It was late at night when Sam got off the train. He was tired and wanted to find a hotel to have a rest.
He looked around and saw a hotel not far away. There were three floors in it. Then Sam went in.
     "How much do I need to pay for a single(單人)room a night?" Sam asked. "Well, sir" said the girl, "a
single room on the first floor is 50 dollars a night."
     "What about the one on the second floor?" asked Sam. "40 dollars."
     "Then how about the one on the third floor?" "30 dollars."
     Sam picked up his bag and wanted to go out. "Don't you think our price is reasonable?" the girl
asked. "Yes," said Sam. "Your price is of course reasonable, but I'm sure your hotel is not high enough."

1.Sam wanted to find a hotel after ______.

A. having a good rest
B. walking a whole day
C. getting off the train

2. Sam needed to pay ______ for a single room on the third floor

A. $ 30
B. $ 40
C. $ 50

3. The underlined word "reasonable" means ______.

A. sound(合理的)
B. high
C. low

4. Sam didn't stay in the hotel because ________.

A. the hotel wasn't clean
B. the hotel was full(滿的)
C. the price was high

     I was 9 years old when I found out my father had AIDS.
     AIDS wasn't something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew
that this would be a family secret. When I was 12, his condition got worse.
     We couldn't afford all the necessary medications for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had
no money for school supplies and often couldn't even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling
completely lost, not knowing what the teacher was saying. I did not share my burden (負擔) with anyone. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even
though he was too weak to eat by himself.
     I knew he was going to die, but after so many years of  keeping his illness a secret, I completely
know what to do when he reached his last days.  
     I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to
anyone, even me.

1. What does "his condition got worse" mean in Chinese?
A. 他的條件得到了改善.    
B. 他的情況更加惡化了.
C. 他變得越來越壞了.      
D. 他的環(huán)境變得更壞了.
2. What can we learn from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3?
A. The writer couldn't understand his teacher.
B. The writer had special difficulty in hearing.
C. The writer was too troubled to focus on his lessons.
D. The writer was too tired to hear his teacher's words.
3. The sentence "I completely didn't know what to do when he reached his last days. "means _______.
A. I was out of thinking when his final days were coming
B. I tried to understand why he stayed in hospital for the last days
C. I was puzzled to see what he was doing before his death
D. When I lost my father,l understood I could do nothing

     Julia Hill, an American woman, was born in 1974. She was 23 years old when she discovered that a
company wanted to cut down part of a forest in California. In the forest there were lots of redwood trees. One of the trees was 70 metres tall and l ,000 years old.
     Julia wasn't happy about this. She traveled to California and climbed up the tree. "If I sit in the tree, "
she said," the company can't cut it down. "  At the beginning,Julia planned to stay in the tree for two
weeks. She lived in a small treehouse and her friends cooked food for her every day. She used her
mobile phone to talk to her family and to news reporters. She stayed in the tree day and night.
     In the end, she was successful. The company agreed not to cutdown the redwood. Finally, after two
years and eight days in the tree, Julia Hill climbed down and walked on the ground again. She and her
friends were very happy.

閱讀短文，回答下列問題。

1. What nationality is Julia Hill?
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2. How tall and how old was the tree Julia Hill stayed in?
   ________________________________________________________________________
3. How did she keep in touch with others while staying high up in the tree?
   ________________________________________________________________________
4. Why did Julia Hill stay in the tree?
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                                          The Painting
        A new painting was hanging in the Hemlock Mills Art Gallery. Throughout the day, visitors stood before the new exhibit(展品) and watched to guess what it meant.
        "I think it's a terrifying monster," said a man. "There's no name on it, but I'm sure is was drawn by a famous artist. "
        "I would say that it's a picture of a park as seen from an airplane, "
another man said. "I see many trees and roads. "
        Miss Culture, the local art reporter who worked for "The Hemlock
Weekly News" , said proudly, "This is clearly a masterpiece(杰作) created by an artist who wishes to be not to known to other people. The beautiful lines
of color show a person who is looking back at an exciting lifetime of
success!"
        At that moment, Mr. Lightman, the gallery curator (館長) , came into the room. "Isn't it great?"he asked with a big smile on his face."My three-year-old son did that this morning. He says it's a maze(迷宮) . I think it's
amazing ! "                                                                   

1. The reason visitors are busy talking about the painting is         .

A. it was painted really beautifully
B. they didn't know what it meant
C. it was painted by a famous artist
D. it was a masterpiece in that time

2. Miss Culture enjoyed the painting a lot _         .

A. because it was from a great artist
B. though it was painted badly
C. because other people didn't understand it
D. but she herself didn't understand it

3. What does"He says it's a maze. I think it's amazing ! "really mean?

A. It's a great painting.
B. It's only a joke.
C. It's just for fun.
D. It's a masterpiece from an artist

     Mrs.Wilson and Mrs.Smith are sisters. Mrs.Wilson lives in a house in Duncan and Mrs.Smith lives in a condominium
in Victoria. One cold morning Mrs.Wilson visited her sister. When her sister answered the door Mrs.Wilson saw tears in
her eyes. " What's the matter?"  she asked. Mrs.Smith said, " My cat Sammy died last night and I have no place to bury
him. "
     She began to cry again. So  Mrs.Wilson  said , "I can bury your cat in my garden in Duncan and you can come and
visit him sometimes. " Mrs.Smith felt a little happy and stopped crying."
     It was time for Mrs.Wilson to go home. She put on her hat, coat and gloves and Mrs.Smith put the dead Sammy into
a shopping bag. Mrs.Wilson took the bag and got on the bus home. She put the shopping bag on the floor beside her
feet. When the bus arrived at her bus stop she got off the bus. Suddenly she remembered she left the shopping bag on
the bus.

1. The word "condominium" in the passage means _________in Chinese.

A. 公寓
B. 鄉(xiāng)村
C. 小鎮(zhèn)
D. 城市

2. According to the passage, we can see the Chinese meaning of"bury" must be________.

A. 藏起來
B. 埋葬
C. 帶走
D. 收養(yǎng)

3. The right meaning of " gloves"  should be________.

A. 衣褲
B. 上衣
C. 手套
D. 褲子

1. Wars was a             when he met Sawa for the first time. 

A. hero      
B. fisherman  
C. mermaid  
D. soldier

2. Sawa couldn’t marry Wars because             . 

A. Sawa was a mermaid    
B. Sawa didn't love Wars
C. Wars was very poor.  
D. Wars didn't love Sawa

3. Sawa told Wars              .  

A. they would marry later
B. they would leave together
C. he would become a hero
D. he would get much money

4. The name of Poland's capital came from              . 

A. the name of a house
B. the name of a river
C. the name of a mountain
D. the names of Wars and Sawa

5. From this passage, we know that               . 

A. Wars lived in a big house near the River Vistula beforehe met Sawa
B. Sawa was kind but not pretty
C. Sawa gave Wars nothing but a sword
D. Wars named the city Warsaw to remember his first love

     At May Middle School in London, the students must stay at school from Monday to Friday. They
can go into the town in the evening , but must return to the school before eight o’clock.
     A student called Bob walked to the town and went to the cinema. When he arrived at school, it was
half past eight. He was a little worried. He ran quickly to the gate. It was closed too. Then he saw an
open window on the first floor. It was the headmaster’s office. Bob looked into the room. No one was
there. He quickly climbed up and jumped into the room, just then he heard someone was talking outside
the door. He looked around and hid himself under the sofa. One minute later, the headmaster came in .
He turned on the light and sat on the sofa. Then he began to read.
     Bob lay under the sofa and looked at the headmaster’s feet for an hour. He was too afraid to move.
Finally the headmaster stood up and walked towards the door. ‘Thank Goodness, he did not find me
under the sofa,’ thought Bob. Then the headmaster stopped. He turned his head and spoke to the sofa,
"Could you turn off the light before you leave?" and then left the office.

1. May Middle School _____________.

A. had its own cincema      
B. was in the centre of the town
C. was not in the town      
D. did not have students in the evening

2. Why did Bob come back late one day?

A. His watch didn’t work.    
B. He enjoyed himself in the cinema.
C. He walked slowly.        
D. There was no bus to his school.

3. The headmaster’s office _______________.

A. was on the ground floor    
B. was near the gate
C. was not on the ground      
D. was always open in the evening

4. How long did Bob stay in the headmaster’s office?

A. For half an hour.          
B. For nealy an hour.
C. For less than an hour.      
D. For over an hour.

5. Which of the following is not true?

A. Bob went into the school building through the gate.
B. The headmaster might see Bob’s feet when he did his reading.
C. Bob kept himself under the sofa before the headmaster left.
D. The headmaster knew someone else was in his office.

     My mother had an accident last Thursday. She was trapped in her c   1   for 20 minutes! It was a
cold day. And the s  2   was heavy. She was driving home f   3   work at nine p.m. As there was snow
on the road. She drove very slowly. But u   4  , the car broke down suddenly. She couldn’t s  5  it. And
what was worse, she couldn’t open the door. She f  6   very helpless and didn’t know what to do. So
she telephoned my father with her mobile. But my father happened to(碰巧) be in a   7   city. There
were f   8   people on the road and the snow c   9   to fall around her car. She had to call 110 for help.
Two policemen arrived in a h  10   . They tried many ways to open the door. And my mother came
back home in their police car in the end. She gave us a surprise!.