【題目】People celebrate New Year with happiness and joy by exchanging gifts and spending time with their families and friends, but some superstitions(迷信)are followed by many people around the world. Here are some New Year s superstitions.

【1】 One of the most popular New Year’ s superstitions is that you should kiss your beloved and dear ones at the stroke(報時的鐘聲)of midnight．It is said that those who fail to do so will have cold relationships with their loved ones for a whole year.

【2】The New Year should not begin with unpaid debts. It is always said that all the bills should be paid off before the old year closes.

【3】We can’t take anything out of the house on the first day of the year. Actually, some people think it’s okay to remove things from the house so that something else has the chance to be brought in.

【4】The first person to enter your home after stroke of midnight will influence your luck in the year. It is believed that this person should ideally be dark – haired, tall, and good – looking. Nobody knows whether it is true or not.

【5】 According to Chinese traditional custom, we usually don’ t sleep until one or two o’clock in midnight on New Year’ s Eve. There are two meanings. The first, .the old should treasure every second they have in their rest life; the second, the young hope for longer life for there parents.

【題目】What will the future life be like? I think we will be able to travel faster and safer around the world and in to space. Maybe one day we can work in Beijing, sleep in Chengdu and visit the moon for a holiday.

We will have new energy that doesn’ t make pollution. Possibly, people will find ways to use Cleaner things, such as sea water, to make energy without polluting the earth.

We will have machines that can copy everything in the future. Put a cake on the machine and it makes a new one. If the machine is like a fax – machine, we can send food and presents to our friends easily.

We will have clever robots that work for us, and the robots can bring us useful things and take away our rubbish. Now we have to press a key or type a word to make a machine work. But in the future, if we think of something, the machine can make it for us. The machine can under-stand our ideas.

We will be able to go into computer games and films, and everything will feel real. We will be able to make our homes like forests or sunny beaches or anything we want. Perhaps, one day we will be able to collect our dreams and put them on DVDs.

Judge the following sentences true( T).or false( F) according to the passage.

【1】In the future, we can work in one city and sleep in another.

【2】In the future, we can make energy by using sea water.

【3】In the future, we can only copy food by machines\

【4】In the future, we can make a new machine by pressing a key.

【5】People can probably make DVDs of their dreams in the future.

【題目】Liu Wei is very famous in China because he can play the piano with his toes(腳趾).

One day when Liu Wei was only 10 years old, he played a game with some friends He lost both his arms because of electricity(電).

Liu Wei was very sad when both his arms were cut off after the accident. But soon he had to make a choice.

“ For people like me, there were only two choices. One was to give up all the dreams. Which would cause a quick death. The other was to work hard without arms to live an excellent life. “says Liu Wei。

Liu’ s dream was to be a pianist. His excellent life included a show on China’ s Got.Talent(中國達(dá)人秀)and a wondenful performance(演奏)playing the beautiful Marriage D ‘a(chǎn)mour with his two feet on the piano.

Liu Wei learned to play the piano with his feet. And teaching himself to play the piano with his feet was very hard. Many times he wanted to give it up, but his parents went on encourage him and he wanted to make his parents proud.

Maybe you can not believe that Liu Wei is able to play well only with his toes. The audience(觀眾) were deeply moved and very excited when they watched his performance.

Answer the following questions according to what you read.

【1】Why is Liu Wei very famous in China?

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【2】How old was Liu Wei when he lost his arms?

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【3】Was Liu Wei very sad when both his arms were cut off?

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【4】Who encouraged Liu Wei to play the piano?

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【5】How did the audience feel when they watched Liu ’ s performance?

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【題目】

【1】I think there will be ___ (little) pollution in the future because of the new law.

【2】More action must be taken to stop ______ (pollute).

【3】I think the earth will be in great ______ (dangerous) in the future.

【4】There won’t be ______ (much) paper money in the future.

【5】I think there will be more ______ (build) in 20 years.

【題目】Ⅲ. 閱讀下面的尋物啟事和失物招領(lǐng)， 回答有關(guān)問題

Lost

My school ID card.

The card number is 667.

My name is Mary.

Please call 6798043.

Found

Red watch.

Is this your watch?

Please call Jim Green at 5627018.

【1】Is this Mary's school ID card?

________________________________________________________________________

【2】Is that Jim's watch?

________________________________________________________________________

【3】What's the card number?

________________________________________________________________________

【4】What color is the watch?

________________________________________________________________________

【5】What's Jim's last name?

_______________________________________________________________________

【題目】根據(jù)首字母提示或漢語提示完成單詞

【1】Please don't play c______ games.

【2】A w______ can tell us time（時間）．

【3】It's an EnglishChinese d______.It's not a book.

【4】Write it down on your ______（筆記本）．

【5】He is a b______（棒球） player.

【6】Please c______ Alan at 8909372.

【題目】

【1】So many cars are bad for our e_____.

【2】His uncle ______ (種植）the apple trees last year.

【3】People around the world all love p__ and hate wars,

【4】They are watching movies about the ______ (未來）.

【5】I wrote their phone numbers on a piece of ______ (紙） just now.

【題目】Every day we have a math class. We always show interest in it. Some sleep, some daydream, others read something else. listens to our math teacher. To this problem, our clever math teacher found a out at last.

Mr. Black thought since everyone liked candy, the only way to 0ur attention was to give us candy. A clever came upon him’.He put a lot of candy inside a big ball that any-one could . In class he asked us some questions. When anybody answered one question . Mr. Black would throw the ball to the student and the student could some of the candy out of the ball. Then, the student would have to throw the ball to the with the right answer, and as that.

The idea us all sit up and pay attention for a while but soon almost all of us went back to . We all ate too much candy. The only person in our math class who liked the idea was a fat boy named Ward. He just eating and eating until finally even Mr. Black had to say, “I’m . Ward, but I just don’t have enough money to buy you candy. “

【1】A. great B. much C. little

【2】A.Everyone B.Someone C.Nobody

【3】A. do B. solve C. make

【4】A. ball B. question C.way

【5】A.get B.pay C.give

【6】A. advice B.idea C. head

【7】A. keep B. eat C. open

【8】 A. quickly B. calmly C. correctly

【9】A. take B. send C. receive

【10】A. student B. teacher C. next one

【11】A.made B.called C.forced

【12】A.listen B.sleep C.eat

【13】A. never B. also C. still

【14】A. stopped B. helped C. kept

【15】A.sorry B.glad C.excited

【題目】On a plane for New York the flight attendant came to a blonde woman sitting in the first class section and asked her to move to the coach(經(jīng)濟(jì)艙) since she did not have a first class ticket.The blonde woman replied,“I’ m blonde. I’ m beautiful. I’ m going to New York and I’ m not moving. ’’ .Not wanting to argue with a customer the flight attendant asked the co – pilot to speak with her. He went to talk with the woman asking her to please move out of the first class section.Again, the blonde woman replied,“ I’m blonde. I’ m beautiful. I’ m going to New York and I’m not moving. “ The co – pilot returned to the cockpit(駕駛艙) and asked the captain what he should do. The captain said,“I’m married to a blonde, and I know how to deal with this. “ He went to the first class section and whispered(耳語)in the blonde’ s ear. She immediately jumped up and ran to the coach section saying to herself, “Why didn’ t anyone just say so?” Surprised, the flight attendant and the co – pilot asked what he said to her and how he finally convinced her to move from her seat. The captain replied, “I told her the first class section wasn’ t going to New York, “

Fill in the blanks according to the passage. Only one word for each blank.

On a plane for New York,a blonde woman sat in the first class section【1】____ a first class ticket. The flight attendant tried to ask hr to move to the coach, but she【2】__.She thought she was blonde and she was going to New York,so she should sit there. Because the flight attendant didn’t want to have an【3】___ with her,she asked the co – pilot for help.but the co-pilot got the【4】_____ answer and failed, too. 【5】____, the captain made the woman move to the coach by telling her that the first class section wasn ’ t going to New York.

【題目】 –Mum, where is my CD player?

-It ’ s in ________________ white bag on your desk.

A.a B.an C.the