阅读下面材料，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案．
Every year，more than 26,000 children arrive in Britain．We ask some new arrivals what they like best about their new lives and what's different from home．
Jarek，Poland I don't know anybody from Poland here， but I'm lucky because the English boy next door is very friendly and kind． We are in the same class! I like teachers here． At home， the teachers seem a bit strict and serious． There are a lot of rules， too． Here， teachers are patient and don't give much homework． We students go out of school and buy pizza or burgers at lunchtime． We can't do that in Poland． |
Daisy & Luck，the USA My sister and I like living here．It's cool！My sister loves the British accent（口音）．Everybody here is very polite．But we don't understand all your strong words﹣we say "yard" not "garden" and "apartment" not "flat" The food is better here．There's Chinese，Indian and Thai．At home we eat too much fast food． |
It's too cold here! I hate doing sports， especially outside in winter． The teacher here is very serious about sports．I prefer science and maths．I love the maths class because the teacher is really funny， just like my maths teacher in India． The school is so big and some students seem unfriendly． Iim from a small village school．I think it's hard to communicate with them． |
（1）Among the above four children， probably likes the new school life best．
A． Luck
B．Zinah
C． Jarek
D． Daisy
（2）In Zinah's eyes， her maths teacher in India might be ．
A． cold
B． strict
C． patient
D． humorous
（3）The passage is probably taken from ．
A． a travel magazine
B． an education website
C． a geography textbook
D． a business newspaper
Some countries have a large number of earthquakes. Japan is one of them, while others do not have many, for example, there are few earthquakes in Britain.
There is often a great noise during an earthquake. The ground vibrates (颤动).Houses fall down. Railways are broken, which causes trains to turn over. Sometimes thousands of people are killed in different ways. About 60,000 were killed in 1783 in the south of Italy. Some people say that earthquakes often happen near volcanoes(火山), but it is not true. The centres of some earthquakes are under the sea. The bottom of the sea suddenly moves. The powerful forces inside the earth break the rocks. The coast is shaken and great waves appear. These waves travel long distances and rush over the land when they reach it, breaking down houses and other buildings. Sometimes they break more buildings than the earthquake itself.
A terrible earthquake happened in Assam, India, in 1986.The land near Shillong suddenly moved 1.5 feet to one side, and then back again. It continued to act like this 20 times a minute.Few buildings could stand what was happening and the great stones flew four feet up into the air. What kind of building stays up best in an earthquake? The Americans carefully studied the results of the earthquake at San Francisco(1906) and believed it best for buildings to be made with concrete(混凝土) walls together by steel frames. Such are the buildings that can't burn or fall easily.The best title of this passage should be.
| A．The Centres of Earthquakes |
| B．Earthquakes |
| C．The Loss(损失) Caused by Earthquakes |
| D．Buildings and Earthquakes |
Which of the following is NOT true?
| A．Trains' turning over is directly caused by the earthquakes. |
| B．Some earthquakes have their centres under the sea. |
| C．It isn't certain that earthquakes happen near volcanoes. |
| D．Buildings with concrete walls are better against earth quakes. |
Earthquakes often happen.
| A．near volcanoes | B．in Japan |
| C．in Britain | D．Both A and B |
make(s) more loss than the earthquake itself.
| A．Nothing |
| B．Volcanoes |
| C．Forces inside the earth |
| D．Terrible waves by the earthquake |
When an earthquake happens,can be heard.
| A．trains | B．thousands of people |
| C．a great noise | D．the powerful forces |
Ladies First
In America, just as in Europe, men usually open doors for women, and women always walk ahead of men into a room or a restaurant, unless the men have to be ahead of the ladies to choose the table, to open the door of a car or do some other things like the above. When walking on the sidewalk or on the
side of the road,a man should walk on the outside(closer to the road). But if a man walks with two ladies, he should walk between them. Then if the host (主人) or hostess (女主人),) or both of them come in a ear to get their guest for dinner, the guest should sit at the front seat and leave the back seat.In America, men usually.
| A．walk ahead of women | B．eat in a restaurant |
| C．walk behind women | D．drive a car to work. |
On the street, men
| A．cross the street |
| B．walk on the sidewalk |
| C．walk near the ladies |
| D．walk on the outside (closer to the road) |
If a man walks with two ladies, he should.
| A．walk between them | B．run before them |
| C．follow them | D．go away |
If Mrs Green gets you to her house in a car, you should
| A．jump into the car | B．sit at the front seat |
| C．sit at the back seat | D．drive the ear |
Zhou Yan, a Junior 3 student, wishes he never got a mobile phone. Last week, he went to see a doctor because his arms and fingers were in pain. The doctor told him that he had a "mobile
phone disease(疾病)". A growing number of teenagers are getting a "mobile phone disease" because most of them are using mobile phones.
Zhou got his mobile phone five months ago. He sent rues sages to his friends with it all the time. Zhou started to do badly in the exams because he spent much time playing with his mobile phone. His mother got very angry with him. He didn't stop playing with the mobile phone until his arms and fingers got painful.
Yang Ling, a doctor, says that if someone, like Zhou Yan,uses the mobile phone too much, he might get a "mobile phone disease". If teenagers find their arms or fingers painful, they
should go to see a doctor as soon as possible. Yang Ling said students should try to use their mobile phones less, especially at school.Zhou Yan wishes he never got a mobile phone because
| A．it is useless to him |
| B．it doesn't work well |
| C．it made his arms and fingers painful |
| D．his mother got angry with him |
Zhou Yan didn't do well in exams because.
| A．he didn't like studying |
| B．he was ill and didn't go to school |
| C．he was afraid of exams |
| D．he spent much time playing with the mobile phone |
If someone has a "mobile phone disease", it means.
| A．the mobile phone brought him a disease |
| B．something is wrong with his mobile phone |
| C．he can't live without the mobile phone |
| D．he hates the mobile phone very much |
Yang Ling thinks students should.
| A．go to see a doctor very often |
| B．use mobile phones more when they are at school |
| C．use mobile phones less |
| D．not use mobile phones any more |
The writer wants to tell usin the article.
| A．only a few teenagers have mobile phones |
| B．using mobile phones too much is bad for our study and health |
| C．mobile phones can help students get out of trouble |
| D．people shouldn't use mobile phones |
Americans love cars. They have more than 250 million (百万) cars ---about one car for every 1.2 people. But these cars cause (引起) too much air pollution. Even children know that cars need gas (汽油) to run. If there is no gas, today's cars will become tomorrow's about the cars in the future, they usually think of hydrogen (氢气) cars, electric (电的) cars and flying cars.
Hydrogen cars might be the cars of the future. They don't cause pollution and the hydrogen turns into water after it is used. The first hydrogen car was made by Honda. It was very expensive and didn't run very far.
There are some electric cars on the market, but they can't run very far or very fast. In the future, there will be a lot of electric cars on the road. When the batteries (电池) are better and cheaper, electric cars will become more popular.
There will be another kind of car --- flying cars. They will be able to run in the air. But now there is only one company, MDI, making this kind of car.We can know from the text that there are about _ people in American.
A. 250 million B. 300 million C. 208 million Hydrogen turns into after it is used.
A. water B. air C. gasWhich of the following is TRUE about electric cars?
A. They can run fast but not very far.
B. They are very popular with people now.
C. They are still too expensive for people to buy.How many kinds of cars are mentioned in the passage?
A. Two B. Three C. Four What is the best title for the text?
A. Cars in the future.
B. Americans and cars.
C. Air pollution.
Mr Smith just opened a small restaurant. To attract （吸引）People, he put up a notice (通知) in front of the restaurant. It said, "Meals on the house for three days."
The next day, a foreign student passed by the restaurant. He didn't know much English. It was lunch time and he felt very hungry. He walked to the restaurant and saw the notice. "American people are really funny; They even have dinners on the house! But how can I get up to the top of the house?" He said to himself.
He looked around and found a ladder (梯子). But when he reached the top, he heard someone shouting at him, "Hey! What are you doing up there?"
"Doesn't your notice say 'Meals on the house for three days'? Is it just a joke?" the foreign student asked.
When people heard this, they all laughed, "Do you know what that means? It means all the food here is free these days."Mr Smith put a notice in front of the restaurant, because .
A. he wanted to make a joke on people
B. he wanted more people to have meals there
C. he wanted to make the restaurant more beautifulWhat did the foreign student think of American people?
A. Friendly. B. Funny. C. Outgoing.The foreign student climbed to the top of the house in order to .
A. make a joke B. have lunch C. use the ladderHow did the foreign student get to the top of the house?
A. He used a ladder.
B. He used the notice.
C. He jumped."Meals on the house" in the passage probably means .
A. serving meals only on the house
B. eating something special on the top of the house
C. you can eat meals but pay nothing for them
