My husband Jack and I went to visit a friend in hospital last week. Suddenly, Jack’s mobile phone rang, it was my mother calling from my home. She asked if I had lost my phone. I checked my bag. It was gone!

I used Jack’s phone to call my number. A boy answered it. “I found your phone in the mall!” he said, excitedly. “I’m Rhys. I have been trying to find you, but because it was getting late, I decided to leave.” He gave me the address of a coffee shop near his home.

Later that evening, I went to meet him there. I was afraid to go alone, worrying he was a cheater(骗子). So Jack came along. After driving 10km, we got to the coffee shop.

As soon as I saw him, my worries were gone. Rhys was just a young boy. “How did you tell 

my mum?” I asked. He explained that when he found my phone by the roadside, he started calling people in my contacts list(通讯录), starting with the letter A. He called Adam, one of my friends and Adam called my house.

I was happy to get my phone back with all the phone numbers, messages and photos in it. I thanked Rhys and offered him some money, but he refused. He’s really an honest boy.

1.The writer lost her mobile phone _________.

A. yesterday B. the day before yesterday C. last week D. last month

2.Before lost, the mobile phone was in the _______.

A. office B. bag C. hospital D. car

3.Adam is ____________.

A. the writer’s husband B. the boy’s teacher

C. the writer’s neighbor D. the writer’s friend

4.How did the boy find the writer?

A. By waiting for her in the mall. B. By trying to look for her home.

C. By asking the police for help. D. By calling her friends.

Ladies and gentlemen, I returned to this year in a time machine. In the year 2500, we are able to travel through time to any year in the history of the earth. This year is your last chance your lifestyle to save the earth.

Beginning in the middle of the 20th century, a few people were worried about polluting the earth’s water and air, but most people did not change their way of life. Instead, they continued to pour(倒) dangerous chemical(化学物品) and other waste into lakes and seas, to drive more and more cars and trucks, and to cut down trees.

By the year 2200, the earth’s water was completely polluted. People could no longer drink water, and they had to use other types of liquids(液体). Scientists said that in the future there might be too many people on the earth. But not enough was done.

So by the year 2300, there were so many people that food became scarce. There was no water to grow food and all of the fish in lakes and seas died because of pollution. Terrible wars broke out between the rich and the poor. Scientists were working very hard to find another planet in space where humans could live.

By the year 2400, the air was too polluted for humans to breathe. So we had to leave the earth. But only the rich were able to leave. Where did we go? Nowhere. And everywhere. You see scientists did not find another safe planet, so now we must travel around the universe in our space ships. We are still looking for a place to call our home.

So it is up to you to change history. There is still hope. You must change your lifestyle now, before it is too late.

1.Which problem is NOT talked about in Paragraph 2?

A. Water B. Air C. Lifestyle D. Food

2.The underlined word ‘scarce’ means ‘______’ in Chinese.

A. 昂贵的 B. 充足的 C. 缺乏的 D. 特殊的

3.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Only a few people changed their lifestyle in the 20th century.

B. There was no clean water for people to drink by the year 2200.

C. All the fish died because of the pollution by the year 2300.

D. We found a new home in another planet by the year 2400.

4.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Stop polluting B. Change or leave

C. Look for new home D. Return to the earth

Policemen do cry. Movies and television show that policemen are tough and hard. But policemen do cry.

Ken Knapcik had been a policeman in Chicago for 20 years when one of his fellow policeman was shot during a drug arrest, and died. Shortly after, he returned home after work to find a note from his 15-year-old daughter on the dining table.

Dad

This poem came directly from heart. I love you so much. It scares me that you go out every day and risk everything to provide us with all that we have. I am also very proud of you. I wrote this to express how much I love you and how lost I’d be without you.

Laura

P.S. Hey, be careful out there.

Laura’s poem was called “The Best Policeman.” It was dedicated (献给) “To all the policeman in the world who have daughters who love them with all their hearts, especially to my father had been shot. Part of the poem reads: “ Daddy, my Daddy, can you hear me? Oh, God, I need my Daddy. Please don’t let him die!”

Knapcik stood alone as he read the poem. “It took me several minutes.” he said. “ I’d got through part of it and have to stop before I could go on. I was weeping(哭泣). She had never told me she was scared.” He took the poem to work the next day and showed it to his fellow officers. “I ‘ve never seen so many grown men cry. Some couldn’t even finishing reading it.”

Knapcik keeps Laura’s poem in the pocket of his police jacket. He takes it with him every time he leaves the house to go to work. “I don’t want to be out there without it,” he said. “I’ll probably carry it with me forever.”

1.According to the writer, the policemen in the movies and television __________.

A. seldom cry

B. pretended to cry

C. do cry when things are rough and hard

D. do cry but no tears in their eyes

2.What made Ken Knapcik’s daughter scared?

A. Her father’s coming home late

B. The news about a policeman being shot

C. Her father being a policeman for 20 years

D. The policeman’s hard life and work

3.Ken Knapcik brought the poem to work the next day because______.

A. he likes the poems so much

B. it would protect him from being harmed at work

C. he wanted the other policemen to share the love

D. the poem was written by his 15-year-old daughter

4.Ken Knapcik takes the poem with him to work in order that___________.

A. he won’t lose it at any time or any place

B. it can bring him good luck at work

C. he can show it to anyone he meets

D. it can remind him of the daughter’s love and care

5.The best title for the passage can be______.

A. The Best Policeman

B. Laura and her father

C. Poem for a Policeman

D. Policemen do Cry

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