She just cannot make herself ________ though she tries hard.

A. understand B. understanding

C. understood D. to understand

The famous British inventor George Stephenson was born in 1781 and died in 1848. One of his important inventions was the train. He his first train when he was forty-four years old. When he was experimenting with the engine on the train, he met with from the government, the newspapers and the gentlemen in the country. They said that the noise and the smoke would cows, horses and sheep, that the would burst or that the hot coals from it would their houses. At that time, people believed what they said.

George Stephenson the people that the train could go on small , could pull carriages goods and passengers and there was to them. It was a very matter for him to them believe. However, after , he was able to do it; and the first train that by Stephenson himself what he had said.

The first day the people along the way the noises of the train and saw it running quickly to them, they ran back home as quickly as they could and closed their doors tightly, for they thought it a genius(妖怪).They did not dare to come out until it had passed.

1.A. very B. a lot C. much D. most

2.A. bought B. made C. introduced D. did

3.A. electrical B. atomic C. oil D. steam

4.A. troubles B. success C. people D. pleasure

5.A. buy B. kill C. interest D. take away

6.A. smoke B. noise C. engine D. driver

7.A. pull down B. blow away C. pass D. set fire to

8.A. few B. most C. only a few D. the rich

9.A. said B. spoke C. warned D. told

10.A. roads B. rivers C. rails D. steam

11.A. full of B. short of C. empty of D. without

12.A. dangerous B. no great danger C. a lot of danger D. few danger

13.A. difficult B. easy C. pleasant D. light

14.A. get B. cause C. force D. make

15.A. some time B. sometime C. a few times D. sometimes

16.A. was driven B. was sold C. was pulled D. helped

17.A. believed B. seemed C. proved D. sensed

18.A. when B. of C. while D. for

19.A. caught sight of B. listened to C. thought D. heard

20.A. in the distance B. nearby C. on the far D. from the distance

Geena David knew she wanted to be a movie star when she was very young. She was not sure what gave her the idea, but she wanted to look like a movie star. “I have a lot of pictures from my childhood of me wearing sunglasses,” she says. “I used to wear them to watch TV.”

Early movie actors started wearing sunglasses not because they looked good, but because their eyes hurt. The lights used on movie sets were extremely bright and could cause a painful problem known as “Klieg eyes”. It was named after the Klieg brothers who invented the lights. Actors wore sunglasses to give their eyes a rest. But when movie stars began wearing their sunglasses in public, they quickly became a must.

Eventually actors started wearing sunglasses in their movies as well as on the street. Audrey Hephburn wore ultra-cool Ray-Ban sunglasses in the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. As a result, Ray-Ban sunglasses started to appear more and more in the movies. In 1979, Ray-Ban “Wayfarers” were worn by Jake and Elwood in The Blue Brothers. Tom Cruise wore Ray-Ban “Aviator” sunglasses in the 1986 hit, Top Gun. Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones made Ray-Ban “Predator” sunglasses famous in Men in Black.

Of course sunglasses aren’t just a fashion statement. The main reason to wear sunglasses is to protect our eyes against UV radiation. UV radiation can damage our eyes, so people now choose their sunglasses carefully. But you don’t have to give up style for safety. The choice of frames and lenses available these days is huge. So you can protect your eyes and still be the coolest person on the beach.

1.What is mainly discussed in this passage?

A. The use of sunglasses.

B. The history of sunglasses.

C. Why movie stars like to wear sunglasses.

D. The sunglasses wearing.

2.Why did Geena David like to wear sunglasses?

A. She wanted to follow a movie star.

B. She was a movie star.

C. Wearing sunglasses was good to her eyes.

D. It was good to wear sunglasses when watching TV.

3.Early actors’ eyes hurt because ______.

A. they wore sunglasses

B. they went out in the sun too much

C. their scripts were written in very small writing

D. the lights on movie sets were too bright

4.We may know from this passage that ______.

A. Ray-Ban is the name of sunglasses maker

B. Audrey Hephburn was a famous film star

C. Sunglasses made Top Gun the hit in 1986

D. Men in Black must be an advertisement of sunglasses

5.Now people wear sunglasses ______.

A. for fashion and to protect their eyes

B. just to protect their eyes

C. because of bright lights

D. because movie stars wear them

When he took office, George W. Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quiney Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century.

Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Although George Herbert Walker Bush began his career in the oil industry, he finally served as a congressman(國會(huì)議員), and vice(副) president and president of the United States.

At the age of two, Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas, where his father took up the oil business. After a year in Texas, the family moved to California for business reasons. A year later, the family returned to Texas and settled in Midland, where Bush lived from 1950 to 1959.

In 1959, again for business reasons, the family moved to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Texas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Phillips Academy, aboarding school(寄宿學(xué)校) that his father had also attended.

At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being head cheerleader. In 1964 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut.His father and grandfather had also attended Yale. At Yale, Bush was considered an average student, but he was popular with his classmates.

Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1968. Then he joined the Air National Guard and remained in the Guard until 1973. After earning his MBA from Harvard in 1975, Bush returned to Midland. Like his father, he first entered the oil industry as a “l(fā)andsman(新手)”. However, Bush’s oil companies never enjoyed great success. He took more interest in politics. He helped his father to become president and in 1994 he himself was elected governor of Texas.

In the summer of 1999, Bush began to run for the president of the USA and on January 20, 2001, George W. Bush, hand raised, took the oath(宣誓) of office to become the 43rd president of the US.

1.What does the writer intend to tell us in the first paragraph?

A. George W. Bush is the first son in American history to follow his father into the White House.

B. George W. Bush is the first son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush.

C. George W. Bush is the second one in American history to follow his father into the White House.

D. John Quincy Adams and his father were both former American presidents.

2.We may learn from the text that young Bush ______.

A. got on very well at the universities

B. was very good at basketball, baseball and football

C. was a very successful politician like his father

D. did everything as his father had done

3.Which of the following is NOT true about George W. Bush?

A. He once studied at a university that his father and grandfather had also attended.

B. Young Bush lived with his family in Texas from 1948 to 1961.

C. He once ruled over an American state before he entered the White House.

D. He once served at the Air National Guard for about five years.

In 1752, three years after two Scotsmen, Alexander Wilson and Thomas Melville, fastened thermometers to kites to record the temperature of clouds, Benjamin Franklin made his famous experiment with a kite, a string, and a key. Franklin hoped to show that nature's tremendous displays of electricity in lightning were the same thing as the feeble electric sparks scientists of the day were producing in their laboratories. He built a square kite to which he attached an iron wire. He flew the kite with a hemp string(麻線), and near the base of the string he tied a large brass key. The kite rose into a dark thundercloud, where the iron wire picked up electrical charges. Franklin noticed that the strands of the string(繩串) were beginning to stand up with electricity. As rain wet the string, it conducted more electricity. Standing in the shelter of a shed, Franklin cautiously reached out his finger to touch the brass key. A series of sparks jumped from the key to his finger. He thus proved that lightning and electricity are the same. We now know that this experiment was a dangerous one, for Franklin might have been killed by a bolt of lighting.

1.The best title for this passage is ________.

A. The Discover of Electricity

B. The kite and Science

C. Franklin, a Great Scientist

D. Franklin's Experiment with Lightning

2.According to the passage, Benjamin Franklin ________.

A. recorded the temperature of clouds

B. was killed by a bolt of lightning

C. proved that lightning and electricity have the same essential nature

D. proved that lightning can be controlled by man

3.Two Scotsmen experimented with kites in ________.

A. 1752 B. 1746

C. 1749 D. 1755

4.Franklin did not use a ________.

A. string B. wire

C. thermometer D. key

5.The fact that Franklin was not injured was apparently due to ________.

A. wisdom B. luck

C. the materials D. the shed's protection

Every living cell contains genes. They are too small to be seen in a microscope, but they are very important. Each set of genes in the body contains all the instructions needed to make a human being. Some genes determine hair color. Some determine the shape of a nose. Some genes help determine your height and even your weight.

Genes are made of a chemical called DNA-the letters stand for deoxyribonucleic acid(脫氧核糖核酸). In the early 1950's, two scientists, Francis Crick and James Watson, figured out how the parts of DNA fit together. Once scientists understood this structure, it became possible to take pieces of DNA apart and put them together in new ways. New kinds of genes could be made in this manner.

Scientists have studied the genes of many plants and animals. They have worked out which genes affect the color of a tomato and the thickness of its skin. Working out which genes determine which features is called genetic mapping, scientists have begun the Human Genome Project, an ambitious effort to map all the genes in the human body.

Some genes may be defective(有缺陷的). For example, something might be wrong with the gene that makes blood clot(凝聚). A baby born with this defective gene could suffer serious hemorrhages(出血) or even bleed to death because his or her blood fails to clot. If scientists ever learn how to map all the genes in our bodies, they can determine whether or not an unborn child has any defective genes. They might even discover how to treat these genes before the child is born.

1.What was the achievement of Francis Crick and James Watson?

A. They discovered why people have different hair colors.

B. They learned that some people bleed for long periods of time.

C. They looked at human cells under the microscope.

D. They worked out the structure of DNA.

2.What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Defective genes can never be repaired.

B. Genes are too small to be seen through a microscope.

C. Genes help scientists understand how living things develop their characteristics.

D. The Human Genome Project may explain the role of every gene in the body.

根據(jù)中文提示，填入適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~使句子的意思正確完整。

1.Impressed by the luxurious _____________(環(huán)境), he didn’t want to leave.

2.His first speech as president made a strong i____________ on his audience.

3.She looked beautiful on her w_________ day.

4.You will be informed when the book becomes a__________.

5.We c__________ 5000 yuan to the earthquake fund.

6.She has determination while her brother ________(缺乏).

7.He is a c________ boy who is always asking questions.

8.Your comments indicate a serious _____________ (誤解) of the situation.

9.As we know, it is very rough to learn __________ (高等) maths well.

10.One of the car’s main _________ (吸引力) is its low price.

My name is Li Dear Bob,

Hello, I learnt about you from my English teacher,

Miss Fang. I’d like to1. _______(成為) your pen friend, and get to k2.________ more about your country.

First, let me tell you something about 3.________. My name is Li Hua. I live in Beijing, 4._____ is the 5._______(首都) of China. I go to Hongqi Middle School. It’s a large and beautiful school, and I like it very much.

We study quite a few s6._______, such as Maths, Chinese, English and physics. I used to 7.______ table tennis a lot in my spare time, but now I am i8._______ in football. Do you play any ball games? What is your 9.______(最喜歡的）sports? I look forward to h10._____ from you soon.

你堂兄建華在國外學(xué)習(xí)，你們經(jīng)常用英文通信。他即將完成學(xué)業(yè)，不久前來信就是否回國工作征求你的意見。請根據(jù)下列提示回信：

1. 建議他回國；

2. 你的理由是：學(xué)有所用，就業(yè)容易；照顧父母。

注意：1. 詞數(shù)100左右；

2. 行文應(yīng)連貫，內(nèi)容應(yīng)完整；

3. 開頭語與落款已為你寫好。

June 8th

Dear Jianhua,

I’m very glad to have received the letter you sent me two weeks ago. ___________________________________________________________________

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Best wishes, Minghua

Who is the man a blue shirt? I have never seen him before.

A. is wearing B. dressed up

C. dressed in D. worn