Two months ago, my family moved to Planet Zox. There are species (物种) from many different planets on Planet Zox. In fact, I liked my new planet till it was time to start school.

“I’m worried,” I told my parents that first morning. “Nobody there will be like me.”

“They don’t have to be like you to be friends with you,” Mum said.

When I got to school, I kept an eye out for other humans (人). I found a few in the halls, but I was the only one in my class. Nobody talked to me all morning. At lunch, I found that all the other humans were eating with other species. I found only one table with empty (空的) chairs. There, alone, sat one of my classmates, Hululialana. She had many tentacles (触手). I spoke to her with great care (关心), “Hello, Hululialana.”

Slowly, one of her tentacles pulled (拉) a chair closer to me.

I sat down. “Thank you,” I said. We looked at each other, then away.

“How’s your first day going?” I quickly asked.

“I wish I were still at my old school,” she said.

“I miss my old school too,” I said.

But you’re not the only human__I’m the only Hulu.

I thought for a minute and said, “That makes you special.”

“That makes me a freak (怪人),” she said.

“Well, let’s be freaks together.”

Then, for the first time, Hululialana smiled.

After that day, school on Planet Zox began to be pretty fun.

1.Before the writer went to his new school, he worried that _______.

A. the subjects would be difficult

B. the school would be dangerous

C. he couldn’t understand the teachers

D. he would look different from others

2.The underlined part “kept an eye out for” in Paragraph 4 means “_______”.

A. 调查 B. 负责

C. 信赖 D. 留心

3.What can we know about Hululialana?

A. She lived close to the writer.

B. She thought she was a freak.

C. She was bored with her old school.

D. She had fewer tentacles than the writer.

4.The underlined sentences show that Hululialana probably felt _______.

A. lucky B. proud

C. sad D. angry

5.After the lunch, the writer and Hululialana might _______.

A. become close

B. leave Planet Zox

C. get popular at school

D. go to a different table

There was a man who had four sons. He hoped that his sons could learn not to judge(评判) things too ___________. So he gave them each of his four sons a question, asking them to go and look at a pear tree during different ___________.

The first son set out in the winter,the second in the spring,the third in the summer and the youngest son in the autumn.

When all of them returned home, he called them together to __________what they saw.

The first son said the tree was ugly and there was __________there.

The second son said the tree was covered with ___________buds and full of hope.

The third son didn’t have the same idea as his two brothers, saying that it was full of ____________. He said they smelled sweet and looked beautiful.

The last son____________ with all of them, saying that there were lots of fruit___________the tree, and the tree was full of life.

The man told his sons that they were all right, ___________each of them only saw the tree during one season. He told his sons that they cannot judge a tree only by one season.

If you give up during the coldness of winter, you'll miss the___________of spring, the beauty of summer,and harvest of autumn in your life.

1.A. clearly B. slowly C. quickly D. carefully

2.A. years B. seasons C. months D. weeks

3.A. describe B. draw C. discuss D. decide

4.A. everything B. something C. anything D. nothing

5.A. green B. black C. purple D. blue

6.A. leaves B. pears C. flowers D. birds

7.A. agreed B. disagreed C. helped D. shared

8.A. with B. to C. at D. on

9.A. if B. while C. when D. because

10.A. hope B. life C. beauty D. future

(2018·山东临沂)What was discovered by accident? The answer is penicillin (青霉素). It kills germs. By killing germs, it saves lives. Suppose you are sick. You go to a doctor. She examines you. She says you have a “staph” infection (葡萄球菌感染). She gives you some medicine. You take it. The medicine knocks out the staph. Soon you are well. Before penicillin, this would not happen. Staph was almost sure death.

Everyone wanted a medicine. Laboratories worked day and night. They grew the staph in small dishes. Then they tried to kill it. Nothing worked.

The laboratory dishes had covers on them. They kept things from falling into dishes. Molds (霉菌) were a big worry. They are always in the air. You can’t see them. They’re too small. There are thousands of different molds. Molds can make an experiment (实验) fail. That’s why dishes are covered.

Dr. Alexander Fleming was working to kill the staph germ. He worked for years. One day he took a cover off a dish. He looked inside. There was a thick growth of staph germ. There was also some mold. Then he saw something strange. Where the mold was, there was no growth of staph. This is what Fleming probably thought. “By accident, I found a mold to kill the dreaded staph.”

This is how penicillin was found. But here’s the real miracle (奇迹). There are thousands of kinds of molds. But only one kind can kill staph. The mold must have fallen into the dish a few days before. The cover was probably off only a few seconds (秒). In those few seconds the right mold fell into the right dish. Another man might have thrown the dish away. But Fleming was very careful and smart. He understood what the mold did. How lucky the humans were!

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1.During the experiments to find a medicine for staph infections, ________.

A. the dishes were not covered

B. staph and mold were put together

C. mold was kept in small dishes

D. staph was grown in small dishes

2.The word “ dreaded” means “_______”.

A. famous B. scary

C. health D. endangered

3.The last paragraph suggests that _______.

A. accidents happen to everyone

B. the careful person does not have accidents

C. the careless person will miss valuable chances

D. luck is enough when doing scientific experiments

4.Most of this passage is written by ______.

A. telling an unusual story B. showing the results of experiments

C. offering some reasons D. giving some advice

5.This passage is mainly about ______.

A. medicine for a staph infection B. useful accidents

C. Dr. Fleming’s research D. discovering penicillin

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Part-time jobs are great for young people.They allow teenagers and young adults to gain a little jobe1. and make a bit of money too.Compared with other hobbies and activities,part-time jobs are healthier and better help teenagers p2. for adult life.Of course,for students,doing a part-time job should never be more important than s3. for good grades.

There are so many different part-time jobs for you to c4. from.A few of the most common ones are restaurant waiters,store salesmen and park workers.These are all jobs that only need you to work b5. ten and twenty hours per week.Besides,they don’t require much work experience.So you can learn how to do the job e6. while you are working.

You can learn great lessons from a part-time job.Some are about how to work with others,some are about how to be on time and o7. are about how to work hard.These are all necessary lessons you will use later in life.A survey shows that the young adults who do not have part-time jobs are l8. prepared for life than those who do.

It is great to earn money for the first time from a part-time job.Then how do you usually s9. the money from a part-time job?It can be used to save for college education or favorite things.Maybe you will find it's harder to use money you made than that your parents gave you!Yet it can right teach you the v10. of money.

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