One day Ram was lost on his way home and went into a forest (森林). He walked in the
forest and saw a den (洞穴). He went inside and saw a lion there. He was scared and ran out of
the den. At that time, an elephant came and said, "Don't worry. I will be your friend." Great!
Could you tell me the way out of the forest?" asked Ram. But the elephant did not know the
way. They walked and walked until the elephant was trapped (被捕獲) in a cage (籠子) that a
man put for him. To save the elephant, Ram asked all the animals in the forest for help, but
they could do nothing. At last, when the man slept, Ram took the key from his bag and opened
the cage. The elephant thanked Ram very much. He called other elephants and trumpeted (吼叫) with them. Hearing the sound, some people came to the forest and took Ram home.

1. What did Ram see in the den?
A. A tiger.
B. A man.
C. A lion.
D. An elephant.
2. What does the underlined word "save" mean?
A. Turn on.
B. Make friends with.
C. Keep (money).
D. Keep someone safe.
3. How did Ram finally get out of the forest?
A. He found the way home.
B. Some people took him home.
C. His parents found him in the forest.
D. A friend of the elephant took him out.
4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the story?
A. Ram was trapped in the den.
B. Ram was lost when he went to school.
C. No animals could help the elephant out of the cage.
D. Ram asked the man for the key and opened the cage.
5. This is a story about _____.
A. a boy and a lion.
B. a boy and an elephant
C. an elephant and a lion
D. an elephant and his friends

     That was my grandmother's first Christmas without Grandfather. When my parents and I arrived at her
  little house, we found she had waited up all night for us.
     Grandfather had always said that the Christmas tree was the most important decoration (裝飾物) of all.
  So first we took out the beautiful tree that was stored in the closet (貯藏室). But the star was missing. It
 was my grandmother's favorite part of the tree.
     "Why? It must be somewhere in the closet," my grand-mother said.
     As we opened up boxes one by one and found no star, my grandmother's eyes were full of tears.
 Grandfather had given it to her some fifty years ago, on their first Christmas together. But on her first
 Christmas without him, the star was gone.
     The next morning, my family sat down together to open the presents.
     "The last gift is to Grandmother from Grandfather," Father said, in a strange voice.
     "From whom?" There was surprise in my grandmother's voice.
     "I found this gift in Grandfather's closet when we got the tree down," Mother explained.
     My grandmother opened the box. There was a shinning (發(fā)亮的) golden star and a note in it:
     Don't be angry with me, dear. I broke your star while putting away the decorations, and I couldn't bear
  to tell you. I hope it brings you as much happiness as the first one. Merry Christmas!
                                                                                                                                          Love,
                                                                                                                                          Bryant

1. The family couldn't find the star on the Christmas tree because _____.

    A. the grandfather had taken it away with him
    B. the grandfather had put it in a box
    C. the grandfather had broken it
    D. the family didn't look carefully enough for it

2. Which of the following is TRUE about the grand-mother?

    A. She lived with the author's family.
    B. She felt sad when the star was missing.
    C. She had never got a Christmas present from her husband.
    D. She couldn't believe her husband's death.

3. What would probably happen to the grandmother after she read the note?

    A. She would ask her children to buy a new star.
    B. She would get angry with her husband.
    C. She would be greatly moved (感動(dòng)).
    D. She would throw away the new star.

4. What does the underlined word "missing" mean in Chinese?

    A. 褪色的
    B. 錯(cuò)過的  
    C. 想念的
    D. 找不到的

5. What can we know from the story?

    A. The grandfather was afraid of his wife.
    B. The grandfather loved his wife very much.
    C. The grandmother didn't know how to spend Christmas Day.
    D. The grandfather left home on Christmas Day.

     My full name is Tomasz P. Szynalski, but you can call me Tom. I live in Poland. I started learning
English when I was six years old in primary school. I was always one of the best students in class. But
my English was still very bad.
     In 1993, I went to high school. It is the best high school in my city. A lot of classes are taught in
English. I took the advice of my English teacher. I bought a good Polish-English dictionary. I started to
study American pronunciation. I watched American TV and movies. So I was getting better and better at
understanding spoken English. I also learnt some words and phrases (短語) that I could use in my own
sentences. In class, I would like to talk to the American teacher. When I spoke, I used simple grammar
to avoid (避免) mistakes.
     During the summer vacation of 1994, I started reading books in English. But I realized I needed a
way to have a larger vocabulary. Then I began to use a computer program to learn English words. The
program was called Super Memo. Because of all the reading and Super Memo, my vocabulary was no
longer my weakness. Then I started writing e-mails and talk only in English with some of my friends.
     Today, English is my "second native language". When I speak, I sound very much like an American.
Sometimes even Americans can't tell the difference.

1. When did the writer begin to learn American pronunciation?

A. When he was 6 years old.
B. When he was in high school.
C. After he moved to America.
D. Before 1993.

2. Which way is NOT mentioned in English learning in the passage?

A. Reading books in English.
B. Using a Polish-English dictionary.
C. Going to a language school in America.
D. Using a computer program.

3. What can we know from the passage?

A. Tom's English is pretty good today.
B. Tom didn't study English hard in primary school.
C. Tom didn't like his English teachers in high school.
D. Tom thinks good spoken English is the most important.

4. What does the underlined word "weakness" mean in Chinese?

A. 偏好
B. 弱點(diǎn)
C. 隱私
D. 避諱

5. Which is the best title for this passage?

A. How I Love English
B. How I Got Interested in English
C. How Important English Is
D. How I Learnt English

　　Two Englishmen were in Boston for a visit. One morning, they went out to
look for a famous church, but they didn’t know how to get there. They stopped a
man and asked.  
　　"Excuse me, can you tell us the way to the North Church?"
　　"Go three blocks (街區(qū))and turn to your left. he said,"you can't miss it."
        So the Englishmen walked three blocks and turned to their left. But they
didn't see any church. They then asked a second man. 
        "Excuse me , but we're trying to find the North Church." 
         This one said, "Go three blocks and turn to your left."But again they
couldn't find the church. In the end they asked a third man,"Excuse me, please,
could you tell us how to get to the North Church?"
         "Go three blocks and turn to your left, you can't miss it." 
         They walked three blocks and turned to their left for a third time. This time
they found the church.
         "Is everything in Boston three blocks and a left turn?" they asked
themselves.
         Just then a man walked over to them."Excuse me."the man said,"Where is
the East Park? can you tell me?"
        "Go three blocks and turn to your left,"one of the Englishmen said,
　　"you can't miss it."

1. Where were the two Englishmen going?
______________________________
2. Did they know the way?
______________________________
3. What did the first man tell them?
______________________________
4. How many people did they ask the way?
______________________________
5. Do you think the two Englishmen know the way to the East park?
______________________________

     Stephen Hawking, a world famous British physicist, will write a children's book with his daughter.
Hawking said the book will be "a bit like Harry Potter" but without the magic. "It explains the wonders
of the universe(宇宙)," said Hawking, while he was on a visit to Hong Kong last week.
     Hawking, 64, is probably the world's most famous scientist after Albert Einstein. He is an expert on
black holes. He has put his whole life into digging into the beginning (and the end) of the universe.
"My goal is simple," Hawking once said. "It is to completely understand the universe, why it is as it is
and why it is there at all."
     Hawking has a bad illness that stops him from moving or talking. For a period of time, he had no
way to communicate except by blinking(眨眼).
     Now he sits on a wheelchair with a computer by his side. To communicate, he moves two fingers
to control the computer's mouse. He selects his words from the screen, which are then spoken by a
voice synthesizer(音響合成器).
I have had the disease for most of my life," Hawking once said. "Yet it has not stopped me from being
successful at my work."
     Although Hawking is such a disabled man, he made great achievements. He has received many
awards and prizes for his work over the years. This includes winning the Albert Einstein Award. It is
the highest achievement in theoretical physics(理論物理).

根據(jù)材料內(nèi)容選擇最佳答案，并將其標(biāo)號(hào)填入題前括號(hào)內(nèi)。

1. The book that Stephen Hawking will write is_____.

A. the same as Harry Potter    
B. is quite different from Harry Potter.
C. about the magic        
D. about science

2. From text we can learn _____.    

A. Hawking is more famous than Einstein    
B. Hawking is less famous than Einstein
C. Both Hawking and Einstein are very famous
D. Neither Hawking nor Einstein is famous

3. What does the underlined pronoun "it" stand for?    

A. The goal.  
B. The magic.  
C. The universe.  
D. The book.

4. According to the text, which of the following statements is the fact?   

A. Hawking has received many awards and prices except the Albert Einstein Award.
B. The illness keeps him from moving and talking.
C. He communicates with others by speaking.
D. The illness stopped him from being successful.

5. What is the best title for the text?

A. Stephen Hawking  
B. A Famous Book  
C. Live as Hawking Does  
D. A Clever Man

     On October 8th, when I cooked breakfast for my children, my house started shaking (搖動(dòng)). It
was an earthquake (地震).
     My children were with me. Ali, who was 5 years old, came to me and asked for breakfast. He ate
a slice of bread when the earthquake came. When we tried to run out, something struck (撞擊) Ali.
Humna and I ran out of the house safely.
     Soon Ali's father came and helped us, but we couldn't find Ali and my other daughter, Ayesha. We,
with other people, looked for them everywhere. Finally we found Ayesha's dead (死的) body from
her room. We found Ali six hours later. We could hear him cry at that time. The people said to him,
"We have a bike for you. Don't cry." He was very happy after hearing it because he wanted a bike
very much. He asked for his bike when he came out, but we had nothing for him except (除……之外)
the dead body of his sister Ayesha.

1. What did Ali do when the earthquake came?

A. He ran into the house.    
B. He played in the yard.
C. He ate a slice of bread.  
D. He helped his mum cook.

2. How many children were there in the family before the earthquake?

A. Two.    
B. Three.    
C. Four.  
D. Five.

3. They spent more than _____ hours looking for Ali.

A. 3    
B. 4  
C. 5  
D. 6

4. Which of the following is NOT true ac-cording to the passage?

A. Ali was 5 years old.
B. Ayesha was dead.
C. The writer bought a bike for Ali.
D. The earthquake came in the morning.

5. The passage is about ________.

A. a bad trip                
B. a clever child
C. a great mother            
D. a terrible earthquake  

    There once lived in China a king and a queen who were very foolish. One day the queen had a baby
daughter. When they saw their baby, they cried, "My goodness!How small it is! It's toothless! It's a
monster (怪物)!" They sent for all the doctor in the country and ordered them to prepare some medicine
for it.
     "when she takes your medicine, she must grow to the right size and have teeth," the king said "If you
don't do this, you will have a beating."
     The doctor thought it impossible, but they dare not say anything against the king's order. Justthen an old
doctor stepped forward. "Oh, we shall certainly obey your order," he said. "But it takes time. We have to dig
a mineral (礦物) from the Kunlun Mountain when the snow metles for the second time. The snow metles on
those mountains only in six years. So we need twelve years."
     At last the king agreed and the doctors took away the little girl. On her twelfth birthday,they brought her
back to her parents with long black hair and becautiful teeth. The king and queen were very happy and gave
the doctors expensive presents.

1. The underlined word "foolish" means ______ inChinese.

A. 愚蠢的
B. 聰明的
C. 富有的
D. 漂亮的

2. The king and the queen thought their daughter was strange because ______.

A. it was too thin
B. it was too heavy
C. it looked too big
D. it had no teeth

3. The doctor would be beaten if ______.

A. the baby daughter didn't take their medicine
B. they were against the king's order
C. the baby daughter grew to the right size
D. the baby daughter became a monster

4. Why did the doctors want to keep the king's daughter for twelve years?

A. Because they needed a lot of diderent plants.
B. Because they had to dig for a mineral.
C. Because this would give the baby time to grow up.
D. Because it would take twelve years to prepare some medicine.

5. Which of the following is true?

A. The baby grew to the right size after taking a king of medicine.
B. The old doctor refused to obey the king's order.
C. The baby had long hair and beautiful teeth after 12 years.
D. When the king saw his 12-year-old daughter, he gave the doctors a beating.

   It was early morning. Peter Corbett helped Mark Wellman out of his wheelchair and onto the ground. They
stood before El Captain, a huge rock almost 1.2 kilometers high. Mark had long dreamed to climb El Captain
when he was a child. At the age of twenty-one, he had fallen while climbing mountain, losing his legs. But he
never lost his love for life.?
   Mark knew he couldn't finish the climb alone, but his friend Peter would be there to lend a helping hand. They
thought it would take seven days to reach the top. Now Peter climbed about 30 meters up and hit a piton (巖釘) into the rock. Fastening (拴緊) one end of a 50 -meter rope (繩子) to the piton, he let the other end of the rope
fall down. Mark caught the rope and fastened it to his belt. He next reached above his head and fastened a T-bar(丁字鐵) to the rope. Mark took a deep breath, pushed the T-bar up almost as far as his arms could reach, and
began the first pull up. High above, Peter let out a cheer, "You're on your way."?
   For the first four days the two men progressed upward (向上) without accident. But on the fifth day, a very
strong wind began to blow, making it hard for Mark to hold on to his rope. But Mark kept on pushing up the
T-bar and pulling himself up.?
   It took them one day more than they had expected. But as the two heads appeared the group of people waiting
on the top went wild with joy.?
   Mark Wellman showed that if you set your heart and mind on something, no wall is too high, no dream
impossible.

1. With the help of his friend, Mark could climb up El Captain about___ meters in height each day.?

A. 300
B. 150
C. 50
D. 30?

2. While climbing, Mark___.?

A. carried the T-bar on his back and stepped upward?
B. pushed up the T-bar and pulled himself up?
C. sat in his wheelchair and pushed himself up?
D. held on to the rope drawn up by his friend?

3. Which is the correct order of the steps before Mark's climbing??
a. push up the T-bar
b. tie the rope to his belt?
c. hit the piton into the rock
d. fasten the T-bar to the rope?
e. tie the rope to the piton?

A. c?e?b?d?a
B. e?c?a?b?d
C. e?b?d?c?a
D. b?d?e?c?a

4. Which of the following is true of Mark Wellman? ?

A. He realized his dream without anyone helping him. ?
B. He was badly injured when he climbed El Captain. ?
C. He dreamed to climb up El Captain for a long time. ?
D. He climbed up the rock by using a tool for the disabled.?

5.What can we learn from the passage??

A. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
B. Dreams will come true in the end. ?
C. Each step is important to success.
D. Nothing can stop a strong will.?

      I think the most terrible thing in life for my little brother is getting up in the morning. He is almost sick when
my mother calls, "Herbert! It's seven o'clock! Get up!"
      Herbert answers, "I'm coming!" and goes right back to sleep. I'm not at all like my brother. I don't like to go
to bed at night but I don't mind getting up in the morning. I usually wake up before my mother calls me. I jump
out of bed and go into the bathroom to take a shower. I get dressed, brush my teeth, comb my hair, and get
ready to go downstairs for breakfast as soon as my mother calls.
      But not Herbert. He just sleeps. A military band (軍樂隊(duì)) in our bedroom could not wake him up. I call him
and say, "Get up! Mum will be up here to pull you out of bed if you don't get up immediately!"
      But he just sleeps. After calling a few more times my mother has to come upstairs and pull Herbert out of
bed. It's that way every day with my little brother. Perhaps some day he'll learn to get up on time, but I really
don't think so.
(     ) 1. The most terrible thing in life for my little brother is going to school.　
(     ) 2. I'm not like my brother because I like to go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning.
(     ) 3. I usually jump out of bed and go into the bathroom for a shower before my mother calls.
(     ) 4. When mother calls, Herbert doesn't answer and remains in bed.
(     ) 5. My mother often has to go upstairs and pull Herbert out of bed as he refuses to get up.
(     ) 6. Sometimes we have to send for a military band to wake Herbert up.
(     ) 7. The writer thinks some day Herbert will learn to get up on time.