Thomas Edison was a famous American scientist. He was born in 1847. When he was a child, he liked
  to find out how things worked. He was in school for only three months. He asked his teacher a lot of
  strange questions, Most of them had nothing to do with his lessons. The teacher thought the boy was
 not bright and was not worth (值) teaching. When he told this to Edison's mother, she took her son out of
  school. As she had been a teacher, she taught him herself. The boy read a lot. Soon he became very
  interested in science. At the age of ten, Edison had already built a chemistry lab (實驗室) for himself.
 Ever since then, he never stopped searching (探索) for new and better ways to do things.

1. Edison was born in the _____  century ( 世紀(jì)).

    A. eighteenth    
    B. nineteenth  
    C. nineteen      
    D. eighteen      

2. While he was in school, Edison _____  .

    A. studied his lesson very hard  
    B. was often late for school
    C. liked to ask questions      
    D. was not bright and enough to study

3. Edison learned more from _____  .

    A. his mother    
    B. his teacher  
    C. other boys    
    D. his father

4. Young Edison was interested in _____  .

    A. sports    
    B. playing games  
    C. making trouble  
    D. science

5. He was always searching for new and better ways to do things after he _____  .

    A. read books                    
    B. finished school  
    C. built a lab                    
    D. was taken out of school

     The 26-year-old, Sui Feifei, shines in basketball games. But it is her pretty face that catches her most
attention (注意). She is known as "beauty" on the basketball court (籃球場).
     Sui Feifei has been on China's women basketball team for many years, but now, she will have a new
life: Playing in the WNBA (美國女子職業(yè)籃球聯(lián)賽) for Sacrammento Monarchs (薩克拉門托君主隊) in the US.
     It's the first time for Sui to  work  and  live  abroad. She  said she is  ready  for the challenges (挑戰(zhàn))
ahead. She shows great confidence, and this comes mostly from her good spoken English!
     When she went to get her visa (簽證), she talked happily with the officer there, and even gave the
officer a lesson in basketball in English!
     "My best point is that I enjoy speaking-I'm never afraid to open my mouth!" She said.
     Sui is outgoing. She likes speaking to any foreigner.
     Off the court, Sui is a good writer. Her love of writing comes from having read widely, even kungfu
stories!
     Sui  writes  for  many  newspapers, but  she also  enjoys  keeping  diaries.  She  feels free to put her
thoughts down on a piece of paper!
     Sui looks nice but she doesn't want to be like just for her beauty. "As for me, the courage (勇氣)and
wisdom you see on court shows the real beauty, not a pretty face." She once said.

1. Sui Feifei is one of the best basketball players in______.

A. England  
B. China  
C. Sacramento Monarchs

2. Many people know Sui Feifei because she____.

A. is not only good at basketball but also beautiful
B. is the only Chinese girl playing in the WNBA in the USA
C. is the most beautiful girl in China

3. The underlined word "confidence" in the third paragraph means "____"in Chinese. 

A.智慧      
B.勇氣        
C.自信        

4. Sui can speak English quite well because she____.

A. often goes aboard  
B. learned it hard at school
C. practices it very often

5. Which of the three is TRUE?

A. Sui wants people to notice her pretty face on the basketball court
B. In her spare time, Sui enjoys reading and writing.
C. When she is free, Sui likes to write what she thinks on paper

1. In the passage, ____ is the youngest player.

A. Pele    
B. Yao Ming    
C. Steffi Graf    
D. Martina Navratilova

2. ____ comes from South America.

A. Pele    
B. Yao Ming      
C. Steffi Graf    
D. No one

3. Which of the following is RIGHT?

A. Yao Ming is a table tennis player.  
B. Yao Ming is on the Houston Rockets now.
C. Yao Ming's parents are not basketball players.
D. Yao Ming is playing for the Chinese Football Team.

4. From the passage, we know that ____.

A. Steffi Graf was born in Wimbledon in 1985.
B. Martina Navratilova was also a tennis player.
C. Steffi Graf won the tennis final when she was only 16.
D. Steffi Graf won few of the main matches.

5. Which of the following is NOT RIGHT?

A. Pele was born in a poor family.
B. Pele was a great football player.
C. Pele played football in the street all his life.
D. Pele became famous soon after he was picked to play for Santos.

     Xiao Shenyang was born in 1981 in Liaoning, China.  He became a student of Zhao Benshan,
a famous comedy actor, in 2006.  He became famous after taking part in the 2009 CCTV Spring
Festival Gala (盛會). He is good at Er Ren Zhuan,   a popular folk (民間的) dance in northeast
China. 
     Can you find a ring in an egg? Liu Qian, a famous magician (魔術(shù)師) from Taiwan, did this in
front of people at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.  Liu Qian was born in 1976.   At the age of 12,
he won Taiwan’s Youth Magic Competition.
     Jackie Chan was born in 1954. His parents called him "Chan Kongsang". It means "one who
is born in Hong Kong". In the early 1980s,   Chan went to Hollywood.   Today,  he is famous  all
over the world. Many people like his action movies very much.   

1. When he was _______ years old, Xiao Shenyang became a student of Zhao Benshan.

A. 23  
B. 24    
C. 25    
D. 26

2. Where was Liu Qian born?

A. In Liaoning.    
B. In Taiwan.
C. In Hong Kong.    
D. In Beijing.

3. When did Liu Qian win Taiwan’s Youth Magic Competition?

A. In 1976.    
B. In 1980.    
C. In 1988.  
D. In 2006.

4. Jackie Chan is a famous _______.

A. actor  
B. violinist  
C. dancer  
D. magician

5. Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?

A. Zhao Benshan is a famous comedy actor.
B. Liu Qian can find a ring in an egg.
C. Xiao Shenyang is older than Liu Qian.
D. Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong, China.

     Can you play snooker (斯諾克臺球)?   Do you know about Ding Junhui?   He is one of China’s
most famous snooker (1)p_____.  Ding Junhui was (2)b_____ in  1987  in Wuxi,   Jiangsu.   He is
about  1.76 meters tall.   He enjoys  (3)w_____ movies,  playing basketball and swimming. Ding Junhui
liked snooker (4)w_____ he was young.  He began (5)l_____snooker at the age of eight.   (6)T_____
his family  didn’t have much money, his parents tried their best to support (支持) him. To find a good
teacher for Ding,  his father gave up (放棄) his job  and  (7)t_____ him to Dongguan,   Guangdong.  
There Ding Junhui trained very hard and played (8)b_____and better. As a well-known player, Ding is
successful now. He practices as hard as usual -always eight hours a day, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., 
without (沒有) a day (9)o_____.  He hopes to be a univer-sity student. He wants to learn (10)m_____.
He knows that he has a long way to go.