most dependent. We depend on nature to meet our basic needs. When we change the balance of nature to create our cities and bring about our technical advances, we knowing or unknowing cause great damage to the ecosystem. This must be understood, and the damages must be reversed(颠倒)in any way they can to ensure that the balance of the ecosystem is maintained. We learn from the first paragraph that_________.
A biodiversity can be seen
B all living species are found on earth.
C people everywhere are aware of the importance of biodiversity
D the loss of any species can affect humansWhy can change in food webs lead to disaster?
A Because it can make people suffer from disease
B Because it can put huge pressure on some species
C Because it takes a long time for such changes to take place
D Because it will damage ninety-nine percent of speciesWhat does the underlined word probably mean?
A 画线 B Peace C Strength D VarietyWe learn from the last paragraph that __________.
A humans are as independent as they are intelligent
B the balance of the ecosystem is easily maintained
C nature has given us a lot
D nature is taking revenge on usWhich of the following may be the best title for this passage?
A Food Webs are Closely Related to Biodiversity.
B Biodiversity Plays a Very Important Role in Evolution
C How Biodiversity Affects Human Society.
D Understanding Biodiversity and Its Importance.
GONE WITH THE WIND Author: Margaret Mitchell ¥25 (in bookstores)¥18 (online) Gone With the Wind is a best-seller, which tells a story that happened in the American Civil War. Scarlett Ohara is a woman in the story who is full of energy. She is strong and saves her family but is very selfish at the same time. |
A LITTLE PRINCESS Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett ¥18.3 (online) Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin’s. Her father was very rich and she lived a rich and comfortable life. Then her father died and Sara lost everything. She had to learn to do with her changed life. Her strong character made her able to fight successfully against her poverty(贫穷) and the scorn(嘲笑) of her fellows. It’s an excellent book with 4 tapes for children |
PETER PAN Author: J.M Barrie ¥15 (in bookstores)¥12 (online) It is a children’s story full of imagination and adventures, which is about Wendy, John, and Michael Darling’s adventures in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. The children are happy and lovely. (with 2 tapes) |
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe ¥20 (in bookstores) The most famous novel in American history, Uncle Tom’s Cabin talked about the struggle between free states and slave states during the American Civil War and is as powerful today as when it first came out 150 years ago. |
THE SECRET GARDEN Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett ¥35 (in bookstores)¥30 (online) Mary Lennox, a sickly orphan(孤儿), finds herself in her uncle’s dark house. Why are so many rooms locked? Why is one of the gardens locked? And what is that crying she hears at night? Through the power of hope, friendship, and the magic of nature, the brave girl brings the house and a long-lost garden back to life. |
All of the following books have children as their main characters except _______.
A.PETER PAN | B.GONE WITH THE WIND |
C.A LITTLE PRINCESS | D.THE SECRET GARDEN |
We can know from the passage that _________.
A.there are only three books with tapes |
B.we can buy 5 kinds of the above books in bookstores |
C.two of the books are written by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
D.THE SECRET GARDEN is ¥5 cheaper in bookstores than online |
Mary brings the house and a long-lost garden back to life with the help of ______
a. the power of hope b. friendship c. her uncle d. Nature’s magic
A.a, b, c | B.a, c, d | C.b, c, d | D.a, b, d |
Which of the following about the books is mentioned in this text?
A What Sara did to help her fellows
B Why Peter Pan wouldn’t grow up.
C What kind of woman Scarlett is.
D How Marry Lennox came into her uncle’s house.This text is most probably taken from a __________.
A newspaper B science magazine C storybook D book guide