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| Little Bull |
Author: Ellen James Main idea: The book tells us how the lovely 250-pound baby elephant learns about the world around him. Price: 24.0 yuan |
| The Trouble with Teachers |
Author: Barbara Calamari Main idea: Angela has found herself in trouble again at school with her teachers. She and her friends Gina and Johnny will be punished. Price: 15.0 yuan |
| I've Got a Secret |
Author: Cathy West Main idea: Nine-year-old Michelle got a new hot-pink notebook as a birthday gift and she began to keep a diary every day. Price: 30.0 yuan |
| Miss Nobody |
Author: Tomek Tryzna Main idea: At the age of fifteen, Marysia moves with her parents to the nearest big city. Then she meets two girls, Kasia and Eva, and they begin to teach her the secrets of life. Price: 33.0 yuan |
| A．Ellen James. | B．Barbara Calamari. |
| C．Cathy West. | D．Tomek Tryzna. |
| A．24.0 yuan. | B．33.0 yuan. |
| C．30.0 yuan. | D．15.0 yuan. |
| A．The book with the price of 30.0 yuan tells us how to keep a diary. |
| B．Barbara Calamari’s book tells us the story in Angela’s home. |
| C．Miss Nobody is about a fifteen-year-old girl. |
| D．If you pay 20.0 yuan, you can buy two books above. |
A farmer had a cow. He took very good care of this cow and one day when it was ill, he was very worried. He telephoned the vet. “What’s the problem?” The vet asked him when he arrived.
“My cow's ill,” the farmer said. “I don’t know what's the matter with her. She’s lying down and won’t eat. She's making a strange noise.”
The vet looked over the cow. "She's certainly ill," he said, "and she needs to take some very strong medicine."
He took a bottle out of his box, put two pills into his hand and said, "Give her these. The pills should make her better."
“How should I give them to her?” the farmer asked.
The vet gave him a tube (管子)and said, "Put this tube in her mouth, then put the pills in the tube and blow. That'll make it."
The next day the vet came to the farm again. The farmer was sitting outside his house and looked more worried.
“How's your cow?” the vet asked.
“No change,” the farmer said, “and I’m feeling very strange myself.”
“Oh?” the vet said, "Why?"
“I did what you said,” the farmer answered. “I put the tube in the cow's mouth and then put two pills down it.”
“And?” the vet asked.
“The cow blew first,” the farmer said.In the story, the vet must be _________.
| A．the farmer's friend | B．a milk factory |
| C．a hospital for cows | D．a doctor for animals |
The farmer asked the vet for help when his cow _______
| A．couldn't lie down | B．didn't eat the pills |
| C．couldn't make any noise | D．was ill |
What medicine did the vet give the farmer?
| A．Bottle of pills. | B．A long tube. |
| C．Two pills. | D．A small box. |
The vet taught the farmer how _________.
| A．to blow the tube | B．to make the cow take the pills |
| C．to take the medicine | D．to put the tube in his mouth |
Which of the following is true?
| A．The farmer ate the pills himself. |
| B．The cow got better after taking the medicine. |
| C．The vet came to help farmer change the cow the next day. |
| D．The farmer waited for the vet outside his house the next day. |
If you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a comet (彗星).
A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels.
If a comet isn’t a star, what is it then?
Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts (融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail.Many people perhaps have seen a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are. There may be millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.
An Englishman named Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep coming back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it would come back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halley’s Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it. You will probably be able to see Halley’s Comets when it comes near the earth again.A comet is like ________.
| A．sun | B．moon | C．sunlight | D．the earth |
A large part of a comet is ______.
| A．water and rock |
| B．water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron |
| C．ice, iron and rock dust |
| D．only a few big pieces of rock |
Maybe many people _______.
| A．haven’t seen any comets | B．have seen all comets |
| C．have seen a comet at daytime | D．have seen a comet |
Some comets keep coming back ________.
| A．at any time | B．at noon | C．at regular times | D．at daytime |
Halley’s Comets came back _____.
| A．in 1990 | B．in 1980 | C．in 1986 | D．in 1989 |
One day, early in the morning on my way to work, I saw a little girl carrying a small Cambridge schoolbag. I could imagine that she must be proud of her schoolbag. The bag is designed for students, which can hold a lot of things, such as textbooks, pens and pencils, snacks and water! Students just carry it on their shoulders, and it is easy for them. I was really amazed by the wisdom of businessmen.
I remembered I had a green cloth bag, which was very rough, but strong. At that time I was short, so my mom made the bag rope shorter. After eating all the meals prepared by my mother, I said to her, “I will go to school now. Bye!” I ran to school with my classmates. At that time, this schoolbag was so light. When I jumped, it jumped. All things in this bag had a collision (碰撞.. They gave out cheerful sounds all the way along. At the time I was so happy. 
As I grew older, the schoolbag became heavier and heavier. My green schoolbag could not be used any longer. The bag was worn down, the mouth was opened, and finally it came to an end. My mother bought me another bag, and it was very big. I liked the Mickey Mouse pattern. The bag had a few pockets and both sides of the bag could carry a bottle. It was convenient! I was happy to go out every day with the new bag. Five or six miles of the trip to school seemed as if it were a few steps away. That year I was 12 years old. Though my first schoolbag wasn’t made in the UK, and it was made by my mother herself, it was still a real Cambridge schoolbag in my mind.________ caught the writer’s attention on his way to work.
| A．A beautiful girl | B．A businessman | C．A Cambridge schoolbag | D．A student |
The writer’s first schoolbag ________.
| A．was a real Cambridge schoolbag | B．had many pockets |
| C．gave out cheerful sounds | D．was made by his mother |
“They” in the 2nd paragraph here refers to “________”.
| A．the writer’s classmates |
| B．all the things in the schoolbag |
| C．the meals prepared by Mom |
| D．the ropes of the schoolbag |
The writer changed his green schoolbag because ________.
| A．it was broken |
| B．the family got rich |
| C．he wanted a new pattern |
| D．it wasn’t made in the UK. |
We can learn from the passage that ________.
| A．wise businessmen make best schoolbags in the world |
| B．schoolbags brought the writer happiness when he was little |
| C．Cambridge schoolbags are very popular among the children |
| D．the writer’s mother was fond of making schoolbags |
The best title of the passage is ________.
| A．A clever mother |
| B．The history of schoolbags |
| C．My sweet childhood memory |
| D．Schoolbag and me |
Answer the questions. 
My daughter, Tina, began to look for a job several months before she graduated from university. “Because of the financial crisis（金融危机）, it is more difficult to get into a company than to take the college entrance exam.” I told her, “You shouldn’t have too much hope or you would feel really disappointed.” Tina applied for a position in a company in the city center. The competition was fierce. The company was to employ only one among the twenty people. Tina said to me, “I am not afraid of disappointment. As long as I try, there will always be hope! ”
Everything seemed to go quite well and Tina passed the first round and entered the final in a week’s time.
On the day of the final interview, Tina and two other candidates （候选人）arrived on time, waiting for the test. To their great surprise, the interview was quite simple, and the intereviewer only chatted with them for a moment. The interviewer said to them, “All of you are super. Please go home and wait for our anwer. We will tell you the result in three days. Good luck to all of you!” On the third day, Tina received the message from the company telling her that she was not employed. She felf upset. In order to comfort her, I pretended to be relaxed and said, “It does not matter! I believe you will have more opportunities in the future!”
Late in the afternoon, Tina suddenly told me excitedly on the phone, “Dad, good news. I’ve mde it! ” I could not wait to ask her, “What’s the whole matter?” Tina told me that she received a second message saying that she was employed. She was so confused that she made a call to the company. In fact, the message Tina got in the morning was alse part of the test of the interview. The three candidates received the same message this morning and only Tina’s reply was satisfying to the company. “How did all of you reply?” I asked. “One did not reply. The other said ‘Goodbye’ and I said ‘Thank you’ .”Has Tina graduated form universtiy? （此题1分）
In the writer’s opinion, which was more difficult, to get into a company or to take the college entrance exam?
How many people entered the final round of the competition?
Why did the writer pretend to be relaxed when he learned Tina was not employed?
What does the underlined sentence mean “I’ve made it!” mean in English?
It means “_______________________________”. What can we learn from Tina? (Give at least two points.) （此题3分）
Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage. (12分)
People of all ages, especially young children, follow comic strips in newspapers, magazines and the movies. Who is your favourite superhero --- Spideman? Wonder Woman? These heroes have been around for a long time. Comics came out even earlier. In ancient times, people made funny drawings of animals _____ paper.
Comic strips first came out during the 1800s and remain much the same style today. These comics are drawn in connected boxes. The boxes usually show a dramatic _________. Some comic strips are printed in newspapers, which often continue from day to day. Some people even read the comics before they read the front page.
The comic books first _____ during the 1930s. It seemed that everyone wanted to read comic books. They loved reading about the adventures of The Man of Steel and Batman. During the 1940s, the nation was at war and some comic book characters, such as Captain America, reflected （反映）the times. Others, such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, made people laugh during this _______ time in history.
After the war, people became __________ interested in old comic book characters, so new superheroes had to be made. The new superheroes, such as Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Spideman, talked and acted more like real people. As time went on, comic books had to _________ TV because TV has offered a lot of fun to people.
Comic strips are usually good for a laugh or at least a smile. But they have held a place in history. They take people away from their daily lives into another world. In this world, the hero always wins, and failure only comes to the bad guys.
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