Geoffrey Payne talks for the first time about the night his wife was killed. The judge thought it was he who killed his wife. Now he wrote to a magazine from the prison (监狱) about what happened on the night of 13 October 1999.
I had to stay late at the hospital that night to do an operation. I finally left at about 11 p. m. I drove home slowly because the weather was terrible—the wind was blowing and it was raining heavily, I was turning into our road when a man suddenly ran in front of my car. I almost hit him but I stopped just in time. I was frightened and the man looked frightened too. I got out of the car but he ran away before I could ask if he was all right. It was very strange.
When I got home, the lights were on but it was very quiet. I called to my wife but there was no answer. Then I remembered that she was out at a concert.
I was still very upset about what happened on the road, so I made myself a drink. Then I went upstairs to have a bath. I saw that the window in the bedroom was open. This was strange because my wife always locked the doors and windows before she went out. She was afraid of burglars. When I went to close it, I found Ellen. She was lying on the floor. There was blood everywhere. I rushed over and felt for her pulse but she was dead. I sat on the floor beside her body and was too frightened to do anything.
The next thing I knew, the sky was getting light. I can't remember a thing about that night. In the morning I phoned the police. They arrived about half an hour after I phoned them. But it seemed like hours. During that time I tried hard to remember anything I could about the night before. I couldn't stop thinking about the man in the road. What was he doing at that time of night in our quiet neighbourhood? Why did he look so frightened"! Why did he run away? Geoffrey Payne was a .
| A．doctor | B．policeman |
| C．judge | D．taxi driver |
After he found Ellen dead, Payne .
| A． called the police at once |
| B．called out for help |
| C．tried to find out who killed his wife |
| D．sat beside his wife's body without knowing what to do |
Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
| A．Payne called the police the next morning. |
| B．Payne could remember clearly what had happened. |
| C．The policemen arrived thirty minutes after Payne's call. |
| D．Payne wondered what the man was doing in his neighbourhood that night, |
In this passage Payne tried to .
| A．say something about his family |
| B．show he was very sorry for his wife’s death |
| C．tell why his wife was killed that night |
| D．make people believe the man in the road probably killed his wife |
We are in a world full of competition. Our parents compete（竞争）with others in their offices，our brothers and sisters compete with others in their colleges，and we compete with our classmates in school. Many of us give up in the face of competition and will never be successful. ①can‘t，others，why，we，do，better，than .One important reason is that we have no self-confidence（自信）。
In fact，everyone is born equal. You can do what others do. Although your classmates may be better than you in some ways，you may be better than them in other subjects. So everyone has his or her own advantages. Don‘t look at things from a single（单个的）point of view. Try to discover your own advantages，and believe that you can do better than others in those ways.
Competition is not so terrible. Don‘t be afraid of it. And don‘t be afraid of those classmates who are better than you. ②Remember that self-confidence is the first step to success. Believe in yourselves，and you will be successful one day.
任务一Are we living in a world full of competition?
任务二： How can you improve yourself-confidence according to the passage?
任务三：将①处画线部分单词连成一个完整的特殊疑问句。
任务四：将②处画线部分译成中文。
任务五： What‘s the main idea of this passage?
Open today’s newspaper. What do you see? Ads! Turn on the TV. Still more ads! Everywhere you look, someone has something to sell.
Here are some ways ads get us to buy.
Some ads use famous people. Stars are paid to sell a product. Think about it. Do they really know about medicine? Do they know about soft drinks? These people may be famous. But they may not know about what they are selling.
Some ads make you think you’re getting the words of experts(专家). A man in a white coat comes on TV. He looks nice. “I use White and Black, ” he says. This man looks like a doctor. But he is an actor. He has been paid to sell this product.
Does soap(肥皂) have anything to do with a pretty child? Not much. But ads may show their products with something nice, such as the sun, the flowers and so on. Such an ad is about feelings rather than fact.
Ads are full of strong words like “new” and “power”(力量). They can help a product sell. The soap may be called “Spring Rain”. A car may be called “Tiger”. Strong words work on our feelings.
Some ads make promises(承诺). But can they keep them? No. Some ads use our fear of being too late. “Buy now! ” they say, “Selling ends soon. ” Check to see if this is true. Don’t hurry. Take time to think.
All ads hope we will buy something, do something, or think in a certain way. Know what ads are doing. Ask questions to yourself. Don’t let their words and pictures fool you.
uld not always believe the ads.
C. We should thiWe can see ads ______.
| A．on TV | B．in magazines |
| C．in newspapers | D．all the above |
Some stars appear in the ads because ______.
| A．they know every product well |
| B．they are famous |
| C．they are all experts |
| D．they all like white coats |
According to the passage, we know that “Spring Rain” is the name of ______.
| A．a kind of soap | B．a kind of car |
| C．a kind of medicine | D．a kind of flower |
The writer thinks the words and pictures in the ads ______.
| A．tell us a story | B．always make us strong |
| C．sometimes fool us | D．keep promises |
What can we learn from the passage?
A. We should always believe the ads.
B. We sho nk about the ads after we buy something.
C. We can believe all the stars.
Once there was a man who had two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was good-looking(看好) but the girl was not.
One day they found a mirror(镜子) for the first time and they saw what they looked like. The boy was very pleased(很高兴) and he said to his sister, "How handsome(英俊) I am! I look much nicer than you!" The girl did not like what her brother said and gave him a hard push(推). "Go away!" she said. Their father saw what was happening. He went up to them and said to the boy, "You must always BE good as well as LOOK good." Then to the girl he said, "My dear, if you help everyone and do your best to please him, everyone will love you. It does not matter that you are not as good-looking as your brother."Once a man had ____.
| A．a good-looking boy |
| B．an ugly(难看的) girl |
| C．two good-looking children |
| D．a boy and a girl |
The boy saw what he looked like in the mirror and was pleased because he ____.
| A．found a mirror |
| B．knew he looked as nice as his sister |
| C．and his sister were good-looking |
| D．was handsome |
The girl gave the boy a hard push because ____.
| A．she was stronger |
| B．what he said was wrong |
| C．she was not pleased with what he said |
| D．her father loved her |
Father told the girl that ____.
| A．it was important to be good-looking |
| B．it was a good thing to be ugly |
| C．if she did her best to help people, she would enjoy people's love |
| D．she was as good-looking as her brother |
What can we learn from this story?
| A．To be good to people is more important than to be good-looking. |
| B．To be good-looking is very important. |
| C．If you want to make yourself good-looking, you must be good to people. |
| D．If you often help people, you will become more and more beautiful. |
The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th FIFA World Cup, an international association football tournament(比赛) that will take place in Brazil from June 12 to July 13, 2014.
This will be the second time the country has hosted the competition, the first being the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Brazil will become the fifth country to have hosted the FIFA World Cup twice, after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany. It will be the first World Cup to be held in South America since the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina(阿根廷), the first time two consecutive(连贯的) World Cups are staged outside Europe and the first time two consecutive World Cups are staged in the Southern Hemisphere(南半球) (the 2010 FIFA World Cup was held in South Africa).
On March 7, 2003, FIFA announced that the tournament would be held in South America for the first time since Argentina hosted the competition in 1978, in line with its policy of rotating(循环) the right to host the World Cup among different confederations. On June 3, 2003, the South American Football Confederation CONMEBOL announced that Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia wanted to host the 2014 World Cup finals. And Brazil won the right to host the event on October 30, 2007, as the only country to enter the bidding process.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the ______ FIFA World Cup.
| A．first | B．second |
| C．fifteenth | D．twentieth |
Brazil once hosted the FIFA World Cup in ______.
| A．1950 | B．1978 | C．2003 | D．2010 |
______ once held the FIFA World Cup twice before Brazil.
| A．Mexico, Italy, France and Germany |
| B．Mexico, Italy, England and Canada |
| C．Korea, Italy, France and the USA |
| D．South Africa, Italy, France and Germany |
CONMEBOL is a confederation from ______.
| A．Europe | B．South America |
| C．North America | D．Asia |
Which of the following is NOT right?
| A．The 2014 FIFA World Cup will last more than 30 days. |
| B．Argentina held the 1978 FIFA World Cup. |
| C．The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the first tournament held in South America. |
| D．Brazil didn’t become the only country to enter the bidding process until 2007. |
任务型阅读（本题有5小题，每小题1分；满分5分）
你对颜色了解多少呢？下面的五个段落将会帮助你进一步揭开颜色的奥秘！阅读五个段落，根据每段的中心内容将段前序号填入下面的表格中。
A. There are many colours in nature. Do you know that colours have weight? Let’s do a small test. First, put two objects of the same weight into two boxes. Then, cover one box with a red piece of paper, and the other with a piece of paper. Now hold the boxes in your hand one by one. It is certain that you will think the red one is a little heavier.
B. Why do you think that is? A scientist found that different colours have different weights in a man’s mind. That is to say, every colour has its own weight in our mind. The heaviest colour is red, then blue, green, orange, yellow and white.
C. Colours also have smell. Can you smell the colour? Of course not. Then why do the scientists say this? It is because the smell reaches our brain through sense organs (感觉器官).
D. Scientists say that people react (反应) differently to different colours. Colours you like will make you feel good, but colours you don’t like will make feel nervous or sick.
E. For example, if you sit in a room with red windows, walls and floors for two hours, you’ll you have been there for four fours. But if the room is blue, you’ll feel you have been there for only an hour. If a person goes out of a red room and into a blue room, his temperature will fall. So our bodies change, depending on what colour we see.
| Do a test to see if colours have weight. |
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| Colours can change our body temperature. |
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| Colours have smell. |
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| People react differently to different colours. |
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| Why do people think colours have weight? |