The Westwood Middle School has decided to hold a blood drive (献血活动), and you can help.
| Help with The Blood Drive |
 The School is holding a blood drive for teachers, parents, and town people. We need everyone’s help to make it a success. That includes you! We need to collect 50 units of blood. That means 65 people are needed to come to the drive. |
| How You Can Help |
| Pick up information brochures (小册子) in the school office. Pass them out to your parents, teachers and any person who is healthy and at least 17 years old. |
| When and Where to Go |
| The blood drive will take place on Tuesday, October 21, from 3:00 to 6:00 pm, in the school canteen. |
How many people are needed for the blood drive?
| A．50. | B．65. |
| C．17. | D．21. |
Students can pick up information brochures ____.
| A．in the school office | B．at the school gate |
| C．in the school canteen | D．on the school playground |
When will the blood drive take place?
| A．On September 20. | B．On September 21. |
| C．On October 20. | D．On October 21. |
Have you ever heard of a famous charity called Operation Smile? We hope we can help you understand how we are trying to help children all over the world. 
Operation Smile was started by a doctor and his wife. In 1982, together with some volunteers, they went to Philippines to help children who had holes in their lips or inside their mouths. It was very difficult for them to eat and drink. These volunteers worked very hard. But they worried that they could not carry on with the work because they were short of money. Then they decided to start a charity so that they could help these needy children. They called it Operation Smile.
Operation Smile works in more than twenty developing countries and has cured over 10,000 children who have problems with their mouths. Operation Smile has won many prizes for its work and in 1999 they even started a special event called“The World Journey of Hope”. 5,000 children in 18 countries are cured during the event.
On the other hand, Operation Smile trains local doctors and nurses in developing countries so that they can continue to help children when Operation Smile has left. As to the children with much more serious problems, they will send them to America for further treatment.
So show your kindness and generosity to the needy children now. You can send your donation to Operation Smile at local banks. Many thanks from the children who can smile now will come to you. Operation Smile is a famous _____, which was started by a doctor and his wife.
| A．school | B．charity | C．building | D．person |
Operation Smile helps the children by _____.
| A．curing the children who have problems with their mouths |
| B．helping poor children go back to school |
| C．helping blind children to see again |
| D．offering houses to homeless children |
Five thousand children from _____ countries are cured during the event “The World Journey of Hope”.
A. ten B sixteen C. eighteen D. twentyWhy did they worry that they could not carry on with the work?
Because _____.
| A．there were no more volunteers |
| B．they went to America for further study |
| C．they didn’t have enough money |
| D．the doctors were too busy |
What does the writer ask us to do to show our kindness and generosity to the needy children?
| A．To donate money at local banks. |
| B．To be a volunteer in Philippines. |
| C．To send cards to the needy children. |
| D．To be a doctor of Operation Smile. |
On a hot summer day, Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip. After a good meal and a bottle of wine, they lay down in a tent for the night and went to sleep.
Some hours later, Holmes woke up and pushed his friend. “Watson, look! What can you see in the sky?"
Watson replied, “I see millions and millions of stars.”
“What does that tell you?” asked Holmes.
Watson thought for a while. “First, it tells me that we will have a beautiful clear day tomorrow. Second, it tells me that the time is about twelve o’clock. And…”
“What else?” Holmes asked.
“Well, it also reminds me that the world is so big and we are so small. What does that tell you?” Holmes said with a grin on his face, “You silly guy! It only tells me that someone has stolen our tent!”Holmes woke up _____.
| A．in the middle of the night | B．early in the morning |
| C．soon after he fell asleep | D．after Watson pushed him |
Watson thought of at least _____ things after he saw the stars.
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．The story happened in the afternoon. |
| B．They had some wine before they went to sleep. |
| C．Holmes asked Watson questions because Holmes didn’t know what happened. |
| D．Holmes and Watson were in their tent while they were talking about the question. |
If you want to learn something about computers, you may send e-mails to _____.
| A．zhaoweiping@sohu.com | B．wudong@yahoo.com |
| C．tomsmith@163.com | D．lwh988@263.com |
A five-year-old boy has something wrong with his teeth. He should go to see _____.
| A．Mr. Zhao | B．Mr. Wu | C．Mr. Smith. | D．Mr. Li |
First Frenchman: I once heard someone shout, “Look out,” I put my head out of a window and a basin (盆) of water fell on me. It seems that “Look out” may mean “don’t look out.”
Second Frenchman: Once I was on a ship and heard the captain (船长) shout, “All hands on deck,” I put my hands on the deck and someone walked on them.
Third Frenchman: I once visited an English friend early in the morning and the maid who came to the door and said, “He’s not up yet. Come back in half an hour,” When I went again for him, she said, “He’s not down yet.”
“If he’s not up and he’s not down, where is he?” I asked.
She said, “He’s still in bed. When I say ‘He’s not up ’ I mean ‘he has not yet got up’. When I say‘He’s not down ’I mean ‘he has not yet come downstairs.”“Look out”here means “ _______”.
| A．put your head out of the window and look |
| B．Take care |
| C．I’m going to pour the water |
| D．Help me |
“All hands on deck”means “ _______ ”.
| A．All the sailors gather ( 集合 )on deck |
| B．Give your hands to me |
| C．Put your right hand and left hand on deck |
| D．Shake your hands with me |
When the third Frenchman went back, the English friend _______ .
| A．was washing his face |
| B．was having his breakfast |
| C．was still in an upstairs room |
| D．was reading a newspaper |
In the summer of 1978 an English man named Steven was driving his tractor through a field of wheat when he discovered something strange. Some of his wheat was lying on the ground. The flattened wheat formed(形成)a circle about six meters across . Around this circle were four smaller circles of flattened wheat.
Three years later a farmer who lived nearby discovered almost the same circles in one of his fields. These circles were larger—nearly 15 meters across . That same year , another English farmer discovered three circles of flattened wheat on his land—one large circle between two small circles. During the following years, farmers in England found circles in their fields more and more often.
The circles are called “crop circles” because they usually appear in fields of wheat or corn. The wheat in the circles lies on the ground but is never broken; it keeps on growing, and the farmers can later harvest it. Farmers always discover the crop circles in the morning, so the circles probably form at night. They appear only in the months from May to September. What causes the crop circles?
At first, people thought that some kids were making them as a joke, or that farmers were making them to attract tourists.(In fact, in 1991, two men said they made the circles themselves, but many scientists don’t believe them.) People tried to copy them: They tried to make circles exactly like the ones the farmers had found. They couldn’t do it. They couldn’t enter a field of wheat without leaving tracks, and they couldn’t flatten the wheat without breaking it.
Several times people reported seeing stranger objects near the fields where crop circles later appeared. Many people believe that these crop circles are the messages sent by living things from outer space(外层空间)or the marks left by their spaceships.
Scientists who have studied the crop circles try to find out what causes them. In the summer of 1990 some scientists spent three weeks in the part of England where many circles have appeared. They had all the latest high-tech equipment(最新高科技设备). The equipment—worth 1.8 million dollars—got nothing. But one night, as the scientists were watching a field, crop circles formed in the field behind them, which were quite different from the others. The scientists had neither seen nor heard anything.
When Steven discovered the crop circles on his land in 1978, he said, “It was just like something that had landed in the field from the air and gone back up again. I don’t know what to make of these things.”
Crop circles have appeared in England, Japan, the United States and Russia. Experts from all over the world have studied them, and they say what Steven said: They don’t know what to make of these things.Which picture is probably the one formed in the field behind the scientists?
“Flattened wheat” means ___________.
| A．broken wheat | B．lying wheat |
C．harvested wheat | D．growing wheat |
The passage is mainly about something ___________ .
| A．that is done by living things from outer space |
| B．that cannot be solved but found all around the world |
| C．that cannot be made clear or understood |
| D．that is discovered and copied by the farmers |