No one can change the weather. Nobody can control the weather. But if we read correctly the signs around us, we can tell what the more important changes in the weather will be. This way of telling what the weather will be like on the following day or two is called weather forecasting. For many centuries and in all countries, people have studied the weather and tried to make weather forecasting. Rings around the sun are a sign of coming rain. Many people feel their joints hurt in their bones if wet weather is coming.
Some birds fly high if fine weather is coming, but they fly near the ground if rainy or stormy weather is on the way. It is probably because of the insects (昆虫) which they are hunting that they fly low. If you see a rainbow (彩虹) during rainy weather, this is a sign that the weather will become clear and fine. Such rainbows come in the evening. If the stars twinkle clearly at night, then fine weather will continue. If a fog appears in the morning just above a river, then the day will be warm. If the sunset is mostly red in color, then the following day will be fine. If a rainbow appears in the morning, rainy weather will probably come.
Most of the above sayings have been made by the people who have used their eyes and brains to make weather forecasting.According to the passage, people's joints ache ______.
| A．is a sign of coming rain |
| B．without any reason |
| C．because they are ill |
| D．because of the insects |
Which is true about weather forecasting?
| A．Weather forecasting is a recorder about the weather on the following day or two. |
| B．Weather forecasting is a way of telling what the weather will be like. |
| C．Weather forecasting is a sign of coming rain. |
| D．People can change the weather. |
The birds fly high and the stars twinkle clearly is a sign that the weather will ______.
| A．be warm |
| B．be rainy |
| C．become clear and fine |
| D．be cold |
A rainbow is a ______ of the weather.
| A．sign |
| B．way |
| C．method |
| D．road |
We must ______ to make weather forecasting.
| A．use our eyes and brains |
| B．study the weather hard |
| C．read correctly the signs |
| D．All of the above |
Nowadays, computer games are becoming more and more popular in many cities and towns. A lot of small shops along busy streets have been made into small game houses in order to get more money. These places are always crowded with people, especially young boys.
In the computer game houses, people spend a lot of money competing (较量) with the machines. It's hard for one to win the computer, but one can make progress after trying again and again. People have a kind of gambling psychology(赌博心理) when they play computer games.The more they lose, the more they want to win. When class is over, the school boys run to the nearby computer game houses.Little by little! (渐渐地), they forget all about their lessons and fall far behind others. Some of them can get enough money from their parents. But some of them are not lucky enough to get the money. They begin to take away other students' money and become thieves.Who always go to the computer game houses?
| A．Young girls | B．Young children |
| C．Young students | D．Young boys. |
People made small shops into small game houses in order to ______.
| A．make computer games more popular |
| B．get more money |
| C．help people to learn computer better |
| D．make people happy |
What must be brought to play games in the game homes?
A. Tickets. B Paper C. Cards. D. Money.What will happen to the boys if they keep going to the game houses?
| A．They will win a lot of money. |
| B．They will make a lot of good friends there. |
| C．They will fail in their study and even break laws. |
| D．They will live a happy life in the future. |
What is the passage mainly about?
| A．Game houses have a bad effect on young boys. |
| B．More and more small shops have been made into game houses. |
| C．Young boys spend a lot of money playing computer games. |
| D．People play games better after trying again and again. |
Robots have been designed to do many things-play music，work in hospitals，but run a restaurant? There are two robot receptionists(接待员) and six robot waitresses and waiters in the Dalu Robot Restaurant in Jinan，Shandong．One hundred customers can eat in the restaurant at a time．Two of the robots serve drinks，while the other four serve the food． Not all the work in the restaurant is done by them．There are also people working there，especially in the kitchen．The cooks are humans because the robots don’t have the skills to cook．Robots can play music．
Six robots work in the Dalu Robot Restaurant．
No people work in the kitchen．
Only a few customers can eat in the restaurant at a time．
The robots can’t cook delicious food．
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A) LiYugang dresses like a woman and sings like a bird. He won the third prize in CCTV’s Star Road in 2006. He sings folk songs. However, he seems to have the spirit of Mei Lanfang. In fact, the young man had learnt something from Mei Lanfang’s students. People in China usually don’t like cross-dressing(反串). But people are really surprised at Li’s beauty and grace when he sings and dances.
B) Do you know who invented QQ? It was Ma Huateng. He was born in Guangdong in 1971. He chose computer science when he entered Shenzhen University in 1989. He worked as a computer programmer for a company in Shenzhen for five years after he graduated in 1993. Later he left the company and started his own company in 1998.
C) Yue Fei was a famous hero of Southern Song Dynasty. He was born in a poor family in Henan Province. He was very brave and won many battles with his soldiers. But Qin Hui killed Yue Fei for Mo Xuyou. Later a temple about Yue Fei was built in memory of him at the foot of Qixia Ling by the West Lake, in Hangzhou.Who did Li Yugang once learn from according to the passage?
| A．Mei Lanfang. | B．Mei Lanfang’s students. |
| C．Mei Yanfang’s students. | D．Mei Lanfang’s friends. |
The underlined word “grace” means____________ in Chinese.
| A．粗犷 | B．做作 | C．傲慢 | D．优雅 |
From the passage, we know Yue Fei_____________.
| A．was not born in a rich family |
| B．was not brave |
| C．killed Qin Hui |
| D．built a temple |
Ma Huateng set up his own company when he was____________.
| A．18 | B．22 | C．27 | D．42 |
Which of the following is TRUE?
| A．Li Yugang invented QQ. |
| B．Ma Huateng used to work as a computer programmer for a company. |
| C．Li Yugang won the first prize in CCTV’s Star Road. |
| D．Yue Fei seldom won battles with his soldiers. |
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The Lantern Festival is a Chinese festival. It has a long history. People celebrate it on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar year(农历). It is one of the biggest holidays in China. Some days before the festival, people begin to make lanterns. People make lanterns in the shape of different animals,vegetables,fruits and many other things.People also write riddles(谜语) on the lanterns. It’s very interesting. Then on the evening of the Lantern Festival, all the lanterns are hung up. People go outside to enjoy the lanterns and guess the riddles on them. Often you can see lion and dragon dances. Everything is very interesting and everyone is very happy.The Lantern Festival is a festival ____________.
| A．in the USA | B．in England |
| C．in China | D．in India |
What do people begin to make before the Lantern Festival?
| A．Dumplings. | B．Lanterns. |
| C．Masks. | D．Rice dumplings. |
When are all the lanterns hung up?
| A．On the evening of the Lantern Festival. |
| B．On 15 January. |
| C．On New Year’s Day. |
| D．At the Spring Festival. |
What do people do at the Lantern Festival?
| A．Play “trick or treat”. |
| B．Eat dumplings. |
| C．Make pumpkin lanterns. |
| D．Guess the riddles on the lanterns. |
How do people feel on that day?
| A．Sad | B．Full | C．Tired | D．Happy |
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We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe did not know anything about tea. Some people had heard about it, but very few of them knew what to do with it.
There is a story about an English sailor(航海家). He went to countries in the east,the west and the south. He had been to India and China. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a “tea party”. When her friends came to the “tea party”, the old woman brought out some tea leaves and asked them to eat. Of course, nobody liked the tea leaves.
At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said,”Mother, what have you done with the tea?”
“I boiled it as you said.”
“And what did you do with the water?’
“I threw it away, of course.” answered the old woman.
“Now you may throw away the leaves,too.” said her son.Most of the people in Europe ___300 years ago.
| A．drank tea every day | B．knew everything about tea |
| C．knew nothing about tea | D．liked to eat the tea-leaves |
One day the English sailor brought his mother some tea from ___.
| A．countries in the west | B．countries in the south |
| C．India or China | D．a tea shop in England |
The sailor's mother asked her friends to her house, because ___.
| A．the sailor told her to. |
| B．she liked to show off (炫耀) |
| C．she wanted to ask her friends what to do with the tea |
| D．she wanted to taste the tea together with her friends |
At the "tea party",___.
| A．all the woman's friends spoke highly of (高度评价)the tea. |
| B．nobody knew what to do with the tea |
| C．the woman didn’t eat the tea-leaves |
| D．the woman gave her friends each a glass of tea water |
What mistake（错误） did the old woman make? She ___.
| A．boiled the tea |
| B．did as the sailor said |
| C．threw away the water |
| D．didn't throw away the tea-leaves |