任务型阅读。阅读短文，然后回答后边的问题 （每题2分，共6分）
Many people go to school for a good education. They learn languages, history, math and many other subjects. Others go to learn a skill so that they can make a living.School education is very important and useful. Yet, no one can learn everything from school.A teacher can’t teach his students everything.The teacher’s job is to show students how to learn.The teacher teaches them how to read and how to think. So the students themselves shall learn much more outside school.Is school education important and useful?___________________________
Why do people go to school?________________________________________
What’s the teacher’s job?_________________________________________
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No better season than spring, so let’s enjoy ourselves in the best time of the year!
Grade Date Destination
Junior 1May 5th Fantawild, Zhuzhou
Junior 2 May 6th Fantawild, Zhuzhou
Junior 3 May 5th Baile Land, Wangcheng（in the northwest of Changsha）
Price: RMB￥205(Baile Land) / RMB￥ 245 (Fantawild)
Parking Place: Coaches for Wangcheng Southern Gate
Coaches for Zhuzhou Northern GateWhere should the students in Grade 8 gather?
A. Southern Gate
B. Northern Gate
C. ZhuzhouIt's true that ________.
A. the whole school will take a trip on different days.
B. Fantawild must be much more interesting than Baile Land.
C. the students in Grade 9 won’t go out of Changsha.
How much do you know about Albert Einstein?
Albert Einstein, born on March 14, 1879 in Germany, was a great scientist in the world. He was strange because he hated haircuts and new clothes. He believed in peace. All his life, he hated war. However, his most famous idea, E = mc², helped create the world’s most dangerous weapon (武器). Many people think he was the smartest person in the world. But Einstein said that he thought like a child with many questions and unusual ideas.
What did he like?
Einstein liked learning sailing(帆船运 动). He sailed in small boats all his life. He
once joked, “Sailing is the sport that takes the least energy!”
When Einstein was a child, his mother made him take violin lessons. At first, he didn’t like the violin. But then he learned to love music and became a good violinist.
Later, he said, “Love is the best teacher.”
Why is the sky blue?
In 1910, Einstein asked a question which many children often ask, “Why is the sky blue?” After his careful research, he answered the question like this: “It’s because light is made up of many colors including blue. When light travels to Earth, gas particles(气体微粒) spread the blue light all over the sky.” His answer is true in physics.
According to the passage, Albert Einstein haircuts and new clothes.
A．forgot B．minded C．dislikedThe underlined part actually shows Albert Einstein was a/an _ person.
A．clever B．imaginative C．childlikeEinstein learning sailing and playing the violin.
A．was interested in
B．looked forward to
C．was known forFrom Paragraph 3 we know that .
A．mother teaches the best
B．without mother’s push, we can’t love anything
C．when we love something, we’d like to learn about itEinstein offered a _ explanation for the question why the sky is blue.
A．magic B．scientific C．careful
| Join Us Basketball Club: We have a basketball club. It opens in the school on Saturdays. |
| Lost and Found Lost: A black bag in Room 601. Phone Jack White at 6880322. Found: Man’s gold watch. Please call Mr. Green at 6444997. |
| On Sale Pants — for boys, black and new. TV— old but works. Phone number: 5234065, 5234066. |
Where does the basketball club open?
A．In the school.
B．In Room 601.
C．In the store.Jack White wants to________.
A．find a black bag
B．join a club
C．buy an old TV setYou can call at ____________ to get your watch back.
A．6880322 B．5234065 C．6444997How is the TV on sale?
A．It’s new and it works.
B．It’s old but it works.
C．It’s old and it doesn’t work.Which sentence is TRUE?
A．Mr. Green can’t find his bag.
B．Mr. Green finds a watch.
C．Mr. Green likes basketball.
Yang Liwei circled the earth 14 times in 21 hours on October 15 and 16, 2003, landing on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Looking a little tired, Yang stepped out of Shenzhou V, smiling and waving at the waiting people. “I feel very good.” Yang said to Premier Wen Jiabao on the phone. Yang said to a newspaper, “For our motherland and me, this is a great moment.”
China’s launch of Shenzhou V shows a higher starting point. It has two special systems（系统） to protect the spaceman, but neither Russian rockets（火箭）nor American ones have.
Yang didn’t know that he was chosen as China’s first spaceman until just before the launch. Although Yang was excited at the news, he still slept at 8p.m. as usual and was woken up at 8p.m. the next morning. Before the launch, Yang ate Chinese traditional food-dumplings. We all know that travelers usually eat them before going on a journey for good luck.
A stamp Success of China First Manned Space Flight was issued（发行）on October 16, 2003, making China the third country to send a spaceman into outer space.It took Yang Liwei_____ to travel around the earth every circle.
| A．6 hours | B．90 minutes |
| C．2 days | D．21 hours |
How did Yang Liwei feel after he came back to the earth?
| A．Quite tired. | B．A little scared. |
| C．Tired but excited. | D．A little nervous |
Which of the following statement is right?
| A．There is no difference between China’s spaceship and other countries. |
| B．Yang Liwei knew he would be China’s first spaceman long before. |
| C．From the news, Yang Liwei was too excited to fall asleep. |
| D．Yang was proud of the flight. |
What does the underlined word “launch” mean?
| A．发射 | B．出发 | C．制造 | D．设计 |
China issued the stamps to _________.
| A．leave them in space |
| B．give them to Yang Liwei as a reward |
| C．celebrate the success |
| D．give them to Russian and American spacemen. |
For most people, the word “fashion”means “clothes”. But people ask question, “What clothes are fashion?” And they use the adjective “fashionable” in the same way: “she was wearing a fashionable coat. ”“His shirt was really a fashionable color. ”
But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs and in languages.
Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will feel that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspapers, radios, telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours.
New fashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion. From this passage we know that “fashion” means ____
| A．clothes | B．nice things |
| C．most of the popular things | D．everything |
Which of the following things is fashionable today?
| A．Surfing on the Interact. |
| B．Having a family dinner on New Year' s Day. |
| C．Learning to sing songs on the radio. |
| D．Doing rooming exercises at school. |
Today fashions change very quickly because ___.
| A．People read newspapers every day |
| B．Radios send information from one country to another |
| C．New things that people like are often shown on TV |
| D．People quickly learn what is happening in the world |
“There is money in fashion”in the last sentence means
| A．clothes are expensive |
| B．fashions can help people make big money |
| C．fashionable things are all expensive |
| D．if you are in fashion, you will have money |
Which one is not right in the following statements?
| A．As time goes, fashions can be different from what they are now. |
| B．In the modem world, fashions change very quickly. |
| C．The word “fashions” doesn' t only means “clothes”. |
| D．Fashions are in many things, but there aren' t fashions in school subjects. |