阅读短文，根据短文内容，回答下列问题．（本题共5小题，每小题2分，共10分）
I am Peter Hodes，a volunteer stem cell courier（运送员）．Since March 2012，I've done 89 trips﹣of those，51 have been abroad．I have42hours to carry stem cells（干细胞）in my little box because I've got two ice packs and that's how long they last．In all，from the time the stem cells are harvested from a donor（捐献者）to the time they can be implanted（移植）in the patient，we've got 72 hours at most．So I am always serious about time
I had one trip last year where I was caught by a storm in America．I picked up the stem cells in Providence，Rhode Island，and was supposed to fly to Washington then back to London．But when I arrived at thecheck﹣in desk at the airport in Providence，the lady at the desk said，"Well，I'm really sorry．I've got so bad news for you﹣there are no flights（航班）to Washington．"So I took my box and put it on the deskand said，"In this box are some stem cells that are urgently（急切地）needed for a patient．Please，please，you've got to get me back to the United Kingdom．"She just dropped everything．She managed to help me get on the flight to Newark and got me back to the UK even earlier．
For this courier job，you must know that in that box you've got something that is going to save somebody's life．
66．What does Peter Hodes do？
67．How long can the two ice packs last？
67．Why were there no flights to Washington？
69．Where did the donor donate（捐献）the stem cells？
70．Which flight did the lady put Peter on first？
You may know the song Happy Birthday very well. But do you know who wrote this song and for whom it was written? Let me tell you a story. About one hundred years ago, there was a girl called Kate in the USA. She loved children very much and wrote many songs for children. One of them was the song Good Morning To You. The song was very popular at that time among children, but not all grown-ups ( 成年人 ) knew it.
The girl was very poor. Once her friends invited her to a little child's birthday party. She felt happy butsad because she had no money to buy a present for him. Finally she decided to sing the song Happy Birthday. in the melody (曲调) of Good Morning to You for the little boy. When her friends heard the song at the party, they were very happy. "How wonderfully she is singing!We have not heard this song before. It's a special present," said someone. And they learned to sing it together.Later, the song became very popular throughout the world. People like it because it's simple and friendly.
判断下列句子是否与短文内容相符，相符的填“T”，不相符的填“F”。 Happy Birthday is a old song. Nobody knows who wrote the song Happy Birthday.
The song Happy Birthday is a song from America.
The melody of Happy Birthday comes from the melody of Good Morning to You.
The girl first sang the song for a little child as a birthday present.
The girl knew the song would be popular before she came to the party.
Microblog(微博) is used by more and more people in China. Do you know what it is? Microblog makes the people around the world to know each other better. It helps people to find the information that they need easier, also to get some information about the world they did not know before.
Many famous people are using microblog now, including singers, TV hosts and artists. Yao Chen once became the queen of microblog because her microblog has over 1.3million followers; Li Yuchun sent a microblog and got 11760 comments(评论) within 24 hours; Cai Kangyong, who is a famous TV host and famous writer in Taiwan, has 15143 more followers within 24 hours.
Why is microblog so popular? The most important reason is that it is convenient(方便的). People need not use too much time to write the articles to express their feeling. They can write at most 140 words, and then send it through computers or mobile phones onto the microblog. They can use it anytime, anywhere.
Many of my friends use microblog to share what they see, hear and think in a sentence or a photo with others. Also, they can follow their friends’ or their favorite stars’ microblogs. Microblog is very hot now!
Have you microblog today ?
根据短文内容，完成下列句子。Microblog helps people to find ___________ that they need easier.
___________ is the queen of microblog.
Microblog is so ___________ that it’s becoming more and more popular.
People send their words through ______ or mobile phones onto the microblog.
We can use a microblog to _________ what we see, hear and think in a sentence or a photo.
从方框中所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项补全短文，其中有一项是多余选项。
Pablo Picasso（毕加索） was born in Spain in 1881. His father was a painter and art teacher. __________________He won a prize — “Science and Charity” for his first important painting when he was only fifteen. He studied in several cities in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all that he wanted to know.
________________________
Paris was then the center of the world for artists. Everything that was new and exciting in the world of paintings seemed to happen there. __________________When he was twenty-three, Picasso moved there to live .
_______________________
When he was over ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man. ____________________________
When he died in 1973, he was ninety-one years old.
Jeff Keith has only one leg. When he was 12 years old, Jeff had cancer(癌症). Doctors had to cut off most of his right leg.
Every day Jeff puts on an artificial leg(假腿). With the plastic artificial leg Jeff can ride a bicycle, swim, and play soccer. He can also run.
Jeff made a plan with his friends who had plastic legs, too. They decided to run across America.
When he was 22 years old, Jeff Keith ran across the United States from the east to the west. He started running in Boston. Seven months later, he stopped running in Los Angeles. He ran 3,200 miles. Jeff stopped in cities on the way to Los Angeles. In every city people gave Jeff money. The money was not for Jeff, but for the American Cancer Society.
Jeff is disabled, but he can do many things. He is studying to be a lawyer(律师). Jeff says, “People can do anything they want to do. I want people to know that. I ran not only for disabled people. I ran for everybody.”
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。Jeff’s right leg was cut off because he had_______.
| A．TB（肺结核） | B．an accident | C．cancer | D．a serious injury |
From the passage we know that Boston is _______.
| A．in the west |
| B．half between the east and west |
| C．near Los Angeles |
| D．in the east |
It took Jeff _______ to run from Boston to Los Angeles.
| A．about four and a half months | B．over two hundred days |
| C．almost twenty-five weeks | D．less than half a year |
The underlined word “disabled” means _______.
| A．优秀的 | B．劳累的 | C．残疾的 | D．无能为力的 |
The fifth passage tells us that _______.
| A．people should give him more money |
| B．people can do anything they want to do |
| C．some disabled men will become lawyers |
| D．disabled people also can run |
| Name |
Personal Information |
| Fei Junlong |
Born in 1965 in Jiangsu, China An astronaut (宇航员) Traveled in Shenzhou VI in outer space with Nie Haisheng from October 12th to October 17th, 2005 |
| Yao Ming |
Born in Shanghai in 1980 The son of two great basketball players Joined the Houston Rockets in November, 2002 |
| Jay Chou |
Born in 1979 in Taiwan, China A popular singer Favorite music: Hip-Hop |
| Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) |
Born in Sweden A scientist Known for the Nobel Prize |
| Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
Not able to see or hear Worked hard and became one of the famous writers in America Wrote a lot, such as The Story of My Life |
Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng traveled in outer space for ____ days.
| A．two | B．six | C．seven | D．nine |
Yao Ming was a basketball player in ____ years ago.
| A．Germany | B．Canada | C．America | D．England |
The ____ was born in 1833.
| A．player | B．singer | C．astronaut | D．scientist |
The Story of My life is the name of a ____.
| A．sport | B．song | C．prize | D．book |
Which of the following is true?
| A．Yao Ming’s parents were players. |
| B．Jay Chou is from Shanghai, China. |
| C．Alfred Nobel was a French. |
| D．Helen Keller couldn’t see, but could hear. |