Canada is famous for its winter lifestyle, for the season lasts half the year there. A great example of this is the Quebec Winter Carnival(嘉年华). Quebec is an old city with beautiful historic building, and many agree that winter is the best time to visit. The city comes alive in the snow, especially during the winter festival. People who visit the cold city can find tons of things to do that will make winter seem perfect.
The Carnival has a magical ice palace made with 9,000 tons of snow, a boat race on the St. Lawrence River, and two night parades(游行) with funny people and colorful cars. Other interesting things include a 122-meter ice slide, and a large football game. There is also an exciting dogsled race that runs through six kilometers of the city’s streets. With more than 20 teams in the game, the dogsled race is noisy, fun and full of great cheer. Even better, artists from around the world come to enter the snow sculpture(雕塑) competition. It is amazing how these artists can bring snow to life. The Quebec Winter Carnival has everything for the whole family and more. It is surely a great way to experience winter at its fullest.
Another famous winter festival is on the other side of the world in China. Known as the City of Ice, Harbin is the capital city of Heilongjiang Province, which is next to Siberia. In the winter, it is very cold, and temperatures there can drop to 30℃ below zero. Even so, the cold weather makes the city the right place for the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival. The festival is held every year.According to the passage, many people think ______ is the best time to visit Quebec.
| A．spring | B．summer |
| C．autumn | D．winter |
The Quebec Winter Carnival includes ______.
①a dogsled race ②a winter swimming ③two night parades
④a snow fight ⑤a boat race
| A．①②③ | B．②③④ |
| C．①③⑤ | D．③④⑤ |
Which of the following is TRUE about Harbin?
| A．It is known as the City of Ice. |
| B．It’s famous for its four seasons. |
| C．It is in Northern China, next to Quebec. |
| D．It holds an exciting festival every month. |
The writer will probably write about ______ in the next part of the article.
| A．the Quebec Winter Carnival |
| B．the introduction of Heilongjiang Province |
| C．the snow sculpture competition in Quebec |
| D．the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival |
Moreno, Stanley, and 23 other students from Westfield State College were on vacation in Acapulco, Mexico. This was the last night in the hotel. It was 4 am, Moreno and Stanley came back from a party.
Just as Stanley went to sleep, he heard loud noise outside. From the balcony (阳台) of their fourth-floor room, Moreno and Stanley saw black smoke out of one window and heard people shouting.
Moreno ran out into the corridor and began knocking on doors and shouting, "Fire!" After that, he went upstairs in a hurry to tell other people. At the same time, Stanley was downstairs helping people get through the smoke-filled room. There he joined forces with Nalewanski, a 21-year-old boy who had a room on the second floor.
"Let's go," Nalewanski said. He and Stanley wet their shirts in the bathroom and put them around their mouths and noses so they could breathe. Then they ran up the stairs. On the fourth floor they found Moreno feeling terrible (Moreno had made it up to the eighth floor before turning back). But after making sure he could get back down on his own, they continued upstairs, knocking on the doors on every floor.
In the end, no one was seriously hurt. Moreno said, "There were hundreds of people in the hotel. It was our duty to help them." students from Westfield State College were on vacation in Acapulco, Mexico.
| A．Twenty-three | B．Twenty-four |
| C．Twenty-five | D．Twenty-six |
Which floor does Stanley live on?
| A．The second floor. | B．The fourth floor. |
| C．The seventh floor. | D．The eighth floor. |
Nalewanski and Stanley put their wet shirts around their mouths and noses in order to .
| A．make them cool |
| B．stop the smoke from going into lungs (肺) |
| C．let people find them |
| D．play a joke with other people |
What is the correct order?
a. Moreno told other people.
b. No one was seriously hurt.
c. Nalewanski joined them to save people.
d. Stanley and Moreno saw the smoke.
| A．d-b-c- a | B．d-a-c-b |
| C．a-d-c-b | D．c-d-b-a |
From the fourth paragraph, we can know
| A．the three boys are brave |
| B．Moreno died in the fire |
| C．the reason of the fire |
| D．Nalewanski called the police for help |
A small boy lived with his mother and grandmother in a big house. His father had died.
A bucket（桶）of water fell on the small boy’s left foot, and it began hurting a hot. His mother said, “I’m going to put something very hot on your foot tonight. That’s always very good. Tomorrow your foot won’t hurt any longer.”
In the evening, the small boy’s mother came to his bedroom. She had a hot poultice（膏药）in a bowl. The small boy looked at it and said, “I don’t want that. I had one a month ago. Poultices hurt.”
His mother sat down on his bed and said, “You’re going to have this poultice on.” She pulled his sheets（床单）and blankets（毯子）away, and put the poultice near his foot, but the boy pulled it away quickly, and poultice fell on the bed.
His mother was angry. She went down stairs and came back with his grandmother and a stick. She said to her son, “Your grandmother’s going to put the poultice on your foot, and I’m going to hold this stick. Now don’t be a stupid boy.”
She held the stick over the boy, and the grandmother took his foot and put the poultice near it. The boy said. “Stop, you…” but his mother brought the stick nearer, and he did not say anything else.
The grandmother brought the poultice near the foot again, and the boy stopped her again, but his mother was angry now and said, “I’m going to hit you.” The boy did not finish his words, and his grandmother put the poultice on his foot. He let it there for a few minutes and then took it off again.
The boy’s mother and grandmother put the sheets and blankets over him again and he said, “My left foot hurts, but you put the poultice on my right foot. I stopped you twice, but you didn’t listen to me.” The small boy’s foot hurt because ____.
| A．he fell off the bike |
| B．a bucket of water fell on his foot |
| C．he fell and hurt his foot |
| D．he was ill |
In the evening ___ first came to the small boy’s room.
| A．his mother | B．his father | C．his grandmother | D．his grandfather |
The small boy ____ his mother.
| A．agreed with | B．didn’t stop | C．thanked | D．didn’t agree with |
The small boy took the poultice off because ____.
| A．his foot didn’t hurt |
| B．he hated his mother and grandmother |
| C．his left foot hurt |
| D．his right foot hurt |
The best title for this passage is ____.
| A．Left or Right | B．A Small Boy | C．The Poultice | D．A Small Boy’s Mother |
Take a look at the label(标签) on almost any bottle of milk and you may see the word PASTEURIZED. What does that mean? Let’s find out by meeting Louis Pasteur.
Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 in a little town in France. As he grew up, he loved to paint. He loved to look at the world around him. When he went to college in Paris, he showed interest in looking through a microscope. A microscope makes things look a lot bigger; it lets you see things you can’t see just with your eyes. Looking through a microscope, Pasteur found a living world in a drop of water. He saw and drew pictures of the small living things -- he called them “microbes” or “germs”-- that crowded in a drop of water.
One day a winemaker came into the lab, hoping that someone could help him with his problem. “Sometimes my wine tastes delicious, but sometimes terrible,” he said to Pasteur. “Can you help me find out why?”
Pasteur put some drops of the wine under the microscope. He noticed that the terrible wine had some unusual germs. If he killed these germs, maybe he could keep the wine from turning terrible. He tried with different ways to kill the germs. In the end he found heating (加热) the wine seemed to work best. The winemaker tried it, and every bottle of wine tasted good.
Pasteur’s idea worked for other people, too. When farmers heated milk, it didn’t turn bad so quickly. When breweries heated beer, it tasted better. People called it “pasteurization” ---heating a liquid to kill bad germs. Aren’t you glad that the milk you drink has been pasteurized? The Chinese meaning for the word “microbes” is____.
| A．病毒 | B．真菌 | C．支原体 | D．微生物 |
Which is the right order in Pasteur’s life story?
(1). He received college education in Paris.
(2) He helped to find some unusual germs in some drops of wine.
(3) A new way of killing bad germs--pasteurization was found out.
(4)He was born in 1822 in a little town in France.
(5) Microbes were found by Louis Pasteur with the help of a microscope.
| A．2; 1; 3; 5; 4 | B．4; 1; 5; 2; 3 | C．4; 1; 3; 5; 2 | D．3; 1; 2; 5; 4 |
What do you think Louis Pasteur was like from the passage?
| A．Clever, helpful and hard-working. |
| B．Quiet, helpful and kind-hearted. |
| C．Brave, careful and hard-working. |
| D．Clever, serious and kind-hearted. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Germs only live in something that is bad. |
| B．Louis found the way to kill the unusual germs in the wine by chance (偶然). |
| C．Everybody knows what the word PASTEURIZED means. |
| D．Pasteurization is used to kill bad germs in the milk we drink. |
What does the passage mainly tell us?
| A．What life Louis Pasteur lived. |
| B．How to make milk clean. |
| C．How pasteurization was invented. |
| D．What to do with wine. |
A Hard-working Student
This story is about a young student. She worked very hard at her lessons. She was too busy to have a rest. At last, she became ill, and couldn’t go to sleep. Every night, when she went to bed, she closed her eyes and tried to sleep. But the more she tried, the more she stayed awake.
After a while she went to see a doctor, “I just can’t go to sleep at night. What should I do?” “I have a suggestion (建议),” said the doctor, “Try counting numbers. By the time you reach one thousand, you will be asleep. I’m sure of it.”
The next day the student returned to the doctor’s office. “Well,” said the doctor, “How are you today? Did you try my suggestion?” The student still looked tired. “Yes,” she said, “I tried counting one, two, three...up to one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drink some coffee so that (以便) I could go on counting up to one thousand. But then I still couldn’t fall asleep.”
根据短文内容,选择正确答案。 Why couldn’t the young student go to sleep?
| A．She was worried about her lessons. |
| B．She hadn’t finished her homework. |
| C．She had worked too hard and became ill. |
| D．There was a lot of noise. |
What did the doctor ask the young student to do while she was lying in bed?
| A．To take some medicine. |
| B．To count numbers while she was lying in bed. |
| C．To count numbers before she went to bed. |
| D．To read some books on the bed. |
The underlined word “awake” in paragraph 1 means “______”.
| A．asleep | B．not asleep | C．sleepy | D．sleeping |
What did she do after she felt sleepy?
| A．She fell asleep. |
| B．She stopping counting. |
| C．She got up and drank some tea. |
| D．She got up to have some coffee. |
The coffee made her ______, so she still couldn’t fall asleep.
| A．tired | B．sleepy | C．hungry | D．excited |
A man lives in a very tall building. He has a lot of money and he has a parrot at home. It’s a clever bird.
Every morning, after the man gets up, the bird says “hello”. When the man comes back from his work, the bird says, “Is that you? Come here. I can see you.” One evening, when the man is sleeping, a thief comes into his building by climbing up the window. When he finds some money and begins to leave the house by climbing down through the window again, he hears a voice in the dark.
“Hello! Is that you? Come here. I can see you.” The thief is so frightened that he falls down from the window.. A parrot is kind of ________
| A．thing | B．bird | C．man | D．machine |
When does the parrot say “Hello!” to the man?
| A．After it gets up. | B．After the man gets up. |
| C．After the man goes to bed | D．After the man has breakfast. |
. When does the thief come?
| A．In the afternoon | B．In the morning |
| C．The man isn’t at home. | D．The man is asleep. |
The parrot is the man’s ________.
| A．neighbor | B．enemy | C．pet | D．servant |
What do you think of the thief at last?
| A．He leaves safely. | B．He climbs down the building. |
| C．He climbs down the ladder. | D．He died. |