Mr. and Mrs Black live in a small house near London with their children. Usually Mr Black comes back from work very late. At that time, his wife and the children are sleeping. So he opens the front door of his house with his keys and comes into the house quietly.
One night he comes home very late. It is 11:00 p.m. But he can’t find his keys. He rings the bell(門鈴). Nothing happens(發(fā)生). He rings it again. Again nothing happens. No one can hear it. Mr. Black knocks on the bedroom window. He calls his wife’s name. He shouts but his wife doesn’t wake up. At last he stops and thinks for a few minutes. Then he begins to speak like a small child. “Mother,” he says. “I want to go to WC.” Mrs Black wakes up at once (立刻). Then he speaks to her, and she opens the door for him.
【小題1】Mr. Black and his wife live in ______.

—______, young man. If you’re late for work again, you’ll lose your job.

Dear Mom and Dad,
I will go to Alice’s home with her after school, and I will have supper and sleep there. Don’t    1  about me. You know that Alice is one of my best friends. If you want to talk with me, you can call 68610598 after 6:00 pm.
Please forgive me for not telling you first. I don’t think you will     2 me to do so if I tell you first.   3  I think teenagers should be allowed to stay at their friends’ houses sometimes. I am sixteen years old and I’m not a little kid any more. I hope I can make decisions for     4  .
At home, there are too many   5  for me to obey(遵守): Don’t stay out so late; don’t have meals before    6  hands; don’t watch TV without finishing homework, etc. Parents should be    7  teenagers, but we need freedom, too.
I don’t like doing my homework    8  at home. I’d love to study with Alice. We can learn a lot from each other.    9   please allow me to stay at Alice’s house once a week. If you    10  , Alice can stay at our house with me, too.                                                  
Yours,Lillian
(   ) 1. A. care    B. hear           C. talk            D. worry  
(   ) 2. A. let B. take           C. allow       D. teach
(   ) 3. A. Unless  B. Or           C. But           D. Even though
(   ) 4. A. himself B. herself        C. yourself        D. myself
(   ) 5. A. idea    B. opinion        C. things       D. rules 
(   ) 6. A. giving  B. washing        C. putting        D. holding
(   ) 7. A. afraid of    B. interested in    C. strict with  D. angry with
(   ) 8. A. along   B. alone          C. lonely       D. own
(   ) 9. A.Or   B. Although       C. So           D. Because
(   ) 10. A. worry  B. think          C. agree       D. make

Many people like to travel by plane, but l don’ like it because an airport is usually far from the city. You have to get there early and wait for hours for the plane to take off (起飛) and it is often late. You can’t open the windows. You can’t choose the food. Planes are fast but they still take much time to go out of the airport and into the city.
I like traveling by train .I think trains are safe. Railway stations are usually in cities. When you are late for a train, you can catch another one. You can walk around in the train and open the windows .You can see many interesting things on your way. I know it takes a little more time.
I also like cars. You can start your journey whenever you want to, and you don’t need to get to a railway station or a bus stop. Also you can carry many things with you in a car. But sometimes there are too many cars on the road.
【小題1】Why do many people like to travel by plane?                                                                     

Space travel is nothing new. The first spacecraft with a human was sent up into space in 1961. Since then, people have not only traveled to space, but also many of them have lived there in space stations for some time.
The Soviet Union(前蘇聯(lián)) sent the first space station into space in 1971. This space station was called Salyut 1. Salyut 1 was designed as a place where people could live while they observed space and did experiments. The first group of astronauts lived there for 23 days. The Soviet Union went on to make seven more Salyut space stations. At about the same time, the United States built its own space station, called Skylab.
Astronauts visited and often lived in these space stations for a short time. However, it wasn’t until the late 1980s when The Soviet Union sent the Mir space station that people began to live in space for a longer time. Mir stayed in space from 1989 until 2001, when it was decided that the space station was too old and no longer safe to live in.
Living in space stations seems to be fun, but astronauts face many problems. One of them is food. All the meals on space station are put together on Earth and sent there by space shuttle. Because the food has to last a long time (sometimes up to three months), a lot of it has to be stored in cans. The space station does not have a fridge, but it has a cool room to keep fruit and vegetables fresh. Astronauts also eat many other foods such as dried meat that do not need special care.
Without the help of gravity, sitting down to eat can be tough. Astronauts sometimes have to fix themselves to the wall while eating. They also have to be very careful to that food does not float away.
【小題1】Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “observed” in Paragraph 2?