阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。 All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.
Many people like to watch others play games. They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when “their” player or team wins.
Sports change with the seasons. People play different games in winter and summer. Swimming is fun in warm weather, but skating is good in winter.
Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for（从事）them. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. 3What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China or Australia! And think of people in cold countries. Think how many people love to skate in Japan or Canada.
4 Some sports or games go back to thousands of years ago, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is 120 years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time. Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.
People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends. Sports help to train a person’s character. One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace (体面).
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（一）根据短文内容简要回答问题。
In what kind of countries do you think swimming is popular?
How long is the history of basketball?
(二)将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
(三)请给短文拟一个适当的标题。
“Everything happens for the best.” Whenever I faced disappointment(失望),my mother would say this to me.
After I left college in 1932, I decided to find a job in radio as a sports announcer(广播员). I went to Chicago and knocked at the door of every station. But unluckily, I was refused every time.
At one station, a kind lady told me that big stations wouldn’t hire（雇佣）a person without any experience and suggested that I try my luck at smaller stations. Following her advice, I went back to Dixon, where I had grown up. There were no such jobs in Dixon, and my father said a newly-opened store wanted a local athlete(运动员)to work for it . I wanted this job, but I was refused again.
“Everything happens for the best,” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, I felt so frustrated(沮丧). “How can I become a sports announcer if I can’t get a job in a radio station?” I asked aloud.
While I was waiting for the lift, I heard someone calling. It was MacArthur. “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he asked me to have a try. He was pleased with my performance, and he offered me a chance to work there.
On my way home, I thought of my mother’s words: “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if without the failure before.”Why couldn’t the writer find a job at big radio stations?
| A．Because he never graduated from college. |
| B．Because he didn’t work hard in college. |
| C．Because he didn’t have much experience. |
| D．Because he didn’t know about sports. |
Which of the following is the correct order of events?
a. The writer got a job as a sports announcer at a radio station.
b. The writer was refused when he wanted jobs in Chicago.
c. The writer graduated from college.
d. The writer went back to his hometown to look for a job.
| A．cbda | B．cbad | C．bcda | D．bcad |
Which of the following is TRUE?
| A．The writer’s parents didn’ t want him to be a sports announcer. |
| B．There were no radio announcer jobs in the writer’s hometown. |
| C．The writer became uninterested in being a sports announcer. |
| D．The writer got a job as a sports announcer in Dixon at last. |
According to the last paragraph, what did the writer’s mom want to tell him?
| A．He shouldn’t be a sports announcer. |
| B．Disappointment leads to failure. |
| C．He should be proud of himself. |
| D．Everything will be OK if he keeps trying. |
Bend over, take a deep breath and drink some water！This is just one of hundreds of pieces of advice you might get if you have the hiccups（打嗝）.Hiccups are so mysterious(神秘的)．We really don’t know why they start and why they stop．
Everyone has a favorite cure for a case of the hiccups．Some people think that a good scare is necessary to get well．Others eat a little sugar．Still others drink a glass of water with a knife in it．
An American man named Jack O’Leary said that he had hiccupped 160 million times over a period of eight years．He tried 60，000 cures，but none of them worked．Finally he prayed（向…祈祷） to Saint Jude, the saint of Hopeless cases, and his hiccupping stopped immediately．
A British worker didn’t stop his hiccups until eight months later. People from all over the world wrote him letters with suggestions for getting well．He tried them all，but the hiccups continued．Finally，he drank a “secret” mixture(混合物) someone had sent him. By that evening his hiccups were gone．
Why did these cures work for these two men? No one really knows. But people who have studied many cases of hiccups have an idea. Hiccups usually go away if you believe in the cure．might be the best cure for hiccups.
| A．Special pills |
| B．A spoonful of salt |
| C．Cold water |
| D．What you believe in |
The British worker spent __________ in stopping his hiccups．
| A．4 hours |
| B．2 days |
| C．8 months |
| D．8 years |
What is the main idea of this passage?
| A．Different ways to stop hiccups |
| B．What makes hiccups happen |
| C．How to get hiccups |
| D．Jack O‘Leary’s hiccups |
Frogs are animals that can live both in water and on land. There are more than 5,000 kinds of frogs on the earth. The earliest known frogs lived about 190 million years ago and the frogs today still look the same. Here are some fun things that you might not know about frogs. Enjoy!
The Biggest and the Smallest Frogs
Some frogs can be very big. The biggest kind of frog is the Goliath Frog in West Africa. Its body can be nearly 30cm long, about the size of a large cat. The Gold Frog and the Poison Frog are the smallest frogs in the world. They are less than 1cm long. Though the Poison Frog is very small, it is not weak at all. It is dangerous. Any animal that eats it will die very soon.
The Best Jumpers
Frogs are very good at jumping. They developed jumping legs so that they would not be eaten by other large animals. Using their big strong legs, more frogs can jump over 20 times their own length. The Australian Rocket Frog can even jump over 2m, which is 50 times its body length (5.5 cm). That might be the reason why frogs are called the best jumpers on the earth.
The Cryogenic Animal
Some frogs like the Common Wood Frog have a special ability to live in very cold places. When the temperature goes down, they become ice frogs. 2/3of their body water freezes. Their hearts stop, and their breathing stops too. You may think they are dead, but in fact they are not. Maybe we humans can learn the way that the frogs do for medical purpose.The earliest frogs lived about million years ago.
| A．20 |
| B．30 |
| C．50 |
| D．190 |
can jump over 2m.
| A．The Goliath Frog |
| B．The Common Wood Frog |
| C．The Poison Frog |
| D．The Australian Rocket Frog |
What will happen to a Common Wood Frog at very low temperature?
| A．It will die very soon. |
| B．It will be an ice frog. |
| C．It will become dangerous. |
| D．It will become very small. |
Bob is from London. His father has a shop there and his mother works on a farm. He is a student of Grade Seven. His father drives him to school every day. So he is never late for school and his teacher likes him very much.
It’s Tuesday today. Miss Read is teaching them to count from one to ten. Bob works hard in class. Soon he can count to ten. Miss Read is very glad and asks him, “How many people are there in your family?” Bob stands up and says, “Two, Miss Read.”
“Who are they?”
“My father and mother.”
“Oh,” Miss Read is surprised and says, “There’re three people in your family.”
“But now I’m not at home. I’m at school, you know.”
根据短文选择最佳答案。Bob’s father works .
| A．in an office |
| B．in a school |
| C．on a farm |
| D．in his shop |
Bob’s mother is .
| A．a worker | B．a farmer | C．a teacher | D．a shopkeeper |
Bob often goes to school .
| A．on foot | B．by bike | C．by car | D．by bus |
There are people in Bob’s family.
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
Which of the following is right?
| A．Bob is late for school today. |
| B．Miss Read teaches them English. |
| C．Bob only counts from one to two. |
| D．Bob gives his teacher a wrong answer |
根据上面信息内容, 选择最佳答案。If you find（找到） Grace’s dictionary, you can call ________．
| A．9873-8769 |
| B．668-0796 |
| C．233-4105 |
| D．15968720230 |
From the family tree we can see John is Jim and Helen’s ________．
| A．Daughter |
| B．son |
| C．brother |
| D．cousin |
Lily needs ________ of Celion Dion .
| A．three pencils |
| B．a red jacket |
| C．new CDs |
| D．two sharpeners |
Bill Smith is a ________ in No．9 Middle School．
| A．student | B．teacher |
| C．worker | D．singer |
What’s Tom Cooper’s address? ________.
| A．321 YONG FU ROAD |
| B．bill999@sina.com |
| C．312 Lin He Road |
| D．TOM.C@YAHOO.CN |