Bill Clinton took office on January 20th, 1993 and became the 42nd U．S．president ．He is the first president who was born after World War 2．He is also one of the youngest of all the presidents．
Clinton was born in a poor family in 1946．Three months before he was born, his father died．When he was small, his mother remarried Norger Clinton．So the boy’s family name changed．
In the summer of 1963, Clinton won a drama contest, so he was given a chance to visit the city of Washington．During his visit he met President Kennedy in the White House．From that time on, he made up his mind to become a president．
(1)
Clinton's father died ________．
[ ]
A．
after 1946
B．
before Clinton was born
C．
before World War 2
D．
when Clinton was young
(2)
Why was the boy's family name changed?
[ ]
A．
he became a president
B．
his family was poor
C．
his mother did not get on well with his father
D．
his mother remarried Norger Clinton．
(3)
In 1963 Clinton came to the city of Washington ________．
One day, we had an English class．The teacher saw a boy reading a picture-book and said,”Tom, what are you really doing now?”
Tom nervously(紧张地)got up from his seat, but he did not know what to answer．He thought for some time and then said, Wait for supper．
The teacher was displeased(不高兴)and just at that moment he saw another boy asleep．The teacher was getting a little angry now, but he was trying not to show it．Then he asked,”And you, Joke?”
As Joke was asleep, of course, he could not hear what the teacher had said．His desk-mate woke him up．Joke stood up quickly and answered in a loud voice,“So do I．”
(1)
This story happened ________
[ ]
A．
in the teacher’s office
B．
after lunch
C．
in class
D．
in the afternoon
(2)
Tom’s answer made the teacher ________
[ ]
A．
angry
B．
displeased
C．
surprising
D．
laughing
(3)
The teacher asked Joke ________
[ ]
A．
what he wanted to do after class
B．
what he did in class
C．
the same question as he asked Tom
D．
to help Tom
(4)
Joke’s answer meant that ________
[ ]
A．
he knew what to do or what not to do after lunch
B．
he did the same thing as others did
C．
he read a picture-book, too
D．
he did many things after lunch
(5)
From the above story we can see that ________
[ ]
A．
Joke did not know what question the teacher had asked
B．
Tom did well in his lessons
C．
Joke was good at his lessons
D．
Tom and Joke worked hard at their lessons
阅读短文，根据短文内容选出正确答案
No．4 Middle School
Kunming, Yunnan
April 2nd，2004
Dear editor,
I live in a beautiful city．Many visitors come to my city．There are so many colorful peacocks here．The peacocks mostly live on the grass land of Dongfeng Square．
They are given food freely by visitors．They usually throw food to them, and don’t think about at all whether the food is right or not．Some of the peacocks become ill, some even died after eating the bad food given by the visitors．I’m sure most of the visitors who throw food to the peacocks really like the birds, but don’t realize that they may be doing them harm．The visitors should be told that what have done is very harmful to the birds, and this kind of thing must be stopped from happening．Perhaps we can build some small shops beside Dongfeng Square to sell peacock food．For us every person, it’s our duty to give more love to these beautiful birds and to look after them carefully．
Yours,
Sun Yan
(1)
Many visitors come to the writer’s city to ________．
[ ]
A．
do some shopping
B．
see beautiful peacocks
C．
play on Dongfeng Square
D．
eat nice food
(2)
Some peacocks became ill and died because some visitors ________．
[ ]
A．
didn’t give them any food
B．
gave them too much food
C．
threw them some bad food
D．
loved them and played with them
(3)
Some shops can be built beside Dongfeng Square so that they may ________．
[ ]
A．
sell food for visitors
B．
sell food for peacocks
C．
make the square more beautiful
D．
have the beautiful birds
(4)
From the passage we know people should ________．
[ ]
A．
live and play with the birds
B．
stop the birds from eating too much
C．
give right food to the birds
D．
give more food to the birds
(5)
We can guess the writer of the letter, Sun Yan, may be a ________．
[ ]
A．
visitor
B．
shopkeeper
C．
square keeper
D．
student
David’s got a text message from his friend Sam．Can you understand it?
7,15 20,15 20,8,5 16,1,18,11
This message was in code(密码，代码)．How many letters are there in the English alphabet?Twenty-six．So can you read it now?
David decided to use a different code in his answer to Sam．This time, he was putting A instead of B, B instead of C, and so on．His message to Sam shown on the right was very short．Can you understand?
Sam guessed David’s code, and he replied：ZESDQ RBGNNK．When David’s little sister saw the message, she felt puzzled．She couldn’t read it at all．But David was very happy that his sister couldn’t read his message!
Lots of people use codes to send secret messages．In a war, secrets are very important so soldiers often send each other messages in code．Nowadays, we can use computers to make and break difficult codes．Even before computers, people invented other machines to do this．
Here’s a famous machine that Germans used in the Second World War(1941－1945)．It’s called the Enigma Machine．The machines were very big, heavy and expensive．Every day they changed the codes automatically, and this made it almost impossible for anyone to break the codes．The person sending a message had one machine, and the person receiving the message had another．
(1)
Sam asked David to the ________．
[ ]
A．
park
B．
house
C．
museum
D．
zoo
(2)
Sam told David to meet him ________．
[ ]
A．
before breakfast
B．
after school
C．
after dinner
D．
before school
(3)
Codes are used to keep something ________．
[ ]
A．
new
B．
old
C．
secret
D．
known
(4)
People will never know the meaning if they can’t ________ the code．
[ ]
A．
break
B．
make
C．
change
D．
write
(5)
The best title of this passage is ________．
[ ]
A．
English Letters
B．
Codes
C．
Messages
D．
Machines
(1)
Sunny English Club is for ________．
[ ]
A．
nurses
B．
policemen
C．
businessmen
D．
students
(2)
You will pay ________ if you want to stay in the English club for half a year．
[ ]
A．
300 yuan
B．
600 yuan
C．
1,200 yuan
D．
2,400 yuan
(3)
You can visit Ocean Museum ________．
[ ]
A．
on Saturday
B．
on Wednesday
C．
on Monday
D．
anytime
(4)
One can get free examinations in Health Centre if he is ________．
[ ]
A．
9
B．
17
C．
67
D．
73
(5)
If you are interested in the life of fish, you should go to ________．
[ ]
A．
Health Centre
B．
Ocean Museum
C．
Sunny English Club
D．
16 Yong Le Street
阅读理解。
(1)
If you put the names of five mascots together, in English they say ________
[ ]
A．
“Beijing HuanYing Ni．”
B．
“the mascots for the 2008．”
C．
“more knowledge about China culture．”
D．
“Welcome to Beijing．”
(2)
Which two cities are the capitals of the host countries?
[ ]
A．
Montreal and Moscow
B．
Beijing and Moscow
C．
Los Angeles and Beijing
D．
Moscow and Atlanta
(3)
One of the mascots comes from Sichuan．He stands for ________．
[ ]
A．
bringing good luck
B．
sports and health
C．
the protection of nature
D．
Olympic spirit
PEOPLE have been gardeners in Britain for hundreds of years．They love to put on their old clothes and get their hands dirty in the back garden on a Sunday afternoon．
Most people in Britain have small gardens at the backs of their houses and sometimes at the fronts of them too．Even a person living in a tower block(高层建筑) will have a window box for a few flowers．
British gardens are not like Chinese ones．A garden in Britain will mostly be made up of a lawn(草坪)．Along the sides of the lawn will be flowerbeds where people grow roses, daffodils(水仙)and tulips．There will also be bushes and small trees．People keep their gardens very carefully．They mow(割)the grass every week．As soon as they see a weed(野草)，they take it out．
They work very hard in their gardens, but they like to enjoy them too．In the summertime, when the weather is warm, they like to sit in them and eat their lunches or read newspapers．Young children make mud pies(泥团)in them and get very dirty．The older ones use the lawn to play football on．Sometimes the grown-ups even join in!
(1)
A British garden is made up of ________．
[ ]
A．
a lawn
B．
some flowerbeds
C．
bushes and small trees
D．
all the above
(2)
How do people in Britain keep their gardens?
[ ]
A．
They play games in their gardens．
B．
They mow their lawn every day．
C．
They try to keep weeds out of their gardens．
D．
They did nothing in their gardens．
(3)
Where do people live in tall buildings grow plants according to the text?
[ ]
A．
Inside their flats．
B．
In small containers(容器)outside the windows．
C．
On the tops of the buildings．
D．
Inside a paper box．
(4)
The grown-ups often ________ in their gardens．
[ ]
A．
make mud pies
B．
eat lunches and read newspapers
C．
play football
D．
None of the above．
(5)
We can infer from the story that ________．
[ ]
A．
people in Britain enjoy their lives
B．
there are more flowers in Britain than in China
C．
everyone likes to have gardens
D．
British gardens are similar to Chinese ones．
阅读理解
When Paolo was ten years old, he had a very exciting experience．It was a real adventure(冒险)．
He and his father got up early to go fishing．They got in the boat and his father started rowing out to sea．The sun was rising as they pulled away from the shore．They stopped the boat in an area about twelve miles away where the fishing was very good．Then Paolo helped his father with the big net．As they threw the net into the water, it caught Paolo’s foot, and he was pulled into the water．“Help!” he cried．“I’m caught in the net!” his father was afraid that if he jumped in to save his son, he would get caught in the net himself, and they would both drown(淹死)．It was too big a risk(冒险)to take．He quickly saw what he must do．He grasped(抓住)the sides of the net and pulled Paolo out of the water like a big fish．
Paolo had been very frightened and swallowed(吞下)a lot of water, but he was soon laughing with his father about his first real adventure．
(1)
One day Paolo went fishing with his father ________．
[ ]
A．
in a river
B．
in a lake
C．
on the sea
D．
in a pool
(2)
Paolo ________ into the water．
[ ]
A．
was pushed by his father
B．
was pulled by the net
C．
jumped
D．
was thrown by his father
(3)
It was ________ for his father to jump into the water to save Paolo．
[ ]
A．
useful
B．
nice
C．
an easy thing
D．
dangerous
(4)
In the end Paolo ________．
[ ]
A．
climbed up the boat by himself
B．
lost his life
C．
was saved by his father
D．
was pulled out of the water with a big fish
Over 1，400 university students from 37 countries and regions came to China for the 2008’s WorldMUN meeting(世界大学生模拟联合国大会)．The meeting was held in Peking University from January 5th to 11st, 2008．
The idea of the WorldMUN began in 1991．A group of students at Harvard(哈佛)University wanted to make a new meeting to bring together the students who were interested in the world．They wanted to discuss different problems around the world．The WorldMUN is based on understanding, compromise, learning and friendship．The first meeting was held in Poland in 1992．After that, it is held in spring every year．Last year, it was held in Scotland．
This was the first time the WorldMUN meeting was held in Asia．It was also the biggest one in history．The students came from the best universities around the world．During the five-day meeting, they did everything that people in the UN do．Though their skin colors and cultures were different, they had the same wish to make the world better．
(1)
The 2008's WorldMUN meeting was held in ________．
[ ]
A．
Scotland
B．
Harvard University
C．
Beijing University
D．
Thailand
(2)
The word“compromise”in the passage means ________ in Chinese．
