Tom arrived at the bus station quite early for Paris bus. The bus for Paris would not leave until five to twelve. He saw a lot of people waiting in the station. Some were standing in line(排队), others were walking around. There was a group of schoolgirls. Their teacher was trying to keep them in line. Tom looked around but there was no place for him to sit.
He walked into the station cafe(咖啡馆). He looked up at the clock there. It was only twenty to twelve. He found a seat and sat down before a large mirror(镜子) on the wall. Just then, Mike, one of Tom’s workmates came in and sat with Tom.
“What time is your bus?” asked Mike.
“There’s plenty of time yet,” answered Tom.
“Well, I’ll get you some more tea then,” said Mike.
They talked while drinking. Then Tom looked at the clock again. “Oh! It’s going backward(倒行)!” he cried. “A few minutes ago it was twenty to twelve and now it’s half past eleven.”
“You’re looking at the clock in the mirror.” said Mike. Tom was so sad. The next bus was not to leave for another hour. Since then Tom has never liked mirrors. What time was it in fact when Tom looked at the clock in the mirror?
| A．Half past twelve | B．Twenty to twelve |
| C．Half past eleven | D．Half past one |
Which of the following is true?
| A．Tom arrived in Paris on time |
| B．The next bus would leave in half an hour |
| C．After that Tom didn’t like clocks any longer |
| D．Tom looked at the clock in the mirror only once |
From the story we know that when we look at a clock in a mirror, we will find ______.
| A．the time is right | B．it’s going slower |
| C．it’s going backward | D．it’s going faster |
Which of the following is the title(题目) of the story?
| A．The Mirror of the Station | B．Not A Careful Man |
| C．Missing A Bus | D．The Clock In The Mirror |
Money can buy happiness, but only when you spend it on other people, researchers said.______. The results showed that people feel happier when they spend money on others. They asked the following questions: what made them happy, what was their salary(薪水), and how they spent money, including bills(帐单), gifts for themselves, gifts for others and money for charity. “
_____,” the research team leader Dunn said.
Dunn’s team also talked with 16 people at a company before and after they received a reward(奖金). Their reward was between $3,000 and 48,000. “If a person gave more of their money to the charity, he or she would experience greater happiness. _________,” the researcher said in their report.
Finally, the researchers did an experiment. They gave $ 5 and $ 20 bills to each of the 630 people and told half of them to buy something for someone else. Those people felt happier after spending the money on others. Dunn said, “_____.”
阅读短文，完成下列任务。
任务一：将下列句子填入文中恰当的空白处。
| A．No matter how much money each person made, those who spent more money on others seemed to be happier, but those who spent more on themselves did not |
| B．How they spent the money was more important for their happiness than how much money they got |
| C．Researchers from American university did experiments on more than 630 Americans |
| D．Spending as little as $ 5 on others can give people happiness |
任务二：What’s the best title for the passage?
| A．How to Spend Your Money | B．Money Can Bring Happiness |
| C．Research on Money | D．Research on Happiness |
I have been a friend of Bill Gates for a long time. I knew him when he was a student at Harvard University. We were surprised when he left University to set up his own company “Microsoft” and make his own software. But he was the clever one! He is very good at writing computer languages and almost all computers now use Microsoft software. The program “Word” is used from Britain to China!
Of course he has made a lot of money and that makes people very jealous. They want to stop his success. Even the government is against him and has tried to break his company into two parts. The government says that it is unfair to other people who want to sell similar software. And what's more, because he fits his new software free in every new computer, the government says he is stopping other companies from selling their programs. This is not fair. Everyone should be able to do what they can to make their company bigger and stronger. Bill Gates has only done what he can to stop other competitors.
He is very rich, but he is generous. He has given millions of dollars to help the education and health of many children around the world. You could not meet a better man than Bill Gates.将文中画线句子翻译成汉语。
_______________________________________根据短文内容回答问题。
What are the two reasons for which the government has tried to break Bill Gates' company up?
(1)__________________________
(2)__________________________文中找出与下句意义相近的句子。
Each person in the company should try his best to make their business more successful. '_______________________________________文中画线单词generous的汉语意思是：________
根据短文内容，用四个形容词描述一下Bill Gates。
(1) ________ (2) ________ (3) ________ (4) ________
Only a few years ago, mobile phones were very large. They needed large batteries. They had to be powerful to send their signal to faraway places. This was because most cities had only one antenna tower(中继站) for mobile phones.
Today’s mobile phones are small and easy to use. Now most cities have a lot of antenna towers, not just one. This means that each mobile phone doesn’t have to send its signal far away, so they don’t need to be so powerful. Mobile phones today use small batteries. A large city, where lots of mobile phones are used, can have hundreds of towers.
We can use a mobile phone to do a lot of things, like calling your friends and family from almost anywhere, calling the police immediately if there is an accident, sending or receiving messages. Some modern mobile phones can be even used to play games, take photos, listen to music, watch TV, surf on the Internet and so on.
Sending short written messages is a popular way to use your mobile phone. Many people use short forms of words, so the messages are quick to write and read. Can you guess what these messages mean? RUOK? CUL8r! That’s EZ! That’s Gr8! Can I C U B4 3pm 2moro? Try to read them out. What do you hear?
By present we can’t _______with a mobile phone.
| A．call our friends | B．surf on the Internet |
| C．do housework | D．play games |
Why did the mobile phones need large powerful batteries several years ago?
___________ What does the writer think of today’s mobile phones?
| A．They are small but very powerful. |
| B．They are very easy for us to use. |
| C．They are very useful but expensive. |
| D．They are big enough to send a signal. |
What does “Can I C U B4 3pm 2moro?” probably mean?__________________________________________
What is the article written for?
| A．To give us some common knowledge of the mobile phone. |
| B．To introduce what use the mobile phone has. |
| C．To tell us what short forms of words mean in written messages. |
| D．To show us in what way the mobile phone is expected to develop. |
When we travel from one country to another, we find people have quite different feelings about food. People often feel what they eat is normal, and what other people eat is strange or silly. In most part of Asia, for example, people like rice and meat. In England, people eat potatoes every day. In the Middle East, bread is the main part of every meal. Eating, like so many things we do, becomes a habit which is difficult to change. Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee. The English drink tea four or five times every day. Australians drink a great deal of beer, and the French drink wine every day.
The sort of meat people like to eat is also different from one country to another. Horse meat is thought to be delicious in France. In Hong Kong, some people enjoy eating snakes. New Zealanders eat sheep, but they never eat goat meat. The Japanese don’t like to eat sheep meat because of its smell, but they enjoy eating uncooked fish.
People everywhere enjoy eating what they have always eaten, and there is very little we can do to change our eating habits.People often feel what others eat is __________.
| A．normal | B．bad |
| C．attractive | D．strange |
English people eat __________ every day.
| A．rice | B．potatoes |
| C．horse meat | D．fish |
The French drink __________ every day.
| A．wine | B．tea | C．coffee | D．orange juice |
Japanese people like to eat __________.
| A．snakes | B．sheep meat |
| C．uncooked fish | D．goat meat |
People’s eating habits __________.
| A．are easy to change | B．needn’t to be changed |
| C．are difficult to change | D．should be changed |
When I was about 12，a girl in my class liked to point out (指出）my problems. I was too thin；I wasn’t a good student；I talked too much；I was too proud (骄傲），and so on. At last，I became very angry and ran to my father.
He listened to me quietly. Then he asked, “Are these things true or not? Do you know what you are really like? Go and make a list of what she said and find the things that are true. ”
I did as he told me. To my great surprise, I discovered (发现）that about half of the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change (改变)(like being very thin). But there were things I could and wanted to change. For the first time, I got a clear picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Dad. He didn’t take it, “That’s just for you，” he said “You know the truth (真相）about yourself better than anyone else. When people say something that is true about you，you should find it helpful. ’
Our world is full of people who think they know your matter. Don’t be angry and feel hurt. Listen to them.
根据短文内容，判断正(T)误(F)。I was angry because a girl in my class pointed out my problems.( )
My father wasn’t interested in what I said.( )
I found that about half of the things the girl said were true.( )
I was very proud so I didn’t want to change at all.( )
No matter what people say? you should think it helpful.( )